qWeRtY

you know. I know i got terrible weak spots for all the new gadgetry stuff, high-tech 'toys' and what not. But something really strange has caught my attention. Something that seriously should not make me actually lust for ...

a keyboard.

i mean. wow. whats so seductive about it anyway? but nonetheless. I was into my all-t-familar orgasmic (?) self when i saw it. heh.

qwerty lust.


chio right?

OnionGeek

oh man.

i'm turning into those geekish computer nerdy that hides behind my comp/ PS2/ xbox and eats breathes lives computer games. I did the deadliest sin of installing Half-Life2 on my baby. It was supposed to be a test. You know to see if the game works blah blah, iron out any compatibility problems.

Steam (some stupid online pgram u must install b4 playing) was a bitch! It totally was screwed. I couldnt register my original game for like what....40mins? I was smsing, emailing, msning while the damn thing downloaded patches and while i tried to read through the flimsy and pathetic customer support they were providing on the webbie.

bah. i was totally pissed off at the game and developers. but when i entered city17, all the prior frustration and 'steam' were just let out through a magical 'valve' (pun seriously intended)

Its INTENSE! Half Life 2 is breath-taking. Its a all adrenaline, non-stop rush as i raced through dark winding undergrounds, sewers, dodging trains and of course the irritating minions-aka-things-u-kill-like-flies-that-throw-you-ego-boost. Then again the AI is HORRIFYING. Their liked trained to hunt you down man! Yes and all the more to justfy replacing their damn head with smoldering lead.

the loading time between segments is agonisingly long. But its only when you realise that you've just held your breath for the past 15mins of intense play and pant carefully, calming your nerves as the next salvo of challenges is going to be thrown at you.

ah heck. HL2 is simply breathtaking. Hideo Kojima suddenly is not so brilliant after all. 6 years of blood and sweat by VALVe has certainly paid off.

gents.

buy half-life2. Original. Seriously. Cos you deserve it. Its wrenching my nerves away man!


argh. i shld be ording. heh. and not worrying abt the little sleep i'll have before my day tommorow. Sucks! I can't wait to be back in City17 (Half Life 2, PC).

wait ... but wasnt I still stuck somewhere in USSR, 1960s, trying to stop the world from a all out nuclear holocaust? (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, PS2)

no no ... i was in the surreal city of aquious, walking through its waterscaped pristine halls of marble, preparing for war against the airglyphs? (Star Ocean 3: Till the end of Time, PS2)

errr ... actually its ATEC Stage 1, First Battalion Singapore Infantry Regiment. (Mandai Hill Camp, sigh)

Onion. Geek is cool.

think .... Gordon Freeman

Older, Wiser, Fat- -ter.

pre-bdae celeb today with my family. mini little event @ 'hong kong street' the not-so-authentic one at siglap. Still quite a steal since everything cost like $11 per pax. Considering the food was pretty great.

I feel touched by my close group of friends who actually camped outside my house to wait for me to go home. My car pulled up along my familiar gate only to see a not-so-familiar car parked beneath the dimly lit street. My first instincts was some shaddy couple doing some hanky-panky, obviously thinking my 'ol lane was secluded enough. Was smirking at myself and decided to check out the people inside until i realised the 'girl' in the passenger seat looked somewhat like carey loy.

DO SOME DAMAGE.

okay, carey loy. anyway, they 'suprised' me with a tong heng egg tart (they are DARN GOOD) and a candle and whipped out half-life2 as my prezzie. SHIT! Half Life 2! Dammnit. I was suprised really and immediately struck with the guilt. Cos yeah, i dont remember buying birthday presents for ANYONE (cept my bro) even nana was complaining again that for all the years (that many meh?) that i've known her i've never given her a present on her birthday. Cheapo? I dunno lah. Never could figure out something i really really wanna give u know. Then like anyhow buy sth seems very forced. SO yah.

DONT GIVE ME PRESENTS LAH. YOU ALL ONLY MAKE ME GUILTY. YEah, u guys can have HL2 as a community game to be shared by all of us. =D

anyway, its scary man. My bro gave me MGS3 as my prezzie too. Whats with the games?! Starocean3, MGS3, HL2. Wow. So many games.

so i guess you know why i will flop IPKT or STAGE 1 for ATEC. Seriously can't convince myself to be committed to them man. I mean. HECK. I'm doing it cos i'm forced to really. bleah.

oh well unhappy things shld be left till after the 29th! heh. I swear to keep a cheerful face tommorrow. i fucking *oops* better have a great day.

=D

to end this happy night. $4.65 of goodness ...


on my T630, so its blur. =|

Hideo Kojima

reLive ESPIONAGE

reLive SURVIVAL

reLive the cold war

LIVE METAL GEAR SOLID 3: SNAKE EATER



thanks bro for your wonderful birthday gift. I'm loving every second of it, though i havent completed starocean AT ALL. heh.

Windows to the soul, more than a thousand words

photos speak for themselves dont they? Been wanting to post some of these onlines. So till i can settle down the time to fix up (another) personal photo gallery i shall post some photos from motor show for those who missed them.

wait. heck lah i left out most pretty cars cos this is an ego trip to remind myself of the metal of my dreams.

dream baby dreeeaaaaamm..........


my dream to ride this along a costal road, wind in you hair!


cos she is probably the cutest looking car babe


i know i said my piece but hey another one to show my conviction. 2015!


ahhhh, i am gonna hang and frame this. so classy yeah?

okay, fixed the silly thing, apparently i left out a line of code. =( Okay okay, give a moo! milk your piece!

wait a second .... WHERE DID THE COMMENTS COLUMN GO TO?!?!?!

okay peeps, as promised, a BRAND NEW LOOK. Trust me it still took me damn long to cut-paste and figure out all sort of stupid html and css coding to get it out to this standard. Phew. Not that i love this entire layout alot but hey! A fresh look right? SO then ... comments anyone? Dearly love to hear em.

Microsoft Inc. I hate you! I completed Halo2 yesterday AND by definition of completion is basically leading myself to the end of the disc. WOW you stupid microoksoft idiots who just know how to make bloody money, thanks for ending off the game with such an obvious hint of "To make your journey complete, please purchase Halo3 coming out soon ..."

i bet those stupid white coats in microsoftgamestudios are gonna couple xbox2's release with HAlO3! Bastards.

YOU CALL THAT AN ENDING FOR HALO2?!?!? YOU CHEATS! YOU ARE FREAKING CHEATING LOYAL HALO GAMERS LIKE ME OFF MY MONEY. THANK-GOODNESS I DIDNT BUY *censored*.

Now Mr. Steve balmer even has the damn cheek to warn companies and government bodies of the 'perils of open source software'. YOU CHEATS! AHHH.

HELL if not for your damn monopoly and the fact that half-life2 runs on a PC and not a mac i SWEAR i'll convert. damn crooks.

which is why i've decided to defect of your silly MS systems back to my old baby SONY PS2. hah. Half-Life2 can wait until i find a source into city17 for now ...



yeah baby....long weekend. First impressions of the game not bad liao. Battle system is pretty slick, so is all the cute injections making fun at other squarenix games. =D

Baby, ladies and gentle men

its 2:54am in the morning. I am once again back in HALO, this time as a convenant fishing out the key to unlock halo's secret blah blah blah.

wait

its 2:54am in the morning? and i'm with my xbox? AM I CRAZY? I mean, don't i have WORK tommorow???

=D

lets see .... tommorow's agenda: Halo2(am), Halo2(lunch), Halo2(pm), Halo2(dinner), Halo2... (not that its FANTASTIC, just addictive lah, game is so-so)

but yeah.... i got 1 full day to whack out every morsel of marine, convenant*, or flood* cos 2LT Ma Weiyi is on LEAVE, reason: halo2. haha, kidding.

but yah. wee .. long weekend (i hope. i hope.)

* convenant = ugly looking beast that wants to kill humans
* flood = even uglier things that wants to kill everything

10 years baby ...





keep on working hard baby, this ES300 will be mine!

because earth needs a saviour ...

i am home. i cant believe it but yes, i was so inspired with my little investment that i quickly rushed home and fired up my xbox. YES ladies and gentlemen, i FINALLY have my hands on it.

*HALO 2

shifted through about several stages and yeah, satisfied enough with the game. it seems harder to get killed as cf to its first edition, weapons are finally way cooler, AI is once again way smater and the storyline is finally more epic-like and not as dumb as the first one. kewl.

i reckon i'll be finished with it by this weekend and then i can start scouring for ....



*half life 2

yeah baby, valve's game of the year is released TODAY. like finally after what .... 1 year of delay? Can't wait to check it out as well ... so i can compare my joy factor with halo. haha. oh man. and also i think it shdl be the first game to test my new system and also encourage me to instally my spare audigy card lying around ...

and finally to end of this happy night, i finally got my ftp up and running on my new domain. and also i shld say i am about 40% done with learning how to edit the blog template. so then ... if halo2 doesnt take up too much of my time i am sure there will be a new layout some time soon.

oh yeah, kuek is back from CTC too. so it means more good news right? oh well, hope so, just that tommorrow got to wake up damn early for sunrise PT. gosh. i shld sleep soon right?

heh.

Do you have an ittitude?

Spent most of my day today figuring out how the heck i shld edit my blog template. Figured that i should use my thumb rule that if i have no affinity to learning sth fast enough i shld just look for short cuts. Which of course i did. So when i have more resources (at home) to upload my new template .... *yay*

Rooting myself on a vespa (on sun) has made me go into a very retro mode. and yeah ... now life is different with an ittitude.

do you have an ittitude?

King of Mandai Hill

Today is a public holiday.
home. bed. xbox.


Neither of them have any existence nor relevance today as i find myself being the sole defender of 1st Battalion, First Singapore Infantry Regiment. I think i finally understand what erzwin meant when he shouts out with gusto "Haha, this camp is mine!". Right. With almost an hour plus spent checking through all the armskotes and ammo dump, I have finally settled back to *gasp* S3 branch. =)

Oh well, it aint that bad really cos no one is around and once again i am able to enjoy this one-man solitude that somehow, i have been somewhat attracted towards. Everything seems to be less in a rush, more relaxed, more self-paced.

So here i am sitting in front of my inet, trying so damn hard to pry open my options for my ftp server (cos i forgot it!) and later on deconflict my scholarship application timeline, figure out my workplan from now till i ORD and after that and also figure out the HTML to edit this damn blog.

Maybe i shld just steal some templates off the web.

oh, to cut my nails too, typing seems slow. heh.

Great Sunny day indeed.

this blog template needs a fresh coat of paint.

fresh coat of paint it needs, this blog template.

paint it fresh coat for this blog template.

fresh blog template with needed paint.

The Adventure of OnionKnight

It is one of those nights. That i have decided that i will not turn in too early. For, looking back on what i had achieved today. I feel very unsatisfied. It is those days, like many others that i had lived before. That i feel that i am living a life for someone else. If whatever is happening around me is captured onto film, I would be that anonymous cat c extra on the set that gets his 5 seconds of fame.

I think i have not lived today enough for myself.

Now there is only 30mins left to the 9th of November, a day, which perhaps I would call it 'just another day' one that will be forgotten in the many years to come. (of coz since this is Halo2's release date, err. its not really any other day. but heck u get what i mean do you?)

So then. These "days of days" where i find myself lost in the dunes of the sands of time. Now, suddenly wondering what had i done to make today a meaningful one.

Did i say i love RPGs? Yes, i did. I think the reason why so many people around me are also in love with RPGs is also the fact that your sole decision and actions alone can determine the fate of the protangonist actions and decide how his/her life should go.

Think fable(xbox), Suikoden(ps2) and even classics like Final Fantasy. Heck! Even epics like LOTR, Starwars or even Jin Yong Pugilistic Novels. Its all about a unrelenthes pursuit of one's destiny. Every action of our young heros are filled with meaningful purposes where the world seems to revolved round this one person.

Today, however is not day that life revolves around me. In fact i feel rather pissed with myself today for just letting others (namely my superiors) to kind of decide things like what i should be doing, when i should be at a certain place, how i should do certain things. How little of today was spent for myself? (perhaps why i am enjoying every second of solitude in my own branch with my ipod blaring surreal tunes through the speakers.)

Is such reasoning? I mean, i do have to listen to what my boss tells me right? If not ... well if not ... if not ... hmm.... if not .... if not what?

anyway.

OnionKnight. This handle was chosen for a reason. It seemed to epitomise everything that i had wished for. An adventure, a journey filled with meaning, memories fun and woe. It is a constant reminder to myself that everyday should be lived like an epic. To dream, to live out my dreams and be daring in my decisions to make my life wonderful. He is my alterego. Something cute, deadly, fun and zealous to take on this world out there.

Insanely Beautiful, in fact.

I think.

More effort is needed to get my working dynamics right. I read off this month's newman (OMG ITS WITH STEPH SONG ALL OVER IT), there was this philosophy bite that left a deep impression on me, it goes sth like this.

"Steph song is damn hot....."

naah! okok. Here it is (a little sth for everyone)

Think of an activity you would do for free, or even do paying (ie sleeping, having sex, playing computer games) ok. Now to think of a way to make someone pay you for doing it and thats it, you have found your ultimate blend where work = play. And that will also be the last day you have to ever work again.

No, the morale of the story is not for you to be paid for sex. (though viable)

Basically to teach us to enjoy what we are doing and everyday will be an insanely beautiful day!

There you have it.

OnionKnight. Something must be done!!!

First things first:

I think i am very hooked on Final Fantasy X-2s piano pieces. They are simply wonderful. Even with the cheap puny earbuds that came free with my ipod, listening to them in my dark little room (in camp though, boo) it was such an enlightening moment. I was so much better to push out most of the negativity in the day and restore my 'chi'

ah. got ya there. no lah, not into some neo-meditating zenish fad.

but hey. Have you ever tried sitting in a nice comfortable posture, legs folded, super relaxing music in the air, taking a very deliberate effort to control your breathing and seriously imagining a whole wave of oxygen enriched blood circulate your body?

Nirvana i tell you. And its especially great if you had a damn good exercise and your body feels fit, less lethargic and all.

Somehow, through my short breathing session just now. I noticed some blockages to my flow of calmness. I suspect,

(a) due to being stretched tirelessly by my boss
(b) due to eating somewhat too much food today
(c) due to the extra blockages of fat clogging up my artery

I guess a good combination of both (a) + (c) man. Its funny, i havent been exactly overworked, but somehow knowing the fact that i have almost no chance having a nice break probably from now till i ORD is quite .... demoralising.

I also dont know how to explain. I feel somewhat exploited i guess. Cos there seems to be no planning at all in terms of how my branch works. We're just expected to be there ... this is not healthy is it?

*breathe*

D-10hrs.

Because earth will never be the same again.



It is an awfully quiet monday. Monday blues is abound everywhere and it seems to have affected me. The only good news is that in 10hrs time, earth will never be the same again.

But alas, the great might of the Singapore Armed Force wants to affix its will and refuse my chance to join earth's great fight for freedom.

because someone above feels that ...

waiting for a fax is more important than being a saviour.

hmpf.