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WooT! My first rainbow sighting in England ＼(*T▽T*)／

Good morning! A break for me at last, I have been working from 9am to 6pm from Monday - Friday lately, project, assessments bla bla. Anyway, despite that, I still have like two reports due next two weeks.. So gonna work on them now ;D toodles. Oh, by the way, Geoff bough GH3, with the guitaR! v(≧∇≦)v I was basically glued to it yesterday ^^)v. So much better playing this game with the guitar, back then I played GH1 & GH2 with controller =.-, u know la, hardly anyone buy original games in Malaysia =p

K, off I go to make myself some breakfast before working o(^o^o)o(^o^)o(o^o^)o

Happy new year - 2008 - The end of my WoW-ing days - The rebrth of my Jdrama days

Recently, time seems to be zooming ahead in like seconds < am I making sense here? =p. It didn’t feel the same when I was in high school/college. Time went by slowly back then, I was hoping today was tomorrow for like every single day. Right now, no way, I want today to be yesterday… We’re already into the 2nd day of 2008.. eek so fast o.o, My winter vacation is going to end on the 10th, 3weeks vacation seems too short for me =.- The worst part is that I have 4reports due in this month. Eek.. completed 1, 3more to go, yosh!

Another good news, I’ve decided to stop playing WoW. I actually wanted to get into Black Temple, but meh, gradually losing interest in this game, especially with dramas going around in my guild. Don’t get me wrong, it was a good guild, till leadership *ploorrp* went down. No appreciation to the raid leader, whines/complaints by ppl who get swapped out ie loot whores and they actually mentioned a couple of times ‘progression > loots’ *ya rite*. Just felt totally heartbreaking when I’ve poured in time and effort and even money into trying to bring a guild which were doin Karazhan into end-game raiding, and when they got there, and got enough raiders, they just entirely put u aside. Totally speechless, but that’s the bad thing bout game, conflicts and stuff. Prolly a good time for me to focus more on studies seeing that I have like 5months more till my finals. Promised to make my family proud, and I will try my best. So if anyone is interested in buying a WoW account with a 2100+healing priest/12k HP PvP & SSC/TK prot warrior/Full S2 PvP gears, let me know ;D

Recently been spending time playing Xbox 360 since I don’t have any other games to play. Hey, work and no play makes Jup a dull girl. 360 is rather cool, but I just hate using joystick to play FPS =.- Been playing all sorts of ol-sega/arcade-games ie metal slug ;D. Could be quite frustrating at times playing with Geoff -aka world-champion- He’s like perfectionist in games, where else me, play-relax-give up. I was bored just now, so I went to google his name. Boy he was indeed rather famous in the xbox-live-world. Ppl were actually missing him when he retired o.O Where did Urgamanix Go?

The first and most prominent ‘Gamerscore Champions’ were ST TheKing (aka Tom Shaw) and Urgamanix (aka Geoff Wade). The rivalry between these two players was watched closely by the community, earning them media playtime in the form of interviews and dicussions on many gaming forums.

Shortly after, a form of cheating called ‘gamesave downloading’ become more and more widespread around the community, a process in which a player downloads other player’s saves in order to instantly gain Gamerscore without playing the game. The most notorious cheater was RANCE6, who gained the highest Gamerscore after many of the top players quit, including Urgamanix and ST TheKing.

http://windows.wikia.com/wiki/Xbox_Live

=D Wish I could be like him, play 24/7 + get good results in exams. I wanna get my hands on Wii, seems like a really cute console. But it’s been out of stock in UK for AGES! Yes I mean aGES!. WTH, I should prolly go back to Malaysia and grab some and sell it over here to earn extra £$. Ps3 on the other hand has been piling up waiting for business. What’s wrong o.o?I went over to Geoff’s friend’s place the other day - they owned every single console in the world *applaud*. Played a lil Ps3, seems more like a computer sorta stuff - web browser yadaa yadaa. Motion controller like Wii, not a bad console I’d say. I was hoping to get Guitar Hero III with the guitar, but whoopie £70, a-na, too expensive (/_\) I played GHI, GHII on Ps2, without the guitar, wasn’t as fun as having the guitar obviously. Prolly gonna pop by Dav’s place some time to play it, boy I wish I could stay over in his place for a week or so. Loaded w/ consoles-high end computer-stereo, weet weet.

Oh and, I’m back to Jdorama <3 fast connection. Proposal Daisakusen プロポーズ大作戦 and Kurosagi クロサギwere really good!<3 Yamapi 山下智久~

Can’t stop laughing when he does ‘Hallelujah Chance’ with a little twist in Proposal Daisakusen ;D ;D ;D. Kurosagi was pretty original. Every episode was mainly bout how he swindled for justice - could be boring for some ppl, but not for me, as long as Yamapi plays a part =P Can’t wait to watch the movie, apparently they’re shooting it atm. And of course not forgetting Kimura Takuya’s 木村拓哉 latest drama Karei Naru Ichizoku 華麗なる一族 *double thumbs up*. I took a day to finish all 10eps =p, it’s so intense that I was just basically glued to the screen.

***punch that black bitch seated on the right***

(#\_/)=0 <ブープ＞ \(~o~)\ <ヤメテ!!>

opz 1am off to bed I go to play Miami Nights on my mobile. ^^)v Nitey-nite

Alley cat! meow~

Yes! it’s ALLEY CAT! Thanx bro! =D Geoff downloaded the ol’ DOS game for me on his com, it didn’t work on my computer, prolly coz’ I’m using vista. Boy o boy, that game brings back memories. I remembered being pretty good in it, but yesterday when I tried playing, boy I was crap! I couldn’t even jump into windows! grRrrr

Anyway, cut the game bit, Jarod tagged me o.O second time I’m doing this, here goes :-

The rules are as follow:-

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
2. Share 5 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names & links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

1. Ever since staying in the UK, I’ve been shopping for stuff < £5, buy 1 free 1 stuff, or even crazily searching high and low for FoC stuff! I’ve never done such things when I was back in Malaysia! Christ!
2. I felt snow for the very first time at 8.35am on the 23rd of Nov 2007!
3. I want to try this when I go home :

1. < this is actually 4. My university screwed up my registry name, so I’m known as Yee Phang here =.-
2. <5. I took 1day to figure out 5 facts about myself….

Off to study xD

I am a gamer coz’ I was brought up with games.

I was reading my bro’s blog minutes ago, a blog entry on how he got into games. Indeed, that’s pretty much how I got into games as well. My dad’s friend gave him a really old junkie desktop pc back then, *sorry I ain’t going to talk in IT language* u know those olden days computer which used big black floppy disk. There was a game installed in that computer, bout some cat trying to get into windows to steal fish, but sometimes it could be some sorta bigger cats/monsters behind those windows which needs to be avoided. Sounds boring? not for those days.

Then months later, bro saw sega genesis in pasar malam, I don’t remember how much it was, all I remember was my brother asking me to pay a bit for it so I could get like 0.01% of the share. When I was younger, my mom gave me like 50cents, or sometimes RM5 when she’s feeling generous =P, and since I wasn’t in school back then, I saved my money in Mr.Yippie Maybank coin box. U’ll be amazed, I was pretty rich back then, my Yippie coin box was always full, I had to apply for another coin box from Maybank to keep my coins piling up.  So from there I dug RM50 out to pay for the sega genesis without mom knowing. That’s when I got really addicted to games. I was practically playing the lion king everyday till my mom got so frustrated, she complained to my bro that he was the cause of me playing games all day. And I told my mom, that I paid RM50 for the console, so I have the right to play it, she exploded and blame my bro for ’stealing’ my money. I remembered her yelling at my bro, and my bro got so pissed at me for blurtting it out. We sorta made a pinky promise to not tell mom that I paid for it.. =X The next day he came to me and threw RM50 at me, and that’s when I lost my 0.01%share, =(. He even locked the console in his wardrobe, but I somehow managed to open the wardrobe and played lion king when my bro was at school. Who’s the winner huh?! =p Old wardrobe, just a couple of straigtened paper clips did the job

We had some other consoles in between, like atari and stuff like that, I don’t quite remember, my bro had crazy lots of consoles back then. The one I liked most was.. game gear, I guess it is called. Then years later we got a better computer, with windows 95. That’s when I started my very first FPS, Quake! I have to say I was pretty good in it, I remembered slaughtering my sister’s friends in a multiplayer deathmatch game *rocket launcher spam ftw*. When PS1 came out, I switched to it right away, and was basically glued to FF8. I think I’ve played FF8 more than 6times. I can pretty much remember the whole thing if u asked me now. Another, rather silly reason which got me hooked to FF8 was because the guy that I admired in school back then, was a big fan of FF games. xD I stopped PS1 when I was done and satisfied with my FF8 game completion, and when I no longer admired that guy =p

I went on with Dreamcast, Shenmue was a cute and sweet game. I loved playing it, the story line + BGM attracted me a lot which made me played the whole game 3 times from start to end. I wanted to continue with Shenmue 2, but my brother sold his Dreamcast to Jarod coz he needed money urgently. =( That’s when I moved back to FPS, Counter Strike at that time. I played CS for a long time, I was pretty good in it, I remembered beating Tony when we were playing in a lan shop.  Then Jarod n sister introduced me to a Chinese MMORPG, ShenZhou. I didn’t have a single clue to what I was doing, all I remembered was kill black pig for black pig blood, kill black dog for black dog blood. I had to collect these materials like everyday to hand it in for quests or something like that. I got bored eventually, and moved to Thang Online and met KiKi who basically helped me thru to lvl 40. But I didn’t stay in TO for long, it was boring! I moved to  Guild Wars next when I met Geoff. He started GW very much earlier than me, and my brother actually bought GW at the same time as Geoff but he lost interest after an hour playing it. Geoff was crazy bout GW, he basically stayed up every night just to get his PvP rank up. I was newb and didn’t like PvP back then, so we didn’t play together much. And gaming world is small, I met KiKi in GW. We were both totally crazy bout lvling new chars, farming n stuff, we were like PvE masters. Till I got bored of PvE I went to PvP as a newb and met some really nice Singaporean & Israelis friends who taught me a lot of tricks n skills in PvP. I got my PvP rank up to R7 and gave up GW due to lag, and thats when my brother dragged me into World of Warcraft coz he needed a personal healer. I stareted off as a newb, having like 800+healing at lvl70 while others had like 1200+healing. My talent tree was awfully weird as well, I had all pts in holy and tiny bits in shadow. I’m still playing WoW till now, my brother however stopped playing, addiction is a killer. I’m not that much addicted to WoW as I was before, but I am reluctant to dump my priest aside without her entering Black Temple.

No classes on Thursdays!!

WeeE, classes on Thursdays are canceled. How cool is that?! I was complaining bout Thursday lectures from 9am - 5pm. Due to lack of students for Environmental Biotechnology, that module has been canceled and students who chose that module has no choice but to take Medical Microbiology. It didn’t quite affect me, since I chose Medical Microbiology & Industrial Biotechnology. I was supposed to have 4 modules this semester, but Industrial has been deferred to next semester x2 woohoo. So this sem, 3modules, 1 project/research, and my personal tutor is Dr. Keith. nice man I love talking to him.

We spent a couple of ours in the seminar room, and then I went to Bridges (small shopping mall) with Sheryl, Sarav & Melissa. Melissa is the only European in my class.. the others r.. Malaysians hahaha =P I had fish n chips again today for £3.80, pretty cheap I’d say. After lunch Sheryl brought me to the “Chinese Shop”.  Oh my god, I was so happy when I entered it… so many familiar soya sauce, instant noodles, frozen dumplings/spring rolls, yeo’s can drinks.. bihun… bla bla. I was basially jumping in joy. But stopped right after I saw the price tags… jesus christ! £1.0 for Yeo’s green tea.. O.O Melissa bought lots of stuff, fish sauce, oyster sauce, bihun bla bla bla. She’s French but she loves Asian food. So I was *cough* being a Miss know it all, teaching her how to make spring rolls. =P Hey I don’t get to do that in front of my mom =P. As for myself, I bought sushi vinegar & soya sauce = £3.80. Come on, rice cooker, come already!

O, and guess what, Geoff was desperate for Chinese food yesterday, so we ordered take-away from Ming Dynasty. He ordered egg+duck fried rice, n I ordered chicken fried rice + 2 cans of coke = £10. Fried rice was HORRIBLEEEEEE.. MOM COME OPEN A RESTAURANT HERE!! Jesus holy molly christ.. >.<;; Sorry I can’t help but to convert =P I’m a poor student here.. *sobs*

So last night, did a lot.. went to Dav’s place to play Halo 3 till 10.45pm ish. Halo 3 was confusing for me =X. As usual, Geoff’s score was sky high compared to others. Ian , hehe the funny one among them was the lowest. He’s like the pitiful one among Geoff’s friends, everyone was teasing him a lot. =P We then went to Tesco. Hooray for 24hours Tesco. Bought lots of grocerries, I’m as usual always checking out the ‘buy 1 Free 1′ sections or ‘buy 2 for £3′ kinda stuff.

OMG.. the weather today is crazy.. crazy waves.. I almost got blown away when I was walking home

Holidays wohooo!

Yey, exams over, guess I did pretty decently. Microbial was tough, but I did like 80% of the questions. Let’s hope I pass eh. So the first thing I did when I got home, cleaned my room, chuck my books/notes aside, and play WoW =P

Despite on holiday, I had less than 5hrs of sleep. Woke up at 6am-ish for raid. This morning’s raid was so-so, wiped 3times on Gruuls, twice on Doomwalker, and I think 3times on Mags. Not supposed to be happening. The last time I raided, we downed DW, Gruuls & Mags in 1-shot. We were supposed to do Lurker as well, but we called it, since it was closing 11am. Oh and we downed Hydross on Sunday =D (ye ye I was playing WoW before a paper)

After that, I went to Sheraton Subang for my pre-departure briefing. Was rather cool, not many ppl tho as expected. Just the same old briefing, financial, accomodation, culture bla bli blo. Well, I’m just bringing my clothes & personal computer there since I’m only given 30kg of capacity + 10kg hand luggage. Met my senior there, was a surprise, I thought I was the only one going to Sunderland.

Apparently biotechnologist and pharmacists or any other science related fields are in high demands and according to the presenter, finding a job in England is not a problem. That’s what I like to hear. Then we had a short refreshment, I didn’t stay long coz I needed to fetch my relatives who just came to KL from Sabah.  Supposed to have dinner with them, but mom needed me to drive her car home. So I’m all home alone and hungry now

What’s happening to me in game?

So I’ve been playing World of Warcraft for a little past 1/2 a year. For those game dummies, WoW is one of the most played/fastest growing MMORPG by Blizzard, the developer of classic RPG Diablo/Diablo II. Previously, I was totally against this game, that’s when I was playing Guild Wars. Well, either side of the players are always comparing both of these games.

So bout WoW, it’s pretty fun, but it gets addictive. There’s just so many things you wanna achieve in PvP and PvE which could cause you to spend your entire day just sticking to your computer. -bad- I was talking to my bro this evening. One of his friend sold his WoW account for US$900, O.o whoopdedoo. I was thinking of selling my bro’s warrior and my priest. Well I can’t be playing WoW forever. There’s gonna be a time when I’m bored of it and my bro, he’s definitely gonna stop some time soon. A priest + warrior combo, that’s gonna make US$2000? O.O? good cash huh.. Didn’t know playing games could earn me some cash..

Anyway, back to study. Molecular Cell Biology in 12hrs time. All the best to myself