Before I post it, let me copy paste my past blog bout Xbox found in zorpia:
the Xbox love
Sunday,Mar 18 2007, 03:38:09 AM
Where is the Xbox love?
The most anticipated console has arrived, the Microsoft Xbox 360. If you haven’t heard of Xbox, it’s Okay, probably you heard of PS2. That is what’s happening to non gaming community they know what PS2 is but never notice Xbox. What makes the poor Xbox gotten so little attention? Games variety. PS2 obviously spanning more choice of software than Xbox. Though some might argue PS2’s are way better games than Xbox360, they are slightly wrong. Xbox an American hardware geared more towards western style games, while PS2 Japanese/Asian style. Xbox just happen to dropped on wrong country, Malaysia .
Do you know Xbox was originally called “DirectX-Box” and like many Malaysian, I was skeptical about the big black box larger than a VCR. Guess what, it was Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind that capture my attention, the RPG game that inspire me wanting Xbox. This VCR sized console happens to have a great controller design, Music ripping, and the graphic are way better than PS2 (Xbox water effects & polygon texture are high-res). Still if you compare Need for Speed Most Wanted, you’ll notice PS2 version looked cartoon, Xbox version look almost realistic.
Xbox was underrated. No, this is not fanboy speaking, I do have PS2 & PSP even DS. This is just because I was wrong about Xbox.
At first I thought of skipping Xbox360 to go for PS3, but then it was the value of Xbox that I experience brought me into buying Xbox360. Believe me, it is not bad at all. Considering the detail of 3D, I still jaw drop every time I play Gears of War and Elder Scrolls 4 : Oblivion.
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my Microsoft Xbox experience
Monday,Nov 28 2005, 02:44:57 AM
Xbox 360 is out now... soon will be in Malaysia... I hope.
I had a bit disliking of Xbox since its 1st launch, due to the controller & some part I felt they’re copying Dreamcast console. Well then I felt like say, “PS2 Fan-boy”. PS2 was my only next-gen console back then (previously own Sega Dreamcast & PS1), so I & my friends always argue which console is better… their GameCube or Xbox or my PS2…
Then came Halo & Project Gotham Racing 2 (Xbox), played it at friend’s house & got attached, Project Gotham Racing 2 is visually stunning, looks photorealistic & gameplay is solid. So I went straight to buy Xbox & starts appreciate its features… It doesn’t hv big game library as PS2 does, but most of their games are pretty high in quality & replay values. If you are skeptic bout Microsoft’s Xbox, go ahead & give it a try, maybe u’ll love it.
And now in 2008, here's what i say....
Lost my Xbox360 1 year ago, due to thunder strike short circuited it. I think I spend around RM1999 for the game console. The thing is, now everyone thought i will get a PS3 straight, no I say. Think about it, the recent Malaysia PS3 price RM1999 full package, if add the HDMI cable bout RM170, and then upgrade my modem to wireless oso around RM200+ and upgrade my streamyx speed... add all up its like a wow, should I spend that much, after all, gaming is not my priority. I only interested in PS3 because, its a cheap Blu Ray player with videogame console, satu tembak, 2 burung kena. So this, I have to wait Blu Ray disc turun harga which i give until next year. With the current inflation and economy downturn, I have to think 10 times before i buy.
Let me tell u what i learn from past, You can't eat can't sleep thinking of the console u mahu beli, everyday you daydream and then when you decided you should buy it, you go. You evade massive traffic, run up the store, find parking, shove off crowd, then you pay. When you got home you play the stuff like a caveman with drumstick. At the same time while playing, there's one thing cross your mind : " Now that I have it, so? then? " what's the big deal? You will feel regret, that is why you treat the machine like Gollum with Ring. Its not to say I didn't enjoy, I've had fun and it does bring lots of good memory. Just that RM1999 just gone, because I off & didnt unplug it, and thunder strike while I at work. Anyway thats just me now, not the hardcore guy rush to buy console like there's no tomorrow.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Paradox
Recently watching a Japanese drama "Edison no haha" or "Edison's Mother" they discuss bout paradoxes. Two were mentioned, Socrates-Plato and Crocodile and Mother.
Plato :"Socrates lies."
Socrates :"Plato was right."
we are still trapped between true and false when we go from one to another. We fall into a loop paradox
The crocodile snatched the baby from the mother and asked "Will I eat your baby? If you answer correctly, I will return your baby. Otherwise, I will eat your baby." And the wise mother's answer? "You will eat my baby."
Plato :"Socrates lies."
Socrates :"Plato was right."
we are still trapped between true and false when we go from one to another. We fall into a loop paradox
The crocodile snatched the baby from the mother and asked "Will I eat your baby? If you answer correctly, I will return your baby. Otherwise, I will eat your baby." And the wise mother's answer? "You will eat my baby."
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
My Tekken ending plot
Scene 5: Heihachi confront the devil (H=Heihachi, K=Kazuya)
near a mountain ridge where Jinpachi is buried.
H: you,I was told that you have the information i need.. now tell me
K: why? why you hate me that much?
H: you've taken away my happiness, from the day you were born.
K: this has nothing to do with mother's death. you know it!
H: to be frank, i was readying the legendary Devil
K: I am the Devil?
H: how can I pamper and compassion to one that will someday be my strongest lab rat, hahaha
K: You!
H: come on, kill me if you can. I look forward to
(some fight ensues and Heihachi fallen)
H: It cannot be... no
K: If you're talking about the lab rat retrieval team, I've bought them off.
H: no.... Hahahaha, Now you're a Mishima.
K: I have no intention to let you live.
(Kazuya threw Heihachi off the cliff)
K: You deserve it. Father.
Scene 6: Jun arrived at the Kazama Dojo, sat on the stone chair, looking sad. wind blows and she stood up looking up the sky with tears. Camera cuts to zooming out in sky view and pan towards a busy Tokyo city. Zooms into a tower window, Kazuya stands near the window. camera cuts to indoor the office, Kazuya walks towards the exit door. exiting, he close the door, camera focus on his cornea suddenly glows red.
fade out.... The End... credit rolls.
near a mountain ridge where Jinpachi is buried.
H: you,I was told that you have the information i need.. now tell me
K: why? why you hate me that much?
H: you've taken away my happiness, from the day you were born.
K: this has nothing to do with mother's death. you know it!
H: to be frank, i was readying the legendary Devil
K: I am the Devil?
H: how can I pamper and compassion to one that will someday be my strongest lab rat, hahaha
K: You!
H: come on, kill me if you can. I look forward to
(some fight ensues and Heihachi fallen)
H: It cannot be... no
K: If you're talking about the lab rat retrieval team, I've bought them off.
H: no.... Hahahaha, Now you're a Mishima.
K: I have no intention to let you live.
(Kazuya threw Heihachi off the cliff)
K: You deserve it. Father.
Scene 6: Jun arrived at the Kazama Dojo, sat on the stone chair, looking sad. wind blows and she stood up looking up the sky with tears. Camera cuts to zooming out in sky view and pan towards a busy Tokyo city. Zooms into a tower window, Kazuya stands near the window. camera cuts to indoor the office, Kazuya walks towards the exit door. exiting, he close the door, camera focus on his cornea suddenly glows red.
fade out.... The End... credit rolls.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Tile printing
before start, KNNBCCB can also means "Kite not navigating because cloud clear background"
It has been 7 years since my last service towards tiles industry.... i decided to do reminiscence of the past experience. Let's see if I can still recall the pieces.
Wow, I missed those days... Everyone in office makan all go together 1pm, or we have a canteen everyone like buka party. Very harmony... those were sweet memories.
so in tiles we deals with inches. 3x3, 6x6, 8x8, 8x10, 12x12 etc. granite tiles, marble, mortar, limestone, some mixture of cement and porcelain, glaze or no glaze. But my nature of work is based mostly wall tiles and tabletop tiles.
Firstly we have a silk screen printing machine or handprint for special order. In silk screen, we have various level, from very fine mesh to very large mesh hole. so if we were to print gold reflective coating we are not allowed to fine mesh. The more liquid the coating the finer mesh it can pass trough. So, in design the silk screen usually i use Photoshop, using Alpha to break the color into several coating. we have a rule that all design must leave 3mm blank on edge to avoid coating burn and smearing. all the color layers design are made into positive film.
Second is the preparation of the silk screen. coat the emulsion inside the border evenly with a rubber press. Once dried, place the positive film on a powerful lightbox and place the silk screen board on top of film, close the lid and let it for 1/2 hour. Once done, use pressure water pump to wash away the coat, it will remove the exposed area, free the art area from the emulsion. Let It dry and keep away from exposing direct sunlight.
Third is the preparation of color, I forgot what is the chemical name of the color, it is a type of ceramic mixture that can be glazed with the surface of the tiles. If the tile surface is glazed we need to use petroleum or thinner bout 3%, if non glaze is just plain water will do. then stir evenly, coz stirring is boring part.
Fourth is placing the silk screen on printer and then pour the color. start printing. The printing part lagi susah mau explain. After printing take out silk screen and replace with second layer color. something like if print a leaf, print the light green, then print the shadow green and lastly the black outline.. my record so far is 1000 tiles per hour for 3 color design. my hand kena hempit by the print head few times... sakit like hell.
After that it is placed on an oven of 1000 degree celcius (normal cremation one 500 degree), means if i jump inside i become ash before 1/2 way. 1 hour of time used for firing, once out if you want to play "pop pop" you pour cold water on it, coz it will crack 1/2. so we let it cool naturally. after that kautim, can bungkus.
Some tiles cannot be fired more than 3 times, except for White Horse punya glazed white tiles... tried 7 times oso won't crack. Carefully chose tile, make sure the climate of the imported tiles suitable.
During my working in tiles company, I've played around lots of tiles art. We got pearl gloss effects, gold plated coloring (small % real gold mixture, super expensive), metallic effects, and most dangerous of all, vitrosa or emboss art effect. Vitrosa using glass powder most beautiful but extreme caution is taken when creating. Have to balut body, mask, helmet. if not, the glass powder will burn the skin and if masuk mata, bye bye.
Well, thats all the simplify version of the ceramic printing process. Set of tiles, we have listello (rectangle) and inserto (the corner tile), and then there is a pencil tile (for narrow framing).
It has been 7 years since my last service towards tiles industry.... i decided to do reminiscence of the past experience. Let's see if I can still recall the pieces.
Wow, I missed those days... Everyone in office makan all go together 1pm, or we have a canteen everyone like buka party. Very harmony... those were sweet memories.
so in tiles we deals with inches. 3x3, 6x6, 8x8, 8x10, 12x12 etc. granite tiles, marble, mortar, limestone, some mixture of cement and porcelain, glaze or no glaze. But my nature of work is based mostly wall tiles and tabletop tiles.
Firstly we have a silk screen printing machine or handprint for special order. In silk screen, we have various level, from very fine mesh to very large mesh hole. so if we were to print gold reflective coating we are not allowed to fine mesh. The more liquid the coating the finer mesh it can pass trough. So, in design the silk screen usually i use Photoshop, using Alpha to break the color into several coating. we have a rule that all design must leave 3mm blank on edge to avoid coating burn and smearing. all the color layers design are made into positive film.
Second is the preparation of the silk screen. coat the emulsion inside the border evenly with a rubber press. Once dried, place the positive film on a powerful lightbox and place the silk screen board on top of film, close the lid and let it for 1/2 hour. Once done, use pressure water pump to wash away the coat, it will remove the exposed area, free the art area from the emulsion. Let It dry and keep away from exposing direct sunlight.
Third is the preparation of color, I forgot what is the chemical name of the color, it is a type of ceramic mixture that can be glazed with the surface of the tiles. If the tile surface is glazed we need to use petroleum or thinner bout 3%, if non glaze is just plain water will do. then stir evenly, coz stirring is boring part.
Fourth is placing the silk screen on printer and then pour the color. start printing. The printing part lagi susah mau explain. After printing take out silk screen and replace with second layer color. something like if print a leaf, print the light green, then print the shadow green and lastly the black outline.. my record so far is 1000 tiles per hour for 3 color design. my hand kena hempit by the print head few times... sakit like hell.
After that it is placed on an oven of 1000 degree celcius (normal cremation one 500 degree), means if i jump inside i become ash before 1/2 way. 1 hour of time used for firing, once out if you want to play "pop pop" you pour cold water on it, coz it will crack 1/2. so we let it cool naturally. after that kautim, can bungkus.
Some tiles cannot be fired more than 3 times, except for White Horse punya glazed white tiles... tried 7 times oso won't crack. Carefully chose tile, make sure the climate of the imported tiles suitable.
During my working in tiles company, I've played around lots of tiles art. We got pearl gloss effects, gold plated coloring (small % real gold mixture, super expensive), metallic effects, and most dangerous of all, vitrosa or emboss art effect. Vitrosa using glass powder most beautiful but extreme caution is taken when creating. Have to balut body, mask, helmet. if not, the glass powder will burn the skin and if masuk mata, bye bye.
Well, thats all the simplify version of the ceramic printing process. Set of tiles, we have listello (rectangle) and inserto (the corner tile), and then there is a pencil tile (for narrow framing).
PS3 finally launch in Malaysia.....
sept 20 in 1Utama Shopping centre. Following the winning of Blu-Ray in Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD format war, Blu-Ray finally get its attention in Malaysia. We will get the same region code as North America (Code=A), yay! but then as for games and blu-ray movies so far are region free. If you are avid gamer, you should consider PS3 if you gonna get a blu-ray player. They're cheaper, RM1799+ can get an 80GB with Soul Calibur IV, whereas other blu-ray player cost bout 1K-2K+.
my saliva is dripping out... ah ah ah!
my saliva is dripping out... ah ah ah!
Kung Fu 2
low budget kung fu movie
cameraman= me, actor = kuali & donald
era setting = 1970s Bruce Lee era
date of shooting = somewhere in mid 2003 when i first got C-750
soundtrack = "Go Frenchy, Go" from Kung Pow the movie
cameraman= me, actor = kuali & donald
era setting = 1970s Bruce Lee era
date of shooting = somewhere in mid 2003 when i first got C-750
soundtrack = "Go Frenchy, Go" from Kung Pow the movie
My Dog Gigi tribute video part 1
my dog Gigi video on Youtube
song = star wars main theme and then Blue Dragon OST "Calm waterside" by Nobuo Uematsu (famous music composer of Final Fantasy 1-10)
yawning.... need morning shot
yawning Monday morning..... so far no time to do blogging. People start blogging when the blogging reaches stardom, 3-4 years after that only now i start doing it.... kanasai.... not everyday are free doing blogs.
Anyway spend most of my time at crunchyroll.com, now watching Nakama Yukie's drama, Trick when I wasn't working. Great actress, lucky here got bunch of her dramas DVD sold in Music Valley, get from Jusco during Raya season ada 20% discount.
no wonder she's super famous in Japan, whole lot of commercials (Shiseido, KDDi, etc), singing, modeling, can tackle many roles, romance, family, action, detective, horror and of course comedy roles are her major strength.
Anyway spend most of my time at crunchyroll.com, now watching Nakama Yukie's drama, Trick when I wasn't working. Great actress, lucky here got bunch of her dramas DVD sold in Music Valley, get from Jusco during Raya season ada 20% discount.
no wonder she's super famous in Japan, whole lot of commercials (Shiseido, KDDi, etc), singing, modeling, can tackle many roles, romance, family, action, detective, horror and of course comedy roles are her major strength.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
major deletion in blog
argh, so many stuff i wrote i have to take down coz recent news stunts... no more freedom liao
Saturday, September 13, 2008
YP-S3: Finally, after 3 weeks of stupid delays...
I just got my YP-S3 last Thursday, after the long wait and a very major disappointments, I got myself a S3 (black color). Here's my verdict:
- First time turn on, kanasai, no power cannot turn on. hv to charge using the pc USB for 1/2 hour... so waited there Jusco Bukit Raja, chat with my colleagues.
- Pay liao balik rumah start dissecting the S3.
- Samsung Media Studio, good for video conversion, bad in file transferring. actually works pretty fast if we install the provided video codec. If not, it will stuck 1/2 way.
- The game section, meh.... not worth mention
- The Music section, pretty neat and if you got U3, u get used to it.
- The Video, good performace, but small screen loh
- Aiyah, overall a worthy purchase.
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