Hello all, its so much for the battle course this whole week, and yea long weekend! I am home now, after dinner with my parents at adam hawker center, not to mention some icecream thereafter. Checked out doom III at guerrilla games shop at serene center, going for $66.60, expensive! Would be waiting for the price to drop to bout $49.90. Though it may seems unlike me but I don’t see it worth to get a game which I don’t really have time to play so soon… just these busy days. Moreover, I haven’t played so many games I’ve brought over the months: 1)IGI 2 2)C&C Generals 3)No one lives forever 2 4)Simpsons hit & run 5)Jurassic Park, Operation Genesis 6)Comanche 4 7)World War 3, black gold 8)Submarine Titans. well at least they are good at collectin dust & now residing, still wrapped in their boxes, waiting to be installed…

Dang, I regretted not booking for an immediate test date after failing the other time, dang! now the next test date open would be in october… but by then my PDL would have expired, so got to freaking renew. Why is it so hard to book a test? damn BBDC only know how to make people wait, wait & eat people’s money for revision lessons. Prices for tests are $150, $100 for use of car for 100mins, $30 for warm up & $20 for the tp testers only. BBDC & SSDC – oligopolys for the driving market in Singapore , with the exceptions of private instructors…

Would be dropping down Simlim with John, Adrain & Guowei for some shopping tml. They would be building a new comp, naturally, I guess they wanted me as their hardware advisor… Mmm see how it goes then. Time for some CS now.

The national day parade had just ended & Singapore idol is now screening on TV. On a sidelook, one may noticeably note the array of people in for the auditions the possible *talents* & William Hung wannabees on TV. Not to mention the judges taking a very definite role (& impersonations) similar to that of their foreign counterparts. Very *original* & *creative* works indeed!

Haven’t got DOOM 3 yet, as I see no need to rush to get it, considering its price at its peak now. Furthermore, the need to purchase it is more of an unnecessary urge & a treat for eyecandys, not much of the story we all already know. BTW, did I mention that there were plans to make DOOM 3 the movie? yes it was in fact planned a long time ago. Leased by ID towards Warner sometime ago, its in the hands of Universal now. A very straightforward thing, but it would be a first for movies based on a computer game’s storyline, well besides the upcoming alien vs predator one too.

Flipping through the papers, my horoscope for the week warns of hot & sharp objects.. mmm & traffic related incidents, I am not driving anyway so blah blah. It ends lastly with a possible change of appointments in late week… Mmm possible.

Oh well, that ends another weekend, & time to get back into camp.
Oh yea, its still August the 9th, almost forgot. Happy Birthday Singapore!

National day is today, & whee red & white madness everywhere…:shock:

Ok now for some site based updates for the day… did some minor upgrades & fixes around the site, firstly with the addition of the new projects page. Showcased there are more or less my progress & current task(s) I am involved in, that includes assignments & commissions, a rather general “work to be done section”. Secondly, upgraded the blog search function & upgraded the links sections with new headers & added new links to the hardware & art sections. I am working on a new poll which would be ready by the next weekend. Also, to end things sweet I’ve already started on the modeling tutorial- already compiled the images needed so we should be able to see it up in the weeks to come .

Let me recap some happenings yesterday night. Had an early dinner at home, mom & dad had some loh (black sauce) egg & meat dish with rice and soup, they are always good at such dishes, not bad. Then they all always go bout talking of going into the food business, well thats all talk anyway, no action for now. Visited granny in the evening then dropped by Suntec thereafter as my mum wanted to deposit some carrefour lucky draw coupons. Since we were coming from the eastcoast area towards city, we were warmly greeted by the fireworks released on the National Day preview along the ECP and Benjamin sheres bridge, quite a spectacular sight. & there we were at Suntec, Sis wanted to repair her Nokia 7250i, but the service center was closing & didn’t allowed anybody in. Kinda raided the Carrefour’s supermarket later for sushi & bread for tomorrow’s breakfast. To much of horror, Tower Records at suntec had been severly downsized now bout 1/3 the original floor area with Courts taking over the floorspace, & they are having some 50%-70% off sale, looks bad wonder how long can they hold on. Moreover, Court’s “so-called” price slash doesn’t raise any brows either, a Canon powershot going at $649 plus a 128MB CF and bag? tough luck! I know of stores going at $586 plus a 128MB CF… Due to all those shopping, PK computers was closed for the day before I could even get to it & amazingly Times the bookshop was still open (bout 9pm) but they didn’t have anything good either.. dang magazines… Suddenly I get to know that the Vin-Mart DIY hardware store isn’t the store I used to know as “tools-R-us” very little goods are stocked there now, not to mention their all patentic torchlight section (yea I was looking for a diver’s one).

And so it was (and still is Sunday) Very much spent my time relaxing & spending time infront of the computer. Did some surfing for ideas for my home theather PC (HTPC) & hey, DDR dance pads for PC (with converter) Mmmm, imagine hooking that to the living room’s TV for a good dance, not to mention getting my mum to try as she all too engrossed into losing weight now. Dang Itching to play some DDR now, had been sometime since I last DDRed in arcades too. Monday’s tomorrow & its actually the start of a fresh new month, August. Arghh! why do the weenends have to be so short…

Just came back from a swim from the swimming complex. One thing I noticed around the neighborhood is the amount of activity going on, the number of cars parked around and not to mention lots of catering trucks… Well what can I expect for, living in a matured estate. The funny thing is that a large bunch of elderly were having a mini bowl/shotputt competition at same time the garden’s sand pit with tents and loudspeakers all set up. Cute in the mist of the immediate activities.