Birthday coming in 2 hours...

It's the time again when my birthday is around the corners and this year I'm celebrating it with new friends and in a new surroundings. Not that I'm fussy about my this, (I'm actually exited about it) but I will certainly miss my old friends. It is 10pm and I've already received birthday presents from my house/room mates. Here are the following:

Hm, I wonder what other exciting presents and celebrations will I be having next? XD
Thanks Alfred, Jimmy and Yi Meng ya :D

I just came back to Ipoh and this had almost happened to me?

Read this article in the morning:

Two killed after row of shops collapses

IPOH: Two persons were killed and another badly injured when a row of dilapidated shophouses collapsed on passing vehicles at Jalan Kamaruddin Isa in Fair Park here.

The vacant shophouses came tumbling down at about 9.30pm last night, burying a white Perodua Viva with the three persons inside. The rubble also hit three other cars.

The deceased, were identified as Zairi Mohd Sabri, 25, and Firdaus Mohd Norzila, 23. The injured, Abdil Kudus Ismail, 21, was sent to the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital.

Perak CPO Deputy Comm Datuk Zulkifli Abdullah said search and rescue workers extricated the two bodies from the car.

It is learnt that the three men were good friends from Taman Perwira here and they were on the way to the city area for supper prior to the tragedy.

The shophouses had been earmarked to be demolished and the demolition work started yesterday morning.

Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir, who was at the scene, said the shophouse owners had agreed to demolish the buildings to make way for a development.

Original article taken from : http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/10/3/nation/4837985&sec=nation

This happened yesterday night at 9.30pm and guess why am I posting this? It's because my brother and I were there at that exact moment!! Praise the lord that we were a few minutes late or else my bro and I would be the one trapped underneath. As you read the article, the Viva driver and passenger died in the scene and we happened to see the car in front of us. I think posting a video regarding about this accident would be better huh? Surprisingly, I actually used my phone video camera to record the whole after effect (not the collapsing part though) and you could see how badly damaged it is. I have two videos here taken from myself and the first one was viewed from the front side and then the second one was viewed from the other side of the road.

This was taken from the front view, moments just after collapse. And notice at 2:55 in the video duration, some douchebag (a driver next to my bro's car) told me go home and record but he himself was using his Nokia N90 to record =.=


This is taken from the opposite side of the road

Even more new hardware for my laptop

I know it sounds crazy but I spent 95% of my monthly allowance on these hardware equipments. There was a IT fair in Sunway College and I saw 3 things that I've always wanted. A portable speaker, a gaming mouse and a 1TB hard drive. All these items were so tempting to get and I totally think of nothing else but getting these 3 babies. Here are the 3 stuffs that I get :

1) A gaming mouse : Razer DeathAdder



It's totally sweet and high class looking but the downside is the pricing. After plenty of thinking and regretting, I've finally bought it for RM200 (It hurts my wallet man)


Yes, the size of the speakers are very small but has no bass in it. The price is RM25 (don't mind the price tag, I stick RM85 over there so my housemates will get jealous...) and it could actually boom very loud indeed

Last thing that I've bought over there will be the 1TB hard drive from Freecom.

this is the comparison between the size of a 1TB hard drive (the bigger one) and my old 320GB hard drive. See the difference? And for your info, when you buy 1TB hard drive it actually gives you 931 GB disk capacity only. For only RM350, I think it's worth it. It's RM700 because my coursemate wanted one as well, so we paid together...

This is my condition of my room after buying all these equipments....

It's so messy for now but I think I will clean up soon... So what do you think about the hardware prices? Cheap? Good or crazy??

Anyway, let's move on with the latest news for the day. Today is 19 September 2009 and guess what? I'm back in Ipoh! Wohoo!! With the Raya holidays coming up, my holidays around Ipoh will last until 22 September... (this tuesday...) And for those that want to visit this lifeless kid, please do so, I'm very lonely T.T

Windows 7 Ultimate final version has been told that it's going to be released on October right? Well to tell you the truth, I've the final version with me now due to some of my close relationship with a Microsoft friend here back in Subang, for those that want to have an upgrade, please contact me. Tried on a few friends of mine and no problem has been reported so far, all ok :)

I know the DVD look cheap! But as long as it's usable, I'm ok with with it :)

Last but not least, I've been learning a lot of photoshop skills recently (due to the fact I did not learn in class. I was learning Macromedia Director and other crap the whole time...) and I was happy that I've successfully created my very own fan made pictures for now! Here's the original and the combination :)
Life is so fun with photo editing. Will be learning more until I can really be good with it and until then I will have to depend on my sifu. Signing off Bluedrake a.k.a. Shippoukitsune

Summary of my life for the past 1 month

Since a month from today, I have been slacking off and not be bothered about anything as my exam was over. No study, no blogging nothing to do or what-so-ever. Now, that I'm back to college for studies again, I felt like summarizing about what I had done throughout the whole month. (Just to keep track of myself :) I can't remember when it happened and all so I will just be listing down the event but not in order...

The things that I did while I was in Ipoh that is worth mentioning:
1) Get to meet my old friends (a few though) to see if they are dead or alive :)
2) Get myself a new phone (I'm not telling, those that know can keep quiet :)
3) Involved myself in UCpro (a gaming platform) forum activities and got myself a promotion
4) Successfully emulated PS2 games nicely to run on my PC (can even run Kingdom Hearts)
5) Changed a new set of specs
6) Passed my driving test (theory) with 50/50 marks
7) Get to watch GI JOE and Harry Potter with premium tickets
8) Wasted half of my nights with Aaron doing Nazi Zombies...
9) Equipped my computer with new gadgets
10) Downloaded more than 100gb of files for the 1 month duration

Well, this is mostly what I have done in the past month and I know it's nothing much (I'm a lifeless loser...) but it sure beats the hell out of staying in campus with grandma-like connection. I guess that is all for now as I don't feel like blogging now a days as I don't think there is anyone that is even bothered to read it in the first place....

My second paintball activity!

It was the time again for paintball activity and as usual, Jon was our organizer for the event. The place was booked and the time was set but there is one thing missing, my course mates bailed out from the game. The douchebags that had bailout the paintball activities are :

1) Shanjiff = Go overseas kononnya...
2) Aaron = So say had some fatal injuries a few days before the paintball game
3) Eric = Don't even have a reason!!!
4) Kian Hong = Sensitive to pain....

Not to say I'm disappointed but I was really looking forward to the paintball game as it was exciting, fun and dangerous at the same time. However the activity was not canceled as Jon had brought along two of his friends as well which is Emir (Another paintball veteran) and Timothy (His friend is from United Kingdom). So in the end, it's only me, Cheryl, Jon Timothy and Emir that participated the paintball event. Our trainer Ray, (Picture not available) is a professional paintballer and had give us the simple briefing again (about not responsible if you are dead in the game half-way...) before we get to start the game.

Before the game starts.

First time wearing a mask....

The first game was 3 against 2 which consists of me, Cheryl and Timothy going against the two veteran players (Jon and Emir) As planned from the beginning we get to strengthen our defense and whoop Jon and Emir's ass (Timothy got Emir while Cheryl got Jon) Once we were out of the arena, Ray said that there were too little players in the game and therefore had joined in together with a few Marshal as well. We are stunned as according to Jon, Marshal are people who is expert in the paintball field and can literally wipe us out in seconds. Since it was the first time for a few of us (Namely me, Cheryl and Timothy), so we decided to give a try. So, during round two it was 4 Marshal and Ray against all five of us. Once the match started, the arena was a war zone and I was the first to get wipe out. One of the Marshal managed to shoot their pallet onto my marker (it's called a marker, not a gun...) and I was out for the game. The others didn't get last long before they got wasted as well. Emir managed to defeat his trainer Ray but was out as well when the other Marshal shot him. Jon had another pallet on his shoulder and Cheryl was shot on the arm. The end result was 1-5 (Marshal team one eliminated and our team was 100% annihilated)

Aw, how sad. There is a first time for everyone though :)

By the time we are ready for the third round, Ray had to go as he was busy and the third match ended in a 4 vs 4. So it was me, Jon, Timothy and Emir against 3 Marshal and Cheryl (lucky her...) Once the match started, The war zone started again and I was shot at the face almost seconds after the game started. If it wasn't for the helmet I'm wearing, my face would have been gone. The others didn't last long as well and the game ended with a 4-0 victory (Marshal team 0 casualties and our team 100% annihilated again...)

Can you see the paint splattered to my mask?

Closer look at the mask. Two pallets are actually over there, Ouch...

Before the fourth round began, the Marshall decided not to make our life miserable and let us play on our own, so it was back to 3 vs 2 (same people on each team) Once the game started, I was lucky enough to finish Emir off within seconds and Jon seconds later, making me the hero :)

However, the Referee felt the game ended too fast and ask us to continue the fifth round instantly. (Same people on each team) By the fifth round, Jon and Emir was much more organized and managed to counter fire our assault. Cheryl and Timothy was out of the game after a minute plus, leaving me to face against the two veterans. As I was suppressing fire on Emir, Jon had slowly approached me from the other side. While he was on his way, Cheryl and Timothy had yelled to me warning about Jon. (They are not supposed to do that but since we are beginners, it was ok) By the time I looked at Jon, he had jumped to an obstacle for safety and even managed to shot my arm. The fifth game ended 3-0 (Jon's team 0 casualties, my team 100% annihilated...)

When we were done with the fifth round, Timothy had to go back and that leaves only the four of us. Having not enough people, we had decided that we would use the remaining ammo for the target range...

Jon aiming at the target range...

Cheryl and her not so accurate aiming skills...
Giggling with myself while aiming, scary...
Two markers to use, cool!

While we were still at the target range, I have made a few videos for our group. Here is Jon and his cracked up marker. Note: he could really shoot the marker that fast, but it was too fast until the marker cannot stop by itself...

This video was taken by me as the gunner in a first person mode. I'm too lazy to add crosshair and additional details onto the video, so it looked like Counter Strike or COD 4 XD...

The last video was the end of my killing spree streak lol...

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In the end, everyone had a fun time even if there was not enough people but I'm happy nonetheless. It was an eye-opening experience and getting shot was quite fun actually. I'll be looking forward to my next paintball match soon. Before we left the paintball arena, Jon had to do some silly stuff again...

Is he lame or what???

Now that it's semester break, I'm back to Ipoh for 3 weeks or more and I'll be looking forward to see my old buddies again. Hope to see all of you again soon! Signing off Bluedrake a.k.a. Shipoukitsune