Woot, booked out today (friday). after some crazy field camp. imagine carrying 20kg of load and running. CAN DIE AH.
then when i come back on thurs from field camp i learn about all the army-related deaths.. i'm just .. sad. i mean, what the hell la. these kids are so young (lol i'm talking like i'm some old uncle) and because of something they were forced to go through (NS BAH. )they .. die.
but it's really very scary la, seeing how people are so susceptible to cardiac arrest and heat exhaustion (got quite a few cases but i think they cover up =X oops did i leak a secret. ok la not they cover up, just that it never leaked out.) , there are SO many times in army when you just literally feel like dying.
Like today, climbing up some steep hill to do some firing from the top, and all the sergeants were like 'HURRY UP )!@*(#!(*JSD" when it was obviously not possible to try to hurry any faster as the ground was slippery and climbing up wasn't easy. I was just waiting for someone to collapse of exhaustion.. then the sergeants will get into trouble. rawr.
Anyway, i just wanted to comment that the Comfort taxi booking service is quite good. i don't know if it was the M1 tracker or their tracker, but when i called just now they actually knew where i was (the answering machine) . And i think they keep records of repeat callers, cos i didn't give my name but the taxi uncle knew my name.
To end, i dont know who the hell 'passerby' is or why he is so interested in my blog (i banned his IP but he used some other com to access), if the arguments continue i'll just delete all msgs, but his recent comment was freaking funny:
"aruging on the internet is like running in the special olympics. Even if you win, you are still retarded."
HAHAHHA.
Friday 13 June 2008
Saturday 7 June 2008
conclusions
i came to many conclusions today.
Firstly, i conclude that specialists are super money suckers. They earn money quicker than you can blink. Before you can say the amount which they have earned, they've already earned more than that. Try it. say 'Two - hun- dred"
Too late. They've already earned three hundred.
i just went for my 2nd spec visit at Mount E, did a skin test and a short 5 minute talk with the doctor. Guess how much that cost? $210. + the report which costs $150.
?!?!
that equates to about 500 dollars an hour (ignoring the cost of the report)
what kinda ridiculous nonsense!
Well, apparently i'm allergic to dust and some other stuff. They poke me 11 times with some tiny thing on my forearm.. and some areas had swelling, etc. So.. the doctor's gonna write a report to my army doctor. and i'll most likely carry on with the course cos everything is too minor for the army doctor to downpes me. :(
sigh.
Second conclusion i made - one 4gb memory card is not enough for a PSP.
Come on, one game is already around 600-1gb. Let's take the average of 800mb. That only fits 5 games! Add on the fact that you will have songs and videos you want, sometimes movies that you want to store.
I'm seriously struggling with the tiny piece of space. Now it only fits Winning eleven, crisiscore(which i'm seriously considering deleting but it seems like a waste), tonyhawk (which i havent touched in a long time. cant clear mission), bomberman.
Left 400mb which fits nothing. besides maybe an episode of prison break.
I NEED A NEW MEMORY CARD
but guess what, one measly 4gb mem card costs about 70 dollars.
!!!
(i'm trying to draw wings on the dollar but am failing badly)
thirdly, i'm really lousy at warcraft now.
played about 6 games today, lost 4 only won 2. The games that i lost were highly frustrating too. They were not against players of better skill or considerably better. Just.. i played BAD.
So it was highly frustrating. Hence i stopped playing and am here blogging.
Well, i'm also converting Vantage Point to PSP-playable format so i can watch it in camp tmr. haha.
Lastly, amanda is really really bad at bomberman.
word.
Firstly, i conclude that specialists are super money suckers. They earn money quicker than you can blink. Before you can say the amount which they have earned, they've already earned more than that. Try it. say 'Two - hun- dred"
Too late. They've already earned three hundred.
i just went for my 2nd spec visit at Mount E, did a skin test and a short 5 minute talk with the doctor. Guess how much that cost? $210. + the report which costs $150.
?!?!
that equates to about 500 dollars an hour (ignoring the cost of the report)
what kinda ridiculous nonsense!
Well, apparently i'm allergic to dust and some other stuff. They poke me 11 times with some tiny thing on my forearm.. and some areas had swelling, etc. So.. the doctor's gonna write a report to my army doctor. and i'll most likely carry on with the course cos everything is too minor for the army doctor to downpes me. :(
sigh.
Second conclusion i made - one 4gb memory card is not enough for a PSP.
Come on, one game is already around 600-1gb. Let's take the average of 800mb. That only fits 5 games! Add on the fact that you will have songs and videos you want, sometimes movies that you want to store.
I'm seriously struggling with the tiny piece of space. Now it only fits Winning eleven, crisiscore(which i'm seriously considering deleting but it seems like a waste), tonyhawk (which i havent touched in a long time. cant clear mission), bomberman.
Left 400mb which fits nothing. besides maybe an episode of prison break.
I NEED A NEW MEMORY CARD
but guess what, one measly 4gb mem card costs about 70 dollars.
!!!
(i'm trying to draw wings on the dollar but am failing badly)
thirdly, i'm really lousy at warcraft now.
played about 6 games today, lost 4 only won 2. The games that i lost were highly frustrating too. They were not against players of better skill or considerably better. Just.. i played BAD.
So it was highly frustrating. Hence i stopped playing and am here blogging.
Well, i'm also converting Vantage Point to PSP-playable format so i can watch it in camp tmr. haha.
Lastly, amanda is really really bad at bomberman.
word.
Friday 6 June 2008
Game Review: Crisis Core
So, after playing this game for 2-3 odd weeks , let me just do a short review on it.
The gameplay is entirely different from the normal Final Fantasy gameplay, in case you didn't already know. Rather, it's more of an RPG style format.. if you can even call it RPG.
OK let me touch on the good points first.
The graphics are , well, up to expectations. Detailed and impressive cinematics are part and parcel of the game.
Ok, good points over.
Gameplay is ridiculously simple, with much of it being quite possible to just play with one hand and pressing 'X'. The game creators try to throw in some variety with several minigames along the way.. but they're just too few and rare.
Storyline is a little draggy, and the animation by each character is extremely fixed. For instance, Zack has a folding arm animation which he does in every other cinematics.
The interaction with the environment is absolutely terrible. For instance.. there are invisible boundaries set.. so if you just press forward towards a seemingly open grass area, if that area has a boundary, you'll just move sideways when you hit the boundary.
There is not much you can do besides run in a more or less straight path. (i.e. you can't get lost) You can't jump, you can't walk off a cliff.
Monster spawn points can be highly irritating. There are some points on the map which are fixed monster points.. meaning when you walk into it you will enter combat mode and fight them. But if you just step slightly out and step back into the monster spawn point, they'll spawn again and you have to fight them again even though you just fought them.
This makes it highly irritating where sometimes you move out to open a chest and when you carry on you have to fight again.
The missions in the game are totally unrelated from the storyline and have a paradoxical effect - they're probably there to break the monotony of the game, but they are SO DAMN boring that they make it extremely monotonous to complete all the missions.
Well the 'aim' of each mission is different with a different story(or reason) for each mission.. but they ALL involve just running through a level(mini area) and killing all the monsters. Once you do that.. mission accomplished. -_-
furthermore, the level is extremely small, hence making it very easy to complete. The difficulty level only varies in the difficulty of the monsters present.
All in all, i would say.. it's not a very good game to play, unless you're into FF storylines and just want to watch the cinematics. Poor and boring gameplay, draggy storyline, low environmental interaction = 3/10
The gameplay is entirely different from the normal Final Fantasy gameplay, in case you didn't already know. Rather, it's more of an RPG style format.. if you can even call it RPG.
OK let me touch on the good points first.
The graphics are , well, up to expectations. Detailed and impressive cinematics are part and parcel of the game.
Ok, good points over.
Gameplay is ridiculously simple, with much of it being quite possible to just play with one hand and pressing 'X'. The game creators try to throw in some variety with several minigames along the way.. but they're just too few and rare.
Storyline is a little draggy, and the animation by each character is extremely fixed. For instance, Zack has a folding arm animation which he does in every other cinematics.
The interaction with the environment is absolutely terrible. For instance.. there are invisible boundaries set.. so if you just press forward towards a seemingly open grass area, if that area has a boundary, you'll just move sideways when you hit the boundary.
There is not much you can do besides run in a more or less straight path. (i.e. you can't get lost) You can't jump, you can't walk off a cliff.
Monster spawn points can be highly irritating. There are some points on the map which are fixed monster points.. meaning when you walk into it you will enter combat mode and fight them. But if you just step slightly out and step back into the monster spawn point, they'll spawn again and you have to fight them again even though you just fought them.
This makes it highly irritating where sometimes you move out to open a chest and when you carry on you have to fight again.
The missions in the game are totally unrelated from the storyline and have a paradoxical effect - they're probably there to break the monotony of the game, but they are SO DAMN boring that they make it extremely monotonous to complete all the missions.
Well the 'aim' of each mission is different with a different story(or reason) for each mission.. but they ALL involve just running through a level(mini area) and killing all the monsters. Once you do that.. mission accomplished. -_-
furthermore, the level is extremely small, hence making it very easy to complete. The difficulty level only varies in the difficulty of the monsters present.
All in all, i would say.. it's not a very good game to play, unless you're into FF storylines and just want to watch the cinematics. Poor and boring gameplay, draggy storyline, low environmental interaction = 3/10
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