Last day in NZ

Today is my last day in NZ, going to Taiwan tomorrow. 9am flight which means 5am wake up (6 for me XD). I wanted to stay in NZ for a bit longer, even just one more day, the guys are going to play bball tomorrow grrr but oh well. I'll be looking forward to good food, cheap arcade and buying new stuff. International Business result still isnt out yet... frustrating. Gotta wait at Australia for 3 and a half hours... =.= I wonder if theres wireless internet at the airport, maybe I can play Aion XD

Need to try and sleep now, bye bye

Aion Vision

So ever since the holiday started, I've been living in the world of Aion. I am a lvl 25 Chanter right now, the game is still amazing. Everyday I learn new stuff about it, exploring new places, there are just so many things to do on there. Recently I've been involved in crafting armours, spent ages gathering materials for it and lvling crafting skill and now I am at a resonable stage.


At the beach XD


My sister's character dancing beside a pile of rubbish?

As your level increases so does the pace of the game. You no longer fight random beasts or gather weird looking flowers. You have to start worry about the other race, for us the Asmodians. Like World of Warcraft where there is Alliance vs Horde, on Aion it's Elyos vs Asmodians. They honestly just pop out of no where and strike at you when you least expected.


New area I just explored today

Future of Aion trailer

Nightwish

Thought I'll write about Nightwish today, it is probably my favourite band. Nightwish originated from Finland, it is a symphonic, metal band, made up of 5 members. Now there is the old Nightwish and the new Nightwish. During 2007, the singer Tarja Turunen was asked to leave by the rest of the band and Anette Olzon replaced her.

I am a fan of the old Nightwish, the combination of the band (music written by Tuomas Holopainen) and Tarja was perfect. The music Tuomas comes up with is really nice, the way the band performs the music is just epic and Tarja's voice is just unbelievable. The new singer compare to Tarja, you'll find that her voice is not as strong and the strength in voice is what the new Nightwish lacks. None the less, Nightwish is still going strong and producing new songs so look forward to it.

The songs that I like are all from the old Nightwish, taken from 3 albums, Once, Century Child and Best of Nightwish, enjoy XD

Favourite














More recommended:

Wishmaster
The Wayfarer
Phantom of the Opera
Sleepwalker
Stargazers
Bless the Child
Actually just listen to all their songs, most of them are good :D

Paintball

Went to play paintball today, fellas met up at my place, Jack, Shuhan, Adam then all got into Raycher's car and we were off. This time we went to North Shore Paintball at Silverdale, last time I went some where across the Harbour Bridge. Saw a Lama farm on the way, which was interesting lol XD. Shimeen and 4 other westlakes were already waiting for us when we got there. We then waited for another car, Sam, Matt and In Hwan... after 15 mins they were no show so we just went in. They finally showed up when we were putting on our overalls. We were lucky that we were the first one to use the new masks that were supplied to them, no weird smell woot!

After the refs went over the safety rules, we were taken to the safe house. We played capture the flag game first where the objective of the game was to get the flag at the enemy base and take it to our base. We had 7 tgs and 6 westlakes so naturally those were the teams. The terrain was a base on one side with forest cover and the other base was on a hill with trenches. We started on the hill first and since it was our first round, everyone wasnt sure on how the strategy works and stuff so no one won. 2nd time, we started in the forest and since we had the forest cover, we moved forward a lot faster since it was hard for them to see us. The game was intense but the In Hwan made an epic run to the flag but got shot on the way back. I think someone else picked it up and got it back to our base or the time ran out.

The next game was attacking/defending game, 5 people will try and defend the hills for i think 15 mins. If they succeed then they win but of course with 8 other people attacking, it was near impossible. I volunteered for the 5, I wouldnt if I knew I was gonna get owned... One of our dude was shot after like the first minute and he stood at such an open space it was impossible for us to save him. Eventually it was down to me and Jack. But we were being overwhelmed soon enough, In Hwan came within like 2m and shot me like 3 times before he got taken down. Afterwards new 5 were selected and we replayed the same game. At one time, half of my team were stranded at an open area and the defending team still had all of their players. Then I saw most of their team were distracted by someone else and I made an epic run and saved all the stranded people before got taken down by Raycher. Since we got our whole team back again, eventually we won.



By that time, most of us were out of paintballs or had little left so we just played one more attackind/defending game with the people who still had heaps of balls defending, there were like 3 people. Due to our insufficient paintballs we could not beat the defenders... Then two people still had a little bit left so they had a duel. One person get to fire twice while one stands still and vice versa, it sure was entertaining watching them. Overall the event was enjoyable, good fun, I think everybody had a great time and I enjoyed sniping (got quite a few headshots) :)

2012 - End of the World

Just watched 2012 today and I only got one word for it: Epic. This movie basically got all the natural disasters, it is like The Day After Tomorrow, Poseidon and more, upgraded. The storyline was suprisingly nice for a movie like this, lots of emotional scenes. The disasters were really nicely done, especially in urban areas, you can see tiny people falling off or getting smashed by a car. The level of detail they got into was amazing. The movie was also quite long, like 2 and a half hours but its worth the length.

Will the Mayan prophecy come true? 2012 = the end? I guess we just gotta wait and see.

First day of freedom

Yesterday was the first official day of freedom, woke up at 10 then went to play basketball at uni. I was the last one to arrive but oh well :P Played some 3v3 then went to a chinese restaurant for lunch. I ordered pork baked rice and it was suprisingly good. The flavour was really good which made it really easy to eat/swallow it. With most baked rice I found that I get sick of the cheesy flavour after eating half of it but not this one.

When I got home, I had to quickly do the dishes then rushed to Jason's house to pick up Aion. Played some Tekken 6, I just love the graphics in Tekken 6, so pro. The game is also noob-friendly also, you can randomly spam and pull off an awesome move. That was how I managed to win a few times lol! Then Amos arrived and he just showed everyone whos the boss, just too pro.

Afterwards I just went home and watched X-Men Origin Wolverine. The movie was a bit boring at the start and predictable but the end was pretty good, the action was nicely done. This movie also explained a couple of things like Sabertooth and Wolverine are brothers (well maybe not brothers but they are definately related in one way or another), the origin of Cyclops and how Wolvering became indestructible (his power was similar however it had it's limits, until the upgrade). The last boss was pretty ownage, its like a 5 in 1 combo dude. Overall I liked this movie, I would rate above average.



I also started Aion last night, created a priest, so nice playing Aion again. Now I just gotta get back to where I was last time lol!

End of university and Surrogates

Well today marked the end of first year in uni. Reflecting back, I had a pretty good year in Auckland uni actually. Made some new friends, reunited with lots of old friends, learned heaps of sht from the subjects (hopefully I'll still remember them next year), played basketball with mates and random people (I've definately improved), learned to work out, ate different food everyday and learned how to play pool.

I finished my 2 hours International Business exam, I tried my best but I still felt less confident comparing to my engineering exams. Jerrell and I went to play pool while waiting for others to finish their Economics exam. I was a bit rusty due to 2 weeks of no playing but still managed to just beat Jerrell :). We then went to Genzui and met up with the others. Was kinda suprised to see the number of people there, thought it was just a few ppl. There were us, Albert, Ming, Sherman, Audrey, Ming's gf and a girl I didnt know but recognise from somewhere...

I ordered Miso Katsu Don and shared Takoyaki, it was extremely filling I had no idea why. I was really hungry before but I could just finished it. Jerrell ate suprisingly fast cause I guess his pride was on the line or something lol! Afterwards we made our way to the cinema, just before purchasing the tickets, two factions arised. There was the Surrogates faction and then there was the This is it! faction. I was in the middle since I wanted to see both but in the end Surrogates won. We were 10mins late therefore we had to sit 2 rows from the front, had to tilt our necks.



The movie I thought had the idea however it felt uncomplete. The ending did not satisfied me, the story had way more potential. Not enough action also, I guess Bruce Willis is getting old.. too bad. I rate this movie an average. After the movie, we went to get milk tea at a new store just right opposite the cinema: Easy Way. They were having a promotion sale, $3 for any regular sized and $4 for any large drinks. It was there I realised my wallet was missing! So Sherman (how kind of him) and I rushed back up, ran like 3 flights of stairs and luckyily it was right there, on my seat. The cleaning lady was just about to get to it!

So I retrieved it, bought milk tea. Then Audrey had to leave in a hurry and Sherman who didnt order anything got a free milk tea! I guess thats his reward for him running up the stairs lol. It was a cool last day of uni and tomorrow gotta wake up early again... to play basketball ><

Macross Frontier songs

I thought I'll post up some of the songs that I like from Macross Frontier.


This will give you guys a preview of what the anime is like


Megumi looks worried... not smiling


Just awesome


Gotta love the ending chorus

Other recommended songs:

Triangular - May'n & Megumi Nakajima
Infinity - May'n & Megumi Nakajima
Ai Oboete Imasuka - Megumi Nakajima
Aimo (anime version) - Megumi Nakajima

It was a sad day for Naruto fans on Thursday T_T