Trials and Tribulations

Case 3-2 clearly demonstrated "Double Jeopardy", whereby a defendant cannot be tried in court again after being declared innocent for a particular crime.

3-3 is about a poisoning incident at a French restaurant. Pretty interesting case, dealing with money and loans and all.

3-4 occurs in the past, and is Mia's first case as a defense attorney. I didn't get to play much of it before my batteries started to die, though. I don't like to play while it's charging, cause I get pretty restricted in terms of movement.

I'm aiming for the last case tonight, but now that I think of it, maybe I don't have the time. I'm going to party with Xeo and Wak on Dragoon. Ah yes, I finally unlocked it a few days ago, and I'm really enjoying it so far. My only gripe is with the wyvern dying to AoE attacks ever so often. It's easy to neglect its HP and wanting to keep going, so sometimes it dies before reaching the 20 minute recast.

Well now that I'm on break, I actually followed a couple of friends to look for a job through an agent. I'm kinda nervous about the whole thing, I don't know how it'd turn out. It keeps flashing through my mind like some pestiferous, uh, thought. Can't settle for a better word right now. Heh, I don't know, all I can do now is wait and see.

Perhaps I'd be more comfortable teaching piano instead. All I need is to get my grade 8 theory certificate. Speaking of which, my theory exam is just 2 weeks away, on 15th March. Am I prepared? I hope I am.

And uh, is it just me or was that thing he wrote kinda sketchy? I get this subtle hint that he's insinuating something about that person. Well, I didn't think it was too hard to catch, but I must commend his effort for trying, even if that wasn't his original implication.

Fragrance of Dark Coffee

Godot's theme is pretty awesome, I have to say. And the orchestral version of it makes it so much more amazing.

I'm currently on case 2 of Trials and Tribulations. Case 1 was rather good, comparing to the previous 2 games first cases. Case 2 so far seems like a pretty interesting change from the normal cases. I won't spoil what it is, but well I don't think it's that hard to guess either.

I got hold my copy of Apollo Justice, so right now it's just sitting there waiting for me.

And in Final Fantasy XI, I think it's finally time I try to unlock Dragoon. Everytime I decided to do it, I'd start having second thoughts about it, because I needed to mine for a dragon egg, then fight a dragon way over at Sandy. I guess I probably wasn't very interested in Dragoon after all, huh, if being able to play the job wasn't even enough motivation to unlock it.

Well now back to more Phoenix Wright.

Examを終わりました

It certainly was a coincidence today. I met the guy who liked the Final Fantasy piece that I played on piano 2 years ago. I didn't stop to chat though. I was too tired and was slightly disoriented after sleeping on the train home.

My last paper was today. I'm glad it's over, for now at least.

I think I finally got the rough idea of riding a bicycle, thanks to everyone's help. I still have some trouble balancing, but hey, it's progress.

I apologize if I dampened anyone's moods at first. To tell the truth, I felt pretty lousy all of a sudden. I figured I wouldn't be able to succeed in learning and didn't want anyone to waste their time trying to teach me, that's why I kinda discounted myself to even rent a bicycle. Call it inferiority complex.

On a much brighter note, Apollo Justice will finally reach stores where I am, tomorrow. That's more than enough motivation to finish up Trials and Tribulations, which I just started this morning, before my exam.

And in a few, I will turn in after a long day of...

Objection!

Exemplification of Deterioration

I should've seen it coming.

Honestly, it was far worse than I thought. That's the reality.

When did school end up like this?

On the spur of the moment

I don't really know what I'm doing anymore.

Why does it dawn on me that what I've done is hyprocritical, why do I get this feeling that you're giving out subtle signs that you hate being "betrayed".

I don't know exactly what I'm doing here.

I wasn't trying to do anything I didn't intend. Somehow, something keeps overwhelming me with possibly irrational thoughts. I wasn't ignoring. Well, I was trying not to ignore. It was totally unachievable.

And on the spur of the moment, I feel I should go back to what I was. I feel like not being associated with anyone would put me in a more advantageous position, where I wouldn't be accused of betraying anyone or being some selfish hypocrite. After all, I never had anything to do with you in the first place, right?

I don't understand why it is so difficult to return to my previous self. Back then I never talked enough to hurt anyone, I never did anything to possibly harm anyone. I never had any usual "friends" I could hang out with, I was always alone.

Alone. I liked the solitude.

But I realized something, there'll come a time where you won't get anywhere by yourself. Which is why I so painstakingly forced myself to talk more, because this is what everyone says. Talk more, you're too quiet. It's not something innate. I couldn't just suddenly be able to talk and converse well with people. In so doing, I think somehow, I forced out any words I could think of, to the extent I don't know I actually trespassed their sensitive zone. I believe I possess some charactersistics identified in the diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome, and well, I'd say that doesn't help much.

That's when I started Final Fantasy XI. I didn't need to converse with people face to face. I could do so online, represented by my alter-ego, my character in the game. It's safe to say the game changed my life a lot, because I met a lot of people I couldn't meet otherwise. Many people actually had an impact on me, many I respected or just had lots of fun with. It also changed my view on things and the world, made me more open-minded and more familiar with things I wouldn't know being cooped up in this country.

I guess my topic kinda strayed a little. What was my topic to begin with anyway?

Ah yes, talking about Final Fantasy XI sparked me up, I don't really feel all that lousy anymore. But my point still remains. This isn't just a one-time thing. It's a recurring event, and it's bound to catch me off guard at some point.

I don't know what'll happen then. Meh, I shouldn't even think about it.

On the bright side, 2 papers down, only Java left. And then a 2 month break.

I'm willing to bet peoples' dispositions will change once our second year begins. It was never set in stone anyway, eh?

Can I even say anything?

Tell me the definition of a friend, because I think, I've gotten the whole concept wrong.

Or should I say, your definition.

I don't want to care about all these little things, because honestly, they are ubiquitous. Precisely so that I want to ignore it. But some people just have to bring up all these petty annoyances every single time.

While I agree different people have different definitions of the word 'friend', I'm sorry to say that yours might be a little far-fetched.

I'll tell ya what I think, I'd say it's jealousy. Jealous that someone just stole your precious gems away from you for a day or so. And no, I never signed my name against the slip of the anti-hero in your story.

Whatever it is, don't end up doing stupid things that only you can think of. And don't say I didn't warn you.

Yeah, I'm gonna ignore whatever foolish acts you're gonna draft up.

I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

Hold it!

Professor Layton and the Curious Village for the DS will be released today.

9 more days to Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney...

...And 8 days to my first paper.

I like how games I want are being released during the exam period. It's almost as if its mocking me. Though exam or not, I'm still going to buy them.

The soundtrack of Folklore is pretty good, in my opinion. Many tracks manage to set an atmosphere that is haunting and somewhat creepy, yet mystically beautiful. I am able to picture how certain events play out just by the stories drafted by the music, and I haven't even played the game. Definitely going to get this game when I get my Playstation 3.

Studying would commence soon. Damn these exams, spoiling my holiday mood.

Hmm...

Y'know sometimes I let what I say to people bother me. "Sometimes" might even be an understatement.

Perhaps being too frank or sarcastic sometimes just doesn't cut it. I mean, it's possibly because of the people's reactions and how they take your words. These kind of responses, verbal or non-verbal, somehow overwhelm me pretty easily. And in your subconsciousness, it keeps telling you, yeah you've just messed up.

Though of late I've been able to overcome this with lesser effort, I can't say that these feelings have totally dissipated. I don't think it's aberrant either.

I wonder if anyone else have this kind of feeling, the feeling of thinking you're lousy just because you think that you've screwed someone over, even though it didn't matter to that someone (but you don't know whether it did).

Well, just something that came to mind.

Reprise

Been a while.

I just decided to change this whole damn thing to a simpler looking page.

So about a year has gone by, with a shitload of events. I'm not going to list them all. In fact, my mind is pretty blank right now. For some reason this always happens when I type.

Final Fantasy XI has remained rather stagnant for me. The number of times I've logged in for the past few months can probably be counted using my own two hands. Most of my in-game friends have either quit and/or gone to WoW. In fact, if it wasn't for Xeo's second return to the game, I don't think I'll still be talking about it. I just leveled Dancer with his Black Mage a few days ago.

School has been what it's supposed to be. It kills people, I tell ya. Projects and tests are armed with a whole array of weapons, and the people don't make it any better half the time. Well, school does have its fair share of enjoyable moments, though, I'll give it that much.

There's this classmate of ours that we've decided to beleaguer with sarcasm all the time. I was probaby off my head, but I enjoyed it so much, it was literally an all-out assault yesterday.

Wrong time to be up, I'd say. I forgot what day it is.

Happy Chinese New Year everyone.