water tennis

Ever since my brother went for his obligatory 2 year National Service term, I've been lamenting the lack of a tennis partner during my holidays. Of course, this only happens when I'm not too lazy myself ^^;

So, what does this have to do with a picture of the world no.2 tennis player Rafael Nadal doing a delicate balancing act on water? Nothing of course - except for the fact thats it on bloody water!

Sony Ericsson Open Unveils World's First Game of Tennis on Water

I simply cannot imagine how the game was played out. From my experience of playing tennis in the rain (don't ask -_-"), the ball would soak up all the water and its ability to bounce would be close to zilch.

Just leave it to the creative brains of Sony Ericsson to come up with something as outrageous as this..

crisis core

Yeah, I know I know, I've been neglecting the blog for quite a while lately, but I have a bloody good reason (or excuse however you want to put it ^^;) :

Final Fantasy VII - Crisis Core

Basically this PSP game's been sucking many many hours of my time ever since I've begun spending my out-of-job life this week.

Sure, it's one of the many money-spinning offshoots that Square's been using to milk the beloved franchise dry, but make no mistake - this is probably the most anticipated piece of work to enrich the already fascinating world of FFVII after Advent Children.

Taking place 7 years before the events of the original game, the main protagonist this time around is Zack Flair, with many other familiar and unfamiliar characters thrown into the mix as well. Gameplay-wise, CC plays much like an Action-RPG - which means to say nothing like FFVII at all. I'm not going to go into an in depth review of gameplay mechanics, something which many game sites have already done, but what I can safely say is that even though you might need some time to get use to it at the start, the game becomes a blast to play once you do.

Having been a devout fan of FFVII from the moment I played it on my PC with the 4 CDs I 'borrowed' from my friend (no PS for me ^^;), CC brings back all the nostalgia and feelings I had since then. Because the game is basically a prequel, you sort of already know how things will end up, but that does not detract it from serving up a great storytelling experience complete with mind-blowing CG cutscenes and solid soundtrack. Above all, it provides an opportunity to flesh out the events which culminated in the original game and it does this with aplomb.

At the end of it all, I guess I just like to thank Square for actually seeing this game to production and providing fellow FFVII fans around the world another avenue to immerse themselves in the vivid world of Gaia.

Now for the inevitable FFVII remake, I might just get a PS3 if it actually does come out.. ^^;

stating the obvious

Well, somehow I always find something funny on Mondays :D

ad lib ad

If only the ads in the 'Classifieds' were this funny, I would probably start reading them everyday - along with 'Sports' of course ^^;

torrential tardiness

I woke up to a very wet morning today, and for once it was still raining when I was trying to get to work on time.

For some unfathomable reason, it's been raining every single day of the week since March started. For convenience sake, I'd put the blame on global warming because I'm too darn lazy to think of a logical reason while evading puddles of water on the way to the office.

To my credit, I got there only 5 minutes late. On the other hand, my colleague didn't fare too well since his bus was moving as fast as an aging AC Milan player during their last night's incredible loss at home to Arsenal in the Champions League.

But I digress.

At least he didn't try to land a plane in town, since he would most likely be mistaken as Mas Selamat and shot down by the RSAF, unlike this fellow below :

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Man lands plane on golf course so son wouldn't be late for tennis lesson

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, March 5, 2008 7:51 AM | permalink

Police might arrest an Illinois man who landed his plane on a golf course so his son wouldn't be late for a tennis lesson. Police came to the Marriott Resort Crane's Landing Golf Course, at 10 Marriott Dr. in Lincolnshire, around 1:50 p.m. Saturday for a call that a plane had landed on the course.

Robert Kadera of Lake Villa and his 14-year-old son, Isaac, were standing outside the aircraft, a 1949 Piper Clipper, which was sitting in the middle of the golf course about 20 feet south of the retaining wall that separates the golf course from Route 22, police said.

Kadera said it was not an emergency landing, but rather, the boy was late for his tennis lesson at the Lincolnshire Club across the street from the golf course on Route 22, police said.

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I think he would have better luck if he tried a helicopter. Bummer.

impossible is nothing

So now that I have a steady temporary job to spend my time away during the day, I usually try to find ways to entertain myself when I get back from work - like watching insane fellas jamming to insane tracks in Guitar Hero on Youtube. I swear I'm as amazed at the ability of the guy as at the durability of the guitar controller.



More Guitar heroes over here for your jaw-dropping pleasure ^^;

headbanging headache

Or I might like to add, in case your PC crashes all of a sudden and there seems no way to revive it.

Yeah, that happened to me, yours dearest.

On second thought, if a crowbar was really on hand I probably would have smashed the monitor on the gazillionth Windows reinstallation attempt which failed badly.

Thankfully, the guys over at GooGoo (where I ordered the PC) provided some swift tech support and by Saturday morning, the CPU had made a trip to their workplace and back to my home in a span of 2 days, working as good as new. Yeah, by 'new' I mean that the data that was on board before was wiped out as well, but luckily the important documents were saved on a portable HDD already - a lesson learned from a previous crash. Oh well ^^;;