My holiday!

Over the Chinese New Year holidays, I went with my father, mother, uncles and aunt to Genting Highlands Resort, first of all, let me state something: I'm sorry, I did not get you guys gifts. I forgot, sorry.

First of all, we went to the coach terminal at Lavender. As we were early, we decided to head to a nearby coffeeshop for breakfast, when we got back, we boarded the coach.
After around 7 hours, we reached First World Hotel at Genting! the weather there was very chilly, 14 degrees Celsius! Almost as cold as it was when I went to Korea 2 years ago!

After checking in and plugging in my PSP which had run out of battery on the way to the charger, we went down to the level of the indoor theme park and ate 'Kenny Rogers' for dinner where I had spaghetti and muffins we went around exploring the whole hotel and shopping a little. While shopping, I met Nikki who was also holidaying at Genting! what a small world! My parents had bought me another stufffed white tiger for my collection, which has now been expanded to three! Afterward, we went up to 'level 2A' and into the bowling alley! Our lane was full of problems, first, my bowling ball kept getting stuck at the back of the lane and I had to wait around 2 minutes each time for it to return back to the bowling area, as well as the pins getting sweeped away before the end of the frame. In the end, I played three games and I ended up with scores of around 100 for each of the 3 games. We did not do much on the first day, and I was very tired from the coach ride so I decided to sleep early.

Here's a picture of my three tigers:

Aren't they cute, I named theme after the three brothers of Shu: (From left to right)
Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Liu Bei!

On the second day, we woke up and had a buffet breakfast that I feel was lacking in quality. Afterward, we went to Diadora and my parents bought me a pair of long pants and then, My father, uncles and I went to the outdoor theme park. While we were in the queue of a roller coaster, the weather took a turn for the worse and it started raining. more than half of the rides were closed because of the bad weather so we had no choice but to visit the indoor theme park the roller coaster was mediocre, but being indoors they were unable to make a very exciting one. The bumper cars were going way too slow and I could hardly feel any impact at all, and the line for the 4D movie was way too long.

We went to the arcade where we tried a few video games as well as skill games, in which we won some tickets and points to exchange for prizes! I won a kiddy bag with a tiger on it as I hit a 'big prize' in one of the skill games. Afterward, we had a very good buffet at a nearby hotel which i think was Resort hotel where I ate till I could not eat anymore. After dinner we headed back to our rooms and I played my PSP and slept.

On the third and final day, we did more shopping and went around browsing through the shops. On the coach back there was an electrical socket beside my seat, which I made very good use of and charged my PSP while playing. On the way back, we were stopped by some Malaysian traffic police for a reason that i still do not know until now. We got home at about 8.30p.m and rested up, that's why you get to read this post today!

I fell that although Singapore is not as big as Malaysia, our government is much better and controls the country very strictly yet fairly which is why now we are so prosperous. I feel that I am very fortunate to live in such a safe and peaceful country such as Singapore.

More pictures will come in soon!

Check out my favourite games!

Whenever I feel bored after finishing my homework, I would either take out my PSP or switch on my computer to play the games Monster Hunter and Left 4 Dead.

Now I'll be talking about Monster Hunter!
Monster Hunter is an RPG game made by Capcom, basically the game essentially, the game revolves around you hunting giant monsters that range from monkeys called Congalala, wyverns like naruga kuruga (the one in the picture) and elder dragons like Lao Shan Lung (yes, 老山龙）. See the links I have? skiesofcroda? It's a very nice forum for things related to Monster Hunter!

Basically, there are two types of hunters, blademasters and gunners. As implied by the names, blademasters use melee weapons than can be hammers, greatswords or even lances! Blademaster armours usually have twice the defence of gunner armours as fighting up close to monsters is usually dangerous. Gunners use ranged weapons that are Light bowguns, heavy bowguns and bows. Gunners 'trade' the range capabilities for half the defence of blademasters, this lack of defence usually means that certain monsters are able to make you 'faint' in one hit.

I usually hunt with Kiran, Charley and Nicholas Yuen. I am a gunner and so is Charley, though now he also uses melee weapons more often than me. Nicholas and Kiran are mainly blademasters who use ranged weapons occasionally.

This is a video showing a group of hunters hunting a monster called 'Blangonga'



Here is a video of Left 4 Dead:


The background of this game is that mutation to the stain of rabies and the virus spreads through the human population very quickly, turning them into grotesquely disfigured, as well as very violent zombies that attack the uninfected on sight. You get to play as one of the four uninfected stuck in a city crawling with zombies and you must fight through the hordes of zombies to reach the safety of a rescue vehicle to finish the campaign. There are four campaigns which include five levels which you have to fight through, with the last level called a 'finale' where you must make a stand against the zombies until the rescue vehicle reaches your destination.

There are special types of infected, and they are all shown in the video. The first one shown was the witch, in one in the room with the red eyes that was wailing and suddenly lurching at the survivors the moment she noticed them, the witch can kill you in one hit on the hardest diffculty and most people avoid it whenever they manage to discover it without it noticing them.

Next shown was the smoker, which uses it tongue to strangle and pull the survivors away when the others are not watching. Even when the smoker s\gets killed, it leaves behind a huge amount of smoke that temporarily blinds the survivors.

Up next was the hunter, swift, fast, agile and deadly. The hunter moves about and quickly pounces on unsuspecting humans, the only way to get it off you is for the other survivors to hit it off you.

Lastly, there was the tank. the huge zombie is what the incredible Hulk would look like if he got infected, he can toss cars at you, rush through walls, and he kills in 2 to 3 hits. What else do you need?

There is another special infected that the video does not show.it is the boomer, the boomer vomits a bile-like liquid on you that would blind you and attract zombies toward you. even when killed, the boomer explodes and the bile-like liquid would also land on survivors nearby.

Well, that's pretty much about Left 4 Dead, yes, I admit it is quite scary but it sure is fun!

Hurray! An update!

I don't know whether to enjoy Wednesdays or to hate them... the day's lessons seemed interesting enough, since there was PE. My arms now feel like break due to the numerous amounts of push-ups I did, which amounted to almost thirty!

Well, the day started quite badly, it was mother tongue reading period. Jonathan ended up spitting out water from his mouth onto the floor as he laughed while drinking water, it was very disgusting and totally grossed me out. Other than that, no real incidents happened, until later.

Next was English, Mr tan went further elaborating on blogs and told us that our blogs must be ready to be peer-assessed tomorrow. Which is why I'm writing this post in the first place.

Anyway, next up was PE, we failed to 'fall in' in time and ended up needing to do more than 10 push-ups. Afterwards we learnt the basics of hockey like dribbling, trapping and pushing the ball. I was chosen to do a demonstration and I failed badly. We had a practice drill which involved a pair passing and trapping the hockey ball. Those that failed had to do 2 push-ups each afterwards. The ones that came in last few in the dribbling practice had to do 20 push-ups... My hockey ball was hit away by someone else, leaving me nothing else to use and so I ended up doing around 30 push-ups in PE lesson, not to mention 10 half-squats and 10 sit-ups...

After PE, I went back up to class to re-hydrate and change back to school shorts before going back down to the school field to play soccer. My team won 3-0 with Aloysius, Feng Yuan and Yash scoring. I didn't get the chance to shoot at all, but I feel that my left foot is my stronger foot and that my teamwork with Marcus is quite good.

When we came back from our soccer match, I found out that Tyler had somehow managed to spray the fire extinguisher, emptying it. Mr Tan was quite... I mean very angry when he found out. Well, who wouldn't when the school is undergoing external validation and this kind of stuff happens? Zhaf and Keith handled the situation quite effectively, listening to the class' suggestions before deciding on a course of actions. I think we have chosen the right monitors.

For geography, talked about reasons leading to high population rates and watch a video about China's one child policy. Nothing much more to talk about though... I most certainly will have ideas after Saturday but I'm considering keeping the 'CCA' theme for the last post.