finally

i read nikki's e-mail about half past eleven. the e-mail contained a link to a forum with pinoys discussing the latest tekken news. it was there that i found out and confirmed that t5 is indeed in the phils. of course i didn't think twice if i should leave early for "lunch" and go directly to g4 and play. (okay, i did weigh my options. but against having lunch and going back to work afterwards, t5 tipped the scale more... way more.)

i arrived at g4 timezone a couple of minutes before noon. and it wasn't quite hard to find the t5 machine considering the fact that there was a swarm of people ogling at the machine. jwoarang was there along with a friend. he ranked 3rd kyu with his hwoarang and his friend ranked 4th kyu with karate jin. later 2nd kyu devil jin showed only to loss to an unceded ganryu player.(which was quite good. i lost twice to him and by the time i left jwoarang only won against him about 80% of the time.)

the game costs eighteen bucks a pop if you have a vip status timezone card and twenty for a normal card holder. i bought me a tekken 5 data card which costs two hundred pesos. pretty steep price for a plastic card but no price is too much for a tekkenus addictus. hehehe.Ü i really wanted the card where lei, bryan, yoshi and steve were the characters on the card. but instead i got the one with the new t5 chars in it, fei, asuka and raven because that was the only card they had in timezone. bleh! loaded my timezone card with a hundred pesos and i was on my way to tekken heaven.

the queue for the game was not that long. a rotation of three players were taking place at the first player side, (jwoarang, 4th kyu guy and me) and about the same number of players on the other side. i only got to play two games due to time constraints. first char that i used was paul. pretty much the same old paul only with a few new moves and a just frame-less d+4,2,1+2. next char that i used was jack5. although pretty slow he was such a fun character to use. and it did "inspire" jwoarang to use him for the next couple of fights. both instances i lost to the ganny player. but it didn't surprise me that i lost because i really really suck with the joystick. at least i made it to five rounds na close fight.Ü

i didn't use my card because only one character can be registered per card. i'm still thinking if what character to use in for me to have a shot for a kyu postion or just use a fun/stylish character to horse around. but i guess i could use a fun/stylish character and still have a kyu position. (ha! that'd be the day...)

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i was supposed to write something totally depressing today but t5 change my mood inside out and upside down.

happy days...Ü