Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Okay, finally felt like posting. Update since the day of my previous post.
Kidnapper with GX, MG, Timo, SY and Jov. The movie was pretty good. Rather gross though, but as usual, doesn't have much impact on me. Received my overdue birthday present. A 4-way USB port, in a humanoid form. It's rather cool eh... Thanks guys! Had 3 WSQ Assessment over the weekends. Cashier, Runner, and Food Hygiene. 2 passes out of 3. I failed my Runner, cos I didn't tap my McFlurry after drawing the mix; and I've never use a Happy Meal box before. Gosh... Damn malu... But at least I passed two. Nice...
About work, I'm finally able to work from 12-8pm, so I can sleep earlier. I'm having the habit of sleeping at 3-4am, sometimes 6am, which will get me 'killed' when school reopens. Talking about school, I WANT SCHOOL TO START ASAP!!!! Damn... Can't wait to escape out of my boring routinize life.
Gadget-wise, I promised to talk about my laptop, which I'll mention in the meantime. Just bought speakers for my laptop. Kind of wasted $25.90 on a piece of junk. The speakers works well at low volume, but I always like to crank up my music's volume, thus by doing so, the speakers gets a lot of static. My mini egg-shell speaker had slightly better quality, just that the battery lifespan is pathetic, and I can't charge the speaker while using it. STATIC.
Anw, I just realize that I have a lot of Blue LED gadgets. My laptop's power button, portable speaker, mouse, and the new USB port, all have blue LED lights. What if I get Razor Lycosa keyboard? Blue LED illuminated keys. AWESOME!
Okay, onto my laptop. There aren't many geeks reading my blog, so, I'll try to put it in layman's terms. Performance-wise, the laptop is pretty fast, compared to my other laptops, this is the fastest. (Credits to Intel i5-540M processor.) Graphics-wise, pretty decent. Gaming-wise, I have to set all my preferences to low in order to play my games smoothly, though my games are those that require either ATI or nVIDIA graphic cards, (COD5, COD6), which my laptop lacks. Appearance-wise, the laptop is pretty sleek. Rather slim when the cover is down, the black, glossy, reflective surface makes it even cooler. Weighing at around 2kg, it's quite light too. OS-wise. At first, I though Windows 7 was a brand-new OS, completely different from XP or Vista, but using it for about a week, Windows 7 is somehow, built on the concept of Vista. Everything seems the same. I like the toolbars though. They have shortcuts on them, and when an application runs, it appears in a icon. Additionally, if you open an application multiple times, for example, Google Chrome, they simply stack on top of each other, making the toolbars look neat.
Okay, with quite a powerhouse at home, the urge to play games is guaranteed irresistible. So, I've been playing quite a few games though.
Call of Duty: World At War (COD5). A game that failed to run on my Vista laptop. A rather fun WWII FPS, though I already played half of the campaign. New weapons available to use, like the flamethrower and M1 Garand with Grenade Launcher, gives a hell lot of fun burning and blowing enemies. Some missions allow the player to throw mortar shells, operate a tank and use weapons on a flying boat. Quite cool though. 8.5/10 for gameplay.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (COD6/MW2). Sequel of COD4. COD4 apparently bought much fun, but the sequel doesn't. Though the player's arsenal increases, technology like heart-beat sensor and thermal scopes are made available, but the short campaign just puts the game off. Besides, getting shot a few times, even in Recruit mode, gets the whole screen covered with blood, and the aim-down sight blurs easily. Gameplay: 7/10.
Rome: Total War. Turn-based strategy game set in Rome. It's one of the better games I've played. The battles are damn cool, controlling 20 units (or 1000 men) in battle, setting formations, engage enemies. sieging settlements. Pretty fun. Graphics-wise, smooth zooming, can close up to individual personnels, look at them launch their javelins, clashes with phalanx formations. Fun initially, but gets boring repeating the same thing over and over again. Gameplay: 8/10.
That concludes my post. Damn long.....
leon
8:25 PM
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