Monday 24 September 2012

I have to get a 3DS soon.

So the Tokyo Game Show recently ended, and that made me wanna buy a Nintendo 3DS real badly.

I've wanted to buy a 3DS when it came out but I didn't buy it sooner because there weren't any games for the 3DS that I want to play then. A year plus has passed and there still isn't any game I want to play on it, but I still wanna buy it since I do not own a DS and I want to play DS games.

Yes, I've played the DS before through my friend's DS and I enjoy those games, but I never really owned one. I've played the all the Pokemon games in the DS, Advance Wars Dual Strike, Megaman ZX and ZX Advent (but I didn't like Advent), Professor Layton and Ace Attorney games.

So what games do I wanna play on the 3DS? Here's the list.

Fire Emblem: Awakening
I never liked Shadow Dragon. It's the art style they used in the game (which looks kinda weird to me compared to FE, FE:SS and FE:PoR. I liked the art style of Awakening so I plan to play it. I heard there's DLC characters and some of them looked awesome as hell. But I wonder of all the DLC characters why put Eirika's class a bride?! WHAT THE HELL MAN!! Other than that, I have no problems with the game as I see it.

Project X Zone
Oh yeah! Sega, Namco Bandai and Capcom. This game looks awesome as hell. Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Batsu, Alisa, Akira, Pai, Jin, Xiaoyu as a team of fighters! And Arthur the badass knight from Ghost and Goblins. X, Zero and Tron from Megaman! Dante! This game looks awesome! Now lets hope it gets an English release.

Prof. Layton 5 & 6
Aww Yeah! I love the Layton games. Cool puzzles. Some were interesting, some just troll the hell outta me. But I still love it. And there's gonna be 2 Layton games for the 3DS! Oh wait, there's another Layton game, and that is....

Professor Layton Vs. Ace Attorney
Oh yeah!!!!!! A crossover between 2 awesome games. Hershel Layton and Phoenix Wright and the witch trials. This game looks awesome. The 3D models are great! And there's gonna be voice acting for the cutscenes, which is a normal thing for the Layton games, but an awesome thing for the Ace Attorney games. Also, animation will be done by Bones, which are the guys that brought you the 2 Full Metal Alchemist anime, and the Cowboy Bebop movie, which is gonna be great! There's one more game left, and this game made me more hyped up than the all the mentioned games above, and that is.....

Ace Attorney 5
My god, the trailer looks awesome! Older Wright looks like a boss. I really hope this game will be great. Also, really hoping that they tie all the loose ends in this game like what happened to Apollo, Trucy, Maya, Ema, Edgeworth, Gumshoe and Kay (if possible). Guess what? This game is confirmed for an English release, which is freaking awesome.

So yeah..... I should get my 3DS by the end of this year. I dunno whether to get a second hand 3DS or get a 3DS XL since from what my friend told me the XL would be more comfortable to hold. I personally think that I should get a normal 3DS, and it would be better if I got it second hand. I don't see a point of a 3DS XL since the 3DS is suppose to be a hanheld console. making it bigger defeats the purpose of being a hanheld console. Being so big, will you be able to fit the 3DS XL in your pocket? I thought so.

Anyways, that's all for now.

Wednesday 19 September 2012

Extremely tiring few days

Well, there's a few things that makes these few fays tiring.

My house is currently undergoing renovations by parts. They started with me and my sis' room. And now it's done. Finally, I can sleep in my own room after 2 months of sleeping in the living room.

However, that could also mean one more thing. The next phase of the renovation begins, which is my parent's room. And so, apart from moving stuff into my room, I have to help move stuff out of their room.

But wait, there's more.

It's also a coincidence that this week is one of the busier weeks I'm having at uni. With assignments due soon and me having a strong sense of scoring well for the paper, it's really tough to continue do the assignments, study, do other homework, while having your mom ask you to help her out cuz she thinks you're playing video games with your laptop, and do more other regular chores. Yeah, it is rather exhausting.

Oh, there's extra stuff.

My Chemistry lecturer has been absent for two classes last week - the same thing happened a few weeks back. Which means her class needs replacement. But unfortunately for me, her replacement classes are terrible. During the first time we had replacement classes it was during 6-7pm on Wednesday and Thursday, which sucked, especially the Wednesday one. I had no class from 1 to 6, what the fuck do you expect me to do for the whole 5 hours. Sure, I can study in the library (which I did then), but I still feel it's a huge waste of time to wait for her replacement class to start. I had no problem with the Thursday one since I finish at 6 so ending one hour later wasn't that bad.

With semester break coming next week, I really hoped she replaced it on a weekend or any day during the break. But no, she had to do the same thing she did last time, with Thursday's replacement tomorrow (20/9) and the Wednesday one after the semester break (3/10). What the hell man. This is just horrible to me.

But it's not like I have a choice do I? I know I could skip it, but I think I'm too much of a goody-two-shoes to skip it. Furthermore, its Chem, something I don't think I'm really good at (although my A Level results proved otherwise).

Anyways, that's all I have to say. I can't wait for semester break. Then I can..... wait for it........ Study!! Yeahh.... I don't have a life....

Saturday 8 September 2012

New Phone!

Yes, people. I finally have a legit smartphone!

For those who're wondering what's my previous phone, it's a Nokia X3-02, or this thing right here.
While it can use Facebook, Google, and all that stuff, I never really use those, which is why I don't consider it a smartphone. The sole reason I had this phone was because it was slim. I like slim phones as they don't take so much space in my pocket, and I have some room for keys and other stuff in the same pocket.

I've been using this phone for almost 2 years now, and I don't see myself changing phones anytime soon, unitl I started university.

I noticed that a lot of things could be done with more convenience with a smartphone like checking for a last minute sent email by a lecturer saying that class is canceled and some other stuff. But I have not thought of what smartphone to get for me. In fact, I was having a dilemma on deciding whether to get a smartphone, a tablet, a new laptop, or a Nintendo 3DS (the 3DS was my gadget of choice, cuz of the games I wanted to get once the games are released).

In the end, I got a Huawei Ascend P1 last Thursday, or this:

So you must be thinking 'Wow, Sun. You're such a hipster! Apple, Samsung (even Blackberry) and some cases, HTC are too mainstream for you that you settled for a smartphone from this unknown brand called Huawei!'

Well...... no. I'm not a hipster. But yes, why did I settle for this phone?

My dad has this friend, whose family is quite close to ours (of all his school friends). This friend works in a PR firm (google that if you dunno what it means). So, one of his clients is a Chinese networking and telecommunication equipment company called Huawei, which has launched their own line of phones in recent years. 

Last Thursday was the unveiling of the Huawei Ascend P1 in Malaysia. It was sold at a discounted price of RM999, 300 bucks cheaper than the original retail price of RM1299. My dad's friend was there as he was in charge of PR. He asked us whether we wanted one. My mom suggested to get one for me. I refused at first. But my mom's gonna buy it anyway as a standby phone in case someone's phone is not working.

My mom asked me to try using it. In the end, I tried it, and it was alright, which means I'll be using it from now. It's as slim as my previous phone, which is good. Like I mentioned, I like slim phones. Other extra features are alright, but I won't be using them as often as others. So yeah, that's my phone.

By the way, many assume that if any electronic device made by a Chinese company will be really low quality as there is a stereotypical view of the Chinese being great at copying the look of the real phone but with a functionality that is so horrible. This phone however, isn't those phones that people expect it to be. So do be aware of that. Not all electronic device made by Chinese companies are sub-par. 

Anyways, that is all.