Console vs PC?

Lately, it has been very stressful. With exams and all coming to you like deathrows, it feels kinda tight and suffocated. Well anyways, that's why i'm here to post this. In a way, i always feel that great revelations occur together. I mean, if you study science, you'll know that a certain someone once discovered a certain something independently with another certain someone at different place at about the same time. It's true. there has been endless accounts of people discovering stuff only to realise that he's maybe 1 day or 2 days later than the other guy who's like 30,000 miles away or something. Makes you wonder if we humans are destined to know these certain truths at a certain time.

But i digress. Looking at 2007, it has been a great year. Especially for the gaming industry. With the arrival of many consoles such as PS3, XBOX 360, Wii... More a marketting gimick than some divine revelation as in science, gone are the good ol' days when the very first Playstation rule the world, with very puny resistance from the likes of Sega Dreamcast (huh?? what is that?? exactly.) In fact, there's so many to choose from, you'd probably have to own all 3 in order to play all your favourite games.

PC used to be the most zai gaming platform ever. There was the first RTS ever, and i even remembered playing the very first Doom on a 486 computer. That was when Nintendo was firing away with their Mario Bros. Over the years, games has evolved of course. Now the graphics, gameply, control and more recently, the online features are all something which a game needs to sell big. In fact, it has evolved so much that the government has step in (not only about piracy, of course) to put their foot down.

Mass Effect, an XBOX 360 game which was initially banned by MDA in Singapore but later rated as M18.

So the big question remains - is our grand old daddy gamin' platform PC going down the drain? With so much firepower from the graphics of PS3, the online features of XBOX 360 live and heck the tiring (very tiring actually) control of the Wii, is the PC going to be outdated to become merely a word processing machine?

The answer is NO. Not in a million years. Quite simply, the consoles can never beat the PC. With the development of hardwares and most notably the graphics card, the gaming industry has always centralised around developing games for the PC, albeit some fantastic ones from Sony. Well only some. In terms of graphics, PC is waaaaaaaaaayyyyy beyond that of the consoles. Even if it's not, it will be in maybe a couple of months after the console is launched? Which is like now if you consider PS3 being launched a few months ago.

Crysis, the most demanding game of 2007. PS3's engine will probably cry before it can load the menu screen.

Well, that's just the graphics. What about gameplay and replayability? Ahh.. so have you heard of any game still being played competitively after it's been released for more than 10 years? No? you're wrong. Of course there is and it's none other than the Korean national sport - on a PC.

If you dont know this game, you shouldnt be wasting time reading this.

Simply put, PC just beats the consoles hands down. We dont even venture into the online features or the controls (playing FPS on an analog controller just stinks - however you look at it). So there you are, the grand ol daddy of gaming. *salutes*

I'm bored. Exams are driving me nuts.

Giving Thanks

OHHHHH KAAAYYYY :D since i havent been blogging for quite a while, so here's a post dedicated to a very special someone again, and to give thanks to God for His grace in my life. Pun intended. LOL.

If you dont understand anything right up until now, now is the time for you to catch up maybe. HAA HAA. alrite alrite, let's just get to the main point. Moses is attached.

to who?

To a very special girl in his life :) and so here's a post dedicated to the special girl of whom u can ask moses for her name if you want. haa haa!!

ready?

tadah!!! that's our first date. and my, it seems quite long time ago.

Yeap yeap, God's grace.

that's us after a blading session. speaking of blading hmm... i'll talk about it in another post :D

and last but not least, the sweet girl with her sweeeeeeeeeet smile :D

Sometimes God works in wondrous ways that only after we experienced it, we know how sweet He really is. Good luck for the exams ppl :)

Lack of Updates

Hi ppl!! the apparent lack of updates is due to nothing more but the oncoming exams which is in about 20 days time? that is NOT a good thing considering i havent really started studying. It just totally kills your mood to do anything and the worse thing is, the construction at the back is really just being anal. and i mean it. they should just go and die.

anyways, here's a happy video for all to enjoy and hope that it will cheer you up somehow. since i dont have my camera with me, i'd have to settle with posting more interesting vids online... haa haa... very bored.

DUDE!!!!!!!!

nothing much to say... DUDE!!!!!

Top Gear

My fellow friends and acquaintances, if you live on a planet call Earth and you call yourself an autophile BUT you have never, ever watch this series before. you ought to be shot.

have to catch it fast though.. youtube and BBC is trying to nick everything that's uploaded on youtube about top gear. season 10 is back and my, my.. it's exhilirating :D

Initial D?!

so you think Initial D is not real? think again. It looks just like Akagi from the arcade.

Right Brain of Left Brain?

Here's something to think about: How many of us actually knows which part of the brain that we're using? Not many i guess?

During class today we had some very interesting discussion. Or rather debate. But i'll rather let you take a look at it yourself so that it can speak more volume.

Check this out.

I dunno about you but i was darn well sure that she was turning clockwise until i forced my brain to think otherwise. how interesting.

Wants

Hmm.. yeap it's always the feeling of ownership that drives people to buy so many things. Me included. more than often, it's just a 'want' rather than a 'need'. ohh i have many 'want's of course. after all, i'm just a human.

but that being said, sometimes it really gets on my nerve when i cant get what i need. haa haa. or maybe it's been blurred between 'need' and 'want'. suddenly when you allow yourself to fall into a continuous chain of complaints, you find that everything around you needs to be replaced. your guitar sux, your computer is laggy, heck even your clothes look like they've been in the wardrobe for 1000 years.

oh well. that's why i acquired a very useful phrase in German. still learning how to apply it though. haa haa. here goes: Ich wünschte, ich wäre immer zufrieden.

go figure. it saves a lot of worries.

I want to play like that

My current favourite guitar hero of which i listened to his masterpiece countless times.

Overdued TGIO

Due to a whining blog = boring blog = stagnant blog, and since i dont have my camera with me lately, and i dont want my blog to be dead... haa haa... i'd post some of the happier photos of TGIO 2007 since it's been uploaded for quite a while on the KR website. Enjoy :)

Yeap that's me alrite. Moses and Ramses. Oh btw, we're the not-so-traditional Egyptian Afros. lol

That's the disco band called Studio 69

Ah ha. Enuff said.

2 drummers sharing the set. one is ROC-ing.

And that's the punk band with the name KLPL. Kent Lidge Punk Lockers.

btw, ROC stands for relak-one-corner... :)

Public Holidays

After studying for about 1.5 years in this institution, i've come to conclude that NUS is an expert in absorbing public holidays. no wonder they call it No Use Studying, because when exams come, you'll just hope that you had more time but you dont.

last year they absorbed 2 days of CNY holidays into the recess week. MIND YOU. recess week is not really recess per se, it's more like study-your-ass-off-so-that-you-dont-screw-up week.

for some reason, i've lost the motivation to study and i'm just complaining and whining and wadsoeva. it's getting a bit tired after one year of this nonsense. Plus the construction is not really encouraging. >.<

MTT

that's rite ppl. MTTs are over.. not MIT, not MKII and heck it's not even SKII. Mid Term Tests are over! Hurrah! cant wait for friday to come. for all those who can come down on fri nite, Freeloaders are playing at Bar Celona @ Robertson Quay from 9 - 12. CYA!

Resident Evil: Extinction

Yeap i know the blog is a bit stagnant nowadays thanks to the bombardment of the mid term tests. Strangely though, i still have the time to get to watch this film... HAA HAA.. which says quite a bit about what i've been doing... well back to the film - it's action packed and well, i think it's a bit short though.. but cool effects and stuff.. so i shall give it a 7/10

2 days in 1.5 years

Alrite... it's been 1.5 years and finally!!! wala!! i'm meeting my sister for less than 2 days.. actually with the combined hours, it might just barely made it a day. but anyways, quality time is better than quantity time so here's something that we had today.. just now actually.. with MLE 2102 test tomorrow...

and dont get me started with MLE 2101 today. i want to be happy...

here she is!! and well... maybe we do look a lil similar.. do we?

that's my brother in law!! he's called jimmy ting li wei. coincide with a few fren's name i guess..

combined shot =)

and yeap, she'll be gone by thursday morning. boohoo.

Mangas

Alrite.. actually this is nothing new, but just to add to what i've been doing for the.. ehh.. past, well ehh.. year, i've been logging up to the internet everyday, but on weekends, it's especially exciting due to the release of new chapters of... none other than... MANGAS!!! currently i'm only reading 2 and i guess that's more than enough as the stories are really VERY exciting. ppl watch dramas rite... Heroes, Prison Break, Korean dramas... but mangas are one of kind..

used to be hooked up to anime but when i switched to these babes, animes are just second class.. so i've put the links of where i read them every week - i dont dl them coz it's too troublesome.. and here's the 2 which are just terrific!!!

Naruto - which i started out with the anime and got bored with their fillers so i swapped to the manga. BEST ever. Better than DragonBall i believe.

and.. BLEACH! more popular but i guess Naruto's still the best.

MLE 2101 ==> GG

just to inform those who dont really know what gg means. usually when you play dota, which is a fun and of course addictive game, there will be a lot of lingo. like eg, glhf - which means 'Good Luck Have Fun' or T_T which looks like a face with tears coming down from both eyes.

or gg. which means 'good game'. it's usually used by the, well, losing party when their throne or their tree is about to be taken down. OH, throne and tree both refers to the final structure that the teams have to defend, depending on which team u're on. and SO, it kinda sounds sarcastic coz gg means that the game is going to end.. or sort of throwing in the towel attitude.

NOW. why would i talk about gg? because MLE 2101 ==> GG. BIG GG. and i'm the one saying it, so if you figured, you'd know what kind of attitude i'm adopting towards this wonderful and well, not addictive module.

so if you're enlightened in any way, be it a tremendous revelation or a whiff of whisper, explain to me. QUICK. thank you very much.

Who Am I

Who Am I
That the Lord of all the earth
Would care to know my name
Would care to feel my hurt

Who Am I
That the Bright and Morning Star
Would choose to light the way
For my ever wandering heart

Not because of who i am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what i've done
But because of who You are

I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
Vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when i'm calling
Lord, You catch me when i'm falling
And You've told me who i am
I am Yours

Who Am I
That the eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love
And watch me rise again

Who Am I
That the voice that calmed the sea
Would call out through the rain
And calm the storm in me

Not because of who i am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what i've done
But because of who You are

I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
Vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when i'm calling
Lord, You catch me when i'm falling
And You've told me who i am
I am Yours

Experiencing one of His greatest mercy in my life. You never know how it really felt when He touched you, and how He just looks at you and your tainted life, and tells you that he's waiting for you to come back. When you do, He's there for You and He said,

'I knew that You'd be here and that's why I've prepared all these for you.'

Amen

Exercise

Was off to the doctors yesterday because lately, due to stress or wadsoeva from TGIO or wad i dunno larh.. or maybe due to the stupid deodorant which i used on my sensitive skin, i've been having eczema. Just in case you dunno what on earth is that, you can go look it up in wiki and warn you. it wouldnt be nice and that's why i didnt put it up on my blog.

BUT!! that's not the main point. Main point is, i went to the wellness centre at YIH and guess what... they asked me to take my weight coz they dont have a record of it. To my horror, i'm now officially 61 kg. $!%#$^@$%^@$%^ not that i mind my weight a lot but well, i've never hit 60 in my whole entire life and this is the second time only.

ohkay you might say well, 61 is ok wad. you're quite tall. but thinking back these few months, i havent been exercising. AT ALL. not even taking a walk in the park or some sort. AND THAT'S BAD. maybe that's why i got eczema. no exercise.

SOOO!! i went off to a run and swam yesterday. Just came back from a run today and it felt kinda refreshing.. HAHA!! managed to run to vivo before hogging on an SBS flagging my white flag coz my calves just cant take it anymore. think should run more often. cures my eczema!! haha!!!

alrite peeps. exercise is healthy. go get some runs.

Everyday

Orrrhhhhh kay.. here's a post to refresh the memories of those who doesnt noe wad song i posted earlier. Sweeeeeeeet.

New Skin!!!!

Finally decided to change the template because:

1. i'm sick and bored of the old one
2. i found another person's blog who has the same template as me!!! i know that i coped the default template from blogger but it kinda disturbed me to see another blog having the same skin, tho it's nice so i decided to change.

TO this skin with a Les Paul on the cover. Hell Yeah!!! Les Paul RAWKS!

Rock on PPL!!!