Clubber of the Year 2008, Preliminary Rounds

Whew, real tired but glad I made it. I slept late (3am) but woke up early (7.30am) and went straight to Suntec after breakfast. Made my way to Atrium. Was real happy and a bit shy to see them again but glad I did.

Was roped into the event participation. Firstly, the chaining combo. I didn't manage to pass due to not being used to the make of the computer and the tough Razor keyboard. Only managed a x1 combo on the Choreography mode. Though I was a little frustrated since it was my favourite chaining Battle Party song "Let's Start It", I told myself that it was just for fun and just shrugged it off.

Later, I took part in the Clubber of the Year Preliminary Rounds. "Party Party" song (132 bpm) Choreography. I missed 3 times, chanced all the way and got second. It was enough to get me to the finals surprisingly. Oh my, I was real chilled down to the bones when I saw I was the only one with the "blue title" of Novice where there were so many "purple" and even one or two "red". 2 Clubbers, 1 Amateur, 1 Main, and me the Novice.

But now that I passed it, I will be more worried about the finals. I guess all the rest boils down to luck now that I cannot depend on chaining on foreign keyboards huh? Or maybe I should train up faster 4K and 8K + chance a bit more after my revision. Stress....

I'll let the pictures do the talking so here goes:

Event at Reservoir!

Yup it is here. Finale of the Arts Festival in Singapore for 2008 - Hydro Sapiens by The Lunatics from the Nederlands. Went to watch today, found it quite entertaining but it was so-so in my opinion...

We were entertained by the pyrotechnics used, the love story seems kind of typical but still ok and audiences could connect with the couple somehow, nice ending...but what was the point of the robot in the show? Hmm...

Since today is the first of 3 days, there are 2 more days for folks to catch this event, that's tomorrow and Sunday. Admission is free and it starts at 8pm, though there was a delay today by 20 minutes due to Guest of Honour arriving late (due to jams?).

Here's fireworks from the show taken by my cousin ^^

Good Nintendo DS games

Hmmm okay since I've played quite a number by now I'm gonna share what games are good to look at.

Traditional Levelling Up RPG genre
Pokemon Diamond/Pearl
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Team
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Explorers of Darkness
Final Fantasy III
Dragon Quest Monsters - Joker
Digimon World - Dawn/Dusk

Real-time Action RPG
Final Fantasy Fables - Chocobo Tales
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles - Ring of Fates
Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Soma Bringer
Summon Night: Twin Age
The World Ends With You
Jump Ultimate Superstars
Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime

Real-time Strategy RPG
Final Fantasy XI: Revenant Wings
Final Fantasy A2: Grimoire of the Rift

Sims genre / Simultations genre
MySims
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Rune Factory Harvest Moon

Music Rhythm Genre
Taiko no Tatsujin DS - Touch de Dokodon!
Meccha! Taiko no Tatsujin DS - 7-tsu no Shima
Elite Beat Agents
Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan!
Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii Osu Tatakae Ouendan 2

Story Narration/Choices, Puzzle, Mystery, Explorative Genre
Phoenix Wright - Ace Attorney
Phoenix Wright - Ace Attorney Justice For All
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations
Apollo Justice - Ace Attorney
Professor Layton and the Curious Village

Applications
Diary Girl

Bizarre Intriguing Games
Electroplankton

New pouch

Got this new Nintendo DS pouch. Looks pretty nice, especially the strap. I was thinking of replacing the one that was given with the console set since it was starting to yellow. I'll probably throw that one away or so.

Shopping!

Well, went out with Twiggy to get a massage chair and met my cousin who's working there. Pretty interesting how life gets you to meet with people you hardly meet under unexpected situations huh? Anyway I was glad to see family again in good times, I am considered lucky for that. It's comforting to know that he's done fine with his job. We surfed the net with the DSLite and found out that there was quite some reputation with the OSIM brand. Furthermore, after comparing the catalogues we have obtained we decided that the money will be better worth with the OSIM Noro Melody NR-85. I guess that was how Twiggy and I made the decision to make a second trip down to that store and get the chair after we finished sharing the LJS meal. Though it will burn her pockets I guess =( I can't help her with that, but since she was bent on getting that chair I don't think it's good to get a half-past-six one yeah? I swear I wasn't biased towards my cousin or anything, I only remembered he was working there after my Mum reminded me over a phone conversation.

I'm slightly worried about something but I'm sure he will handle it fine. He's my cousin after all. Twiggy, if you are reading this, just remember to be careful with that chair alright? Haha.

But terribly, I know I bend that catalogue paper pretty badly when I handled it in my hands. It's not that I'm angry or what, I was nervous. Guess my body language for today was real bad, I'm not too agile in thinking for today. In fact, I was a little sleepy.

I'm considering about the Noro Max Relaxer which will take up less space but Freddy was advising against spending money due to my Dad. He knows how strict he is with us and how he is not too happy with extravangance with money. I think I will probably discuss with Mum/Dad first anyway, and it will be my own money if it is really bought. Or maybe it may be a shared gift to both of them since I owe Mum a present this year too. How nice of me. Yea I'm being sarcastic on myself lol. Actually don't really need a massager but I guess it may help Mum a lot since she does a lot of walking too. And we really cannot have a massage chair at home.

Anyway, we also saw this poster when browsing through one of the DVD/VCD stores at Century Square. Top part and bottom part of poster taken. DGrayman poster in the centre with two separate banners to the top and the bottom of it.

Although I did not follow much of the saga behind it, I practically lol-ed when I saw this. At least two parts were ironic.

Ok that's all for today, till next time.

Boring!!

I almost forgotten one of my passwords! Hmm but I manage to get it back after a while. To think of it, how I remembered was because I traced it back to an old friend who helped me to sign up there. I gave an extremely stupid but unique password which was quite memorable.

Korean Audition never fails to disappoint. They have Club Dance II which was pretty sweet, Dynamic 4 crazy which was definitely crazy. And I think they are moving into season 2 soon. Surely that will be better, since most of the modes there (even the new ones) are beginning to feel stale in concept. They are just using novelty to sustain, and the client is really getting bigger. If they do not even move into season 2, perhaps it will be terrible. After all, their server information has already been leaked out since a while ago.

I really have very little patience to go through a game now since the concepts are almost always the same. Grinding, repetition are like the hallmarks of such online games. The community is a holding factor, but sadly, it is not realistic here. I sent an email days ago and he has yet to reply back. Never mind, sort of expected it anyway. I have deleted Mabinogi as it was starting to become stale.

But aside from that, I think my revisions are really becoming stale. Eek. That's it, no more playing around from now on.