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 ^^;;

coolness redefined

Here's another lol moment to brighten anybody's day ^^;

Singapore to host 2010 Youth Olympics

Just thought I'd share the good news for Singaporeans (me!) all around.

Nicely done I would say ^^



Picture taken from sgyoutholympics.com, which is 'an online campaign to support Singapore's bid for the Youth Olympic Games 2010'.

windows music mash-up

And here I thought I was sick and tired of hearing the same old SFX from Windows, and viola - I stumbled upon this genius of a work.

Composed entirely of sounds from Windows 98 and XP, the end result is nothing short of amazing. Yeah, its that good.

Kudos to SomethingUnreal for creating something great out of nothing ^^;

(uuu uuu uma uma)^100

Ok ok, I admit it shows nothing but a guy shaking his hips and flapping his hands to a wacky song for a whole 2.5 minutes, but I just can't stop being highly amused throughout.

Gimme a sec while I go watch it again ^^;

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i believe i can fly

Dwight Howard's Superman dunk O_O

scintillating rout : Man Utd 4 - 0 Arsenal

No Ronaldo? No problem.

To be honest I did a double take when I first saw the line-up, but boy did those doubts fade away as fast as Arsenal's resistance.

And now for French giants Lyon this mid-week. Exciting.

Oh, and if you haven't noticed by now - I'm a Man Utd fan btw. So sue me lol.

no more villains

Looks like not all video game baddies like their day job after all ^^;



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flashy painkiller

Ok, I admit I don't play COD4 online but the single player campaign alone was probably the most immersing FPS I've ever played in a long long while.

Still, I never knew that you could kill someone with a flashbang if you threw it hard enough. Ouch.

give that bear a coke

Well, I'm certainly not a Greenpeace-supporting activist, but there's something about seeing a polar bear waving from a boat in the middle of a pond that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Must be that damn global warming.

where in the world is osama bin laden?

Seems like I'm on a roll with the whole movie trailers thing, but trust me - its probably worth spending a few minutes of your life watching.

"We don't know whether he's in a cave with the door shut, or in a cave with the door open."

Absolutely hilarious.

to infinity and..

I'm feeling a tad lazy to post nowadays, even when I'm bumming around the house having nothing to do before Chinese New Year. Somehow having nothing to do makes me want to do nothing else. Yeah, it's that sort of feeling.

Anyway, I just spied a new Wall-E trailer that aired during the Superbowl spot which was pretty cute. This, along with Iron Man and the Dark Knight, are now in my ever-growing list of movies to look out for in 2008 ^^;

edit : I added the new Iron-Man trailer too. Looks sweet.

WALL?E Superbowl Spot (in theaters June 27, 2008)
Uploaded by WallEMovie

Iron Man - Superbowl TV Spot - HD
Uploaded by gonzaguedambricourt

cheerleading

Since soccer is the most watched game in sunny Singapore (and anywhere except the US for that matter), I'm not a particular fan of the NFL or the upcoming Superbowl this weekend.

However, what did catch my eye was this site.

Heck, it would probably catch any straight guy's eyes for that matter ^^;

this is your captain-to-be speaking

Any wannabe-pilots for the A380 can get their first shot at the cockpit with this pretty awesome interactive website.

Still worth a look even if you haven't once dreamed of having your callsign as Maverick ^^;