Random advertisements never cease to amaze me. Or perhaps the ads appear in the presence of a certain keyword? I stumbled upon an ad for baldness and now…
I’m SO loving it.
[dedicated to Yung a.k.a. Spybreak]
I was looking for some midnight snacks at the nearby 7-Eleven when I came upon a wonderful treasure. Such a simple thing, but bears so much meaning to a select few.
It comes in a nice styrofoam cup instead of plastic, so it’s still nice to hold even if you filled it up with boiling water. As for the ramen, well, let’s just say I’ll stick with Maggi Asam Laksa. With it’s price tag, I can get 4 Maggi packs. Novelty, novelty.
The Makan Money University Finance Department barred me from taking my final exam, which is tomorrow morning. I learnt of this on Thursday night. So the following Friday, I planned to head over to finance to ask them if they can unbar me, since I expect my fees to be paid by YTM already. Being the forgetful idiot that I am, I forgot to bring my student ID. Why? Simply because of my regular mindset on Fridays. Since I would usually only head to campus for Friday prayers, I don’t pay much attention on my student ID.
Lack of efficiency on my part. Damn. “Nevermind, I’ll try again tomorrow morning”.
Or so I thought. It was a breezy Saturday when I arrived the Finance office[it was around 9.30am], but hey I saw the door was chained. Office hours, Saturdays:8.00am-12.30pm. One fucking hour already and the door is locked? What the fuck is exactly going on here?
Guess I’m not the only inefficient ones here. Hell, it’s not like I’m paid to be efficient, which is an entirely different matter. So, my last chance would be this morning. It was a beautiful morning. There were plenty of could to shield me from the sun, and leaves were dancing gracefully with the ever-flowing winds.
As I stepped into the Finance office, I was greeted by a rude notice at the counter.
What fund? Oh well, I thought. Headed to the counter and asked;
Me: Akak, saya scholar YTM, kenapa saya kena bar?
Staff: You dah bayar Trust Fund belum?
Me: Aih, YTM tak bayarkan sekali ke?
Staff: Tak, YTM bayar you punya fees je.
Great. Just great.
Me: So, bayar sekarang boleh tak?
Staff: Takleh, server down.
Me: Oooh, so hari ni boleh settle tak?
Staff: Boleh, datangla dalam pukul 9 lebih lebih nanti.
Me: Uhm, ok.
A bit frustrated, but it didn’t really disrupt my other plans for the morning. Went for breakfast at Plaza Siswa and over the Public Bank Ayer Keroh to bank in some cash for Syefri, which was more than enough to kill time.
Reached Finance back at around 10am, ready to pay my Trust Fund, only to be greeted by another rude notice on the counter.
How I wish I had a BFG with a few cells in it. In fact just one cell will do. All I want is just one, full-powered blast from it. [For my non-gamer friends, I suggest you ask people who play Doom3 and ask them about the BFG]
Still, I went over to the counter, this time occupied by a different staff.
Me: Akak, nak bayar Trust Fund la
Staff: Bayar kat BCB boleh tak? Server down la
Me: Oh, boleh bayar kat bank?
Staff: Ha’ah, lepas you bayar, bawak bank slip tu sini.
Me: Oh, ok.
I was foolish enough to not know that payments can be made through BCB. But then again, I don’t work at the Finance department. Why, then, did the idiot of a staff earlier didn’t say shit about paying my trust fund at the fucking in-campus bank? That could’ve saved me an extra kilometre or so, since I could’ve just asked the taxi driver to send me straight home from Public Bank!
Since there were plenty of coulds, and strong winds, I still felt good because it’s my favourite weather. A simple mess like doesn’t worry me much. Off to BCB at Plaza Siswa, and in a few minutes, I got my payment done.
Now that, is being efficient.
Went back to Finance to hand over the bank slip. The lady simply took it and clipped it along with other bank slips.
Me: Uh, kak. Bila boleh clear tu?
Staff: Entah la, masalah server bukan kitorang yang handle
Me: Hari boleh clear kan? Saya punya exam pagi esok, so malam ni memang saya kena print exam slip.
Staff: Oh, itu akak tak tau la dik. Masalah server tu CITS yang pegang, kitorang ada authority, tapi kalau service tak jalan kitorang takleh buat apa-apa.
Me: Oh
Yup. This university is good at making money. They just plain suck at putting that money to good use. Well, if I can’t land myself a BFG, will someone just be kind enough to lend me their pepper spray for a while? I really feel like hurting someone else right now.
*UPDATE*
Apparently, the system [made of money-handling idiots] is still ‘down’ even after office hours. Guess I’ll have to go again tomorrow morning. Otherwise I’ll have to get on my knees before I can take that paper I’ve been working so hard for. I’m feeling really pissed right now.
At certain points in my blog I’ll break in a berserk quizzing rage. This happens for several reasons.
a. I’m bored
b. I’m full
c. I get bored because I’m full
d. I can’t think of anything meaningful to write
e. I’m bored because I can’t write anything meaningful.
| How to make a Silencers |
| Ingredients: 3 parts intelligence 3 parts brilliance 1 part joy |
| Method: Combine in a tall glass half filled with crushed ice. Top it off with a sprinkle of fitness and enjoy! |
6 parts brains, 1 part play. I suppose that’s a good thing. “A sprinkle of fitness”, how true. How oh so very true.
| Your Icecream Flavour is… Cookies ‘n Cream! |
 Smooth and creamy with a few rough bits mixed in, you are a real treat! You are probably very popular amongst your friends. Remember too much of a good thing is not always good! Don’t lay it on too thick! |
What is your Icecream Flavour?Find out at Go Quiz
Well I’ll be!! Cookie and cream IS my favourite flavour!!
| UCAUTION |
| IN THE INTEREST OF SAFETY IT IS ADVISABLE TO KEEP SILENCERS AWAY FROM FIRE AND FLAMES. |
From Go-Quiz.com
Do that and your fire and flames will be safe from deletion, mwahkahahakhakhaka!!! [points at Xfreshers]
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Yes. I’m cool and I pwn j00.
I’m THAT cruel?
Wow.
Multiple personality disorder. Right.
What the fuck is a Doppleganger?
Fuah, I feel good, sial.
That sounds like a sad victim of anime warfare.
Told you I pwn j00.
Laugh, people. Laugh.
End of log.
Doom Doom Doom.
Doom Cube.
But then again, most people prefer to pronounce it as Doom Three.
Yet another exciting review from your hot, spicy, sweaty, and tired, Gamemaster. Doom3 is a horror first-person shooter game for the PC. I doubt there would be any release for consoles [mwahahaha].
Point, shoot, dodge. Three main elements in almost any FPS there is. Fortunately, Doom3 goes way beyond that border. We’ll discuss that later, because I’d like to enlighten you on the tale behind Doom3.
Doom3 is a remake of the original Doom that was THE hit of 1993. THe current year is 2031, and mankind has colonized Mars. A bigass space corporation is running a lab for RnD for various science breakthroughs there. Among them is the technology of dimensional teleportation.
You play a marine, a hard one. You were stationed on Mars for your next duty. However, something went wrong throughout the course of the teleportation research, as monsters, and hiedous creatures come pouring through the Gateways. The research facility gets attacked, civillian turned into mindless zombies, and guess what? Power failure.
What monsters are you fighting, exactly? Well, I ain’t spoiling the story for you. But rest assured, there will be lots of gore, blood, and creepy noises in the dark.
On to game, Doom is, well….nice. Play it for the first time, and you might go “Holy fuck that scared the shit outta my pants!!”. But once you know what’s waiting behind that door, it’s not that much fun anymore. Weapons, weapons, weapons…yeh. One of the major elements in Doom3 happen to be its weapons.
Your regular pistol, shotgun, SMG, plasma bla bla bla…we’re used to that stuff in CS alreay, so I’ll move on to the REAL weapons. Rejoice, O People, for the BFG [Big Fucking Gun] and the Cahinsaw have returned! BFG can now fire a hyper-charged blast instead of the single-cell shots of previous BFGs.
Chainsaw? Well, if you didn’t play Doom, then I’ll forgive because the Cahinsaw is just too much fun to miss. Hell, I chainsawed through a boss!! Chainsaw needs no ammo, chainsaw needs no reload. You just have to just keep revving it and ram it into the first maniac you see.
Still the best weapon is I think the most original I have ever seen. The Soul Cube. It’s a cube [duh] that kills a target unit instantly, and returns the health of that unit to you! However, the Soul Cube is alive, and it requires sacrifices to use. 5 souls are to be taken before every usage, but hell, the only things you’d be sacrificing are monsters and demons, so why worry?
Of course, the most noticeable part of the entire game, is the graphics. It features a highly advanced physics and dynamics engine. This simply means, movements are a whole lot more realistic. A headshot sends a monster falling flat on its back. If the killing blow hits the leg, it’s knee bends and falls on its face. A shotgun to the chest and you might get a corpse rolling down a flight of stairs gracefully.
I must warn you, Doom3, is not for the faint hearted. If you can’t handle sudden shocks, or afraid or hearing hisses and growls in the dark, saty away. Oh, another note, this is a VERY demanding software. You will need a minimum of 512MB of RAM and at least 2.0GHz of processing power. Your VGA card also needs to be a powerful one, at a 128MB one. Any less, you’ll get a choppy framerate when the fight starts.
Doom3 doesn’t work out so well in multiplayer. It lacks secondary fire, bots and maps. Though it IS open for modding, I doubt it can surpass the Modders’ dream of tweaking Half-life 2.
Simply speaking, Doom3 is worth the play. But not worth the repeat. Seriously, it’s frustrating when waste a lot of ammo or when you’re walking around in the dark with low health and ammo. As I said, the thrill only omes in the first time, and more and you’ll bore the hell out of your PC.
