Okay first off, I downloaded another b-boy video from Style2Ouf.com. It gave me a few ideas on some new tricks. Actually there's this one move that I've only seen among French b-boys, which is a drop to your shoulder/upper arm area. It's hard to explain, but I think I can do it. It looks pretty dope so I hope I can get it without injuring myself.

I've got a new trick too, but I'm far from perfecting it yet. It's like an inverted hollowback but you're on your head and forearms. It's surprising because I thought this move would put a great strain on your neck and it would be dangerous and might cause some neck injury but it doesn't. I feel most of the weight on my elbows and forearms. I need to develop more shoulder and abdominal strength to be able to hold the hollowback more dramatically.

Next, I got jSRO to work properly. I can now see the Japanese fonts properly. Too bad the IME doesn't work, though. I still can't type in Japanese. But in jSRO, foreigners like me are probably very unexpected. And, knowing Japan, almost nobody speaks English. So it brings up the obvious problem that I may not be able to interact with anybody properly.

This frustrates me so much. I don't really think I want to continue playing in jSRO because of that, but having seen how much better it is there really emphasized on how sloppy iSRO is, and that makes me want to play there less. But still, at least it's in English. And at least not everybody is annoying there. I may give the international servers another try, but I'll take a little rest from it to cool down.

In Pangya, I got into the Beginner ranks (I'm Beginner D now). I hit a long putt of over 40y (around 40.6) and almost hit another (around 40.3) right after it. I'm still looking for that elusive first hole-in-one though.

Mikko is downloading the Lineage II installer... I'm absolutely going to play it, if/when I can get the installer. The installer is 2.3 GB large, or so I'm told by Mikko. What's worse is that the download seems to get corrupted if you resume it (he tried). I dunno what he plans to do, but he wants to play it badly too. So we'll see.

Finally, I learned something very interesting from the show GameMax. We all know that video games help improve eye to hand coordination, improving your reflexes and your dexterity. But there aren't many practical applications for this, right? Well apparently, it's been scientifically proven that surgeons that used to play video games and those that still play video games are significantly better than those that have never played video games. They work faster and with less errors. If I were the one to undergo surgery, I'd definitely look for one that is a gamer heheh. Anyway, they're putting up a special training program in the U.S. that makes surgeons play video games (particularly those with depth perception and speed and stuff like that). I think this is awesome.