Zen Crib Notes

This whole week is Crazy Wall Street week. Up and down, between -500 and +400. I think the end result is still -100 than normal.

I just need to mark this as the week when the news makes me more perplexed than usual.

But good news! My brother finally passed his driver's test! Finally, one of us has achieved mobile independence. Next up: me!

Personal news: I recently ordered two 5ml bottles of perfume oils from Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs. I've been interested in them for a while, and what spurred me to buy something from them is that there was a special limited time order for The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle scent oils around last week. I've ordered the "Last Unicorn" scent and the "Schmendrick" scent. I will now commit to trying to smell nicer than normal.

I met Peter S. Beagle in person in the Exhibition Hall during Anime Expo, and I bought two of his books, one of them being The Last Unicorn and.... something else. This was probably the first time I've ever met a famous author.

No, I do not mean basketball. Speaking of, I shake my fist at whoever controls the tv at the cafeteria for always staying on ESPN for March Madness whenever I get an in-between break from classes.

March was the time when I did a lot of pre-orders. Mouse-clicking madness, so to say. So this is list of new stuff:

• Assassin's Creed t-shirt featuring Altair from Assassin's Creed 1 from SwapDog.com.
• Assassin's Creed 1MillionAssassin's fan shirt from UbiWorkShop, so it's an official Assassin's Creed t-shirt
• a sketch of Naveen from "The Princess and the Frog" drawn by bri-chan, a well-known Disney-themed artist from Deviantart, intended as a birthday present.
• A plush doll of Professor Layton from Play-Asia.com, also a birthday item for the same person.
• 5 Centimeters Per Second DVD from Crunchyroll.com. Such a beautiful movie.
• The Collector's Edition of Dissidia Final Fantasy 012 original soundtrack with movie dvd, artbook, and badass classy case.

And now for the video game pre-orders:

• Dissidia Final Fantasy 012 from Amazon, so it included the awesome Tifa alternative costume for me to fawn over and totally have another view of eye candy while punching out enemies. It goes up there with Squall in a sleeveless black tee and Kain's 2nd alternative costume when he was in Final Fantasy IV: After Years in terms of sexiness.
• Parasite Eve's "The 3rd Birthday" which comes with the code for Lightning's Aya Brea costume. It's a really fun game.
• Pokemon Black, from Amazon.com.
• Rebuild of Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance, which is a lot of fun.
• Tactics Ogre. Comes with pretty tarot cards

I've also bought a lot more so that I can (rack up the Square Enix points) get the things that I've always wanted to have but didn't have the money at the time for it:

• Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth. Battle System is.... interesting. Pretty cool game, though.
• The World Ends with You
• Kingdom Hearts re:coded.

Note to self: Need to get shelves for new stuff...

PS: I also bought volumes 1 to 15 of the xxxHolic manga from Ebay, OH DEAR LORD. There's no more space under my bed.