Motherload

Third post for the day already :o.

I know I should be studying but... well, I was playing this game :P. It's from Miniclip, the title's Motherload.

To put the storyline short, you are a drilling machine and have been tasked by Mr. Natas to excavate gems of many kinds in another planet. All stores available are mechanized/computerized as the planet itself is uninhabited. As you excavate down, Mr. Natas sends a few transmission messages to you. However, as you excavate deeper, mysterious things begin to happen...

And yes, it is MYSTERIOUS. You will never expect what happens until the end. I advise to play this game during the mid-afternoon/early evening cause you may receive too many goosebumps while playing. There are NO ghosts/freaky stuff at all, other than explosions [made by you or...], but what is transmitted to you is the one that spooked me out.

Even as I'm typing this, I still have a little bit of goosebumps here and there from what I just played.

Here's the link to the game [from Miniclip games]: http://www.miniclip.com/games/motherload/en/ (copy paste the link)

This game is NOT meant to be played in one go, you should save the game [there's a save point at the surface] and return when you have the time.

This is the first time I've played it till the end, most of the other times I just ended it prematurely without saving, and I had to restart ._. I was bored a few days back and started it again...

Well, here's a few pictures of what you can expect AT THE END... But be warned, things in the game are not what it seems...









Yup, that's the end of the game, and it definitely was a full-of-goosebumps game for me. Maybe I get spooked too easily.

Anyway, just a final tip before I end: Should you wish to play the game, and reach that area, you may want to prepare yourself with... literally, hundreds of plastic explosives, and hundreds of repair bots. Okay, maybe not like 400 or something, 100 to 200 will do if you're careful.

The boss HURTS, you need to watch out. Your plastic explosives also have a small range of attack only, so use it wisely... [you will need to be nearly touching it for the blast to hit it]

That's all from me, enjoy this game if you would :).

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Let It Out - Miho Fukuhara

Second post for the day. Yeah I'm a little late, but I might as well spread the message! :D

The PV for Full Metal Alchemist ED 2 - Let It Out by Miho Fukuhara has been released! I can't wait for the album now :o

For those wishing to listen to it, here it is :).



The lyrics fit VERY well to the Elric bros' situation. It definitely is a wonderful song to listen to.

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Reflections XII - Window to the Soul

... You all should understand what it means right? :)

For those of you who guessed it, yes, it's the eyes.

Common saying goes like this: The eyes are the windows to your soul. I'd definitely accept that. It really seems true.

So why am I speaking of it today?

I just, myself, realized of it when I was taking the bus home today. Chem paper 2 completed, was returning home with a bunch of my friends.

Or maybe I should say, from the time we exited the school till I reached home, there was this indefinite period of time that I felt something... weird. Something that I cannot explain with words... or maybe I can?

I was looking at something, as if looking at blank air. At least no one noticed :P.

But that's not the point. The point is, while looking at nothing, I seemed to drift off. I just felt as if I wasn't physically there, but looking for something.

Are my eyes telling me something? Is there something that I'm searching for?

Is my soul seeking something that I am, too seeking, but do not know of or have not realized it yet?

There's endless amounts of questions after what happened. And it was definitely a very strange experience.

If the eyes are connected to our soul, it means that what we see is what our soul sees. What we experience is what it experiences. If that's the case, does this mean that if the soul is seeking something, it reflects in what we do... as well?

/end post [sigh >_> the blog's javascript isn't fixed YET!]

Mixed Feelings

4th day of prelims over.

Should I feel angry for whatever reason towards today's paper?

Should I feel worried for what's the future papers going to be like?

Should I instead, FEAR what the questions the papers are going to have?

Should I feel depressed that my hard efforts of studying seem to have gone to waste?

Should I just stop at where I am and just let myself fade away into the shadows?

Should I get tensed over other subjects?

Should I leave everything alone, and do nothing?

Should I pick myself up and spur myself for the next week?

Should I commit myself to what my heart really desires?

Should I...?

/end post [no, not emo, just a large series of questions]

Reflections XI

Oh well, Blogger's formatting isn't back to normal yet. Lazy to use the shortcuts to emphasize things, eheh.

I'll keep things short and sweet this time.

Three days into our preliminary exams, I'm not seeing any easy papers ahead. That's obvious isn't it? To "prepare" us for A'levels, that is.

Anyway, that isn't what I wanna talk about today. Just very simply:

Why is it so difficult to say certain things to people closest to you?

After how much that I've experienced for the past months, it's really... slowly coming into me. While we realize things, there doesn't seem to be a simple solution.

Saying "just pluck up your courage and speak out", isn't helpful. Don't tell me you can do that EVERY SINGLE TIME you wish to say something to people close to you.

Actually, depending on the size of the matter, it really seems to matter how you want to approach it, and whether you can or not. As time slowly ticks away, I'll have to find a solution no matter what. And I think I have... already. We'll see.

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Reflections X - Once more...

As things slowly progress and shift in my life, I sometimes do wonder: Is everything meant to be? Or are things just pure 'coincidences'?

Because Typhoon Morakot struck parts of China, lots of things went into chaos, especially those who depended on undersea lines...

Such as those in Singapore.

Not that I'm being apathetic and blaming the typhoon, of course. The inconvenience I experience can be bearable. Lives lost in China cannot wait. Too bad the undersea lines got affected ~_~. More protective measures can be placed for the lines next time... I suppose. Or maybe it's protected enough?

Anyway, the disruption in undersea lines definitely had a big impact. First up was a very slow connection to any US websites. Actually, if I'm not wrong, access to many sites from China were also affected.

At the least, within 24 hours of this disruption, the lines were first rerouted through other lines, and repair works immediately went underway.

Of course, most sites we visit are sites from the US. Don't deny it, it's true. Most, that is.

Of course the aftereffects even after the repairs were [supposedly] completed could still be felt.

First up is definitely, for those who use Facebook, the problem of loading Facebook *fully*. Either you would be faced with a blank screen, or you get a Javascript problem when doing any stuff on FB.

At the same time, as I'm typing now, the Javascript problem is also affecting Blogger, as well as Hotmail. Heh, one undersea line and everything goes awry.

But oh well, these all will only last for a while anyway. Everything returns to normal after a while.

So, as an avid gamer [still], it's apparent how problematic accessing US based games were. And hence, I don't think I did have decent gaming time.

The thing is, everything seems to be really coincidental. It's prelims starting tomorrow, and this sort of incident occurs.

It's as if there's a hint to say "stop whatever you're doing, focus on your work". Is that really happening, or is it just, well, coincidence?

As works go on to rescue survivors or sadly, those deceased in this unfortunate incident, so are works underway on those undersea cables. Everything seems to fall into place very neatly. How coincidental could all of these be? I may never know...

I wish for a most efficient rescue process such that more survivors of the incident can return to their families, and at the same time, send my heartfelt condolences to those who have lost some. It is unfortunate such an incident occurred, but we'll get stronger, and smarter after every 'fall', and so will this 'fall' allow us to see what our mistakes were.

/end post

I Purchased A...

Okay, not really me, but my father did for me :D

Since I had the time to make a post, might as well introduce it to you all!

I just recently [on Saturday] got a brand new HDD ;). Went down personally to look at the colors, and only silver/black caught my attention. The rest were not very interesting to me :P.

In the end, I chose the sleek black one, and am already enjoying using it! Very large disk space, and it's definitely going to help me in future, or maybe even now!

Always wanted to have a HDD of my own, considering that sharing HDDs sometime isn't really convenient ~_~. At least now I have one of my own to use and keep!

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Eien

Yes, another song I decided to share. I forgot to share it in my previous post so here it is! And yes, it's a Japanese song :P. I'm too influenced by the J-wave already! Heh!

Eien means "eternity" or "everlasting" or... you know what I mean :).

Here it is, Eien by Yuusaku Kiyama. Enjoy!

Fantasy No More

It's 1 week left to prelims.

It's 7 days left to prelims.

It's 168 hours left to prelims.

It's 10080 minutes left to prelims.

It's 604800 seconds left to prelims.

Okay, that obviously isn't the exact number, but it's close enough! =/

So now, gaming has been an integral part of my life, ever since the Internet era started, or maybe when I had my hands on one of my computers.

Yet, gaming is the one thing that will destroy my life should I continue further with what I'm doing.

So it's back down from Heaven to Earth, and it's time to face whatever comes rolling in. Intensity rises, and everything will slowly sink in as time passes by...

Will be buying something tomorrow, maybe I can share it with everyone! :P

/end post

Random Post

YES! Finally >_>. Everything SEEMS to be back to normal, I hope. My bold, italics icons are all back! YEAH!

So, I went to take an evening nap, and woke up at like...10+pm? And I'm definitely regretting it right now!

Posting in the midnight is really interesting in a way though, cause no one is here to disturb you while typing whatever you wish to express, and you seem to feel more calm under the moonlight [at least for me].

I can't sleep now =/ Not when I took a "nap" for 4 hours! Someone x_X SAVE ME!!! Or maybe not, just kidding. I'm used to having late nights already, with 4-5am being my latest sleeping time occasionally.

Today's a Wednesday, and approximately 1am. This means I have 36 hours left in my Term 3 college life before we're released for study breaks and all, to prepare for our exams. Good, and bad, obviously. Especially with my insatiable thirst for leisure time...

And it's class phototaking later in the afternoon! I don't wanna take a photo which shows my panda eyes ._.! Hopefully it won't be the case...

/ends post

Surprises and the Road to Hell

. It doesn't seem like the whole blog bug for me is fixed yet. At the least it's slightly better I suppose.

But anyway, time for some interesting chat. [Short? Long? I have no idea...]

First up, it's interesting how things pop in to give you a surprise in your life. Just when you have given up, just when all hope seems to be gone, it just returns back to you. The feeling is overwhelming, and for those who haven't experienced it before, maybe you will... soon.

But, when such things return, it really, really, seems to cause quite a little bit of problem. Especially when you've planned everything so nicely, and this surprise pops in, everything just... screws up. But still, it's always nice to have surprises, no? :)

Sometimes, I really wonder if life's just like that. Losing all hope is not what's permissible, that's why you get a rejuvenation when a surprise falls from the sky. Sadly, it's also a way to force you to cope TOGETHER with the surprise, especially if the surprise is a pretty permanent one.

I do hope though, that things will slowly ease off, and my life returns back to what it somehow was. But I really need to study now >.> and speaking about that...

Second, I hope not many people are pinning high hopes on me =/. It's in a way nice to see so many people thinking highly of me [or maybe it's my wishful thinking, lol] but after these few months, I realized I'm changing.

Changing into someone..really different. Changing into someone who's getting lazier at the moment [:o!] And someone who really needs someone to slap/punch him to wake him up from his dreams. These dreams, though ever so enjoyable, will just lead me to a path of hell.

Who's going to be there to wake me up though? It's not an easy thing to get motivated, much less wake up from this "dream" of mine. At the same time, I don't really want to disappoint those around me, cause... that just shows how much of a failure I am. I cannot do this to them.

While I look oh so hardworking [not that I really am] in school, it seems as though I'm there for the sake of well, being there. Not that I don't want to listen or whatever, but I don't revise after that >_>. What I learned stays at where I learned it. It's hard to carry it elsewhere, y'know?

All in all, while things really seem to have shifted for me, and I really appreciate it, it's really weird that I don't feel stress up to this point in time. Is there a trigger, like a switch, that can power me up to the stress level that everyone should be feeling? I don't really know...

/ends rant

So that's a short[long] summary of my thoughts. A little hard to explain further, considering how complicated everything is x_X. Or is there just a simple solution to this...? hmm.....

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