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There’s a strong possibility that I’ll be shifting servers with all my websites. I’m looking around at the moment and hoping to find something that will meet my current requirements fairly soon. At this stage I’m delaying updates on all of my websites until after the move and that could be anywhere between now and the end of the month, or even maybe the end of next month… depends on what appears on the horizon. At this stage my only worry is the transfer of mysql databases – a lot of hosts out there have different control panels to the one I currently use and therefore don’t do the whole automatic transfer unless you’re using the same control panel they are. While most of my sites are easily moveable (wordpress has that import export option), its the databases for sites like Joomla and Coppermine that are the main issue. There are over 90,000 images on the Screencaps Gallery alone (Animay), and to have to re-upload them would be extremely time-consuming, not to mention the number of views, popularity statistics etc that I’d prefer to keep.

On another note, I picked up Sims 3 a couple of weeks ago when it came out. I’ve seen on the official site that there have been just as many complaints as there has been compliments and kudos for the game. I’m with the latter rather than the former. Sure there are a few weird things that become a bit problematic, but its still a great game and there’s so many cool options and events that happen in this game that I’m still a Sims addict lol. I’ll post up my full review at a later date.

My gundam – as listed below – arrived and was built. I have taken photos but not pulled them off the camera yet so I can’t share them but will after shifting servers. All I can say right now is just how awesome it looks. Master-Grade kits are the best!

When I’m not watching anime, or a dvd movie, I’m watching TV series. Lately I’ve been downloading TV series that I’m interested in, usually the crime stuff as that’s pretty cool to me. I’m a big CSI fan though not so much of CSI: Miami (don’t really like David Caruso) but the NY spinoff is great. I also like the new series that has been airing since last year in the US called “Eleventh Hour” starring Rufus Sewell. Currently I’m waiting for new episodes and hoping they will be coming (including a second season!). I’m also a big fan of The Mentalist, “our boy” Simon Baker is a great actor and he portrays his character well in this series. I’ve also been watching Law and Order: Criminal Intent (fan of Vincent D’nofrio and Jeff Goldblum) and Cold Case. I’ve recently started watching Criminal Minds which appears to be pretty good too in that category and have begun downloading The Closer, which I did begin watching when it first aired here on free-to-air tv but as soon as they changed timeslots I lose interest. On the other side I’ve also been getting some fantasy adventure series, namely Legend of the Seeker and Merlin. I did have the option of downloading season 5 of Stargate Atlantis but since the DVD set is due out next month I’ll just wait and buy that lol.

Okay yes officially its the month of August, but since I was born in this month, I call it the Month of May!!

So that may have been a little too cheesey lol, but nevertheless I’m semi-looking forward to my actual birthday which is at the end of the month.

Anyway, its my monthly post and its been nearly a month since I had my little trip. My knee is still bruised and doesn’t seem to sit right when I have it out straight. I should probably get it checked out but 1. it costs money and 2. it costs money. So I’ll put up with it until I have no choice but to go to the Doctors.

Speaking of money, I was prepared to spend quite a lot of it recently and am still tempted to do so. I’ve just finished a couple of model kits and have now no more to do. There is a model kit over at HobbyLink Japan that I really really really want to get, however it is fairly expensive compared to most of the kits I buy.   Read the rest of this entry »

Since the Queen’s Birthday holiday weekend, I’ve had the flu, but getting in to see my Doctor was pretty much impossible. And I’m not keen on just going to a local clinic as they seem to treat you like cattle, in and out with very little kind words or consideration. Anyway, I had a couple of days off but returned to work (I may have mentioned this in an earlier post), only because nobody could do part of my job. It didn’t help my health much, I went back to work for a full day and then again the following day for half a day only just to clear up a few things. I took the Friday off before the weekend in the hopes that it would clear up. It didn’t, the coughing got worse and I started to get back aches which is often a sign of bronchitis setting in. I came into work last Monday, but had an awful day with several coughing fits during the day and again that night (which left me without much sleep). I went into work the next day though I was intending to ring up my Doctor and make an appointment. Unfortunately she was still booked out, not only for that day but for the rest of the week. Since there are other Doctors there I managed to get an appointment with one of the other Doctors to see me that day. She wasn’t terribly nice, but I can understand that it being flu season and all they would be extremely busy and under a bit of stress themselves. She determined that I definitely had bronchitis and sent me home. I ended up taking the entire week off – it just seemed stupid to go back to work only to make things worse again. On top of that the air conditioning at the office is terrible at the moment. We are on the lower floors of the building and yet we are the coldest floors in the building. Of course with me having a fever, I couldn’t feel the cold like everyone else lol. They were all in coats and scarves inside for the whole day! Anyway, thanks to some antibiotics I seem to have gotten over the worst of it now. I still have a slight cough and my nose runs a bit but I don’t have the mass coughing fits anymore so it’ll be back to work tomorrow…. *sigh* -_-

On another note, I watched the movie “Pan’s Labyrinth”. It was written and directed by Guillermo del Toro and its about a young girl who is fascinated by fairy tales and tends to spend most of her time reading fairy tale books. It seems to be her only escape from such a ruthless situation she finds herself in. With her father dead in the war, her mother ends up marrying a Captain, who is not a terribly nice fellow at all. Her mother is carrying his child and he is positive that it will be a son. After moving to their new house in amongst a forest, she meets up with a ‘fairy’ (its an insect at first that transforms itself into what she sees as a fairy shape after showing it her fairy-tale book) who then guides her into a labyrinth where she meets this faun. To be honest, if I met a faun like that when I was a kid I’d be running the other way! The faun tells her that she is the Princess of their Kingdom who has been resurrected but cannot return until she completes three tasks. If she doesn’t complete them by the next full moon she will forever remain in the human world. In the ‘real world’, her father is part of a military group who are at the brink of civil war (this is set in Spain around 1944). In the household is a maid who is working with the resistance as her brother is their leader. I can tell you one thing about this movie and that is its full of a lot of violence, its definitely no kiddies movie. The Captain is brutal especially in his ways of dealing with people such as suspected criminals and rebels he’s taken hostage. The tasks that the young girl undertakes aren’t exactly light and fluffy either, especially when she meets up with a devilish creature who has eyes in the palms of its hands and eats babies and children (as depicted by the diagrams on the wall of the room she visits). The movie itself is amazing in its detail and dealing with the real and fantastical in blending them together. As one person put it, this movie shows how a child deals with such a frightening situation, by using their imagination to help see them through it all. If you haven’t seen the movie, I recommend renting a copy on DVD.