Ah yes, it's that time of year. Happy Chinese New Year!
身體健康!
龍馬精神!
心想事成!
新年快樂!
Hope you all have a wonderful year of the Ox.

We had a family friends party on CNY Eve. It was good fun, with the PS3 and Karaoke too; not too mention the awesome food there! Kudos to the parents who made the food.

I spent the new year just with my group of high school friends, and just went to the GAME ON Exhibition in Southbank. It was just great fun playing some 2 player games including DDR, Street Fighter 2, and 5 player Bomberman on the SEGA Saturn. Great day in all, just to spend time with friends.

Other than that, I've just been catching up back with anime. Code Geass is what I'm watching, and it's pretty awesome. Kinda like an alternative Death Note. Highly recommended!

So, what have I been up to in the past 2 weeks of not blogging? Many things, but the most exciting being my friend from Shanghai that I met during exchange in the USA. I'll cover this in a separate entry. Other than that, it's just been hanging out with friends in the city: from watching movies to going to arcades.

We watched Yesman. I thought it was one of Jim Carrey's better comedy films, as it wasn't over the top. It was good for a laugh, and had some wonderful hilarious moments too. Unfortunately we had to sit in the 3rd row seat, and our necks were pretty sore by the end of the film. Still, it wasn't bad for a $6.50 film!

Afterwards we got our HK souvenirs from Billy - solar powered torch keyring. It was pretty cool, could be helpful in blackout situations! We tried to go to Replay, only to see that it's been converted to Timezone. I couldnt use my remaining tokens unfortunately, but it's ok. I can use my cousins gold card now! :)

Other than the above, I've just been spending some time with the PS3 - managed to finish Prince of Persia finally. It's a great game, and it's worth the money, despite the adventure being a tad short. Heaps of fun, well recommended for anyone looking for an engrossing story, and wonderful artwork in terms of the cel-shading graphics. =)

The past two days, I've been blowing my money with spending time with my mates.

I went and saw The Day the Earth Stood Still - it was an alright sci-fi flick, probably average, not good, not bad lol. I also dropped by Replay, to see if my Initial D skills have improved, but I found out that the wheel that I have is so much smaller than the one they have at the arcades. It was still fun, but hard to adjust imo. Hopefully someday, I'll be able to master it. Had a go at DDR too, but it sucked cos I had pretty bad shoes, and I haven't played for a while, was good exercise though.

Yesterday I went to Game On with Misa. It was pretty interesting to check out the games over there. Unfortunately there you couldn't take your camera in with you lol. They had many classics, just not the classics that I'm that into. It was fun, and well worth it for those of you interested in games. After that we just walked around Southbank, and I had a go at spinning these plastic plates too. My wrist was too stiff and took a long time to be able to do it. After that we just wondered around the place. We had the Happy Hour special at Gelatissimo which was 50% off. Too much sugar for me in my opinion, so not something to do on a daily basis. ^^"

Just spending time with friends is great fun, and I love it. Just wish there was more time in the world!

Ah yes, another week has past since my trip from the USA. Life is slowly settling down, and slowly settling back down to something that I'm more familiar with. My mum came back 2 days ago, and I was glad to finally have good food last night. Lately I've just been keeping myself busy with the PS3, mainly with Initial D, and Prince of Persia. I hope everyone had a very Happy New Years, and best wishes for 2009!

Speaking of which, here are my new year's resolutions (writing it down so I can follow them):

• Learn how to cook 9 different dishes from mum
• Learn how to sing well (I realised that I love karaoke now!)
• Finish 9 games - any console!
• Maintain a clean room (This would probably be the most difficult one)
• Save enough money, to go on a nice trip/meetup with friends back in the USA!
• Meet a lot more new people, and becoming a more international person I guess.