Sunday 30 November 2008

High Tech Buddhist Monks...

I took this picture a while ago at Low Yat mall, the IT Hub in Malaysia...and a place I called my second home..
I was strolling around, looking for some good bargains and suddenly i saw three monks looking at some handphones at all stall... Buddhist Monks nowadays no longer stay and meditate in the temple or read the Sanskrits all day long...

One of them even bought which i think might be a linksys wireless router or something....Who knows they have they own kung fu CS censored ans bloodless version...


Monk 1: We have bought the wireless router already..we can save some money from going to cyber cafes for Kung Fu CS...

Monk 2: hahaha, i'll give you a head kick later on...

Monk 3: I can't join you guys tonight...Master asked me to help him copy down some scripts...

Monk 1: Just use the scanner to scan and print it out...We bought one last month didn't we?

Monk 2: Hey...I've heard the new quad core processors coming out for laptop soon...I think my 2.26GHz Intel Dual Core with 2 GB of RAM is getting old now... Maybe I should upgrade it to a 2.4 GHz Quad Core with 4 GB of DDR3 RAM with nVIDIA 9 series Card..

Monk 1: I think ATI graphics card is better....By the way, try to get a blue ray writer too...

Monk 3: Guys, look here, it's the new Samsung SGH-F480...

Monk 1: I'm cool with my Iphone 3G...

Monk 2: It's getting late now...I still need to finish up the translation of the Sanskrit using Yahoo BabelFish ...Let's go back now...

Saturday 29 November 2008

Meter-O-Retardation

The first retardation challenge is here...after s series of elimination, only 3 finalists remained.....



Contestant number 1: George
Meter-O-Retardation: Slightly retarded..It would be much more retarded if he drools....



Contestant number 2: Nick Farhan
Meter-O-Retardation: This is more towards perverted than retarded.....even though he looks quite retarded....



Contestant number 3: Justin
Meter-O-Retardation: OMG...the ultimate form of retardation....How can a human be so retarded!!!! No pose needed! No actions needed! The face itself is saying "I'm super retarded!"



In the end, the judges unanimouly voted Justin as the "King of Retardation" .......

Note: Don't take this seriously......It's just a joke

Tuesday 18 November 2008

Cheap in India? Guess again......

Tourists in India in samosa shock
By Amarnath Tewary
Patna

note: Samosa is a popular Indian snack (much like curry puff)

A Dutch couple visiting India's Bihar state, were charged an astronomical 10,000 rupees ($204; £134) for four samosas, the potato-stuffed snack.

They paid the sum to a hawker at the famous cattle fair in Sonepur after a "heated argument".

The price worked out at $51 (£33.50) per samosa. They usually cost about two rupees 50 paise or five US cents (3p).

The tourists then sought help from police who forced the salesman to return 9,990 rupees ($203.87; £134.91).

The Sonepur cattle fair runs for a month every year from the middle of November and is attended by a large number of foreign tourists.

'Special'

The Dutch couple were roaming around the fair when they got hungry and ordered the four samosas from the hawker, police said.

After eating, they went to pay the bill.

The young hawker insisted in broken English that the samosas were specially made of Indian herbs and had aphrodisiac qualities, local official Paritosh Kumar Das told the BBC.

"After a heated argument and threats by the hawker, the tourists paid up 10,000 rupees," he said.

However, not convinced that the high price of the snack was justified, the couple approached the police.

"The police threatened the hawker after which he returned 9,990 rupees to the Dutch couple," Mr Das said.

A police complaint has been filed against the shopkeeper who has since gone into hiding.

The cattle fair, an annual feature in Bihar, began two days ago and will go on for another month.

Organisers say this year, bottled camel urine and milk are much in demand for "their medicinal properties".

A camel owner Rukasat Rathor said a bottle of camel urine was being sold for 100 rupees ($2; £1.34) per litre while camel milk was selling at 200 rupees ($4; £2.68) a litre.

"Camel milk is healthy for those suffering from diabetes and children while the animal's urine helps to cure all water-borne diseases," Mr Rathor said.

Another popular item at the fair is elephant dung which the local people burn to use as a mosquito repellent.

Adapted from BBC news.
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I've heard news that they overcharged tourists for bus and museum tickets....this time, samosas...they are clearly sucking the tourists dry.
Still think travelling to India is cheap? Maybe yes if you are one of them.....

Wednesday 12 November 2008

Red Alert 3, the game that doesn't make sense but enjoyable...

Red alert 3 is the sequel to the popular command and conquer: Red Alert franchise. As a huge fan of the game,I quickly get myself a copy of that game through extortion from a friend. I was hoping to see new designs of my beloved prism tanks, tesla tanks, black eagle jets and the mighty grand cannon...To my utter disappointment, those units are no longer available. You can only choose 3 "countries" which are the factions of the game. So fine, maybe they keep it for future expansion. The new faction in the game after the demise of the great Yuri is the empire of the Rising Sun, which in fact is much like yuri, a psychic commando/schoolgirl like Yuri prime, fast and versatile units....etc. It gives me the feeling that Yuri faction is disguising as the Empire of the Rising Sun or maybe rules in the shadow.

The gameplay is fun and exciting as the A.I is quite challenging. For the second time in an RTS strategy game, I actually focused on micromanagement and the use of special skills..the first one being Company of Heroes. I've to use different strategies to counter the A.I's attack which can easily overwhelm my army if i screwed up at some point. I can no longer spam the Apocalypse tanks in the game..which is sad. A bunch of cheap-ass Tankbusters and some air units can easily give my Apocalyse a hard time. did I mention that apocalyse lost its Anti Air abilities???? Futhermore, the bullfrog has only anti-air capabilities...It sure doesn't make sense in real weaponry. Have you ever seen any AA guns that can only shoots planes? Look at the 88mm flak cannon...it's deadly against both planes and tanks!!!!! So on to the Red alert 3......

What makes the A.I so powerful? The developers programmed it to include different units to counter different attacks when performing an assault. Which means if you spam only 1 type of unit, then you can just start building a new army...or maybe starting a new game.The A.I is also quite fast at expanding its base, conquering all the ore mines on the map. The killing factor that makes the Brutal A.I tough is that the A.I actually or kinda cheat in the game. There's a point where i dominated 70% of the map...with most of the ore mines under my control. Cash was flowing in like Bill Gates's Earning Counter.. but I was always getting a hot girl saying "insufficient funds". This is due to spending most of them for my units (no base defense at all, all goes to building units). I was having a considerable army at that time. And guess what, my opponent, the Empire of the rising Ass actually built a large force ( not to mention with tonnes of base defenses) and overwhelmed my armies and drove back straight to the heart of my base....I was watching the A.I destroying my base bits by bits while still in disbelief....

The second scene was: I was attacking the A.I's army and managed to destroy most of the enemy's forces. The A.I then started to build more land units to defend against mine. I thrashed their forces for the second time. They continue to concentrate on the land forces to defend against my assault. Like any other great strategists will do, I secretly build up a large naval fleet, considering that I had minimal losses on my land units...I had the money to construct tonnes of submarines and the powerful dreadnought warships....The enemy clearly has no chance against me now, for I will use the dreadnoughts to bombard the enemy's base for the back then whoop them from the front. When I reached near the base, I saw A.I had an insanely large naval force..How the hell did the A.I do that????? I am already dead broke and the A.I still has the resources to contruct a naval base when I have destroyed most of its ore refinary, and still destroying waves of land units that was thrown at me. This is too much dy man.....

After a few trials and errors, I finally developed a strategy to torture the Brutal A.I back...Some took when in 10-15 minutes to finish the A.I off......(Click for larger resolution)








Wednesday 5 November 2008

How Asians greet in the UK....



Click the picture for a clear resolution....and thanks to those who agree to appear in the picture...

Tuesday 4 November 2008

Time to move on....

After 4 years of service, my laptop, the Acer TravelMate 8103WLMi has finally broke down..Due to overloading of hentais and porns The HD seems to be fully corrupted and the fan and DVD-rom is not working properly. The heating problem seems to be getting even worse as the fan is not working. And the processor is going Kapoot....The laptop is slowly dying away...

I've tried reformatting the laptop, hoping that it will still run for at least a year, or a month or just one freaking week...I have an assignment to hand in for god sake..but the laptop just don't function properly. The speed is slow and laggish...Finally, I changed it to Linux OS system. It worked at first with decent speed, but I need a freaking Windows OS and my applications are mostly Windows based...



I knew I had no choice but to get myself a new laptop for my assignments and stuffs..
Today, not even Linux can save my love...The HD is fully corrupted. The Linux OS will load if lucky (after 3 hours of loading), otherwise it'll just display tonnes of error messages on the screen...

Acer 8103WLMi..Thanks for staying by my side for 4 years...really appreciated it. The fun we had together will always be in my memory. Have a good rest in the laptop bag. Maybe one day a good Samaritan will donate a HD for your heart transplant operation.

Guess what, I got myself another ACER....Acer 6935G


Let's see how long can this ACER Gemstone last.....