This week, I went for both the Saturday and Sunday service! Both services were very impactful and meaningful. The saturday service was about the river of God. I felt like it was really practical and could be applied in my life. The Sunday service was about strong leadership and how to build a strong church. And Im going to type all my notes out for some people who didnt go.
Strong leadership
A vision
Q1) What kind of church do you see yourself being part of?
What kind of church do you see yourself building?
What is your vision?
A big church may not be a strong church but a strong church will grow big.
Q2)How do you build a strong church?
By having strong, balanced leaders
Everything rises and falls on leadership.
Judges 5:2
In the absence of good leadership bad leadership will arise.
Q3) What is a strong church?
Psalms 110:2-3
A strong church is where leaders lead and people follow and volunteer.
God puts specific people in specific places for specific purposes.
Esther 4:11-14
Seeing yourself as a leader
Numbers 13:33 14:7
1 Corinthians 1:26-31
Ok that was the sermon for that week.
Since its the end of PSLE, I can finally do my quiet time regularly!
and I've been playing loads of games, such as team fortress 2 ,trackmania united, portal, half-life 2 and lots more, courtesy of steam!
pics
Monday, October 15, 2007
Monday, October 01, 2007
Service
Yesterday's service was extremely powerful and impactful. the sermon was about immediate and total obedience to God. As usual it was interesting and meaningful. However, the praise and worship after that was more impactful than usual. The song was just so meaningful! Every one was on their knees, crying tears of joy and lifting thier hands. Everyone was filled with the prescence of the Lord. When we are filled with the prescence of the lord, we sob but inside we are extremely joyful.
After service, I went with Zone F to long john silvers to watch them eat dinner. I chatted with Rytha and Wayne both of whom are abt a year older tham me. Funny people
This past week ive been studying unlike anything before. Mugging day after day. Church is the only relief. Thank God! Its all going to culminate in the next two weeks. My 6 years culminating in 2 weeks. Sounds grand aint it?
After service, I went with Zone F to long john silvers to watch them eat dinner. I chatted with Rytha and Wayne both of whom are abt a year older tham me. Funny people
This past week ive been studying unlike anything before. Mugging day after day. Church is the only relief. Thank God! Its all going to culminate in the next two weeks. My 6 years culminating in 2 weeks. Sounds grand aint it?
Monday, September 24, 2007
Service
Service this week was awesome! Pastor Joakim Lundqvist came from Nordic 07 to preach to us. The service was interesting. Shermane Eng also came. She enjoyed the service a lot. It was about marriage and how to choose a life partner. It was very intersting and offered very practical tips. During the praise and worship i felt the holy sprit fill me, it was a wonderful feeling of total joy. Its really a great undescribable feeling. After service, there was a sharing by dom and joanne about their trip to Sweeden. Anyone want to come to Heart of God Service?
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Some pics
Hey all, I just wanted to post some pics of me in full camouflage gear and my model mp5. Been into guns and the millitary lately and I hope to join NCC in secondary school.
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Excerpt from Zone F blog
Act 1
Act 1
Sir: Muthu, black and white is so important that this tie, you kena one warning letter.
Muthu: But sir, please give me another chance, etc etc
Sir: Say somemore
Muthu: Somemore
Sir: Say somemore
Muthu: Somemore
Sir: Say somemore
Muthu: Somemore
Sir: Two warning letters!
Act 2
Muthu: Sir, how do you spell VIP?
Act 3
Muthu: Last time I never follow the rules, kena scolding. Black and white say only VIP can park here, fire engine very big is it? Now I follow the rules, also kena scolding.I better go back to India!
ahh yea here are some pictures from when zone f went to sentosa, so sad i didnt go and yea also from zone f blog.
From left: Esther, Jia Xin, Jomain, Cheryl F2!
Mark playing basketball
Monday, September 03, 2007
Service yesterday
Service yesterday was great, the daytona event was on and Jeanie, Jolene, Bryan, Ronald and Shamin went for it. Surprisingly, ronald and jolene were adept daytona racers and qualified into the semis but were knocked out. The service was great, the sermon was great, the music was great and Jeanie, Shamin, Ronald and Bryan want to come back next week. Jeanie even wanted to convert to christ!
Friday, August 31, 2007
Hi again
Well, its been pretty long, been pretty busy studying and using my precious computer time for computer games.
Playing Command and Conquer 3, a real-time-strategy game, Full Spectrum Warrior, a squad based real-time-strategy game, Sourceforts, a Half-Life 2 multiplayer mod and Call of Duty 2 and some Halo demo multiplayer.
Heart of God church is booming, we just moved to our new venue in Singpost! The church is getting pretty big and the sermons are as interesting as ever. The music is great too. There's nothing like having the holy spirit fill you. Zone F has a blog too its at http://wearezonef-.blogspot.com/ Here's a picture of Zone F at FTMS House.
My leader, Joanne just left for Sweeden for the Nordic confrence. We'll all be missing her!
Excerpt from Zone F blog
Jesus and Satan were arguing over who was better with computers. Finally God suggested they settle it: Each would spend two hours using spreadsheets, designing webpages, making charts and tables- everything they knew how to do.The two sat down at their keyboards and began typing furiously. Just before the two hours were up, a thunderstorm knocked the power out. Once it came back on, they booted up their computers."It's gone! It's all gone!" Satan began to scream. "My work was destroyed!"Meanwhile, Jesus began quietly printing out his work. "Hey, he must have cheated!" Satan yelled. "How come his stuff wasn't lost?"God shrugged and said simply, "Jesus saves."
Kevin
NEVER BE EMO!
Friday, May 18, 2007
New Skin
Hey all, noticed I changed the skin.
This skin is makes it much easier for me to cusomiize the site.
Hope you like it!
This skin is makes it much easier for me to cusomiize the site.
Hope you like it!
Saturday, April 21, 2007
GMOD, battlefield, Medal of Honor
Hey people, sorry for the long wait for a post. I had to prepare for he exams. I did pretty well, passed my HCL and got 70 for CL! YEA! My dad bought me an ASUS laptop for gaming. It has pretty good specs. An ATI 856mb graphics card, 2gb RAM, Intel core2 Duo with 1.8ghz processing power. Playing all my games laglessly and beautifully.
GMOD
GMOD is short of Garrys Mod. Garry's Mod, or GMod for short, is a "sandbox" mod for the first-person shooter computer game Half-Life 2. It allows the player to manipulate objects and experiment with the physics, often with interesting results thanks to the Half-life 2physics engine. It allows me to pose ragdoll models, create contraptions, or death traps. There is also a large communtity which allows me download maps, models and SWeps (scripted weapons)
note: Ragdoll: Basically, a character model that is a limp, lifeless doll. It doesn't move or stand on its own, it's basically the "dead" version of the characters. To make them look as if they are living, they must be posed, which entails picking them up and locking them into place with the Garry's Mod physics tool (It's sort of like posing an action figure). You can also add facial expressions.
I downloaded a model pack for halo ragdolls and have been playing with it and created some nice screenshots. Which Ill upload later.
One of the sweps also allow me to create a nuclear explosion. Its fun but deadly to watch.
Battlefield 1942
Battlefield 1942 is an expansive first-person shooter (FPS), set in World War II.I usually play with bots servers are usually very laggy. Players are able to fly World War Two era fighter aircraft and bombers, navigate capital ships and aircraft carriers, man coastal defenses, drive tanks and jeeps, control stationary weapons, vehicles or just fight as one of five classes of infantry.
Each battle takes place on one of several maps located in a variety of places and famous battlefields in all of the major theaters of World War II: the Pacific, European, North African and Eastern Fronts. Its a really fun game especially when youre killing people with a tank. Yuo charge down the battlefield, machine gun blazing, cannon firing like mad at armor and infantry.
GMOD
GMOD is short of Garrys Mod. Garry's Mod, or GMod for short, is a "sandbox" mod for the first-person shooter computer game Half-Life 2. It allows the player to manipulate objects and experiment with the physics, often with interesting results thanks to the Half-life 2physics engine. It allows me to pose ragdoll models, create contraptions, or death traps. There is also a large communtity which allows me download maps, models and SWeps (scripted weapons)
note: Ragdoll: Basically, a character model that is a limp, lifeless doll. It doesn't move or stand on its own, it's basically the "dead" version of the characters. To make them look as if they are living, they must be posed, which entails picking them up and locking them into place with the Garry's Mod physics tool (It's sort of like posing an action figure). You can also add facial expressions.
I downloaded a model pack for halo ragdolls and have been playing with it and created some nice screenshots. Which Ill upload later.
One of the sweps also allow me to create a nuclear explosion. Its fun but deadly to watch.
Battlefield 1942
Battlefield 1942 is an expansive first-person shooter (FPS), set in World War II.I usually play with bots servers are usually very laggy. Players are able to fly World War Two era fighter aircraft and bombers, navigate capital ships and aircraft carriers, man coastal defenses, drive tanks and jeeps, control stationary weapons, vehicles or just fight as one of five classes of infantry.
Each battle takes place on one of several maps located in a variety of places and famous battlefields in all of the major theaters of World War II: the Pacific, European, North African and Eastern Fronts. Its a really fun game especially when youre killing people with a tank. Yuo charge down the battlefield, machine gun blazing, cannon firing like mad at armor and infantry.
Battlefield Vietnam
Battlefield Vietnam has the same scoring system as Battlefield 1942. Its set in the Vietnam War now and has new equipments, vehicles and weapons. Tanks, helicopters, planes, pt boats, the like. Oh yea, theres nothing like spraying your squad automatic weapon at enemies
Medal of Honor Pacific Assault and Allied Assault.
Two very good games. Allied Assault game pits the player as Lt. Mike Powell, an agent for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Lt. Powell is sent through six missions in the North African and European theatre and is expected to complete multiple objectives on every mission. Col. Hargrove, Powell's mission commander, sends dossiers and important information on how to complete your mission every so often. Along the way Powell will frequently be helped by Allied forces, however most of the time he is on his own against the Germans.
Mission 1 takes place in the Algerian coastal town of Arzew, where Powell helps secure the beaches for Operation Torch as well as rescue SAS commando Major Jack Grillo.
In Mission 2, Powell goes to Norway to scuttle the U529, and destroy the NAXOS prototype, a device that would shift the balance of power in the Atlantic back to the Nazis. It should also be noted that Major Grillo meets his untimely end here, after letting Powell into the complex (shot dead by a sniper).
In Mission 3, Powell must survive Omaha Beach, and then go with Captain Ramsey to find US Paratroopers and assist in taking out a battery of Nebelwerfers.
In Mission 4, Powell goes behind enemy lines to gather intelligence on German infantry movements and gain information on the German's rumored "King Tiger Tank."
In Mission 5, Powell has to protect a team of Allied tank operators and steal a King Tiger, in order to seize a bridge to quicken the siege of the town of Brest, France.
In the 6th and final mission, Powell must go to Fort Schmerzen and destroy it. Schmerzen (pain in German) is a mustard gas facility.
Pacific Assault
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault is a game developed by EA Games as part of the Medal of Honor series for the PC. This edition puts the player in the role of Pvt. (later Pfc. and Cpl.) Tommy Conlin, a U.S. Marine in the Pacific Theater of Operations in World War II. It also uses the Havok physics engine. Levels include Pearl Harbor, Makin Atoll, Guadalcanal, and Tarawa.
Well, I guess you're bored now. I can finally relax after SA2. School has been good so far. Not much to say. The counter's at 800. Gonna hit 1k soon. Maybe if I could post more, you would come more. LOL XD. I heard a lot of people failed maths. Joan did quite badly so she cant use the computer, lost freedom.
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Church
Hey heys people,
Genghis invited me to his church yesterday for the Easter service and it was a blast. The church is called Heart of GOD church and the service there is great. Before going to the church, we met C4 met at Dohby Ghaut (pardon my spelling) MRT station. The people there are so friendly. Genghis introduced me to his group members and they were very friendly. When I talked to them, they kept saying,"You sound like Cheryl!" Then there were these two nice girls Ruoen and Eeru (nickname) who brought me around and introduced me to more people. When ever they introduced me, the people would say,"You sound like Cheryl!"
Then I would say "Who is Cheryl?!" Everyone would laugh.
Then, we left for the church. On the waty Eeru was chatting with me. A few minutes later, we reached the church. When we sang we sang with so much passion, people jumping up and down, clapping and stuff like that. After singing we had testimonials of people who had been touched by Jesus. Then the pastor told us about how Jesus died. Then after communion the service ended but we still stayed there. Eeru went through we me the basics of christianity. After that, I met Cheryl. We realised that we spoke acted and looked like each other. Which is kind of odd since she's 4 years my senior.Later, we went as a group of about 100 people to Clark Quay to eat dinner. We went to the foodcourt bought the food and went to the riverside to eat.
Genghis invited me to his church yesterday for the Easter service and it was a blast. The church is called Heart of GOD church and the service there is great. Before going to the church, we met C4 met at Dohby Ghaut (pardon my spelling) MRT station. The people there are so friendly. Genghis introduced me to his group members and they were very friendly. When I talked to them, they kept saying,"You sound like Cheryl!" Then there were these two nice girls Ruoen and Eeru (nickname) who brought me around and introduced me to more people. When ever they introduced me, the people would say,"You sound like Cheryl!"
Then I would say "Who is Cheryl?!" Everyone would laugh.
Then, we left for the church. On the waty Eeru was chatting with me. A few minutes later, we reached the church. When we sang we sang with so much passion, people jumping up and down, clapping and stuff like that. After singing we had testimonials of people who had been touched by Jesus. Then the pastor told us about how Jesus died. Then after communion the service ended but we still stayed there. Eeru went through we me the basics of christianity. After that, I met Cheryl. We realised that we spoke acted and looked like each other. Which is kind of odd since she's 4 years my senior.Later, we went as a group of about 100 people to Clark Quay to eat dinner. We went to the foodcourt bought the food and went to the riverside to eat.
Since it was travis' birthday all 100+ of us sang him a birthday song. He loooked so shocked when we started singing. After that we played some very fun games and went home.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
asd
Just came back from supplementary, pretty tired, I think I'll go make myself a cup of Milo.
Oh yea, I'm also hooked onto the anime Naruto. (If you havent noticed)
Lol..... I just watched the mini-series "Band of Brothers" Here's the gist (off wiki again)
Band of Brothers is an acclaimed 10-part television miniseries set during World War II, co-produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. The mini-series first aired in 2001 on HBO and still runs frequently on different US TV channels — most recently The History Channel.
The mini-series centers on the experience of Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. 101st Airborne Division and one of its early platoon leaders, Richard Winters. It is based on the book of the same name written by historian and biographer Stephen Ambrose.
The mini-series centers on the experience of Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. 101st Airborne Division and one of its early platoon leaders, Richard Winters. It is based on the book of the same name written by historian and biographer Stephen Ambrose.
Its a very good series but it was too short.
I also found a very good website for getting pictures. Devianart. I found lots of nice pics there.
Oh yea, I'm also hooked onto the anime Naruto. (If you havent noticed)
Heres the gist (again off wiki)
Naruto (ナルト, Naruto? romanized as NARUTO in Japan) is a manga by Masashi Kishimoto with an anime TV series adaptation. Its main character, Naruto Uzumaki, is a loud, hyperactive, adolescent ninja who constantly searches for approval and recognition, as well as to become Hokage, acknowledged as the leader and strongest of all ninja in the village.
Well, I guess thats all. I gotta do my hmwk
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
school again
Sorry for the long wait for a post, was to busy (playing) during the school holidays. hehe Well, back to school. playing a new game now, Battlefield 1942! Yea! Schools still pretty fun. Well, until Ms Teo changed our seats. I'm sitting with the insane retard Shaofen. Retard! Shes like an insane person who thinks crazy stuff. She says Nike waterbottles are sexy. Insane. (ok maybe I'm gonna rant about this for the whole post) She is obsessed with "JJ" (who is that anyway?) Her file is covered with pictures of him. Its kinda disturbing sitting next to her. At least Kuo Xuan and En Yong are sitting in the next row to help me deal with it.
K, I'm gonna cut this short
K, I'm gonna cut this short
Friday, February 23, 2007
CNY
Happy chinese new year too all. Wheres my red packet?! LOL. CA1 is right next week, snuck up on me again. I seem to never notice important things till the last minute. Hope I do well. Not very confident about aything now.
Moving on, I got my cousin Bryan's Steam acc and since he has the CS anthlogy, I can download them, FOR FREE! The anthology includes Counter-Strike, CS:CZ, Deathmatch classic and Ricochet. When I played CS, I was shocked at the skill of most of the players. With an AWP (Powerful sniper rifle) they can stil do CQB (close quater combat). Keep getting owned by players I can't see or got headshot by some Ak-47. (Headshot 100dmg) How do people get so pro? Still, I managed to get some kills and win a few rounds. Very hard to find a server here though. I'm doing better in Deathmatch and Richochet, which is more fun but you will get fatigued and bored after playing for a long period, unlike CS. Very few servers but easy to connect, unlike CS.
Moving on, I had a fun chinese new year (CNY). Visited my cousins' houses, collected red packets etc etc. Collected abt $400 in total.
Well, sleepy nitey nite
Moving on, I got my cousin Bryan's Steam acc and since he has the CS anthlogy, I can download them, FOR FREE! The anthology includes Counter-Strike, CS:CZ, Deathmatch classic and Ricochet. When I played CS, I was shocked at the skill of most of the players. With an AWP (Powerful sniper rifle) they can stil do CQB (close quater combat). Keep getting owned by players I can't see or got headshot by some Ak-47. (Headshot 100dmg) How do people get so pro? Still, I managed to get some kills and win a few rounds. Very hard to find a server here though. I'm doing better in Deathmatch and Richochet, which is more fun but you will get fatigued and bored after playing for a long period, unlike CS. Very few servers but easy to connect, unlike CS.
Moving on, I had a fun chinese new year (CNY). Visited my cousins' houses, collected red packets etc etc. Collected abt $400 in total.
Well, sleepy nitey nite
Thursday, February 15, 2007
...
Its official, my maths stink! Scored horribly for two tests. I'm not gonna delve into details. The bright side is that I make the mistakes now and not during the upcoming Ca1. I hate exams.
Its been a horrible week for Leon. He got punished like every day larhs, poor poor leon.
Btw, I just noticed I had subscribed to Animax on digital cable. Been watching the shows. The bad part about most anime is that it's a really tight series and If I miss one episode I'm missing alot. My favourites so far are "Black Jack", Candidates for Goddess"(ended) and "Galaxy Railroad" All of them are quite easy to watch and doesn't have that many complex storylines. I wish I found this channel earlier.
Moving on, I downloaded two game demos, Darwinia and DEFCON off steam. DEFCON is the best out of the two. DEFCON is a streamlined RTS with no resource collection or unit development. You just place your units and start a thermonuclear war. Here are the basics(off wiki of course): [edit] Overview
In DEFCON, players are given a dehumanised 1980s vector graphics computer-themed world map, a varied arsenal of nuclear weapons, and a primary objective: destroy as many of the enemy's population as possible. A typical game will see "innocent" casualties numbering in hundreds of millions (megadeaths) while players try their hand at annihilating their opponents. Attacking is a very risky strategy that leaves oneself wide open to attack.
In most games, all sides take heavy losses, but the player with the highest score wins. Players' scores are determined according to one of three schemes: Default (gain 2 points for 1 Megadeath caused, lose 1 point for 1 Megadeath suffered), Survivor (gain 1 point per million survivors in your territory) or Genocide (gain 1 point for each Megadeath caused); though functionally identical in a one-on-one conflict, each scoring scheme suggests subtle differences in strategy in larger multiplayer conflicts.
Gameplay time can be varied by configuring the speed at which events progress from real-time to 20× real-time. Most games last 30 to 40 minutes while real-time gameplay can last more than 8 hours.
The game offers six territories that may be selected by a player or assigned to an AI opponent. These include:
North America: Includes all of the contiguous United States, Canada, and Alaska.
South America: Includes Mexico, Central America, and all of South America.
Europe: Includes all of Europe except Russia and Turkey.
Africa: Includes all of Africa.
USSR: Includes all of contiguous Russia.
Asia: Includes all Asian countries except for Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia and the south-east Asian islands.
Territories that cannot be selected or that would normally be part of the above six, but aren't, include: Australia, Greenland, Oceania, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and the south-east Asian islands.
DEFCON is a streamlined RTS, with no unit production, resource collection, or technology tree upgrades. Players choose and position their forces at the beginning of the game. A countdown system prevents games from disintegrating prematurely. Gameplay begins at alert level DEFCON 5 and counts down to DEFCON 1 (the highest alert level). Each upgrade in alert level brings more possibilities, ensuring that issuing orders fastest will provide as little advantage as possible.
Once DEFCON 1 is reached, the game proceeds until a certain percentage (80% by default) of the total number of nuclear missiles available to all players have been launched or destroyed. Once this occurs, a victory countdown begins (45 game "minutes" by default) and the final score is announced when this countdown runs out.
A DEFCON game can host up to six human or AI players. Alliances can be formed, broken, or renegotiated at will with human players. Alliances with CPU controlled players can only be set at the start of the game. Allied players share radar coverage and line of sight, but there is no allied victory and there is only one winner. This means that almost all alliances are broken by the end of the game. Lead designer Chris Delay explains:
“We've seen alliance members shooting overhead friendly planes down because they believed the planes were scouting the area for targets in preparation for a strike. This results in arguments in the chat channels, followed by skirmishes at sea, followed by retaliation, before finally the whole alliance collapses and everyone starts nuking the hell out of each other. It's awesome.”
The chat system features a public channel, in which all players may communicate, as well as channels private to specific alliances, and direct player-to-player private messaging.
In a game with the Diplomacy option, all players start as members of a single alliance, and attempt to stay on top as the alliance disintegrates. Score is determined by survivors at the end of the game.
In Office mode, the game runs in real time and cannot be sped up. The game can be quickly forced to the background making the computer available for another use, or simply to make it appear the gamer is actually working. While the game continues to run in the background, a system tray icon will notify the gamer of certain events as they occur. The office mode hotkey, sometimes referred to as the boss key, is activated by striking the escape key twice in rapid succession. A game in office mode lasts no more than six hours. In fact, the boss key is available in all game modes, but it is designed for this mode in particular.
DEFCON uses a real-time line of sight system common to traditional RTS games, where only enemy units within radar coverage may be seen. However, a nuclear missile launch from a silo or submarine is automatically detected by all players (though the missile itself is not, and must be detected by radar), which reveals the location of the unit launching the missile. A nuclear missile launch from a bomber, however, does not reveal the location of the bomber.
Most units have several operating modes for different functions, and require several minutes to switch modes. For instance, ordering a missile silo to switch from offensive launches to missile defense will leave it inoperative while it switches.
Ground units
Ground installations are immobile, and can be destroyed by nuclear attack.
Radar dishes provide broad radar coverage (though most units have some radar capability), but they are destroyed by a single nuke. Often they are among the first targets, because they enhance other defense installations; for instance, a missile silo's firing range far outstrips its radar range. A radar dish can be destroyed if a fighter or bomber runs out of fuel or is shot down directly over it, even before DEFCON 1.
Missile silos have two modes: launching nuclear attacks or shooting down incoming missiles and planes. In the attack mode, a silo has ten ICBMs that may be fired at any target in the world, though doing so alerts all players and reveals the silo's position. On defense, a silo automatically fires anti-air missiles effective against enemy planes and missiles – however, the limited rate of fire means the silos may be overwhelmed by many incoming missiles. Unlike most units, silos are hardened against nuclear strikes, taking three hits to destroy, although each strike eliminates half (rounded down) of the silo's nuke stockpile.
Airbases house bombers and fighters (starting with five of each) plus a complement of five spare SRBMs to reload bombers that have launched their missile. They launch planes and provide a landing point for orphaned aircraft, and also build new fighters automatically throughout the game. Airbases take two hits to destroy; on the first hit, half of the airbase's currently landed aircraft and missiles are destroyed.
Ships
Naval units are organized into fleets of up to six ships which move and fight together. Fleets must be placed in territorial waters at the beginning of a game. Ships may move through the ocean, albeit slowly.
Carriers act as mobile airfields, scrambling fighters and nuke-equipped bombers. They are also the most powerful anti-submarine warfare escorts, armed with sonar and depth charges that quickly sink nearby subs. With no surface guns, they are helpless without their complement of planes.
Battleships are tough and carry powerful guns effective against surface fleets and aircraft. They are vulnerable to sub and bomber attacks, so are safer with carrier escorts.
Submarines carry torpedoes and an arsenal of five nukes. Sub attacks are dangerous against enemy ships, though subs are easily killed by carriers. Subs are invisible to radar but carry no radar of their own; they may use active sonar at the risk of exposing their position. Their real power comes from their missiles, which can devastate coastal cities, or quickly hit defenses before a full-scale strike. Subs must surface to fire nukes, leaving them open to counterattack before they can fire all their missiles; the launch also alerts all players to the sub's location.
Aircraft
Aircraft are launched from other ground and sea units. Typically they operate autonomously after launch, but bombers and fighters can also be controlled while airborne.
Fighters are light and fast, making them good at reconnaissance and interception. They are most effective against other aircraft, though they can attack ships as well. They have a fairly short range, forcing them to return to a base or crash for lack of fuel.
Bombers carry a single SRBM missile that may be fired at a nearby target. Bombers have a long range to deliver this payload, but are vulnerable during the trip. Unlike silo- and sub-based nukes, firing the missile does not alert everyone to the launch, making it a stealthier option. They also have a conventional attack that does heavy damage to ships.
Missiles deliver a devastating payload. A direct hit on a city will kill half of the current living civilians. Missiles can only be shot down by enemy silos in defense mode – several hits will cause them to crash harmlessly. Once launched from a silo, sub, or bomber, missiles cannot be retargeted, though they can be disarmed in mid-flight.
Its a really cool game but I'm not very good at it. I suffered a crushing defeat last time. score:-45. Well I'm still a newbie. I think my stratergies are too offensive.
Oh yeah, I also launched a new MV. Deviating away from my normal Halo themes, I made a World War 2 themed MV. Clips were from computer games Red Orchestra and Day of Defeat.
URL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKk12BHAtCw
watch my Halo movies too!
Well, I guess thats all.
Its been a horrible week for Leon. He got punished like every day larhs, poor poor leon.
Btw, I just noticed I had subscribed to Animax on digital cable. Been watching the shows. The bad part about most anime is that it's a really tight series and If I miss one episode I'm missing alot. My favourites so far are "Black Jack", Candidates for Goddess"(ended) and "Galaxy Railroad" All of them are quite easy to watch and doesn't have that many complex storylines. I wish I found this channel earlier.
Moving on, I downloaded two game demos, Darwinia and DEFCON off steam. DEFCON is the best out of the two. DEFCON is a streamlined RTS with no resource collection or unit development. You just place your units and start a thermonuclear war. Here are the basics(off wiki of course): [edit] Overview
In DEFCON, players are given a dehumanised 1980s vector graphics computer-themed world map, a varied arsenal of nuclear weapons, and a primary objective: destroy as many of the enemy's population as possible. A typical game will see "innocent" casualties numbering in hundreds of millions (megadeaths) while players try their hand at annihilating their opponents. Attacking is a very risky strategy that leaves oneself wide open to attack.
In most games, all sides take heavy losses, but the player with the highest score wins. Players' scores are determined according to one of three schemes: Default (gain 2 points for 1 Megadeath caused, lose 1 point for 1 Megadeath suffered), Survivor (gain 1 point per million survivors in your territory) or Genocide (gain 1 point for each Megadeath caused); though functionally identical in a one-on-one conflict, each scoring scheme suggests subtle differences in strategy in larger multiplayer conflicts.
Gameplay time can be varied by configuring the speed at which events progress from real-time to 20× real-time. Most games last 30 to 40 minutes while real-time gameplay can last more than 8 hours.
The game offers six territories that may be selected by a player or assigned to an AI opponent. These include:
North America: Includes all of the contiguous United States, Canada, and Alaska.
South America: Includes Mexico, Central America, and all of South America.
Europe: Includes all of Europe except Russia and Turkey.
Africa: Includes all of Africa.
USSR: Includes all of contiguous Russia.
Asia: Includes all Asian countries except for Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia and the south-east Asian islands.
Territories that cannot be selected or that would normally be part of the above six, but aren't, include: Australia, Greenland, Oceania, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and the south-east Asian islands.
DEFCON is a streamlined RTS, with no unit production, resource collection, or technology tree upgrades. Players choose and position their forces at the beginning of the game. A countdown system prevents games from disintegrating prematurely. Gameplay begins at alert level DEFCON 5 and counts down to DEFCON 1 (the highest alert level). Each upgrade in alert level brings more possibilities, ensuring that issuing orders fastest will provide as little advantage as possible.
Once DEFCON 1 is reached, the game proceeds until a certain percentage (80% by default) of the total number of nuclear missiles available to all players have been launched or destroyed. Once this occurs, a victory countdown begins (45 game "minutes" by default) and the final score is announced when this countdown runs out.
A DEFCON game can host up to six human or AI players. Alliances can be formed, broken, or renegotiated at will with human players. Alliances with CPU controlled players can only be set at the start of the game. Allied players share radar coverage and line of sight, but there is no allied victory and there is only one winner. This means that almost all alliances are broken by the end of the game. Lead designer Chris Delay explains:
“We've seen alliance members shooting overhead friendly planes down because they believed the planes were scouting the area for targets in preparation for a strike. This results in arguments in the chat channels, followed by skirmishes at sea, followed by retaliation, before finally the whole alliance collapses and everyone starts nuking the hell out of each other. It's awesome.”
The chat system features a public channel, in which all players may communicate, as well as channels private to specific alliances, and direct player-to-player private messaging.
In a game with the Diplomacy option, all players start as members of a single alliance, and attempt to stay on top as the alliance disintegrates. Score is determined by survivors at the end of the game.
In Office mode, the game runs in real time and cannot be sped up. The game can be quickly forced to the background making the computer available for another use, or simply to make it appear the gamer is actually working. While the game continues to run in the background, a system tray icon will notify the gamer of certain events as they occur. The office mode hotkey, sometimes referred to as the boss key, is activated by striking the escape key twice in rapid succession. A game in office mode lasts no more than six hours. In fact, the boss key is available in all game modes, but it is designed for this mode in particular.
DEFCON uses a real-time line of sight system common to traditional RTS games, where only enemy units within radar coverage may be seen. However, a nuclear missile launch from a silo or submarine is automatically detected by all players (though the missile itself is not, and must be detected by radar), which reveals the location of the unit launching the missile. A nuclear missile launch from a bomber, however, does not reveal the location of the bomber.
Most units have several operating modes for different functions, and require several minutes to switch modes. For instance, ordering a missile silo to switch from offensive launches to missile defense will leave it inoperative while it switches.
Ground units
Ground installations are immobile, and can be destroyed by nuclear attack.
Radar dishes provide broad radar coverage (though most units have some radar capability), but they are destroyed by a single nuke. Often they are among the first targets, because they enhance other defense installations; for instance, a missile silo's firing range far outstrips its radar range. A radar dish can be destroyed if a fighter or bomber runs out of fuel or is shot down directly over it, even before DEFCON 1.
Missile silos have two modes: launching nuclear attacks or shooting down incoming missiles and planes. In the attack mode, a silo has ten ICBMs that may be fired at any target in the world, though doing so alerts all players and reveals the silo's position. On defense, a silo automatically fires anti-air missiles effective against enemy planes and missiles – however, the limited rate of fire means the silos may be overwhelmed by many incoming missiles. Unlike most units, silos are hardened against nuclear strikes, taking three hits to destroy, although each strike eliminates half (rounded down) of the silo's nuke stockpile.
Airbases house bombers and fighters (starting with five of each) plus a complement of five spare SRBMs to reload bombers that have launched their missile. They launch planes and provide a landing point for orphaned aircraft, and also build new fighters automatically throughout the game. Airbases take two hits to destroy; on the first hit, half of the airbase's currently landed aircraft and missiles are destroyed.
Ships
Naval units are organized into fleets of up to six ships which move and fight together. Fleets must be placed in territorial waters at the beginning of a game. Ships may move through the ocean, albeit slowly.
Carriers act as mobile airfields, scrambling fighters and nuke-equipped bombers. They are also the most powerful anti-submarine warfare escorts, armed with sonar and depth charges that quickly sink nearby subs. With no surface guns, they are helpless without their complement of planes.
Battleships are tough and carry powerful guns effective against surface fleets and aircraft. They are vulnerable to sub and bomber attacks, so are safer with carrier escorts.
Submarines carry torpedoes and an arsenal of five nukes. Sub attacks are dangerous against enemy ships, though subs are easily killed by carriers. Subs are invisible to radar but carry no radar of their own; they may use active sonar at the risk of exposing their position. Their real power comes from their missiles, which can devastate coastal cities, or quickly hit defenses before a full-scale strike. Subs must surface to fire nukes, leaving them open to counterattack before they can fire all their missiles; the launch also alerts all players to the sub's location.
Aircraft
Aircraft are launched from other ground and sea units. Typically they operate autonomously after launch, but bombers and fighters can also be controlled while airborne.
Fighters are light and fast, making them good at reconnaissance and interception. They are most effective against other aircraft, though they can attack ships as well. They have a fairly short range, forcing them to return to a base or crash for lack of fuel.
Bombers carry a single SRBM missile that may be fired at a nearby target. Bombers have a long range to deliver this payload, but are vulnerable during the trip. Unlike silo- and sub-based nukes, firing the missile does not alert everyone to the launch, making it a stealthier option. They also have a conventional attack that does heavy damage to ships.
Missiles deliver a devastating payload. A direct hit on a city will kill half of the current living civilians. Missiles can only be shot down by enemy silos in defense mode – several hits will cause them to crash harmlessly. Once launched from a silo, sub, or bomber, missiles cannot be retargeted, though they can be disarmed in mid-flight.
Its a really cool game but I'm not very good at it. I suffered a crushing defeat last time. score:-45. Well I'm still a newbie. I think my stratergies are too offensive.
Oh yeah, I also launched a new MV. Deviating away from my normal Halo themes, I made a World War 2 themed MV. Clips were from computer games Red Orchestra and Day of Defeat.
URL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKk12BHAtCw
watch my Halo movies too!
Well, I guess thats all.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Tommorow's the start of another week, time passes too fast.
I've been reading some HL2 comics and there are some really funny ones. The funniest (and longest) is Concerned. Concerned (Full title: Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman) is a webcomic by Christopher C. Livingston, parodying the popular first-person shooter computer game Half-Life 2. The comic was constructed from game screenshots, with characters posed using Garry's Mod (or Gmod for short) Its a really funny comic. Here are some panels. 
I've also finished reading the book Holes.
Here's the intro. (off Wiki as always)
The story's protagonist, Stanley Yelnats IV, is wrongfully convicted of stealing a pair of sneakers donated to a charity by Clyde Livingston, and is sentenced to 18 months of service at Camp Green Lake, a boy's juvenile detention center in Texas. There, each inmate must spend his day in the dry desert (which was originally a lake) digging a hole five feet deep and five feet in diameter.
well thats all for now.
Saturday, February 03, 2007
More stuff i guess
Ok, I guess yesterdays post had too little info. (besides Smod of course)
We built Sumo bots in Robotics and it was hectic. Now I remember why I love robotics. The pressure of building in half an hour, the suspense before a match, the excitement of the robots fighting, the fear of losing, the joy in winning. Overall, we were bloody unlucky. We won only twice out of 4. Jeffrey's team were horribly lucky. Our robots were stuck together, then they kept spinning round and by the end of 20 seconds, both robots were on our side so we lost. Well, it was a good competition with lots of good robots from all teams.
Moving on, I hate my art teacher! Mdm Ling sux! She tells us to buy a scrapbook which is so damn expensive. Then when the class was supposed to paint some stupid colour thingie, I did on a notepad, when I was half-done she said, "Aiyo! Redo!" (or something like that) Then her instuctions were like very unclear. When I redoed she told me to redo again. Crap teacher.
Oh yea, this week's English/Science supplementary was damn fun. First we were doing work in the robotics room. We were laughin so hard about all the odd mistakes in the situational writing. After that, we went down to the field to do some science. We were supposed to draw an animal. I said,"Lets just draw an ant." Then Marvin said,"No Kevin, find a crocodile." LOL! Then, the next day, he was still asking for the croc.
Well, I guess thats all.
We built Sumo bots in Robotics and it was hectic. Now I remember why I love robotics. The pressure of building in half an hour, the suspense before a match, the excitement of the robots fighting, the fear of losing, the joy in winning. Overall, we were bloody unlucky. We won only twice out of 4. Jeffrey's team were horribly lucky. Our robots were stuck together, then they kept spinning round and by the end of 20 seconds, both robots were on our side so we lost. Well, it was a good competition with lots of good robots from all teams.
Moving on, I hate my art teacher! Mdm Ling sux! She tells us to buy a scrapbook which is so damn expensive. Then when the class was supposed to paint some stupid colour thingie, I did on a notepad, when I was half-done she said, "Aiyo! Redo!" (or something like that) Then her instuctions were like very unclear. When I redoed she told me to redo again. Crap teacher.
Oh yea, this week's English/Science supplementary was damn fun. First we were doing work in the robotics room. We were laughin so hard about all the odd mistakes in the situational writing. After that, we went down to the field to do some science. We were supposed to draw an animal. I said,"Lets just draw an ant." Then Marvin said,"No Kevin, find a crocodile." LOL! Then, the next day, he was still asking for the croc.
Well, I guess thats all.
Friday, February 02, 2007
stuffys
well, I guess another week has passed quickly. Quite an eventful week. I downloaded this cool mod. Its called SMOD and its really fun. Here's a description (off Planet Half-Life of course)
So, you've completed Half-Life 2 and decided to play through it again. You love the storyline and the gameplay, but the problem is that you've already beaten the game in hard mode, you know where all the scripted sequences occur, and you know where all the enemies are located. What you need is for Half-Life 2 to throw surprises at you. If only the game could randomise the enemies or the weapons, give the enemies new abilities, or mess with your expectations a bit, eh? Not to worry! SMOD does all of this, and more!
SMOD doesn't add a new storyline or maps. To this you may say "Huh? What DOES it add then?" And I guess the simple answer is… whatever you want it to. SMOD has the special effects and gore of F.E.A.R, realistic weapons you'd expect to see in Counter-Strike or Day of Defeat, crazy weapons you'd expect to see in Worms, tools you'd expect to find in Garry's Mod, and also plenty of original features of its own. Nearly every feature that SMOD adds is an optional element that you can switch on or off using console commands or, if you are more ambitious, by the simple editing of a config file with a text editor. If you wish, you can make the game virtually identical to normal Half-Life 2, a wild roller-coaster ride of strange experiences, or even a nice compromise between the two.
Many of the game's maps have got new enemies, allies, weapons or items added. Most are placed in specific locations, but others are randomly placed within a map, guaranteeing that no two experiences of the game will be the same. If you use the exec level_smod or exec level_hard commands, then as well as being given new weapons, some soldiers will be given portable Combine shields that will protect them from frontal attacks, unless you waste enough ammo to smash the shield. The exec level_hard command will add both shielded soldiers and also some wearing red or dark blue armour to indicate that they much tougher than their normal counterparts. Which soldiers are given these upgrades is randomly determined as you encounter them. If you are very unlucky, you'll encounter a soldier in coloured armour who's also protected by a bullet-proof shield! If you wish you can even use the command npc_randomize_weapon 1 to randomise the weapons that enemies carry.
Later sections of the game include soldiers wearing optical distortion camouflage that renders them nearly invisible, and a new type of Combine Elite soldier that moves quickly and leaps high into the air, landing in various unexpected locations. There are special Combine scanners that fire lasers rather than just photographing you, and even stalkers, the much-anticipated, mutilated, human slaves that will be appearing in HL2: Aftermath, armed with welding lasers. There's even a few of the old Half-Life houndeyes thrown in to the mix for good measure. During the Canals section of the game, the Combine will steal your airboat and you'll have to drive a buggy through the canals until you can track down the thieves. This section also features a scripted sequence in which you are chased by a Combine APC and a gunship, and one of the Highway 17 chapters includes an APC that drives around and fires rockets at you as well as an added Combine drop ship that delivers an extra squad of soldiers. If you decide that you don't like some of these additions, you can rename or edit the appropriate text file in the 'mapadd' folder.
That is a pretty extensive feature list, but I haven't started on the new special effects or player abilities. The exceptionally good "bullet-time" causes each slow-moving bullet to leave a distorting vortex in the air. It's customisable, so you can adjust the speed of enemy bullets or your own bullets (and thus the difficulty of the game), and choose whether to have extra funky screen effects that make it look like you are in some kind of time warp. If your computer is good enough, you can switch on the option to have explosions cause distorting shockwaves in the air. The "Gordon kick" key allows you to relive Duke Nukem 3D by attacking enemies with your mighty boot while still holding a gun, or to effortlessly kick objects or corpses out of your way. You can activate more blood and gore, bodies twitching after death, or corpses causing pools of blood in water. There's gibbing—causing enemies to splat into chunks if heavily damaged. SMOD also allows you to adjust the rag-doll physics between: the half-life 2 defaults, 'realistic' ragdolls, and 'funny' ragdolls that go spinning and flying all over the place.
You can press a key and use iron sights, meaning that you actually look down the barrel of your gun instead of simply using the crosshair. The command r_zoomlenseffect 1 adds a lens distortion effect if you use a weapon's scope. Speaking of weapons, this game has a butt-load of 'em! As well as the normal arsenal, during the course of the game you'll also find AK-47s, MP5 sub-machine guns with grenade launchers, SVD sniper rifles, Alyx's automatic pistol, WWII grease guns and rifles, Worms banana bombs, deadly scissors that ricochet off walls and laser guns that get their power by draining your HEV armour. The laser is definitely a unique touch—it seems ludicrously powerful, killing entire squads of enemies in seconds… until someone actually manages to damage you and depletes your HEV power; you then find yourself holding a weapon without ammo! If you do think the laser is too powerful, you can always adjust how much damage it does with a console command.
You can aim more accurately with scopeless weapons by aiming down the gun barrel and using the iron sights.
If you use cheat codes like impulse 101, you'll gain access to an even wider range of weapons, including a new physics manipulator, a strider's cannon that can vaporise almost everything (even furniture or huge vehicles), laser-triggered mines, a flare gun that will set enemies on fire, a sticky bomb launcher, a PSP that ejects deadly exploding UMD discs, and a powerful shovel to bash your enemies with. My personal favourite of the 'cheat' weapons is the "stuff launcher", which normally launches watermelons at lethal velocities, but its alternate fire is a beam that disintegrates almost any object or character. Then when you press primary fire, you'll launch copies of that object! Now you can flatten enemies with litter bins, cars, combine drop ships, or fill a map with a thousand explosive barrels and detonate them in a orgy of destruction that will also totally kill your frame rate. Alternatively, you can create rather than destroy, cloning yourself an army of allies… though they will appear unarmed, you can simply drop a gun on the ground and then use the stuff launcher to clone the gun a thousand times, and watch your army pick up the weapons scattered around them.
Ok most of that may be jargon to you but who cares?
Moving on, my two books and two CDs off Amazon.com just arrived. "The Art of HALO", "Half-Life 2 Raising The Bar" and the Cds Halo soundtrack and Halo 2 soundtrack volume 2. Listening to it now. The songs are really nice.
Ok, I guess thats all for now.
Signing off
So, you've completed Half-Life 2 and decided to play through it again. You love the storyline and the gameplay, but the problem is that you've already beaten the game in hard mode, you know where all the scripted sequences occur, and you know where all the enemies are located. What you need is for Half-Life 2 to throw surprises at you. If only the game could randomise the enemies or the weapons, give the enemies new abilities, or mess with your expectations a bit, eh? Not to worry! SMOD does all of this, and more!
SMOD doesn't add a new storyline or maps. To this you may say "Huh? What DOES it add then?" And I guess the simple answer is… whatever you want it to. SMOD has the special effects and gore of F.E.A.R, realistic weapons you'd expect to see in Counter-Strike or Day of Defeat, crazy weapons you'd expect to see in Worms, tools you'd expect to find in Garry's Mod, and also plenty of original features of its own. Nearly every feature that SMOD adds is an optional element that you can switch on or off using console commands or, if you are more ambitious, by the simple editing of a config file with a text editor. If you wish, you can make the game virtually identical to normal Half-Life 2, a wild roller-coaster ride of strange experiences, or even a nice compromise between the two.
Many of the game's maps have got new enemies, allies, weapons or items added. Most are placed in specific locations, but others are randomly placed within a map, guaranteeing that no two experiences of the game will be the same. If you use the exec level_smod or exec level_hard commands, then as well as being given new weapons, some soldiers will be given portable Combine shields that will protect them from frontal attacks, unless you waste enough ammo to smash the shield. The exec level_hard command will add both shielded soldiers and also some wearing red or dark blue armour to indicate that they much tougher than their normal counterparts. Which soldiers are given these upgrades is randomly determined as you encounter them. If you are very unlucky, you'll encounter a soldier in coloured armour who's also protected by a bullet-proof shield! If you wish you can even use the command npc_randomize_weapon 1 to randomise the weapons that enemies carry.
Later sections of the game include soldiers wearing optical distortion camouflage that renders them nearly invisible, and a new type of Combine Elite soldier that moves quickly and leaps high into the air, landing in various unexpected locations. There are special Combine scanners that fire lasers rather than just photographing you, and even stalkers, the much-anticipated, mutilated, human slaves that will be appearing in HL2: Aftermath, armed with welding lasers. There's even a few of the old Half-Life houndeyes thrown in to the mix for good measure. During the Canals section of the game, the Combine will steal your airboat and you'll have to drive a buggy through the canals until you can track down the thieves. This section also features a scripted sequence in which you are chased by a Combine APC and a gunship, and one of the Highway 17 chapters includes an APC that drives around and fires rockets at you as well as an added Combine drop ship that delivers an extra squad of soldiers. If you decide that you don't like some of these additions, you can rename or edit the appropriate text file in the 'mapadd' folder.
That is a pretty extensive feature list, but I haven't started on the new special effects or player abilities. The exceptionally good "bullet-time" causes each slow-moving bullet to leave a distorting vortex in the air. It's customisable, so you can adjust the speed of enemy bullets or your own bullets (and thus the difficulty of the game), and choose whether to have extra funky screen effects that make it look like you are in some kind of time warp. If your computer is good enough, you can switch on the option to have explosions cause distorting shockwaves in the air. The "Gordon kick" key allows you to relive Duke Nukem 3D by attacking enemies with your mighty boot while still holding a gun, or to effortlessly kick objects or corpses out of your way. You can activate more blood and gore, bodies twitching after death, or corpses causing pools of blood in water. There's gibbing—causing enemies to splat into chunks if heavily damaged. SMOD also allows you to adjust the rag-doll physics between: the half-life 2 defaults, 'realistic' ragdolls, and 'funny' ragdolls that go spinning and flying all over the place.
You can press a key and use iron sights, meaning that you actually look down the barrel of your gun instead of simply using the crosshair. The command r_zoomlenseffect 1 adds a lens distortion effect if you use a weapon's scope. Speaking of weapons, this game has a butt-load of 'em! As well as the normal arsenal, during the course of the game you'll also find AK-47s, MP5 sub-machine guns with grenade launchers, SVD sniper rifles, Alyx's automatic pistol, WWII grease guns and rifles, Worms banana bombs, deadly scissors that ricochet off walls and laser guns that get their power by draining your HEV armour. The laser is definitely a unique touch—it seems ludicrously powerful, killing entire squads of enemies in seconds… until someone actually manages to damage you and depletes your HEV power; you then find yourself holding a weapon without ammo! If you do think the laser is too powerful, you can always adjust how much damage it does with a console command.
You can aim more accurately with scopeless weapons by aiming down the gun barrel and using the iron sights.
If you use cheat codes like impulse 101, you'll gain access to an even wider range of weapons, including a new physics manipulator, a strider's cannon that can vaporise almost everything (even furniture or huge vehicles), laser-triggered mines, a flare gun that will set enemies on fire, a sticky bomb launcher, a PSP that ejects deadly exploding UMD discs, and a powerful shovel to bash your enemies with. My personal favourite of the 'cheat' weapons is the "stuff launcher", which normally launches watermelons at lethal velocities, but its alternate fire is a beam that disintegrates almost any object or character. Then when you press primary fire, you'll launch copies of that object! Now you can flatten enemies with litter bins, cars, combine drop ships, or fill a map with a thousand explosive barrels and detonate them in a orgy of destruction that will also totally kill your frame rate. Alternatively, you can create rather than destroy, cloning yourself an army of allies… though they will appear unarmed, you can simply drop a gun on the ground and then use the stuff launcher to clone the gun a thousand times, and watch your army pick up the weapons scattered around them.
Ok most of that may be jargon to you but who cares?
Moving on, my two books and two CDs off Amazon.com just arrived. "The Art of HALO", "Half-Life 2 Raising The Bar" and the Cds Halo soundtrack and Halo 2 soundtrack volume 2. Listening to it now. The songs are really nice.
Ok, I guess thats all for now.
Signing off
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Hahahas
Had a great day today. First week of supplementary lessons. Todays supplementary was so funny. First we discussed our compositions. We were all serious at first but when we saw Bryan's compo which had loads of funny grammatical errors. One of them goes like this. The phrase is Give him box but should be give him the box. All of us were like thinking give him a punch? Then the whole class screamed into laughter. Since Bryan's compo was like so funny, Ms Teo said in a very funny voice, " So boring, So boring. When I marked this I could sleep." We laughed for like 5 whole minutes.
Then, when we were doing our corrections, I was lying in prone position (on my stomach) with Joan (Lim) lying in the same position next to me. At that time I laughed so much that I could laugh at anything said in a funny tone. As you know Joan is is damn funny lahz. So Chantel and Daniel joined us. When I asked how to do? How to do? Every one was giving me funny answers. When I wrote people, Ms Teo underlined it, so I suggested citizens of the beach. Lol. While we were doing Joan kept saying help me please then I said wait, she said ," Help or I will kill you" in the very act tough voice.
Later Ms Teo was doing a survey for the class. When she asked, " Who doesn't have a computer at home." Wan Mai raised his hand then said" I don't have but my brother has." LOL!
Laughed my heart out today. Then Joan kept saying "Baa baa black sheep have you any bear?" Or something like that. I kept sniggering out of the class.
When we were lining up to go home. I told Ms Teo," I hope supplementary is this funny everytime."
Ms Teo: Me too.
Joan Lim: If everyone keeps writing horrible compos.
Ms Teo: *Laughs* Then no
Lol hope supplementary is this funny.
Then, when we were doing our corrections, I was lying in prone position (on my stomach) with Joan (Lim) lying in the same position next to me. At that time I laughed so much that I could laugh at anything said in a funny tone. As you know Joan is is damn funny lahz. So Chantel and Daniel joined us. When I asked how to do? How to do? Every one was giving me funny answers. When I wrote people, Ms Teo underlined it, so I suggested citizens of the beach. Lol. While we were doing Joan kept saying help me please then I said wait, she said ," Help or I will kill you" in the very act tough voice.
Later Ms Teo was doing a survey for the class. When she asked, " Who doesn't have a computer at home." Wan Mai raised his hand then said" I don't have but my brother has." LOL!
Laughed my heart out today. Then Joan kept saying "Baa baa black sheep have you any bear?" Or something like that. I kept sniggering out of the class.
When we were lining up to go home. I told Ms Teo," I hope supplementary is this funny everytime."
Ms Teo: Me too.
Joan Lim: If everyone keeps writing horrible compos.
Ms Teo: *Laughs* Then no
Lol hope supplementary is this funny.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
more stuff
Well, school sux. Was missing my friends during the holidays and now when i come back to school, we're to busy to talk. School still has been tiring and well depressing so far, well at least I can look forward to the weekends and well, Joan 's sitting besides me and she cheers me up with her funny statements. Swarmed with homework this year, its like P5 SA2 rush everyday. Haiz, there's still remedial on Tuesdays and thursdays.
Ok, on to other stuff. I got a few nice pics from my friends.
Ok, on to other stuff. I got a few nice pics from my friends.
Ok, on to some other stuff, I just played a cool mod: Antlion Troopers Deuce. In this mod, I'm basically a Combine Elite defending the base from hoards of Antlions. Its quite an adrenaline pumping mod, with hundreds (I'm not exagerating) of antlions. I get to use very deadly turrets against the antlions. Heres a few pics and screens.
Its a really cool mod so if anyone has HL2 get this MOD! Here's the address: http://antlions.hl2world.com/index.php
Well i guess thats all.
Friday, January 19, 2007
past two weeks
haiz..... too busy to blog nowadays. Loads of homework.Anyways my birthday was yesterday. Celebrated it last friday. Hahas. got 4 nice presents.
- Plush headcrab!!!!!! (Aunt)
- Desktop speakers! !!!! (collaborated by three families)
- Half-Life 2 Raising the Bar (book) (Parents)
- The Art of Halo (book) (parents)
Woot. I just got the headcrab today and it looks sweet. Got the 2 books from the library. (I still want to own them though) I can just take them out, flip to a page and start reading. Like mangas. The desktop speakers are really useful. Just come home from school, plug them in and listen to music while the phone charges. I'm listening to techno alot nowadays. Listening to a one-man band called "Sanxion 7" His songs are really nice. I also got some O2Jam songs and Audition songs. 2gb memory can really store alot.
Now to homework, got lots everyday, I rarely have anytime to play. When angered. Ms Teo is a damn crappy teacher. Lin Lao Shi is nice but ting xie is very hard. At least I have music. Got not much to talk about school. Tomorrow is JSL leadership training. And I'm the one of the five organisers organising the games. The games hopefully will be fun to the JSLs.
Oh yeah, I also recieved my two HL2 shirts today. 
Nice eh?
Now to the Half-life 2 scene. Downloaded a few HL2 mods. (Mods are modifications of a game. The Half-Life 2 creators Valve giving HL2 buyers the Hammer Level editor. Allowing them to create new levels and new games (mods).) Tried all of them today.
Downloaded:
- Cite 14 (not working)
- The Island (not very fun)
- DOOMed (too many puzzles)
- Exterminator (kill anything that moves style)
- Combine destiny (I play as combine FUN!)
- Minerva 2 (FUNNNNNN!)
For all HL2 buyers, download mods!
Ok i guess thats all, I need to sleep early, have training 2moro.
Signing off
Sunday, January 07, 2007
First week of school
I guess I can't post daily anymore, my mum won't let me use the computer on weekdays. Haiz.... Very few people have been visiting my blog lately. Counter still stuck at 400-450.
Ok, about school. My form teacher is Ms Teo. She's nice except when she's angry. Although some of her rules are kind of odd, overall she's ok. She teaches me English, Math, Music (?) and Science so I'll be seeing alot of her. My P.E teacher is Mr. Low, he's ok. My Chinese teacher is Lin Lao Shi. He rocks out loud! He's damn funny and a really good teacher. Hoping for a good year learning chinese from him. My preacher this year is Preacher Willy, he's very nice.
My classmates are ok, they don't really bother me much. I'm sitting beside quiet Elizabelle, she doesn't bother me luckily. Ming En and I are in the same Maths and Chinese banding classes again. Yea! My class is on the 7th floor, so I need to climb up loads of stairs every day.
I just came back from bowling, (again) I had a good game today, got 5 strikes. Top besides for Darrell. Boo him. Hahas. Had loads of fun with my cousins, danced and screamed the whole time. My Walkman phone playing the whole time with at least an earphone in my ear. I'm really a soundaholic but more about that later. After that, we celebrated Bryan's birthday there, the cake was delicious!
I went to the S'pore Poly in the morning to see the exhibition. It was really cool, the poly students are very good at building sellable items. (only if they could improve their english) There were loads of nice inventions. I even got to see a (small) UAV in action. I also saw some sumo robots fighting. It was totally different compared to NJRC's sumo competition. The matches ended much faster.
Ok, now about me being a soundaholic. Have you seen the Sony mp3 advertisment. I'm something like that. All I need is my Sony Ericsson Walkman phone and my ears.To me life is dull without sound. I must hear sound, quietness makes me nervous. From, the skrit of pencils to the speed of a guitar solo, sound is good. (except bad sounds)
I'll try and post more, due to the lack of visitors to the blog tag when you come, Thanx!
Ok, about school. My form teacher is Ms Teo. She's nice except when she's angry. Although some of her rules are kind of odd, overall she's ok. She teaches me English, Math, Music (?) and Science so I'll be seeing alot of her. My P.E teacher is Mr. Low, he's ok. My Chinese teacher is Lin Lao Shi. He rocks out loud! He's damn funny and a really good teacher. Hoping for a good year learning chinese from him. My preacher this year is Preacher Willy, he's very nice.
My classmates are ok, they don't really bother me much. I'm sitting beside quiet Elizabelle, she doesn't bother me luckily. Ming En and I are in the same Maths and Chinese banding classes again. Yea! My class is on the 7th floor, so I need to climb up loads of stairs every day.
I just came back from bowling, (again) I had a good game today, got 5 strikes. Top besides for Darrell. Boo him. Hahas. Had loads of fun with my cousins, danced and screamed the whole time. My Walkman phone playing the whole time with at least an earphone in my ear. I'm really a soundaholic but more about that later. After that, we celebrated Bryan's birthday there, the cake was delicious!
I went to the S'pore Poly in the morning to see the exhibition. It was really cool, the poly students are very good at building sellable items. (only if they could improve their english) There were loads of nice inventions. I even got to see a (small) UAV in action. I also saw some sumo robots fighting. It was totally different compared to NJRC's sumo competition. The matches ended much faster.
Ok, now about me being a soundaholic. Have you seen the Sony mp3 advertisment. I'm something like that. All I need is my Sony Ericsson Walkman phone and my ears.To me life is dull without sound. I must hear sound, quietness makes me nervous. From, the skrit of pencils to the speed of a guitar solo, sound is good. (except bad sounds)
I'll try and post more, due to the lack of visitors to the blog tag when you come, Thanx!
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
last day of the holidays.
Yoday, is the last day of the holidays, school starting tommorrow. It seems like just yesterday I started Primary 5. Now the exact same day is tommorrow, time sure flies. I wonder how my friends are and if they changed in any way. Are they sporting new hair styles? How bout new glasses? ..... I guess I'm thinking too much again. Very few people are updating their blogs.
Oh yeah, back to my life. My cousins, Bryan, Ronald and Hermann stayed in my house on New Years eve, so we went home (at abt 1 a.m.) and played computer till about 2.30 a.m. then slept. My alarm from my phone woke me up at about 8.30. Ronald woke up and then went back to sleep. Bryan woke up about 10 minutes after me. I started creating a war using Half-Life 2. Created lots of Combine soldiers and civilians, armed them with mp5s and started the war. Used the chapter "Highway 17" to stage the battle. Was fun to watch the civilians beat the Combine. Then added more stuff such as antlions and fast zombies. Was fun to watch them fight but it slowed my com to a crawl.
After that I played "RISK" I suffered a crushing defeat. Guess I wasn't lucky. After that we had a bowling competition, I came out 5th out of 16 people. Not bad eh? After that, I went to watch the movie "Night at the Museum" It was a hilarious show. Here's the storyline, I had to self-type this time as Wiki had little for it.
Larry Daley is a divorced parent who always felt he's been destined for something big. Daley accepts a seemingly menial job as a graveyard shift security guard at the struggling natural history museum, to replace three retiring night watchmen: Cecil Fredericks, Gus, and Reginald. On the first night, the watchmen give Larry a instruction manual, telling him to read everything in the manual and do the instructions them quickly and in order. They also tell him not to let anything in or out of the museum. Well, then everything starts and comes to life.
It's a great and hilarious show, go watch it you'll be laughin like crazy. Ok after that, we went to my house to play. I invented another game to play, a modification of captain's ball. Had a blast playing it. After that i went to sleep at about 11 p.m.
I'm watching another anime now. Its called ".hack//the legend of the twilight bracelet" Its kinda funny.
Ok schools starting tommorrow gotta prepare, bye!
Oh yeah, back to my life. My cousins, Bryan, Ronald and Hermann stayed in my house on New Years eve, so we went home (at abt 1 a.m.) and played computer till about 2.30 a.m. then slept. My alarm from my phone woke me up at about 8.30. Ronald woke up and then went back to sleep. Bryan woke up about 10 minutes after me. I started creating a war using Half-Life 2. Created lots of Combine soldiers and civilians, armed them with mp5s and started the war. Used the chapter "Highway 17" to stage the battle. Was fun to watch the civilians beat the Combine. Then added more stuff such as antlions and fast zombies. Was fun to watch them fight but it slowed my com to a crawl.
After that I played "RISK" I suffered a crushing defeat. Guess I wasn't lucky. After that we had a bowling competition, I came out 5th out of 16 people. Not bad eh? After that, I went to watch the movie "Night at the Museum" It was a hilarious show. Here's the storyline, I had to self-type this time as Wiki had little for it.
Larry Daley is a divorced parent who always felt he's been destined for something big. Daley accepts a seemingly menial job as a graveyard shift security guard at the struggling natural history museum, to replace three retiring night watchmen: Cecil Fredericks, Gus, and Reginald. On the first night, the watchmen give Larry a instruction manual, telling him to read everything in the manual and do the instructions them quickly and in order. They also tell him not to let anything in or out of the museum. Well, then everything starts and comes to life.
It's a great and hilarious show, go watch it you'll be laughin like crazy. Ok after that, we went to my house to play. I invented another game to play, a modification of captain's ball. Had a blast playing it. After that i went to sleep at about 11 p.m.
I'm watching another anime now. Its called ".hack//the legend of the twilight bracelet" Its kinda funny.
Ok schools starting tommorrow gotta prepare, bye!
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