Game Replays for Starcraft II

Recently searched thru youtube and just simply keyed in "Starcraft 2"...

and guess what? I accidentally found some wonderful replays with great commentary.

Look the video and we can discuss further below.


HD Starcraft 2 Battle Report Gameplay Commentary




[HD] StarCraft 2 Battle Report Two - Part 1/2




[HD] StarCraft 2 Battle Report Two - Part 2/2




[HD] StarCraft 2 Battle Report Three - Part 1/2




[HD] StarCraft 2 Battle Report Three - Part 2/2



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So how's it? I am very sad because of none of the replay got battle between Terran battle cruiser versus Protoss Carrier. T_T

Back to the replays, The Protoss's player micro is pretty good and he managed to present Protoss units abilities and strategies to the audience. Bravo!

David Kim, the Terran player, got more tricks to defense. He always lose the initiative at the early game but managed to set up attack route with better units at the late game. I realized he needs Banshee (air striker) to attack and it looks powerful when versus land units. With the ability of cloaking, it's much more versatile with good mobility. No wonder David need it in order to plan for attack.

Terran rocket launcher is pretty tough in several conditions, however, same as Terran marine, they are weak in their hitpoint. :(

Just now the commentator got mentioned about the Marine's shield. I am wondering what's it now. Is it Marine carrying a big bullet-proof shield? Sorry to say, Zealot Psi Blade can break the shield easily. :(

Hope to see more replays in the near future...

Panasonic Lumix LX3

I get stucked with camera thingy, and tried to search thru the world wide web.

Thanks to google. I have found Camera Lab for comprehensive details. According from CameraLab, Panasonic Lumix LX3 LX3 has several functions of a DSLR camera and it's suitable for a intermediate photographer to use.

CameraLab even provides review video for the public.



Afterward, I have searched thru the dpreview.com for users' comments. The comments are pretty good and there will be lesser negative comments compared to FX200EXR.

I am still researching on it...

Any idea?

Call to China

First time try to call China's line.

I have tried to call China to book for room. But unfortunately, I keep on failing to call them.

So, gotta google it to solve the thing

and at the end, thanks to google, I found out a way to call them & it really works!

Here go the tutorial,

Let's say The phone number appeared in China'website is 0773-8814077.

So for you, you gotta dial "132 00 86 773-8814077".

132 = IDD
00 = ??
86 = China country code
*Bear in mind, the "0" in front of 773 need to be deleted if you call from international (means out of China).

Hope this info is useful.

LX3 versus FX200EXR, Round 1, Fight!

FX200EXR



Versus

LX3


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I am going to get a digital camera for my Guilin trip. However, I get stucked in somewhere else. All my friends highly suggested me to get Panasonic Lumix - LX3. But I have found Fujifilm Fx200EXR is the type I like. Most importantly, LX3 is much more expansive than FX200EXR.

The points of arguement are:

1. FX200EXR's battery is below par which makes the camera cannot go for a long duration photo taking.

2. LX3 is much more superior in term of wide angle, almost every technical thing. However, LX3 got a very deadly weakpoint which is it's zoom. A maximum of 4X zoom. I prefer to take a lot of scenery and I think zoom length is pretty essential for the business.

3. With semi-pro functions, FX200EXR is within my affordable range. LX3 is much more expensive. However, some evil friends suggest me to swipe my card for installment payment. Should I turned become banker's modern slave?

The statistics can be found in here: LX3 versus FX200EXR

Is there anyone can help me on this matter?

The Last Remnant

I found something that motivates me... and yes, it's game again(Ops I did it again... ).

However, it's not like any other PC game. It's Square-Enix latest masterpiece:

The Last Remnant



This game is for XBOX360 but surprisingly, they got another version which support PC platform (Weird huh?).

I thought the PC platform is always get ignored by Square-Soft. Luckily this time they did looked after us, the PC gamers.

I do appreciate their hardworks.


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That day simply walking alone in Pasar Malam (Night Market) and stopped by a Cetak Rompak stall. The stall owner was a young guy and he highly recommended me to get the game. I had seen the game before in youtube but I just cannot believe the installation DVD is just in front of me. So, what to do? checked my wallet and paid for it without a rational & conscious mind (Oh no...).

After I get the DVD, went back to home and try to install it. And something bad really happened. The game requires at least 15G Disk space for the installation. So guys, do bear in mind about that. I have deleted a lot of rubbish just to install this game. >_<

After the installation, started the game. The opening movie gave me a stun! I cannot believe I was watching it with my own PC! I thought the best part is only the movie. However, the playing mode, the graphic quality is almost as same as the movie quality which makes the gaming experience very enjoyable & it's just like watching movie all the time.

The battle system is very unique. Quitting the individual battle system adopted from Final Fantasy Series. The Last Remnant is using a unique system called "union" system (squad system). That's mean, characters grouped-up into one squad and share the same HP. Player will controlling several squads during battle and the scene is just like a real armies fight!



For a real gamer, we know good music fill the game's soul & I think Tsuyoshi Sekito do really working hard for the game's soul.

Here are the examples of the soundtrack:

The Last Remnant OST - Silver of Hope



Tsuyoshi Sekito - Beat the Odds (The Last Remnant)



Nice huh? I did downloaded the soundtrack. You want me to share some with you? :p

Overall, the game still using the Final Fantasy style with tons of cinematic & a brand new battle system. Guys, it's worth to try out this game & hopefully it will not makes your life miserable.
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By the way,

A music composer... my dream job... However, my faith with music had been ended when I was a 11yrs old kid... What a fate...

My mind is still with music now... But I am just pathetically... Hopeless...

I am very SAD now...

I am down now...

My friend, Nicholas just told me about Final Fantasy Orchestra in Singapore on this coming 22th & 23th May 2009, But when i found the link, everything is just too late. The tickets had been fully sold out.

(Panicking)

WHAT? how can it be? I never heard about it before?!

or HELLO, are you discriminating Malaysian Fans now? !@#$%^&* (Sorry, just mumbling... )

I am so sad, what I can do now is only putting a gadget in my toolbox here... or maybe changing my wallpaper to FF... or maybe getting any orchestra soundtrack from China website, or...

More details can be found here. Final Fantasy Distant Worlds (DEAR ALL, CHECK THE STREAMING MIDI AT THE BOTTOM LEFT CORNER, IT'S WORTH TO LISTEN AND I CAN FOR SURE YOU WILL BECOME A MADMAN LIKE ME!)
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If possible, can anyone help me to reflex my sadness to the organizer?

I am speechless now...

out~

Cool Website Found!

Found a lot of cool websites with a lot of good quality Japanese Girls wallpapers & photo collections. I know it's not appropriate to post here, so, if you are interested, follow the links below.

(A lot of hot and spicy thingies, so ,make sure your mum, girlfriend(s), sister are not around you!)

ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK

ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK

ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK

ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK

ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK

But if you ask me am I going to download those movies? my comment is, no la, lazy to download one by one. It's pretty wasting time to download 17 files one by one. If you really desperate, go Torrent!

(Don't watch too much, not really healthy for your mentality.)

Cheers!

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I know it's not appropriate to say here, but, I have to confess to my true instinct, i am ecchi-san... =="

Ero Banzai, Banzai Ero~~

Vexille

Tonight doing nothing but watching 3D anime that I just downloaded.

It's called "日本锁国" or "Vexille" in Mandarin/Japanese. The anime is similar like anime AppleSeed. superb graphic with nice music and sound effect.

Here goes the English trailer,



The storyline is good (Don't ask for any summary for it, I am a spoiler). Of course, again, it's music and sound effect matching the movie perfectly. It's worth to see.

Here goes one of it's fan's made MTV - Close Your Eyes by Basement Jaxx Ft. Linda Lewis



If you want the anime just tell me (I will charge ya :p just kidding).

Here goes 2 1280 X 800 Wallpapers for ya,




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Out of topic, I realized getting more and more movies (including Asians' and westerners') are using the idea of the future disaster that caused by technological advanced. What's wrong with them? Are they running out of idea to write a good script?

How Can I Save Flash into my PC?

"How Can I Save Java Flash Game into my PC?"

Good question, I was wondering this question few day ago. after several "trial & error" of google'ing, I found two workable solutions. But sadly to say, only exclusive for Mozilla Firefox.

Sorry IE/Safari users...



The first one is pretty simple, for

Firefox for Newbies
a. Click Tools - Page Info
b. Click the Media Tab on the Page Info Windows
c. The media tab has a complete list (with preview) of Images, CSS Files and Shockwave Flash files that were downloaded by the Firefox browser while rendering (loading) the page.
d. Scroll down the list and locate the swf file.
e. Click the "Save As" button. Select some directory on your hard drive and save the file (No need for a third-party plug-in)

Firefox for Geeks and Power Users
a. Type about:blank in the Firefox address bar
b. Now click List cache entries or directly type about:cache?device=disk (Disk cache device)
c. Press Ctrl+F and try to location the flash file by typing some part of website URL or the flash file name or just .swf. After some hit and trial, you should be able to locate the swf file URL
d. Click the SWF URL to open the Cache Entry Information page. Right click on the link and choose "Save link as"

(From: Labnol.org. They do have IE solution, pls check.)



The second solution will be much more powerful.

Just download the Firefox add-ons: CacheViewer. It allows us to search for any temporary file (including banner, gif, jpg, or even the background) that we have just downloaded to our Mozilla Firefox Catche.



Once you found the thing that you want to download, simply select the file & use "Save as" command to save it to your designated place.

Simple and easy right? ;)
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So, from now on, when you see cute flash games, animations or even just a plain stupid flash ads, you can grab them all in anytime, anywhere.

Cheers!

无奈

21/04/2009, 12.34am, 晴

人生不如意之事十之八九。

我在人生十字路口中感到很迷茫， 我不知道该走那一条路了。

最近，

我对于我的无能感到无奈， 对于帮不上父亲的忙感到无力。

我对于母亲的寂寞感到感叹， 想跟她住在一起但却事与愿违。

我对于妹妹的生活， 怨恨自己不能在像以前一样和她大吵大闹。

残念～

我自己无助又无力，总想着该为这个家做点什么， 但自己的钱只能照顾好自己， 我不甘愿就这样一直下去， 难道我真的什么也做不到吗？ 看着人家能成家立业，有的更能结婚生子， 但看看自己钱也没，老婆也没，人像游牧民族一样搬来搬去，我真的很。。。



我苦，

真的好苦，

其实我好想诉苦啊～

The New Function for Old Diskettes

The invention of USB pen drive leads a big leap of our technology to a new era. However, how about our old diskettes? & what can we do for our remaining old diskettes?

Some people may throw it, while others may leave it there.

But, creativity will always gives us a new dimension & new solution.

Let's see how crazy people deal with old diskettes.














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How's it?

Kylee - Vacancy

Last year watched an anime called 亡念的扎穆德 (Bounen_no_Xamdou) and the ending theme is superb. But i forgot why i did not download this song and accidentally forget about everything.

Recently recall back about this song and found it on youtube. The song's name is called "Vacancy" by Kylee.



Enjoy... :)
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I have no idea who they are... according from some websites, she is just 14yrs old. Can you believe it?

Life is a Bitch!

Recently having tough scenario

My auntie, Kim, who working as a full time Insurance Agent with Prudential for more than 10 years share something with me. She said in her industry, they always cheering with each other with this statement.

"SW, SW, SW, Next!"

What is it means? Let me explain. It's is "Some will buy, some will not. So what? NEXT!"

Still don't get what I mean? Yes, because insurance is a selling based job, you will most probably get rejected by people, always. So, what can you do? Some rookies agent will get frustrated and keeps on thinking "Why he or her rejected my proposal?". In fact, this is one of the most common scenario that Rookies are facing.

What they need to do is, Changed their mindset to "SW, SW, SW, Next!". That's mean some people may buy from you, some may not, so what? it's not a big deal, let's move on and search for the next client/prospect!

Not only for insurance industry. Almost all sales characteristics jobs are relevent to this "SW" theory.

And thanks to my auntie Kim, I have learned something today!

Life is a bitch, yeah I agreed. So what? MOVE ON!

Different McDonald™ Meals in Different Countries

McDonald™, one of the world most famous fast food franchise that we couldn't live without.
But due to every local area has their very own taste or taboo, McDonald's food must meet every little single particular in order to survive in there, thus, your McDonald's meal must be very different than mine.

Okay, here come the first one, let me introduce the "Maharaja" from India.



OH MY GOD... This is just too awesome... wait... what's that meat? Indian do not eat beef because they appreciate cow's contribution to mankind. So, McDonald in India have to come out with this giant chicken burger. Next time if anyone travels to India, you must try the "Maharaja" once.

Okay, the next one,



This is one of the Mac meal in Norway. Norwegian cannot live without fish, that's why McDonald™ introduced "McLaks" (Grilled Fish meal). Looks yummy...

This one is the McDonald's meal from Germany. Have a look...



Hmm... that beverage looks suspicious. what's that? Don't tell me it's...

Yes, you are correct. That's beer!!



I have no idea what's that McDonald's meal. But according from source, that's lobster meat with salad sauce. LOBSTER!!! (but it only available in certain outlets of Canada... =_=")



This is McDonald's meal from Chile. You can substitute the ketchup or Chile sauce with their very own, unique fruit sauce. Hmm... looks sweet huh?

What's next?



Here come the Greece traditional food, "pita".



Hmm... McArabia... looks tasty too! But you can only get it from McDonald™ in Israel.



So,

Are you hungry now?

Yes, i do.
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But wait, pls hold your feet first.

Although McDonald claimed themselves "the healthy food". However, some of their food is against their philosophy. E.g. coke caused obesity & everyone knows about it. However, they still selling this high sugar thingy. It doesn't sounds correct.

So, perhaps next time they can substitute they soft drink to nice green tea?

一步一步來 (Step by Step)

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Lyric:

童年時候多自在 樣樣都可愛
哥哥天天上學去 我等著他回來
我問爸爸何時我也讓那校車載
爸爸笑著對我說 一步一步來
上了學校才知道 考試不可愛
上課總是看手表 哎喲假期幾時來
我問老師何時才能將那方帽戴
老師笑著對我說 一步一步來
太陽下山明早依舊爬上來
夜裡不要通宵看那錄像帶
花兒謝了明年還是一樣地開
考不好未必有機會重頭來

十七八歲多古怪 學人談戀爱
情書寫了十多封 在車站苦等待
吃飯跳舞真不壞 送她回家說good night
她的媽媽開門說 你給我一步一步來
畢了業我才知道 社會更可愛
應徵前後幾十次 只有一次沒失敗
薪水不敢說出來 夜裡要把工開
現在行情壞 我的老板說 你要一步一步來
太陽下山明早依舊爬上來
星期天能不能慢點爬上來
花兒謝了明年還是一樣地開
哪家公司今年又將人員裁

結了婚我才知道 什麼叫做債
老婆總算娶回來 沒錢生小乖乖
家俱電器真不賴 價錢更精彩
夜夜繽紛看開懷 其他一步一步來
什麼時候駕著車往兒子學校開
放學的兒子告訴我他明天考天才
天才不是人人做 平凡也不壞
我說搭巴士也要把隊排 你要一步一步來
太陽下山明早依舊爬上來
高樓再高它還是要爬上來
花兒謝了明年還是一樣地開
只要空氣還沒污染得太壞
太陽下山明早依舊爬上來
我的青春匆匆地鐵那樣快
花兒謝了明年還是一樣地開
人生最好還是一步一步來
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This is so true. Life got no take two. So, enjoy your life in every moment!

It's them again...

"Ever since Derek and I seen those Acai pills on Cnn and Oprah we have been taking them and losing so much weight so fast with no diets or excercise , we are living proof that it works like magic and they are only five dollars now to try from http://flapmote.com"

"Howdy, I just spoke to Becca and Brice, and they told me to check out some pills they saw on Oprah. They said they lost 23 pounds in about amonth with them. Anyway you can find them here for only $5 http://fastflic.com"

"Finally I lost over 31 pounds in less then a month, these new Acai tablets that Jess and I been taking are amazing. They just work super fast on your body fat without any diets or excerice best thing? Cost just 5 dollars over at http://gladflic.com"



Yes, it's them again.

Asking me, an underweight guy, to reduce weight is so damn wrong.

Forex or not?

Forex or not?

Recently my housemate asking me to join her very own forex portfolio as she is doing well in forex industry. I am really eager to try. The leverage for forex is good. However, if u make a loss, you will lose everything.

I have discussed this investment with some friends and their reactions are vary. Some remain neutral while the others criticized the plan. So at the end of the day, I still cannot made up my mind.



But from my stock market class,

One key idea for investment is, the amount of profit that you are going to earn in the investment is the amount that you are going to lose. This is what my master taught me before.

For me, active investment plan involved your personal commitment and effort of research. However, if you are going to join for a well managed fund by another party, it will be great if you can get the return from that. But what if you suffer a loss from that investment, you cannot blame anyone even the fund managing person.

Although the statements above sounds pretty difficult to imagine. However, this is very true if you are involved in the game.



The US economic crisis is really worse now & all of the world are having consequences. Some of us lose our jobs while the others making loss in their mutual funds or investments. However, please believe yourself as we will go thru this. We invented the money and we will control them. Not money control the human.

From now on, other than for the basic need of human life: Cloth, Food, Shelter, Transport, we have to think twice before we spent the money.

So,
iMac or not? bah, next time.
Shopping fair in London? bah next time.
Haagen-dazs ice-cream? hell not, next time.

We will get them all once we had gone thru the stupid financial crisis. Cheers! :p

"Yes, we can!"

-Lavian out-

Malaysian Traveler's Blog, NicoleKiss

Accidentally found a cool Malaysian traveler's blog, it's Nicolekiss's blog.

She is young but it seems like she travels a lot. She sounds like addicted in traveling. I wonder how much she have spent for her trips. However, you can found a lot of interesting and detail traveling notes from her's blog.

By the way, the website is pretty cool, just give it a visit. :p

Dek Woon Wai

Another nice Thai song from "Four Mod"

Song name called "Dek Woon Wai" (I have checked with my Thai colleague, "Dek means kid, Woon Wai means chaotic/bad")



Thai lyric is here:
dai khae pen huang,
nang mong thoe yu
khao mai yai di ko ru,
da tae cham thaen thoe

cha phut cha plop
rai kha sa moe
thueng phut wa chan khae thoe
khon mai chuai a rai

yak bok yak tham trong trong
ko klua thoe khong ram khan
loai nag ngiap ngiap yu yang ni

refrain:
aep khit thueng thoe thuk wan
thang thi yu khang thoe
aep hen thuk thi thi thoe khoi mong khao
yak phut wa rak sak kham
ko khong cha saen bao
thoe hen rao pen khae dek wun wai

tha rueang khong thoe
mai khao chai rok
khao thing thoe pai mai pho
ro tai khao tham mai

laeo rueang khong rao
khao chai bang mai
thoe tham hai tho thao rai
tham mai khae khae thoe

yak bok yak tham trong trong
ko klua thoe khong ram khan
loei nag ngiap ngiap yu yang ni

refrain*


thoe khae mai ru
rue thoe klaeng tham pen mai ru
bok hai chan ru sak kham dai mai

khae thoe mai mong kham kan
mong ta ko khong khao chai
mai mong kham pai yang ni

refrain*(2x repeat)
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I cannot get any English lyric for this song. If anyone have the English lyric, pls kindly tell me where you get it.

Thank you very much.

Idea Bank

Accidentally found Free Idea Bank from a local community forum.

As Forbes announced before, Creativity is the next big gold mine for the industry.

Similar like MP3 industry. Although all MP3 are having similar functions and engaging in Red Sea War. However, Steve Jobs integrate their MP3 with something "extra" & thus, Ipod series has ruling the MP3 market up to today!

You maybe telling me that Steve Jobs is a creative, brilliant guy. Yes, I do agreed with you. However, if you clear about what is creativity, you won't be surprised about this.

In fact, creativity can be found at any place, any time, by anyone. Everyone is unique and has their own creativity in certain fields. However, what makes a huge different between them & Steve Jobs is, commercialized value of creativity!

It's difficult to explain more.

You can start from today, find your own creativity and make it commercialized! I know it's tough to think about it. But if you don't do it, you get zero.

Cheers!