tcs tv serial about overspending

we visited pet safari by pet lovers centre at vivo city this evening 2gether with twiggs. there is a members 15% discount til 3dec for opening sale if u purchase $15 and above. my wife changes her wallet once in awhile so we didnt bring along the card. the counter guy despite this still gave us the deserved. staff were helpful in helping us choose puffy food n toys and twiggs felt welcome by many puzzled eyes. the sad part is the premise wasnt as big as we tot, about the size as in East Point in Simei.

collected my SW kubricks series7 from Falcon's Hangar earlier and located a classic Iron Man at Toyquest.

sarah machaclan dvd+cd and Hot Stuff. wonder when this car mod zine will take the ladies off the cover?

i left the Shell Petrol Kiosk at Bukit Timah Road and while i made a turn towards Lornie Road a big black Lexus MPV flash his high beam on me protesting me of being slow. i decided to slow down while the driver continued to harrass, tailgate and flashing his lamps. instead of speeding up i put on my hazard lights and he had distance off. looks like i found a way to keep these normal pple away from a psycho like me. i finally filtered off to my exit and left him far behind wondering, was it not my day he asked?

fallen

without completing Superman Returns the Videogame, i sent it for a trad-in for F.E.A.R. at Gamescore. had this bad headache that i had to stop gaming at 12am. F.E.A.R. might have been last year's best shooter on pc format. this direct port to 360 didnt seem to fare that well in terms of graphics and the scare tactics have lost to their very own later product called Condemned: Crimal Origins. F.E.A.R. also runs on the Havok engine, which i will give high praises for, i just hope the game will turn out better as i proceed.

technically F.E.A.R is my first FPS on 360. my 17th game on 360.

my flats are being constructed in a steady pace. the highest building now stands at 16floors.

F.E.A.R.

the december issue of Game Informer brings no good to me. i had long gave up on F.E.A.R on 360 format after testing the demo, but with the review it brings me back to basics to get me all intrigued and wanna try the game.

i must have bought my xbox360 in july, 2 months after the local launch. i like to lit the games i've owned, in order of purchase:-

1. the elder scrolls: oblivion
(graphics: 9 / gameplay: 9)
2. pgr3 [game sold without much exploring]
(graphics: 7 / gameplay: 6)
3. GRAW [game sold without completing]
(graphics: 8 / gameplay: 7)
4. ridge racer 6
(graphics: 7 / gameplay: 6)
5. tomb raider legends
(graphics: 7 /gameplay: 7)
6. n3 [game sold]
(graphics: 7 / gameplay: 6)
7. dead rising
(graphics: 8 / gameplay 8)
8. shoduko battle X [game sold without completing]
(graphics: 6 / gameplay: 5)
9. condemned: criminal origins [game sold]
(graphics: 9 / gameplay 9)
10. testdrive unlimited [game sold 1/2 explored]
(graphics: 7 / gameplay: 7)
11. aquazone [game sold without much exploring]
(graphics:5 / gameplay:4)
12. godfather [game sold]
(graphics: 6 / gameplay: 8)
13. marvel ultimate alliance
(graphics: 8 / gameplay: 9)
14. gears of war
(graphics: 10 / gameplay:7)
15. viva pinata
(graphics :6 / gameplay 7)
16. superman returns the videogame
(graphics: 6 / gameplay: 7)

next will be lost plant extreme conditions, est local release 21.12.06

pj in selangor

my wife just messaged me that she'll need to go to PJ in selangor in mid december. glad a female colleague will be tripping with her.

my hd dvd addon drive for the 360 finally arrived after a month's wait. this is a japanese version. and here's my viva pinata faceplate that i am entitled with the purchase of the limited edtion of the game. the faceplate came only yesterday while i got the game earlier. and of course, i cant resist superman returns the videogame, tho i'm not much of a DC comics fan, this game is pretty cute.


as my instruction sheets were in japanese, i was pretty worried if the HD DVD would match my local 360. i ran thru some video guide on the net b4 hooking it on.

the set comes with it's own power supply, a usb cable to hook the player to the usb port of your 360, a jap universal remote, and a installation disc. i plugged the power, hook up the 2 via usb, and power up both equipment. only when i insert a HD Dvd disc i was prompt to update the player. the update was done over with xbox live so the disc was meant for customers whom were not live enabled.

i tried 3 of my disc, and watched House of Wax for the nite, perhaps not as crisp, cos this movie was done in 2005, i'm sure MI3 and Batman Begins would appear awesome. sounds was as reported as i dont have a HDMI connection, i needed to tune up for a louder bomb. overall, the experience made me complete.

get your shoulders straight you crook

havent got time to play viva pinata. since finishing GoW, i've been resting my gray matter, watching old dvd and sleeping earlier.

my new pass pink holder MIJ, playstation official and WIRED. gonna start follwing WIRED as my regular zine. 's time i grow up. knowing that i'm getting alittle bonus extra, i brought my wife to kinokuniya taka for alittle shopping and omu rice.

me and couple of colleagues decided to meet up at T1 canteen for breakfast after our nite duty, and then to change our airport pass for the new biometric upgraded version. me, NCL n HT were quick and we arrived the pass office at 830am, so we were told "we're not opened yet". smartly me and HT proceed to RMG to get our annual audiogram done. when we returned, there was like hundreds of low-lifes in the queue.

many uniformed airport staff had decided to change their pass 2day. less then 10 of us now, we were in the middle and the doors finally opened at 915am. ok, the airport boss had priority, yes he's a busy man and he had to come down personally to get his fing prints recorded. it took us til 1130am to reach the front of the queue. bogged down by failure of the computer, poor technical support that couldnt get IT up, digi cam problem, mixed up sequence, VIP priorties, caused a massive delay. some good hundred of pple were rejected ultimately; a complete freaking failure i say. by time i collected my pass, it was 1230pm, bloody time for lunch.

if i could have waited at the pass office door at 0830am, the 3 of us could be number 123. we could have finished at 10am perhaps. there was a nice high post officer who did came from the back door for a quick route, but he was understanding enuff to speak with us, listen to our frustrastion, talked to the fool department of what's going wrong. he also gave us a go ahead to go infront of him, but we kindly rejected his kind offers. unlike some VIPs, who cant get his shoulders straight, had took 6 pictures so he wont look stupid in his airport pass. ultimatley got booed off by the whole room of impatients.

i deserve a new airport pass holder after losing sleep. HT had sacrificed his dogs' hunger to wait in the queue. one manager of ours had to leave the queue after stayed for 3hrs cos he gotta go to work by 1pm.

word of advice for changing your airport pass? come after your nite duty or off day, u are bound to wait.

HD DVD

distraught over the almost completion for Gears of War campaign on "casual difficulty". i'm gonna skip the "hardcore" n "insane" difficulties of this game. i'm not a multi player whore so i'm gonna skip the online portion of the game as well. feeling blue over what next to buy on 360 .... sillifully, looking at viva pinata, smackdown vs raw, r6 vegas. i've tried the latter 2 on markeytplace downloaded demo and they're surely not impressive. like all say "demo is not a representive of the completed game", testdrive unlimited had a bad demo but the completed game was impressive. nevertheless, i'll possibly and i SHOULD cool it off and play my old unfinished games like oblivion and ridge racer 6 instead of blindly buying game that i am not really anticipating.


my free zine and capt america marvel legends. have taken the figure out and the articulation is superb.



my 3 HD DVD discs arrived ealier then expected thru the mail from amazon.com . i am eagerly awaiting for the HD DVD addon for my 360 that i pre-ordered thru gamescore.com.sg .

many things in life

many occurence in life we will never have control over.

best leave to FATE or FAITH

amazing

my dad and i never come eye to eye on which route to take when it comes to driving. my dad is 70 years old this year. it's my off day. been put off since dad last mentioned that he wanted to visit the cemetery. was planned as a trip as just me and my dad. but since mom n don were around, it became a 4person outing to visit the passed aways.

first point was the CCK columbarium. my aunt, whom i have never seen before and died at 4, my great grandfather (founder of Ai Tong Primary School) and my granddad, were dugged out and urned up and remembered here.

then it was the CCK infamous cross junction cemetery, where my grandmother that passed on in april 1991 was buried.
my wife and i used to go cemetery visits in the past. the peace here is what u'll never find in the urban singapore life.

and as usual, my dad and i argued on which is the best route back home.


managed to collect my GoW at 2230hrs at Funan 2nite. i only got to know the game was officially out 2day at 2145hrs. thx to jaclyn of gamescore who called me at 2210hrs when i was about to leave my in-laws place, that gamescore will wait for me if i can make it 2nite. amazing


my terrapins will get their fave food when they finished their little prawnies.

i'll be having dinner at home

bye bye to my razer copperhead and bye bye to double cliks for the wrong reasons. the copperhead gaming mouse has been giving me double cliks when i left clik once and it can be real annoying when it come to internet usage. i bought a cheapo $18.90 microsoft wired optical mouse as replacement.

long before you were borned, my first encouter of a comic book was in 1980-1982. as a kid, outdated comics were available at mama shops. my first was a black panther comic by marvel which obviously i "kent" rem the issue number.

in 1988, my first serious issue was amazing spider-man #319. i popped into comics mart at serene centre [they are still there] after my polytecnic classes, b4 dinner, my life fused with the art of a colourful drawn life. all the collection came to a halt in 1995. i still have 3 boxes full of comics, i just refused to go look at them, i hope they have not disintegrated.

2006 makes a return for my interest in comic characters again. i have loved wolverine, spiderman, by i think my first interest was the human torch from fantastic four. i'm glad comics especially marvel comics came to my life. would make me so not geeky if i dunno who's in x-men movies, who the fuck is punisher, and kitty pride was from x-calibur. how are u gonna impress me if u know what is GTI. geeks kick ass.

gears of war

my prize arrived yesterday via courier after some mis-communication.

i had won the "letter of the month" and it won me 6mths subs to a local zine and this signed pc game "dreamfall". i bought the game many months ago but this limited signed version by the maker himself is a real keepsake. i've always been a collector .... of many things.

i was not entitled a closed door X06 entrance yesterday. so my intention was to visit this exhibtion 1230pm - 230pm for a public preview 2day. as gears of war stage preview was the last event so i tot i could skip the earlier program. i was tied down playing Ultimate Alliance, dealing with Arcade's Murder World, that disallowed portal or SHIELD crest game save, so i had to play as far til i get a game save, it lasted me til 1210pm. a quick shower and a quick drive got me on site at 1235pm. to my gladness n surprise GoW was the first event. missed the first few minuted but it was cool. written on Unreal3 engine, the game looks awesome!

Gears of War is also gearing up at Funan for the launch on 7.11.06 . apparently the munsters are crawling out from the basement of this shopping complex.

bape zine autumn/winter ver1.2 and code3 xmen last stand dvd. code1 doesnt have the making of, so i gotta settle for a code3. i'm thinking of getting old marvel dvd moives too like fantastic4, punisher and maybe daredevil.

crow nest, marvelous days and fire engines

this rain reminded me of 1977. it was 540pm and the sky had been darkened by rain clouds. the art teacher came to the class with a big canvas painting of a fire rescue scene. we were told to render this art piece as our last lesson for the day.

the lites in the classroom remain off, all the students knew in 20mins we'll hear the bell and it's time for home. i felt the eagerness to complete this task but time was not on our side. we left the classroom dissatisfied .... even til this day, still haunted by the event, 19 years later.

it's $16, $8, $4 to duplicate 3 respective keys at Mister Minit. i chose to have the cheapest duplicate first. 2day at holland village, it's $10, $2, $1 to duplicate the 3 keys by the cobbler / keymaster. i had the other 2 keys done 2day.

the rain subsides but memory lingers. the haunting of a fire rescue scene painting.


a crow family has setup a nest on a tree outside my room. they tend to wake me up when i want another late morning. hope the rain dont disrupt the birth.


monday nites between 1988 - 1995 i would go comic shops. it's shipment nite. the conversion rate were USD1 = SGD1.5 . this is my current 360 game, nice memories of marvelousity.

champion of cyrodiil

got 150 achievement points this morning when i completed the story arc portion of Obblivion on my xbox360. i was awarded the Champion of Cyrodiil title and they will have an armor ready for me in 2weeks.

i have completed the story arc for a couple of the games which some i have sold:-
1. dead rising
2. condemned: criminal origins [game sold]
3. ninety nights [game sold]
4. tomb raider legends
5. godfather the game [game sold]
6. oblivion

games bought that i didnt play and were sold were:
1. pgr3
2. aquazone
3. ghost recon advanced warrior

games yet to dwell on:
1. test drive unlimited
2. ridge racer 6
3. shoduko battle X

games that will play for more storyline:
1. oblivion
2. dead rising

Best of You

if anybody is really bothered by dave grohl.

i am one year behind "in your honour". i'm always fasinacted by 2-disc, dual disc, limited edition etc etc. still plagued by funding, but i got the limited 2disc dual disc set from foo fighters's 2005 album and recently remastered platinum edition of "scarface" dvd.

i'm edging closer to HD Dvd, my first will be thru amazon.com , will be ordering soon for MI3 in HD DVD format. tho i could wait for a collective order, the HDDVD n "In your Hounor" US press, but i lost my coolness due fundings like i said, and settled for a EU disc, certainly less superior in fidelity in comparision with US pressing or Jap cds.

the drummer from nirvana who sings for his own band. think they've got like 5 albums already.

mine is your and yours is mine

there is no divide

in your honour i will die tonight

mine is yours and yours is mine

i will sacrifice

in your honour i will die tonight

for you to feel alive

this is twiggy .... new member of the zombie family

summation

blogspot has been erratical lately or was it this way all the time. my templates went corrupted and the links to my archive went haywire. uploading photos have always been with some tremendous effort. maybe the world is bloating every second and blogspot cant cope.

went vivocity like the rest of the crowd on opening day. was not disappointed by the lack of shops opened but the linedup of the upcoming stores, nothing fab to my taste. stupidly i tried to buy queueup tickets for world trade center but it was flashing red selling fast.

was down with some shit viral attack on monday and it lasted my 3days. next my dad had to see a doc for indigestion and my wife threw up bad food from the previous nite. i think the bloody aftermath of haze has gotta do with this condemnation or contamination.

plagued by my bad debts .... i resort to selling old stuff again. make 90bucks selling old dvds and cds to gramophone. they take in your old stuff at low price, tho screening are strigent, it beats trying on ebay or yahoo auctions for this mouldy collection of my, sometimes we just moved on from our previous fad, ok, they called it phase.

drove my mum to toa payoh this morning, my uncle needs food delivery and Touch Community does provide such services with a nominal fee. think my uncle is 60+ . he's been in and out of woodbridge in his early days.

had a chance to drive passed my old flat that i lived for 14 years. to my surprise it's been flattened. trees from another land had been recultivated and blooming hard over my past. i used to cometo this area to rekindle some childhood memories, call me melocholic, innocence is gold.

uploading the pictures is dragging me down, so much for a night like this ....

testing, blog is down

testing line, blog is down

choice

i was at lucy's again for lunch, a food canteen deserted by most of my colleagues.



in priority of highest order how i decide if i'll buy an electronic game:-

1. eye candy
2. celebrity involvement
3. smooth framerate
4. genre / storyline

a pre-launch demo would help alot on the decision basing on the above considerations, if not i've got to rely on the hype of the company's promotion. i'm a sucker for freebies like free bag or t-shirts etc, so i'll mostly go the special edition of a game, and paying the premium.

winston & double clicks

here's a link of a blog to an old pal at work --> http://redbox68.livejournal.com . we've been colleagues since day1, or maybe day0 cause i rem he was in the same bus when we were visiting LORADS1, bloody green screen radar, i almost wanted to give up taking this job. and the people were in covered ear hairstyles and bell bottomed pants and oh my god ....

winston is the name of a grasshopper, so they say. think my "winston" is vincent, that's more like it.

my razer mouse is giving me a quicktime, double cliks when i only want it once.

and sorry folks, i dont borrow and neither do i lend, i'm not a library so go get yourself a copy and yes, stop piracy.

purple haze

met up with two of my secondary school mates this evening at MosBurger Bishan. Beng Hock had moved back to Shunfu Road 2 years ago to live closer to his parents. and Wai Loon, a buddy that i've not seen for 7 years since his wedding, three of us got together for a little ketchup on what's going on. it's been awhile i say.


Gamescore was kind enuff to supply me a PS3 lanyard when i got my xbox live vision yesterday. waiting always has it's advantages, i contemplated on paying for this lanyard freebie couple of months back when E3 was hot, and i could also have paid double the price for the live vision if i ebayed it.

xbox live vision has so much potential i cant wait for it' s involvement. for a start there is the motion sensor capture for playing a game using my hands waving on the cam, instead of controlling it via the controller, an ancient gimmick perhaps, still i'm entralled.

the haze is causing my throat to go dry, or am i blaming.

been awhile

been awhile since i last came here to make a blog. have sold some 360 games and bought some. finished some of the games as well but most have replay value. currently in a godfather phase, bought the dvd set as well with the guide book after discovering the whole mafia culture appealing.

cant wait to get my hands on the xbox 360 vision, a cam not only for some silly video chat but a gadget that has so much potential for my beloved console. have also placed a reservation for the HD DVD addon for the 360 with www.gamescore.com.sg .

apexplorer came in the mail 2day. brothersworker takes a break as a collabarative team and went on with solo projects. this ape is a crossover from canon and winson ma. got this awesome figure form abcexpress at ebay.

twinkle the little star

twinkle left us this morning at 5am plus. 9/11/06. she was under the care of her seller when she left. we had brought her back to the shop after a stint at animal clinic on saturday 9/9/06.

twinkle joined us on 2/9/06. she developed kennel cough and we nursed her to recovery on 7/9/06. she was on her cough syrup and antibiotics. on friday 8/9/06 she develop slight fits and foamed in her mouth in the evening. we brought her to the clinic the next day on sturday 8/9/06. the animal clinic did thorough test on her and discovered she has high count of white blood cells.

we visited her on sunday morning 10/9/06 and she looked very weak. she hadnt eaten and was hit by flu. her tail was down. we felt sad.

a call from the pet shop says she didnt make it this morning.

poor twinkle, a little chihuahua age 2mths old had left us. she follws us and was a active chaps. we both love her.

i start thinking about my life. a new phase my wife and i agree, this incident b4 twinkle left, we want to dedicate to the care of animals.

twinkle trails us forever ....

i am furious. and i am devasted.

and the japanese spitz says fuck you all people of this world ....