Last Wednesday I was out all day pretty much. I went to three malls in a single day heheh... I went to Shoppesville in Greenhills to get the CDs that didn't work on my PC exchanged for others that did work, then I passed through Megamall from Greenhills just to ride the MRT. At the Megamall I played a couple of games of Ez2Dancer then I left. When I got off the MRT, it was already raining hard, which was good for me, except for the fact that most people are afraid of a little water, and started wussing around trying not to get wet when they're already wet anyway. o_o It's about 200-300 or so meters from the MRT station to the entrance of SM North, so I struggled with people hopping over puddles and staying away from drips in the rooves of the waiting sheds and covered sidewalks, etc.

Anyway let's start with details from Greenhills. What I got in exchange for the Rainbow Six game I bought last week, which didn't work on my PC because my video card was "not supported", was Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. Good thing MoH:AA specifically supports my video card. The game's great fun too. I'm around halfway through the single-player missions, though I'm only playing it in the easiest mode because I'm not used to the controls and the feel of the game (being too much of a Day of Defeat veteran).

I wasn't at the Megamall long enough for anything particularly eventful to happen, so let's skip to SM North. I went to SM North for one thing in particular: a chance to play Pump It Up. PIU is a dance game by Andamiro, a Korean company. It has five steps, set up in an X formation, so there are two steps at the front, two in the back, and one in the middle. The game features an impressive 130+ songs, though the genre selection is somewhat limited (for instance, they don't have any pure techno songs; they have a lot of KPop and a few hip-hop, some R&B, some rock/metal, etc.). Still, the songs that they do have are pretty good. I remember a lot of the songs, especially the more recent ones, such as HOT by 1Tym. Even though my first encounter with a PIU machine was about three years ago, back at the two-peso arcade in Kamuning, which is sadly closed now, I never really played it. So I'm still learning the ropes of the game, but as many of the players are Korean, I'm picking up a lot of moves already. And I can also apply the moves to Ez2Dancer. Oh how I wish though that Amuseworld would update Ez2Dancer, and add more songs. ~_~ They went on full-time with Ez2Dj, which is doing very well. But I want to have more variety in Ez2Dancer, because I can practically do all of the songs in Ez2Dancer already.

As I'm typing this, I'm downloading freestyle videos. Just like combo videos are useful to fighting gamers, freestyle videos are useful to dance gamers. So I can learn more moves, and practice them, which I should've done earlier today but forgot to because of MoH:AA.

Finally, the weather is annoying. It's hot in the mornings to the afternoon, then it'll rain for a bit in the late afternoon or evening, then it'll stop. The heat and humidity in the mornings are in the extremes, and it becomes cold suddenly for with the rain. I think we'll get sick from the temperature changes alone. I pray that doesn't happen.