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Seems I've been neglecting my blog :(

Ah well, not really had much to write about.

I bought No More Heroes for the Wii on Saturday and it's pretty fun. Some parts of it can get kind of annoying (like the seemingly unresponsive controls sometimes) but overall it's quite fun to play. I was hoping it would be reminiscent of side scrolling beat 'em ups but it isn't really, oh well.

It was my birthday on Friday :O

I'm now 2 decades old (20 for people who can't figure that one out).

Got some nice stuff for my birthday, including posh chocs from my grandma and some Goldenschlag from my parents.

I also bought and started playing FFXI because my friend insisted.

Woo, Uni is over until January so it's time to relax a bit.

Christmas is just around the corner and I've got all my presents ready for people (just have to wrap them, heh).

As for my favourite hobby, I bought Super Mario Galaxy a week or so ago and have been enjoying that (more than I had expected). I also bought Assassin's Creed which was pretty good, you can see my review of it here.

Finally, I realise I haven't really been updating my blog all that regularly... I guess I just can't think of things to write, heh. Anyway; next update will be after Christmas, I imagine.

Well, in the past week or so I've made a fair few purchases and I haven't really posted in a while... So I decided to tell you about my purchases.

One obvious purchase is the iPod touch which I posted from yesterday, which I absolutely love so far.

I bought a 4GB memory stick for the PSP and have Lumines on the way so that I can downgrade it and start playing some open source goodness on the PSP; which should be nice. I also hear that if you make backups to ISO of your PSX games, you can play them on the PSP but I think the legality of that may be questionable...

I also bought a couple of games for the PS2:

• Metal Gear Solid 3
• MagnaCarta

I've been after MGS3 for a while but never got round to picking it up, so it's nice to finally have it. MagnaCarta, on the other hand, I had never even heard of, but after putting about 10 hours into it, I'm really enjoying it.

Finally, I bought some gear to go with my iPod touch; a nice leather case, some "indestructible" film cover and a mains to USB charger majigger.

Kind of bad spending so much, I guess, but I did get a cheque for £250 the other day for a bit of work I did, so the damage isn't too bad :D

My iPod touch arrived yesterday and it's totally awesome :D

I'm making this post using the built in browser/wireless set up, heh.

Anyways, can't be bothered making a long post with this, later.

I am at Joshkip's house.

He is busy burning his tongue off with absinthe, the nub.

That's all D:

Exactly a month to go until my resit. Got my results a little while ago and I passed all but one of my modules - Computer Systems.

I knew I was gonna fail that one anyway, I guess. I'd never done any of the stuff prior to going to Uni and the lecturer we had for that subject was beyond a joke. He spent about 40 minutes of a 60 minute lesson whining/time wasting so we only ever got (at most) 20 minutes of actual education, but usually a lot less. Not only that, but he gave us no indication of what sort of things we should know for the exam, so it was guess work deciding what to learn from books. The most annoying thing is that we complained about him to the student rep. and nothing was done about him. Not a thing.

Anyway, I need to do a load of 'revision' and hopefully I'll be able to pass this time, no thanks to Old Man Death. (Note: I say 'revision' because you can't actually revise what you've never been taught, so you should probably read that as 'learning')

Later.

Well, not posted in a while... Mainly because I lack the motivation... But I've finally decided to make a post.

My Mac went in for 'repair' on Tuesday. I say 'repair' because they couldn't even tell me if they will fix it, but they will phone me at some point to tell me if they will, which is annoying. The actual problem is that the screen has insects inside it, which shouldn't be able to happen, so it's a fault on Apple's side. Also, pretty sure my SuperDrive is nackered, so I guess they might fix that.

Oh yeah, I went to an awesome party over the weekend and had a really great time :D

Well, two weeks since my last post and not a great deal has happened.

Went into Hull yesterday and bought a load of stuff that I've been after for a little while (Shadow of the Colossus for PS2 (Which works on the PS3, thank god), a new N64 control that doesn't have a buggered thumb stick and a component cable for my Wii - looks much nicer on my HDTV now).

Doesn't look like I'll be able to do one of the projects I had in mind - can't find anywhere to actually build it.

Might as well say what that project was gonna be, now; I was planning on building an arcade machine (like the ones in arcades in the late 80s and early 90s). My main reasoning behind this was because I love Space Harrier and it would be awesome to play it arcade style, but also because a lot of arcade games were better than most console games today.

Also popped into the Apple store and didn't buy anything, which is nice.

So I've had a week off... And I'm bored stiff, lol.

I went to York on Saturday and that was pretty awesome. Bought an N64 for myself :D

The N64 came with 12 games, some of which are pretty good and I also bought myself Banjo Kazooie, which is an epic game.

Haven't found anywhere to do my project yet, which sucks. Though... My grandma said that she'd clear out her garage (which contains a really, really old car) and that she'd let me do it at hers, so I'm considering this. It's just a little awkward (and expensive) to get to her house from here every day.

Work tonight :( suckage.

Well, I haven't posted in a while so I thought I'd let all my readers (haha yeah right) know what I get up to at work.

If you don't know; I work in a small "members club" in the village that I live in. When I say small, I'm probably not doing it justice... On a busy shift I'll get maybe 20 people in, but normally I'll get about 6 people during the whole four hours... If I'm lucky.

Anyways, I've got a few of pics and a video, so here they are:

And the awesome thing?

I get paid to do this :D

Had a haircut last night:

Before:

After:

Oh yeah, it's my 19th birthday today.

Hurray, finally got the pic!

My friend Josh randomly sent me my ninja costume picture. Not entirely sure why... He says he was looking for pics of me on his computer... Something to do with putting my mugshot on a site he's working on.

Anyways, here's the costume I wore to the last fancy dress: I went as Sub-Zero (a ninja from Mortal Kombat, for anyone who doesn't recognize the costume).

Enjoy.

Ok, so here's the costume I wore last night;

I'm so incredibly tired today. Hardly got any sleep last night (this morning) as the girls decided they'd be hyperactive, as soon as we were all in our beds, and stayed up for like 2 hours jumping around and screaming.

Then, when I left, I was only at home for 15 minutes before I had to leave for work.

As I'm posting this I'm revising for an exam for tomorrow.

At least the party was good, I guess, heh.

Tiiiiired ;-;

I was invited to a fancy dress party on NYE by the "random" girl that saved me from having nowhere to sleep. It's happening tonight, but I kinda left the costume arranging part of it until last minute, so I've rented a costume.

Last time I went to a fancy dress party I went as a Ninja, this time I'm going as the Ninjas arch nemesis - a Pirate!

I can't seem to find the picture of my Ninja costume at the moment, but if I do I'll post it at a later date.

Here's a sneak preview at my Pirate costume: I'll post a full picture of me, and probably some photos from the party, tomorrow night...

Oh, bugger, just remembered that I've got work tomorrow and I'm staying out tonight... Ah well.

Well, I haven't posted in a little while... Let's see, what's been happening...

Well, I had far too much to drink on New Years Eve and forgot quite a lot of it. Woke up at some random persons house D:

Went to a friends birthday party 2 days ago with my Wii and we all spent hours upon hours playing it. I stayed the night and we played it all day yesterday as well. People get REALLY competitive and aggressive when they play on the Wii with other people...

Today my arms ache so much because of all the Wii playing D:

Other than that, not much happening in my part of the world.

Boxing Day today, so I have work tonight... Kinda sucks, but it's double pay, woop!

Christmas Day yesterday was awesome, got a lot of cool stuff from my parents and other relatives.

My parents got me a really nice katana as the "main" present, then a load of cool stuff under the pretext of "Santa".

My grandma came over, Christmas dinner was delicious and we all had a laugh - 'twas good.

It's that time of the year again; The time to start opening advent calendars, the time for mass commercialism, the time when people start putting up horrible decorations, the time for christmas cheer etc.

Every year christmas seems more tacky and more commercialised to me. I'm not sure whether it's because it actually is or whether it's just because I'm getting older. Either way, I still enjoy christmas, it's nice to have a time of the year when you can express gratitude and love towards people you care for without seeming a bit of a prat.

I've got my immediate family all their presents, can't post here what I've got them on the offchance that they'll read it (not likely, but meh).

Anyway, I hope everyone has a good christmas.

...that the dog is terrified of fireworks.

She's been going crazy all night, it's driving me mad. Sure, the fireworks are pretty but Poppy is running around and whimpering and generally getting in the way of everything and it's getting bloody frustrating.

Ah well, that's life I guess.

And here's a photo of Poppy: