Category: Life

First off, congratulations to Andy for a successful lung operation. Take good care of your lungs now! Take up smoking! [XD]

Booked the AvP tickets on a Friday afternoon. The 6.50pm show and watching with 2 of my friends. I found out that I could cause a nuisance to others, for at least 15 minutes, by blocking the seats through booking online via their website.

The whole movie lasted only 90 minutes. Tickets on Friday-Sunday cost $8.50. One-time online booking fee of 70cents. $26.20 all for a lousy piece of movie!! [>(]

As a kid, even though the Aliens looked very scary to me, I loved their appeareance. Their shape and size never cease to amaze me. Vicious, fearless and perhaps bloodthirsty. On the other hand, the Predators, also fearless, also vicious, intelligent, cool looking, not to mention their highly advanced and destructive arm-strapped PDA.

Pit them both against each other and it’s a fight you don’t want to miss. A good fight scene was what I have been looking forward to. It is this anticipation that made me want to watch it despite various negative comments regarding the storyline. Yet the whole show turned out to be crap. A huge part of the fight scenes consist of a close up shot of the Predator’s fist landing on the alien. Major turnoff. I absolutely despise the scenes where the predator acted cool. They are honourable warriors and this is not supposed to be another teen flick! [:(]

2 days went by in a flash. But at least I had a good level up in FFXI. I completed Doom3 on Friday night. The last stage, Tomb of the Hero, was designed in a satanic way it gives me the creeps. The last boss, was too fucking easy once I found out the strategy. It took me 8 in-game deaths to realize that I’m fighting him on a circular platform. [X(]

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So basically, the way to kill him is with the soulcube. As you run around the platform, monsters will creep up and all you need is to kill them. At the beginning of the stage, as you descend from the elevator, you will have a chance to stock up on lots of ammo.

For every 5 monsters killed, your soulcube activates. Then you use it on the boss for about 4 or 5 times, killing him and ending the game.
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Somewhere during the game, you have the choice to transmit a distress message back to Earth or not. A friend told me that the ending is the same regardless of whether it was sent or not. I have yet to do some researching on this matter. After you complete the game, Nightmare mode will be unlocked. At this mode, you start with the soulcube in possession. And if your health exceeds 25, it will drop slowly and maintains at 25. I felt slightly increased running speed.

Fun with Helium
Last Saturday was the 21st birthday of a poly classmate. She held a high tea buffet at CafeVic at Carlton Hotel. The one next to Chijmes. During the last hour, I grabbed one of the floating balloons and inhaled the helium gas in it. Took me a four tries to figure out how to get the chipmunk voice. It was sure gawd damn funny as hell!! The trick is to exhale your breath, and inhale from the balloon, and speak. You can hear the difference yourself.

There are no side-effects, and it feels just like breathing in normal air. I believe it’s not pure helium for safety reasons, because of people like me. After you use up the helium you breathed in by speaking/exhaling, your voice returns back to normal. So suggested by the rest of the classmates, I sang the birthday girl a birthday song with my “chipmunked” voice.

WARNING
Okae, I did some googling on inhaling helium. Please have fun with caution~ Do not perform this trick too many times! [:)]

I repeat, don’t try it one too many times, don’t inhale directly from the helium tank. Only from balloons! [:)]

Firstly, have a look at this patent by Microsoft, Method and apparatus for transmitting power and data using the human body.

I only skimmed through the long page, but from what I understand, we are taking steps to the realization of the Matrix, or better, Ghost in the Shell. [XD]

I imagine myself, many years from now, wires plugged into the back of my neck, lying comfortably on my armchair with a huge projector screen in front of me. Without twitching a muscle, I send electric signals to my computer to open up media player to watch anime. Play First Person Shooters with better, more responsive control. Feed myself coffee as I code websites as fast as thinking them. This is what I’ve been dreaming of, being truly wired to my computer~ [X)] (Hence the nick wyred)

I’m back to feeling a little useless recently. I have my goals but I just lack the self-discipline to keep myself focused on them. I tried to motivate myself by comparing myself with friends who are doing better. Wake up the next morning and I lose that motivation. Telling myself to take things easy, work on my own pace just makes me more lazy. Oh well, like the saying goes, “It’s all in the mind.”

It’s now time to knock off from work, and I shall enjoy my weekend completing Doom3 and playing FFXI.

Nice, I spent the past 3 days on intensive gaming and watched lots of anime. I can better cope with Doom3 now. I suspect it’s the frame rates. When I reduced the quality and adjusted some settings for better performance, I could actually play the game for 6 hours straight and only feel a little uncomfortable.

Doom3 is no longer scary. I’m now able to dodge fireballs and go up close to the fire imps and finish them off with a click on my shotgun~ [XD] I only jump at some parts where the demons jump out suddenly, giving me a fright. I try to relax myself but my eyes keep opening wide while playing. The best thing I love about this game is it’s mixing satanic elements with futuristic technology.

I took a day off today to rest. Don’t feel well enough to work.

So today, I spent it finishing up the conversion of my blog to PHP, played a bit of Doom3.

Talking about Doom3, even though I had smooth framerates, I felt nauseous 10 minutes into the game. This happened to other games like HalfLife and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. And this sucks. [:(] I can’t enjoy FPS (first person shooter) games anymore. However, there’s an exception. So far I can cope well with CounterStrike. I don’t know the explanation for this…