of fast wings et al.

so, hit 70 @ wow a couple of weeks ago, and grinding engineering up to max, and rewarded with this ‘turbo charged flying machine’

ah well.. at least it’s done somewhat :)

August 17, 2008 | Filed Under games | Comments Off

of a round object thingie

been making lotsa pancakes lately, because flour and eggs are the only things available and we’re all too lazy to get other stuff.

i thought i’m getting better at it as well.. and it’s kinda nice doing it when stuck while coding, as that part of the brain can rest a bit while you concentrate on other matters which are much more tangible, like the pancake cooking.
still can’t easily flip the thing tho, because a pot isn’t actually ideal to flip things around. maybe should get the zen of flipping before trying it later on.

August 6, 2008 | Filed Under thoughts | Comments Off

of a whimsicle drift

cut the nail, lost the touch
cut the hair, lost the head

cut the ambition, lost the appetite
cut the pain, lost the soul

July 28, 2008 | Filed Under thoughts | Comments Off

of a medical profession gone wrong

dr horrible is here.
and it’ll be gone by 20th july (their time).

these little sing-along-blog entries restored my faith in humanity abit :)

also, tried p64 (an emu for n64), and found out that the shitty little joystick i got couple of years ago can’t reach the extremities of top right and bottom right corners. bah, said i.
never tried (or even saw) perfect dark before, so i now kinda understand what made the game so respected by the gaming community. granted i can’t play it now (not with the graphics and the current joystick), but if it was back then, i might be overawed too. zelda series, as expected, were nice. altho, again, looking back, i felt kinda cheated, since this is the “fun” everybody already “experienced” back then, know-what-i’m-saying?…

July 20, 2008 | Filed Under thoughts, games, teknikaliti | Comments Off

of swishing sound and a broken pot

lapsang souchong + cherry tea = smoke cherry tea

‘m going to get gunpowder tea in a few hours time.
then we’ll be making smokey cherry bomb tea

[update 14/7]
no, they don’t taste nice together. what a bunch of rubbish install java software wordpress stats

July 11, 2008 | Filed Under thoughts | Comments Off

of still not doing it right

bad. turned out that what i was doing up till now wasn’t ‘overtone throat singing’.. it was merely whistling while gurgling, which is hardly similiar

July 9, 2008 | Filed Under tunes | Comments Off

of a shrilling thing

still about throat/overtone singing..
‘m starting to get better control of it, although the range of the sound produced (controllably) is ridiculously small and very high pitched.
maybe ‘m doing it the wrong way?

currently listening to a song called ’storywriter’ by supercar, something to do about urging the storywriter in the sky to write better stories. the song itself was featured/popularised in the anime ‘eureka7′, as an insert song. the anime was done by bones, and i’m currently looking for the whole two seasons.

there’s also a song called ‘child psychology’ by black box recorder, with the glorious lyric ‘life is unfair, kill yourself or get over it’. all their songs in that album were pretty nihilistic, but i don’t think they sounded like current ‘emo’-style music. maybe the (early) 90s emos was better than the 00s emos..

paid a visit to boxhill’s arcade and unexpectedly got a chance to test tekken 6. didn’t stay too long because had to catch the bus, but still managed to try steve and the new snake lady. there’s a new character called bob that i haven’t seen before (and no one seems to be using the character). he looked like a bloated terry bogard. it’ll be interesting to see the action on him later on.

July 8, 2008 | Filed Under games, tunes | Comments Off

of high and low

!
finally able to produce sound using throat singing overtone at will, altho still can’t control the right pitch and volume.
will work on that later i sppose

July 4, 2008 | Filed Under tunes | Comments Off

of here and now

was having turbulent period of technological catastrophe lately..

first, seiryuu box’s fuse was blown, so had to replace the power supply (same thing happened with z’s back in city i think), then turtle box refused to start for 3-4 days (then it acted normally again). can’t access the sdk as it appered that the registry was broken, but ’twas fixable, altho with a bit of pain and few disgruntled yells.

then the blog was ‘attacked’ by coordinated spam comments, resulting in the php access turned off by the host, which is sensible enough action from them. it’s just unpleasant when these things happened quite consecutively.

was having a go at aoc, and while i can appriciate work-under-progress (all mmo are like that in their first 2-3 months, no?), some weaknesses appeared to be too hard to ignore. character creation was superb and excellent, the only qualm i had on that section was that the bosom size for female character. although it’s fully customisable (smaller or bigger), at the smallest setting and wearing a certain type of clothes (e.g. robes), the breasts appeared to be dangling on the stomach. we were talking about maybe that’s how the europeans preferred it…

still on aoc, some of the skills descriptions are very hard to understand (well, not *that* hard, but it’s a stupid waste of time trying to figure out something that can be written with a bit more planning). even the skill names are often downright silly. maybe they should follow guildwars’ way of tackling it ? (having two modes of ’skill description’) The prose version provides, well, basically a narrative of how fearsome the skill is, where did it come from, suggestion of when to use it, etc, while the consise version is a systematic display of skill description, without any flowery language, that can be quickly compared with the description from other skills, making planning and character building much more efficient.
It is nice sometimes to see a prose skill description like “The Hideous Attack is an attack made by the Barbarian while lunging forward with exceptional speed while maintaining the berserk state of the barbarian, resulting in 14-26 damage”. But when all said and done, it’s very hard to compare two skills if you’ve to read descriptions like that all the time. The consise version of it would be “Melee attack, 14-26 dmg”, which is very handy and much more useful in the long run.

enough with aoc, as i’m thinking of stopping the account before the second month (where i’ve to start paying the monthly fee). still with wow, tho. (as z just reached 70 and i met up with couple of my old school mates on an aussie server)

also, ’tis always a good thing having several blends of tea available, to suit mood.
and also, was able to produce some sound using throat singing for the first time, altho can’t replicate it reliably (e.g. i can’t do it atm. maybe later)

July 4, 2008 | Filed Under thoughts, games, tunes, teknikaliti | Comments Off

of the benefit of being a potbellied-geek …

was in the bus terminal earlier today.. they have two long waiting-benches.
interestingly, one side was filled with thin people and the other side was filled with fat people. when i was first arrived, there was an empty spot in the ‘fat’ area, and there were a couple of ‘average-sized’ people standing, seemingly not sure if they should take the seat or not.

then came a fat bastard, carrying full arsenal of a laptop, two mobile phones, an ipod, a digital camera, and couple of plastic bags. he looked around, noticed the people standing, grinned, and then he sat on the empty spot, and proceed with activating most of his gizmos. the ‘normal’ people sighed and pretty much shaking their heads at each other.

May 29, 2008 | Filed Under thoughts | Comments Off

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