"Woah."

wow. i just watched this movie "equilibrium" on tv and it was goooooood.

...it was like gattaca on guns...

it brought me back to the day i watch the matrix for the very first time as a wide-eyed 16-year old:

"woah."

seriously dudes, if u haven't watched this or even heard about this movie (released in 2002) u should watch it.

the main protagonist is like 'the one' in the first matrix.. minus all the philosophical mumbo jumbo .. plus u don't have to wait until 5/6th into the movie to get a taste of his neo-like moves.

remember the good old days when we watched flicks like 'the big hit' (1998) or 'face-off' and we were like "wah lieauuuuuuuuuuwww, how the -- did he do that!??!?" ... or remember the silence as our eyes were glued to the projection screen just after neo and trinity demolished the office lift lobby?? .. this movie is like that.



















the coolest thing about 'equilibrium' is the gun-fight/fighting scenes... okay okay, so it screams of a matrix rip-off.. but u have to see this to appreciate it for urself...

in the movie, the main character is one of the elite force (known as the Clerics) who practice a form of martial arts called 'gun kata'.... a technique involving all the fighting moves u see in the matrix (sans bullet time) ... plus guns ... in close combat.

gun kata is described in the movie itself as such:

"Through analysis of thousands of recorded gunfights, the Cleric has determined that the geometric distribution of antagonists in any gun battle is a statistically-predictable element. The Gun Kata treats the gun as a total weapon, each fluid position representing a maximum kill zone, inflicting maximum damage on the maximum number of opponents, while keeping the defender clear of the statistically-traditional trajectories of return fire. By the rote mastery of this art, your firing efficiency will rise by no less than 120%. The difference of a 63% increased lethal proficiency makes the master of the Gun Katas an adversary not to be taken lightly."

drool.










aiyah... cannot describe la. go. watch.

interesting to take note

http://torrentfreak.com/ip-harvesting-filesharers-guilty-until-proven-innocent/

The Manifold Faces of Vista

huddle up

here's a shot that i dug up

i was made by the other instructors to pose for pictures back in bmtc. all those staged garang shots were we were all macho and all.

i wasn't really in the sprit of things, thus the lousy camo and the mood face.

but it's a barrel of laughs when we look back.

the 38th parallel

our globe traveller mark tay is heading to the land of kim chee, korea. south korea that is.

departing on monday, wanna wish him a safe journey and bring back lots of pictures and
memories.

here's a shot of the korean dmz. that's where both the commi north meets the free south. the
blue building runs through the 2 countries. the microphone cord inside the room serves as
the true boundry.

The view from the top of the Freedom House pavilion. The large concrete building is in North
Korea. The buildings painted in United Nations blue straddle the border between the two
countries.

The exact border is the raised concrete strip that runs between the blue buildings at the
midpoint, visible in this picture. The half of the buildings in the foreground is South
Korea, the back half is inside North Korea. The border cuts the buildings into two equal
parts, and it is here where Korean delegations from both sides of the border conduct
negotiations

the war's not over, it's currently at a cease fire truce. they're still war yeah. so war can
erupt at any time. but no action for the past 50 years that is.

safe trip mark, kiss kim il's ring for me yeah!

saturday huck, disc in!

saturday, again is around the corner

for the past weeks. some of us have made the effort to hit siloso beach for games of frisbee.
we managed to play a game with some kids from melinia institute, there were about 2 barker boys, they graduated like last year, class of 2006, damn man, we're so old. they called themselves m.i., vs us, l.i.t., long island tea.

final score, a close 6 - 7, with lit winning.

kudos to mark tay for comin down, batter late than never, can't say the same for barnie though. body check!

this is what you missed.

come la.

saturday, 3pm siloso beach. when you see flyin discs, you're at the right spot

go deep!

4 seconds is a life time!

watched any given sunday at marks studio.

set to the back drop of an american football league with fictious team names and no nfl. about 5 games are played in the film for your testosterone pleasure.

when you have to carry out a play that will determine if you win of lose, it can be pretty nerve wercking. but when you have 4 seconds on the clock left to do that. it can feel like a lifetime, or not. every action thus has to be focused.

what's it like to be at the line of scrumage? must feel pretty intense. the picture shows a game between the denver broncos on left taking on the new england patriots, the denver centre is waiting to pass the ball to the quarter back after the quater back calls the snap count.

also included is the lay out for a play. where each player should position himself.

an intense game distances count, down to the inches. but there are lots of stoppages to this game and everyone has a different part to play. roles are not so interchangable but rather specialised. these are the drawbacks i find in this game. lack of fluidity.

what's your favourite position?

inbound 6

as the caption below mentions.

this is an all out attack. see how messy the armada is

especially like the plane at the foreground of the shot by the sdf-1's leg, bit to the right, (not left as the caption states).

it's all overloaded with bombs. so much so that it's kinda tilted to it's side it's the vf-1e, valkarine (valkarines by the way have something to do with some norse myth, true?) imagine you're using all your power just to keep that baby in the air, or space that is.

also, the left background near the sdf-1 leg, notice the cat's eye, the macross/robotech version of the awac. that too looks nice with a dish over its head.

both these planes are slow flyin one's. don't expect a-wing capability.

A vs A 2

who we? we3!

we3!

what do you get when you cross terminator and the incredible journey. you get we3. we3 tells the story of 3 pet animals, a dawg, cat and rabbit. these guys have been given high end military hardware wired into their systems. it's so advanced, that they can "talk". with limited vocabulary though.

the dawg's the "tank" equiped with surface to air, the cat's the "stealth fighter", all hush and slick, the rabbit's the "mine layer" of the group, it "shits" mines to shake off it's trail.
it's 3 issues. the art's great and price by now has gone up. ding says it's 15 bucks each. that's 45 bucks in total for the 3 issues. day light sia.

so some snaps to oggle, enjoy and dream.

fright of the intruder

the a6 intruder, the pride of the united states navy. all weather carrier based sub sonic
bomber.

this baby has the ability to deliver it's max pay load of about 18000kg to it's target, spot
on at low visibility and rough weather. it was described that the vietnam war could have
been won if it was a stormy night every night, that meant the intruder was able to deliver
it's bombs and anti aircraft would have a hard time shooting or even finding it.

the body shape of the intruder makes it unique and also it's seating configeration of pilot
and bombardier/navigator being side by side. instead of the f-4 or f-14's one behind the
other configeration. kinda feels like being in a car with a navigator. the bombing range of the intruder still exceeds the cabilities of the navy's existing birds. only the sub sonic speed of the intruder makes it open to anti air attacks.

what's your choice of hardware?

Ang Mos have way too much time on their hands!

Star Wars IV Alternative

http://www.morningstar.nildram.co.uk/A_New_Sith.html

March of the emperor

Overseas Marathons!

In addition to our legandary oath to do the Singapore marathon this year, i've something better!

Who's with me and who's a pussy?

Mark Chan is back in town!

just some pics taken...

Wtf....

Rethink

Irritating games

Try these irritating games to waste ur time at work!

X'mas Lunch

Time's Invention of the Year

Very aptly, Time's invention of the year is YOUTUBE! Here's the full story..

Meet Peter. Peter is a 79-year-old English retiree. Back in WW II he served as a radar technician. He is now an international star.
One year ago, this would not have been possible, but the world has changed. In the past 12 months, thousands of ordinary people have become famous. Famous people have been embarrassed. Huge sums of money have changed hands. Lots and lots of Mentos have been dropped into Diet Coke. The rules are different now, and one website changed them: YouTube.
It's been an interesting year in technology. Nintendo invented a video game you control with a magic wand. A new kind of car traveled 3,145 miles on a single gallon of gas. A robot learned to ride a bike. Somebody came up with a nanofabric umbrella that doesn't stay wet. But only YouTube created a new way for millions of people to entertain, educate, shock, rock and grok one another on a scale we've never seen before. That's why it's Time's Invention of the Year for 2006.
But if YouTube is the Invention of the Year, who exactly invented it?
Let's be clear: we know who started it. That would be three twentysomething guys named Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. At a Silicon Valley dinner party one night in 2004 they started talking about how easy it was to share photos with your friends online but what a pain it was to do the same thing with video.
So they did something about it. They hacked together a simple routine for taking videos in any format and making them play in pretty much any Web browser on any computer. Then they built a kind of virtual video village, a website where people could post their own videos and watch and rate and comment on and search for and tag other people's videos. Voilˆ: YouTube.
But even though they built it, they didn't really understand it. They thought they'd built a useful tool for people to share their travel videos. They thought people might use it to pitch auction items on eBay. They had no idea. They had opened a portal into another dimension.
The minute people saw YouTube they did its creators a huge favor: they hijacked it. Instead of posting their home movies, they posted their stand-up routines and drunken ramblings and painful-looking snowboarding wipeouts. They uploaded their backyard science projects, their delivery-room footage and their interminable guitar solos. They sent in eyewitness footage from the aftermath in New Orleans and the war in Baghdad—from both sides. They promulgated conspiracy theories. They sat alone in their basements and poured their most intimate, embarrassing secrets into their webcams. YouTube had tapped into something that appears on no business plan: the lonely, pressurized, pent-up video subconscious of America. Having started with a single video of a trip to the zoo in April of last year, YouTube now airs 100 million videos—and its users add 70,000 more—every day.
What happened? YouTube's creators had stumbled onto the intersection of three revolutions. First, the revolution in video production made possible by cheap camcorders and easy-to-use video software. Second, the social revolution that pundits and analysts have dubbed Web 2.0. It's exemplified by sites like MySpace, Wikipedia, Flickr and Digg—hybrids that are useful Web tools but also thriving communities where people create and share information together. The more people use them, the better they work, and more people use them all the time—a kind of self-stoking mass collaboration that wouldn't have been possible without the Internet.
The third revolution is a cultural one. Consumers are impatient with the mainstream media. The idea of a top-down culture, in which talking heads spoon-feed passive spectators ideas about what's happening in the world, is over. People want unfiltered video from Iraq, Lebanon and Darfur—not from journalists who visit there but from soldiers who fight there and people who live and die there.
The videos may not be slick, but they're real—and anyway, slick is overrated. Slick is 2005. The yardstick on YouTube is authenticity. That's why celebrities like Paris Hilton and P. Diddy can compete with a cute sleepy kitty and a guy doing a robot dance—and lose. That's why Peter's crusty, good-natured reminiscences have made him the all-time second-most-subscribed-to uploader on YouTube. That's why Michael J. Fox let his Parkinson's tremors show. That's why politicians have suddenly started to act like real human beings in their campaign ads, and why some—like Senator George Allen of "Macacagate" fame—have been busted for getting a little too real.
Less than a year after its launch, YouTube has become a media giant in its own right. Last month the company moved out of its 30-person office above a pizzeria in San Mateo, Calif., and into an office building in nearby San Bruno. Oh, and on Oct. 16 Hurley and Chen sold the company to Google for $1.65 billion.
With that kind of money behind it, YouTube has to start conducting itself with a little more legal and financial gravitas. That means making money—mostly through advertising—and convincing the TV, movie and music executives who find copyrighted material on YouTube that it's a revenue opportunity and not grounds for litigation. The learning curve is still steep. "The people marketing content see it as a great new platform, but the legal side of the business doesn't know how to react," Hurley says. "We have instances where someone within the company uploaded something, and the other side's asking you to take it down."
But YouTube isn't Napster. It already has partnerships with NBC, CBS, Universal Music, Sony BMG and Warner Music. And come on—it's the one place on the Net where people willingly, knowingly click on ads, like Nike's legendary clip of sharpshooting soccer star Ronaldinho. If you can't find money on YouTube, you're in the wrong economy, buddy.
YouTube is ultimately more interesting as a community and a culture, however, than as a cash cow. It's the fulfillment of the promise that Web 1.0 made 15 years ago. The way blogs made regular folks into journalists, YouTube makes them into celebrities. The real challenge old media face isn't protecting their precious copyrighted material. It's figuring out what to do when the rest of us make something better. As Hurley puts it, "How do you stay relevant when people can entertain themselves?" He and his partners may have started YouTube, but the rest of us, in our basements and bedrooms, with our broadband and our webcams, invented it.

back

hey fellas... sorry 'bout the late notice.. these last few days have been hectic and crazy...

but i'm back in sg! will be here till CNY hopefully...

catch up soon ya..

Check out a great video from PandaSmash.com... it's called "Evil Christmas Carols (Volume 1)"... click here to check it out.

dive dive

this afternon, saturday 23rd dec, head on down to the dawg park at west coast at bout 1600 and you'll see stuff like this. well, not exactly though.

ru ding and i have been headin there with angela and labby (baby) to toss discs with the dawgs and it can be a real dawg fight alright.

the picture shows a frisbee move called a layout, cos you lay out all that you've got to catch the disc. pretty devoted to the cause if you do that.

disc in!

shit storm

must be a bummer for this stormy when the death star blew up.

imagine you're takin a dunk when wedge and lando blew up the reactor core in the 2nd death star in return of the jedi.

i mean, how do stormys take a poop. guess this is it.

mel gibson?

the pattriot missile system

this technology was bugging me during one of me engineering modules. dynamics and control, don't know what so dynamic it is about this subject that no one has control over. was tyin to link something interesting to the subject. but it still didn't make sense.

the principal of how the system is linked to the subject is that once the missile is fired, there's all this guidence and flight path crap that the system has to take into consideration in order to kill the scud.

don't know how i'll do for the subjcet. high kill rate sia.

does this work?

might as well see what all this posting is all about
don't know if this is how you guys do it. see the world through your eyes.

just post your thoughts and anything else right?

but hey if, this shows up. then consider it my first post on the blog site. like that pole on the moon. no holds barred ballz! (no law)

SW

not sure how many of you have seen this before but

Click start and run telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Wanna try?...

Anyone one of you chaps wanna try singing this... DEFINITELY not a prob for the retard gang of Haokenadens!.. Woot!

Updates of W.Ding

Maybe it will finally be over soon.

paaaang saaaaaaai

I had to pang sai.

I love to pang sai

Come on everybody….

PAAAANG SAAAAAAI!!!

BIG BOYZ TOYS!!!!

I tell you... They got this charbor who can spraypaint

miracles on bikes.. Phew, shiok!

And there's a bigini mud wrestling show, if that turns you on.. hehz...

Iraqi Kid Runs for Water

Are you angry yet? We all know what that leads to.

How to make coke.

Got a coca patch growing at home? Don't know what to do with it?

Frisbee!

Okay guys! this coming saturday and next saturday... let's go play frisbee!!

Ipod

http://www.blogmusik.net/

Just for fun

Blender Bender

You know what you'd want for chirstmas?!
http://www.willitblend.com/

Home Sweet Home

Ahh... just in case you guys complain i didn't mentioned when i'm coming back. I'll be back on 20th nov, landing abt 2140.

Anyway... have fun ding! hahahahahahahahaha..... i'm not running this year. But i don't mind meeting up to run! not for the 42k. but for like. 5 - 10k short runs. hahahahahahahaha.... crazy nuts.... what was i thinking last year....

The upcoming die-a-thon

The man, check out the 3rd of Dec, the day where I die again. Sucks.

http://www.singaporemarathon.com/en/route/?sec=204&ssec=553
This year, they included a flash map to 'run you thru' the marathon route.
Blah.
I'm dead.
Joshua's deader. He haven't trained like.. at all.

It's so...... far. *whimper*
*gasp*

They are in London...

Decepticons....Merge and Form..... Devastator!

FF7 Robo Chicken Parody

Hahaha.... oldman, you'll love this!

Coolest piece of flash!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1njc5pCpxDM

Gotta check this out..
This guy got:
1. Way too much time on his hands
2. too much violence on his mind
3. heck a lot of talent with flash!

NTU Survey video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOqXlbWf9Io

Check this clip out man.. damn cock! Confirm engineering lecture..

The Handy Dandy Yellow Box!!

The brainchild of a guy who obviouslt has too much time on his hands, (Mark, not me....) we present to you.... THE HANDY DANDY YELLOW BOOOOX!

It's a little device that all smokers should have in little singapore cos of the anti public smoking law. Since the assholes in charge here dictated that all smokers must stay in stipulated boxes (yellow by default) to take a puff, we decided to give them a portable carry it yourself yellow box! YeaAAhhh! Screw ya!

Next in line... handy dandy zebra crossings! wooohoooooooooo.........

Cheers campaign ads

Haha... sibei funny.. the slow motions camera shots... fantastic!

I missed a lot!

Oh my goodness, seems like i missed a hell of a lot here!

Lots and lots of posts! I shall be back to type more soon, but a very current update on wat's been occupying my time (and fucking up my schedule i might add)

Wow, good comics

check these comics out man...

Bounce Back to Life

this guy really draws very well! and the chio bus are... well, chio lor! ;D (to answer ur question glenn, yes, so wat? ;P )

check this one out too, haha i just love star wars spoofs: singlish star wars



who sez singapore got no talent?

Everlong. Everschlong. woot.

Have you guys ever seen the everlong mtv... its weird....

here's the url.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHdwZCVZmg8

Good morning Sir.

class, all rise!

*shuffle table and chairs*

"good morning, mr fang. happy birthday, mr fang."

*shuffle tables and chairs*

*a lone hand ventures up..*

"sir, what is country rock ah?"

White & Nerdy

Weird Al's baaaaaack! Grrooovy baby .. hahah.... *snort* *narf* Music video by "Weird Al" Yankovic from the album "Straight Outta Lynwood"

A Conversation with Barnabas Teo

10/3/2006 2:26:03 PM KD Barney~! hey barney
10/3/2006 2:26:07 PM KD Barney~! are you going back end of year?
10/3/2006 2:33:16 PM Barney~! KD This is not Barney. i'm just using his msn