I mean, you can’t possibly say no after seeing her cute face. Don’t you just want to set her proudly next to your monitor? I know I do.

I also considered getting a second figure with this order (you know, if you buy one, might as well buy two, right? Actually, that doesn’t really make any sense, but anyway…), namely, the Kureha one from Kotobukiya, but, eh, I don’t know. I really like her pose but something about her face just bothers me. Unfortunately, the MAX FACTORY one has long been sold out, so that wasn’t an option. Oh well, if I ever consider getting another figure, I’m sure I can just tack it onto this order, I mean, it’s not like I’ll be getting my Miku one anytime soon with its September release. Yeah, that’s right, it’s coming out in September…and preorders just started a few days ago, what a world. These figures go out fast I guess.

Anyway, there are a few more pictures of Miku at GSC’s official website if you’re interested and more elsewhere if you just google around a little.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, I made my order through the Kid Nemo Company.

So the first thing we did after I met up with Jacky and Mark was to go out for some chow. Being the genius I am, I obviously did not take any photos. Let me tell you though, it was some good curry, yes sir it was.

Afterwards, we went (south?) to Pike Place Market where we strolled around both inside and outside. I bought some souvenirs there but when I got back here at Waterloo I realized I was missing one. I don’t know if I dropped it or the guy ripped me off. But anyway, it also started to rain a little but it stopped very quickly soon after. I guess that’s what Seattle weather is like. You can see the original Starbucks coffee shop in the second photo below.

Next, we went to Kerry Park…which wasn’t really much of a park, it was more of a…place with a good view? I don’t know what that half-assed basketball court was, but anyway…

After that, we went over to Discovery Park. Their road signs were not exactly very good but that’s okay, we found the beach at the end anyway. I’ll admit that wasn’t the trail we were planning to go on initially, but whatever. Jacky and Mark skipped stones while I watched.

We also found a dead crab. And we also found several crab limbs a couple of metres away from said body. I don’t know if they’re all from the same crab, but anyway…

This one bird caught some food and before we knew it, two others were hot on its trail.

We went to Kinokuniya after this where I picked up some 「ああっ女神さまっ」 and 「ハヤテのごとく!」 manga along with two Final Fantasy XII posters. I also picked up two Kingdom Hearts posters which will compensate for the fact that I’m missing a souvenir. It works out, it just means that Kitty will be getting one souvenir instead of the original two.

Our next stop was Bellevue. We went up Lincoln Square where Microsoft’s cafeteria was and took some drinks (which were free like IBM’s) while waiting for the time to pass due to the absurd line that was at the Cheesecake Factory.

We didn’t get any photos of our food but we snapped one of our cheesecakes.

After that, it was time to bust into Microsoft’s offices to take a peek at Microsoft Surface. We found a bug while we were playing around with it and promptly submitted it through the feedback submission interface that was in the system. I hope they get it resolved before its release!

The puzzle we are playing here was quite cool as the original image is actually a video. So as we are trying to align the squares together, that portion of the video is playing within each square. This makes the ordeal take a little bit more time than usual since the image is moving as you are trying to merge it together which makes it a little annoying since things that look like they match might not actually match.

And that was really pretty much the last thing we did on the 15th. We drove back to where Jacky and Mark lived (which is quite a mansion I must say) to wind down. We played a bit of Mario Kart on the DS before retiring to bed. Here you can see my crap is all over their house. Of course, due to its awesome size, it didn’t really cover that much area.

The next day, we sat around a bit before heading off to the airport. After getting my boarding pass, we had some food and played some Brain Age 2 to kill the time before I had to pass the security gates to get on my flight to Santa Clara for EclipseCon.

It wasn’t a very long stay but I definitely had a blast. Thanks, Jacky and Mark!

*picks up jaw off of the floor*

My search for a new wallpaper ends here.

Cynthia: Did you get a hair cut, Remy?
Me: Uh, no…do I look like I got one?
Sam: No.
Me: I shaved, if that’s what you mean.
Cynthia: Oh! No wonder you look different.

I guess this is what happens when you shave once every two weeks? I would shave more often…if I cared.

Remy Chi Jian Suen: Shouldn’t you be at work?
Kitty Tang: I AM AT WORK
Remy Chi Jian Suen: What a naughty person you are.
Kitty Tang: TAKING MY LUNCH =p
Kitty Tang: SOMEWHAT
Remy Chi Jian Suen: o
Remy Chi Jian Suen: What’s with the caps lock
Kitty Tang: TYPING SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE IN ALL CAPS
Kitty Tang: SO I HAVE THE CAPS LOCK ON
Remy Chi Jian Suen: Good grief. Did you beat the game already?
Kitty Tang: NONO, STILL WORKING ON IT, DIDN’T PLAY MUCH DURING X-MAS
Kitty Tang: HOW’S SCHOOL?
Remy Chi Jian Suen: Awake for my first class, slept through my second class (after she was done talking about the syllabus).
Kitty Tang: HAHA, LIKE ALWAYS
Kitty Tang: SO YOU BEAT THE NEW FF GAME I ASSUME
Remy Chi Jian Suen: Nope, I didn’t play it much.
Remy Chi Jian Suen: I had various games, anime to watch, code to write, so I had to balance it all out.
Kitty Tang: WHAT A BUSY MAN YOU ARE
Kitty Tang: I GET SOOO SLEEPY AT WORK IT’S NOT EVEN FUNNY
Remy Chi Jian Suen: You should sleep at 0000 like me then.
Kitty Tang: ALMOST FELL ASLEEP DURING MY TRAINING
Kitty Tang: I SLEEP AROUND0030
Remy Chi Jian Suen: lol, my my ~.~
Kitty Tang: I MISS SCHOOL ALREADY
Kitty Tang: WHERE I CAN SKIP WHENEVER I CAN’T WAKE UP

Oh well, I do have a lot of stuff I’d like to get done anyway…

It wasn’t that 12 cans of Pepsi is a lot (and it is, but I do drink a lot of it), but it was the issue of the quantity per “package”. If I bought a 2L bottle, I would be able to pour as much as I would like to drink. But with a can, if I pop one open, I’m “forced” to drink all of it, say, within the next hour or two. I don’t know if it’s really bad or not or not to leave the drink lying around (it probably isn’t), but I’d really just rather not leave a half empty can of Pepsi lying around on the table. I mean, I do have two ThinkPad notebooks, a Dell monitor, three external hard drives, and three Logitech speakers sitting on my desk (my other two are behind me of course), so it’s definitely not a wise idea to leave fluids lying around.

In the end, I gave in because I’m a sucker for deals, but I can see myself going through these 12 cans real fast.