Pics of Carnevale!

Heya dudes! Finally I have managed to acquire myself a USB all-in-one card reader. Here are the pics:


This is the stage. Kinda nice no? Anyway, its empty now because they are still setting it up.


Here is the general viewing area, where the people are going to sit. Right now though, the clowns have it to themselves.


Unfortunately for the clowns, guests start to arrive and they were hurriedly kicked out. Hehehe.

Below are the booths that were up that day. You could buy merchandise and try some games by spending your One Card points.







This is the booth where I was supposed to be supervising. It was called the Wizard Shop. Maybe some of you are familiar with the shop in OU? Anyway, I was there just to make sure that the computer hardware was installed and handled properly and also to see that the game tournament was handled profesionally. Unfortunately, due to lack of advertisement (not on my part), the amount of people who joined the games were very little.

On the first day there was an opening ceremony and some stage performances which you can see below:

She was literally hot stuff as she fire breathed on the stage!


Which was followed by some waist shaking dance! It was mesmerising. Hmmm, is she winking at me?


Of course, what is complete without a magician and his hat of magic tricks? Not to mention the beautiful assistant.


She arrives in a Mini Cooper S and starts telling jokes. Mostly about her smaller figure and her 'longkang' :D. Which then follows with the opening ceremony of the One Card Carnevale! I'm sorry but for some reason I forgot her name.


Should have been there coz this car was one of the prizes offered.

I was only there for a day but the celebration was fun while it lasted. There were finger food and drinks being offered by waiters all around. Guests mingled and later were visiting the booths to try their luck in the games. Again, it was a very well done carnival. Hopefully next time, that Mini Cooper S will be mine.

God has a sense of humour ...

Indeed, sometimes, life has a really funny sense of humour. I just read a funny news article which you can read here, courtesy of philly.com.

Long story short, a couple was having a fight inside the boyfriend's car and it got heated enough that the boyfriend parked the car on railroad tracks and left quickly while a train was en-route. What happened next was totally unexpected in that the train hit the rear of the car and propelled it into the fleeing boyfriend, killing him on the spot! The girlfriend however was sent to the hospital with some injuries where she is in stable condition. Talk about sweet poetic justice!

Stupid Canon Powershot G3 camera drivers doesn't work with Windows Vista platform. Apparently I have to get a Vista compatible card reader, whatever that is. (I thought all card readers are compatible with any OS :P). So pics of the Carnevale will be delayed.

One Card Carnevale!

There's a One Card Carnivale going on this Friday to Sunday. It's to reward the One Card users to some cool and fun activities as well as some chances to win some prizes. For clarification, the One Card is a shopper's card that can be used anywhere in the One Utama Shopping Mall which is located in Bandar Utama. Everytime you buy something there, you will be rewarded in the form of points. The more points you accumulate, the more prizes or benefits you can get.

I will personally be at the Wizard's Shop booth, monitoring the Counter Strike: Source Mano-a-mano tournament which will be going on there. You just need to have a One Card to be eligible to enter and at the end of the day, the player with the most rounds won will stand a chance to be in the grand finals, which will be on this Sunday. For people without the One Card, there will be special booths for you to get one.

At the same time there will be other booths that will be present at the new wing concourse, offering other activites, games or just selling of merchandise. So, if you have the time, head on to One Utama Shopping Complex and take a peek. I will be there for Friday only. ;). For more info, check it out here.

The Gaming World Held its breath ...

For Blizzard to finally announce their new game that they have in the works during the Worldwide Invitational event in South Korea. Cheers erupted as the CG Video was played in a huge screen and later, all the rumours were finally confirmed as Blizzard unveiled Starcraft 2! What followed was another video of the game in action. It still retains the isometric view that is so famous with all RTS type of games but the models look bigger, more detailed with a lot of added effects. However, it still just look like Starcraft 1 with a new face lift and some new units.

I just pity the RTS games that have already released or are going to be released before Starcraft 2 will be released. Supreme Commander, Command and Conquer 3, although great games in their own regard ... but we are talking about Starcraft here. The sequel to the most played RTS game of the century. After this announcement, I bet most people would say "CnC3 wha-at?" and I'd just agree with them.

If some of you reading this haven't heard of the news, or want to watch the vids and screenshots first hand, you can check out the official Starcraft 2 website ...

Oooooh ..!

Wow I finally changed the blogger format to a new one. Its so easy with a lot of things that you can change and edit into your blog. Wished I did this sooner. Kinda cool. Hmmm, now if I just could update my blog often. :P