Ready for da Waaaaagh!

Orky patrol iz ready for krumpin' tonite! Waaaaagh!

Post New Year Rants!

Chinese new year is coming to and end...that'a means the end of angpao collection for year 2008. :/
Doesn't matter, doesn't matter...at least I had collected quite a satisfactory amount of it, had around 8 lou sangs', and eating lots of other crap along the way. Been busy visiting around, and eating all sorts of food. When I'm at home? Mainly watching football, wrestling, painting my orky army *Waaaagh!*, and catching up with the latest PSP games and also songs. That means heavy traffics of downloading stuff almost everyday. lol.

Football

Everybody is saying how Benitez will lose his job next season for Liverpool. Even though Liverpool is rather inconsistent this season, you cannot put all the blame on the managers. Liverpool is struck with pretty bad luck this season where all the injuries are mostly in the defence department. That is why they conceded many crappy goals this season. Frustrating at times, but I still have a little hope in Benitez cause he managed to beat Inter Milan. :O. Lets give him some time yea?

Dirk Kuyt scoring a vital goal against Inter Milan. Liverpool now got a 2-0 advantage!

Wrestling

"The Legacy of Stone Cold Steve Austin" documentary just released recently, and I spend hours watching it. The DVD was packed full with matches and it's interesting to see how the wrestlers tell their side of the story behind the scenes. For most of you who don't understand why wrestling is that interesting, think of it as a live action comic. Heck, its sport entertainment. So what if all the action is choreographed?

The wrestlers put their body on the line to entertain us all. I'm sure deep down inside each of you guys out there, there is an urge of wanting to see people beating each other up. That explains the reason beat-em up/violent games such as Grand Theft Auto and Street Fighter sells so well around the globe. Wrestling is kinda popular in the U.S and Japan, but I'm one of the rare Malaysians who followed it almost every week. Celebrities are also appearing in the WWE these days.

Last year we have Kevin Federline and Donald Trump, this year we have Floyd Maywheater Jr. (best pound for pound boxer for those of you who didn't know) and many other guests. Sometimes you can see celebrities sitting in the front row watching WWE live shows.

We have Lindsay Lohan visiting WWE recently. lol.

Warhammer 40k

Orks is meant for fightin' and winnin'! When I'm free in the office I go through the rulebook and my Ork codex very thoroughly. Ideas and squad builds keep popping in my brain. I love this kinda games where it requires much thinking and planning. Brings me back to the Magic: The Gathering and Spycraft days where I could spend hours surfing the forums and reading comments and articles about it.

Hobby is a great thing to keep you busy, no? Speaking of my ork army I intend to build a Speed Freaks army, mainly themed around fast vehicles racing across the map. Fast and furious that is. And of course, red is also my number 1 colour. I hope my stuff I bought from ebay arrives soon so I can start assembling and painting my army.

Waaagh! Bikes and Trukks charge into battle

PSP

There are lots of good stuff coming to the PSP in the coming month. Hoo boy, I'm excited. But for now, there's this one-of-a-kind game that I've been waiting for quite a while and it just got released this week. It's Patapon, a game combining gameplay features of music/rhythm and strategy/role play features.

So basically you're a god trying to guide these cute looking dots(?) with a kick ass attitude to fighting the enemy. You can customize your army with many different types of infantry units, weapons and heroes. But how do you do it? By using a drum! Just follow the rhythm and beat the drum to command your units. It's rather difficult to explain the gameplay, so here's the official website complete with the gameplay video for you to know more bout it.

Patapon FTW!!

Pictures

I have uploaded more pictures of the lion dance in my office. You can check it out here.

Well, I guess thats all I can think of now. Adieu!

My first Web Album!

I finally uploaded all the pics I snapped last sunday at Dato' Tio's house. Nice day with lotsa people and food!

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Lions everywhere O_o

Lion dances in my office on Thursday, lion dances in Dato Tio's (my company's director) house this Sunday. Oh the craziness!


And thanks to Ms.Sueryn for the Full Moon set :D


Pictures says it all. Had a great week I did. After finishing off my free breakfast sponsored by my company, I expect to gobble up this tasty chickin' during lunch....but my tau keh so (big boss' wife) called some of us up and say she's gonna belanja us for lunch. I guess that chickin have to wait. Oh well, oh well. Even though less orky paint this week, but I'm sure the coming weeks will be GREEN. :O

Good start to the rat year so far

How's are ya'll Chinese New Year celebration? If there is one word that can summarize mine, its "stuffed". Yes, this season I'm totally stuffed with food. Just had my fifth round of 'lou sang' today. 3 of them are free too. lol. I wonder how much weight I have gained since I recovered from my surgery. Are your angpau's good this year? I had extras this year from my bro and people in my company. Thats nice eh? Who says working is all bad? At least it has some advantages over a student's life...but of course a student's life is still considered less stressful (if you want to).

Football
MU is not invincible this season. People were saying how Ronaldo inspire many victories for MU this season, and I must say it is mostly true. Just look at the number of goals he scored this season and you know why. If he isn't playing well, then MU isn't playing well. Just like when they face Man City at Old Trafford. The result was a shocker since most of us thought Man City wasn't good enough for Man Utd. But in football it's all about form, getting the right strategy, and luck. That is why there's always a smaller, lower division team killing off teams in the premier league in cup competitions. Look down on your opponents and you might pay the price.

Liverpool drew yet again with Chelsea. I actually predicted the 0-0 scoreline before the game started. Was a bit confident when Peter Crouch had many close chances and prayed hard for him to nudge one in. Sadly Liverpool still suffers from poor finishing and the inability to kill off any dominating games. I wish Torres would be back a.s.a.p. :(

Talk about futsal, I just can't wait to kick a ball again. IT'S BEEN 3 FREAKING MONTHS since I played. WaaaAAaagh.

Gaming
Oye! Green feva' has been strikin' me since I started 40k. Orks is da best! Orks neva lose a battle. If we die, we die fighting so it doesn't count. If we win, we win. If we run away den we can always come back for annuvver go, see!

As Kelvin Ong pointed out last time, usually players in a game chooses a race/army/faction usually based on the preference or the similar traits shared amongst the gamers themselves.

In Magic, I always prefer to play a Red/Green deck primarily because I like to play a swarm army with a "straight to the point" attitude. I wouldn't like to be highly cunning and irritating like blue, or be fully holy/unholy as in white/black.

In Spycraft, I choose the Nine Tiger faction mainly for the sheer fun of kicking people's butt in almost any mission they want to. And partly because I like chinese martial arts. :)

Orks all da way in Warhammer 40k. At first, I did a lot of thinking on which race to choose, and I finally narrowed it down to 4 options. Number 1, the protagonist Space Marines. They look cool, easy to paint, strong and versatile. But I decided to skip it because...TOO MANY PEOPLE ARE PLAYING THEM. Next, Tau. Their armors and battlesuits shout "anime!" to me, but since Kelvin Ong is playing it, and I want more variety of races amongst my friends so I too decided to skip this one. Third is Tyranids. Mindless aliens (mostly) trying to outrun everyone in the galaxy. Sounds nasty. They are scary looking and intimidating too. But, in the end they are not that unique and lack of fluff makes me skip them.

Finally...the Orks. They are big, brutish and they live for the moment by having a Waaagh whenever they feel like it. I read some discussions in a forum and many people did suggest that Orks are actually the less "evil" one in the 40k universe. Sure, they like to bash things up and kicking everybody else's panzee backside but other than that, you cannot compare to the many stuff the Imperium has done. I heard somewhere before that those who are highly intelligent are usually more cunning, tricky, and selfish than those who have less. Orks have the happy-go-lucky attitude and always lookin' for a good fight. When you think the orcs are barbaric, they actually respect enemies who are good at fighting. But of course, anything that tries to stop them from world domination will eat their receiving end of their choppa. Besides, "dakka dakka" is one of the most original phrase I've ever heard in a game or movie. Have no idea what is 'dakka'? Just take a big noisy gun (the noisier the better!) squeeze out the trigger and thats what it is.

My waaagh is coming and no one's safe from it!

I guess thats enough rants for now. There's work to be done. And more KFC tommorow (thanks boss!) Chiao.

Time passes so fast

So long I've gone without blogging again. Sheesh. Chinese New Year is just around the corner and I spend lots of time these few days cleaning up my office, house, church and even viruses in friend's computer! My goodness.

IT
Allow me to warn you all again. NEVER EVER RECEIVE ANY FILE IN MSN BEFORE TESTING IT OUT. How do I test whether the file is legally from your friend or not, just click close (X) on your MSN chat window when someone is sending you files. If its a real file from your friend, then MSN will give you an error message which says "Closing this window will end all activities with this contact, do you wish to close this window?". If it's a virus file, nothing will pop out. Simple as that. Or to be maximum safety, just ask your friends whether they intend to send the file or not. If there is no reply, better not receive it. Most MSN viruses start by giving out a simple message like "Hey check out my pictures, i'm going to upload it yo facebook" or something similar to that. Followed by the virus file probably in ZIP format. This viruses are purely irritating and spread around your contact lists faster than herpes.

Football
Finally Liverpool start scoring again. Obviously I'd rather see Liverpool playing averagely well and getting the goals instead of playing very good but no goals at all. In football, results is all that matters. How many times have you seen MU, Chelsea or Arsenal played badly but yet manage to salvage a victory? I still believe in Rafa and I think he can turn things around again if given some time. :)

Rants
Just had my first company lo sang last Saturday. Was a pretty good un', and there was plenty of food. The bad? The food WAS TOO PLENTY! About 8 dishes each table, and there's only like 8 people on my table...and only 4-5 of us are really eating. Other than that everything's great. Free Carlsberg too. :D

Gaming
Almost done with my 1st batallion of Orky 'Ard Boyz! Waaaagh! Done a lot of shopping online and getting cheap stuff and bits for my army. May not have time to paint this week or so because of Chinese New Year. Now I need to choose a nice tank to be converted into a battlewagon...dakkadakkadakkadakka. Ok move on into computer games, the other day I tried the DoW : Soulstorm demo and its was pretty interesting considering the fact that the Dark Eldar race gives a totally new dimension in gameplay. The race is sick, and I personally prefer any other races that them btw. Hope they come out with a playable Witch Hunter/Sisters of Battle race soon, since I have more interest in using kick-ass female fatales rather than a sick, self-torturing race. Other than WH40k stuff, I'm stuck with Winning Eleven UB 2008 on my PSP and Jade Empire on my PC. Very enthusiastic on Jade Empire since its has the similar style as Star Wars : KoToR series, which is a very good RPG with good storyline and the option to become good or evil.

CNY, CNY. The mood is building and I can hear songs all over the place. XIN NIAN LAI LO~

Chiao fer now. Have a great holiday ahead!