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google chrome

zuhtne — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:55:57 +0000

i’m loving it.

if you haven’t already gotten it, then i’d recommend you go to www.google.com/chrome. for a beta, it’s doing extraordinarily well~

dance craze~

zuhtne — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:12:23 +0000

it all started innocently enough.

sunday – bodyjam (FF/ORQ)

monday – hip hop II (oschool)

tuesday – bodyjam (FF/OGS)

and today (wednesday) – intending to go for MTV Dance (FF/ORQ)

while happy, i’m actually craving for more. not in terms of difficulty, but wanting to get somewhere with it all. maybe i really need to start working on ploughing through youtube for good dance steps to emulate. others do it, with varying levels of success, and all i do is sit around and complain about how i’d prefer to attend classes and all… now that i’ve technically got my own room to practice in, i must admit that the onus is on me to USE it.

clone wars

zuhtne — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:52:47 +0000

i’m inclined to say good things about animations. and this is no exception. i like it. i would have liked it more if i were a 10 year-old (obviously the target audience for this), what with its vapid dialogue and constant action with barely a storyline being developed. but i like it nonetheless. but i don’t think it would warrant a strong recommendation from me to everyone else. its competitor wall-e is thrashing it horribly. and i am seeing wall-e tonight. let us see how this goes?

4bia

zuhtne — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:49:22 +0000

the images are still stuck in my head. it has been almost 1 week now since i was exposed to this film. no, it doesn’t affect my sleep at night, not like the previous horror films. for that i am thankful. but i think i would get by my days better if i weren’t randomly accosted by images of 4 hot thai guys bested by rapids…

unplugged…

zuhtne — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:38:47 +0000

disclaimer: i know how difficult it is to perform, and worse, perform in front of a singaporean audience. we’re particularly difficult, being so critical sometimes that anything less than perfect we pick on and use that to tear apart the performer’s confidence, piece by piece, all the way to shreds. we’re like vultures, waiting for the fall, and then we can feast at our carrion-prey’s expense. it is the ultimate law of nature, and we adore it. throw in that this was a competition, my sympathy to those who were subject to our heinous scrutiny.

disclaimer done, i expected more from an annual a-cappella competition, especially from the “college” category. it was a basic assumption that when you’re in varsity, you have more time to pursue passions, and not everybody forms a-cappella groups for the sheer fun of it. there’s usually this extra spark or two, some talent at the least, and a desire to be part of a work of vocal art. i’m not exactly disgruntled, because i DO understand how much guts are required to compete. but i must add i’m a little resigned as to the quality of talent that actually takes part in these events. leaves a bitter taste in my mouth because it’s an indication of how unsuccessful this art form is in attracting the participation of obvious vocal talents from generation to generation…

this only serves to emphasize how important our support is for these talents to be discovered and/or flourish. i wonder what i can do…?

the swordfish

zuhtne — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:21:26 +0000

kudos to wild rice for their most recent production directed by ivan heng. not that i understood all the jokes (because some of it was in malay), but at least the play satiated my need for some performance art. i’m not a big fan of plays in general, cos plays are often over-dramatised imho. however, there was just enough drama without being overboard, balanced by some apt humor. in gist, a thoroughly enjoyable experience, kudos again to wild rice.

special thanks to the person who helped to get the tickets too. =)

food with a panoramic view

zuhtne — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:18:33 +0000

the food was average quality imho. but the view was very good. granted that we could have had the view without having to burden ourselves with a high-tea buffet, but when the lady downstairs asked “where to?” and i said “equinox”, our fates were sealed. i thought very few other people would go up to equinox on a sunday afternoon, after gym, ON A COMPLETE WHIM, to experience my first (and last) once-in-a-lifetime (i say that cos it’s unlikely i’ll go back for that again…) high-tea buffet at equinox… but i was corrected the moment i got upstairs on the 69th floor. sure, it could have been the limited seats, but it was full house with the exception on one corner table… meant to seat 5, but 2 of us fitted comfortably anyway.

for those who feel they have about $40 a head to spend, the view on a good day is brilliant. but one could argue that the view at new asia bar or city space could be cheaper…

of foam and pipes

zuhtne — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:12:31 +0000

there was a time that i was pretty handy with a staff. but i suppose swords would be a good start. i wonder if perhaps these things could be outsourced for someone to build…

http://www.amtgard-wl.com/library/howtos/how2swrd.pdf

the new place

zuhtne — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:16:33 +0000

after the packing last week of may–made all the easier because of our previous experience with moving–my family moved successfully into the new place in kembengan.

very quiet and cosy neighbourhood, with convenient places for food. 5 mins from MRT, with park connectors that are good for the avid runner. not to mention, my room has 2 full length mirrors attached to my closet doors, and my bed is just a simple queen sized mattress that can be propped up against the wall to allow me room to do all the dancing i desire! granted that i don’t have the same convenience as i did staying in town–like walking to work, or having a very central free car park area…–but the results weren’t bad at all!

the sofa just moved in this week too. so finally all the furnishings is in. i’m just amazed at how fast we’ve grown accustomed to thinking of the place as home. you would think that being “yanked” out of the central district into a “far-flung” location would bring it with some ill feelings. i guess the east is really the east. it calms the mind with its peaceful environment. and soothes the hunger with good food. *shrug*

anyhow, i’m liking the new place. if i ever get about to it, i’ll have some pics to show, yea?

Re-discovering Vana’diel

zuhtne — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:01:15 +0000

it has been some time since the last update. while there are probably other momentous things that have happened (for e.g. birthdays and holidays) and while i appreciate all of those happenings for… well, happening, there was something about once again indulging in the rich virtual experience of breathing the Vana’diel air, seeing the Vana’diel sights, whacking the Vana’diel creatures, and of course tasting the Vana’diel soil that begs to be blogged.

i believe it has almost been a year since i last played. sure, there were some very dramatic changes:

i gave my hume (read: human) character to tristan (fka chris)
he transferred that character to odin
i restarted a new taru-taru (read: shortie) character, half the size of my previous hume
had an “anniversary ring” that gives extra experience points per battle
how expensive everything was for the newbie
kept the “?” next to my name for the longest time to avoid being criticized for lack of skill!

but there were also some similarities:

restarted in windurst (the land of the taru-tarus)
playing catch-up with familiar friends (you know who you are)
the thrill of one-hit kills
the laid back-ness of “farming” (act of killing creatures for drops to sell for money)
and the exasperation of dying from “poison” and “dia”!

2 months into it, i’m a lvl 18 Monk (read: up-close-and-personal-hand-to-hand-fighter) and a lvl 10 Warrior (read: do you see this gleaming great axe? that’s the last thing you’ll see!). not great achievements, but real life lloyd comes first before Vana’diel (read: i get to play when he sleeps! =p).

for those who are interested: http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/download/wind/index.html

i’m enthuz. on cerberus. and i’m once again breathing the air of Vana’diel!