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Like i said before, you guyrs ARE SO GONNA kill me.... anyways you'll notice that i've change the template in hopes it'll solve my too-far-left-settings problems. Next are the post that i should've posted a long time ago:
[08-02-2004]
You guys are SO gonna kill me when you Finally see some upadate on my blog. That is assuming that I haven't lost anyone who just don't bother to visit my blog anymore. Let's see what I can remember what happened the last 2days. Bought myself a couple of movies and games in DVD's, and I STILL have not seen the movies I bought. And I'm on a mission to collect the games of old (i.e. Deus EX, Max Payne, Thief, Neverwinter Nights, Splinter Cell, N.F.S, etc…)My room has a strange odour. I cant really describe how it smell's but to put it simply, it's smelt like rotting carcass. Now I have to find out where the stench is coming from.
My initial guess is that some feline and rodents got into a death match and loser is food to the victor and the victor may have no table manners at all.
My second guess is some poor insect was met it's untimely and unintentionally flattening/squashing/flesh-tearing/poisoned gruesome death and it's body is left there without me knowing it. But if that should happen, and I stress SHOULD, there would be some trace, like ant trails leading up to the carcass.
Third and most likely, my nose is getting weirder and weirder everyday… *sniff* *SNIFF*
Spent most of my days after all that shopping for games and movies on gaming, especially on Neverwinter. That's because I'm trying to get all my characters done. Let's see, my Monk and Fighter are already at level 9-10, in chapter 2 of the Neverwinter campaign, and my half-elf female sorcerer is still in chapter 1 of the campaign. But, she can pretty much electrify-ass-whooping! I have a thing about electrocuting my enemies; maybe it's because I got myself electrocuted when I was a kid… ANYWAYS…I did check up on some of the 'walkthrough/guides' to character creation by other Neverwintian's (it's a term I just coined up and if somebody else did made that word before me, I'm SORRY! I never mean to steal your idea!)
It seems to me that most of them prefer to multiclass and mostly the reason is to gain lots of skill points. I did try multiclassing once, my character was pretty much as wasted effort. Hmm, I think I should give it another go…MAYBELAH…
And I still love the bullet-time in Max Payne games. There's something about dive shooting in 3rd person view watching Payne avoiding bullets and using dual Desert Eagles to put a bullet(s) right in between the eyes of your enemies. I also found that if I keep on shooting even after the bullet dive time is over, Payne stay's laying down while serving lead pellets to criminal scumbags. Pretty cool considering you're less likely to get shot in that position than when you're standing up or crouching down. And also, I just LOVE rag doll physics. Imagine sniping your enemy square between the eye's, following the bullet up to the point of impact, then watching your enemy tilt his head back, his body following soon after like a choreographed ballet, tripping on a railing then falling down like, a rag down till *THUD*. Yea, I even scared myself reading that. I think I've been spending too much time on the Grimgnaw monk class hireling in Neverwinter Nights.
Thief is an EXCELLENT sneaker-knocking-d-lights-outta-ya-thieving game. Albeit slow, yes, but still keeps me on the edge, especially when I set the difficulty to expert. It has the lock-picking system that's different from the one I'm used to Splinter Cell. Where Splinter Cell uses the WASD keys to unlock, Thief uses the mouse to unlock the lock (Try and say that 100 times).Plus, it DOES make me feel like it's takes a while to find the 'sweet spot' to unlock it. Added to sound of you picking locks makes it even more challenging, and sound does take into account of you sneaking around.
Someone beat me to the South Park season 3 DVD box set! ARGH!!! I hope I'm not too late for Futurama's box set. Oh well, that doesn't hurt as much as me scraped a piece of skin of my left thumb, with my right thumb nail… yes, I know, if those two are in a quarrel, I'm going to have to cut both nails short and put those thumbs on a leash (OK, OK it was a little over melodramatic on the last part I added, but it still hurts!)
And that's all I could remember of what happened in my life that I can talk about.
Today, it's raining; my boss left early, I just bought myself a 4" by 8" 4mm thick UV-coated polycarbonate as the raw material for my next mod project. And that cost me RM300. I just hope I can cut and bend that 4mm thick polycarbonate, and have the bloody patience to get done beautifully. And get it done right. I'm not so worried about the cutting part; it's the bending and shaping using heat, like a minitorch that's going to pose a challenge. Logic and safe precautions tells me that I'll have to use ONLY blue flame and keep a close enough distance to soften the material for bending but not too close to melt it, and keep the flame small and keep the movement at a constant speed to avoid any mishap and cursing from me later.The whole material is to be delivered to my house tomorrow so I'll have to remind my parent's and my grandma about it. I am so sure they are going to say that it's a waste of money. And I just have to prove them wrong.
[07-28-2004]
That's IT! I am going to get my own broadband! Dang cyber café boss, disabling USB bus… and that's the reason why I cant update my blog yesterday, and I couldn't get the information from the web to my thumb drive. And so, I spent another 1½ hours and RM 4.00 playing R.Y.L. just to wait for the rain to stop. And I missed last night's Andromeda episode! NOOO!!! I waited for the 1 a.m. rerun but my brother was watching at that hour, so all hope is gone…What little comfort I had was spent on long hours building up my Monk and Sorcerer character in NeverWinter Nights. After playing for quite some time (about 4+ hours gaming straight) between these 2 characters, I found that magic-class characters, especially sorcerers aren't welcomed in the world of Faerun, at least in the city of Neverwinter anyway. Also, for those who know and have played the game, there's always the curiosity in me to deliver Never's artifacts to evil Giles (which can be found in the Moonstone Mask) instead of Judge Oleff, just to find out if I can get more XP and GP. So, my sorcerer character will be the guinea pig. I just love this game, and this is the, 5th or 6th time I'm playing the game. I'm playing it again cause since the day my hard disk 'KAPUUUUT-ED'; I lost A LOT of data, the saved character included. So, I'm building up new characters, but the Monk class character is still my favourite character. Why? Because I just knocking enemy down, stunning them silly (or dazed) and gaining the 'Perfect Self' feat and using armor's ONLY Monk-class can use! Not to mention, I love watching my character whooping-ass with his hands and legs and killing enemies that are better armored and are armed to the teeth! Hmm, now that I've come to think of it, I might want to try out to play the game when it first came out, you know, like when the game just when on sale the first time, no patch or updates. That way, I can bring back my first monk character! Well, not EXACTLY like the first one, but close. Hmm, should find a time to do that. Maybe, I should call in sick, or disappear of the earth hiding in my room…. (Brain scheming idea…)Let's see now, since my boss isn't coming to office for the next few days, I'm going to be pretty much on my own. I was thinking of skipping work but then again, my conscience made the better choice. Sometimes, I just want to ignore that and turn it off, but then again, conscience saved my butt one time too many already so, thank GOD for giving me one. "So don't let the world bring you down, not everyone is that fucked up and cold, remember why you came and while you're alive, experience the warmth before you grow old…" yea, its from Incubus's The Warmth song and I have to thank them for creating that song. It's a masterpiece!
[07-27-2004]
Ok, this is going to be another huge dump on my blog… ah well, I was broke for the past days and now I have cash I can dump this back. I would have done it yesterday but I forgot to save it into my thumb drive. WAIT! Hear me out, I haven't finished, and even if I could, the machine I was using the other day had the USB ports disabled. I found that only after wasting 1½ hours, and RM 3.50. So, all the stuff I downloaded about 'Game Engine' yesterday pretty much went down the drain.Look's like I'm gonna have to get this posted and my yesterday's stuff downloaded, again. Anyway, yesterday was just not my day. Not to mention, knowing I had no time, I STILL went downtown to get my comics. And I have no idea why, but this guy suddenly asks me for RM1, and so I gave it to him. Thing is, if I heard him correctly, he's gonna help me to reserve a copy of the new issue. So, I'm gonna pay RM1 extra for some 15 page of characters beating the crap out of each other and hovering balloon text conversations that's poorly translated? HELL NO!Note to self; bring ONLY enough cash to pay for the comic only.I know I'm a walking TNT, and yesterday I was literally fighting against myself not to lash it out at the people I care about. Some of it sparked off at the only person I should have not been angry at and had no reason to be angry at. I promised I wouldn't make her cry and I did… I hate myself. After all, I KNEW I was short of time that day, and yet I still put the blame on other people. Thank GOD for hearing my cries for HIS help. I need major re-assessment of my behaviour.Well, if anything else is going to go wrong, it'd better be today cause I know I have no plans, and after work, it's just time for me. Speaking of which, I'll have to remind myself to call up my friend and see if he need's my help later on… hmm, since I'm going to be stuck with my Pentium 3 667Mhz@855Mhz, I might as well buy the games of this year and back cause according to the ways of PC hardware improvement's, looks like I wont be playing Half-Life 2, Doom 3, Far Cry by the time they release. Hopefully, my machine would still be able to handle Prince of Persia 2 and Splinter Cell 3.And I'm going to need a new power supply, a small, light one, the kind that micro or mini ATX cases use. This way, I can turn on the lights and extra fans when I'm doing the heavy load stuff or serious fragging, and turn it off, without affecting my machine still being turned on! Genius!Not to mention the UV-coated acrylic for my machine's casing, cutting tools, heating tools. Which reminds me of another thing I have to do, make an exact and accurate measurement of the casing I'm designing. I'm not going to make the same hasty mistake I did on my first project. Then I'm gonna have to get the blueprint on print and on digital. Not to mention, my own Streamyx connection. But that will have to come later.
[07-22-2004]
I just recovered from my fever and I'm back at work, bringing along my slightly running nose, and not so much of a splitting headache. I think I may be coming up with the cough but that remains to be seen. If my last entry was a bit of a hanging, it was actually… I ran out of stuff to type it all down cause the headache and my sore throat was annoying me. Took a day off yesterday, headache literally left me stuck in my bed, and all I managed to only come down for lunch, and my medication and it's back to sleep. When I woke up around 6, 6:30p.m, the headache had subsided but it's still there. I have to admit, the sky at that time never looked so beautiful, but then again, I haven't seen the sun nor the sky for quite awhile. And most probably I wont be able to upload this post cause I'm flat broke. And I still have to pay RM125 for the graduation fee and the graduation suit rental. Let's see, picking up after my trip with my friends to the hardware store… so, after that, we both went to K.P to check out the place for new stuff, he's searching for new software, I'm browsing the DVD sections wondering what game should I buy. In the end I bought the Beyond Good & Evil, and I am very glad I bought the game. Pretty awesome, although a bit linear to those who have played or prefer to play open-ended games before. Graphic wise isn't as excellent as Splinter Cell, but still pretty cool. It's kind of like Giant's: Citizen Kabuto and it has Reggae music! With Jamaican-accent-rhino-mechanic-dude to boot! The last part of the game was straightforward, but you'll need to stay alive long enough in order to win. Basically, I love the game. And I STILL haven't watched my 'Master & Commander' DVD, and I bought it like months ago… Let's see, games that made it into my love list are:Giants: Citizen KabutoBeyond Good & EvilHomeworld & Homeworld2American McGee's AliceNeverwinter with all expansionsPrince of Persia: The Sands Of TimeSplinter CellSplinter Cell: Pandora TomorrowWorld of WarcraftRisk Your LifeMan, that's going to be one expensive shopping list! Strangely enough, the pain in my chest seems to have subsided, if not gone… cool… LUNCH TIME!! That means I'm signing off to feed myself!
[07-20-2004]
Ok, ok I'm sorry. I didn't get to update my blog as often as I wanted to cause I forgot to save the text into my Mobilo a.k.a thumbdrive/MP3 player. Anyways, bought myself those heatshrink tubes for my 2nd PC modding project. But I'm still missing the heatgun & the acrylic. A friend of mine told me of a certain kind of acrylic, the kind that reflects UV lights. ULTRA COOL!!! And as with everything that causes a sensation, I am very positive that the price is SO gonna burn a FREAKING HUGE black hole in my pocket money. But still, ULTRA COOL!!! AGAIN!!!Also, after I got the heatshrink tubes, my friend and I, we both went scouring for the dremel-equivalent cutting tools. Well, one store we went to was selling Hitachi tools & the nearest thing we could find that met our specs cost would cost us RM 800!! Bloody expensive! So, in any case, I'm still searching around hoping I'd stumble on one.I've got the flu. And the sore throat. And the cough. And the headache. And soon, the fever as well.
[16-07-2004]
Ah, Convocation, more commonly known as Graduation day, is the one day in your life you have to put on a heavy, thick oversized night-gown designed for obese people, (and they call it a 'graduation robe') in the middle of a hot afternoon, wear a Square Hat (I think there's an official name for it but I can't remember and personally looks stupid to me and square usually means you're a dumb expert) march in-line and follow the movement flow, sit in that chair for hours walk up and take that piece of paper that's not even your real degree paper! Oh well, at least my parent's are happy. By the way, I wasn't complaining about that. If I was, I could PROBABLY write a 4-page essay about it. But I'm not complaining; I'm happy cause everyone's happy, and that's it.Even though I didn't graduated with my own batch, I count that as a blessing. Why? I couldn't fit in with my group. It's always I'm with the younger or older crowds or like everyone likes Bon Jovi but I like A Perfect Circle (No offence to all Bon Jovi fans out there!). at least I can smile and chill with the people I'm comfortable with.And honestly, I'm a little awkward towards this whole thing. What now? I don't know, it's just a weird feeling. I still when I was a freshie, I cant wait to get there, once I had settled it and pretty much knows how the politics functions there, I can't wait to get my ass out of that place ASAP. Now that I'm gonna graduate, which means I'll be gone for good, I'm kind of missing on it.
