Yesterday, I headed over to the mall with my friend, Andrew, in search of a birthday present. I headed over to his place to catch the bus, but ended up chilling at there watching him play his PS3. After commenting and laughing at his COD skills, he switched over to a Chinese version of God of War III. While he blindly ran through the level unsure of what to do, I was there to pick up those hints that blatantly pop up on the screen. I suppose it's a good thing I was there or else he would have to continuously restart from the previous checkpoint in order to decipher what to do. After being satisfied with the good order of the game, he showed me Final Fantasy XIII. The graphics were amazing, but the cut scenes were a little bland. He showed me the monsters he was "supposed" to farm against, but as we both quickly realized, it was not possible. With one stomp, yes just one stomp on the ground, his entire party was dead. We both decided against trying again and decided to go after the final boss. Of course, as in every FF game, the boss has more than one form as my friend cleverly pointed out as a cut scene of the characters celebrating flickered on the screen. Of course, their excitement quickly faded as the next formed appeared. The new boss monster seemed to be composed of two heads and an arm that constantly stroked on of the heads--weird--and had roughly 6.8 million health. We both laughed at this number suggesting some random Japanese guy trying to mull over what a ridiculous amount of health would be and then to add an additional 9%. As the game went on, the boss continually smashed my friend's party with a cheap move. He quickly began healing after the slaughter, but the boss monster had other plans. It decided to do a combo maneuver of BOTH its strongest attacks which pulverized his party leader making him lose. We had a good laugh after because of the awe struck state we were both in. Ah well, another time.
Finally deciding to leave his house, we ventured to the bus stop. As we were waiting to cross the street, the bus we were supposed to catch was right beside us and neither of us noticed. Finally, we moved to the other side and the bus whizzed by. Checking the times, it would take another 9 minutes before the next bus would arrive so we decided to head down the street to the Starbucks where I ordered a grande green tea latte. Now, I am partially lactose intolerant, but I was just craving the 'bucks too much to care. As I sipped away on the latte we both caught the bus and were headed to the mall. We had lunch around 4:00, yes 4:00 p.m., and then began looking for the present. We first entered into HMV where I picked up the new Justin Nozuka CD which was oddly on sale. Andrew, taking advantage of the sale, also bought a 2/20 CD. Sadly, him searching for a CD cost us an entire hour of scavenging the store. Being satisfied with our music purchases, we blindly walked into every conceivable women's clothing store there in search of this present. My mood percievably began to decline, partially because of the shopping, but more so on account of the green tea latte I had ingested earlier. 'Drew and I had found nothing, at least not within our price range, and were becoming discouraged so we went in search of a card instead; a simple task. Hallmark proved to be useless as the only card worth noting was one that insisted on not giving a present (out of the question). We ended up defeated, empty handed, well at least in the case of the present. This day was just full of failed attempts. I suppose we will launch another assault upon the other mall tomorrow, the DAY OF the party.
If buying presents were a boss, it's hit points would also be
an outrageous number proposed by some Japanese fellow.
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