Another One

Episode Eight

2008-09-02T23:03:00.000-07:00

September 2nd 2008

Been a long day. After class I had to rush to court and hear a court hearing, (Everything there felt uptight. Me and Eva got into an appeals court where they were talking about this poor bankrupt being harrased by the bank. There were three judges in court. A lawyer thought us some basic etiquette, he reminds me of Faizal :P) then right after that have to take pictures with Kaede for my assignment, then right after that have to go and print it... (So damn long... more than a bloody hour!) I was so tired that I felt like fainting, and here is where I made my mistake. Because I didn't tell Sham earlier that I was too tired, I really kena from her. Long story short... I really hoped we've made up. I really should learn to know what to say and whatnot...

A nice interesting fact about court today.
Defense : My client has been maliciously attacked (bla bla)
Judge : (Pauses for a second) I'm sorry, you've mentined malicious countless times, but, what is the definition of malicious?
Me and Eva : O_O
*Judge then goes on to ask assistant to go and look for a dictionary. She comes back half an hour with three stacks of it... but that case was already settled by then.

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I forgot to mention that I became champion of the sealed deck tourney for set 21 in Cineleasure on August 24th. Won the deckbox (finally!) three boosters and a poster.

Blue
U-359 GM
U-360 Gundam Ground Type (Gundam Hammer)
U-361 Gundam EZ8 Kai
U-362 Z PLus A1 Type
U-365 Nu Gundam Double Fin Funnel Type
U-366 FAZZ
U-367 Lifter
CH-216 Katz & Gang
CH-219 Shin Crypt
C-135
C-139
O-143 Gundam Hammer

Green
U-323 Zaku (Heat Hawk)
U-324 Zaku Minelayer
U-00-10 Tieren Ground Type
U-00-11 Tieren Space Type X2
CH-187
O-126
O-127 Heat Hawk

Red
U-176 Bawoo
U-178 Qubeley Mass Production X2
U-C104
CH-C57
O-99 Funnel

Dual Colour
SP-63 O Gundam
U-00-8 Gundam Throne Eins
U-00-9 Gundam Throne Zwei
CH-00-6 Micheal Trinity
CH-00-9 Christina Searria

7 Blue G
5 Green G
6 Red G
1 G-79 Blue Double Nation

And that I'm typing from a new Laptop I got last Sunday on Merdeka :P A Compaq Pesario equipped with AMD Turion 64 X2 processors, ATi Radeon 5200 and Altec Lansing built in speakers. Oh yeah. And I'm paying for it. Fark.

Episode Seven

2008-07-13T23:23:00.000-07:00

July 13th, 2008

Spent the entire day today playing cards at Cineleasure. Kaede picked me up at about 10am if I recall, and we rushed there. Turns out there were two draft sessions, and the morning one was just four of us only. It's ok, I thought, more a chance for me to win the booster draft king box? Nontheless when the draft cards came, as usual, as I based my colour on the first rare, (I don't count the extra set 14 booster that came!) I got Justice Gundam w/METEOR. Holy crap. Backed it up with some Black cards too, and it became a somewhat control type White/Black deck using my units (some High Mobility) and preventing the enemy from defending me.

First battle was against Kaede, he had a red/brown deck up his sleeve, using Qubeley and Quess' Jagd Doga as the main attackers and a brown operation for healing. It wasn't my day, although I clawed back the second round, I still lost a sad 2-1 to him. Damn, that was so close too, the final game. I had Aile Strike Gundam which was going Hi-Mo and not affected by his Psycommu team, but a bad decision made me lose. Damn it, but I was stuck in that game.

Next battle was against ... whatsisname. He had a mainly Green weenie going, but his luck wasn't quite there and he was decimated 2-0. Ouch though. Kaede and Victor fought an hour plus long 3 round battle, but Victor ended up the winner with a 2-1 win.

The final battle with Victor. According to the scores, if I managed to win 2-0, I would have won the tournament. He had a Blue/Red deck, and I could say the strongest deck amongst us four. A comfortable set of units, plus the Purple Roll Operation from set 14, and Self Attracting Souls, a very formidable opponent. Pressure just was too tough, and although I managed to take the first game, the second one wasn't mine, and the final conclusive game was his with a fantastic comeback win. Victor was the champion, and the box had eluded me once again. Sigh...

Me and Kaede pooled out cash, 'cause I was convinced to join the afternoon session, we put our brains together and came up with a Blue/Green deck using the Green as the early attackers and Blue for recovery and the big guys. Sadly it wasn't a good day again, losing the first game to whatsisname's Black/Red deck clean 2-0 (Kaede made a bad choice, and in the end he won every game clean 2-0, it was a fantastic mix of control plus Black units), although winning the rest of the matches 2-0 to settle for second place.

Later, met up with the rest of the Pedorangers Kim, PC and Riiko (Thanks PedoPink for giving me these Vocaloid bookmarks!) and ate some McD, before adjourning to the cinema for some Evangelion 1.0. Damn, the animation has been vastly improved, and I really forgot how emo Shinji was... and there was a cut scene of Rei Ayanami naked. Nontheless, near the end, the guys got overwhelmed by Rei's smile, (too much moe~) and PC was telling me how this guy in Singapore stood up and screamed Moe~ in the cinema, and the crowd followed along.

Well, we were in a half empty small cinema meant for artistic films, and it was, what, 1/10's filled?

Went home happily, since I managed to bring back yet another Self Attracting Souls. :)

Decklist:
Units
Black
U-69 Marasai
U-82 Hi-Zack Base Jabber (X2)
U-103 Cruiser
U-122 Tin Cod
U-Z9
U-Z22 (Area Weapon Colony)
U-Z44
U-Z43
U-Z45
U-Z57
U-Z96
White
U-72 Aeries
U-78 Taurus?
U-S6 Archangel
U-S18 Heliopolis
U-S40 Calamity Gundam
U-S49 Gundam Astray Red Frame (Gerbera Straight)
U-S152 Justice Gundam (METEOR)
U-S184 Aile Strike Gundam

Characters
Black
CH-48 Eliard
CH-Z33
CH-Z62 Uncle
White
CH-12 Quatre

Commands
Black
C-11
White
C-54
C-S52 Battlefield at Junk Stars

Operations
Black
O-80 Fuel Bomb
White
O-10
O-S3 Plant High Council

SP-62 Gundam Throne Eins
SP-63 O Gundam
SPC-32 Team Trinity

Episode Six

2008-07-13T08:49:00.000-07:00

Bon Odori. July 12th, 2008.

It's been a boring couple of days, but Bon Odori has finally arrived! I ate breakfast first with dad and... I think his new girlfriend at Old Town, then I got dressed and rushed to Mugen's house, where I spent the time waiting for her to get ready by watching an episode of Persona: Trinity Soul and playing some Guitar Hero III... without a plastic guitar, but the normal Playstation 2 controller. Urgh, that was extremely hard.

Got to Wai Mun's place where we then waited for them to get ready (and wondered why the webcam was pointed towards the bed... turns out the webcam was to show Eu Lynn, that Wai Mun was sleeping) and so we watched a couple of videos. Left straight away, gave the keys to my car to Wai Mun, and we managed to get there by around 6pm, and got quite a nice parking too. What was shocking though was that on the way, Wai Wen sms-ed me to tell me she was already there! But she left to go pick her sister up... the others were all sms-ing me telling me that they were already there.

First group we met was Li Huey and Vana. yay! then Theresa, Wei Jan,Kou (wow long time no see) and Syeh Ying appeared! (I thought she wasn't coming!). After getting my Pocari Sweat (because it is WIN) and getting Ice cream for Mugen and myself, met the rest of the Pedorangers, Kim, Kaede and PC! Also managed to talk to a couple of old friends in CF, it was very... hectic ish and fun? Li Huey, Vana, Theresa and Wei Jan were wearing their yukatas too!

Let's see what I did... managed to get some Unagi from Eu Lynn (and got some for myself too), talked shit with the Pedorangers, played some Gundam War with Kaede, talked more shit with the rest of the gang, learnt about balloon balancing from Hime-sama, Li Huey, was keeping Vana's phone and her Rm50 with me the whole time, danced the Bon Odori dance, with Theresa, Kim, Wei Jan, Mugen, Wai Mun and Eu Lynn, the 3rd session, yay, even at least once, and was kinda showing Wei Jan the steps, managed to meet Sandra and have a talk with her and her friends, and also finally met Wai Wen and her sister too!

There was this one part where I overheard Wai Mun talking to his girlfriend... about tampons? Turns out it was cendol, but I didn't hear it well enough. So I screamed, "YOU NEED TAMPONS?"

Everyone then decided to yumcha at McD at Old Town! All took different transport though (Mugen with me, Li Huey with Vana, and because Theresa didn't know how to go, Wai Mun and Eu Lynn, alongside Wei Jan, Syeh Ying and Kou). We managed to get lost, but after making it there 15 minutes after Li Huey and Vana, about 10.20, the rest only came after 11pm. Ouch. Had a nice meal and we had lots of fun chit chatting about nothing.

Finished the day by sending Mugen and Eu Lynn home, playing some cards at Wai Mun's while watching some shitstorm in Macross Frontier.

Episode Five

2008-07-07T23:30:00.000-07:00

July 7th, 2008.

Found out yesterday my car has this weird scratch on the back bumper. Nothing biggie though. Just wondering how did it get there.

Today was the day I decided to... do my responsibilities. First thing's first was to go and wash my car. Went straight towards the car wash near my house and made them do it :P. My car looks much more sparkling, 'cept for the fact there's some weird thing that cannot be removed from my front, I wonder if the paint was chipped because it's been too long since I last washed... I fear my dad will kill me if he's sees that.

Next on the list was servicing the car. Went straight to the "doctors" and they fixed a couple of stuff my car had problems with, changed the spark plug, and the front fog lights, and refilled the oil and such. Now my car feels... somewhat brand new, I guess :) Filled up at Shell right after they were done.

Went to cut my hair at the Barber's at Happy Garden. Why? It's been years since I last visited the guy there, and, yay, he still remembers me. We were catching up on some old times, and after that was done and settled, went straight back home to bathe and catch up on sleep.

Spent the rest of the day playing Gundam Musou. :P

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July 11th, 2008.

I woke up from a slumber at Kim's place (Played Monster Hunter and Rock Band, and never found my dice in the end... oh, we did become Hall of Famers!) and I got an sms from Angelin! She asks if I was free in the evening for a little dinner outing with Eva. I left early from Kim's place and went straight towards her place to pick her up. (I had to wait quite some time because she just came back from Mid Valley with her mum, Eva was already on her way to IOI mall).

After picking her up, and Eva, we went to some place... which I don't recall, anyway it was near some hypermart. yeah! Some Noodle place called Noodle Village, where we chatted away the whole evening until the power in the restaurant got cut! Bloody hell, even as we were talking about this crazy and scary fat girl from uni somemore. What luck.

Before I sent Eva home we took a little detour around PJ where we saw interesting stuff... like a Porn Saloon. Think I'm joking? http://lilvavaterritory.blogspot.com/ Post on July 11.

Took some shots too outside Eva's place!

After sending Angelin home finally, she asked before she left... "Anything you wanna say to me before I go?" ...well the only thing I thought was "I LOVE YOUUUUU!!!!"... oh well. :P

Episode Four

2008-07-05T22:01:00.000-07:00

July 5th, 2008.

Today Mugen had asked me to go and play some Rockband. I was supposed to go and help send Kim's guitar for repair at Cheras, but because he was rushing and all... nontheless, I even had to cancel something with Li Huey about some Times Square outing and all. Oh well.

We went straight to Mugen's place to pick her up and her sister, and went straight to Toybox. It's been some time since I had a four member band playing. Yuki wasn't doing so well with the drums though, though it was her first time playing, and Mugen wasn't really ready for Medium level yet. But oh well, we had lots of fun anyway, great playing everyone :P

After dropping Yuki off at One Utama, we went to Burger King near Cineleasure there and had a meal. There were two hunters there too! Wow, Monster Hunter is really damn popular. I was too shy to ask whether we could join them though. Then an idea struck me. I asked if we could go Cineleasure, I wanted to check on the Sunrise Crusade starter decks and plus, I wanted to ask my friend there Victor if we could Monster Hunter. :)

Once there we had a couple of 4 man hunts, first a continuous hunt, then hunting poor Chameleos/Oonazuchi, then finally the mighy Teostra fallen. Although, as Kim said, they were quick hunters, going for paralyze/flash bomb techniques, and not really good without traps. Oh well. we spent the rest of the time at the mall (Kim bought a Xenosaga III gachapon, and out of the 4, he didn't like Momo only, but he got her :P). Then we adjourned to Mugen's place.

Isn't Reno cute? :P

After playing with her cats, and Kim having flashback moments, we left for hom.e. I had a D&D game, and it was the first time playing with maps and all. It was damn cool. Mun got ambushed by guards when he simply went exploring. Then we tortured some poor soul for information... nice.

Episode Three

2008-07-04T01:17:00.000-07:00

July 2nd - July 3rd.

Rockband. Greatest multiplayer game ever, in my books. One lead guitarist, one bassist, one drummer, and one vocalist, all rocking out in fake plastic instruments, and having a blast.

After waking up in the morning at Kim's place, I played some Tactics A2 while waiting for him to get up. After he got ready, we went straight to Cheras where he got himself a Rockband set for his Playstation3. Nice. We got straight back and assembled everything, and tried it out. There was a slight problem, the guitar tilt sensor wasn't working at all. We were dumbfounded. Sms-ing the guy at Cheras proved to be a fruitless effort because he didn't understand what I was trying to say.

Nontheless we created our rockers, Kim the lead guitarist, Nick the vocalist, and Yui the drummer, and rocked out the entire day on the band world tour, it was fantastic. It was MORE fantastic when we got to Fallout Boy's Dead on Arrival, which was what I really wanted to sing out loud. We got to know more functions of Rockband, and some other stuff we didn't really know about World Tour, like only the members being used get to earn some dough through the tour.

The next day, helped Kim to sign up for the Playstation Network, and patched up the Rockband game. Played a little more (and created a new drummer, Neon, my "other personality"), then we went off to Carrefour Alamanda to buy some screws for a little DIY with the Fender. Stumbled onto Kaede there after having a Sushi King dinner as well. When we got back I went straight to the computer to look for fixes while he opened the guitar up, but none of the methods we tried work, sigh.

After another session of gaming (a 12 song set baby!) we played some Monster Hunter, and killed a Ucambulas and White Fatalis with ease (although I got killed in both fights. Against Fatalis I managed to get myself in harms way with those Lightning Bolts...).

Had an enjoyable 3 days 2 nights stay there, and will be seeing him on Saturday.

Ninja EDIT : Shouga ---> Kim.

Episode Two

2008-07-03T10:03:00.000-07:00

July 1st

It was Shouga's birthday, so after waiting for my Super Robot Wars A to finish downloading, I headed straight off to his place. Was planning to stay over the night. We picked up Kaede, then, PC, then Riiko. (Full Pedoranger gathering!). We headed to Sunway, and from there wanted to go to Sushi Zanmai, but we didn't go 'cause we weren't sure if it was halal for Shouga, so in the end we went back to the original plan, a dinner at Sushi King.

Kaede was using his new camera to take lots of pictures, and we had lots of fun playing around and teasing each other. Riiko seemed kinda quiet though. Nontheless the bill came to about RM200 I think, wow. At least it was cheaper with my card?

Then came the next order of business, I was looking to buy Rockband for the PS2, and Kaede was looking to buy a SD card reader. As we were looking, we came across the small arcade in the teen area, there was this little girl playing the Para Para machine, and the moment I saw it, I called to PC to look, "Over there, loli!" He quickly turned his head 180 degrees and stared. Wow. So Shouga WAS right. Nontheless, my luck today must've run out because no shop in Pyramid was selling any games, maybe they got raided? Kaede found his card reader pretty quickly, although I don't remember how much.

As we passed by the small arcade again, we decided to play some EZ2D, me and Kaede. Unfortunately, my side of the machine had a problem on the right sensor, plus it's been too long since I played, I looked like a total idiot. Shouga and PC then took their turns onto the machine, and then we left to McD to get some ice cream, (Riiko decided to get this "McFlurry-like-thing" at Wendy's instead, it does look appetizing when I look at it :P).

After going to the real arcade to play more EZ2D, it was time to go back home.

Shouga wanted me to play the hardest song in the game, but in the end couldn't >_<

Oh, I finished Metal Gear Solid 4. Greatest storyline in a game I've ever played, by far

Episode One

2008-06-29T09:40:00.000-07:00

Sunday, 29th June 2008

It was about 8am in the morning, when Kaede called. I was still asleep of course, but he asked me if I could go to Times Square like, right away, to join him for the Booster Draft King tournament. I wasn't planning to go at all at first, I was broke. I told him that. Then he said he was willing to spare some cash. So well, I decided to go. He could probably use some company.

I got a day's early allowance from my dad, and headed off. Parked at the usual spot at Tun Sambathan station and got on the monorail to Imbi.

I reached about 11 o' clock, and turns out not many people there. (Managed to finally use my Gundam War membership card today as well, finally! :P) I chipped in some of my own cash, of course not all, because there's Shouga's birthday coming up on Tuesday. We headed off to Sungei Wang for abit before the tournament started, because Kaede wanted to meet a friend, but turns out he was still sleeping, or something like that.

The draft started at about 1pm. (I remember reading an article about booster drafts at the Magic website, here's one I found from Magicwiki a while ago http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering/Booster_Draft) My first booster gave me... Char's Zaku II. Alright, it looks like I'm going Green then. A couple of more boosters, it went with Black too, so it became a Black/Green deck. Was lucky to get Patrick Colasaur (He'll save me alot of times in this tournament, 'cause he's the man that will never die :P) and Char Aznable himself for my deck as well. The poor judge, Fat Ken, had to stand next to me because I had to keep asking what the cards did, poor him, and poor me. :P

Nontheless after the draft proceed smoothly we had to make the deck. I had trouble with what I wanted, plus I didn't understand nearly everything in my deck, so I had to trouble Kaede with the translations. Needless to say, I was the last to create my deck, but everyone was ok with it, they seemed to understand my troubles >_<.

The first round was against Mun Yeong, a 2-0 win, with the poor fella jammed G the first round, and a close second round fight which went straight to the wire. He had a Val Varo with High Mobility that kept attacking me nonstop. I'm thankful I managed to hold on and pulled out more units for the finishing blow.

The second round was a loss, 0-2, against Osama. (Just a fella from MMU :P) He had a Blue/Black deck going on. I loss the first round when I jammed G, stuck on 3NP. The second round, I was in total control of the field, and I thought I won, but he managed to play 7Gs and pulled out the S Gundam High Mobility type, with the power to have a double battle phase. Every turn 10 damage and I can't block. If only I kept the operation that allowed one unit with Earth to gain Space, I might have had a chance. (I had a High Moblity Assimar, and a good character set-on too).

Third round, 2-1 win against... whatsisname. I knew I was going to fight him. He had this serious look going about too. He had... a Brown/Black deck. After winning the first round, he decimated me in the second round when I was in control, by using Intimidation. With the field reset, the table turned that round. The final round was... awesome. I had early control of the field, but out of nowhere halfway into the match, Kowloon Gundam came out, and along with Intimidation. The field was clear for Kowloon to keep attacking me, and I have nothing to stand in it's way. With very late into the game I managed to rebuild my forces and defeat him with what he had left, *phew*.

4th and final preliminary, against *that guy*, can't remember his name either, but he's taught me alot before. Yet another 2-1 win, with him being stuck in the first match, but we had two grueling matches after that.

Found a nice combo with Chronicle Asher, the guy that makes units 4/2/4. Even units with lousy stats but high moblity, or desert, swift strike... even if they're 0 attack or 1/1/1 they become 4/2/4. Amazing what a Aasimar could suddenly do. The Big Rang is also an underestimated card, a card that could supply itself, and make free tokens? Wow.

With the preliminaries over, I found out I made 7th place. Kaede made it to the Semi-finals, and managed to beat his opponent 2-0, and his final opponent Osama, 2-0 as well, and win the Booster Draft King. Congrats Kaede! :P He won the Storage Box, 6 boosters, a promo and the Booster Draft King official deckbox, it's kinda like a trophy to me :P (We all had to give in our rares, and based on our position, we took turns taking cards)

These are the spoils of my victory! Yay, managed to snab Patrick!

After checking out Sungei Wang again for Kaede's friend, I went home. Had a nice chat with him along the way too :P Put up some nice posters for my room, finally. Thanks to Wei Jan though for the masking tape idea, I really hope it doesn't peel anything though.
Really, to me, this poster is damn cool.

Poster that Theresa gave me a long time ago, for my birthday :)

Finally, the decklist of my first Booster Draft matchup.

Units
U-314 Big Rang X2 U-z96 X2
U-160 Char's Zaku II U-103
U-151 Zaku II U-Z35
U-141 Z'Gok E U-Z41
U-135 Zaku II (Riding YS Dod U-Z9
U-137 Gabthely Alpha U-Z45
U-79 Aasimaar
U-Z94
SP-62 Gundam Throne Eins

Characters
CH-185 CH-Z25
CH-181 Zeon Zum Deikun CH-Z22
CH-180 Char Aznable
CH-00-1 Patrick Colasaur

Commands
Green None. C-78 X2
C-11
C-38
C-36
SPC-32 Team Trinity

Operations
O-49 Black None
O-00-2
O-46

9 Green Gs, 7 Black Gs.