PSP Game (Infected)

Bought a new PSP game. Been looking out for this for a while. I do have a list of the games I wanna buy, so if any of you guys want to get me a present, please do drop an email at junkie2807@yahoo.com.sg to ask what games I have not gotten. They generally cost between 72sgd to 95sgd for the newer games. Anything below this price range is cheap, anything above is considered a premium.

You are Officer XXX (you will be asked to fill in a profile name) Stevens, a rookie cop who gets caught up in the apocalypse two weeks before Christmas. A virus is sweeping through New Yock City turning people into flesh-hungry zombies. At the City's tree-lighting ceremony you were sent to guard undercover, the Infected sweep through the crowd, tearing people limb to limb, and you get bitten.

Hours later, you're found unconscious by the New York Bio Team (the agency responsible for dealing with the spread of viruses) as they investigate the aftermath of the ceremony. They take you back to their lab and, led by Dr Schaeffer (hereafter referred to as "DS"), the city's leading authroity on Infectious Zombieism, run some tests.

DS and his team discover that you and you alone are immune to the virus. And what's more, your immunity is so powerful that it's deadly to anyone who has been infected. Just a drop of your blood, if shot into the bloodstream of one of the zombies, causes their blood to boil until they explode, splatting spectacularly.

This is particularly good news because throughout the city, cops are throwing everything they have at the Infected with no effect - they're shooting at them with shotguns, tanks, machine guns, the whole works, and the infected just don't die.

Knowing a good thing when he sees it, DS rigs up a special weapon he calls a "viral gun" that pulls blood straight from your veins and pumps them into bullets. His early experiments with the gun are unsuccessful, however. When he first shoots an Infected with the viral gun, the shell breaks on the surface of the skin and has no effect.

DS then tries a different route. Grabbing his shotgun, DS blasts an Infected a couple of times. As the Infected staggers around, still alive, DS hits it with the viral gun. Now weakened by the shotgun, the shell breaks the skin and disperses your blood into its bloodstream. SPLAT! The Infected paints the walls with its guts.

From this simple experiment, the plan to save New York City and Christmas was born.

Scary Santa!!! Anyway above was taken from the manual that came with the game. It's region 1 (USA) so all of the stuff is in English. Region 3 (Asia) games are a bit complicated if they only have Chinese or Japanese instructions. Michelle & I bought Tenchi no mon (Kingdom of Paradise, will post more later) & the dialogue was in Japanese & the words were in Chinese. We had a had time trying to figure out what was going on.

Ja neh!!!

Put the lime in the Coke, you nut

This happened quite some time ago, while we were still in the midst of the examinations. Jason, Richard & me were having either lunch or dinner (couldn't recall which it was) in canteen 11. We finished our food & was rather thirsty, so we decided to try out the new Coke Lime. To me it was a disappointment. Not as nice as I would expected it to be, considering it was a sibling of the Coke family. Even the Coke Vanilla was slightly better. I guess I just prefer the original flavour. I wonder what new flavours Coke will come out with. Maybe Coke Coconut? Got to give it to them for the catchy jingle though. I couldn't get it out of my head, & I started to end every sentence with "put the lime in the coconut..." Soon it got really dry. So the joke's off.

Ja neh!!!

PSP Game (Grand Theft Auto)

Grand Theft Auto is a game developed by DMA Design and published by Take-Two in Europe and the UK and by ASC Games in North America. Your goal through the game is to rise through the ranks of the criminal element which you attempt to achieve by stealing cars, running narcotics, performing hits, kidnapping, and other criminal acts. The game is viewed from the top down with a camera that zooms in and out depending on the surroundings and the situation. All of this action takes place in 3 huge cities (Liberty City, San Andreas and Vice City). Each city has its own personality and the authorities will react differently to your actions. Each of the cities is quite large and to expedite your mission you can either use the public transportation available, or simply steal a car which is a lot quicker and a hell of a lot more fun.

Check out the link for more information on the history and the developements of this game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_San_Andreas#History_and_speculation

The cover of the box containing the game. I've not really played it yet, probably because I suck at almost every type of game except puzzle bubble (which I'm trying to source for a cheap copy for PSP). Another reason is because the PSP is with Michelle most of the time. She's the expert in gaming. Once, we bought this chinese game, Tenchi no mon (tian1 di4 zhi1 men2, in hanyu pinyin). Everything was in chinese. The graphics was really good, at least to me, but she managed to almosty complete the game. Now it's just sitting the box, neglected, because of the new game. Sad, but that's life.

Will be posting more game stuff if I do get to buy more games. Would depend on cashflow, availability of second hand goods and the titles being released.

Ja neh!!!

Mashed potatoes

DUring the exam period, it is quite common to get hungry for no reason in the middle of the night. Especially when you do not have a car to drive our for supper & you've been studying a fair bit during the day. This happens even though you've had a heavy dinner just a few hours ago, thinking it should last you till breakfast comes. Oh well... The ironies of a student's tummy. So what do you do? It's either you take a cab out & waste even more money than you should, or you stock up on instant food like maggi mee and mashed potatoes. Gabby first gave me a packet to try when we were rushing the ID report. Instant mashed potatoes never tasted this good! The flavour is "loaded baked" which I have no idea what it means. It was yummy and buttery. So fattening. I got hooked so I bought a packet of 10 sachets for myself.

Another flavour from the same brand. I think it's called "butter & herbs". I prefer "loaded baked", but this ain't too bad too. So folks, next time you think you might get hungry in the middle of the night, grab some buns and get some hot water ready. A sachet & a few bins later, wash it down with some iced water & you're good to last through another night of mindless studying.

Ja neh!!!

Snow-ee

Remember the post on my three new roomies? Well, meet Snow-ee, a female, with a beautiful white coat of fur & an extremely innocent expression on her face. She's the type of cat whom you can't stay angry with for long. Her gaze makes you wanna melt into a puddle, but don't let that fool you, because underneathe, she's very mischevious and will drive you crazy. In short, a love - hate relationship. We first meet one night when I was smoking outside my room. She passed by, I whistled and she came over. I asked if she was hungry & she warmed up immediately to me by rubbing her body against mine. Talk about a girl knowing how to get what she wants!!! I didn't have cat food at the moment, so I told her, if she's still hungry tomorrow morning, I'll go get some cat food for her. In the meantime, I asked her to stay for the night & she nodded shyly. Score!!!

As promised, I got up early in the morning, went to Jurong Point to get some pet food from Liberty Supermarket. I didn't think of the pet store near 7-11 for some reason, but the price difference isn't very much, around 15 cents. Subsequently, I bought all the cat food (both the wet & dry variety) from the pet shop. She has a healthy appetite.

One rainy night, Snow-ee came to me, drenched, cold & covered in some mysterious greenish sticky stuff that was not going to come off easily. I tried showering her, but she got so scared, she shitted!!! *$%$#& That's what I get for being nice. The freaking cat was wet anyway, so what's her problem!!!

Soon she begin to clean herself & get rid of the sticky stuff but licking them or as a last resort, ripping off chunks of her fur out. Well, at least the fur grew back, after a while, just like the hair on our heads. Some time has passed since that incident, & now Snow-ee has a beautiful white coat once more. This is her, resting on my doormat outside my door. She has caused mi to get a warning letter from the hall office for feeding the cats, & people from some cat society in NTU to tell me not to feed "Moon", that's what they call her, because it does her more harm than good. I've stopped feeding her now, my roomie (the human roomie) feeds her as & when he sees her. It's a funny feeling, thinking how we have grown close & drifted apart. A strange, unfamiliar feeling, that we once knew each other so intimately, but now, we're just mere strangers, though if you look deep enough into her eyes, you can see a hint of recognition, a memory from the past.

It was all nice & warm when we were together, Snow-ee. But we must move on. We could only blame Father Time, for he let us meet too early in our lives. When we're too immature to sustain a meaningful relationship, too rash in our decisions, too hot-headed for our own good, too proud to say sorry.

Sayonara baka neko...

Chocolate crunch, not Timeout

Finally I can post pictures on my blog again!!! There are so many things I wanna show your guys, but before we get to that, let's celebrate by taking a little chocolate break to release all those trapped endophins inside our bodies. Somehow that just sounded really really weird.

Anyway, after the exams, there's really not much time to sit back & smell the roses. FYP interim report is due tomorrow, & I have done nothing for it!!! There're no theory, no lab results, zero. Sigh... I guess this is what happens when you're adopted. To all those adopted kids out there, whether you know those folks are not your real parents or not, I can understand how you feel.

It feels great to just type stuff here & hope that people will read it & not think it's too crappy or boring & finally to be able to post the stuff I took with my camera handphone (hp, mobile phone, mobile, depending on where you come from).

Heez.

Been reading other people's blog lately & I realize that my blog is nowhere near in terms of readership, substance or content. Sigh. Oh well.

Ja neh!!!

Post exams

I decided to add in this picture of KFC's cheese fries because suddenly i can post pictures on my blog again. What a strange world. When you don't need something, you can do it on every computer you own. When you need something, nothing works. Oh well, Murphy's Law at work again.

Here I am, sitting on my throne, in my little kingdom of blk 56, #02 - 1097, Hall 11, rotting the day away as usual. It has been the routine since exams ended on the 24th of Nov, 2005. Now anxiously waiting for the results of my exam, while at the same time, hoping that the school would be burned down to the ground, along with my exam answer booklets and the results. Sigh. This holiday will be a short one, because of the rearrangement of the academic calender to accomodate 2 nos special sessions at the end of the second semester.

Went to meet Dr Show, Dr Liu & Choon Hau today in the Environmental Engineering Research Centre meeting room in the afternoon, had a quick meeting on my progress so far (which is very very close to zero). Need to come out with something concrete before I get really screwed. Anyway will need to come out with a series of tests so I can study some smelly wastewater in the coming weeks. They really stink. Trust me.

Wonder how I did this semester. Out of the 8 papers I have to take, I did all the tutorials except for 1nos module (structures 2), so I guess that's the paper I worried most. For this recent exams, I stayed up till aorund 0500hrs for quite a few papers just to do some last minute revision. Which is unprecedented. But ain't advisable because I became a zombie after the paper.

Ja neh!!!

In the midst of war

It has been 2 weeks since the exams started but the blog has been very very dormant since I had problems uploading pictures, both with the PC & the Mac. Sigh... Without pictures, a blog would just be very very boring, because I'm not good with words but a picture paints a thousand.

Posted these pictures because I'm in the mood. Heez... Look at her, she's unbelievable!!!

Talk about being full of crap!!! Wow... But at least you won't meet the end of the roll anytime soon. I don't really like the idea of washing my butt with my fingers & water. Gross!!!

Nothing like a little sneaky kiss when the mood strikes!!!

Ja neh!!!

The beginning of the end

Sounds rather pessimistic, the title of my blog, but I guess if you're the type that prefers to say a glass is half full instead of half empty, it means that the semester is ending and after the exams, we can all sit back for a while and reflect on the progress made during the semester and improve on it. Hell no!!!

We should all come out and play and do all sorts of things we want to do during the semester but cound't find the time for. Ya ha!!! I must be going mad. Oh well... Recently, I've ben trying to clear report after report (actually only FYP and ID report) and also the building of our horribly weak bridge. We tested it during our Structures 2 lesson in the Protective Engineering and it failed due to overall instablity. The load placed on it was such an embarassment I would prefer not to reveal it online or ever in my life.

Now I'm taking a lttle breather when my ID (integrated design) report. Been working on it since Friday because it is due on Mon (171005). Sigh. Will be skipping lessons to make sure everything was in order before I print it out, bind it at the CEE photostating shop and handing it in. I do not even know which professor to hand it in to. Sigh. Well, this is the life of a stewpig struggling student. That's me.

After this report, I'll be able to fully concentrate on my catching up of tutorials and revision of lectures. Been skipping way too many lecures for my level of comfort, but sometimes the body is stronger than the mind. Anyway this is the first time I'm posting on my blog from a mac, so besides an icon with "ABC" and the "add picture" icon, I do not see anything else.

Seems like internet pages do appear differently on different OS platforms.

Ja nah!!!

The end of week 10

I have kind of given up trying to post pictures. Maybe it's because my computer is aging and cannot cope with the demands of modern day computing, or maybe it's just personal bad luck, or maybe CITS has been monitoring my nadwidth & feels that I'm using way too much bandwidth & decides to punish me. It could be any of the theories I've put forth, but if any of you guys have any solutions or know what's going on or have experienced similar problems & have come up with something, do let me know at 97650489 or my email (schizoid@singnet.com.sg / junkie2807@yahoo.com.sg / irony33@hotmail.com (you can add me to msn using this email), s8021865f@ntu.edu.sg . I have so many pictures I wanna share with the rest of you.

Anyway I guess it has been a rollercoaster week for me. That explains the domant blog, but I will try to blog as often as my feelings allow me. On Monday, it was the blackest monday I had in a very blue moon. I had 3nos quizzes!!! Wah... That's a first even for me. I deliberately planned my timetable so that I'll have the most 2 nos tutorials a day, but 1 nos quiz was held during lecture. So I guess they'll always find a way to beat the system.

First was Soil Mechanics quiz, which was a breeze because Dr Budi was feeling nice & he set a really easy quiz. Xiaoyen & I couldn't believe how easy it was, but I guess maybe that's beause we studied for it. Up next was Civil Engineering Construction Technnology quiz during the lecture period. It was fairly okie, not as easy as Soil Mechanics but okie. There were 4 nos questions that make up 100 marks, but each question carried uneven weightage. I could answer most of the questions but I left 1 of the question blank as I did not study Bridges, and the whole question was on bridges. Just desserts I guess. Later that week, it turned out that the tutorial I skipped to study for the coming quizzes had a hint on the questions. Sigh. So guys, no matter what, attend your tutorials & lectures faithfully!!! The 3rd was the nail in the coffin. Steel Design. Hah!!! Killer module for many people, same for me too. I had ABSOLUTELY no idea what I was writing during the quiz. Was madly trying to flip through all the tables & design standards & trying to peep at Zhiming tong xue's paper. Guess it's 1 of those exams where you REALLY need to work VERY HARD in order to get a decent grade.

Anyway on Thursday, I had Structures 2 quiz & our dear Dr Edmund Choi decided to set a really difficult question that was not only longer that those he set for his other tutorial class, but it also required some Structures 1 knowledge, which I happy gave him back when I passed that module. Sigh. We all know his quizzes were challenging but we did not expect his standards to fluctuate even among his own classes. Jasmine & I speculated that it was because our class had a few Dean's List students & therefore cannot go easy on them. Sigh. Poor innocent poor students like us. If there was a D-List (Da pao List), I would be on it year after year.

Now it's Saturday afternoon, & feeling horrible as usual. Planning to go watch the England match which starts at 2300hrs. Hope they do not lose again this time, or else I'm not going to support them so much anymore.

Ja neh!!!