i hate being sick

K IM Using MY PHONE TO TYPE THIS N IVE NO IDEA WHY ITS ALL IN CAPS. ANNOYING THE SHIT OUT OF ME. ANYWAY, MY HEAD IS SPINNING, IT HURTS, N IVE SLEPT ABT 19HOURS IN THE PAST 24 HOURS. I HAATE BEIN SICK.

king louis

Met up with bestie for dinner yesterday at vivo.. and also cut my hair!

omg i'm damn sad! my hair super short now :( and it's not nice!! i don't know why he cut until so short. next time i have to state specifically I DONT WANT IT SHORT. !@#!%^6 sigh it's like not even stylable now. so freaking short.

Anyway, we decided to try out a new place to eat (more of I wanted to =X ) , so we went to this place called King's Louis Pub and Grill. (or grill and pub i can't remember). It's like hidden in some ulu corner of vivo, next to Daiso.




The whole theme is pretty cool, like the medieval era. Even the cups are like those from that time.

I wish i had taken a picture of the place inside.. but i scared ha. like very weird. the lightning was dim, to give it like some.. olden days ambience. So dim that bestie with lao hua yan was complaining she couldn't read the menu properly ha.


And the big catch is that -- You buy 2 meals, you get the 3rd one free!! like wow! (this offer is valid from Sun-Tues) So we ordered our 3 meals:






We had 2 kebab meals, and mine was some chicken thing.


Cool right the plates. and the portions are quite big! In the end bestie couldln't finish hers and had to dabao some of her kebab. I didn't really like the kebab though, the meat was too dry and hard to swallow for me. The spices and sauce also wasn't that fantastic.

And the service wasn't really good at first? We walked in and sat down and for a good 1-2 minutes noone came to us. Until finally we signalled to the waitress and she came over.
And their waitresses are.. very noob?

It's like they had that buy 2 get 3rd free promotion, so we wanted to clarify if it was really true cos it sounded too good to be true. Then basically everything we asked, she will be like 'er let me go and ask'. Even this obvious promotion thing!

Then we were wondeirng which 2 will we pay for.. logically they'll make us pay for the 2 most expensive one right, so we just clarify it, and she told us we choose any 2 the 3rd one will be free! (which turned out to be wrong of course, we were right)

Then there was this 'free flow of soft drinks' promotion, so we asked her do we get it. And once again , she didn't know and had to go and ask. (it applied only for their 'banquet menu' which is this 66 bucks set for 2 ppl.)

And lastly, our meals supposedly came with 'either curly fries (which are basically the exact replica of Mcdonalds Twister fries) or golden wedges'. So i wanted 2 sets wedges and 1 curly fries (why do i wanna eat mcdonalds twister fries at some restaurant)... but while she went to clarify our promotion thing (if it was buy 2 get 3rd free) she already placed the order.

So... when she came back with our iced water (after we found out soft drinks were not free flow since we didn't order the banquet) i asked her about it. And she was like 'oh yea oh yea! sorry ' so i told her we wanted 2 wedges 1 fries.

But still, our meals came with all 3 curly fries -_-

anw, their young manager (i think he is, he seemed like it) came over once to ask us how was the food, so did the waitress. so i guess.. their service is OKAY ba. not good, but OK.
And i wonder what will they do if i told them that the chicken sucked. will they replace it? fire the chef? replace him? haha.

and one of the filipino waitresses was v chio! like those tv actress kind. serious! bestie told me to ask for number but of course being the shy boy i am i didn't. =X hahaha.

alright, time to enjoy my unemployed life.

a long rant about WoW

It doesn't matter if half of you (or most) don't understand what i'm talking about in this post, I just want to rant.

I'm SO tired of scrubs in WoW. I only started playing WoW last year Late May/June, and only played it as it sounded fun and i did have a partial attempt at it in JC1 (stopped at level 42[back then the cap was 60]) So i started playing again with the guide of one of my friends from army, and rapidly levelled to 80 by end of June (just checked, 26th June)

So i started raiding, in naxx, totally enjoying the experience. By my 2nd raid which i attended i was already Raid Leading it, mainly because it was hard to join a PuG with my then-heroicdungeons gear. So it forced me to learn the fights quickly (before i even dinged 80 i was already reading up all the fights in naxx, but reading only helps this much.. you need to personally experience it) so that i could properly lead the group and assign stuff. But i was lucky to have a few better players in those first few pugs who 'helped' me to lead.

As a Raid Leader, you are forced to try to monitor everything that's happening in the fight. It was pretty hard at first since as a starting healer, i had 'healer's vision' (i.e. healer tunnel vision) in the sense that iwas staring at raid frames to heal, it was hard to look at the fight.
Over time, i naturally developed a better sense of awareness of the fight, to the point now where i can give out instructions in RAID CHAT and still heal and monitor the fight. (thanks to my quick typing ability :p 140wpm kgo) Of course, it gets alot easier with Ventrilo, where i don't have to spam out 10 words in 2 seconds and can just yell in my mic.

Right now, my main aim of playing WoW is to clear content. I want to attempt the hardest fights and clear it, be among the front pack of elite players who clear content straight away when it comes out. My main focus is PROGRESSION ; i don't QQ about loot (much :p) since as a healer there isn't a very tangible advantage in a gear upgrade as compared to say, a DPS. (i.e. my HPS isn't going to go up by 50 because i upgraded my gloves. a healer's effectiveness is'nt purely dependant on HPS anyway)

Am i good player? I would like to think so. I learn a fight quickly, i have a good understanding of how fight mechanics work and how best to exploit them, I react quickly and intelligently in fights, and i don't make frequent stupid mistakes, if i even make them at all. (stupid mistakes =/= mistakes. A mistake is choosing FoL instead of HL to heal a raid member and he dies as a result of the incoming damage. A stupid mistake is getting gibbed by Icehowl's charge / Anub' s Spikes/ Twin's Vortex due to wrong colour, etc)

Am i the best/elite? No, I'm never satisfied with where I am. I always seek to improve my level of play, my DPS (on my alts), my healing done, my effectiveness in the raid, etc.

That said, it's appalling how SO MANY 'long-term' WoW players (i.e. people who played since vanilla wow / took a break sometime but came back) just FAIL outright in the above bolded statements. They react slowly, they make stupid mistakes periodically, they take countless wipes to learn a fight, they make stupid split-second decisions (or can't make them at all), they don't know how to exploit a fight, ETCETC. I could go on and on.

Is it THAT hard to do any of these? Is it hard to react to a Skull on your head and run the f*** out of the raid?

Just last night in my very own 10man group, my ele shaman Pockadot (@ Barthilas. yes, go blacklist him he's a fail. don't be fooled by his gear) died to Blistering Cold about 129387 times (even tried to ankh quickly after that so not everyone notices - but hey, as a healer obviously i notice who is alive and not) , the most significant stupid mistake was in the last wipe which i already announced was our last attempt. Talk about saving the best for last -_-

It was Sindragosa fight, P3, a phase which we finally reached after countless wipes in P1/P2 due to STUPID mistakes like dying to Blistering Cold, chain frost tomb (omfg is it THAT HARD to just spread the f*** out and not run together like little gay fags) Our strat was to have beacon targets move right (when the raid is on the left) and move left (when the raid is on the right). Ridiculously simple concept that a monkey could understand.

So on the 6th or 7th beacon, Pockadot was the target of that Beacon, and the whole raid was on the right side, LoSing behind a frost tomb. As usual, someone (can't remember if it was me cos i was busy calling out which healer to stay out, etc) juts called out on vent the target of the Beacon, to assist the slow minds. After TWO SECONDS (this is a moment of eternity seriously. If i call you by your name, just by reflex alone your mind will snap to attention and you'll try to figure out why someone called your name right?) Pockadot DID NOT MOVE. he still stood there, happily clustering with the rest of the raid.

This was when warning bells sounded in everyone's head and whoever had a mike was screaming at him to move out, move out.
I was at that moment on the left side as i stayed out for that cycle of Beacon to heal the tanks. Since they were behind the tomb, it is a natural tendency to backpedal and move to the side. So i moved to the front and over to the right, so i would be the furthest possible distance from him (if he even moved. that is).

AND WHAT MUST HE DO TO EMPHASIZE HIS FAILNESS? after another 2seconds of hearing the yelling on vent, he moved to me.
omgwtfbbq chain frost tomb, gg.

I was so freaking pissed after that and just went offline after rezzing.

It is not just him who is slow, it's practically half of my 10man group. I have to call out every single thing for them otherwise i think they wont react to it. This just won't do. I mean, i don't mind having to call out things which require coordination, for example Spores on Festergut, when two are in melee, i'll call out 'skull move out, cross stay', etc. But things like Malleable Goo for Professor.. i think if i don't call it out all the time people will just stand there and get gibbed.
Or the slime add spawns for Professor, if i don't call them out, i'm sure the DPS will just happily DPS the boss.

COME ON. Some freaking initiative, watch fight timers yourself, watch what's happening in the raid, HAVE SOME RAID AWARENESS.

I want a group of 9 other individuals who can respond to fight mechanics ON THEIR OWN with NO REMINDER NEEDED by the RL, i want people who can react appropriately to unforseen situations with common sense. I want them to know how to play their class well, and keep finding out new ways to improve their playing. If i could ever form such a team, I would have no doubt total satisfaction in raiding and we WILL progress rapidly through the new content.

If i can't, i'll be stuck with a mediocre team of half-players, who will most definitely not clear any heroic ICC content since most of them require INTELLIGENCE which they lack severely. Then i may consider just quitting WoW altogether, or going casual.

And by going casual I mean i will still raid, but just not 25 content. Probably get a group of skilled players and form a 10man group and raid on weekends or sth. There is a 10man guild currently on my server, a group of xferred players, but i don't know if there's a spot in there for me. They already have a good (and geared) holy pally, so my only chance is to get in as a DPS. I hate playing ele sham, so i wanna go on my mage.

I don't think i'll actually quit WoW altogether till at least when Uni starts, because i can't imagine what i'll do in my free time. I love raiding, i love playing the game, it's just these half-f*** players who really dampen my enthusiasm and ruin my gaming experience. So maybe i'll just go casual. maybe.

The ideal situation is to get into that hardmodes 10man guild.. or at most, i'll form one on my own. so there.

valentine

Just Another Valentine's Day Poem.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Seeking your heart
I feel like a fool

Baring my heart
to win over yours
Blatant I am
speak with no pause

Roses are red
Violets are blue
How do I convince
you my love is true

I'll wait my turn
to let you know i feel
When the time comes,
just know it's real.
~~
alan teo (c) 2010


Happy valentine's day to all! and gong xi fa cai!!

you can't call for help if you don't have a pass

I dare not say where i took these photos, in case there's some confidentiality thing that i'm not aware off and i cannot anyhow take photos of this place.

Well, you just have to know it's a lift in an office building. I just found this rather ... interesting.

We were coming back from lunch and taking the lift up, so i asked, 'hmm, i wonder what this does'



(if there WAS some kinda confidentiality thing i'm screwed then the CCTV would have caught me taking a pic of this haha)

Anyway above the lift buttons there is this white box which is obviously a card swiper. (maybe there's a better name like.. card reader. Access Restrictor. ynkow)
It is used basically in every kinda of secure office building? So that only workers with a pass can get past these access points.

The thing is, why is there one in the lift? It certainly isn't to restrict access, since you can press the buttons without swiping any card.

Our conclusion was that.. swiping the card allowed you to call for help? Like to the security room or something so you can go 'HELP I'M STUCK IN THE LIFT' or something.
Maybe it's a subtle message to workers to keep their passes on them at all times.
I can imagine an advertising campaign for this:






They are so evil.

tech free

Read this from the papers today:

'Sleep Easy' (i forgot the actual name) is a youth-initiated campaign that aims to improve the quality of sleep. The idea is that with technology today such as TV, Internet, and Handphones, we are getting distracted and losing alot of quality sleep. This campaign aims to reduce the use of technology and improve the amount of quality sleep we get each day.
So far, it has been very popular, with its Facebook page already attracting 400 followers.

Am i the only one who doesn't miss the irony?

The Geek and N97 mini

I just got a new phone! Like just, on wednesday.

Ugh i can't find other nicer pics.. and obviously i can't take a photo of it since i have no camera.

It's mad chio can!! i love the design and how the phone is like. Very sleek, thin, relatively light ( i think, for a smart phone) and the slide out keyboard is just freaking cool. I just like it!
It also has a 5MP Carl Zeiss lens.
The bad thing is, it's very pricey!! Cost me 598bucks with plan :S super broke now. sigh.

Well besides all the smartphone functions like wifi blabla, it has some nifty 'hidden' features that you may not even know. Like there's a proximity sensor on the phone that when ure talking on the phone, the screen is locked. So that your face wont go and press the buttons.
Then when you receive a msg, the button on the bottom left flashes so you know. cool stuff!

The bad thing is the battery life sucks! If i use it to purely msg and make occasional calls, it can last maybe 2 days? under 48 hours. But if i use stuff like camera, watch videos, wifi, it lasts only about 24 hours before it's low :S

And the camera flash thing is very annoying! even when flash is off, the bright xenon light still lights up very glaringly before every photo is taken.. so it's hard to take zilian photos! like cos you'll be blinded in the first few seconds and can't see the camera properly. not that i take zilian photos.

i really dont!

anyway, went for becky's 21st party yday! The theme was GEEK. lol. i dragged bestie along cos i don't know any of becky's friends, so i would be very lonely if i went alone. which proved to be true, lucky i had chris with me.











i'm leaving this photo rotated cos chris' face is quite freaky hahaha.



birthday girl!
I don't think she looks very geeky lor.. this outfit like.. normal? haha. but see how i sporting i am in my total geeky outfit. I originally wore my pants higher but too embarassing so i lowered it. And i even plastered my hair flat for this!


fail shot


anotherr



and my favourite pic with chris:


GEEKY BESTIES!!
lolol.


and on the way home we just camwhored abit more














HAHA SHE LOOKS RIDONCULOUS IN THIS HAHA.

alright, that's it ! chowz! i love my phone! hope it doesn't get stolen!