Friday, March 27, 2009

Nobuo Uematsu coming to Singapore~ :D

Yup. He will be attending the Distant World concert in Singapore.
There will be two concerts in May, and the third concert is added because the tickets for the 2 concerts were sold out. And now, (according to the Square Enix news), the third concert tickets were also sold out too. Wow, so many Final Fantasy music fans in Singapore...... XD

Never thought Uematsu will come to the concert in Singapore. Now have a chance to finally see this legendary music composer~!

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Going to Vanadiel again

Just decided that I will reactivate my Final Fantasy XI account again. Start playing this in my STPM year, wow, that's so many year back then. Have been deactivate and reactivate my account for don't know how many times. I last deactivate it I think 2 years ago, in 2007. Not really wanna quit the game, but I lost the password that time, and I lazy to retrieve it (need to make a call to Square Enix service centre in US >_<), and that's when and why I quit the game. Most of FF friends have left the game already.

A few friends have recently just joined back the game. And now suddenly feel like to play again. Really miss those days in Vanadiel. Mining for ores for hours, spending hours just to look for partners to fight monsters, solo monster as Beastmaster (my favourite job)................

FFXI was a really good experience for me, it's not just a game, more like another virtual life (I know people gonna say I'm addicted to the online game ha. Ya, I think I was). Truth is, I really spent (or waste XD) alot time in FFXI. Alot. Really alot. Ha. I still remember alot thing.

-Was doing the Bastok dragon mission, but I have not had Chocobo license yet, then Kwan and Ceres have to bring me walking from one continent to another.
-Speaking of chocobo, I remembers I got my chocobo license during school exam period. Getting the license required 5 hours waiting (have to feed the chocobo every hour). So I fed it, then I did revision for exam while waiting, then fed again the next hour. Ha.
-I was leveling my Bard in Valkum (level 11-20) and doing mining work in Zehrun Mine during STPM exam period.
-Was so frustrated that I couldn't play FFXI when I went NUS (the hostel network somehow block it)
-Woke up 6am in the morning to hunt Joyeuse with Kwan and Ceres
-Did my first BCNM as Bard with several people from New Mexico, and one of them fell asleep half way through the BCNM, because I think it was around 4-5pm my time, but midnight their time ha
-Uncountable missions and quests with Linkshell people especially the non stop levelling session with Peter (Dark Knight), Kwan (Ninja), Ceres (Red Mage). Me as (Bard)

Now I already can't wait anymore till I log in again. But first thing, gonna finish my thesis. Going to submit it 2 weeks laters, and 2 weeks later, just 2 more weeks until I will be freed~!

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Coming Soon

Just watched this Thai horror movie called Coming Soon. The movie name is quite confusing at first. I first saw the trailer on the bus going back to Kota Tinggi, then for the whole trailer, I didn't notice the title of the movie, just a small 'Coming soon' at the corner. Then I was thinking: what kind of trailer is this, never show us the movie title but only letting us know it's coming soon. A friend of mine is even more funny. She told me the other day she and her friend saw this movie poster at the cinema, then,

A: Got Thai horror movie, but don't know what movie.
B: Yalo, and it's coming soon le.
A: Next time can come watch.

~.~ It's not until few days then I told her actually the movie is called Coming Soon. Ha.



Onto the movie itself
I think this movie is really good. Got a pretty good plot. Coming Soon is about a few people were haunted by a ghost in a movie called Revengeful Spirit after they watched that movie. The ghost in the movie has a very scary look, especially the red bloody eyes. As always, I think a horror movie is good if the story is strong, not jus because the there is a lot scary scenes or those bloody violence scene like those in hollywood horror movies. I watched most of the horror movies by this director, and I think the scariest one is Ghostgame and Shuttle, then followed by Coming Soon. A friend told me Ghostgame is not that scary, but she watched it at home, DVD. Brother told me Shuttle is not scary, because he watched the US version >_<
Horror movies,, must watch in cinema and must watch original Thai version~!

There are several trivial things in Coming Soon which I find it rather interesting. In Coming Soon, there are 2 scenes in the cinema, and people were watching horror movie, and the movie was 4bia (another movie by this director). Speaking of 4bia, I think although 4bia is not the scariest among his work, I think I like 4bia the most, story-wise. 4 stories, except for the 2nd story with violence as main theme, the other 3 stories were very good.

People said those who watched horror movies are those who spend money to buy torture for themselves. But for me, I think I 'yue kan yue qi jing'.

Here are Thai horror movies which I have watched, and I think are worth mentioned and recommended:
1. Shuttle
2. Ghostgame
3. 4bia
4. Coming soon
5. Alone
6. Body 19

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Black or White (American Idol 8)

Somebody just sang Michael Jackson's Black or White in last week American Idol 8. Best performance of that night I think. His sound is even more gay than Michael Jackson~
Anyway, really good. Enjoy.



And of course, the original Black or White by Michael Jackson. One of his best MV~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d99bcQaH6ts

Friday, March 13, 2009

Haruo Takino

Arts by Haruo Takino.

Dinosaurs


Noah's Ark

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Artificial life

A: Artificial life, it could be here among us, evolving.

B: Electron chasing each other in the circuit? That isn't life.

A: Yeah, but what are we but impulses, electrical and chemical, through a bag of meat and bones?

X-Files S05E11 Kill Switch

Friday, March 6, 2009

Interesting clip on TV mobile

The other day I was on bus 165 from school to AMK, I was randomly shuffling the FFXI songs in ipod. Then it played Tarutaru Female theme.
Strange thing happened. The song ended, but I was still hearing it, the same melody.
I started to feel paranoid abit, and looked around.
Ahha, the song was from the short animation clip on TV mobile.
What a coincidence~
I think it was a clip by JC or Poly students.
It was about a hamster in the wild and its life.
I paid no attention to the plot, it's the music which get my attention.
After the Tarutaru theme, several other Final Fantasy songs were used too.
Gold Saucer (FF7)
Cinco de Chocobo (FF7)
Chocobo racing theme (FF11)
I think the animation ended with the Blue Rhapsody if I'm not wrong.
Nice.

The Tarutaru Female theme


Tarutaru Female {ffXI} - Kumi Tanioka