I did it again. I fell asleep on Saturday night. It was 11pm, I was just taking a little nap while waiting for Keith. Before I knew it I woke and it was 5am. Another potential partying night wasted. Some good rest though. Later on, Keith and I decided it would be a good idea to go and play some video games, so we went to the local arcade and played shooting, fighting, drumming and singing games until we used up 2 or 3 dollars. Actually this doesn’t sound like much, but it can go a long way here. Each game is the equivalent of 20 cents and so you can just keep playing and playing for ages. I went into the little singing booth and knocked out the Beatles ‘Michelle’, while Keith busied himself with some weird robot fighting game.
After all that fun, we had some food at the usual place and then caught a bus to Yongsan to check out the cinema. ‘Chronicles of Riddick’ was the only thing that I wanted to see, so after buying tickets and having an hour or so to spare, we decided to walk around the electronics. I have been planning to buy a new digital camera for a long time now, as I wanted something with higher resolution and a smaller case. The current camera, a Canon Powershot A40 is a good camera, but a little bulky. I walked around and decided upon a Canon IXUS 500, the compact 5 megapixel. Compared to the old one, which was 2 megapixel, this is definitely a step up. Anyway, I bought it. It cost 400,000 won, which is about 440 Australian dollars, which is a very good price. Having a bit more time, we headed back to the cinema complex and hung out in the Samsung and Sony store where we surfed the net and played Playstation for a while. Keith was totally into Smackdown and after whipping my ass a few times, I grew tired and left him to get beaten by the computer.
We then proceeded to our movie, which turned out to be alright as far as action movies go, but I was struggling to stay awake through some of the dull bits. Actually, most of the dull bits. Actually, most of the movie. After it finished, we had a good time laughing about all the improbable aspects of the movie and mused on just how much of an antihero Riddick is meant to be. Just how does one become an antihero? We agreed that Riddick just didn’t cut it. He helped too many people. I don’t think antiheros are meant to do that.
After the movie, we decided that what with all the sleeping and general lack of action this weekend has had thus far, we should go and have a drink at Bricx. We went there and got roped into a drinking game with a group of crazy westerners. They were mostly couples, but definitely were the craziest bunch that I have seen in a long time. We were playing some kind of game which if I remember correctly involved mostly drinking, a lot of swearing, geographical trivia and some lesbian kissing. The last part was probably my favorite. Strangely enough one of the guys even took his penis out on three occasions, although this wasn’t part of the game. I don’t really know why he did, but on each occasion it seemed to get bigger. I guess it was his thing. You will be glad to know, I didn’t take the new camera out for some happy snaps on this occasion. All in all I think I recovered from a pretty uneventful weekend, to make it into a relaxing yet fun break from the usual grind.
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