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December 16, 2007

I'm sure this is a question that has given the world's greatest thinkers many sleepless nights and endless shouting matches that eventually led to fistfights like those common in the Taiwan's House of Congress, but what does THE NIGHTDREAMER do on a quiet Sunday? Because I'm starting to feel sorry about what thinking of me may do to your health, I'll just answer the question. Ain't I the kindest?

(All right, Nightdreamer, knock it off with the fake conceit.)

I rarely get a quiet Sunday, but I won't mention the reasons of that here. After all, I'm NOT EVEN THAT KINDHEARTED SO MAY YOU EARN EVEN MORE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS WONDERING WHY I'M BUSY WAHAHAHAHAHA! Ahem. When I do get a quiet Sunday, like today, I have difficulties doing productive things. Instead, I just spend most of the time in my own room being unfocused.

Today's case can demonstrate how unfocused I can be. I'd nap, surf the internet, read a few chapters of Good Omens, play with my Nintendo DS for a few minutes, listen to music, update my blog, change my mind about updating my blog, eat some junk foods, nap, get out of my room and circle the house without wearing any slippers (which, by the way, does not even match in color), go back to my room, send SMS's, surf the internet, listen to music, open Nightdreamer, log on to my YM, check results of today's NBA games, log off my YM, try again to update my blog, turn off music, turn it on again, play a few other retro videogames on my emulators, etc. You'd have a harder time keeping track of what I'm doing today than you would in trying to understand the plot of a postmodernist novel.

On any other day, I would think that days like today are infuriatingly boring. Strangely enough for today, however, I'm finding this boredom to be refreshing when contrasted with the events of last week. Last week was crazy. Just read my previous few entries.

No, actually my previous entries did not detail everything. I did not tell you that from last Sunday to last Friday, I slept later than 1 AM. As a result, I was so incredibly tired the entire day yesterday that even if I had originally planned to go out with my friends, I withdrew so that I could go home and sleep. I felt bad about that, but if I didn't go home I could've fainted in the middle of Glorietta and couldn't have waken up even if somebody bombed that place after which the police would come and disseminate that it was caused by an accidental methane gas leak.

But I wasn't merely tired because of lacking sleep. I was tired because of what happened on Friday night.

It was the first time I've ever seen the inside of a room in Victoria Court, or to those who aren't familiar, the room of a love hotel. Err, keep that furrowed brows out of the monitor please; it's not what you think. The people from our office chose this venue for our annual Christmas party. The idea was that the party was to have a retro and 70-ish Austin Powers theme, and since Victoria Court had a so-called Austin Powers room, they took this room for the sake of, um, corporate entertainment.

The room had disco lights that were useless as reading lights, but I guess people don't come to motels to read War and Peace. It even had a cage, a stage for dancing, a twin-sized bed built with a heart shape, a jacuzzi, and a makeout room. And there's a menu of whips or lubricants or some sexy what-have-you's that you can purchase from the motel's delivery service. I cringed at this sight, because it was incredibly bawdy. I also thought that calling this an Austin Powers room was stupid, because it was merely adorned with a few flags of Britain and an Austin Powers logo on the floor. Nothing else from the movie was there, save for a small poster of Mike Myers hanging in that makeout room useful for those who get stimulated when having sex in front of Mike Myers' silly grinning face.

We had our Christmas party. There were some eating and drinking (which wasn't all that bad), but what really was the gist of the event was the group presentation, and preparing for that was precisely what made me very busy in the days before. Our group's hard work paid off, though, because we won the 1st place by doing some silly midget show (which was basically dancing, except the dancers were made to look like midgets). We won P5000 too.

I also received many gifts, like a 1 GB mp3 player which was useless as a music player when compared to my iPod, but useful as a storage device. I also got a copy of Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. So, yes, I actually enjoyed this event.

There wasn't any sex when I was still around. I left early. If anything had happened to those who remained, I'd rather not know about it.

Two days after and my life is returning to normalcy. Although, bringing the 70-ish retro theme up reminded me of funk music and its psychedelic anarchy. Oh how I love that. Want to hear one? Then click on this.

Richard Jacques - Everybody Jump Around

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Good Omens was okay, but i really hated the parts where it was too Douglas Adams-y.

and PSP beats the DS. XP

Posted by liz at December 17, 2007, 8:57 am

Yeah, I felt the same way about Good Omens. I also thought that it has some pacing issues, although I didn’t mind it that much.

Get Phoenix Wright, and then come back and tell me that PSP beats DS. XD In fairness though, I do intend to get a PSP. Maybe next year.

Posted by nightdreamer at December 17, 2007, 9:11 am

only Douglas Adams can pull off pacing issues. i doubt the dude even has a notion of ‘pacing’.

bah, Prince of Persia is cool enough (minus the frustration of course). And Silent Hill! although i don’t play it, i just love to watch it being played.

Posted by liz at December 18, 2007, 10:41 am

I like Prince of Persia a lot, but nothing, absolutely nothing could be cooler than Phoenix Wright. Why? It’s game where you’re a defense attorney! I mean, what, how could I even choose a word to encompass that level of awe I get in playing that role? Rocks? Rulez? r00lz? Slick? Cool? Bad? Badass? Hardcore? Da Bomb? Swell? Diehard? Nifty? Hip? Phat? Dope? Tres Bien? Awesome? The Shiznit?

I’d go with w00t. The Webster guys just gave that word the thumbs up (the nerve of them).

But yeah, someday I’ll get a PSP to play Valkyrie Profile, another personal favorite that I’d rob the bank to revisit!

Posted by nightdreamer at December 18, 2007, 10:54 am

what! Valkyrie Profile sucks! sorry dude, but i suppose people will play the game only for the nostalgia. i tried playing it a few days ago, but i got bored immediately with tons of talk and un-awesome battles. plus i hate the font. nothing, just a personal bias.

as for Phoenix Wright…hm, sounds interesting. wonder if they’ll release a PSP version?

Posted by liz at December 18, 2007, 12:12 pm

Well, I find Valkyrie Profile to be very frustrating initially, like some hard-to-get school crushes whose many inhibitions I need to go past so that I could find out later that they’re the most awesome kind of girls ever. So in the meantime, wallow in the frustration. Oh, longing, the most bittersweet of all sufferings.

Yuck. Haha.

Anyway, with VP, you’d be very frustrated trying to get a handle of how it should play. I practically spent an entire night reading the walkthrough (the gameplay basics section) just to understand it, actually.

The talks are boring, the story is a wasteland of untapped potential, but I think the battle is frenetic, and awesome. “It shall be engraved upon your soul, divine assault, NIBELUNG VALESTI!” Yeah, I’m teh nerdz. I also love the mixture of Anime and Renaissance Arts. My biases too.

I don’t think Phoenix Wright will be released on PSP. But then again, I don’t think the Castlevania remake, the Final Fantasy Tactics remake, Jeanne D’Arc, Tekken Resurrection, Syphon Filter, Metal Gear Port Ops, Gurumin, Exit, LocoRoco or Daxter will be released on DS. So really, I like the exclusives of these handhelds, and I want a PSP too. But, eh, I need to save money first.

Posted by nightdreamer at December 18, 2007, 12:32 pm

laughably bad game. the dialog and voice acting are terrible. the only thing Valkyrie Profile has (had) going for it? graphics; the battle system is a sick joke and the story is more convoluted and incomprehensible than a Superman comic.

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