Salt Crystal Lamp

Just done the assignment (poster) of GEK1507 Complementary Medicine and Health. I'm doing Crystal Therapy, chosen among the other 8 topics (some topics include music therapy and colon cleansing). Anyone have it at home? Quite a nice illuminator but I'm not so sure about its therapeutic effect ha. But anyway, it's really a nice lamp, and I have it both in my KT and Jurong bedroom. Best to be used at night for those who don't like the 'entirely dark' environment while sleeping XD

My poster:



and salt crystal lamp in my Jurong bedroom.

Final Fantasy III (DS)

Finally finished this game, after more than 1 year. Play and stop, play and stop, and I don't remember how many times that I almost wanna quit this game (because stucked at some boss fights or just grew bored after level grinding)

Review
~coming soon~

Novels coming soon~

Accidentally saw the news about some excited novels which are coming very soon. They are:
1. The Solomon Ring (woohoo,,, another Dan Brown's novel, going to be published this year)
2. The Five Greatest Warriors (3rd book after the 7 Deadly Wonders and 6 Sacred Stones, by Matthew Reilly, published in 2009)
3. New novel by Michael Crichton (published in 2 Dec, title unknown)

Alan's Novel Portal

[Last update: 18 January 2014]

Michael Crichton

1. The Andromeda Strain
2. The Terminal Man
3. The Great Train Robbery
4. Eaters of the Dead
5. Congo
6. Sphere
7. Jurassic Park
8. Rising Sun
9. Disclosure
10. The Lost World
11. Airframe
12. Timeline
13. Prey
14. State of Fear
15. Next
16. Pirate Latitudes
17. Micro

Matthew Reilly

[Standalone]
1. Contest
2. Temple
3. Hover Car Racer

[Shane Schofield series]
1. Ice Station
2. Area 7
3. Hell Island
4. Scarescrow
5. Scarescrow and the Army of Thieves

[Jack West JR series]
1. Seven Deadly Wonders ~on loan~
2. Six Sacred Stones
3. Five Greatest Warriors

Clive Cussler

1. Mayday

2. Iceberg

3. Raise the Titanic

4. Vixen 03
5. Night Probe
6. Treasure
7. Dragon

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

[Standalone]

1. Mount Dragon

2. Riptide

3. Thunderhead

4. Ice Limit

[Pendergast series]
1. Relic
2. Reliquary
3. The Cabinet of Curiosities
4. Still Life with Crows

5. Brimstone

6. Dance of Death

7. Book of the Dead

8. Wheel of Darkness

9. Cemetery Dance
10. Fever Dream
11. Cold Vengeance

[Gideon Series]
1. Gideon's Sword
2. Gideon's Corpse

Douglas Preston

1. Tyrannosaur Canyon

Lincoln Child

1. Utopia

Arthur Clarke

[Space Odyssey series]

1. 2001: Space Odyssey
2. 2010: Odyssey Two
3. 2061: Odyssey Three
4. 3001: Final Odyssey

[Rama series]

1. Rendezvous with Rama

2. Rama Revealed

3. Rama II

4. The Garden of Rama

[Time Odyssey]
1. Time's Eye
2. Sunstorm
3. Firstborn

[Standalone]

1. Childhood's End

2. Islands in the Sky

3. Earthlight

4. The Sands of Mars

5. The Last Theorem

6. Deep Range

7. The City and the Star

Isaac Asimov

[Foundation Series]
1. Foundation
2. Foundation and Empire
3. Second Foundation
4. Foundation's Edge
5. Foundation and Earth
6. Prelude to Foundation
7. Forward the Foundation

[Robot Series]
1. The Caves of Steel
2.The Naked Sun
3. The Robots of Dawn

Lonely Planet series

1. Australia
2. Siem Reap (The Encounter)
3. Vietnam4. Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei
5. Taiwan

6. Italy

Travel Books
1. 你家沙發借我睡 (Ken Lin)
2. 旅行的定义 (Ken Lin)
3. 彳亍地平线1 （林悦）
4. 彳亍地平线2 （林悦）
5. 我的私房地图1（林悦）
6. 我的私房地图2（林悦）

7. 再穷也要去旅行

8. 熙游万里

9. 你，就是冒险王 （王宥胜）

10. 背包十年 （小鹏）

George Martin

1. A Game of Thrones

2. A Clash of Kings

3. A Storm of Swords

4. A Feast of Crows
5. A Dance of Dragons

Robert Charles Wilson

1. Spin ~reviewed~
2. Axis ~reviewed~
3. Vortex
4. Mysterium

5. Chronoliths

Stephenie Meyer

1. Twilight
2. New Moon ~on loan~
3. Eclipse
4. Breaking Dawn

5. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

6. The Host

Dan Brown

1. Digital Fortress
2. Angel and Demon
3. Deception Point
4. Da Vinci Code

5. Lost Symbol

Stephen King

1. Skeleton Crew

[The Dark Tower]
1. The Gunslinger
2. The Drawing of the Three

Star Wars Expanded Universe

1. Star Wars Trilogy
2. Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
3. Jedi Twilight (Coruscant Nights series)
4. Street of Shadows (Coruscant Nights series)
5. Shadows of the Empire

6. Allies

Christopher Paolini

1. Eragon
2. Eldest
3. Brisingr
4. Inheritance

J. K. Rowling

1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Note: The first 4 books in the series are chinese version~

Christian Jacq

[The Ramses series]
1. The Son of the Light
2. The Temple of A Million Years
3. The Battle of Kadesh
4. The Lady of Abu Simbel
5. Under the Western Acacia

[The Queen of Freedom Trilogy]
1. The Empire of Darkness
2. War of the Crowns

1. Beneath the Pyramid
2. The Black Pharoah

Science Fiction

1. Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein)
2. Neuromancer (William Gibson)
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)

Various authors

1. Intruders (Michael Marshall)
2. Black Order (James Rollins)
3. The Rule of Four (I. Caldwell & D. Thomason)
4. PS, I Love You (Cecelia Ahern)
5. The Notebook (Nicholas Spark)
6. The Shack (Paul Young)
7. Battlestar Galactica (Jeffrey Carver)
8. The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conon Doyle)

9. 127 Hours

Updates:

18 Jan 14: Asimov's Robot series
24 May 13: More books in Foundation Series
20 April 13: Scientice fiction section: Foundation, Stranger, Neuromancer, Hitchhiker
29 Oct 12: Gideon's Sword, Gideon's Corpse, Scarescrow and The Army of Thieves
21 May 12: Vortex, A Dance with Dragons, Cold Vengeance, Night Probe, Treasure, Dragon
9 May 12: Micro
29 Nov 11: Game of Thrones series, Raise the Titanic, Preston & Child's two novels, Robert Charles Wilson's two novels

26 Aug 11: 熙游万里

22 May 11: Iceberg, Vixen 03, Rama series (4 books), Deep Range, 127 Hours, Book of the Dead.

18 May 11: Thunderhead, Dance of Death, Cemetery Dance, Italy, 我的私房地图2, Star Wars Allies, The Last Theorem, Childhood's End, Islands in the Sky, Earthlight, The Sands of Mars, Mayday.

25 Jul10： Utopia, Brimstone, Lost Symbol, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
28 May 10: Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Terminal Man, Rising Sun, Time's Eye, Sunstorm, Firstborn, 彳亍地平线2
26 April 10:Pirate Latitudes, Still Life with Crows, The Cabinet of Curiosities
24 April 10:Taiwan Lonely Planet, 彳亍地平线1，我的私房地图，再穷也要去旅行。Two new section were added: Travel Book, Arthur Clarke
28 Jan 10:Complete Sherlock Holmes,你家沙發借我睡, 旅行的定义. A new section "Lonely Planet" was added
20 Dec 09:5 Greatest Warrior (M Reilly)
11 August 09: Mount Dragon, Reliquary, Riptide (Preston + Child), Disclosure (Crichton), Skeleton Crew (King)
29 July 09: Chritopher Paolini: Brisingr was added
5 July 09: Matthew Reilly's Hell Island, Star Wars Shadows of the Empire, Christopher Paolini's Eldest, Battlestar Galactica were added.
23 Feb 09: Douglas Preston's Relic and The Ice Limit were added.
10 Dec: Stephenie Meyer's Eclipse and The Host were added.
12 Oct: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Coruscant Nights Series Book 1 and 2, Eragon, The Shack were added.
30 Sep: Stephenie Meyer's New Moon and Breaking Dawn were added.20 Sep: Stephen King's Dark Tower series and 5 novels under Various Authors were added.

Trying to make a collection of the novels I have, although it's not a big collection (yet :D), feel free to browse through the novel portal, and do let me know if you are interested in reading them. Borrowing is welcome~ I'm more than happy to share them with you rather than keeping them 'nicely' untouched in my book shelf. Again, this is another post which will be updated constantly. I will next time try to add a short note for each novel, to briefly explain what the novel is about.

Yoda backpack

I want this~!!!





where can buy~

Star Wars Force Unleashed and Dragon Quest IV

Just realized 2 more good games have just been released today, lol, but no time to play.


Long anticipated star wars game!!!! Finally can swing the light saber again~


Yet another SE remake. Where is the FFVII remake~

~Too many games, Too little time~

L.O.V.E in West Coast Park

First attempt to L.O.V.E, but something definitely went wrong with the L and E

Silence before the Storm (Final Fantasy X)

Dissidia: Final Fantasy

Blog Skin Portal

A will-be-constantly-updated entry where I gather all the skins previously used in my blog.

Pulau Perhentian [April 2013 ~ 2 June 2014]

Miri [from 27 August 2011 ~ 29 June 2012]

Taiwan [blogskin used for 17 March ~ 27 August 2011]

Phuket 2010-2011 [6 May 2010 ~ 17 March 2011]

Final Fantasy XIII [9 April 2010 ~ 6 May 2010]


Assassin's Creed 2 [3 February 2010 ~ 9 April 2010]


Uncharted 2 [11 December 2009 ~ 3 February 2010]


Dissidia Final Fantasy [10 September 2009 ~ 11 December 2009]

NUS Photo highlights [3 August ~ 10 September 2009]


Australia, Queensland [5 July ~ 3 August 2009]
~flash of 3 different banners~






Patapon2 [12 Mar ~ 5 July 2009]


Italy [27 Feb ~ 12 Mar 2009]


Lost [9 Jan ~ 27 Feb 2009]


Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories [9 Dec ~ 9 Jan 2009]


Twilight [13 Nov ~ 9 Dec 2008]


Final Fantasy IV [20 Sep ~ 13 Nov 2008]


Star Wars Episode I-VI [7 Sep ~ 20 Sep 2008]


Characters from Final Fantasy VII - XIII [8 July ~ 7 Sep 2008]


Alone in the Dark (PS2) [23 June ~ 8 July 2008]


Final Fantasy III (DS) [8 May ~ 23 June 2008]


Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings (DS) [1 May ~ 8 May 2008]


First skin of Alan Game Portal ~The World Ends with You (DS) [29 April ~ 1 May 2008]


2nd skin (also the last one before the merge of alanpp and alangp)


First skin of alan piano portal

New look (combining alanpp.com and alangameportal.com)

Just decided to combine my 2 portal (piano portal and game portal) together into this, with title Alan's Piano and Game portal, but retaining original url: alanpp.blogspot.com.

It was during the last school holiday when I created the 2 separate blogs because I have a lot of free time, but as time goes by, I feel more and more unnecessary to update 2 blogs, not to mention time has become so precious now after school has started. And thus this decision of combining 2 blogs into one.

Fews features of alangameportal are brought into here, including the constant change of the top blog skin (blog skin more or less related to what I'm current doing, could be games, movie etc), and list of the games.

As for the blog entries in alangameportal, selected entries will be transferred here in the future.