Saturday night fever

Another Saturday night. Another night of much eagerly awaited new material in the form of the latest episode of Gundam SEED Destiny. And as I browse through a forum trying to get the latest info on this episode, I scroll through pages and pages of "Shinn sux, Lunamaria is a slut, they both must DIE!" "ZOMG Kira pwnz j00 all" and so forth. I just wish people would stop with such rampant fanboyism and get on with just enjoying the show. It may not be as good as SEED was (perhaps I should watch the whole thing as a marathon when it finishes to see how I interpret it then), but it's still good enough. And while Fukuda is no Tomino, he is probably doing his best under the circumstances to deliver a good half-hour's entertainment. Anyways ... today marked the premier of a new OP for GSD. Having heard the music it's being done to, I don't really feel that much for it, in fact, it's rather "meh" for a Gundam OP, which is usually dance, rock or techno of some sort.

In other related news, Gundam: True Odyssey has come out! The sad thing is that it's in Japanese, which renders the game largely inaccessible to me. Despite that, I'm still downloading it, and hoping that someone will provide a guide so I know what buttons to press. There's only two reasons why I'm downloading it: MS customisation, and I want to hear what the Japanese voice-over sounds like before they decide to port it over to the US. I wonder how long it'll be before that happens.

I went out for dinner with friends tonight. We met at the Cafe Kowloon, and generally had a good time. It's a pity I couldn't catch up with the waitress who gave us the bill, since by the way she said "thank you" and bowing in response to my thanking her for giving me the bill tells me that she just might be Japanese. If so, then there'd be nothing wrong with getting to know her face. Maybe next time I could start hitting on her or something. Gotta work on those skills first though -_- going to an all-guys school for high school and having an inactive social life really hit me hard - lack of experience of hitting on girls. I'm sure that's starting to come back and bite me in the ass now that I'm in uni, where the ratio of guys to girls in my classes are like 60:40 in favour of the girls. Looking at myself in the photos I took, I think I don't look too good. I never fancied my face as being that of a fat man's, but looking at the photos, it seems I have what appears to be a 1.3 chin. Not quite a double chin, but you can see the flab drooping down at the back. Not good. I wanted a nice, chiselled face that girls could fall for. *sigh* losing the weight's gonna be a lot of troublesome work over a long period. And that leads us to ... ugh ... finances.

I really shouldn't have gone into retail therapy as a way of relieving stress for my exams. Net result: my credit card is almost maxed, my bank account has about a hundred and fifty bucks left, and I've become a compulsive spender. Despite that, I am the proud owner of several unassembled Master Grade Gundam models, and a Perfect Grade Strike (which I doubt I'll touch for a while - assembly and painting of the others will take me at least 3-4 months), as well as the Tyranid army to paint. Oh, and the jungle terrain I want to get done by the end of this coming week. *sigh* , so much to do. I think I might have to give up gaming for the week.