my second blog

End of my FM2010 first season

2009-12-17T10:52:00.004+08:00

Have not been blogging because I'm so busy with gaming. Especially with Football Manager 2010! Here are my first season results:

Premier League: 9th place
League Cup: 4th Round

Players I bought

This result was not bad for me, since I was to help Wolves avoid relegation. I've done that and now I'm in the midst of my second season with a transfer budget of 30 million. My aim is to ultimately, transform Wolves from a bottom tier team to the same level as the Big Four. I released most of my staff and hired better coaches and scouts to aid me. Of course, I signed a few players in the January transfer window. I bought a Striker, Matias Defederico to my team, whom I think will bring this squad to the next level:

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Here is my current lineup

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A few of my first team players are injured, but the subs are doing quite a good job in their place.

Hot and spicy.

2009-11-25T19:49:00.003+08:00

Tried the spicy and sour noodles for a change. Yay I finished it. Tomorrow could be the last day of school, and holiday may start earlier then I expected. But still I have to return to school on Monday and next week there is the last exam I have to take for this module. Officially then it is the end of the year. Unsure about the YOG volunteer thing, I don't wish to dedicate my holiday just for the sake of CCA points that I don't really need. lol. Maybe I will just update my daily Football Manager 2010 updates on this blog. See if I have what it takes to take my club, Wolverhampton to the top.

The final countdown

2009-11-18T10:02:00.004+08:00

As of now, we have finished almost all of the tests we have. One left. Just have to deal with the IFA project now, complete the final test and I'm home free. After that, holiday for just 3 weeks, and I'm back into the fray again. Damn.

Oh and L4D2 is out everywhere. I rather buy a boxed copy of it, since the people on Steam forums had issues decrypting the game when it was hours away from launch. A little funny, since almost 3/4 of the forum's first page was filled with Steam-related issues.

Got a god damn mouth ulcer now and I'm finding it difficult to eat properly.

What I think of L4D2.

2009-11-11T11:17:00.004+08:00

A long overdue post, I've been playing the Left 4 Dead 2 demo for a week now. Online and offline. Here is a point list of what I think. Short and sweet.

-Day light is refreshing
-More guns and better gun models then the horror that is the first game
-Melee weapons. Machete. Hacking away at the zombies.
-New kinds of Infected
-The AI Director's random area-placement? Don't know how to describe it.
-The SCAR rifle.
-The guns now make you feel you are playing an actual FPS game.
-The new ammo kinds, incendiary, explosive. Yet to try them.

And the bad...

-Some gun models suck. That is the weapons from the first game. The Uzi, Hunting Rifle, M16A1 still looks retarded. Pump Shotgun, however looks fine to me.
-Some of the view origins look retarded. Especially the Uzi.
-Bile Bomb is not needed.
-Fix the AK's bullet spread. (This is an online co-op game where you shoot at millions of waves of zombies and having CS-like recoil just doesn't work well. I imagined it to be the second most common weapon players will choose though.)

Yay. More good points then the bad. This should be the game L4D1 was.

Relegation and promotion.

2009-11-07T12:25:00.002+08:00

Did my test yesterday, passed but a little sad to say that a large proportion of the class did not make it. But the good side is they have a retest, but with a max mark of 50. This scenario reminds me of the promotion/relegation system in football. Clubs performing well may jut get promoted to a higher league and underperforming clubs may just get the drop at the end of the season. I personally strive to gain promotion to study in a Polytechnic. Just like how Newcastle is now aiming to get back to the Premier League. Probably too much exposure to Football Manager. Thinking of this, I may just post an "Attributes" of me screenshot. A parody of the game. This looks fun.

The true test.

2009-11-04T20:26:00.003+08:00

Went to school early for revision, since there is a test this Friday. Studied till around 12 before helping out for the school's street soccer tele-match competition. Let's say you have the power of "time" in your hands. Was really thirsty when both of my friends took the trouble of going all the way to East Point to buy the whole class drinks. Was surprised when they brought:

-Around four 1.5 litres of Coke/Sprite/100 Plus bottles
-A packet of ice
-A whole lot of plastic cups enough for everyone

Thanks guys. Standing in the sun for a long period. Just what everyone needed was a drink.

Gibus Hat?

2009-10-31T09:20:00.002+08:00

Fast paced weekend for me. That means, doing the following:
-Complete my project's financial report
-Final project report
-Revising for a test next week
-Not to mention getting the Gibus Hat in TF2. But got it already.

Heck, even the TF2 is currently busy dealing with their financial report too.

Remember yesterday when Team Fortress 2 was on sale for the ridiculous, mathematically-basically-zero price of $2.49? According to the bean counters, we're now broke. Man, what were we thinking? Anyway, in a desperate attempt to move some units, make up the shortfall, and save the company, TEAM FORTRESS 2 IS ON SALE FOR $2.50 UNTIL 7PM PDT! Pennies from Heaven!

Source:http://teamfortress.com/post.php?id=3036

Oh, and the L4D2 demo is ready for pre-loading today. Play the demo when it is released.

What? Steam Servers busy? That sucks.

Best job ever?

2009-10-28T10:10:00.005+08:00

Played a little of the Football Manager 2010 demo, seems fun enough. Not sure whether to buy this game for myself as a birthday gift. The game hailed as "The Greatest Job On Earth". Anyway, this is probably the only game I can still run on my PC.

It's all about statistics and numbers. And of course tactics. I'm not sure this or Left4Dead 2. Football Manager is mostly text-based, while L4D2 is all about the bells and whistles combined with blistering gameplay. Now that bells and whistles are mentioned, probably I can't run L4D2. My PC ran it at a poor 18-30 fps when I played the first one. With everything set to the lowest and even a config used. I need to upgrade my PC.

Both sides of the conflict.

2009-10-24T12:15:00.003+08:00

Just finished watching Letters from Iwo Jima, and to say it was quite a touching movie to say.

I watched quite a number of war movies, and most(If not all) of them are told from the point of the victor. This movie is told from the Japanese soldier's point of view. The story was gripping and it can easily stand up to the "action" kind of war movies. I could have written a short review of it here, but I am still awed by it even after the end. But just one sentence can sum up the main focal point of the story: Both sides think alike and they just want to return home.

Alright, maybe my sentence was not that well-thought up. Very hard to convey to words, you need to watch it to see what I mean.

2009-10-22T19:45:00.004+08:00

Nothing special today. Played FIFA 010 with a particular Chelsea fan in my class. Match was really tense and I held him to a draw, only for the game to disconnect halfway.
Round 2:
Chelsea 1 - Manchester United 1
Chelsea 2 - Manchester United 1
Chelsea 2 - Manchester United 2
Final Result:
Chelsea 3 - Manchester United 2

Yeah, really tense match. Could have gone either way. I lost due to my nerve, hands was constantly shaking. Oh yeah. Happy birthday to myself.

Minutes to midnight.

2009-10-21T19:31:00.003+08:00

Just a couple of hours before I turn 17. This is the only birthday I dread the most, wishing it wouldn't come that fast. Not to mention unwillingly waiting for that letter. I feel I have missed out a lot of things a 16-year old teenager would normally do. It's like 17 seems far off, and yet it is a couple of hours away. Wanted to blog about school but I am feeling down.

I wish I could turn back the clock.

Ironically, I hope it passes by fast so I can carry on with my life.

Flu day.

2009-10-20T19:58:00.004+08:00

Woke up at around 6.45 am and went to school. And had a bad flu when class started. Really agonizing when you get it. Strangely, my flu often falls on a Tuesday. I affectionally call it "Flu-Day". That's when I wake up and it is really cold. Heard that chicken rice could cure the flu and I ate it for lunch.

Picture wasn't taken very well. Try to do something properly when you have a flu.

To make my life even worse, the chicken bones constitute 65% of the chicken meat. Other than that, I can't really recall much. The emergency flu pill I carry with me around has drowned my mind and I began to drift off after eating it.

Second coming

2009-10-19T21:38:00.000+08:00

Alas, I have changed my blogskin. Like the first I made around 2 years back, the skin is quirky and display errors may pop up. And that's why I switched blog addresses since the old blog posts don't agree with my skin. So again, I will do the wait-and-see tactic. Anyway, this blogskin came to me while my game was updating and I was browsing through the update notes to see what changes have been applied in-game. 4 weeks and more did I finally come to this design. The Green Day one was scrapped in favour of this. Here's to another round of blogging. Cheers.