Old and New

Time waits for no one.

My holidays are coming to an end and nothing much happened during the hols.

I’ve been waiting patiently for my torrents to download, thanks to streamyx for providing a low speed connection. That alone takes 1 month’s time.

Downloaded a few old games and animes… maybe a new game too.


:Age of Mythology + Expansion


:Final Fantasy X (Jap Dubs and Eng Subs)


:Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare


:AIR (anime)


:GTO (drama)


And finally Final Fantasy X 2 (still downloading)

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Anyone reading those above can say I’ve buried myself in front of my monitor all the time.

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Finished the whole episode of AIR but still couldn’t understand the whole of it.. Maybe someone can help me with it?

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Took a long time to download all the 12 episodes of GTO and to my disappointment, the subs are not in English but French (couldn’t remember). Sigh…

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Completed playing COD 4, gotta say I’m impressed with it. A must play for FPS fans.

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Instead of burning FFX into a disc and play it using PS2, I downloaded a PS2 emulator. It took me almost an hour’s time to realize that I load the game wrongly. After correcting it, the screen shows countless missing geometry all over the place… the game is still playable but I’m not playing it.

One week later, only then did I noticed an option specially made for FFX to fix missing geometry. So I played the game happily until I felt something is missing (I was already halfway to finish the game).

Went through a ‘Walkthrough’ and noticed that I missed out some parts of it but too lazy to start all over again… it happened to me in FF7, FF8, FF9 and now. Maybe FF games are actually meant for patient players.

Maybe I’ll finish FFX.. someday. Anyway here’s some screenies in 2moons:

Taken during Christmas..

One of the ultimate skills for Knights..

Fighting Oread, one of the toughest boss in 2moons..

Completed DeadFront

Accessing the treasure room


A screenshot for remembrance

Merry Not Christmas

You are godlike in your studies when you get straight HDs.
You are godlike in CS when you get the highest kill and the lowest death.
You are godlike in dota when you kill 9 times without dying once to your foes.

That is nothing compared to this:

You are GODLIKE when you are pregnant and your family knows nothing about it until the baby is born.

Don’t ask me anything about it, I won’t elaborate further.

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So.. I celebrated Christmas with my relatives yesterday. My family brought a dish over so it won’t look like we are eating for free. Everyone helped in the kitchen (well, almost everyone) so that we can start our dinner earlier since the majority are already complaining.

Just another day. NO!

After we finished our dinner, we sat down and talked to each other, with random topics flying about. Well, we don’t usually have the chance to gather together every time like Christmas.

Suddenly, some random ‘manimal’ (mammal + animal) shouted here and there as if it is trying to demand something.

It was ignored.

So, the ‘manimal’ failed. Time for plan B.

Foul languages flying about for a couple of minutes. Loud and clear. The dogs stop barking, even the night insects stop making noises.

I could have sworn that the neighbors around us asked among themselves “what kind of animal is that?”

Again, it was Christmas Eve, so there’s no point to add more fuel to the fire. The only thing I did is shaking my head sadly and sigh.

Begone, manimal!

So everything quieted down again. The atmosphere became silent. There are no more topics left to talk about.

I believe there is a saying that goes like this: Treat others like how you wanted to be treated by them.

Anyway Merry Christmas to everyone. Be grateful that your Christmas is not as screwed up as mine.

Happy Birthday Qing-Er!

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After thinking for a long time, I've decided not to blog about my trip to Hong Kong and Shenzhen as it will be a very very very very long entry, probably boring too.

My laptop arrived 2 days earlier than the said date.

Everything is working fine, just that I have no idea how to configure the wireless connection to work properly. It does connect to the internet but the speed is so slow =/

I've been playing the American version of Dekaron - 2moons. Introduced by Chen but he stopped halfway.

Yea I know there's nothing much to show, but at least I did provide a pic about the gameplay..

Also, Da Capo II is a great disappointment IMO or maybe they are saving the best for the last? We'll find out soon enough.

I'm back! Will upload the pics when I have the time.

Also, R.I.P to the unfortunate ones out there...

This is a rant

Not too long ago I praised the streamyx team for being very efficient and helpful.

Sadly I'm taking back my words again.

Streamyx: Ranked one of the world lousiest internet broadband connection and also pricy if you compare its connection speed and the price to pay.

Why?

Starting from 11 am till 1 am, the connection speed is so terrible untul I can even get disconnected in online games counting more than 30 times a day (highest ping record to NA servers: 19294 ms). <--- WTF is that?

Because of that, I am forced to change my sleeping hours to afternoon and stay awake after midnight as no one else or maybe just a few are using streamyx after midnight. I know it’s crazy but that’s what I did to play online games. Sounds very desperate eh? Sigh.

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I’ll be leaving for HK for like 5 day 4 night trip with my family and along with some other families of the cell group members.

Personally, I never gave a thought of going there and never intended to go there too. So you can say that I am forced to go.

I know some will tell me to be grateful to go on a trip and I’ll tell you why I choose not to go.

I hate traveling because of those events that happened few years back and I rarely had any fond memories of it. Speaking of Hong Kong, it brings back bitter memories that I am supposed to have forgotten long ago. Thanks so much for bringing those memories back.

Anyway it is the past and should be forgotten; I wouldn’t want to have anything to do with it anymore.