Beneath The Thorns

Dragon Age 2

2011-04-08T21:07:00.001+08:00

It’s been like... SERIOUSLY been awhile since I’ve blogged but in life, especially modern life, as of these past decade, some things can’t be expressed in a space of 200 characters or less or totally in a Facebook status, believe it or not! =P

I think there’s a lot to get out at this juncture, and I think is not appropriate to address the catching up news in a post that I intend to make as a review!

Anyways, I purchased, or rather, got Dragon Age 2 as an early birthday present from my mum, amongst other things, bless her... I’ve gone through 2 playthroughs as it is, 1^st time as a Rogue, which was pretty much the only way to get through the first Dragon Age, maximizing battle potential and storyline-wise anyways... And the 2^nd time as a two-handed warrior, as in the 1^st Dragon Age, two-handed warriors were insufferable because a normal attack took ages to happen... They literally calculated real world physics into the swing of a giant sword, dear Lord... Therefore, I wanted to have the feel of a two-handed warrior which swings it like bloody Cloud, so I tried playing one in DA2!

Okay, right off the bat, I have to say I was disappointed. Sure, you get to choose gender and class, but Origins (DA1), had origin (hence the title) stories for each and every race and caste they were in... And also a separate one for mages, too. So you can see where the disappointment comes from, the limitation, and the similar backstory for all playthroughs with some very, very minor differences... So hero design, fail.

NPC design... Some old faces return, companions, NPCs, all that good stuff. But still, vastly reduced by comparison! Yes, I know, DA1 had a whole country for you to explore but DA2 consists of just a city maybe ¾ of Denerim AND it’s backyard but this is just unacceptable... NPC design, though preying on nostalgia and nothing more that actually sticks to your mind, fail.

Dungeon design. Oh, this riles me up... Terrible, right off the bat. Repetitive dungeons, and the laziest kind that game developers can come up with... The same HUGE dungeon, but cut off at various intervals or changed entry points and the such. Each cave looks the same. Each sewer looks the same. Some of the houses are changed up. What up with that Bioware?! FAIL!

Story... A’ite... Not so steamed up, but the story takes place over a span of 10 years. 10 years our hero Hawke has spent in Kirkwall, from refugee to Champion of Kirkwall. There is SOME change over the acts... 3 acts in total. The beginning is where our hero escapes from his hometown of Lothering, which was the first settlement to fall during the events of DA1, makes his stamp in the underground of Lothering through a year of servitude under a shady organization of their choosing. The 1^st act is where Hawke starts to get his merry band of fools together, into the Deep Roads for an expedition to get rich. This can prove to be bittersweet, or totally sweet depending on your prior decisions and there is no way of knowing until it happens, so no warning! I won’t spoil the rest for you, and also due to the fact I can’t be fucked to type the rest up, but one thing I have to bitch about is the lack of change in 10 years to a city. Sure, you foil an invasion and the such, but locales stay the same, geographically the same, nothing new pops up. No new shops, nothing. It’s 10 freaking years. Something. Anything! 10 years is enough for an old character to pass away, for a kid to be born and such... Come on! But still, enjoyable, but not as enjoyable, nor as epic as DA1 but... Pass.

Elaboration/Side note: Dragon Age 2 feels like the Back to the Future 2 or the Two Towers, if you please, to Dragon Age 1... It’s meant as a bridge, not a pretty one, but an essential bridge nonetheless. No one would pick the middle episode as the best of the trilogy or something, you know? BTTF2 was terrible. I hated it. LOTR’s Two Towers, was once again, an essential bridge. Not as heart-touching or enjoyable as the Fellowship nor as epic as Return of the King. Hawke’s deed to the world of the DA universe has no doubt epic repercussions, as he has brought a war on that the greater forces in the universe need him to put an end to.

Next! Design, weapons, armor, architecture, companions, quests. A very general topic but has so many sub topics. Weapons. Passable. Thought I would loved at least a bloody tone change like the last game in the color of the weapon especially when it’s of another material. More unique weapons and unique weapon designs. Some old designs were brought back... In terms of clothing and weapons, same models in the old game, but armor-wise, it’s all new. The Champion armor (for all classes) is fantastic, though me, amongst every other player wish that the acquisition could be a lot more satisfying and meaningful. Architecture, yes, you’re in a city, there’s limited space, bla bla blee ba... But man, I miss that feeling of epicness when I walked into Ostagar for the 1^st time... Such, grandeur... It was the same feeling you get when you saw the cities in Return of the King. Just bloody epic. Not here. COMPANIONS! Hah... A colourful cast, but easily identifiable into modern stereotypes, not so much complication and not too hard to predict their behaviour and what actions you should do around them to gain their approaval... Very weak, in my opinion. In DA1, you actually had to learn and be astounded at their histories. You yearned for their approval as their life stories as just so god damn interesting you just gotta know more! But in DA2, really now... I know where this is going... *snore* Quests! Kill this person, get this item. Been there. Done that. The storyline quests feel like you can jump off the rails too often and it’s not a good feeling. It starts to feel more necessary than essential, you know... More like something you need to do rather than something you want to do! So... Design wise... Pass overall.

So? In the end... Dragon Age 2 is a mere pass. 3.1 out of 5 and that is piss poor for a PS3 game that is worth RM100++... I really should’ve waited and did my research but no, my love for the original DA got me there... *sigh* That’ll teach me. Anyways, it’s probably expected, as Bioware is going balls out for their WoW-replacing MMORPG, the Knights of the Old Republic. Kind of like how Blizzard is ignoring everything else (Starcraft Ghost *cough* Diablo 3 *cough*) and focusing on milking more and more from WoW.

Alright, I guess that’s my comeback piece. A rant, on Dragon Age 2. Something I really needed to get out. Peace out y’all!

Gatzooks. Just A Title.

2010-09-02T11:44:00.002+08:00

Holy motherfucking ass balls. Wait, did I open with this in my last post? Sorry... Let's go with ass monkey's on a pirate's scheneider! Fantastic...

And welcome to another edition of Beneath the Thorns with your host, YOOOONNNGGG!!!

The things I'd give for a gameshow host introduction whenever I walk into a room.

Anyways. Wow. Time flies when you're having brill fun, eh? It's after Merdeka! To be precise, it's fucking September already. Mooncake festival's in like a month's time... Can't believe it's gonna be a year since we were all happily fucking around in Pui Yee's house, having steamboat and playing with lanterns and watching the Moon move! Oh shittt... I totally forgot about that one...

I'm on sem break right now... Going back coming Saturday to Sunway 'cause me mum bought tickets for this Sesame Street play way back and now it's here... Show's gonna be at Bukit Jalil Stadium... the indoor part... exactly where the 30 Hour Famine finale was. Dear Lord... bad memories. Still, I don't wanna tarnish anything anymore relating to that horrid Apocalypse-level event anymore than I already have. Finito. Nada.

Went to Penang on 30th August. Yeah, Merdeka eve but didn't stay long enough to do shit... Luckily at least this time me and my girl managed to do most of the things tourist get to do in Penang... visit a few places and grab some local delicacies... Booya!

I finally visited the Toy Museum! =D

Won't be posting the photos here 'cause the process is just too tedious and I just can't be fucked anymore really... Will be up on Facebook no worries!

A'ite... gonna head out for lunch soon. I'm out bitches. Peace

How It Be Going?

2010-08-15T08:08:00.002+08:00

Holy motherfucking ass balls. I just checked the date of my last update and god damn... I've been procrastinating worse than Ace Venture on the rent!

Anyways, the important thing is that I am here and updating! Alright... what's been happening in the world of Yoong, you ask? Not much.

I am officially back in Indahvilla. This is week 4 of VU and I've already handed my first assignment. The PS3 is also in Indahvilla so it's getting a good workout from the lads, particularly in the GTA4 and the Fifa departments. I don't play the latter but the former, I just love watching them lads play around and mow down every simpering simpleton in the virtual city of Liberty.

Speaking of Los PS3, I've revived my gaming life... by purchasing two new PS3 games. First off, LOST PLANET 2, on a whimsical recommendation and SPIDERMAN:WEB OF SHADOWS after months of research and craving. I've come to pass as a real PS3 junkie due to the fact that I find it disappointing that Spiderman: WoS does not have any trophies! What the fuck is up with that son? Anyways, it is still a very satisfying game and the combat mechanics vary a lot between the Red Suit and the Black Suit Spiderman and yet provides a very fun way of mixing matching your moves to the point that it is all in one fluid, dynamic attack.

LOST PLANET 2 however, was a real gem with a lot of replayability. Why? Just the multiplayer, that's it! You can play pretty much the whole game in multiplayer. I am serious! Just the campaign... you don't have to finish it off by yourself! You can team up with 3 other dudes on the PS Network and take on the whole campaign, just like that. To top that shit off, the campaign itself is awesome... the storyline's not stellar but epic for sure, due to the sheer hours involved and the effort in there.

Honestly I actually had a lot more to write in this post but now I'm just feeling lazy, and hungry and bottomline is I can't be fucked at the moment... So I'll be back soon enough folks... Peace!

For The Sake of Updating

2010-07-06T16:10:00.002+08:00

This blog is not a bother. It as an outlet. It started out as an outlet and that outlet is starting to clog with the moss and grime which are made of touchy people a.k.a li'l bitches, social ethics a.k.a feelings and of course, moral standards a.k.a acting like a total tool when the situation demands it.

Who am I kidding? Hahahahaha... Like that shit will ever stop me. Moss and grime? If bleach don't cut it, we move on to the next thing, NAPALM!

Fuck yeah.

A'ite... jokes aside. Well, let's see... I haven't posted anything solid for the past few times... No game reviews, no movie reviews, nothing... Just 'cause I'm busy. Nothing more. Work, girl, family.

Ain't complaining though, I'm enjoying all 3 things... Okay fine, not that last one, not really, no, but I can't complain to be entirely fair. So yeah, I'm overall satisfied with everything but I am enjoying the 1st 2 more than the last, as usual. Very par for the course I'd say!

I've watched Karate Kid... it was way too long. Toy Story 3... Swear to God I almost cried when those bastards were about to go to the great play mat in the sky.

For the uninformed, Slash is coming to perform in Sunway on the 5th of August. I am looking for a crew to go with STILL. COME ON PEOPLE... you are (mostly) working adults! Let's go, go, go!!!

Also, for the uninformed, I am returning to Sunway on either the 14th or 15th. It's a day apart which means there's not much difference to begin with. Back for uni, for my FINAL subject, hopefully.

A'ite... I'm about to fall asleep and drool over the table right about now, so I'm gonna stop here and get some water or some shit or... whatever...

Peace

The Fear of Watermelons

2010-06-26T08:06:00.002+08:00

I just finished this 2 day stint in this event organized by a partner company where we had this amazing treasure hunt thing 2 days ago and even though my team (which consisted of me and this girl, Jenny) finished last, it was quite an experience. Everything else was spot on and I can't believe I played the whole thing more by the book than I would normally do. In the end I found out the winner literally lied, cheated and stole his way to the top.

Gotta kick myself for totally being such a straight arrow.

The 1st challenge was a "spot the difference" challenge. We were given two pretty similar pictures that had 10 differences. The picture was Chelsea celebrating their recent Premiere League win. No problem.

The 2nd challenge was basically constructing a name of a place using the first letters of a few pictures on a piece of paper given to us. Took us some time 'cause we missed out the minuscule instructions located on the back of the paper. Shucks for me to be unobservant as always.

The 3rd challenge was to ask 5 complete strangers for a ringgit each and in the end use that money to get and eat some ice-cream from McDs. Wasn't a problem for me since we played the "damsel in distress" angle on all of 'em. Last part was pretty ingenious. We told the clown to give us as LITTLE as possible on the cone. The dude must've been so confused... Who asks for LESS?! =P

The 4th challenge was in Taman D.R Whatsisname. This... was the WORST challenge. It was a 2 part challenge. One was to finish a WHOLE GODDAMN WATERMELON. I now have a reverse-orgasm-inducing fear of watermelon. Even the thought of a slice... that red mass on a green piece just... sends chills down my spine. I used to love it. I blame these bastards for killing my love for it. At least it was watermelon, not durian. If they made me hate durians, I would have made 'em eat it... with the skin on. Anyways, 2nd part of the challenge was to complete a riddle, in MANDARIN... how discriminating... and a math problem, which those bastards wrote wrongly... Not complaining at all... things like these happen when AMATEURS conduct events like these.

The 5th challenge was a 2-parter again. 1st we had to separate soy beans (I thought it looked like so and I stick by my observation despite being told otherwise) and red beans. With chopsticks. Just imagine. Next up was a massive search effort in that garden in front of the Ipoh Train Station. *huge restraint* Our clues were so damn hidden it would've been easier and cleaner if they stuck 'em in people's ass cracks and told us to sift through the pubes to get 'em.

In the end, after all my bragging, I finished last. Yeah, yay me. Never mind... bruised egos heal faster than real bruises... which I have aplenty after my girl hit me for sticking to close to the other girl... Why'd I have to get stuck with another young thing?! Nah... didn't really get hit that bad... Hahahahaa... She was joking anyways...

Anyways, at the end of the whole goddamned challenge, I came out with a sore body that lasts to this day due to my extremely peak physical status, a parking ticket, a slightly bruised ego and a HUGE AVERSION TO WATERMELONS.

Alright, maybe a whole new appreciation for how easy the job is compared to the whole thing, but I still hate the fact that I hate watermelons now. Those cunts at that other company will pay and I swear... literally that company... is full of cunts. I'm not talking about their stellar personalities, for once, but the fact that it IS full of women. Swear to God the boss is running an underground harem up in that place.

Nah, but seriously, bad jokes (wait, I have no bad jokes) aside, they were really nice... Good people that did good jobs and extremely superb effort on the whole event. That said, I still hate you people for giving me a fear of watermelons. A'ite... since the rotund consultant is up in Ipoh Mali this weekend, I gotta be heading off for some off-the-clock training. *sigh*

Time to get my organic vocabulator turned upside down again...

Peace!

In a Bed of Roses

2010-06-17T07:32:00.002+08:00

Where there are roses, there are thorns. It's been a long hard climb through the tower of thorns and it's a very satisfying feeling as I lay in a bed of roses right next to you.

This tower of thorns adorned with a crown of roses is yours...

Deeper Into the Inferno

2010-06-05T17:18:00.000+08:00

I’m sure most of us are now aware of the recent tragedy which involved a Sarawakian student to be burnt alive while being helplessly pinned in her own vehicle (a solid paper MyVi, at that).

And to be absolutely honest, I kinda hate dick-riding on recent news but this was just one thought I’d like to share.

Everyone’s all fired up at the behaviour of the two petrol station attendant’s behaviour towards one Mr. Teo’s plea for a fire extinguisher to try to put out the fire on this woman’s vehicle.

Okay, sure those dudes were pricks, no questions. But are they the real murderers? On the surface, sure, ‘cause they didn’t know any better but can they be blamed? Not totally, no.

In this messed up time and society we live in, one can’t help but not trust the person next to them. Con cases, rape, murder and robberies are reported in the papers every day. Who can we trust but ourselves these days? The true murderers here are these people that have caused us to lose faith and trust among our fellow man.

The doubt that Mr. Teo’s alleged claims at that time would always be there, regardless but it is this lost faith and trust that made none of these gas attendants to step out, and claim responsibility for whatever that may happen later on due to his actions. It is that lost spark of trust that the few unscrupulous people have taken away from us in the long run. It’s not the money or anything. Those things pale in comparison to the long term effects these people have caused.

And these are the real murderers here. For this woman, for every person that has died because someone else didn’t lend a hand due to fear and for every person in the future that will die because someone couldn’t stand up and trust another with no basis.

Burn, and rot in hell you mafackers.

Peace

Hello and Goodbye

2010-06-02T07:36:00.004+08:00

Hey, how's it going people? Just wanted to write a blog post so you, my dearest fans and some... *cough* loyal subjects *glares menacingly at them* can have something interesting to read today.

I can't really promise if there will be anything interesting to read but sure, I'll just spit out whatever that's on the top of my head right now.

My brother recently told me about a "Weird Newscasters" game clip from Whose Line, that basically has the 4 dudes, acting out as different people from the newsteam. Ryan is the weatherman, Wayne is the sports guy, Colin is the lead anchor and the guest is the co-anchor. Everyone but Colin has a character. In this particular clip, Ryan is a really old man that takes a fast-acting youth rejuvenation pill. The guest in this clip is Greg Proops, and he is a German insult comic. The focus here is on Wayne, who is a girl scout selling cookies who is possessed by the Devil. For some reason, when my brother acted it out for me, it sounded WAY funnier than how Wayne Brady did it! I mean... This isn't the 1st time! He acts out funny scenes, or a line, and it sounds much better than the original! EVERYTIME! Hahahaha... Really, I don't know what to make out of it.

A'ite... next up... Gaming-wise, I've really mellowed out. I haven't touched the PS3 in weeks. I know. The shame. The waste! But soon! I mean, I've tackled GOW3... that's usually the baddest shit that system can handle but this one... I don't know. GTA4 was short... REALLY short compared to San Andreas. Totally wish I could get San Andreas for the PS3, really. Old is gold, mate. Old is gold.

I got a new phone, actually, for the uninformed ones. It's an iPhone. I know. Total hypocrite. After all the trash talking about it being overrated and overly expensive and wouldn't want to jump on the bandwagon and shit. Okay. I did it. I got it. But here's my defence. My phone busted itself all of sudden. There was no forewarning whatsoever. It just died on me one day and that day was during some training. Grand. I panicked. I wasn't prepared and I went to get the one phone that I had the most knowledge about, the iPhone. And since my brother got it, I might as well get it. Yeah, that's NOT really an excuse.

Today all my friends and classmates from the same batch are graduating today, in Melbourne. Not all my friends, actually. Just most of the people I chilled with in Melbourne. Yeah. Actually, it's just Elly and Palm. And Daniel. And who's that other dude? There's one more dude. Some moron. Eric... Yeah... Idiot. I actually just deleted a whole paragraph below that just blasted this dude. Feeling generous today. You get off lucky, bitch.

Yeah, it's kinda sad. I'm not graduating. Yet. No matter how I look at it, I'm not graduating. Nuff' said. Yeah, I'm not getting into a hopeless road of trudging and dragging my feet for another 23 years yet... but it's not like that's not inevitable!

Anyhoo... Enough sappiness. Here's to a good week ahead. Cheers!

Peace

A Pierrot's Lament: Epilouge

2010-05-19T20:41:00.001+08:00

Non è più questa persona chiamata Pierrot per lui versa più lacrime

Ip Man 2

2010-05-13T06:51:00.005+08:00

Written: AGES AGO

After the 1st Ip Man... I was eager to see the next one, if there was one and a few months back, I caught wind that Ip Man 2 was to be shown around the same time as Iron Man 2. Oh... the choices. Unfortunately, due to the closeness of name and release dates of the 2 movies, lame ass foos started to go trigger happy with their Photoshop programmes and made some "amusing" posters which fuse Shellhead with Ip Man.

Har de har har.

Oh, let me go... I'm in stitches. Oh, my sides. They hurt. Oh. Hahahaha...

*cough*

Right.

Anyhoo... I didn't make any plans whatsoever to watch Ip Man 2 but my boss did so I was kinda dragged along to watch it. Yeap. Just me and the BAWS. He took me to the movies... LIKE A BAWS.

Still don't get it? Crud. You're a lot dumber than you look and that's saying something! =P

Anyhoo... I'm just gonna cut it short. PERSONALLY, I felt that Ip Man 1 was better and Sammo Hung trying to get some limelight on his aging ass was totally uncalled for, even though it was a true story or whatever. Fights, they're alright. Nothing tight like the 1st Ip Man where he beat 10 TKD opponents. Classic kung fu shit right there.

Ol' Spiky's Rating: 2/5 Could've been better. Much better.

I know this review's been long overdue but yeah... things have happened. For those that're unaware, I just got out of the hospital. No need to panic... just a itty bitty kidney stone. Stayed overnight and got out the next day with meds to take care of the damned thing. Almost at 100% and my next doctor's appointment is this coming Tuesday. So yeap... No need to sound the alarm. Thanks for the concern from whoever that knew/found out and wished me well.

I'm out.

Peace.

Gin & Juice

2010-05-05T11:11:00.003+08:00

I don't know why "Gin & Juice", just felt like giving props to Snoop. It's a great song. Real balla. You should check it out some time.

Nothing much to talk about... sitting in office right now, bummin' out like you can see.

Let's just say... past few days have been the happiest days of my life and I get the feeling it's about to get better.

One thing, after all the trash-talk, I finally got an iPhone. Okay, finally... no... lemme rephrase that. I got an iPhone. Period. Seems quite cool so far but compared to any other phone... the lack of customization options is heartbreaking! Maybe I'm better off jailbreaking that shit. We'll see.

Haven't touched the PS3 for quite a long time now, despite there being a new game sitting on the table (Burnout Paradise). It's not mine. Jin dropped it off seeing as he took my inFamous and GOW3 for a bit.

Let's see... what else's new... Okay, gotta watch Ip Man 2 for sure! Just gotta find a crowd to go with but it seems the usual people have been booked! Boo...

No worries... I'm out.

Peace.

Iron Man 2

2010-05-02T08:35:00.004+08:00

Finally. After months of waiting, Iron Man 2 is finally here and better yet, we're watching this shit ahead of some other countries a week earlier! Nooiicceeee...

Some of my rather *cough* active female friends expressed interest in Tony Stark. When I mean interest, I mean like, INTEREST. I'm afraid to use any other words to be a bit more clearer but I wish to keep my anatomy intact, thank you very much.

Anyhoo... Iron Man 2. Wow. This is going to be a real biased review because I am a HUGE Iron Man fan to begin with but I will try to be as straight as possible. Let's see... common knowledge, everyone from the 1st movie reprises their role except for the role of Rhodey 'cause well... Terrence Howard was a li'l bitch. Never did like the dude as Rhodey anyways. Besides, Don Cheadle is the shit. I mean... Ocean's 11-13 man. Nuff' said son.

Like Suheil *just* told me... movies like these... you look past the storyline 'cause you know you came to watch this not for the storyline. U expect amazing CGI, amazing chicks, and amazing explosions that will literally blow your mafacking mind. A'ite, Scarlett was tight as usual but wish they gave her more of a chance to strut her stuff as the Black Widow, and at least use a BLEEDING Russian accent! Still, some justice is served when she took her top off in the car.

Pepper Potts looked so... normal. So drab as usual. Pity.

Ol' Spiky's Rating: 4/5 Could be better. Heaps better. But I'm a fan. Seeing him shoot off a repulsor blast is all I need.

Peace.

HYPER GRIN

2010-04-25T05:21:00.001+08:00

First and foremost I apologize for the lack of originality on the post titles but hell... when I'm this happy, I don't give a shit. It's a beautiful world don't you agree? Even at 5 a.m, you're starving and b'fast isn't for another 3 hours, it's still a beautiful world.

Peace

Grinning. Grin.

2010-04-24T06:30:00.002+08:00

Oh yeah. I'm grinning, baby. It's almost like rictus man. Yeah.

Peace.

Rear-Ended

2010-04-13T21:14:00.002+08:00

I guess everyone, will come to a point where they get into an accident. Major or minor. I'm just glad that I got into a minor one, and that I was totally innocent.

My only regret is that I didn't get to rearrange the cunt's face that caused the whole thing. Bleeding foo wasn't drunk or high as far as I can tell but I suppose you don't need to be intoxicated to be called stupid, now do you?

I should've at least punched him or chewed him out verbally 'cause I didn't realize what other consequences there were left regarding the repair of my car. Of course, Malaysia's Finest could be a lot more helpful and useful too. Bloody patrol car passed by, didn't even stop. Nothing. Real nice. Do your goddamned job before you go arresting people. Probably have to arrest yourself for doing half the stuff you arresting other people for in the first place. Damn.

The dude that started all this... maaannn... stupid ass Myvi-driving mafacker. At least his pathetic ass ride's totalled. Had to be towed all the way to the station. Dumb ass mafacker. Maybe he should stop sucking on the gov's titties like every other foo sibling of his and actually go get a license.

Still wish I had broke his nose or something. Fuck that mafacker. Hope he pays hell for the claims we're about to make. Terminate his policy and shit. Raise his premium. Yeah. Bitch.

I'm out.

Peace.

Glorious Day

2010-04-08T09:51:00.002+08:00

Ah yes... I woke up this morning, logged in to soccer.net and the news couldn't have looked sweeter. Manchester United is out of the Champions League.

Nuff' said son. Nuff' said.

Anyways, I do apologize for not blogging a lot more these days since some of you, and there's a really small amount actually, that are still under the impression I'm still on my extended holiday. I'm working now but I've promised myself to keep my work life out of my blogging to a bare and near non-existent minimum.

Yeap... so anyways. PS3 news. I've completed Infamous and Darksiders. I've got to admit that I've done so much with Darksiders that I think I've broken my record for dedication towards a non Sims game. Yeap.

Good news that is that I have finally (though this piece of news is WAY late) is that I've bought GOW3 (R1 version) and GTA4! I've finished God of War 3 on Easy once already and I'm already on my 2nd playthrough. I promise that a review for God of War 3 is to be posted in the near future, providing that I can tear myself away from GTA4 long enough!

Let's see... other than that... what else is there? Not much, but I'll be heading up to KL this coming Sunday to meet loads of people. This is slightly work related but essentially it is an excuse to go and chill out with the bastards at Indahvilla and shit like that. Hahahahaha...

A'ite then.

Peace.

Ngyupdate

2010-03-15T13:41:00.002+08:00

Can't say I have much to talk about. Oh, I finished inFAMOUS by the way. Yeap, took me less than a week. It's not a perfect finish but hell, I finished it. Solid ending. Final boss fight wasn't epic at all, way too easy but the missions leading up to it were way cool. I mean, you get to chase down, like, 5 massive baloons dispersing toxic gas over the city and first off, you need to literally, bring down the thunder on it to down it's shields and later fly onto the platform to send it up into the stratosphere. I mean, how cool is that?

Seriously, at this point, the game kinda killed itself. It has 1 upped itself! You want more. You want spectacular. You want to mother'uckin' have an enemy that is worthy of bringing down the thunder on AGAIN. No. The game gives you no such oppurtunity. Sure you can bring down the thunder on the unsuspecting people of Empire City but where's the fun in that?

Anyways, while playing inFAMOUS I was thinking that Darksiders was a bad buy and was considering selling it off on eBay when I get the chance but... I'm glad I gave it a 2nd chance. I'm actually enjoying it. It's actually pretty enjoyable. The controls sometimes annoy me, like the block + counter mechanism is almost as hard to pull off as Riposte in Dissidia. Biggest piss off moment was that one event required me to kill enemies using such a skill. Fortunately I'm through that but I have to note that that was the most frustrating moment of that game for me.

Anyhoo... tomorrow's the 16th of March. Which is the release date for Dragon Age: Origin's expansion, Dragon Age: Awakening. I am definitely not going to buy the PS3 version because I like games as such on the PC. Sure I like SOME RPGS on the PS but... not something from Bioware, seeing as I've played some of their games on the PC already and I like how it plays out.

Speaking of which, I really should go get Mass Effect 1 and 2. It's another epic Bioware RPG. Western RPGs (most of the time) lack the depth of JRPGs and effort put into storytelling, but that's all changing. I mean, Dragon Age was amazing. Solid as hell. KOTOR 1 and 2... well, it does it's job for itself... Whatever that means.

Ah. I'm rambling again.

You know there are days when I wonder if anyone reads this junk and whether I should just give this up, as it is starting to become more and more of a burden for me. Nah, I realize I'm here to provide everyone who manages to get their hands on this blog's URL deserves a healthy dose of sarcasm and vulgar language that they themselves could not dispense in the sanctity of their own world.

Okay, enough of the fucking around. I've got shit to study.

Whoever that's reading this right now. Peace be with you.

Uh... peace?

Yeap. Peace.

inFAMOUS

2010-03-11T14:51:00.003+08:00

For those of you that are not aware. I am a proud owner of a PS3 now. I can already see the comments telling me to buy games like FIFA, Winning Eleven, the latest not-so-final Final Fantasy 13 and dare I say Bioshock 2?

FF13. I'm gonna wait on the reviews. IGN, Gamespot, whatever. Everyone. Amateur ones even. 'cause after 8... and I had a hard time swallowing 8, it all went to bleeding hell and became FF the Sidequest.

Anyways, I'm here today to talk about one of the games I bought alongside my spanking new PS3, inFAMOUS.

It's not a very recent game nor is it too old, but it shows what the PS3 is capable of, in graphical terms. It's a very beautiful game at that. The way the lightning bolts shoot out of Cole's hand and onto those pesky Reapers and how they fly while being coated in a bright electrical net... amazing.

Voice acting's alright. Doesn't leave you cringing or anything. I've played some games with HORRENDOUS voice acting. Repetitive and monotone voices that try to sound cool that fail epicly.

Gameplay. At first I hated inFAMOUS because there was no auto-aim function but now I've gotten used to the aiming and the moving and so on. The moves provided also give you a lot more freedom when it comes to fighting as the moves become either more accurate, explosive or downright just friggin' awesome. Seeing as inFAMOUS is a sandbox game, travelling style for a city landscape must be hard, right? No. No cars. Nothing. Just pure, electrifying grinding on power lines and train tracks. Awesome.

Story's good. I've read bits and pieces here and there, I get the gist of it but I think there's more to it so it kinda keeps you guessing. The story's divided up by the amount of storyline missions you take. Basically the world just stops when you're doing everything else, whether it's collecting Blast Shards (think GTA Hidden Packages), gunning down random gang members that threaten the peace or doing side missions to take back the city. The karma system ultimately decides which ending you get, but does little else to the storyline along the way. I was hoping your choices in the game would affect a lot more than it does right now but meh... I'm not too heartbroken about it.

In the end, it's a solid game and worth whatever needed to pay for these original games these days. I'm still all for piracy but I suppose these days you can only rely on that for things that aren't too complex like making Blu-Ray discs or cars. You can always rely on it for soft copies for movies, TV series, music and shoes with funny names.

A'ite then. I'm off. Remember, March 16th - God of War 3 is out. Pity this ain't Aussieland otherwise I would've booked that mafacker by now and got all those sweet pre-booked goodies.

Peace.

Gated Communities

2010-03-05T09:01:00.003+08:00

I don't know about you guys, but it seems that these communities are getting some major flak in the media these days.

Some really deserve the flak 'cause they're blocking traffic, and most of these are in KL/PJ/SJ and basically high traffic areas where it's already bad as it is. It's gonna be as frustrating as playing NFSU with 20,000 other racers in Sunnys.

So yeah, I live in one of these gated communities. Not really a community. We really put that word to shame. It's more like a gated street. A short one at that. We have about 30 houses. Maybe less. Yeap. Gated street.

Even a short, unassuming street like ours is getting flak. We're off the main road (Jalan Kuala Kangsar) and off the service road of JKK. How out of the way can we get?!

But 'tis not the point. Right, back to the topic of flak, we're getting flak too, from an ex-MBI old dude living on the street behind ours. I can almost see his house from here, actually, seeing as the back of his house is connected to the back of some other house on my street.

A'ite... some backstory first on how our gated street thing came into existence. Unlike what's happening in KL right now, where some bastards/good samaritans are cashing in on this craze where they are resorting to extorting house owners to set up gated communities, we actually did it, as a collective, willingly and in desperation.

Why? Well... lemme see. Most of this happened while I was in Australia by the way. So, yeah, in a span of a short few months, the cars parked out of their houses were getting their windows smashed into hell. The punchline finally came a few months later when a resident was coming home and these dudes pulled up in front of his house while the gate was closing and pulled a goddamn gun on the dude. In Ipoh. Fake or not that's another issue. When you're pissing in your pants, the sudden discharge of ammonia and urea from your body does alter your perception enough to get freaked. Not a true scientific fact nor will be experimented upon for proof.

So it was decided we get guards on both ends of the street. Everyone in the neighborhood paid for it.

So this old dude is giving us major flak for this 'cause he's old. So he's allowed to be troublesome. I hope I bump into him and give the old mafacker a heart attack one day. Really, what's his problem? *sigh*

Anyways... I'm out.

Peace.

Blame It On The Pop

2010-03-02T17:14:00.002+08:00

First off, I'd like to thank (and damn) Rikaz for showing this to me. I've already posted this on Facebook but I know some of you wouldn't go on unless you have absolutely nothing better to do. I see nods there in the background. Yeap.

Anyways, here it is. United States of Pop 2009 by DJ Earworm. It's a mash-up of all the top 25 songs of 2009 according to the Billboard Top 100. What's a mash-up you ask? Watch and find out.

Turn those speakers up son!

Peace.

The Quiet Life

2010-02-18T13:13:00.002+08:00

Well, CNY's pretty much over as far as I'm concerned. All the lunches, dinners, meet-ups have all been done and dealt with and I'm pretty surprised on how it turned out. I mean, yeah, I was all moody about how fucked up it was gonna be but I was pleasantly surprised, really. I had a good, decent time with some old friends.

Pretty glad about it really. I found out that people change for the better, too. I've had bad experiences especially when it comes with the whole people changing thing so yeah, can't blame me for uttering that seemingly idiotic line.

Anyways, CNY is officially over. Yeap. So that means I have no other reasons to evade the job hunt and I have no ideas to do so. Okay, fine, I haven't written my resume but I have applied to a tutor agency and also applied for a gig for a Standard 2 student to teach him Math and English. They are letting me charge 30-50 AN HOUR. I used to remember the days when we paid 50 a MONTH.

Jesus mother'uckin' Christ.

Anyways, yeah. One of my friends posted this link to another blog that depicts the... uh... detailed romance of 2 individuals, which in my personal opinion, absolutely deserve each other, and I mean that in the most cynical and macabre sense possible.

Good God, it's people like this that makes me feel that blogging is dirty. The read makes you feel disgusted to the point that you actually feel physically dirty. Man... Some people are just fucked up. They make S&M porn look like Bert and Ernie having a friendly conversation.

Urgh...

Anyways, with this CNY haul being decent, I think I can buy a PS3! So... if anyone's got anything to say about the PS3, good, bad, or about the games, tell me all about it!

Peace.

Freakiest Tuition Teacher

2010-02-16T12:05:00.002+08:00

So alright, I was checking the news page on FB as always and I saw a friend of mine being tagged in a photo where him and a bunch of his pals met up. There were some people that I recognized as these people were from Ipoh high schools. One of them was this dude my other friend used to know and this dude, he recommended us to join this 1119 English tuition.

For those of you that aren't aware of what 1119 is, it's the... how do I put it, other standard of marking your English paper in SPM. So yeah, you'd get 2 different grades. I, personally, was not concerned at all with this other standard but these other friend of mine was, so he got offered by this other dude, who I shall refer to henceforth as GZ. Big dude, very short hair, prim, proper, complete square as far as I know.

So my friend laps up what he has to offer about this teacher who specializes in teaching 1119 quality English and shit like that. So, I get intrigued as well as I am not one to throw away oppurtunities to one up my game. So me and this friend joins this tuition while this GZ dude's been there for like forever.

First time there, house looked pretty ordinary, a'ite? Small house in Ipoh Garden, abundance of flowers by the side, here and there. We were told she was a really old lady so the scene was pretty a'ite at that point. Then we noticed a string, looping from the gate, to the window overlooking the front gate. It was one of those old gates, about waist-high, which you could easily shoulder charge through without breaking a sweat. So we started shouting hello to see if there was anyone in and we saw someone moving in the house, near the open windows and suddenly she asked us to pull on the string. So we pulled it, and there was a key, attached to the other end, at the window, that was tied to the string. The point was to pull the string until we got to the key to open the lock on the gate.

Yeah. Talk about paranoid.

We went in and met her for the 1st time. Real batty old lady. I swear that hair was fake but then again we were thinking, let's not judge based on appearances.

So few weeks went by and we kept going to her tuition and in all seriousness, there was nothing any one of us could learn from her that seemed like it'd give us the upper hand in this whole 1119 fiasco. She was a total fraud, or at least, a desperate old lady looking to pay her bills by teaching sub par english to morons who would lap it up. Funny thing was GZ, who intro'd us to her was way ahead any one of us, and yet he stuck by her. I don't know whether he was feeling sorry for her or what, but man, I have no idea what he saw in her to start pulling people into her class.

Subsequent weeks ahead, me and my friend started to skip her classes altogether 'cause seriously, we were paying her for nothing but the sheer entertainment we could scrounge up from making fun of her fake hair, her unfounded paranoia and downright "old people" mannerisms.

Heh... I remember once, there was once a photographer in her house that was shooting her newly renovated BATHROOM. God knows if she hired him or the dude was part of some nutty bathroom enthusiast's magazine.

Whatever it is, the thing that kinda ticks me off, in a very slight manner, mind you, is that what the fuck was this GZ dude even thinking?! I mean... did he even know she was so batty and incompetant or was he just feeling way too sorry for the old lady that he didn't care that he was wasting our money and time?

Well, whatever it was, I got no beef with the dude, but he wasted my time and money. Despite that, he has given me a good story to tell my friends and grandkids about. Man... the key... and that hair. Hahahahahaha...

Wonder is she dead yet? And would they like... give her a new wig if it was an open coffin thing?

Heh... anyways, I wish you all a very Happy Chinese New Year and belated Valentine's Day. May you get loads of cash, the girl, get banged, get fucked, whatever tickles your fancy.

Peace.

So, Yeah...

2010-02-12T13:48:00.002+08:00

Chinese New Year's around the corner. Don't really care though. Every year's the same. Most of the time never better. Only gets worse. Or stays stale. Really stale.

Sure, there's the money. Okay, I can't follow up to that.

Seriously? Is there all there is to it? Well, one tiny joy I found in the season is that I get to diss certain things. One is that the fuzz in Ipoh finally decided to turn up because everyone on this side of the country is back in Ipoh for CNY. Heh... time to feast for them. Sleazebags...

After CNY, gonna start passing out my resume, or rather, a piece of paper that struggles valiantly to pass itself off as a resume, to wherever and whoever so I can start getting some paper and blowing off time and hopefully meeting new people.

It's seriously sad. Everyone that I know has their own thang going on... and we all know that Asian mentality some people have. This's my group of friends, you have nothing doing with them... shit like that. Maybe that's just me thinking and that's absolutely untrue.

A'ite, what else really? Nah, there's nothing really happening. Boring as hell holidays. Not graduating. Yet. No fun whatsoever and borderlining on no life whatsoever soon eneough. Yeap.

Peace.

Been Awhile

2010-02-04T12:48:00.002+08:00

Damn, almost passing 2 weeks since my last post. Well... bet no one's really curious on what I've been up to, since the only people that are remotely interested are the ones that I've been with while being M.I.A on this place.

Let's see, where do I start? Well, one thing is that my 11 month Lenovo laptop's busted. If there's such a part known as the illuminating panel on the laptop screen, it's busted. Basically everything else's running fine, it's just that there's no light illuminating the screen. Therefore, I can see everything except it is super dim. I suppose I could easily remedythat if I just hooked it up to an external monitor but that would defeat the purpose of it being a laptop innit? For argument's sake it wouldn't but then again who am I arguing with?

With the laptop down, that means that the best computer in the house is down. Pretty sad eh? That the best machine in the house is the laptop and not a souped-up PC. But the real tragedy here is that I haven't gotten bored of Dragon Age yet! I was in the middle of another playthrough as a City Elf Rogue! I was trying a different build this time and it seemed really really fun and now this happens! Bollocks.

It happened right on the day I was leaving for KL for a few days to see Rushdi and everyone else that was still in Indahvilla. Yeah, good times once more, with those lads. Met up with Shevoune while I was there. Hung out with Dion a few times too and played futsal finally after a year or more. Dayem.

My PSP got busted and now is fixed again after I paid through my ass. Luckily I got it fully subsidized by my mum so my PS3 nest egg remains untouched. Now the most nagging feeling of all when I'm about to spend a buttload of money on an item has come again. Is it worth it?! Lemme see... I have a big enough TV. Not HD, not flatscreen but high-end ENOUGH (at some point 3 years back) that I can play it without losing complete rapture. Are there enough games now? Well, one thing that it has DRAGON AGE but I refuse to play the console version. PC's way better and I can't wait for the expansion. Should be out in March! Awesome! Gonna buy that shit legit and get that sweet, sweet DLC.

I suppose GOW3 is good enough for the purchase, but that's just 1 game! I suppose there're other RPGs/action-adventure/racing games that I can look to when I get the PS3... FF13?! Uhh... Thinking hard on that one. Haven't heard anything fantastically awesome about it yet. Mass Effect 2 perhaps? Another Bioware game. Maybe should get that for the PC instead. I like my RPGs on the PC. Especially the ones that involve way too much time looking around in menus and shit like that and I'm very sure since it is a Bioware game, it will be as such.

Pity the next KOTOR game is a MMORPG though. Lost great potential there.

Well, can't think of what else to talk about. Oh. CNY. Bugger.

Fuck this.

Peace.

Dragon Age: Origins

2010-01-15T20:50:00.002+08:00

Spoilers ahead but ah, what the heck. You know you wanna read!

I admit that I have played very few RPGs compared to the more avid gamers but meh, this is not the case here. Dragon Age: Origins is made by Bioware, developers of other great western RPGs of our generation such as the amazing Star Wars: KOTOR I and II, though to a lesser degree for the latter, Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2. Let’s not forget Mass Effect and Jade Empire too. I’m currently in the process of… acquiring Jade Empire. I hope it’s worth the time I have invested.

Anyways, Dragon Age: Phew. I should’ve bought the original copy, really. There’s quite a bit of downloadable content (DLC) that seems really, really interesting that’s way too interesting to fucking pass up on. The game by itself, I’ve completed it twice now. Both times with some rather large differences. I essentially played with the mindset that I’m a good guy out for glory and the betterment of Ferelden. Unlike KOTOR, being good and bad doesn’t set you on a “light path” or a “dark path” but instead it determines the attitude your travelling companions have towards you, the world’s attitude towards you and of course, ultimately what happens in the end and who fights with you in the finale.

My Dalish Elf Rouge with Alistair

Shexy witch Morrigan. Rrrr~

It’s a pity I don’t have a machine at my disposal that can contain this beast. The whole thing is a whopping 15 GB. Jeezus Mother’uckin’ Christ. The graphics are supposed to be amazing from what I can see from the trailers and the such but seeing as I do not currently possess a machine that can handle this thing, I had to lower the graphics greatly but this did not hamper my gameplay experience at all.

This game stands out because it’s one of the most morbid and violent RPGs I have seen. Blood gets spattered all over your ass whenever you kill an enemy, either with a huge swing over the chest with your huge ass zweihander, a good old fashioned decapitation or a delicate yet deadly 1-2 with longsword and dagger. Morbid as in desperate times call for desperate measures and creature that are evil incarnate from everything in the lore as fantasy world comes. Werewolves, zombies, undead, demons, abominations (No, no fresh meat) and of course, the darkspawn, the grunt antagonists, litter the battlefield in this tale of betrayal, lust and violence. No vampires though, just realized that. Would’ve loved if there was a quest involving someone looking like ol’ paleface and then proceed to decapitate his sorry dead ass just to shut those rabid fan girls up.

Romance in this game is pretty tight, much better than KOTOR ‘cause Jedi are supposed to be chaste anyways and Star Wars sex scenes will kill half the geek population anyways. Bioware definitely rewards players who pursue the girl. You get 2 choices, both very hot in their own element. It’s either a witch or a nun. I’m not talking crooked nose, hunchbacked old bitches or nuns covered so much that the ninjas of the Middle East are put to shame. I’m talking like… goddesses here mate.

2 girls only. But pretty tight. Too bad there’s no harem option. There is a harem opportunity though, so I’ve heard. Ah, I’ve got your attention now, have I? Hahahaha… Well, that’s another story that you’ll have to find out.

Characters in the game are insane. Very colourful lives they live or have lived and plunging you into some of their problems are just fun. Splendid voice acting save for one or two fouls during rare occasions.

Pity that Bioware still hasn’t mastered how to make good endings ‘cause ending them with numerous boxes of text just doesn’t cut it. People want cutscenes. FMVs. Come on! Either way, Dragon Age: Origins is a must get. Great character dialogues to keep you entertained for hours, I love Morrigan and Alistair. Their banter. Classic. Wide variety of quests. Interesting characters and dialogue options. Spells, skills that are not only flashy but damn deadly. One of the more interesting parts of this game is that your main character has their own unique background that you can play that has been aptly named “Origins”. You have the choice of playing the Human Noble, Human Mage, Dalish Elf, City Elf, Elf Mage, Dwarven Commoner and Dwarven Noble storylines that are vastly different from each other and has no common themes with each other except that Duncan recruits you into the Grey Wardens at the end of it. Some pretty softcore sensual shit. Yeap.

Your own Indy Jones and Da Vinci Code experience

Ol’ Spiky’s Rating: 4.5/5 5 means a perfect game. Unfortunately this is not perfect ‘cause Bioware could’ve done better with certain aspects but it’s all to my personal liking, that’s it. Overall, it’s a super solid game. Totally shouldn’t miss out on this. It’s like missing totally on FF7 or FF8 or not knowing what’s 9-11.

My current character - a rogue Mage

I’ve posted this on FB already but I thought I’d share this video again just ‘cause the video is so kickass and the song is awesome. In case you couldn’t catch the words in the bottom left corner, it’s “This Is The New Shit” by Marilyn Manson.

Peace.

P.S: Check your newspapers. Did you notice Sherlock Holmes does not show in Ipoh? Now what is up with that, you tell me.

Turmoil. Again.

2010-01-10T19:01:00.001+08:00

Fascinating how the country just loves to tear itself apart at every chance it gets. It’s like a baby with chicken pox. It just won’t stop scratching until it bleeds out of every motherfreakin’ pore and dies.

So yeah, a’ite. Few things I bet most of you have already thought of about the whole matter. What matter? Don’t you read the news?! A’ite, I can’t really use that line ‘cause I don’t either, ‘cause I believe that ignorance is bliss.

But yeah, what else am I talking about? The nuking of these churches!

1st off, I ain’t a fan of either side ‘cause most of you know my stand on religion. Sure it has brought people together for great causes, miracles, possibly responsible for whatever morality that remains in this world and every other good thing these holy scriptures claim that they have given. Still. Nuh uh.

2ndly, and I’m pretty sure this had gone through everyone’s head more than once for the past few days. Why didn’t someone just give in?!

I say both sides are to be blamed. The Herald for even CONSIDERING using the word “Allah” in the Malay editions. Honestly, if you’ve sat in front of the TV in the earlier years of your life, you’d notice during that 3 minutes near dinner that they have a video that is the call to prayer. It even has bleeding translations. Obviously it shows that God is not Allah. I’m not going to elaborate more as I am NOT super familiar with the religion as a whole and do not wish to draw unnecessary negativity to myself. But through this observation, it’s obvious innit?

The people who have nuked these churches. They can’t think 2 steps past their dicks can they? So… I wonder what do they think they’re gonna achieve? That is assuming of course these arsonists are religious zealots or idiots looking for a reason to hurl mollies. They’re not going to give the tarnished image of the Islamic community in the world a better image, that’s one thing for sure. I’m sure on BBC, CNN in another country is showing what’s left of those churches and who’s behind them and why. Yeah, great publicity.

A’ite, truthfully, there’s no love from Ol’ Spiky for either side or the image of Malaysia. What I’m really uh, concerned with is the thought process of the parties involved. It’s just so fascinatingly stupid. And this is totally assuming that there’re no political string-pulling involved.

*sigh*

Not too bright are they now, eh?

I love my country. It gives me good entertainment. It tickles my dark side’s fancy very often.

Peace.

S'up 2010

2010-01-04T11:39:00.002+08:00

1st and foremost, despite being a few days late but nonetheless out of courtesy, Happy New Year to you chumps.

A sudden thought. Why do you care about who reads your blog when the way you write does not account for other people's feelings?

Alright, putting that aside.

New year's resolution? Pfft. Please. It's only a source for more self disappointment. Go with the flow. Take things as they come but it never hurts to be slightly prepared for the worst.

My holidays? Well, so far it's just been playing Left 4 Dead 2 with my bro, finally got past The Bridge with ALL SURVIVORS without gunning them down while they're hobbling over while a Tank is approaching the rescue vehicle. Yeah, that's how I play. When that chopper arrives, it's every man for himself.

Hm, what else?

Few friends getting married soon. Some are really happy about it. Overall happiness all round. Some have insufferable relatives. Some... Hahahaha... well, the circumstances are SERIOUSLY dodgy. It's like something right out of a The Bold & The Beautiful episode.

"John, your mum's... a man"

*DUN DUN DUNNN*

*screen fades to black, commercial on*

You get the point.

Crud. Totally forgot the main reason why I wanted to write this post... I downloaded Timbaland and OneRepublic's new album. Totally mediocre. 30 Seconds to Mars as well. Totally mediocre and seriously they are experimenting with different sounds altogether, straying far from their previous album. I never did really like their old hits. It's listenable, but just was never in love with it.

Trying to set up my KL upcoming KL trip... not sure what to do yet. Need to talk with some people 1st... Anyways, I guess that's it.

Peace.

Looking Back Into 2009

2009-12-31T12:52:00.000+08:00

Well, here it is. The very last day of another year. Again. But I gotta say this year was very different compared to others? Why? Simple, for most of it I wasn’t in my decrepit home country, Malaysia. Okay, maybe the place deserves more credit than I give it but that’s another matter.

Well… let’s see… I’ve definitely discovered the joys of drinking socially; it’s not a bad thing. I’m sure there’re most of you who’ll roll your eyes and shit like that but sure, we’re all entitled to our own opinions.

Not-so-familiar-classmates have become good friends. Acquaintances have become friends. Idiots have been cast aside as the natural progression of social Darwinism takes place. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting more amazing people that add more colours and meaning to my life. So, here’s to you people. Abhi, Bob, Elly, Palm, Pui Yee, Shevoune, Su, Sarah, Bon, Carissa, Kang Wei, Daniel, Carmen, and Eric. You foos made my time really enjoyable in Melbourne.

And let’s not forget the old Indah crowd, even though far away, but still very entertaining indeed. The 706 girls, Nix, Nabila (congrats on getting married!) and Piumi. The 706 lads, Rushdi, Taqi, Rahul and to a lesser extent, Saad, you goat-raping, phone-stealing bastard! The 710 lads, Raashid and Suheil… and Rashmi, even though most of the time you ain’t there! The 709 dudes, Zabreen, Rikaz and especially Shakir, bunch of haramis you guys. Cheers to you lads. And though this is super late, thanks for that farewell present!

Learnt loads of shit about life in Melbourne. I had my eyes opened further. I’ve went from vindictive to loving the country. It’s beautiful scenery, the fun and very, very beautiful people and of course, your beautiful weather (not counting summer, you bastard).

I’ve seen things… experienced a lot of new things. Very thankful for that. I got to know her… I’m still confused over where I stand in this whole mess my mind has made up, but I’m glad that’s off my chest. Out of sight, out of mind, as they all say.

I’ve lived like never before in that country. I guess I have my mum to thank for that, financing this overly expensive son of hers to a city as amazing as Melbourne.

So, I suppose, it’s only fair that I be thankful for this amazing year, for it’s amazing people I have met, for the amazing experiences I have been able to experience and for my chance to count how much “amazing”s I have used in this post alone. Amazing. That’s another one.

Here’s to you, 2009. Ye have been a great year, but your time’s up.

Peace.

She Cold Stabbed Me

2009-12-30T04:36:00.002+08:00

Yeah, just got my ass back from Melaka. Amazing food. Better than Ipoh, especially the ais kacang and the cendol. Damn son... cheaper too! But the chicken rice balls... meh... like that la. It's not exactly as played out as Pui Yee tells me.

Finally replaced my bokken from Melbourne with another similar black one that I saw while walking down Jonker walk. But that's another story for another time, in another post.

So I came back with a headache that's been with me since that morning, all the way in the train ride and all the way back here. So right after dinner, popped a double of Panadol and dozed off.

My next memory is that I had a dream of my ex. We were driving in a suburban area in a convertible. No reason, we were just there. Suddenly, next most vivid moment in the dream was me, adjusting the rear view mirror and I felt her move suddenly, I moved my hand in the way to block it and she plunged a syringe right into my outstretched palm. I saw a sort of green liquid in there. Transparent, somewhat neon-like and she pushed down on the plunger. Somehow I knew that was poison and next thing I knew, I reached across her with my free hand, opened her door and kicked her out.

I sped off and headed towards the hospital where I saw an old friend and his brother. I waved to them, went in, and parked. For some reason, all of my Melbourne friends were there with my ex and they were all asking why I was there 'cause they were there visiting another friend of mine that in reality, they didn't know. When I saw my ex, I was prepared to defend myself in case she had another trick to pull on me but I felt seriously weak from the previous shot she gave me.

The next few things were a bit fuzzy but suddenly said the reason why she did was because I never did the things she wanted and never took her to the places that she wanted to go. I remember holding her hands and saying that I will take her wherever she wanted to go, she just had to ask.

Next thing I knew, I stumbled into the hospital, looking for the right counter to talk to. Eventually I reached the right one and I succumbed to the poison and found myself on the floor. I woke up, in the dream, next to my other hospitalized friend.

And then here I am, typing this out. Wonder what the hell does this all mean.

Btw, was anyone on Fly.Fm around 9.10 pm last night? Yours truly got on radio! =D Hahahaha...

Anyways, I'm out. Enjoy your holidays.

Peace.

Avatar

2009-12-26T12:53:00.002+08:00

"I See you"

I gotta admit... I was awed by the trailer itself. I was moderately keen on watching this movie and so I did. Went in a few minutes late just to see Jake Sully arrive right on time for his 1st briefing.

The movie, to say the least, is superbly visually astounding. You can definitely tell a lot of thought has been put into the whole creative design of the inhabitants, the world itself, the concepts, everything, really. If my weed-damaged memory serves me right, I think it took the writer 4 years for the script to be done. Not that he was rushing or anything, but it just took that long until he was satisfied.

And man, those 4 years sure paid off.

You can definitely tell that James Cameron loves to put in some stuff from his previous movies… come on now, Sigourney Weaver and landmates? Aliens, anyone?

But still, it doesn’t mess with the story at all. The story, not groundbreaking, typical natives versus invaders set-up. Sure, there are countless stories out there that have similar themes, even on grander galactic scales but it’s not the story that entices people, it’s the way the story is told. I bet if you had watched a film on how the Malay kingdom defended itself from the invading westerners; you would’ve learnt a hell more than reading it off a bleeding book.

And that’s what contributes to Avatar being a great movie. The flow of the story. There are no pauses. Every scene commands amazement from the audience as Jake Sully and Neytiri walk about the lush Pandoran landscape, exploring their surroundings, startling unique and awe-inspiring creatures and plants as they go.

The battles are epic and pull no punches. Missiles, incendiary ammo litter the skies against the seemingly weak but deadly accurate arrows of the na’vi inhabitants that ride on their flying beasts while led by the new Toruk Mocta, Jake Sully, which is basically now their new hero as he had tamed the untamable beast of the Pandoran skies.

As negative as the next sentence may sound, the plot is predictable, but the flow of the story keeps us in check instead of giving us time to guess what is coming ahead.

Ol’ Spiky’s Rating: 5/5 – Another movie that will define our generation.

I’m off to KL tomorrow and then to Melaka. Happy Holidays people and a belated Merry Christmas!

Peace.

Prisoner Christmas

2009-12-21T09:22:00.001+08:00

I am motherfucking in love with this song. It's just funny as hell.

Peace.

L4D2

2009-12-15T09:37:00.002+08:00

The new Survivors, with more flava than ever!

I gotta say that I was pretty surprised, probably like every other fan out there of Left 4 Dead, when Valve announced Left 4 Dead 2. However, unlike other fans of the zombie shooter game, I was not the least outraged by this little piece of news.

Well, I'm not here today to address the community's feelings on this news, but rather, I am here today to tell you how motherfucking kick ass this game is!

First off, they've improved everything, from weapons, to maps, to the gameplay, to content, to... I don't know! You can definitely notice brief pauses in the 1st game between each crescendo event and parts where you need to switch somethin on that will set the horde nuts. In L4D2, the action is non-stop, past the 1st quarter of the map, your trigger finger never gets a break, unless of course you switch over to one of the many interesting melee weapons. My faves? The axe, 'cause it's just classic, the chainsaw, 'cause it's just Doom's style baby and the katana, 'cause that's just what zombies need to learn that it doesn't pay to mess with the living!

The campaigns are plentiful and this time it does actually have a story more so than the last one. However, as before, character development is all done with in-game dialouge and in the 1st campaign you actually get to hear the survivors introduce themselves to each other. How far have I gone in the campaigns? A'ite... I'm currently working on the very final stage, The Bridge of The Parish campain. Can't wait to actually finish that shit!

Voice acting, peh... it's not even an issue. Everyone sounds alright and pretty accurate. The characters themselves are pretty interesting, though I have to say that Rochelle might have been a ho before.

*roll on drum snare*

My favourite campaign has gotta be this one...

"You must be this tall... to DIE!"

The final maps leading up to the *cough* Maybe I shouldn't reveal anymore and just let you guys pick this up and try it out for yourself. Ring me up for a game on GG anytime, lads.

Peace.

P.S: Totally off topic but I believe that my prediction of everyone going back to their own lives is coming true, but... I really don't like this. Funnily enough, I don't miss you as much as I miss...

Mount Dandenong

2009-12-12T22:24:00.006+08:00

We are actually way past the schedule when we did this road trip but damn, who gives a shit innit?

So yeah, I can’t even remember which day exactly we went, but I’m pretty sure it was within the last 5 days. That’s the benefits of the holidays; you definitely don’t need to remember which day is it, unless you DO have something very specific planned!

Anyways, we set off near noon in Bon’s car (Bon being the Thai translation of the word Ball) which was an excellent piece of Korean (?) auto engineering. Here’s a piece of conversation between me and Palm after I discover the window on my side was not the regular safety glass they fit into rides.

Me: Dude, see this glass? *knocks* This is some low quality shit man!

Palm: Dude, this is a Daewoo okay? It’s the highest quality in Korean technology!

Me: Oh yeah, I feel real safe after you saying that. Feel like Jesus’ hugging me.

*everyone laughs*

We set off after pumping the car with gas and air. The journey was pretty a’ite. We took the M3 Highway which set us back like 12 bucks. Damned toll system. At least the system here scans you once and you’re cleared for the day.

Okay, first stop we saw a chocolate shop by the side, a li’l place called Hahndorf’s Fine Chocolates. Girls and chocolates. Sheesh!

Arrived at Hahndorf's

Rows and rows of amazin' chocolate...

... pity I ain't a fan of the junk

Gotta give 'em props for presentation!

Next model for Hahndorf? XD

Stopped over and checked the shop out. Real classy place and loads of types of chocolates. They sure know their shit man. There’s a café in the place too. With seats on the inside and the outside. Nicely designed altogether.

So after snapping a few photos, we headed to the nearby café, called The Soda Tree.

Man, that place is retro as hell. I mean, the design, the furniture, the decorations, hell… It was a tight place. You only get these places outside the city. That comfy little feeling, y’know? A little odds and ends shop was attached to this café with some weird old stuff. Old phones, classic mannequins with DOUBLE Ds and two creepy ass clown dolls. Urgh. I hate those clown dolls. Reminds of It so much. You know, that damned Stephen King novel’s drain monster!

We call zis one "Ze Stair"

Lookin' right back at ya!

Oh yeah, you know I look good bitch!

Ready to devour

Table decor

Anyways, the waitress in The Soda Tree was so helpful, she wrote down all the nice places to hit and even dug out one big ass map book to show us how to go to get to these places. Nice lady.

So she directed us to go to this lookout point where we can see a lake, Grant’s Picnic ground, where we could feed the birds, Sky High and another town called Olinda that’s in the middle.

So first stop, we tried looking for this lookout point. One would think that the lake would be in plain sight and pretty close but sadly it was quite far away and the lookout point did get a good view of the lake, but not as one would imagine, so we just drove off, up to Sky High, where there was this maze.

It was a pretty simple maze as I’ve been in there before. I watched the others have their fun and just followed them around as some of us tried to lose each other in the maze. Hehehhee…

Elly and Palm

Bad girls that need to be locked up! =P

Li'l Buddha statue in the maze

*insert cheesy tourism ad line here*

Pretty small maze. really!

Eventually we got out of the maze, and headed off to our next destination…

A’ite… from the directions the lady gave us at The Soda Tree, it was pretty easy to get to Grant’s Picnic Ground, the place where we could feed the birds and they are super friendly.

We definitely got the run-around when we stopped over at Olinda, a town between one side of Dandenong and Belgrave, where some locals pointed us in 2 totally different directions. Crap. Either way, long story short, eventually we managed to find our way to the spot, which was closer to Belgrave than anything.

Unfortunately we arrived a tad too late and the shop at the picnic ground had already closed. The shop sold the seeds that the birds go nuts over so… yeah, it was gonna be a tad tough but we managed. I surprised myself really, as I attracted the most birds (shameless self-praise here) compared to the rest. Shevoune was all “Aaaaahh… get them away from me~” and Palm had his first unfortunate taste of cockatoos going berserk on his arms. Elly seemed to handle the birds well by luring them in with Pocky.

The bird whisperer (?)

Moments before the carnage

Souvenirs of the carnage

D'awwwww~

*squawk*

Check this dude out! He's eating it off his hand! Or claw... or leg... whatever

Right after that we headed down to Belgrave, where we all knew Puffing Billy was. Our last trip to try to catch Puffing Billy was a bust so we decided to give it a go again this time. When we got there, we found out we missed the last train by saaaaayy… an hour plus? Hahahaha…

Anyways, we got a lucky break… or not but whatever it was, the gates were all open and we had full access to the whole station and there was nary a guard in sight! So we fooled around a little…

Trying very hard to fit in

And on this month's cover of Vogue...

Yeah, we missed it by that much

He's almost there

The overweight couple

And decided to take it down to the tracks and the locomotive…

That's right ladies, give me shock... more...

Pressure of failing MPS finally got to me...

Hangin' around the train

The photo that never made it to Facebook and for very obvious reasons

Chillin' around

AHAH! Take that Puffing Billy guards!

The Puffing Billy train station

Old school Australian public toilets?

All aboard!

RUN!

We all really couldn’t believe we managed to get so much done in just one freakin’ day! But come to think about it, none of the things we did after The Soda Tree required anyone to let us in or anything. ‘cept for Sky High, that is.

Definitely one of the best trips of my life, it sits up there with Dubai in my books for the most fun ever.

Peace.

Disclaimer: All photos were taken by Palm and edited by him or Elly. Thanks for the pics!

P.S: Good God it took me a few days to write this motherfucker down. Will resume normal ranting soon enough

My Letter to Her

2009-12-04T21:27:00.001+08:00

Hey.

I suppose this is the most cowardly way I can convey what I have been feeling over the past semester but at this point… I don’t think I really care anymore.

Maybe, someday I hope you’ll be able to read this.

I can’t start with “Ever since I met you” but… as I got to know you, you’ve been a particularly interesting character. Your carefree attitude, your adventurous streak and perhaps even your beauty has caught my eye.

Man, I can’t even find the right words that doesn’t make this sound cheesy, but… I don’t know. I really don’t know.

After that first night we went out with everyone, something special happened there. I knew you weren’t in full control of yourself but… it probably wasn’t real, but it was real in my head. It’s probably delusions that I have of you, but my thoughts translated into feelings. Maybe I was chasing a phantom that was conjured of a night of forgotten mistakes but nevertheless I have feelings for you. I have asked you out, but after I found out some things about you, I decided that you weren’t for me.

Every time I walked in there, I always looked for you first before anything, hoping to catch just a small glimpse of you. It didn’t matter if you looked haggard, or tired, I just wanted to see you.

Yeah, I know, it sounds really pathetic, but whatever, this is how I feel and I am not ashamed of it.

Despite the fact that I decided not to care anymore, or to pursue, but we met a few more times and the more I hear, it made me realize more and more of how I felt about you. I will not call it love because it is a dangerous feeling to confess to.

As the holidays grew closer, we hung out more, and I got to know you a bit more. I treasure every moment we had.

Then it came to that night, when I had a chance, and… I don’t know what it all meant, but… I showed you that I wasn’t the guy you thought me out to be.

I am more than that.

I am more than him.

At least I am honest with the people I am with.

I like you a lot, despite how fucked up you are, despite how broken you are, despite everything that you’ve done. I want to help you. But you didn’t let me in, so what was I supposed to do?

I’m sorry I wasn’t there to say goodbye. I had so much to say, but I couldn’t bring myself to tell you, because I didn’t want to complicate things in my life.

But now that you’re gone, and now that I am leaving for good, I’m not going to have a chance to tell you everything. I had so much to tell you, yet so little, yet so much I want to keep in myself until I enter my grave… But too little too late, huh?

I’m sorry I haven’t been truthful with you.

I’m sorry, if you’re reading this that this is the way you find out, but I don’t think you’ll ever see this.

If you do, this has got to be the most pathetic ever that you’ve read. But I don’t care.

I don’t want to care anymore.

But I can’t.

Everyday I see something that reminds me of you. It’s like the world itself is reminding me and mocking me at the same time.

I saw your name in the paper today in the train and all I could do was turn away and sigh.

That night… when you were having fun with all those guys. It hurt me so much seeing you act that way, but all I could do was put on my mask, and give my best smile, hiding the pain I felt inside.

I tried to be at least a good friend yet you wouldn’t let me be one.

…

Whatever it is now, I wish you all the best. I hope you find someone special that will treat you right. I hope you can fix your problems. I hope that someday… you can let me in, and give me a chance.

But I know it’s not possible, now that you’re gone.

I will… cherish whatever memories we had, as little as they were, but nonetheless… despite the inappropriateness and cheesiness of this whole thing, I will.

Goodbye.

2nd Thoughts on This Chapter

2009-12-02T12:49:00.002+08:00

As I sat down in the tram on the way back home earlier today, a sudden, yet slight pang of sadness struck, as I realized that I have a bit over a week left in this country.

It hasn't become that apparent when I'm having fun these few days with Shevoune, Palm and Elly, and sometimes Sarah. Oh, and Pui Yee of course.

There will be some I shall sorely miss. Some that I am glad I will most probably never see again.

I came here dreading this country, counting down the days I will leave here, but as always, I have grown accustomed to this country, and grown to love it for it's ability to set some parts of me free, for it's imperfections, and for it's acceptance of those imperfections.

I will miss it for everything that M'sia isn't.

Like what? Oh... I don't know... non-flat-chested chicks... That's like, on top of the list. I'll leave it at that. I shudder to think the shit I'll deal with when I get back.

I think it'll feel something like losing a sense.

Maybe I'm exaggerating now, maybe it's going to be as I say it is.

But whatever it is... I'm going to try to have as much fun as I can while I can... to forget her... instead of wasting my days thinking of things that could have been, that never would have been...

I'm out.

Peace.

The Time Traveler's Wife

2009-11-26T08:37:00.002+08:00

WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD!

Don't ask me how I ended up watching this, but I did. Paid a good 14.50 AUD to boot. But still, it was a decent movie. Won't exactly download it again in the near future, maybe when I'm bored and out of shit to watch.

The idea of the story is just amazing, where Henry randomly time travels and during his travels he has seen his dead mother over and over again, dying in a car accident and his love, Clare in different stages of her life.

The whole movie kicks off with young Henry meeting Clare for the first time in his life but she has known him all her life. They fall in love, get married, go through some problems since he randomly travels through time at the most inopportune times and such.

The climax of the story is when an older Henry time travels and appears in front of Clare, Henry and their two friends, wounded from a gunshot to the stomach, therefore showing them how Henry will die in the future. As such morbid thoughts are cast away, Henry and Clare decide to have a baby but due to Henry's time traveling abilities being a genetic anomaly, the baby time travels out of the womb as well and causes Clare to have multiple miscarriages.

Eventually, Henry time travels into the future to meet his future daughter, who is 10 years old, Alba, which is proof that Clare's latest pregnancy will not end in miscarrige like all the others in the past.

There's a bit more that I don't think I want to reveal as I've already spoiled it enough at this point.

Ol' Spiky's Rating: 3.5/5 Amazing story but not mindblowing. Watch if you've got the time and money.

Aw crap, I feel sick. Got a sore throat and my head feels a tad light. Kicker is that tonight I'm supposed to attend a Penthouse Magazine event at Men's Gallery. Yeah, it's a strip club. Yes, I have free tickets. Yes, I am thinking of NOT going.

We'll see what happens, yeah?

Peace.

Cover-Up

2009-11-25T07:33:00.002+08:00

Just decided to post 'cause that last post was quite an eyesore to me. Anyways, I've been enjoying the holidays, not much that I can write specifically about 'cause there's just way too much and I don't know where to begin. And also there's been so much drama under the radar it's just annoying. Imagine waking up to a FB inbox that's just overflowing.

Crap.

But enough of that shit... Well, hm... I suppose I could tell you what's been happening so far... Let's see, I've went to Williamtown's beach. Got a few pics there. I am not aware of how much people can view the albums on Facebook. I will try to get the original copies when I do, and post them up, especially the photos of the beheaded penguin! =D

I went for 2012 again, and it's still awesome, yeap. Oh, I've been practicing a lot on the guitar, but that's just for bass, but I have to say... on this matter. I have to confess that I started learning not because I liked it. I mean, come on, who wants to start learning BASS? I just thought, ah, that's simple, just picking with your fingers, no big deal, I'll get famous if I keep at it, no worries. Boy, was I wrong.

Done a few gigs and injured myself each and every time 'cause my fingertips just weren't ready for the torture it took for many days in a row, practicing for gigs. And I only practiced, 'cause I needed to.

But now, I have to thank Bob, he has inspired me to play for the sake of fun, not because there's a gig to be done or a chick to impress, but just for fun, for your self-satisfaction and I gotta say, it's been a whole new, much more enriching experience than all the other times around that I have picked up a guitar. So, thanks man, and also to the other dudes that I've been playing with that has indirectly spurred me onto this path. Palm, Eric and to a much lesser degree, Gerry.

Crap, wanted to share a few videos of this new band my friend introduced to me called Infected Mushroom... It's not a band per say, since it's just 2 dudes, and their music has been described as psytrance. Yeah, some techno junk, but it's real tight man. Check it.

Peace.

Dear My Neighbor

2009-11-18T08:23:00.002+08:00

Dear Neighborino,

I understand that sometimes I play my music a bit too loudly but that is only because I'm in the zone, playing bass and I sometimes need to hear the timing of the notes. The other times I'm pounding the techno and R&B loudly is because I am getting high on the music. I realize since you're mainland Chinese, I am most probably disturbing your conversations of disgustingly slurred and contorted so-called Mandarin with your "homies" back in red country.

I duly apologize if I have woken you up from your slumber, especially if I do so in the middle of the night, more so when it's past midnight. I have acknowledged your displeasure especially when you start pounding furiously on the wall when the music gets too loud so I turned it down.

However, I do not see a problem when I slightly raise the notch during the day time, especially around noon and late afternoon when I am not disturbing your slumber.

Therefore, before I leave, I am going to raise the notch the whole god damn day and when you knock that wall, I will knock back with a beat matching the rhythm of the song I am currently listening to until it finishes. God help you if you start knocking during the beginning of a Tiesto song or a Slipknot song because I will start hammering the wall with a damn steel pole if I have to get the right beats.

I hope YOU stop being such a douchebag and knock that shit everytime I turn it up ONE DECIBEL.

So help you God if you ever come knocking my door wanting a face to face 'cause the only face you're gonna get is the blunt edge of my bleeding bokken into your bleeding face.

Peace,

Your Disgruntled Neighbor

2012

2009-11-14T18:47:00.003+08:00

Monk: Oh. Fuck.

Okay. First off. I can't say 2012 is THE most anticipated disaster movie of 2009 'cause I've been seriously out of touch with the masses' opinions but I gotta say that 2012 is one of those rare non-summer gems of a movie.

It's almost a typical disaster movie set up in the beginning. Unknown people discovering that something is horribly wrong with the planet. Government starts setting up shady aftermath plans and shit like that.

Alright, if you're looking for a storyline, go watch 500 Days of Summer. This's not for you. C'mon. It's a disaster movie. The CGI is brilliant in the sense that it really does it's job of providing the presence of real danger to the characters in the story more so than other disaster movies.

Plus, the sight of California sinking into the ocean is pretty tight.

There is seriously not much to say except to keep praising the CGI, the nice touches of action in the movie and suprisingly, some of the more human emotions and instincts that are potrayed wonderfully by the characters in times of danger. There're no superficially insane guys threatening to end everybody else's lives 'cause he's a super-religious fanatic. The Mist, anyone? Also, I love the Bentley part. You'll see.

Ol' Spiky's Rating: 4/5 It sits on top of the disaster movie food chain right next to Lusa. Heard that it was directed by the same bloke. Can't be bothered to check IMDB or Wikipedia but who cares.

Anyhoo... been to another anime convention yesterday and this time in costume. Those who have me on MSN have probably had a sneak preview, those who don't, it's coming soon. Going today to the beach as a cameraman for two lovely ladies. I am praying hard for toples sunbathing chicks and itty bitty two piece swimsuits. Altogether now, give me a Quagmire giggity.

GIGGITY.

Peace.

Final Fanfare (Hopefully)

2009-11-08T06:00:00.002+08:00

It's a few days off, but it's official. Finally done with my final finals in my entire life, hopefully.

This post is not of doubts and worries, but of celebrations!

Finally got back my sweet sweet PSP and got around to re-familiarizing myself with Dissidia. Too bad the game didn't tell me for how long I was away for but it does know that I was away for a long time as it gave me a nice bonus when I opened my in-game mailbox.

Palm lent me his guitar as well. Just a teeny little acoustic one so I can just jam around when I'm bored. Now the problem since that I am a bit rusty on the tune by ear thing and the lack of tuner means I can't play some songs that requires me to drop that god damn tuning.

Anyways, I've got ages until the finals come out. Maybe I'll get a job and get some paper.

We'll see what happens.

Plan for today? All I know is there are Thai people involved and Thai food involved.

Crap. My arse and tongue are gonna get a good beating. WITH A SPOON.

Oh yeah, and it hurts like hell trust me. It HURTS. It doesn't kill you in anyway so the video does have some credibility. But trust me, a grindaxe to the nuts does hurt. I don't really need to tell you why, now do I?

Anyways... good luck to those that have still papers to go. And happy holidays for those that are free!

Peace

The Horribly Slow Murderer With The Extremely Inefficient Weapon

2009-11-05T18:11:00.003+08:00

This has got to be the most epic video I have watched this year. Benny Lava was a couple of years back. God knows what was it last year 'cause I saw too much shit.

And this one. Is ace. For those who didn't catch it when I posted it up on FB, here it is. Enjoy.

Oh man.. Epic. Alrighty then. Back to work.

Peace.

2 Down, 2-in-a-row More To Go

2009-11-04T15:11:00.002+08:00

Yeah, I'm halfway done, and that's on a Wednesday on the 1st week. The next one's tomorrow, and then the day after.

I'm at the point where I feel like a bleeding shell of my former self that I barely feel emotions of dread anymore. Whatever I have left are nothing but shadows of their former selves.

Well, enough of moping. Time to get down to some real work. I'm at the point where I'm not even mortified I don't have enough time to study.

Just want to get this over with... and then...

14th November 2009. MADNESS. AT SUPANOVA.

Curious? Well, I guess you have to wait then.

Peace.

P.S: On the brighter side, I'm getting my PSP back earlier! Can't wait to get crackin'n on learning those insane Jecht combos!

Misty Morning

2009-11-01T05:01:00.002+08:00

Last night's torrential downpour meets with today's potential heat wave.

Hm.

Woke up this morning to a slightly horrific thought.

Tomorrow's the start of my exams and I can't say I'm satisfied with what I've done so far.

I think you guys have heard this enough but won't hurt for me to say that I've got another whopping 3-in-a-row exam coming up after a day's break from this start.

Man, I'm fucked.

Wish me luck. Loads of it. Pray hard like it's Armageddon.

Peace.

Here It Comes…

2009-10-29T16:55:00.001+08:00

Well… this is it… I have 2 days left, not counting today to my 1st exam. And then it’s a day in between and then it’s 3 in a row exams, day after day.

Oh man. Now I feel my heart dropping all the way down to my nuts.

Great. It’s a tad too late for the pressure to kick in, don’t you think, doofus?!

Nevertheless… and to quote Van Wilder…

“Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere”

Classic.

Hm. I should get back to studying. OH GOOD GOD I AM PANICKING NOW.

SHIT SHIT SHIT.

Peace!

Undue Free Time

2009-10-28T08:17:00.003+08:00

I know I'm supposed to be studying my arse off as there is less than a week left to my finals.

ARGH!!! WHY AM I NOT PANICKING! =/

Well whatever it is... I found some tight videos during my spare time... Most of them are FF related, I know, but some are just awesome, others funny. Check it.

Alright, this next one is not FF-related but I first saw it at MANIFEST a few months back. Freaking hilrious how they've managed to find clips that look like they were singing the song itself! Check it!

SHIIITTT... Hahahaha...

Alright. Back to work.

One more thing, for the uninformed, I have changed my flight date to the 10th of December. Damned MPS shit is forcing me to go through so much shit. Fuck that fat whore.

Peace.

Holy Shyte of 6 Different Shades of Brown

2009-10-26T17:43:00.003+08:00

I have no idea why I chose that as a title... but I just ran with it... with scissors. If that makes any sense. Oh wait, it does.

*shrug*

Meh.

So I am exactly 7 days from my 1st exam. 1st one off the bat is AMC, the failed subject. I am pretty confident that I am going to pass this time round.

After that... I've got the 4th off. 5th... is PBM... I need just 6 marks to pass this puppy so I'm aiming for a D instead. HD if I had the time.

Straight after that is the fat bitch's Beast of Beasts. It's like... Doom's Cyberdemon! Warcraft's Archimond! WoW's Lich King! Dissidia's Level 110 Chaos!

You get the picture.

And I am so under-equipped. Imagine walking in with just a service revolver... or a squad of footmen... or no armor... or an underleveled character.

You get the gist of it.

Lastly... is IEA. International Economic Analysis. Meh. I think I should be alright...

Anyways... because of MPS... I have made a tough decision to stay over until the job is done, which is to wait until the results come out... therefore missing my cousin's wedding, and missing my friends, which some are going back. For good. To another bleeding country.

Man she has no idea what shit she has put each and every one of us through! Nevertheless... by my calculations... I have to achieve the equivalant of a D or a HD in order to PASS this subject.

From this angle, the chances are as good as me defeating Kratos with a wooden spoon. With both hands tied behind my back and blindfolded. Oh, and me drunk and high.

Hello Sunway...

Peace.

The Final Destination

2009-10-24T05:50:00.001+08:00

They should make a game out of this franchise!

Wow… finally watched a movie after so damn long and I’m glad I did… and in 3-D too! Talk about doing it big! Nah… it’s not that big… Hahahaha…

Anyways, compared to the past FDs, this one wasn’t as gory and we’ve all seen how convenient and silly the way things happen in the background that in the end sums up to a very painful and gory death… Alright, I suppose telling you the top 3 deaths in the movie wouldn’t hurt.

#3 Death by flying tyre to the face

One of the 1st deaths in the movie. Won’t tell you how that started but you can imagine. Even though the set-up was anything but elaborate but the fact that you get to see what’s left of the victim gives it huge points!

#2 Death by getting caught in rotating gears

Nearing the end, when an escalator collapses, gears and chains are all exposed underneath and one of the chumps get their foot caught in huge rotating gear and gets sucked in and gets grinded into a fine pulp. Epic idea, pity there was no shot that shown the remains.

#1 Death by pool draining mechanism

This one… is just painful. Dude gets his ass sucked in by the pool draining system, he can’t get out. Conveniently the draining system yanks up the pressure it’s sucking at and the dude’s guts get torn out of his ass and all over the maintenance area’s floor. Possibly the most painful and amusing way of disembowelment but pity they didn’t show what happened to the body after.

The ending was balls compared to all the other FDs… and all the other FDs showed us how horribly they all died. This one… just a CGI X-ray vision clip.

Shucks…

Ol’ Spiky’s rating: 3/5 Would have given it a 2 but it’s FD, one of my favourite film franchises. And watching it in 3D… no biggie. Stick to animated 3D films.

Alright then… back to studying.

Huge dilemma. Huge gambles here. I’ll leave that for another time then.

Peace.

First Foray into the Replays

2009-10-22T19:12:00.002+08:00

Hey, how's it going? It's been a short few months since I've started playing Dissidia but recently I've stopped because of the upcoming finals. I've handed it over to a nice neighbor of mine and I've told her not to give it back to me even if I threatened to commit suicide in front of her.

During the course that I've been playing Dissidia, I have recorded a few videos that had some rather nice moments. Come to date, I think I have close to 20 videos in there that were either epic fights, hilarious moments or rare occurences when the physics engine in the game overcompensates.

However, converting them to AVI format and uploading them to Youtube is a long process, and I haven't even edited them even!

Anyways, here're some of the videos that I managed to convert before handing my PSP to my neighbor to stave off the temption... Oh, and the last one's a bit higher quality, so it takes a bit longer to load.

Pretty tight huh? Alright then... time to get back to work!

Peace!

Another Day

2009-10-19T07:40:00.002+08:00

I do apologize for the previous post if it has gotten anybody spooked.

It's just that the finals and undue stress that was getting to me. Nothing more. It's funny how people put shackles on themselves and play judge, jury and executioner at the same time on themselves. Foolish, really.

Anyways, I've finished most of my assignments... there's actually one teeny part left for two of them left, but one's a few weeks away and I think there's someone else that has taken up the responsibility for the final parts of the assignment.

Man, I hope I pass this MPS assingment... and if I don't... I've just bought this bokken... Oh right...

A bokken (木剣, bok(u), "wood", and ken, "sword"), is a wooden Japanese sword used for training, usually the size and shape of a katana, but sometimes shaped like other swords, such as the wakizashi and tantō.

Yeah, it's one of those Japanese wooden training swords. It's wooden. It's heavy. I think it's gonna crush a skull or two with enough force.

I love it.

I'm gonna give that bitch a broken arm or two if I don't bleeding pass.

Worse is that I hear from my counterparts in M'sia that the co-ordinator for the subject, a.k.a the Fat Bitchress herself, is gonna be UBER strict this semester, since she's retiring this semester. What the devil right?

Man, this is some BULLSHIT.

Alright, final week of uni now. One more week, another week on study break, then it's motherfucking, and I mean MOTHER'UCKING GO TIME.

Just call me Cloud, Level 99, 255 STR, 255 DEF, 255 MAG, equipped with Ultima, KotR, Cure 4+All, Phoenix + Final Attack and Ultima Weapon (+99 ATK). Abilities? Slash Blow + Omnislash Ver 5, Climhazard, Firaga, Meteorain, Double Cut and Limit Break 4A: Omnislash.

This bitch is going down. Oh yeah.

Peace.

On the Verge of Sounding Suicidal

2009-10-16T18:40:00.000+08:00

Sometimes I wonder if it’s worth living anymore.

If you ask me why am I still living, I’d say that if I committed suicide, I’d really upset my mum.

I’m not even sure why do I even feel that way. I gotta say that my lack of a dream in life does answer for my lack of motivation at all.

Either that or I’m just…

a) clinically depressed
b) bipolar
c) loony

But I suppose that c can be scratched out since crazy people never admit to being crazy. So that leaves me with a and b.

I remember chuckling to myself while walking home from Unisity just now. At the 1st sensation of boredom, I think of killing myself rather than think of something else to do. Funny.

Really… I look in this world… and I really don’t see any other reason we need to keep struggling to achieve anything ‘cause in the end, it doesn’t matter.

God I sound like such an emo bitch but seriously, I feel fine. It’s a small pang of sadness at the bottom of my chest yet I feel completely fine.

Sometimes I wonder what’s wrong with me.

I seriously need help.

Or a knife to the wrists. We’ll see which comes 1st.

Peace.

P.S: It’s actually pretty scary… when you think about what’s going to happen next after u slice your wrists open. Blood gushes out and then you black out in a pool of your own blood and you never wake up. I wonder what happens after that. It scares me. I suppose that fear is enough to stop me.

Sitting Stale

2009-10-16T10:56:00.002+08:00

Get it? Sitting still? Sitting stale?

AH HA HAHAHAHAHHAA~!

No, seriously, that was lame. I didn't even know why I chose that title. Just hit the two first words that came to my head.

I am currently in the VU Footscray com lab now. One of the many com labs. This one specifically because it has this nifty little program called Asteroid that I need to do my Advertising and Marketing Communications work.

Currently waiting on Shevoune now. She overslept. Typical. She's usually late anyways. Typical again. She's breaking her record! Last week she was 30 minutes plus late! She's about to break the record by an extra 30 minutes!

Nah, nothing much to talk about really... just felt like writing up a post, y'know... filling in the blanks.

Hmm... Anyone up to reccomending me some new songs? Pretty bored of my playlist now... I even downloaded the first Drowning Pool album the other just for kicks. Too bad only "Bodies" is the only song that I can REALLY enjoy...

Funny story... I just changed "Bodies" as my message ringtone on Monday and that very night, Deena messages me at 2 a.m, Indonesian time, which translates to 5 a.m, Australian time. So, imagine, in the dead of the night... you hear someone whispering in your ear...

Let the bodies hit the floor...

Let the bodies hit the...

*clangclangclangclang*

FLOOORRRR!!!

Fuck, I kinda jumped right out of bed when the dude started screaming.

Yeah... that's it. Alright. Chicks are here. Time to work. Not that way. I wish it was that way. Alright. I'm out.

Peace.

Dreams Undreamt

2009-10-15T08:25:00.003+08:00

As I walked on the brick-laden path out of the Flemington Racecourse's grand hall, I thought to myself on life after graduation. If all goes well this semester (that's a big IF), I will be graduating next year, in Malaysia.

Truthfully, I'm not exactly keen. I do admit I do have a tendency to not easily let things go. I've a very faultful, strong sense of attachment, despite the fact that I know, and not realize, that impermanence is permanent.

I've even told people that I have no intentions of attending my own graduation. I say it's a waste of time. A waste of effort, and well not worth the trouble. Or is that just the voice in the back of my head's way of saying that I can't let go? As I type this out even I don't know whether is that the answer to my aloofness towards this whole graduation.

I mean, you don't get to do it that often. You're probably going to only graduate once. Maybe twice, if you're taking Masters... or more, if you're looking for some Permanent Head Damage. Yeah, I know... old joke.

I realized that... most people that are graduating say nearly the same things. They just want to end the nightmare that is uni. Others want to move on in life. Get their paper, live life, but I've never really heard anyone in particular saying that they want to be a really, really successful person.

Maybe in their heads, their dreams just aren't structured into such a simple sentence, as success, is subjective. And I also realize... I have no such dreams. Sure I dream of granduer, but not the typical successful life kind. It scares me now that I don't want to accomplish anything in particular that is on a large scale. Sure I want to change the world, but in a completely unrealistic and irrational way.

Do I not have a dream?

Or did it die when I wasn't looking?

I don't know...

You tell me.

Peace.

Feed the Flame

2009-10-11T13:27:00.003+08:00

It's definitely been awhile since I've picked up a guitar over and over again after such a long time, but the familiar touch of strings underneath your fingers definitely is a fresh welcome hug.

I wonder what this post is really for. There's a lot I haven't talked about... namely my snow trip at Mt. Buller, the Royal Melbourne Show, what do those laments of the Pierrot mean and my thoughts of going home soon.

I don't know... At times I feel that going back, there's still so much uncertainty, despite the fact that it's my home. I've never really liked Ipoh after living in Sunway for so long, and now living in a place like Footscray has definitely increased my dislike for Ipoh.

My cousin is getting married soon. In fact, she's getting married on the 28th of November, that's like, a month away. Really happy for her. Of course she's invited the whole family and stuff like that but currently my grandma and her sisters are in a cold war. Old people. Sheesh.

The sins of the elders are paid for by their kin, huh?

Funny story, my mum called me up the other day and first thing she said is, "We gotta chop your 'hawk off"

The hell that's gonna happen. No one touches the 'hawk! It might have been a mistake but I've definitely learnt to embrace the 'hawk. Then again, her reason is 'cause of the wedding. No way they're gonna let me walk in, in a suit sporting a 'hawk. Gonna get the relatives talking.

But SERIOUSLY, I hate the fact how these... families... or rather, let's put it more broadly, how society works. Just 'cause you ain't got the nuts to work outside the box, it really doesn't give you the right to judge others that dare to so. Big words for a hypocrite, I know.

Sometimes I feel like just running away, just away from family, y'know. Or at least, the relatives. Not so much the family.

Ever get that feeling?

I know I do.

Peace.

Frustrated and Demoralized

2009-10-10T15:33:00.003+08:00

Urrghh... *grunt*

It's the last semester for my uni life. Frankly I don't want to be stuck in a desk job working 9 to 5. Says me and half of the other bums out there.

The way this is going... it doesn't look like it might be the last semester. There's this one assignment that I am super worried about... I fucked up the first one 'cause of... I just fucked it up, alright?

Now I am on the precipice of fucking the whole subject up. And my big fat ass bitch of a lecturer that I would like to gut, stab, maim, beat to a bloody imageless pulp and feed to freakin' sharks with freakin' lasers on their heads, is not being helpful. Sure she gave feedback and shit but she is not going to be the Goddess of Mercy and pass us 'cause...

*cough*
*falsetto*

"This is a 3rd year subject"

For crying out loud... I paid good money to get a degree so give me the god damn degree. Sure, go ahead and make me squirm once in awhile but don't make me play Russian Roulette with a MP5!

Now I am so stressed, and demoralized (hence, the title. Whoop-de-creativity-on-my-part-doo!) that I can barely write a sentence into the assignment without doing an hour's worth of research just to make sure I'm right.

Best part is... I can't remember why we thought it was an awesome idea to take our Australian groupmate's idea of taking this eccentric little furniture shop as the base for our assignment. So now... we have to peel back every layer, sledgehammer through every wall, sweep every minefield in existence to gain an insight into the wonderful chock-full of information world of Australian furniture! Sarcasm intended at dangerously high levels.

Australian. Bleeding. Furniture. That's the industry. And it really, REALLY doesn't help that this little store caters to a very, VERY niche market. Man... did we just shoot the police chief on national television, naked, with out IDs pinned onto our heads and escaped the scene with a luminous car with no tires or what?

I mean, we are fucked. Like, FUCKED.

And I think she is a fucking racist too. Every cracker got nice scores and only so few Asians managed to scrape the pass mark.

Alright... enough bitching for one post. But it's been awhile since I've wished painful, tormenting death on someone and I believe it's time to do so... Damn, I just want to get those beady little eyes out of her fat face and see her screaming and stumbling around until she crawls on the ground, begging.

My God, I surprise myself sometimes.

Peace.

300th Post

2009-10-03T12:08:00.003+08:00

Wow. Here it is again. Another 100 posts down! Can't say I have huge news to celebrate this *cough* auspicious post.

Went to VII last night with some friends but the host fell ill few hours prior to the shindig. I was already in the city having a catch-up dinner with Wai Chien since she was in the city that day too.

Not much to say about the VII shindig... but I just wasn't feeling it that night so I bailed early. I'm kind of glad I did, 'cause otherwise I would have missed the fireworks that was going down in the pizza place below my place.

So I stepped into Charlie's, ordered a pizza, sat down and watched Dracula, Prince of Darkness that was playing on the little TV in the shop. Not the Keanu Reeves one, or the Dead and Loving It version (although the latter was a stitch!) but a much older version.

5 Indians walked out from the back, started talking near the counter where I was sitting down. 3 left and the last 2 were debating whether to get another drink or not. One was a skinny ass dude and had car keys in his hand. Another one was kinda huge and had tattoos on one arm.

This Viet guy stepped in from behind too and tried to start some trouble, like telling the huge Indian dude about going home to India or some shit. Eventually it escalated and next thing I know, the Viet dude and his pals are on the outside trying to get in, and the owner, Charlie and the skinny Indian dude was restraining the big Indian dude from getting out. Eventually Charlie lets go, the Viet dude comes in and hits the Indian dude a bit.

The Indian dude charges out, into the street and the Viet dude gets him in the head with a flying plastic chair. Pow. Ownage. Next thing I know, these dudes bail into the night and another dude behind me starts calling the cops. My pizza gets done, Charlie starts sweeping fresh beer and glass off the floor and I bail after paying.

Alcohol. Sheesh. Only thing you should do with alcohol, is party hard, probably have a good night, high five a couple of strangers on your way back home and possibly perform opera on the sidewalk. That's it. Nuff' said. Don't go looking for trouble 'cause just 'cause you can't feel pain doesn't mean you're invincible. Drink responsibly!

Peace.

It's Like Final Fantasy

2009-09-30T06:00:00.002+08:00

... or any other RPG, for that matter. Or most, really, where the final boss is a bitch to beat.

That's how my FINAL finals are like. In case some of you forgot, this is my final semester of uni. It is the toughest hurdle ever, as I am taking 5 subjects because I failed one last year.

However, everything panned out nicely, as in the end, I only need to turn in 4 assignments and sit for 4 final papers, like any other semester.

So, the final examination timetable came out on Monday and I was out enjoying myself when Kang Wei messaged me to call him. So I did, and he passed me the grim news.

Later that day... much later, I went to check my exam timetable. Damn man... I've got exams on the 2nd of November, 4th of November, 5th of November and the next is... *drum roll* 6th of November!

HOLY MOTH'R OF CHRIST!

This is so befitting of a final battle. Tough odds. VU really wants me to remember that I did a degree there.

Peace.

Sheepishly

2009-09-26T05:56:00.002+08:00

Hey all... sorry for updating in a language that most can't understand but if you really did want to find out what it is, you would've by now.

Been through a rough patch the past few days and it's not been easy, especially when the news keeps coming and hitting hard.

Just gonna say that I can't wait to get back to Malaysia, when things were much simpler. There's too much idealistic people here, people with weird principles to live by and life mottos that should be banned.

I'm getting involved in way too much shit that doesn't concern me. Therefore, as an antithesis to Yes Man, I gotta start saying more no.

I know, sounds absolutely lame and shit like that, but I've made up my mind. After this one thing, that's it. I'm done. Just got to concentrate on my studies, finish my last year, go back home and leave this insane chapter behind.

I have to say I will look back to this chapter in the fondest way possible but let's just say the bookmark in my tome called Life will always flip back to that one and only chapter, and it's not this one.

I've seen better days is the line I'm looking for here.

But trust me, this isn't an emo post as it is carved out to be. It's the holidays right now! I seriously can't find anything exciting to do, no places that I really want to visit or anything, and there're quite a few assignments that seriously need to be done during this time period.

Anyways, happy holidays to those on sem break! Try to squeeze in as much as possible while doing your assignments! Heh heh heh...

Peace!

A Pierrot's Lament III

2009-09-21T19:23:00.000+08:00

E il terzo giorno del suo lamento, il Pierrot spuntato per la consapevolezza che la luna era niente di più, di una prostituta comune. Il dolore è stato ben presto sostituito con shock, shock e il dolore per le decisioni di poveri del Pierrot.

A Pierrot's Lament II

2009-09-21T10:48:00.000+08:00

Il Pierrot paragona se stesso come il sole, protesa verso il luna generosa, sperando per altro che è un amore non corrisposto

A Pierrot's Lament

2009-09-21T05:15:00.001+08:00

E così, il Pierrot cade in ginocchio, incapace di salvare se stesso, come egli annega in un lago del suo dolore amaro

Up

2009-09-10T10:35:00.003+08:00

Anyone spotted the Star Wars reference there?

Man, everyone's talking about this bleedin' movie and yeah, I now know why now. This has got to be one of Pixar's finest, and seriously, I'm a real bitch when it comes to these animation movies, so to call Up one of Pixar's finest is a real stretch for me.

The progression of that old dude from a young kid, marrying his childhood friend, growing old and eventually ending up alone was a tad sad for the bunch I was watching with. Like I told them, it's not that sad once you accept such a fate as an inevitability.

So anyways, yeah, it starts off on a rather sad note, and the action picks up later on. Not gonna spoil much of it but I suppose I'm one of the last few people that have watched this flick. Man... those dogs! Insanely funny. Especially when the Alpha first comes onto the screen... you thought the dude'd sound like Vader but dude sounds like he had helium for lunch.

Ol' Spiky's Rating - 5/5 Awesome movie. Nuff' said.

Lacking behind a bit on the news here. I've been way too preoccupied with Dissidia, work and cleaning the house. Yeah, in that order. Dissidia just keeps giving and giving and giving. So much shit to unlock, so much levels to gain, just so much more footage to watch! It has the right amount of push and pull right there. It keeps it challenging enough for you to say, "I can beat this guy!" and it gives you just the right amount without being overfulfilled or underfulfilled. But let's save the details for another post shall we?

Oh yeah... I'm missing the post on Mt. Buller too. I'll probably post it up when my quota comes back on.

Peace.

Merdeka Prank

2009-08-31T18:19:00.003+08:00

Selamat Hari Merd... Ah fuck it. It's just another day off for most of us.

Anyways, in conjunction with our "Independance" Day... some dude edited the Wikipedia page on Malaysia to this... Just click on it to see it full size!

The Malay Reich. Hahahaha!!!

Hahahahaha... I got this off a friend's blog. Have a good one.

Peace.

District 9

2009-08-29T16:13:00.004+08:00

Warning! Spoilers ahead!

Damn... it's been awhile since I've watched a movie. Reasons?

Simple...

The crowd here's way too picky. Lack of funds. There's really... not much of a crowd. I even skipped G.I. Joe!

Anyways... District 9... I watched it on impulse. Just got called out and picked out a movie that seemed good. District 9, directed by Peter Jackson, very same fat man that did LoTR and that stinkin' ape movie. Not Planet of the Apes, but King Kong. Man, that was a waste of time and money.

Either it's me, or it's just that this movie sure takes the high road on it's plot, 'cause I didn't see anything coming. Then again... this is Peter Jackson dude. It's not some A- grade horror movie.

One thing I gotta say, is that this movie is wild and gross. I mean... damn... a dude that grows an alien hand. It's a slow, painful and gross process, believe me. One thing I thought about Wikas, the main man, is that he was one selfish son of a bitch, but I understand... seeing as he is an everyman that just wants to see his wife and life back to the way it was and is being pursued by a shady group that he used to work for.

The first half basically highlights his struggle with his grotesque transformation into an alien and how the government experiments on him because he becomes to 1st human ever to use alien tech, seeing as the alien's tech is activated by alien DNA.

One thing that will lead most to believe there's a sequel coming, is that most information about the alien's motives have gone untold. Besides, the ending also suggests that. They kinda left a load of shit hanging.

But the final battle, where Wikas gets into an alien walker mech, is awesome. He turns around from being a selfish little bitch and starts dishing out pain to the mercenaries.

Ol' Spiky's Rating: 3.5/5 It's not the perfect movie. It grossed me out. I failed to see the internal struggle of the character but it's an overall solid movie, keeps you wanting more and that alien walker mech fight alone gets an extra 1.5 from me.

A'ite then. Peace.

Melbourne Anime Festival (MANIFEST) 2009

2009-08-24T18:53:00.007+08:00

Trust me… if you’ve never been to one… be it you’re a hardcore anime fan that’s bordering on being/is a weaboo (that’s street/slang for being a total Jap wannabe), or just enjoys anime at a healthy level or just wanna see chicks in skimpy clothes without hitting a skin bar, this is the place you wanna find yourself at!

MANIFEST, as it’s called, has been on for 10 years running. So yes, this is the 10th MANIFEST and its first time doing it in the Melbourne Showgrounds a.k.a Flemington Showgrounds a.k.a VU Examination Venue. So yeah… it’s motherfreaking damned close to my house. Just a short bus trip and I’m there.

So yeah… the dude that talked me into it was Mr. Danniel Adi Putera. Resident otaku and borderline weaboo. It didn’t take much talking into, really. I do watch anime… and I wanna see chicks in skimpy clothes without hitting a skin bar. So I hit 2 of the less degrading categories. What? Someone said pervert. Let’s skip the chatter and skip to the good stuff, shall we?

Danniel "Ichigo" Adi Putera

His friend, Willias, as a character from Soul Eater

The cast of Samurai X

Some chick

Kairi and Sora

Trader's Market Hall

Merchandise, merchandise and more merchandise!

Naruto in a noodle cup!

First off, I would like to say that I spent more than an hour in the line getting my pass. However, loads of colourful cosplayers passed by to get to the back of the line. I remember there was that DOA chick… which we could clearly see her thong. Others incluce a group of chicks trying to be the Ouran High School Host Club crew, the Red Power Ranger, Kingdom Hearts Cloud and a Masamune-less Sephiroth.

I gotta say, that the MANIFEST crew really are serious about this shit. While I was there, I saw so much merchandise on display and so much Japanese stuff. From Pocky to Japan’s most favoured soft drink! Or so I think…

The Trader’s Market Hall was packed with all these stalls… selling manga, magazines, figurines, anime CDs, Gundam kits and all the Japanese junk you can imagine. No hentai or any of that kinky Japanese “toys” though.

Pity.

There were other larger halls that they rented out at the showgrounds, one for screening anime the whole day, one for having special presentations the whole day round, like recommending some rather unknown mangas, and another one for main events, like the cosplay specials. Now, more pics!

Little kid as "L"

Me with Kirsten "Tifa" Dunst. No, she's not really Kirsten. I think.

A sim was spotted

Tobi, or should I say, Uchiha Madare?

Officer Jenny

I went for two panel shows… which were essentially just presentations. The 1st one I went for was for introducing some mostly overlooked manga/anime to the masses. Surprisingly, one was Ouran High School Host Club. I’ve watched that shit since CIMP! It’s a tad gay, with all the handsome kids being the main stars and the main heroine devoid of any estrogen. But still, the whole thing is just HILARIOUS and sad to say, the whole romance near the end has got me hooked. Yeap, call me a god-damned softie.

Picture time.

Rikku. It's gotta be cold eh?

Shit!!! It's the Red Ranger!

Ichigo meets his hollow self

Most of the Bleach cosplayers

HOLY CRAP SOMEONE REMEMBERED GENJO SANZO!

Let’s see… well in the end, I gotta say that the dude in the 00 Gundam suit won the cosplay competition. What? You wanna see the 00 Gundam suit? Here you go.

Seto Kaiba versus Jaden Yuki (?)

It's Ash from Pokemon! Get 'im!

I forgot which DOA chick is she supposed to be. Nice thong, though.

Oh... this chick. Choiy.

The winning entry (possibly) of MANIFEST '09's Saturday cosplay competition

Ahhh… it was a long day, but a rewarding one at that.

Anyways, I’m off. No work, luckily. I’ve done all that needs to be done for this week.

*grin*

Peace.

Manifest '09 - Sneak Peek

2009-08-23T06:22:00.003+08:00

Sorry I can't blog about the Melbourne Anime Festival (MANIFEST) 2009 'cause I gotta clean my place up and study for my economics test on Monday.

Here're a few pics of cosplayers and the atmosphere at Manifest!

Pretty spiffy eh? The 90% complete set's on my Facebook already so I wouldn't need to spend too much time uploading them on my blog.

Alright then, back to studying.

Peace.

My Take on Religion

2009-08-17T07:32:00.001+08:00

There’s one thought that keeps passing my mind and I keep using it especially when I’m talking to certain people, in regards to religion.

I am not forcing my opinion on anyone. I’m just putting it out there.

I’ve had times where I feel like the floor’s been yanked beneath me and I’ve just gotten lost. Usually it’s just stress and I find that I need something desperately to cling onto. That’s when I look to Him. Yeah, God.

But nah… every time I do, I remember how foolish faith is. Blindly believing.

I don’t have any qualms with any religion. I just have a problem with the concept of religion. I personally find it weak of people, to hand in their lives and leave it in the hands of something that has no substantial proof of existing.

It’s probably why I can’t accept religion... because it makes me feel weak, that I have to resort to cling onto nothingness in desperation and hoping one day, some day it will save you.

Then what do I believe in? Myself, despite being flawed, disappointing and imperfect. Strength comes from admitting, but not accepting weakness. I suppose I can go around and argue that when people feel that accepting religion is a weakness, they can be stronger, too.

Then again… I am looking for answers, if there’s such a thing as a God, an omnipotent being that created all and is responsible for everything that happens to every being in existence. Or is just that… everything happens due to random chance due to limitless interactions between beings from epic scales to the molecular level?

I suppose I can admit that by believing that there are answers out there, I am semi-accepting the existence of a being I have never seen, heard or felt, and that makes me weak. Then I accept that weakness, and thus my strength comes from my efforts into finding these answers.

Well, that’s my take on religion and this's just one glass panel on the kaleidoscope of whole take on religion. I realize it’s a sensitive subject, but I harbour no negative feelings to any religion in particular. You can go ahead and argue what you think of it.

Peace.

I Miss

2009-08-13T10:55:00.000+08:00

… the 7th floor days, where everyday was a joke. Sober or high.

… driving with music pumping ‘til the rear view mirror shook. And then there’d be always friends that enjoyed the same music that you listen to.

… smoking. Too bad I damn well know now that it’s unhealthy.

… my family. Mum’s always naggy and grandma can be a real pain in the ass sometimes but heck, family’s family. Bro might be a fag, but he’s my bro.

… the food. Screw Penang. Ipoh’s the shit when it comes to M’sian food.

… driving, again, in KL with friends. Going places in the oddest of hours just to chill.

… the times when life was simpler and I knew less. Ignorance is bliss.

… the capacity to think. Some people really need a filter between their brains and mouth.

…civility. People really need to chill the fuck out and stop killing each other.

… my friends. They’re real bastards but past the mask, we’re all family.

… CIMP. I would fail and do it all over again, just for the heck of it.

Finally, I miss me. Since when was I such an emo little bitch?! Nah just kiddin'. Just bored.

Peace.

Monday Blues

2009-08-10T09:01:00.003+08:00

I honestly haven't had the Monday blues in awhile now. Must've been years, I guess. I didn't have Monday classes last semester so that definitely must've been months. Last 2 years in VU... most of the Monday classes weren't that bad, so I doubt it. CIMP... I enjoyed everyday of CIMP.

School... Bah.

Anyways... I'm going to start a countdown! 25 more days to the release of Dissidia in Australia! I've already pre-booked the collector's edition. Not gonna make another mistake again with the Sims 3. This time at least I'm getting a bit more bang with my buck!

Oh yeah... might also be going on a day trip to Mt. Buller on Wednesday. Hopefully the snow hasn't become ice and throwing snowballs at one another doesn't prove to be potentially fatal. I can almost imagine it...

"Heads up!"

*throw* *crack*

*thud*

"Huh..? Crack? That's not how it's suppo... OMG!"

And then the headlines read "Malaysian student arrested for murdering fellow classmate during holiday"

Smashing.

Woops. Time for class. Long day ahead. 6 hours worth of uni with an hour of break. I can almost feel my nuts shrinking in protest. Son of a bitch.

Peace.

Sunday Morning Market

2009-08-05T06:58:00.004+08:00

This is a tad overdue and I have something else to write about as well. So yeah… Last Sunday, me, Elly, Palm, Daniel and the new kid, Shevoune went over to Camberwell where there was a weekly Sunday morning market. Well… it’s like your regular pasar pagi… ‘cept that instead of fruits, vegetables, meat, and every fresh produce you can find in a supermarket plus some of the usual crappy Malay junk, Camberwell’s Sunday Morning Market was like a yard sale… or rather, a neighbourhood yard sale. Everything sold there was second hand!

Take a look.

Old school Michelin men

Hail Kleiser? Blitzkreig?

Girls shopping for more accesories

People shuffling about looking for bargains

Elly bought a full-length mirror… despite the fact that her new room has a wall full of mirrors. Real slick. So I suppose Palm’s going to take it. I bought Da Vinci’s Code and Angels and Demons ‘cause my prior copies have disappeared somewhere so it would only be proper that I replace them in my library back home.

Also, it makes a good toilet break read.

Daniel got one of those adventure books. You know, the ones where when you make decisions you need to flip to different pages in the book. Yeah, ‘cept this was a pocket-sized one. Nifty. He also bought a handkerchief magic book. I can’t think of anyone still using a damned handkerchief in their act anymore. Maybe an amateur up-and-coming sidewalk magician but hell… even for parlour tricks it’s gotta fall a bit flat, innit?

Not to say that his purchase was bad, just stating a point. And hey, who doesn’t like a good bit of magic?

Funny thing… or rather, lucky thing, happened… if there’s even such a damn phrase… Anyways, it so happened that when Palm, Elly, Daniel and Shevoune went ahead with looking ‘round the market one last time before the place closed down, I stayed behind to guard the lunky mirror. And the stall that was right behind the mirror was a dude selling old Legos. I’m not talking about like 1998 models. I’m talking like… 1960s stuff!

So by the looks of it, the dude knows his way around the rare shit. So I asked him if he knew where to find rare and discontinued sets. So he immediately jumped up, took my number down and asked me what I wanted.

Sweet. I am one step closer.

Straight after, we went to Sofia’s for lunch. Hefty Italian shit right there.

2 types of pasta and a seafood platter. *grunt*

Nuff' said man. Nuff' said.

Shevoune, Daniel, Elly and Palm

We stopped over at Southern Cross station and went over to DFO for awhile to show Shevoune more of Melbourne. Funny part was… the whole time, Palm was lugging the mirror around!

I just had to go and say, “Dude, you gotta be the vainest dude around ‘cause you need to carry a full length mirror everywhere you go!” Later we took a long scenic route over to Crown and back to Flinders ‘cause Daniel wanted to show me and Shevoune the feeling of the whole walk down that lane. I admit it’s got a feel to it but he was overspamming the fact that it made the feeling you had initially ebb off you like goo.

Touchdown on Flinders and we took off to Footscray the next instant. Ahhh… long day. Home. At last.

Time for gym. Peace.

Bboy Joker

2009-08-03T09:03:00.004+08:00

I've already posted the link up on Facebook but what the heck... here's for those who check in on Facebook like it's a senile great grandma that used to awkwardly ask your friends for sexual favours.

Shit. Bad image. Wildly hilarious, though.

*in a toothless kinda voice* "Hey there sonny boy... you wanna feel like a horse? 'cause I'll be your cowgirl!"

Nasty.

Here's the video.

Music in this video is The Spark, by Design-S. Music in the following videos are Fly, also by Design-S. The songs are readily downloadable on the dude's website. Just google Design-S and you should hit his site. Enjoy.

Peace.

P.S: Went to the Sunday Morning Market yesterday. Will post about it when I get some free time.

The Prince of Pipe

2009-08-01T13:37:00.003+08:00

Well... Raashid's left Malaysia after being in the country for 3 years. As the chap puts it, "It feels like I'm leaving home and into a foreign land"

I feel you man. Even leaving Sunway that last time felt like leaving home... again. Hold on. I never had any qualms on leaving Ipoh. Maybe leaving Malaysia. Yeah, that's the feeling.

So... even though I can't say we've been real tight buds, we've known the other existed over the last 3 years and you were one of the coolest housemates for that 1 short year and considered family on the 7th floor. Here's to you, Raashid, the original Prince of Pipe. Cheers.

I wish you luck and prosperity in whatever you do and wherever you go in years to come. Your taste in softy movies will keep me tickled for as long as I can remember!

Gonna miss all the crutches in 710. Hahahaha...

Peace.

Lazy Semester

2009-07-29T09:38:00.002+08:00

Here I sit... knowing that tomorrow I have to go to class. And then on Friday once more... but just for 3 hours. That's not too bad. Straight after is another free 2 days. Monday comes... and then I have another 2 free days. What joy!

It's like having two weekends... means no excuses for not doing work.

*grunt*

I nuked nearly a quarter of my internet quota getting soft copies of SW: KotOR and SW: KotOR - Rise of the Sith Lords just to be completly bored all over again after 1 playthrough on the lightside. I can't even motivate myself to go over the game hacking innocents with my ominously red saber.

I love video game violence. Who here loves video game violence?!

YEAAHH!!!

Feel like getting GTA:SA again or possibly purchasing a pre-owned GTA4 for the PC. Hmmm...

I'm outta gas. Peace.

Hopefully, The Beginning of the End

2009-07-27T07:16:00.003+08:00

Well... here it is. The final sem of uni. Hopefully I can deal with the 5 subjects. No... I must deal with these 5 subjects. Although it is essentially 5 subjects, there are only four finals I need to attend, as per usual 'cause one of the subjects is one whole friggin' project over the semester.

Meh.

Last few days of the holidays were pretty alright. Palm and Elly came back along with a chick and her boyfriend that was new to Melbourne. A mutual friend of theirs hooked them up and somehow I got dragged along into the mix to babysit the newbies to get their stuff done. No worries... most people don't have the privelege of being shown around so courteously.

Not gonna bitch but there's one thing I gotta get off my chest. When complete strangers are giving you help... you gotta at least be a bit more thankful innit?

If some stranger took me out the whole day to help me get my banking done and get a new sim and learn the ropes in a whole new country I'd at least try to make the whole thing as hassle-free for them as possible.

Meh.

Last night had a huge dinner at Lazy Moe's... KW's idea. Some chinese chicks came over from Sunway. And as me and Abhi put it... it's like a Mandarin ochestra, pieces arranged by Hans Zimmer and led by John Williams. Literally the dinner table was divided in two... KW + chink chicks on one side and me and the other dudes on our side. Sad to say... there isn't one person that knew everyone's name on that table. People that come close to fit that criteria are probably me, KW and Aaron.

It was fun nonetheless!

Here's a fan-made Dissidia video. Totally epic. Props to the dude who did this man. Yeap... I can literally see what a geek I am.

Alright then. Have a great week in uni people. Peace.

The Hangover

2009-07-23T15:54:00.001+08:00

Some people just can't handle Vegas

Actually I’m a bit overdue on this one but I’ve been kept occupied by a few matters and just plain ol’ procrastination.

Well, first off. The Hangover is most likely not shown in Malaysia. Just like Bruno. However, for Bruno the reasons are a lot more apparent. The prudes that make up the censorship board that banned Daredevil and changed “Hellboy” to “Super Sapiens” will definitely not allow a movie that sees excessive alcohol and partial substance abuse alongside a naked Chinese gangster with a potty mouth. So yeah, download it.

It’s actually been out in Australia for a few weeks now. Sometime close to the exam period… that’s about a bloody month ago!

But shit I’m glad I didn’t miss it. I recognize two of the actors of the four in this hilarious movie, one of the groomsmen and the groom. I can’t remember where I’ve seen the groom but the dude has played bit parts here and there, I’m damn sure. One of the groomsmen is Will from Alias or Jim Carrey’s best friend in Yes Man. Yeap.

This movie definitely goes down as one of the better comedies I’ve seen, if not, the best that I’ve seen, as it doesn’t rely on freakishly disgusting scenes, awkward sex, nasty incidents that stem from stoning or anything that comes to mind when you watch Eurotrip, Road Trip and any of the American Pie series.

The shit these 3 groomsmen have to go through because of their lack of memory of the previous night is hilarious. From stealing a police cruiser, Mike Tyson’s tiger, losing a tooth, marrying a stripper and “volunteering” for a tazer demonstration, the laughs start from beginning until the end.

Ol’ Spiky’s Rating – 5/5 This comedy sits right next to the comedy greats that I have watched.

Oh yeah… and just watch like, the 1st 5 minutes of the credits. Some of their other escapades of the night were caught on camera and the pictures will roll then. Freakin’ hilarious!

Alright then. School starts coming Monday. Not exactly damn thrilled but hey… it’s the last semester ever. Probably. Meh.

Peace.

Oh, How Time Flies

2009-07-20T06:56:00.001+08:00

Yeap… I can’t believe. One long ass holiday is finally almost coming to an end. It’s like, weird that there’s only 7 days left before school restarts again.

Unfortunately for me, Monday I start earlier than most because of my extra 5th subject. No biggie. I still get Tuesdays and Wednesdays off. Booya.

Final sem for the rest of my likely academic life. Wow. This’s some heavy shit right here, man. I’m sure most of you guys are in the same boat as me, man.

Oh yeah, no details, but I probably got shafted. I can’t say that I saw it coming but it’s always been a huge possibility. Hahahaha… Man… I hope at least honesty plays a role here. At least give me clear cut reasons and pure honesty instead of slinking back into the shadows hoping that the storm will pass. Not an accusation, just a suggestion.

Alrighty then. I’m out. Internet quota’s back up so I got shitloads of stuff to download.

Peace.

Random Lines

2009-07-19T12:29:00.001+08:00

Just a few sentences I’d like to get off my chest.

Fuck. This. Motherfucking. Shit.

Li-li-li-lick me like a lollipop.

I think it’s time to pack it in.

Women. Pfft…

Nigga you gay.

Fuck you. Fuck you. And fuck you too.

Hell yeah nigga.

Awright.

He he. Ha ha. Ho ho.

That is all. Peace out y’all.

The Half Blood Prince

2009-07-18T13:52:00.001+08:00

Ah, yes, the latest Harry Potter book to be made into a film. The one where Dumbledore dies. The one where Snape finally does his thing.

The one where all the snogging begins.

In a nutshell, the movie is absolutely terrible. Terrible, to say the least.

As usual, one must remember that the book in question is thick and heavy enough to knock the living daylights out of any poor soul on the receiving end, therefore realizing every scene and image onto film would be nothing short of a bankrupt-inducing budget.

But come on man… missing out Dumbledore’s funeral and altering every part of the story possible is just madness. Adding the destruction of the Burrow is even worse! I mean, that place’s gonna be the beginning of the next movie!

Anyways… don’t bother with this one. Don’t even waste your time downloading it. Watch it only if a TV falls right out of the sky, showing this movie and you really don’t have to do anything to watch it. Not even an ounce of effort or time should be put into attempting to watch this movie.

Yeap. It’s that damn bad.

If you’re a big Emma Watson fan. Fuck it. Get any chance you can get.

Peace out y’all.

P.S: There were 3 very chatty people behind us while we were watching this. By the part where Dumbledore and Harry're in the cave getting the locket they were "whispering" so loud that I turned around and told them I paid to watch the movie and suprisingly, a bloke next to them said, "Watch it then" and I said "Watching". Luckily that punk ass bitch knew what was good for him and didn't make a scene after the show. Mess with a yellow guy and you get a foot up your ass, white boy.

Sovereign Hill

2009-07-14T07:33:00.011+08:00

Ahhhh… a befitting vacation for the financially-challenged.

To top it off, we got sweet results the night before and it just made the whole trip even sweeter. Although as usual, we are all never satisfied with what we had and had out little rants on how close we were to attaining a different score.

Ah well.

Sovereign Hill… what can I say? For starters, the journey there via the V-Line train was a first experience for most of us, maybe ‘cept Eric ‘cause apparently he went to Sydney via V-Line. That’s what he said ‘cause I am writing this in doubt.

On the way, the scenery was fantastic. The way the sun was peeking through the clouds was just… wow. It really makes you think if there’s something, someone out there that made this grand design… and how is this all possible? The majestic beauty of nature, so random yet so logical. So violent yet so elegant.

Crap, that last one got me going “o_0” and “What the hell is that?!”

Let’s take a look.

Dried up tree in wintertime

Sunlight peeking through the heavens

Misty flatlands

We got off at Ballarat station. Our special Gold Rush tickets include the bus ride there and it got us cheaper tickets too. Oh, and being students chops off another part of the entry fee. Sweet.

A map of Victoria's railways

Designs for some of the buildings

Welcome to Ballarat, lads.

"Should I even be sitting here?"

Posing in the bus

Weather wasn’t exactly at it’s best when we finally landed in Sovereign Hill. First off we checked out the Gold Museum. Outside there was a statue sitting down extending his hand. From the other stuff around him, I’d say he was a heavy drinker and smoker.

We’ll leave the dude alone for now. So we went in, got the tickets for the Gold Museum and Sovereign Hill itself and went around the Museum for a look-see.

Huge ass piece of gold

Smaller chunks of gold

Stuff they used to entertain themselves back then

The printing press they used back then

Drilling gear

And deeper into the museum there were a lot more amazing exhibits.

Mini figurines depicting smelting

Jason and the Golden Fleece

Midas - Anatomically correct

Old music box

They had some foreign stuff too. A little history on far their gold went, I suppose. Check it.

In the old days, this was a scale. DUH.

There's a joke somewhere here.

Teeny Japanese sculptures

Ancient badass Chinese sword

My personal fave, the Gold Bazooka.

Kang Wei auditioning for the role of Ben Gates in National Treasure 3

These dudes took some time checking the stuff they sold in the souvenir shop. Now that we’re done with the Gold Museum, it’s time to have fun with Mr. Statue outside.

*grin*

So we went in Sovereign Hill and we were greeted by another museum. I don’t think I’ll upload the pics here but everything else is in my Facebook album and you’re more than welcome to go check it.

*phew*

Finally, in Sovereign Hill!

Now, this place is built on a hill and it’s one tough climb all the motherfucking way up. The place is fashioned in the style of how the place might’ve looked like back in the say. So you got dudes wearing old army uniforms, ladies in dresses and frills that will make Prince envious.

They had a few events going on all the time in the place. Horse rides, a redcoat show, musket firing show and other shit I probably missed and don’t remember.

I definitely caught the musket firing show.

We travelled up the initial area a bit and stumbled upon the gold panning area. Basically it’s one dirty ass river where the water is running through the hill and possibly gold has washed through and into the river. So yeah, get pannin’ and you might find a speck (I can’t stress the word speck enough) of gold for your troubles.

Digging and panning for ye gold

It's not an easy job...

What's up the mountain.

Eric trying his luck

"Nah, this is the way you mine it..."

One dirty ass river where kids probably peed into

I personally didn’t bother. Just probably wanted to hammer Daniel or Eric in the head with the shovel.

Next up was a little underground voice-guided tour through a mine.

Funny part was when he stepped into the booth where someone greeted us. We entered in the order of Daniel, Eric, me and Kang Wei and the dude counted us out.

“1, 2, 3 and half”
*laughs*
“Head on in!”
“Come on half!”
“Fuck you, man!”

You can imagine who said what. Heh heh heh…

The underground tour was totally voice-guided and if my technophile knowledge serves me right, it’s triggered by motion sensors lined along the tunnels. So we weave through cramped tunnels and dimly-lit tunnels, with voices of an old man and a young boy narrating and talking the whole tour content to us.

Eventually we reach a part in the tunnel where a possibly holographic display shows how gold was found in Sovereign Hill. After that it was a nice climb back up to fresh air, sunshine and… rain. Fuck.

Fear not as it didn’t dampen our spirits.
So we decided to go have lunch and wait it out. I wonder is it part of the whole Sovereign Hill charade to be racist as well? Took them damned long to pass the menu and take our order. We were completely ignored until we demanded attention. Whatever. White people.

Next up we went into this theatre to regroup.

Gs in the house

Thinkin' about his future

Initially loads of people thought this was a ghost shot.

Since it was winter, there was a Frozen in Time thing going on all ‘round the place. So next stop was a little portable oversized freezer housing some ice sculptures.

A disappointing display really. Well, later we bought tickets for the Gold Mine tour which was one of the bigger main attractions and went on to see half of the gold pouring show.

The Gold Mine tour was fantastic. We went 100 feet below into the mine and saw how mining tools worked and shit like that. Not a bad experience.

By the time we got out it was almost closing time and Eric had to skedaddle to the Gold Museum to get some souvenirs so we followed him out.

Awesome day out despite the rain. And where there’s rain, there’s a rainbow that follows. In this case, two.

Beautiful.

Long post for a long day. Skipped out on loads of details but to hell with it. I’m out.

Peace out y’all.

P.S: Congrats to all the VU students that passed, especially the Sunway ones since you guys probably had to give ass and suck dick to pass. Good luck to the Monash students that are getting their results coming Friday!

Alright! That’s a Brace!

2009-07-13T05:26:00.000+08:00

Booya! I passed everything! 1 D, 2 Cs and 1 P. 2-3 marks shy for my 2 Cs to become a D and I scraped through for the P only.

YEEAAHH!! THAT’S THE SHIT MAN!

If only someone saw me screaming in the dead of the night in my apartment while I was thumping my chest and celebrating as though I scored the final tie-breaking goal for an underdog team in the World Cup.

I am dead serious about the mini-celebration I had.

I can’t say I did as well as the other chaps but I stopped comparing results after high school ‘cause it doesn’t matter anymore.

YEEAAAHHH!!!!!

God it feels good.

Nickelback has never sounded this good in the morning and the darkness that the dawn breaks has never been faster to retreat. If only someone can see this smug smile on my face.

I just woke up so I think I’ll do another celebration. WHEEEE~

Going to Sovereign Hill today. Should be an a’ite trip but as usual, and the way I am accustomed to, we’re flying blind. Bada musti.

Okay then, I’m out.

Peace out y’all.

By the Stroke of Midnight

2009-07-12T07:48:00.000+08:00

Damn it… The results are coming out tomorrow. I hope the folks that are marking my exam papers were as fun-loving as my lecturers. Not gonna make any predictions. I just hope that I pass everything and that’s my hope for every paper, every semester.

Oh, did I tell you lads that next semester I’m doing 5 subjects ‘cause I failed one last year? Yeap… I think I did. This’s going to be fun…

If all goes well, I’ll be on a little road trip to Sovereign Hill on Monday as well. It’s not going to be much a shindig but I just want to go somewhere man.

Let’s see if even that happens.

So… anyone got other interesting holiday stories to share? Anyone pranked someone else to watch Bruno? No? Dang.

Alrighty then. Peace out y’all.

P.S: I am just addicted to this cover of the Simpson’s theme by Green Day that they did for the Simpsons movie, which is funnier than the 1st time I watched it.

Bruno

2009-07-10T05:34:00.002+08:00

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD

If you thought Borat was bad, he is worse. If you thought the naked wrestling scene was disgusting, Bruno makes it look like that was a Saturday morning cartoon.

The movie “Bruno” definitely borders on softcore gay porn with all the shit he’s doing in the movie.

If you just ate, stop reading. If you happen to be sexually confused, I probably don’t even know you. There’s one part where he visits a psychic that communicates with the dead and he tries to communicate with a dead celebrity. Bruno’s way of saying goodbye to the ghost is by giving it a thorough ass-licking, blowjob ending with Bruno getting a pearl necklace. Graphic.

In his attempts to get famous, he visits the Middle East and walks in public in his GAYEST shit ever and even gets chased by the locals. You should’ve seen the faces the locals were making. He even visits a local militant group of some sort (terrorists I think) in an attempt to get kidnapped and become famous. Instead he infuriates the dude and gets kicked the hell out of the Middle East just like that.

Man… this dude definitely pushed the envelope with this movie.

He even “adopts” a black baby by swapping it for an iPod back in Africa and proceeds to make some of those “glamorous” baby photos. Maann… the interviews he conducts with the other babies’ parents are insane. He asks them to do the MOST INSANE things and they ALL AGREE. One particular conversation went to the point that Bruno wanted the baby to lose another 10 pounds before the shoot and the mum agreed. He went on to say that if possible, give the baby liposuction before the shoot if the baby doesn’t lose the weight in time and the mum agreed!

I don’t even know how to rate this movie. I’m disgusted and repulsed yet I was somehow entertained. Tell you what, this is a great movie to use as a prank. Just get someone squeamish to watch it. By the end of the 1st quarter, they’ll be lying in a curled up fetal position screaming for their eyes to get gouged out.

So, watch this if you think you can handle it and want to prank the shit out of someone.

If Sacha Baron Cohen gets away with this like I know he can, he’s got my respect for pulling one of the most insane stunts in this decade.

Peace out y’all!

Glow In the Dark Party at Seven

2009-07-08T12:29:00.002+08:00

Well, here’re the pics I promised. Seems like a real sausage fest but most of the chick pics are in the album and not with me. I just took the ones that had me in it off Facebook. Enjoy mates.

I can’t distinctly remember if I had said this but the Dissidia release date for Australia has been forwarded to the 3rd of September instead of following the EU’s release date, which was 25th of September. Booya!

EB Games’ also offering a buttload of goodies along with the regular game, for a hefty sum of course but yours truly will gladly pay the price for some kick ass Final Fantasy gear!

Hmm… let’s see. It’s been a boring past few days. A few sleepless nights and junk. Rented a few movies from Video Ezy ‘cause my quota’s out again. I rented out the Day After Tomorrow, Minority Report and Die Another Day. I think that’s the only Pierce Brosnan Bond movie that I missed out on. Not bad… but were the characters all that cheesy back then? I think I just got used to the Daniel Craig Bond, that kicks ass 1st, asks questions later.

Day After Tomorrow remains one of my top fave disaster movies after, right after the Sinking of Japan and then Twister. So picking that flick was a no-brainer.

Minority Report… I wasn’t so sure why I picked that one but I remember it was quite a big deal, back in the day and after I watched it, I understood why. It’s definitely one of Tom Cruise’s better work. Story’s wicked and the plot’s not exactly mindblowing but it does the job well.

What else… Oh yeah. I got the approval for doing 5 subjects this coming semester ‘cause apparently it’s Priority 1 that an international student finish his course on time because he’s got a visa date to adhere to. I still get a 3-day week in class but the hours for each day aren’t exactly spiffing. Then again, it’s just 15 hours per week. I used to do 20 plus back in Sunway because of their jackass workshops. So… I can’t really complain.

I guess that’s it. Until next time.

Peace out y’all.

Hey, Hey I Wanna Be a Rockstar

2009-07-04T09:38:00.000+08:00

Not that I ain’t… it’s just that I ain’t on the cover of Rolling Stones yet. Heh heh heh…

Alright, silliness aside.

Shit… went clubbing last night at 7. Not half bad ‘cept for a few semi-major hiccups. Had to wait in the damned line for about 1-2 hours even though we had a table booked while the normal guest line moved faster than Michael Jackson dodging the press with a child in tow.

What? Too soon? Damn.

Got in and saw that our table, which did have a sort of reserved sign sitting on the table and a bunch of China/HK fellas already occupying the place. They refused to budge. What the hell man. I was frustrated and was seriously thinking of wanting to settle it, smackdown-style, ‘cause we outnumber those yiggers. Been aching for a good punch-up for YEARS.

Anyways… the bouncers did the deed for us and nicely escorted them away. Finally we got the table, dumped the jackets and got down to get in rhythm with the beat and waited for the drinks for the night. We were opening one vodka (Smirnoff? Absolut? *shrug*) and one Chivas, possibly black label as always.

Shittiest part is that this club, Seven, has this new “policy” where they mix the drink for us. I swear… God knows if they were cheating us. I sure as hell know they were cheating ‘cause 6 mix jars that supposedly contained Chivas doesn’t taste like coke… with a hint of Chivas like someone dripped it off their armpits.

I took 6-7 shots and normally, I’d be typing this from the ICU due to alcohol poisoning. But nah man… I was jober as a sudge.

And the cranberry juice and vodka… what vodka? All I tasted was crappy ass cranberry. Damn this club. They probably just gave us half or less of the bottle altogether.

But seriously… the crowd I was hanging with were Pui Yee’s friends. Really really nice guys. Mostly my VU seniors. Some were graduating. Another dude was in the same predicament as me. Need to do 5 subs following sem and planning to hammer Masters after he’s done.

The DJ played some fair tunes but his remixes involve loads of the same tunes, like the “Sweet Dreams” riff by The Eurythmics, some generic techno loop and oddly enough, a horn. You know, the type you get in a can.

Music was bumping. Crowd was bumping too. Mostly Asians so it seriously felt like clubbing in Malaysia.

Ahhh… good times good times. Will post some pictures that doesn’t involve me looking like a complete dick when I get the stuff.

Peace out y’all.

Now We Have That Out of The Way…

2009-07-02T12:00:00.000+08:00

Done what I promised now, didn’t I?

Alright… let’s see. It’s the holidays now. I’ve got a good month left for the holidays. Plenty of time to explore this state once our designated driver returns from… somewhere. His parents are here, so, yeah. He’s busy.

Let’s see… what’s up for the time being… Hm… Alright, going out Friday night. Some special “Glow in the Dark” After Exams party at Seven. Gonna attend that one, assuming that I get the heads up by tonight.

Been hitting High Point’s arcade these days, playing old classics like Time Crisis 3. Pity they don’t have Bishy Bashy (if that’s even the name) that they have back in Pyramid’s arcade.

Pumping tunes day and night whenever I’m at home. Luckily my Chinese prude of a neighbour’s not around. Or that he’s given up and decided to cook a grenade near his ears so that he doesn’t have to listen to my music.

The Dissidia release date for the EU is now officially September the 18th, which means that North America gets it almost a month to 3 weeks earlier than us. Damn it. I doubt there’s going to be a separate release date for Australia and they’re just gonna ship the EU version over. I can’t imagine what they would change for Australia in terms of game content…

Cloud: ‘ello mate! You Sephiroth innit?

Sephiroth: Why’re you talking like that?

Cloud: Oy! You the nong that burned down my home, innit? It’s your shout now, mate!

Bet you didn’t understand any of that shit.

Neither do I, really.

I missed the last show of the Hangover… gonna have to download that now. Everyone that has watched it says its good so I suppose it’s worth using up the quota for. Speaking of which, I exceeded my quota again. Downloaded like, a couple of movies and almost 2 whole seasons of the Mythbusters.

I love their wacky shit. Blowing up everything they can get their hands on.

Well… I suppose that’s it then. I’m off. Got some more shit to buy and more time to waste.

Peace out y’all.

Patricia’s Farewell

2009-07-01T05:33:00.000+08:00

There’s not much to be told here ‘cept who Patricia is. She’s from China. Stereotypical Chinese girl. Hardworking. Real stiff. Small semblance of what we norms would call a sense of humor. On the naïve side.

So yeah… she was on an exchange program from China to come over here to Victoria University, Footscray. It only covers one semester so she had to go back after that one semester was done. Upside of it was that she just needed to pay her regular uni fees back in China and she would be shipped over to Australia without any extra fees whatsoever, not counting accommodation.

So after we watched Transformers the other night, which I shall remind you people that are reading this – IT IS FUCKING AWESOME!

So anyways, I stayed over at Student Village until 2.30 a.m so we could go send her off at Melbourne airport. It didn’t occur to me that that place was probably swine flu central so I kept reminding myself not to touch anything funny.

We kept her company until she went to check in her luggage and junk and one of her other China friends were going back with her as well. Funny part was the dude was packing the most ludicrous junk back. How the hell does a dude get so much goddamned clothes anyways? He even brought a silk quilt, which I found seriously, seriously dumb ‘cause you can easily get a quilt but Eric “Einstein” Saniputra went on to argue that these silk blankies keep you really warm at night. Nigga, if it was gonna add extra weight and waste space in my bag, I’d burn that shit and buy a quilt wherever I land in a heartbeat.

Anyways, the China dude totally freaked out that he had to pay 300 AUD for the extra weight. It’s a tough call between what was more ridiculous, the fact that he was on his way back for good and paying 300 AUD was going to make it much easier and he was bitching about it or that the airline was charging 300 AUD for the extra weight that his luggage had.

Anyways, soon after that episode, they kind of resolved it so it was time that we split from the airport ‘cause we had been there for a good 3-4 hours and we were about to beat the sun home.

It seems that Patricia got home safely the other day ‘cause I got her message on MSN. I just can’t wait for the pics that she owes all of us.

Peace out y’all.

P.S: Damn these SHA cunts… I’m overpaying my rent here and forced into their shitty “1 year minimum” contract and I accidently mis-parked Palm’s ride and the agent’s being a real bitch about it. Note to self: Shit somewhere in the room before I leave this dive for good.

Moonwalk

2009-06-30T11:56:00.000+08:00

The classic move. The defining moment. These are the few words to describe how the Moonwalk is and how it is associated with one man that shocked us all, that entertained us all and most importantly, gave us good comedy to write about. I am of course talking about one Michael Jackson a.k.a the King of Pop.

I can’t say that I am devastated by his death unlike some of these fake-ass celebrities that just want to have a say in everything.

*glares*

Anyways… I can’t say that he has influenced my life much through his music but I have to admit that several songs like Beat It, Thriller and Billie Jean were fun to play to.

The only way that he has influenced me was not directly, but indirectly, through the jokes that many comedians, movies and shows that have made fun of his freakiness and penchant for little boys.

Call me insensitive for making a man’s death seem less than it is but just putting my 2 cents out there. He shall be remembered for his music, his performances, his fight for select causes and of course, his infamous battle with his less-than-acceptable ways.

Rest In Peace, Michael Jackson.

Epic. Classic. Legend. But Not So Much X-Files

2009-06-26T15:33:00.001+08:00

So yeah… last night was one long night. Spent almost 12 hours outside the house on the wrong side of the day. Wait, is there a wrong side of the day? It’s all right, innit?

Anyways… last night I went to watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen!

Our War. Their World.

I thought the last Transformers was mind-blowing. One for the history books. And then later I thought the Dark Knight replaced Transformers’ place in that holy spot in my mind.

And trust me… what other movie can our generation say that defined us? Pirates? No thanks, I prefer to be referred to as part of a straight generation. The Twilight series? Nah, being a sexist generation wouldn’t do good if the future gets ruled by feminists. Not that being referred to as a sexist generation would do any good to any sort of interpretation of our current history and events. Let’s see… dumb president (Bush, not Obama, for you nitwits going “Oh shit, calling a black guy dumb! That’s racist!”), killing off the planet ourselves and uh… amoral activities. Yep. We have loads to be proud of.

Anyways. I wouldn’t go as far to say, but I would love to, that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will be that one monolith that stands in history that defines our generation.

Why? Because the movie was fucking epic. There were way way way way way so much more robots this time round! More Decepticreeps than Autobots but that’s how it works anyways. Megan Fox still made the audience grab for the nearest box of tissues and hand lotion as soon as she came onto the screen.

*gasp* Ohhhh~ *pant*

Shia LeBeouf still is Sam Witwicky and he still knows only how to crack jokes, which aren’t half bad and does what he does best in most of his movies (except Disturbia) – RUN. Bastard gets to fondle two chicks in this film. Lucky sonnuvabitch. Pity the other one’s a… never mind.

Anyways… this movie is just epic. The robot battles, the scenery, the babes, the car chases, everything is fucking amazing.

Ol’ Spiky’s Rating – 10/5 A historical 1st in my official blog ratings. Believe it.

Skip funerals. Crash weddings. Push nuns. Kill innocent bystanders. Do what you must to watch this.

And bring some tissues. It’s gonna be a mess at the end.

Now For the X-Files Part

Alright, it wasn’t that creepy. Let me just tell you what happened and not slip my deranged opinions into your head.

So I took the tram to the mall to catch Transformers 2. I got on, then Kang Wei got on at his stop. Halfway there we shifted seats where he was on the opposite seat while a chick was directly opposite me, on his left.

So on our way I commented on how the Sims 3 was to him. As we reached the mall and stood up to get off. The chick opposite me said, “Are you from Sunway?”

I was taken aback at first and then remembered that Kang Wei had a way with ladies back in the day and she’s probably one of those chicks that he had on his gazillion friends list back in Friendster or on Facebook that he never knew existed.

But her next line definitely was the last thing I’d expect. “Are you Yoong from Sunway?”

I was like, “????!!!!”

Yeah. I know.

So we got off the tram and continued asking her how she knew us and she went on to say that she doesn’t know many dudes that bought Sims 3.

Okay, that even spooked me out some more. Not only does she know my name, she knows what I bought?

I gotta lay off the sauce man.

Well, eventually it boiled down to the fact that my proclamations over the net must’ve caught the eye of a mutual friend of ours. And yeah, it turns as so as I started a small game of “20 Questions” with her.

Turns out her name is Vivian. Or at least that’s the common spelling. She’s in her last year in VU, majoring in Accounting, Banking and Finance and knows some other people that I know in Student Village that are in the same course, namely Su Xuan and Alicia, Aaron’s friend.

Small world. But joined in hands by Sims 3. Awesome.

Alrighty then. I probably should drop a note on the recent and unfortunate departure of a great muse for crude comedy, a great performer and artist, the wackiest celebrity and the most child-loving man out there, Michael Jackson but let’s leave it for another time.

Probably should drop another note on Patricia’s departure from Australia as well. Let’s leave that for another day when I have time to type.

Peace out y’all!

Epic. Classic. Legend. X-Files (prolouge)

2009-06-26T05:31:00.002+08:00

Boy it's been a semi-long day. I just got back. At the time of typing this, it's 7.31 and I just got back about half an hour ago. Where? Patricia, a China girl in our class was going back for good to China since her exchange programme only covered half a semester here in VU Australia. What happened before that? I watched Transformers 2. What happened on the way to the cinema? Random unknown chick who knew who I was and what I bought? Stay tuned for this EPIC CLASSIC LEGEND and slightly creeped out-me tale of suspense, transforming Transformers and *snore*

Zzzzzz...

*blurgh*

I am so zapped.

Peace out y'all.

For Those Who Fight Further

2009-06-24T06:16:00.001+08:00

Well… I was done with my AMR on Monday. And now… it’s Wednesday. There’s still piles of notes that separates me from my keyboard at this moment ‘cause my next exam’s approximately 6-5 hours plus away by the time this post hits the net.

Totally getting pumped up now while going through my notes, some slight last minute revision and some attempts to finish the past year paper, with some awesome rock orchestra/rock remixes of Final Fantasy 7 and 8 music. Damn, the Black Mages are good!

Anyways, the official tally now is at 3 down. 1 more to go. For some reason, this has been one long and harrowing process. Usually I don’t go through this much shit back in Sunway but I gotta admit that I am performing better over here, overall!

Palm and Elly have left Melbourne and are probably at Chiang Mai right now. The dude left me his car! Awesome! But the ride’s probably as old as I am so you can imagine. The 4th gear’s gone, the main lock’s busted and there’s no power steering. There’s no way in hell I’m gonna take that beast for a spin unless it’s absolutely necessary… and my parameters on what’s absolutely necessary are not the usual parameters, as usual.

Essentially, the least I have to do is to start the engine from time to time so that the damn thing… well, I have no idea what happens when you leave a car too long in the blistering cold. So… whatever it is, I’m starting up that hunkajunk to make sure it keeps living.

It's alive! It's ALLIIVVEE!!!

Yep… Alrighty then… Let’s see… what else is there to be said… Okay… it seems that Cobain’s Sims 3 playtime’s been going on pretty well… He’s even gotten a dude to the top of his career track! Or did he just cheat that dude out. Ah well.

Soon… it shall be my turn. Muahahahaha!

*evil laughter amidst lightning in background*

*cough*

Oh, and the pre-order option’s available for DISSIDIA in EB Games here already! DISSIDIA’s releasing on the 25th of August in North America and on the 11th of September in the EU. Hopefully, it’s about there for Australia! I can’t wait to get my hands on this badass mofo! I’ve been watching TONS of gameplay videos on Youtube and it just makes me starve for more!

Okay. Showtime.

Peace out y’all.

One More on Monday, Another on Wednesday… and then… =D

2009-06-21T06:54:00.002+08:00

Just two more. One’s tomorrow. Another one’s 2 days after tomorrow. Sweet. I can finally finish up like all these other bastards. There have been a few things that I have been looking forward especially for this holiday… Namely… THIS!

SIMS 3!!!

That's sweet salvation right there, son!

Hell yeah, that’s a Sims 3 collector’s edition set right there, son! Yeah, I’m a real geek when it comes to this. There’re very, very few games, and I can’t stress how very few, that I would dish out cash to buy original copies. This is one of them. And God of War is the other one. Epic…

Well, what makes the collector’s edition so special? Well, for starters, it comes with some freebies. Upon online registration, you get 17 AUD credit in the Sims 3 store! I don’t know how much you can get with that but I probably shouldn’t be crossing my fingers as I’m sure a bunch of free-to-download content’s gonna come up pretty soon, knowing these modders! I can’t wait to get some custom building materials to get my town up and running. Pity Sims 3 doesn’t let you create all-new neighbourhoods. Let’s see what happens.

Okay, besides the free online store credit, they give you a free download too, in the form a sexy “European” sports car, which resembles familiar makes of sexy sports cars out there in the market, like the Lambo and the such.

Lastly, an actual freebie that’s in physical form!

A plumbob USB pendrive, sweet!

Pendrive and plumbob seperated

It’s a 2GB USB pendrive in the shape of a plumbob, which is the name for that crystal that hangs above an active Sim’s head during gameplay. Inside the pendrive, there’re wallpapers, screensavers and the new Sims 3 theme song, which is essentially a remix version of the Sims 2 theme song. It sounds alright, but I’m more of a fan of the old Sims soundtrack which features amazing piano scores.

So… I’ve to wait until WEDNESDAY to start installing and playing this li’l bad boy. I won’t say that I’m not stoked, but I’m STILL way too stoked about Dissidia than for the Sims 3 ‘cause I’ve played so much Sims already and this will feel like a walk in the park with new shoes more than anything else. But prove me wrong, EA. Prove me oh-so-wrong and blow my brains out with the sheer awesomeness of this game.

Peace out y’all.

Finally, Halfway Done!

2009-06-19T14:17:00.000+08:00

Phew… after waiting for one hell of a long week, I finally had my 2nd, exam, which was Strategic International Trade Operations. It’s a little calculations subject. I hate math. So we had a little A4 paper to bring in laden with formulas and whatnot. Luckily enough, this IS a little calculations subject so the formulas aren’t much and not too complicated. Funnily enough, we all could fit 3 perfect model answers for the essay part at the back of that A4 paper. I would say that we pretty much aced that motherfucker.

I forget a few formulas and fucked myself up halfway through the exam. Funnily enough, the back part of the exam was pure guesswork and I guess I aced that part too!

Well… 2 down, 2 more to go. One on Monday and then Wednesday and then I’m free! I can’t think of any other time that I cherished my freedom more than now. Okay, maybe a couple more times back in one of those VU finals… but who’s counting?

AMR’s gonna be a cakewalk of sorts. All I gotta do is to read that shit, and then refresh my memory about those XSight and SPSS processes which I had painstakingly done the whole damn semester. IM… is gonna be one hell of a bitch. There’s way too much to study and the tutor was nothing short of cryptic on the contents on the final exam. This’s gonna be one that I will be praying hard for when I’m done.

No more griping. Time to study! Just 5 more days to salvation! Or freedom! Whichever way you want to put it! 5 dollars for 2!

Peace out y’all.

Still One Down, Three More to Go

2009-06-16T08:19:00.000+08:00

Yep, the exam roster hasn’t gotten any shorter but I’m glad to say there’s one coming this Friday and the next two are close within grasp. I can’t say that I’ve covered all these three subs with the same amount of attention and effort but I think I can get through them.

I woke up this morning greeted by three MSN chat windows. One was just spouting some insane nonsense, evidence of a virus that got into his MSN client. One other one was looking for me and another had nothing nice to say. I’m still confused over the latter one and it’s getting on my nerves. Funnily enough, both their personal messages are a tad vindictive. It kind of got me in a funk ‘cause I hate to see people hatin’.

Anyways, my morning’s a bit fucked because of that and ‘cause yesterday I got another earful from my mum ‘cause I was apparently overspending again. Funnily enough, in the end, it turns out the discrepancy in the numbers was ‘cause of the same problem as the last time. Not a repeat of the problem, but the same exact problem. So basically, the earful was an encore performance which was highly unnecessary.

Maybe I should stop beating myself up for that.

I think the stress has finally creeped up on me a bit. Feel so caged sometimes. Same thing whole day. Study study study. Yep. It’s gotten to me. Alright, get this done, and then another… and then another and then you’re done, son. ARRGHHH!!!

LET’S GOOOO~!!!

YEAAHH~~~

Peace out y’all!

One Down, Three To Go

2009-06-11T23:17:00.000+08:00

Dayem… it’s finally here, that finals post that everyone does every semester. We somehow find new ways to express our pain and confidence in a pretty graphic manner. So far, I can’t say that I’m going to bleed from my ass any time now.

Had my DMO exam today. I’m pretty surprised I did alright, but what can I say, I was familiar with the stuff and I’ve been reading the stuff for almost a week now. To boot, I was fucking sick for the past 2 days. Fever, sore throat… Yeah, sounds like swine flue but I’m 100% fine now, except for the on and off bleeding nose.

Quite surprised I made it to the exam hall in one piece with a bleeding nose, a headache and was in the midst of recovering from a fever. Oh yeah, and drugged up too. I gotta break this record and turn up high on PCP for my next finals. Wait, didn’t someone already do that? Never mind, at least it’ll be a personal best.

Funny thing about having my first VU finals in Melbourne… VU Footscray doesn’t have its own hall for examinations. Damn. So we have to go all the way to this place called Melbourne Showgrounds to take our finals. VU specially booked 3 big ass buildings just for us. It’s so big, that finals for about 3-5 subjects are being held at the same time! I noticed that because the people on my sides were doing an MCQ examination while the people on their sides were doing the same paper as I was.

Nah, the funniest thing so far that I’ve seen is that there was this note on the outside, right below a note that talks about exam rules and regulations, that no holy scriptures, Bibles or Qurans were allowed in the exam hall. Hahahahaha…

Man, that’s just kooky. I can see what they’re getting at. Halfway through the exam, dude freaks out and starts praying out of the Bible but in reality he’s reciting some crap he doesn’t know shit about and looking at his own scribblings in the “Bible”. Yeah, I can see that happening. Maybe that’s what they were thinking about. Either that or they don’t want people like that to freak out others.

Alright then, my sleep cycle’s been fucked and I’m going to try and get it fixed. Peace out y’all.

Targed... Or Tagged. Whatever. Shut Up.

2009-06-09T12:09:00.003+08:00

1. Besides your lips, where is your favourite spot to get kissed?

Woah… the answer’s a bit graphic, but people who know me will know where I’m talking about. Giggity!

2. How did you feel when you woke up this morning?

Like crap.

3. Who is the last person/people you took a photo with?

Some cousins.

4. Would you consider yourself spoilt?

A bit, yeah.

5. Will you ever donate blood?

Sure thing.

6. Have you ever had a bestfriend who was of the opposite sex?

Yeah.

7. Do you want someone to be dead?

Dead? Nooo… now that would be too merciful.

8. What does your last text message say?

“No, why? I will drop by tomorrow”

9. What are you thinking about right now?

It’s raining again?!

10. Do you want someone to be with you right now?

Yeah.

11. What was the time you went to bed last night?

2 a.m… I gotta stop playing Crisis Core before bedtime.

12. Where did you buy the tee you are wearing right now?

Echo Park.

13. Is someone on your mind right now?

Not really… Unless the two babe posters hung up in front of me count.

14. Who was the last person to text you? Fattyma

Ten to tag:

1. Rushdi
2. Wing Hoh
3. Wei Shiarn
4. Shraddha
5. Piumi
6. Shakir
7. Rahul
8. Taqi
9. Saad
10. KUNDY! XD

15.Who is no2 having a relationship with?

Geez… his book I suppose!

16. Is no3 male or female?

Dude.

17. If no1 and no7 get together, would it be good?

=_=” Bad bad bad bad images….

18. What is no5 studying about?

Journalism junk

19. Last time u chatted with them?

Once a week or so…

20. Is no4 single?

Now, THAT’s an interesting question.

21. Say something about no2.

He’s nuts. He’s my Middle Eastern Errorist brother.

22. What do you think about no3 and no6 being together?

Even if God came down to make sure of that, they’d rather shoot themselves.

23. Describe no9.

Pathological liar.

24. What will you do if no6 and no7 fight?

Take bets. There’s money to made here, I just know it!

25. Do you like no8?

He’s one harami, but he’s a good friend, that’s for sure.

Oh man... I seriously feel like crap... Got a sore throat and it doesn't help that Melbourne is the hotbed for swine flu. I've been wandering around the neighbourhood these days, grabbing notes and I think I must've caught something. Either that or that grilled chicken dinner last night was the last straw. I haven't gotten a fever or a flu yet so I think I'll be fine. I hope.

I seriously want to get my exams over with. Pray for my health, people.

Peace out y'all.

Do I Know You?

2009-06-06T18:33:00.000+08:00

Well… just met my 3rd uncle once removed today at Melbourne’s Chinatown. Initially I thought this dude was my mum’s brother so I was doing this out of obligation… and the prospect of a free meal. Later on a phone conversation with me mum, I found out that this bloke was her cousin (hence, the once removed status), not her brother. I went through so much trouble for this dude, rallying up my cousins and it turns out he’s as good as any random bloke. *grunt*

Either way… it’s still a free dim sum meal.

I met some cousins that I never knew existed. Some interesting characters at the table today. His daughter, Julia, owns a boutique in Perth and came over to RMIT to study fashion. Obviously a shallow ditzy chick.

Another cousin seemed like a nice, interesting dude studying film and television and has his own camera crew company. He’s filmed (and directed) some ads, short films and even music videos and he claims that he’s shot one video for some M’sian artist. Poor sap.

The uncle’s daughter’s boyfriend is Irish. Yeah, let’s toss in a drunken Irish joke here along with some leprechaun jokes.

The uncle’s an interesting character. Flipped burgers at Hungry Jack’s before, owned a Domino’s shop and currently driving a Prius as a taxi driver in Perth. Madly interesting.

Mum’s a bit on the quiet side. She ticked me off a bit when she said she wanted to give me and my couz English names. Dammit… I have no idea what dudes that give themselves English names just ‘cause it’s cool are thinking. If you seriously want to stop giving some guai lo a hard time pronouncing your name, sure thing, go ahead… but if you’re stuck in a country like Malaysia where Chinese names are common like cockroaches in a mamak stall, that’s just being a douchebag, man.

One dude that I know even stepped over the line and gave himself an English MIDDLE name… I facepalmed myself so hard when I saw it that I blew my head clean off my shoulders.

I’m not gonna say that we should be proud of our own heritage or anything… but at least be proud of the name that was given to you. Unless your name’s Goh Boy Boy. I do know a kid in my high school with that name. Now there’s someone that needs an English name.

End of rant.

I love dissing.

Peace out y’all.

Still Damned Stoked!

2009-06-02T08:39:00.005+08:00

I’ve been meaning to write this post for awhile now but it has hit fever pitch. I was scrolling through some of my older posts and see that I had posted once on the new Final Fantasy game…. Alright, it’s not that new, just that it hasn’t been released in English yet.

Yeah, a real geek moment here. All up in arms with his Final Fantasy games but damn man, everyone still plays games! Either way, I’m talking about Dissidia: Final Fantasy!

Damn it! Release it already, Square!

Square Enix announced that it’s going to be released late August in North America and possibly super late this year in Australia. Damn it… I seriously want to buy that game but if it really is going to be that late, I might as well download the North American version and play it through. For those of you that have no idea what Dissidia is all about, check this out.

Yeah, that’s Cloud and Sephiroth duking it out, a la Advent Children style. If you still want more, here’s the intro movie for the game.

Man… I should be studying now but sparing a few minutes typing this post out is alright.

Punk Goes Pop Vol. 2

My cousin passed me this awesome album a few weeks back, when we met the gay dude. Refer to the “Yahtzee” post. It has these awesome rock remixes of popular pop songs.

Here’re a few of my favourites from the album

Alright, show’s over. Time to start today’s work.

Peace out y’all.

Girly Shopping

2009-06-01T21:17:00.000+08:00

I still have mental scars from the last time I went girly shopping. Carrying bags, aching feet and the inability to speak your mind without getting dirty stares and teeny little bruises made from unholy pinches from little fairy hands. Sheer terror.

Somehow, something compelled me (actually, no, I had ulterior motives) to follow Elly, Su, Jun Foong, Pui Yee to go girly shopping in Melbourne.

It’s not that bad. If you act like an asshole at first, they’ll stop asking for your opinions… and you can still tag along.

The benefit of girly shopping is that it gets you places where you usually wouldn’t go or would be awkward to step into and because Melbourne is crawling with hot chicks, there’re no better places for checking out hot chicks.

As fate would have it, I managed to go with a group of chicks that have rather expensive tastes. This is the 1st time that I’ve stepped into a LV and Gucci store. 2 brands that I know by heart sets itself part with its alleged self-made elite status in fashion.

Here comes the rant.

Alright, 1st off… I admit that I have no idea whatsoever the elite status that these brands have. And 2nd of all, I haven’t the slightest clue on what passes for a handbag.

But paying nearly 2000 AUD for a bag that has the same uncreative print with no other special features is something that Ol’ Spiky can’t freakin’ live with. I mean, alright… I admit that I have my fair share of unintelligent purchases. Actually, in retrospective, I’ve made worse unintelligent purchases than a LV and Gucci bag. Namely, Gundams and Legos. Essentially, it’s all eye candy and for the satisfaction of oneself but dude… 2000 AUD for a bag and 1000 for a wallet… put a gun to my head and squeeze the goddamned trigger any day man. I’ll even buy the gun for you, dude.

But damn man… I mean, alright, chicks getting handbags, sure thing. Paying buttloads for it, I can understand. I can accept chicks getting one a lot more than dudes getting one ‘cause usually some poor sap’s gonna get denied sex if he doesn’t fork out for his girl for one of those unholy fashion abortions.

But I saw dudes in that place. Wallet for 900 AUD? Damn man… are you gonna hang it on your neck or pierce it on your forehead?

Brand image is a terrible terrible monster. Same goes for those other elitist brands. Vaio. The amount of idiots that have told me that they’re getting a Vaio. Yes, I am calling you an idiot. Deal. With. It.

Su told me that once her uncle got her aunt an LV bag and they stopped arguing. So the LV bag’s a flashbang dude. The terrorists aren’t going to stop and start passing flowers, dude. Whatever your problems are… it doesn’t get solved by appealing to the materialistic side of people. Sure it does sometimes, but still doesn’t solve it.
So… say no to pointlessly expensive useless things and say yes to not-so-pointlessly expensive yet not-so-not-useless things.

Peace out y’all!

P.S: Man… fuck you fags that bought LV manbags. You gay!

DONE! Wait... That's Almost Done

2009-05-29T08:17:00.002+08:00

Yeah boyyy... Finally, last presentation down and only 2 more weeks to the beginning of finals! Here's how it goes...

My first one's for Distribution Management Operations. Not a bad subject. Got 75% for my final assignment! Shit, man! I've never got such good marks back in Sunway. Go fuck yourselves VU Sunway! No one likes you! I even got 4/5 for my final presentation, which was just yesterday, after I fucked up a bit at the beginning. Way too lenient here, but they appreciate effort and creativity when the situation allows it. Not like those dickhead Nazis back in Sunway.

YOU MUST FOLLOW THE GUIDELINE EVEN IF IT'S WRONG!

CONFORM! CONFORM! ACH BIEN GOTZEN~!

Might have stepped over the edge there a bit. Those lecturers back there remind me why Pink Floyd even wrote "Another Brick in The Wall".

2nd one's Strategic International Trade Operations. Full of calculations. Not too over the top, luckily. 45 MCQs and 15 marks in essay. Doesn't sound too bad. I got a good mark for the assignment anyways. Shit loads to study, too.

3rd one's Advanced Marketing Research. Fucked up a bit on the assignment but nevertheless, I'm going in with an internal of 41/50 and the kicker is that I don't need to pass the finals to pass the subject. So all I need is 9 marks and I'm done! Damn, it feels good to be in this country.

Last one's International Marketing. Got a mediocre score for my presentation so I was cool. No idea about my assignment marks, though. I think I'm going to get it later today. Exam format's a bit fucked and the lecturer isn't too sure about everything that's gonna come out but hopefully today she can tell us more.

Heh heh heh... as usual, on the final week, all the ghosts are coming out to attend the final lectures. Bastards.

And with Man Utd losing when it mattered the most, I think this semester is going to end just nice...

LOSERS!

Peace out y'all.

What's the Score?

2009-05-28T06:17:00.003+08:00

"Fail me not, old legs!"

Hey! Manchester United fans! I want you to tell me the score last night! And where's that trophy? Oh wait, what? What's the score again? I can't hear you man. 2 to who? You? No? What? 2 to... who? Oh... Barca? Wait, that means...

YOU GOT OWNED~

PWNED~

BUN PARDO~

Yes. Joy at last. There's a God in this world. Thank you. Thank you. This post does not do any justice at all.

Peace out y'all.

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

2009-05-24T04:51:00.001+08:00

Well, here I am, awake since 4 a.m, playing X-Men Origins: Wolverine on my PSP until the goddamned batteries run out. Grand.

Feeling kinda woozy right now. God knows why. I don’t think it’s gonna be an awesome day but I’m still going to write this review on Night of the Museum 2. Or replace the “2” with Battle of the Smithsonian if you want to be a bitch about it.

*insert witty wisecrack here*

I loved the 1st one. Hands down. I just remember that I loved it. I don’t particularly remember anything awfully funny about it but I remember it was awesome. The whole concept of inanimate objects becoming alive just blew my mind.

Anyways, this movie has the entire old cast and of course newer characters! Some of the old characters like that Egyptian king, Teddy (as in that President of the United States), the red Indian chick he falls in love with and Rexxy, the skeleton T-Rex have shorter screen time but hell, they did good anyways.

Short story is that the Egyptian king’s evil brother, Kahmunrah, is brought alive with that magic tablet and it seems that the magic tablet has more uses than that. Kahmunrah is a constipated and angry fella with a lisp. Poor dude. He reminds me a bit of the Sheriff of Rottingham in Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

How’d the tablet get into America’s largest storage bin of museum relics? That damn slapping monkey stole it from the museum. So, imagine the whole storeroom coming to life! Paintings as well! Just imagine the insanity that ensues.

Ol’ Spiky’s Rating – 8.5/10.

A must watch for the summer. Look out for the angry ‘70s waiter smashing a bottle over the counter, the 300 tribute and cameos that include Oscar the Grouch and a Force-less Darth Vader.

Hm, funny. I just went through some of the trailers. It seems that they changed Al Capone and all his flunkies to black and white. Strange.

And damn, Amelia Earheart has one tight badonkadonk. For the people that aren’t too familiar with this term, it’s street for, one tight ass. Sorry, that doesn’t do it justice. I mean, an ass you’d eat your food off. Hell yeah.

Giggity.

Peace out y’all.