Mirror's Edge Demo is out!

Wowzaz, it's quite a fun demo, actually. Short and sweet. I think I might get the game. Piano exam's coming up, Guitar hero's coming out, Gears of War 2 too... Sigh.. Too many great games, too little time. Ubin came over coz he had nothing to do just now; ended class at 11:20, and he had to be in school by 5pm. Wanted to get started on our projects, but Dead Space was too tempting. Besides, I haven't been playing it for quite some time already.

Jam and hop. Wanted to go but too lazy. I love my bed :)

Random wall-o-text.

Foosball

I got trashed so badly it was effing hilarious. LMAO.

XO8....Again

Went to XO8 again today after church. Met with Joe and Ubin. Sis was having her Rockband competition, and I was pretty sure she'd win something. Again, no luck. Walked around a bit, played some Mirror's Edge, got free Mirror's Edge tattoos. Met two idiotic kids whom I just felt like giving a good smacking. Hogged one xbox station like no one else's business. Worst of all, their dad didn't stop them. Ugly Singaporeans.

Met Wayne, Joshua and Congyu for dinner at Carl's Junior. If my memory serves me right, today would be the first day I eat at Carl's Junior. Yeah, sue me. Freakin expensive, at least the burger was good. Didn't finish the fries though, had to rush to Esplanade for the concert. Free tickets! Woo! Very entertaining concert, although for some reason, when I heard the piano parts, I felt uber tired. The feeling just came over me, and although the the pianist was so good, I couldn't keep my eyes open and dozed off about 5 times. What a waste. Loved the encores; Magic Garden and Fire-something. Even more than the 45 min song, Firebird. Went to starbucks for awhile then went home with sis. A red-faced sis, thanks to rum. Lol.

XO8

Friday: Went to XO8 with Ubin and Wayne at Marina square. Being my first time at an XO-something event, I expected more, but it was ok nonetheless. I got my goodie bag, inside were two games! Wow two free games! I received Kameo and DOA4. I think I'm never gonna play Kameo, probably just gonna sell it away. Or maybe I'll just leave it along with my Ninety-nine nights to rot. Bro received Shadowrun (probably another stupid game) and a limited edition Forza 2 motorsport. Cool eh?

Met Syaz over there, went to explore a bit before going for dinner. Bumped into Cheryl and her friend. Sue's speech was awesome, the best among the four, definitely. It was perfect. Only problem is that no one really knows her, and the other 3 guys have lotsa support from the BOB community. Then it was her turn to play Street Fighter 4 up on stage against an A.I. I was pretty sure she would lose, considering that she never played ANY street fighter at all. But alas! Her cheap button mashing tactics secured her victory! I was shocked man. XD

While the votes were being calculated, there was a showcase of some Guitar Hero action and Street fighter 4. Results were announced, and alas, sis didn't win, instead it was Merderka who was crowned the next Xbox Xpert. Oh well, there's always another time. Watched Electrico perform on stage and it was awesome. Apart from the fact that it was a free performance, it was, I think, the first real live band performance I've seen. Went back after that.

Mood: Empty...

Psychology's fun, lecturer's very animated, albeit intimidating. At least his lessons are interesting, unlike Wenjun's jap lessons which seriously suck. Well, to me, at least. Can't believe his lecturer can just talk non-stop for what seems like forever. I'm gonna ace psychology, that I promise. I'll do whatever it takes. Ok enough nerd talk.

Went over to Tm just now after Vidfun in search for jeans (all my present ones are getting too damn short!) and a cap for my screwed up hair. Too bad the caps i saw were all 30 bucks, which was a Big No for me. Settled for a pair of jeans and socks for $36 bucks after a 25% discount. Not a bad deal at all.

BIG NEWS: SIS GOT THROUGH TO THE FINALS OF THE XBOX XPERT PROGRAM. What a kick-ass sis I'll have if she gets to be the next Xbox Xpert, getting to try out new games before anyone else. You already kick ass man. Looks like her biggest contender would be Merderka, as his video's really good, so props to him if he gets the title.

Watch her vid here:

Damn isn't there anyone who can give me a proper hair cut?!

FUCK!

Friday:

Went to meet my primary six peeps. Not all came, of course, and many I wanted to see didn't. And there were only like what, 5 girls?? And more than 10 guys. Lol. Went to tm to eat at Pastamania, had Creamy Chicken. Wasn't as nice as I remembered it to be; it tasted too salty and not creamy enough. Zheng da came late, and he looks the same as he used to. Oh he's still the asshole he is. Haha just kidding. Biggest shock would be Samuel. After seeing him botak for god knows how many years, it was a HUGE shock to see him with hair. Long, spiky hair. WOW. Cool. Chitchatted, then went on to Changi Airport.

Oh and on the way outta Tm, Jaime realised that I had a different hairstyle, and she was all like "wow better than your old one which was horrible." Haha what she meant was the time where I had to wear a cap, and yes, I agree that it was horrible. Heh. Slacked at Terminal 1's macs before taking a bus home.

Now you know why you shouldn't play this alone?

Shoot the limbs!

Deadspace: First impressions

Ok so I've played only a little of the game, but I think I've had enough. For now. When I think back about it, it isn't really that scary, (yeah right), but it sure is when you're playing it alone. Graphics are top notch, gameplay is fun, physics is great. Although it can be a little annoying at times.

For example: After I dismember an enemy 'zombie' (They're actually called Necromorphs, by the way, which reminds me of a joke I read on some forum, but scroll down to read it coz I think I've sidestracked a little too much) So yeah, after I shoot of their limbs, sometimes I walk over them, and one of the limbs gets stuck in between my arms or legs, dragging it along. And that's pretty disgusting. I think the producers made a good job of implementing many doors to this game. It adds a lot to the scare factor, coz you never know what might lurk behind it.

So far I'm armed with only a plasma cutter, but it works well. For now, at least. It takes one shot to disemeber a limb, and it takes two limbs to kill one Necromorph. Or rather, the Necromorphs I'm facing now, as I'm sure the later ones will be much harder to kill.

Verdict of the game so far: Good, very good, but it would be more fun if it was played with a group of friends watching, the lights turned off, and volume set to maximum. Now that would make Silent Hill seem like a walk in the park.

Oh and before I forget, the joke:

What did one Necrophilia say to another?

Wanna stop by for some cold ones? XD

DEADSPACE!!

I finally got it! Muahahaha! Review coming up later on!

Just watched "Get Smart" via my 360, and man, was it enjoyable. Sure it was a slapstick (spelling?) kinda movie, but it was hilarious. Much better than The Zohan, imo. Many laughs, and one of the funniest moments went like this:

Steve Carrell hangs onto a rope from a low-flying plane and is cruising at road level amongst some cars. Then a kid in the back of one of the cars spots him holding on for dear life and starts shouting "Mum! Mum! Mum! Mum!" to which the mum shouts back "Sam! Sam! Sam! Sam! Do you see how annoying that is?!!" Ok I think I didn't get the kid's name right, but you get the point. Lul.

Work got cancelled yet again, and I'm gonna be free tomorrow. Probably gonna head down to get Dead Space. Or maybe I'll just be too damned lazy and stay home all day again.

Last update before I sleep

Oops she did it again

Losing money... Dow's supposed to go up a lot, mum shorted instead of buying coz she listened to some guy. Dow did go up, and we're losing lots of money. I feel bad for dad, all his hard earned money gone down the drain just like that. Earn bit by bit, loose so much at one go. =(

On a brighter note, did quite a lot of painting on Starkiller just now, and he's halfway done. Work for tomorrow got cancelled, what a waste =( And I don't feel like blogging, so this post is gonna be short. Fullstop.

Sis came back from Perth yesterday and brought home some awesome Aussie and American stuff. Aussie donuts (mmmMMMmmmm), Aussie matured cheese and some bread. I love Aussie food. Then she also got me and bro some exclusive Halo shirts from the SanDiego Comicon. I love the red "Traxus" T-shirt, coz I've always wanted a Red shirt. And it came with the "Bungie" logo behind. Always a plus =)

Did colouring on photoshop the whole day, this time not for dad, but for my other artwork. Starkiler's a real pain, it's taking me way too long to do, but somehow, I'm enjoying every minute colouring it. Ok, not every, but most, at least. A shot of it WIP:

Pissed

Woke up at 10 am just now, and first thing I do is ask my dad if he needs any help in his work. So yea, he does, and I help him colour his work in photoshop. A really great first-hand experience in his work life. Life as a storyboard artist really is not easy. Not one bit. Dad didn't even sleep the whole night, busy drawing the storyboards. And he had to colour all 10 by 11am. Fortunately, the clients didn't chase him, so somehow, even till 5pm, we hadn't finished all the storyboards yet. And all the while there were people talking to me on Msn but I had to shoo them away. Sorry guys =p

Finally stopped work at around 8:30pm. Didn't even brush teeth or bathe or rest the whole day. Too damn rushed. Then I receive an email from WCG, saying the money will be delayed to November. From September 5th to November. That's 2 freakin months guys, I'm sure you can do better than that. Worse still, when I asked for the breakdown of my pay, the reply I received appalled me. The total amount is stated as 235 bucks. And Evilswat said that it would be a minimum of 400 bucks total. I'm supposed to be paid 6 bucks per hour, but it states I'm being paid less than 5. Wtf? That plus the many errors in the calculations. If this is really how screwed up the organisers and sponsors are, no way am I working for them again.

Pfft.

Man time passes really fast. Just two days ago I was working at Farrer park. Seemed only like yesterday. Oh man soon school's gonna start (no problem with that) but I'll have less time to sleep, draw, play and go out. Oh well, at least I'll be in the company of my friends. Heh.

Just received some bad news; Alexa's got health problems, what, I'm not sure, but it's bad enough that she's only coming back to school next year. Hope she gets well soon. Wish I could do something to help..

Woke up at 10am today, rushed to get ready to leave for piano lesson at Clementi. After that, quickly got back to rest for awhile before going to my new student's home to give piano lesson. Sylvia told me she was 16? What a shock when she told me she was 21! Wow me, a 17 year old teaching a 21 year old. Ok, at least she could play and read some notes, and she learns quite fast. I think. Haha and she's also from Tp. Or rather, used to be. Design too. PID. Lesson was supposed to be 45 mins, but after almost 1 and a half hours, her mum came and asked me why I didn't wanna go back. Then I looked at my phone and wth, already 1910. Oh well, time well spent, played my Diploma piece at her request. Wrapped things up, then went down. And realised I left my phone at her house. -.-"

Wayne just ordered Macs, I had a double cheeseburger and a fillet o fish. Can't believe I'm eating a Cheeseburger again while I'm still sick. Gotta sleep early to recover and work tomorrow.

Hari Raya Celebration

Freaky..

Spiderman, spiderman, does whatever a spider can.

The true art of slacking.

Ok, not really. Didn't celebrate much, unless you consider playing with sparklers celebrating. Still, going to Ubin's house was teh funzorz. Supposed to go there at 3:30, but in the end, that was the time we met at Sweetalk. "We" being the guys, of course, the girls were late. Yet again. So we left for his house at around 4:30? Reached there around 5 ish and slacked. Ubin ordered us Pizza (mmmmmMMmmm) (that's what she said) and some chicken drumlets from Pizza hut. Sorry Joe, I win at "That's what she said"s. Haha his expression is damn retarded whenever I beat him to it. L. ;p

Slacked a bit more, played a lil Halo 2. Wow the controller's so old-school man, so huge and bulky (s'what she said). Watched some tv, then went down after awhile to play Sparklers. Ubin and Shuhui made these missile things that went ignited, would actually move. Cool eh? Made a mess of the place (not that I'm proud of it), I hope the cleaners won't get too annoyed. Went back to his house to play Jenga! Played it in a different style, using cards to decide whose turn it was to pull the pieces out. And thanks to my l337 skillz, I pulled off a "classic move?" according to Joe, which was actually pulling out the bottomest row of blocks very fast so that the whole thing doesn't topple. Don't get it nevermind. There should be a video somewhere.

After that it was home sweet home, raced Shuhui to the bus interchange. Haha.

Whew. Went cycling yesterday, been such a loooong time since I cycled. Met the group after such a loooong bus journey. 1 hr. 1 freakin hour sitting the bus doing nothing. At least the fun in cycling made up for that boredom. Paid 7 bucks for my bike, while the girls rollerbladed. Alana rollerblade like pro sia, but Shuhui, well, she held on to Joseph for the entire ride. THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID, SUCKERZ. After 2 hours of cycling, everyone's hair all messy siol, lucky I brought my cap to save the day. ;)

Ate two double cheeseburgers at Macs, (thank you as well!), and after that, I kinda had a small little feeling that the next day I was gonna be sick. And voila! Woke up today with my throat feeling all sore, and had a bad case of runny nose and a headache. But before I went back yesterday, those fools hid from me. Wth man, I was playing at the seashore, when I turned around, they were all GONE. After using my gamer eyes to search for them, I finally gave up and walked to the tunnel. What a disappointment when I realised that they were all the while behind me, and I didn't even notice them. Gamer eyes you fail me yet again. Haha jk.

Woke up today at 10:30am, then went back to sleep until it was 6:30pm, when mum and dad went out to Aunty Jane's wedding. So I'm here, just finished eating Pizza my bro ordered (thanks Wayne!) and about to go play some Xbox yet again. Bye.