adstuff: psp billboards
“transparent” billboards aren’t exactly a new thing, but this is still pretty cool.
chaka chaka can i go home now?
what you want and what you get
i guess the list i compiled on nintendo ds games i had to play or else i’d die wasn’t perfect, but it was a good starting point, ok?
so, what am i really playing?
animal crossing
it’s so fucking deceptively kiddy, but there are so many things to do and so little time to do it. my goals: collect friend pictures, get perfect town rating (done!), collect K.K. Slider songs, finish furniture sets, GET MORE FRUIT HELLO, and breed hybrid flowers. i don’t have a set interval for daily play and my frequent time-traveling has set off a well-known glitch in the game. :( sucks. maybe i’ll create a separate category for it. wheeee~
*OBSESSIVE*
elite beat agents
this game has kept me up too many nights for “just one more try”. every attempt takes you just a step closer to winning, so how can you put it down? baby made me so proud beating jumpin’ jack flash for the first time. aroha is a mincing diva. yc hasn’t had time to beat it yet (so she claims). yes, this is a shared obsession.
*OBSESSIVE*
phoenix wright series
detective/lawyer game. it’s too cool when you have to scream out objections in court when you find discrepencies in witness testimony. it starts out simply enough, but you just try finding a teensy fault in 20 witness statements from 5 witnesses while sifting through 18 pieces of evidence. the humour and the interwoven plot is too awesome. OBJECTION!!!
*SWEET*
cooking mama
the difficulty curve for the recipes is very gradual. what i didn’t like though, is how japanese all the meals suddenly became. still, i like getting gold medals for my imaginary dinners. “Even better than mama!”
*SWEET*
mario kart
we (ds clan) definitely play this when we get together. at yong tau foo, coffee bean, night of debauchery. i was never interested but they forced me into a game and i was hooked. how could i not be? i can shoot turtle shells and sotongs at my love rivals!
*MULTIPLAYER MADNESS*
guitar hero: on tour
only one song at a time unless you want to watch your hand do a little spasm dance. despite being a great adaptations, it ain’t the real thing. (i bet real guitar players think the same of guitar hero, but whatever.) still, i love that jt bought it for me. :D
*SOKAY LA*
ode to supernova
memories are cheap novellas; simultaneously aspiring and failing. the past is a sterile, cold thing that you can never hope to immerse yourself in.
you recite a second, third, fourth-hand account of an event you attended in another lifetime. continue on and soon your nose is growing, a year becomes an eon and you’re muttering facts that may as well be geographical trivia or a little known treatise on an unproven law of physics for all the warmth you show it.be that as it may, time is still a-ticking. if the law of gravity is one day disproven, will it then cease to apply to us?
a stream of recollections is triggered by an off-key note of your favourite song; it is the clichéd flame that ignites and burns bright. from starlight to ashes on your tongue. new old meaning infuses the mind’s dry, humourless fabrications, suddenly reconstructing the moment you fell in love. and out again. music rekindles that delicious pain which we also knew – but never acknowledged – as pleasure.
try as you may, you’ll never recall a one true memory we shared unless struck by a song you claimed as ours, when it was a little too late.
fear not, tomorrow brings a new day to cry, a new lifetime to lie.
whiskers on kittens
backdated: night photo from the company trip in tioman.
photo taken by a colleague with a huge… camera.
30-second long exposure settings + sony ericsson w810i flashlight = kitty!
wordpress wrapping text around images
for the more current wordpress versions (2.1.x and above), the align commands in the built-in rich text editor don’t work too well. so text will not wrap around your images (without some tweaking). arghhhh!
these changes are made under the assumption that your current theme is a little dated.
formatting is controlled in the main stylesheet under img.styles:
img.alignright {float:right;}
img.alignleft {float:left;}
such a simple yet annoying fix.
vspace and hspace don’t work either (nothing does, it seems) so open up that stylesheet and add this on to the previous block:
img.alignright {float:right; margin:0 0 1em 1em;}
img.alignleft {float:left; margin:0 1em 1em 0;}
there is a class for centralised text, but since there isn’t an issue with text wrapping, there’s no need to touch it.
if it ain’t broke, don’t fucking fix it, yo.
little light beats
it’s one of those days where i feel like just knocking back few shots of vodka, turning all the lights down and dancing to the strobes of my disco lamp.
i shall plan the rest of my playlist on the drive home. :)
The LK - Private Life of a Cat
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
The Spinto Band - Oh Mandy
Jack Conte - Yeah Yeah Yeah
Röyksopp - Remind Me
Interpol - Slow Hands
Bloc Party - Flux
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
Daft Punk - Touch It / Technologic
Hadouken! - That Boy That Girl
Klaxons VS Crystal Castles - Atlantis To Interzone
Peter Bjorn & John - Young Folks
The Knife - Heartbeats
Yo La Tengo - My Little Corner of the World
Ash - Girl From Mars
Girl In A Coma - Their Cell
Zolof The Rock & Roll Destroyer - Plays Pretty For Baby
Tegan & Sara - Walking With A ghost
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can’t Stop
The Futureheads - Let’s Dance
it burnnssss, precioussssss
so Baby and YC are back from hong kong and singapore respectively.
met them (plus a one mr. a, khairul producer/art director and a “who the hell is fatul”) for dinner at nando’s. lovelies had lovely presents for me. :)
before dinner, i dropped by finnegan’s for their 3rd anniversary. a first for me. i’ve never actually made it in time for the free flow, instead relying on finn or kabi to book me a few beers.
downed 2 beers and flew back to subang on the NPE. i never realised how fast my kittymobile can go (130km/h).
i admit being a little tipsy, and hence i thought it a great idea to polish off nearly a whole bottle of garlic peri-peri with my lemon & herb chicken.
am suffering the consequences now.
do not use the ladies after me, i’m warning you.
turning china-nese
baby’s turning into an iddy bitty yc! complete with bangs and gold retro casio!
hahahahah
less mouse-chasing, more languid stretching
this is my current favourite song - Private Life of a Cat by The LK (The Love of Kevin, Chaos, Colour and the Sound of K). it hooked me the second i heard it. really lovely stuff. it reminds me very much of The Postal Service.
free and hopefully legal (i haven’t checked) downloads here.
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