Didn’t know the gamboy game Mario and Lugi superstar saga is such a hot game and tops at gamespot either, glad I got that game. The photos of my bike course are developed, not bad I say. But I guess it would be forever when I could even find time to ge tthem scanned
Currently Listening: Lionel Hampton & Oscar Peterso – Tenderly (10:14)
Got one of my coursemates, John to give me a lift in his dad’s car to clementi MRT station after booking out from camp yesterday, after some tough training. There was one group who initially wanted a junk food junk-out after losing considerable glucose levels during yesterday morning’s power training. But it was all turned down due to last minute plans. It had been sometime since I’ve been to Clementi central wither and a memorable one I say, since my primary school days. After exploring around I guess what Clementi needs are more stationary stores as getting paint markers was really a pain- part of the dumb army stores to get by monday, lucky I had a few more buddies getting stuffs for my concurrently at beach road, thank goodness for that, it not I wouldn’t have much a weekend. Had lunch at a coffee shop there, never felt so “independent” before (as my parents are overseas and sis on a school camp), but hey at this price, freedom comes into play. *grins*. And so the rampage shopping after that, my memory didn’t failed me and 147 was the bus to take from clementi central to chinatown, people’s park complex where I got my GameBoy Advanced SP for bargain at $140 plus a hardcase. The games on the otherhand are expensive, setting me back a further considerable amount, but hey payday was past few days ago, no grumps…
I had not been to the Chinatown, The Majestic before, which was used to be a old chinese theater which was refurbished into a small shopping center. Hopped down to the popular bookstore there at the topmost level for some browsing. But bleah! almost half of the books there are all chinese books, but I could comment on the rather nice redwood theming of the store, very cozy indeed. The new UK robot magazine series kinda caught my eye, and it had been sometime since I collected or even seen such book/magazine series I last collected e.gBugs, Takeoff, etc… oh well, for $5 as a introductory first issue, it was simply up to be grabbed…. by me.
Reached home at bout 5pm. Phew! finally found some relaxation after finally getting hold of paint markers at BM central and urghh! doing the laundry at home. Dinner at 162 family restaurant was on later in the evening as cooking at home didn’t even crossed my mind and some hopeful, last minute shopping was planned thereafter. The funny thing was that everything seemed perfect as everything was there when I wanted it to be- shops are opened even when it past closing time and stores which I didn’t expect to sell stuff I want, have them… very weird feelin indeed… but it most importantly got the job done and didn’t give me headaches which I was expecting either.
It was a rather eventful saturday, sunday is a day I which I plan to slack at home and rest as I guess those muscle aches would start coming in then.. but ackk! look I spent $350 in 6 hours!
Last week was a week full of missions, both interesting but rather demanding as well. It was like having 3 topo exercises all in one week, a mega combo dude. Did 7km in 36mins this week, not very good I say. Thurs had an expected nightsoff day, dropped down to orchard to reco a new phone for my dad, shopped at Heeren for some games and music, got No One lives Forever 2 (boxed) for $9.90 at PK. Orchard midpoint foodcourt was a place for dinner and bubble tea.
Sat was a day of Navy Seals ziplock bags, diver torches, beach road army market shopping.. *duh* waste of time. Lunch today was at California pizza kitchen at forum, meets with my old JC friends Ernest, Christina, Shup, YingXian, Jhong, Quan and Terence. Gobbled up 6 full pizzas then. More shopping at Taka, Wisma, no signs of the release of SX1, damn… Would be having dinner with my fam at brickworks before booking in tonight. Would be moving to Pasir Laba camp this thurs, start of camp helltime… I hope I would able to get back home this weekend without confinements… Doodalo, my parents would be overseas for a holiday next weekend and my sis, on some camptrip, it would be a quiet 2nd week of december for me. Till then, chaos…
Currently Listening: Accadia – Blind Visions (Yahel Edit) (5:08)
In am in the mood for a long entry, hey so what word processors and spellcheck for right? they just invite you to spew out “text” so easily… This is gonna be quite a long entry, mind my blabbering…
And so there was me, pretty much cracked yesterday whether onto getting the Garmin 12XL GPS ($330 ouch!) to “illegally aid” my outfield topo exercise next week, or close one eye and turn the other to a Gameboy Advanced SP (GBA SP). The lowest priced GBA SP unit retailing in Simlim Square for $160SGD without games (and I wonder how can other stores sell them at $180 in other stores in the same shopping center, makes me super paranoid esp towards the cheaper versions). In the end, whew, just walked off the stores with just Need for Speed Underground ($49.90) trying to ignore and not regret my buying impulses later on…
Opinion- NFS Underground
Need for speed underground is not a bad game altogether, and I believe this is not the best EA can push the gameplay and car modification ablities to- would be looking forward to that in the next successor of NFS. Visual-wise, I can say its either me or my Ti4600, but the track details, lighting and reflections are indeed the best we can see in racing games presently- with high polygonal worlds, authentic signboards and advertisments, all finished with real time rendered reflections to the car and surroundings. Though the reflection-update rate can be faster (even when if the settings are maxed) for a more fluid feel. The interface is definatey more crappy than the previous NFS series, partly being a multi-platform game (supporting xbox, ps2, GBA), therefore getting around menus require more of cursor movements on PC than mouse. But of course the game’s different gameplays (circuit, sprint, drag, timetrail, drop(lap)out, drift) do offer (and cover) the various aspects one would desire of street racing, not to mention the rockin ingame music (which is kinda repetitous with a small collection though) and extreme customisation (with real manufacturer names) I say, its a game recommended for NFS fans, anyone itching for the underground feel or still riding on the fever of the fast and furious.
Verdict (Good, 3.5/5) Test Machine P4 2.5GHz, 1GB DDR333, GF4 Ti4600, MSI sis648 Max Mobo, 2x80GB IBM 120GXP, SB AudigyDE, all settings maxed @ 1024x768x32.
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Ok now to Incamp stuffs, one of my bunkmates, CG brought a DVD player last week with tons of anime DVDs (Full metal panic, Slayers, etc…) Anime mecha… I like.
This pretty much woken me up from my “inventive freak sleep” few years ago after several failled attempts to create a mech (don’t laugh). I just feel that given the freedom, a reasonable budget and building space here in sunny Singapore, I would try building a mech in my backyard. Its no joke and I am no fanboy either, just feel that how neat it would be to have mechs roaming around it would be just something the world could do with. (even when if T3 skynet bots or matrix “creatures” were to come after me) Considering all my “day-dream design”, experiments with mechcanial locomotion and programming with lego mindstorms robotics, than maybe a few parts from a dumped segway for gyroscopes, scrap metal, decent engine and a hydraulic pump and pistons from maybe, an excavator, then we can see things start coming together. Minus the tedious need to write an operating system for it later… *crapload grin*
Physical training-wise, succesfully completed 2x6km runs within 31mins during the week (so thats about 5mins for 1km). Just wondering that since I had been training for long distance runs these few weeks, I have yet to test my short burst runs for 2.4km nafa tests, hope I can get at least 9m30s during the next run.
And yea, not to forget the boring car driving theory lesson I attended yesterday.. ZZzzzz. highway code lessons had never been so boring ever since I took the test for my bike license. I think I would be jumping straight in evaluation and BT Test sometime next week. On the practicals, lucky for me, my dad knows an old friend who heads a private driving school by the name of Boon (thats his name btw) he guarantees a faster route, at the same time saving more $ by not learning thru BBDC’s own instructors. That I have yet to see for myself. However, since all my elder cousins who were recommended to Boon for lessons and all passed on their first driving test, we will see, we will see….
Oh well, outfield glory and nitemare coming up next mon… argh!
Currently Listening: Linkin Park – PaperCut (3:05)
Didn’t expect to be back home tonight, anyway would be up at 5 am tomorrow for breakfast at some nearby food center before heading to camp for guard duty. The thought of it just makes you even more sian considering all the guard duties I’ve did since I enlisted (BMT-1, Sispec-1, now in unit-onemore?) were all 24hr guard duties! dang… The only thing looking forward to now is the offday I can hopefully psycho my ang chek to give me this friday, so I can get my driving theory lessons cleared on saturday itself. Hope nothing happens during duty tomorrow, tata, for now…
Currently Listening: Bomfunk MC’s – Uprocking Beats (3:43)
Its dang back-to-camp-time again, this time I am armed with more stuff for the week, namely 9 magazines (the most in a week so far), gameboy to keep me time-filled in camp, maybe… too during the guard duty on tuesday.
Hopefully I would be able to book out on friday, so I can take my driving lessons on saturday morning. In the meantime, you other lucky few who get to book out on monday night, enjoy it while you can, cos I am getting the off on another day!
Mmm, Spawn’s line up of matrix figures are kinda neat, saw a display at the kino comic shop at bugis. Very tempting to get ’em… dang impulses!
Currently Listening: ULTRA BEAT – BIG ANG (RADIO EDIT) (3:18)
Today will be unlike most of my usual saturdays. Namely able to actually get out of camp with energy to go to the driving center (Bukit Batok) for registration, shop and even spend the night out after a long hard shag week. And so there I was book(ed)-out, hailed a cab for a 6 bucks trip to BBDC (no bonuses, its not crazy taxi dudes), then theres registration, instant photos, briefing and stuff loads. (thought he chick at the cashier counter was cute) then it a walk to bukit gombak MRT for some lunch, didn’t find anything nice to eat there so took an MRT to westmall for lunch at the 4th level foodcourt.
Drop by cyberactive, Need for speed Underground is up at stores for a solid $49.90, would be waiting for the price to drop to around $44.90 before purchasing it. Otherwise, theres always the heeren card discount to bring that down (yea bout that too, I just recieved it.. yea!)
Damn, next tuesday would be a public holiday, Hari Haya Puasa. But not for me as theres camp guardduty up my ass. But luckily for me my CSM aka “ang chek” argeed to give us guard duty personnel a day off in the (very) near future. Would be looking forward to that. *grins*
And so there came the unexpected message from Lester this morning too, kinda last minute and almost got my schedule messed up for awhile. As it would be good to get together us sec sch friends again and catch up with times. In the end, managed to allocate for a 8.30pm meet at TB plaza after dinner with my fam at AV.
After trying out the GBA SP I loaned from my bunkmate over the weekend, still deciding whether to invest in a gameboy advanced SP, they can play quite afew3D games now, not to mention a great time buster in-camp. Or should I stick to the Java games and emulators in my phone instead? *dot*dot*dot*
Currently Listening: Linkin Park – One Step Closer (2:35)
Today is another day spent a home, not a day wasted but very much more productive than the previous week. First of all, got in touch of one of my “long lost” cousins. Hadn’t met her for quite sometime. She found me on friendster, kinda unexpected though and we did have some good time chating, keeping up on times. Glad that she did so too.
And soo, another trip to local library was up thereafter in the afternoon and that did get me out of the house for awhile.. while I managed to squeeze in a scheduled scandisk run for my comp while I am away, multitasking to the max you ask me? hehheh… returned some mags I borrowed last week and got somemore Maximum PC, Net and Motoring mags to kill time in camp, its just freaking boring there, esp when my dumb platoon commander just don’t seem to get the word “nights off” in his head.
Didn’t get to game much today (as expected). I had no time to play C&C zero hour, can’t really expect much as I hadn’t find time to complete my cobweb collecting Wc3 Frozen trone either. On top of that, I am really looking forward to the release of the Siemens SX1 phone next month, especially when my current SL45 mp3 phone had the right audio plug disconnected (and is beyond repair), talking bout surviving on mono tunes till I get my new phone…arghhh!
Camp-in here I go… hey! would be learning to use a heavy machine gun tomorrow.. whoa!
Currently Listening: BeeGees – To Love Somebody (2:59)
Didn’t find time to get to Bukit Batok driving center yesterday, as book-out was quite late in the afternoon. Its time to get my fitness back up again last week with two 4km runs within 22 mins and 20mins respectively, not bad considering I had not trained for 1-month+
Home time is net time as usual. Did some regular catching up on news and happenings on the web and hey, found out from club-siemens.com that my next intended phone (SX1 which I am aiming to purchase next month) is capable of playing N-gage games, all you need is a simple rip from some program. Infact I think that the SX1 plays better, running on a faster processor (Texas 130MHz) than the N-gage (ARM 104Mhz), furthermore with a bigger (176×220 pixels) and better (16-bit TFT to a 4096 color) screen. I think the only drawback is the lack of an ergonomic D-pad and action buttons the N-gage has.
Purchased an MS intellimouse to replace my mouseman, together with C&C generals zero hour from PK Hereen, (though it felt good to strike an item off my wishlist, I can’t find time to complete Zero Hour though) together with some tribal chockers from Annex. Hereen is having a membership card special and it kinda caught me by surprise when I was told that I am entitled to a 1 year free membership hereen card (something they should so after spending more than 100bucks on them) Its something not very prestigous either, (something I say people would have in their wallets for a “neat” factor) as old uncles and antics are also signing up for em there. *duh*
Things are really getting boring around here, haven’t working those braincless for months in the army can really mess up your vocal and spelling, considering the standard of english people have in the army. I am starting on a new hobby, namely modeling/sculpting. It just seem that the figures available on stores (eg spawn) don’t really *umm* fit my taste, so I guess its best it I were to do the figures themselves myself. Already gotten a nice batch of clay for my first work.
Theres a new garfield movie coming out check it out at www.garfieldmovie.com. Futhermore, this site now can be accessed thru a link mirror http://ratz.b0x.com from now on. Cool isn’t it?
Currently Listening: Kenny G – Unchained Melody (3:39)
Tonight is book-in day again, after one month of out-camp training… *sigh* good “luxuries” have to come to an end. Got all my barang barang packed and ready. Here we go.
Currently Listening: Tatu – 30 Minutes (3:23)
As you can see, there are a few minor site improvements and add-ons, namley the rss 1.0 feed. Other than that nothing much though…
Currently Listening: Moby – Star Wars Rmx – Oracle (5:17)
Well, this is my first posted entry using w.bloggar’s niffy blog posting program, not bad I say it is a souped up version of blogger’s templates, only that the interface is definitely more user-friendly towards people who don’t really know much html or web-based scripting language. For me, I am just too lazy to compile my scripts from scratch, hey thats what such programs are for right? why make like so difficult…
And yea… theres nothing much to do today, so dropped by Simlim and Bugis for while, there are few hot movies coming out namely a disney one which I didn’t really catch the name. Terminator 3 is up on DVD and VCD now, its relatively fast for movies nowadays to be available on medias or screened on TV, compared previsouly (bout 1 year + wait)
Would most prob dropping by BB driving center tomorrow to register for my class 3 driving lessons. When I come to think about it even if I do get my class 3 license, I would be driving my dad’s car all the while till I get a stable (high payin?) job, then I can afford my own. However, thinkin’ bout it, owning a bike would be neat for personal use, not to mention the cool factor, but it would be something my parents would skin me alive for doing so- they are just so biased against riding motorcycles, even when I have a “M” class 2B bike license now!
