Last week of holiday left, time really seems to fly..Heh, this proves my Blink Theory.

Take a time travelling journey back to the start of the holidays, it seems like it was yesterday. "Blink.", u find urself halfway through the holidays already, accomplishing nothing. "Blink." You are left with 4 days before school starts, god its fast.."Blink." You are going to graduate, haha!

Bleah, instead of reminiscing my holidays, lets talk about these past few days..besides sleeping ALOT.

GEMs, or General Elective Modules, is part of the compulsary yet elective modules that SP offers to all students and gives a chance for us to learn something outside our field of study..Say an engineer learning to Paint with watercolours...or a chemist learning to fix his own PC. Haha, i took this chance to team up with my long time buddy, Raymond, and we went for Microbes and Diseases. Interesting course to begin with..heh, not to mention the extremely limited space(only 40, in 1 class), we were god-dammned lucky to be able to get in..hehe..i think its because of my kiasu-ness, thats why we got in. Why?..here goes...

17th sep, 1.59.30PM, 30 secs left to my first registration appointment timeslot..i kept refreshing the browser on "mysas", our sp personal student portal, finally @ 2.00pm sharp, the "Add/Drop Modules" page finally allowed me to add the GEMs modules, quickly, i typed in all the necessary stuff and found that there were only..2 available seats, chiong ah!!! quickly select and selected my class. =), poor chaps, thousands to fight over 1 seat, good luck to u :P!!! bleah..
quickly went to check my timetable, PHEWs..its all set, i am registered =D!

Next day was raymond's turn, i kept nagging to him, 1.59pm u better standby, 10secs before hand start refreshing. He did wat i said, but eventually got laggy, but with a stroke of luck, he got through too!! HAHAHA!!! lalalas~~~ we are gonna be classmates! hoho..another bunch of poor chaps...thousands of students fighting over the remaining 1 seat, and possibly a few more from other appointment dates...HAHA!! neh neh ni poo poo, slowcoaches!

Haha, after this whole GEMs ordeal is over..the mundane life resumes..or so is it? Actually i tried the latest installment of Medal Of Honor, which is Airborne. I am just shocked by its level of ingenuity and design, both gameplay and graphics. Like the name of the game suggests, ur playing as a infranty from the Airborne division in the States' Army. And being an airborne in the WW2 means u will be doing alot of parachuting into the warzone, thats exactly how EVERY single mission starts. You start off in a...Douglas C-47?? i think, and jumps off from there. Now u might be thinking i am crapping, because alot of games actually has a pre-planned starting zone, not for this game. They designed the game to allow u to land ANYWHERE within the playable boundaries of the map, you can land on the huge and tall steeple of a church and play sniper and blasting every soldier's heads, or you could land in the middle of a fight(hope you dont botch the landing) and engage in heated close quarter combats. All the mission objectives do not follow a pre-planned order, thats why ur allowed to land anywhere, because virtually all the objectives are completely in any order of your choice, and then from there, evolve into other objectives(because you need to complete certain stuff first..)

Gameplay aside, the graphics is just stunning, and its not laggy on my monster rig, I have a Core2duo processor overclocked to 2.76ghz, 1gig dual channel Corsair rams overclocked to i think 900+ or 1k mhz(in tandem with the cpu frequency), i cant remember, and the gem of my rig, a gift from my cousin in australia, a Nvidia 8800 GTS(its a gts only though, wished it was a gtx but it was too expensive back then..gts aint cheap either, cost $600+..but its a gift..so..YAY!). Well it might not be the BEST gaming rig u can find, but to me, its more than enough, i can play virtually all, if not most of the latest games with graphical settings set to the max and run it smoothly without much lag, maybe spikes sometimes(because i have other applications running in the back ya..), but i aint complaining!

Okok back to the game, the graphics, is just so nicely rendered, it looks almost real, albeit it still has that unique look and touch of digital-ness. But compared to modern day graphical rendering in games, its top of the line stuff! This is also one of the games that gives me motion-sickness..They had this function called motion blur, which is in effect when look around, or are sprinting. Although i have completed the missions twice in 2 difficulties over the past 3 days, i still have difficulty looking at the screen while sprinting(i have to look elsewhere for abit), because i will get motion sickness and start to have headaches and nausea. Turning it off will ruin the fun, but having it on makes me sick, ah..the irony..haha!

I really applaude EA's effort to make this game the next big thing(it is the next big thing in my heart, its just insane), and they even included "making of" videos of this game, allowing us to see how they produced it, and actually learn from these experts. But then again, i seriously wished they made the game longer...only 6 missions, each maybe lasting 30mins to 1 hr depending on how fast you play it through, it would have made the game even better!!

Haha..thats really wat i have been doing the past few days.

And just an hour ago, i decided to spend tomorrow reading up Photoshop CS3 for Dummies, because i am still a photoshop dummy..haha!! Seriously, i love and respect the power of photoshop, but i lack knowledge on how to utilise it(not even 10% of its powers), i hope that my efforts spent on reading the book can teach me all the necessary stuff that i need to know..and apply to all my future works.

Hehe, but i still love to disfigure people in photoshop..haha!!