Yearly Archives: 2008

Personal Life

B For Bloggeries and I For IPod

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Bloggeries – A synonym for “Blog Posts”. Sounds cool? Yeah, maybe. Just learnt about the word at the forums of the site called “Bloggeries”. But that aint the main reason why I am talking about it. The owner at Bloggeries is giving away a free IPod Nano. Sounds cool? Hell yeah! The contest requires bloggers to write a bloggerie (blog post) using the synonym “bloggerie(s)” instead of the words “blog post”. Bloggeries is spelt as B-L-O-G-G-E-R-I-E-S, Bloggeries! Repeat after me: B-L-O-G-G-E-R-I-E-S! Well done.

Oh and I want a IPod Nano because, I just gotten a IPod TOUCH! What a reason. Greed is present in all human beings, can’t blame no one. When we’re born, we want to cry. And we don’t cry just once, but MANY times (because we are greedy. Ok, this is a joke if you didn’t realise.). Alright that isn’t related at all. ANYWAYS, my parents gotten me an IPod Touch. How sweet of them. (P.S And I’m sorry mum for making you cry yesterday. You didn’t have to. I was just, you know, stating my point and what I truely thought about your actions etc. And I guess it wouldn’t be too late to Apologise for We Are Family).

You bet my bear is loving it. “Hey, it is my turn to listen now dammit!”

Games, Review

PC Fifa 09 Review

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Will the PC version of Fifa 09 hit the goal among gamers and the franchise fans, or will it just be another pc version that is good enough by just seeing it from the stands? In my personal opinion, I would say it is just another Fifa soccer game with a little tweaks here and there. Sure the be-a-pro seems promising, the widgets seem cool and awesome and of course the Adidas live season seems to make the game relate more to the real life. However, after testing out the console (PS3) version (demo) of the game, I felt that Fifa 09 on the pc totally lacks substance.

Many would argue and say “Hey, you can’t compare the console version with the PC’s! It is just not fair!”, but the sad truth is everyone does and I am no exception. PC gamers and console gamers are all gamers. They want the best experience they can have in each and every game they play. So if you come out with a game for that particular console/PC, you better make it good and for a good gaming experience you must check out best gaming monitor under 150 Fifa 09 felt almost if not the same as Fifa 08.

Hit the jump for screenshots and the full review.

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Software, Website

ExitReality A New Way of Browsing

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ExitReality is a browser’s browser. To elaborate further, it is somewhat like a plugin to be run in a browser to provide the viewer with a whole new way of browsing. Therefore, it is a browser’s browser! What is so special about this browser is that it gives you a whole new way of looking at one’s website; in 3D. Yes you can type in any Tom, Dick or Harry’s website and it will transform it into a 3D way of viewing. In addition, one can edit how his site looks like in the 3D view to his heart content. Whether is it adding a new car or some kind of decorative item, you can do so by just dragging and dropping the items you want. Then place it at the position you like and you can finally save your masterpiece. One problem though is that it does not work really well with blogs. This is because the plugin reads all links of each individual blog post, and convert it to one of its own link. For example at my site I have ShareThis links. The plugin would then convert all the sharethis links into one individual 3d object, causing the place to look cluttered up and disgusting at times. Nonetheless this is an extremely interesting way of browsing and viewing websites but the debate of whether 3d would be the new-gen of web browsing, I would firmly stand on the side of a definite “no”. This is mainly because it is too slow, and destroys the purpose of web design anyway (since it converts the website to its own 3D design).

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Personal Life

Dreaded Holidays

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The long awaited 1 week break of the third term has finally arrived. I feel kind of weird about the holidays. Not really too happy nor excited about it, but nevertheless not sad about it either (who frowns when it is time for a break? The answer: No one!). Perhaps this weird feeling is due to my rather below average results for the term, or maybe because I realize that the final year examinations are extremely near (just 2 weeks after the break) and that I have lots of catching up to do. Whatever it is, I have decided that I will study during the break. Yes, I’ll study. It takes a lot of determination and self-control to not interact with the computer as well as talk to my bear for quite some time, but I am sure I will be up to it. I have to be anyways seeing as how I practically not understand a lot of topics in the different subjects (for not revising etc) and needing to flip the textbook whenever doing worksheets etc. However putting that aside, I can happily say that the year is about to end and the long 2 months of playing awaits. I just got to persevere till then.

I have not been posting of much due to the endless amount of projects which are finally over. Now that the projects are gone, I will be kept busy again, due to the time spent into studying and revision work. However, I would just like to say that there are not much of happenings lately; no games that are worth to talk about, no interesting events that happened, no nothing. Life is as usual but I just cannot wait to say, “LITTLE BIG PLANET is coming out soon!” (During my examination period of course. What a coincidence.) There are several games that I am eagerly anticipating with high hopes and expectations. Still, due to my examinations I have to wait. The painful waiting is what I usually endure and I really hope that the wait would be worth it (the game as well as my results, that is).

For now, I am going to leave and fully rest my last weekend of escapism before finally going back to the harsh reality of life this coming Monday. I wish students out there a happy studying time and all the best for your EOYs (End-Of-Years. Oh well).

P.S Happy teachers’s day.

Games, Review

Power Soccer Review

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“Power? Football? Oh my goodness that sounds awesome enough to be a mini crappy boring 1d flash sports game.” If you had that kind of impression or thought upon reading the title of the game that I am about to review, prepare to be wrong, well it was for me. At first I thought it was another boring sports flash game that people play when they felt like dying. Usually flash games are small and fun for the moment; only some are extremely addictive and keeps players hooked up on it. In addition, sport flash games are mostly horrible, only around 1% to 2% of them got me excited; power soccer being one of them. The only exception is that it is an online awesome addictive free soccer JAVA game. Yes, you heard me right! It is splendid for a little small game.

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Personal Life

I want EXAMS, not PROJECT

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I haven’t been posting for quite some time already. I am really apologetic about that. However, it is really because of my current pile of projects and school work that is wearing me down. No, they are seriously genuine and real excuses. For once I felt that my own judgment was terribly wrong. I always thought that this term, would be an awesome and relaxing one for me. Just sit back, little by little doing project work and then handing them up. I WAS WRONG, so wrong! With my poor time management skills, I cramped up over 3 different subject’s projects onto one week. I rushed them all out and was pleased that I had not been penalized for some of the overdue work. PROJECTS are tough. If you have poor time management, projects are neither fun nor easy. At least for examinations, cramping the last week with just pure textbooks and revision, you might get through the tests with ease. For projects, research and all the other time consuming stuff has to be well planned and carried out accordingly else they will not be completed in time.

Term 3 supposedly was my relaxing and fun term in my opinion. However, I was proved wrong and am kind of surprised with the outcome and how current things are going. Nevertheless since this is my first time ever having such a curriculum, I am confident the next time such a term ever comes again, I will be prepared. Cut shot about my ranting and etc about how tiresome and exhausting term 3 is, I’ll touch more about some of the other interesting happenings that had just happened.

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Personal Life, Website

Do the Polar and 2.6

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Just received a event to “Do the David Gan”. Hmm, I was supposed to take a picture of me having my hand on my shoulder showing off my branded watch. Well, I guess following someone else was kind of like stupid, so I decided to, “Do the Polar … Bear”. Right so heres a picture of my bear, doing the polar bear.

Just upgraded to WordPress 2.6 (huh? So soon? Yes I had the same reaction). Hit the jump for a video done by the official team on the new features etc.

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