Well, today was rather interesting. As some of you may know, with school finished and Uni starting I have now moved to the city of Brisbane! I love this place, so I'm glad to be here, and pretty soon I start studying to earn my Bacholer of Teaching (Secondary) in English and Computers.
Anyway, for the first time since I moved up (I only arrived two days ago) myself and my friend whose family I'm currently living with went into the city.
The first bit of good news was before that actually. I figured out the times on the Uni website for the two classes that didn't seem to be on the timetable (They were there, just not on the allocations table.)
Anyway, in the city we bummed around and stuff. The walk down to the nearby bus stop was pretty long (like yesterday) and by the end of this year, I'll be fit. The buses were reasonably priced and fast.
In borders, apart from some dude just sitting reading stuff without buying it, I saw translated Mangas for Evangelion. Since it's my fabvourite series of all time, I wantad them just to have them. 35$ though. Each. Bordors also had some cool RPG books (I have previously not had a lot to do with most commercial systems, being the price and how hard they are to get in rural areas.) including Mage: The Acension, which sounds interesting and has been reccommendod to me. At 80$ I'll have to consider it carefully.
Lunch was a Sausage roll and a really cheap, really fresh bottle of orange juice. The juice plac eis came from is my new favourite drink place in the world.
I was disappointed to see my favourite arcade had closed down, but happy to see that the cheap video game store is still around (I thought it had gone). I tried a demo of Mario Kart: Double Dash and now want a Gamecube.
Shortly after that I saw a Japanese schoolgirl. Ok, it was just a japanese girl in a uniform with a long skirt and colours similar to the Japanese Schoolgirl uniform, but it was still the highlight of my day, thinking I was in Tokyo for a moment. (Technically, though, it was a school uniform...)
The best part though was finding a comic book shop I didn't know existed. Great RPGs. The same Eva mangas for half the price (and a few action figures) A guy running it who looks just like Comic Book Shop Guy from The Simpsons. Best of all, they had half a wall of Critical Mass Heroclix figures. (Clix of any sort are really hard to find here). Since I wanted a pack, I bought one, and was surprised when the price came up three dollars cheaper than everywhere else. I commented on this, and CBSG says "Yeah, well that's because we rock!" He was right. They did indeed rock.
On my way out I grabbed a flyer for a thing in a couple of weeks demonstrating a new cool looking CCG based on Kung Fu movies called Shadowfist. To paraphrase: "Dueling and Multi-player games - with Give-Aways." More importantly: ""Shadowfist is the fast-paced trading card game based on Hong Kong action movies and more! Kung Fu masters, good-hearted cops, shadowy assassins, evil sorcerors with high-pitched voices, demons, and lots of guns. What more could you want? Flying Cybernetic Monkeys, you say? It's got those too!"
I opened my pack and home and pulled Ulik ( Great figure, and pretty cool, I needed a tank) some wierd 8 point figure who looked and acted just like Gollem, a hot chick named Nebula, (whose stats on every webiste on the net are entirely different from what my model shows, hmm.) and a daredevil figure.
I ordered a new monitor, since mine's, um, purple. 17 inch, 219$.
The only bad part of the day was the catch 22. I need to get address changes and cards from several different organisations (mostly government) yet to get one, it appears I need to get the other first. Which I can't, because I need the other one first.
Sigh. And my computer doesn't have sound yet. Don't ask.
