SITEX 2010

Anyone heading down to SITEX 2010?

War... War never changes

After an epic adventure in the Mojave, I have finally freed NEW VEGAS and establish it as an independent party!

No more NCR!

No more Legion!

Long live the King!



New Vegas is an epic game. After long hours of holan-ing and travelling, the breath-takingly and long game leaves an unsatisfied taste after completion. After all, I want to try out the unarmed build or the laser commander build or find all the companions or explore all the locations!

So much to do and YET I have already spent so much time completing (part of) the game...

Definitely a game that is value for money and entertaining. A few bugs is really nothing compared to the shiokness!

BUNDINESS to its max!!!

Distance Dreamer

Can't find the official mtv. Doubt there is one anyway. Just heard this song while watching a tv series. I find it quite nice and would like to share it :)

Best Video Game Advert Ever!

3 papers down, 1 to go! Go go go!!!

Inspiration for a Campaign

I've a vague wisp of an idea for a campaign. Anyone interested? Will flesh it out and post more details after my exams.

And now, back to the millstone.

Fallout: New Vegas is Really a J-Horror Game In Disguise

Some SOB left me for dead and when I woke up, that *thing* was sitting right in front of me. Here I thought I was buying into a CRPG but I was wrong. Sweet Jesus above, my mission must be to rid the Wasteland of the unnatural abominations that infest it! Starting with Uzumaki neck over there....

Wait... I was here for days now... does that mean I have become one of THEM?!

Tools and Toons

What happens when you leave your tools lying around and bring lots of soft toys to work?

Remember Work Place Safety.

A message brought to you by CatNRice

(Wonders of blu-tab, mallet and soft toys)

Not so sure why people love to bring soft toys and display them at work. You never know what could happen to them especially when tools are lying around and mischevious engineers who are on a friday mood high...

Checkout the tags.

And Now, A Quick Word From Our Sponsors

To make up for the recent lack of Down Under posts, here's a few photos. The first two show what I'm usually up to while on campus.

I must be mad posting the last photo. The moment I return to Singapore, CatNRice will descend upon me and extract the essence of Bundaberg from my blood.

The Hunter and the Hare

This is a story told to many children to discourage that laziness will get you nowhere.

Long time ago, there was a hunter. Once day he saw a rabbit run into a tree and died on the spot. Amused by his luck he thought, if a rabbit run into the tree each day, I will never need to hunt again! So happily he gathered the carcass home.

The next day he sat at the same location waiting for another rabbit to run into the tree. Unfortunately we all know what didn't happen.



Anyway just took this amusing photo as I make my way to ECP today. Apparently some hare was late and was looking for its hunter.

Play Beyond

An advertisement is ostensibly created with the singular goal of promoting a product, service or business. Its entire purpose is to increase revenue for someone and yet, strange things emerge from advertising firms that make you wonder when they came into the grip of the Devil.

For example this advertisement for the Sony PS3:



There are some unfortunate conclusions that one can draw from watching this ad:

1) The forces of hell itself are so pleased with the PS3 that they must manifest themselves into a generic Chucky simulacrum to express their delight.

2) The PS3 will cause all of the human-like objects in your house to be possessed by evil spirits. Come to think of it there is such a superstition in Japan where this ad comes from which is why dolls have rituals to placate them before they are destroyed. Extra bonus points for using something especially terrifying to your target audience.

3) This is your afterlife after you mortgaged your soul to pay for that PS3 with its notoriously high launch price. You. In an empty room. Trapped in that doll. With a non-functional PS3. FOREVER.

4) The PS3 will drive you stark, raving, gibbering bonkers. First childlike joy. Then sensory overload. Followed by despair when it consumes your life which is eventually supplanted by ennui as the stimulation of the PS3 makes you uncaring that you have lost your job, friends and family. Finally as the enormity of your folly hits you and drives you past those shimmering horizons of desolation, a regression to infantile behaviour.

Kanchanaburi 2003 - Ex Sapper Star

One of my army friends recently dug up a bunch of photos taken(with a film camera!) during our active days, on exercise in Thailand. Life was tougher but simpler then.

Plantation of something on the right, mountains in the background.

Approaching a FLB(Foldable Longspan Bridge).

That's me on the left, chilling out with a friend on the roof of a 5 tonner.

Our PC's Land Rover and a rainbow in the background.

"I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then." — Lewis Carroll

(Photos taken by Khew Jun Hao)

Pokemon: Apokelypse

What happens if they wanted to make a grim and gritty reboot of Pokemon? Already Hollywood's track record is rather dim with poor adaptations of both Japanese animation and video games such as Dragonball, Speed Racer and DOA. Well with any luck the Hollywood Pokemon will look a lot like this:

The Next Best Thing

Since I am stuck in camp, the next best thing I can do is to blog from here. Pretty lobo day today since the actual mission only starts tonite.

Gonna be out finally this friday. So keep me informed of the usual activities.

Good luck and cya.

What the Protoss Really Needs

It has been a year since the last revelation.

PROTOSS NEEDS PYLONS...

Now one year after the great pylon battle, the new era enlightened one has spoken again.

TERRAN NEEDS FARMS!
- the Saying of John

Come fellow pylonites! Embrace the new teaching and head down to your nearest starbucks!

The Vines Seafood and Steak Restaurant

Brought my mum out for dinner the other day and decided to try out this diner near my place. Although we have stayed in that area for such a long while, we have not frequent the vines restaurant even once.

Vines

Anyway it was a suprising lunch with pleasant food which is value for money. The place reminds me of an old western family diner, nice and cozy. Highly recommended for those who wants a nice meal at a good price and a familiar ambience.

What Would Happen If.... And Now For Somethings Completely Different

It did occur to national security personnel in light of the 9/11 attacks that terrorists might attack nuclear power plants by crashing aircraft into them much like they did on that tragic day. So they ran a couple of tests even though the engineers at the plants assured them that they over-designed the heck of the plants since well, there is always the off chance that they explode...



And now for something completely different...

By now, the Dragon Age 2 trailer has made its way around the internet. It has next to nothing to do with the Warden we played in Dragon Age Origins and the companions we got so attached to. However a lot of plot threads were left unresolved presumably for a sequel. Well since the sequel will not be able to tie everything together and more money is always good, Bioware is releasing some DLC meant to finish the story started in Origins.

http://www.1up.com/news/bioware-announces-dramatic-conclusion-dragon

Plus a video I promised to post some time ago. Its from a musical about muppets being naughty so beware strong language!

Worth Every Penny.

The best $3.50 I've spent so far in Aussie Land.

Happy Birthday Singapore

Happy holidays everyone :D

Sunshine Coast 2010

The view from a lookout point on the Glass House Mountains.  The mountain range are all that remains of volcanoes that were in this area.  Erosion wore down the surrounding rock leaving the harder rock of the lava plugs.

The summit of Wild Horse Mountains, looking west towards the Glass House Mountains. In the middle are forests that seem a bit too regular to be natural, they are actually timber plantations due to be harvested in 10-20 years time.

Looking south from the summit of Wild Horse Mountain.  The road in the middle is the Bruce Highway, an inter-state motorway leading to and from Brisbane.

A waterfall somewhere in the Glass House Mountains.

A view from a ridge line in the Glass House Mountains.  The white house at the bottom of the slope is a farm.

The rocky shore line of the Noosa Heads, a nature reserve on the Sunshine Coast.

This is the "Hell's Gate", a cliff side on the Noosa Heads shaped some what like the gateway of a castle.  For an idea of the scale, the specks seen on the rocks in the middle right hand side of the photo are people.

Another view of "Hell's Gate", this photo simply doesn't do justice to the size of this cliff.

The summit of Mount Coo-Tha, on the outskirts of Brisbane, on a cloudy day.  Brisbane city is on the middle left hand side of the photo.

WE DIN START THE FIRE

I just got a new song for KTV!