Heroes Call

Well, I've been reading on the new superhero movies to anticipate in the future, and are there many: Spider-man (reboot), The Dark Knight Rises, X-men: First Class, Captain America: The First Avenger, Thor, The Avengers, and a new Ghost Rider movie!

Unfortunately, they are keeping mum about The Dark Knight Rises, and they ruled out Mr Freeze and Riddler as the main villain. Said to be released on July 20, 2012.

Captain America has been given a first look in Entertainment Weekly. Imagine if Chris Evans accidentally shouts "Flame On!" in a scene.


As for the Spider-man reboot, I already mentioned, Andrew Garfield will be playing as "puny Parker". But what is more interesting is that Emma Stone will be playing Gwen Stacy. I mean, Emma Stone! The hot hot hot girl from Zombieland!


Now, I'm not so sure about X-men: First Class. Some say there is Cyclops, some say otherwise. Personally, i hope there is. Plus, throw in Emma Frost and hopefully there will be a hint of romance between the two. After all, Emma Frost is currently Scott Summers' girl in the Marvel universe. Here's a synopsis (spoiler alert!) but I'm not sure if it is 100% accurate:

Charles Xavier and Erik Magnus Lensherr met as young men in the 1960s at Oxford University. Xavier received doctorates in theology and philosophy with post-graduate work in International Development Studies at the U.N. Xavier was a wealthy son of English gentry and had studied at Eton, excelling in physics, calculus, and chemistry as well as captaining the school's la crosse team. Lensherr was the son of a Jewish physician in Germany pre-WWII. His parents and nearly all extended family were gassed by Nazi death squads at Auschwitz. Lensherr's mutant ability to control metal via magnetic manipulation allowed him to break out of a cattle stock car and escape to France where he served briefly in the guerrilla resistance. After the Allies stormed the beaches at Normandy, Lensherr volunteered to act as an interpreter for British Intelligence (he spoke French, German, English, and Hebrew) as liberated Jews were re-located to the fledgling country, Trans-Jordan (now Israel). Impressed by his linguistics, Lensherr was awarded a scholarship to study at Oxford, where he met a charismatic young Xavier. The two students became fast friends, based on respect for each other's intellects, while maintaining a rivalry on politics, ethics, and religion. In 1965, Xavier revealed his psychic powers by manipulating student uprisings via peaceful means. Lensherr was intrigued by the possibilities of controlling other people's minds, while Xavier asserted a universal Right to Free Will. Through a clandestine operation funded by Britain's MI5 and the CIA, Xavier & Lensherr opened the first School of Mutant Resources to study the new phenomena of "homo superior"--humans with a mutant "X" gene, which enabled preternatural powers. Among the first students to enroll were Scott Summers (Cyclops,) Hank McCoy (Beast,) Jean Grey (Phoenix,) Aurora Munroe (Storm,) Raven Darkholme (Mystique,) Mortimer Toynbee (Toad) and Emma Frost (White Queen). Rival factions surfaced as half of the students empathized with Xavier's dream of peaceful co-existence with humans vs Lensherr's belief that humans were inferior and deserved slavery. These ideals started to solidify as more human civilians became aware of mutant-kind and generally reacted with fear and hatred. Meanwhile, the U.S. military began its own black-ops program titled "Weapon X" capturing and brainwashing powerful mutants to serve as alternatives to nuclear or chemical programs. Xavier and Lensherr designed and built Cerebro in a secret, underground facility in Westchester, New York in order to track "wild mutants" i.e. mutants who did not know they had powers or how to control them. Again, Xavier hoped these new mutants could be trained for (and would choose) peace, while Lensherr maintained a more aggressive stance. After an angry xenophobic mob killed a young mutant boy (Banshee), who had developed gills and webbed fingers, Lensherr struck back against the perpetrators, "outing" himself by causing metal garden tools to fly through the air and impale 4 people. He then began calling himself MAGNETO and urged his students/followers to take on a code name reflecting their individual powers. Chasing Magneto and his Brotherhood of Mutants to a secret base in the middle of Antarctica, Xavier and his followers (now calling themselves X-Men) sought to extradite Magneto to the United States', Guantanamo prison, but in the battle Magneto used a shard of metal to sever Xavier's spinal cord, leaving him paralyzed. Using the combined powers of Cerebro, Jean Grey, Emma Frost, and himself, Xavier wiped the collective memory of mutant-kind from 99% of humans on Earth. However, Colonel William Stryker used an adamantium shield to preserve his own memories and secretly took over Weapon X's training facilities (located underneath Alkali Lake in British Colombia) and wild mutants for his own purposes. *Note: Magneto also created a helmet to shield his brain from Xavier's control.

Also, the Tron movie looks cool.



You make me wanna die
I'll never be good enough
You make me wanna die
And everything you love, right up in the light
Every time I look inside your eyes
Make me wanna die

~ The Pretty Reckless - Make Me Wanna Die

Shut Out

Don't feel like blogging right now. Life seems so meaningless, so pointless. Nothing to do, I feel so lost. I feel like just lying on my bed and let my life wither away. What's there to live for? Girls do not find you, friends do not comprehend you, family does not connect with you, entertainment does not entertain you, life does not bring you any fun, the future does not bring you something to look forward to...

Seriously, everyone can f*** off.


Get out of my head.
Get out of my life.
Leave me alone.
Shut you out.

Inverse Universe

Yesterday went gaming with the guys at a new gaming place called H.I.G.H and it was must more "classy" than all the shops I've been to. There is even a bar and a corner for people to chill, while the place is mostly a LAN shop. And the computers there are quite good too! Except that the Steam engine seemed slow. But what I seriously do not get is the girls who play there. I mean, yesterday there were girls who play there and they looked really good. You do not see them with thick make-up like those Ah Lians but they still look good. And they hang out with... I don't know... not-so-good-looking guys?

Honestly, I've seen way better gamer friends of mine. Plus, I'm pretty sure the 4 of us last night look better than those dudes. Yet, they get the girls. Seriously, what's wrong with the universe? Those guys get all the good girls. Guys like me, who studied hard, been a good boy, not so wild, and what do we get? Not that I'm complaining about the female friends I have in my social circle, because they are simply friends. How unfair can Life be?

SMU thing later.

So f***ing sick and tired of everything right now, really.



DJ turn it up
It’s about damn time to live it up
I’m so sick of being so serious
It’s making my brain delirious!
I’m just talkin’ truth


~ Ke$ha - We R Who We R

Take It Back

Sorry.



That which took so long to build,
Took only seconds to collapse.

Lord Of Arcana

Well, I'm finally home after a whole week of duty! And I'm booking in tonight! WTF right?  spent the whole week sleeping and playing PSP, since there are two new awesome games: DJ MAX Portable 3 and Lord of Arcana!


DJ MAX has so many cool remixes and songs, and I'm glad to hear the familiar "Get Out" song! Like it's predecessors, the music game makes you hit the right notes at the right time, with a wide array of songs to choose from.


One really good thing is that you can auto fever, meaning I do not need to press X whenever I can do a fever. Plus, no more of that stupid thing where you need to roll your analog round and round! Also the new 3.2 and 4.2 tunes are proving to be quite a challenge! The songs seem to move more to trance and remixes, which is a fresh taste from the previous variety of songs. The sound quality is spectacular as expected, and using earphones will make the music experience more amazing!


But more importantly is the other game, Lord of Arcana. Now, I expected the game to suck. There were no news about the game beforehand, and it's in Japanese. Usually the only Japanese games I'd play will be those that sound really good, like God Eater. But because I had a whole week to kill, I thought, why not? And the game rocks! Think Monster Hunter and God Eater. Some say the gameplay remind them of Final Fantasy Crisis Core too. Too bad I'm no fan of FF, so I would not know. You use a character, kill monsters, upgrade your stuff, kill bigger monsters, get cooler stuff, and so on. Sounds a lot like MH, no? Well, it's that and more. Why? There are cinematic scenes, finishing blow, ultimate spells, special attacks... looks like I better explain them slowly.

This is a Japanese game, so if you are willing to overlook the fact that you'd be lost with the storyline, and try to figure your way around, then you'll like this game. I already wrote down the names of the various monsters for reference, and basic stuff like potions and gameplay are easily figured out, so do not be such a pussy and say, "I'm not playing this because I do not know what's going on."

Like MH, the storyline plays a very minor role in the game. Sure, there is a story, but I do not bother with what I cannot comprehend. I can always read Wikipedia if I want to know the plot. Remember how MH starts? You're hunting, and a Tigrex comes and f***s you upside-down. Well, this game starts with you in super cool armor, god-like powers and weapons. See, the game let's you play the prologue mission as a end-level character to let you get a taste of how fruitful your efforts will be once you reach the end of the game. Like, all other games, you'll start the game proper from the bottom, but it's okay. I know how gay my character will be in future :)

Again, like MH, the missions are done in maps of various locations, where you run around and hunt monsters. Unlike MH, when you encounter an enemy, you do not fight on the spot. Instead, you are thrown into a fighting arena to slaughter each other. Cool, right?


This is a sword. And that is blood. A lot of blood.

There are 5 weapon classes to choose from. Sword, some huge wand stick, axe, great sword, and some lance that fires instead of slash. Also, the game let's you try out the weapon in the beginning while choosing what weapon to start with. Fortunately, you can easily change weapon at any point of time. No hassle of changing your armor to suit different weapon. Just grab what you think is cool and go kill. Unlike MH, you have a shield irregardless of weapon choice. Kill is kill, block is block. Do not make weapon problem become shield problem. I personally chose the great sword, because I like how my female character carries a big weapon to beat the crap out of anything. Yes, I used a female character. So? Motivation, people. I love my great sword, like how I liked it in MH. Pure hack and slash, take the hits, and hit back harder. No brains required. Each weapon has 4 battle styles, which are unlocked along the way. You see, There are 3 things to level: first is your character's level(Duh!), your weapon skill level, and finally your magic level. The second one helps you unlock your battle styles, with highest level of 20. Magic level is still uncertain to me, all I know is that you cast, you gain experience. I'm pretty sure high levels allow you to upgrade your magic.

Ok, back to my battle styles. Let me tell you your buttons. Square button: normal attack(combo usually chains up to 5) which is basic and also allows pop up attack, X button: block(There's perfect block,btw), O button: cast your spell, Triangle button: battle style. O+Triangle: ultimate spell. Battle style is mainly some powerful move. For instance, one of my battle style is where I charge up my sword for a strike of delicious 500 damage. Usual hits are 50-100, so you can imagine how nice it is to see a 500 damage being done is one strike. Heck, I've done 800 before! Another battle style of great sword is where I use my sword to block for a short time. If, within that time, I get hit, I'd do 2 swift attacks on the enemy, kind of like how those Shinigami do phase step in Bleach. Your spell is just a simple spell, really, with spells of different elements to choose from. Lightning spell stuns, darkness spell slows down enemy, fire burns, and so on. Ultimate spell is where you use one of those previous boss monsters as yours to attack. I'm using Agni, the fire boss, currently. Different ultimate spell does different things. So far I've unlocked 2. The lightning guy zaps the enemy, and plants an orb in the centre of the map, which the enemies will focus on. Agni rolls and damages the enemy, stunning them for a while. Trust me, getting ultimate spells are not easy.

I must admit, the monster designs are really cool, like Rathalos kind of cool. In fact, one of the monsters in the game is bloody like Kirin. It's sounds like one, moves like one, attacks like one, even stones like one. Expect that it's yellow. The picture above is Bahumut. First time my friend and I tackled him, we died pathetically. A few hours later, I tried him solo and now I'm killing him for easy money.


Finishing blows are the final blows you do on a weaken enemy. Notice how the screen is slanted in the picture above? Well, it's not that the camera sucks, it's made that way. When your screen slants, it indicates that the monster is weak, and death is around the corner. You can just hack the enemy to death, in which the screen will show "Overkill". Nothing wrong with overkill, though.

That's the Kirin, fyi.

Bosses do not have finishing blows, but rather cinematic scenes. These are basically scenes of your character beating the shit out of the boss. However, you are to hit the right buttons in the process to ensure your cinematic scenes are successful.


Multiplayer works like MH, only downside: when you all complete the mission, only the host's is consider complete. Means you need to do the same mission again, just with a different host. This is not too bad, because you normally need to fight more than once to get the items you need.

So that is LoA for you people. Boy, typing so much sure is tiring!

Paranormal Activity 2 tonight! Cannot wait to scare the crap out of myself! :D

Miss jamming. 2 weeks without jamming already. Pfft.

View counts nearly 5000! Maybe I should treat the 5000th view something! hahaha


When you're down,
All smiles turn to frowns.

Virus On My Site?

I wanted to go to my blog and Malware told me my site had something potentially harmful. I'm not sure what it is but I doubt it's any big deal. Still, it would suck if I have to make a new blog just because this one is "infected" :(

Duty on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday. The life of NSF. Regulars have their lives better at our expense. No respect for them...

New DotA 2 coming out! By IceFrog and Valve! Looks really nice!


Drow Ranger looks hot! Please let there be Clinkz!



I was shooting for stars
On a Saturday night
They say what goes up
Must come down
But don’t let me fall

~ B.o.B - Don't Let Me Fall

View Counts

See the view counts thing on the right side of my blog? I want to hit 5000! :D



Up on melancholy hill
There's a plastic tree
Are you here with me
Just looking out on the day
Of another dream

~ Gorillaz - Melancholy Hill

Honest Beauty

There are a lot of those Ah Lians who put a lot of make up to look really nice, but guys will only get a rude awakening when they see what lies beneath. I, for one, prefer girls who look beautiful naturally. Let's see why Ah Lians lose out to normal, average girls:

- Ah Lians are evidence that "beauty is only skin deep"
- When you bring your girl home for the night, you see her face and wonder how you brought home the wrong girl
- Her face = high upkeep. If a robber were to rob her home, either steal her cosmetics or her face. Either way, you just hit jackpot.
- She probably needs to wash her face as little as possible to avoid the need to redo her make up
- No going out on rainy days. Water smears make up.
- When she walks towards you in darkness, you wonder if that is her or a pair of headlights heading towards you
- She wins the crap out of you in a game of "Where's Wally?" with her enhanced vision using contact lens that makes pupils look bigger
- You worry she is a loose cannon, in more ways than one


I know you suffered
But I don't want you to hide
It's cold and loveless
I won't let you be denied


~ Muse - Undisclosed Desires

Good Turn Bad Is Bad

Because I'm going to be stuck in camp till Sunday morning, I decided to blog in case people think my blog is dead! Let's see...

Last Sunday was jamming! I cannot recall much right now except that we settled a lot of the playing part and I tried my back up vocals parts. And we talked about photoshoots and gigs! The idea of getting prostitutes to carry us sounded hilarious!

I took Monday off and I was so bored. My friends and I were complaining to each other on MSN that we were frigging bored and that talking off was a mistake. Well, I'll tell you a mistake. Not taking Tuesday off.

Tuesday started with a damn run. If I did not decide to wake up early I would not have known about it. Had to bathe in the morning. And I dread cold water. After that we had to clean the hangar, and I spent my time spraying the floor. Next was some aircraft recognition lesson. I was falling asleep half the time, because the lesson was not for me but I had to sit in. Afternoon was training which I was suppose to supervise. Boring...

Wednesday was duty, which meant sleeping the whole day, and watching That '70s Show at 2am in the morning!

Thursday went by like a blur, except for the part where I had to sign 3 extra duties because of "unsatisfied performance" for the audit, recommended by the idiot. Gawd, I hate such people. If the world had a zombie apocalypse, I'd kill him rather than have him on my side. He'd save female survivors, kill us if it means his survival, and then probably rape the ladies for his pleasure. Trust me, he IS that kind of jerk.

That night we had Domino's! A party meal meant for 10 was not nearly enough for 8 of us! Still, good times!

Friday was just tiring. And so the new duty starts today. Rot in camp.

My warrant officer made us do some of the duties meant for the regulars, so that they can "spend more time with their family". I mean, if there is a valid reason, sure. But what I interpret this is, "I use the time you can spend with your family to let the regulars spend more with theirs." Don't treat us NSFs like dirt, will ya?

Today my friends and I were discussing and wondering how we ended up the bad guy of the story. Sure we have every reason to hate his character, but we should not be bad guys. We realised we should take a more mature approach to this. Time to make up for our wrong actions and be better people. But, we still do not like him :P

Stupid bear hoax..

Paranormal Activity 2 next Saturday! Nice!

Miss jamming. Wonder when we can jam next :(



And I am flawed 
But I am cleaning up so well
I am seeing in me now the things you swore you saw yourself

~ Dashboard Confessional - Vindicated

Hello, Wisconsin!

OMG I love That '70s Show! Well, season 1 at least, because that's how far I've watched. All the cool stars whose journey to fame started from this awesome show! I feel like getting the entire series on DVD! And their fashion is so retro it's beautiful! I want a pair of bell bottoms and grow long hair and sideburns :D



I love their fashion! Old school but nice!

Now everybody labels the year 2012 as the year the Earth dies. Just look at Jay Sean's 2012 song. LOL





Hanging out down the street
The same old thing we did last week
Not a thing to do but talk to you
Not a thing to do out in the street

~ Cheap Trick - Down The Streets

:x

I probably never want to talk to girls ever again. Ever.




Is everybody going crazy?
Is anybody gonna save me?
Can anybody tell me what's going on?

~ Simple Plan - Crazy

Stomach.Ache.

First and foremost, did I mention that there's a Domino's outlet just outside my camp??! Wonderful!!! :D

This whole week was all about sleep and gym, really. I'd join my friends to gym before lunch, though I've been skipping lunch. And after 3 days of gym, plus the training we had on Tuesday, my body is aching! I'm walking around like some old man!

Yesterday I ate my Milo cereal. Bad move. Because since yesterday evening I've gone to the toilet 4 times... Everytime I thought it would be the last fate provese wrong with another stomachache. Damn you cereal!

I just realised how sucky my CS skills have gotten! I somehow got top scorer for DOTA, but when we played CS against bots I lost to Hard bots. I mean, I used to eat Expert bots for breakfast. Looks I got some brushing up to do!

Went out with JY and his friend yesterday! We had a great time at Kbox, even though it was just us three.

Still loving 21Guns :)


Get me out of here

Branding People

NOTE: this is an old post. Just that I did not upload this post the last time.

I alighted at a bus stop and noticed that the Brand's essence advertisement with the top PSLE student posing in it. I seem to see that every year. I mean, it's not possible that all the top scorers drinks that essence thing. If so I'd had just skipped school and drank that every day. Seriously all this promoting of stuff is rather... stupid. Like how McDonalds' promot YOG or Olympics when it is one of those unhealthy food that the sports people should avoid!

"Train is coming! Train is coming!" WTH Singapore...

OMG someone is stinking up the damn train right now! Think I'm going to faint :x




Nice... I want!

Rush The Week Please

Well, it's going to be a busy week! Or a long one, actually. Let's just get it over and done with.

I've only just reached home from duty and I've to book in tonight already. The word "bummer" kind of sums up my day yesterday.

I was on the train to camp on Friday night and there was this rather attractive Caucasian gal with her other girlfriend standing in the train beside me, and she should watch the way she stand and sway. I do not plan to be wrongly accused for harassment, young lady. But I have to admit, I seldom find Caucasian girls attractive. Hmmm. Either she's really good or Singapore girls are really getting so bad I'm losing interest in locals.LOL

Had a weird dream last night. Wth...

Cannot wait for MCR's new album to come out!

Need sleep, but I do not have the time to do so. Crap.

Mrs Lee Kuan Yew passed away yesterday. I did not know until I went onto Facebook and saw my friends' posts. May you rest in peace, Mrs Lee.



Behind every great man,
Is a greater woman.

Shows-time!

Well, finally booking in tonight! I must say, I kind of regret taking so many days off. I mean, I had too much free time! I guess you learn to treasure your free time more when you have a limited amount. But to take Tuesday to Friday off was a bit of an overkill, to say the least. But I did watch a lot of shows!

First we have The Big Bang Theory. Wow. I must say, I did not expect myself to last one season of it, but here I am with 2 more episodes before the end of season 1. Do not get me wrong, my friends. I'm not totally enjoying the show. It's just that the sandwiches they eat and all the other food just look so tasty!

I finished Valkyria Chronicles, which is a wonderful anime. Makes me want to get a PS3 just to play the game! Glad I have Valkyria Chronicles 2 all the same...

Obviously, Brian is going through some tough times.

Now I've moved to Family Guy season 8! And I must say, this season is way better than all the seasons I've seen! I literally laughed out loud at certain things! Sure the humor is crude and vulgar at times, but this is another show that is makes me laugh so hard like HIMYM!

I did watch some classic Transformers cartoon too...




It's so hard to get old without a cause 
I don't want to perish like a fading horse 
Youth is like diamonds in the sun 
and diamonds are forever 

~ Youth Group - Forever Young