Dream

A dream is an answer to a question we haven't learned how to ask

[Paper Hearts X-Files S04E10]

Lost ~Expose

Have been watching a lot episodes of Lost season 3 these few days, and finally finished the whole season 3 today. While most of the episodes are real good, one particular episode "Expose" is among those which left me more impression.

At the beginning of this episode, they found Nikki and Paulo died but without no knowing the reason. There were no animal bite, no gunshot wound, no nothing, and both of them died with their eyes opened wide. Then throughout the episode, slowly revealed is how they 'die'. Well, actually they were not dead, but everyone else in the camp thought they were. They were just paralyzed by spider venom. Nikki used spider to paralyzed Paulo so that she could steal back the diamond, but accidentally, Nikki herself got paralyzed by spider too. So they appear stoned, heart beats slow down and appeared dead. Paralysis persisted for 8 hours. But everyone else did not know that, and they were preparing for their funerals and burying them. >_<

So Nikki and Paulo were well aware of what was going on. They knew people thought they were dead, people were actually burying them alive. How does it feel like when you are laying down beside a fresh digged grave, waiting to be buried? Creepy

Even till end of the episode, I still hope that they will suddenly open their eye right before the others covered the sand on the body. Climax of the episode huh....... but I was wrong. They really did get buried alive -_- and end of the story~

Dissidia

A PSP game which reunites characters from all final fantasy games from FFI till FFXII. Can't wait until mid 2009 when it will be released.


Cecil (FF4), Squall (8), Frion (2), Zidane (9), Warrior of Light (1), I don't know him (5), Tidus (10), Cloud (7), Tina (6), and Onion Knight (3)


Heroes group


Villain group

Moblin Menagerie- Movalpolos

Moblin Menagerie - Movalpolos - Naoshi Mizuta & Kasumi Oga




(Pictures by Selece ~http://www.kachosen.com/FFXI/transworld.htm)

Eragon

This is my first try on novel of fantasy genre. It is suprisingly good. Watched the movie first when it was released in 2006, and it's not until recently then I bought this book from Acmamall online shop (because of the good promotion XD).



Movie vs Novel, I think the novel is better (as always). More details in the novel, but some parts are left out in the movie, and a few new stuff were added in too. The fight between the blue dragon Saphira and the bad guy Durza's dark magic dragon is new. Unless I accidentally miss that part in the book, this fight is added purposely for the movie, which I think is very nice, because I think the original version, the fight between Durza and Eragon (without the dragons) is kinda boring and short.



Parts that are left out in movie include:
- the werecats part
- the part when Arya was unconscious during the desert journey

Something got me confused all the time when I read the novel is, the difference between Razac and Urgul. I think one of them (or both) is a kind of orc species, and another is human kind. Hmm.... time to watch the movie again~

In short, this is a very well written novel, but expect lengthy details about the history of the Alagaesia (the world in this novel) and the history of dragon rider, which cover a pretty large portion in the book. Action parts were pretty decent though. Anyway, it's the history part that interests me more.

Kuishinbo

The queue at the Kuishinbo at 5.30pm. Where do all these people come from XD


My favourite: unagi, maguro, salmon and the must-try-crab. Always wonder how many salmons are killed at Kuishinbo each day~


Too many desserts


Very healthy vege soup ordered by Andrew

Too busy eating till forget to take any photo of us~

Just another day in lab

My messy table in the lab


Myself


Yanbin with his buffer for SDS GE


Yanbin, myself and Bao Yun who was busy doing stuff behind

Liszt Liebestraum

Liszt (Liberace) - Liebestraum - Liszt

Boss

大部分的老闆都不知道原來當老闆不如想像那樣美好。當他們陰錯陽差的當上了老闆之後，他會立刻發現自己要懂得如何看懂財務報表、如何逃漏稅、如何週轉資金、如何控制成本、如何哄騙客戶、如何蒙蔽股東、如何欺瞞下屬 ....這些都是他之前從沒做過的複雜事，遠遠超出他的腦袋所能負荷，所以老闆們的大腦會立刻啟動防禦機制：將自己的智商降到國小程度，這樣這些複雜煩人的事情就不至於讓他們想撞牆而死。

但是在這樣的前提之下，老闆就很容易造成許多災難。因為智商退化，所以他對於所有細節都不清楚，但是不幸的，為了鞏固老闆崇高的地位，他也必須對很多事提出 自己的意見，而這些意見大多只是個人的偏好，完全容不下任何異己，更慘的是你還不能不聽！



無知的老闆總是亂給建議，員工也不敢違抗，只能苦了自己

Loco Roco 2

A very cute PSP game that I would recommend for everyone. You control the color ball by tilting the world using L and R button. Very creative idea. And now the second Loco Roco game is out. More features are added like flying, swimming and many more minigames.



Music are cute and fitted well for this game.

Bajumbo moi noi noi jecker

Dabatto bunkergait jun jun

Nora juere-rotto pura-pura petto

Puraret dum dum

Paruranoi noi noi jecker

Dabatto bunkerget tum tum

Ora poerketino bookertan tan-tan-so

Bokertyo kyenturanai mimani unlahood-cha-la

Terra hooki-ra pishi-to diki-ra poody-to

Seni-kidi koseibo

Kokorenkyo kyenturanai mimani unlalhood-cha-la

Terra hooki-ra shishi-sho tusura hajiki yo…

Chopin Etude Op. 25 No. 1 (Aeolian Harp)

First piece in the Op.25 etudes, and also one of my favourite among Op.25's.

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2

Another game in the Ivalice Alliance (after FF Tactics in PS1, FF Tactics Advance in GBA, FFXII in PS2, FFXII-2 in DS and FF Tactics War of the Lion in PSP). Those games are all connected in someway. Storywise, I'm not sure how they are linked, but all the games take place in the same world Ivalice, but different time.

Game was released in June o8, and got this game along with other great games like FFIV. That's why it's not until last week when I decided to play it. And since then, I have been playing it everyday ha. Haven't finished this game yet, but I could say, this is a 'must-play' nds game.

Gameplay
The game ability learning system reminds me of FFIX. In both of these games, to learn an ability, you need to equip a weapon or armor to learn its ability by gaining ability point after battle. Once you have learnt it, the ability stays with you even after you unequip that weapon/armor. Kinda like such system. Battle can be abit long, when there are too many monsters, and you need to watch every move of them to reach your turn, when it's get even more frustrated when you have 'slow' effect on you (or haste effect on them). I still remember yesterday I fought a battle on my way from home to Jusco. I started the battle in KT, and when I beat that one single battle, I almost reach Jusco~ The battle was hellishly long, but it was also very fun to play.



Graphic and Music
Environment is beautiful. Graphic wise, nothing to complain about for a ds game. Animation of magics and abilities are pretty well done too. And the music is actually very good. Composed by H. Sakimoto (he did music for FFXII and FFXII-2 too). Some reused musics from FFXII too. Anyway, nice OST overall.

Pictures show 1) Thunder magic and 2) Curaga magic being casted.

Story
Plot is so far nothing very spectacular, but certainly not a boring one. More to be updated~

Defintely worth to try this game out. It's a strategy game which requires some patience and thinking. After getting into 1-2 battles, you gonna know if this game is for you or not. You are either gonna like it alot and get addicted, or find it boring and keep it away immediately.

Blood of Bahamut

Mozart Sonata No8 in A minor, K310

I was not familiar with this sonata, and I'm pretty sure I have only listened to this song once when I shuffle my ipod songs like many months ago. So there is no way I remember the melody of this song well. But....................., few days ago, in my dream, I heard this sonata, and of course I didn't know the song that I was listening during the dream was this Mozart sonata K310, but after I woke up, I was sure I knew that song somewhere sometimes. And so searching through my ipod classical songs, and I found it.

~Another wonder of the dream~

NUS to Ang Mo Kio

It has been one week since I moved to Ang Mo Kio from Jurong. That week (when I was busy with moving house stuff) was also my busiest week in school of this whole semester. Bad coincidence. 2 presentation projects and 1 termpaper all due within that same week. Tired like hell. Glad that all these have ended already~

Last week I have been trying many different bus route from AMK to NUS, hoping to find the best way to go NUS. First attempt was bus 74 from AMK interchange to SIM, then change 151 to reach NUS YIH, as suggested by Serene. But to take such route, I have to take another bus from my place to interchange, change to 74, then to 151, and reach YIH, to take NUS shuttle bus to reach my lab. 4 buses~ lol This route take abit more than 1.5 hours.

Frustrated with the bus waiting time (the bus journey isn't long, the the waiting time for 4 different buses is killing), I decided to find different way. So i take bus 165 from my place to clementi interchange (suggested by Dad). On the way from AMK to Clementi, I accidentally saw 151, but I didn't change, as I want to know how long is it to reach Clementi, and very soon, I regretted it. To reach Clementi interchange, it takes more than 45 minutes, not to mention the waiting for bus 96 to reach NUS central library. And so, this route is another big NO-NO.

But there is 151 that meet 165 somewhere on the way. So that day i tried taking 151 from nus, then change to 165 afew bus stops before SIM. On the way on 165 to AMK, miraclely I saw 95!!!

So the next day, I take 165 to Holland V and change to 95, which take me to my lab bus stop, lol. and the whole journey takes only 1 hour (counted in the bus waiting time + traffic jam).

Anyway, just wanna share with you the best buses to take if you wanna go from NUS to AMK.
From NUS, take 95 to a bus stop right after the bus turns out from Holland V, then go to the opposite bus stop to take 165 to reach AMK. 165 distance and 74 distance to reach AMK is about the same, but bus 74 will pass by SIM, Ngee Ann, and some JC (including Hwa Chong). So many students. Maybe it takes longer to wait for those students alighting at each bus stop.

Well, I almost forget to mention about my own place in AMK. It's 2 bus stops away from AMK Hub and interchange. Cathay cinema, Cristofori, YCK Swimming pool are all nearby. Another good thing is, now going back to Malaysia is even easier from AMK. Shorter distance, compared to that from Jurong, and not to mentioned sometimes got car to go back~ lol

Whose Job

Found this interesting stuff in the EM lab this morning, an article titled Whose Job

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody will do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it, ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Forbidden

"As One Tale Ends" from The Forbidden Kingdom OST



~first on mid-Autumn~
~second on pre-Deepavali~

Piano Concerto Extravaganza

NUS music school students really did a great performance yesterday, and many of the pieces performed are my favourite piano concertos, like Chopin No.1 and Rachmaninov No.2. Too bad there was only movement 1 of Chopin Piano Concerto No.1, and I like movement 3 more. But still, the mvt1 was very well played. It's sis's favourite, too bad she couldn't come ha. And I think the best piece in the concert would be Rachmaninov's piano concerto No.2 especially movement 3. No better word to describe it, and I think I almost float when the pianist was performing the piece.

Enjoy the movement 3 of Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2



Piano Concerto Extravaganza 14 Oct 2008

Bach Concerto in D minor I. Allegro risoluto
Chopin Concerto No.2 in F minor, Op. 21. II. Larghetto
Chopin Fantasie on Polish Airs, Op. 13
Rachmaninov Concerto No. 2 in C minor. II. Adagio sostenuto
Rachmaninov Concerto No. 2 in C minor. III. Allegro scherzando
Beethoven Concerto No. 3 in C minor. I. Allegro con brio
Chopin Concerto No. 1 in E minor. I. Allegro maestoso
Rachmaninov Concerto No. 1 in F# minor. III. Allegro vivace
Prokofiev Concerto NO. 3 in C major. III. Allegro ma non troppo

凉皮 (Cold skin)

Today just had this kind of weird food called 凉皮. When the lab people mentioned about it to me, I don't understand a thing. I asked: which 'liang', which 'pi', and also asked is it meat or vegetable, lol. And so they decided to order it from outside (a chinese restaurant), and had it as lunch today.

And so Yanbing went out to get our order (they can deliver to any MRT station), and when I first see the 凉皮, the first thing that comes into my mind is: isn't it Hor Fun???

But of course it's not (but really looks similar). From what I know from them, 凉皮 is very common 小吃 in China, and they like it very much. It's made from flour (if i'm not wrong lol) and added with special source (they mention about 7 ingredients, but I only remember vinegar), and cucumber, bean sprout, and chili. Also, as the name implies, it is somewhat cold when taken.

Most importantly, it tastes good. But it become very sour when almost finishing. I think I din mix the source well. I told them I 越吃越酸, Yong Ming replied: ah, 你越吃越爽?!! lol. But all of them really 越吃越爽, they can finish everything, including the source.


Me and Chun Xia


Me and Bao Yun


Bao Yun, Me, Yanbing, Lei Ya, Yong Ming, Chun Xia

TV series

The Clone Wars


Latest in star wars franchise, but this time it's in 3D animation showing every week started from last Friday. Story takes place in between the movie Episode II and III. Nice add-on to the star wars series, but this animation is more for the children. Anyway I still like it a lot. (as long as it's star wars XD)

~Watch it if you are star wars fans, if you are not, hmm, probably no ha~



Battlestar Galactica



It's about the rebellion of cybernetic race (created by human themselves) called Cylon, and after the sneak attack of Cylon on the human colonies, human flew into the space in spacecraft, trying to find new habitable planet while resisting and escaping from Cylon's constant attack. The best thing about this series is that, there are tonnes of surprises, and there are suspenses at the end of almost all the episodes. You can't stop watching it, one episode after another.

There are 4 seasons so far, and the next coming episode will be released next year January.

~One of the best series, you can't stop watching it once you start, ha~



Heroes



My favourite show among all. Just watched the first few episodes of the new season 3 (started since 2-3 weeks ago), and it's good. Still as good as previous season, if not better. One thing i dislike about the plot is that Peter keep messing with the time, the past and the future, confusing, and annoying. Nice thing in this new season include: Suresh's becoming, the reveal of Angela Petrelli's ability finally, and there are so many unexplained things now like the appearance of the old man (whose ability is to bring back others' life), fate of Claire (is she becoming villain), and the yet another Jessica's appearance.

Terminator: Sarah Connor's Chronicle



Prison Break



It's season 4 now, and after a few episodes, I think this series is really getting boring. Too much expectation maybe, because season 1 was so good.