Cool flash tag

Just found this cool flash tag. Yea.

Gears of War 2

Just got down to playing Gears of War 2 on Jeremiah's xbox360 and I thought that the gameplay was very good with high levels of realism as players can hide behind walls and shoot from behind walls, just like what happens in real life. For the campaign portion of the game, the storyline is both interesting and touching with fresh concepts of an alien invasion and various characters meeting tragic ends due to the war. Looks like I'm gonna be getting GOW2 and it's prequel.

162 Chapters of Gantz!

Just finished reading the first 162 chapters of Gantz after 9+ hours of it. Been wanting to watch the anime for quite some time but never got around to actually watching it. The plot is totally awesome. Not only is it original, it's also exhilarating and makes you want to root for the gantz players to survive each mission.

At first I didnt have any particular character I liked, Kurono Kei was selfish and way too crazy over girls while Kato was kind but it was bad when he went to the point of being naive sometimes. But I grew to like the Kei from the dino arc onwards.
The only things that probably made the manga less than perfect were the overuse of gore sometimes and the overuse of scantily-clad girls featured on the cover for the beginning of virtually every chapter.

went back to Ubi Ave 4 for the 2nd part of the fencing lesson. the instructor was Jeffrey Lopez. for the first time, we put on the actual fencing gear and fenced with the actual swords.

we fenced using the Épée (there are 3 types of weapons - Foil, Épée & Sabre) coz we chose it during our first lesson. as long as we manage to stab the tip of the epee into the opponent, we'll get a point. each match will last either 3mins or till one fencer scores 5 points.

i was the first fencer up for my team and my opponent was Jack. he's from 06S14 and that's his name if im not wrong. i managed to get first blood in winning a point and i defeated him 5-3 though i didnt expect it since he had prior experience in fencing.

after our time was up, one of Jeffrey's students, Ben, appeared for his lesson. some of us stayed behind to watch how a typical training was like. halfway during the lesson, Jeffrey asked if we would like to fence with that student and i volunteered. this time round, the match time was 9 mins, with a 1 min break every 3 mins and the first to score 15 points wins. Ben was a tough opponent and he won 15-9. it was really tiring, especially for the fingers, since we had to constantly make quick movements around during the match but it was definitely a great experience getting to fence against him.

24-hour Naruto-Arena Marathon

i've been doing some rather crazy stuff lately. just 10mins ago, i finished my near 24-hour marathon in playing naruto-arena. managed to get from an unranked player to the 1st player of the ninja ladder, with 9 characters unlocked lol.

http://www.naruto-arena.com/we-are-back!/
its coz the server was hacked into and lost almost all of its data... so everyone's account was reset. to help everyone get their unlocked characters back, the admins made the missions much easier...

NJC Road Run '07 23rd

managed to come in as 23rd in the J2/IP4 Boys Category in the NJ Road Run today but i think i could have done better coz i already felt tired before the race even started lol. its probably coz of the hockey training yesterday (ran from NJ to Turf City, did physical training on leg muscles and ran back to NJ) and the lack of sleep (slept at 2am after reading the synopsis of 50+ chapters of a manga). and halfway through the run, i even had a stitch lol... my abs felt damn tight and it was really painful to run.

towards the end of the race, after entering the 1st of the 2 sch gates and about 300m from the finish line, i overtook Jerrick. kinda surprised seeing him there lol. didnt know he had so much stamina and could run so fast lol. when i passed the 2nd sch gate, i saw her... and then i sprinted towards the finish line.

this year unlike the last, our hockey team managed to clinch quite a few of the top 25 positions- tuck wen got 4th, zhi rong got 6th, chee seng 15th, haikal 16th.

after resting for like 5 mins, i wanted to register my chip. but it wasnt the J2's turn; they were still registering the chips for the J1/IP3. so i went over to the flag raising area to take my bag. when i came back to the grand stand, everyone was already seated and the performances had started... so i kept my chip since the prize presentation for the top 10 positions was gonna start soon. (this year they decided to cut the budget and only give prizes for the top 10 zzz) after everything was over, as i was going to the gents, i noticed that the lists for the top 25 people for each category were pasted on the wall in the middle section. so i went over to take a look at them and guess wad i saw?

J2/IP4 Boys Category
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23. Joseph Choy 04IP03 Solaris

i was appalled to see this FREAKING IMPOSTER who had the nerve to claim my 23rd position. then Mr Sham happened to pass by so i went to approach him to explain the situation. he felt that this was a serious case and asked me to look for Mr Menon and Miss Koh to get the case ressolved. but when i approached Mr Menon, i felt that all i got was bullshit. he told me i should have registered my chip. but how the hell was i supposed to know when to register my chip when there was NO FREAKING announcement for the J2s to register their chips in the flag raising area. i tried explaining that to him but he said the standings probably were moved up. BUT THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE. why? coz Jerrick, who came after me, told me that he received the 25th placing chip. and when i checked the list of the top 25 placings, Jerrick's name was written in the 25th position. SO THERE WAS NO UPWARD SHIFT IN THE PLACINGS. ITS IMPOSSIBLE. i tried explaining that to Mr Menon but he just took my chip and said it was over and hes not gonna freaking do anything. im seriously DAMN PISSED by the irresponsibility of this teacher. what he should have done at the least was to return me what i rightfully deserve- my placing. its not as if i was trying to demand him to go through the trouble of finding and catching that freaking imposter. what to do... but to right the wrong MYSELF.

then our class went for lunch with our J1 class. the girls from our class went first. the guys went later coz we were playing soccer lol. on the way there, i found out from my friends that Joseph Choy was from SJI and he's the very short guy with short hair and specs, currently in Softball.

anyway, the lunch was at the bukit timah plaza pizza hut. (i didnt know there was a pizza hut there lol) i was kinda surprised when we arrived. though it was supposed to be an interaction session between our class and our junior class, the girls (from our class) and the junior class was seated in two separate tables. i wonder how they interact lol... by telepathy? or morse code? lmfao.

pro-koupers

during the hour before cny, the muah chi stalls were selling transparent plastic bags @ $5 and those who bought the plastic bags could fill the bags with muah chis till they were full. but some pple made use of the crowd to koup muah chi and they came up with some rather interesting tactics to do it lol.

one uncle with two big red plastic bags full of muah chi used this method to koup muah chi. he took out a transparent plastic bag half-filled with muah chi, squeezed his way through the crowd, filled his transparent plastic bag full of muah chi, went off and returned with his transparent plastic bag half-full again to koup some more.

one middle aged woman (i shall refer to her as kouper X) tried to trick the stall keeper into giving her a free transparent plastic bag. first, she asked the stall keeper to pass her a plastic bag. the stall keeper reached out with the plastic bag and asked kouper X to pay. but kouper X just took the plastic bag and then refused to pay, using the excuse that she couldnt reach the stall keeper. wad a lame excuse lol... she didnt even take out any money. meanwhile, while kouper X distracted the stall keeper, her husband reached into the crowd and kouped some muah chi. lol.