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finally finished 2A term!

falcon — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:51:21 +0000

Finally… another post after nearly 2 months! There’s so much that happened in 2A that I’m not sure I can fit all of them on this page lol…

The midterm was a disaster… and that’s probably why I stopped posting after that. But fortunately, the finals went better (thank you morning exams). And I also think it’s thanks to Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 as well . In fact, my friend and I played a combined total of around 80 hours of CoD during the 2 weeks of exam. I’d say it was a good way of relieving stress.

Last term, I watched I think 4 dramas, but some I still haven’t finished or will not ever finish. I watched:

Autumn Concerto (watched 4 or 5/20, will not continue watching)
Mei Ren Xin Ji (watched like 28/40 all during exams)
Buzzer Beat
JIN (watched 4/11)

I don’t really wanna post and spoilers of why I stopped watching Autumn Concerto, but let’s just say I got tired of plot cliches… The other 3 were pretty good imo.

Now my workterm starts next Monday, and I wonder what I’ll be doing for the next four months…

procrastination kills

falcon — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:58:57 +0000

I thought I was going to be productive last weekend. As usual, nothing goes according to my plan in terms of finishing assignments.

On Saturday, I spent around 6 hours playing Granado Espada. My clannies and I were doing the Secret Tower dungeon. We went for two runs, and the outcome was okay being the first time we ever raided together. Lag and disconnects pretty much killed us both times – first run, the tank d/ced (gg lol), and during the second run, we were hit by the infamous ST lag and eventually everyone got d/ced. Awesome times

Then on Sunday, I played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for 5 hours straight. I think everyone that joins the map Rust wouldn’t really want to stop playing cause of the constant action. I ended up with around 700 kills and 500 deaths. Before I knew it, it was Sunday midnight and I had an assignment due the next day. At that moment, I decided to start a jdrama – Buzzer Beat! I actually finished it just now, and overall I thought it was amazing.

One word (or three actually) – F.M.L.

bad company 2 beta

falcon — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:29:41 +0000

Seems like today I got a bit of stuff done, including remaking my webpage (although it’s far from finished). A friend that I met when I was playing Aion (I’ll call him Silent from now on) gave me a beta key to Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and I couldn’t be happier. I’ve read alot of threads hyping up this game and I just had to see it for myself. Many people seem to have the opinion that it will be much better than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 with its dedicated servers, big maps, punkbuster? – all of which MW2 did not have.

So I downloaded the 1.5gb client from fileplanet and installed it. Once I opened the game, I already sensed some familiarity with its interface being similar to Battlefield 2. When I went to play a game, however, was when the frustration begins.

the server finder was extremely slow and it made me wait a few minutes till it found EVERY single server
I couldn’t sort by latency?
the filters didn’t seem to work either

But I’d be fair, it’s only day 3 or something like that of the beta. What’d you expect? The worst experience by far though was the ingame lag. I joined a total of 4 servers, and the game was insanely laggy in all 4! First, I thought perhaps my laptop was finally showing some age, but even when I set the resolution to the lowest one and the quality to low, the lag was still there. Hopefully, it’s not my rig but the overloaded servers. I’ll have to confirm with Silent on this