Joke of the day

While I was in Kedah there was a curious girl looking around our hardware. She was particularly inclined towards our huge LCD screens which we used to show videos of our games. Spotting the exhibitor's tags we were wearing, she proceeded to ask my Event Manager.

Curious Girl: How many inches. *pointing towards the LCD screen*
E.Manager: 32 inches.
Curious Girl: Oh. *Nods and takes a last look before leaving*

Spotting the humour in the situation I quickly told him to add "Can you handle that much man?"

In hindsight, he could have given a lot of answers that could have ended up with a sexual harassment act. One of them being "Can you handle that many inches?" or "It changes from hot to cold."

Almost a road statistic

Something crazy happened to me this morning on my way to work. I was almost involved in an accident. The day started normal for me. I left home at around 9:40am and just exited Jalan Duta into Jalan Muzium and I was about to put the pedal to the metal when I notice that there were two police cars on the speed lane. Behind them was a Mercedes and they were moving relatively fast. So I decided to join in the que. Bare in mind though, we weren't going that fast at all. Something along the lines of 100 kmph-ish. So I was driving fine and we passed the Istana, only to notice a lot of tourist bus stopping on the other side. Normally, this was normal but what made it weird was that the busses were stopping on the lane nearest to the middle of the road (ie the speed lane). As I went on, I could see more busses joining the line.

We finally reached the section of the road where it joined the highway (in front of the private air field) and then I noticed a convoy of several cars with police escort coming into the highway. They were moving at an average speed and this was when it got weird. For no apparent reason, the police cars that were in front of me braked into a full stop. At first I didn't notice that they stopped fully so I just applied a little pressure on the brakes. I mean, its not normal for cars to suddenly brake in the speed lane when there's nothing happening in front of them. Then I saw the Mercedes braked and it was at that moment that I noticed that the distance between my car and the Mercedes was rapidly decreasing. I slammed the brakes hard!

At first the car was slowing down considerably but it immediately skidded to the left. My car was starting to get out of control when I notice that I was getting dangerously close to the car in front of me. Trying to right myself, I turned the steering to the right. The car overcompensated and it was skidding to the right now, right into the guard rails! In the meantime, The Mercedes' bumper looked dangerously close. In that span of time, I immediately yanked the steering to the left. The car immediately swerved to the left narrowly missing the Mercedes but this made my car leave the lane. It went horizontal and it occupied the middle two lanes of the road! At that moment I prayed to god that no cars were going to crash into me because I was well aware on how precarious the position of my car was.

Seeing that my car was in continuous momentum towards the left side of the road, I managed to peek to my left side to see a car slowing down. After seeing that surety of no incoming car is going to crash into me, I turned my steering wheel and righted my car back to the right, right into the left most lane (ie slow lane). I spent a couple of moments to make sure that my car was in the right direction and only then did I slowly let go off my brakes and slowly put pressure back on the accelerator pedal. At that moment my head was completely blank, my chest was thumping like a madmen on the drums. Then I was trying to recall back what had happened when I looked ahead only to see the three cars in front of me were moving as if nothing happened behind them. I highly doubt that they didn't notice the screech of brakes that were sounding loudly behind them. For some reason, I felt as if the policemen knew they were in the wrong and that was why they went on their way as if nothing happened. To stop was to assume responsibility ... and probably my wrath.

Funnily the next few moments I felt really angry. Not angry at the policemen but rather at the general situation of it all. I felt angry at everything and untill this moment of typing, I couldn't really explain why. Then it occured to me that the whole incident might have only occured in bare seconds. Most probably it didn't even reached ten seconds. Everything happened so fast and I could recall that I wasn't thinking at all. Everything happened instinctively. Maybe it was because of this that I came out safe or maybe it was because the road was 4 lanes wide or maybe I missed the busy traffic time.

Suffice to say, I drove on the slow lane all the way to work. I was being over-cautious and I knew it. I seem to recall a Satria Neo honking at me after my predicament and the driver was looking at me with a gesture that said "What happened?" Not feeling like explaining the whole thing in the car, I just looked at him and shook my head slowly with a look that said "I'm just glad I didn't crash."

When I reached work I proceeded to check on my car, especially my tyres to see if they were worn. Weirdly they weren't. It still had its treads and the car was relatively new. So I was wondering how the hell did I started skidding. Well, it was simple really. We were moving relatively fast. It was the speed lane afterall. Then the cars braked unexpectedly. Being a Mercedes, I suppose its brakes and ABS could compensate that but my Proton Satria, I highly doubt it. Not at that speed and sudden stop. So looking back, I suppose anything can happen when you are driving. Its just a matter of you being in a position of relative safety. Thankfully, I managed to get out of it unscathed and there's nothing more than I could wish for at that moment.

Back from Kedah ICT Carnival 2007!

When I was there, Kedah was very hot. Which was one of the reasons on why we ate at KFC twice while I was there. It was for the air-cond. The Kedah ICT Carnival was a three day affair from Friday to Sunday (8th - 10th of June). It was more like an IT Carnival where various companies had booths to showcase their technology. Companies ranging from MDEC to MIMOS to TMNet. Our booth was by far the largest since it housed around 80 PCs for the Counter Strike 1.6 tournament and also some free play, courtesy of Valve and also Cubetech (Last Chaos MMO). The tournament was slated for 32 teams but in the end, only 17 teams registered and entered. The top teams Hybrid and DiV were there and also PwyH, which seem to be in every tourney we made. Although it was a three day affair, we came two days earlier to set up and make sure everything worked. Let me tell you, it was tiring carrying all the equipment and even more so when we set it up. Nevertheless, everything was ready for the event day itself.

The place where we rested. Alot of snores were heard from this room :P.

Being a guy, I couldn't help myself but to check out the Northern Malay chics there. There were a lot of pretty faces and most of them weren't that difficult to have a chat with. However, their northern accents (loghat utara) were quite thick and sometimes I had to stop to think on what they just said. Unfotunately, it was just short chats and therefore no numbers were exchanged.

This was where the Counter-Strike tourney took place. Not too shabby eh? ;).

The CS 1.6 tournament took off without a hitch although it did cause a small problem to our head marshall as he was thinking on what proper format to use. As the tournament went on, it was quite a straight forward affair as the top teams went on to the next stage, leaving the other teams in their wake. However, there was a major upset and surprise which came in the form of PwyH's victory over team Hybrid in the lower brackets. At first, Hybrid was pushed into the lower bracket courtesy of DiV which was quite a surprise as well but being Malaysia's number 1 and 2 teams respectively, the situation wasn't that big of a surprise anyway. But PwyH trouncing Hybrid to a 16-4 score was quite a phenomenal achievement! Its even more surprising that the night before the match, PwyH had an impromptu wrestling match amongst themselves (free-for-all-format) in their hotel room! Seeing the performance of PwyH, even DiV thought that they might lose. Unfortunately, DiV won for the finals, placing them champions with PwyH in the second place and Hybrid in the third place. Good game!

Me with the third place checque. I was sweating because the pic was taken during the tear down.

After that it was the closing day ceremony as well as the prize giving ceremony. Then it was the tear down of our booth and we had to move everything back into boxes and into the store room for transportation on the next day. On Monday we had our last breakfast at our hotel, which was the Grand Continental and proceeded to transfer the equipment into the lorry. Funnily, it wasn't as tiring when we had to set up the equipment. Some of us went back to the hotel for a last shower while I proceeded to go to the Pekan Rabu which was nearby to shop for some sweets and delicacies (kuih-muih). I bought some dodol and some other kuihs which I can't recall its name. Oh wait, one of them was telinga monyet and another was kuih cakar ayam.

I don't smoke but I had to take this picture! Vista enabled ciggies!XD.

We gave the lorry a two hour head start before we checked out of our hotel and went after it! Suffice to say, we got ourselves a speeding ticket and proceeded to go F1 all the way! We left at 1:30 from Alor Setar and reached KL around 5:30! Somehow, we caught up with the lorry near Rawang. Sheesh, two hour head start was too much.

The event was successful to me and here's hoping we have another one ... closer.

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

The Devil wears Prada

So I just watched Devil wears Prada. Somehow its one of those movies you don't tell your friends about because it's something that I am unlikely to watch. However, after hearing great reviews on the movie, I managed to find the time to get a copy of it. When I bought it with my friend, I didn't tell him what I bought seeing that he got himself Babel and Hills have Eyes.

I am not sure how close to reality is the movie itself about high market magazines but thats not what makes it a great watch. The transformation of Anne Hathaway's character 'Andy', from a normal girl next door who doesn't give a hoot about fashion to a Runaway girl who has fashion sense. The story is coherent enough for anyone to understand and it blends naturally with the allure of the movie. Most say that this movie is a comedy and it has small doses of that but the acting that goes on in the movie lends an air of credibility and gives more than just 'comedy'. This movie make you feel sorry, angry but you will always understand the situation that Anne Hathaway is in. The 'Devil' in this movie is played by Meryl Streep who IMO is so right for the character of Miranda Priestly, fashion magazine editor. As in any type of movies like this, Miranda Priestly is a no nonsense, straight to the point, holier than thou type of character and Meryl Streep carries her so realistically its astounding!

The cast of the movie is great but the one of the messages of the movie (if there ever was one) was that whatever you do, you are always given a choice. Unconsciously, you make the best decision to you at that moment. It could be the right choice or it could be the wrong one but no matter what it is, the choice that you choose must be the one that is honest to yourself. For that matter you must be positive about your future because its the only thing that you have.

I find that the journey of Anne Hathaway through the movie was an inspiring one. In the end, I found her to more mature and attractive than her other parts in the movie. There's 3 phases of 'Andy' in the movie: the everyday woman, the woman on a date and the woman in between those two. The latter was what the ending 'Andy' was. For you girls out there, I'd recommend you to watch it. For guys, watching this movie with your girl friend is a good cover up, just don't show too much enthusiasm about it. :D

ACG

After months of planning, ACG has finally kicked off at Cineleisure Damansara on the 20th and 21st of January, coming into the new year of 2007 with a bang. Its first official event with the Counter-Strike 1.6 qualifiers. One of the first CS qualifiers for the year 2007. So, for an event that would be covering four games (CS, GW, DoD, SDO), we started setting up on Friday night. Sounds a bit far fetched? Trust me, so did I when I heard about this. On the events themselves, I was to oversee and be the head marshal for two tournaments. Namely the Day of Defeat (DoD) and Guild Wars (GW) tournament. Since the events was about 2 weeks ago, I’m just going to summarise everything.

FRIDAY
After work. Convoyed to PC supplier. Hauled 80 PCs or so into a truck. Tired as heck. Sweated like an ox. Then drove to Cineleisure to help unloading. Was done faster because had three trolleys. Unloaded everything into store room first. Then had dinner at Kopi Oh. Dinner was sponsored. Went back home to bath and change clothes. Went back to Cineleisure at 11pm after shops were closed. Started setting up. Carpets were already done so started with chairs and tables. There were 2 huge sections with smaller sections in them. Setting up PC took longer. Hardware wise, everything was set up at 4am. Then Intel started setting up for software wise. Personally, didn’t look like everything could be done in time for the event. Went back home. Changed clothes and immediately slept.

SATURDAY
Woke up to a phone call telling to get my ass back to Cineleisure. It was 9am. Reached to find all comps were set up and switched on. Tested DoD island. Got error. Technician fixed it. Can run DoD tournament but dedicated server is a no go. Event started. On paper, 12 DoD teams qualified. Reality, only 7 teams turned up. CS island was a no go, there were technical difficulties. DoD tournament ran smoothly. The team that I figured had the most chances to win, won the tournament, in a lopsided win in the finals. CS tournament finally started in the middle of the DoD tournament. DoD prize giving ceremony was on that day itself. After that, rest tired legs. Sitting down felt good. Alas, problem on the horizon. GW island, internet is laggy. One GW running, laggy, two GW running, can’t move. OH NO! Made some calls to internet service provider. Said they’ll sent an engineer tomorrow. Went home. Mandi, change clothes and slept early.

SUNDAY
Came back with enough sleep. First one there. Noticed the internet provider engineer there. He checks and says its ok. I told him 2mb line for 16 comps won’t cut it and how did that happen anyway? He says he’ll try contacting HQ but its Sunday so whatever. I told him whatever it is, just contact me back ASAP. Work mates start coming in. We discussed about the line issue and tried some things. At the meantime, GW contestants start arriving. I try my best to explain the situation but I can’t do anything. After a long time, we tried the comps, the line was still bad. Talked to boss, decided to postpone GW tournament. Told the GW contestants. Gave them goodie bags to at least make them feel better. All the while the CS tournament has been going. Nothing of note happens. Remember checking out the SDO booth since their tournament was today. Some chics dancing on the dance mat. Otherwise checking out Gears of War at Gamer’s Hideout. ACG ended with prize giving ceremony for the SDO and CS tourneys. Now the tiring part started. Had to start packing up the comps and hardware, tables, and carpet. Finished around 11ish. We all decided to crash to the nearest mamak for some eats.

Aidiladha and 2007

The Aidiladha celebration marked the last day of 2006. On the first day of 2007, my mosque was slaughtering cows for Aidiladha as a religious sacrifice. Most of the meat is to be given to the poor and some will go to the people who contributed on purchasing the cow. My family was there to bear witness as our cow was slaughtered (cow number 8). There were a total of 23 cows and 2 goats that was slaughtered on that day. Initially I came to help out for the event but as I looked around, all the stations were manned and there wasn't a place where it looked lacking. So I hung around where the cows were slaughtered with my friend who was MCing on that day. As always the case, the first few cows were quite docile but the last cows were quite rowdy and wild.

It was all finished by noon and we got to enjoy some of the meat as the women division cooked some of the meat for lunch. I sat there slurping my 'sup tulang', I thought: What a way to start the new year. So, happy new year to everyone and hope 2007 give us a lot of choices to better ourselves.

This is the tongue of my cow

The days of calamities

First, the Godfather of Soul died. Yes, the great James Brown died of pneumonia at the age of 73. Even at the end, he was ready to go and sing for the New Year's Eve bash. What a guy. I told my parents about this during dinner on that day and their response was mild to say the least. I was thinking that James Brown was their 'era' and maybe they'd give a little more response. Heh.

Then today came, with a humongous earthquake in Taiwan with a monstrous 7.1 on the Richter scale! 2 people died and some submarine data cables were damaged. Instead of fearing for the lives of the people there, people are whining on why the international links are down due to the earthquake damaging the data cables. The problem is big as this means that Asian countries will have very high pings and packet losses to US and European hosted websites. However, this episode just teaches me how dependable are we on this 'technology'. Reading the forums of Lowyat.net, I can see that most of them are complaining as if the problem was solely on a local internet provider's fault. Not that it is not warranted but fortunately this time, it was not their fault at all. I have always thought that most of the forumers who frequently post at that forum are rather childish and it is even more so now.

The thing that we should learn from this is that technology, no matter how much we depend on it, must never cloud our empathy toward human lives. Times such as theses, we should sit down and pray and hope that tomorrow, we are much better than today. We must always remember that technology is there to aid us ... and never to let it control our lives (which seems to often happen now).

I'm not saying I'm a perfect individual but its something to be aware to be imperfect and strive to be perfect rather than not doing anything at all.

UPDATE: So according to sources, the repairs will take about 3 weeks. Although the ships will reach the point where the cable was damaged in 3 days. Thats the bad news. The good news is that the tsunami alert has been taken down by most countries. Just hoping that there are no more quakes occuring in this timeline. In the meantime, any internet activities is going to be a pain.

Say bye bye to Starbucks Mont Kiara

Heya,
As of this moment, I have officially resigned from Starbucks. All I can say is wow! I have been working there for four years and more. Unfortunately, the hectic working life demands my everyday attention and I have no more time to be a part time barista. Its quite sad for me since the working environment has always been excellent. Sure there were times where I wanted to be anywhere else but Starbucks but the people (partners and customers) were what cheered me up whenever I came for work. Looking back, I have quite a lot of memories in the business. Granted, I was always a barista but I joined when the golden age of Starbucks Mont Kiara started. And I stayed on untill it was overshadowed by other Starbuck outlets. Nevertheless, the company that I was with stayed ever friendly.

As I stopped over tonight to give in my apron and uniform, I am again bombarded with the seemingly calm and cheery outlook of the outlet. Never again will I feel this way (Starbucks was also my first job). I hope to stay in contact with the people whom I know there. Now, all I have to do is look forward and hope that there are similar working places with the same atmosphere out there.

The drow and a human

The second book of the Sellswords series rock! Its continues the story of the partnership between the drow Jarlaxle and the human Artemis Entreri. It took me two days to finish the book while I was manning a booth at a recent children's charity fund event at BSC. Anyway, the story is well written and the storyline is superb. Here again we see different facets to Artemis even though he was a straightforward evil dude. In addition, we get a peak into Jarlaxle's agenda near the end of the book. Everything just hints to something but not answering it fully in this book. I can't wait for the third book to be released in paper back form!

In addition to that I just organized a Guild Wars tournament. Its not easy let me tell you that! Especially when you had to take pictures at the same time! Anyway, it was a random 4 vs 4 mini tournament and I hoped everyone had fun. I had fun randomizing everyone to be in balanced teams and I think I did a pretty good job of it. Anyway, there's another one coming up this weekend which I will be organizing as well. Hopefully I do a better job of it.

Neverwinter Nights 2 rocks! I can't seem to get enough of it. However I am always looking back to think up of better builds that suit my play style. That has always been my weakness. I always end up rerolling my characters that I end up not finishing the game. Nevertheless, I will finish up with my current character (a lawful evil dude) just to see how the story ends.

Nightfall and now, Neverwinter Nights 2

Nightfall came and I got myself a Collector's Edition. It came with goodies inside and I am fine with it. The art book is nice but Factions' one was nicer. However, the making of Nightfall DVD was excellent. I hope someday in the future I get to work in an environment such as the Arenanet office. Anyway, Nightfall itself is very atmospheric. It oozes the mystical Arabian enchantment. I like how the game developers manage to portray Elona. The storyline however is quite longwinded. I am not sure if its me for not getting into character or something along those lines but I think the quests are too numerous. And there are things that you must do in order for the storyline to progress. Although thats normal, its not fun when it borders on grinding. However, on a general scale, Nightfall is an awesome game. The inclusion of heroes gives us more options for playing alone (which is ironically enough, going against the MM in the MMORPG). The bad side of this is that there are even fewer people who wants to play with another human being.

So Nightfall is great and all but I am waiting for the grand-daddy of all RPGs: Neverwinter Nights 2! Woot! I was supposed to get my hands on it yesterday but because of work and family dinner I didn't have the time to actually get it. Although I asked a guild mate of mine to get it but when he reached the shop, it was closed (15 minutes early!). Oh the mockery of it all. Hopefully I will get it by today. Simply because I need something to play in offline mode since tmnet started screwing up again. But whats new right? To quote my Singaporean friend who came up to KL and tried our broadband "Now I know what kind of hell do you guys have to live with."Is he being overly dramatic? I think he hit the nail on the head with that comment.

The way back ...

Heya,

Ok so the Ipoh scene was fun. Everyone was there and I managed to say hi. Ate a lot of food and its all home cooking over there. Thats why it tastes soo good. Yum Yum. Can't say the same thing for the journey back though. Usually it takes us 2 hours for the journey but it started to jam after Tanjung Malim which slowed our journey down by an hour. So it took us 3 hours for the whole journey back. Man ...

This jam sux!

Oh well more bad news. Despite the planning, the event for Nightfall this weekend has been cancelled. I don't know why but I feel hugely responsible for that. Anyway, its being done differently and alot better in my opinion. Oh well, live and learn I guess. One thing to look forward for though, Nightfall will be at my office by tomorrow. Boss has confirmed it so will be looking forward to that. Wowwers!

Hari Raya time

Heya,
So today is the second day of Aidilfitri and I am filled to the gills with food! Every house you go you'd say ok I won't eat alot and then you spot something unique and you find yourself eating it. Bah.

Anyway today I am leaving for Ipoh for visiting for a day. Hopefully the traffic is ok since I am working tomorrow. Argh and this weekend is going to be busy. Supposedly Nightfall is suppose to reach on Thursday. Hmmmmmm.

What my sis was having at my house.

Chocolate cake is awesome for Raya! This one was anyway.

Silent Hill or Haze?

The haze ...

Heya,
The haze has been quite bad this year. The thought of it being a yearly occurence is rather troubling. Anyway, the pic above depicts how bad the haze is and that pic was taken right after it rained. Usually the haze disappears completely after it rains but nowadays it doesn't. Our neighbours gotta tackle this problem seriously as it happens year after year.

Anyway, tomorrow is Deepavali and on Tuesday is going to be Hari Raya Aidilfitri. So, happy holidays to those that celebrate the two momentous occasions. Hopefully the roads are clear by then.

Posters yeah!

Da posterz! The Factions Box is for size reference

Heya,
Awesome news today. My boss decides to award me for my efforts by giving me this two cool Guild Wars posters. One features the Factions assassin while the other one has the Nightfall dervish plastered all over it. The posters are awesome! Never have I seen something printed that big with the character filling most of it. The detail is superb.
This just brings up my poster collection to 4. One of the other two is a Guild Wars poster thats medium size and the other is a poster of the anime movie Akira.
Despite that though, I haven't hung those posters up yet simply because my room is in a state of chaos. Time and time again I have told myself to arrange and clean the place up to at least have a sense of order about. Unfortunately I can't seem to bring myself to it. Being the last child in the family, your room sort of becomes the store room for your other siblings to throw their stuff in.

Time to cast resurrection!

Heya!
Long time no see. This blog has been pretty dead for months now. Its not that I didn't have anything to add but more that I'm lazy. Anyway things to bring us up to speed.

I'm working right now. Yeah, kinda cool. Working in a gaming company. They are the sole provided for the license of a certain game company in South East Asia. In addition to that, the company also promotes e-sports amongst Malaysians. So its kinda fun so far. However its only been 2 weeks.

Been playing Guildwars less and less this days. Been busy with life and also work. But more importantly been playing Neverwinter Nights more. Neverwinter Nights 2 is coming out at the end of this month and I am playing the first one to keep my hunger quenched till then. However, there are a number of games coming out this month that looks awesome. First there's Neverwinter Nights 2, then Gothic 3, there's also Battlefield 2142 and lastly, Guildwars: Nightfall is coming out as well. Hmmm, gotta start counting the money. And here I was thinking that I wanted to upgrade my PC by the end of this month. Oh well ...

Hopefully I will have the will power and time to write on my blog for the days to come. Just a place to note my days and also to speak my mind.