August Will Be a Hard Month

I just came back home, tired from all the (real life) stuff happening lately (no, nothing serious, just lotsa schoolwork), opened Ngee Khiong's blog as per usual and saw the best thing I've seen in my life. I don't know if Bandai has magical people in their research department or what but they have outed lots of stuff that I really do want.

Before I continue on with this post, I'd like to say that I already bought some stuff from the recent Momotoys stock that day earlier this week. Haven't bought the one with the dual shiny swords yet but I may or may not get it in the end. Well, we'll see how it goes. Its not like I have to get it but my ABF will feel ronery later. XP

I sadly have no time to build them for now as exams are nearing rapidly and my deadlines for assignments are within 2 weeks. So, for anyone who frequents my blog, I'm sorry to say I'll not be posting much or anything for a while. However, if I do find any free time, I may as well post some stuff up, even though it might not be the usual long posts.

Okay, enough about me, let's talk about what has Bandai done now.

EDIT (14/05/10): Added some additional comments especially for Gundam Harute.

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Just Feel Like Sayin'

Sorry for the lack of posts lately and sorry again for not posting anything informative for the time being. Well, I guess if you've paid attention to my blog posts for a while you would know that I've been preoccupied by university life. This post might be a little emotional though. ^^;

Anyways, yesterday was a rather sucky day. At first it wasn't until... I realized I accidentally left my pen drive over at the open lab in the morning. ORZ. Greatest mistake I've done in a while. It doesn't really contain much of anything gravely important but some of my work in progress (assignment data) is in there. I'm not overly obsessed about that since I can redo it quickly as long as my mood lightens up a bit more.

The reason why I left it was kinda lame but I was showing the stuff for one of the club's activities yesterday afternoon to the committee members but it was then time for class at 10.30am. I rushed and totally forgot about it. I only found out by the time I was home by around 8.30pm. It was also a rather busy day, which made it harder for me to remember everything, since I had club activities to do. Sad thing was that I'm always extremely careful with my pen drives. Checking whether I left them every time I leave the PC. However, yesterday... crap happened. =.= My own fault, yes, but I'm still unhappy about it. The pen drive even haunts me in my dreams! Why? Why must you forget about me?!

I'm currently trying to find it but I feel that any results, if any, will only be apparent by next week. And I have some mid-terms next week too... Hopefully I'll be able to concentrate. I really hate losing stuff. It bothers me to no end until I finally feel like I have no choice but to let go.

EDIT (18/04/10): Someone found it! Looks like I'll be able to get it back on Monday. ^^
Hopefully it is really mine but I think it should be. =)
EDIT (19/04/10): Got it back! Thank you very much to the guy who found it! =D

Rants & NDS Emulated Gaming

Now, a change of topic beside Gundam. I know some of you may get bored if I keep going on and on only about a singular topic for a long period of time, especially my friends. XP

Note: TL, DR

Part 1: DUDE, WHERE'S MY INTERNET?!
First of all, I like to shout at Streamyx for their FABULOUS service. Sure, the line stays on slightly longer before it disconnects lately, but in turn, the overall Internet surfing speed is extremely slow. How am I suppose to open 5-10 tabs at once like I usually do? I can barely load 2 tabs without closing the 2nd tab to let the 1st tab to load completely nowadays. I haven't even begun on how hellish it is to download stuff. Torrents that normally take me a few hours before can take days on end due to slow speeds and constant disconnections makes it all the worse. Guh, I haven't been keeping up with the current anime and manga trends because of last month and this month FABULOUS Internet quality. I was also thinking of playing online game this month which was sadly impossible. Extremely frustrating. I hope after the TM Net conference tomorrow, things change for the better soon, REAL SOON.

Part 2: I Love Handhelds
This whole month of July is my only semester break for this year ever since I started to go to Swinburne, wasting half of it on Gunpla and the middle portion visiting another area of the country. Well, not really wasting as I gathered experience in life and met some new friends. When I was at KL, I became interested to game once again(I got bored of gaming earlier this year) and to be specific, Nintendo DS(NDS) handheld gaming after I got to play with SwatWolf's NDSL...

Lite(The little handheld gaming system which can be seen in hands on little kids all over town that which I have yet to obtain. However, I was very close in investing in the Nintendo DSNDSL) while shopping in KL. Oh so very close if only money was really that easy to spend carelessly. At any rate, I'm planning to but a NDSL by year's end, 2 if possible, one for me and another for my sister. Thus, I guess, begins my decline in Gunpla purchases... after I get MG Exia and HG Reborns Gundam/Cannon. XP

At the same time, especially because of Dissidia, I also might want to save up some cash to invest in the PSP too unless the PSP emulator becomes amazing by the time I almost buy a PSP(which is never if I were to buy 2 NDS). X/ Then again, I don't like the PSP as much as the NDS, way less games I like on that system but the really good games, even though not so many, can sway a person to think of purchasing it just for 1 or 2 games... WHY MUST DISSIDIA AND KINGDOM HEARTS: BIRTH BY SLEEP ARE ON THE PSP ONLY?! D=

Part 3: At Least There Are Emulators Available
For quite some time I've been playing NDS games on emulators such as the IDeaS and No$GBA but due to the lack of interactive capable gaming on these really great pieces of software, I only can play the games partly or half-assed. It makes games with multiplayer capabilities go to waste. Then again...

For the PSP? The emulator seems to cater much promise and the developement is currently quite fast. So it might be possible for us to enjoy some PSP gaming on your computer screens very soon as well. However, handheld games are meant to be played on handhelds... as in within easy grip in our hands. =P

Note: You can also read my earlier entry on "NDS Emulated Gaming" 2 years back.

Click the "Read more..." if you want to see screenshots on my NDS Emulated Gaming fun! Which is fortunately the best thing to do when the Internet becomes a place far away for 21st "centurians".

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Streamyx got a new T&C!

OMG! Today I was like surfing on the computers in the open labs in Swin and suddenly, I read this topic; http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1002200

WTF? Streamyx wrote down a new T&C!?

xv. Streamyx download and upload speed is guaranteed for local content access only. TM is not responsible for the low speed of either download or upload of international content access.

Seriously, what is wrong with them? This is the worst way to say sorry our line sucks. Then, what? They expect us to surf local sites only? How are we going to enjoy "broadband" if all we are doing is surfing local sites and locally available locally hosted non-local sites. Sigh, looks like my downloads will not be recovering in the near future...

To read the complete T&C, click here.

I'm so totally disappointed with Streamyx here.