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Thursday, December 14, 2006 ♥ 11:08:00 PM
Good evening everyone!
Man today was such a fun day! I organized a LAN outing with my classmates from PI0504X!
There were about 15 of us, including girls. Yes you saw that right, girls came along too lol.
All of us played Battlefield 2 man!
Let me tell you this, Battlefield 2 is soooooo freaking real! It simulates exactly how an actual war is fought man!
We played urban area maps, so it’s quite often that we ran into the opposition team.
There were so many classes and vehicles to choose from! I basically just use the Assault and Special Forces class, but nearing the middle and end of the game, I just stick with the Assault class, due to the grenade launcher mounted underneath my gun.
I use that to shoot at vehicles and for once, I use it against a low flying helicopter piloted by some pilot that seems to have no license…and that helicopter eventually crash lol.
My team cleared the first map after much difficulty, as the capture points to win the map was spaced out quite far apart and the opposition constantly recapture those points that we have taken over.
But we won eventually lol.
The second map that we played was even cooler man!
My pal Timothy pilot a fast moving helicopter and I jumped in as a gunner!
Both he and I basically rule the sky!
Whatever thing that moves on the ground and up in the air was taken down by either me or Timothy.
I wasn’t very good in using the TV guided missile mounted on the helicopter and it was quite hilarious looking at the way I use it, for I keep missing the target once I fire it.
There were even times when the missile was like a few meters of hitting the target and I totally missed it lol.
Timothy and I never once died in the helicopter, except for some moments when he accidentally knock into a tree or couldn’t pull up the aircraft from the ground in time lol.
The second map was a bit frantic as 2 of us were guarding the air and the rest of my team members were on the ground, trying to hold off a huge army. The opposition captured all the points and my team was only left our home base and was in constant threat of being taken over.
But eventually we manage to recapture some points and also defended the home base fiercely, thus scoring lots of points in the process.
However my team were eventually overrun and left again with our home base. Timothy and I tried again to recapture those points using the helicopter but were fruitless.
But praise the Lord; we won in the end for the opposition just couldn’t conquer our home base!
We switched to playing Counterstrike but it was quite mundane and not that exciting after we had a taste of Battlefield 2 lol.
We ended the whole LAN outing by 6pm and started to go our separate ways.
Truly God is good, for He grant me this time to be able to have LAN gaming with my classmates.
But the sad thing is….this might be the final LAN outing for the class…as each of out busy schedule might leaves us with little time.
But I believed that we would have 1 final one before we graduate guys!
I sincerely pray that God will give me a chance to organize another LAN outing before April, the month that we graduate.
Alright, I got to end here now.
Thanks for reading and God bless!
Wednesday, December 13, 2006 ♥ 7:01:00 PM
You are The Magician
Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity.
Eleoquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing,
you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive.
The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud. Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is represented by Mercury. He represents the gift of tongues, a smooth talker, a salesman. Also clever with the slight of hand and a medicine man - either a real doctor or someone trying to sell you snake oil.
What Tarot Card are You?
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006 ♥ 10:08:00 PM
Hello all,
Today has been a very interesting day. I woke up around 6am to head down school to try out our adventure tower. You know, the kind that has rope obstacles, abseiling, rock climbing etc.
The adventure tower, looking from the ground up seems small…but once you’re up there, you’re on the same leverage as the MRT line opposite my school!
And the adventure tower was FUN MAN!
Sadly, only about 7 people including me from my class showed up. Oh well, those guys that didn’t show up, too bad man!
I tried the basic rope course that basically requires me to walk around a thin line of metal reinforced rope.
The only challenged came when I have to cross a part where my feet is suppose to tread onto a log and there is no support for me to grab on. I was thinking about how to solve this when I realized that the safety orange rope attached to me can be use as the support and after that I cross the log area breathlessly.
After that, I have to shout out some encouragement to some of my friends who were…a bit challenged in crossing the log part.
After that, my PE teacher, Emily, opened up the advanced course!
WOOHOO that was the best man!
Suspended in the air making your way across all those obstacles and finding creative ways to solve them!
It was soooo cool! I even hang onto a rope support using only 1 arm and feel the wind blowing while suspended in the air only with the safety orange rope. Feel so….free.
Alright guys, I got to go prepare for my competition.
Please pray for me yeah?
God bless!
Monday, December 04, 2006 ♥ 5:56:00 PM
Dear all,
Firstly, I would like to say:
GAMTRONICS HAS WON!!!
Yes it has been a long time coming but my team won Splash!
Woohoo thanks for all your prayers and encouragement guys and girls! Thank you!
Thank you God!
30th November was the day that we went down to Singapore Polytechnic to have a showcase of our wares to the public.
One of my mentors Chester was called up for reservist so only my other mentor Adam and together with other mentors in charge of the other teams went down.
Before we stepped into SP, I saw a terrible accident that unfolds ahead of the road that my bus was traveling on.
A lorry had knocked down a motor cyclist at the road junction to the entrance of SP man!
I could see that the cyclist was badly injured as he was unable to move. The bus that ferried us to SP have to turn at that exact junction and the front bumper came sooooooooo close to knocking into the motor cyclist’s head as he was lying on the road.
I was so worried that I did a quick prayer and thank God the bus did not even nudge the motor cyclist. As we left the scene I prayed that nothing serious will happen.
After the bus has stopped at our destination, we found out that we have to walk a looooooooooooooooooooong way to reach the convention centre where the showcase was held!
Cool morning exercise man!
Upon arrival at the convention centre we occupied the center area man! ITE College East basically dominated the showcase with our huge force of 14 teams! LOL!
Setup of equipment for the showcase was a breeze and we hang around, chatting and poking our heads at the various projects from the other teams at the showcase.
Man all the projects from ITE, poly and university are so interesting! My only complain is that there was a serious lack of games man!
I was so looking forward to seeing lots and lots of games since there was a ‘Consumer’ category in the competition but was greatly disappointed. However there were truly interesting games to makeup for the lack of quantity,
I honestly felt from the bottom of my heart that the game produced by Xin Yi’s team was cool man! Their graphics and game play concept is so nice! I asked about the graphics whether it was 3D but it wasn’t! Man! Amazing! The 2D image was that great man! It looks so like 3D!
Many people visited their booth and were interested in their game, even one of the personnel from Sun Microsystems voted for them!
If only the enemies in the game, the ghosts, could show up. Otherwise I believe they would have won the ‘Consumer’ category. Rats!
Sigh…what a pity man. I pray that they will win in the future.
Another disappointment comes from the JCs. Only ONE team showed up, which was RJC. They were the best of all man. Coming to the showcase without anything and only having it in ‘concept’. Yeah that is oh so cool man.
Finally the time came for the announcement of the prizes. We were ushered into the auditorium after packing up and waited with bated breath for the MC to announce the winners. However before the announcement, we had to wait like crazy through a series of speeches by some prominent figures from IDA and SCS (Singapore Computer Society).
After their speeches were done…the results came. The consumer category for ITE/JC section was announced. What I can truly say was that those who display a tremendous lack of confidence in winning actually won some prizes! I hope the confidence and hope in you guys have risen after Splash yeah!
The enterprise category for ITE/JC section came. I closed my eyes and prayed.
“The winner of Splash 2006 ITE/JC Enterprise Category goes to…”
I grabbed the seat handles hard. My teammate Benjamin, who was sitting beside me, went very quiet feeling extremely anxious.
“GAMETRONICS!”
OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDD! WE WONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
My whole body cramped man at that point because there were too much tension in me lol!
Nevertheless I mustered all strength and we stepped out to receive our prize.
OMG! OMG! OMG! We wonnnnnnnnnn!
All the decisions and sacrifices Gametronics made, WAS WORTH THE EFFORT!
Thank you God for all this time!
Thank you God for Your faithfulness!
After I have collected the prize and my team had shook hands with the VIP from IDA, we took a picture and after that I was still trying to recover from the shock and was confused as to where I should exit!
We did a demo of our application afterwards and once the ceremony ended, we start taking photos like crazy and everyone was like congratulating my team man!
I also took photos with my mentor Adam and wanted to take more but unfortunately the bus arrived. Those carrying the equipment back to school boarded the bus and we parted ways as I was one of those taking the train back.
As I took the train back with Ke Jun and Andrew, breathing a sigh of relieve that everything is finally over. All that left is to collect the prizes man!
I would like to give a heartfelt thanks to Adam and Chester, our mentors, for guiding us and teaching us throughout this entire period.
THANK YOU MAN!
Also I would like to thank everyone back at SUN COT, for showing good comradeship. It was real good that everyone helped each other out to fulfill their tasks and learning new things from one another.
This is what the spirit of being in SUN COT is, to advance together!
That’s all guys! Till the next time!
God bless!