another swing and a miss

So another failed chance to go to the Philippines, lol. I could have gone during my last year in college, but I didn't. I had the means to go recently for my grandma's funeral (rest her soul), but I didn't. I would give up $1,600 to go, but dang, you have to think. $1,600 is A LOT of money. If I were to spend that much money on a trip, I better stay in that destination for at least a month. Two or three weeks isn't going to cut it.

So instead, I'm with my dad again. For a while and for the upcoming week, I was with my dad/mom's friends, Tito Nick and Tita Cora. It was good, but it wasn't entirely depressing. But for a week, I'm with my dad, and it gets pretty boring without Daniel bothering me about how much I play video games and/or slowing taking a nap on my bed. To stave off boredom, I purchased a couple things:

- a crapload of games

• Wanted: Weapons of Fate
  
• Stormrise
  
• Harry Hatsworth and the Puzzling Adventure
  
• Retro Game Challenge
  
• Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3
  
• Grand Theft Auto: China Town Wars
  
• Resistance Retribution
  
• Wallace and Gromit's Grand Adventures
  
• Rhythm Heaven
  
• Star Ocean: The Last Hope
  
• Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena
  

- season 12 of South Park on Blu-ray

- new PC guts

• intel i7 core 920
  
• 4GB DDR3 RAM
  
• Asus motherboard with 3-way SLI capability/ Crossfire support
  
• eVGA GTX 285
  
• new power supply with modular support
  
• and probably a new case since that dang video card is HUGE
  

I went a bit overboard with the computer specs. I was only supposed to buy a new power supply since the fan on my old was getting noisy. But since I got my refund back (the most money I have ever had in my life), I had to splurge. It's money that was already taxed by the government, and it was just held by them.

So yeah, no more spending for me, lol. I'm officially done with buying stuff for a long while.

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The PS3 firmware was updated. What's good now? They updated the divx support. Now probably everything will work now. Ong Bak 2 didn't work before, but now it does. Hooray.