Dreamcast
This Weekend
Woot. I had a good weekend… Friday night was a… social night out… and was a lot of fun. Saturday I went up to visit Cindy… her family’s restaurant is closing soon, but that just gives me an excuse to eat more delicious Chinese food. I’m sad about it closing, because it was such a big part of my high-school life, and such a big part of her family’s life. Since her dad needs a more wheelchair-accessable place and they don’t need the hassle and monetary investment of running the place, I completely understand. Looking over floor plans for new houses was kind of fun, and brought me and Cindy back to our old days in Mr. Poole’s drafting class in high school… what a grumpy old bugger.
We ended up spending most of the night watching old Zero Punctuation videos and a lot of Iron Stomach Challenge and Man Cooking… all while eating a bunch of pizza.
Sunday I finally found some more blank CDs upstairs with the help of my dad, and he gave me one… I went downstairs right away and burnt Grandia 2 to it… popped it in the Dreamcast… and now I’m really addicted to a console RPG for the first time in years. I can’t wait to play it next weekend… so I’m actually getting the PC version right now. Lol.
Well, that was about it for my weekend… wish it could have been a bit longer. For more Grandia 2. I didn’t see Kim much either other than Friday night… because of her work obligations. The ideal weekend would have more of her too!
Also, FML for not spending more time doing digital media.
This week
has been friggin’ long for no reason. Don’t know why. It just seemed really long. Sunday night seems forever ago.
Anyways, I did a lot this week. I bought a Dreamcast. I went to many classes. I saw Slumdog Millionaire. I watched Kim get over-spiced on Lamb Vindaloo. I froze to death walking to Steeles Staples only to find that they were out of what I needed. I went on a Viva Orange adventure right after that and froze to death more. Samina liked her birthday present. More lightbulbs turned on in ActionScript class. Sailor Moon is lolz. People seem unable to make plans for the weekend without getting really confused. (Well, just Ben.)
So… the Dreamcast was an excellent investment. I can burn games straight to CDs and play them with absolutely no modifications to the system. It’s awesome. I’ve been enjoying games from my childhood such as Toy Commander and Soul Calibur as well as ones I never got to play such as Jet Grind Radio and Bangai-O. Lots of fun! I can’t wait to play Soul Calibur and Power Stone with Ben and Max this weekend.
Classes this week weren’t terribly exciting, with the exception of ActionScript class last night. We didn’t go to Combustion cause it was just a work period… so after Intro to Print on Monday, Kim and I headed to the grocery store for some dinner supplies and grabbed a pizza for lunch. Wednesday we had two things due in Project Management but they weren’t huge assignments or anything, the rest of the class was kind of a brief on the existence of Microsoft Project and how it’s cool if you… manage projects. Aviva’s Wednesday half of our Intro to Print class was a bit of a work period as well, and we just worked on our business cards with the type logos we’d created last week and had them critiqued by her. After that class we headed out to get Samina’s birthday present, which I’ll explain later.
ActionScript class on Thursday was great. We actually started moving stuff around on the Flash stage, which was great because so far it’s just been placing images and stuff. I’m actually starting to grasp this stuff. It used to be horrifying before, but now it’s starting to make some sense. I think it just took a good teacher like Tim to really get the ball rolling for me. I hope that other people in the class are learning too… because this is a great learning experience while it lasts, and I don’t know if everyone sees it or not. Certainly the people who are visiting our class from the other ones from time to time have noticed I think… I heard they aren’t learning too much in their own class.
Today in AfterEffects, I’m getting confused by the program and sidetracked by blogging. That is all.
Work went pretty well this week. Nothing eventful. After work, Kim, Samina and I went to Cineplex Odeon Varsity to see Slumdog Millionaire in VIP 19+. This meant that the theatre was really small with really comfy seats and waiters. And hoity-toity rich couples who looked at us like we didn’t belong there. Anyway, the movie was great and I enjoyed it a lot. Happy end. I’m not spoiling anything… for the 0 people that read this… but go see it if you can. Or rent it if you read this when my blog actually has readers like a year from now. Lol. Anyways after the movie Kim and I walked all the way to the Annex and had dinner at some Indian place as our usual Thai place was closed (and Indian seemed appropriate after seeing an Indian movie with our Indian friend.). It was pretty good, but the Lamb Vindaloo that Kim usually orders from our usual Indian restaurant was SUPER HOT from this restaurant. I had her leftovers last night with added veggies and a half a can of coconut milk and it still took me a glass of milk and 4 glasses of water just to get through the bowl of it. SO HOT.
Wednesday night, Kim and I headed out to get Samina’s birthday present. We’d decided on the cheapest Wacom Bamboo tablet (as an introductory tablet for her, and incidentally the cheapest one of the bunch and the same one I own). We’d decided on the weekend to get it, but we forgot to ask Sonja to pick it up on Sunday with her 10% Staples employee discount… so we just went out to get it in Toronto. We hiked up from Seneca@York to Staples at Steeles and Keele to pick one up… but they were right out of stock. Of course, it was -13 degrees Celsius out, so we were a little (a lot) pissed and exhausted. We decided to take the VIVA Orange into Vaughan like my room-mate, Patricia, suggested. After hiking back to the university bus stop to catch it, we had some debit troubles but eventually got tickets and got on the bus. If you’ve never rode VIVA… IT’S LIKE, THE FUTURE, MAN. Everything is clean and streamlined and it’s kinda cool for a bus system. We passed a Future Shop and a Wal-Mart Supercentre/Sam’s Club and freaked out… and we were going to turn around until we found a Best Buy, TigerDirect.ca and Staples at the next stop. This proved adequate, as we picked up the tablet from the Staples. Don’t forget, it’s still -13. By the time we’d made it back to the bus Kim was laughing/sobbing at our terrible plight, and her near-hypothermic state. We made it back to the campus in one piece… albeit a frozen one… and made it home and bundled up. Kim’s leg still hurts from the cold a little, we think she got a bit of frostbite. At least Samina liked her present!
Lastly, Kim and I have been watching Sailor Moon episodes out of boredom. It’s funny because like 10 mins of footage is re-used every episode in transformation sequences, and it follows an extremely repetitive formula. I haven’t watched a lot of Sailor Moon before now, and this is really making me appreciate it’s terrible campiness and repetitiveness and… I don’t know. It’s kind of relaxing to watch a fluff show for once. However, I’ll stick to other anime that is good from now on, probably.
Anyways… I’m about to head home for the weekend. I hope it’s full of Dreamcast-playing, hangin’ out, and Combustion homework… but we shall see. Maybe I’ll even find some time to mess around in ActionScript. Woot.
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