It's amazing how perfectly fine you can go to bed, albeit a little late, and wake up feeling like you've been run over by a bus the next morning. Yes, I went to the car show last night, it was decent I guess. The whole thing consisted of new makes and models and as nice as it was I left feeling a little un-impressed. You can't blame me, I was looking at $700,000 cars that I'd never be able to afford or even want.

I picked up my games on the way home, very impressed that everything I guessed region wise was 100% correct. Damn I'm good and I know it! I'm going to be making a US order very soon, I've already decided what I'm after:

- Blood Will Tell
- Yoshi Touch and Go
- Kamatari Damacy
- Dragonball Z Sagas: Evolution

Now after that there's not really much at all that I'm left to get. I'm still confident I need to pick up a few orphaned games like Pikmin 2, Pokémon Leaf Green, La Pucelle Tactics & Phantom Brave. Thw question is when am I going to find the time to play them?

I'm not getting a Next Gen Console, at least not straight away. Even then it's probably going to be the Nintendo Revolution. I always play a hell of a lot more Nintendo stuff than anything else. When another Final Fantasy is realeased I'm bound to get that regardless of console. But right now I'm looking more at the larger picture of playing time and cash. Perhaps it's just because I've got the headspins and feeling unwell though, we'll see what I think when this all clears up.

I'm off to DVDCrave tonight to pick up some all important new games. No a single Playstation 2 game, I'm quite impressed.:

Beyond Good and Evil ~Gamecube~ - A game I've been meaning to pick up for ages, apprently it's absolutly amazing in story, graphics and gameplay. It's cheap now so I'm getting it before everywhere sells out.

Zelda: Minish Cap ~GBA~ - I was going to pick this up in my next US order, problem is DVD crave have it out pretty cheap. $52AU which is about $4AU more than it would cost for me to get it over here. Plus the release has been delayed for a few months here, it's got to be a US version.

Zelda: 4 Sword ~Gamecube~ - I'm not sure about this though. It's got to be a EU version, the US ones have been out for ages, and I'm almost certain that the AU release isn't until August.

Between that and the car show tonight, well I'll be one happy chappy! :-D

Xenosaga 2 is pretty damn good. The opening scenes are amazing. Ok, so I'm a little confused with what's happening in the storyline, as far as I can tell I'm in a flash back of some kind. But I'm really looking forward to getting into it. The cut scenes take ages to get through, which I like because it's very much like a movie. I just wish they didn't go ahead and change all the voice actors. It's hard getting used to the look characters, let alone dealing with the sound that they make.

I'm in the middle of a little argument with... Everyone. I really hate Easter, it's not only a joke on the wallet, this year it seemed the joke was on me. Not only did my Mum get me the smallest egg you could for $2 she decided to have a stab at me what I got her, I didn't think the $20 I spent on each of my parents was bad at all. Next year EVERYONE can go fuck themselves, other than that piss poor excuse for a gift I got nothing, yeah, nothing. I don't know why I even give a flying fuck about everyone.

No-one seems to give a shit about me. It's not the present that I'm worried about, to be honest I probably would eat a hell of a lot of chocolate, and most if it would go to waste, it's the thought, or lack there of, that fucks me off. I don't want something because I got someone something, I smashed the obligatory chocolate that mum gave me, I don't want pity. I want someone to think "hey, ash always helps me out, I should get him something for Easter". Someone thinking of me without me thinking of them first would be a fucking miracle with the people I associate with, family included. I seem to be surrounded by selfish, arrogant, cock-fuckers that don't give a damn about anyone but themselves, and as much as I try not to become one of them, the more I think perhaps I should, it looks easier and I'll be happier not giving a damn about anyone but myself and sucking everyone around me dry.

Theres some chocolate eggs for thought.

It's been one hell of a long weekend. I've been so busy since Friday night. Shannon and Shanes was a good night, It was really nice to sit back and have a few drinks and not have to worry about anything but The Guy that decided to strip and ride on the bonnet of Shane's car around the block. Ahh the things some people do when they are drunk... Saturday night was spent in the Rendezvous Allerga in the city. Managed to get to Ying Chow's for dinner and enjoy the full buffet breakfast on Sunday Morning. If I could have been bothered I would have made use of the Sauna and Pool...

Headed to the Drive-in's last night and saw Robot's and Ring 2. Both of which were a waste of time and if my DS hadn't ran out of battery I would probably have spent the entire evening playing Kirby & the Amazing Mirror. Which then brings us to what I've been up to today. Finished that and am now contemplating either getting out of the house to do something or starting Xenosaga 2, which just seems to keep getting put off... :-/ Wierd huh.

All I've got to say is I'm not religous, but I'm not knocking Good Friday. I think of it this way.

Jesus is born - I get Presants
Jesus Dies - I get chocolate

It's winning all round! Go Jebus!

I actually got to catch Constantine at the flicks last night. I was actually terribly surprised and the religious aspects of the movie. It's instantly become a favorite for this year. $5 tight ass Tuesday makes it all that much sweeter too!

I managed to royally fuck up the rice balls I had made, which is actually pretty hard to do with Rice Balls. Something I won't be doing again anytime soon.

Don't know about tonight, I might poop into the city for a bit. See what's shaking about the place. I could kind of use some sleep after finishing up Ginger Snaps 3 lst night, but it's and extra long weekend. What do I care! Mwhahahaha!

Finally did it! W00t W00t!!
*puts his hands in the air, like he just don't care*
Metroid Prime 2 is over and done with. The last battle is a pain in the ass, still I came through it eventually. The Annihilator Beam r0x0r5! :-D

Now it comes to a question of what I'm going to be doing with my spare time. I'm definalety going to start playing Xenosaga 2 fairly soon. But tonight I think it's movies and rice-ball time. I started watching Ginger Snaps 3 at about 12 last night but I didn't get far into it until I died on the pillow. So I'm not brimming with energy at the moment, maybe a few more coffee's will do that.

Ever so close to finishing MP2: Echoes, I would have had it done last night if I didn't get dragged to the Elephant Walk, which wasn't too bad besides the fact the city was all hustle and bustle because of the Clipsal 500. I enjoy cars, just not when 100,000 are on the road. I'm a little disappointed that the competition wasn't up to scratch as well. I should have made more of an effort to go.

I like short weeks, and with Easter coming up it makes my life that much better. Not only do I get magnificent public holidays, but one of the girls at work is going away after Easter so I don't have to deal with that crap again!

I'm considering heading into ShinTokyo after work, but I'm not really sure what I feel like doing. I probably should just go home and finish my game off, my Aunty is down from the ACT and I felt a little unsociable last night, going out when she had just gotten in.

Oh, and keep an eye out for me on 2 message boards, now that method-call is down I needed something to occupy some internet time - Megazone Forums & Avcon Forums

Furikake and Umeboshi are all mine! Now I can finally make Onigiri like a pro. I'm a little hesitnat trying the umeboshi, it doesn't look very apertising. Still I'll try almost any food once, except avocado... bleh. I got goma furikake, which is basically black sesame seeds and salt/sugar. That's going to be tasty. Ashlar L-O-V-E-S black sesame!

Also head out for St Patricks Day last night. For the most part of today I wasn't feeling great. Damn Stout...

Finally finished off Kiddy Grade, the ending was a little bit disspointing, but still glad taht's it's open, it does leave you with a sense of closure, unlike a lot of series nowasdays that set themselves up for a sequel. I can't stand that! Also went to Sushi Train last night where I got busted with my little points scam, they didn't do anythign about it though. Suckers. I'll have to start spending them soon.

And what goes around always comes around. So it's time for me to head off

Still ever so boring at work. There's still not a lot to do and it's actually getting to the point where I can almost fall asleep at my desk, something I've never been able to pull off. I'm sure it'll pick up soon and I should actually enjoy the change of pace, it's just now with the internet logged it's difficult to stay occupied when it's slow. I can't even e-mail. It's too early in the morning to get replies and I'm out of phone credit too. I should be able to play my DS at my desk, that would be sweet.

Spent a good portion of last night hitting up Echoes. I'm heading into the last temple, and even though I thought the game would be much shorter, I doubt it'll be long before I finish it. I'm looking forward to playing Xenosaga 2... Hopefully I can do that Sunday.

Another part of last night was devoted to having a look at Shane's nieces computer. The video card doesn't like Win XP SP2, nothing does really. So I've had to download some new drivers today and I'll give them to Shane to install on Friday. Hopefully that will fix it. People that don't know what they are doing really should attempt a re-install of Windows. If you know what your doing, chances are you won't need to re-install, it's not about anger, it's about peace.

Arrgh, 45 mins late for work this morning! The power must have been out sometime last night. It's not that big of a deal here, but I don't like doing it very often. The up-side that with the sleep-in I'm feeling great! Full of pep and gusto. Someone was kind enough to supply hot cross buns in the work kitchen for my breakfast as well. Very nice indeed.

Visited the shinTokyo office to set up that computer and the damn thing still keeps on resetting itself. The only thing that I can think of is something's wrong with the PS2 mouse port at the back. The PC was fine at my house, not one incident, even though I re-installed Windows, Office etc. The only difference is that I have a USB mouse. So to see if that's the problem I'll supply my old Intelli-mouse (USB) and we can see if that crashes it out at all. If this doesn't work I'm fresh out of ideas. I'll probably just take to the damn thing with a bat and then jump backwards into the closet tree.

Went to shinTokyo afterwards and picked up a few DVD's, finally get to finish off Kiddy Grade another volume of Wolf's Rain, which is excellent, and kicked off Samurai Champloo, which I hope will be decent. I should get to watching them on Sunday.

Somehow I've been conned into fixing Shane's Niece's computer tonight, that's going to be really fun. I've already done the laptop. I'm just not getting anytime to myself this week, hence the posting from work. Alas, that is the life of St Ashlar. I just hope that everyone I help appreciates all the crap I have to deal with.

I spent a good portion of last night sorting out the shinTokyo computer problems, and they were major ones. Half the day Saturday and I managed to get 1 up and running (only just though) so I took the newer one home last night. I ended up having to back-up, format, re-install pretty much everything.

The shittest part about it, my DS was out of power and I had no sockets to plug it into, so I got stuck, half watching Ginger Snaps 2 ~Unleashed. It wasn't as good at the first one. I'll have to see the third and post an overview of the entire trilogy.

Later in the evening I wandered over to Matt Damon's place and sat there and chatted till about 12:30. Surprisingly not that tired today though, although I have to head into town after work to pick up some sorley needed DVD's and a birthday present.

It's been a lot of going out for dinner and a fair chunk of Metroid Prime 2 this weekend. I'm not particularly enjoying it as a game, I'm just looking forward to getting it finished. It's a lot longer than I expected. I've spent about 8 hours on it so far and I'm just past the halfway mark... I think. Which means a lot more boredom and almost dying. My main beef with the game is that they enimies hit way too hard, it's nice to have something difficult but damn near impossible to avoid some attacks. You'll loose 60 health and then for killing it you get a measly 10 back. It's not all bad though. The graphics are pretty and music is somewhat plesant and eerie, actually noticably better than Prime 1.

Headed to the Palais at Semaphore on Saturday night. A very enjoyable meal and then last night I went to cafe Bravo ar West Lakes, also very nice and massive servings, so I'm actually got some leftovers bagged up for lunch today.

I'm spending a LOT of time doing shite tasks like data entry and the like. Seems like most of Adelaide lost power at 7:10 this morning. I was kind of hoping would would be out a good part of the day, but alas... I was wrong.

After my long, long, long, busy day at work I picked my tired (too much Metroid Prime 2) ass and dragged it all the way to shinTokyo to catch up with Willster for a meal and a chat. It was really good to catch up with him. so much has happend, with the baby and all. Sometimes I feel bad because I don't make of an effort to come in like I used to. He's a good friend, someone that you can always talk to. I'm going to stop now cause I'm sure he'll be reading this someday... :-/

The most marvelous thing happened at Sushi Train though. When William went up to pay for dinner (a huge thanks for that you nice man!) the girl must have accidently punched in the sale price as $2000, cause I got 1000 points on my card. $2 = 1 point 1 point gets you 10c so effectivle I got "given" $100 worth of credit to spend as I please. Mwhahahaha! Stupid girl, you go squish now! I am now truly the ruler of the sushi world.

!!KILL YOU!!
(obscure Dragonball reference)

What the Fuck is with that huh? After all this time on waiting for ADSL I can finally get alink to the exchange and low and behold, there arnt' any ports availible there. That not only suck but it blows at the same time, which isn't that easy to do for something. I'd be more fucked off but I can't be bothered. It's just funny that this little backwater country seems to be stuck in the technological "Dark Ages" considering ourbio diversity and international relations. You can turn it all back to the goverment, not so much the man in chanrge, but poor decisions by his underlings and lackey's.

I've got more things to keep myself occupied though, my first issue of Hyper did arrive though, which was very exciting and hilarious. It's actually evolved into a damn good magazine considering my old despise for it back in the good old NMS (Nintendo Magazine System) days. Ahh the memories.

Fuck smellstra and the internet banning troll bitch from work. I can make my own fun, I can... ummm... leave the house, yeah that will show them!

Still on my own this evening which is actually a really good thing at the moment. I'm getting a lot of that "me" time that everyone talks about. Mostly is just been used for playing the DS and doing a little of the laundry. Unfortunatly I did have a visitor call in. Of course someone's computer (a laptop none the less) was infested with malicious spyware and the like causing all havoc in the run of things. Yours truly was left to fix it... Why do people see "1000's of free smilies" and immedianlty go catatonic at the thought? I've got news for you people. Nothing in this world is free. Someone's always paying for something and eventually it comes back to you.

Finally got my Xenosaga 2 as well. I'm glad it's arrived but there's no bonus pre-order disc! *SHOCK* *HORROR* *DAVID HASSLEHOFF* I actually kind of expected that from CDuniverse, it wouldn't be the first time. I'm guessing they just don't get the pre-order goodies, either that or someone is pocketing them along the line. Nastly little prats:-/

I've actually got a few things to do this week. I should head in and visit Willster sometime and I'm sure that Susage is getting pissed at me for cancelling... umm everything... all the time. All that and I can't neglect Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, even though it's exceedingly boring, and looks like I'm still playing 1. Just want to get it out of the way. Then it's Xenosaga 2 time... I think... or Sakura Taisen, I should probably get around to playing those.

Finally finished Season 5 of Angel. It's been a long hard day of the second half. Now all I need for them to do is make some more and I'll be set. Glad I can get to watch all the episodes that I missed, which was quite a few cause it was on so late when it was on air.

Other than that there's not much else to report. Hope my Xenosaga and ADSL all arrive this week.

Yeah, I'm at home sick today. It sucks. I was up until at least 4am. I lost count because I eventually fell asleep in my bucket and work up later to get more comfortable. It's not too bad now though. I do feel a lot better. Unfortunatly I've been summoned taxi driv3r for this evening so I probably wont get home for some more sleep. I'm so damn lazy :-D

Only a few more days and I get my freedom back. Hoora for that. I'm really looking forward to it. Even though 'that damn shit rat' will be at home with me.

Maybe some more DS in a little bit. I need to unlock some more mini-games in Mario 64 DS.

Damn Chaos Cafe on Hindley Street. The one time I don't check for Tomato they slip it onto my burger. So yeah, I was sick in the toilet today at work. That was really plesant and to top it of I still feel shit. I know I'm going to be sick again. Usually tomato isn't too bad, I can eat a base on a pizza. I avoid Tomato based pasta's and sauces like the plague. A bit on a burger at maccas isn't so bad either. Usually I feel really shit after though. Raw tomato is what really does me in. *insert vomit here* if you catch my drift. So I'm going to chuck a sicky tomorrow. I'm not going to feel any good until tomorrow afternoon... I think.

Still no ADSL, stuck on super way cool dial up. When the hell is my line going to be provisioned?

I've been having a really hard ass time finding a Billion ADSL modem for home. I sold my old one a while back, while there was very little hope that I'd ever get ADSL while I'm still at home. I must have called at least 10 places yesterday and finally I came across a little place called Mats Systems that not only stocked Billion Modems at a really super god price they also had the fabledBillion 7402 that I'd been so desperately searching for.

For a grand total of $179 I got the modem delivered to my work, same day mind you, and the credit card hadn't even cleared. Mark from the store is so terribley nice to help me out like that! Super! And guess what came this morning? My Sakura Wars 3 PS2 game!

On the flip side of all this good news. Work has finally cut of the internet for us. It's not 100% at the moment, mostley just specific sites are cut out. I've stumbled accross a few, most note worthy is the Sakura Taisen official site. It's in Japanese and from what I can tell it's mostley stuff with the word 'game' in te address that's blocked out.

Most of everything it logged so I can't spend too much time hanging around looking at what's broken and what's not. This sucks, now what am I going to do all day..?Well there is all that work stuff, but the stupid fucking troll downstairs doesn't think anyone here works enough for the chicken feed they pay the admin staff. Her and Jesus are best friends so I guess God striking her down for me it's going to happen... :-/