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Today I took a trip to Pixmania’s pickup store in London and managed to buy this

It was suppose to be for my mum (she gave me the mulla to buy it and all) but somehow I just got a bit excited and installed it on my room, was hoping to squat on the LCD for a bit but my mum gave in so now this TV is MINE mwahahah. I can do picture in picture (hence the muse board at the corner) as well as using it for hdtv, wii (with composite ports) and other stuff. Its an awesome LCD TV despite being a random and unknown brand. I only bought it since Jason recommended me it and said alot of people have reviewed it and said it was good (and it damn well is).

Today I managed to stumble upon a game that I wanted to get for ages. I was wondering around Wimbledon (looking for clothes) when I managed to stumble upon Animal Crossing: Wild World, on the Nintendo DS for only £24.95 at Hmv. Usually they’d be charging £30 or more for games like these but strangely the games were now £25 each. I previously had this sort of deal before… and to be fair, I’ve had it twice, well three times haha.

First time was during the crazy Game.co.uk promotion who were doing Nintendo deals at ridiculously low prices. DS Lites were on sale for £50 that time, however due to the fact that I already have a yummy white DS Lite, i wasnt too keen on buying it then (was trying to get one for B but failed to anyway due to IBM’s lack of superfast internal internet speed). Anyway, that was where Animal Crossing was on sale for £20. I tried so hard to buy it but the others simply beat me to it. If i had took a day off work, I would have came victorious with 3 or 4 DS Lites as well as Animal Crossing haha.

So anyway, that was the first time I managed to let Animal Crossing slip, the second time involved me receiving a £5 play.com voucher, this was from a Daily Star promotion but was limited to the first 5000, the rest will be issued with £1 discounts (not even worth using haha). So yeah, entered…bam, too late haha. So there goes another £20 Animal Crossing deal I couldnt get, this time I blame on the fact that I didnt check “MoneySavingExperts” as often as I should. They usually do some awesome deals and all there.

Anyway, the THIRD encounter involved me walking into a Game store and finding out that Animal Crossing was only £25, however this was only on some boxes, I thought if I used my 10% student discount I would get the game to only £22.50 which was more or less the kind of price I would buy the game for (yes, its £2.50 less, but it makes me feel better that I saved £2.50 by waiting long enough haha). So anyway, I went up to the manager guy and asked if he accepts student discounts, was quite shocked to hear that he was totally fine with it (most people are unaware that you can use student discounts at game, so long you have your game card with you). So anyway, he scanned the game in and BAM… I’m sure most of you know what happens now (no he doesnt get hit by a truck, we’re in a Game store right now haha). Turns out the prices were put back up again! Which meant that for some random period they WERE £25 but later on they were risen back up. Which means I could only get it for £27 (and its only £25 online). So yet again another unsuccessful purchase.

This time I came out victorious though mwahaha, here is a lovely photo of the game, behind some of my Studio Ghibli DVDs ehehe. I’m already addicted to the game haha.

Will write a nice and long review after having a nice and long play with it for a few days

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I think I’ll goto the interview, might even consider moving out if I get a job outside London. Perhaps start a new life or something I guess.

Think my motherboard and cpu has reached a new low in terms of temperature. This time I cannot blame it on my superior cooling techniques but simply due to the fact that it’s FREEZING cold (3 degrees C (and it’s still shown as “Sunny”)) . Temperatures are as low as 12 degrees on the motherboard and 22 degrees on the CPU.
This can easily be warmed up with a bit of counter strike source hehe, but hopefully I wont be doing much of this. Got to finish my project prototype.

Damn boiler people still havent come round to sort us out a new boiler, no hot water and heating for 4-5 weeks haha.

I’ve seen a huge rise in the demand of buying macs, but when the next OSX is coming out in 2007 Spring, why are people still buying them? For instance, the new Mac Book Pro Intel Duo 2 was released and all I keep hearing is people wanting to buy it, though people aren’t really seeing the full picture when they’re handing over £1000+ worth of their money for a laptop that won’t use the next version OS to the max.

It’s just like the time when I opted to buy a PC motherboard with an AGP slot knowing FULL well, that PCI Express was going to be the next thing that hits us. Oh how I still regret the day when I thought “sod it, might save me a few pounds”. The point is simply “why wait when an upgrade is heading our way anyway?”. I know this statement can be said for anything, Apple Macs WILL be improving most of the time but such things are made with a cost for the consumers, and as we are aware that one will be planned soon, its definitely best to wait. Its like “Thank you for spending £1000, our next Operating system is out in a few months so be prepared to spend £100 more”. Not that you “HAVE” to buy it though.

Another reason to wait for Leopard is simply based on the fact that Apple will most likely upgrade all their Macs so that they can truly appreciate MacOS X Leopard. Perhaps the Mac Minis and MacBooks will eventually get their Duo Core 2 boosts, perhaps they’ll up the graphics card all round to make sure they’re fully capable of running all the new effects Leopard might have. I would predict that the WHOLE product line will definitely undergo at least on further update in order to make sure they run on Leopard smoothly.
It is always a wise thing to wait when it comes to purchasing products, only buying it when its truely needed (or when its dirt cheap haha). We are aware that you can get a computer with twice the specs in 18 months time which is why its vital to always pick the right moment to purchase your hardware, and one a time like it this, when a new operating system is coming into play, it is wise for us to simply hold our horses and wait for the new software to come out before we spend our hard earned cash on something that will prove limiting in the future (i.e “Oh your operating system is old, please purchase a new one”).

So to conclude, save up your money, and wait like a Ninja, the time will come when you’ll come out victorious (until another new technology comes out)