MiZiSat 12: Goodbye Microsoft Xbox

Had my breakfast and logged on to my MSN as usual in the morning. Even though there were almost nobody online early in the morning, I would still logged in as usual, just in case someone wants to message me something. After that, I had my Piano and Violin practise to exercise my fingers. At about 10.30am, I switched on my TV and watched Pokémon. After that, I went to sleep again, leaving my MSN on. Hmm... luckily no one message me while I was sleeping. Didn't really know why I was feeling very tried... maybe because of the cold that I had caught during FTX 2.

At about 12.30pm, I woke up and changed my clothes and went out to look out for consoles. Before looking for consoles, I went to Harbourfront Centre to take a look at the place. Well, they had completed the place and had more shops now, as compared to the time I first went to Harbourfront, but still not as many as I expected. Had my lunch at Subway there, before going off to another place.

After that, before going to Sim Lim Square, I decided to go to Army market first at beach road to get some things before ATEC 2 outfield. Well, since Sim Lim square is located near Bugis Station, and Army market is located near Lavender Station, it's only a one-stop difference, so since I need to get something from Army market, I decided to go there first. Bought another wire cutter and a green tape. Could not find the Allan key though.

After that, I went to Sim Lim square to look out for consoles. Hmm... can't really find consoles in that place. They mostly sell computers and electronics over there. Well, only managed to find a few shops that have Playstation 2 and/or Xbox, but could not find any shops that sells GameCube... The place were also full of people at that time, and also there were many people giving out leaflet, so many that on I could see as many as 10 people standing near the escalator on one of the floors in 2 rows giving out leaflets, and another 5 more people on top at the other end of the escalator giving out as well... Ok, so I decided to have a very short trip in Sim Lim square and went to Funan.

Well, at Funan, I found 2 places that sell all the 3 consoles, Playstation 2, Xbox and Gamecube. Made some comparisons with the prices between consoles and between the 2 shops as well. After that, I broswe through the games for each individual consoles. Ok, decided to eliminate Xbox because there are very few games that I am interested to play. Also, Microsoft is coming up with a new console, called Xbox 360, releasing at the end of this year (they are going to stop produring the original Xbox on August). So, it's either Playstation 2 or Gamecube (PS3 will only be released earliest by late 2006, and the next Nintendo console will not come out so soon). Hopefully I can make the decision after my Violin lesson the next day.

After that, I went back to Junction 8 to have a light dinner.

MiZ Speaks
Ok, so now it's either Playstation 2 or Gamecube for me. PS2 offer a great variety of games as compared to GC, and DVDs video can be played on PS2 as well, unlike GC. But I can link my GBA onto my GC, and the number of playable games for me between the two consoles are about the same. Well, most of the GC games interest me, even though there are not many GC games in the market due to the small size of the disc used which can only hold a certain amount of information. So, it's a "battle" between PS2 and GC. Which one should I get? Feel free to post comments here.