Updates for myself (can I finish this?)

[CuRRent MooD:] Fine, a little tired

[CuRRent Song:] None

[Last FooD/BeveRage:] Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies

Haha...my topic is due the fact my previous post wasn't completed! Anyway I've popped this entry as a quick update to my life (if any) which is at best exciting and at worst boring.

First update, I have my Maplestory character reaching level 115, just 5 levels left to my 4th job (which is cool-assed Shadower). I'll post tube vids to show the coolness :) as for my dear's character, she's level 98, 2 levels away from the elusive 100 and 22 from 4th job (opps)...well, her 4th job is a boon and coveted by many.

I've noticed so far I've not seen a clip which features the variety of skills that Shadower (along its 2nd - 3rd job), so once I've seen one or up to it I'll create one!

Shadower

Lemme think...end of March I went to JJ Lim's concert with my dear and till now she's swooning over it everytime JJ is being mentioned...oh well, I guess she really enjoyed the concert. :) come to think of it, I'm still waiting for the pics so I can post something here...lol

And of course, out from one of the links being circulated in Facebook, here is Susan Boyle from Britain's Got Talent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk

Some interesting quotes from Kelly's webby (lifestream):

"I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors - as in trial and error. Without death, the old folks would start to gang up on the babies (the new trials). Immortality ---> immortal mistakes." -- Esther Dyson

"As you make a prototype, assume you are right and everyone else is wrong. When you share your prototype, assume you are wrong and everyone else is right." - Diego Rodriguez

.LuKe.

Lady Gaga - Just Dance feat. Colby O'Donis & Akon

[CuRRent MooD:] Fine

[CuRRent Song:] As per title (on my mind)

[Last FooD/BeveRage:] Dried Fish Fillet / Iced Lemon Tea

Song of the moment (not playing actually)

Lady Gaga feat. Colby O'Donis & Akon
Just Dance

RedOne, Konvict
GaGa, oh-oh, eh

I've had a little bit too much, much
All of the people start to rush, start to rush by
A dizzy twisted dance, can't find my drink, oh man
Where are my keys? I lost my phone, phone

What's going on on the floor?
I love this record baby but I can't see straight anymore
Keep it cool, what's the name of this club?
I can't remember but it's alright, a-alright

Just dance, gonna be okay, da da doo-doo-mmm
Just dance, spin that record babe, da da doo-doo-mmm
Just dance, gonna be okay, d-d-d-dance
Dance, dance, just, j-j-just dance

Wish I could shut my playboy mouth, oh oh oh-oh
How'd I turn my shirt inside out? Inside outright
Control your poison babe, roses have thorns they say
And we're all getting hosed tonight, oh oh oh-oh

What's going on on the floor?
I love this record baby but I can't see straight anymore
Keep it cool, what's the name of this club?
I can't remember but it's alright, a-alright

Just dance, gonna be okay, da da doo-doo-mmm
Just dance, spin that record babe, da da doo-doo-mmm
Just dance, gonna be okay, d-d-d-dance
Dance, dance, just, j-j-just

When I come through on the dance floor checkin' out that catalog
Can't believe my eyes, so many women without a flaw
And I ain't gon' give it up, steady tryin' to pick it up like a car
I'ma hit it, I'ma hit it and flex and do it until tomorr' yeah

Shawty I can see that you got so much energy
The way you're twirlin' up them hips 'round and 'round
And now there's no reason at all why you can't leave here with me
In the meantime stay and let me watch you break it down

And dance, gonna be okay, da da doo-doo-mmm
Just dance, spin that record babe, da da doo-doo-mmm

Just dance, gonna be okay, da da doo-doo-mmm
Just dance, spin that record babe, da da doo-doo-mmm
Just dance, gonna be okay, d-d-d-dance
Dance, dance, just, j-j-just dance

Woo! Let's go!

Half psychotic, sick, hypnotic
Got my blueprint, it's symphonic
Half psychotic, sick, hypnotic
Got my blueprint electronic

Half psychotic, sick, hypnotic
Got my blueprint, it's symphonic
Half psychotic, sick, hypnotic
Got my blueprint electronic

Go! Use your muscle, carve it out, work it, hustle
I got it, just stay close enough to get it
Don't slow! Drive it, clean it, Lysol, bleed it
Spend the last dough
(I got it)
In your pocko
(I got it)

Just dance, gonna be okay, da da doo-doo-mmm
Just dance, spin that record babe, da da doo-doo-mmm

Just dance, gonna be okay, da da doo-doo-mmm
Just dance, spin that record babe, da da doo-doo-mmm
Just dance, gonna be okay, d-d-d-dance
Dance, dance, just, j-j-just dance

- end of lyrics -

Yeah, many people said the lyrics doesn't make sense. Well I think its mood is based on the club, so that made sense to me. :)

.LuKe.

Sometimes I wonder how it'll be like if I took a totally different route off my work life

[CuRRent MooD:] Fine

[CuRRent Song:] Duno

[Last FooD/BeveRage:] Famous Amos Cookies (2nd pack in a wk...OMG) / Pokka Mint Green Tea

As I was going through so many articles nowadays, I can't help but wonder that now's an exciting time for developers as so many tools are available.

When I started out on my home's 2nd hand 386 DX26 (or was it 33, correct me big bro), all I knew of a computer is that it is something that somehow makes gaming consoles possible. I often looked at them like windows to gaming (please, no pun intended) as my second bro got the first nintendo back home and played Castlevania 2 like no tomorrow till he completed the game, then got on to a Japanese RPG known as DragonQuest III. It was the latter that got us so crazy we can remember many japanese terms and even most of the mazes in the game we needn't have the guidebook with us!

Anyway back to what I was saying. So when I got my bum into Nan Hua Secondary, it didn't take long before my interest kindled when I saw booklets which has game code written in the ZBasic and GWBasic (QBasic being an MS variant, is largely but not fully compatible much of the time) languages, that triggered something in me that never seemed to have gone away throughout the years.

The passion to create games. From then, I learnt code straight from the booklets (they are coding booklets, not guidebooks or manuals) and developed my small little games which reside in the small confinements of the PC, only making its existence known to my secondary school friends in the Computer Club. I recalled making a text-based RPG style of Battleship which you can issue commands of different weapons to sink other ships.

Flash pass a few years later, I got myself directly into Singapore Polytechnic in DCIS (Diploma in Computer Information Systems). I got distinctions for 2 programming modules, notably Structured Programming using Pascal (no one uses it much anymore nowadays but to me the lecturer helped me plenty to establish my base and knowledge, as well as fuelling the interest) as well as Data Structures and Algorithms using C (I was a lil surprised with this one, but it was a nice one). Unfortunately whichever is non-programming I tend to suck at them (exception being Business Studies which I got an A) and even stayed back for a full year and wasted my parents' money :(...well, I guess in life there's always a reason for everything.

I guess it would've been good if I've pursued my life on my interest, but somehow life doesn't work the way you want, maybe for special reasons. Instead of programming, I took up desktop support for my first job (and for now, possibly my career). Many poly frens of mine asked why I didn't take up a programming job, and all I can say is "programmers have no life". At a point of time in NS, I wanted to take up a Games programming degree course, but the expenses were hefty (SGD$30,000) and I can ill afford that, so I gave up.

4 years later, I'm now doing desktop support in general plus a few here and there. But the interest for games programming never died...sometimes I wonder.

If I put my heart into developing my programming skills, what would I be now?

However, there is no "ifs" in history.

.LuKe.

Didn't know I can be so tired

[CuRRent MooD:] Fine but tired

[CuRRent Song:] Duno

[Last FooD/BeveRage:] Mentos / Plain water

And tired I am. Seriously, I didn't know I can be so tired. Was thinking of taking a half day, but I have to endure...there isn't much half days for me to take.

What a torrid day.

Speechless for now.

.LuKe.

I guess often the biggest hits in my life...

[CuRRent MooD:] Fine

[CuRRent Song:] Duno

[Last FooD/BeveRage:] Mixed "vege" rice / Pokka Lemon 1000

...is about losing friends. I never liked to lose friends, esp. when you tend to think that it's due to misunderstandings or something. Of course, many people will tell me if such friends are worth it if they just throw me in the lurch after something happens or just decides to end the whole thing just of a disagreement in matters.

I don't know, it seems I don't have an answer for now.

.LuKe.

Coast is clear :)

[CuRRent MooD:] Glad, tired

[CuRRent Song:] None

[Last FooD/BeveRage:] Fried fish ball / Water

Oh well, I'm glad things are okay for now. What I'm still unhappy about is probably some other feeling that came along with this repercussion.

I guess in life, sometimes you cannot put too much trust in ppl especially when emotions are concerned. Emotions will in the end be the deciding factor to kill the others. Brought me back to 10 years back when trust was betrayed by self-righteousness.

Come to think, is the truth the ultimatum? Do we seek in life to know all truth?

It is the case, isn't it? I would like to rest my case for now. Too tired to think of it.

.LuKe.

The depth of the soul...is hard to justify.

[CuRRent MooD:] Screwed

[CuRRent Song:] None

[Last FooD/BeveRage:] Duno

Whatever the case, now only idiots and sympathizers would think I'm right, if they have known what happened.

Oh well, I kept on saying "there's no right or wrong".

Wrong.

I'm just wrong.

.Luke.

Feeling-less. Exasperated. Vexed. Puzzled.

[CuRRent MooD:] Look at the bloody title...

[CuRRent Song:] CD spinning sounds...

[Last FooD/BeveRage:] Don't wanna remember

'nuff said. Even the mood of talking about how I got my Zakum Helm and putting pics up is gone.

.LuKe.

Going for Zakum Helming tonight!!!

[CuRRent MooD:] Excited

[CuRRent Song:] None

[Last FooD/BeveRage:] Mixed 'Vege' Rice /Pokka Mint Green Tea

Heehee...tonight is an exciting night...wish me luck! For the ppl whom are not sure of what I'm talking about, Zakum is a major boss in Maplestory. It drops a helmet which provides a healthy boost of stats for the character!

:)

.LuKe.

Short update + another LoTR quote

[CuRRent MooD:] Fine

[CuRRent Song:] Duno

[Last FooD/BeveRage:] Mixed 'Vege' Rice + Pokka Lemon 1000

If anyone has seen my current MSN nick, it reflects some current nicknames of mine.

I have now "Chan Chan", which is what Dear calls me by. "Lulu", though not the first, but currently held by the ppl at the SubContracts department. Also I have "666"(六六六), held by HR staff in GSK last time.

In the past I had aplenty, including Psycho, Lovesaint (情圣 - yeah I know vomit ba), Meow...ehm what else can I think of eh...oh yeah, the Milkula and stuff...LOL

Anyway, yet another quotation from Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship Of The Ring - this was extracted from the moments of the letter left by Gandalf at Bree which they were resting at the inn and being pursued by Black Riders:

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

I liked the first two verses though. It speaks of things that cannot be simply assumed to be always in its active state or of a common conception. Of course, the later verses are more related to the story, but nevertheless can also be taken in or out of context in ways possible.

Oh well, wait for my next update ba.

And yeah, thanks to all that attended my Bday party @ Dbl O!

Reading up Lord of The Rings - Book 1, Fellowship of The Ring

[CuRRent MooD:] Stressed but a little better

[CuRRent Song:] None

[Last FooD/BeveRage:] Pearl Milk Tea

Well, kinda surprised myself to actually read LoTR...but well, all thanks to my dear who loves to read...I think I shall have little issues cultivating my children to read next time :P

Anyway, my post is to quote something that I believe in much of the time:

"...Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. " - Gandalf the Grey in a conversation with Frodo with regards to treatment given to Gollum.

I believe that as humans, we make the mistake of passing judgement too quickly.

.LuKe.

Damn stressed.

[CuRRent MooD:] Stressed

[CuRRent Song:] None

[Last FooD/BeveRage:] Milo

Very stressed about projectwork for final module. Wonder why I have to be selected as PM and get stressed for such shit and having to cover all fronts. Right or not also the same. Damn sickening.

.LuKe.

Activities during the Christmas period...

[CuRRent MooD:] Fine

[CuRRent Song:] Duno

[Last FooD/BeveRage:] Hacks Sweet

Ehm, this period of time has been quite a buzz of time past, so I'll try and see what I can recall from my memory-incompetent brain... :P

Before XMas thing, I shall present to you the Emil Chau IMM pics :)

Emil comes on stage

An Introduction?

Something laughable, always part of Emil

His trademark laughter

Posing?

Preparing his "Lee Guitar"

Tuning his "Lee Guitar"

Looking at his audience on the upper floors

In thought?

Another of his laughter

The autograph session

Oh, in case you think that's the end of pictures...no, I guess this gonna be my longest photo post yet! Next should be the pre-XMas pics at Orchard Road with my dear!

Sakae goodness!

Why the secrecy sia...

Smile appears while I wipe my hands...haha

What message am I conveying?

My dear love sweets...:P

Expanding and expanding...

Can't wait to get my hands...no I mean my mouth on the dessert!

What's left...

It was a nice night out with my dear, and after this thing...ehm, was the chalet outing on dear's side at Changi! I didn't really have the pics to do with the chalet outing, but instead pics of our short stint to Pulau Ubin, which I can't even recall when was the last time I've been there! It's a nice good short trip by the way.

On the way to Ubin...

Really a rare scene nowadays

My dear being taken a pic

The walkway for us to gaze at the sea, have a look at the shore, etc.

Where are we now?

Supposedly mudskippers, but sorry my pictures are lousy :P

Nice gentle waves hitting the shores, isn't it?

Low tide!

Supposedly some small orange crabs...

Mangrove Trees...very important plants!!!

An old...well?

A nice sweet picture of my dear and I

The getaway was fine, got my memory refreshed of her many cousins (which I hope I can still remember on the next time I see them) and had quite a bit of BBQ food...hahaha...

Next to come, a visit to Lunar! Just in case for my readers who do not know, Lunar is a relatively new Chinese-que live band nightspot (think DragonFly), it's relatively not bad and I greatly prefer it to Dragonfly (the latter has too much pple it's intoxicating).

A vile attempt of trying to beat the sexiness of the lady in the picture...

A group picture of us in Lunar...

...and a less serious version of us...(what's with Rykiel only adding that additional V sign?)

Well, just about 2+ nearing 3, seems that much of us are lil tired here and there, but well those lil Vodka can't kill me, was wide awake during the makan session at MacDonalds...

Dear's a lil tired, and I'm still munching away my 20 piece nugget...

I wonder what's Xing gawding about?

Why am I looking at his nugget when I have one my own?

Xing has that narcissist streak...but the camera refuses to fulfill his fantasy...

Instead fulfilling mine!!!

Okay ppl, that's the end of the pictures! Happy new year!

.LuKe.

The super long-awaited KL post

[CuRRent MooD:] Fine

[CuRRent Song:] Duno

[Last FooD/BeveRage:] Lexus Chocolate Cream Crackers

Since it's so long ago, not too sure what to say...stick with the pics will you?






































.LuKe.

P/S: Yeah it's messy but what to do!