Booting Up The Pro
Everything but the kitchen sink
Full-time StormTrooper, part-time game developer.
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Mocca Live at Esplanade
Today, I have a chance to see one of my favorite band, Mocca, performing live here in Singapore. The whole event called Mosaic Music Festival. In one word, I can explain the performance as: Awesome! It was my first time seeing them on stage, and I loved it very much.
They started the performance at 7pm. I don't exactly remember the title of the songs they played, as I was busy tweeting, and most (if not all) the songs they played are from their second album. I once had the cassette (whoa, what's that?) that I used to play repeatedly in my car, so I can't recall the title of the songs, but I know all the songs they played.
As you can see from the pictures, the view behind the stage is beautiful, and it adds some ambience to the music. They started when the sky was still quite bright, but became darker as the time passed by. To my surprise, a lot of people came to this (free) performance, and Mocca is quite known there. I remembered people used to diss me because I played Mocca in my car.
Overall, the 30 minutes performance was great. Actually they will play again tonight (as I write this) and tomorrow evening. I can't attend tonight's performance, but I definitely will come tomorrow. I hope they will play more songs from their third album, Colours. More picture below. Sorry for the quality because I only have a camera phone, not a digital SLR with uber zoom capability.
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Some Things One Gotta Do To Avoid Coding
Gotta eat
Gotta watch the television
Gotta check email
Gotta take the dogs out
Gotta plan first
Gotta test something first
Gotta check out the forums
Gotta check email again
Gotta watch some online videos
Gotta make videos
Gotta take a nap
Gotta read Donald Duck
Gotta chat with somebody
Gotta check youtube
Gotta read something useless
Gotta think of all the alternatives first
Gotta tweak some irrelevant feature
Gotta take the garbage out
Gotta twitter
Gotta play some other video game
Gotta play my own game (instead of coding it)
Gotta check traffic stats
Gotta check face book
Gotta check sales stats
Gotta play board game
Gotta read check the RSS feed
Gotta make a phone call
Gotta check email quickly again
Gotta write a blog post about what I gotta do…
Gotta hear what reasons you might have to avoid working on your game
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LOL, true!
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Stabbing incident, by Indonesian student
SINGAPORE: A final-year engineering student at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) jumped from a campus block after stabbing a professor on Monday morning.
The professor was in his office at the engineering faculty when the student stabbed him in the back with a knife, leaving him injured.
After stabbing the professor, the male student - who was in his 20s - slit his wrists and jumped off a five-storey building.
Police said they received a call about the incident at 10.35am, and arrived to find the student dead at the bottom of the engineering block.
Eyewitnesses had also told Channel NewsAsia that a person had been stabbed, and that a student, believed to be an Indonesian-Chinese had slit his wrists before jumping off a building.
An NTU spokesman later confirmed that a final year student from the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering was involved in the stabbing.
Sounds like a story from novel, but this one's for real. I imagined he jumped off the building while screaming: "MERDEKA!". LOL, crazy!
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V-MODA Vibe II
I was looking for a good earphones with microphone for my iPhone. I use earphones almost everyday, so I might as well get a good one. After reading a lot of reviews and forums on the web, I ordered this earphones around last week. Some reviews I read on the net say it's good. I actually spent one day on weekend, tried to search for it in stores in Singapore, but no luck. Then I decided to order directly from their web store, since they provide (quite) cheap international shipping. After I placed my order, they sent the tracking id, so I can track the package from UPS site.
Fast forward about one week, the package arrived, in a small box.
The packaging box
Whoa, so big for earphones? I opened it to find out that the box filled with some foam thingy, and found the earphones box inside.
Inside the box
Front view
More info in the back
Packaging-wise, this thing looks awesome from outside, but when you try to open it, you'll find a lot of difficulties in your way. I realized that I don't have a pair of scissors nearby, so I cut things with nail clipper. Haha.. So, here are what I got inside the box:
The earphone plug, with "Rock Safely" warning
A lot of silicone caps, carrying case. VIP card, a pair of earhooks
How about sound quality? Well, I don't know. It's my first in-ear earphone. I usually use the standard iPod or iPhone earphones, and it's quite different. I can only say, for music, the sound is good compared to standard iPhone earphones. It blocks noise from outside. I have to pause the music to slightly hear the announcement on train. I cannot hear the engine sound of buses, which is quite loud. But for making calls, I prefer the old standard earphones that comes with the iPhone. It feels different when making calls, because with this earphone, you can feel your voice and it feels weird.
Anyway, that's my first experience with international purchase and delivery. Very good and pretty convenient.
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Tweet Up
Tweet up with Indonesian friends in Singapore, at Pizza Hut. By the way, the drink I ordered was very good. Mango Tango, two thumbs, definitely recommended. It's like a nice tea, mixed with mango (syrup or something), cold but not too cold, sweet but not too sweet, mango-ish, but you can feel the tea, perfect!
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