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So I finally bought something I’ve been meaning to through generations of consoles. I finally got me an arcade stick!

I purchased the Hori Fighting Stick 3(PS3), it’s been a long time coming but I’m very happy I went for it. It’s so cool, sturdy and huge. The reason why it’s taken this long for me to get this stick is due to it always having been either being way too expensive or discontinued just about the time I have the funds, but a few weeks back I saw this stick for a reasonable price and in stock so I had to go for it.

This was never a random decision, but it was spurred on by my prior purchase of an old favourite, Rival Schools: United By Fate (PS1).

I recall it being very awesome when I rented it years ago (nigh on 10 years now I think). It was a great game, and still is to a certain extent.

I haven’t had much time to invest in either things yet, but from Rival Schools; I see age hasn’t done it any favours but the gameplay is still very solid and quite fun. The arcade stick on the other hand will need some time to get used to I think. I feel very slow in my reactions and pulling off moves with it at the moment, I hope this will change with more practice. I haven’t touched an arcade machine in years and I think joypads have, in a way, deskilled me to a certain extent. But it looks badass!

The Sailesh-Online porfolio place has now finished some minor work. It is now in v3.1 land.  Gone is the content-slider for thunbnails, the details of work have now been expanded, I have added more work, added BIGGER imagery to show off work, added a nice ‘Featured work’ flash element on the index and also a revised header and footer. Basically, I lied, it wasn’t a minor update at all, it’s was short of a whole site revision! But I think it works a lot better.

New work that I’ve uploaded:

Bamboo Green  - this is a developing work, but I thought I would share how it was going. It’s going to be good.

Nickelodeon - Boys vs. Girls Weekend - this is something from over a year ago, some interview prep which I thought was pretty cool.

Click the above links to check them out.

I kinda had the sudden urge to just buy it and do away with the intrigue. Bite the bullet, so to speak. The game was frikkin’ sold out absolutely everywhere though, but clever me had signed up to a few online retailer’s notification services. And luckily I had a doctor’s appointment the morning I received an e-mail about a new Wii Fit batch that would be appearing later that morning.

I tested it out just this very moment (of time when writing this entry), it’s pretty good and realises that I am outta shape! D’oh, I cannot deny it no more.

I think the guys in the warehouse were too stressed over the demand to pay too much over quality control, as the image above illustrates - a tear bestowed upon my Wii Fit case! Noooooo!!!

As I said, only had a quick go on Wii Fit. From my initial impression, I think it is very interesting still and seems quite clever indeed. I also broke a sweat! Nice. It also thinks I’m good at Yoga…. beginners luck i guess.