Post-Black Friday Blues

I carried a fair amount of money with me to San Jose for Thanksgiving. Since I had no reason to drive myself back to LA to shop with friends I figured I'd do it with family.
I stayed up the night before with about an hour of nap before I left for the stores. Figured since Gilroy is a town that is fairly empty and devoid of urban life it might be the best place to raid the local Gamestop for the Friday deals. At around 4 in the morning we left for Best Buy which was to be opened at around 5. I checked around for the camera deal they had but had found out that the cameras were already sold out within four minutes after opening. While my uncle went around shopping I went ahead and walked over to the nearby Gamestop to wait in line for the PS3 Slim bundle deal for the day. I waited an hour for it to open and was third in line to grab the 6 PS3 bundles in stock. I was unfortunate though, once it opened both cashiers instantly took in customers, mine being the slow one meant people behind me got all the bundles by the time I reached the desk. Ironic part was that the people in front of me were buying the used PS2 systems and things that wouldn't go out of stock anytime soon.
Feeling dejected and fairly annoyed I went off to shop around with my uncle, going to Target, other Gamestops and a Radio Shack for deals.

We decided to go to a Walmart for the last stop in shopping. One thing I noticed is that the Walmart we went to was also half-supermarket. Yes, they have started to become competition to the nearby food markets. Even though I said I wouldn't support Walmart by buying from them, I have only done it that day. They had in a new shipment of PS3 Slim bundles, this one carried Infamous, Arkham Asylum and a Blu-ray disc The Dark Knight. It was too much of a deal I'll have to say. Plus they told me it was fresh stock from the shipment they got less than an hour before. So I bought it from the one place I would've never expected to have bought from.

P.S. I also bought a game along with a headband ^^

It's giving part of your soul away for the savings.

Black Friday was today... I am now broke.
More details later when I'm less dead than I am.

It's like winning the lottery...

This other day after my friends have come over I felt like listening to some nice music up in my room with some nice HD visuals to go along with it. Since my PS3 could provide me with all of the things I felt like doing I decided to turn it on. Lo and behold my PS3 has done a full hardware failure on me...
It's not like this hasn't happened to me before. My 360 handed me an RRoD a while back and I handled it by selling my 360... But it's not the fact that the PS3 failed on me that's bothering me, it's the fact that there is a 5% failure rate on the system (as opposed to the 40% failure rate on the 360 first editions) that's eating me up. It's kinda like being the one guy out of a few ten-thousand to have been born with an erratic and fast growing tumor. You just felt like you won the lottery somehow, but instead of getting this "Yay~" feeling, you get this "God FML" thought at the back of your head.
Mind you though.. it's not a serious problem, I can probably fix it very easily without having to send it into the company for repairs. But by god this is just really lucky of me.

雪祭り

As I have failed to remember, I have been planning a snow trip to Big Bear for quite some time already. (Approximately 2 months ago if I recall correctly)
Though there has been a lot of procrastination in the planning of this trip, with the right amount of pushing from friends I have managed to be able to set out the final plans and invitation to the trip on facebook. If you're interested in knowing more then add me on facebook (ukki saiyuki, and no... that's not my real name) And I will send you the invite with all the information. Then again, this event isn't limited to those who have facebook either. If you happen to know me in real life and bump into me, make a mention of the trip and I'll be sure to fill you in with all the details.

As for today, I am posting because I have caught myself slowly going back to my "overly passionate about video games" persona. Seeing as I have bought two new games (Borderlands and a pre-ordered copy of Modern Warfare 2) I have noticed that my average sleeping cycle has gone to hell. I find myself sleeping during daybreak and waking up in the afternoon right before school... hopefully this doesn't persist or else it will hamper with my school life directly. But hey... it's nice to let loose and binge on your favorite past time every once in a while though. It's kinda like retail-therapy but without the holes burning into your wallet!

A sort of free service

Lately I've been putting up mini-demonstrations for my friends on Skype whenever I practice mixing. I figured the best way to improve is to have people critique me when I practice. For those interested, tell me to add you on Skype and I'll hit you up with a call whenever I practice so you can tune in!

I've also been looking toward some kind of program or site that allows me to stream the music live somewhere. If anyone has any idea's on how I should go about putting up these songs for people to listen to I'm all ears.

Also, I've been looking to changing the layout and look of my blog page... if there's anyone that can help I would be in great debt to them!

Let progress be progress

I've been putting in time for practice on my tables while balancing school tests and work, home life as well as the occasional gaming binge. I have to say that I can at least start mixing and matching on the fly now. Maybe soon I'll record and put up a short mixtape of my favorite songs. But before I let my ego get the better of me, I realize I'm still in the shallow pool since I'm still only working with techno and house. I've yet to start going deeper into other genres. Hopefully they won't be as hard as I'm making myself think they are.
On other news, I'm still on the rocks for cash and have been resorting to skipping meals in order to pay for my gas. (Yes, I know it's bad)
Hopefully someone might come and ask me to do a small gig for a party so I might be able to receive some pocket money!

Look forward to my next post because I'll probably be posting up my music mixtape by then!