Friday, September 12, 2008

Sept 16

2 things are happening. 


first things first. Will Malaysia, after about 5 decades of governing under the BN, be defected to the opposition under Mr Ibrahim? As the book of wisdom says, there's a time for everything. SO! let history take its course. 

SECOND. which in my opinion is well, concerns me more (at least in the short term). Crysis Warhead is coming out. 

Monday, September 08, 2008

Gold

That's what i did today - beginners in alchemy or rather known as the module AL1001. 


Step 1: put the glass slides in a beaker of alcohol, then place them in the sonicator to clean them for 15 min.

Step 2: careful dry the glass slides and label them appropriately

Step 3: Put them into the gold sputtering machine, and operate it with the push of a few buttons. 

Step 4: VOILA! your glass slides has turned into gold pieces! 

i really felt like this guy when i did the experiment today though... with all the buttons... 

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Google Chrome

Yeap there's a new kid in town call Google Chrome - BROWSER. yes it's entering a titan-filled competition with firefox and ie leading the pack. Google is really taking over the world with all their chio and mac-like application compared to well, windows. 


i'm using it right now and well, you can find out more about it here if u want.. it's quite cool!! HAHA... 

Life's getting busy with TGIO coming up and all the gigs and not mentioning CG stuff and sharing... PLUS ohh! i have to study... things arent getting easier in 3rd year... sian-ness.. especially if u have roaches visiting you once in a while... 

talking about roaches, yesterday as i was lying on the bed, talking to grace on the phone i noticed something black-like moving on the top of the cupboard. it wasnt fast, just well, sort of hidden. to my horror, it's a roach camping there like nobody's business. 

realising it's presence, i quickly armed myself with the shieldtox rapidkill (yes i bought it for this purpose) and took aim, then sprayed right into its path. it squirmed into the cupboard coz i guess it wasnt air tight when it's closed... luckily, it was a store of my boxes so i quickly open the cupboard, sprayed a good deal into it and closed it again. 

goodness gracious i thought i'll have a hard time collecting the corpse but to my surprise, it came jumping down and squirming on the floor just after well, 10 seconds.. *splat* and it's done.. dont wish to have more of them coming into my room but looks like it's inevitable since my room's the nearest to the kitchen... 

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Inspiration

To go on blogging that is. Lately, there has been none and frankly i think things are getting tougher by the year. with 9-hour lab week creeping up ur back, and endless tutorials and lectures pouring in and a business plan which is going nowhere, this seems like a sucky sem to me.

lately i've been kinda sick too, cough this and that... but i guess that's just the mindtrick weather that we have here in dear Singapore. It was sunny like hell in the morning the other day and the next thing you know, rain's pouring down with no reserve. just after half an hour, the sun's out again and it is still raining. well, if that doesnt make u catch ur cold, i dont know what does...

i've just missed the 3rd lecture of the sem. and counting. i hope i can catch up. sobs.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Staying Alive Staying Alive

yeap it sure is hard to stay alive with the lazy bug in me every day... actually a lot of things are happening / has happened around me but i'm just pure plain lazy to blog about it.. HAHA

there was hmm... senior's performance, hall bash, orientation, ibg... and oh gosh, how could i forget, the Olympics. To be really honest, i think Beijing really did a fantastic job this time round. It's kinda hard to imagine how Britain is going to catch up with this year's game in 2012.

It's also particularly brilliant that this year, there seems to be more extraordinary things happening - Phelps with his 8 golds, Bolt with his 9.69 slacker run. He could've ran 9.55 if he pushed on til the end and i only hoped that he's not on drugs... Finally, Jamaica is giving US a run for their money. For the past few olympics that happened in my short 22 lifespan, US has been dominating the track scene but now things have changed. In that past few olympics, US and Russia has been dominating the medal table, but that has changed too...

Alrite, enough with the games but just one last comment.. i was shocked to see BMX cycles running funny wavey tracks as an Olympic sport.. and squash is not?! hmm...

Oh well, going off for another gig at Munchie Monkeys..

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

1 YEAR PLUS!

in the midst of my busy schedule, i've forgotten that actually, i've been blogging for a year and more!!! that's despite some very cold months with about 1 - 2 posts per month but i would say that this is some progress that i've been making!! HAHA

i didnt use to blog for so long coz i'm just pure plain lazy but oh well, sometimes it's good to rant and chant on the internet for everybody to see once in a while.. mainly, i've been updating movies and games critics but very little of my life.. well, that's because... ehhmmm.. it's private.. and mainly because i'm just pure plain lazy..

and sadly, i dont fancy taking pictures even though i have a camera.. so oh well, you all can only see words and lesser picture...

blogging can be quite some chore sometime and so i shall keep myself from being a bore to you faithful readers out there :)

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

The Dark Knight

Gone were the days when Batman wears a greyish rubber suit with his faithful companion in a colourful red-green-yellow costume. over the last few years superheroes movie and most of the good movies seems to stem from comics. well other than Hancock, which was well... hmm i shant say more. The last Batman movie was really good with depth and darkness, all that a batman show should have. this one is even better. particularly with another one of my favourites: the joker. i remembered watching the first joker on screen about more than a decade ago. it's nothing like what i've just seen and yeah, the joker shows you that you dont need effects to be a good actor. one of the best shows this year that i've watched. 9/10

Red Cliff

Watching 2 movies in a week is something which i only did in holidays, which is like now... so let's hear it from the first one: it's been quite a while since they released an epic chinese movie and frankly, this film on one small part of the Han Dynasty will be one of the best that i've watched. heck i dont really know much about romance of the three kingdoms but this show sure inspired me to read more. sorry to those who're outside of asia it will only be released in 2009! overall it's a great film with cheem chinese and my personal favourite: mr guanyu with his green dragon crescent blade. 8/10 oh yar, the show is about the battle of red cliff. how could i forget that HAHA.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Devil May Cry 4

To say that this game is good, well it will really underrated. personally, as a fan of role-playing games (FFX, Mass Effect, KOTOR just to name a few) and also a fan of fighting games (KOF, Street Fighter 1-3) , this game has incredibly fused this 2 together as a serious kinda hack and slash. Yeah it doesnt really have much of a RPG kinda build since it is almost entirely linear, the combat is just soooooooooooooo sweet. Mind you, it is not easy to play as i'm still trying to master certain skill but the tremendous satisfaction that it gives when you can execute let say, a High Roller + 2 aerial rave + jump cancel + devil snatch + 2 more aerial rave + devil trigger + devil snatch + 2 more aerial rave and a final buster in a matter of seconds, it really pumps adrenaline into your hands and well, gives u kinda like a good exercise. I've never written such a long review on games before simply because i enjoyed this game a lot. and how i thank God that it came out before school starts. 10/10

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Hellboy 2

Yeah he sure is a redneck if u tell me. i've never heard of him before, even in comics and stuff. the only time i heard him before this is hellboy one, which kinda suck according to a lot of reviews. well, i guess this is one helluva rare sequel which is better than the original show. at least they didnt outdo their own failure *which in my opinion is the classic line for avp and avp2*. overall it's quite an entertaining show. 8/10

Saturday, July 12, 2008

The Journey

well i started out long time ago, holding on to a slab of wood in the shape of a trident. how old was i? ahh... about 12 years old then. when i got the first solid body baby, i was about 15... hmm that seems kinda far away.. still remember the lake placid blue and one small flaw in it - the E string will always get tangled up at the edge of the fingerboard if you strung too hard.

i remember having lots of complaints about it - doesnt sound right, doesnt feel right and heck it just seems so common. i mean, which guy out there doesnt have an electric guit that looks like mine. and it wasnt an original strat to start with. so after a long consideration, i sold it and acquired something more exotic. les paul to be exact, and for a moment in history, i was in love with it.

as people grow, they change. so do i and when an opportunity arises for me, i've decided to get something for good - the tele. well it still pains me everytime i think of the lost now. she's really like the elegant lady who struts across in tremendous fashion and sings to you like nothing you've heard before.

but is she something for me? perhaps when she was taken away, there's a greater lesson to be taught - that something so grand may not be something which is suitable. it's like a ferrari. good to see, nice to play with, red. but i'll never get it, even if i've the money. HAHA.

you know i've heard many people say. at the end of the day, nothing beats the good ol strat. i used to think that it was just a stereotype. what possibly can a strat do. MAN i've owned one before. lake placid blue. rosewood neck. strings get stuck when you strung too hard. but i guess sometimes things just happened in a humorous way.

now that i've decided to get one at the end of the day just proved to myself that sometimes the best things are always around. you just need to know how to appreciate them.

Sunday, July 06, 2008

Hancock

There are heroes... there are superheroes... and then, there's Hancock Will Smith. Seriously, if not for the comedian, together with a Charlize Theron, the 'han' would have been replaced with a 'dumb'. was a tad disappointed by the film, since it looks really kinda cool from the trailers and all but well, these kinda things happen.. so if ya wanna catch something slightly funny, slightly serious, slightly nonsense then this is the film for you :D 3.5/10

Saturday, July 05, 2008

Diablo III

The picture alone is enough to excite any self-respecting computer user who grew up in the 1990s. if it doesnt, it means you didnt use the computer enough, or you were born a tad too late... MAN! this has to be the game to play. THE GAME.

which of course, according to blizzard tradition, will release in a few more years time. sad.

Friday, July 04, 2008

Verse of the Day

"Do not be yoked together with the unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?"

Just a few thoughts today when i read the Bible. Sometimes our judgment may be clouded by many things, but let God be our guide in all things to come.

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

21

Have been catching films like nuts lately and yeah, this is another one of the very nice shows which i've watched yesterday, but was quite stunned when someone asked me about its genre. hmm.. it's not thrill.. it's not action.. heck it's not romance... more like just an exciting story with good plot. 9/10

Monday, June 30, 2008

Mass Effect

When it launched, it was bogged down with a lot of controversies, especially the one where Singapore decided to banned it for a few weeks before releasing the ban due to an optional sex scene in the game. It has truly showed us how video game has progressed from merely super mario happy go lucky type to these rich, role playing type which almost appear to be a universal movie when you play it.

i suppose we need to exercise discretion for all the entertaintment that we enjoy from, whether is it playing WOW, watching movies or even listening to songs. addiction is always dangerous and harmful i suppose, and it is something that will give someone a nolife tag, which is what most WOW gamers have under their title.


sooo.. back to the game, story's great with rich civilisation and all those spacefaring jargons. really a very rich and diverse game. i'd definitely give it a 9/10.

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Wanted

Havent been updating reviews on movies. well that's coz i havent been watching many and so this is one of the more exciting shows that i've caught recently... Quite exciting i must say, and worth the time to go and watch.. maybe they got the formula right - cars, woman, action, bending bullets and a twist. be warned tho, i think that if a girl go and watch this she might find it a little tad boring. HAHA. 8.5/10

Friday, June 27, 2008

Alrite Alrite

First of all, i tot that my blog was dead so no one reads it and prolly nothing would have come by if i post something like what i post in the last post. thanks to all you loyal readers out there who actually thought that i was breakkking up... HAHA

second thing of all, NO i did not break up. it sounded like one when i re-read my post again but it was never intended to be meant that way... sorry to disappoint u ppl out there but too bad moses is still attached!!! WAHAHAHA i ought to get slapped...

anyways, have been contemplating of going to aussie for a break.. should i or should i not.. since i was terminated (prematurely) from my work... T_T maybe i really shud get some R&R before the 6 core sem hits.. THAT is going to be a big chunk of CAP thrown down into hell...

ciao..

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh

after a long breeeeaaaakkk of silence, i shall once again update my mouldy blog. it's been quite a while and i've been very upset about certain things but now it should be left behind and i should move on.

jiu de bu qu, xin de bu lai.

so on a happier note, we're actually playing for a bizad gig at timbre @ clarke quay today. Thus i have to end this short and rush down like NOW.

tata ppl. ^-^

Friday, June 06, 2008

Most Irritating Thing

is when u realised that you're down and u want to express urself through music.. and u find that your guitar is stolen by that guy and u dont have the baby that you wish you have...

it's a vicious cycle. you just get more and more down.