Chinese New Year of 2011

There. I was late for Christmas last year :|

The end of 2010.

2010 had been a mixed year for me. Not much to say about it, but still quite a hectic one. Let’s start something. Each month is with a picture.

January :  Prepare for bro’s marriage! LOL

Yupe, this picture again.

February : Bro’s wedding month! A lot of pictures taken and yeah I’ll guess I’ll post bachelor’s night. Too many wedding pictures =\

Camwhore + DSLR = hand pain

March : Not really a great one but here you go.

Just a garden. Beautiful one with the old tapes and antique chairs. My mom’s aunt’s garden.

April : Another month with school on a Saturday. Rather boring, yeah. I miss school already LOL.

I’m old already.

May : Made my own motor =D and the sei guai lou Martin came =P

All the best to Mr.Prakas too. This project is enjoyable.

June : Did a lot of things, finished Add Maths folio and a lot of stuff. Pictures taken are irrelevant LOL. Still, a picture must go up!

Veges won’t hurt =P

July : Gabby’s birth month. Tried on Chromium OS. Really on its “minimum” usage. For another rather boring month, I’ll post a picture to make sure your joy.

Hehehe.

August : Ate sushi buffet. Wow, rather great. For yet another random and boring month, here’s a random picture.

iPod Nano 2G.

September : Another month that I’ll say it’s boring. Here’s another random picture.

I was too free =D

October : I have no idea what happened in this month. Trials? I forgot. Seriously. Was another boring month.

What you looking at?

November : The month I dismantled a laptop!!! No pictures since I just kept on focusing on the laptop =\ Anyway, a picture has to take over!

I tried my best, Google said so.

December : The month of freedom. A lot happened. I got a Power Fort 10Wh and a USNA95. Damn I’m glad. Somehow my December this year is rather weird. I mean the feel. Anyway here’s a picture just to summarize my December.

I like this picture.

Well that’s mostly for my 2010. Rather short and boring in the post, yes, but the yeah was thrilling =D

Thanks to all that’s been in the same class. Enjoyable being your class monitor. Somewhat frustrating. Let’s add another picture.

I returned the badge. They said no badge, no cert. What a bummer.

Near/after SPM.

SPM year. Done.

No laaaaaaa LOL.

I did quite a lot of memorable things before and after. I dismantled a laptop. The HP dv2. The design’s impracticality screws the graphic card. In other words it actually un-soldered the graphic card itself.

So I got this on my desk and told me to do something about it.

Soldering by hair dryer. Failed. I have no special tools.

My niece. She’s a fast learner.

Somehow her expression in this photo looks like Antoinne Dodson. He’s climbing up yo window!

I got into a slightly different direction with photography. That’s by using phone.

Waiting for my mom while I’m in the car, got bored and took the photo =D

Got into a real bad food poisoning. Damn. Was on the day of Chemistry paper.

Somehow my aunt’s shop’s phone guy (right beside) asked if I could take up a phone to install Chinese language pack on it. To my surprise it was a HTC Touch.

Exactly the same. HTC Touch Elfin version.

Driving in the rain is not fun.

Raindrops is distracting for the first few minutes.

I was surprised when I saw this.

There was one that looked the same last year. I have the photo, but it’ll take some time to dig that out.

Later – Good bye 2010.

Super Meat Boy!

YES It’s Super Meat Boy! This game is hard as heck, even a chapter is called Hell in this game. I guess a couple of pictures won’t spoil the gameplay right? Still, spoiler alert!

Somehow I enjoy indie games much these days. I found that Black Ops is rather boring. Go out there, shoot few dudes, get surrounded, shoot more and level complete! Rinse and repeat for about… 12 times? I don’t know, I haven’t even finished the game yet.

Getting started.

Looks lame? Think again.

For the introduction, you are a boy made out of meat (I don’t know how to put that) and you have a girlfriend called Bandage Girl. She loves you and you love her, typical story. Then there’s Dr.Fetus who is jealous of Meat Boy because he’s forever alone and nobody likes him. So he beat you up and kidnaps your girlfriend away. You just have to save your girlfriend.

Gameplay is rather simple. It’s a platform jumping game. The challenge comes when it’s filled with chainsaws, instant death spots, super long jump, etc. just made the elements of surprise being present at all times.

There are multiple characters which some need to be unlocked via Warp Zones that could be found throughout the game or just plainly collecting bandages. Each character have their own special attribute. Meat Boy has speed.

You play on “light side” which is necessary to have 17 out of 20 levels to be completed per world to get to the next world. There is this optional time-critical objective that gets you a Grade A for each level. When you do achieve it, you’ll get to play the “dark side” of the world which is very much harder and complicated.

This is from a level in the world “Hell”, light side.

It might look impossible, but as I said the game’s mechanism is made just right. You CAN beat the game with only Meat Boy alone. The jumping length/duration, the time needed/taken/required are all made and meant for Meat Boy alone. Other characters can still beat the game, but might be harder, impossible or prohibited on some levels, such as boss levels.

The level looks impossible, but you can beat the game. No problem on that.

Some jumps just look ridiculous, but yes you can pass the chainsaws.

As this game really requires faith in what you can do, it does test on your skills too.

The jump is possible, just leap away from the building and stick back to the building above the chainsaw. Not impossible.

There are enemies too. Those white slugs are just constantly moving blobs. That red face though, chases to eat you alive. Dropping into those white things will cause death too =(

Time to show off some impossible jumps of the game.

You need to leap through the gap between the chainsaws from the left wall to the right wall to get up. This is on the dark side of the first world.

Rotating chainsaws. Just get to the opposite side. This is also the dark side of the first world.

After playing this game for hours, I’ll have to vote this game the hardest game. Seriously.

Don’t mind this anyway.

Someone made a comic which I think it’s true. I don’t know how many times I died in the game. Perhaps 600?? I guess it’s more than that.

It speaks the truth.

Did I mention that this game is a game of faith? Have trust in yourself that you can make it through the impossibilities, and eventually you will. I got past majority part of the game and I'm enjoying it. I barely got through half of Black Ops. Seriously.

Christmas 2010

Last minute, yeah, I’m bad with details. View it in original size

Enjoy and share!

Cooler Master and Choiix

Yeah. They’re both great. I got another package from Cooler Master/Choiix.

I got the Power Fort 10Wh!

This thing is awesome!

Then there's the USNA-95. It's a power brick for your laptop. Simple enough.

Box of the Cooler Master USNA-95.

The fact that it packs 9 different tips for most major brands (except the Apple Macintosh, MagSafe is patented), has an included slightly stretchable yet large carrying pouch and a cable clip. This thing is much smaller than any other laptop power bricks. Those are like a size of a brick but this is just like a larger iPhone. In medium load out gets up to 90% efficiency. Totally awesome and green. It has a discrete USB port to charge your devices too. I'm gonna do an unboxing video on this babe.

This thing is small!

The Power Fort already made my problems with phone batteries a breeze and now the USNA-95 would make traveling so much easier. I'll use this for sure when I got my own laptop =D

By the way, I also got a t-shirt from them. Love the shirt!

Yes, I love all of these three here.

Thanks Cooler Master and Choiix!

I freaking love you!

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It's back...

The HP tx1000. Known laptop for its problem on the graphic card that goes loose on its self.
I have one lying on my table... R.I.P.
By the way, I'm blogging this on my phone.

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Google

It's just awesome how Google's cloud computing services are free, and only supported by ads. Now with Android, they earn through the Market, like Apple does.Studies shown that Apple App Store has about 20% of free apps, whereas Google Android Market has about 60% of free apps. I can't deny the fact, even Angry Birds is free for its first final build for Android.

Angry Birds. Now on Android. Just so awesome.

Oh I'm back to Mac OS X again. Might be temporary. And there's Mac OS X 10.7 coming out, possibly the Lion.

Mac OS 10.7 codename Lion?

Just read The Power. Great book. Strangest time is that I read the book when I sleep with this thing.

It's just a piece of clear plastic with light coming out from the side. Simple yet effective.

Gabby had been learning a lot. Now she wants to be carried in the sitting position like so :

I can't really carry her in this way yet.

A little news on the Acer Liquid E. Running on a custom ROM on Android 2.1 Eclair. Super stable, higher sensitivity and also battery conserving. It's good IMO.
Waiting for Android 2.2 FroYo, either official with the Acer Stream UI or just Cyanogen Mod with their awesome tweaks and features =D. Overclocking is also made possible with custom ROMs with custom kernels.

Launcher Pro on 2nd page. 3rd page is my main =P

Custom ROMs are awesome, they have a sorts of tweaks, music mod that enabled gesture controls, faster and much more longer battery life. Cyanogen Mod is the far most impressive one. I used it for a while, downgraded due to stability issues with the camera and GPS, has an option for menu button for unlock, music controls on lock screen, compcache personalization, options if you wanna have your home always in your RAM or not, and much more.

Cyanogen Mod is the far most awesome ROM of all times on Android. A thumbs up, and something worth the recognition.

Review of the phone is coming out real soon =D. I'm really happy that Android has integrated so many functions on Android. Syncing is a breeze, it synced with Facebook, Twitter and also Gmail. By syncing contacts, you can have your display pictures of contacts from Facebook, email and Facebook account information and Twitter name on the particular contact itself, and synced on Gmail. Losing your contacts is not a problem not =D.

Well that's all for now, I might be showing off and promoting Android/Google a lot, but I think that Android is more for my use though. Sorry Apple iPhone. Sorry Windows Phone 7 that doesn't have copy and paste feature and launching apps that takes few minutes each.

O my niece

After wasting my time reinstalling Windows Live Writer that is a shame in uninstalling, I finally did it and downgraded to a stable version thanks to Handy Uninstaller!

Well a short update here, my niece got shaved bald lol.

My mom and the baldie lol.

She’s sleepy actually.

She slept in like about 5 minutes after lol.

She head is really clear!

Phones, phone, phones. They come and go everyday, even the one you’re using (yes iPhones and Androids too). Whatever that is, there’s always one phone that has the biggest bang for your bucks based on your own personal choice.

I found mine and got it.

Acer Liquid E.

I actually wanted to do a full review on this, but my allocated time was consumed just to fix this Live Writer. Anyway I’ll try to go through more with the phone first before reviewing. Till now, I love it!

By the way, Windows Phone 7 does not support Internet tethering, clipboard and true multitasking.

Seriously? Both Android and iPhone had it long ago.