The big catchup post part 3: Other Wild and Crazy (not really) Stuff B: All the rest

to be done

The big catchup post part 3: Other Wild and Crazy (not really) Stuff A: Games

OTHER STUFF

Karaoke! The fire drill! Shopping! Cooking! Anime Figures! O RLY Chocolate!
Um.... pictures up when I feel like it. I'll get to it tomorrow.
So you have to wait.
Nya nya.

Games Post

What would I do without games? Sure there's traveling and learning and all that great experience stuff... but what do you do in the mean time? Sit and twiddle your thumbs?
No, you play games!
What better way to spend your extra time than playing a game in a language you're studying! (or even one in your language!)

Current MMORPG

Ghost Online

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You've probably seen Maple Story, a 2d rpg. Ghost Online is a lot like Maple Story, but... you're basically a guy out of Dragon Ball Z. You can run fast, high jump, weild a sword or shurikens, fire chi blasts... but you can't make breakfast. For shame.
The game is still new and there's not much to do yet. But running around and high jumping in an MMORPG is pretty cool. Give it a try.


Other Games

Wild Arms (Japanese) PSX... but playing on my computer. ...what? I own 2 Ps1's and 2 Ps2's... I just don't have them with me! Its legal!!!

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I played it before in english, now again in Japanese. I kinda forgot the story, but oh well. One of the first RPG's that came out on PSX, and one of the best.

Halo 2 - Japanese, Xbox.... but playing on my friend's 360

So I bought an Xbox in Japan and brought it back to America during my break... but I recently found Halo 2.
Basicaly one of the good shooters for Xbox... a console of nothing really but shooters.
Also, I heard that the XBox 360 isn't fully backwards compatible... what the hell is up with that? Luckily Halo 2 worked... with some slowdown. Ps3 was backwards compatible, Wii is everything compatible... come on Microsoft, quit bein' a B****! I hope Bill Gates gets a blue screen on his way to heaven when he dies.

Also, on weird thing. The game is Japanese, but it has an almost full english version in it. With english subtitles, even. But the humans and aliens(!) SPEAK Japanese! Freaky.


Magic Knight Rayearth - Japanese, Sega Saturn

For the last time, even if its got female leads, it doesn't mean its a girl game. Come on, I'm having fun with it.


Panzer Dragoon - Japanese, Sega Saturn

Heck yeah. Its like a shooter. But you ride a dragon. Its cool.

Shining Force 3 - Japanese, Sega Saturn BUT playing this one on my computer. It wont save on my saturn

Good game for Saturn. Wish I knew what was goin on.

Tales of The Tempest - Japanese, DS

I just started it, but its a new game in Japan, wasn't released in America, and there's no gamefaqs as of yet. Maybe I should write the Gamefaq for it. Maybe. I just basically finished translating the first dialogue.


Other game stuff

Elecom Playstation Controller to USB adapter

I bought this in Akihabara. Allows me to plug my PS1 controller into my computer. Great for emulationa and MMORPGs. Heck yeah!

R4 Revolution DS

So yeah... I bought a rom card for my DS. It uses Micro SD memory. Meaning you load roms on the Micro Sd card and it plugs into the R4 which is the size of a DS game. It just plugs into the DS like any game and works.
These things are legal to have... like emulators. But the roms are illegal. So yeah... um... of course I don't download roms! I'm homebrew games all the way Nintendo!
(whew, think they bought it?)
So yeah... anyone looking for a rom card for their DS, if you can find some cheap micro Sd memory, the R4 works really well in my case. Just don't use it as a music player. It is by far NOT an iPod replacement.

iPod Shuffle

Not a game, but I got it for Christmas and I like it. Sure it has no screen, but it can play songs I put in in order as I choose on my computer, or I can random it. I can navigate it quite well switching between random and straight to find the song I like. It has an invincible battery life (it just doesn't die!) and is small and sturdy. 1 gig is perfect for it too.
Not many people know this, but it can also be used to store files on! Its basically a 1 gig usb file storage card that plays music! I usually keep it half full of music in case I need to move a big file.

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The big catchup post part 2: Love and mostly Loss

Ah... Nigatsu... the second month... February. How I hate it so.

So what if it was Exam month. I did fine on the exams. Passed em all. Passed with flying colors on most of 'em. (My listening and grammar tests left a little to be desired)
Exams weren't the problem.

Who knows why February has only 28 days... but I'm glad it's the shortest.
It's that one day that always ruins me. The 14th.
Now, I have never had a girlfriend. Ever. You can imagine how my Feb. 14's are like. 20 Feb 14's have passed for me. And all of them sucked.

There was this girl I liked. We will call her S-san. (san meaning Mr or Ms in Japanese). Now, S-san and I liked to meet on Tuesdays to play DS games and eat lunch.
When I came back from Vacation, I got her a chrismas present. Manga she liked, a hello kitty calender, a nice cat mug... a couple things. She liked them. Especially the lego star wars pen. She liked the cheapest thing I gave her. Go figure.
I kept trying to meet with her on Tuesday. She started coming late.
Then not at all. She ignored my mails. She finally answered one saying she was busy with exams.

On Valentines Day I sent her a mail saying I liked her.

In not even 5 minutes after she replied. She said she knew I might have liked her, but was shy and avoiding me. And because we are just friends, she couldn't imagine it as anything more, and she apologized.

May I also say on Valentines Day in Japan, girls feel obligated to buy stuff for guys. Anyone who matter to them.
I recieved nothing. Nothing but an apology for not liking me.

Its amazing how I can only be friends with girls who either already have boyfriends or live far from me. How does it happen?
All my avid readers... like all 5 of you. I'm a nice guy, right?
Then how come I can't even get one girl to like me?

...oh well.

Closing statement: if you suffer from any of the following symptoms:
-human
-young adult/late teen aged
-single
and
-female (no exceptions)
ask your doctor if 'Sean' is right for you!

...damn that was terrible. No wonder I'm still single...

The big catchup post part 1: Coming back

So... sup.
Yeah, if you dust all the cobwebs off, you will see my blog is still alive. Barely. I had to unfreeze it, use those heart shocker things, and give it cpr. It wasn't pretty. I made sure to use mouthwash after too. Also, I'm ditching the Japanese. Sorry.

So... two entire months unblogged. Where was I? What did I do? Where in the world WAS Carmen Sandiego?
A tragic (not really) tale. Love and loss. (Mostly loss.) A fake fire drill and earthquake. Exams. O RLY chocolate. And scary karaoke. Pronounced kah-rah-oh-kay. Say it right, you stupid American..
Ladies and gentlemen... here are the two months you never thought you would see. Fasten your seat belts, and please turn off all explosives during the film.

January

Where the hell was I in Janurary? for the first 9 days of it I was home. Home sweet home in Providence, Rhode Island. (Or as my Japanese alien ID said: Phode Island, but that's another story)

I remember I wanted to write a blog while I was on the plane. I saw lots of stuff. Clouds, mostly. But I looked down and saw the vast pacific ocean. The mountains of northeastern Russia. The coastline of Alaska and Japan. The Rocky mountains of America.
And those babies wouldnt shut up for any of it. Forget putting kids through school and college and raising them well... the freakin baby stage must be the hardest part.They do nothing but cry! Freakin babies. I know I was a baby once. I'm sure I was an annoying crybaby then. I bet you were too. So there. No wonder my SUNY Albany roommate eats babies...

Ok, enough about babies.

I got back to Japan ok. It was easier getting back alone cause I knew the railways from trip one. I also hung on to my luggage and managed not to lose it on the way back. But I lost it on the trip up, costing me time looking for it. Yes, I found it.

What else happened in January... uh... dam, I forgot.

to be edited with pictures to jog my memory...