Bought a new monitor so I thought I’d show off my desk hehe, it’s a lovely 24inch widescreen monitor, got myself a nice graphics card to compliment it too. Hopefully this will improve my productivity at home.

Travelling to her place was cool since she lives in Wimbledon and all, I was originally going to just walk it but decided to use the tube since I was a tad late, bad idea… the tube was slightly delayed due to signal failures at Earls Court (grr) So i was stuck there eating a Malteaser Icecream. Eventually the tube arrives and I meet up with Jason and do our usual catch up. We immediately get to Rachel’s place and I learn that she’s cooking Nando’s style oven chicken as well as Chicken Satay and a host of other things. Lovely

Jason brought out his wii and immediately we got down to it, Jason had managed to purchase a lovely copy of Mario Strikers for the occasion (was still sealed) and we managed to get stuck into it and all in no time hehe (the wii that is, we didn’t play Mario Strikers first). First things first, I needed a Mii. So I quickly did myself one and got Jason to play Wii Sports haha. I ruled at most of the games hehe.

We then got stuck into Smash Brothers! This was a painful match haha, Jason managed to beat me on both games we played due to his sneaky fight evasion technique and use of proximity mines placed EVERYWHERE so I can make a move! The wins were close shaves but fair play on him being so sneaky hehe, this is what Smash Brothers is all about though so yeah Rachel played too but she was new at it and all she did really was evade and occasionally kill me with her random moves (granted I was at 100-200%)

We also played some table tennis, and then Mario Strikers and got tuck in with the food. Table tennis was really addictive, Jason was really good at it since he plays a lot Tennis and all so he’s good with the paddle. We had a rally going on as well as a quick match which he beat me in hehe. Mario Striker was probably the climax since it was a game that none of us played and was a fair idea of who’s good at games that they’ve just picked up hehe. It was pretty hard to get in since you can do an ungodly amount of moves and tricks, it resembled a lot like smash brothers in terms of tackling and the use of all star nintendo characters and all. I later on figured out the key to scoring goals and used that to beat Jason. Jason however did have an unfair advantage of playing with Rachel in which she’d sort of lose the ball to the opposition hehe. Eventually we did a switch in characters and Rachel was in my team (and I eventually lost :(). We then had a one on one battle to settle the score, I came out victorious, but only just since Jason was pretty good at it too.

After some striker we had a lovely meal and ate at the table (obviously). It was yummy! Here’s some photos

Oh that’s Rachels cat Abbey, Jason is feed her chicken. We also had some cheesecake, mmm

Afterwards we played some more table tennis, wii and I managed to give Jason his present and all for his birthday (which I couldn’t come to hehe (booked up with Rachel)). I also showed him Resident Evil 4 which he enjoyed (was fun watching him run away from crazy villagers!). He also showed me Resident Evil 1 on the DS lite, it looked pretty sweet! Think that was it, I went for a dirty KFC before I got home and enjoyed it at the comfort of my own home

The games were short but fun to play. I particularly like the silly introductions of different “baton forms”. Stuff like the Mohawk or the Elephant. Cracks me up hehe.

I also ordered Zelda Twilight Princess. Should be delivered tommorow.

Though saying that, I hardly worked out and did any upper body exercises, so I kinda had it coming. My whole body was sore from playing wii haha. The strange thing was that it all came lingering in action on the day after I bought the wii rather the next day. I really shouldnt swing my arms that madly when I play bowling or whatever haha.

I managed to get myself wiiplay with an extra wiimote. I played wii play with my mum a bit and she got slightly addicted to it and all.

Selling games was pretty easy, GAME were selling certain games for £20 so I managed to make about £90 with 5 games. I did a few extra game sellage and I got my £164 worth of vouchers. The remaining was done through CEX.

My second problem was the availability of wii’s. They are STILL rare to purchase. As soon as they are in stock, they are sold out. This meant I had to find a clever way of buying these beauties. I viewed a few online sites to check the availability and stories on how people got their wii’s. I eventually found out that GAME do stock wii’s one a week and that they are purchased in a first come first serve basis. So the trick is to phone up every day until they have stock. It took me several days to finally get some stock. As soon as that day arrived, I was at GAME at 9.30 something ready to buy the damn thing. At first they said they DO have stock but its still waiting to be delivered, they told me to write my name on a list and that they’ll phone me up when its ready on that day.

I managed to find a Cafe Nerro and just sat there playing Trauma Center. Eventually I got a phone call saying my Wii was ready. I rushed into GAME and BAM, was a proud owner of a wii.

It was the most exciting thing ever, and the best thing was that I didnt pay any money for it haha. I felt very spoilt then hehe.

Above are some wii photos. Its far too exciting getting it set up and all, but eventually I calmed down and go down to some playing, Mii making and Wii sporting.

Some things I needed still were; another wiimote, some more games, an SD card, nunchuck and a component cable.

Wii Sports is amazing, although they’re only tech demos that came free with the wii, it was still nonetheless an awesome game. The innovation behind the wiimote was amazing. Its definitely a fresh and exciting idea of controlling stuff. Wii sports was highly addictive, I think I went nuts at it the whole day. You eventually get more subdued to the fact that you dont need to swing the wiimote excessively (unless you are determined to be in wiihaveaproblem.com)

Overall I was very impressed and happy with my purchase, it was even more satisfying getting the thing for free :D.

Today I’ve been doing alot of photography today, well a few anyway. Getting more and more used to the other modes on the camera. Definitely better then sticking to the bog standard ones (I usually use Programme Mode, slightly better then the auto mode). Heres one of the photo

The browser is pretty decent, it uses Opera software and connects via Nintendo’s usual connection methods for when you want to get some wifi action. The interface itself is pretty good. It definitely takes some time getting used to. You can either use the handwriting mode or the keyboard mode to type stuff, I think I prefer the keyboard mode for now since its difficult for the software to recognise my B’s, it always confuses it as O’s or something else.

Loading is a bit tedious, but I guess it’s better then using your mobile phone or whatever when you’re out and about.

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