Rule the world with Cuteness !

I know it's a been a long time. Finally the first week finally ended. I felt that 2-3 weeks had passed but in fact it is only 1 week. I think I will get used to it after some time. As promise, I shall post my birthday present. I know my birthday is long over but I can't post anything when my mother took the camera with her to Japan.

Keith and Someone else (he doesn't want to be mention) bought this for me ! =D

It's a black pen. Some Code Geass merchandise.

Comes with a Geass sigil

My brother bought this for me

I bought this for myself

That's it for this post, i guess. I will post more tomorrow. =)

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9:13 PM

Today, the very first day of the second semester and I owe my friend $32. He paid the books for us first and I'm going to pay him back tomorrow. I hate the the first day of the semester, there is always things to buy. I actually planned how I am going to spend and save my money then this shit comes out.

Zzzzz, I have to no choice. Suck it up. >_>

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11:37 PM

Supposedly I want to post pictures of my birthday presents. However, first I a bit lazy. I will do it later in the day. Second, I'm having fun playing the Sega Saturn and Playstation emulator that I forgot my time. -_-

Have you ever had your childhood wish come true ? I did, just now. I was playing Armored Core 4 and I was thinking what other fun robot games are there. Suddenly there was this tune in my head and I knew what was it. I searched youtube for the name of the music and found it. "Into the Blue Sky, Temjin theme" for Virtual On Cyber Troopers. I remember playing this game on Sega Saturn when I was young. Although I only played the demo, it was my favorite game. I wanted to have the full game but the game in the past was like $80-$90 ++ which is expensive shit. I didn't get to play the full version.

I decided to download the Sega Saturn emulator and search for the game. I found it and started playing it. Childhood memories starts to flow back and I was really happy. A wish that I had once as a child and forgotten was finally fulfilled.

I started playing games when I was in Kindergarden 2, about 5 years old and the first console I played was the Sega Genesis Megadrive. The graphic back then may just be 16bits and 32bits. However, the games were simple and fun. I remember Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog. Simple gameplay, point A to point B, jumping on enemies, scoring high score with nice stage music.

I downloaded the Playstation emulator and search for games too. I found some of the old games that I played when I was young. I'm currently playing Threads of Fate and it is still fun, just like when I was young. Games like Breath of Fire and Xenogears were fun.

Compared to the games of today. Most of them have shiny graphics and effects. However, the amount of game time is reduced to accommodate the graphics. Some of the games have complicated gameplay to achieve realism, while some are just plain broken games. Now with capabilities of online play, competitiveness increases. Although not all, there are players throwing vulgarities at one another just because the team loses or someone is being burden. Sure, no one play to lose however some just wants to win and nothing else.

Back then, friends will just come over. Playing simple console games together and have fun. Time has change. =_= (I feel old. lol)

Damn, this post is long and wordy.

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1:12 AM

Hah, yesterday was my birthday and I got pretty much wishes on Facebook which puts a smile on my face. Mingxian also treated me lunch yesterday...so thank you, aha. Other than that, there's nothing much that happened. As for present, I got Armored Core 4: For Answer. :3

It's a good game like Armored Core 4. Just that, it feels abit different with more features and customization ability. Perhaps I need some time to get used to it. Now I'm thinking what plastic model should I buy for myself....

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12:13 PM

DUN DUN ! It's my 18th birthday ! HAHA ! I guess I will post more later in the day. XD

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12:03 AM

I decided to split the post for today because I do not want to bore people with that game "review".

Yesterday, I attempted to update my Lenovo's ATI Mobility Radeon HD3470 video driver and Catalyst Control Center. Things sort of went wrong and I cannot use any of the ATI components. I had to use the useless Integrated Intel Graphics which just plain sucks because I couldn't play much games with it.

Today, I woke up at 1100 and continue working on it. I was thinking perhaps I applied the wrong driver. So I uninstall video driver and Catalyst control center, ran a drive sweep, download another one and reinstall it. It cannot work. I installed it but in fact, nothing was even installed. This kept going on for like 2 hours until I found a website that I can mod the desktop video driver and use for my laptop. Finally, it worked, Catalyst Control Center is working but not the video card because the driver is incompatible with my VGA adapter.

I kept searching for a solution until I uninstalled all ATI components, ran BIOS and disabled the function of letting the OS to detect Switchable Graphics and ran the laptop on discrete. I installed the modded drivers and rebooted. Finally at 1800, after 7 hours of frustration. It works and better still, I managed to update the video driver. However, there is not much FPS increases which disappoints me. Now, I do not want to enable switchable graphics because I do not want to touch it anymore since it finally works. XD

DUN DUN 59 MORE MINS ! LALALALA !

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11:01 PM

I have not been doing much these days except for playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl with LURK mod. I remember the time when I played this game for the first time. 2 hours into the game, I uninstalled it because it just sucks or maybe, I suck at it. I remember I had a hard time killing a freaking mutant pig and getting past the first area.

Now I choose to replay it because I am too bored and Timothy's recommendation about the LURK mod. I decided to give it another go and NOW it's fun. It's a First Person Shooter Role Playing Game. Compared to Fallout 3, another First Person Shooter Role Playing Game I played, S.T.A.L.K.E.R is good in terms of the role playing part. The shooting part is smoother that Fallout 3 in my opinion. However, the only thing I do not like is the environment. It's lacking something compared to Bethesda's made environment. Also, unlike Fallout 3, S.T.A.L.K.E.R does not have fast travel feature. You got to travel to every location by foot.

Although I do not know much about the vanilla S.T.A.L.K.E.R because I stopped after 2 hours. The LURK mod certainly made the game fun and challenging. Although the AI is just plain dumb at times. Mutants are now on free roam. That means you can fight mutants that can be only found in certain areas. (I fought a damn bloodsucker in the first area which shouldn't be there.) More guns and ammo are added, providing more variety of weaponry to suit your taste.

It's fun and I would recommend it to people who wants to try this game or just have nothing to do. S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat, the third installation to the series is coming next year Q1 if i'm not wrong and it's the sequel. I would want to try S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky, the prequel to the game but I heard it just plain suck. Perhaps I will give it a try someday.

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10:41 PM

I finally found the Code Geass song that I'm searching for ! I searched the entire Code Geass R2 OST 1 and 2 but in the end it's in Code Geass OST 1. -_-

Song titled Masquerade and the theme for Shirley. (I think)
She's a pretty good character and this song fits her well.
Very beautiful song if you have seen the anime.

Lyrics

Tell me what, is true love
cos I got to know if this is real
(Its about to start)
(The chime of a clock)

Just what, is true love,
cos I got to know if this is real
(Its just about to to start)
(The song...destiny)

Tell me what, is true love
cos I got to know if this is real

So how bout that?
How bout you?
Baby Im glad youve met me

Tell me what, is true love
cos I got to know if this is real

So how bout that?
How bout you?
Baby Im glad youve met me

Kokoro ni kagi o kaketa mama
Tsumetai taido de kamen o mi ni tsukeru
Dare ga boku no sugao
Shitte iru darou? Kimi no hoka ni wa

Jibun no yowasa mo tsuyosa mo
Sarakedashitai nante ichido mo omowazu ni
Namida kakushite kita
Hontou no kao o miserareru hito

Sagashitsuzuketeta kimi o ushinaenai

You're My Destiny
Shinjite mitai
Eien no imi wa mada wakaranai kedo
You're My Destiny
Ashita no yume o
Tsuzureba sore ga unmei ni kawaru
Say you'll share with me one love

Tell me what, is true love
cos I got to know if this is real

So how bout that?
How bout you?
Baby Im glad youve met me

Kono te ni tsukamitoru tame ni
Heiki de kizutsukete koko made ikite kita
Dakedo kodoku dake ga
Kono boku no te ni nokosareta mono
Nani mo nozomanai kimi ga soba ni ireba

You're My Destiny
Kokoro o akete
Uchiaketai yuzurenai omoi o
You're My Destiny
Kanjiru kizuna
Futari no deai unmei nanda to
Say you'll share with me one love

You're My Destiny
Shinjite mitai...
You're My Destiny
Ashita no yume o...

You're My Destiny
Kokoro o akete
Uchiaketai yuzurenai omoi o
You're My Destiny
Kanjiru kizuna
Futari no deai unmei nanda to
Say you'll share with me one love

Tell me what, is true love
cos I got to know if this is real

So how bout that?
How bout you?
Baby Im glad youve met me

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9:20 PM

Lol, I'm pretty bored this few days. So I thought of changing my laptop's wallpaper.
I want some nice Armored Core wallpaper. However, I can't seem to find any good ones or rather any that I like. With GOMplayer, it's video burst capturing feature and a HD video. I managed to captured some images that I like and "convert" it into a wallpaper. I made 4 but this 2 are my favorites.

Resolution 1440 X 900 (both)

I just take the pictures, made it fit into the resolution i want, adjust the brightness and contrast, do some sharpening and finally place the Armored Core title into a nice corner.

The wallpapers is not as good as official quality and it's the first time I'm "creating" a wallpaper....but I'm happy with it. (Maybe the quality is worse than average.) Xd

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5:31 PM