Dead Space 2

Created this post to keep track of my "journey" throughout Dead Space 2 on Hardcore Difficulty.

What so special about Hardcore difficulty? You can only save 3 times throughout the entire 10 hour long game. Each time you die, you restart from your last SAVE point (not last CHECKPOINT).

Date/Time started: 2.00 PM, 20th Feb 2011

Date/Time: 2.00 PM - 2.30 PM, 20th Feb 2011
Died once in chapter 1, in the stasis room after I misfire the stasis shot on a berserk necro...As a result, a 1 hit kill...FUUUU!!!

Date/Time: 2.30 PM - 4.00PM , 20th Feb 2011
Died once in chapter 3, after accidentally shooting a suicide bomber necro within close proximity. Another 1 hit kill....FUUUUUU!!! Have to restart from beginning!!

Quit Game as it LOOKS like it was gonna rain soon...

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Date/Time: 5.00 PM - 6.30PM, 26th Feb 2011
Died again at the same spot as the last time in Chapter 3. Why? Because I was too busy concentrating fire on the Necro breeder that I totally didn't realise that the suicide bomber was just beside me...

Date/Time: 5.30 PM - 7.30 PM, 27th Feb 2011
Successfully got through from Chapter 1 to the end of Chapter 5, just before the Brute action sequence. Got lucky during Chapter 3 as the suicide bomber actually spawned from the hole in the wall above me and landed (and exploded) onto me without taking too much of my HP away. Since then, I started to stasis (using a handy device to slow things down) everything that moved xD.

Date/Time: 9.30 PM - 10.30 PM, 27th Feb 2011
Just wanted to see how far I can go since the previous major achievement =p Turned out, I was overconfident in taking out aliens in Chapter 6 until they swarmed me and i panicked. I stasis-ed everything around me, busy shooting toddler aliens until I didn't notice that the suicide babies were just close to my foot. BOOM, I'm dead...sad...

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Date/Time: 9.30 PM - 12.30 AM, 5th Mar 2011
I managed to survive from Chapter 6 all the way to Chapter 9, only to do one stupid bloody mistake. I thought my close range melee weapon was very effective that I thought it could take out the guardian (some pregnant dude stuck onto the wall with tentacles holding him). I wanted to cut his tentacles...but out of a sudden, his stomach "arm" snatched/ate my head...wtf...so fast!!! What happened?!??! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!! My 3 hours wasted!!!

Tekken Movie...Review? (spoilers alert)

Tekken, a name that describes "corporation", "domination", "tournament" and "family feud". What starts out as a game franchise, should always stay as a game franchise. I have tried to challenge this rule yesterday because I could not resist the temptation to see gaming characters come to life on the big silver screen.

Among the 40+ characters that revolve around the Tekken game, only a handful were picked for the movie. These characters are:


Marshall Law
(portrayed by Cung Le, the martial artist, he truly is...TRULY IS...TRUUUULY ISSS the wasted talent #1 of the movie because he was the 1st to show up, and the 1st to go...that's just sad)


Jun Kazama
(looks older than the game character because she's already a mom, understandable, no issues here)


Steve Fox
(played by a bald guy? Did not even fight at all?! His only "important" role was to give his damn red boxing gloves to Jin later in the movie)



Anna & Nina Williams
(rival sisters but portrayed as VERY cooperative sisters in the movie, even shared the same man in bed, wtf...and you won't believe who the man is -_-)


Jack
(seriously? What's up with making Jack the ROBOTIC muscle of the Mishima Corp into bloody human foot soldiers with puny guns?! Out of budget for some CG I assume...)


Bryan Fury
(OK, I gotta give this guy credit, he plays his role pretty close to the game counter part. There's just one thing not right...he ain't no robot! But i just love his "Bin Tai"-ness, muahhahhaha!!!)


Miguel
(What the hell do they have in common? They're both spanish, and that's all. no costume, no hairdo, totally different fighting style, i dont know wth he's doing or what's his purpose in the movie)


Sergei Dragunov
(Dragunov is supposed to be a character who doesn't talk or smile. He just poses emo-ly and gets the job done using his Sambo fighting technique...but in the movie...*sigh*)



Raven
(Master of ninjutsu...said the commentator during the match in the movie, but all I see are punches and kicks...no disappearing act, no shadow clone whatsoever...*sigh again* At one point, he even got to use a machine gun, where is the way of the ninja?!)


Eddy Gordo
(wasted talent #2, as a Brazillian fighter who practises Capoeira however you spell it, he gets knocked out in his first match. He also starred in the Tom Yum Goong movie, impressive moves, but here...*sighhhhhhh*)


Christie Monteiro
(Another Capoeira practitioner, but NEVER seen fighting with it)


Yoshimitsu


Kazuya Mishima
(and here I was...wondering who is playing Kazuya for the 1st 30 min into the movie, only to find out that this ... guy... was Kazuya all along...WTF don't look like him!!!)


Heihachi Mishima
(Yet another wasted talent, as this actor was the main villain for Mortal Kombat movie. He knows martial arts, but never seen him fighting at all. Instead, he was killed by the damn beardy Kazuya with a ****ing pistol. IIRC, guns are nothing to Heihachi in the game)


Jin Kazama
(our main character who "doesn't look like much" quoted Christie Monteiro. The Jin we all know knows at least some karate moves, but here...oh well...a movie is just a movie and not a game...)

P.s No pics available for Yoshimitsu...and although he is portrayed as a skillful samurai...he lost to a guy using a bo stick WTF...

And for those who actually bothered to read through this crappy review (or is it?), this is a glimpse of me playing Tekken in the arcade before the movie started.



Innocent boy no more...

House Renovation

Holla, peeps! I'm back after being gone for countless months (guess it was only 3 months ago...)! I'm just back for the moment to keep my blog alive, my house is still not ready yet -_- Lots have been going on lately, and to my dear DEAR colleagues........I DONT have a girlfriend...so don't always say I have!! That would be the last thing on Earth that I could ever wish for now that I've heard what nuisance creatures Girls are. Two things that my engaged guy colleague always complains:

• No money
• No freedom

True, and true. And with that said, I dont know if i should go on living as a bachelor...Speaking of bachelor, our college convocation day is coming up on the 7th of August. As a matter of fact, I already rented and paid the convo fees earlier this month and got my picture taken with my family at a local photoshoot studio near my work place @ JayaOne. I chose Package B which offers an 11 x 17 framed canvas photo and 3 4R sized photo, all for the cost of RM170...times 2 because we wanted 1 for a family portrait and another as a portrait of myself.

So without further ado, here are the photos of my house (wahahah, potong stim for you =p)
Pictures below are taken on 25th April.


Kitchen + back door (on the left side of the pic)


Another angle of the kitchen.


Kitchen again. Those planks are covering the existing windows connecting to the living room.


Dining room (present), bedroom (future)

Dining room/bedroom again.


Another look at the kitchen backdoor.

Pictures below are taken on 23rd May.


My room:
Clockwise from left: Table drawer, wardrobe, display cabinet where I display my "man" toys, study table (assuming I ever studied), and computer table. Now it's been destroyed and dismantled sadly...


Picture of attic/roof and roof facing the back of neighbour's house.


Ooh, so that's how the attic looks like...no ghost up there like in Ju-On fortunately.


Another shot at the roof...without camera flash.


Shot taken from the window.


Picture of toilet with window on the left.


Long shot of my room.


That's just my brother taking a pic with hopes of getting some unusual paranormal under the study table (anyone feel weird?).

Pictures below are taken on 18th July.


My room with plaster ceiling, wooden themed tiles and...that's my old bed frame.


Long shot of my room with window behind me


Toilet angle #1


Toilet angle #2


Long shot of room again...


Looking through my room window, overlooking...back of neighbour's house..."beautiful scenery...."

And last but not least, a video for my peeps!

Theft Again~~

Damn thief (singular noun), broke into our 2 cars last night. It was unfortunate that I, as the person who has been sleeping in the downstairs living room for over a week now, didn't notice any strange sounds in the middle of the night. I have been known to be a dead log when I sleep because of 2 reasons:

1. When i sleep, i become totally oblivious to what's happening around me. One incident includes not hearing any lightning strike behind the house when the whole family woke up awakened by it.
2. I fall asleep within 5 minutes after lying on the bed.

My mother's car and my car were the victims of the theft and as a result, the most expensive item, the TnG tag and card had been stolen (that's worth more than RM200 in total). My car...not many things had been stolen as most of the cards are in my wallet. Only a few RM1 notes and coins had been nabbed (damn cheap thief...few Ringgit and coins also steal...really no life...dont ever let me see your face, or I will break your thumbs). I still cant get over the fact that all these happened..when i was sleeping DOWNSTAIRS!!! WTfffffff...it's not that Im angry or frustrated over the losses (i didnt lose anything), it is damn annoying to know that someone is always violating your privacy and stealing petty stuff away without you knowing.

Just minutes ago, my opposite neighbour rang our doorbell asking us if we wanna make a police report. The police had arrived to take down details from a few of us, err...actually is ALL OF US. We have ALL been victims of the theft last night. WTF the thief jump from house to house??!!

My parents were not at home, so I went out to confront the police. Based on one of the neighbour's statement, her maid woke up at 5am and saw this dark-skinned man in red shirt and short pants INSIDE her Perodua Myvi. His race is unknown (although there's a possibility that he could be either our dark-skinned race, or a myanmarian).

Is there any way to prevent such theft from happening? Fuh...damn frus...What a way to start off Mother's Day...Thanks...a lot...

Bla...

I have a colleague who pronounces "stupid" in a very cute way. Maybe she don't mean to be cute, maybe she was just trying not to offend anyone. The way she say "stupid" always sounded like she was saying "sdupid". Try pronouncing "s-doobid" with the "s" sound separated from the main word "doobid".

Off topic a bit:

77 x 8 = 616

That's 77 dvd game discs for my console, RM8 for each disc (sometimes cheaper if bought in bulk of more than 3), and a total of RM616 spent in over 3 years. What if...just what IF I were to get another console...


Price of console = RM1.3k+
Additional controller = RM170
HDMI cable = ???
Price of a game = RM150 - Rm200 depending on title
Rental Service (membership)

• RM180 deposit
• RM50 per month (fixed rate, 1 game at a time, for as many times, play till you drop)
  

Online fee is free and maintenance probability is very low (but definitely not as often as my current console...)

It is time to try community gaming already...

Something Unexpected (warning: toilet discussions)

If Monday was not bad enough for me, wait till you hear about what happened today. While we (the normal lunch gang) were walking down to the mixed rice stall behind Home Expo building, I told colleague A about my condition in the morning. I told him that my stomach was not feeling well because it felt like some sort of hurricane was stirring inside.

He agreed and said he also felt the same, I stunned for a moment. He continued saying that he woke up at 5.30am to go to toilet to "clear up". I then told him that I also suffer the same fate, but mine was at 4.30am. The other girl (also system analyst) who was in our gang overheard what we were talking about and ask "eh? you also like that?"

And she made us both stunned, because she also had problems. The time she went to "clear up"? Around 5am (i think). The girl who was with her (also one of us) while queuing up for lunch also asked the same thing, but hers was around 2.30am (the earliest of us all). Sheesh...what's with all these diarrhea at the wee hours in the morning?! Something must be wrong.

Turns out that we all have something in common. We ate at Fireman the day before. However, we all ordered different dishes...except for the drinks and the dessert. With those drinks and dessert in suspicion, we remembered that we had another group member who joined us yesterday, but have not arrived at the mixed rice stall yet.

We sat down and discussed about it while eating (yea, i know it's disgusting). We waited for the guy to come down from office, and eventually he arrived. I started by saying, "wei, we have something to ask you".

"we have something serious to talk about with you", said the system analyst. I added by saying "please answer honestly, no telling lies". He straight away looked scared and panicked, LOL! Can see his expression, he tension a bit already. I let them do the talking because he is more familiar in chinese. It didn't take long for me to figure out what they were saying, I managed to understand the part where he said he was late to join us because he was busy "clearing up" just now, LOL.

In conclusion, I cleared up once in the early morning, once before lunch, and once after lunch. The one before lunch was preeeety "noisy"...hopefully the cleaner didn't notice it because he was just outside my toilet... -_-

Monday~~

What a way to start a Purplish and Blackish Monday (last Monday's accidental theme was Monday Blues). 3 girls wore the almost-similar purple blouse while another guy wore a full black suit, same as mine. But the day is not just that. Many (bad) things happened (well, not that many but they happened one after another until they made the whole day look like a mess).

It was lunch time. An ex-colleague had asked me out for lunch. I told her I'll join her and (skip some unnecessary arguments here) I headed for the lift to go down to the carpark.

Incident #1:- 12.35pm

As soon as I stepped into the lift full of my colleagues, I pressed "B3" floor and before the door started to close, I quickly stepped out of the lift because I had just remembered...that I forgot to bring my car keys along. Paiseh...

Incident #2:- 12.40pm

Got my keys, went to my car, drove out of the parking lot and headed just a few meters down the main road and...*craaannnkkkkkkkkkkkkkk* OMG WTF WAS THAT?!! I parked by the road side to inspect my left side of the car. Hmm, nothing unusual...oh well...As soon as I started to go forward, the sound came back. Sounded like a metal (imagine the exhaust pipe dragging on the road), sort of like our very own ex-college mate =p Again, I stepped out of the car and checked, but no frucking idea what sound was that!!! I stayed confused. The tyres were fine, the rims were fine, the exhaust pipe was in place, no metal hanging from under the car, so wtf was that?! I phoned my ex-colleague up and told her I was having problems with my car and I will head back to the carpark. She said she'll drive me instead.

Incident #3:- 12.50pm

As I hung up the phone, I saw 2 of my colleagues walking past my car towards the food stall nearby. I told them about my car and I asked for their help. Seems like they suspect it was coming from the front left tyre, but not quite sure what caused the sound. So, nvm I drove back to the car park. When I reversed the car and made a U- turn, the sound went off...as in...gone. WTFish! Made a U-turn and the sound went off. Diuzzz...Please...dont play this kind of dirty games with me...I wanna go for LUNCH! I made ANOTHER U-turn, and she called me, saying that someone had blocked her car from coming out. LOL, i then told her my car was ok jor~~ She went "hah???!!"

Incident #4:- 1.00pm

Fetched her from her building entrance. Headed to the designated restaurant, only to find that it was fracking closed! Grr...Ok, nvm...still got another restaurant neaby.

Incident #5:- 1.10pm

Parked my car in front of the restaurant. Being the good citizen as I am, I went to pay for the parking ticket at the meter. WTH, minimum 60 cents?? Fine..put in my 20 cents coin...STUCK!!! WTFork...luckily she didnt insert her 50 cents coin before me -_- Found another parking meter and used that instead.

The rest of the afternoon was fine (that is if I don't count being late to office after lunch hours...).

Team Lunch Invitation

A normal day in the office, as usual, but I took some timeout to read my company emails...and this was what I found, sent by our System Analyst.

"Ladies and Gentlemen & ADIK ADIK" (celaka...refering to me la since I'm the youngest and most inexperienced...)

"We have been working on the xxx project for about 1.5 months now and we've 30% of our progress etc etc and would like to invite you all for a team lunch near Jayaone etc etc to show our thanks for all your hard work etc etc..."

As I was reading through half way, Boss came by and saw what I was doing and curiously asked what is it. He stood beside me, saying out what was written. I asked if he wants to join us (jokingly of course, since he is the boss and it would certainly be weird if he joined) and he (also jokingly) said if he joined, he would have to pay for the bill. After that, he began to tell us (me and the girl sitting beside me) how he came about his position now.

Wahlao, his story was so long =_= I wanted to continue my work liao...and finally~~Boss Lady came by and asked to see him. YES~~~wait...what? Done? He's back!! Onoeesssss~~Have to listen to his story again~
*skip boring part*
Right, so everything's over now. The girl beside me came closer and said "aiya...just now XXX (system analyst) told me not to let Boss see this email..."

I went:-



Me: AHHhHhHHh~~ Why didn't tell earlier...now how...
Girl: Haha, can't tell you la...cause she told me quite late and then boss came...if I tell you, then sure he will be suspicious.
Me: Zzz, nevermind...now we must not say anything about this to anyone. If they ask, then we act blur.

BIG "WTF"

I'll start this post with a BIG "WTF". What's wrong, you may ask. Here, take a look at this new proposal by KTMB (that's Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad). Carriage only for women? To prevent "gangguan seksual"? Ceh, if they want, they can easily plant a minicam on the floor board anytime + the ability to rotate 360 degrees, and that's free show for all the pervs out there. What are they thinking...during peak hours, men no need to use the train is it?

Wait, did I say "keretapi tanah Melayu"? Oh......no wonder-la...It all makes perfect sense now...it's all very clear now...I should have known...Malaysia BOLEH!

The Bomb

Yesterday...was truly the blackest day of my life. Wanted to find someone to accompany me, but unfortunately it did not happen. But that's not the reason of this post. This post is about today! Just after having lunch, we returned to the office and back to our seats. I instead went to to toilet (as usual) before continuing with my work. There were still some colleagues not back yet from lunch. I noticed the colleague who sits behind me holding a container with letters.

I didn't ask what were those letters as I already guessed that they must be letters of invitation to her wedding. She then passed a letter to me, and I opened. The front of the letter read:

"Nxxx <3 Hxxxx"


The contents:

"Doa dan restu buat mempelai... " followed by some prayers.

The 2nd page went like this:

"assalamualaikum wbt...etc etc... Dengan penuh kesyukuran...etc etc...mempersilakan Dato' / Datin / Tuan / Puan / Encik / Cik ke Majlis Perkahwinan puteri kami yg dikasihi Nxxx  dengan Hxxxx"

All was going fine until I read the following statement:

"...pada hari dd MMM yyyy beralamat

What? Suddenly I felt so...far away...haha...I kept the letter away and continued my work. Minutes later another colleague came back from lunch and opened her letter. She read...and then she went "huh? Kemaman? Apa ini? Terengganu ke?" LOL her response really make me LOL, I'm not the only one feeling weird here xD

Not long after that, my senior analyst came by and asked in cantonese "Hey, lei yau mou sau dou zha dan?" (didn you receive any bomb?) Of course, I knew what she meant, but didnt really get why she used the word "zha dan". But anyway, probably she wanted to hear my response "hai lor, zha dou wor..." (haha, dont know how to translate zha dou to an English phrase).

That letter really is da bomb! Still thinking if I should attend it, or maybe I'll just follow majority.