Dangerous Games

2008-06-14T03:36:00.001+08:00

WWDC 08

2008-06-09T16:28:00.002+08:00

If you do not know what WWDC is, it is an Apple event called Worldwide Developers Conference. And if you do not know what is gonna be revealed... Where the hell have you been? Mars?

Steve Jobs is going to unveil the highly secretive Iphone version 2 and many speculations are floating around the net about the new specifications of this "new" gizmo. 3G? Thinner? Cheaper? GPS?

Rumored to be $200 when its revealed. Totally budget. Totally hope to get it soon.

Working in a Start Up

2008-06-09T16:27:00.000+08:00

Alright, this is totally overdue.

While everyone else secures their future as a highly productive office worker of the 21st Century in high flying companies, I took the opportunity from Darren (Zethis) to work in his web design start up as a business development personnel.

The pictures up there show the environment at my desk. A little messy, pencil and paper, laptop and desktop together, msn with my dearest behind Microsoft Word.

Paper is starting to stack on my desk, and they're not stuff that are printed black and white but more of scribblings on paper done by me. I do a lot of planning here, a range of different stuffs really and scribbling the ideas on paper is really the best way for me to get my thoughts in order. Having Word or Powerpoint open and planning right there and then just doesn't cut it.

So, what is this company I'm working at? If you haven't already done so, check out CartMomo. Yeah, its a startup web site with aims of allowing people to start their shops and sell their wares. And right at this point, the guys here are working on Campus Malls and aim to bring promotions from various brands to students of institutions in Singapore. Check out TP Campus Mall set up for Temasek Polytechnic students. It has a number of features that would excel over CartMomo and would eventually be port over to the main site.

Working at a start up is exciting. You don't get lots of prestige or lots of money. In fact, they live on funds. Every minute is crucial. Selling is a tough job for a brand without much recognition. Persistence is essential.

However, as a new comer, although I have my ideas of how to grow the business and company, Randy (Partner of the ownership of the company) has a different idea of the direction the company should take. So does Hanhaw, the 3rd personnel I worked with here at CartMomo.

In the mean time, my focus will be placed on the Campus Malls and making it work. Loads of planning, loads of presentations to do, loads of propositions and negotiations.

Time to work.

Photo Taken With/Without Flash

2008-05-28T15:26:00.002+08:00

Took me awhile to get it... WTH. I used to catch these things faster.

Damn Exams.

2008-05-04T23:38:00.000+08:00

Studying. Exams almost over.

xiaxue reviews iPhone and talks like a dumb blonde

2008-04-10T01:19:00.004+08:00

...
dumb bitch

If you wanna screw your reputation go ahead, dun screw Singapore's reputation by being the "most popular blogger in Singapore" and running around telling people that iPhone sucks.

_|_

On hindsight... What a way to grab global attention.

Gaming leads to violence?

2008-04-07T14:28:00.003+08:00

Here's evidence that suggests as society plays more violent video games, less people get harmed everyday.

Everyone, please... go play some games and stop crime!

Every geek wants a name like this!

2008-04-07T13:56:00.002+08:00

I am ROFL-ing non-stop right now.
When you are named, Batman son of Superman... You and your dad are gonna form a team called World's Finest. And who knows? Your mom might be Wonder Woman and your uncle is Green Arrow, and your uncle's wife... Black Canary!

Joining the army in a year, save the world in 3!

Microsoft > Yahoo!

2008-04-07T13:53:00.002+08:00

Everyone should know it by now,
Microsoft is punching Yahoo into giving in.
I would call it threatening and bullying.

If Yahoo! does not accept Microsoft's offer of US$44billion dollar bid, Microsoft will look to buy over the share holders and they will drop the bid.

What will Yahoo! do? They have 3 weeks to decide.

Looks like when Microsoft wants a piece of a pie, they really do want it.

Quake3 on iPhone

2008-04-05T16:47:00.002+08:00

Eh... ZOMG???

Quake3 on iPhone. I needa go take a look at the specs of the damned phone.

And check out how you control your character.

WoW on iPhone soon???

Help with survey for Technological Innovations project

2008-04-01T17:29:00.004+08:00

I need help for people to fill in a survey regarding their experience as WoW players.

Through this project, my group is trying to find out how Blizzard Entertainment innovated from previous MMORPGs to come up with a dominant design, the award winning and subscriptions record breaking MMORPG, World of Warcraft.

Please click this LINK and complete a short 10 questions, 90% multiple choice questions survey! Takes at most 1 minute of your time.

For those who can't click on the link and I have no idea why you can't, copy and paste the following into your browser : http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=nDoxS3ZKfOLWN8VoKhQ_2fNw_3d_3d

Goodbye WoW...

2008-04-01T16:45:00.006+08:00

Yes. I have finally made the decision to quit WoW.

It has been almost a year now.

It has been fun tanking but Panzar'thar Breatplate would never drop for me.

It has been fun dps-ing but a warrior will always find it hard to find a place to dps.

It has been fun in KoL but too much WoW is getting tiring.

It has been fun playing late nights but real life truly forbids such life style.

It has been great times playing with all the friends I made in KoL.

Goodbye Zamea... like I fared Zreck goodbye once, I will now rest you for good.

Time to finish off my projects, study for my exams and spend time with my family!

Happy April's Fool!
Alright... I'm gonna study more, but I won't quit larh. Exams coming... going back to mug!

First Foray into Black Temple

2008-04-01T13:15:00.002+08:00

Keepers of Light made their way into the Black Temple for the first time last night.

It is undoubtedly a great week of raiding as we downed 4 new bosses and many of us are now enlightened about how difficult Kael'thas Sunstrider is.

First kill of the night,

High Warlord Naj'entus

Second Kill wasn't that clean, but a great effort still,

Supremus

Got Choker of Endless Nightmares off of the HUGE guy. Great neck.

Great week KoL.

The future is near.

2008-04-01T10:06:00.004+08:00

Just have to share this with ya all.
The future is nearer than we think.

Holograph

Here's a video of a holographic display. Think Star Wars R2D2?

ViZoo has brought it to us.

Immersive gaming and video experience anyone?

We could be watching a show and actually feel like we're a part of the environment with everything happening around us.

Multi-touch

And what about Minority Report? All the manipulating of images using multi-touch interfaces on a screen? You thought that was the future?

At Perceptive Pixel, they've brought the future to us. The way we interact with objects, images, videos and all other stuff, it is the next step in human-pc interaction interface. Check out the link to watch a video, I assure you that you will not be disappointed.

Here's a Youtube version for all you lazy balonies, but seriously, head over to the main site to take a look at the high quality version.

And here's how Microsoft has used the technology, and in-built it into something called Microsoft Surface. Now, it's pretty damn cool and my first thought was, when's an Apple version coming out?

To prove that all these are not too far in the future, here's proof that CNN has already begun using the interface in the Super Tuesday coverage.

Would love to get my hands on those, but they cost a bomb at the moment, going up to over USD 10,000.

Like all other gadgets, being the first adopter is a losing position.

Patience is key.

White Guys Can't Jump T_T

2008-03-31T03:01:00.003+08:00

She sure got PWNED big time. HAHA.

At least she could still stand up and smile.

Photoshop Express

2008-03-30T23:28:00.007+08:00

For those of you who do not yet know about it, Photoshop now has a free online editor.

Photoshop Express

You can now edit photos from your Photobucket, Facebook and Picasa accounts, or you could upload 2gb worth of photos onto their server and begin editing from there. You can even host your gallery there and share your photos with others.

I played around with it and found it rather easy to use. Pretty intuitive features and perfect for people who want to spruce up their photos quickly.

Really cool. Go check it out.

By the way, you might not want to upload any photos yet because of a certain clause in the user terms as stated below. If you took pictures like those of Edison Chen, I plead you, PLEASE POST THEM UP and SHARE! =D

Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.

3 reasons to wait for an iPhone

2008-03-30T20:23:00.005+08:00

For my friends who are wondering if you should get an iPhone, here's my take.

Wait

1. iPhone is still a developing product.

Even now, Apple is still continually upgrading it. In such a short time, Apple has already announced iPhone Firmware 2.0, and there are rumors that Apple is looking for manufacturers for 3G versions of iPhone.

2. Later generation of Apple products are significantly better.

1st Gen iPod

4th Gen iPod

Apple 1st Gen products are slick, but 3rd Gen onwards they always become a so much more than what was. If you want what's hip in the future, wait for a later gen version of the iPhone.

3. Price.

Apple's products come out expensive. So do other tech products. It's just that trend. And the price drops pretty fast, so why spend a bomb on the 1st Gen iPhone when you could get your hands on the 4th Gen iPhone for 1/2 the price 1 year after the first Gen iPhone hits the stores?

Mount Hyjal Day 1

2008-03-28T03:00:00.016+08:00

Led the raid with fellow officers to Mount Hyjal.

We managed to down the first boss Rage Winterchill. PVP Trinkets FTW!

My mic was pretty messed up with my WoW sound. May have caused weird sounds in the raid cause of feedback. Should have just said so earlier, I'll just turn off the sound. It's not easy to lead a raid and take note of all these shit especially when I can't hear what comes out of your speakers, I can only see what's happening on the screen and hear what's coming out of my mouth telling you all what's coming, what to kite and improvising on the ground so next time you're unhappy about the damn sound I'm producing, just say nicely and ask that I get a ear piece. After a long day, it's just a little fucked up to see nasty remarks.

Drops :

1. Deadly Cuffs

2. Bracers of Matyrdom

Managing the waves ain't easy. You gotta know what's coming and how to go about killing the waves. It's kind of a trial and error kind of thing really but we really did get better the more times we tried it. Pretty fun I would say, but was really chaotic.

Still wondering about my role in the raid. Fury or Prot? What items should I be rolling for?

Fury of the Sunwell

2008-03-27T13:32:00.003+08:00

2.4 is out.

But project deadlines are approaching and exams are coming.

Blizzard got a bad time to release the damn patch. Damn.

1500+

2008-03-26T08:07:00.003+08:00

Broke 1500 for the first time. Woot~

Hands on

2008-03-24T03:56:00.009+08:00

Tried to design a card. Here was the process.

Too much.

Better.

Got stuck. Mental block, so I started a new one.

I liked this one. Kinda tells a story.

And finally went on to make a grunge version and put it up on Deviantart.com

check out bingzhi.deviantart.com

President of United States

2008-01-29T15:09:00.000+08:00

Didn't realise the last post was finally my 400th post. But well, there will be no fanfare nor celebrations for this milestone achievement.

Recently, people keep telling me that I'm different, ranging from comments such as "WTF", "I can't believe my eyes", "You're resurrected!

No longer zombie!". Whatever it is, I am indeed kinda different I guess. Waking up for classes and actually listening and understanding. WTF, that's totally not me man.

Dawn of the DEAD!

Well, I even read www.channelnewsasia.com every once in awhile. WTF! I'm interested in the happenings of the world. Seriously, I've never been interested nor bothered about what happens to the world.

Why am I actually interested now? I dunno, maybe I'm afraid that it'll cause problems to Blizzard and thus WoW will suffer. LOL.

And so, if you paid attention to stocks over the past week, it has been crazy. Even now, it's a roller coaster ride everyday, almost as if you were surfing in the Carribean seas or

smoking Cocaine and then getting hit right in the stomach.

Kudos to US for being able to create waves in stock markets all around the world.

It's like an orchestra r

ight now playing the melodies of an epic movie with US being the conductor who's unable to control himself, going up and down, up and down.

Duh. Blabbering nonsense eh? But sounds better than Suharto's death right?

Gah. My room is pretty neat, the sun is shining brightly, I'm applying for NOC, doing my tutorials. WTF is this!?!? If I continue like that, I'm gonna be a great husband to my wife and a great dad to my kids and probably the best President of the United States! DAMN

IT!!! probably better than any Barrack Osama or Hillary Cliton.

Black & Female Rights Groups... Fear me! The Singapoh Lang will jiak you clean clean.

ZZZ. Pardon me... Lack of sleep is getting to me. One thing I need to do now is get my finances right though. Literally and educationally.

wtf.

Raiding on a Sunday

2008-01-27T15:27:00.001+08:00

Back to raiding.

Weekends only, whenever I'm free.

Adopting the Google work culture, Sunday will also be my "hobby" day. Drupal will be the focus for now.

Intel in the Future

2008-01-24T03:10:00.000+08:00

Was researching for TR2202 module and came across this video that was put up on IDEO website.

IDEO has been working for Intel and creating a vision of the future for them. Here is their view of the future.

Full Blast

2008-01-17T00:23:00.000+08:00

Studies has started. A good start indeed. But workload is still at a low. Taking this chance to go out a little more with my girl before I eventually get engulfed by the tumultuous workload of Finance major. 6hrs of lesson tomorrow. Sleep is calling.

A few more things to plan though. But I've got this semester sorted out.