Learn to Fly

I came down with a fever and diarrhea on Friday. I have absolutely no idea what caused it but I knew I was going to have one hell of a weekend. I slept at 12 midnight which was considered early for me.

I went to work on Saturday. I still felt bad. Angelo SMS'ed me and asked me if I wanted to go to Funan Centre to check out the newly opened Xbox section inside Challenger that Sheylara was promoting. I was about to turn him down when I remembered that I wanted to look for a USB microphone for Rock Band (I bought it recently!).

After work, I went to the Challenger at Funan and asked around. I actually got the same answer that I got from most places: There are no such things as USB microphones. At least locally anyway. Angelo showed up soon and we arrived at the Xbox section promptly at 2 pm.

To be honest, the event didn't seem to go quite well because there weren't many people there aside from random Challenger shoppers. There was a Rock Band demo and they asked for volunteers. No one wanted to try the game at all and it felt very awkward, so... guess who volunteered.



We played Learn to Fly by Foo Fighters. I need to stop getting my photo taken in public like that.

After that, me and Angelo were about to go have lunch when 2 guys came up to us and asked us if we could eat free curry puffs on their behalf. It turned out that they were part of some Mediacorp island-wide race thing (a local Amazing Race rip-off?) and their challenge at this checkpoint was to finish 2 curry puffs each. They were both Muslims and fasting so they couldn't complete the challenge. haha.

So me and Angelo each stuffed down 2 curry puffs. "You're lucky I haven't had my breakfast or lunch yet," I said. There were some Mediacorp people and other participants standing around. As soon as we were done eating, the two guys thanked us profusely before racing off. It was kinda weird; I wonder if this show will be aired on TV. haha.

Since we both had curry puffs already, we decided to just skip lunch and go home.

On a side-note, I managed to get my Rock Band USB microphone 2nd-hand from someone who was selling his.

GCA 2008

I went to the Games Convention Asia today. Several other people were going as well so we all decided to meet up. When I arrived there, I met YongHao and then Hobbes who was with his school's booth. We started chatting when this booth babe came and asked (actually more like begged) us to take a photo with her. I was kinda confused cos' I thought it was usually the other way round. She then handed us some coupons and told us to give it right back to her so we can have our pictures taken.



I guess the booth babe was in a hurry to fulfill her photo quota and go home. haha. The person taking the photo had such shaky hands. There was no way to salvage it except with the adjacent drawing by Hobbes.

Surprisingly, the GCA was not as crowded as most other events held at Suntec. There were a lot of new and upcoming titles on display with just as many people hogging them. Then there were also the cosplayers who seemd to pop up at every event. I saw an Arthas (WoW: WOTLK) near the Popcorn Gaming booth which even had a Frostmourne replica for sale at $998. As I was walking around, I even saw a Lulouch (Code Geass) walk pass me and go into the toilet. (I don't want to know what happened to all the people in the toilet.)




The highlight to me was the Guitar Hero: World Tour demo and a few gaming competitions going on like Soul Calibur IV, Rock Band and Guitar Hero Aerosmith. I joined the Rock Band competition with Rhyfe. We called ourselves Photoshop Heroes (I wonder if anyone got the reference. haha)I felt we were at a severe disadvantage since there was only two of us while other teams had 3-4 members. I was amazed when we got into the finals with 5 other teams because Rhyfe pulled off a stunt that was a real crowd pleaser; He sang vocals and played guitar at the same time.

In the end, we probably should have realized that the competition was not about skill or scores but more on aethestics. The winning team was the one who actually dressed up in nice clothes and performed a lot of stylish dance moves. I doubt the judges even took down scores or cared that we were playing on Expert. If it were me to decide, the other 3-man team with a godly guitarist would've won. Oh well, never mind. It was good fun and I'll be picking up Rock Band next week.

Super Boredom!!!

I haven't been updating for the past two weeks. RT always makes me feel terrible and work had been extremely tiring.

I have been spending a great deal of my time on the 360 as usual, though I must admit, too much of it can get pretty boring, too. I wonder if I am experiencing 'burnout' from gaming (if there is such a thing).

I played Tales of Vesperia (which is nice) and Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise. I actually bought Viva Pinata on impulse at the thought of having my own penguin garden. Who would've thought a 'kid's game' can be so difficult and user-unfriendly. Maybe it is time I cut down until Guitar Hero World Tour arrives. haha.

Time to super-summarize what I did for the past two weeks:

1st Week:

I went for another outing with somee BoB forum members. This time it was at TCC at Millenia Walk. It was my first time there. I had baked rice though felt it was overpriced at $19+. We sat around, chatted and browsed through Duelist's photo albums containing two-years worth of booth babe pictures (no kidding).

We went to Starbucks later to chat some more and have drinks. I bought ice cold chocolate and dined on chicken pie. At the end of it all, Terrorisk said he could give me a ride and I got quite a surprise when he actually drove me right to my block. I was so grateful.

I watched Wall-E with Rhyfe on Saturday. It was a nice, heartwarming show. It's amazing how most of the story was told with just two lines ("Wall-Eee!" "Eeeve!") and a whole lot of (robotic) body language and expressions. That's all I can say because any more and I will give away the plot. haha. The trailers and media did a good job of not revealing anything about the story at all. It's pretty fun to watch because it is so unique.


2nd Week:

My former WoW guildie from Malaysia, Jyoshou, came to Singapore for a visit over the weekend. He asked me out along with his other WoW friends, FunkyHair, Gyunikuchan and so on. It was a last-minute thing as he only contacted me on MSN when he reached Singapore. haha.

We went to Plaza Singpura for dinner at Pastamania followed by drinks at TCC (oh my god! again). Everyone seems pretty excited about the Lich King expansion coming out at the end of the year. It makes me wonder if I will feel tempted to play again.

After the outing, I dropped by at Books Kinokuniya at Orchard to pick up the Mass Effect: Ascension novel. Looks like I will have something to keep myself occupied other than staring at the screen for hours everyday.