name: kat
zodiac: virgo/snake
location: berklee college of music
likes: music, cats, video games, tea, piano, and you.

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Post-videogame depression

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Char's birthday is today! She's 180 this wonderful THursday!~ Everyone shout hooray!!!!!

Met at Plaza Sing to do young person stuff (before she starts going into old person mode) like watch movies and play in arcades. We watched a family spend over 10 bucks on one of those moneyeating grab-a-toy games and laughed at them cos the toy they were aiming for eventually wound up at its original spot. Played the DDR for hands game, managed not to die so much because of O2 for practice.

Then we saw Ghost Rider. Kind of meh for me. Too much lovey-dovey, not enough violence. But the bike action was cool to watch. We pissed off the people behind us by "aaaw"ing at all the cheesy romance moments. They didn't shout at us, fortunately.

After movie I decided it was time to go home, the time being close to 6 and dinner. Spent some time emoing in front of the piano (the most emo instrument of them all). Managed to come up with a backup plan for my remt, in the event of my punk-rock song not falling through. This time round it's a more bluesy piece, which should be a bit easier to mix (I hope) since everything will be really low-key and stuff. All I know is it's within range now, all I have to worry about is the really funny pitching. And lyrics. AAAAAH!!!!! Tomorrow maybe I shall drop by school again to work on my remts, and this time I shall not forget my headphones and be left clicking in notes like a moron.

Yes, I'm obsessed with my school work. Watcha gonna do? :P



Anyway, I'm going through a down period as usual.I've finished Twilight Princess. It took me 15 days, an average of 2 hours 40 minutes per sitting; I only died at the jousting parts (not counting the times I wasn't paying attention and jumped into lava with only 1 heart left), managed to do at least half a dungeon every sitting; sessions in which I nothing but run around aimlessly chopping grass in frustration were reduced to 2, and I only consulted a guide once for one of those stupid sliding jigsaw puzzles that I was never very good at.

Therefore, there is now no more meaning to my life. I'm gonna miss vegitating in front of the TV instead of practising/studying. But since I've completed TP, I shall go into geek mode on it.

I think it was a very good game: really pretty graphics, first of all. The peoples' facial expressions weren't limited to just happy or sad. They have the cute cartoony look, like an anime, even though it's not Bishounen-o-topia like Final Fintasy. In fact, the only one with super-duper-omg-prettiness was Zelda. The scenery was very beautiful, especially the areas with water. My fav temple was the 6th (of 7) cos of the omgwtfreferences. And the overworld map is enormous, it really is 5 times the size of the other games', even though it looks like mushroom. It provides lots of horse-riding fun, and I ditched the warping in favour of riding everywhere just to admire the scenery and squash bad guys. That's probably why it took me so long to finish :P

Other thing I liked was the music (well duh). It didn't sound as midified as the other games, and I really liked the emo piano solo during the twist of the game after you beat the first 3 temples. What was really cool was that the theme music and sound effects for the bad guys were those waveforms I'd heard at school! I'd be like "Oooo a square! Oooo a sine! Kewwwwl:D" Can't really tell about the stereo, cos I think the TV's getting a bit old and broken.

The only problem was: The. Boss. Fights. Were. Too. EASY. Which made me very very sad. Yes, I don't want a boss fight that'll leave me stuck on it forever, but I want to feel like I've achieved something! Like Puppet Ganon from WW! He was super tough and I managed to kill him after 2 or 3 sittings, and when I did it felt GOOOD. The last fight in TP was.....very very easy. The Boss was slow and it wasn't hard to get hits in, even though I didn't learn all the secret optional skills. I wish there'd been more of the really fun second last fight with him, and that it had made more use of the space instead of going round and round in circles. Anyway, the boss fights were a bit too easy provide the satisfaction gleaned from doggedly smacking around a bad guy for hours. I feel a bit empty inside D:

Can't really fault the plotline, but I wish there had been more on Zelda. The frickin game's named after her, yanno! The second-last bad guy felt sort of thrown in there, I wish he'd been around longer, since 99% of the game revolved around killing him. And his...interesting evil laughter. When you hear it, you will not be able to take him seriously either.

HOWEVER~! In spite of my extremely long paragraph of complaints, that was probably due to my newfound pro-ness as a gamer (look how modest I am :D), and I did enjoy it a lot, overall, and would rec it to other people....the 3 other people I know who like Zelda and GameCube, of course.

I'll eventually get over my depression one day. Cos there are still all the sidequests!

Argh, I think the kids at the school are swimming tomorrow. DOn't know how I'll escape this one. I don't like getting sunburned; it ****ing hurts.

Plus, application form for ATCL sent in => final nail in my coffin. DOnt know how I'm gonna pass. DDDDDD8

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Saturday, February 17, 2007

Just got back from the reunion dinner. The food's always nice, but there aren't many people to talk with on dad's side. After that dropped by at grandma's for first session of CNY gambling. Not a bad start for this year: made a 260% profit on my $20 capital (kindly donated by mum).

(Whee~ Money!!!!^_^)

Happy CNY to everyone, especially all the Pig-people :D

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Friday, February 16, 2007

Yesterday went for the Personal Development programme stuff, and as it lasted most of the day, I couldn't go down to the school for babysitting duty (not that I'm relieved or anything. Nooo way *_*). The songwriting class was fun, learned a little more about how the Real Life people do stuff, though the emphasis was more on pop music. I'm almost resigned to the fact that I may do emo stuff for the the rest of my screwed career. Really. We had to come up with a verse and chorus in 20 minutes, then show the entire class. Which is fine, really, I find emo stuff easy to come up with (which is pretty sad). Turned out to be the only non-chinese-pop song. Nothing wrong with chinese pop, I just don't like it much. They all seem to have the same sort of development, chord-wise. And there's the added factor of me not understanding what the heck they're singing.

Lesson taught: Keep. It. Simple. Even though I'm obsessive-compulsive about making things speshul n different. Trouble is, whenever I try to be creative people get confused T.T

Forgot Wednesday was Valentine's, though that probably explains the multiple times I witnessed the Death of Personal Space by Hugging. Lots of really "interesting" things happened in the 4 days I've helped out there. Already on day 2 there was movie-in-the-dark and hand-on-leg action, so I'm a bit scared of what might happen by the end of the month 0.0 (even though he was only 7 and the "movie" in question was a self-help vid).



Today is quite boring, hence all the above flashbacks.






Is what I feel like doing.


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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Nothing to dooooooooooooooooooooo..........................

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Sunday, February 11, 2007

You Should Date An Italian!
You love for old fashioned romance, with an old fashioned guyAn Italian guy is the perfect candidate to be your prince charmingIf your head doesn't spin enough, just down another espresso with himInvest in a motorcycle helmet - and some carb blocker for all that pasta!


I think listening to all that opera did it. 0.o

Your Beauty Element is Air
You're quirky, fresh, and fashionable in a surprising way.You have a beauty that's all your own, and it changes as quickly as the wind!


I feel pretty! Oh so pretty! I feel pretty and witty and...

You Are 32% Happy

You're not miserable, but you could stand to be a lot happier.
Focus on what's right in the world, and you'll be happier than you ever thought possible.


....maybe not the last one :P But hey! I'm 100% happier than I was last time! So watching all those self-help videos with the kids at the school really did help!

Easter cantata practice is fun. We worked on the bits that had part-singing in them, andwe're about 75% done on the first song. Managed to have a good time even though I haven't which part I'm going to sing on that day. Right now I'm just merrily going along with the sops, but if my throat gets tired of screeching then I switch over to the alts, which must make the stereo sound......really funny.

Played some more TP today. I am proud to say that after 24 hours of (non-consecutive) gameplay, I have completed about 60% of the game. Which is a great improvement from when I spent weeks stuck on one part of the dungeon without realizing I could just place the curled up centipede on the switch instead of calculating the trajectory and distance from which I should toss it. That part almost made me want to give up the game -.- Yes, laugh at me, cos it was only the first dungeon.



The storyline of the game is pretty easy to predict:
1. You're living peacefully in your peasant village
2. Bad thing happens, resulting in the loss of parental figures/siblings/admiring kids/girls who crushes on you
3. You go out to save them , BUT...
4. You end up getting suckered into collecting elemental relics of Earth, Fire, and Water from similarly-themed dungeons
5. They're not always in that order but Water is always last
6. After collecting relics, you find out you were intentionally/unintentionally getting screwed over by the person who told you to collect them
7. PLOT TWIST OMGWTF
8. But you get cool new abilities, and you can now switch between them and your previously-sucky self
9. And then you get sent on a long fetch quest through at least 3 more elemental-themed dungeons
10. Then you go to the Big Bad Boss dungeon
11. Plot congeals
12. You kill blown up version of the bad guy, only to find he isn't dead
13. Then you kill him
14. (Most probably) Emo ending


(Ohh, I could just go on about video games)
I'm just curious about how they're fitting in all the Twilight stuff. Then I can go back to the Zelda section on FF. Spoilers are everywhere over there.

It seems I'm capable of doing cool, short, to-the-point entries like everyone else. I tried yesterday, but couldn't resist beefing it up a little with pictures that I stole. I'm just too geeky to be cool.




And since I've finally updated my Blogger account (cos I was too lazy to make a gmail), here is a picture of a Power Ranger.




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Friday, February 09, 2007




... Don't feel like it today, and if I do I'll end up not practicing my exam stuff.



I'm hungry. Even though I've been eating lots and getting fat.





But I'm mostly bored today.



I wish I was in a band...but who wants to hire classical people? :(


Maybe I'll go play some more later
Hehehe...so fun to put pics in.

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Thursday, February 08, 2007

Day 2 of babysitting duty



Slightly better. Had existence acknowleged. Got a big headache running around trying to make sure everyone got out alive. Had to rescue one of the boys who'd stuck his head into the toilet and was slurping away happily (and I think the flush was broken 0.0)



Took a very long time to get home cos I decided to be clever and take a bus. Cos very bored after an hour, so ditched it and went looking for an MRT. Stopped over at Novena for Pepper Lunch cos I've gotten addicted to it, thanks to Meipoh. Eventually got home and played some more Zelda. I have now beat the water temple woohoo!



Now am at the middle portion of the story, somewhere around when the first twist takes place. It has the same sort of plot as Oot and Windwaker, so I think I can guess what might happen in the end. I just want to know how it fits in the timeline, since there seems to be several really interesting theories circling around on the chronological order of all the games.



Better go to bed soon, gotta go back to do more babysitting. And they're going swimming tomorrow. :OOOOO


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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Almost forgot my second job was starting today. Had to get up at 7+ to go to school with brothers. Heh, after day one, I'm ready to run screaming to the rest of the ice cream places to beg employment.



Okay, maybe it wasn't that bad. But it was still a very traumatizing experience. I was attacked by 3 of them under the pretense of wanting hugs! I also almost got toilet paper stuffed into my pants, and I got chased around the classroom by one of the girls who kept talking about what sounded like rainbows and kept getting pissed at me when I said anything pertaining to rainbows. Had feet run over by toy cars numerous times, had cutlery stolen out of my hands, and I got grapes thrown at me. Narrowly escaped being scolded by the teacher, cos this little boy wanted this packet of animals on a shelf, and very cutely asked me to get it for him. Could not resist the big blue sad anime eyes, and very kindly brought it down for him. Tried hard to look innocent when teacher got pissed cos he wasn't joining in the group activities.



Didn't have much time to practice any piano today, cos after I got home I spent over 2 hours getting into the water temple ~.~ I know, I have no self-control. Only stopped cos I got really frustrated at one part and my eyes were killing me. But insight will definitely arrive tomorrow, and I shall slap my head and groan with a "gosh I'm dumb" as I happily go to kill whoever the boss is......while my piano playing stagnates. Really bad, cos the exam's in May/June, and I have to send in the entry by March.



And this is only with ONE job D: Ice cream serving will probably start next week, if they haven't forgotten about me.



Starting to consider rewriting what I've got so far for the next REMT. It still seems a bit complicated, but can't think of any way to keep the nice stuff in without it getting boring. That, and I need some interesting lyrics, for I would NOT like to sing about



a) Love
b) Emo i. I-was-dumped Emo ii. My-life-sucks Emo
c) Sex (yeah, that'll get me an A for sure)

So....when you think about it there don't seem to be many things people sing about. Daaaaaaaarn it. We need more songs like Happy Happy Joy Joy!



Not thinking clearly anymore, which means it's time to kill more virtual monsters.


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Sunday, February 04, 2007

Today is a good day. I is very happy :D

1. Went for church Easter concert rehearsal. Lots of fun, and songs were nice.

2. I got a job! Do visit me at the Somerset branch of Haagen Dahz

3. I got Twilight Princess OMGWTF

Which probably means no computer for a while.

Bad news for today

1. I have 2 blisters on my foot, and they hurt really bad >.< Please do not kick me in the shin

2. Didn't make any progress on future REMT as was too busy killing black Matrix-looking things T.T

3. I think I'm losing my voice D:

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Friday, February 02, 2007

....And that concludes my first year of DMAT. Overall, a very eye-opening experience, both creatively and academically. Made a couple more friends, and am much better and throwing bullshit together. Also, I have managed to progress from secondary-school emo (dammit I hate school) to existantialism-emo (shit my life is doomed).



Yesterday was the presentation of the REMT project I've been stressing over for so long. It didn't go as well as I'd hoped; guitar bit was too loud, and lecturers said that the singing was too forward. I didn't think so, though, probably because I don't like songs with the singing eaten up by the instruments.



After presentation everyone went down to the staff centre to spend the class funds. Food was ok, but I liked their waffles the most. Our lecturer came along too and we were a happy bunch of Year 1s. Seems our second year has only 2 REMT projects, both of which require a whole semester to complete. One of them involves recording a song, SOLO, and with our OWN singing :O



Just as well I've been working on something for the past few days, only problem now is that if I want to hand it in I'll have to perform it myself. Originally I was gonna get a guy to sing it, but noooo.......... It's sort of 60% complete, just needs a bridge, solo, and better lyrics. I don't want to make it too emo. I'm sick of emo songs, I'm sure our song was the most emo out of all the other presentations T.T



So, apart from my creative endeavours, I decided this would be a good time to go job-hunting. Went down to Novena and wandered around all afternoon. Ben and Jerry's just finished mass-recruitment yesterday! Arrrgh! Didn't manage to ask at Starbucks, since it was kinda crowded there. But I have a job interview at Haagen Dahz tomorrow, though. 0.o I didn't know you needed interviews to scoop ice cream. Maybe there's a special way to do it, or they hire you based on how perfect a sphere you can dig up? Will they ask me for a scooping audition? Whip out a ruler and calculator to see if it adds up to 4/3πr^3?



Aargh I spelt "calculator" as "calculater" >.<



Hopefully I can get a job there, so I don't have to do anymore walking around. And they have a games/manga shop opposite at United, so that should keep me happy. It shouldn't be too hard to learn the stuff at HD; you just dig out a scoop and fling it at peoples' heads or something......



Taken the Brain quiz http://www.mybraintrainer.com/ My brain age is 43.....nooo, I'm not senile..... T.T


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