Forward, Down, Down-Forward Plus Punch

I took leave last Wednesday because I felt that I needed a break from work and all the RT nonsense.

I had a nice little surprise when the gaming shirt that I ordered from Penny Arcade arrived.

I was vey afraid that the American size L would be too big for me but I am glad I can wear it as for normal. I would've bought more shirts if I had known. I have my eyes on the Photoshop Hero one next.

When it was around evening time, I went on Xbox Live to purchase Castle Crashers. It's one of the most highly anticipated Live Arcade title this year.

Castle Crashers is only The Behemoth's second game, their first being Alien Hominid which originated as a flash game on Newgrounds.com. The 'company' is merely a group of less than 10 programmers, consisting of Tom Fulp (owner of Newgrounds) and artist Dan Paladin. Even the music are user-created content from Newgrounds.

The game is bursting with quality, featuring interesting boss fights and good humour that surpasses even some crappy retail games. It reminds me of Treasure's Guardian Heroes (that old game was truly a masterpiece). Sadly, it is an arcade title which means it's real short. I'm kinda disappointed that the main story was all over in a couple of hours but I had a blast while it lasted.

Human, Just Too Human

The past week had been great! There was no RT on Sunday due to the Army Half Marathon. Which means I finally get a peaceful weekend. Hooray.

I won the new X360 game "Too Human" as part of a giveaway contest on Sheylara.com. I was like OMG!!! I think this is the first time I ever won anything from a lucky draw. I met up with Sheylara last Monday to collect my game (she's cute!). No pictures of the meetup because I look terrible in the photo and don't ever want to see it again. :(



Anyway, the game was supposed to be released on Thursday so I got to play it early! I had a lot of people online messaging me how come I got the game. hehe. It's a pretty decent Diablo clone, though there was a lot of controversy online because it did not live up to the hype ("7 years development cycle, blah, blah"). It's still pretty addictive grinding levels, gearing up and hunting for EPICS.

Saturday night was another BoB forum gathering. This time it was at ArtfulKurosawa's home. Lots of people couldn't find his home cos' he gave us the wrong unit number. It looked like he had things all planned out for the night; he even catered food for us all (or was it home-cooked? I couldn't tell). The decor in his home was real nice; you could tell everything was renovated according to his specifications. It makes me wonder if I can ever afford my own home in this lifetime.

There were SCIV games going on in his bedroom but I didn't feel like playing with the regular controllers as I loved arcade ticks to go with my fighting games. Instead, I stuck around the living room and played some PS3 Rock Band. Having played at E2Max before, I was slightly more comfortable with the game and the plastic Stratocaster now. I'll never get tired of Aerosmith's Train Kept a Rollin' (All Night Long!).

I chatted with some of the more familiar forum members. I left close to midnight but even so, people will still coming for a visit. Raccon was very nice and gave me a ride to the East side since he lived in Eunos.

Sunday was spent playing even more Too Human.

If your Uncle Jack helped You off an Elephant...

I haven't updated for quite a while. The moment my RT commenced last Sunday, I started feeling moody. Just like the previous year and the year before that. haha.

Last Saturday, I was considering going to the WCG at Suntec to have a look. Aside from video games, I heard that the WoW TCG Asian Championships was being held (I'm surprised that there is still official support for it). It would've been pretty interesting to check that out and look at the Xbox games as well but I only woke up in the afternoon which was a little late. I even completely forgotten that it was National Day.

I met Darrell on MSN and we decided to have a movie dinner at night. YongHao came along as well. I went early to Cineleisure to buy tickets for The Love Guru before meeting them at Somerset MRT. But being ever so lost, I walked from Cineleisure to Orchard MRT and took the train to Somerset MRT station to meet them. That took like 20+ minutes. We had dinner at Waraku first before going back to Cineleisure.


It's time for the Love Guru! Honestly, I wouldn't have even considered this show if it weren't for Mike Myers. I wanted more Mike Myers comedies and this was probably the closest thing we'll ever get to a new Austin Powers movie.

The movie even started with a funny music & dance routine. Mike Myers plays the Guru Pitka and returns to the big screen with his ever familiar style of comedy gimmicks and funny word plays. I'll never grow tired of them. Plenty of dirty jokes abound. I enjoyed the movie. And Jessica Alba was hot. I didn't even know she was in the movie. How did I miss that?

If your Uncle Jack helped you off an elephant, would you help your Uncle Jack off an elephant?

After the movie ended, I wanted to grab a bite so Darrell led me to one of the stalls at the basement of Takashimaya which sold sausages. I bought a cheese sausage with mashed potatoes and it was friggin' awesome. Not because of all the sausage innuendo in the movie we just watched.

I went home and prepared for RT the next day. No more staying up late on Saturday nights ever again until this is all over.

I am the Terror that Flaps in the Night

I went to the Manhatten Fish Market for dinner at Plaza Singapura on Friday. It was an outing organized by the members of the BOB (Brotherhood of the Box) forum. I knew a few of them from online but this was the first time I went out with them. I could recognize two of them who used their real photos as their gamerpic.



This was my first time eating at this restaurant and it was very similar to Fish & Co's. Strangely, I wasn't as chatty as my usual online self. Maybe I feel awkward/uneasy in large groups. What I did find out was that most of the BOB members were in their 30's or 40's and married already. No wonder the forum community had a very mature feel compared to other local gaming forums.

After dinner, we went to watch The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Everyone said that the movie was rubbish. I actually felt it was okay; at least I didn't fall asleep or something. Maybe it's because I have seen worse movies recently. The Mummy had a predictable plot and a lot of cheesy moments but I still found it nice. Laugh as the American characters spew out Mandarin that no one in the cinema can understand

Everyone went home after the movie. Something weird/embarrasing happened to me when I tried to take a cab home. It was very dark at around 11 pm. I saw a bus-stop up ahead so I went to stand at the road in front of it and tried to flag some taxi's. A lot of taxi's seemed to ignore me and picked up people who were in the bus-stop. But I was lucky and got a taxi that was heading East.

When I got on the taxi, the driver asked me if I was waiting for a taxi on call. I was like, "No. Why?" Then he said, "Really, meh? You stand at the front of queue. You must be waiting for the taxi you booked, right?" Oh my god!!! That 'bus-stop' was actually a shelter for a taxi queue! The people in the queue must be wondering who is this idiot trying to cut the queue by standing out on the road. *sigh* Good thing it was really dark or else people may have seen my face.

And something made me rather happy at the end of the month.

I got a raise after a year of work! Happy happy.