Category: Life

A disruption in natural gas supply from Indonesia caused a power blackout over many parts of Singapore at 10:15PM. Power resumed 30 minutes later. This is the first time in 10 years of staying in Ang Mo Kio, 20 years of my life, I experienced a blackout.

Damn, watching the last episode of Gokusen when it suddenly occurred. So I went out of my room to find that even the HDB flat opposite too, was struck by this blackout. Looking around, only a few blocks of homes far away did not suffer from this incident.

So I felt helpless. Can’t do crap. SMSed a few friends, one replied that Bishan too, fell victim. The radio function of my Nokia 6610 was put to good use. Tuning in to NewsRadio, I found out about other areas like Jurong East, Clementi, Thomson, Holland too got struck.

As I waited, I stood at my kitchen window and looked. The blocks opposite had flickering lights. The moon, almost full, shone it’s light at me and the view around was mystical…. dreamy…

Now my electric fans are up and running and keeping them damn mosquitoes away.

Regardless of whether you play games or not, I strongly urge you, my readers, to spend some time to download and watch this 65MB video of this game. The best part starts after the second introduction (the one where you see the title of the game.)

Note the fantastic orchestra music, note the detail of each monster and the surroundings, note the beauty of the game for they are the very reasons why I still cannot bring myself to forget this game.

L2-C2:Age of Splendour video (right click, save as or use a download manager such as FlashGet or DownloadAccelerator.)

It’s that season again. Where I don’t feel like doing anything not even gaming, where I feel some part of me died. Where I could just sit on my chair listening to music all day long and not move a finger.

I had a good time yesterday at Kouhaku organized by Singapore’s Miyuki Anime Club. Though they started 30 minutes late and ended 30 minutes late, it was worth my $7 nonetheless. I must admit I was a bit turned off by the first performance. I guess the singers were kind of nervous but it gradually became better.

Thanks to IceDoll for inviting me, I say you were last on the list because you were red team’s secret weapon! lol

I bought it! $265. $238 for the windowless version. No PSU included.

It comes in a very big box and it was hard to carry.

Here’s a simple review done on that casing/chassis/whateveryoucallit.

ThermalTake Tsunami Dream

Here I am again complaining about insufficient time. Unlike racing games in the arcade, I do not get any Time Extensions for completing a project nor can I afford to extend time by inserting another token because time is expensive money!

The Saturday and Sunday I had was rough. My webserver keeps freezing and I attribute this to the failing 3.2GB drive. I have converted my mirror raid to stripe just to be safe, and was able to back up my data before it died. And I gave up another day of gaming to clean up my room. Feels good to throw away 3 bags of old toys and other garbage. I need to make more room faster than I can fill them up with manga.

My account on Japan’s Lineage 2 got banned. Most probably because I supplied a fake address. A Japanese online friend is willing to help me talk to the GMs (GameMaster) and see if she could get it unbanned. Yes! SHE! I have heard of girls playing games but knowing a Japanese female who plays MMORPGs well kind of surprises this old-fashioned me. Oh well, pray I get unbanned so I can donate my US$50 worth of equipment to her guild. I would feel much better if all my effort goes to the benefit of someone rather than getting deleted in cyberspace. Her guild had been very hospitable to me and I feel they deserve it.

I went down to SimLim Square last Friday to check on the ThermalTake Tsunami casing that I’ve been yearning for. It turned out to be only 75% of what I imagined it to be. The mirror finish wasn’t exactly that “mirror”. The small picture shown on that site looked smooth and like mirror only because it was a small photo. The silver stripe in front was kind of shaky, but I think I can make it firm with some blutack. The front panel requires some force to open. Probably because the stuff was brand new and it’ll get easier as time passes. Best of all, the price is only $238, not $285. Might buy it soon. My first step towards a more powerful and good looking computer. [XD]