yo dude congrats' on passing the test ... and props to ur mum for being so kool to buy u the 360 \m/ believe it or not, but the 360 is abundently available in baghdad now along with most of the game titles! if i get my masters next month, maybe my mum will treat me to one (fingers crossed).... oh, and Salah "kamikaze" says hi.... he is my dentist now!
INDIA
p.s. love the toilet seat in the background of the last pic... be careful or ur GF might dump u for leaving the seat up :P
yo the x360 is great, so hope you get one! rumours are we'll be soon able to play iso's on it, without a modchip ;)
I forgot to close the door leading to the toilet (it's en suite with the bedroom) and so you see it in the last picture. I was hoping no one would spot it :)
and as you say, kudos to my mum for being so cool. it was totally unexpected but welcome :p hope your mum follows suite.
salam, ps how's your sister? i heard she's a mum now? say hi to them all for me
Um Sally eh? and dude, no thanx, I don't want to be a mum (nor dad) soon, got to enjoy a bit more life first ;)
Salah Kamikazi eh? I've remembered now. We were playing that really culty PC game together, erm what was it called, about commanding a carrier ship (Carrier Command I think it was called). I was stuck in a certain mission and the next day I saw him and asked him whether he had passed it or not. Turns it he had, by sending some recon planes over to the enemy carrier, and then Kamikaze'ing into it :)
2 things amaze me: a that a game so old would calculate and accept collision damage, and that he remembers it and thinks I call him Kamikaze. Maybe he just wants a nick-name to sound "cool" :p say I say hi back, and from now on will start calling him Salah Crazy-88 :p Wonder if he'll recognise what that means.
10:46 pm
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i doubt he knows the "crazy 88".... i'll find out by asking him 'do you find me sadistic?'.... or maybe he should ask me that cuz he's the one getting the kick outta drilling holes and sticking needles in my teeth !
INDIA
8:37 am
.....we used to have so much fun
Hello. Best way to start this long overdue update is by the universally known word, HELLO. Hope everyone's been ok and kicking. I for one have been fine. My friend Ziad (who came here in September from Dubai if you remember) decided to visit Britain again on a 2 week holiday. We had a great time, went clubbing, pubbing (:p), saw Cirque Du Soleil at the Royal Albert Hall (friggin' awesome! best circus ever!), and did loads of other things too. He's gone back to UAE now.
When he was here, my mum decided to give me a heart attack and actually buy me an XBOX360 as a gift for passing MRCP 2!! I was shocked! She gave me the cash and I had to hunt all over the place to find the damn thing (they're in shortage worldwide). I managed to get the last remaining "CORE" version from Virgin. I bought 2 games with it (condemned, perfect dark) and two wireless controllers. I had to order a hard disk from ebay (necessary to save games, download stuff and connect to xbox live), and a vga HDTV cable from lik-sang (yeap! hong kong!).
Anyway, all that arrived, and before hand I had treated myself to a 27" widescreen LCD HDTV television (DiBoss from amazon, dead cheap). I connected the xbox to it via analogue VGA and set the xbox to widescreen HDTV. DAMN THE PICTURE IS AMAZING! HDTV rules! it really has to be seen to be believed!
Next, I got the Sky people to install a Sky+ receiver in my room, and now i can watch tv here and rewind/pause/record live tv (it has a built in hdd that records the stream all the time). They will start broadcasting in HDTV mid this year, so that's another use for the tv.
The TV also has a DVI input which I connected to the PC as second output. The monitor is cloned onto it, and it's used as the fullscreen overlay device for videos. I watched HDTV Shrek 2 and Kill Bill on it the other day, and believe me, once you've seen it you REALLY can't go back to crappy "DVDS". Seriously. It's that amazing. Once HD-DVD or BluRay come to the market, we're gonna start watching films the way they're meant to be :)
[Image]Another use of this TV is that now kelly (and other friends that come over) can watch me do stuff on the pc, for example the poor girl would have to endure some quake 4 deathmatching online, watching it on the tv :p
As a side effect of the above things, I had to drag Ziad to HomeBase and get some cheap shelves and a TV unit to house all this crap. We spent a whole evening DIYing and sorting things out, but now after wobbling about for a bit, everything appears to be stable (I hope.....)
[Image]So as you can see I'm happy, and still wasting a ton of cash on crap. But this crap is awesome and last for quite a while. Also, playing X3 in the middle of the night with my 5.1 headphones on, the Cyborg Evo, and on the wide screen telly is a heavenly experience.... One day i'm going to lock myself in the room for 24 hours and do a marathon X3 universe session. Someone, get me a life (and convince my girlfriend not to dump me once she's read this :p).
SoB over and out for now, and back online for a long time to come...........
"Where are you baby...."
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yo dude
congrats' on passing the test ...
and props to ur mum for being so kool to buy u the 360 \m/
believe it or not, but the 360 is abundently available in baghdad now along with most of the game titles!
if i get my masters next month, maybe my mum will treat me to one (fingers crossed).... oh, and Salah "kamikaze" says hi.... he is my dentist now!
INDIA
p.s. love the toilet seat in the background of the last pic... be careful or ur GF might dump u for leaving the seat up :P
2:17 pm
yo
the x360 is great, so hope you get one!
rumours are we'll be soon able to play iso's on it, without a modchip ;)
I forgot to close the door leading to the toilet (it's en suite with the bedroom) and so you see it in the last picture. I was hoping no one would spot it :)
and as you say, kudos to my mum for being so cool. it was totally unexpected but welcome :p hope your mum follows suite.
salam, ps how's your sister? i heard she's a mum now? say hi to them all for me
3:46 pm
Oh, and who's Salah Kamikaze? is it S. Ayad?
3:47 pm
yeah dude... she's "um sally" now...yom il ilek :)
and yeah it's Salah Ayad... he said u wld recognize the nick'...
cheers...
INDIA
9:24 pm
Um Sally eh? and dude, no thanx, I don't want to be a mum (nor dad) soon, got to enjoy a bit more life first ;)
Salah Kamikazi eh? I've remembered now. We were playing that really culty PC game together, erm what was it called, about commanding a carrier ship (Carrier Command I think it was called). I was stuck in a certain mission and the next day I saw him and asked him whether he had passed it or not. Turns it he had, by sending some recon planes over to the enemy carrier, and then Kamikaze'ing into it :)
2 things amaze me: a that a game so old would calculate and accept collision damage, and that he remembers it and thinks I call him Kamikaze. Maybe he just wants a nick-name to sound "cool" :p say I say hi back, and from now on will start calling him Salah Crazy-88 :p Wonder if he'll recognise what that means.
10:46 pm
i doubt he knows the "crazy 88"....
i'll find out by asking him 'do you find me sadistic?'....
or maybe he should ask me that cuz he's the one getting the kick outta drilling holes and sticking needles in my teeth !
INDIA
8:37 am