You're Asian, you must be smart, right?

I finally received the book my summer research leader guy wanted me to peruse, so I need to start looking through that. I think I'm supposed to start in the labs come July or so, so I need to hurry up and get through the first few chapters. Furthermore, my two Summer school classes start on Tuesday, which should be interesting. One's a lower div Philo class, which should be an easy A. The second is an upper div which I think I will like, though I don't know what to expect of it since it's a summer class.

This book also represents the first HK "international edition" book that I have bought. I generally like to have my books hardcover, and furthermore friends of mine have had problems ranging from entire chapters being missing to homework problems being misprinted, so I avoided these softcover editions for a while. For this book however, I figured since this one wasn't for an actual class, I might as well try the international editions for myself.

So far, I'm not too impressed. The text on the back stating, "For sale and distribution in the People's Republic of China exclusively (except Taiwan, Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR)." is somewhat daunting. Other than that and a cover page or two, the book is supposed to be entirely the same as the hardcover edition. I suppose I will see soon enough if there are glaring misprints in this one as there were in other books.

In other, less boring news, I have bought a Nintendo DS. I originally wanted a blue one, but I wasn't able to find any place that bundled the blue with Mario DS, so I ended up getting a silver/platinum one :(. Ave, Sean and I then went to Mishka's, grabbed some drinks and hung around playing for a while. Ave had just bought Bomberman DS, so we played that for a bit, along with pictochat and some other stuff. Now, the most amusing part of Bomberman DS is that the splash screen has a little voice that says, "BOMBERMAN!", but it doesn't say bomberman the way we would.
It says, "BOM-BER-MAN".
It pronounces the silent "b", which is funny to listen to. Furthermore, it has a mode called "voice detonation". In this mode, all bombs you lay are remote bombs, and you detonate them by saying "kaboom!" or whatever. This quickly devolved into us saying fairly offensive things to get the bombs to detonate. It's a good thing we did this where there were not many people around.

All in all, I like the DS. I am looking forward to getting Kirby and the Canvas Curse, as well as Puyo Pop Fever. I spent much of my childhood playing both Kirby and Puyo Puyo games, though Puyo Puyo was known as Kirby's Avalanche when I first played it. I played it a bit in arcades while I was in Japan, but without any people to play against, it's not very fun. Mostly, I am looking forward to using the wireless multiplayer on this thing.

# posted by Yann : 13:39