Assasin's Creed - Lineage

The way games are being marketed now is so much different from that of 2-3 years ago. Nowadays, it is considered a norm to use trailers of videos and not in-game-playing shots to advertize. But looking at how Ubisoft is planning to create hype for Assasin's Creed II, you just know it's fucking epic...

This video is a one of a few short episodes that leads to the game that will be released.... Looking at the graphic detail, it's one to watch out for.

Halo: Reach

Finally!! Reach is coming!

Arrested for being naked at home???

A man charged with indecent exposure for making a cup of coffee naked in his kitchen faces a possible prison sentence.

The 29-year-old Virginia man was standing naked in his kitchen making a cup of coffee one morning when a woman and her 7-year-old son passed by his window and saw him.

Apparently upset at the harm done to her child, she reported the incident to police, who came running to arrest the deviant.

He admitted being naked in his own home:

“Yes I wasn’t wearing any clothes but I was alone, in my own home and just got out of bed. It was dark and I had no idea anyone was outside looking in at me.”

However, the man, who himself has a young daughter, denies being a perverted fiend:

“I am a loving dad. Any of my friends and anyone knows that and there is not a chance on this planet I would ever, ever, ever do anything like that to a kid.

I never had a conversation with anyone, never saw anyone. Didn’t cross my mind, came and got coffee. I mean if I stood and seemed comfortable in my kitchen possibly it’s natural. It’s my kitchen.”

Police say he was arrested because they suspected him to be an exhibitionist.

If convicted he faces a fine and up to a year in prison; he denies the charges and is seeking redress from police.

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what the hell woman, it's his own home! you peek into a guy's house and then sue him for this??

Moral Story??

A reminder that you can take your time to do/say something, just make sure it doesn't take forever.


10th grade

As I sat there in English class, I stared at the girl next to me. She was my so called "best friend". I stared at her long, silky hair, and wished she was mine. But she didn't notice me like that, and I knew it. After class, she walked up to me and asked me for the notes she had missed the day before and handed them to her. She said "thanks" and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I wanted to tell her, I want her to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love her but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why.

11th grade
The phone rang. On the other end, it was her. She was in tears, mumbling on and on about how her love had broke her heart. She asked me to come over because she didn't want to be alone, so I did. As I sat next to her on the sofa, I stared at her soft eyes, wishing she was mine. After 2 hours, one Drew Barrymore movie, and three bags of chips, she decided to go to sleep. She looked at me, said "thanks" and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love her but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why.

Senior year
The day before prom she walked to my locker. My date is sick" she said; he's not going to go well, I didn't have a date, and in 7th grade, we made a promise that if neither of us had dates, we would go together just as "best friends". So we did. Prom night, after everything was over, I was standing at her front door step. I stared at her as she smiled at me and stared at me with her crystal eyes. I want her to be mine, but she isn't think of me like that, and I know it. Then she said "I had the best time, thanks!" and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love her but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why.

Graduation Day
A day passed, then a week, then a month. Before I could blink, it was graduation day. I watched as her perfect body floated like an angel up on stage to get her diploma. I wanted her to be mine, but she didn't notice me like that, and I knew it. Before everyone went home, she came to me in her smock and hat, and cried as I hugged her. Then she lifted her head from my shoulder and said, "you're my best friend, thanks" and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love her but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why.

A Few Years Later
Now I sit in the pews of the church. That girl is getting married now. I watched her say "I do" and drive off to her new life, married to another man. I wanted her to be mine, but she didn't see me like that, and I knew it. But before she drove away, she came to me and said "you came!". She said "thanks" and kissed me on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love her but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why.

Funeral
Years passed, I looked down at the coffin of a girl who used to be my "best friend". At the service, they read a diary entry she had wrote in her high school years. This is what it read: I stare at him wishing he was mine, but he doesn't notice me like that, and I know it. I want to tell him, I want him to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love him but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why. I wish he would tell me he loved me! `I wish I did too...` I thought to my self, and I cried.

Rest In Peace

I had a friend named Boon Jim. It can be said that I was a rather close friend of his while he was in INTI. I kind of lost contact with him when he left for the States in August. And today I find out I'll never be able to contact him again. He was found dead in his dorm room Monday morning. The report can be read here.


Rest in peace Boon Jim. You'll be remembered.

Just read a really interesting article on force over diplomacy when I should be completing my chemistry assignment =P take a look here. If you have time, give it a read.

Microsoft's Arrogance?

Microsoft has admitted the PS3 looks set to outsell the Xbox 360 even in its US stronghold, but defiantly maintains that the Xbox’s annual sales will still exceed those of the PS3, and that the Xbox 360 will outsell the PS3 “for this entire generation.”

Microsoft’s top flack Aaron Greenberg holds forth yet again on why Sony is doomed:

“I can tell you to that when NPD releases September sales… we fully expect PlayStation 3 will come in as the console with the most units sold for the month.

This is frankly not a real surprise to us or the analysts that follow this industry, as it is typical to see a short term bump following the introduction of new hardware and pricing into the marketplace.

What I can tell you is we remain confident that Xbox 360 will not only outsell PS3 for the full calendar year, but for this entire generation.

It is similar to a game of baseball, it is not about just winning one inning, but instead being able to win the game by consistently delivering across all nine innings.”

It's Guang Yuan's Birthday!!

As per title, Happy Birthday Guang Yuan XD eventhough you don't read this blog. muahaha.

Finland has become the first country in the world to make broadband Internet access as a guaranteed legal right of its citizens - (almost) all 5.3 million of them - by July 2010.

When they said broadband connection, what they mean is not just kilobits worth of connection. For them, it's one megabit. However, 1 Mbit connections is just an ice breaker as the country's Ministry of Transport and Communications set a target to increase the broadband speed even further to 100 Mb by the end of 2015.

I wonder when Malaysia will follow suit!! =D *waits... and waits........*

x.x

on a lighter note, see any of you going to Nicky's later =) and, check out Peter Chao on youtube. just search for Chinese Guy... he has loads of vids up. and it's damn kewl!

Nat

is going to Nicky's open house.

粤语版 TVB Series! XD

Are you thinking what I'm... (con'd below xD)

...thinking that I think that you're thinking I'm thinking because if you think that I think what I think I'm thinking then we've got a problem?

Haha, doesn't the title get a little confusing? xD

on to the main reason of the post, Nicky's having his open house on Saturday and all readers (that i know of, though you may not actually be invited by reading this but since it is an open house i guess you're invited! [ actually no you're not unless nicky said so]) are invited! =D

there will be glorious food once again! not to mention really scrumptious muruku!!!! ^_^ other than that, it's good to meet up with whoever i can. in addition, i get to rub it in nicky's face the fact that he didn't know he could take the INTI bus back to subang xD rather than taking the taxi to the ktm station, the ktm to central, change ktm to subang and then have his parents get him from the subang ktm station!

and nat, yes, i'm going. so you better go! or else, no more L4d for youuuu. even after your STPM! though i haven't played with you for a while =P but still! come la!!!!

Came across a really interesting vid. Give it a look!

You know it's not your day when...

Note: If you don't play Command and Conquer, you won't get it xD Post credited to gamereplays!


• You suddenly find your Radar has gone offline, courtesy of your MCV having been captured.

• When you send a scout team only to find your opponent already has his roaming around your base merrily.

• Your scout team somehow manages to infiltrate, albeit a bit late, only to find your opponent already has two Refineries with five Harvesters plying.

• You suddenly realize depending too much on Harvesting training was not such a good idea after all when 3–4 Orcas circle atop your Refineries.

• Your Engineer gets ambushed just before Spike capture.

• You hit 'Widen search' on Automatch and end up meeting vOddy.

• And he's mad.


• You hit 'Widen Search' on Automatch and end up meeting another player better than you and even though you want to DC you can't, because he happens to be a Game Admin or a Director, especially concerning "Fair Play Forums".

• You hear the cry of our opponent's Epic unit, while you are still in the midst of gearing up your Tech center.

• You suddenly find a beacon near your Refineries and then hear that deadly 'swooshing' sound of the Catalyst missile, undoing your hard work in a jiff of a moment.

• You send a large army of infantry only to discover they were being smothered by huge chunks of green rocks.

• You gleefully think you are about to take out your opponents Redeemer or Hexapod, only to find it had disappeared all of a sudden.

• You bask in the glory of ensnaring your secondary Tiberium field, only to realize later on that there was a third which your opponent had capitalized on.

• You are just about to smash the last remaining structure of your opponents main base and about to pump your fists in the air, when you suddenly realize, he has moved to a different unknown location. Worse still, your own main base is now near annihilation.

• You decide to take mass Infantry without back up, only to notice your opponent was using them for target practice with his Snipers dealing in headshots.

• You bring in your own Snipers only to find your opponent thought of two more along with a few APC's to pick them up.



• Your Stealth tank manages to sneak in and about to go into action, when you realize its cloak has been broken by Pitbulls and a Sonic emitter already placed at a vantage point.

• You make expensive units only to find some of them turn against you as Cultists take over.

• You bring back up along with your Missile spam, only to find a Commando, while burp, burping a few of them, had jet packed all the way to your MCV.

• You send five fully loaded tanks, ready to smash your opponent to pulp when a bubble holds them in place and they helplessly stare in the faces of some seven Annihilator tripods.

• When you finally manage to take in your army of tanks and Infantry, you suddenly realize the atmosphere is not all that you expected. Ion storms, lighting, thunder, Static and energy blasts hold you in a hypnotic trance till you finally realize this barrier is not going to break all that easily.

• You heave a sigh of relief when you find your opponents blue Tiberium field unoccupied, whilst all the time he was stealing yours.

• Your opponent starts flaming you and worse still, knocks the stuffing out of you, adding insult to injury.

• Finally, you overcome all hurdles only to find your opponent was a rank coward, willing to take the fun away from this game by DC'ing.

• You feel happy that a 3/10 win/loss ratio noob was willing to play against your 10/3 win/loss record and it turns out your opponent was the better smurf.

• You work hard to finally get six Hammerheads laden with Missile squads airworthy and headed towards your opponent, only to hear a supersonic boom vaporizing your hard earned time.

• You type a nice message stating "DC = Report", and after 10 minutes into the game, it is you who are contemplating if indeed DC = Report.

The best Paint to hit the market!

Researchers at University of Tokyo claimed that they have just created a paint solution that is able to block out wireless signals. Though there's nothing new about frequency absorbing paint, this particular batch is actually the first paint ever that is able to absorb frequencies as high as 100GHz. As a comparison, Wi-Fi signals run on the 2.4GHz spectrum, a pretty huge buffer there.


Finally! Cheapskates beware! Get your own internet you little suckers.

Accidents??

Since there has been a post on accidents...

The London Beer Flood occurred on October 16, 1814 in the London parish of St. Giles in the United Kingdom. At the Meux and Company Brewery^[1] on Tottenham Court Road,^[2][1] a huge vat containing over 135,000 imperial gallons (610,000 l) of beer ruptured, causing other vats in the same building to succumb in a domino effect. As a result, more than 323,000 imperial gallons (1,470,000 l) of beer burst out and gushed into the streets. The wave of beer destroyed two homes and crumbled the wall of the Tavistock Arms Pub, trapping the barmaid under the rubble.^[3]

The brewery was located among the poor houses and tenements of the St Giles Rookery, where whole families lived in basement rooms that quickly filled with beer. The wave left nine people dead: eight due to drowning and one from alcohol poisoning.^[2]

The brewery was eventually taken to court over the accident, but the disaster was ruled to be an Act of God by the judge and jury, leaving no one responsible. The company found it difficult to cope with the financial implications of the disaster, with a significant loss of sales made worse because they had already paid duty on the beer. They made a successful application to Parliament reclaiming the duty which allowed them to continue trading.^[4]

The brewery was demolished in 1922, and today, the Dominion Theatre occupies a part of the site of the former brewery.

You just know that guy who died of alcohol poisoning went out into the streets and began drinking the beer before he died.

The Great Chicago Fire! =P

On this day in 1871, flames spark in the Chicago barn of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, igniting a 2-day blaze that kills between 200 and 300 people, destroys 17,450 buildings,leaves 100,000 homeless and causes an estimated $200 million (in 1871 dollars; $3 billion in 2007 dollars) in damages. Legend has it that a cow kicked over a lantern in the O'Leary barn and started the fire, but other theories hold that humans or even a comet may have been responsible for the event that left four square miles of the Windy City, including its business district, in ruins. Dry weather and an abundance of wooden buildings, streets and sidewalks made Chicago vulnerable to fire. The city averaged two fires per day in 1870; there were 20 fires throughout Chicago the week before the Great Fire of 1871.

Despite the fire's devastation, much of Chicago's physical infrastructure, including its water, sewage and transportation systems, remained intact. Reconstruction efforts began quickly and spurred great economic development and population growth, as architects laid the foundation for a modern city featuring the world's first skyscrapers. At the time of the fire, Chicago's population was approximately 324,000; within nine years,there were 500,000 Chicagoans. By 1893, the city was a major economic and transportation hub with an estimated population of 1.5 million. That same year, Chicago was chosen to host the World's Columbian Exposition, a major tourist attraction visited by 27.5 million people, or approximately half the U.S. population at the time.

In 1997, the Chicago City Council exonerated Mrs. O'Leary and her cow. She turned into a recluse after the fire, and died in 1895.

The Speech That Started The Allies

I've always found this speech to be one of high importance to myself. And when I heard the real clip itself just now, felt the need to post it up. Random, I know =P

Winston Churchill on 4 June 1940:

I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our Island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.

At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of His Majesty's Government-every man of them. That is the will of Parliament and the nation.

The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.

Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail.

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,
we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

Random

Walla Walla Washington! Cowabunga!

Wern Pheng would like you all to know he now lives only 3 blocks away from the harlem, where people get mugged, shot and stabbed every day.

But hopefully, not him.

I like the soup.

wow there are actually a number of updates.. proper ones even! kay is surprised :)

good job brandon. how bout pictures of where you're staying? how's US btw?

G'luck whoever's having exams/assignments/reports/projects!

Oh another thing, I'm tentatively coming back on the 21st of november! finish my exams on the 17th. pretty early so that's always good. anyway, the date's not confirmed but it'll definitely be before the 25th. so hope to see you guys then :)

Blog seems to be slowing dying again D=

anyhow anyone care to take a look at this? click HERE. good ar?? seems like a good bargain actually o.O''