Frankly speaking

Got ma new figurines

2008-10-04T21:35:00.008+08:00

Hey people, it has been a long pause between the last post and today's one. I'll just start off by saying that during the F1 season I was able to see the Semi-finals and I was able to sneak into the grand stands with my dad lol. I took quite a few pictures but it'll take some time to upload em so maybe later I'll choose the best ones and also show a video of what I took.

Today I went with Wang Ho and Haris over to Chinatown to check out the anime stores found over there. We agreed to meet up at 12pm and I ended up waiting for them till 12:30pm at the MRT... Either way the shops only opened at 12:30 and even then they weren't punctual. WH and Haris had gone to these shops before during last weekend and knew what they wanted to look for. We went over to Chinatown Centre and there was indeed loads of anime stores over there which also sold Western figurines like from movies and comics. I went there in plans that I would just check with the stores for their name cards and ask 'em about preorder figurines especially the one that I'm looking forward too, which is going at a high price of $82. The 1/7 Klan Klan from Macross Frontier.

Price of $82 at KKnM at Sunshine Plaza.

I ended up forgetting what make and brand she was made from so I couldn't verify with the other shops. However since the likely price was going to be high, I decided to spend $49 on other figurines there that was selling relatively cheaper then Klan Klan.

Fraulein Yoko $28

and

Revoltech Enki $21.

Pretty happy about the purchases though I think it's time to start thinking about saving the money............

The Goodz

2008-09-21T21:08:00.009+08:00

Hiya people, it's been a long time since my last update but I just wanted to do a 1 post to combine both items I had gotten with my pay. Well, I'll just start with Spore first.

So I went over to Funan IT mall to get my pre-order copy of Spore Galactic editionI had reached earlier then expected, 2 hours before the event started cos I was kiasu that I wouldn't be able to get the shirt.

The Queue

When I got there which was like at 10:45am, there were already about 50 people in front of me. Luckily I had reached before Haris's friend, Khalil, reached the scene as it was already a long queue by the time he had reached. Anyway here's some pics of the event.

Oh yeah and Haris came along in the end, at around the event start time. After Khalil and I got our copy of the game I thought we could go upstairs and try out the game there but apparently Khalil's friends from elsewhere were at the event and so I ended up accompanying Haris for awhile so as not to make his trip there not be a waste since he didn't want to buy the game which was a good thing since the game is pretty shallow. Anyway I do not want to dwell on that as I am still happy that I got the game. Here's a look at what's inside of the galactic edition.

The box slides out of the plastic cover and it has a textured feel to it. Apparently it has all the random spore elements on it.

Sliding out of the box is the game, making-of DVD and an art book.

Galaxy spinning DVD lol.

A poster that is exclusive to the galactic edition was also included and its about the normal size of posters.

This poster was given to anyone at the event who was buying a copy of Spore. Same size as the above.

Some pictures of what's inside the art book. So that is about it for Spore, now lets get to the PS3 lol.

So I went over to Tampines Central and went to S-Powerhouse to purchase the new 80GB PS3 and I bought Metal Gear Solid 4 and 1 more Dualshock 3 controller altogether for about $700+

luckily my dad paid for the $68 dollar game but now I am back to square one with my bank account lol.

2 controllers but no games to use both (;_;).

No I'm not patriotic to Singapore, the flag was there a long time ago and I couldn't bother to take it away from the pic (^o^)

So there ya have it, both I had both with my pay and I'm gonna have to stop buying more expensive stuff from now on lol. Cya people.

Wall-E

2008-09-02T12:22:00.007+08:00

So yeah on Sunday I went to watch the Wall-E movie along with XH and Amin. Amin if ya reading this thanks again for buying tickets for the whole family man and I hope ya had gotten some rest after that.

Well its Friday and had some fun doing the game assets in isometric form. As always , I will draw a game character or something along with the furniture just for fun. Looks like Manny Calavara is the character of the day.

Everyday I go to Demonoid I see Spore's scene release up for grabs, makes me so damn impatient for Sunday to come up. I just hope when i get the game, I can get the goodies too which could fetch a good price on the internet, oh well. I think the my next target would be either Glottis or Max the bunny well....cya for now anyways.

Comex 2008 and Spore preorder

2008-08-30T18:16:00.010+08:00

Hey people, as the title says I went to Comex 2008 and got myself a pre-order card for Spore. So today at Comex, I went through all the levels in Suntec with my dad and uncle. We did not actually go there to buy anything, only just to look see, look see and collect some brochures to later research whether the stuff selling had any good deals or not. Seems like LCD TVs prices are going quite well and saw many people buying Samsung brand and carrying off with it. A funny thing I saw was that the dealers were putting alot of stuff along with the TVs like vouchers, cables and even trolley to get people to consider buying their goods there and then.

After we went through all the levels in typical slow inching fashion, I chanced upon a PS3 booth and tried out Drake's Fortune since apparently everybody was looking at the MGS4 game. The game movement were pretty easy to get into and within 3 mins I was already jumping off ledges and solving puzzles. I played for awhile and it really felt like a male version of Tomb Raider and I got stuck in a part of the game that required me to run across a snakey bridge which I fumbled around with the controls cos I wasn't in sync with the controller's joystick feel. Anyway, we finished our scouting at 5pm and left for home.

But before that, I went to Parkway Parade to get myself the pre-order card at Comic's Connection and check out the art of the card!

Pretty cool stuff eh? I liked the final touch of placing a spaceship in the name of the game. The card lets me get the game as soon as its released and hopefully I'll be able to retrieve all the goodies that's exclusive to the event on top of the art book, DVDs and poster of the game included in the Galactic Edition. So with the card I'll be heading over to Funan DigitaLife Mall and I'll be taking a few pictures of the release event next Sunday so that I can upload onto the blog. That's all for now, better be doing some work. Cya!

Spore!

2008-08-24T15:36:00.011+08:00

Hey everyone, another busy day on Sunday but I got some time to sneak in some updates. If you do not already know, I am really excited about Spore and the release date is coming out in September 7 which is a Sunday, that's 2 weeks from now OH SNAP!

I went over to the Spore website to check out on any announcements if it was going to come as plan and I discovered something interesting. It appears to be that on the release date their having a Debut event for Spore on the day from 12 noon to 5pm but that's not the reason why its so important, what IS important to note is that their giving out a free T-shirt with some designs they had made during the development of the game with every copy of the game while stocks last. Here's the promo picture:
And this is the shirt I'm hoping I can get and numbered to show if I can't get the first choice.
I'm sorry for the small type font but what it says on the shirt is pretty interesting: "Composed of Matter, Anti-Matter and it doesn't Matter. Anyway so it means I'll be going church earlier and then rush down to Funan and hope I can get my shirt, what do you guys think? The other shirts are Adapt me and Far Away from Home and they look pretty cool in just their designs.

Well for Saturday I was doing some digging out on game updates and firstly to announce for you Sims fans out there, The Sims 3 is coming in February 2009 so expect more Simlish talk from your pants-wetting, whoo-hooing, social crazy Sim creatures in Early Spring next year. Lastly I did some looking around in the forums are I chanced upon this and I'll end it off like this cya.

Where's my money, dude?!?

2008-08-22T15:31:00.005+08:00

Man.... been waiting for the money from my internship and they finally sent an email saying their processing the money by this week......i hope they not going take even longer to pay my month's pay. Anyway the Leizpeig 2008 games convention has already started and a steady flow of trailers and video interviews have been feeding me my urge for info.

Stuff that got me excited for games coming up:
Far Cry 2's map editor:

Dawn of War 2 4th race The Tyranids:

Operation Flashpoint 2 first look:

I got a message from Clarence that he looking for new laptop. Seems like I'll be going down for the PC show with him too. Xiao Hui and Seri seem to be crazy for The Sims 3 which I think frankly really needs to outdo Sims 2 to be worthy enough for me to make a purchase otherwise its off to you-know-where to get it. I'll add more stuff when I get back home from work.

Same old shit

2008-08-15T10:23:00.002+08:00

Another day at work and I still haven't received the pay yet zzz. In other news my friend over at Ang Mo Kio found a better deal for the PS3 then the one I found in Sim Lim Square :D Now the price is $650 for 2 controllers,1 High Def cable and a 40GB PS3. Sounds good to me so I'm gonna get it with him in September hopefully pushing down the price too.

Wed-nes-day(Osaka Day)

2008-08-13T15:28:00.004+08:00

So its Wednesday and not much has happened though Haris did come from work to meet us at school during his lunch break for lunch. It has been a freaky 3 days since Sunday as Seri, XH and I keep bumping into Rick in the morning, sometimes lunch and even when we are leaving to go home! ZZZ.

Hmm dunno what all the guys are up to these days....

National Day

2008-08-09T17:20:00.003+08:00

Well, it is Singapore's National Day today and it looks like it is going to rain pretty soon before the performance. I am not that enthusiastic about the National Day Parade and in fact I was thinking of going cycling now but....it has started raining already zzz. Called my friend Tommy a we decided to get both our PS3s in September when he gets his money and we'll buy together to try lower the price down. Well that's all for now cya in the next post tmr.

Mrhhh......

2008-08-09T00:19:00.013+08:00

Hey people I'm back from the dead. Doing my Internship project in TP and its been pretty smooth sailing. My everyday life now predominately follows these few things: Games, Fallout, PS3, work, zombies and watching the odd anime episodes. My mind has been so influenced by the Fallout RPG series that I started drawing Vault-Boy in Fireworks and on anything I could draw on like this...

Man.....I'm getting too addicted to this game.... oh and for people who don't know who the hell Vault-Boy is, he is a mascot for the game and he looks like this:Thumbsup Vault-boy!

Well anyway I'm going to save up the money from my IP to get a PS3. My dad found a $890 deal for a 80GB PS3 Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle in Sim Lim today. Mind you, thats super hard to get in Singapore readily unless you order through the shop. The sad thing though is that all the money I would spend on the PS3 is going to drain my ability to get the reason why I am buying a console in the first place, Rock Band 2. Well I guess that

I really liked playing the Guitar Hero series but lately they have been more targeted to the hardcore players who can really shred the guitar which is why I am going for Rock Band 2 instead of the new Guitar Hero: World Tour coming out cos I like some challenge but not the crazy note playing coming out from GH:WT. Well I guess that is all for now. I post more often in the coming days with anything I would like to share on my blog.

2007-05-11T00:36:00.001+08:00

Battlefield : Bad Company teaser trailer!

2007-03-01T16:51:00.001+08:00

Funny way of directing a teaser trailer lol. Give it a try.

Chinese New year news and a new hobby?

2007-03-01T00:28:00.000+08:00

So its been a VERY long time since i last blogged and i do apologise for such a long period of silence but with all the work in school and studying I didn't have any mood to blog so here goes.
So my cousins came back to Singapore after 3 years since the last time i saw them and boy did I have a fun time with them :)

Apparently my cousins which of consist of 2 girls and 2 boys with the boys being twins loved the site of Stepmania when my bro and I introduced the game to them lol. Chinese New Year proceeded like normal, visiting relatives houses and all that and I was able to rake up a good S$230 of ang pao money even though my family visited less people then previous years. My uncle who lives in Australia also came by to Singapore to celebrate CNY and by far he's my most favoured uncle to talk to.

The only thing CNY that was hindering it from being better was that my cousins were not with my family cos they were going around Singapore and shopping lol. Oh by the way, they live in Meri, Malaysia so they were spending alot of their time in Singapore getting stuff which they couldn't get back at their backwards town. Lol, that reminds me. My cousins had also wished me good prosperity in my gaming skill and in my bro's case, to grow more muscles. Here are some pictures of them :)

Lastly, I'm thinking of buying some war minature figurines cos I am really stoked about Warhammer 40,000. Basically the game pits 7 different types of races against one another in a sci-fi setting but with a fantasy feel to the game. Here's some pictures i had taken when I went to Paradigm Infinitium at Midpoint Orchard today with Haris and Amin.

So that's it for this post until next time fellas.

Random rant

2007-01-19T14:29:00.001+08:00

It's 2:39 pm and I'm in the IISO lab at school with mal, SH, Just, Clar, and Kel. We're basically just trying to finish up our report and I'm pretty much finished up mine and just waiting for the rest to finish up their bibliography. Haris and Shar are nowhere to be seen now and also during OOPG lecture, Seri and Shellen too.....just gonna be one of those days. Oh yeah I'm abit pumped upped by the fact that Supreme Commander is gonna hit the shelf tomorrow on U.S shelves which means a "copy" version will be out quite soon so yeah have been waiting for this game since like last year June. I couldn't believe I would be able to stand the wait but yeah time passes by quite quickly when the bulk of projects are to be handed up in a constant rate. Oh yeah an update on the music juke box corner, I've added a song from Bakuratsu Tenshi, a really nice ED from Burst Angel the anime. So I think that's about it for today. Cya:)

Part 2 of anime posts

2007-01-17T15:42:00.000+08:00

So like yeah now there is time to blog during IDES lesson lol. Using the IMAC to do my blog and i would have to say it ACTUALLY feels nice to type stuff on it cos of the nice empty spaces. Anyway seems like my IDES assignment deadline has just extended. Good thing, cos like yesterday I was sleeping the whole way throuh after lesson. That would be from 5pm-7am! This meant serious shit cos I didn't finish doing my homepage and subpage to hand in by today... Well that's no problem now sincethe deadline extended to next week, that means more time to do the site and more time for anime :) lol.

So for part 2 of my anime posts today, I have chosen to write about Mushishi. Basically Mushishi is a kind of a light horror/sad story anime and it follows the main character who is a Mushi-shi.

His name is as the picture says is Ginko and he has white hair and only 1 eye, yes 1 eye and he is the main character. He goes around travelling for his certain curse of attracting mushi. Mushi are basically some sort of insect/plant type of creatures that consist of the Essence of Life.

They are mushi.

So anyway every episode of this 26 episode anime consist of his everyday journey to help others with his extensive knowledge about mushi by curing/teaching and giving them instructions on how to live with their mushi problem. This anime is quite philosophical and there isn't any action. If you can consider whoosing and escaping mushi as action, then that would be the action you can see in Mushi-shi. Expect to see ghost like things and some types of exorcism.

Here are some screenshots of Mushishi.

The opening song of Mushishi is done by Ally Kerr called Sore Feet and its suprisingly an english song. I've put in the streaming songs corner so go try it.
The anime is rated a very very high rating and I couldn't agree any more.

So that's about it for Mushi-shi. Ask me if you want it cheers :)

Time for the anime guessing game!!!

Clue no. 1

Can you guess what anime this is? It's done by Clamp XD

Clue no: 2

It's almost a dead giveaway can you guess it? Starts with a letter C and the little flower petal is also a clue to the name of the character.

Clue no: 3
If ya still don't know then you can try this clue though one can recognise the character to the anime.

The anime is in this link HERE

Answer: ""It's Card Captor Sakura from the old old days lol. I saw the link to download it and I had a sudden urge to finish watching the whole entire Card Captor Sakura series so yeah, loli girls, lesbian girls, moe girls and gay guys here we come XD.""(Highlight to see answer)

So that's about it for this post. Until next time cya and good times to anime :)

Old anime, new anime and Pizza Hut anime!?!?

2007-01-16T01:05:00.000+08:00

So like yeah its been a long time since i blogged cos of all the projects and all that and it has drastically reduced my the time I use to play games. However, that doesn't mean there ain't no time to watch anime :P lol. Anyway I felt like recommend to ya people 2 recent anime for ya to watch that I think are quite good series.

First off I'll start with Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Basically it is an anime featuring mechas and uber loads of action and a slight amount of Death Noteness intellectualness. Oh yeah and add all those together with Pizza Hut ads and you got a winner lol. Here are pictures of Code Geass.

Code Geass as explained by wikipedia:

On August 10th, 2010, a.t.b., the Holy Britannia Empire overpowered Japanese forces and conquered the country with their robotic weapons, the Knightmare Frames. Japan lost its freedom and rights and was renamed to Area 11, under the complete control of the Britannia Empire. The Japanese people, stripped of their identity and now referred to as "Elevens", are now forced to survive in ghettos, while Britannians live in first-class settlements. Yet rebel elements exist, as pockets of Japanese nationalists continue the fight for their independence.

A young boy named Lelouch made a pledge to destroy the Britannia Empire after witnessing the destruction around him caused by the invasion. Seven years later, he stumbles upon a group of rebel Elevens who have stolen a military secret. With the weapon of Geass that he obtains from the secret, he finally has the tool he needs to face the Britanian empire and take his revenge.

There's also loads of blatant advertising too!! lol

UBER MECHA FIGHTING:

and how can we forget the mastermind Lelouch

Overall a decent anime to watch and ya can catch it at this link.

This ends part 1 of 2 part post. Until next time :)

All tests done except for Life Science

2006-12-12T18:50:00.000+08:00

Well all i have to say right about now is that the tests are blowing by quite easily, nothing much happening except that the birthday bash for the December people in the class is happening on Friday and it is like totally gonna stop me from studying lol. So darn tired these days with a hint of sadness too. For some reason I'm get the feeling that life is just not worth living anymore, the games I am playing are just not that fun as before and anime is getting less and less appealing. Maybe it's because I'm just getting not enough good anime and games in my com to do but yeah basically I use these 2 things to get my self to continue living.......sad life. Only 2 things to keep me going . Oh well.......it's not as if I never gotten this feeling b4.

Now for a small trailer from a future game and I'll go back to my wallowing in sadness. :(
oh yeah and you may want to put a date higher then 18 years old to watch it. Basically it has a bit more blood then usual games but yeah it quite 'normal'. The game is called Dark Sector.

MMP done 2 more to go

2006-12-04T02:42:00.000+08:00

Letterhead for myself...neat eh?

Well MMP had ended on Friday and I thank God for helping to hand in my work in time. I had to totally redo my interface, create a logo and letterhead and be complete a 16 page proposal in all in a night with only 10hrs to go. I went through the night without a single sleep and used music to drive away the sleepiness and 2 days without my "fix" of computer games. So I like totally listened to Daft Punk, My Chemical Romance, some Computer game songs and 1 anime song and repeated those songs over and over and over during the night. I would have to thank Daft Punk and the com game songs for bringing me inspiration in making my "techno" and "futuristic" logo and letterhead. I am pretty proud about my logo and letterhead considering that i did them through the night and into morning without sleep. My interface was very much better then my old one and overall I liked it and was about 7/10 satisfied with my layout and all. Slept about 8am so that I could get my body and brain to work properly the next day. Had to chiong with my proposal later in school and I had really little hope that i could finish the proposal in time. Luckily with a little commitment and hardwork, I got everything done before 6pm. Went back home and......no no no lol didn't go play computer but instead went to watch TV. For some reason, I didn't really get that tired during and after the MMP ordeal. Hmm.... curious.....

Update on Saturday.
Well it's Saturday and nothing much is happening, I went over to the School Library so that my CMSK group could finish the poster and get a script up for our roleplay. Went back home and played the living shit out of my body with my arsenal of games and got really tired after that. I should have ask my bro to take a picture of me when I was playing, would have been funny. Oh yeah went to Haris house after CMSK group meething, pretty ok and not bad. It's got some nice wind flowing from there cos its at the 11th floor. Anyway, went to Haris house, watched some anime, transferred and played a computer game. Pretty much had fun making fun of old A.I. and Haris's Com's lack of RAM to play games.

Update on Sunday.
Well shit happens and I lost my EZ- link card while travelling to Expo Sitex with my church mates. I am damn lame and its gonna be a hassle to travel around to school and back....haiz. Well the card got stolen because I forgot to take the card out of the top-up machine but yeah luckily I didn't top it up in the end cos I forgot that the minimum amount of money to deposit was $10 so in the end I didn't top it up. Had about $3 in it but yeah i deactivated it straight away so no way is anyone gonna use my card. Anyway the show had to go on, so I go myself a deposit card and headed over to Sitex.

The expo was pretty much the same deals and all that just that SEAGATE WAS SELLING 320GB EXTERNAL HDD for only $199!!! That's a really good deal I would say so yeah my friend got it and we went around to look out for the PS3. Sadly to say it was no show for the PS3 but the PS2 was there and its cousin, the PSP. Xbox 360 was there too and they were advertising their big game, Gears of War.

If you like chunky marines who have the least amount of sensibility of wearing no helmet in a warzone pit against Doom enemies with loads of gore, this is the game you have been waiting for. Oh by the way if you look closely and that chunky dude's gun,.......yup it's a chainsaw and you get to use it in a manner with the most amount of blood to fly everywhere.

My church mates and I had a go at Need for Speed: Carbon with this Logitech steering wheel plus clutch set up and let me tell is it 8 times harder to use that then to use a normal keyboard lol. The controls was all over the place and I had to play once and see once to actually understand how the controls worked but yeah happy to make passer-bys turn their heads to look at the cool features of the game I was "playing with" heh heh. It was damn funny to see this small kid jump up in shock when my friend ran into the gas station with his car to make a BOOM come out of the subwoofer right next to the kid HAHAHAHHA. (Woah that's evil isn't it? Ah who cares lol)

Now that's what I call pwning the police with a lousy car.

Anyway after frightening the kid and all hope lost in trying to find a PS3 at Sitex, I went back home with my church mates and tried out my new game Phantasy Star Universe. Played it and it seems to have a promising story though I can't really get the fun out of the RPG game cos of my preference to other types of games. At least they have lightsaber swords in it, feels like Knights of the Old Republic all over again.

Animated cutscenes are a really nice eye candy treat to see in the game.

Well that's about it for the past 3 days, I seriously need to get some sleep, its already 2:47am. Well until the next update then see ya :)

Photo crazy!!!

2006-11-24T21:54:00.000+08:00

Well hi everyone, I was looking though the photos in my camera and I realised what a perfect of showing to everyone is through my blog so today's post will have loads of pictures. I have been doing nothing much on my proposal these past few days, gonna be so dead meat but yeah I have been reading on some library books to help myself out. Sleep has also been a problem these past few days but it is not really because of the projects but due to my unhealthy gaming habit/addiction sigh....this past week I have been missing my stop back home everyday cos I slept through the bus ride. Medieval 2 Total War pic on top right of post. Anyone interested contact me.

Update 26/11/2006
: Well I was walking around Parkway Parade after lunch with my parents when as I was walking by the shops around the first floor which has 2 competing electronic game shops, I saw

THE HOLY GRAILED PLAYSTATION 3

One look at this fine mighty piece of hardware in Singapore made my gamer's appetite water :P I just had to find out the price of it thinking that the more expensive 60GB version would be at most S$1,200 when holy camole did my dreams shatter...it costs a whopping S$1,699!!! and for the 20GB version, it costs S$1,299 :'(
Oh woe to the gamer's wallet when buying the ultimate gaming machine. I gonna have to wait until the price drops down and get my bro to pitch in his side of the money to buy the PS3 haiz. So that's about it for this post....damn does photbucket take damn long to upload pictures....cya:)

Birthday!!!! :)

2006-11-17T20:26:00.000+08:00

Hi y'all here's another update of stuff. Well most of the class has finally completed their first level design for their interface design although with many tears in the process. We lost in Captain's Ball and B-ball but you guys and gals did you're best ya all and we had to go up against Year 2 people so do not get emo all you guys :). Oh yeah and we had a nice birthday celebration for all the October birthday people. I've uploaded some of the pictures in this entry so happy viewing.
Added some new features like the music juke box, hope you guys will like it. Two are from Daft Punk while the last one is a anime OST from Welcome to The NHK! which is a pretty good anime if you asked me though the main character reminds me of me at some times....Freaky shit lol. Well everyone in C140G lets chiong all the way with our projects and complete them on time now ya hear me? lol :)
Oh yeah and gaming addiction is bad *what a hypocrite*

I'm back

2006-11-11T11:54:00.000+08:00

Well I am back after a long haitus from blogging cos I was to lazy to go create a new blog BUT don't worry, I am back in business and ready to upload more anime and games....(*sigh more of my rubbish*). Well first off nothing much to report on my side only just that we HAVE TONS OF WORK TO DO but a few weeks time.....can't stop getting the feeling that my lifestyle is gonna be totally changed but this problem. Oh Haruhi-san please help us in our time of need, I your loyal subject is waiting for your godly guidance.

So other then work, I guess its been pretty slow other then the OTC camp coming up and the Director's Cup coming next week. P.S. So many of our classmates having the cough, I dunno how we gonna play against other classes siah :P lol.

Without further or do, introducing to you a trailer of World in Conflict and Medieval 2: Total War. Who's up to a little strategy heh heh.