Hello all, just a quick update from your resident blogging turtle (slow to update, isn't very exciting, secretly wants to be a ninja, shall I go on?)

Earlier in the month, last Tuesday to be exact, one of my aunts went under the knife for open heart surgery. I didn't get all the info as I only overheard bits and pieces during a family gathering, but for what I was able to gather apparently doctors had found a tumor in there and so clearly they had to operate to remove that. Thankfully, the surgery went as well as I could hope and my aunt made an extremely quick recovery. I received an e-mail from my uncle just yesterday saying that she was already well enough to be discharged and go home, which was wonderful news. Little news could be better in fact.

Second on the docket, thanks to help and advice from zgreenwell, I am now the proud owner of a 37" Sharp AQUOS HDTV as of around 7:00pm EST. Finally, I am truly a "next-gen" (I guess that's current gen now) gamer. :D The set was originally discounted to $999.99 at Best Buy, but for tonight only they were having a "preferred customer sale" in which they offered an additional 10% off the lowest price tag on any TV. That brought the pricedown to $899.99 plus taxes, but here's the big thing that pushed me to buy the TV. An additional promotion was offered on top of that, where if you purchase said TV on their Best Buy card (provided your credit checks out), there are no payments and no interest on it until August. So I essentially have 6 months to pay off the price of the TV WITHOUT having to pay any interest. I really doubt I could've afforded it otherwise, so it was a Godsend for me.

Next on the agenda, I am EXTREMELY happy to see that Atlus has decided to bring what is essentially an expansion pack to Persona 3 out here in North America, titled Persona 3 FES. It's currently set for April 22 release at a price point of $29.99 (which means it will probably be around $34.99 here in Canada). I thoroughly enjoyed my time, however short, with Persona 3, and since I currently have my PS3 with me I plan to spend some more time with it before FES gets released.

Lastly... and xboxrulze will probably have something to say about this... I purchased a copy of Lost Odyssey when I went in to Best Buy. The preferred customer sale also entailed $5 off any Xbox 360 game, and since I had $10 in Best Buy Reward Zone coupons sitting around, I decided to cash those in as well so I knocked $15 off the price tag, so I got the game for $45 plus taxes. If it wasn't for the fact that I bought the TV I probably would not have bought LO until later on this year when I finished up some of my other games (or saved up enough money to buy an HDTV), but since I did I thought "Oh why not?" since xboxrulze and nocoolnamejim have been raving about it.

So... that's all for today folks. Oh, I've also been investing a decent amount of time into Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer as of late, so if any of you out there own the PlayStation 3 version of the game and want to hook up for some matches, feel free to add me to your friends list. The name's wchigo. Hope to see/frag ya soon.