Month: August 2007

I bought Utada Hikaru’s new single Beautiful World from the Japanese iTunes store. My preferences are set so that if there’s a Plus version (higher quality for a bit more $$, or in this case ¥¥) I would automatically get that version. Unfortunately, that’s not what I got when I clicked on the the “Buy Album” button. I ended up with the DRM encoded standard version. >_< I e-mailed Apple’s customer support, not sure if everyone on Apple’s JP store speaks Japanese I wrote a short bilingual message. Yes, “why wouldn’t they speak Japanese?” you might ask. Mac OS is in English, so that sets iTunes in English with all the automated messages in English. So it was kinda late at night and I was tired. :P Basically, I said, “I wanted the Plus version of Utada’s album, but got the standard version instead. Help!” That was last night. The response I got this morning was (in Japanese), “We’re sorry, but we can’t do anything. Here is 1 free song credit for your loss.” I’m like, wth… So I spend a good few minutes writing a response that included 2 screen shots, 1 of my downloaded files and 1 of the iTunes store on Utada’s page. I told them that it was their responsibility, otherwise this is fraud. You buy a certain version of something, you pay the proper amount, and instead they give you a suckier version. I even checked during the day if I got a response of some sort, but I didn’t. Now that I’m home and it’s 2 PM in Japan, I received a second response. This one was much better. It was basically another apology and an option on how I want my money back, either via credit card or by store credit. Well, seeing how I don’t have a Japanese credit card, I told them I want it back by store credit. Yeay!

Now I have to go buy the album version because I want a high quality version of Beautiful World. Hikki rules!

Another video game from the government. This time it’s called “Ground Truth”. Yeah, truth about what? Just the sound of it feels like propaganda.

Gamespot article

I went shopping at Asahiya Bookstore at the Marukai in Torrance and as I was passing by the magazines, I did a double take. When did I get on the cover of a Japanese magazine?! Looking closer, it was someone else who resembled me on the cover of Hiragana Times.

Doesn’t she look like me? >.>;

So far I have cleaned my bath tub (the bleach fumes started to get to me) and my fish tank. I took a break in between those two to watch Stranger Than Fiction. Good movie. Next, I think I’ll clean my bathroom sink area and mayhaps mop the floor. ^_^.v

I decided to visit the new super market on the corner of Crenshaw and Torrance Boulevards on my way home from work tonight. As soon as I walk in, I am assaulted by the smell of sesame seed oil. I hate sesame seed oil. It gives me headaches. It turned out that Freshia is a Korean super market, hence the overwhelming smell of sesame seed oil. I bought my milk and left as quickly as possible before my newly developing headache got any worse.

It needs a floppy to boot up. Two of the three floppies I grabbed were bad. The good one had something on it, but I don’t care. Whatever it was, I’m not going to be able to retrieve it anyway. Then it gave me keyboard failure errors. Tried a MacAlly keyboard, and that didn’t give me the error, but the keyboard still didn’t seem to work. Argh. I can’t reboot because the keys aren’t responding, and I can’t install Windows XP because I don’t know why. Probably because… the keyboard isn’t working. ARGH.

Today, I went to the Orange County Fair with my sister and a few of my friends. I was hoping to go earlier in the day since it’s easier to do things at home in one continuous chunk rather than having it broken up throughout the day, but oh wells. It was interesting seeing all sorts of animals, but I didn’t think the animals were too keen on being tied up and unable to move about freely. I felt rather sorry for them.

I didn’t stay too long, mainly because I needed to get home and do my laundry before my mom went to bed. There are other things I wanted to do, but unfortunately, having my day broken up in a bad spot doesn’t work well for me. At least I got a few pictures. ^^;

Argh. I woke up around 3 am. Tossed off my blankets, I got too cold, and had put my blankets back. I get too warm again, and toss off my blankets yet again. I tried reading a book, I tried playing some video games. It’s just one of those nights where it’s too warm to sleep. :( I’m gonna try some camomile tea and go to bed again.