Zee Mike's Blog

Pool Competition

2011-07-18T23:33:00.000+12:00

Last saturday I invited Ming, Dixon and Gopi to join me in a pool competition, playing at Newmarket Tenpin Bowling place. Had some free chinese buns then we quickly jumped right into it. There were a total of 12 players including us, we had to play each player twice and record down our score, the one with the most points at the end wins. I did pretty bad when vsing my friends, Gopi 1-1, Dixon 0-2, Ming 0-2 (sunk the black ball but called the wrong pocket). However I did the best out of us when playing against the other adults there. The adults there were pro as, they will always sink at least 3 balls before you get your turn again. I managed to draw 1-1 with most of them with the occasional 2-0. However none of us made it to the top 3 which was quite disappointing.

Newmarket Tenpin Bowling pool area

After pool we went to get some chow, had some pretty good dishes from the Newmarket food court. Then still didnt feel like heading home, we rocked up to Giga internet cafe and started some action on Left 4 Dead 2. Nothing like killing zombies with 3 friends for stress relief (or maybe it builds up stress, especially if you die lol). Anyway it was a fun day, look forward to it again next year!

Transformers 3 - Dark of the Moon

2011-07-01T19:08:00.001+12:00

Went to watch the new Transformers movie Dark of the Moon last night and I've got one word for it, epic. Shia LaBeouf said "It is the best one we've done" and I couldnt agree more. This movie is like a level above both of the previous ones, in terms of almost every aspect. So before I put down my thoughts on this movie, I would like to point out the obvious. Yes there is no more Megan Fox and we have a new blond model instead. Apparently, Megan and the director just couldnt work together which is a shame since I prefer her. I mean she was in the previous 2, her role was already integrated into this series but well, apparently not lol

Anyway moving on, I'd start of with the story. For the first two movies, the story was pretty straight forward however in this one they added a nice twist into it, like I didnt even see it coming. There were also way more emotional parts in this movie which made it more intense. The action, boy were there plenty of actions. The stunts they pulled of this time was like I said, a level higher than it's previous ones. The robot graphics has improved significantly, you could actually see how they are fighting and not just metal parts smashing into each other. I also liked how they had a few slow motion scenes so you could really understand what was going on.

I watched the movie in 2D because I dont believe in 3D movies these days however there is a chance that this movie in 3D wouldnt have been that bad due to the improved graphics. The soundtracks they used during the movie was really nice, I enjoyed it and is thinking of downloading it. Although the overall movie wont get spoiled if you watched the trailer however I recommend that you dont, you get to enjoy the movie more that way, more suprising epic scenes :) I've decided to dish out a 10/10 for Transformers 3.

Welcome to the NHK

2011-06-27T23:24:00.000+12:00

So finally finished exams! This series of exams is probably the toughest one yet I've experienced in university. Anyway due to the late start of our first exam, I've managed to finish Welcome to the NHK. I've heard this anime being one of the best every so often and now here are my thoughts on it.

The story revolves around the main character Sato who is a hikikomori, a person who basically refuses to go out and stays in his house for life. A random girl called Misaki approaches him and wishes to cure his hikikomori lifestyle. Along the series, he fell into a lot of the traps which made him even more antisocial.

Comedy is probably the best part in Welcome to the NHK, there are so many randomness in this anime that just makes you go wtff and burst out laughing. Since Sato is a hikikomori, its hilarious when he comes into contact with new things he has never experienced before. Another thing which this anime has that a lot doesnt is it portrays life. In normal anime, we see that exciting event always happen around the main character however its a bit different in this anime. The things they do are like a lot of the stuff we do every day so I find the anime extremely easy to relate to it or be in their shoes.

However because this anime reflects on life, you also get disappointments, just like in real life. Like in every other anime, main character will always succeed in accomplish their goals. Welcome to the NHK is not like that type of anime, sometimes they just fail and they just have to move on. I find this slightly unappealing since I watch anime to see scenarios thats NOT happening in real life lol. In summary this anime has been enjoyable to watch, been rated high all over the net and gets an 8/10 from me.

X-Men: First Class

2011-06-08T00:05:00.000+12:00

No more management reflections! Actually to a certain extent they did help with my learning cause the only 303 materials I know right now is from what I wrote. Anyway after submitting our 370 lab reports and studied hard for a few hours, Dixon, Dennis, Jp and I went to watch X-Men: First Class. To be honest I was actually looking forward to this movie, the whole "Before he was Professor X. Before he was Magneto" thing really sparked my interest. Good job to the advertising department lol

Since this movie is fairly new, I'll try to keep the spoilers minimum. To start off I really enjoyed this movie. It realy showed the beginning of the entire X-Men series, the past of both Charles and Erik. It showed how their friendship is considered top above anything else. We always knew that Charles and Magneto had some sort of past together and finally this reveals it. You also see how some of the original X-Mens come about like Mystique which was pretty interesting.

I thought the soundtrack used was nice, it really suited the way the battle turned out. I also liked the guy who played Charles, a much better job here compared to when he was in Wanted. He seemed confident and really portrayed the image of Charles Xavier, his passion to help to mutants. One thing I didnt really like was the mutants powers, I think they're starting to run out of ideas lol. They reused old ones and the new ones were pretty random... But overall, I recommend to watch this movie, cinemas, yeah if you want the good effects and sound but definately worth downloading x) 8/10

Management Reflection - week 10

2011-05-31T21:41:00.000+12:00

From last week's lectures, I learned most from the the topic of knowledge innovation. There are two types of knowledge, tactit and explicit. Tacit knowledge is knowledge based on one's experience and feelings on the matter while explicit knowledge is written facts and figures presented to you. The lecturer then moved on to knowledge flows, saying that interactions between tacit and explicit knowledge can create numerous flows.

A simple conversation could be the start of a knowledge flow, where one talks about his experience or his way of doing things to another person. Socialisation is the form of tacit to tacit knowledge flow. Externalisation is from tacit to explicit and the most obvious example for it is teaching. Teachers are taking what they know and presenting it to you by putting it on powerpoint slides or notes. The opposite of that is internalisation; explicit to tacit. This is when you take what you learned from what you read,start making it into your habit and adding your own variation to it. Lastly there is combination, explicit to explicit. An example of this could be summerising what you have learned in class, like writing this reflection on learning.

Management Reflection - week 9

2011-05-23T21:05:00.000+12:00

Last week we went over the topic of innovation. Innovation is basically bringing something new in, it could be useless and weird but it is still an innovation. The concept is similar to evolution, if one does not change with the world, it will be left behind and will not survive. The lecturer showed an example of this by showing us the S-curve of technological development. Section 1 shows the initial slow growth of a technology eg. phone. Section 2 is the rapid increase in the use of it. Lastly section 3 reaches a limit where people just got bored of it and the slope of the curve dies off. Here is when innovation or evolution comes in. A smart company will take their products to their next level eg. iPhone 4 to iPhone 5. Just before the product reach it's limit, they will release a better version of the product so the curve can continue rising and not die off.

Another point I learned was the Business Model Innovation. It is when a business takes a whole new approach in marketing their products. I had to agree with the example the lecturer said about Nokia was advertising their phones by showing simply how great their technology was. However Apple marketed their iPhone through applications. Through the use of applications like Facebook, the customers realise how great this piece of technology is. The two models has a slight difference however this extra step can determine whether the business suceed in the market or not.

Management Reflection - week 8

2011-05-15T19:24:00.000+12:00

Last week, the focus for the course was on marketing. The market research section seemed familiar to me because I often participated in the research without realising it myself. The purpose of market research is basically to help companies understand the opportunities and problems between themselves and the customers. To do research before launching a product seemed pretty self explanatory to me because why would anyone buy your product, if it was not what the customers were looking for?

Then the lecturer talked about the different categories of market research. Exploratory, descriptive and causal, each differ in terms of the magnitude of the research. Causal is simply compare product A to product B, an experimental research. Exploratory research is when the company is unaware of it's problems therefore doing research on finding out where it is going wrong. Descriptive is when the company is aware of it's problems and therefore doing research on how to solve it.

The lecturer mentioned the site Smile City, how they conduct market research on selected individuals. Being a member of the site, I recalled the different kind of surveys I had received and now understands how the research works. Occasionally I get surveys which falls into the exploratory area while other times I get yes, no questions which means they are descriptive or causal questions.

Choas;Head

2011-05-11T23:53:00.000+12:00

Recently finished watching Chaos;Head and I have to say it wasnt that bad. The story involves a high school dude Nishijou Takumi, standard otaku who dislikes 3D girls, collects figurines and plays computer games, oh and he lives in a shipping container LOL. In the city of Shibuya, there has been a series of killing which the people called the New Gen events. On a particular night, Takumi witnessed the event happening and the killer even greeted him. The very next day, he found the the killer was his friend without him even realising it...?

One thing I really liked about this anime was the character personalities, they're all unique in their own way which makes them very likeable. The story itself started off quite well, as the series go on, you start to sense theres a bigger picture behind the scenes which makes the anime interesting. I had to keep clicking next episode because I was so hooked into it.

The ending however wasnt so great, they rushed it a bit so a lot of it does not really make sense so that brought it down. It had a huge potential, they should've worked on the ending more carefully and I gurantee it would've been an awesome anime to watch for everyone. In terms of music, the background music in anime were pretty standard and I enjoy the opening and ending. Im having trouble rating this a 6 or 7 out of 10 so maybe just a 6.5/10 :P

Chaos;Head songs

*Like!*

*IDEI YONAAA* Hard to describe... just a mean song

One of the best Friday in uni life

2011-05-09T20:39:00.002+12:00

So last Friday we planned a gelato day. Thanks to the vouchers that Alvin bought, after the 370 interviews, the crew went down to iStorm - the gelato place. The voucher was pay $4 and get $10 worth of anything in the shop so we each got a $8 glass of special mix gelatos. This is what I got, a triple youghurt one. Sorry for the pic, lighting wasnt great at the store.

We then found there were all these fun interactive, strategy games like Jenga, connect 4, 3D connect 4. So six engineers sat down and battled it out XD Jenga was an epic game, so much manuvering and stabilising was required for it lol. Here is Dixon concentrating...

After Jenga, we moved on to 3D connect 4 and it was one of the best games I've played in a while. Had to think in terms of 3D planes, some lines I just couldnt even see it until it was pointed out LOL. It was also harder since you are playing against 2 other people. So while 3 people were duelling it out on the 3D version, we had 2 others on the simpler normal connect 4. I won that one with ease.

After spending like 2 and a half hours in the store, we decided to leave, went back to engineering and started playing card XD until it was tutorial time. That day was just too relaxed but we also had tonnes of fun :D

Dead Space

2011-04-17T13:07:00.000+12:00

So 2 days ago I finished Dead Space, a game I started last month. Warning! This game is designed to scare you so keep away from Dead Space if find these screenshots disturbing. Anyway if you can handle it, you're in for around 20 hours of extreme killing.

You start off in a space shuttle sent to repair a large spaceship called Ishimura however upon landing you immediately notice there is something wrong with the ship. Nobody is around, luggage scatter all over the place and then suddenly you get attacked by these unknown creatures with freakish long limbs that look like blades. At this point you'll realise what you have to do in this game, kill these things and to find out what happened to the ship.

I thought this game was similar to Resident Evil, being 3rd person shooter however Dead Space is much more suprising and tend to do more jumps to startle you. Like in Resident Evil you can see the zombies from miles away but here they'll spawn an enemy right next to you which causes you to panick and start spamming all over the place. Which can be annoying because you have to find your own ammos and guns. The good thing is there are electronic stores on the ship which you use to buy ammos. However you wont be able to buy any new items unless you find the schematics for it first.

You can use these things called power nodes to upgrade your weapons but becareful you wont be able to max out everything on every single weapon. This forces you to think and plan out strategies when you fight these creatures, some weapons are long range while some are short hence some weapon works better against some enemies. A lot of times I ran out of ammo for a certain type of gun which stops me from moving forward since I cant kill the creature thats blocking me.

The graphics and details on the monsters are pretty good especially when you get killed by one of them. They show you exactly how you died, like your head gets chopped off or your body gets ripped in half. Certain effects in the game are also pretty unique, like when you are in a vacuum you can not hear anything also the zero gravity zone can get you pretty confused and lose your sense of direction lol. The downside of Dead Space I think is that it gets really repetitive after half way when you've gotten used to the creatures. Personally I think they should've made the game a bit shorter so players would not get bored of it. Nevertheless, Dead Space is a good game if you're trying to find some excitement in your everyday gaming life.

Durarara!!

2011-04-17T01:14:00.000+12:00

Another anime with exclaimation mark at the end of it's name and this time it has two!! Does it mean it is double awesome? X)
So I just finished watching Durarara!! which I started a few days ago. Dont even ask what the title means, I dont even know, google it lol. I would say this anime is good but nothing further than that. First of all I gotta say I love the character design, including the clothes they wear, just simple and stylish. I think most people will agree with me the two best looking characters are Izaya and Shizuo.

So what is this anime about? Well to summarise it, it is about the district in the city of Tokyo called Ikebukoru. At the start of the anime, you get an overwhelming introduction of nearly all the characters who appears in the anime. At first you dont see how they are related but as you progress more into the anime, you see the connections they have with each other. I didnt like the start of the anime because you couldnt see the purpose or the point of this anime but it gets better by the episode. It got to a point where I just HAD to click the next one to see what happens, damn cliff hangers...

This anime contains both fantasy and reality. The reality being its based in an actual city, they even drew the actual landmarks in the anime. Also a lot of the concepts behind it are very real which can be seen in our current society eg. gangs and internet chat rooms. The fantasy being the characters, like a dude with insane strength, chucking vending machines everywhere. However without the fantasy, this anime would not have worked. The fantasy and reality intertwined with each other producing the core of Durarara. So in the end I rate Durarara a 7/10.

This video just shows how real the anime was, quite unbelievable :O
Btw the songs used here are the openings and endings of the anime. So it was good I found this video, can show both the setting and songs of the anime. 2nd and 3rd songs are my favourite :)

Management Reflection - week 6

2011-04-10T15:39:00.000+12:00

For the last week of the accounting module, we learned about capital expenditure. Capital expenditures is when a company spends money to acquire an asset and instead to use it for a long term. For example a machine or vehicle. This matter is significant to any business since you are required to put down a large sum of money and because it will take a while before you can break even, it is uncertain that the asset can help you earn a profit. Therefore CAPEX must be carefully planned, if we did not budget enough for it, it can result in eg. not producing enough products to meet demands. If we over invest in the budget then we already lost the money since the very start with uncertainty that we'll be able to get it back.

To avoid these mistakes, we learned techniques which can help us make the right decision when it comes to CAPEX. There are two categories, non-discounting and discounted cash flow techniques. I learned that money has a time value, the value in few years time will be less than the value now. The non-discounting technique excludes the time value factor. The discounted cash flow technique on the other hand is a more accurate method when it comes to estimating CAPEX since it takes the time value into consideration.

Management Reflection - week 5

2011-04-05T21:05:00.000+12:00

Last week we finished the module on budget. Budget is basically a planned guideline, a goal of what the company is hoping to achieve in a long term. Without a budget, a company might spend too much money on one aspect of the firm which result in the lack of money for other areas. By having a budget, it sets a limit on how much money the company should invest in that area. As long as the company stick to their budget, their chances of success will increase because they are following the plan which they believed was the best option for the firm.

I learned that a proper budget must be done step by step because one thing leads to another. We begin with the sales budget, this decides how much we want to have sold at the end of the time frame. Production budget comes next, after we know the units to be sold, we can work out how much we need to produce in order to meet that requirement. From the production budget, we can form our direct material, labour and factory overhead budget which then goes under cost of goods manufactured and sold budget. Then we have the selling and administrative expenses budget. By combining all the previous budgets, a cash budget, probably the most important budget, can be made. This budget indicates how will the cash run in the company and how much we will have left to operate our business. Finally a balance sheet is produced.

Start of the Food Blog - Korean BBQ Queen St

2011-04-04T22:23:00.000+12:00

The most intense part of this term has finally past. Dixon adn I worked our asses off on the report this morning, not sure if how we'll do the interview next term lol... After handing in our report because I didnt have breakfast so I was really keen for some korean bbq buffet. So I rallied the crew and head off for to Queen St while the other faction went to Golden Bowl.

Ok so this was suppose to be my management reflection but I just realised I dont know what to write so I'll have a read over the notes tomorrow and see if I can come up with anything. Instead, I had a thought on this for a while, I think I will start writing about what I eat around Auckland uni. I look for affordable and delicious food, most campanions who eats with me enjoys where I take them so I have decided to share with everyone.

So I will start my food bloggin with the Korean BBQ place. The place is literally called Korean BBQ buffet. It is located on Queen St, walk up towards Upper Queen St and it is on the left side, after a block of asian restaurants and before you reach Upper Queen St. It is a self serve, self cook sort of BBQ.

Playing while cooking :-)

The price is $15 for lunch, $18 for dinner. All you can eat but apparently there is a 2 hours limit (1 hour if you eat by yourself), we normally finish under 2 hours anyway. Since this is affordable buffet, dont expect luxurious meat selections. There are like 6 meats, marinated chicken/beef, spicy pork/squid, pork belly and beef. There are pre cooked food like fried chicken wings, egg rolls. Fruit juice (Raro), rice, all unlimited so it is a pretty good deal for students, especially one who just loves meat.

Management Reflection - week 4

2011-03-28T19:30:00.000+13:00

2 more weeks of uni left, the Mechatronics crew are basically just living in the computer labs these past few days, working on our 370 project. There is also the 322 test coming up on Friday, I got the feeling there will be some intense study during Friday's 6 hours gap.

Over the recent two weeks, we learned about cost. Cost is one of the most important aspect when running a business because the more you reduce it, the more profit you will make. We went over different type of costs, there are variable costs, fixed costs and contribution margin. Variable costs varies with the level of output eg. direct material. Fixed costs are constant eg. rent. It sounded basic when the lecturer was going through the notes but as he went deeper, I realised that these are the fundamental concept which you have to know very well in order to make the right decision for your business.

We were taught how to make a right decision when we went through Relevant Costs and Special Decisions and this really opened my mind. If it took my company requires $110 to produce a table. Another company orders a bulk and wants $100 a piece, before I heard the lecturer, I thought obviously deny the deal, whats the point if you are losing $10? But that was because I did not take into account the fixed cost factor. With proven maths examples, I soon realised that how wrong I was. The crucial point here was that the fixed cost does not rise therefore the more order you take, after paying off the fixed cost, you will still earn profit.

Battle Los Angeles

2011-03-26T22:09:00.000+13:00

After a hard day of working on the 322 project, Dennis and I went to watch Battle Los Angeles. Thought we could use the 2 for 1 voucher but nooo couldnt use it for Battle LA, scammed, so we end up paying full price. Went inside, found out some dudes stole our seats but meh the cinema wasnt full anyway, still had centre view.

So I went in there without knowing what it was about nor did I watch any trailers. All I've seen were the big posters around city. I think I'm going to do that from now on, go into a movie without prior knowledge of it, that why you can enjoy it more. The element of suprise hits you harder. Thats what I experienced, I didnt even know who they were fighting until like an hour into the movie lol.

Anyway I thought the movie was pretty good, a solid action war movie, not much story. If you're looking for an amazing story kind of movie please stop reading but if you're looking for an intense action just for the fun of it, this is your stop. One thing I really liked about this movie was the instrumental background music, it gave me the feeling of Transformers when I heard it which was perfect for this kind of movie. There was also a part where it was really sad, that plus the background music made my eyes all watery. My objective for watching this movie was purely for stress relief and I certainly achieved it when I walked out of the cinema so Battle Los Angeles gets at least 7/10 from me.

P.S. new favourite song Superhero by Chingy :D

Management Reflection - week 2

2011-03-15T20:32:00.002+13:00

So here we go again, although I havent received my marks back for the first reflection, I thought this blogging technique turned out quite well so I'm going to try sticking to it.

Last week we learned some basic concepts of financial accounting and documents which are essential to all businesses. I learned quite a few terms which can be seen often in everyday life, eg asset, revenue. I think it is important to know all these business terminologies because we will definately have contact with it in the future.

We then moved on to the core equation of accounting (Assets = Liabilities + Owner's Equity) and working capital. The whole concept of a working capital really opened my mind to businesses. I always thought that as long as you get sales, your business can keep going. I have never thought about the money that was required in the middle of the process; the gap between getting your sales and producing your goods. As the lecturer put it, like oil in an engine, without the working capital, a business will run "dry".

The documents which are essential to any business are the statement of financial position and the statement of financial performance. The more I learned about these documents, I realised that a lot of details had been put in them. It made sense because if you do not monitor your business properly and accurately, there is no way to determine which path your business should take in the future.

Management Reflection - week 1

2011-03-07T20:53:00.000+13:00

So for this semester we have a management for engineers course and we're asked to write reflections on what we learned throughout the week. At first I thought geez more essays but then I realised this is kinda like writing a blog article, where I just write down what I see and how I feel about it. So here I will just gather my ideas and rewrite it for the tutorial, see if that works.

One of the first thing which I took note of the lecturer's saying was that we manage our classes, work, basically our lives without thinking about it. My friends and I weigh which classes are important and which ones arent, which ones are worth going to and which ones arent. A mum who manages household work and kids at the same time is an effective manager. What we are trying to learn is how to manage our engineering career.

We learned the four functions of management are planning, organising, leading and controlling. I already knew about the first three since I've been doing it regularly. My first thought on controlling was basically the same as leading. However the lecturer showed that was external control, there is also an internal control where you help people achieve results through self direction and self discipline. I have never considered that as a way of managing a team.

Another point I took in was the “Hawthorne Halo” effect. Studies show when someone is watching you or gives you compliments, you automatically do better in most cases. If my boss was watching me work, I would be forced to raise my standard and if he gave me a compliment then I would know that this is the level I should be working at, to make both him and the company happy. I can make use of this next time when I organise or lead a group, whether in games or for school projects.

I guess this is about it, hopefully this is enough XD

Ga-Rei Zero

2011-02-28T22:50:00.000+13:00

This anime was probably the fastest anime I've gone through, finished it in less than 3 days. Although it was short with only 12 episodes but at the end of every episode, it just kept making me wanting to click the next one. I must mention the one thing that made this anime so special, the opening episode. I wont go through any spoilers here but the first episode was like nothing I have seen before and automatically, I just had to click the second episode. All credits goes to the director, for making such a huge attention grabbing opening.

The storyline was pretty straight forward, I'm sure most of us could have predicted the ending, we just watched the anime to found out what happened during the middle. Again, this is different to other animes where the audience look forward to the ending. A flaw in this anime is that some background stories were not explained and the true bad guy does not reveal himself. Although this clearly states there will be a second season, whenever they decide to make it, hence the name Zero.

The creativity of this anime was fascinating, some of the weapons the characters used were just so unique and occasionally funny. The artwork was nice, music was good. I loved the opening theme, added to my favourite songs list. I give Ga-Rei Zero 9/10.

Sugar sweet nightmare, final Bakemonogatari

2011-02-25T17:56:00.006+13:00

Finally finished watching Bakemonogatari after putting it off since last year due to slow episode release. My opinion on the anime has not changed since my first review about it, which can be found here.

I am still supporting my initial rating of 8/10 even though I said it could go up. How come it did not go up? Well because the remaining episodes were pretty average, I reckon they already showed the climax at episode 12 and I would have been perfectly happy if it had ended there. Although the final episodes werent that exciting, one positive thing in them was the opening! Just the kind of song I like ^^ and here it is.

Oh and also Bakemonogatari will still be continuing in season 2! Kizumonogatari! It should be a blast and reveals more about Araragi's past I hope.

Reunion with the Clan

2011-02-19T00:20:00.000+13:00

After a day or two of organising, I got together a crew of our old Dota clan back in high school. D0T4!
Had dinner, caught up with recent events, hard to believe we all used to play in one game dota, now we just all doing our thing.
We started this reunion with old school CS 1.5, shooting, loling, knifing, loling. Then some dota action plus random warcraft maps, whining and complaining about how sht the map is but trying to win it at the same time XD
Last game of Maze of Sliding Bunnies was epic, so much concentration and laughter. Our clan teamwork was also shown but we still couldnt beat the game lol. In the end, its the fun that matters. That is the purpose of gaming isnt it?

Shawn showed me this song and I liked it instantly.

Favourite songs at the moment; 2NE1 "To Anyone" album

2011-01-28T23:30:00.000+13:00

I recently downloaded 2NE1's lastest album To Anyone which was released last year 2010. I've gotta say I quite like it, although there are 2 or 3 songs I dislike but overall it is a nice album.

Most songs are quite unique, they got their own style and beat. They used more autotune in this album compare to their previous one which is slightly disappointing but then again it fits well with their techno-ish music.

Strangely (or is it obviously) my favourite song is not one of those techno ones but a slower pace You & I. Others which I also like are Go Away, I'm Busy and Please Dont Go. Check right side for these awesome tunes.

Two other songs also made my favourite list. Last Moment which was used for Bleach's ending and U Can Do It which was the ending for Naruto Shippuuden, this one is definately one of the best songs used in Naruto.

TopBlip Singing Competition; Support Kevin Lien

2011-01-27T20:52:00.002+13:00

So I've been a fan of Kevin's music ever since I found him on Youtube and now he is in the topblip competition finals, I figure why not give him even more support. I dont normally advertise for people but he really does have talent. His Wedding Dress cover carried him all the way to the semi-finals and his Firework cover is competiting in the finals.

Wedding Dress

Firework

So if you think he is awesome or pretty good then vote for him at http://www.topblip.com/bracket/view_bracket/?season_id=13&match_id=239

Cheers! :D

Make Up

2011-01-18T04:51:00.002+13:00

So I saw this on TV last night and was just shocked... (and fascinated)

It's an unbreakable chain really... girls like to make themselves beautiful >> guys like beautiful girls >> girls must put make up before going out >> girls can not stop using make up >> girls get bad skin >> guys gets shocked seeing girls without make up >> dislike in the end???

So... how do we solve the problem? There is no GOOD solution for this problem, we cant take make up out of our current society, how can the movie stars or singers shoot another video? We cant tell girls to stop using make up and cant stop guys to like girls with beautiful/sexy makeup, they are in both our natures.

I can only say, appearance can be deceiving, do not judge a book by it's cover, yada yada etc etc. In the end it's the inside that really counts, if a guy can make a girl laugh and if the girl cares for the guy then... isnt that a win win situation? In other words, happiness?

Dear Goldfish,
Have you had trouble with makeup?

Holiday Games

2011-01-12T01:35:00.004+13:00

I am pretty sure a lot of my fellow friends are drowning themselves in games since its the holiday plus there is nothing to do if you're not working or studying. I have too, been playing games to kill time and these are the games I've been rotating around in a day.

Been playing the My Player Mode, a SF playing for the Washington Wizards, best in the league right now :P I enjoy playing the my player mode in these NBA games since currently I am unable to play in real life so this is the closest thing for me. Anyway My Player Mode allows you to create your own NBA player then you've got to get picked and go through training camp etc. Quite realistic, your action corresponds to the grade you get at the top of the screen. If you play really bad then you're likely to get a C. If you do everything right and even though you didnt score a single point, you can still end a game with an A. I've still got one month until the Play Offs, aiming for the ring!

I've always enjoyed playing the COD Modern Warfare series, best single player FPS game in my opinion. Amazing graphics, realistic and the interesting interaction with the player are the keys of a winning game. Although this isnt MW, it still contains all these elements. Too bad my computer isnt as good as I hoped, it is barely running the game. I get really bad lags occasionally which makes it impossible to aim. The time frame of the game dates back to 1968 so no fancy high tech guns but nevertheless it still has a good story for the single player mode. I'm half way through it atm ^^

Ahh the new Golden Sun game, I have mentioned it last year and it has finally come out at the end of last year (after delaying it again for like 2 months...). Anyway it is almost impossible to get the game to run perfectly on pc with the current emulators out there. I've got it to work but it runs kinda slow, averaging 30-40 FPS. I've spent most of my time playing this game these days, Golden Sun contains everything, a story, battles, puzzles and cute graphics, suitable for all guys and girls, whatever the age. I dont know how far I am in to the game, probably 1/3? So far I reckon this game is easier compare to it's predecessors, definately better graphics though XD

China 桂林(Guilin) Preview

2011-01-04T18:43:00.008+13:00

After finishing a period of uni at Taipei, I am now at Kaohsiung and can finally enjoy some quiet and relaxing life style. I wont have to wake up before 7am and travel for 2 hours to school then back lol...
I will be uploading the photos that we took from our China trip and from the Flora Expo in Taipei, on facebook not here. It will probably be 2012 (omg world end) if I upload all those photos here. Yes it is that slow.

I will however, give a slight preview on here. So this was my second time to China and this time I went to 桂林(Guilin). There is a Chinese saying and it goes like this 桂林山水甲天下 and it means the scenery in Guilin dominates the world. I gotta say, I agree with this only if it was 10 years ago. Right now China is urbanising rapidly which results in pollution or smog forming in quite a few areas. Houses are build along rivers and mountains which does not at all match the scenery. It is due to these factors which brought disappointment while I was touring China.

Nevertheless, 桂林 is still a world recognised touring spot and here is a slight preview :)

Beautiful scenery, too bad there was no sunshine...

Aim, fire! (Yes I was firing something, 5 tennis balls in fact xD)

Ooooh pretty rock

Yay we all got flowers on our heads~ Had to return them afterwards though... cheap bastards..

A giant mirror on the ground...?

Dear Goldfish,

Finally started to write again after a month XD thanks to you. You gave me motivation to keep writing and not being lazy!
I didnt expect to receive your message that early so I was pretty happy when I saw it :D My writing is not as beautiful as yours but I like to keep my readers entertained ^^
Dont worry, I will keep my promise. Enjoy~

Angel Beats!

2010-12-09T01:59:00.003+13:00

This anime is so good that it included an exclamation mark in it's name XD
Been trying to get this review going ever since I finished watching it the day before I left NZ but I've been busy and lazy lol~
Anyway Angel Beats! is a new anime only just came out this year, from the same people who made Clannad, this anime had quite a high expectation and Im glad to announce that I also approve this anime.

Compare to Clannad, Angel Beats is more random but includes all the emotional effects from Clannad which makes it so enjoyable to watch. Im talking about all the laughter and sadness that you can really feel from watching one 20 min episode. The graphics are excellent, more stylish rather than cute compare to Clannad however they still got those eyes that fills half of their face XD

Since the story consists of a music band "Girls Dead Monster", sometimes the episode gets musical like Macross Frontier which isnt a bad thing but Im not into any of the songs they sung. Angel Beats's opening is sung by Lia who also sang the opening for Clannad After Story. I still like the clannad song better X) but I like their ending though.

The downside of Angel Beats is that its too short. This storyline had a great potential but due to their episode limit, the episodes did not bring out the fullest emotion. Like with Clannad they had at least 3 episodes for one story so when it reaches the climax, it can really bring tears to your eyes. However with Angel Beats, it happens too fast. I know it's sad but the feeling hasnt sunk in yet and then the episode just ends... They also rushed the ending a bit. Nevertheless, Angel Beats is still a great anime 8/10 from me :)

11 hours 5 movies

2010-11-23T00:21:00.004+13:00

So I'm in Taiwan now and due to various reasons I am now living in the mountains lol, kinda feel like a hermit going through secret training. Anyway on my way from Auckland to Hong Kong I could not sleep so the only thing I could do was to watch movies. During the 11 hours flight, I watched 5 movies. Here are my thoughts on them and in order.

I started with Inception since it caused a really big hype when it came out. Everyone was like omg omg but for some reason I did not go watch it, I think it was due to the bombardment of assignments. After watching it, I now fully understand why it was considered one of the top movies this year. The idea and the concept of the movie is pure genius and beyond creative. 10/10 from me, strongly recommend movie to watch.

I wanted to watch Ip Man 2 but the movie was laggy so I then pick this. I've seen the first Ip Man so I thought it was weird to find this movie exist. I prefered the story of the Ip Man series better. I didnt like how this movie ended. I'm not saying its bad its just not my kind of ending. 7/10

Unsatisfied with the Ip Man I just watched, I tried this again and it wasnt laggy anymore yay! lol I really like the Ip Man character in this movie. He is alawys calm, friendly and fights for justice, I also prefer his style of kung fu than the other movie. In Ip Man 1, he fought the Jap, this time hes fighting England. My jaw actually dropped in amazement(this never happened in any other movie before) when I was watching Ip Man fighting the other pro kung fu master, really pro stuff, must watch. 9/10 for this.

At this point I was already tired as however still could not go to sleep so I decided to watch another big hype movie this year. Im always a PIXAR fan, was kinda disappointed with UP last year but think goodness PIXAR brought back it's usual standard. Sequel from Toy Story 1 and 2, the 3rd movie shows what happens to the toys when Andy grows up and is about to go to college. Like all PIXAR movies, its packed with humour, adventure, action and sometimes sadness. It actually got me thinking about my old toys when I was watching this lol. A solid 8 or 9/10 for Toy Story 3.

2 hours left until Hong Kong, 11:30pm time in NZ, eyes burning but cant sleep. All other movie would not finish before I land so I picked this one. Just a standard Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie and I was pretty sure I've seen it before. I was right, I saw the last 10 mins of it like a year ago. 4/10, maybe Im too old for this but I found the movie lacking story and action lol~

I then had to wait an hour and a half in HK airport. As soon as I got on the plane to TW, I fell asleep almost immediately. I missed my meal :/ grrr
Got to Taiwan at 12am, 5am NZ time basically overnighted. Arrived home at 3am, was just too insane...

Universe - 2nd Opinion Needed

2010-11-08T00:14:00.004+13:00

Omg double post in one day however this is emergency! I need to know... IS THE VOCALIST A GUY OR A GIRL?!

Oh by the way, my favourite song lists has expanded and categorised into English, Jap and Korean! My taste in music covers a wide arrange of area hence the need for an updated system XD

P.S. Just realised its past 12 so its actually not double post in one day

Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in the Sky

2010-11-07T21:03:00.004+13:00

Another quick movie review, for those who dont know Im a straight up Detective Conan fan. Been watching/reading the movies/manga ever since I was a kid so there was no way I would miss the latest movie. Movie 14: The Lost Ship in the Sky.

I thought this movie took a different route than most of the previous movies. Previous movies always slowly uncover events, build up excitement for the final climax. However movie 14 reveals the exciting part relatively early and then had continous excitement and tension throughout the entire movie. This results in an average-ish ending in my opinion though.

As shown on the poster, Kaitou Kid shows up in this movie and it is always fun to see him in action. He works with Conan together on this one though and therefore the humour level is higher compare to the other movies. I didnt really like the ending theme, it kinda strayed away from the usual Bz or Mai Kuraki. I give movie 14 8/10, 2 off for the ending and ending theme XD

Resident Evil Afterlife

2010-11-05T17:15:00.003+13:00

Woot finally an update that hasnt been a month after the previous one. Anyway had dynamics exam today, I tried my best I guess. After the exam, went to the korean place opposite imax to eat, it was pretty good. Then went to watch Resident Evil Afterlife with Dennis, Dixon and Jp.

Now to fully understand this movie (well maybe not fully but MOST of it) you must have seen the previous Resident Evil movie Extinction and to have played the game Resident Evil 5. The first half an hour or so, you would be pretty lost and be going wtf if you havent seen the 3rd movie. I found that this movie focuses more on the journey of Alice rather than fighting fked up creatures like 1st and 3rd movie.

A lot of the monsters/zombies were taken from the game Resident Evil 5, I particularly enjoyed the axe boss scenes. There were definately a lot more humour in this movie or maybe cause I was tired from the morning exam so I laughed at their dry jokes lol. But yeah, I really enjoyed watching this movie right after the exam. They had a few jump scares which got me, yes I admit it.

A downside in this movie is that they used the slow motion scenes quite often, to show how cool the characters are probably. It works well once or twice but too often just overkills it. I know all the critics on the net says this movie is crap but thats what they said for all the RE movies. But since I've always enjoyed watching and playing RE. It was a fun, enjoyable movie for me to watch, I give it 8/10.

NBA - My favourite players

2010-10-28T22:32:00.003+13:00

Ok it seems like im getting more and more inactive with the blog business. Time between entries is longer and less updates per month. My excuse this time is that I had a pretty insane last month of uni. Just assignments then test then more assignments, one after another. Anyway now that uni has finished, Im hoping that I can get back into this again.

So a bit of a status update on my life, currently on study break. Got an exam next friday and the friday after that then I'll be free :D Need to try to find a job for engineering work experience this holiday. If anyone has any news about it, feel free to contact me. Umm, going for my collapsed lung surgery after my last exam and hopefully I wont get a 3rd collapse again... I really want to get back into basketball. Feeling pretty frustrated that I'm not improving my game while everyone else is. Speaking of basketball, new NBA season started yesterday so I might as well write something about NBA.

My Favourite Players

Steve Nash

If you've played basketball with me then you'll definately know that I'm a Steve Nash fan. Nash is considered one of the best point guard of all times. Right now there are quite a few awesome PGs out there like Jason Kidd (still going strong), Rajon Rondo (getting better everyday), Chris Paul, Deron Williams but none appear to me more other than Nash. His ability of seeing the floor, his team is incredible. The no look passes can easily make the opposing team go wtf? Even I go wtf and Im not even playing! Nash can also drain 3s, drive in and make the most random layup plus his free throws are basically automatic in. I can still go on but I think I'll stop here lol, save some space for the other players.

Jason Williams

Yes another point guard but Jason Williams is nothing like Nash. The only common thing between them is probably seeing the court. I really enjoy watching Jason Williams when he was in Sacremento Kings, he doesnt play as big of a role nowdays. But back in the days, he was the shizz. His passes are wild as, crazy bullet speed behind the back pass, behind the head pass. The one which he is famously known for was the pass off the elbow, I mean who could've thought of that?! Due to his insanely crazy and accurate passes, it earned him the nickname of "The White Chocolate". The blackest white boy who has ever balled in NBA history. He can also shoot 3s pretty well and his layups are usually one handed which allows him to manuever freely in the air.

Dwyane Wade

Finally a black player! LOL jks, D Wade, where to start. Well hes definately NBA's best slasher in my opinion. The way he can dribble through 2 defenders then jump in the air and avoiding 2 more defenders is pretty average for D wade. But it makes me jump up and down on my seat every time he does it. Wade specialises in driving in with the ball, splitting the defence and is damn determined to get that ball in there. The acrobatics he does is just uncomparable. Wade can also dunk with frikin authority, just go watch the one where he dunks over Varejao. Although his shooting isnt as good as his driving in skills, he can still shoot the ball well.

I've only listed here 3 of my favourites, my list carries on however some of the others are Derrick Rose, Manu Ginobli, Tracy McGrady lol I just realised they're all guards. But yeah I didnt include some of the best players right now like Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Kevin Durant. I do recognise their skills however they just do not appeal to me. I prefer watching interesting players rather than consistent players and no, I havent forgot about Michael Jordon. No man has ever reached his level yet, period.

Elfen Lied

2010-09-17T20:34:00.004+12:00

So I've uploaded the ski trip photos on to facebook, couldnt be bothered doing it on here. The uploader on here is too slow, feels like Im uploading at dial up speed or something... Now I bring you guy my opinions on Elfen Lied

Elfen Lied, another loli-ish anime with characters who have eyes that fills half of their face. Dont be fooled with the innocent looks on their faces, this anime contains heavy violence and plenty of action. Elfen Lied has one of the most memorable and disturbing intro episode I have ever seen. Lets just say it invovled tearing of body parts and loads of blood. Due to the images being too distrubing (for myself and the few general public) I wont post bloody screenshots on here. But please be warned, this anime may not be suitable for young audience or people with weak stomach.

Besides the bloody aspects of this anime, Elfen Lied's story isnt bad. It was interesting enough for me to keep wanting to watch the next episode. It starts off with the introduction of diclonius, a mutant species to the human race (actually tbh cute anime girls with horns on their heads). They have invisible arms that can extend which serves as their weapon or just extra limbs. The anime then carries on exploring a special diclonius, Lucy's past.

The drawings and artwork I thought were really average. They really could have done better. However it was done in 2004 so I wont push on. Another thing to note about the anime is the amount of nudity contains in it. I could accept on some occasion it was appropriate however they just went overbroad with it. An clear example of my point would be, the anime intro song is just Lucy posing nude in every scene. Seeing a young underaged girl naked just isnt my thing, I find it sickening. My guess is that they added just for the fans out there who are just into these things... So again be warned, Elfen Lied not suitable for young audiences.

Nothing really to say about music, other than meh. I wished there was less violence and more funny, everyday life kinda things in the story. It would really suit the characters. One thing I did like was how the anime ended. In most anime, I would be like wtfff at the end since it'll just have bizarre twist or a rush ending. Although this was also a rushing ending, with few unexplained bits, I found this one acceptable and liked it somewhat. Anyway to conclude, Elfen Lied just isnt my type of anime so I rate it at best 5/10 despite the general high rating of 9/10 on the internet.

Tomorrow When The War Began

2010-09-08T00:10:00.004+12:00

Just watched Tomorrow When The War Began and thought I'd blog this before I forget. This movie is about 7 friends who went out on their end of the year trip then came back home to find that their home had become a war zone.

I thought the acting was realistic, the actors expression really portrayed their emotion and the situation at that time. I think its cause of their acting (not to mention getting chased by bullets) made me realised how intense the movie really is. The only down side of the movie was the ending, actually there was no ending at all so that was a bit of a bummer.

I quite liked this movie, it kinda opened my eyes a bit. I often think about what happens when an emergency happens, how will I react to that situation eg. a car crash or store robbery something like that. But I never imagined what I'd do if I was in a war. The closest thing to it which I've experienced is paintball lol. I mean normally when we watch a movie or watch tv series about battles or wars, we laugh and go, haha why didnt that guy just shoot him. But if you were in that guy's position, would you have the guts to pull the trigger?

If suddenly I was given a gun and was trapped in my house with 3 of my friends while there are helicopters and soldiers outside searching and hunting civilians. Would I have the courage to lead my friends and try to survive? Or will I just breakdown completely and await death? Well for now I would say, I would stay calm and develop some sort of plan to survive but who knows, under those circumstances, you might not be who you think you are.

I dunno why this movie had such an impact on me. I guess its cause there are various things I can relate to. One, I've just been to a trip like 6 weeks ago so I know what its like out there and the terror of coming back home to find that you house is empty. Two, Im also a teenager, a student. Im not some trained militia, if war is brought upon me, Im not sure what I'll do. And three, like I said before I often find myself thinking about these situations. Anyway, I give this movie a solid 8/10 :D

So outdated...

2010-09-05T22:31:00.004+12:00

Ok, really been a while since my last update. A lot of things has happened, some were expected, some wasnt. The unexpected event was my lung collapse 2-3 weeks ago, I stayed in hospital for nearly a week. Various things kept me from updating my blog, one, obviously my stay in hospital. There was no internet in the hospital :OO Second, assignments tests assignments. Before and after my stay in the hospital, I've been studying for tests and working on assignments. I just finished my software one today but still have 2 more to do...

I finally watched Angels and Demons (with subtitles otherwise I got no clue whats going on lol) and I must say I really liked it. The views of science and religion plus detective reasoning was a perfect mix. Plenty of action, mind 'blasting' storyline and Tom Hanks. This movie is a 10/10 in my eyes.

Upcoming updates: Ski trip photos(really need to get that done), Elfen Lied review, my hospital adventure(if I feel like writing it).

For now I leave you with my current favourite songs.

Redemption - Gackt

Already Over - Red

Entertaining Aion Videos

2010-08-15T10:14:00.003+12:00

Second day of the ski trip will be up soon but for now I would like to present to you these exceptionally well done Aion videos. The first two were done by EpicCookies on Youtube. After watching these, I just had to subscribe to her!

The next two are about a player named Rosch trying to find his love.

Ski Trip Day 1 (Finally lol...)

2010-08-02T17:55:00.008+12:00

Ok I admit I've been lazy, no updates for like 3 weeks. Quite a few people have asked me to write about the ski trip, sorry about that, just couldn't bring myself to do it, anyway here we go.

Oh before I start, I would like to ask those people who are quite picky about my grammar mistakes to step up and correct any mistakes you can find. Just post them at the comments below or tell me on msn. I got to get myself ready for the report writing assessment :)

So on Tuesday 13th July, us 3 clueless asian headed out of Auckland and was on our way down to Mt Ruapehu. By reading printed off maps from Google map, the journey was rather pleasant and straight forward.

Just...perfect weather

Aaaannnd we're off!

Stopped by at Huntly to have lunch

Member of the team: Leader/organiser admiring his lunch (the fish burger was actually really good, do try it if you are there next time)

Professional photographer trying to drink out of a vase

Master of San Guo Sha eating rabbit food

The busy road

Hey, I got up early to watch the soccer world cup ok?

The Big Apple Cafe, might consider stopping by next time

Shawn: GOOD views!

Omg, finally! I see the white mountain!

Arrived at our accomodation, Snowy Waters Lodge

Our room

Dinner at Mountain Kebabs in Ohakune, best kebab in NZ! (not joking)

Giant connect 4, game on!

Shuhan prepares to rob a bank

Night time entertainment, San Guo Sha

im so high~ im so high

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

2010-07-12T19:44:00.004+12:00

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is now taken off from the Anime Currently Watching list and joins the Anime Finished Watching list. Yes that's right the anime has indeed finished since last Monday. Due to various distractions I only just finished watching the last episode. Now this might be a pretty big statement coming from me but I think this FMA series is probably the best anime series I've watched up to now (although Clannad could compete against it).

Let's see... I dont even know where to begin. XD
Ok lets just start with the story. Unlike the previous series, this series is directly from the manga which means it's omg epic as. There is always a twist or cliff-hanger in almost every episode, hardly any dull episodes. The journey that the brothers had been through had been a long one, I watched an episode a week for a year and it had been the most satisfying anime to watch. I cant imagine for the manga readers, after all those years and all came to an end.

I can officially say this is the best action/comedy anime I've ever watched. All the fighting scenes are packed with excitement and thrill, occasionally suspense. Some episodes just gets you on to the edge of your seat and you would hope that it does not end. The comedy is just brilliant, most of it involves Ed since hes the impatient, jumpy type. But because of all the characters different personality. the funny parts really makes you laugh out loud.

The music for this anime is quite decent but what I really liked about this series are their opening and endings. I liked every single song they picked and all the opening animations, they always corresponds to the story without giving too many spoilers. My favourite ones will definately have to be the 4th opening, Period by Chemistry then 1st opening, Again by Yui and then 5th opening, Rain by SID.

If I really had to compare, I prefered the artwork of first series of FMA, the characters looked cooler, here they look a bit round on the face and less detailed. If the artwork was a bit more detailed then this anime would be perfect in my book. Nevertheless, it was still enough to make this anime looked cool.
So people, watch Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, you will not regret it. I give this anime 10/10! If you dont watch it then... Ed might hunt you down!

Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler

2010-07-02T22:44:00.003+12:00

Omg??? 2 updates in one day??? Well I guess Im making up for my June section which only has 3 entries... Anyway like I said yesterday, I recently watched a Japanese movie called Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler and it was such a suprisingly good find.

Like half an hour into the movie, I kept thinking the main character Kaiji looked strangely familiar but where else could I have encountered a Japanese actor? Then it suddenly hit me, OMG IT WAS DEATH NOTE, YAGAMI LIGHT! The movie suddenly got 5x better.

The movie is full of mind games, quite similar to Death Note. However in Kaiji there are parts where really strong emotions were shown and you would know exactly how he felt during that time. Although the acting isnt all perfect compare to american films, the tone of the actors was enough to display the message across. I'll probably get the general picture of it if I watched it without subtitles.

Then near the end, an insert song was played while the ending was shown. The movie ended with 10x more satisfaction for me cause the song was sung by YUI! Yui's It's All Too Much was a #1 single last year. The credit song Never Say Die is the 2nd song that was released in that album.

P.S. Was looking at the cast of Kaiji and Death Note while writing this. To my amazement L WAS IN KAIJI TOO OMFG. I KNEW I'VE SEEN SAHARA'S FACE SOMEWHERE LOL. Just couldnt recognise him without the insane eye make up XD
This movie was placed in my favourite movies list right after I watched it. My rating for it would be 9/10 due to a few biased factors XD 7/10 for general public.

Dragon Age

2010-07-02T21:39:00.005+12:00

Been wanting to write the review for this game ever since I finished it since 3 weeks ago. So lets get straight to it. Dragon Age is a RPG game, made by Bioware and I must say this game is actually pretty good. The background story is that the dark spawns (kinda like undeads) are rising again and only Grey Wardens have the power to defeat them. You start off by choosing your race and occupation. Then the story begins with your chosen race's setting and background. After a while, the story will converge, meaning no matter what your chosen race or background is, you will be be playing the main story now.

I chose to start off with a Dalish Elf cause they were like in the wilds and use bows so I figured they seemed like elven archers in mmorpg games lol. However to my disappointment they werent as strong in this game. Nevertheless I enjoyed playing my character even if I was weak. Anyway moving along, Bioware tend to make their rpg games real life ish. Every conversation will have at least 3 options for you to choose as your answer and sometime your answer can affect your game dearly. The consequences of your answer could range from getting a bit more money for yourself or a party member leaving your group (and no you wont get them back again). It's like if you anger a friend, you lose him/her forever.

Dragon Age is a team fighting game so technically you're role playing 4 roles. However while you are controlling one, the others will auto attack and you can also set the kind of spell they use or the action they should take when they are on auto attack. Speaking of team members, each member has this relationship scale with you. Much like real life, not everyone will always agree to your actions. So most of the time when you make a decision like accepting a bribe or not, some members will approve your action while some wont. Therefore it is actually quite hard to be Mr Popular or the Ladies Man. I tried dating 2 girls at the same time but then in the end I could only choose one.

The graphics I thought was pretty average, I've seen better. The music used during the game was nice though. The fighting game play is pretty easy once you get the hang of it. The key is to press pause and you will be pressing pause a lot whether you like it or not lol. However the thing I liked the most about Dragon Age is the story. Although there is a vague overall story while you play. Your decision that you make during the game really influence how the story will turn out in the end. You are in charge of your life which in result you are in control of your destiny. With that being said, luckily there is the save/load option so I could test and try out my life before choosing my destiny :P
Dragon Age is a game I definately would recommend to play, a solid 8/10 from me. If I had a LOT of spare time, I would consider re-playing it. :D

4 days into holiday

2010-07-01T22:12:00.004+12:00

Finally an update! I've been wanting to write for some time but due to certain circumstances I was not able to do it. First, obvious reason, exams. I studied for 3 weeks straight, only left home for exams, occasionally buying food and one day of basketball. Second, I was on dial up speed since the 20th of June, damn my 9GB limit T.T

So to the holiday life we go. Right after the electrical exam, I went to Korean BBQ with Karthik, Ben, Alvin and Dixon. It was going great until the rice ran out and they didnt refill it like half an hour later which ruined our appetite. The portion of meat and rice must be balanced in order to keep eating. Oh and Ben's toilet trip was pretty lol! After the meal, went to play pool with Alvin and Dixon and that basically concluded my day. No wait I also watched a Japanese movie called Kaiji, more about that later on.

The very next day, I remembered the promise to myself that I would go gym on the day after my exam. So I dragged Shawn with me to go work out and boy was I weak lol. A year of no gym had it's toll, Im like basically back to where I started. Hopefully with all the gaps in next semester will allow me to go gym and start building up again. Played 10mins of bball before injuring my thumb AGAIN and got kicked off the court by badminton players.

The 3rd day after waking up with intense aching muscles, I had to get myself to uni by 12 to play bball with the crew, if I dont show then that means 3 other ppl wont show lol therefore my attendance was required. To most of our amazement Jerrell finally joined the gym! We had some pretty good games however I was scared to use my right hand due to painful thumb so I couldnt go hard and most of my shots were off... Afterwards, we went to Golden Bowl for a feed as usual. I thought I'd try something new however it was the worst decision ever made. The dish I ordered was really sour and somewhat spicy, luckily I was hungry therefore I could finish half of it. Then went to play pool again with Jerrell and Shawn hehe.

4th day, today. The day started in a good way since I have broadband again! I could open my email within 10 secs instead of 3mins! Got to uni by 12 again to attend the job seminar. There were 2 guests speakers and both gave quite a lot of information so I guess my trip was worthwhile. After the 2 and a half hour seminar, we couldnt decide where to go and have lunch. Then funny enough they agreed on Korean BBQ, Dennis and Juan. Lol 2 korean bbq in 4 days. Luckily this time the rice did not run out and I ate pretty much my money's worth. Had to kill time before the main event so went around the city, read magazines, look at laptops, play at arcade. Then finally it was time.

We arrived at the shooting range 20mins early however there were already 6-8 people waiting. Then within the short time range, it grew to about 25 or more. We shared a booth between us 5 ppl, each shot 5 rounds which is 1 mag on the .22 rifle. Juan was a pro therefore he could fire a semi auto pistol. Now I had never seen or heard or fired a gun in my whole life. So this was quite a new experience for me. We were all required to wear earmuffs. I thought to myself how loud could this sht be??? So I took them off after a while but then put them straight back on 3 secs later LOL. The BANG sound actually hurts your ear a bit.

My first try I was just a complete newb, luckily Juan helped me load the rifle but I did not know how to aim with the rifle, where I should be looking etc. On my second go, one of the supervisors taught me the proper technique and all soon enough I got the hang of it. Due to time running out and we just bought new 50 rounds, we quickly fired 10 rounds each and I must say I had some major improvement.I was reloading fast and like 3 of mine were really close to the centre I was aiming for. This was definately a new and fresh experience for me and Im looking forward to improve on this skill in the future :D

Eden of the East

2010-06-17T00:44:00.003+12:00

Started watching this anime last week, finished it 2 days ago. Eden of the East is a very modern anime, aired only last year and is rated quite highly on the net. This anime is more for young adults or adults rather than kids cause the story involves conspiracy, politics and since Im not interested in any of those areas, the anime didnt appeal to me as much as other people. The story starts off with the main character finding himself with memory loss and a phone that will do anything he asks it to do. His journey seeking the answer to why he lost his memories and the true identity of the phone then begins.

The drawings and animation I thought were excellent. Really realistic and just... modern lol, cant think of any other words to describe it. Like you look at the train ticket gate thing, you can see how much detail is on that. All the scenery, city view, etc just looks the same as they do in Japan except animefied <--new word. Not much could be said about the music, I thought it was pretty average. The opening and ending songs... kinda like the opening song but a thing to notice is the art work for them. Really unique and different for each of the songs.

Japan actually made a real version of the phone shown above. Now this is the first time in my life that a phone has sparked my interst. It just looks so damn cool! Now since the anime hasnt officially ended (going to end with 2 movies I think), I cant give my final rating. But my rating for just the anime series will be 5 or 6 /10 since it is not my type of anime.

Shinjuku Incident

2010-06-14T00:57:00.005+12:00

Just finished watching Shinjuku Incident starring Jackie Chan and I'm not sure if I can say I liked it since it is not my type of film but it was definately worth watching. The story involved Japanese gangs Yakuza and illegal Chinese immigrants in Japan.

Unlike the usual Jackie Chan movies where they are humourous with plenty of kungfu. This movie was dark, serious and absolutely no kungfu but instead, plenty of violence. Jackie plays a illegal Chinese immigrant who arrived in Japan to find his girlfriend. However only to find that Japan was not an easy place to live, with cops around during the days and yakuza ruling during the nights.

This movie touched on issues like Japan and it's yakuza influence. Kinda like Russian mafias, their existence has placed them in a unmoveable spot within Japanese society. Sure if they break the law, cops has the authority to arrest them however if they were uprooted entirely then Japan would not function as they are now.

Other issues like racism definately comes up in these type of movies. Obviously if you are an illegal immigrant nobody really cares about you and your social status will be at the lowest of low. However if the numbers increase and orders start to form then the host nation will then view you as a threat.

Well I would like to talk more about the movie but then it would be like writing my NCEA lvl 2 essay on films. It is also time for me to sleep, things I've learned from this movie would be... life is really about the choices YOU make, certain events can force you to make harsh decisions and uhh dont do drugs, it really fucks you up, you can see it in the movie. XD I would give this movie quite a high rating like 7/10 although it wont be in my favourite films or watch again list lol...

Friends helps you learn!

2010-06-06T21:59:00.004+12:00

Finally no more assignments, projects, tests, just 3 exams and this semester will be over. First I just wanna say thanks to all my mech friends, if you answered any of my questions, you had just taught me what the lecturer failed to do. :)

For any first years or soon to be in uni people who reads this, friends are really important in uni (actually in all area of learning). They really do help you to pass your course, maybe they view things different to you therefore they can understand the things you dont, maybe they went to the class which you missed or maybe they are just smarter than you XD

Lol I just wanted to say thanks but now since the theme of friends has already been set, I'll just carry on.

I've made some new friends this semester and Im really glad I did cause on one hand they are helping me passing the course and on the other it's fun chatting and laughing with them. What about old friends? Cant forget about your good old mates, they are the people I go to when I need a favour cause well... I trust them.

Now there will be friendly or should i say "intense" competition between friends when it comes to tests and assignments. The smart decision before the test would be to unite as one and help each other with questions. Both the questioner and the answerer benefits since one would obtain new knowledge while the other would apply newly learned knowledge. When the marks are out, you shouldnt get jealous of other's high mark or depressed with your low mark. But rather used those feelings as motivation for the next test. I mean it is pretty pointless crying over marks you cant change, you cant blame it on anyone else since you're the one who did the test.

Anyway enough serious stuff, I finally had time for some fun starting from last Friday. Went to uni early to finish the Pro E drawings for the project, I made our tranmission system all cool and colourful >< After handing it in, I felt so relieved. Then went lunch and played pool with Alvin's crew. Had mean games with Dixon, we both played well but hes clutch, he pulls out his bs skills when he realise that he is losing. I think he sunk 5 or 6 balls straight and cleared the table, while i had 2 left at one time.

Then today went to uni to play ball, waited an hour and half for Shawn but had some good 3v3 games between former westlakes and tgs. Was tied at 2-2 before Sherman's sudden withdraw during the last game. Then went to KFC for lunch which was gg since I was craving for it these past days. Gotta start studying tomorrow...

Hmm wouldnt it be cool if your friends were as awesome as these fellas XD

Ooh also I've added a current favourite song section so I can share the music which I think everyone should have a listen. :D

Ip Man and Fire amvs

2010-05-27T23:07:00.005+12:00

So I've had 3 tests for the past 3 days and tonight was the first time I had a chance to relax in a long long time. Decided to watch the first Ip Man movie since I havent seen it and my thoughts? Just wow lol

I have always enjoyed Chinese martial arts movies therefore after 10mins into it I knew I would also like this movie. This movie is similar to Fearless (霍元甲) starring Jet Li where kung fu is the symbol of Chinese people. Themes such as family, culture, pride were emphasised strongly throughout the movie. I liked the story of Fearless better but this was also good. I gotta say though, his style of kung fu is like intense massaging lol! I would rate this movie around 8 or 9 outta 10. Even if you're not chinese, I'm sure you'll like it anyway.

I saw this Naruto Fire amv today and thought they should really use this to advertise a Naruto game or well.. anything Naruto. It's really awesomely made.

And this is a random as amv, I thought it was pretty funny

Oh and also the Suns are now even with the Lakers, 2 incredible games played by them! :D

Taio Cruz - Break Your Heart Cover ft. Kevin Lien

2010-05-19T00:38:00.003+12:00

Accidently discovered this 20 years old tw dude Kevin Lien, man hes got talent! I really love his covers. This one is definately the best! Listened to it like 6 times already ><. Oh Kevin the one in black shirt btw.

Great ad about Taiwan

2010-05-18T00:33:00.003+12:00

Had trouble finding materials to put on here these days. Since theres absolutely nothing exciting going on in my life right now. But I saw this video on my cousin's facebook, thought I'll share it here too. It is an ad by Bill Gates about Taiwan.

After watching it, I just feel proud to be a Taiwanese. I espeically liked the part when he said "so partnering with Taiwan, means you can be sure you get nothing but the very best" (Yeahh, thats right Angie XD)

Fun music videos

2010-05-09T16:05:00.002+12:00

Stuffs

2010-05-07T23:32:00.002+12:00

Lacking updates... the only reason for that could only be uni... Had back to back test and project due this week. I did not sleep last night, I thought I could finish within 4 hours but instead it was around 15 hours. 40mins before project submission, I found out I left 1/3 of the project at home......SIGH.

A lot of events occured, Im gonna write them down before I forget. First, went to watch Iron Man 2 the day after it's release. Had 2 blackouts before the actual movie started so it kinda ruined the trailers and we had to sit and wait for like 5mins each time. I thought the movie was alright, it was cool but dull at the same time.

Went to play basketball at TGS on sat and on my way driving there, there was a light shower and a perfect semi circle rainbow appeared right in front of my eyes. When I drove past Akoranga Station I could see the 2 ends of the rainbow, it was just there above the sea. I've never seen an end of a rainbow before so I thought it was really cool and no there was no pot of gold.

I had a big night that night, making buckets, good drives, bullsht shots, alleyoop, 3 pointers. It felt good to receive the ball and making shots, which I was struggling to do a month ago. However the saying "the higher you are, the harder you fall" arrived upon me. After attempting a jump shot, my left leg went entirely numb and the pain was unbearable. I had pulled it... All I remembered was a lot of people helped me sat down and executed the proper treatment for it. I am really thankful, honestly.

Also congrats to the Suns making it to the 2nd round! Grant Hill T.T Now with the 2-0 lead against the Spurs, when all odds were against you guys. I have faith!

I also want to go on a trip somewhere away from Auckland in the next holidays. Im just sick of the city, sick of uni, doing the same sht over and over every single day. I need to get out of this never ending cycle. So if you're also feeling the same way as I am then contact me, I'm definately wanting to do something fun and adventurous. Rawr

Big Bang - Lies

2010-04-21T22:42:00.003+12:00

Finall got a bit of a breather after finishing the electrical test today. Anyway Alvin distracted me last night with my studies (wasted like an hour) with a parody of the song Lies by Big Bang. Anyway I have always loved the song and the music video for it, one of my favourite ones. The parody was done really well and extremely funny! XD

Original

Parody

Rumour has it that a girl in 2nd year engineering was involved in this?
There is also a blooper vid for it, it is honestly r o f l

Oh also congrats on Suns taking game 2! Nearly 30 points over, thats what im talking about!

Uni again / NBA playoffs

2010-04-19T22:47:00.004+12:00

First week back in uni, been busy doing the maths project. Thanks to all that helped, would have never gotten it if you didnt explain it to me :D Didnt do much in the holidays, really regretting that I didnt plan a trip to go somewhere outdoors. Will definately go somewhere during the next holiday, already got some ideas in mind. Skiing on some moutain perhaps or maybe go down to South Island??

NBA playoff also started yesterday! Each team seemed all pumped up, I noticed more contact and aggressiveness from the players lol. I support the Phoenix Suns, I really admire Steve Nash and Amar'e Stoudemire. Nash's team play and Stoudemire's attitude and inside game is a force to be reckoned with! Game 1 with Portland Trail Blazer...not so good... Come on guys! They had no roy, no oden and we had home court! Take the next game!

Saw Shimeen's entry today and I thought it was really well written, here it is A long bus ride.

Bakemonogatari

2010-04-12T11:18:00.003+12:00

Kinda delayed this review for a week or so. Last Tuesday my internet provider randomly went down and I had nothing to do so I decided to watch Bakemonogatari.

At first it was sort of random, it wasnt an insanely attention grabbing first episode. But I did notice humour and it made me laugh so I decided to press on. The more episodes you watch, the more it grows on you and by the end I was glad that I watched such an interesting anime.

The story is about a guy who is part vampire and his encounters with other oddities like ghosts, bad spirits. This anime has many themes like romance (quite exciting due to the characters involved), humour (can be dry but you get used to it), action (can be extremely bloody when it needs to be) and mysteries (you dont know like how stuff started and how things gonna end). I guess that is why it is such an enjoyable anime to watch, all those factors combine is something you can not dislike.

This anime is fairly new, came out last year if I'm not mistaken. The style is quite unique and modern, I have never seen any anime like it. It uses a lot of subliminial message (I think thats what its called) like where it just flashes a random image for a second. At first I found it irritating but then I got used to it, it is just the style of the anime. The drawing is simple yet stylish, I liked it, I think the manga was drawn by a taiwanese guy, woot!

I liked the background music they used during the anime, it fits well during those explanation scenes. They also used different openings for different characters, which was nicely done. It corresponded with the characters really well. I enjoyed most of their songs, pretty easy going sort of music.

You would enjoy this anime better if you were really fluent or if you are a Japanese. Since a lot of the explanations are play on words and puns from Japanese. I understood some bits of it (since I can read Kanji and know some vocabs) and I thought it was quite clever. But yeah this anime has quite a few talking scenes so beware lol. Even so I definately give Bakemonogatari a solid 8/10, I might move it up since I still havent finished watching it yet. The last episode comes out in June or something -.-

Taiwan's Susan Boyle

2010-04-08T23:27:00.001+12:00

Win. End of story.

Clash of the Titans

2010-04-04T09:15:00.003+12:00

Went to Imax to check out the 3D Clash of the Titans last night. Got there and found that basically all the seats were booked except for some crappy ones at the very front. So we had to watch the next one at 9:10... To kill time, we went to eat dinner and play pool. Angie was just too unpredictable, keep getting the weirdest shots in and I was like helping them along by sinking their balls and not ours =.= So we ended up getting owned 3-0.

Ok from now on, Im not going to watch any movie that is 3D. Like Avatar there were hardly anything that is 3d. If 3d meant that the characters looked kinda real ON the screen then yea ok... but Im pretty sure that 3d meant that the characters are suppose to have a pop out effect in front of your eyes. So I was again pretty disappointed with the 3Dness...

The story was pretty standard and straight forward. The fight scenes were great and realistic, occasionally funny. Like when the final bad guy comes out, Jason and I were like omg a lvl 50 asmo SM XD I'm loving the current technology that we have for computer rendering and animation, it just made those demons and monsters looked extremely real so I give them a thumbs up on that part.

There were a few element of suprises but they were also random. Quite a bit of the movie did not make actual sense. After the movie, we had a field day just pointing out what didnt make sense, what was extremely dumb and why didnt this guy do that and stuff. It was extremely funny, Angie just kept face palming herself due to the uncontrollable laughter lol! Anyway I thought this movie was all right, entertaining but not because of the story. Probably a 6.5/10 or somewhere around there from me.

Lego Matrix Trinity Help

2010-04-02T09:53:00.002+13:00

No more tests, no more pressure. The term has ended. Went out to play pool and momo last night, was really fun and just... relaxing.

This video was the first thing that came up on my google home page and it just gave me laughs. A great start to the holidays.

Aion Forgotten Sorrow

2010-03-29T10:20:00.004+13:00

This week is clutch week for everyone with all the assignments, labs, tests and projects needs to be done. So here is a relaxing korean song that is used for Aion's theme song. It is a great song to listen to while studying, there is also an English version if you prefer it, just look it up.

Just 4 more days till happiness!

Earth Hour

2010-03-25T22:11:00.001+13:00

Music reaches into people

2010-03-20T20:20:00.003+13:00

So today I had to go to uni to do project with Ming and Angie and on the bus on the way to uni, these 2 pacific island or maori girls got on. They then got their ipod attached to speakers and started playing their music. I guess at first people were kind of annoyed because they were being pretty incosiderate, ruining the peace and quiet of the bus. But then the song was changed to We are the world 25 for Haiti and I felt the mood changed. It felt like the entire bus was listening and enjoying the song. After I got off the bus, these 2 maori guys who sat in front of me were singing and humming the song to themselves. That was when I truly witness the power of music.

After working on the project, we had lunch at Ku Bick, (I had to desperately finish my udon cause of bus -.-). Then took the bus to Newmarket to watch Alice in Wonderland. It was my first time going to the cinema in Newmarket and I thought it looked pretty good. Met up with Catherine and we played air hockey lol~ Ming and I had a pretty intense last battle.

The movie I thought was really really average... definately not worth $13.50, storyline predictable, not much excitement. The only things I liked was Johnny Depp playing the Mad Hatter and the card soldiers looked pretty cool...
After the movie, went to rec centre and shot around with Ming. Used my last day of gym membership, no more gym for me now~~~ T_T

I miss...

2010-03-17T22:43:00.002+13:00

I miss...
Playing basketball at lunch time at the outdoor courts with all the asians.

The year 9 basketball team.

Playing dota with mates, in house or owning pubbers. lsSl & D0T4

Playing lineage 2 with jordan, raycher, moon and others. evUchiha

The 10mins basketball games between classes that we had in chinese school.

Playing beyblades or yugioh whatever was the shiz at that time.

Handball during lunch time.

Going on trips and camps with the class.

Good friends who I met and now lost contact with.

Talking about which charater or monster was stronger rather than how to do this problem and when is the test.

Sensei John and the ball tagging game.

The old disney movies where they were hand drawn. eg Tarzan, Mulan.

Playing Mu with in hwan and my secret stash.

BEING A KID.

What do you miss?

Selling Ghosts???

2010-03-10T22:20:00.002+13:00

I wanted to talk about his 2 days ago however kept forgetting -.-" This auction on Trade Me has been getting views from all over the world last week. Why? cause someone is selling two captured ghosts.

TWO CAPTURED GHOST

The story that the seller is telling us is that there had been freaky events going on in the house like things turning on and off by itself, getting touched on the back of the neck, dogs wouldnt enter certain rooms. So the seller hired an exorcist and captured 2 ghosts, an old man and an young girl. Since then the events had stopped.

This auction sparked opinions from all kinds of people, there are some who felt disgusted and sick because the seller had no respect for human spirits and just treating them like objects. Some thought that the seller was completely bullshting and its just 2 bottles of blue food colouring dye. Some were amused and asked questions like what would happen if you drank it. I thought the seller handled the bombardment of questions quite well, i think i read it was more than 1300 questions. The seller said that the money from the auction is going to cover the exorcist's fee and the rest is going to SPCA.

Yesterday I watched on Campbell Live and found out the winner of the auction who paid more than $2800 was a company who just wanted to buy it cause the aunction attracted thousands of hits... I didnt feel too happy about that but then again it all comes down to how you view things and what you believe.

So the question here is, do you belive in ghosts? Obviously you wouldnt feel it was right to sell human spirits if you believed that the two vials were ghosts. But what if you dont believe that there are ghosts in there? Then this entire auction was pretty hillarious, someone just paid $2800 for 2 bottles of blue liquid. My personal opinion? I believe in ghosts, they probably exist but I definately wont go around selling and buying ghosts. You know, JUST INCASE they do exist and starts haunting my house :P OR vice versa, I open the bottle and there are no ghosts in it :(

What says you?

Flash Mind Reader

2010-03-06T21:53:00.002+13:00

Ok I just received this link from Shawn and its like oh my good, unbelievable!!!

The Flash Mind Reader

It works like this... Choose a number from 10-99, add the 2 digits then subtract the answer from your original number.
Eg. You chose 23, 2+3 = 5, 23-5 = 18
Then you concentrate the corresponding symbol with the number 18... then click the orb...

Ergo Proxy

2010-03-03T22:53:00.003+13:00

Just finished Ergo Proxy and uhh I dont even know where to start. If you ask me to describe the anime in one word it would definately be random. Second word would be unique. Ergo Proxy is an anime about the future where humans each had a personal robot to take care of them (autoreivs). The air was also too polluted for humans to live in and they had to live inside a dome. Then we get a glimpse of human like monsters. The anime started off with lots of questions and mysteries, they were revealed or answered bit by bit as the anime progressed.

The animation wasnt bad, quite average. The artwork for the opening song was nicely done though, with all the dark lines effects, corresponded with the theme of the anime, dark and mysterious. While Im on the subject of the opening, I quite like the opening song, especially the part where he stands all alone and screams to the world. But other than that, there is nothing more I can say about the music for Ergo Proxy.

This should give you some idea of what the anime is like.

I honestly thought it was a white dude who sangs this until I looked it up, yes they are Japanese :O

I know that a lot of people likes this anime because of the story, the pace, the arrangement of the story but personally I did not like it. There were too many mysteries shown at the start and the explanations for it were too vague. I also felt that the pace was too fast, like I'll finish one episode then start watching another one. But after 5 mins into that one, I get the feeling that I missed an episode in between because I do not see how it relates to the episode before.

The reason I described the anime as being random, not only because of the 'timeline jumps' but the anime also had really random episodes. Some were complete fillers, literally rubbish episodes where it didnt even matter if it was shown or not. Some were fillers that had 2 mins of significance, if you did not watch that 2 mins, you would not understand some parts of the next episode. I also feel that this anime tries to complicate things and trying to fit a lot of themes in it.

Judging from my review, you'll probably think this anime is crap. But they are just personal opinions, this is a highly rated anime on the net and most people like it. I admit even I was attracted to it for a while, around the middle part. I mean Ergo Proxy was interesting enough for me to finish the series. Actually I was glad they put the character Pino in, it gave me laughs in this shady anime. My rating for this anime 6/10.

Clannad Personality Quiz

2010-03-02T00:27:00.002+13:00

Today was the first day of my 2nd year of uni and I must say I wasnt very happy with it. I guess the problem is I havent gotten used to studying in the afternoon and having 3 or 4 classes straight, finishing the day at 6 isnt my cup of tea either... sigh. Well 2nd year sounded challenging with a mix of fear and excitement.

Found this personality quiz for Clannad and I thought it was pretty well done. This is who I got :D my favourite character

Clannad Personality Quiz

Crying Wife

2010-02-28T00:08:00.006+13:00

So the holidays are almost over, I thought it was the week after next week that we start school until like 3 days ago... A couple of yays for me this week, yay I got into Mechatronics and yay Im fit again. Two months in Taiwan with hardly any exercise really took a toll on my fitness, I remembered playing bball first week after I arrived in NZ, my entire body ached the next day, could barely move.

Yesterday I stumbled upon a very interesting site. Cryingwife.com is about a woman who gets really emotional and cries at the most random movie like Star Wars! Her husband, being the cheeky guy he is, films it and post it on youtube and their blog. While most people would be embarrassed and probably hate their partner for doing this, she actually thought that it is funny also and together they made cryingwife.com. They even got famous and were interviewed by TV and radio. It is really cool to see a regular couple just doing things they love and entertaining the whole world at the same time.

http://cryingwife.com

We Are The World 25 For Haiti - Official Video

2010-02-23T21:13:00.002+13:00

No description needed.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

2010-02-17T00:34:00.003+13:00

Today I just finished the single player campaign on Modern Warfare 2, I must say the game blew me away completely. I played Modern Warfare 1 last year and I thought it was a really cool game with a good story. MW 2 had all the features from MW 1 plus more, like more weapons, more special interactives eg. climbing along an icy cliff (that really entertained me).

The story continued from MW1, this time with more twists in it. The thing MW likes to do is to kill off the character you are playing, it was a shock to me when I first played MW and I am still trying to adjust to it even on MW2. Like MW, you play in different forces at different places however in MW2 you also get a taste of what it is like being the terrorist, carrying a giant machine gun and just killing innocent people (are we suppose to find joy in that? hmm maybe)

The missions were entertaining as always, like protecting something for a period of time, chasing down someone, infiltrate and blow up stuff or saving someone. Im not a big fan of those running through the battle field to get to the other end cause I always die like 5 times, sometimes I just cant see where the enemies are shooting from XD. I love the ones where I follow a leader and we take down enemies with our sniper rifles. I did not at any point of the game found it boring. It was more like omg cant stop playing cause everytime you die, you respawn almost instantly and you will bound to try again.

As I mentioned before, I really enjoyed those special interactives like driving some sort of transport or climbing up a cliff. It just made the game seem even more realistic and also it gives a refreshing breather from just holding a gun 24/7. Most of the game effects, I thought were pretty well done, realistic enough to make you feel like you are actually in the war zone like grenade/flash effects and soldiers shouting actual commands while fighting. I would definately rate this game above 9.5/10 and cant wait for Modern Warfare 3!

Resident Evil 5

2010-02-14T00:35:00.004+13:00

2 days ago I went over to In Hwan's house and lanned some games. We chose to play Resident Evil 5 cause it looked interesting. I must say it was a great choice for a co-op game.

Now Im not familiar with the resident evil game series so I dont understand the overall story but the story within this game was pretty cool. The game is played from a third person shooter view so its like we're looking over our guy's shoulder. I was the girl partner Sheva and inhwan was the dude Chris. The thing you gotta get used to it is that you cant shoot and run at the same time, which can be annoying when theres like a friggin angry african tribe with sharp sticks chasing after you or a big spider leg trying to crush you.

The graphics we both agreed that it was well drawn and also there isnt much difference between the cinematic cut scenes and the gameplay in terms of graphics. That added a plus in my book since Im a graphics gamer guy. Im not sure if we were killing the mobs the wrong way or something but it always seemed like we were always out of bullets lol. Most of the time when we die we were like "OMG WHY DIDNT YOU SHOOT HIM?!" "I CANT, GOT NO FRIGGIN BULLETS!" But now I think about it, maybe it was cause we didnt upgrade our guns throughout the game. We only started upgrading it near the end of the game.

A cool feature that was new for me in terms of gaming is to press specific buttons during cinematics cutscenes. Like you have to press A and D together to dodge an attack and it only gives you literally one second to react. If you dont, you'll just see yourself get owned or cause your partner to die. I remember the first time that happened, I did not know I had to press it and then inhwan just got stabbed into the helicopter, I was LOLOL laughing for like a minute. This game is so intense that it doesnt even let you relax and enjoy the cut scenes lol. We couldnt even read and understand the story because there was always a button you gotta press so we had to stay sharp.

The game had various styles, I mean not just us carrying a gun and shooting stuff. It had puzzles, like moving objects around. Sometimes we had to use the equipments provided to us to defeat bosses, like machine guns, flame throwers, lasers. Strategies are definately required, like one person distract the boss while another gets the weapon or one snipe from long range and one go into close combat. It took us around 12 hours to finish the game. I reckon it would've been better if we took our time and enjoy the game, have breaks, let some feelings sink in instead of marathoned it. But since we had limited time, oh well. Overall rating is GOOD GAME.

Aion Group Roles

2010-02-10T12:06:00.008+13:00

So I've been playing Aion for quite a bit this holiday and currently lvl 37. Im at a stage where there are many instances and group quests to do. After experiencing many of these group activities, I found that not many people are clear on what their class role is so Im just gonna mention some simple advices.

Templar

Your role is to tank. That is it. It may sound simple but there are so many tanks who fails to do this. The purpose of tanking is to let the mob attack you, yes you, not anyone else. It should be on you during the entire fight. Naturally the mob tends to go for healers or major dps class. This means you gotta constant taunt and use aggro skills, do not try to use your dps skills instead of an aggro skill, that is not your job. I've seen many tanks who did their dps skill which made the mob switch aggro to the healer and the result is entire party dead... If somehow the mob resist all your aggro skill and is running towards someone else, physically pull it back or stun it! Do not let the monsters touch anyone but you.

Sorcerer

Your role is to cc (crowd control). Again this sounds simple yet a lot of parties die due to sorc not doing it's job. CC does not mean sleep the mob beside the one the group is attacking at the start... it means that mob should be CONSTANTLY slept/rooted/treed (lol treed XD) until the other mob dies and the tank can now tank this one. The group will be happy if you just stood there and not do any dmg but kept the other mob under control. Many sorcs just wants to dps their heart out and forgets to cc, the result will be the other mob goes to attack the healer and the healer dies.

Cleric

Your role is to heal. Most who plays this class understands their role perfectly in a group. Just watch the hp bars on the side of the screen and click heal if someone's hp drops. However there are still some who thinks they're sorcs and nukes at the mobs... then when the tank hp is left with 1/4 they start healing it up. Well unless you know exactly when the mob will crit or do a magic skill that might finish the tank off, I dont recommend you doing this... If you really wanna help in dps, then summon your Holy Servant, he's your servant, let him do the nuking.

Chanter

Im a chanter myself, since chanter is the official supporting class in Aion, we have several roles. First is mantras, look at who is in your group, if you got like 2 rangers obviously it would be beneficial if you put up attack or crit mantras. If you got 2 sorcs then magic mantra would be the choice here. Do not put up mantras that you would use normally when you are soloing since you are neither the best dps nor the best healer therefore you should always think how can i make my GROUP better. You can always adjust your mantras in different occasions, if the sorc and cleric wants to rest then put up the mana mantra, helps them recover faster, time is $$. If the tank died and we should all run away, put up the speed mantra. Our second role would be healing, if you are the only healer in your group then you should be constantly healing, never dps and heal at the same time. Since we only got one major heal (which requires casting time) and hot(healing over time), it is hard to recover the tank's hp if it is too low. One heal is almost equal to one hit from the mobs in these group required areas. Even if you have a cleric in your group, it is still wise to watch for everyone's hp just incase the cleric lagged or is getting attacked, do not always rely on the cleric. Last role would be dps, just wack and spam skills and hope for knockdowns lol.

Ranger

Your major role is obviously to do damage, being one of the strongest dps class in the game. It is actually pretty easy to play a ranger, just stand there and spam skills, remember to turn on some self buffs from time to time. You may have to kite occasionally, it may be for luring several mobs out and then the tank can pull one and keep it aggro or you have to keep one busy until the tank can come help you. After playing ranger for a while, Im sure you've got your own system to kite and avoid contact with the mob as much as possible. Stunning at the right time really helps also, if you see the mob is preparing to cast a magic skill, spam the stun chain combo, you might just save everyone from getting stunned or something. Ranger has one cc skill, which is sleep arrow. However the mob may resist and the reuse time is 3 mins...so not really reliable but it is still a cc skill so use it whenever you can (if there are no cc in your team).

I'm not familiar with the following classes so I'll just mention a few things judging by what I see.

Spirit Master

For lower levels, most of the time you will be considered as back up cc due to your root skill. Just remember to root the melee one, no point rooting the range guy if he can still hurt you... At higher level, just dps it out. However in emergency situations, eg. healer or tank died, by fearing or slowing the mob down, just might give enough time for others to res the dead.

Gladiator

You come in handy when vsing mobs that summons adds since you have aggro and aoe skills. However, do NOT use aoe skills when a mob is cced next to you. It might be in your routine to use that skill when you are soloing but please do not use it during group fights. I've seen glads waking a cced mob many times because they 'accidently' pressed the aoe skill. It might just caused the entire party to die. If the templar falls, it is only natural to think that you will be tanking the mob next since you've got taunt and plate armour so just try to keep the mob on to yourself until the templar is back.

Assassin

Personally I dont see how assassin can upset a group in any way. You are a very fast dps class, just watch out for random aggros that you pull from the tank due to your insane dmg, just put on evasive skills and the tank should reclaim aggro by then. Again, stunning at the right times helps. You may have to kite occasionally (due to no rangers), if it fails you have sprint and hide to get away.

So the above are my advices and thoughts on group gameplay for each class. Sorry for the classes Im not familiar with but if you follow the rest, there should be no reason for you to die during group grinds or quests.

Malaysia 4

2010-02-03T22:36:00.003+13:00

Malaysia 3

2010-01-28T01:13:00.001+13:00

The world's tallet flag pole

Chocolate castle :D

Malaysia 2

2010-01-26T19:29:00.003+13:00

Malaysia 1

2010-01-25T19:21:00.004+13:00

Ok so last week I went to Malaysia for 6 days since I did too much stuff there I wont be writing everything, just gonna show pictures, a picture is worth 1000 words XD

Our hotel

We lived on houses above the beach

The local fruit store

Had to wear a robe to enter a temple because I was wearing shorts

Some significant place

Outside the temple, girls had to wear the robe at all cost due to religion factor

The temple again

Avatar

2010-01-22T16:57:00.002+13:00

Few days before I went to Malaysia, I went up to Taipei, there I went to watch Avatar 3D. The 3d glasses that we receieved werent those cheap paper ones but actual glasses. They were quite heavy, I had to hold mine up with my hand during the entire movie.

The words to describe Avatar are visually stunning. Not because I had the 3d glasses on, I tried taking it off for a while and watched it. To be honest, Im not sure if the 3d was worth it. During the entire movie, the only thing 3d was the chinese subtitles in my opinion lol... Anyway the computer render made the characters looked real, I dont mean it looked like they were people in costumes. Avatar's graphics is smooth, natural and defined. The amount of details in the 3d rendering was amazing. I hope that one day Aion can achieve that kind of graphics ^-^ But seriously, when it was night time in the movie, it kept reminding of Asmodian land in Aion.

The plot was kind of predictable which disappointed me a little bit. It was a classic case of white people invading native land and it's people for resources then they start having a battle. I was watching a Taiwan political channel on tv 2 days ago and their topic of debate was Avatar. I was like how is Avatar related to politics?? So I watched a little bit. They talked about how advanced the Avatar graphics was and how Taiwan can compete with it. They suggested that Taiwan and China should join together and produce something with Avatar's standards but better storyline to compete in the global movie industry. I thought that point was nicely made then the rest they said was just bs so I stopped watching. A thing about tw is that anything can be turned into politics, it's crazy lol...
Nevertheless Avatar is a film which made a breakthrough in 3d render movies. Which means that in the future we can hope to see better and realistic 3d movies.

Clannad Review

2010-01-21T05:18:00.003+13:00

There will be many updates coming due to my long absence. At the moment I am trying to finish what I started 2 weeks ago hence the big article time gap but connecting story.

Anyway moving on, I finished watching the entire Clannad anime. My rating for it is 9/10 . Highly recommended and it has moved up to be one of my favourite anime. There are two main reasons why I like this anime. First, the story, Clannad's story is nothing fancy, just things which happens in school and everyday life. Yet the stories for each character have so much meanings within them. Since the stories are something we can relate to easily, like looking after siblings or helping friends at school, they are really easy to understand and enjoyable to watch. The second reason is emotion, as I mentioned last time. This anime is very emotional, laughter, tears, embarrassment, disgusted, its all in there.

The music for this anime is good overall. The background music corresponds with the story well and the openings and endings are nice. Just depends if you like them or not, I quite like them, except for the dango song lol, a bit plain. The graphics and drawings are really nicely done, I really like how they draw the settings, looks realistic for an anime. I find the scenes are colourful, nice to watch. The only thing I have against Clannad is the characters are too cute but then again if they werent that cute, they probably wouldnt be able to pull off some of the cute stuff they did.

My favourite character, the blonde guy Sunohara Youhei!

I liked season 1 better than season 2, simply because it was funnier not because season 2 was boring or anything. I enjoy comedy above all else. I dont like writing plots I give reviews because I dont like to accidently spoil it for some people. Like saying during this bit, I felt sad, during that part, it sucked. That is why my reviews might seem a bit short.

4 Days Disappearance - Day 4

2010-01-20T01:17:00.003+13:00

After breakfast at the hotel, we went further up the mountain. Because we were one of the few tourists there that day so we decided to teach my sister how to drive since there were no cars on the road anyway. She was lucky, she got to start driving on mountain roads, when I was learning I had to start from a car park!

At the mountains

When we reached the top, there was a fairly big pond there. The people called it Sky Pond, it was said that the water in that pond never dries up even in dry season due to some spiritual force. When we arrived there it was around 10am and the surface of the pond still had a layer of thin ice on it. I guess the reason the water never dries up is because of the low temperature there also the pond is surrounded by trees so the sunlight can not reach it directly. The moisture level on the mountain is also quite high so I think that is how the pond keeps getting it's water supply.

The Sky Pond

Afterwards we head back, packed our things and started our journey home. I volunteered to drive again and man it was fun. Going downhill with all those turns, felt like Tokyo Drift except with no drifting. My dad then decided to take us to a water park since we had nothing else planned might as well. On our way to the water park, we stumbled upon a scare crow display. The scare crows were made by the local prison, it was quite pro to be honest.

Break dancing frogs and me eating...again

Rawr

We then carried on to the water park. The main purpose of the park is swimming, there are many pools and fountains for kids to play. However it's winter right now so the pools were empty . There are also bikes for hire, boat rides, the park is quite big. We had little time left so we just circled the park then carried our journey home.

Ahoy there

4 Days Disappearance - Day 3

2010-01-09T02:27:00.005+13:00

Day 3 was the main purpose of the trip, a trip to 福壽山農場 Fushou mountain farm. The mountain is near the middle of tw but since it is all mountain road, the entire drive was about 7 hours. We had to wake up early to avoid the traffic so for the first 1/3 of the drive I was sleeping :P Then after I felt refreshed, I offered to drive, we were already in the mountains at that time. Luckily my dad agreed, it was my first time driving in the mountains. The road always turn and curve, sometime it is not wide enough for two cars but none of this was dangerous compared to what was installed for me. Fog.

I drove right into the fog (actually it's not like I could avoid it, there was only one path LOL) and geez it was scary. I couldnt see what was 15m ahead of me, if I wasnt careful I could've drove the car off the cliff when I was suppose to turn. Then luckily I caught up to a red car and it made the trip a lot easier. Because I did not have to be the scout, I did not have to make life and death decisions of whether to turn or not, I just followed his red tail lights :P However we had to go really slow, we did not exceed 20kmh. The fog was so thick that if I fell behind a few seconds, his tail lights would just disappear.

After 30-45mins we finally emerged from the white world. The grass looked greener, sky looked bluer, all was good. Then at last we have arrived at the farm. Although it's called a farm, it does have accomodation, like pretty good accomodation, not like shacks or anything like that. We then took a tour around the farm. The farm specialised in fruit trees and tea. It was so cold up on the mountain, although it didnt snow, it did get to 3 degrees that night. The dinner at their place was exceptionally delicious, maybe cause we were cold and hungry or they were simply good cooks.

Peach King

Apple King

The apple king can produce 39 varieties of apple, on a single tree

Thats me eating

Three dogs enjoying the sun

4 Days Disappearance - Day 2

2010-01-08T22:39:00.003+13:00

The second day, we went to Taipei zoo. Like any other place in tw, it was crowded, we waited like 45mins just to get into the parking area. It then started to rain after we got out of the car. Then when we got to the ticket selling area, they said that panda viewing is no longer available since the ticket for it already ran out. But we were still like whatever and went inside the zoo.

My...precious...

:D:D

For those who has seen the movie I Spy, thats the leafy bug.

What you looking at?

I used to like zoos cause it was cool to see all kinds of animals but after this trip, Im starting to feel different. The animals are all confined in that little area, they got nothing to do other than sleep, eat. What is the point of walking around if you only got that much space. That is why when you see the animals, they just lay there, looking all bored. I'll rather watch Discovery channel to see animals in action, at places where they belong.

4 Days Disappearance - Day 1

2010-01-08T17:17:00.004+13:00

Our destination for the first day was Taipei, north of Taiwan, I live in Kaohsiung which is south of Taiwan. It is about a 7 hours drive from Kaohsiung to Taipei. Along the way I was allowed to drive, just helping my dad out, taking turns while one of us sleeps. It was cool cause here the highest speed on the motorway is 110kmh, 10kmh faster than nz, yeah! I only drove on the motorway since I was afraid to drive in the cities. There are bikes, scooters(heaps, they weave around the cars like bugs), people walking on the side of the road(since there arent many footpath in tw) and cars which dont follow giveway rules(there is no such thing as giveway in tw, not even to pedestrians so it is always cars cross first then people).

Along the way, we stopped at 鹿港(Lugan) to visit a famous shrine called 天后宮(I guess the direction translation would be Sky Empress Palace). On the way in, there are food stores on both side of the road. It was crowded and lively, many food selections to choose from. In tw, the biggest religion in buhdism so nearly everyone goes to these shrine and temples and pray for good luck. The way people pray is lighting this stick thing which gives off smoke and the smoke will reach the gods. I think the proper term is offering incense. We also burned paper money for tribute.

Thats paper money Im holding

Inside the shrine

Trying to walk on 2 sticks...

Taiwan's 2010 - Taiwan Up???

2010-01-06T19:11:00.005+13:00

So some people realised that I had disappeared for a while and now I'll tell you where I had gone off to XD But before that, I'll show you guys how Taiwan celebrated the arrival of 2010. Some of you might know that the ex-tallest building in the world was in Taiwan, the Taipei 101. (The tallest is now in Dubai, officially took over like 2 days ago). Yeah well on Jan 1st, it was still the tallest lol. Therefore all eyes from around the world were watching what kind of fireworks could the tallest building pull off. Here it is:

This was definately the best out of all their previous attempts, I remember two years ago, I went under Taipei 101 to watch it live and it was just a massive explosion and then thick smoke and it was over lol... But the thing which annoyed me was the words "Taiwan UP" I mean wtf does that mean LOL. People around the world were watching it and no one really understood it. Well it is suppose to mean like hope for Taiwan to rise up in the world or keep it up Taiwan but couldnt they just write GO Taiwan or something like that? The media interviewed foreigners who lives in tw and they all said they watched the fireworks but did not understand the words. To me, a Taiwanese, this is embarassing.

6.8 Earthquake Hits Taiwan

2009-12-21T04:55:00.002+13:00

Last night at around 9pm, my time, an earthquake magnitude 6.8 was felt throughout Taiwan. It is said that this quake is the biggest this year. I was in a book store at that time and I felt something was weird when I was walking but I thought I was just dizzy or something. Then suddenly everyone in the store suddenly had a serious look on their face and were looking up. I looked up also and saw the glass that was hanging off the ceiling was shaking. Since I was on the 3rd floor, we only felt a slight shake. We then quickly rang back home and asked if grandma was alright since we live on the 13th floor. She said she couldnt even stand straight and had to hold on to the furnitures.

The earthquake originated 25km from the east coast of Taiwan. Hundreds of aftershocks happened after the big quake. Although none of us felt those. Tsunami warning was issued for Japan. I live in Kaohsiung, that is south west of Taiwan so we were the furthest away from the quake, the magnitude here was only 4. Bullet trains and trains were suspended for track checking. On the news, some dude was sitting in his car when the earthquake happened and a water tank fell on his car. Luckily he was alright but it must've been friggin scary. Imagine just chilling in your car and suddenly BOOM, lol...

Naruto Shippuuden: Kizuna

2009-12-16T05:12:00.003+13:00

So last night I watched the second Naruto Shippuuden movie: Kizuna(Bonds) and I was really disappointed. First of all I dont know what the bad guys intentions were, they just attacked Konoha so Naruto and co just attacked back. Didnt see many good actions, half of the movie was just Naruto getting beaten up or him destroying things. The only merely exciting parts were Naruto turning into 4 tails and Sasuke and Naruto fighting together. I gotta say this movie is the worst out of all of the Naruto movies, even worse than the animal kingdom one where the last finishing move was Naruto on some fat guy's shoulder and doing Rasengan. I hope they will raise the standard for the next movie.

Clannad

2009-12-15T02:08:00.003+13:00

First update in December! Sorry for the lack of posts, it is just that so far not much has happened. Next month will be exciting since I'll be going on a 6 days trip to Malaysia so I'm looking forward to that. I guess now I'll write my thoughts on some movies and Clannad.

During the flight from Australia to Taiwan I watched Up and Inkheart. Up, I reckon was slightly overrated. Maybe because I assumed it would be like Pixar's previous masterpiece Wall-E or maybe it was just the fact I found the movie pretty random. Like dragging a house or gigantic bird or uhhh talking dogs. Most of the funny bits were shown already on the trailer so that kinda spoiled the movie for me. Dont get me wrong, I'm not saying the movie was bad. It was a standard Pixar film, enjoyable as always however for this one I thought few things did not click or fit well together.

Inkheart staring that main guy from the Mummy, Brendan Fraser. Thought it would be a good film to watch since I enjoyed his humour in the Mummy series. However in this film, there werent many funny nor action moments. This was more of a children's film where everyone tries to save everyone around them and stuff.

Now on to Clannad. When I first saw Clannad, I was like wtf is this girl anime because it was the first time I watched a lolicon/loli style anime (meaning all the characters are all really young and cute, yes even the guys). But I ignored the cuteness and carried on watching, soon realising this anime is good as.

A special thing about Clannad is that every episode, you can feel the emotion it wants you to feel. I honestly laughed my ass off at the funny bits cause it was just too funny ><. You can feel embarrassed for the characters since they'll do the most wtf things. Not to mention sadness, during one episode, I couldnt stop tears from falling down. Emotion 100% anime, you really feel for the characters.

My favourite character will have to be Sunohara so far. He's like the funny guy who always gets pranked on and beaten up. Although he is always messing around, deep downn he is a solid support friend.

I've finished watching the first season, going to start watching the second season Clannad: After Story soon. Depending on what the second season is like, Clannad could be one of the top anime in my list so far I'm ranking it pretty high, strongly recommended.

Last day in NZ

2009-11-29T22:03:00.003+13:00

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

2009-11-27T11:03:00.004+13:00

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

2009-11-22T21:00:00.004+13:00

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

2009-11-17T20:58:00.003+13:00

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

2009-11-12T23:34:00.002+13:00

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

2009-11-11T13:20:00.004+13:00

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

2009-11-09T23:38:00.003+13:00

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

2009-11-01T14:31:00.004+13:00

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

New Inuyasha: The Final Act

2009-10-28T22:12:00.005+13:00

Exams are within a week, starting on the 3rd I've got chemmat, 5th software, 7th electrical and 9th internation business. I've been trying hard to study but always gets distracted by boringness or a sudden urge to look up something on the web which lead to looking at other things and that lead to more stuff. Basically everything except for studying is fun right now.

So I accidently stumbled upon this amazing find. The anime Inuyasha will be continuing from where it stopped since 2004! 5 years! This news excited many anime fans around the world, many had grew up watching Inuyasha or simply loved it as an anime series (a pretty long one though, 167 episodes). Inuyasha was rated top 20 anime of all time, I think it is in terms of popularity but Im not sure. So far 4 episodes have been aired in Japan, it started on October 3rd.

For me, Im pretty excited too not that Im a huge Inuyasha fan, it's because it will be good to know how it is going to end. My sister was the one who introduced it to me since she already downloaded half of it, I decided to watch it. I could see why a lot of people enjoyed it. There were plenty of action for the boys, romance for the girls, comedy for everyone however I thought the story was a bit plain. The good guys basically always wins. But the bigger picture or story was actually alright, the journey and adventure by different groups lead to revealing the past and making themselves stronger. Then it suddenly stopped, I was like is this it?! It was like another Claymore ending.

Here is the trailer for it:

Now they've continued with Fullmetal Alchemist and Inuyasha, when will they finish up Claymore? Or Slam Dunk? Am I suppose to wait 5 years also?! I WANT CLAYMOREEEEE RAWR!

My 19th and C Part 2

2009-10-23T23:00:00.002+13:00

Sorry for the delay, keep forgetting that I still havent finish writing. Anyway here we go. On Sunday, it was me and Jason's birthday, yes we were born on the same day, same year, same time? Maybe, I dunno. (Have you found your twin yet? :D Theres someone bound to have the same birthday as you) I invited him to come but he had church :/ So in the morning, people gathered at my house and brought me presents, yay! Adam gave me a Final Fantasy VII pillow, In Hwan gave me a new mouse and Shuhan & Shawn bought me Aion! Thank you very much guys T_T

So then we all got in my car and I was driver for the day since no one else wanted to be lol. We made it to the ice skating place in like half an hour and coincidently found out that theres an arcade and pool place right beside it, we're like sweet! Since it was lunch time, the guys were keen for KFC so we went. It was the fullest KFC I've ever seen (some sort of KFC day o.O), there were only 2 more free tables, I bought a bucket with 4 large sides and we shared it. After we stepped out, it started pouring like hell, I was the only one without a jacket or a hoodie :(

After I paid for the guys, we went to collect our ice skates. It felt really weird to walk with skates cause you're just balancing on the blade. I've ice skated three times before when I was young and I used to roller blade so I was the one with the most experienced. In Hwan learned cause he went to holiday programmes when he was young but he forgot. The other 3 were newbs lol. So I had to teach basically all of them, the key is to skate not walk.

For the next hour or so, progress had been made for 3 people. In Hwan could basically skate slowly and turn. Same with Shawn. Shuhan could go faster than the other 2, however had trouble turning so he always look for the nearest wall to crash. Adam was still grabbing on the walls and attempting to walk on ice. After another hour of practising, the 3 felt they were up for a race, I had to ref. The entire race was basically whoever didnt get pushed away or had other people in front of them won lol.

After 3 hours, we decided to make a train however this task required everyone's cooperation. It was going pretty smoothly until one guy tripped and it dragged all of us down! It actually hurted quite a bit but was funny as. Our last task was to force Adam to skate with no walls next to him so the challenge was for him to skate across and back the centre of the arena. If he could do that then we leave. It took a while but he did it.

We went to the arcade afterwards. It was a pretty cool arcade, you gotta buy a card and put money in it, you just swipe the gaming machine when you wanna play. We basically tried nearly all the games there, punching bag, basketball hoops, air hockey. The best ones were Tekken 6 and racing. Tekken was only $1.20, cheap as, the graphics was so good and the controls were easy to use. Shawn was saying I dont even know how to play this and then ended up dominating all of us. The racing game cost us the most money since it was a 4 players link game. For the first 3 rounds, one of us will fuk up like choosing the wrong car or wrong mode. Then one of us had to go top up again. When we finally got it right, it was so fun that we kept swiping and kept topping up. I think it was fair to say, I came first most of the time.

When we had barely any money left, we decided to spend it on a few rounds of pool. The pool tables were those small ones which was sht.. we taught In Hwan how to play since it was his first time. Then I had to rush back home since my mum was going to take me to dinner. We went to a chinese BBQ buffet, it was really good. But the thing with self BBQ is you dont know how long you should cook the meat. If you leave it for too long, it gets all crunchy but if not enough time then its not cooked properly.

So my birthday basically ended there but before I slept, I still had to submit my C project. Just an hour before I submitted, I found out I had to print out all these information at the start and check for weird conditions. Thank god Sherman told me to check the project specifications. The very next day we had our other C project due. This one was to create your own program. I wrote a simple weapon enchanting program, Im not sure how to upload it on here but I'll try tomorrow.

Free hugs for Taiwan at Auckland Uni

2009-10-20T17:33:00.004+13:00

I know Im suppose to continue with part 2 of my previous article but I just felt this was more important. Few hours ago, I received this video from Shuhan. It is about some Taiwanese students in Auckland uni who got together and copied the 'Free hugs in Taiwan' done in Taiwan.

For those who dont know, in August Taiwan experienced typhoon Morakot which caused floods, landslides, mudslides in several areas, villages with people in them were buried under mud and water. Hundreds of lives were lost in this catastrophic event.
Here is an example of the power of typhoon... an entire hotel fell into the flooded river

So basically the people were showing support by hugging that dude with the Taiwan paper bag over his head and signing their signature to prove that they showed their support. As you can see from the video, this gesture was supported by many! Too bad I didnt run into them. Good job on the crew for doing it and thanks to all that supported!

Here is the original video filmed in Taiwan. The 4 words said by many is basically Go Taiwan!

My 19th and C Part 1

2009-10-19T22:50:00.003+13:00

Been a while since my last update and the main reason was two projects for software engineering were due yesterday and today. Anyway I'll recap some events which happened over the past few days.

Friday was pretty busy, we had to do an online electrical test. I thought I could learn it on the day by doing the practise questions online so I didnt pay too much attention on it the night before. But it turned out that I couldnt and to make matters worse, Jerrell and I also had international business online quiz to do also. Luckily the quiz was easy, our combined knowledge always triumphs. Double luckily, my friends taught (basically did) the electrical test for me so thanks all. I got one wrong but that was due to my noobness on the calculator. =.=

That evening, I also went to play basketball at Browns Bay again along with Shawn and Hans. We were like half an hour late and there were already 4 teams there. When we got on, we basically got schooled 6-1, we werent even warmed up and they just kept sinking shots! After one cycle, when it was our turn again, we were more ready and finally won. Our next game took like forever, this one round felt like the length of 3 normal rounds. I had a massive block on this dude which made the crowd go OOOOOHHHHHHH!!! Damn it felt good! However we lost 6-5, was a shame but we had a good night.

Saturday was just C, C and more C. C is the program we're using at the moment for software engineering. One of our project for it was to design a perfect packaging solution where we are given a number of boxes, box capacity and number of parcels. We had to try to put all the parcels into the boxes and once the boxes are filled, we are left with the lightest parcels. I was stuck on this problem for hours, I had to let the program check all the boxes are within the box capacity then execute some command. I finally solved it with Ben's detailed explanation and Jason's idea inspiring words so big thanks to them. And with that problem solved, I basically did the core bit for the project which left me Sunday to celebrate for my birthday.

Random entertainment in the middle XD
Sherman showed this song to me today and I thought it was really good so here it is

(The guy with the hat is the best :P)

Im tired now, I'll finish the rest tomorrow :P

New Haircut

2009-10-14T22:43:00.002+13:00

Yesterday quite a few unexpected things happened. First was basketball, I didnt even bring any change of clothes but somehow I ended up going to the courts to play anyway. At first I thought we were just going to shoot around then go grab lunch. We ended up playing 4v4 ins and outs. It was Karthik, Ronnie, Jerrell and me, we always had close games but could never achieve victory. We won only like once i think lol. The other teams had like big ogres in their team, we always had to double or triple team them.

It was so competitive and fun, Jerrell and I completely forgot about lunch and soon it was time for international business. Just before we finished, Jerrell fuked up his leg, unexpected injury right there. So me and the cripple took a while to get to class.

After the class, Jerrell wanted to get a haircut and basically i was peer pressured to get one too. I didnt really ask for a style, just whatever the barber thought was good and yeah, I got a complete new style.

Before

After

Naruto's Parents Revealed

2009-10-12T23:19:00.005+13:00

I've been quite busy over the weekend due to chemmat test. Chemmat is my 8th favourite subject (out of the 8th I've studied this year) so yeah, it took me a lot of effort to study for it. Now I will be busy with C programming, got 2 projects due next week, gotta start tomorrow. Been catching up on Bleach and Naruto cause last month I couldnt download due to unexpected download of Aion which made me go over my internet limit. Bleach is still going on with the interesting filler of Zanpakutou rebellion, this is probably the best filler yet, the story is nice and not lame.

Naruto is complete pwnage. The story went back to official I think 2 months ago and its just wow. [WARNING: WILL CONTAIN SPOILER IF YOU ARE NOT UP TO DATE WITH THE NARUTO ANIME. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK]

The story started off again with Orochimaru wanting to consume Sasuke's body It turned out Sasuke had no intention of letting Orochimaru use him and he killed Orochimaru. After Orochimaru died, Sasuke went out and recruit 3 other people to form his own team, "Snake" (what a lol name). Meanwhile Naruto and Konoha received word of Orochimaru's death and assembled like a platoon to find either Sasuke or Akatsuki since it is now a triangle relationship. Sasuke wants to find Itachi, Naruto wants to find Sasuke or Akatsuki cause they might have info on Sasuke and Deidara wants to kill Naruto or Sasuke.

Deidara encountered Sasuke first and the fight began. It was a highly skilled fight, both of them pulling all their tricks out of their sleeves. It was an epic fight compared to those lame ones in the fillers before. In the end Deidara used this ultimate technique which blew himself up and anything within 10km radius. Tobi (Deidara's partner) and Sasuke were thought to have died in the blast. But did they...?

Sasuke merely escaped by summoning Manda (Orochimaru's snake) and hid inside him while using a teleportation technique. However they were still caught in the blast which resulted in Sasuke badly injured and Manda died(lol). It was also revealed that Tobi did not die and he was strong as sht, he was actually another Uchiha, the legendary Uchiha Madara (although I dont know what that name mean but hes definately some sort of tough guy). Meanwhile Naruto encountered Kabuto, who fused himself with what is left of Orochimaru, crazy dude. He also met Itachi however Itachi only wanted to talk, after a few words Itachi disappeared.

The story then shifted to Jiraiya, he discovered the location of Akatsuki's leader and he is going to penetrate the place alone. It then showed us Jiraiya's childhood and how he became the lengendary Sannin along with Orochimaru and Tsunade. Basically they were just ownage ninjas who killed a lot of enemies during the ninja wars. Jiraiya also received a prophecy that one day he will take in an apprentice and that apprentice will change the world. It is all up to Jiraiya on the path that apprentice will choose to take.

So Jiraiya travels the world to search for guidance for his mission and also for the apprentice. He saw many things but still could not come up with an answer nor did he find the apprentice. However, he did teach 3 kids who grew up to be members of Akatsuki. Although he himself does not know it yet, he thought they died. The episode ended with Jiraiya talking to his student, the 4th Hokage about how great his book was. At that moment, the answer to the question that has been wondered by many for longer than 4 years "Who were Naruto's parents?" was revealed. Indeed... the 4th Hokage was Naruto's father.

[POSSIBLE SPOILER FINISH HERE]

So I wrote the summary of Naruto, up to the latest episode I watched. It's not the latest out there, Im 2 episodes behind. But the latest episode I watched, I felt like it was such a memorable episode, life longing question that had been answered, I had to write about it. The next episode looks great, looks like Jiraiya is going to meet Akatsuki. Cant wait!

Bleach Movie 3: Fade to Black and electrical lab

2009-10-07T20:55:00.005+13:00

Just finished watching the new Bleach movie Fade to Black. The movie was released December last year in Japan but it was only recently uploaded on to the internet. Again, thanks to Jason I was able to obtain it.

13 Division Protection Squad VS Kurosaki Ichigo

This movie is the best out of the 3 by far. [WARNING CONTAINS SPOILERS] This movie is like previous 2 movies combined. Like the first movie, the theme of memory was also used here. However the fight scenes were like the the second movie, where nearly all characters showed off however in this one it was better. Because they did not use the common characters who normally shows up in the anime eg. Ikkaku, Yumichika, Soi Fon. Instead we got to see some of the rare characters in action, eg. Urahara, Ukitake, Kyoraku. The best fight scene was between Rukia and Ichigo, damn I've never seen Rukia fight that well, it was so awesome.

Good Bye Rukia

The drawings I thought it was fantastic, much clearer, probably even better than the current anime. Then again it could be that the movie was in better quality than my episodes lol. The story was pretty nice, considering it is a Bleach story, not much variation they can do cause they can not go beyond the manga plot. The story sequence was good, I liked the way they showed it. Overall a good movie and like I said before, best of the Bleach movies.

Just want to mention about today's event. I had to do the second electrical lab today. Quite a few people did it today too, Sam, Jerrell, Ben, Jason, Harrison. I was with Harrison. Our task was to design the circuit for a smart car, like if the car hit a wall it will know which way to turn, by using logic gates. The tricky bit was to manipulate the boolean expression so it only uses a specific gate. Took us a while, the other 2 groups already left, when we tried to get a tutor to sign us off, he refused to do it unless we test it in the maze. At first I was like wtf, wasting time I dont wanna do maze sht, I wanna go but it turned out to be fun as.

We watched the group before us and when their car hit the wall, it always turn left and Im not sure why but their car goes super fast. When we plugged in ours, it worked like a charm. Like if it was out of 100, we would've got fuking 100/100. It was so perfect, the speed was just right and when it hits the wall, it turns perfect 90 degree, no backward movement was needed. The group that was before us watched our's and said "Wow you guys are pro!" That just made my day.

Thanks to the random Chinese tutor who helped us solved the boolean algebra, we would've never got that. Thanks to Sam who helped us with the circuit diagrams. Thanks to Harrison for knowing what to do with the wires, cause i had no fuking clue what goes where lol!

Golden Sun DS (3)

2009-10-04T16:14:00.008+13:00

Last night I flipped through my Golden Sun guide and really felt like playing it again. So this morning I went on Google to search for Golden Sun 3, I didnt expect to find anything... but it turned out I was wrong!

GOLDEN SUN 3 WILL BE COMING OUT IN 2010 ON NINTENDO DS!

“Golden Sun™ DS: After going dark six years ago, 2010 will see a new dawn. Golden Sun DS updates the popular portable Golden Sun role-playing series with an impressive graphical style. This installment follows the story of the previous heroes’ descendants and immerses players into the magic of its adventure by pushing the boundaries of intuitive touch-screen controls. Golden Sun DS is playable on the Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi systems.”

Here is the trailer for it ><

It is a shame I found this out 4 months later but at least now there is something to look forward to next year! For those people who dont know Golden Sun, it started out as a Gameboy Advance RPG game. (Thanks to Jason for introducing it to me) The gameplay style is similar to Final Fantasy's where you control a guy on a world map and when you encouter monsters, it switches to 4 people taking turn fight scene. The story is unbelievably awesome and the graphics was pretty good for a GBA game. It was so good that one game could not finish it...

Yes there was Golden Sun 2: The Lost Age. This time you play as another party that was introduced as NPC in the first game and you meet up with the characters you played in the first game. Oh yeah forgot to mention, its not just world map movement and fighting mobs. When you enter town or caves, you control the main character and you have to solve puzzles, talk to npcs in order to move on. The puzzles are always a challenge. Are they fun? Hmmm... yeaaaa... =.= Its not fun when you're stuck on it for hours!

If you havent try Golden Sun yet, please do. It is one of those games you play and will not regret spending all those times on it. I strongly recommend this series. Lets hope Golden Sun DS can continue the legacy. Cant wait!

Bullet Proof Baby and TGS bball mates

2009-10-02T22:56:00.004+13:00

Ok today in chemmat, our lecturer showed us this video which was related to composites or something. Wasnt paying attention to what she was saying, more like trying to decipher what she was writing so I could copy the notes into my book. She writes so damn small... Anyway heres the video:

After I saw it, my first reaction was like :O Not because the carriage was actually bullet proof but it was that she actually pointed the gun at her baby. This stunt is probably fake but I dont like the idea of pointing the gun at the baby. I would never point a gun at my baby. What if something goes wrong you know?
This video was made to promote the movie Shoot'em Up, where the guy runs around with the baby and shooting bad guys for like a hour. For more information go to http://bulletproofbaby.net

In the afternoon, Jerrell and I had to do the international business quiz. The quiz was about the t-shirt novel we had to read but obviously we didnt lol (well I read 2 chapters). Luckily Braden helped us out and we achieved 5/5. Thanks Braden! Then went to play bball with the guys. At first I only wanted to shoot around but then ended up playing games. To be honest, I didnt really find it fun. Well I had to save energy for night time.

At night, I went with Shawn, Hans and John to Browns Bay to play bball. They were my old TGS bball buddies. There were heaps of people there, we had 5 teams of 4 lol. There were like 5 really good players and the rest were average. The 2 best players were wearing Kobe singlet or t shirt, I guess theres a reputation if you wanna wear anything Kobe lol.

We had pretty good games, didnt win many but was certainly fun. Shawn was like Dwaight Howard, he had like 3 massive blocks, like those ones you see on NBA highlights and one of the them was on the best guy there. I also had a block on that dude, it felt great. John and Hans didnt play as well as they used to due to lack of playing lol. But John was a good point guard who wouldnt lose the ball easily and could occasionally pull off nice shots. Today he was a bit rusty though. Hans on the other hand, loses the ball quite a bit but his shots in his comfort zone is consistent. I also feel he has the potential to grab good rebounds if he trains.

Shawn is an all round player, he can basically do everything, shooting 2s, 3s, driving but most of the time he has to play as the big man since hes the only one who has skills in that area. He posts well but the thing is if he misses once or twice underneath the hoop, he loses motivation and just chucks it up lol. And me? I guess Im the point getter type however an inconsistent one! I dont have a particular style, my only vision is the hoop most of the time which is bad cause that means I dont see my teammates. I would do anything in order to put the ball in the hoop, I dont think I just do lol. I do random bullsht drives or fade aways that makes people think how the fuk did he get that in? However if it doesnt go in then its basically just me chucking the ball near the hoop and hope for the best.

At like 9, the gym lady shooed us out. Went to Burger Fuel since the guys were hungry. I had to buy a $2.50 can of coke cause I was thirsty ffs. Then went to visit Hans new home, it's actually pretty close to my house. He lives in like a forest, it was actually scary to visit at night. Some dude or animal might be in the bush ready to jump you. His new home was nice, paintings everywhere, 2 cats, good atmosphere. We had a glass of juice then just went home.

Cats with Wings and District 9

2009-09-27T21:03:00.005+13:00

Ok today I discovered something extraordinary on the internet and its honestly just wtf. Cats with wings, actually to be specific Chinese cats with wings, both of these cats were found in China. The wings actually has bones in them but cant use them to fly. Scientists claims it is genetic defect or skin condition but come on face it, it's evolution!

Also watched District 9 today, directed by Peter Jackson, epic Lord of the Ring director. It was about aliens who got stranded on Earth and Humans treat them as prisoners. The movie started and ended with a documentary style and the story of the movie went in the middle. The story itself wasnt bad, quite bloody and some bits are disgusting though. The ending wasnt complete, I mean it left us questioning but I guess thats an effective ending, let the audience imagine their own ending. The thing I found weird was how did the humans understood what the aliens were saying in the first place? lol