You are now in Bad Company!

I picked up Battlefield: Bad Company last week. The story is mainly about a squad of insubordinate soldiers from B-Company (where all rejects/cannon fodder get posted to) who go AWOL on a personal quest for gold deep behind enemy lines. It's actually pretty funny with its likeable characters and cheesy dialogue.

This is one of those games that I picked up due to all the marketing. It had several funny trailers featuring its cast poking fun at other war games, most notably Metal Gear Solid.

The game comes with its trademark smiley-face grenade. It's supposed to be a stress ball by the way. I just couldn't resist it. It's so cute.

Penguins are bad company.

You Know What They Say About Dirty Laundry in Public...

It was last Friday morning when I was making my rounds around the office, dropping letters into people's lockers. It was then I spotted a printed note stuck on the front of one of the lockers.

Being ever curious, I went to have a closer look but was overcome by the smell of something most pungent and vile. It was then I noticed a pair of smelly underwear jammed into the slot of the locker. I stood at a safe distance and began reading the attached note. It was a messy, unpunctuated wall-of-text. I didn't stick around too long for fear of people seeing me (and there's that smell). I only got the gist of it but it went something like...

"Dear XXX, here is the underwear of the man you slept with. You are such a slut for sleeping with a married man during the school holidays. You cheat peoples' feelings so that they will buy your policies and allow you to hit your quota. I don't want to be your scapegoat any longer.

PS: Don't bother turning off your phone when you are having sex. I know everything."

It sounded like it was from an angry lover. I always thought such things only happened in TV dramas. I thought normal people would try to hide their dark (and smelly) secrets. I would have snapped a picture but I didn't want to draw any attention to myself and quietly went away.

The smelly underwear was gone after I came back from lunch. Thank goodness. I wonder who else saw the note that day. haha.

It's Pandaaaamonium!

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Saturday Out of the House

Work, Work.

I had work on Saturday as usual. I was going about my usual websurfing when a lady came by my room and asked for help with the photocopy machine. She seemed like a real nice person and I gladly helped her out. She kept smiling and thanking me. She actually came to look for me two more times for help later on and we chatted a little.

She commented that she wished her assistant was around that day to help her prepare stuff for an appointment with her client. When she finally mentioned her name, I knew who she was; my boss used to be under her. (At his point, I was actually wondering if she would tell my boss she walked in on me surfing the net. I hope she won't.)

She then asked me if she could pay me to work overtime that day and help her prepare stuff for her afternoon meeting. She asked so nicely that I actually would have had trouble saying 'no'. But I had already planned to meet Angelo after work a Suntec to pass him something so I had to go.


Suntec: IT Show

I dropped by at the IT Show at Suntec City after work. It was very crowded but good thing it wasn't like the previous one where it was so packed that I gave up and went home. I mainly checked out gaming stuff. There were a lot of attractive X360 promotions going on but I controlled myself because I didn't want to buy games that I cannot commit myself to play and complete. The most notable one had to be the 120 GB HDD that went for $139 instead of the usual $280. I didn't buy it cos' I wouldn't know what to do with so much storage.

I then made my way home, stopping by at White Sands to buy lunch and rent some DVDs (they had Sports Movie! Never knew there was such a thing). It has been a long day and I was looking forward to lying in bed (PS: My air-con FINALLy got repaired!).

I arrived home at around 4+ pm and this was when Brainy suggested catching the Incredible Hulk at night. So off I went to AMK Hub to meet YongHao, Brainy and friends.

The Incredible Mr. Green



I actually read that the movie was pretty good and not like the one by Ang Lee which was a steaming pile of crap. You can tell Marvel was ashamed of the first Hulk movie because they retconned stuff and got an all-new cast.

And like the Iron Man movie, the Incredible Hulk had a surprise cameo at the end; the only difference being that we don't have to wait till after the credits to catch it. Unless there was actually more. haha. I love all this build-up to the upcoming Avengers movie.

Off Day! Ninja Gaiden II!

Tuesday was the day of Ninja Gaiden II's release. There was an event at Funan so I took leave to go and collect the game (didn't want to be distracted at work). I woke up pretty early and went to Funan at 12 noon when the redemption began. The queue was longer than I expected (there were over 400 pre-orders after all) but it moved very quickly as there were 3 redemption counters. I got my game and the nice T-shirt (good thing it was Large).

The whole thing was a rather simple affair, with a redemption counter, retail booths and many demo stations. And there was an emcee who kept referring to the game as "Ninja GAY-den" (it's 'Guy', not 'Gay'!).

I met up with Shein and his classmate who were there to collect the game as well. We hung out at KFC until the 1 pm lucky draw for a the NG2-skinned Elite X360 console. Oh well, no luck for any of us. I wanted to catch Ryu Hayabusa & his two lovely ladies for a photo opportunity but I felt a little shy. haha.

When Shein & friend left, I went to shop around until Akira arrived at 1:30 pm. We had lunch at Pasta Mania, talked about games, WoW, and joked about the boob nerf in Age of Conan (they were imbalance! Nerf!). We then made our way to Books Kinokuniya at Orchard. I took my time browsing and chanced upon The Art of Mass Effect. Unfortunately, it was bundled with a guidebook that I had no use for so I dropped the idea. We then went over to the hobby shop at CineLeisure where Akira picked up several new figures to add to his Pinky St. collection.

I cabbed home and eagerly popped in Ninja Gaiden II to play. I have always heard that the series was well-known for being difficult and unforgiving. Which was why I started the game on easy mode. I played for a couple hours and it was great fun. The regular enemies were very aggressive and all bosses thus far killed me in a few hits. But really, getting thrashed by cool-looking bosses with awesome specials is what make these games so fun. (The game only served to remind me of DMC4's very sad boss roster.)

Also, in a most surprising turn of events, NGII creator Itagaki left Tecmo and is now suing them. Right on the day of the game's release! Now that's pretty controversial. I actually didn't know about the guy until I started reading up on NGII and now he just leaves after putting out his last great game. Ah, well, he seems like a really talented guy so I hope he joins a new studio and carries on with his work.

My Weekend with a Beercan

There was a chalet on Sunday organized by one of the agents (also the boss' sister), Ann, to celebrate her baby's first birthday. She invited everyone in the office so I thought I would be a good sport and attend it to get to know my colleagues better. The chalet was at the National SAFRA Resort & Country Club at Changi Coast. I've never been there before. The place was totally out of the way and rather inaccessible by public transport.

I decided to go there late at 5:30 pm, but to my surprise, I was the first from the office to arrive. The rest were all Ann's relatives. I helped myself to the food while watching even more car-loads of relatives pull up the driveway.

I decided to kill some time by checking out the place. The NSRCC was a typical resort/chalet. I wondered towards the reception office building where all the fun stuff were. I passed by the swimming pool and also went to check out the bowling alley, karaoke, pool tables, and so on. Typical resort facilities.



When the clock struck 6:30 pm, I ended my little tour and went back to the chalet. The place was really packed by now. Both my bosses had arrived. Tiffany was there but she left almost immediately after finishing her meal. Ah, well. Hope the rest will come soon.

As I went to get another helping of food, someone was passing beer around and thrusted a can of Heineken into my hand. I looked at the little can in my hand and it looked me back in the eye, its shiny green body glistening with power from within.

With Mr. Heineken in hand, I went into the living room and watched... some olden-day Chinese war movie that I didn't know the title of. I had Mr. Heineken to keep me company. I stuck around, glued to the unidentified movie on the TV until around 7:30 pm. When the first disc was over and no one else swapped in the second disc, I felt it was time to take my leave.

And I actually left without taking my bag!!! It was leaning against the wall right next to me. How could I forget??? *hic*