Sunday 30 January 2011
I think Vic got displeased about the laughing at gay thing. Me, I have no problems with gays. They are just more flamboyant and sensible than the old world males, in essence I suppose. So as long as they don't try to hit me up, I'm cool with them, or even make friends with them. (They do offer nice alternate insights to the world you know!)But I know that I'm a living contradiction being, so even if I'm ok with you, I will still poke fun about you, both good and bad jokes. If you are gay, chances are I will laugh at you simply because you are; fat, and you get buoyancy jokes, floating jokes, XK-class end of the world events joke etc; skinny, and you have branch jokes, easy shatter jokes, bamboo jokes, cannot see short people jokes etc.
Too bad I'm busy this weekend. If not I can enjoy the 3 day free gold xbox live service. Still, the brief 3 hours of Halo Reach multiplayer was fun, surviving through waves of enemies on firefight, playing some Invasion (Damn my teammates were good!) and trying to get more kills than others in Slayer and Objective Slayer. Thanks Bungie.
Oh and I wish Egypt good luck with their uprising, because of morbid curiosity
Wednesday 26 January 2011
http://kevan.org/jh/the+metahttp://kevan.org/nohari?name=The+Meta
Come and do this little test for me ok? Looks fun!
Monday 24 January 2011
I look like shit and need better time management.Who wants to jio me workout next time please thanks!
Being accepted into a group of fellow gamers made me realise how... screwed it'd be if I don't start watching out for myself. Gaming is fun, but gaming over work... urgk. Gotta work that out.
And getting a shitty passport photo taken made me more self-conscious =(
Thursday 20 January 2011
Got to micah's place today. I didn't know there's actually enclaves of Christians living in tight clusters, though on hindsight, I shouldn't be that surprised since I also have a malay enclave of sorts living around my area...But I'm still pretty amazed with the Salvation Army at the left, a church at the right, some St. Francis School and at the top the uh Holy Trinity College I think. Built upwards going by the contours of the hill I suppose, the area keeps making me think of it not just as a small community tucked away in Bukit Timah, but also a rather decent place to hold out against a zombie attack, provided there's enough supplies; that's the only flaw I can think of. Oh and the back. Merely a long fence, not strong enough.
Anyways he has a really nice place. Staffs (and their family, as well as students I suppose) can live behind the college. The place is definitely quieter than mine, where I can still hear traffic drone by, you can hardly hear a noise from outside once you cross the gates and got past the door. I haven't seen the full layout of the place, but the way the apartments are built, it does appear that indirectly a communal setting is built around it. Or the other way around, I don't know. The blocks sort of "curve" around the "atrium", where at the middle is a rock sculpture, providing a "natural" place for people to gather. Adding on to the fact that the blocks face the entrances and exits, a chokepoint is created and thus higher chances of meeting the residents. Not sure if the blocks facing the library means that learning is encouraged though during the planning phase.
Well his place is small and cosy, a nice place for bros to hang out... sorry about how short I can describe his house, compared to the buildings :/
I don't know what to think of a Christian enclave, or any other religious enclave though. Other than possibly being closer to their religion, I suppose they are nice people, right?
Overslept taking 178, so I took 246 from the interchange to wake myself up. Nothing like wind blowing at you, though today's factory air has a tinge of tau huey, not my favourite. I prefer the biscuit or malt smell anyday...
OHOHOH forgot to mention that the school library is a terrible place to find books, based on what little experience I have so far. Imagine a kopitiam. And an open-air library like, across the street or something. That's the kind of noise level you will get, which while I'm ok with (It's like at home with the telly on), sure makes me miss NLB haha.
I suppose the only benefit so far is that naturally, you have lots of eye-candy to watch. mmmhmmm.
And the library (or at least the what Each A Cup Cafe I think) is playing CNY tunes hahaha!
Note to self: Continue reading some other day 2001: A Space Odyssey and watch the movie too if I can!
Not that I don't like to download shows, it's just that I've never had the habit. I like how every week at that same timeslot you can sit down and watch one's show, not wolf down the entire series in a day. Downloading it to watch weekly is also just short for a personal cocktease. And I have not even touched my season 3 of Fringe because I rather watch it on the television, which the 360 can do, but only if it's at least .avi or if Windows Media Player can play it by default, I suppose. Actually I digress, Channel 5's transmission quality was better than the downloaded version, though both are decent, and it has subtitles! Too bad Channel 5 don't do english subs, and I STILL have not figured out how to combine sub and vid file into one. The 360 doesn't play them separately.
Sunday 9 January 2011
It's been almost a month since I last blogged, so says a little bird that reminded me. ;)
Been finding home as a rather comfortable place to hide from the outside world, it just looks so... bleak at times. Maybe it's the start of another year thing, my pile of work, the possibility of going for the china oip trip (1st time travelling beyond southeast asia oh my) or... I don't know.
I'm glad there's home though, it's like a little refuge from the constants bombings. You don't see them, you can't touch them, but they are like assassins, slowly working their way to their target, engulfing them, suffocating them, until they either break out, die out or become one of them...
Back in the holidays I sure had quite alot of fun though, staying at home to play Halo: Reach, which was really amazing. I heard they've got secret items in the Legendary difficulty of the game, so to spare myself the agony, I went to try I one thing I've always feared about Halo. And Legendary sure is no joke. The Elite's A.I is much more smarter now, constantly pinning, flanking and assaulting you. Same goes for the other enemies, a group of Grunts is now a possible deadly threat, Jackals make better use of their shields to slowly advance opon you, Yan'mes are a pain in the ass to aim at when they rain plasma fire whilst flying, Brutes, while lacking in shields compared to their Elite counterparts, are still are force to be reckoned with when in groups. And Hunters? Well... same old tough beasts that rain hell in pairs :)
And die, the games definitely wants you. Like one particular blogger mentioned (can't remember who), Reach on Legendary serves to remind you the futility of defending Reach. Anyone who's read the novel or noticed the storyline would know the ending from the beginning. That Reach will fall to the Covenants. And on ground, everyone dies. Civilians who are being evacuated, local militia holding up the Covenant assault force, the UNSC defending the planet for as long as they can, and your Spartan team being one small blip within in this incursion. But still as the player, you still fight on all the way till the end, personally personifying the spirits of the Spartans and the UNSC: That they would all fight the war to its end, because defeat is truly not much of an option.
And so you are glad that this is a game, while your Spartan A.Is are invulnerable, giving you the occasional breather to whittle down enemies, and moving on to the next objective. But given the number of times you would have died, you come to realise that your team might not make it out of this fight. Two scarificed themselves for the greater good, 1 was killed in action, and another picked off by enemy sniper. If that's not hard enough, the final holdoff on the final level shows you what it takes to truly be a Spartan, with brutes coming around your position, each round getting tougher, and chances are, you have died so many times hoping to get a checkpoint to slowly inch your way further into the game progress.
Team Fortress 2 is equally fun, cartoony, and open hell once you are out in the fields. Either serious lulz days, or just downright lulz
And Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is serious business. You don't work as a team, be prepared to make your whole team lose. Real serious, real tactical, real challenge.
Real fun. Many thanks to adrian who keeps entertaining me on steam ^^
Still feeling kind of crappy since the near end of December, and not sure whether to quit aikido. On one hand I enjoy trainings, but on the other hand either I'm not free or I don't want to commit. Oh I could use a sabbatical, but knowing myself, it's pretty much useless. So I'm finding other places to peace out and mediate; mull over current events. Not much progress so far. Miss my secondary school days where I really enjoyed going for my Chinese chess and video editing club ccas, sure both are slack, but I love them! Especially video editing, although truthfully I must admit, over time Joshua feels like the only one around that can things done while I help out what little I can. Not that I've got a problem with that; he does a pretty good job of videos, I must admit.
The Foundtainhead's a somewhat inspirational read I think, but there are definitely some parts I don't get. Can't quite put my finger to it... but I suppose it's a good thing that it's somewhat like a story... not sure how the main character would get on though, not done with the book yet...
Twitter's a rather cool micro-blogger, I agree :)
Oh and Leon sings well serious I stunned whole day that day
