I know I should have posted this earlier. 2 weeks ago, I went on a trip with my army friend to Kuantan for holiday.
We took a bus from Kranji to Johore Bahru. From there we travel to Kuantan by coach. It was a 7 hour ride from Johor Bahru to Kuantan. Reached the station at about say 5 or 6 and then we took a taxi to the hotel. We stayed at a decently good hotel, Grand Hyatt Regency.
Sea view!!!
Evening Sea view!!
Cherating beach!!! Nice but its no damn activities man!!! Its like a dead town, and its so inaccessible, the beach at the Grand Hyatt is far better. Honestly, you are just better off just chilling out at the hotel. The beach might not be as big as Cherating, but at least it is accessible.
Hotel surroundings It was seafood everyday and stingray was the staple. The seafood is cheap, I would say less than half the price I would pay in Singapore. The quantity is ridiculously a lot.
3 nights in Kuantan, then we moved to KL the next day. Food there was also cheap. We had tons of seafood. I remembered the salted egg crab. I bought some bread from Mahathir's bakery. Pretty awesome.
The trailer for transformers 3, Dark of the moon has been released.
I don't know man...its just that something is missing.
Well, for starters, Sam Witwicky is missing from it. His hot girl staring Meagan Fox is also missing from it. Anyway, just to sidetrack, Meagan Fox wouldn't be in transformers 3, it would be replaced by some other hot chick which sets the standard for hotness. Yeah yeah, I know. No transformer movie would be complete without Meagan Fox striking a hot pose while being sticky and sweaty under the intense heat to bring out the perfect contours of her body. But she ain't in it and you just got to live with it.
But this is not important. Who cares about the humans in transformers? Who cares about the emotion relationship between human and robots? The only humans I want to see are those running away from the carnage and eventually facing their inevitable demise.
Well, Optimus is missing. But its fine... at least they showed some other random badass villian.
Then i realise what was missing... WHERE THE HELL IS MY FEAKING LINKIN PARK THEME SONG?
Transformers ain't Transformers without a Linkin Park song. Without a Linkin Park song...its like burgers without buns. Your honour, I rest my case.
Yes. Finally, I managed to drag myself out. Out of the house. Away from Starcraft 2. Anyway, I just came back from the library. Borrowed a dilbert comic to gain engineering and management insight.
So lately, I've been working on perfecting my build order. Perfecting my 4-gate strategy. Anyway, I usually play protoss on SC2. Not that its really that easy, I get better results playing a cannon rush. Well, life isn't fair and somehow rushes always work better for noobs. As much as it completely screws up the gaming experiences for your opponents, it is pretty effective in destroying your opponent. The player getting rushed(if he is a noob) is pretty much GG. Then his team members are forced to either get seige tank, mass zerglings or build their own wall of proton cannons as counter cannons. This is to prevent the cannon rush from spreading to their base. This means resources are wasted on unnecessary building, and it unlikely they would have any anti-air. So this would be a good time for your allies(if you play co-op) to tech up and get banshees, battlecruisers...whatever that counters what they have and its pretty much GG for them.
Besides that I also ran the Standard Charted 10km on sunday. The 10km run was pretty easy, then again my friend and I took our own sweet time. I've got to thank Kenneth for the run. Its pretty hard to find people who really like to run. This run pretty much gave me confidence maybe to go ahead and maybe run 21km next time. Then again, I would really need to find a friend to run with. Maybe can ask Kenneth.
Erm...the picture doesn't seem to sharp. No intention to brag(since 10km is so short). Just checking out how to transmit stuff on my new phone. My mom recently build a tech lab in my barrack and gave me a phone upgrade. Then, i build a galaxy 3 out of the barracks. So I am pretty much getting used to the user interface...sweet...
I don't know if any of you guys noticed, lately a lot of people have been changing their facebook profile pictures to a cartoon in their childhood. This is a motion to support the protection of children's rights against those like pedobear.
Then I happened to realise that most cartoon heros tend to be animals with human personalities or more appropriately, personified animals. Its all cool and stuff, until I realise...damn ain't all those cartoons furries.
Well, then you may ask, whats a furry? The all-knowning yet not-knowing-whether-its-true-or-false wiki defines furries as fictional anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities and characteristics.
Well, its all cool and stuff if no harm is done. However, if you do note, animals in cartoons are subjected to as much abuse as robots are. Its alright for Jerry to hammer Tom and Coyote to get exploded by this own trap(FAYUL!!!(alternative spelling)) as it is for Autobots and Deceptacons to go about blow the crap out of each other. But you ever notice how rare do actual humans die on cartoons. Every death is accompanied with dramatic sadness or a flashback(damn those flashbacks, it calls for another stupid filler or some story that sidetracks from the plot). It not like the death of Inchigo's mother actually had anything to do with the storyline, its just the introduction of kingfisher, which didn't mean very much since he was subsequently killed by Inchigo's father. Any arranchar could have done the job.
Anyway, that aside, furries are cool since it allows us to put slapstick humour into cartoons. The issue arises when rule 34 comes into play. Rule 34 states that if it exists, there is porn of it. Then suddenly an innocent cartoon becomes M18 or R21. Then furries start having a negative connotation to it. The issue is agrravated because if you think about, furry porn is bestiality and somehow thats more taboo than normal porn.
Then again the cartoons of the past are just simply awesome...Tailspin, Darkwing duck, G.I. Joe, He-Man and transformers...classic. They don't make cartoons like they used to.
Then again, who the hell cares whether your cartoon is starred by personified animals or not, just freaking enjoy the damn show.
But then again, did you guys catch like G.I. Joe the movie? the cartoon one... I thought it was quite good...like the transformers one... Trailer below...its more scaley than furry.
Damn you 80s music...Damn you 80s cartoons... Why can't you come back, they don't make robots as well as they did in the 80s...
I just finished reading this book about stocks. Its kinda like a story book about making decision and I find that a lot of advices they give about stock picking can be applied to real life situation we face in life.
1)Behind every brilliant investment decision is a rigourous post-analystic intuitive decision that are a result of decades of knowledge accumulation
2)There is no one perfect stock for every investor, but for every investor there exist several great stocks.
3)Always stay in your circle of competence
4)Good business don't usually make good investment.
If you put some thought to it, you will realise that it makes that little changes that make the decision making process so much easier. Its like getting a forge after your second gate way. Remember to get that photon cannon and ground units level 1 attack upgrade.
Its been a while since i last blogged. Its been a busy semester. Too much work, too many problem, too little help and too many son of King Terenas Menethil II. 2 of my modules had group projects and the rest had some sort of mini projects and labs which were consumed really time consuming. It really makes me start to think twice about taking project modules. Now that it's finally over, I can finally get down and start playing Starcraft2.
I'm trying to fill up this holiday with stuff to do. Even without going out to find stuff, there seems to be so much which I have left behand and not touched. This seems to be a good opportunity to attempt to get somethings done.
Then there is this run that I'm going this sunday. Its been a long time since I run, lets hope I haven't lost it.
So yesterday, I was reading some investment news. So one of it was that the china banking sector was doing well and recommend buy and stuff.
Then like all lazy financial newspapers, they decide to write it in terms of acronyms. So among them is CMB and CCB. So I decided to check out what they were. For most financially savvy people you probably know which banks it is, but well guys, I'm a noob so too bad I don't.
CMB is China Merchants Bank CCB is China Construction Bank
Then I found a link explaining the various meaning of CCB and I found something so ULTRA idiotic.
All is missing is an explanation to the word. "A south chinese dialect used to describe the state and condition of the female homosapien genital".
Have you ever waited for an important e-mail, only to realise that the Microsoft outlook categorised it as junk mail and by the time you found it, the date is due?
Its fine if junk or spam mail is thrown under this category and I must say that outlook really does a good job doing that. NUS mail spams like tons of useless ads that sell useless products and stuff and good riddens that these trash is sent to the junk. But what if it was an internship offer. That would really suck.
So guys, once in a while take note of your junk mail.
My calculator's got a stroke. The '0', '1', '4' and '7' suddenly stopped working. And I'm half way through my lab calculations. Its a new calculator, you know...waste money sia... Need to get a new one soon.
Anyway, talking about stroke, apparently accupunture works very well for stroke patients. Talk about alternative treatment.
NUS parking is a trap!!! Its like going out with a hot chick, only to find out that she was formally a "HE"!!!! So getting on with the story. My mom went off on the business trip, hence giving me the car for this week and the following week... So I was thinking... Since mom going overseas for 1 week = car for 1 week and 1 week of parking fees > 1 month of season parking, So conventional wisdom dictates...I should buy season pass... All sounds reasonable until I realised that The entire SRC is flooded by 10 O'clock. Who the hell comes to school so early man... There just ain't enough parking lots for the number of cars. It probably time we get multistory carparks...bwahahaha...
There are many ways of categorising friends. Normally, I don't do that because its too much of a hassle, but going to university made me realised that it impossible not to do so as yesterday's friends can strangely turn into today's strangers.
Well, so lately, a particular group of friends have been ignoring me. I never really knew why, yet my other friends seem to know but just merely advise me to move on or just ignore them. Its not so easy just to move on especially when you invested time into the friendship. The sudden hostility kinds of puts the awkward tension into it. Then I realised that to some the usefulness of others is the reason they make friends, which sent thrills down my spine, to realise that a friendship is based on the incentives one can bring.
Life is so realistic, isn't it?
But it doesn't really affect me because I don't really care who like me or not. Rather its probably a blessing in disguise. At least, I still have other friends who I can rely on. I guess its also good that I have a laidback attitude because if you don't care who are you with, then you ain't alone.
2010 is a great year for many countries in the world
World Cup 2010 - South Africa (where the world united with one common love - soccer, and one common hatred - Vuvuzela)
World Expo 2010 - Shanghai, China (awesomest place ever been...sorry, I'm biased)
G-8 and G-20 summit - Canada(not a big issue since I doubt we'll get out of this recession anytime soon...okay that was just plain nasty and awfully sceptical of me...but well...we all know that US and Europe can't agree since Europe want to cut spending and US wants to increase spending)
Youth Olympic Games - Singapore...WOOH!!! **Nationalist fervour moment**
Finally, everybody complains about that JJ Lin song. Well, I'm no song writer so I can't do a better job than him and hence I don't think I'm in a position to comment.
I know my sources ain't exactly good...STOMP is like the ultimate voyeur website whereby people can intrude into other's lives and feel free to film others in the name of citizen journalism. Temasek Review on the other hand...well...lets just they just say things just to oppose PAP. I do read other forums, but seriously...singapore forums? Well, unforunately for me...those that I read are super low intellect(not that I'm very smart or anything, but stop whining about everything...come on...I know how epic fail most of the elites in Singapore are...but I don't need these facts hammered into my head all the time), so I'd rather post STOMP and Temasek Review websites to spare myself more embarrassment. You know...I think the internet is rather merciless when it comes to making comments. Normally you get one internet troll making a cynical or prejudice comment to piss people off or fire people up...But now you got an army of them and they've got their troll headhunters and their troll witch doctor with their berserker upgrade and their troll regeneration...double with the tauren chieftain with level 3 endurance aura...CAN YOU STOP THAT!?!?!?! Such levels are not seen since Lee Bee Hua and the STTA incident.
Personally, I think its really unfortunate that most Singaporeans do not feel the connection and pride towards YOG. I actually don't blame them because I don't as well. YOG seems so distant, its happening here, yet its none of my business.
Think about it...I bet most Singaporeans didn't even know about the YOG until it began a few days ago. Then you might say, "what about the publicity posters?"...then I'll reply...what publicity posters?
I know the advertising sign board is huge, like those placed on GRCs to show that "they" care. If you don't notice the words, the huge boards probably looked like some new savings plan by the Singapore banks to replace the POSB squirrel or the OCBC mighty saver children. In addition, most Singaporeans do not notice these stuff as their eyes are either on the road or waiting for the bus. I know...excuses.
Honestly, I thought the mascot was quite good and decently represented Singapore. Compare it with Hai Bao of the World expo...how does that represent Shanghai? So on that note, good job team, but it needs more publicity.
In addition, all the boards are in english, how can those chinese educated elderly know? probably the organisers were thinking that why should these elderly know...they're too uncool to understand the ways of the youth? So you think...come on in...happening granny...
ah...touche...
I saw their performance on CCTV in Shanghai. After the dance, the host of the program said to them, "you people behave very young for your age". Then one of them replied with some cool tone, "we're here to give the young ones a run for their money".
TV publicity - all we see is the JJ Lin video...erm, seriously, I thought it was the new national day song...like a substitude to "count on me singapore", though it did seem a little childish. So how would Singaporeans become aware of this event?
I know I shouldn't just whine about these stuff and provide a solution.
Some things I noticed China did during the world expo.
Have television programs to introduce the event. They have segments on the shopping channel to introduce the souvenirs sold in the expo. They sell all sorts of stuff on the shopping channel. From T-shirts to handphones to television. But for the world expo, they have segment to sell world expo collectables. In fact, I'm quite impressed by the standard. They sell all sorts of stuff from gold coins to jade seals and a mini version of the清明上河圖.
TV: "Next we have the 清明上河圖, which you can find the the china pavillion............buy one back so that you can enjoy it with your family"...**rolls open the painting**...**dramatic family look**..."get yours now today at RMB1****"...
In addition to the shopping channel, they also got programs which show a walkthrough within the expo like an introduction to the pavilions. They even got large scale programs and competition revolving around the expo. Contestants(non-chinese) give a introduction to their country's pavillion or a segment of the expo...in chinese... and let me tell you...their pu tong hua aka mandarin is very good. So good I thought they were native chinese.
Besides using the television, the city of Shanghai gave 2 free tickets to all the families in Shanghai as an incentive to visit the expo. In addition, they put some money into some "card"(its like our EZ-link card) and this money can only be used to buy expo tickets. This provided the incentive for families to participate in the expo. The Singapore government can actually consider giving some tickets out to families to bring their children to watch the matches.
The chinese government also pulled in and recruited organisation outside of the expo to set up shop and tour destinations within Shanghai. They set up a tea cultral centers and liased with Tong Ren Tang(over priced chinese medicine, somehow they are very pushy and rude if you don't buy and if you do, they sell you very expensive herbs like cordyceps...but its fine since its a once a while kind of thing). All these tourist destinations bring in the vibrance to Shanghai(because if you really think about it, Shanghai is really a financial center, nothing much else).
In my humble opinion, China made everything in Shanghai revolve around the World Expo 2010, can Singapore make itself revolve around the YOG 2010? Only when Singaporeans can feel that they have a stake in this event that it can be a success.
If you guys didn't know, my grandmother slipped and fell a month ago and was admitted to the hospital. So prior to going on my tour, I spent an entire month in the hospital taking care of her.
Well, she wasn't awake all the while, especially after here physiotherapy, as she would be exhausted and sleeping. So while she was sleeping, it would be very boring for me. So I bought a game to play on my PSP to kill time.
Its quite an old game and its rather cheap. Introducing...Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII The game is dated to the time before the Final Fantasy VII. You play as the character Zack, a soldier second class, mentored by a soldier first class called Angeal. Everything was fine until Angeal disappeared and clones of a missing soldiers start appearing and wreck havoc. The plot is rather short and I finished the game in a week. I enjoyed the gameplay though, puts you on your guard. Unlike the FFVII gameplay, the player runs around slahing monsters and switching materia and items at the same time. It requires some level of control. For Cloud fans, you will be very disappointed. Cloud is completely pathetic in the game as he spends a large portion of the time being air sick, PWNED by mobs and suffering from mako overdoes. To add oil to the fire, Zack has a romantic moment with Aerith. Well, but for people who cannot get over Aerith's death, this game provides comforting evidence that Aerith was not meant for Cloud but for Zack. Rather, its Tifa that was meant for Cloud, because at one point, young cowgirl dressed Tifa asked Zack are there any blonde hair soldiers...erm...demostrating that they were meant for each other? Rather Aerith was waiting for Zack and she sent him 89 letters whereby Zack only reads the last one.(spoiler) The game ends with a sad ending, but its only necessary to push the plot forward to FFVII. But thanks crisis core for spending time with me...even though there is a sad ending, but its only necessary to push my life forward back to the start of a new semester.
Well, I did a count yesterday. Altogether within the 2 days, I covered 23 pavillions which comprised about 106 countries (about 86 are small countries which are in combined pavillions). Well, there is no glory in bragging about going to combined pavillions since there is usually no queue to go in(the only queues exist within the passport stamping counter).
Well, to side track a little to explain about the passport stamping, its like the most happening craze within the expo. The local chinese tourist are crazy about it, its like the Shanghai's world expo's version of pokemon. Everyone is there to catch them all. So for each pavillions, there is one stamping booth. For combined pavillions there are multiple ones, one for each country. Its like evidence to prove that you've been to that "country".
yeah so above is an example of a stamp booth. Its normally more crowded for other pavillions. Portugal is one of those that they control the number of people entering in batches. Just another side track, but the queue for Portugual is quite long but they let people in big batches to make up for it. It just happened that this is the interval where my batch just left and the next batch was coming. My friend who took this photo for me was like telling me how lucky I am that when she took this picture, there wasn't anybody around.
Why I wanted to take this picture is because they didn't want to stamp the seal on my book because I wasn't using the official World Expo passport. It kind of pissed me off but rules are rules so lets stick to it. Damn you capitalist that only want to make money!!!! LOL. Anyway, the ladies at the booth was good enough eye candy to make up for it. Anyway, moral of the story, buy your expo passports.
Anyway, with regards to the the stamping of passports, the chinese are really into it. They push, they shove, they shout, they run to the queue...but the most of them all will cut queues. Well, its actually their culture. Its not like a good thing or a bad thing. Once you realise its their culture and that they mean no harm doing that, its actually fine. I think its their way to get into the mood.
That is why for pavillions such as Nepal(above), where there isn't a queue to the booth, you see hordes of people crowding around the lady.They push and shove in order to get their passports chopped and a stamp pasted(which is unique to only some pavillion, most only chop a seal). Just an advice for people visiting the Nepal pavillion, if you use the service where the lady paste the stamp and chop the seal for you, you have to pay 10 RMB for it(which is absurd). However, very little people know that you can chop the seal and paste the stamp yourself and its free. Just walk out from the area where the lady is and you would see a booth where they have the chop and the stamp DIY. Since nobody knows about it, its actually empty...which is weird because everybody is rushing for something which they can get for free.
Of course, if you don't want to queue for booths which actually have a queue and you happen to be a cute little girl, you could always use your adorable looks to plead to people who are in front of the queue. Well, at least I would fall for that...Damn you loli china chinese girls for being so cute...I want to kidnap you and keep you in my dungeon....BWAHAAHA....OMG...chinese girls are so cute...
They would give you the cute look with their huge eyes and their gua zi lian and their kawaii hairdo... and say... Chinese girl: "对不起, 你能帮助我盖章吗? Me: "Vegeta, what does the scouter say about the cuteness level of chinese girls?" Vegeta: "its over 9000!!!!" Me(to vegeta): "wth...@$@#%$#^#@$%#$@%@#$%" Me(to chinese girl): "Anything for a lovely maiden like you" Me PWNED
Looks like I have something else to add to my list of weaknesses...china girls... I fell for it not once but twice...haha...well, from another point of view you could say I'm generous, kind, friendly, sweet and AWESOME!!!!
Seems like I sidetracked too much. Some advice to people who want to visit a lot of pavillions in the shortest amount of time. 1) I really do not advice people to visit small pavillions, because there isn't much to look inside. This can be a great waste of time since you might spend some time queue or at least walking the queue.
You might wonder like how can the pavillions be small? Although judging from the outside of the pavillion it looks massive, some pavillions only have 1 floor. This is because out of all the pavillions in the Expo, only 5 will be preserved, the rest are actually made with very simple architecture. By including a second level would increase the amount of engineering required. So some have a tall structure but very little area within. Then how does one judge the size of the pavillion? The smallest pavillion I visited was the Lebanon pavillion. It was small and very little things. In addition to that, I felt what was inside doesn't really represent Lebanon. On hindsight I realise I could have judged the size from the map. In addition, I probably should have gone to the iranian pavillion which was next to it. So looking at the 2 images above you should be above to get a grasp of what is big and what is not.
2) try to visit pavillions which do not have a compulsory show. Pavillions which have compulsory shows or performances tend to take people in batches and every batch depends on the number of people that can fit in and the length of the show. Indonesia has a big pavillion and despite having a show, the queue is very fast, this is because, the show is an optional show.
3) Although I suggest not to visit small pavillions, big pavillions(with the exception of joint pavillions) tend to have very long queues. Queue times are periodically announced on the speaker. Take note and make appropriate decisions. Saudi Arabia and Japan - 4-5 hours England, Germany, France - 3-4 hours It flucutates, so its important to know which ones are popular and its up to you whether you want to waste precious time queuing.
4) Time of the day matters, from the opening till around 4, there are usually long queues but towards the night, the queues get shorter. So maybe you can plan your program to visit popular pavillions at a later time. but bear in mind there is also a closing time.
5)Long queues are not the problem, stagnating ones are. There is no point in queuing for a pavillion where you wait very long for small batches of intakes. Its okay if the queue is long as long as there are people constantly walking in. I aim for pavillions which have moving queues and I think the longest I waited for was Belgium EU which was about 30-45 minutes despite the line being 6 times the length of the building(the queue coils around the building). Turkey has the longest queue I've walked the building is huge and line is long, but everybody is continuously walking in.
6) The main tourist within the expo are the domestic tourist from the different provinces in China. There are usually more interested in countries close to China as well as European and American countries which are more familiar to them. So you have to compete with them in the queue in the raging summer heat. Fortunately, its not humid in Shanghai and hence although you might perspire much, you wouldn't get sticky.
It seems these tips are enough for a part of my survival guide to 2010 world expo. Its sufficient for anyone who wants to clear as many pavillions as possible. Hope someone is able to beat my record of 23 pavillions in 2 days(its quite possible because I spend a lot of time reading the exhibits). As all good gamers would say good luck have fun(glhf).
You know the saying all good things come to an end, or in other words 天下无不散之宴席. I was quite scared of going alone initially...I was like thinking on the plane..."what the hell am I getting myself into?". But it turned out fine...the aunties and uncles and the tour guide were pretty helpful.
The tour guide, Sam, on the right and the driver AKA Liu Shi Fu(刘师傅) on the left.
The tour group. Its a small group though. It was suppose to be an 8 person group but someone got pregnant and then cannot make it for the tour and then 3 people dropped out. Its a well balance group with people coming from Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. The is Uncle David, Auntie Yulia, Sheryl and her aunt.
The sourveirs I bought back from the expo...Should have opened the boxes so you can see the silver coins and the shell stamps.
Yup...today is my birthday. Its so awesome I declare it a holiday...its called awesome day. Today was a busy and fulfiling day, started off with lunch with my classmates then we played LAN till 6 before I went home for dinner. My family went to a restaurant at orchard for dinner. It was called Imperial Treasure Teochew Restaurant or something like that. We started with the Foie gras in jelly. Its my first time eating foie gras. It really melts in the mouth...it tasted so good. I didn't take too many pictures because I was too busy eating. I ended the meal with yam paste dessert. It was a nice meal.
Firstly, I need to thanks those that remember my birthday. I appreciate your birthday wishes and I hope you have best health and have a good time. Secondly, I would like to thank my NUS EE classmates for organising the LAN outing today. I really enjoyed myself. Thirdly, I would like to thank my family for having such a wonderful dinner.
Yesterday, the first of July was an awesome day. My first A+ in NUS. EE2001!!! I would like to thank my group members for their immense contribution to this module. It was nice working with you.
Well, then I celebrated with a pizza lunch. Two Pizzas, one day...nice...
What the hell were you thinking...youtube...I thought you were cool. This is just one evil evil evil nasty prank. The Vuvuzela? It deals like 5 second stun...
Yeah today was an awesome day...got a new pair of glasses (waited 30 minutes and paid $90)...tried out subway's beef pastrami(it has awesomeness writtern all over it).
Anyway, my mother was suggesting going to see the Shanghai World Expo 2012. I think its a good idea and I can't wait to go. Well, now all that is left is to find a buddy to go with on this trip. So that I can save cost on hotel fees and plane tickets.
I was thinking that there would be a lot of business opportunities and like experiences I can gather. Maybe a product I can bring over to Singapore or something I can sell overseas. Maybe that was how bubble tea was brought into Singapore.
Anyway...not going could lead to some severe consequences...I might become another fukubei...then I'll the real life TOMODACHI!!!! Now, gentlemen...does that send the chills down your spine?
Anyway...I'm making a 20th century boys reference...look it up...its a good manga, very exciting... If you are too lazy to read the manga, the movie is also out. Although I would say some parts are cut out, they try to preserve the idea of the show. Overall, I find the movie quite good. You can always watch the movie on dramacrazy.net here is the link Anyway, I'm watching the 3rd sequeal now. I'm actually quite interested in going to see the world expo because of this movie.
I really can't wait for starcraft 2 to come out. Its been really boring lately since EE2001 ended... So I decided to play my MMORPG...SUN online...after playing for 2 days and reaching level 50...I realised...Damn this is so boring...so I picked out another RPG that I have not played in a long time...after installing it and playing it for 5 minutes...I felt that it was sapping my youth and energy and future away, I chucked it aside and thought...damn...all these RPG games are so damn boring...
So anyway, I'm playing C&C The First Decade now...actually more of just playing C&C generals: zero hour.
Anyway, my grandmother is in the hospital and I've got to visit her every afternoon. So its time well killed.
Yeah regarding the post a few days back about me whine...I was in a bad mood that day. Okay, got to make my trip now...bye.
You folks know jolly well as of today, the 23rd of June 2010 at 1700 hours, my semester module EE2001 is OVER!!!!
WOOOH...Once again I'm a free man...free from the chains NUS tie me down to.
To mark the end of this EE2001 module, I would like to thank my group members, Mak Ruo Ping, Jason Tan and Lo Yat Piu for being such a wonderful team. Very excellent demostration of team work shown over this 6 and a half weeks of grueling practical work. This is my group mates...also known as group AWESOME!!!!
Well, for those who don't know my groups project is the bus stop of the future. I decided to put some photos of how our project looked like on my blog.
This how the bus stop looked like...neat right? I take pride in saying that I was the one who spray painted the bus stop...sweet. This is the bus stop model with the bus... But that not all cos our project interfaces the bus stop with a computer. Picture at the bottom. Some pictures of us caught working... and others caught sleeping. Ok...chill man...I'm sorry...don't beat me...no no...it hurts...MUMMY!!!!!!
It was a nice experience...it was fun and stuff...thanks guys.
I've always knew I played the role of a support character. Making up the numbers is usually the reason for my presence. Once in a while people remember me.
Its okay that people just hang around me for benefits, its life. They can all deny it, but actions speak louder than words. Its life, lets face it, when your useless, they all forget about you.
So if you are going to forget me, don't demand me to be present when you want it. I don't need this bull shit. Don't resort to sound like I am petty, and not seeing the bigger picture. Don't go cover up for others and make it sound like it always my fault. You know...it sucks to be forgotten... If you are going to forget me...don't expect anything from me. If you are going to forget me...don't remind me how you remembered others because you forgot about me.
Disclaimer: This does not apply to everyone. Thanks to guys who were there for me. Peace.
As you people might know, I'm doing my special sem this holiday, fortunately for me, its not going to be for the entire holiday, so I'll be free in two weeks time.
So as I progress into the important phases of the major project, I had to dismantle my minor project B to build my main project. I haven't got time to upload the photos due to the lack of time.
Last night, My group of friends and I stayed till 11.40 to finish up integration of the project.
Back to work...Work work...give me something to do...
You'd probably will be asking me, how about the cabal account. Well, after completing the level 100 something quest where you eventually have to kill patren, which is rather unfortunate, judging from the fact that you spent the entire game trying to protect him, then save him and it ends off with you killing him. Now, its down to senseless grinding and nation war(which is very boring when you don't have much friends around).
Anyway, I logged in recently to discover that there was a change in the interface.
BEFORE
AFTER
SMEXY GRAPPLER MODE
I would say the newer interface is nicer. But seriously I kind of bored of it. Its just mindless grinding. Click monster press '1' for combo and then '2' - '4' to alternate the moves. In addition, since I opened the inventory menu, you can see I don't have much money. A millionaire in an MMORPG is a pauper. Its kind of like hell money. 1 million MMORPG currency can't get you anything. I can't even get my next tier items and there isn't much for me to do except for dungeons which get boring after a while.
Anyway, getting back to SUN online. You can't level up with grinding in this game. Even if you wanted to grind, there is nothing to grind on either. Its rather easy to level up doing quest because they are very generous on the quest exps.
Some of the dungeon quest are very difficult, so you might want to find some friends to do it with you. Try to find people with different class since different class can complement each other. The non-tanker are really weak against a head on conflicts and the tankers are hard to use at low levels, so a certain level of team work is needed.
I've got a level 19 elementalist called noraa. I kind of stopped playing her because at one point I screwed up her character build. FYI, you can reset the character 5 times as long as its before level 40. So, eventually, when I realised her potential, its too late. My other character was level 20 something by then so I focus on the other one instead. Here is noraa's pic.
Well, I know its not a very good picture, its like her back. Its not like you can see her arse from there.
Anyway, I'm playing a level 42 valkyrie now. Yes, Kian Wee and Daniel, I'm level 42, so hurry up and train!!!! YOU MAGGOTS!!!! She's a level 42 valk called hallol. Opposite of LOL LAH... I know...I should stop giving names that are inverse of other words...but its just so fun. In fact, people think I'm like european, mexican or filipinno. Cool right?
Look she's waving...so sweet, right? I'm not really into the tom boy type, I kind of prefer the Noraa type, but she rather badass if you notice carefully...since valkyries use big ass bazokaa like arrow shooting, crossbow looking weapons. Its called an ether weapon.
I mean who wouldn't like a girl with a big gun. Well, that sounds a little wrong. Let me rephrase it...Who wouldn't like a girl with a big gun and was not previously a 'he'. Well, still too insensitive to the transversite community. Let me rephrase it again...Who wouldn't like a girl with a big gun and doesn't have an adam's apple.
Yeah, girls with big guns are just badass. Like...Seras Victoria...yeah...you go baby...**fantasize...fantasize** Alucard: Not bad, Police Girl. Seras Victoria: I have a name. It's Seras Victoria. Not Police Girl. Alucard: [smirks] You know that you are now and forever a child of the darkness Police Girl.
I blame my fetish for hot chick with big guns on her...Damn you ultra hot, blood sucking, mini skirt wearing, policelady cosplaying, blondie!!! haha...joking... If you guys didn't know she is a vampire...There was the time when being a vampire was cool and not emo...goes to show how far has the zombie world fallen since hellsing. Alucard: They don't make vampires like they used to.
Anyway, kind of thinking about it, Hollal looks like Seras Victoria. Yeah...Seras is a nice name. Then there is Yoko littner from Gurren Lagann. Yeah some fan service here.
OH NO...I'm digressing too much...Back to the game. Yeah...I don't play very much...Last week I only playered 2 or 3 days and each time is about 2-3 hours only and I leveled almost 10 levels. The dungeons can be very hard, especially when suddenly monster just out of no where. It hard to take blows these mobs especially when I'm not using a tank. I would say every char has its pros and cons and at some levels, the player will find his/her char very hard to level. This is the point where they try to find people to go dungeons and stuff with them. For my valkyrie, she is kind of facing some problems levelling as she has to balance between her offensive, summoning and ensuring she can still get better armour. Summoning is good because it allows the valk to have a tank even if they are questing alone. However, the valk cannot completely rely on the tank as sometimes the mobs will attack from behind placing the valk as the target.
The game play is completely keyboard, which for WOW users is quite easy to adapt. I had some problems initially as cabal controlled movement using mouse. After I got used to it, I think its more fun.
Well, there is a story plot to it, but the role you play is just that of like a normal soldier doing quest and level up...so like how daniel will put it...little involvement. Its kind of like this...
SGT number 1: "Recruit...since you are a recruit, I give you sai kang...do A B C..." You:"yes sir..." After doing sai kang...you return and... SGT number 1:"Good job...I give you exp...go find SGT number 2..." And if you completely ignore the plot its something like this...with an occasional random stuff... Random love sick guy:"hi...can you pass flowers to this girl?" You:"ok" you return for some exp.
Seriously...can't you give her the flowers yourself...you pussy.
Now you compare this to cabal, where you are an important char.
Sage number 1: "Ah...it seems you are the legendary warrior from the prophecy... cool...do this quest...go now...time is of the essence" You:"I see...the stars blah blah blah and I slayered XYZ... they are my friends...I must protect them...its okay I'm there..."
So when you are the legendary warrior, it makes you feel better doing the same work. Overall, its a nice game...its still rather new...but I can see further development on it...assuming it becomes something like MU online or Archlord.
I guess its enough for today. Another time. I need to sleep.
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