Why Video Games is my favourite past time

First of all, forgive me (yes, all 3 of you) for not updating my blog for a very long time. There are no more movie reviews simply because it has been a while since I saw a movie. At the time of writing I have yet to watch the current all time highest grossing movie, Avatar. But I have the intention to do so. In 3D. That is if I would. I don't know already. Had a surprise of surprise advanced birthday celebration on the last 31st of January. Thanks for those who has made it possible. It means sooo much to me. That's the best gift I can ever get.

Now, onto the topic.

There are a lot of hobby to pick up. Being a boy there are even more hobbies to choose from from stamp collecting, reading books, err.... well you get the idea. I am born in the 90's. The year where pop music, mohawks and Y2K jokes are famous for. Back then video games weren't as big of a market as it is today. Back then it was a niche thing. Only a certain number of people knows what it is and even a smaller amount of people can afford to have one. Games arcade was at large back then but it had a bad reputation as a place where kids would skip school, gamble and all sorts of negative things. This made video games as a hobby a difficult thing back then because it was the same as being addicted to gambling and such. Console games are available but here in Malaysia it very hard to come by and its usually expensive. Mine was the time for Sega Saturn and Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) but my hobby only started on the next generation of Playstation and Nintendo 64. I've no idea what Nintendo 64 is until later where I have more access to information about video games from sources such as magazines and later internet. Playstation was dominant. I always see these things around the shops in the capital and grew an interest towards it. Having to play it in my friends house, I asked for my very own and got my first console ever after scoring 5A's in the UPSR. I was also into a hobbies magazine known as Gempak for about 100 issues before stopping from buying it since when I bought it, the section I'm looking forward to the most is the video games section. So, I thought, rather than wasting my time buying the magazine, why not look for something more directly about video games. That didn't happen until later in my life when I decided to buy GameAxis which was also a temporary poison. Back to my Playstation, I spent countless time playing all sorts of games on it, Crash Bandicoot, Metal Gear Solid, Nascar Rumble, WWF Smackdown 2, Final Fantasy VIII and all sorts of games before it was stolen a few years later in which I teared its lost. It was the closest thing I have in my life back then. A few years later, I got a Playstation 2 (which is 2nd hand by the way since a new unit is expensive and still is today). I spent my time playing even more games. In my free time, I like to surf the internet. Guess what sites do I go? No, not porn sites. I went to even more video games site and looked for even more video games related news and videos. It's like I'm doing my own thesis considering the amount of information I take up all the time. And I still do it up to this day.

 











Now the question is, why? I have been telling the backstory of my hobby for the earlier parts of this post. But why? Good question. Why? I'm not sure. But what I can say is, video games has helped made me to a man I am today. I used to have very average English language capabilities before I discovered video games. And after I discovered it, my English has started to improve gradually day by day. How is this possible you ask? Well, video games back in my earlier years, has very little to no voice overs. It was all text and writings if you want to know the story or anything, you have no choice but to read. Of course I will stumble upon word I have no idea what it means. Because I don't want language to be the barrier of my hobby, I took the initiative to look up what it means. This indirectly helped me learned new words and sentence structures. Video games from the adventure, action and racing genres always test your reflex. In other words, playing video games can improve my reflex towards things. I became more aware of the situation around and learning to act fast with what comes up next. Strategy games like Final Fantasy and sneaking games like Metal Gear Solid on the other hand, sharpen up my ability to quickly strategize and make quick decisions of the situation. This also helps me with my leadership skills. Thanks to these video games that had helped me with these values, it had made me a good enough person to be the leader of many groups and organizations at school that actually does work. I don't want to be arrogant but I think it is safe to say I didn't do the worst job. Video games has also nurtured my interests towards technologies. I should say that it is the contributing factor on why I chose to further my studies in computers. I am just fascinated by these technologies.

Video games was, still is, and will always be my favourite past time. It's the kind of hobby that is not only topical but helps hone all sorts of quality in a man. Qualities that I think is important and helps us as a person. Video games are no more a nerd's hobby to me. More people are exposed to it than ever before. And to be honest, I have lots to say. But this could take forever and I am sooo lazy to type. This is my hobby. This is my passion. This is me.

Apa yang Lelaki Tahu tentang Perempuan?

[Article extracted from a blogger guy named Magenta. Stop by his blogs sometimes. He has some rather quality posts.]

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Dalam semua-semua majalah atau buku yang aku pernah baca dan pengalaman yang aku pernah lalui atau cerita yang aku pernah dengar, dua perkara ini yang paling banyak membantu aku memahami perbezaan antara lelaki dan perempuan:

1. Kenapa lelaki tak akan mendengar jika perempuan mengubah topik.

Perempuan ada lima ton suara. Lelaki hanya mengecam 2 daripada 5 ton itu. Jadi kalau seorang perempuan menukar topik dan ton suaranya ketika sedang bercakap, lelaki itu takkan ada clue perempuan itu sedang bercakap tentang apa.

2. Otak lelaki dan perempuan berfungsi dengan cara berlainan when it comes to love and sex.

Otak lelaki memproses cinta dan seks dalam dua kawasan otak yang berlainan, manakala otak perempuan hanya ada satu kawasan untuk kedua-duanya. Jadi, secara saintifik, lelaki boleh meniduri perempuan lain dan masih mencintai kamu, tetapi perempuan tak boleh membuat perkara yang sama tanpa emotional attachment.

Aku rasa banyak masalah hubungan timbul dari fakta ini. Lelaki biasanya mahukan seks dan perempuan tak mahu, tetapi perempuan itu masih lead him on.

Bagi lelaki seks itu sesuatu yang fizikal. Bagi perempuan ianya lebih kepada emosi.

Bagi perempuan, ia lebih kepada mahu merasakan dirinya dimahukan dan cukup seksi. Sebab itu sudah mencukupi bagi seorang perempuan jika lelaki itu selalu memberitahu perempuan itu sangat hot dan selalu memujuk wanita itu untuk have sex. Lelaki pula selalunya mahu go all the way.

Aku rasa kebanyakan perempuan tahu juga tentang perkara ini. Sebab itu ada perempuan tak kisah membuat oral seks, lantas memberi harapan palsu dan lead on lelaki mereka gila-gila sampai lelaki itu tak tahan dan merayu-rayu, lepastu berkata,

"Sayang, I’m not ready yet."

takpun tiba-tiba,

"I penat lah/ sakit kepala lah. Kita sambung esok je lah."

Tak baik dowh. Tak baik lead on laki macamtu semata-mata nak rasa berkuasa dapat memanipulasi nafsu lelaki. Mentang-mentanglah kita ada banyak nafsu dan nafsu mereka hanya ada satu dan tertumpu atas perkara itu.

Aku juga tak suka lelaki yang memanipulasi wanita untuk mendapatkan seks. Aku tak suka lelaki yang mendera mental wanita dengan menggunakan reverse psychology dan membuatkan perempuan itu rasa tak cukup seksi kalau tak buat seks dengan dia. Tak pun lelaki yang mengambil kesempatan atas wanita yang dikaburi emosi dan mengugut bahawa kalau tak buat seks dengan dia, akan ditinggalkan.

Bukan salah lelaki dicipta untuk menjadi visual dan terlalu dahagakan yang fizikal. Bukan salah perempuan dicipta kadang-kadang terlebih emosi dan selalu perlu tahu mereka mencukupi.

You don’t have to do what you don’t want to do. And don’t start something you can’t finish.

Sambungan…

3. Kebanyakan lelaki tak boleh multitask dan perempuan boleh.

Aku perasan lelaki biasanya tak boleh membuat lebih daripada satu perkara pada suatu masa. Perempuan pula boleh membuat 3 perkara pada masa yang sama. Dan aku rasa semua orang pernah dengar pasal contoh perempuan yang tak dapat divert attention teman lelakinya yang sedang menonton perlawanan bola sepak.

Aku rasa ramai perempuan tersalah anggap bahawa ini sebab boyfriend mereka lebih berminat tentang bola sepak daripada mereka. Tapi aku rasanya penjelasannya lebih mudah. Point nombor dua aku mengatakan lelaki ada bahagian otak yang berlainan untuk perkara yang berbeza. Aku rasa begitu juga dengan perkara-perkara lain.

Perempuan pula lebih mementingkan details dan connectivity. Mereka suka mengaitkan segala perkara dengan each other.

Kiranya macam otak lelaki ini umpama almari yang ada 10 laci, otak perempuan adalah almari dengan 1 laci besar yang tersusun.

Sebab ini juga perempuan suka mengungkit dan cepat terasa. Kalau sesuatu couple itu bergaduh dan si lelaki mahu bermanja-manja pada malam itu, kemungkinan yang perempuan masih akan marah kerana teringatkan kejadian siang itu.

Yang lelaki sudah melupakan hal itu kerana fikirannya sudah switch off kejadian siang tadi setelah pergi kerja atau jumpa kawan-kawannya. Kiranya mereka sudah tutup laci siang tadi.

Perempuan juga lebih banyak bertutur manakala lelaki lebih bersifat monosyllabic. Perempuan secara umumnya akan maintain eye contact yang lebih lama daripada lelaki, membuatkan lelaki berasa seperti mereka sedang diperhatikan di bawah miskroskop. Perempuan pula akan berasa bahawa seperti tak berapa diendahkan kerana lelaki akan jarang memandang mereka ketika mereka sedang bercakap.

4. Perempuan Suka Buat Benda Beramai-ramai.

Aku rasa kebanyakan perempuan memang suka travel in packs. Kalau pergi tandas pun kena pergi sama-sama. Kita pun dah expect perempuan macamtu. Lepastu wujud pula stereotaip lelaki perlu masa untuk bersendirian dan tak suka dikongkong. Memang kalau lelaki makan di restoran sorang-sorang, orang tak hairan. Tetapi kalau perempuan berbuat begitu, mesti akan dapat pity looks. Dan pada pemerhatian aku, perempuan ini suka berpuak-puak, manakala lelaki boleh get along dengan semua lelaki yang lain, cuma tinggal rapat tak rapat saja. Tapi kalau aku perhatikan betul-betul, memang ada tanda-tanda kalau seseorang lelaki tak suka lelaki yang lain, cuma lebih subtle. Dengan perempuan lebih terang- senyuman terpaksa, ayat-ayat sinis, jelingan tajam dan suara yang tinggi. Rrrrriaww!! (bunyi kucing mencakar).

Of course, semua ini tak apply pada semua lelaki dan perempuan. Sebab aku sendiri tak suka buat benda beramai-ramai (rimas) dan tak pandai multitask. Aku juga sangat aware tentang kewujudan perempuan seperti Samantha dalam Sex and the City (aku suka watak dia sebenarnya) dan lelaki yang terlebih banyak bercakap (so unbecoming for a man!- pada pendapat aku lah). Cuma point nombor 1,2 dan 3 kononnya sudah dibuktikan secara saintifik. Jadi aku rasa, hubungan yang berjaya mesti terdiri daripada pasangan yang pandai berkomunikasi.

[Reference: http://magenta-made.blogspot.com/2008/10/apa-yang-lelaki-tahu-tentang-perempuan.html]

2012 Review

Again, my mom got some free tickets to watch this movie. If not, I don't think I'm going to watch it because I'm not keen to really watching it at the first place. It's not that I don't like Roland Emmerich's work, it's just not my cup of tea. Anyway, my movie starts at 10.30am which happens to be the first show of the day. So I had to wake up early to go to 1 Utama which is pretty far from my house in Kajang. Prior to leaving the house, I saw a review on the movie so I had my expectations set for me. Actually it's the same expectations that I had even before I saw the review. I also knew that the movie was 2 and a half hours so I prepared myself for that stretch of time without being able to go to the loo.

So for those of you not in the know, the movie is based on the Mayan myth that the world is going to end on the 21st of December 2012. That date was speculated because it happened to be the last date on the Mayan calendar. Whether it's true or not, nobody knows except our God almighty. And just a fact to slip in here, the Muslim believes that End of Days will happen on a Friday, and the 21st of December 2012 IS a Friday. The movie starts with some scientists in the year 2009 predicting a massive solar explosion that will disrupt the gravitational balance of the Earth, causing drastic movements of the tectonic plate hence utter catastrophe. In simple English, its a bad thing to us. But of course, who would believe them. As the year goes by, the theory gets more true and the superpowers of the world gets ready for it. Fast forward to the year 2012 and the catastrophe strikes and chaos is everywhere. The story is not very heavy on story although its 2 hours and 30 minutes, but for the story it has, it touches all of the moralities that we expect to see during a mass chaos. Directed by Roland Emmerich, which is the guy who also did the American version of Godzilla, or known by the Japanese just by the name of Zilla. He also did Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. See the similarities? Yes, he likes destroying stuffs. Therefore expect to see top notch world destruction effects in this movie.

In my opinion, the movie was a big ride. Huge effects and there's lots of em. All of the famous places in the world gets destroyed except for the holy land in Arab because the director was smart enough not to anger the Muslim community who takes serious respect to our religion. But the places which got destroyed really got destroyed good. The usual suspense you would come to expect from this kind of movie is also present. Overall, a good movie although I think 2 and a half hours was pretty long. Go with your friends, this is a friend flick for the destruction parts. Owh it's actually a family flick too. Some family values slipped inside it. And a pinch of humanity lessons. Nothing really groundbreaking although there literally are (pun intended). For a feast of top notch Hollywood visual effects, have at it. If you're a fan of Roland Emmerich, you would instantly be familiar with this work of his.

End of the world is rated 7 out of 10

To tell you the truth

I really, really don't like to blog about emotions, people, society and all of this trivial life stuff. Don't know exactly why.

Maybe and just maybe I don't like to use my free time online to make myself more stressed at life. That's why you don't see me blog a lot about people, only sometimes so that I can have a wide audience.

But as always, each men (and women) to their own.

3 kinds of people

Admit it, the internet is filled with people who is not very bright and like to say things only to make other people upset. But amidst the sea of those people, there are a few people who makes sense. That few people who does inspired me to write this post.

I do a lot of thinking. Sometimes too much that I strayed into things that are way too deep. Anyway after much thinking I've manage to categorize people into a 3 categories. Note that in no way I am saying this is what it should be rather it is my personal opinion.

Believers

We aren't living under anarchy. Our lives are determined by a more superior body usually known as the government. I am not trying to talk about politics here, I'm talking about people. Living in this day and age, we have a a lot of source of news and knowledge around such as the radio, television, internet, books, and so on.

Also note that not everyone in the world put out news because it's true. Some wicked minded people in the world use these kind of media to trick them. believers are the kind of people who believes these kinds of thing. The usual trait to these believers is that whatever makes sense to them, or sometimes even whatever that is so complicated (or sound complicated to them) and due to the attitude of "wow these things are so complicated it must be true" they end up as the believers. Believers also most of the time don't have a clue in what they believe in and on some instances even made up stories about the thing that they believe in due to the ignorance of themselves. Doesn't mean that everything that the believers believe is wrong but rather what they believe in is not given much thought into.

Rebels

These are the kinds of people that are the opposite of the believers and usually have a very aggressive and hasty kind of mind. They tend to just repel whatever news or knowledge that is just not to their liking. A part of the rebels are also the people who just like to see something successful to plunder. The rebels usually despise what is believed by many people just because they want to. Not to say that all rebels are wrong, but rebels usually spear without a true purpose. Just like the believers, what they have in common is they don't have a clear idea of their goals and does it for the fun of it. And because of the personal loathe towards what is believed, fictional news and knowledge are also made up to make themselves feel more secure and a sense of accuracy into what they're rebelling against.

Thinkers

Thinkers are people who don't just gobble in what they heard or instantly reject what is known. Their reaction is based on proper thinking and rational reasoning. Right of the bat, the news or knowledge that is fed to them is analyzed and proven its truth. Thinkers are the people the world is lacking today. A kind of person that thinks about everything, constantly, relying on reliable sources and later deriving their own net of understanding on a given subject. Problem is its not easy being a thinker. You cannot force yourself to be a thinker, you have to train yourself to think and make it a habit to constantly look for the logic and maybe even make rough predictions of what to expect. Thinkers lead a more organic life. They live on what they personally believe and what they personally rebel. They don't follow people, they lead. They are made up of leader material. But sadly they aren't many of them today. They are the optimum person. If we have a goal of change that we need to have, it'll be to be a thinker.

Hook ups vs. Relationships

Now before I proceed, I have to be honest that I do have a couple of reviews for movie that I haven't done but God knows I am so lazy to type them. The movies are Gamer featuring Gerard Butler and a local film, Papadom featuring Afdlin Shauki. Long review short, Gamer sucks, 5/10 and Papadom is pretty good, 8.5/10. Now, onto the pressing matters.

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Before continuing to read on this post of mind, keep in mind that these are merely an opinion and you are open to an intellectual argument with me on the mentioned topic. Also keep in mind that I have nothing against one or the other since nowadays it seems that it's all a matter of choice and preference.

Hook ups
Hook ups are when you agree to be in relationship with each other, but it's in a trial period. Just like a lot of shareware out there where you are given a specific amount of time to try it out, extend the trial period if you did something in particular but all in all, will expire within a certain amount of time. People get involved in hook ups because they can skip one major feature of a relationship; devotion. While in hook ups, they're allowed to date other people and they are not limited to spend time specifically garnering the temporary relationship. Hook ups also give reason for both sides to have reasons to end it early say if a problem appears. It seems to be a very popular choice among youths nowadays since devotion is a very heavy thing to handle and needs a lot of time to have it. Hook ups also allow these people to be able to experience a lot of different people and the multiple hook ups that they have gives them the upper hand of knowing what various problem that can occur once they seriously want to start being in a relationship.
This culture is practiced widely in the western world and is now catching up quickly with easterners. Hook ups are also practiced mainly by youths since they say that they have a long life ahead of them and want to utilize the time to try hook ups and experience multiple person while they still have the time.

Relationships
Relationships are long, devotion-driven connection between 2 people that will stay that way until marriage or death do them apart. People in relationships are stuck with the person of their choice for the rest of their romantic lives. Relationships don't have an expiry date and it is usually bound by a promise to stay with each other. Relationships are the less popular choice of today's youth since devotion is a difficult thing to practice and also they don't have the chance to be with any other person anymore. Any free time for both of them will usually be utilized with bonding and ways to strengthen their connection. Relationships are less popular too because the major arguments and disagreements usually happens in relationships and they have no choice but to look for solution(s) regardless of the difficulty of the situation. Relationships obviously are much, much harder to maintain and having to put up with the same person everyday is a tasking thing. The plus side of it however, in relationships, love exists and with much effort the love will be more than you can handle, which is a good thing by the way. There will be also time where anniversary celebration is held and to achieve that milestone and feel a kind of happiness that is truly a gift from God. In relationships, you too will have a much better idea and perception of the person. In simpler words, relationships are something you go into because you love a single person and want to improve everything together.

If you ask me,
I would prefer a relationship over hook up on any given day. Yes it's difficult, yes it requires a lot of patience, yes it require a lot of guts, but the satisfaction and the feeling of happiness and security that result from it is far more beneficial and leaves a greater and longer term impact to your life. True, I'm 19 and might still be too young for it but to me it is best for us to learn when were young instead of using the free time to experiment. And I never know how long is my future, so I don't want to waste it experimenting. It's not exciting compared to hook ups, I know, but the rewarding feeling that came from it is worth all the effort.

Don't make a promise you can't keep.

Stop being rebellious all the time

If you are to spend your life rebelling, when are you going to fail and learn life as it is?

We are humans. We are not perfect. So wasting time trying to be perfect is just not human.

We are humans. We should learn to fail sometimes.

Is the 360 holding the PS3 back?

When games like Uncharted 2: Among Thieves come along, you have to question why so few games push the boundaries of the PlayStation 3 so far. With 360 versions of multi-format titles regularly inching out their PS3 counterparts, are developers justified in blaming Sony’s tools for their troubles, or is it just a symptom of curtailing coding to work on the 360’s older architecture?

Look at the screenshots of Uncharted 2 we’ve taken. Look at the amount of detail in each. Look at how sharp the textures are, and how good the lighting is. Amazing, isn’t it? And there’s a lot more that these screenshots can’t show, like the animation and Uncharted 2’s physics – which are both excellent. It is the best showcase of what the PS3 hardware can do, when given the chance. And While Naughty Dog must be given a lot of the credit for this, it’s also hard not to look at Uncharted 2 as proof that the 360 is now holding the PS3 back.

Look at the recent multiformat releases and compare them to Uncharted 2 – big difference, right? This isn’t surprising. The PS3 has a hard drive and it has a Blu-ray drive, two things the 360 doesn’t have as standard. The hardware itself is also more recent. As Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells confirmed in a recent interview, these things were instrumental in making Uncharted 2 the game it is:

"We’re fortunate that we get to work on a system that has a hard drive and uses Blu-ray for storage. Without these things, Uncharted 2 would have been a very different game. What we were able to do with the Cell processor allowed us to achieve a density of polygons and a fidelity to our effects that would simply not be possible without it.”"

Wells adds that had Naughty Dog not had the talented staff it does “we wouldn’t have been able to take advantage of the hardware and achieve the results that we did”. But the hardware issue can’t be ignored, and leads you to wonder how many multiplatform titles have suffered because of the 360’s spec. Modern Warfare 2 is a good example. Would we now be looking forward to a MW2 that renders in 1280x720 or even 1920x1080 now – and not 1200x600 – if the 360 was better equipped? Infinity Ward is one of the world’s leading developers, so it’s not a question of ability. Therefore, you have to look at the hardware involved.

This theory is supported by some recent 360 exclusives. ODST is a reminder that Bungie has been unable to make a 360 game engine that can do respectable levels of detail and ‘proper’ HD visuals. And then there’s Forza 3:

"Yeah, it’s pretty special. When you see it running for the first time, the detail and smoothness of it all is quite something. It’s such a step up from previous 360 racers. You just can’t believe that Turn 10’s been able to drag that kind of performance out of a four-year-old console.” "

This is what a journalist who has reviewed the game for a UK 360 magazine told us. And he’s right in the sense that it does things with the 360 hardware that should be impossible. And perhaps they are. Disappearing roads and other glitches are an example of this. And the extra content disc is proof that the DVDs used by the 360 are no longer up to the job.

But because the 360 is every bit as popular as the PS3, third party developers are still required to ensure their multiformat games work just as well on an Arcade spec 360 as they do the PS3. This means that although the PS3 has Blu-ray and a hard drive as standard, most multiformat games released for it will struggle to take advantage of the additional storage and hard drive caching these features offer – especially when the 360 version has been the lead version.

This won’t stop such games being good games. But whenever a developer like Naughty Dog gives you a glimpse of what the PS3 is truly capable of, you can’t help by wonder how much better third party games could be, were it not for the 360.

Article extracted from www.gameswire.net

[http://www.gameswire.net/news/opinion-is-the-360-holding-the-ps3-back_422.html]

My history of Social Networking

As a kid, the internet was a very strange thing for me. For some reason, after entering some keywords into the address bar, I was able to go to site filled with things of my interest anytime and know any kind of information I wanted. Awesome stuff. I was exposed to the internet as early as 6 years old. Later in my life I was just using the internet to get information on all sorts of things and that's that.



As I get older, When I was in my Form 3 to be exact, I heard of a little thing called Friendster. It is a website that allows you to have your own profile and connect with your friends. Back then, I really don't see what's so fun about it but since it was a fad at that time, I registered myself an account anyway. After a while using it, it was getting kind of fun for some reason. I don't have anything specific that I do there but I just find it fun to be there. Sharing pictures with people, writing testimonials about friends; maybe those are the things that I find joy in doing.



Then came along another new and more deep social networking site known as MySpace. It was getting a lot of attention since it gives you the ability to fiddle around with the HTML and CSS of your profile, which means (for advanced user at that time) you can make you profile look anyway you like. One thing that doesn't attact me to use it at the time is because of the complexity of it. On Friendster, there are very little things I have to manage, such as pictures, friend requests and the occasional testimonials. But here there are many other things to manage such as music, videos and other multimedia things. As I grow older and getting more proficient in HTML, I registered myself a MySpace account. I found joy in making my site as flashy as possible and adding as much people as I can into my friends list; regardless whether I know them in real life or not. Commenting on other people's profile was a blast and fiddling with the elements of my profile was a lot of fun too. I had a lot of things to do and the depth of this social networking site, paired with the (kind of) large friends list that I have, it was something to be proud of back then. And I've also met a lot of interesting people that end up being my good friends up to this day.


Then, came along yet another new social networking site, Facebook. Not many of my friends are there so earlier I just stick to MySpace. Thinking that this thing might be a new fad, I registered myself an account there and just leave it. You know, in case if MySpace became outdated, I already have an account there. As I grow older, MySpace gets kinda boring to me. More and more of my friends are getting on Facebook and so what is the purpose of social networking of you don't have any social to network with. After trying on Facebook for a while, I got hooked on it. It was far more simple, neat, and manageable. It was also very presentable and the profile of other people are much more accessible and systematic. I also liked how it gives us the ability to comment on anything that the person has done; befriend with another person, liked something, changed status and much more. And as I grow older too, MySpace becomes so obnoxious to me with all of its sparkly, blinky, seizure-inducing profiles. Thus, I moved onto Facebook and kept using it until now.


I also have a twitter account. I used it kind of late because to me, it's like another way for people to be able to stalk on you, but then when I think about, who wants to stalk on me anyway. Plus I intend to only update on things that are not really significant. It's a new kind of social networking so it doesn't compare to 3 of the earlier ones.

I think I'm not the only one with this kind of experience though. And I'm still thankful that I had registered on all of those social networking sites. Although the 2 earlier ones are now a pain in the neck for me, I still have them standing, on the brink of deletion of course. They have thought me a few things that I treasure up till today.

• Friendster - early exposure to social networking, picture sharing with friends
• MySpace - thought me HTML, thought me to befriend strangers, a site where comments are the currency of your profile
• Facebook - neat, easy and accessible social networking although with a lot of application notification spam that gets on your nerves

I have nothing against any of the social networking sites if you have to know. Those were the times.

I'm only active on Facebook and Twitter now. Feel free to be my friend on Facebook but I only accept requests from people I know in real life. As for twitter, you are free to follow whoever you are.

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Compensating for lost times

Ok

I know it's been a long while since I've added a new post. If you think I was being lazy, well, that's because I am. I have a new problem now; the inability to do anything productive. Haha. Anyways, I saw 2 movies while my blog was in vacation, therefore I will review those movies as brief as I can. Sorry to keep you waiting. Well a handful of you anyway. People don't read my blog.

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Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince

To cut to the chase, I don't really find this movie as engaging as the previous movies. Keep in mind that I didn't read the novel so throughout this movie I was struggling to relate and figure out what am I really looking at. The actors were tremendous don't get me wrong and the post effects were top notch. It's just because I didn't read the book. The previous movies were lighter but because Harry's getting older and so does everyone else, the story gets heavier and a lot more people kept dying. Not a bad movie for the readers I guess, but for the non-readers, I guess you'll be in the same boat as I am, dazed, confused and wondering. Owh the movie was almost 3 hours too. So, go to toilet and empty your bladder and bowels before hand ;-)

For me, it's just a 6/10

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The Proposal

Ryan Reynolds, gotta love him. He plays Deadpool in the recent X-Men movie and he have a great sense of humor too. I loved the movie, so much that I went to watch it twice. The movie was intellectually funny and it was very interesting to watch the progress between these two unlikely couple. The movie was not over 2 hours and is just nice for people with weak bladder such as yours truly. A great romance/comedy movie.

The odd couple gets 9/10 from me

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Those are the two movies that I've saw before this. Sorry for the short reviews. I will do full fledged reviews after this. And non-review blogs are also coming. Maybe later. Right now I'm pretty busy with my games. Wow, Rayza you're a student, you should be studying. Ouch. I know.

Later peeps.