Gatzooks. Just A Title.

Holy motherfucking ass balls. Wait, did I open with this in my last post? Sorry... Let's go with ass monkey's on a pirate's scheneider! Fantastic...

And welcome to another edition of Beneath the Thorns with your host, YOOOONNNGGG!!!

The things I'd give for a gameshow host introduction whenever I walk into a room.

Anyways. Wow. Time flies when you're having brill fun, eh? It's after Merdeka! To be precise, it's fucking September already. Mooncake festival's in like a month's time... Can't believe it's gonna be a year since we were all happily fucking around in Pui Yee's house, having steamboat and playing with lanterns and watching the Moon move! Oh shittt... I totally forgot about that one...

I'm on sem break right now... Going back coming Saturday to Sunway 'cause me mum bought tickets for this Sesame Street play way back and now it's here... Show's gonna be at Bukit Jalil Stadium... the indoor part... exactly where the 30 Hour Famine finale was. Dear Lord... bad memories. Still, I don't wanna tarnish anything anymore relating to that horrid Apocalypse-level event anymore than I already have. Finito. Nada.

Went to Penang on 30th August. Yeah, Merdeka eve but didn't stay long enough to do shit... Luckily at least this time me and my girl managed to do most of the things tourist get to do in Penang... visit a few places and grab some local delicacies... Booya!

I finally visited the Toy Museum! =D

Won't be posting the photos here 'cause the process is just too tedious and I just can't be fucked anymore really... Will be up on Facebook no worries!

A'ite... gonna head out for lunch soon. I'm out bitches. Peace

How It Be Going?

Holy motherfucking ass balls. I just checked the date of my last update and god damn... I've been procrastinating worse than Ace Venture on the rent!

Anyways, the important thing is that I am here and updating! Alright... what's been happening in the world of Yoong, you ask? Not much.

I am officially back in Indahvilla. This is week 4 of VU and I've already handed my first assignment. The PS3 is also in Indahvilla so it's getting a good workout from the lads, particularly in the GTA4 and the Fifa departments. I don't play the latter but the former, I just love watching them lads play around and mow down every simpering simpleton in the virtual city of Liberty.

Speaking of Los PS3, I've revived my gaming life... by purchasing two new PS3 games. First off, LOST PLANET 2, on a whimsical recommendation and SPIDERMAN:WEB OF SHADOWS after months of research and craving. I've come to pass as a real PS3 junkie due to the fact that I find it disappointing that Spiderman: WoS does not have any trophies! What the fuck is up with that son? Anyways, it is still a very satisfying game and the combat mechanics vary a lot between the Red Suit and the Black Suit Spiderman and yet provides a very fun way of mixing matching your moves to the point that it is all in one fluid, dynamic attack.

LOST PLANET 2 however, was a real gem with a lot of replayability. Why? Just the multiplayer, that's it! You can play pretty much the whole game in multiplayer. I am serious! Just the campaign... you don't have to finish it off by yourself! You can team up with 3 other dudes on the PS Network and take on the whole campaign, just like that. To top that shit off, the campaign itself is awesome... the storyline's not stellar but epic for sure, due to the sheer hours involved and the effort in there.

Honestly I actually had a lot more to write in this post but now I'm just feeling lazy, and hungry and bottomline is I can't be fucked at the moment... So I'll be back soon enough folks... Peace!

For The Sake of Updating

This blog is not a bother. It as an outlet. It started out as an outlet and that outlet is starting to clog with the moss and grime which are made of touchy people a.k.a li'l bitches, social ethics a.k.a feelings and of course, moral standards a.k.a acting like a total tool when the situation demands it.

Who am I kidding? Hahahahaha... Like that shit will ever stop me. Moss and grime? If bleach don't cut it, we move on to the next thing, NAPALM!

Fuck yeah.

A'ite... jokes aside. Well, let's see... I haven't posted anything solid for the past few times... No game reviews, no movie reviews, nothing... Just 'cause I'm busy. Nothing more. Work, girl, family.

Ain't complaining though, I'm enjoying all 3 things... Okay fine, not that last one, not really, no, but I can't complain to be entirely fair. So yeah, I'm overall satisfied with everything but I am enjoying the 1st 2 more than the last, as usual. Very par for the course I'd say!

I've watched Karate Kid... it was way too long. Toy Story 3... Swear to God I almost cried when those bastards were about to go to the great play mat in the sky.

For the uninformed, Slash is coming to perform in Sunway on the 5th of August. I am looking for a crew to go with STILL. COME ON PEOPLE... you are (mostly) working adults! Let's go, go, go!!!

Also, for the uninformed, I am returning to Sunway on either the 14th or 15th. It's a day apart which means there's not much difference to begin with. Back for uni, for my FINAL subject, hopefully.

A'ite... I'm about to fall asleep and drool over the table right about now, so I'm gonna stop here and get some water or some shit or... whatever...

Peace

The Fear of Watermelons

I just finished this 2 day stint in this event organized by a partner company where we had this amazing treasure hunt thing 2 days ago and even though my team (which consisted of me and this girl, Jenny) finished last, it was quite an experience. Everything else was spot on and I can't believe I played the whole thing more by the book than I would normally do. In the end I found out the winner literally lied, cheated and stole his way to the top.

Gotta kick myself for totally being such a straight arrow.

The 1st challenge was a "spot the difference" challenge. We were given two pretty similar pictures that had 10 differences. The picture was Chelsea celebrating their recent Premiere League win. No problem.

The 2nd challenge was basically constructing a name of a place using the first letters of a few pictures on a piece of paper given to us. Took us some time 'cause we missed out the minuscule instructions located on the back of the paper. Shucks for me to be unobservant as always.

The 3rd challenge was to ask 5 complete strangers for a ringgit each and in the end use that money to get and eat some ice-cream from McDs. Wasn't a problem for me since we played the "damsel in distress" angle on all of 'em. Last part was pretty ingenious. We told the clown to give us as LITTLE as possible on the cone. The dude must've been so confused... Who asks for LESS?! =P

The 4th challenge was in Taman D.R Whatsisname. This... was the WORST challenge. It was a 2 part challenge. One was to finish a WHOLE GODDAMN WATERMELON. I now have a reverse-orgasm-inducing fear of watermelon. Even the thought of a slice... that red mass on a green piece just... sends chills down my spine. I used to love it. I blame these bastards for killing my love for it. At least it was watermelon, not durian. If they made me hate durians, I would have made 'em eat it... with the skin on. Anyways, 2nd part of the challenge was to complete a riddle, in MANDARIN... how discriminating... and a math problem, which those bastards wrote wrongly... Not complaining at all... things like these happen when AMATEURS conduct events like these.

The 5th challenge was a 2-parter again. 1st we had to separate soy beans (I thought it looked like so and I stick by my observation despite being told otherwise) and red beans. With chopsticks. Just imagine. Next up was a massive search effort in that garden in front of the Ipoh Train Station. *huge restraint* Our clues were so damn hidden it would've been easier and cleaner if they stuck 'em in people's ass cracks and told us to sift through the pubes to get 'em.

In the end, after all my bragging, I finished last. Yeah, yay me. Never mind... bruised egos heal faster than real bruises... which I have aplenty after my girl hit me for sticking to close to the other girl... Why'd I have to get stuck with another young thing?! Nah... didn't really get hit that bad... Hahahahaa... She was joking anyways...

Anyways, at the end of the whole goddamned challenge, I came out with a sore body that lasts to this day due to my extremely peak physical status, a parking ticket, a slightly bruised ego and a HUGE AVERSION TO WATERMELONS.

Alright, maybe a whole new appreciation for how easy the job is compared to the whole thing, but I still hate the fact that I hate watermelons now. Those cunts at that other company will pay and I swear... literally that company... is full of cunts. I'm not talking about their stellar personalities, for once, but the fact that it IS full of women. Swear to God the boss is running an underground harem up in that place.

Nah, but seriously, bad jokes (wait, I have no bad jokes) aside, they were really nice... Good people that did good jobs and extremely superb effort on the whole event. That said, I still hate you people for giving me a fear of watermelons. A'ite... since the rotund consultant is up in Ipoh Mali this weekend, I gotta be heading off for some off-the-clock training. *sigh*

Time to get my organic vocabulator turned upside down again...

Peace!

In a Bed of Roses

Where there are roses, there are thorns. It's been a long hard climb through the tower of thorns and it's a very satisfying feeling as I lay in a bed of roses right next to you.

This tower of thorns adorned with a crown of roses is yours...

Deeper Into the Inferno

I’m sure most of us are now aware of the recent tragedy which involved a Sarawakian student to be burnt alive while being helplessly pinned in her own vehicle (a solid paper MyVi, at that).

And to be absolutely honest, I kinda hate dick-riding on recent news but this was just one thought I’d like to share.

Everyone’s all fired up at the behaviour of the two petrol station attendant’s behaviour towards one Mr. Teo’s plea for a fire extinguisher to try to put out the fire on this woman’s vehicle.

Okay, sure those dudes were pricks, no questions. But are they the real murderers? On the surface, sure, ‘cause they didn’t know any better but can they be blamed? Not totally, no.

In this messed up time and society we live in, one can’t help but not trust the person next to them. Con cases, rape, murder and robberies are reported in the papers every day. Who can we trust but ourselves these days? The true murderers here are these people that have caused us to lose faith and trust among our fellow man.

The doubt that Mr. Teo’s alleged claims at that time would always be there, regardless but it is this lost faith and trust that made none of these gas attendants to step out, and claim responsibility for whatever that may happen later on due to his actions. It is that lost spark of trust that the few unscrupulous people have taken away from us in the long run. It’s not the money or anything. Those things pale in comparison to the long term effects these people have caused.

And these are the real murderers here. For this woman, for every person that has died because someone else didn’t lend a hand due to fear and for every person in the future that will die because someone couldn’t stand up and trust another with no basis.

Burn, and rot in hell you mafackers.

Peace

Hello and Goodbye

Hey, how's it going people? Just wanted to write a blog post so you, my dearest fans and some... *cough* loyal subjects *glares menacingly at them* can have something interesting to read today.

I can't really promise if there will be anything interesting to read but sure, I'll just spit out whatever that's on the top of my head right now.

My brother recently told me about a "Weird Newscasters" game clip from Whose Line, that basically has the 4 dudes, acting out as different people from the newsteam. Ryan is the weatherman, Wayne is the sports guy, Colin is the lead anchor and the guest is the co-anchor. Everyone but Colin has a character. In this particular clip, Ryan is a really old man that takes a fast-acting youth rejuvenation pill. The guest in this clip is Greg Proops, and he is a German insult comic. The focus here is on Wayne, who is a girl scout selling cookies who is possessed by the Devil. For some reason, when my brother acted it out for me, it sounded WAY funnier than how Wayne Brady did it! I mean... This isn't the 1st time! He acts out funny scenes, or a line, and it sounds much better than the original! EVERYTIME! Hahahaha... Really, I don't know what to make out of it.

A'ite... next up... Gaming-wise, I've really mellowed out. I haven't touched the PS3 in weeks. I know. The shame. The waste! But soon! I mean, I've tackled GOW3... that's usually the baddest shit that system can handle but this one... I don't know. GTA4 was short... REALLY short compared to San Andreas. Totally wish I could get San Andreas for the PS3, really. Old is gold, mate. Old is gold.

I got a new phone, actually, for the uninformed ones. It's an iPhone. I know. Total hypocrite. After all the trash talking about it being overrated and overly expensive and wouldn't want to jump on the bandwagon and shit. Okay. I did it. I got it. But here's my defence. My phone busted itself all of sudden. There was no forewarning whatsoever. It just died on me one day and that day was during some training. Grand. I panicked. I wasn't prepared and I went to get the one phone that I had the most knowledge about, the iPhone. And since my brother got it, I might as well get it. Yeah, that's NOT really an excuse.

Today all my friends and classmates from the same batch are graduating today, in Melbourne. Not all my friends, actually. Just most of the people I chilled with in Melbourne. Yeah. Actually, it's just Elly and Palm. And Daniel. And who's that other dude? There's one more dude. Some moron. Eric... Yeah... Idiot. I actually just deleted a whole paragraph below that just blasted this dude. Feeling generous today. You get off lucky, bitch.

Yeah, it's kinda sad. I'm not graduating. Yet. No matter how I look at it, I'm not graduating. Nuff' said. Yeah, I'm not getting into a hopeless road of trudging and dragging my feet for another 23 years yet... but it's not like that's not inevitable!

Anyhoo... Enough sappiness. Here's to a good week ahead. Cheers!

Peace

A Pierrot's Lament: Epilouge

Non è più questa persona chiamata Pierrot per lui versa più lacrime

Ip Man 2

Written: AGES AGO

After the 1st Ip Man... I was eager to see the next one, if there was one and a few months back, I caught wind that Ip Man 2 was to be shown around the same time as Iron Man 2. Oh... the choices. Unfortunately, due to the closeness of name and release dates of the 2 movies, lame ass foos started to go trigger happy with their Photoshop programmes and made some "amusing" posters which fuse Shellhead with Ip Man.

Har de har har.

Oh, let me go... I'm in stitches. Oh, my sides. They hurt. Oh. Hahahaha...

*cough*

Right.

Anyhoo... I didn't make any plans whatsoever to watch Ip Man 2 but my boss did so I was kinda dragged along to watch it. Yeap. Just me and the BAWS. He took me to the movies... LIKE A BAWS.

Still don't get it? Crud. You're a lot dumber than you look and that's saying something! =P

Anyhoo... I'm just gonna cut it short. PERSONALLY, I felt that Ip Man 1 was better and Sammo Hung trying to get some limelight on his aging ass was totally uncalled for, even though it was a true story or whatever. Fights, they're alright. Nothing tight like the 1st Ip Man where he beat 10 TKD opponents. Classic kung fu shit right there.

Ol' Spiky's Rating: 2/5 Could've been better. Much better.

I know this review's been long overdue but yeah... things have happened. For those that're unaware, I just got out of the hospital. No need to panic... just a itty bitty kidney stone. Stayed overnight and got out the next day with meds to take care of the damned thing. Almost at 100% and my next doctor's appointment is this coming Tuesday. So yeap... No need to sound the alarm. Thanks for the concern from whoever that knew/found out and wished me well.

I'm out.

Peace.

Gin & Juice

I don't know why "Gin & Juice", just felt like giving props to Snoop. It's a great song. Real balla. You should check it out some time.

Nothing much to talk about... sitting in office right now, bummin' out like you can see.

Let's just say... past few days have been the happiest days of my life and I get the feeling it's about to get better.

One thing, after all the trash-talk, I finally got an iPhone. Okay, finally... no... lemme rephrase that. I got an iPhone. Period. Seems quite cool so far but compared to any other phone... the lack of customization options is heartbreaking! Maybe I'm better off jailbreaking that shit. We'll see.

Haven't touched the PS3 for quite a long time now, despite there being a new game sitting on the table (Burnout Paradise). It's not mine. Jin dropped it off seeing as he took my inFamous and GOW3 for a bit.

Let's see... what else's new... Okay, gotta watch Ip Man 2 for sure! Just gotta find a crowd to go with but it seems the usual people have been booked! Boo...

No worries... I'm out.

Peace.

Iron Man 2

Finally. After months of waiting, Iron Man 2 is finally here and better yet, we're watching this shit ahead of some other countries a week earlier! Nooiicceeee...

Some of my rather *cough* active female friends expressed interest in Tony Stark. When I mean interest, I mean like, INTEREST. I'm afraid to use any other words to be a bit more clearer but I wish to keep my anatomy intact, thank you very much.

Anyhoo... Iron Man 2. Wow. This is going to be a real biased review because I am a HUGE Iron Man fan to begin with but I will try to be as straight as possible. Let's see... common knowledge, everyone from the 1st movie reprises their role except for the role of Rhodey 'cause well... Terrence Howard was a li'l bitch. Never did like the dude as Rhodey anyways. Besides, Don Cheadle is the shit. I mean... Ocean's 11-13 man. Nuff' said son.

Like Suheil *just* told me... movies like these... you look past the storyline 'cause you know you came to watch this not for the storyline. U expect amazing CGI, amazing chicks, and amazing explosions that will literally blow your mafacking mind. A'ite, Scarlett was tight as usual but wish they gave her more of a chance to strut her stuff as the Black Widow, and at least use a BLEEDING Russian accent! Still, some justice is served when she took her top off in the car.

Pepper Potts looked so... normal. So drab as usual. Pity.

Ol' Spiky's Rating: 4/5 Could be better. Heaps better. But I'm a fan. Seeing him shoot off a repulsor blast is all I need.

Peace.

HYPER GRIN

First and foremost I apologize for the lack of originality on the post titles but hell... when I'm this happy, I don't give a shit. It's a beautiful world don't you agree? Even at 5 a.m, you're starving and b'fast isn't for another 3 hours, it's still a beautiful world.

Peace

Grinning. Grin.

Oh yeah. I'm grinning, baby. It's almost like rictus man. Yeah.

Peace.

Rear-Ended

I guess everyone, will come to a point where they get into an accident. Major or minor. I'm just glad that I got into a minor one, and that I was totally innocent.

My only regret is that I didn't get to rearrange the cunt's face that caused the whole thing. Bleeding foo wasn't drunk or high as far as I can tell but I suppose you don't need to be intoxicated to be called stupid, now do you?

I should've at least punched him or chewed him out verbally 'cause I didn't realize what other consequences there were left regarding the repair of my car. Of course, Malaysia's Finest could be a lot more helpful and useful too. Bloody patrol car passed by, didn't even stop. Nothing. Real nice. Do your goddamned job before you go arresting people. Probably have to arrest yourself for doing half the stuff you arresting other people for in the first place. Damn.

The dude that started all this... maaannn... stupid ass Myvi-driving mafacker. At least his pathetic ass ride's totalled. Had to be towed all the way to the station. Dumb ass mafacker. Maybe he should stop sucking on the gov's titties like every other foo sibling of his and actually go get a license. 

Still wish I had broke his nose or something. Fuck that mafacker. Hope he pays hell for the claims we're about to make. Terminate his policy and shit. Raise his premium. Yeah. Bitch.

I'm out.

Peace.

Glorious Day

Ah yes... I woke up this morning, logged in to soccer.net and the news couldn't have looked sweeter. Manchester United is out of the Champions League.

Nuff' said son. Nuff' said.

Anyways, I do apologize for not blogging a lot more these days since some of you, and there's a really small amount actually, that are still under the impression I'm still on my extended holiday. I'm working now but I've promised myself to keep my work life out of my blogging to a bare and near non-existent minimum. 

Yeap... so anyways. PS3 news. I've completed Infamous and Darksiders. I've got to admit that I've done so much with Darksiders that I think I've broken my record for dedication towards a non Sims game. Yeap. 

Good news that is that I have finally (though this piece of news is WAY late) is that I've bought GOW3 (R1 version) and GTA4! I've finished God of War 3 on Easy once already and I'm already on my 2nd playthrough. I promise that a review for God of War 3 is to be posted in the near future, providing that I can tear myself away from GTA4 long enough!

Let's see... other than that... what else is there? Not much, but I'll be heading up to KL this coming Sunday to meet loads of people. This is slightly work related but essentially it is an excuse to go and chill out with the bastards at Indahvilla and shit like that. Hahahahaha...

A'ite then.

Peace.

Ngyupdate

Can't say I have much to talk about. Oh, I finished inFAMOUS by the way. Yeap, took me less than a week. It's not a perfect finish but hell, I finished it. Solid ending. Final boss fight wasn't epic at all, way too easy but the missions leading up to it were way cool. I mean, you get to chase down, like, 5 massive baloons dispersing toxic gas over the city and first off, you need to literally, bring down the thunder on it to down it's shields and later fly onto the platform to send it up into the stratosphere. I mean, how cool is that?

Seriously, at this point, the game kinda killed itself. It has 1 upped itself! You want more. You want spectacular. You want to mother'uckin' have an enemy that is worthy of bringing down the thunder on AGAIN. No. The game gives you no such oppurtunity. Sure you can bring down the thunder on the unsuspecting people of Empire City but where's the fun in that?

Anyways, while playing inFAMOUS I was thinking that Darksiders was a bad buy and was considering selling it off on eBay when I get the chance but... I'm glad I gave it a 2nd chance. I'm actually enjoying it. It's actually pretty enjoyable. The controls sometimes annoy me, like the block + counter mechanism is almost as hard to pull off as Riposte in Dissidia. Biggest piss off moment was that one event required me to kill enemies using such a skill. Fortunately I'm through that but I have to note that that was the most frustrating moment of that game for me.

Anyhoo... tomorrow's the 16th of March. Which is the release date for Dragon Age: Origin's expansion, Dragon Age: Awakening. I am definitely not going to buy the PS3 version because I like games as such on the PC. Sure I like SOME RPGS on the PS but... not something from Bioware, seeing as I've played some of their games on the PC already and I like how it plays out.

Speaking of which, I really should go get Mass Effect 1 and 2. It's another epic Bioware RPG. Western RPGs (most of the time) lack the depth of JRPGs and effort put into storytelling, but that's all changing. I mean, Dragon Age was amazing. Solid as hell. KOTOR 1 and 2... well, it does it's job for itself... Whatever that means.

Ah. I'm rambling again.

You know there are days when I wonder if anyone reads this junk and whether I should just give this up, as it is starting to become more and more of a burden for me. Nah, I realize I'm here to provide everyone who manages to get their hands on this blog's URL deserves a healthy dose of sarcasm and vulgar language that they themselves could not dispense in the sanctity of their own world.

Okay, enough of the fucking around. I've got shit to study.

Whoever that's reading this right now. Peace be with you.

Uh... peace?

Yeap. Peace.

inFAMOUS

For those of you that are not aware. I am a proud owner of a PS3 now. I can already see the comments telling me to buy games like FIFA, Winning Eleven, the latest not-so-final Final Fantasy 13 and dare I say Bioshock 2?

FF13. I'm gonna wait on the reviews. IGN, Gamespot, whatever. Everyone. Amateur ones even. 'cause after 8... and I had a hard time swallowing 8, it all went to bleeding hell and became FF the Sidequest.

Anyways, I'm here today to talk about one of the games I bought alongside my spanking new PS3, inFAMOUS.

It's not a very recent game nor is it too old, but it shows what the PS3 is capable of, in graphical terms. It's a very beautiful game at that. The way the lightning bolts shoot out of Cole's hand and onto those pesky Reapers and how they fly while being coated in a bright electrical net... amazing.

Voice acting's alright. Doesn't leave you cringing or anything. I've played some games with HORRENDOUS voice acting. Repetitive and monotone voices that try to sound cool that fail epicly.

Gameplay. At first I hated inFAMOUS because there was no auto-aim function but now I've gotten used to the aiming and the moving and so on. The moves provided also give you a lot more freedom when it comes to fighting as the moves become either more accurate, explosive or downright just friggin' awesome. Seeing as inFAMOUS is a sandbox game, travelling style for a city landscape must be hard, right? No. No cars. Nothing. Just pure, electrifying grinding on power lines and train tracks. Awesome.

Story's good. I've read bits and pieces here and there, I get the gist of it but I think there's more to it so it kinda keeps you guessing. The story's divided up by the amount of storyline missions you take. Basically the world just stops when you're doing everything else, whether it's collecting Blast Shards (think GTA Hidden Packages),  gunning down random gang members that threaten the peace or doing side missions to take back the city. The karma system ultimately decides which ending you get, but does little else to the storyline along the way. I was hoping your choices in the game would affect a lot more than it does right now but meh... I'm not too heartbroken about it.

In the end, it's a solid game and worth whatever needed to pay for these original games these days. I'm still all for piracy but I suppose these days you can only rely on that for things that aren't too complex like making Blu-Ray discs or cars. You can always rely on it for soft copies for movies, TV series, music and shoes with funny names.

A'ite then. I'm off. Remember, March 16th -  God of War 3 is out. Pity this ain't Aussieland otherwise I would've booked that mafacker by now and got all those sweet pre-booked goodies.

Peace.

Gated Communities

I don't know about you guys, but it seems that these communities are getting some major flak in the media these days.

Some really deserve the flak 'cause they're blocking traffic, and most of these are in KL/PJ/SJ and basically high traffic areas where it's already bad as it is. It's gonna be as frustrating as playing NFSU with 20,000 other racers in Sunnys.

So yeah, I live in one of these gated communities. Not really a community. We really put that word to shame. It's more like a gated street. A short one at that. We have about 30 houses. Maybe less. Yeap. Gated street.

Even a short, unassuming street like ours is getting flak. We're off the main road (Jalan Kuala Kangsar) and off the service road of JKK. How out of the way can we get?!

But 'tis not the point. Right, back to the topic of flak, we're getting flak too, from an ex-MBI old dude living on the street behind ours. I can almost see his house from here, actually, seeing as the back of his house is connected to the back of some other house on my street.

A'ite... some backstory first on how our gated street thing came into existence. Unlike what's happening in KL right now, where some bastards/good samaritans are cashing in on this craze where they are resorting to extorting house owners to set up gated communities, we actually did it, as a collective, willingly and in desperation.

Why? Well... lemme see. Most of this happened while I was in Australia by the way. So, yeah, in a span of a short few months, the cars parked out of their houses were getting their windows smashed into hell. The punchline finally came a few months later when a resident was coming home and these dudes pulled up in front of his house while the gate was closing and pulled a goddamn gun on the dude. In Ipoh. Fake or not that's another issue. When you're pissing in your pants, the sudden discharge of ammonia and urea from your body does alter your perception enough to get freaked. Not a true scientific fact nor will be experimented upon for proof.

So it was decided we get guards on both ends of the street. Everyone in the neighborhood paid for it.

So this old dude is giving us major flak for this 'cause he's old. So he's allowed to be troublesome. I hope I bump into him and give the old mafacker a heart attack one day. Really, what's his problem? *sigh*

Anyways... I'm out.

Peace.

Blame It On The Pop

First off, I'd like to thank (and damn) Rikaz for  showing this to me. I've already posted this on Facebook but I know some of you wouldn't go on unless you have absolutely nothing better to do. I see nods there in the background. Yeap.

Anyways, here it is. United States of Pop 2009 by DJ Earworm. It's a mash-up of all the top 25 songs of 2009 according to the Billboard Top 100. What's a mash-up you ask? Watch and find out.

Turn those speakers up son!

Peace.

The Quiet Life

Well, CNY's pretty much over as far as I'm concerned. All the lunches, dinners, meet-ups have all been done and dealt with and I'm pretty surprised on how it turned out. I mean, yeah, I was all moody about how fucked up it was gonna be but I was pleasantly surprised, really. I had a good, decent time with some old friends.

Pretty glad about it really. I found out that people change for the better, too. I've had bad experiences especially when it comes with the whole people changing thing so yeah, can't blame me for uttering that seemingly idiotic line.

Anyways, CNY is officially over. Yeap. So that means I have no other reasons to evade the job hunt and I have no ideas to do so. Okay, fine, I haven't written my resume but I have applied to a tutor agency and also applied for a gig for a Standard 2 student to teach him Math and English. They are letting me charge 30-50 AN HOUR. I used to remember the days when we paid 50 a MONTH.

Jesus mother'uckin' Christ.

Anyways, yeah. One of my friends posted this link to another blog that depicts the... uh... detailed romance of 2 individuals, which in my personal opinion, absolutely deserve each other, and I mean that in the most cynical and macabre sense possible.

Good God, it's people like this that makes me feel that blogging is dirty. The read makes you feel disgusted to the point that you actually feel physically dirty. Man... Some people are just fucked up. They make S&M porn look like Bert and Ernie having a friendly conversation.

Urgh...

Anyways, with this CNY haul being decent, I think I can buy a PS3! So... if anyone's got anything to say about the PS3, good, bad, or about the games, tell me all about it!

Peace.

Freakiest Tuition Teacher

So alright, I was checking the news page on FB as always and I saw a friend of mine being tagged in a photo where him and a bunch of his pals met up. There were some people that I recognized as these people were from Ipoh high schools. One of them was this dude my other friend used to know and this dude, he recommended us to join this 1119 English tuition.

For those of you that aren't aware of what 1119 is, it's the... how do I put it, other standard of marking your English paper in SPM. So yeah, you'd get 2 different grades. I, personally, was not concerned at all with this other standard but these other friend of mine was, so he got offered by this other dude, who I shall refer to henceforth as GZ. Big dude, very short hair, prim, proper, complete square as far as I know.

So my friend laps up what he has to offer about this teacher who specializes in teaching 1119 quality English and shit like that. So, I get intrigued as well as I am not one to throw away oppurtunities to one up my game. So me and this friend joins this tuition while this GZ dude's been there for like forever.

First time there, house looked pretty ordinary, a'ite? Small house in Ipoh Garden, abundance of flowers by the side, here and there. We were told she was a really old lady so the scene was pretty a'ite at that point. Then we noticed a string, looping from the gate, to the window overlooking the front gate. It was one of those old gates, about waist-high, which you could easily shoulder charge through without breaking a sweat. So we started shouting hello to see if there was anyone in and we saw someone moving in the house, near the open windows and suddenly she asked us to pull on the string. So we pulled it, and there was a key, attached to the other end, at the window, that was tied to the string. The point was to pull the string until we got to the key to open the lock on the gate.

Yeah. Talk about paranoid.

We went in and met her for the 1st time. Real batty old lady. I swear that hair was fake but then again we were thinking, let's not judge based on appearances.

So few weeks went by and we kept going to her tuition and in all seriousness, there was nothing any one of us could learn from her that seemed like it'd give us the upper hand in this whole 1119 fiasco. She was a total fraud, or at least, a desperate old lady looking to pay her bills by teaching sub par english to morons who would lap it up. Funny thing was GZ, who intro'd us to her was way ahead any one of us, and yet he stuck by her. I don't know whether he was feeling sorry for her or what, but man, I have no idea what he saw in her to start pulling people into her class.

Subsequent weeks ahead, me and my friend started to skip her classes altogether 'cause seriously, we were paying her for nothing but the sheer entertainment we could scrounge up from making fun of her fake hair, her unfounded paranoia and downright "old people" mannerisms.

Heh... I remember once, there was once a photographer in her house that was shooting her newly renovated BATHROOM. God knows if she hired him or the dude was part of some nutty bathroom enthusiast's magazine.

Whatever it is, the thing that kinda ticks me off, in a very slight manner, mind you, is that what the fuck was this GZ dude even thinking?! I mean... did he even know she was so batty and incompetant or was he just feeling way too sorry for the old lady that he didn't care that he was wasting our money and time?

Well, whatever it was, I got no beef with the dude, but he wasted my time and money. Despite that, he has given me a good story to tell my friends and grandkids about. Man... the key... and that hair. Hahahahahaha...

Wonder is she dead yet? And would they like... give her a new wig if it was an open coffin thing?

Heh... anyways, I wish you all a very Happy Chinese New Year and belated Valentine's Day. May you get loads of cash, the girl, get banged, get fucked, whatever tickles your fancy.

Peace.

So, Yeah...

Chinese New Year's around the corner. Don't really care though. Every year's the same. Most of the time never better. Only gets worse. Or stays stale. Really stale.

Sure, there's the money. Okay, I can't follow up to that.

Seriously? Is there all there is to it? Well, one tiny joy I found in the season is that I get to diss certain things. One is that the fuzz in Ipoh finally decided to turn up because everyone on this side of the country is back in Ipoh for CNY. Heh... time to feast for them. Sleazebags...

After CNY, gonna start passing out my resume, or rather, a piece of paper that struggles valiantly to pass itself off as a resume, to wherever and whoever so I can start getting some paper and blowing off time and hopefully meeting new people.

It's seriously sad. Everyone that I know has their own thang going on... and we all know that Asian mentality some people have. This's my group of friends, you have nothing doing with them... shit like that. Maybe that's just me thinking and that's absolutely untrue.

A'ite, what else really? Nah, there's nothing really happening. Boring as hell holidays. Not graduating. Yet. No fun whatsoever and borderlining on no life whatsoever soon eneough. Yeap.

Peace.

Been Awhile

Damn, almost passing 2 weeks since my last post. Well... bet no one's really curious on what I've been up to, since the only people that are remotely interested are the ones that I've been with while being M.I.A on this place.

Let's see, where do I start? Well, one thing is that my 11 month Lenovo laptop's busted. If there's such a part known as the illuminating panel on the laptop screen, it's busted. Basically everything else's running fine, it's just that there's no light illuminating the screen. Therefore, I can see everything except it is super dim. I suppose I could easily remedythat if I just hooked it up to an external monitor but that would defeat the purpose of it being a laptop innit? For argument's sake it wouldn't but then again who am I arguing with?

With the laptop down, that means that the best computer in the house is down. Pretty sad eh? That the best machine in the house is the laptop and not a souped-up PC. But the real tragedy here is that I haven't gotten bored of Dragon Age yet! I was in the middle of another playthrough as a City Elf Rogue! I was trying a different build this time and it seemed really really fun and now this happens! Bollocks.

It happened right on the day I was leaving for KL  for a few days to see Rushdi and everyone else that was still in Indahvilla. Yeah, good times once more, with those lads. Met up with Shevoune while I was there. Hung out with Dion a few times too and played futsal finally after a year or more. Dayem.

My PSP got busted and now is fixed again after I paid through my ass. Luckily I got it fully subsidized by my mum so my PS3 nest egg remains untouched. Now the most nagging feeling of all when I'm about to spend a buttload of money on an item has come again. Is it worth it?! Lemme see... I have a big enough TV. Not HD, not flatscreen but high-end ENOUGH (at some point 3 years back) that I can play it without losing complete rapture. Are there enough games now? Well, one thing that it has DRAGON AGE but I refuse to play the console version. PC's way better and I can't wait for the expansion. Should be out in March! Awesome! Gonna buy that shit legit and get that sweet, sweet DLC.

I suppose GOW3 is good enough for the purchase, but that's just 1 game! I suppose there're other RPGs/action-adventure/racing games that I can look to when I get the PS3... FF13?! Uhh... Thinking hard on that one. Haven't heard anything fantastically awesome about it yet. Mass Effect 2 perhaps? Another Bioware game. Maybe should get that for the PC instead. I like my RPGs on the PC. Especially the ones that involve way too much time looking around in menus and shit like that and I'm very sure since it is a Bioware game, it will be as such.

Pity the next KOTOR game is a MMORPG though. Lost great potential there.

Well, can't think of what else to talk about. Oh. CNY. Bugger.

Fuck this.

Peace.

Dragon Age: Origins

Spoilers ahead but ah, what the heck. You know you wanna read!

I admit that I have played very few RPGs compared to the more avid gamers but meh, this is not the case here. Dragon Age: Origins is made by Bioware, developers of other great western RPGs of our generation such as the amazing Star Wars: KOTOR I and II, though to a lesser degree for the latter, Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2. Let’s not forget Mass Effect and Jade Empire too. I’m currently in the process of… acquiring Jade Empire. I hope it’s worth the time I have invested.

Anyways, Dragon Age: Phew. I should’ve bought the original copy, really. There’s quite a bit of downloadable content (DLC) that seems really, really interesting that’s way too interesting to fucking pass up on. The game by itself, I’ve completed it twice now. Both times with some rather large differences. I essentially played with the mindset that I’m a good guy out for glory and the betterment of Ferelden. Unlike KOTOR, being good and bad doesn’t set you on a “light path” or a “dark path” but instead it determines the attitude your travelling companions have towards you, the world’s attitude towards you and of course, ultimately what happens in the end and who fights with you in the finale.

My Dalish Elf Rouge with Alistair



Shexy witch Morrigan. Rrrr~

It’s a pity I don’t have a machine at my disposal that can contain this beast. The whole thing is a whopping 15 GB. Jeezus Mother’uckin’ Christ. The graphics are supposed to be amazing from what I can see from the trailers and the such but seeing as I do not currently possess a machine that can handle this thing, I had to lower the graphics greatly but this did not hamper my gameplay experience at all.

This game stands out because it’s one of the most morbid and violent RPGs I have seen. Blood gets spattered all over your ass whenever you kill an enemy, either with a huge swing over the chest with your huge ass zweihander, a good old fashioned decapitation or a delicate yet deadly 1-2 with longsword and dagger. Morbid as in desperate times call for desperate measures and creature that are evil incarnate from everything in the lore as fantasy world comes. Werewolves, zombies, undead, demons, abominations (No, no fresh meat) and of course, the darkspawn, the grunt antagonists, litter the battlefield in this tale of betrayal, lust and violence. No vampires though, just realized that. Would’ve loved if there was a quest involving someone looking like ol’ paleface and then proceed to decapitate his sorry dead ass just to shut those rabid fan girls up.

Romance in this game is pretty tight, much better than KOTOR ‘cause Jedi are supposed to be chaste anyways and Star Wars sex scenes will kill half the geek population anyways. Bioware definitely rewards players who pursue the girl. You get 2 choices, both very hot in their own element. It’s either a witch or a nun. I’m not talking crooked nose, hunchbacked old bitches or nuns covered so much that the ninjas of the Middle East are put to shame. I’m talking like… goddesses here mate.

2 girls only. But pretty tight. Too bad there’s no harem option. There is a harem opportunity though, so I’ve heard. Ah, I’ve got your attention now, have I? Hahahaha… Well, that’s another story that you’ll have to find out.

Characters in the game are insane. Very colourful lives they live or have lived and plunging you into some of their problems are just fun. Splendid voice acting save for one or two fouls during rare occasions.

Pity that Bioware still hasn’t mastered how to make good endings ‘cause ending them with numerous boxes of text just doesn’t cut it. People want cutscenes. FMVs. Come on! Either way, Dragon Age: Origins is a must get. Great character dialogues to keep you entertained for hours, I love Morrigan and Alistair. Their banter. Classic. Wide variety of quests. Interesting characters and dialogue options. Spells, skills that are not only flashy but damn deadly. One of the more interesting parts of this game is that your main character has their own unique background that you can play that has been aptly named “Origins”. You have the choice of playing the Human Noble, Human Mage, Dalish Elf, City Elf, Elf Mage, Dwarven Commoner and Dwarven Noble storylines that are vastly different from each other and has no common themes with each other except that Duncan recruits you into the Grey Wardens at the end of it. Some pretty softcore sensual shit. Yeap.

Your own Indy Jones and Da Vinci Code experience

Ol’ Spiky’s Rating: 4.5/5 5 means a perfect game. Unfortunately this is not perfect ‘cause Bioware could’ve done better with certain aspects but it’s all to my personal liking, that’s it. Overall, it’s a super solid game. Totally shouldn’t miss out on this. It’s like missing totally on FF7 or FF8 or not knowing what’s 9-11.

My current character - a rogue Mage

I’ve posted this on FB already but I thought I’d share this video again just ‘cause the video is so kickass and the song is awesome. In case you couldn’t catch the words in the bottom left corner, it’s “This Is The New Shit” by Marilyn Manson.



Peace.

P.S: Check your newspapers. Did you notice Sherlock Holmes does not show in Ipoh? Now what is up with that, you tell me.

Turmoil. Again.

Fascinating how the country just loves to tear itself apart at every chance it gets. It’s like a baby with chicken pox. It just won’t stop scratching until it bleeds out of every motherfreakin’ pore and dies.

So yeah, a’ite. Few things I bet most of you have already thought of about the whole matter. What matter? Don’t you read the news?! A’ite, I can’t really use that line ‘cause I don’t either, ‘cause I believe that ignorance is bliss.

But yeah, what else am I talking about? The nuking of these churches!

1st off, I ain’t a fan of either side ‘cause most of you know my stand on religion. Sure it has brought people together for great causes, miracles, possibly responsible for whatever morality that remains in this world and every other good thing these holy scriptures claim that they have given. Still. Nuh uh.

2ndly, and I’m pretty sure this had gone through everyone’s head more than once for the past few days. Why didn’t someone just give in?!

I say both sides are to be blamed. The Herald for even CONSIDERING using the word “Allah” in the Malay editions. Honestly, if you’ve sat in front of the TV in the earlier years of your life, you’d notice during that 3 minutes near dinner that they have a video that is the call to prayer. It even has bleeding translations. Obviously it shows that God is not Allah. I’m not going to elaborate more as I am NOT super familiar with the religion as a whole and do not wish to draw unnecessary negativity to myself. But through this observation, it’s obvious innit?

The people who have nuked these churches. They can’t think 2 steps past their dicks can they? So… I wonder what do they think they’re gonna achieve? That is assuming of course these arsonists are religious zealots or idiots looking for a reason to hurl mollies. They’re not going to give the tarnished image of the Islamic community in the world a better image, that’s one thing for sure. I’m sure on BBC, CNN in another country is showing what’s left of those churches and who’s behind them and why. Yeah, great publicity.

A’ite, truthfully, there’s no love from Ol’ Spiky for either side or the image of Malaysia. What I’m really uh, concerned with is the thought process of the parties involved. It’s just so fascinatingly stupid. And this is totally assuming that there’re no political string-pulling involved.

*sigh*

Not too bright are they now, eh?

I love my country. It gives me good entertainment. It tickles my dark side’s fancy very often.

Peace.

S'up 2010

1st and foremost, despite being a few days late but nonetheless out of courtesy, Happy New Year to you chumps.

A sudden thought. Why do you care about who reads your blog when the way you write does not account for other people's feelings?

Alright, putting that aside.

New year's resolution? Pfft. Please. It's only a source for more self disappointment. Go with the flow. Take things as they come but it never hurts to be slightly prepared for the worst.

My holidays? Well, so far it's just been playing Left 4 Dead 2 with my bro, finally got past The Bridge with ALL SURVIVORS without gunning them down while they're hobbling over while a Tank is approaching the rescue vehicle. Yeah, that's how I play. When that chopper arrives, it's every man for himself.

Hm, what else?

Few friends getting married soon. Some are really happy about it. Overall happiness all round. Some have insufferable relatives. Some... Hahahaha... well, the circumstances are SERIOUSLY dodgy. It's like something right out of a The Bold & The Beautiful episode.

"John, your mum's... a man"

*DUN DUN DUNNN*

*screen fades to black, commercial on*

You get the point.

Crud. Totally forgot the main reason why I wanted to write this post... I downloaded Timbaland and OneRepublic's new album. Totally mediocre. 30 Seconds to Mars as well. Totally mediocre and seriously they are experimenting with different sounds altogether, straying far from their previous album. I never did really like their old hits. It's listenable, but just was never in love with it.

Trying to set up my KL upcoming KL trip... not sure what to do yet. Need to talk with some people 1st... Anyways, I guess that's it.

Peace.