Happy Birthday to Myself

Today is my birthday, so we have a family dinner outside and go back home for birthday cake. Unfortunately, we don't have a dinning table at the moment. A new table should be arrived around Jan 8, so we need to cut the cake on this small CD shelf.

The purple part is made with sweet potato, but something is missing ...

Of course a cake needs a "Happy Birthday" sign to become a birthday cake

 Now we are ready to make a wish and enjoy the cake

Although god already gave me the best present before 2015, I still received a "physical" present to celebrate my birthday.

As my old PSP (model 1000) is missing for a very long time, I decide to buy a PS Vita to replace it. I suspect my domestic helper has stolen it in my room but I don't have any evidence to prove it. But after I have cleared my whole room for the construction work, I still can't find my PSP in any of my drawers. So I think she must have taken it  but she didn't take the charger with her for some reasons.

There are a few colors available in my local game store. Originally I want to buy a blue PS Vita to match with my old PSP but there is only one blue color which is light blue/white. So I decide to choose a new color combination, lime green/white. It looks pretty good and I am very happy about the color.

Sony HK is having a Christmas and New Year promotion in these so called PlayStation® Platinum Shop. Every customer who bought a PS Vita will gets a free PS Vita soft case and 8GB memory card. That's why I don't have to pay extra to buy these essential items but I have pay HK$70 for the screen protector. As I am not a not PS Plus member, I think the free 8GB memory card is enough for saving the game data and I don't plan to buy a lot of digital Vita game on PSN.

Besides, I also pay HK$100 for the extend warranty for my PS Vita. Although my PSP doesn't have any problem for using over 5 years, I think it is a reasonable price to buy this extra 1 year insurance. But of course, I hope I don't need to use it in the future.

To celebrate the PlayStation 20th Anniversary, I receive a small prize for buying any PlayStation related product. At first, I think it is just a cute little decoration to put on my newly installed table.

But later I find out that there are actually four colorful masking tapes inside. The four colors, yellow, green, blue and red match with the traditional PlayStation logo which you can see on the previous picture. It even has the PlayStation mascot TORO cat printed on the tapes.

The game store owner also gives me a 3D Ubisoft Rabbids 2015 calendar as a bonus gift. I think this is some kind of gift for people who buy Ubisoft game such as the Rabbids series but I appreciate his offer anyway. Although the 3D calendar is pretty cute, it is very big and takes up a lot of space on my table. So hopefully I can find a good place to put it later.

One of the main reasons for me to buy a Vita instead of Nintendo 3DS is to play Persona 4 the Golden and this is the last Traditional Chinese copy in the game store. I am no problem playing the game in English but I definitely prefer Chinese version if it is available. After watching the Persona 4 Endurance Run on video game website Giantbomb years ago, I always want to experience this game by myself but I never have the chance. So I am very happy to finally able to play the enhanced edition of Persona 4 on my Vita.

Warning Warning !!!

The second Vita game I bought is Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus and it is the Hong Kong English version. Nowadays I usually like to buy the English version for most Japanese game as I don't have to guess what the Japanese text means. Unlike Persona 4 the Golden, I don't know much about the Senran Kagura series. So I think I will start playing this first and try out Persona 4 the Golden later.