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Latest Wishlist 2006

Written by Nicholas Chan on May 18, 2006 – 4:57 pm -

Apple MacBookPrice : 2.5k SGD, chepest model RM4199.
Reason : It’s small, portable, nice design. Perfect for me to use at Video Editing, Photoshop, Blogging, chating, and as Media Centre which will be plug into TV.

Sony PlayStation 3
Price : 599USD, RM21XX
Reason : Blu-Ray Media Player, FFXIII, MGS4, 60GB HDD, Special Controller feature, many nice game.
P/S : If Xbox 360 + Wii’s Price = PS3, I get Xbox 360 + Wii instead of this expensive PS3

Nintendo Wii
Price: Unknown, maybe 190USD-250USD
Reason : New-Generation Of Gaming, motion sensor, it’s special.

Nintendo DS Lite
Price : Will be drop till RM550-RM700 when July comes
Reason : Fun , didn’t try before, nice design.

Apple Ipod
Price : 548SGD
Reason : Need something for me to work like Portable HDD, Video, Photo, Music Player
P/S: Impossible to get it as my brother is going to gives me his 4G Ipod 20GB when the next gen Ipod release in market

Lastly, LCD HDTV
http://www.samsung.com/my/products/television/lcdtv/la32r71b.asp
http://www.samsung.com/my/products/television/lcdtv/la32m51b.asp
Check this 2 model out, I guess it maybe very expensive.
Reason : For space saving, gaming, and video purpose.

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Mid-Year Exam Day 1

Written by Nicholas Chan on May 18, 2006 – 2:27 pm -

It’s quite good during exam time because I can go home at 6pm instead normal schooling time 6.30pm and class starts at 12.55pm
So, I went to school late today. Early in the morning, about 9am, start reading up my Science again, and then some Chinese Essay.
My first paper for today is Chinese Essay, starts at 2.20pm till 3.50pm, 1 1/2 hours. Then break for about 40 minutes like that and then continue to the second paper and that is Science.
Before Chinese Essay, quite shocking thing happened, Afternoon Supervisor, Ah Hee, came in quitely, hand with a pair of scissors, and he said “Today I want to check your hair”*in Mandarin*, I like OMG and my heart starts beatng fastly because my hair infront had already pass my eyebrown but side and behind is short. He cut 2 guy in my class and even accidentally hurt a lil bit at my friend’s face while doing the hair cut. Phew, luckily he didn’t see me, or else I’m dead meat as I just have my hair cut last week only. Many of friend get cut too, the should obey the school rules…hahaha…
What I think before exam was Chinese Essay will be my problem and Science will be OK, but everything went upside down, I can do well in my Chinese Essay but I can’t in Science because it’s kinda hard and I forgot some facts that I had memorize. That sucks man.
What I’ll having tomorrow is Bahasa Malayu (Malay) paper and Math paper.

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Pre-Exam Story

Written by Nicholas Chan on May 17, 2006 – 4:33 pm -

So, now is 0031 18th May 2006, Midnight. The weather is quite nice and no rain and windy. Still got 14 hours to go for my first paper and that is Chinese Essay. I really suck at it and I got to do my revision tomorrow morning(today morning). You guys will wondering what I study just now, I studied some Science just now and it’s tomorrow morning(today morning). I keep rubbing my eye as its so ichi. Air-Con switched on for few hours and room is cold here. Played Daxter on PSP just now for about halh an hour and then continue study again. 1 thing, there is a funny guy named Hard Gay in Japan, try search for Hard Gay in www.youtube.com to watch Hard Gay episode. He is so gay and is damn funny. I guess I can’t stand anymore, I have to go to sleep already. Good Night everybody !

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May Screenshot

Written by Nicholas Chan on May 15, 2006 – 3:18 pm -

New HD Quality Wallpaper and I like it.
Using VAIO Side Bar.
Windows Vista-liked / Black Theme

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JJLin Malaysian Promo Tour

Written by Nicholas Chan on May 14, 2006 – 4:56 am -

Before I go on, I show a photo of tuition time before going to Gurney Plaza.
I shouldn’t playing with my camera, and I should concentrate what he is writing on the board. Haha. No la, I’m just checking my camera whether got battery a not for later usage. He is Bryan and teaches Science and Math, BE SMART Learning Centre. I’m helping he advertise, haha, come if you know mandarin, he explains most thing in Mandarin.Something here, JJLin Jun Jie’s Cao Cao Album, a friend bought it, going to get JJ’s autograph. Some may don’t know who the heck is JJLin, check his fansite http://junjie.subaru-kun.org/

After tuition, a friend of mine, Jason’s dad fetch me to Gurney Plaza. Went to Popular to help my friend to get Maple Story A-Cash. Then can’t wait to go check out House Of The Dead 4. Here are some pict :It has a 50″ LCD display, Light Gun, with motion sensor. 4Token=RM2 , arcade near to GSC.
Review : The story is better than the HOTD3, I can’t even beat the first boss as this my first time. Light machine gun, better than previous ShotGun, which need to use both hand, one for reload, one for taking the gun. This Light Machine Gun made my hand kinda tired too, you need to shake the gun to reload, shake the gun when a zombie stick on you. The fun thing is, when a zombie of something stick on you, shake the gun as fast as possible, it’s just like Wii. I’ll try to beat the boss next time. There are 2 HOTD 4 there at that arcade as I don’t know what’s the name, it’s near to the GSC Cinema Room entrance. Go check it out.

Afterthat, when to Chopper Board, as usual, had Black Pepper Chicken Rice Set which is cheap and nice. Then around 1830, went to wait for JJLin already, luckily I could see the stage clearly but my camera don’t, even though I got entrance past, I din get to the centre there to get a staright view as when the security guard open the gate, a bunch of idiots rush in. as my standing is at the left of the stage got a side view and infront of a big screen. Celcom got problem already, should be 8pm starts and they indicate 7pm start. I waited for about 1 and a half hour until JJ arrive. Around 830pm, JJ arrived, not a very nice looking guy, but his song not bad. Sang 3 songs, Cao Cao, Zhi Dui Ni Shuo and Yuan Lai. There was a game show which those who were picked, will stand a chance to win JJ’s Personal Journal, Single Track Album and a Poster. The winner was a high school girl, who sang very well with Zhi Dui Ni Shuo.

Acompany my friend to Coffee Bean to buy drinks, then I got home. So tired,so hot , and complete my homework then went to sleep.

SaraengHeyo [Korean] - I Love You, Song name : Zhi Dui Ni Shuo

JJ’s Dance Work

JJ’s Cao Cao

*Some pict and video took from the big screenie*

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Let’s Shout : "I want Wii Wii dad!"

Written by Nicholas Chan on May 12, 2006 – 2:42 pm -

This is a must see Nintendo Wii Montage.
Source : www.happypuppy.com
Copyrights Nintendo, Edit at your own risk, you get sued, it’s your business.
I bet you will get addicted to Wii after you watching it, but sad thing is the graphic of Wii won’t be as powerful as PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
I think it maybe useful if you have a Wii at home, during any occasion, open house party, visitors, relatives, when you guys got nothing to talk about anymore, then you’ll start a word :”Hey, do you wanna try out some tennis session with me on my Wii?”
If the guy knows nothing about Wii, he’ll said :”Wii?!What’s that?Tennis on Wii?Huh?”*Blur face*
Then you’ll show him with your Wiimote and start enjoy the game. Simple and Fun.
As if you show them with your Xbox 360 or PlayStation, they maybe confuse with which button to hit and when to hit.
So Let’s Shout :”I want Wii Wii !”

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Comic

Written by Nicholas Chan on May 10, 2006 – 2:45 pm -

Due to Art Project, I have to hand in a cartoon comic to teacher. As I’m so lazy to draw, so I think of a story then ask my friend draw.
Title : Nah!
Drawn by : P’ng Ren Yu
Story by : Nicholas Chan Yik Yeou
No-Color version, the coloured version will poster as soon as possible.
Click to enlarge and zoom for the conversation bubbles.

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Microsoft Press Conference

Written by Nicholas Chan on May 10, 2006 – 2:33 pm -

I had to stream this video now cause I can’t stream it live last night.
Here is the whole coverage of Microsoft Press Conference from GameSpot.com

LOS ANGELES–Just a few hundred yards from Nintendo’s E3 2006 press conference, which was held at the Kodak Theatre, home of the Academy Awards, sits Graumann’s Chinese Theater. The Hollywood landmark is the site of Microsoft’s own press briefing, the last of the so-called “big three” at this year’s E3.

Attendees of Nintendo’s event were herded over to the venue by several dozen temp workers holding large banners. On the banners were close-up photos of numerous hip, young people of various ethnicities, all of whom are apparently just wild about the Xbox 360, judging by the broad smiles on their faces and come-hither look in their eyes.

Far less welcoming was the small army of security personnel. Looking like a group of agents who were let go from the Secret Service because their appearance screamed “ARMED GUARD IN $400 SUIT,” the security guards politely admonished anyone who dared tarry more than a few seconds in front of the entrance. “Are you going inside, sir?” one asked a journalist desperately trying to suck down one last cigarette before the conference. “You need to go inside, sir, right now, sir.”

Once inside, attendees were set upon by a row of ushers, who briskly guided them to their seats. Though some reports said the event wouldn’t start until 1 p.m., the place was jam-packed by 11:18 a.m., as journalists poured in, eager to witness the final piece of this year’s next-gen console puzzle fall into place.

11:21: Booming but nasal voice tells audience that the show will start in 10 minutes. Blaring big-beat techno resumes playing.

11:26: A big screen at the front of the theater is displaying the Xbox Live GamerTags of conference attendees.

11:28: A curtain goes back on the left-hand side, revealing a series of recessed green alcoves, each with a 360 inside, behind a podium.

11:30: Scheduled start time reached, but dozens of attendees still mill about the hall, waving to each other. Some look very disoriented, while others just looked tired.

11:32: Even with the carefully selected techno-rock soundtrack inducing premature hearing loss in the first three rows, the sound of laptop keys clacking is clearly audible.

11:33: Game journalists in the audience exchange handshakes, waves, nods, and the occasional hostile stare.

11:33: Still more stragglers arriving. Apparently they got lost on the 200-foot section of Hollywood Boulevard lined with Microsoft banners.

11:34: One nervous usher waits patiently as a burly man well over 6 feet tall talks obliviously on his cell phone in the middle of the aisle.

11:35: A contingent of huge bodyguards in suits walks down the far left aisle of the theater. Could Gates be here?

11:36: Another reminder of the ban on photography. More flashes.

11:37: Another wave of attendees mills in. Apparently they were on a standby list, which Microsoft has opened up in order to fill all the seats.

11:38: “Ladies and gentlemen, take your seats, the show is about to begin,” says the voice from the speakers. Sounds like a weird mix of Rick Moranis and Charlton Heston.

11:39: The huge screen in the front swirls with various gamer tags and the music dies.

11:40: SHOW BEGINS.

11:41: Gears of War trailer. It’s a spectacular battle with a giant spider-like creature crushing people. Locust troopers rip apart humans. Insane firefight, blood and fire everywhere. No date given.

11:42: Cliffy B takes the stage to show off the first level of Gears; the mission has two human troopers trying to escape a hostile area. Cut to underground bunker, troopers then go up a stairwell to a ruined city for an airlift, but Locust troops everywhere.

11:43: Shotgun blast obliterates a Locust–blood EVERYWHERE. A close-up shotgun blast splatters another locus, and the lead trooper now in firefight in hall, bullets flying everywhere, frame rate slipping a tad. Another close-up shotgun blast rips a Locust apart. His severed arm plops onto a large stone.

11:45: Heat effects blur fire from the guns in Gears of War. It’s these details and its visceral combat that evoke Halo. Close combat melee moves, shotguns to the face, and bullets, bullets, bullets are the plan to make this a hit with the kids.

11:46: Grenade blast takes out last of the Locusts, then the troopers emerge into open. Another firefight. More blood. Frame rate totally chugging at this point, but it’s definitely real-time. Lead human trooper–Marcus–slaughters the last of the Locusts. Blood jets everywhere when he sticks his chainsaw bayonet into a Locust and rips him in half.

11:47: The ruined city of the game is in shambles. Enemies are relentless, as the oafish soldiers can take bullets with the best of them. The action is intense. This is the first level. I repeat, this is the first level. Marcus can shoot blindly from behind cover, as he spends most of his time moving from cover spot to cover spot. The AI looks fabulous.

11:48: A message over the troops’ radios warns of movement below ground. Whole earth shakes, concrete snaps like peanut brittle, and a HUGE spider Locust comes out. Trailer ends with no release date. Cliffy B cedes the stage to Microsoft Corporate Vice President Peter Moore, who talks about “the most powerful next-generation experience…with the most spectacular games ever.”

11:49: Moore talks organizational changes, says games are driving Microsoft’s entire agenda. “Your lifestyle always takes center stage,” he tells the crowd. He says the Xbox 360 generated more interest than anticipated. Jokes that 360 shortages were not due to consoles being hidden in Area 51. Few laugh.

11:50: At the end of May, Microsoft will have sold more than 5 million 360s, says Moore. He says the goal is to catch up to iPod in cultural significance. He gives more stats, notes three of top 10 March games were Xbox 360.

11:52: Moore says three pillars are “your lifestyle, your games, and your friends.” Says 360 isn’t a hub, it’s a “gateway to all kinds of HD entertainment.” Moore moves onto Xbox Live. Says it is the “one true unified gamespace.” Friends lists, matchmaking–6 million members by next E3.

11:54: He says current attach rate for XBL is 57 percent, adds that Xbox Arcade is the secret to the success. Announces series of new games: Pac-Man, Contra, Galaga, Frogger, Sonic, Defender, Street Fighter II, Time Pilot, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Rally-X, Dig Dug, Ms. Pac-Man, PaperBoy, and Root Beer Tapper.

11:56: Namco, Konami, Sega, and Midway are all on board the Xbox Live Arcade train. All arcade classics will have updated HD graphics, some will have online multiplayer. “With Xbox Live Arcade, we’re doing for games what Sundance does for movies,” says Moore. “We provide up-and-coming talent with a venue to show their skills.” He adds that Lumines Live will be coming to the system, causing a stir in the audience.

11:58: Moore announces a deal with Warner Bros. Music to put music videos–Madonna shown as an example–in the background of Lumines Live.

11:57: Moore moves on to the “next wave of Xbox 360 games.” As Jamiroquai’s “Feels Just Like it Should” blares in the foreground, we see trailers for: Lost Planet, Table Tennis, Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway, Mass Effect, NHL 2K7, F.E.A.R., Too Human, Viva Piñata, MotoGP 06, Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Sonic, Madden NFL 07, World Series of Poker, Saint’s Row, WWE SmackDown!, Stranglehold, Enchanted Arms, Test Drive Unlimited, NCAA Football 07, Dead Rising, Dance Dance Revolution Universe, Prey, Superman Returns, NBA 2K7, Crackdown, Ninety-Nine Nights, and Gears of War.

12:01: Xbox 360 logo comes up to applause. Moore says by the holidays, there will be more than 160 Xbox 360 games.

12:02: Moore formally announces Fable 2, runs trailer showing sinister woods and a lady in a hat with one of those paper fortune-teller things from grade school. The Fable 2 logo comes up, so it seems the name is now official. It ends with an amazing montage of fire and shadow, and the Xbox 360 logo comes up to enthusiastic applause.

12:04: Moore thanks Molyneux, who’s sitting in the front row. Molyneux smiles, but doesn’t get up. (Weighed down by pockets full of money, perhaps?)

12:05: Moore announces Forza Motorsport 2. A trailer goes up–insanely intense race featuring a BMW gives way to conceptual art montage, then fades back to race. Car driving shifts to exposed view showing disassembled engine, then back to race. Super-close-up of wheel well inside crash shows red-hot brake pad buckling. Forza 2 logo comes up.

12:06: Moore cites Forza’s GameRankings score of 93 percent–then announces game will come out in this fall. And then announces first wireless steering wheel and…

12:07: Xbox 360 Camera, Xbox Vision, announced. Xbox Vision will have interoperability with World Series of Poker, allowing players to watch each other.

12:08: Moore introduces Sakaguchi as he talks up the importance of Japan. Rolls trailer. Shows kid piloting spaceship over battlefield crawling with cartoony robots–think Iron Giant gone bad. Blue Dragon logo comes up. Thunderous applause breaks out.

12:10: Blue Dragon available in Japan this year, says Moore. Announces new title for next Tecmo game–now officially Dead or Alive Xtreme 2. Says trailer will be available later this month.

12:11: Moore moves on to Tom Clancy games, gives Ubisoft props. Trailer for Double Agent comes up, shows Sam Fisher losing his job to go “deep undercover,” shooting a thug in an alleyway, then parachuting into an Arctic base. A guard walks by, and Fisher comes up out of a snowdrift and slits his throat. Red liquid jets over fine white powder. Guy saying “I am Sam Fisher” is NOT Michael Ironside. Release date confirmed–this September.

12:13: Moore turns subject to Viva Piñata. Many in the audience snicker. MGS designer Jim Veevaert gets onstage to talk about game. Says the concept originated at Rare. Says goal is to tend to a little plot of land, which will attract wild, free-roaming piñatas. Bashing those piñatas with bats to harvest their candy entrails is apparently not part of the game.

12:18: However, according to Veevaert, buying and selling piñatas on Marketplace is part of the game. Players will be able to trade said piñatas and buy customization features. Shows the “scary” piñata, a red “Macaroon.” Players can breed their piñatas by successfully completing a “romance dance” minigame that causes the piñatas to asexually reproduce. Those hoping for hot piñata-on-piñata action are visibly disappointed.

12:18: Moore moves subject to Xbox Live Marketplace–18 million downloads so far. As of today, more than 1,000 pieces of “downloadable content” are available. Moore says publishers like Marketplace, since it changes the way people buy and play the game. He also says Fight Night Round 3 demo led to a fivefold increase in preorders of the game. He mentions content partners: Epic Records, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate.

12:20: Moore announces first TV show on XBL Marketplace, the Gears of War experience, will be available tomorrow.

12:21: Moore whips out Xbox 360 HD-DVD peripheral–it looks like a mini-Xbox 360 with a black front. The name is “Xbox 360 Player” and it will be available this holiday season.

12:22: “Major announcement about one of greatest franchises of all time.” Says it’s so exciting that he has to take his shirt off. Shows Halo 2 tattoo on one arm–GRAND THEFT AUTO IV tattoo on the other arm. Moore announces that Grand Theft Auto IV is coming to October 16, 2007 to Xbox 360 “first.” Unclear what he means.

12:25: “Microsoft and Rockstar have entered into an exclusive deal to provide episodic content via Xbox Live Marketplace,” says Moore. Grand Theft Auto IV will be updated with regular fresh content, more details later. Crowd is stunned, gasps all around.

12:25: Subject turns to PC gaming, Crytek developer gets onstage to show off “Windows exclusive” Crysis.

12:30: Demo of Crysis: Soldier goes into darkened room, comes out to night sky filled with smoke and fire. A HUGE metal walker–think the War of the Worlds tripods on steroids–is laying waste to the landscape. It is surrounded by smaller walkers who attack the human soldiers. Humans hammer away at a big walker with rocket launchers. It eventually goes down in flames.

12:31: Moore says Crysis will run on Windows XP and Windows Vista, contrary to some reports.

12:31: Demo footage from games: Crysis, Age of Conan. Slick graphic shows orange tree and tagline “evolved.” Moore talks up Vista, says it has “more options for games than ever before.”

12:33: Moore talks about more “dual releases like Elder Scrolls IV” for Xbox 360 and PC, and cues up trailer for Shadowrun. The trailer shows a lot of combat with elves and orcs with assault weapons fighting magic-using humans in burnt-out city.

12:36: Release date–next January, “right alongside Windows Vista.” Trailer shown for second Vista/360 dual release, Alan Wake. Microsoft publishing now, apparently.

12:38: Alan Wake clip shows sun setting on town, Alan Wake running around in darkness. Moore confirms game will be published by Microsoft, exclusively for Windows and Xbox 360. Bill Gates takes stage! He’s here to present the future of gaming! Whoa!

12:39: Gates talks about how he loves playing Xbox Live Arcade games with his kids. Then he starts talking about big-picture things, about how games will be extended to all platforms–PC, mobile, Xbox 360 … Something major seems in the offing.

12:40: Gates says Microsoft’s goal is to make “gaming appeal to people of all ages” and expand the market.

12:41: Gates predicts that Xbox 360 will have a 10 million-unit head start on its competitors, then talks up Live–how that buddy list facilitates community. Says that when you include mobile phone users, the potential gamer population is 1 billion.

12:44: Gates announces new platform–”Live Anywhere.” Will be part of Windows Vista–will have one user interface, one identity, one friends list, one message center, one marketplace. Same as Xbox Live 360, same interface, embedded in Windows.

12:45: Gates talks up mobile phone gaming, says there’s a “lot of opportunity.”

12:48: Gates says Live Anywhere will extend to mobile phones but is vague on specifics. Says that Microsoft is the only company in the world capable of such an undertaking.

12:51: Scot Henson, director of platform strategy for Xbox and Windows, takes the stage to show off Live Anywhere. Starts up game of Shadowrun, connects with friends list–which shows whether his friends are on a PC, Xbox 360, or mobile phone. He sends a message to Major Nelson, who is working on a Vista PC. On the right-hand side is his friends list, just like in Xbox 360–GamerTag is on there, too. Henson says achievements on any platform will add to one single gamer score, and the GamerTag will be the same, too.

12:53: Live Anywhere will have the same reputation anywhere, says Henson. He then pulls out a Motorola Q cell phone with Windows Mobile. The phone has the Xbox Arcade games he downloaded on his Xbox 360 on his phone. He plays a game of Zuma. Then he plays a music video he downloaded onto his Xbox 360 on his phone. The phone menu also has a movie option for “X-Men.”

12:54: I get the official Rockstar Games announcement of Grand Theft Auto IV in my e-mail–it says that the game will be released simultaneously on Xbox 360 and PS3. Moore said it was coming to 360 first. What the…?

12:55: Moore gets on stage and gives recap. Says games will all be playable, then Gates says, “Hey Peter, let’s play these people a snippet of a game they might like to see…” Crowd goes wild, trailer comes up. Halo theme plays, scene of a war-torn wasteland. Long figure can be seen through the smoke. MASTER CHIEF WALKS OUT. Cortana appears in weird static-y overlays, talking about the end of the world. Humankind, we have a problem…

12:59: Camera pans over to show GIGANTIC Covenant dropship in sky … not one, dozens of them. Sky now swarming with banshees over giant crater that is actually a giant Forerunner gateway–the gateway lights up, screen goes white, HALO 3 LOGO APPEARS.

1:00: Crowd goes ballistic. Lights come up and the conference is over.

1:01: Crowd gets up to leave, but weird audio recording comes over PA. Female voice asks “Master Chief to pick up white courtesy phone,” and urges people not to feed any “grunts they might encounter.” Then she says “The Locust horde has a scheduled attack at 3 p.m. in this venue.” Some laughter can be heardfrom the obviously stunned throng.

1:02: CONFERENCE ENDS.

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