Kree’s Den

Here’s an update on the stuff I’ve been doing lately (sorry about the lateness Dylan )

The Sudnay before last I went to the Supanova expo at the Brisbane RNA grounds. All the people with fancy game and anime-related tshirts made me feel really boring by comparison. I almost got lost trying to find my way there, but luckily I spotted some cosplayers. God bless cosplayers. I was originally going to get in for free as a voluteer, but stupid gmail put the email I needed into the spam folder so I ended up paying $20 to get in. I spent most of my time volunteering anyway because I felt like it. It was almost all shops there, next time I go to a game/anime convention I should remember to bring actual money.

I probably should have mentioned sooner that April 9th (last Wednesday) was my birthday. I guess I’m just scatterbrained. I had a birthday party on the weekend and invited some friends around Brisbane. My parents came up to visit and brought their projector (which, by the way, is still here and Carrie has been playing Metroid on it :P ) Unfortunately a bunch of people couldn’t come so it was just Myth/Jen and one of my friends who lives next door to me. Still, we had a good time :) We played some Magic the Gathering,
sung to Singstar, and watched Myth’s DVD of Happy Feet. We also ate a lot of cake and snacks :P

As for presents, Rosheen (Carrie’s girlfriend, our new flatmate) gave me a DVD of “Tales from Earthsea“. I’m waiting for a good time to watch it, since it’s a Studio Ghibli movie and it should be good. Carrie bought me a little plasmaball. It seems to eat up batteries so I should get an adapter for it. I also used a gift card to get a $20 iTunes card and buy Peggle for my iPod. It’s the most awesome game for the iPod ever :D

Another awesome present was this huge new 22 inch widescreen LCD my Dad gave me :D It’s 1680×1050 resolution. Sitting it next to my old LCD it’s like having an extra 1.5 monitors :P I’m overwhelmed by the amount of screen real estate I now have. I don’t even know what to use as a wallpaper XD

Doh! Also forgot to mention this in that holiday post. After shopping we came back to see this at the cinema, and I tell you, it’s the best damn movie I’ve seen all year. I give it 5 stars out of 5, and I very rarely ever give something even 4 stars.

Seriously, Happy Feet is the most awesome movie ever :D It’s got so many cultural references, perfect use of story elements and a truly awe-inspiring rendition of the Antarctic landscape. As soon as the credits started rolling I wanted to own the movie on DVD, and I know very well it’ll take ages for that to be actually possible :P It’s that good. I’d love to watch it a dozen more times.

I can’t say any more in case I ruin it, but just make sure that you see it in cinemas when you can :D

Well look at me, latent as usual with updating…

So far everything’s been good. I just recently visited the family for a few days, and bought some stuff (before and after visiting). Some of it’s good, (Back to the Future box set, oh yeah :P) and some crap (Rayman DS, which is bad enough without somehow being unable to save). Overall a pretty decent (if “unproductive”) time spent.
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