Sunday, November 30, 2008

A lot of things happened last week..

A lot of things happened last week. Mostly sad things. I broke my wife's heart, and she was unable to forgive me. But by the grace of God, she managed to forgive me. I am so sorry Honey, I will not repeat the same mistake again. I am a changed man. I thank you for giving me another chance, this is why I love you so much.. Then, I got MC for three days since last Wednesday. While I was returning from Gents, I felt dizzy and collapsed in the Office. My collegues took me to a clinic in Cine Tech 1, where the doctor gave me MC. Actually, it was a blessing from God, HE gave me the chance to patch things up between my wife and I. It was extremely emotional, I will stop writing about it here.

Poka, our furkid, was hit by a mysterious illness. After we came back from our monthly shopping, I found him looking depressed, so I took him inside. His head was tilting and his eyes were experiencing REM. We took him to the government vet the next day, only to find out that they too are puzzled by it. They suggested that my boy's nerve system is damaged and they is nothing they can do except subscribing some antiobiotics. We nearly bursted into tears. He was looking very week since he was refusing food. But alhamdulillah, after the MA gave him the injection, he slowly stops the REM. My wife did some reading and found out about the desease head tilting desease . It quite rare. I lifted him and place him inside a box in a corner of our house. He cant walk properly since his balancing is already out. He slept all day, but I forced food inside his throat, water too. For me, in order for him to be strong, he got to take some food, by hood or by crook. My hands were bruised by his scratchings, but it was all worth it when I saw him licking and grooming himself the next morning (for you cat nuts you should know that this is a sign that the cat is recovering) I called my wife and we shed tears. Then he wanted to eat, so we game him some. I still cant walk properly, but at least the food intake have continued. So this Hari Raya Haji we are taking him back to KL since he cant take care of himself. Toro will go to the cat hostel. From my wife's reading, it can be resolved with time. No worries Poka, we will continue to love you as usual, no matter how you are.

I got some new games..

Motorstorm 2 Pacific Rift

Genre : Offroad Arcade Racing
Platform: Playstation 3 Exclusive Multiplayer : local and online Trophy Support : Yes

Graphics : This game looks better than the prequel (obviously) Rides now are able to catch flame if driven on volcanos etc. But, if I take another peek at Gran Turismo 5 Prologue , I know Evolution Studios can do better.Oh, that screenshot function rocks.

Audio : Supports up to 5.1 Dolby thingamajig, if you have one. The thing is, you can literally hear your opponents' engine at the back of the pack (audio clue) while racing, pretty cook to me. And the rocking soundtrack adds more fun in it. 2 things tho, I hope the next Motorstorm adds blo off valve sounds in the game, most of the vehicles offered are Turbo vehicles so a Blow off valve hissing sound is natural. Oh yeah... NO CUSTOM SOUNDTRACK SUPPORT SUCKS. We demand a patch for this, NOW!

Gameplay : Well, obviously this time the game is set on an island filled with volcanoes, thick jungle and lush seaside. So you do the math. On top of that, Evo Studios also added Big Foots in the game. Yup. Big Foots. I hate them. Since they can screw almost everybody. Pure power yet to slow for my liking. The vehicles handle well, the controller is responsive and I must say the vibration effect is superb. You can almost feel each bump and gravel on the track. And online mode features no lags at all. Also, its region free, means a chap from Malaysia can race with a dude in US without any hiccups.

Innovation : This is a racing game. Adding more tracks and vehicles is already considered as an innovation. This is not Motorstorm's strong point as this gentre is so cliched, however I would like to point out on Evo's network expertise creating a lagless online racing. That is something to be proud of.

Get this if : 1. You dig the first Motorstorm
2. You like franctic action
3. You prefer 'no-commitment' kinda game. This game can be serious and casual.
4. You hate the latest Need for Speed: Undercover.

Little Big Planet

Genre : Action Platformer
Platform: Playstation 3 Exclusive
Multiplayer : local and online
Trophy Support : Yes

Graphics: One of the most best looking games avaliable of PS3. The details of Sackboy is shocking, you can even see his zippers for God's sake! I really like how the blurring technique is used to capture the details of the main character. The colorful world of Little Big Planet comes with vibrant colors, friendly and interesting characters and more. Definately an eye candy and a great way to boast that awesome display that you have,

Audio: Now, this is where it gets interesting. Each stage comes with its won unique track, and coupled with 5.1 sound system, you can hear each shime and chirp inside the game. Seriously.

Gameplay : Its seperated into 2 main components, the usual single player stuffs and the custom level stuff. The single player contains your basic side scrolling action, and to my suprise, when my wife switches the second controller on, her character fromher profile pops inside my 'box'! So its like the second coming of Super Mario. The controls are a bit 'iffy', means sometimes my jumps can go distance, sometimes no. Something that the devs can look at.

Innovation : Okay, the best part. You can create your own level (learn how with the simple to understand tutorial) and publish it on the net. How cool is that. However Media Molecule is extremely strict on copyrighted stuffs, means you cant publish MGS or Super Mario lookalike levels (safe if nobody reports you tho) And how the tropy system works, it forces you to be a all rounder gamer and explore all the functions of the game. Oh yeah, lets say you are stuck on one level, just invite a friend , tow or three to help you on that level.Viola!

Get this if : 1. You want to experience the next gen stuff Sony has been blaberring about
2. You are looking for soemthing you can share with your wife/kids/husbands
3. You like the SIMs
4. You have a Playstation 3. This game is essential in each PS3's owners' library.

That's all for now. Actually I also got Valkyria Chronicles and Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness but I am too busy with those two earlier games, later if I have the time I will review both games. Until then, see you guys.

Monday, November 17, 2008

今日気分無し。



私の頭部の傷、私の腹痛および私の目は痛む。私は何が起こったか知らない。 朝は雨、重い雨で満ちていなかった。 日は湿気があった。 食べるために空腹に感じるAMしかしお金無し。また、ここに何も私に興味を起こさせない。 この来る給料日私はインドのレストランに再度行っている。 そこの食糧は安く、それらは私のオフィスに近づく。私は私が今月末の前に仕事を得てもいいことを望む。 私はこの見捨てられた人種差別の国を去るために待つことができない。 とにかく私の妻は、私がに先に見てもいい何か明日もどって来ている。 私はそれらから私達ある私の猫のための少しだけ魚を買わなければならない。 サーディンも。

The Moment I Stop Giving


The moment I stop going to work
Stop riding my
bike 100 kms to go to Singapore
Stop thinking about my family

Stop smiling to my wife

Stop joking with my wife
Stop eating my wife's cooking

Stop providing for my family

Stop listening to my wife's day

Stop praying for the success of my family

Stop calling my wife Honey

Stop saying I love you to my wife

Stop waking up
Stop opening my eyes

Is the day I stop breathing.


Do continue with your lives

Don't remember my passing

Do keep in mind on how I was living...

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

There are still good people on Internet

Today, I am pleasantly suprised when I logged into my favorite message board, The Snake Soup to see this. I guess there are still nice people over the Internets. I am a member of that site and to tell you the truth, thats the first site I would login each morning. The Snake Soup is a very critical fanbase of Metal Gear Solid. I have come across a lot of MGS fansites, but TSS stands on its own. Maturity, thats the game they play there. Members there are matured enough to discuss the plus and minus of each MGS games, without those OMG! KOJIMA IZZ GODZ crap. Thats why, I feel welcomed and from what I have seen so far, I am the only member from South East Asia. Through that site, I learned more about psycholoinguistics, culture and many more interpersonal semantical skills. What I like most about the site is, the members constantly remind themselves that they are humans and they do have a life besides Metal Gear Solid.

Workwise, one of my collegue throws in her resignation letter today. Apparently, she cant stand the workload and the managements' preassure over her. I dont blame her, she was a waitress before for god's sake.Which donkey hired her to do office job, this is a case of a wrong job profile match. Now she handles Benefits for one of our biggest client. Benefits here applies to the full spectrum of Flexi and personal claims. The thing is, the system that my place is using sucks serious donkey ass. Way back in Kuala Lumpur, I was not exposed with it as I was too busy manning the Contact Center. As I am now part of the team, I can see how they work, and I feel blessed not doing what they are doing. Just imagine, client A submits an online claim application and mails his receipts to his HR folks. The HR folks will then courier the receipts to our Operations team here for them fo manually find the receipt, one by one according to the claims submitted online. Isn't that just crazy? I thought system was introduced to make out life easier. Not happening here in Singapore folks. I have suggested to the management to add a function inside the system for the clients to SCAN their copy of the receipts
and upload it into the system. Apparently, the client rejected the idea because they are afraid their staffs would be lining up in front of the scanning machines to do so. Fucking lame excuse if you ask me. This is the problem when clients take us as vendors, not business partners.

Teluk Chempedak in Kuantan.

On the other hand, my wife is going back to her hometown in Kuantan. She had he final exam yesterday so she wants to relax with her family there. Not a problem with me, she deserves the rest. She will return to Johor next week Tuesday. I guess I will be eating this everyday until she returns..Oh I miss her cooking..

Wow, fried fish..again..and again..sigh..

Yeah! I just received a call from her. Apparently we overpaid the university so this month, I have extra RM500 to spend!! Wiiiiiii!! Now I can finally get her that perfume she always wanted..
Okay this is my shopping list for this month.


Motorstorm 2.
There is nothing wrong with getting down and dirty online.

Little Big Planet
Something me and my wife can enjoy together. My wife already made me promose to buy this so this is a keeper.

Valkyria Chronicles
A strategy RPG. It has been a long time since we had one Another game me and the wife can enjoy.

Okay, I guess its back to work for me. Got a couple of issues I have to check from my end.


Monday, November 10, 2008

This is so wrong.





Noticed anything funny about that shit above? No? Good, I envy you.

Those are a few leaked stills of the upcoming Dragon Ball Z film. (duh)

And I will rant here on WHY its going to be the biggest flop of a good Japanese merchandise


since Super Mario Brothers The Movie. I have only one bulletproof point:

Just look at the dude who was supposed to be Goku. Counter that.

I really dont understand why Japanese keeps on selling their franchise to greedy Hollywood? Money?
Have they NO HONOR?!!Wait we are talking about money here so..sigh.

How many more will succumb to this?

Initial D was not made by Hollywood, still it sucked.

The AE86 was there, but there is something wrong hearing a Chinese dialogue spoken in the middle of Japan.

Sure, yell it, but I am not a racist. At least I try hard not to be, I just want the authentic feeling of the merchandise.

Look at Bay's Transformers. Sorry folks, for me it was not a Transformers movie. It was just a CGI about robots that stomp New York City. Just that. It didnt have the Transformers spirit. I am not complaining on Prime's mouth but the storyline was more about humans rather than the Cybertronians. What the fuck.

Last time I checked, Transformers were an intergalactic robotic race that were constantly at war with each other.

And that movie spawned this bullshit..

Since when Autobots only take care of Detroid? Oh my fucking gawd.

Okay enough rant. I am listing out merchandises that I do not want to be a live action movie.

Metal Gear Solid

The Legend of Zelda

Final Fantasy

Space Cop Gaban

Mostly Japanese stuffs. Amen.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Its raining

Today I sent my wife to Larkin. She's gonna take her final paper tomorrow, Psycholinguistics at 3pm. Good luck honey, I know you can do it. Yesterday was nothing much. Since my in laws are already asking about their laptop (they lended one to my wife since she needed it for her assignments), we were busy burning all the Japanese and Korean movies, videoclips and MP3s in DVDs.
Thats right girls, in those DVDRs you go!

So the last time I was busy burning things, it was waaay back in KL. So we was kinda out of DVDRs. Took the car to the nearest Maidin (kindalike a hypermarket for the poor saps) in Bandar Baru Uda, grabbed those bundled 50 pieces, at RM31.90 A bargain I must say, but dont expect it to be those fancy pants Verbatim or Mitsubishi medias. Back at home, the burning process started. I was pleasently suprised, despite the specs of 8 years ago (Pentium 4 2.0ghz, 376mb rams) the PC can still perform. Hell, it still uses IDE as interface! When I get my next paycheck, gonna give her a solid 1gb of RAM and by her a new 160gb IDE HDD.

I read a comment in LYN, about MGO,..about rude..and emo players, which for me holds certain truth. A member there even suggested to switch to Japanese MGO since those people still play for the fun of it without cheating. Let me think about this..the thing is..the game will be in Japanese, which I dont know..yawns.

Thats true, well most of it..

Okay, gonna toil in my work now. So today until next week its just me and my boys then. Payday, still far away...

Metal Glitcher Online


Since I bought the expansion pack, I was eager to play the survival mode. You know, the mode where you enter and get specific points to buy better looking gear. Not mea ning better in game play (like Monster Hunter Online for PS2) but purely for braggin' rights. Yup. Pure braggin rights. So we can log in and just say, Uh look at that noob, still wearing that mountain bike helmet!Brag all you want pip squeak, yeah, I am still a LEVEL 3 SLOTH. So what? I do have a life. Its not like I want to play the same game over and over again. Unlike most people, my PS3 library consists of more than 10 games*winks*

So there I was, hoping for a good game. Like any soldier, I logged in the lobby, as usual, when people see the SLOTH and the current level i am in, they kinda kicked me. Yeah, kick me Mr Internet Tough Guy, I dont care. So I created a team, THE GREENHORNS. All boobs were welcomed :)

So we started to play with other teams, the first team was okay, consisted of like 6 Foxhounds. Yup. We were slaughtered. We had fun, well at least I did. 50 points there. Then the second team. This is where everything started to go wrong. There was this guy, who could shoot people from behind walls. Yep, he was a Foxhounds. Not saying that all Foxhounds are fucktards, but most of them are. Like this dude. Owned all of us, and freaking proud of his glitch. Even called us fags. What the fuck. Same with the third team. And the fourth team. Glitchers rule baby!

I dont take this game seriously, really. But for other people, to ruin the fun that I am having for a thing that I paid is wrong. So I will email Konami about this and until they fix the thing, am not planning to buy the MEME Expansion. I hope you guys are with me. This is the only way we can overcome this. We paid for a product and we do not what it to be broken.


About that devilish glitch:
The MGO Glitch Faggots

Friday, November 7, 2008

Aku ke? Atau kau yang giler?

Kadang-kadang, aku pelik ngan perangai manusia nih. Yelah, kita nih semua ada tanggungjawab. Memang la member-member tak boleh lupa, tapi masalahnya, kita ada had. Macam aku, aku dah kawin, ada tanggungjawab kat rumah tangga aku. Tambah-tambah pulak aku anak takder lagik. Takkan lah aku asyik nak terbongkang ngan member2 macam org bujang? Nak lepak sekali sekala why not, tapi kalo ayik nak bertandang jer susah la beb.

Ada satu member (aku masih anggap dia member, tak tau la dia mcmmana kat aku), dulu nampak kat PSN aku message tak jawab, so apa kes? Dia online je tetiap hari. Then sejak aku tukar PSN Malaysia, aku add la PSN dia. Dia buat derk je? Allahuakbar. Kalau budak kecik aku paham la bai, ini dah bapak org. Dah nak masuk 40 tahun.
Aku serious la, nak memujuk jantan merajuk nih takder la. Pergi mampus. Lancau la. Tak kenang budi konon. Kawan sejati takder ungkit2 la benda2 nih. Aku pon ada tolong dia jugak.

Masa dia mengangur dulu, pada sapa dia lepaskan cerita2 sedey dia? Sejak dah kawan orang kaya nih, nafsu pon dah macam org kaya. Perangai pon mula la lain, jalan berkepak. Dol, aku dok JB la, kau dok KL. Kau pikir la. Kau ingat aku kerja cam kau ke? Aku kerja tiap2 hari kene tindas ngan cha ya nun alip yg bangsat2 nih tau. Tak pasal family aku, mmg dah lama dah aku lompat jambatan Second Link tu. Nasib baik bini ngan mak aku selalu bagi semangat.
Dulu masa aku kerja KL dulu, terumata masa aku bujang, selalu je lepak.

So apa? Aku dah kawin, tentu la aku ada tanggungjawab. Jangan nak samakan kau ngan aku, aku nak jadik suami yg baik, aku tak tau la kau. Itu masing2 punya cerita. Aku tak amik port. Lantak la kau nak buat apa. Inilah masalahnya manusia. Bila berilmu sikit, mula la riak. Pandang orang lain hina. Entah la dol, patut la member kita yang dok Setiawangsa tuh pun tak tahan lepak ngan kau. Kau bila org datang, kau nak orang layan kau macam raja. Oi, sedar la oi. Aku beli PS3 dari kau sebab nak support business member kau tau tak? Kau jual tuh sebenarnya mahal. Aku beli gak, nak support business member yang time tuh takder kerja. Itu kau kata aku tak kenang budi? Pergh lu pukir la sendiri.

Aku ingat lagi, kau cerita pasal pedanglah, pasal arwah guru kau la, masa tuh aku respek kau sebab banyak ilmu. Tapi perangai kau sekarang nih tak mcm org banyak ilmu. Terpulang la dol. Engkau lagik tua dari aku. Aku sedih la tgk member2 mcm nih.

Aku bagik sms Selamat Hari Raya pon kau tak balas. Pergh. Islam apa kau nih? Sesia je la kau tarekat sana tarekat sini, hublu minal muslimin pon tak boleh jaga. Terpulang la dol. Mungkin kau mmg suka kawan2 ngan org2 kaya, boleh belanja kau makan, ada HT setup, ada HDTV, ada BD burner, mungkin itu baru merit kawan bagi kau. Pada aku, kawan adalah seseorang yang aku kenal dan tolong aku semasa susah. Dan tahu tanggungjawab masing2 dlm dunia nih.

Kita nih dol, bukan setakat berhappy2 je kat dunia nih. Banyak tanggungjwab lain yang kita kene pikul.
Lepas nih kau nak tulis apa kat sig kau, terpulang la dol. Aku bukan pedulik pon. Yelah, aku bukan ada duit nak dulukan duit aku beli game kau. Lancau la. Apa2 yang kau buat lepas nih, sukati kau. Pada aku, kau tetap kawan aku. Kalau aku mati, aku harap kau ziarah la aku. Kalau kau mati, aku akan ziarah kau. Itu the least yg aku bleh buat, lain2 tuh..