Spring festival.

It's the time of the year again. The Chinese Lunar New Year! It's also time for traveling again. Going back to Kota Bharu, Kelantan again this year. A five hour ride. Driving thru highways, kampung roads and over a man made lake. Wonderful driving trip. Hehe!! Will be using the Wira again. Already been 2 years since I had it. Besides the normal break downs like busted spark plug cables, self disintegrating air condition, punctured tires, ill mannered reverse sensors, nasty yogurt spillage, misleading fuel gauges, squeaky absorbers etc..it works fine...hehe!! National car mah!

Anyway happy chinese new year to all readers out there.

Photos

Time to show you guys some photos I've taken. Hehe!

1. Clouds/sky in Ipoh.

2. Christmas Tree in church (1)


3. Christmas Tree picture (2)


4. Picture of church in doors.

5. Bonfire of candles!


6. Silent night, holy night!


7. Headstart Ipoh 07/08 - Christine B'day Party, 31/10/07


8. Headstart Ipoh 07/08 - Christmas Party cum Steven B'day Party, 13/12/07
*note: Everyone had their gift. Hehe!!!

9. Headstart Ipoh 07/08 - Nalini and Dorcus B'day Party, 7/1/08
That's all for today.

C-Games!

Computer games! Now that's something I enjoy playing quite a bit. Last year there were a few that caught my attention for quite a long time. And here they are.

1. Command and Conquer 3 : Tiberium Wars.Fantastic triquel of the original series. With ultra baddie Kane back and also a new faction of aliens called scrin. Interesting some of their units share some similarities with Starcraft 2's Protoss units. Hmm....i wonder. Good news to all is that C&C3 cut scenes are now acted out by real actors. Most of them we would recognize including Michael Ironside (Top Gun, Starship Troopers), Grace Park (New Battlestar Galactica), Jennifer Morrison (House MD), Billy Dee (Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi). Good looking ladies again, woohoo!! The campaign game for the GDI is quite easy but playing NOD is quite a pain. Can't wait for the expansion to this game to be released sometime this year. Mammoth Tank rocks! Yeah!!


2. Supreme Commander
If you want to watch beautifully animated cut scenes, play with dozens of units, manage hundreds of robots, battle with division size armies and sleep for you is an option, then this is your game. The cut scenes are totally awesome and the units have such great variety that you are spoiled for choice. From the quick rush to the mega army strategist, this game caters for all. This is a totally amazing sequel to original Total Annihilation. The qualities of the original has been passed down to this sequel. But the learning curve is pretty steep and the AI won't hesitate to take you out if you let your guard down. Not recommended for players new to RTS. Hehe! Took me more than 20 hours just to reach the final stage on easy mode. And I didn't even finish the game. Don't say I didn't warn you. Hehe!


3. World In Conflict
New RTS on the block. Uses a totally different style of resource management....which is NONE! Great because we can get straight to the fighting! Hehe! Using the premise that in 1989 the Russians, instead of giving up communism because of bankruptcy decides to do a Saddam, ie, invade your neighbour and enrich yourself. The commies take war to Europe and CONUS. Utterly incredible game. Playing with units of this era makes it even more fun. Using Apaches to rip enemy armour up. Summon B52s to carpet bomb stubborn enemy positions. Just total coolness. Quite an easy game to play but tedious because you have to make sure you keep your units alive. No war factory to build blown up M1A1s. But not difficult to finish the missions. At the 10 hour mark I already finish about 75% of game. This game challenges logistic and unit deployment skills. All terrain have impact.


4. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
The quadquel of the amazing Call of Duty series. The first 3 was on World War 2 playing the roles of American, British and Russian soldiers fighting in the ETO(European Theatre of Operations). This one is focussed on the War on Terrorism of today, where battlefields have no boundaries. This time you get to play the roles of a SAS operative, a USMC grunt and a small role as USAF SO AC130 gunship gunner. Hehe! Got you drooling yet? Most interesting part I like about the game was the sniper missions. This is where stealth matters more than killing. This is a surprisingly easy game to play. At easy it took me about 4 hours to finish the game, normal about 5 hours + and veteran about 7+. This games is mighty addictive. Even after finishing the game three times I wouldn't mind playing it a few more times. Yes, the route are planned and you can't stray much from the game but the execution can be as different as you wish. You can go at it Rambo style or like a real soldier who works with his squad. HUAH!

That's all for last year's games that really pulled me back into gaming. Also reminded me the need for computer upgrade soon. What game to expect this year? The one and only Starcraft 2. After watching all the previews I'm already planning as to when I should upgrade my comp. Driving me nuts this gaming stuff. Hehe! Well, hope you've enjoyed reading today's post. Hope to input more regularly this year too. Hehe! Till next time. Excelsior.