Ever since the announcement that Street Fighter ][ was coming to the Xbox Live Arcade I have been ready. Yes all those memories of getting beating to a pulp within 15 secs by Ryu and Kens are coming back to me now... but hey it's still good clean healthy fun!

But I knew that a joypad is not the right controller to do a Dragon Punch, neither is an analog stick. No... the only thing that you should perform all these quarter circle turns, and the notorious 'Z' Dragon Punch motion is a proper.. DIGITAL joystick! But they don't come cheap and I knew I wasn't that good to warrant spending that much money on a stick specifically for that one game.

Then an opportunity arised, Lik Sang was informing customers to use up their reward points cause they were retiring the system and that all customers should spend all their points as soon as possible, as I browsed through what they had to offer I was surprised that I could redeem... The Hori DOA4 Arcade Stick! either someone screwed up on the points allocation for the stick, or I really spent a lot of money in Lik Sang (curse them and their Japanese DS game supply!) to actually get ENOUGH points for the thing I didn't care. Within 10 seconds of seeing I could redeem the stick it was in my shopping cart and the delivery order placed!

I still had to pay for the UPS shipping charges but it's just a fraction of the stick's actual costs, then on the day that the UPS tracking page said it arrived in Sepang I still didn't get the delivery by the afternoon I called up UPS and they told me Oh.. it's being held for customs inspection. NOOOOOOO!!!!! I thought this is it... they're gonna tax me!!! Or worse.. what if.. what if because there's a picture of a girl on the stick, and the fact that it's a JOYstick they might just clasify it as a PORNSTICK and confiscate it???

Luckily it was all in my head, the stick was delivered the 2nd day (a Saturday in fact.. that's service!) intact with no taxes.. and now I have it.. and I'm ready...

Fear my PORNSTICK!!

For my wife's viewing I bought her the VCD for the show "Sympathy For Lady Vengence" I bought the local, original, authorised version of the movie.

I regret my decision since... they censored a few bits, including an all important KILL SHOT!!! God damn it!! And they wonder why people buy pirated stuff??

I woke up this morning with the thought of zero internet connectivity during the weekend hanging over my head. Then my brother told me that he saw some wires dangling from the back of the roof yesterday but didn't figure it had anything to do with our net problems. So I walk behind the house and sure enough there was some wires dangling on the roof and I traced where they went and they lead to a telephone pole, with a guy working on it.

I asked him what was up and he mentioned that he was replacing cable wiring, I left him to his work and 10 minutes later he yelled from the back alley through my kitchen asking me to check the phone and I rushed upstairs and saw on my router the net connection light blinking with activity!!!

YESSS!!! I got my net connection back!!!!

So maybe my poor net connection wasn't TMNut's fault, maybe it was the cable all along...

NAHHHHHHH!!!!

My Streamyx line was just being useless lately with lines having hiccups nearly every half an hour so I called up Streamyx to file a complaint and they told me that I had to be in front of my desktop and that my line had to be directly connected to the PC for them to 'help me' and if they were unable to help me THEN ONLY would they file a fault report. I blew my top upon hearing such things and hung up on them.

And then I come back at home and what happens? The phone line which was I was using to connect to Streamyx? GONE.. DEAD... no dialtone!! Coincedence?? I don't think so! Someone must be getting at revenge... damn I wish there were more broadband providers around town!

OK... I got my flight booked... I got my hotel booked... everything is ready as long as no emergencies pop up I should be go to go to Singapore on the 15th for the 360 launch. Yahoo!!!!