These pics are taken from the licence test replays. The replay is paused, and then you can select up to 64 camera angles, zoom in/out, focus, etc and save the pic to a USB storage device. Nissan Skyline GT-R spec II '94 at the fantasy course "Trial Mountain" (Licence test A-13) Lancia DELTA HF Integrate Evoluzion at "The Grand Canyon" (Licence test A-11) The crowds in this game are a lively lot. They would actually step back when they see you coming. ...
I had spent a chunk of my weekend playing Gran Turismo 4 ( Link ). Managed to get my B-licence and am now working on getting my A-licence - these are in-game licences to race (you might think of them as tutorials). Messed around in a few of the races and found out how much I sucked at driving. (I don't drive in real life so the public is safe.) This game just blows my mind. The graphics and the sound is just incredible. And I would shut off the background music just to listen to car engin...
On the local news lately, "Most retailers say more and more girls are opting for diamonds as their best friend." Then they interviewed a jeweller who comments: "For some which are just friends, we have some designs just for them which don't scare them off, can start off with something simple and sweet. (I really never knew you would buy a diamond "just to be friends". What a ridiculous comment! Diamonds are in themselves implying something more serious than "just friends".) There's def...
Restarting sucks but I guess I'm gonna have to with this game. It's a real mental ache because I have put over 35 hours into this game. (It's a 80-100 hours kind of a game.) I made one stupid mistake of not playing around more with inventing better equipment for my characters. Now I'm stuck because I can't get past this boss character, Robin Wind. I am seriously lacking in good equipment. I guess I could backtrack but that in itself is a pain in the neck. In addition to have to fight...
I really would like to go down to Chinatown before chinese new year (CNY) and have a look around. But to go down this weekend would be suicide, with the holidays being a few days away. I heard from my friends who went last weekend that there was already a lot of pushing and shoving. I do hate crowds. But... I would really like to get some of the food stuff. Of course I can get some of the same stuff from the marketplace near my place. But foodstuff seems to taste better when you ...
It's that time of the year again, with Chinese Lunar New Year (LNY) just round the corner (in a little more than a week actually). The time of the year when families get ready to come together again for a reunion dinner and that once-a-year visit to show respect to their elders. My father's side of the family is an empire of traditional aunts, uncles and grand-persons, who believe in strict adherence to such traditions. Most of them have given up on ever seeing me on these important holi...
I haven't had coffee at all since my last blog and I'm feeling fine. I seem to be sleeping better these past nights, so maybe the coffee habit was the main cause of my chronic insomnia all along. In the day time, I pretty much feel the same as when I do take coffee but I don't feel as grouchy somehow. I am free. But at the back of my mind, I still seem to want that cup of coffee. The urge is there, so I guess it does take longer to get off it mentally.
I'm off coffee all together since yesterday (12/1). Somehow, yesterday morning, I just felt like I could and so I did it. I didn't take my usual morning cup of java. In the afternoon, headache did set in but it was a bearable throb. I drank lots of water and cooled my head by wetting my forehead with a splash of water now and then. This morning (13/1), the headache was gone. In afternoon, the headache returned but was even less severe than yesterday, a mere annoying tick and nothi...
I'm on day 4. I have not yet given it up completely and am still taking half of what I usually take in the morning. (I only take coffee in the morning.) It's funny how one never realises how much one is dependent on the stuff until one is trying to give it up. I think I'm beginning to understand what addiction is. For the past four mornings, I have taken half the usual amount of coffee I use to make myself that heavenly brew and it's only self discipline that has kept me from just giv...
It's not good to be addicted to anything, even the necessary cup of coffee, a simple pleasure. And so, I have decided that I'm going to start curing myself of the need for that drink every morning. Note that me not drinking coffee in the morning = headaches, grouchiness for the rest of the day. So I'm not going to stop suddenly, I will slowly adapt by taking less and less coffee, until I don't need it at all. Yesterday, I took about half the amount of coffee powder I would usually use ...
Check out this link. You can really see the extent of the devastation caused by the waves. Images acquired and processed by CRISP, National University of Singapore From site: On 26 Dec 2004, 00:58:53 UTC (7:58:53 am local time), a magnitude 9.0 earthquake occurred off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The epi-centre was located under sea water at 3.32 N 95.85 E. This is the fourth largest earthquake in the world since 1900. The earthquake generated tsunamis which swep...
Let's have more of it! Have you tasted this one yet, it's new and interesting. You know it's just between you and me. Have some and see what others are missing. Over here! Maybe we can gain some juicy piece of secret we can be smug about. Look at me, I know something you don't. Don't you wish you know what I know? Let's give them a hint, entice them with the smell of someone else's filth. Let's gather a crowd, let's go out and have a mob! Then we'll dance and celebrate our own great...
As death toll numbers climb higher and higher, one feels a slow increasing despair for the plight of the people of this region and for those others who lost family or friends in this disaster. There is not much one can do except to give monetary contribution where one can. I hope, and I expect, they will start collecting used clothes soon because I certainly have quite a lot to give away. It is a frightening thought that the earth wobbled and that coastlines have changed shaped because of ...
One assumes that you have the best of intentions to begin with... 1) If you are new to a website, community, blog or forum, be sure to read the FAQ and rules first. 2) Read everything properly and thoroughly before responding. 3) If you don't want to risk a nasty response, don't post anything at all. 4) Never put more than 3 exclamation marks in a post. If all your sentences end with exclaimation marks, it makes you look like spam. 5) Don't laugh at your own jokes. Avoid en...
Disclaimer: I think the only people who will be offended by this are the drama queens. For the rest of you, because of my many experiences in web communities, I am able to come up with this guide for all ye who want to play drama queen. It is important to note that I am not saying that people who do the stuff in this article are definetly drama queens but if you want to play drama queen, this is probably the way to do it. Point zero: make sure to choose a nick that gives people an id...