Pinging Knight

Around five, the Conrads, Hai Yen, and I met up with Minh-An and Minda in Lander Hall. Minh-An seemed a very cheerful girl and Minda was an excellent guide for navigating throughout the bus system. They were both nice and made things more fun. We travelled downtown and ate at the Noodle Rance, where I tried pad thai for the first time. I'm a lover of rice noodles and whoever added nuts to the mix is a genius. We then proceeded to the Northgate Mall in attempt to find the haunted house there but discovered it had been moved. I spotted a group of nine guys dressed up as either girls or really feminine things like a pink and fluffy dinosaur suit. Then three girls in white skirts spotted them and decided to sing to them. It was odd. Upon return, the group decided to go to the haunted house at Hansee Hall, while I returned my room to talk to Madge and then participate in some Dance Dance Revolution. I was missing her a lot at the time, and luckily she was online and we conversed. As for DDR(Dance Dance Revolution): Jeff had just gotten MAX 2 and he had his pads and PlayStation 2 over. Halloween presented a fine opportunity to test it out. I messaged Jimmy Locke who came down with Liyang and Shaun, and we started the game around 23:15. It was pretty fun, as DDR(Dance Dance Revolution) tends to be. I caught two random people in the hall who joined us; watching people in DDR(Dance Dance Revolution) is often entertaining, but watching people on costume dance to it is hilarious. They were cool people, but I only remember the name Tristan. The best part of the party: we were scrolling through the songs when we came upon one called Burning Heat. It sounded very familiar. A few seconds later Jimmy exclaimed, "Wait, isn't that from Gradius?! From the second level with the caves?" We selected the song and it was confirmed by the spaceship in the background. Everyone was so excited, since the Gradius series is one of the best side-scrolling shooters for Nintendo for its time. Or possibly for anything ever; I can't think of anything better. A piece of childhood was just suddenly resurrected. The steps were fast and had two interesting one second pauses where the arrows just stop moving and it was hilarious to see people being screwed up by the sudden pausing. While the other songs earned two or maybe three plays by the group, Burning Heat got around six. We called it quits around 3:15. 3 Option Mix - Burning Heat [Ogg - 1.32MB] [MP3 - 1.43MB]