I was talking to Booya earlier about my Katamari Brain Washing plan that I plan to inflict on everyone, gamers ( if you don’t know about this game, you are not a gamer 8P *bricked* )and non gamers alike ( I’ll probably make my grandaunt play this if her eye sights are better ). Having successfully inflicted it on my ex-colleagues *eyes velverse shiftily* . Booya ended up plugging me various links relating to Takahashi Keita, the brain behind the wicked weirdness of Katamari who rolled up the world in a gaming storm a few years back.

Reading more and more about him. I am strongly convinced that he is made out of AWESOME.

Found here

On Gaming’s Place in the World

“Everyday life is full of fun and stimulating things. The feeling of just riding a bicycle, or the sensation of sand on your bare feet when you’re walking on a beach. The happy feeling that you get when you decide to skip - the increase in your heartbeat that happens when you just decide to stop in the middle of a road crossing. You couldn’t really say that they are meaningful things - but they all help you realize that everyday life is quite good fun too. You don’t need games to have fun. And possibly, you don’t even need games at all.”

Keita Takahashi
Game Designer, Namco (creator or Katamari Damacy)

This is coming from a game designer. Talking about how we don’t need video games to have fun. BRB, it’s a bit late but I think I need to worship him right now D:

This seems like a mirror post to whiterabbit’s game geeking post a few days back.

I AM GETTING GOOSEBUMPS HEARING THE TICKING DAMNIT. OH SQUARE ENIX, how do I ever quit you with your current onslaught of AWESOMENESS of releasing old games and ACTUAL GOOD spin-off of FFVII??? 8DD /fangasms

PS : Final Fantasy IV dual screen opening clip 8DDD Minute 2:00 when the FF theme started playing? OMG I MUST REMEMBER HOW TO BREATH

It’s GOOD to be a NDS owner *hugs her DS*

Finished ‘Wicked’ by Gregory Maguire a bit earlier will depress me for some time to come, I’m sure >_>;

I mean, since picking this book up for the two books for HKD100 value buy at HMV, I had known the ending of the story already. Like duh who doesn’t know that Dorothy followed the yellow brick roads ended up killing the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz? But reading the story of The Witch as spinned by Gregory made me feel damned sad and sympathetic for her ( and yes, I’d always wondered why the hell the story is called Wizard of Oz since I was a kid since Dorothy was the one that had to do all the awful tasks. The book gave me a whole loads of other reasons to hate the Wizard now)

Which reminds me to question myself why the hell did I start playing FFVII : Crisis Core to begin with as well. For I damned well know how the story ends for SOLDIER First Class Zack Fair. ORZ I’d been stuck on the final chapter of the game since before I leave for HK and is really dilly dallying in finishing up what may be the last hour or two of the game BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT TO BE DEPRESSED.

And then I went on and read Wicked. Brilliant, just brilliant >_<

ANYWAY.

I'm back from Hong Kong since last Tuesday ( duuuuuuhhh ). The trip was fun and my darling L'Arc~en~Ciel was awesome. Pure awesome. Had a super duper long entry about the concert experience posted here if anyone is masochist enough to wade through the barrage of text diarrhea there *coughs*

Will probably post up photos from Hong Kong and Macau later but currently is too LAZY. Ta, people. I’ll probably go dig up some Terry Pratchett’s books after this to cheer myself up. I don’t think I’m in the state of mind to appreciate Tim Burton’s The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy at the moment ( another part of the bargain buy from HK. WHY YES, I BUY BOOKS FROM HK. From HMV nonetheless. Don’t judge me )

Life as a bum means I’d been having the time to catch up with games 8D

It’s totally not good for my health, err.. bank accounts but ahhhh I really missed playing games obsessively? /ends geekdom statement*

I’d just finished the game 8DDD *confetti in the air*

SO ZETTA AWESOMEE !!! ♥ ♥ ♥

Anyway, my slowly diminishing love for Squarenix over the years had finally re-spark itself( well, FFXII was excellent. Mainly cuz Emo-mura wasn’t in the production -much- 8DDD ). I was reluctant to be bother with the game because the design is very Nomura ( well duh, lead character designer? ) and the intro started with a massive EMO FEST by Neku ( main character ) whom I instantly wanted to slap left and right. ( Reasons why I actually can’t help but not dislike Joshua despite him being such a pompous bastard. Why? Because Joshua annoys the hell out of Neku 8DD Anyway, yeah Joshua is still a pompous bastard at any rate. Trufax. )

Thankfully Neku gets better as the story progress.

And the story and gameplay? AWESOMEEEE XDD ( was so massively addicted to the battle systems )

What I love most is the fact it takes place in Shibuya ( pseudo-Shibuya anyway XD ) 104 Building? Towa Records? AMX? AAAAA THE REFERENCES MAKES THIS STUPID STREET SCENES FAN IN ME ZETTA VERY VERY HAPPYYYYY 8DDDDD

The best part? Cat Streeeeeeeet ~~~!!!! *remembered the time when Mitsuo brought me and Sam for an evening stroll there ^FLAILS^* love love LOVEEEEEEEEEE ♥

All these makes it one of the best NDS games I’d played <3 *flails* now I guess I can get back to the regular schedule of ... trying not to bum around too much but my brother left me his PSP with Crisis Core DDDD:

PS : And I should stop cross dressing Neku out of sheer revenge XDDD

OH HAY

This place had been gathering much e-dust for the past month or so O_o And even the much-dropped-out-of-this-world-Kel had decided to update his blog, I figured that I’m really doing some sort of alternate dimension a great injustice if I don’t actually pulled my lazy ass out from the lazy-gutter and waste some internets-space, yanno.

So what had I been up to? Between the last two posts and this one here, there had been much changes of daily routines I was comfortably used to for the past two and a half year. I’d found myself a new job =D Or in a way, a new job found me because it was try some friends’ contacts & workplace. There’s much to be learned at this place and I’m hoping and praying that I’m up for the job ;__; Kel’s post about his job also in many way made me smile because in many ways, I felt like I am living in constant fear of being discovered as a fraud by my higher ups. Eek.

Negativity aside ( and since I’m kinda stumped about what to write about without being a bore ); I’m gonna list down random ups and downs in recent time

*ahem*

My biggest splurge -as of yet- for the year XDDDD ( ignore anything hyde-related, I can assure you they’re not as expensive as this That BABY umbrella doesn’t quite count too! )

Ta-daaaahh! ♥

I CAN PLAY GAMES ANYWHERE I WANT NOW!!!! ( especially after realising that my poor PS2 had been left in its bag untouched since Chinese New Year DD: Oh Stahn! Leon! Please forgive me! )

Booya can sum up the feeling much better than I do here.

Mobile gaming is sweeeeeeeet ♥ I finally got my own DS-Lite over the weekend after months of debating between the colours to get XD Now I don’t have to feel annoyed when both my brothers are off to their lala-land playing Monsters Hunter with their PSPs when I can entertain myself with the likes of Ouendan and Phoenix Wright :DDD

I had to admit, the two biggest push for me to get this for myself is when I saw Final Fantasy XII : Revenant Wings trailer XD And the other reason being whiterabbit and The Onion were both egging and tempting me muchly since two months ago DDD: Durn youu! )

And this was how I spent my weekend

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