Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Gah! Zombie!

recently, my housemate: lih hern introduced me international chess and how to play it. it is surprisingly easy to play and fun. beginner like me can defense against lih hern more than 20 minute before i losed. XD it is fun though, with the combination and collaboration of few chess and technique, the king has no where to run and ended up being check.

what will happen to the King after being checked XD that is, the King will have no life! XD surviving is the main purpose of the King while the purpose of the player is winning. what happens when the player loses? what should he do?

my motto is always been struggle till the end, never give up. but, when it's the end, then it is the end. i will just move on, play another game and hoping that this time u can win by trying.

same goes to the Zombie in those shooting game, i use House Of The Dead as an example. i have seen my friend playing it, he is very good, but often gets hurt by the zombie when he devastates the whole upper part of the zombie but it still coming after him. it is scary and annoying at the same time when u successfully killed the zombie and it refuses to die. maybe zombies has too much pride, do they? =/

accepting the fact that i have lost is one of the important step in life :)
i want to stay alive and have life, rather than taking the zombie's lifestyle :P

Monday, April 17, 2006

Guide for Efficient Internet Mesenging

"hey man, i wonder if u..."
Still starting a conversation that way?
Nah, that's so "last millenium"!
Nowadays in internet mesenger like Yahoo Mesenger, we use more quick and convenient language.
Thus, the culture of shortform is getting more popular.

Usually we would ask "hello? are you there?",
that would be too formal and troublesome.
Come on, cut the crap; be more casual and direct!
Like: "hey, you there?".
Sounds better right?

Maybe the word "hey" is just not yourself... :-?
Here's a more general one which fits most people:"r u there?".
Notice the "are" being changed to "r" and "you" is just plain o' "u"
This is totally ok, normal and common in Internet mesenging!!
Your friends will understand~ No worries!

But, can it be shorten? Once more?
Let me try, change "there" into "thr"...
and VOILA!!!
Now u have "r u thr?"
This is what i call short form!!

Wait, you saying that it still can be shorten?
Yes, u're right!
By throw away the "r"
You can just say "u thr?"
And the meaning of the sentence is still the same!!
Man, you learning quick!!

And some people even go extra miles in mastering the art of short form.
They just say "thr?",
which originally means "hey, i wonder if you are there? i want to talk to you."
Yea, and don't worry that others don't understand that, it's their fault by not catching up.
So, it's alright to join in the band wagon of typing short form

Some people who practise more efficient time management would brilliantly use the Buzz function in Yahoo Mesenger.
The shortcut key is pressing Ctrl + G
Doing so, it will send out a buzz which sounds like a door bell to ur recipient.
Technical speaking, this is much more efficient than asking "thr?" which we had short formed so far.
Buzzing only requires u to press 2 button; while typing "thr?" needs to type 5 keys including enter to send.

Don't worry that u are not being polite that buzzing people out of no where and expecting people to respond to you.
Everyone does that! just join the band wagon and save time!

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Yoda: "Do this u can!"

"what do u fighting for?"
"can u get up by urself?"

u seen these type of tricky and catchy dialogue in those thought provoking movies. Have u try to answer this question before?

People are surprisingly fragile at the inside. We get hurt easily on many things. and, there are those time when we losses our faith and motivation.

Somehow, the important part is all about how we stand up by ourself.
Remember ur parent that never lift u up when u fell down?
Remember that ur teacher that refused to tell u the answer and let u think whole day on a stupid question?
And remember that when u or ur friend said: "don't tell me the answer, i can do this."

As we grow up, we encounter things and we not likely to success in every obstacle. What keeps us going is our motivation and beliefs.

"have u found ur motivation yet?"

Monday, April 03, 2006

Ad sites by Ms Ad!

this is an advertisement site being shared by one of my favourite lecturer - Ms Adeline

u guys can go through it and look at the cool ads over there
maybe u too can generate some creative advertisement urself
1> mytalents
2> trendwatching
3> interactivehub
4> adrag
5> adparade
6> adtimes
7> ad awards
8> ads of the world
9> i have an idea
10> brand channel
11> luerzers archive
12> ad critic
13> spring wise
14> shots
15> creative criminal
16> ad weak
17> campaign brief

enjoy ;)