This is what I wrote to DSA

Department of Student Affairs.


Comments Regarding Parking Stickers.

The following reasons that the first come, first basis is much more effective than balloting ;-

1) Luck Vs Effort

It is with knowledge that the parking sticker was acquired via balloting. Which involves luck more than effort. If it involves more luck than effort, it will lead to the following consequences :-

IF a student were to choose convenience but at a chance of sacrificing the ticket. The student will definitely queue up and hand in the money up front in the DSA for the parking tickets more than the online application.

If students that really needs to park inside the University but fail to obtain the parking sticker due to luck but not effort. It is certainly not satisfying.

If the students were given a chance for a first come, first serve system, limited amount of parking space, having them to pay on the spot, lining up for hours due to the number amount of applicant but it rewards them by certainty of the parking sticker. They will clearly choose for the first come, first serve option other than submitting online applications but to tell them they failed due to a mere luck.

2) Pricing
Students will rather pay more to extend the sticker's validity. The combination of having a RM 100 sticker with a validity of no more than 4 months would be more efficient if :-

a)There was no balloting involves for every semester.
After four months, students were once again to try their luck to obtain a parking ticket. Which means they will have to through the same procedure all over again and so do the DSA.

b) Extend sticker's validity.
RM 100 per semester with a chance of failing to obtain the ticket after four months is rather harsh for a student. Once again, if the sticker were to extend it's validity in exchange of a higher price, students would rather pay for it than having to try their luck once every four months.

End of comment.

Suggestion.

I would like to suggest the management to further look through this issue and learn to realize that there were so many ways other than balloting for a vehicle sticker.

Apply the First come, first serve rule.
1) Students were given a specific date to submit an application, be it during semester break, or during the study period.
2) The first applicants who paid will be granted the parking sticker on the spot.
3) The others will have to wait for a specific amount of time but receiving the sticker is certain.


As for the sticker Pricing and Validity.
1) Raise the price and extend the validity to at least ONE year.
2) Maintain the price and extend the validity.
3) Maintain the price and maintain the validity and ISSUE more stickers.

End of Suggestion


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Yes Ballot a parking sticker.

Mr.Lawful Good/Chaotic Good/Neutral. RATE ME.

Okay.. since this is the third time I have accidentally deleted my Fallout 3 review.....I shall blog about other things.

I want you guys to rate me. Especially the Usual Suspects but if you guys are not free never mind then.

WARNING.
All materials below were recorded literally using blogger. The events below were true, accurate and somewhat bias because it is from my point of view. Please do not eat while you are reading this blog.

Housemates.... other than sharing a house with you what else do they deserve more? Well, in my case if you listen to me and being reasonable while you are staying with me, we happen to be friends that stay together in the same roof.

My definition of a housemate is, happens only to stay with me in an amount/specific time coincidentally.

Now, I have three friends staying together in same roof and one housemate. The friends were treating me well, but being Ziwen I don't know if they like me. If I can't sense they don't hate me, I guess they didn't. Except for one, which is the housemate.

I shall call him ...err...asshole.

You see, Mr. Anus has an unusual way of talking you see, and he leave a deep impression of hate due to his unfriendly face. In other words, yong sui.

Now why I am acting in such a way?. Reason no.1

1. I NEVER accept his ways of thinking and running the house.

- Mr. Anus is very up-tight, unfriendly, hard to negotiate, calculative, selfish, a bastard and talk way too much. Example in this situation: Friend In need of something important

Friend: Anus, can you lend me something? It's an emergency.
Anus: You already know the answer I won't lend you because I am a realistic person.

This my fellow reader, is a fucktard, a fucktard that thinks he is cool talking this way, a fucktard that scared people away not because of his smart mouth but because of his idiocy.

It's a NO. But It's with attitude and stupidly reflects all of your personalities. By just few of these words I could list at least a few bad things about him.

1. Anus. His name explains all.

2. Scrooge. In order to save his few cents of Ink, he chose to hurt his housemates. In my honest opinion, we will be living and sharing together for a year. If he talks like that it will only show that he is.....

3 An idiot. Idiots comes in alot of shapes and sizes but this came from an arsehole. If only he could share his belongings and enjoy the moment of helping someone in need. Now, I am dealing with someone that would rather save his few cents for a good deed. He could sleep in under the highway for all I care. I just hoped that one day he would desperately need my help.

4. Foul Mouth. Just like an anus, his mouth smells like one. " You know I am a very realistic person." Who the hell talks like that. He failed as a chinese, he doesn't even have a skill of rejecting someone.

5. He don't care, he only treats us as housemates.

After a week of his commanding tones and stupid comments. I snapped. I came out with a plan to tame him and evalueate himself all over again. Actually I never really plan but it's shaping out because I can't take it anymore.

Like any other great plan you have to affect someone morale before you strike you see. You need to show them you are not simple. It all happens while I am driving them to dinner.

Anus: Look! Beauties! Chicks! Stop the car, come one let's go down.
Me: Okay but on you are own if you are going down now.
Anus: By the look in your face I could tell you are not going to wait for me right?
Me: Of course! You are nothing but a housemate to me. You are nothing.
Anus: ....

The conversation should have ended during I said "You are on your own." Instead he chose to challenge me. As conclusion, you never mess with the driver especially when he is in a foul mood.

All of you migh have noticed that I am not online for at least three weeks. I shall now explain the situation.
First week of Uni : Apply streamyx with a dealer.
Second week: Pending, Started to panicked due to assignment.
Third week: Went to TM Point susbscribed again and got it 2 days later.

and his status: Not a single fart from the streamyx for the rest 3 weeks.

I clearly draw the line now because anyone that has the Internet now basically has a privileged of calling the shots.

I said staright on his face, I shall not share the line with you because of two simple reasons.
You mentioned you are a leech that keeps downloading stuff non stop.
Second, you use the phrase, "Once I open my download, all of you don't even need to use because I'll used up all the bandwith."

He panicked, everyone panicked It is the third week of assignment but they have no signs or news from streamyx.

Eventually until one of my housemates told me that having to share for 4 people line it's expensive. Something inside me doesn't feel right, I felt that I had cause him to spend more money, and he looks like from a poor family.

So I decided to share the line with my friends along with Mr. Anus. Of course he will eat up the bandwith, but since it's my Internet. I get to lay down the rules. The agreement is,
1. None of you should argue about the Internet if one is slowing the other, we will all close the download.
2. If anyone refuse to listen and still causing ruckus about the Internet. I will take the line and use it on my own.
3. Nothing is above the rules. Even I have to listen.

In order to keep my promise to the housemates eventhough the line is slow sometimes, we have to know our limit because we are sharing more than five here along with the 1 MB line.

So what I am doing now is, tame Mr.Anus and then prove to my housemates that he is an anus.

Since he is in KL right now, and everyone of my other housemates claimed the line is faster without him. Everyone was jumping about happily due to the speed.

Bottom line: All I want to do is to prove that I am not a selfish person who wants to have my line alone. Instead there is someone with his face as thick as his butt is forcing me to do so.

So, what you think?

100111001100

My life is complete once again, after suffering for three weeks without the Internet. It's like watching porn ...only it's drawn in stick people. Life without the Internet is meaningless.

I am SO BORED that I took out my tutorial question, finished it, lent it to my course mates to copy the answer. BACK IN TARC I DIDN't EVEN BOTHER TO COPY.

Ok enough bout studies.

How do I exactly feel right now.
I am kinda lonely I guess.
Never really have a time to settle down and think bout it.
Well in this semester I have only 2 major assignments which both of them I fairly experienced in.
Since I am starting all over again in Year 1 Sem 1 again. It will be a loooooonnnnnngggg way.

What the heck i thought I said enough about studies =_=.

Kay' here's some good news for the readers if I even have one now. I now have a brand new PSP 2000, so I will be covering some games on this major selling handheld portable console.

Maybe I will show it off later. Muahaha.

If anyone is curious how's life in Kampar I can tell you it's bloody peaceful.. a bit too peaceful for me actually.

My home and the University takes only 3 minutes drive. Yes. 3 Minutes.
But what sad was due to my shitty luck, I failed in balloting a parking sticker for Linda(car).

An unsuccessful attempt of getting the parking will lead you to the sun's heat and ray mercy. For me I don't really mind having a dark skin.

AND Yes, BALLOT. WHO THE HELL DRAW LOTS FOR PARKING. Do parking stickers looks like wheel of fortune to you? It should be first come first basis, and who the hell needs to queue up and wait for a certification date for certifying your documents. I'll tell you who UTAR does.

Okay everything is new here actually, the frustration, the weather, the studies, the tutors, the lectures, the bikes, the cow dung, and the people.

Good thing in UTAR you don't meet any LALA around but alot of cyclist. Which it's been bugging my mind why does everyone needs to have a basket like aunty that hunt for vegetables in the morning market. Pink colored bike, cycled by a boy, with a basket infront of the stering. It's like kissing a boy. Twice! and being oked in the butt thrice! and eating two hots dogs in a chili dog.

Security Guard in UTAR is err...errr..what is the word.... not PR-ABLE. Ben's usual speech talk won't work in UTAR, it's like him trying to talk to his current Chinese media writing tutor. I had never fail entering any tertiary education insitute and this is the first.

SITUATION:

Me: Mau masuk hantar orang boleh a (smile and showing ID)
Idiotic Guard: Apasal? Tak boleh hantar orang punya. (One of the most hideous expressions that I wanted to punch on)

Me: Apasal tak boleh? I am a student, I hantar orang masuk. Mengapa tak boleh?
Idiot Guard: Sebab I cakap tak boleh, you orang cakap mau hantar orang lepas tu masuk dalam parking.
Me: Kalau you biar kita masuk, then kita parking, siapa punya salah?
Idiot Guard: Saya punya salah sebab I kasi you masuk! ( angry tone somemore, shouted somemore.)

Me: (I Snapped) You are just a fucking guard that guard the gates and stopping tresppasers to park inside the area, I showed you my ID, proving that I am a student in UTAR, and you still treat me like a fucking tresppaser, now what is your problem?
Idiot guard who can't keep up with my english: Okay! okay! Keluar balik nanti.

Me: thank you, drives away and reel down the window while popping out a middle finger while honking. *which is so not true because i dun do that*

...........

Even an own dog doesn't bark at his master. Pitiful. This is the so called "utilities and securities" that I paid for.

Hmm...nothing special here actually. Except for the peaceful lifestyle which is something new and the awesomO three minutes drive to uni. That's all.

I ALMOST FINISH MY REVIEW ON FALLOUT 3 ! Grande!

Usual Suspects: I miss you guys man! Really I cant find someone like you guys. I MISS TBR, I shall be back during sem break! wait me! Anything you guys want?

Friends back at KL: All the best!

PS. I have yet to lost weight. xD

It is ?

Before entering the main topic, I first apologize for the lack of updates that causes mostly by my stupidity and ignorance. Here were the list that the things I will write for my future posts.

Reviews Updates
- Dawn Of War 2. (lost due to own stupidity, around more than 10 paragraphs were gone.)
- Fallout 3. (Ended in 1032 words. Blackout. No save. GG)
- Zombie Vs Plants. ( Whole page. Gone due to spamming ALT+F4 Key. Forget to save. Good Job)
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine ( Still Playing and researching.)

Now... for the main topic.
I will be going to Kampar tomorrow, for the who don't even have a clue. I am sorry that because I always stay low profile, for the one that knew I will miss you too unless you are not.

First, you start with a formal apology and express gratitude to all your friends that you knew from college to highschool, okay.

It's hard to say which is important and which are not for me. Everyone had their own points and opinion that I liked. So, it doesn't really who comes first all of you were important to me.

I apologized to Rachel, Guan, Ah Yia and Mel for not listening to all of you on staying for Advanced Diploma. I know you guys spent a lot of effort for making me staying in Advanced Diploma.

Now here is something personal for everyone.

Rae, for what I know from the last 2 years experience in college with you. You are one of the most wonderful woman I've ever met. Sadly things really didn't work out well as they planned because I flunked my Diploma If not it will definitely be better for the both of us. I am sorry that I cannot keep the promises that we made together. I am sorry...

Bottom of my heart: Rae... I am sorry that I never listen to any of your advices regarding relationship, I know I always make you puke blood, heartache, rising blood pressure, waste of time,... I am sorry. I hate myself for being a loser too but i can't help it. I am sorry for everything especially my ignorance.

Ben, you are good at anything except for girls and hardwork. Believe me, if you put hardwork into anything you could achieve many things easily. So for everything you do, if you have the"passion" you could easily achieve anything you wish for. You are a good friend that I will always remember and thanks for always supporting me for anything.

Bottom of my heart : A Real friend knew what you really want and need. What you want: Money and a bar. What you need : Someone to take care of you.

Ah Yia, although you always mess around and implying innuendos and sometimes extremely perverted verbal language. You are a good friend. I never hated or dulan with you except for your extremely clingy part of calling me to COD all the time. Other than that, I am fine with it.
I think among all of the friends I am the one who can tolerate your touching maybe perhaps I get used to it already.

Bottom of my heart: Stop touching me, because girls are far more comfortable to lay hands on and plan about your future la.

Ah Guan, don't smoke so much, take care of your weight, exercise more, don't be so mean to Melissa, don't sleep in class, don't piss off the lecturers, study well and pay attention on anything you do.

Bottom of my heart: Cut your hair and be nice to Mel.

Melissa, although we are not that close but I have always try to understand what is going on your mind. You are always mysterious to me. But in the end, all that matters is you really are a good friend. You will always be the traditional kampung heart girl that I know you are.

Bottom of my heart: Don't forgive Ah Guan. Nourish the hate, feed it, pamper it, when it turns to vengeance you buy a radiance...no la just kidding. Please take care of yourself and pray that the torment will end fast.

Okay College friends edition complete.. I wonder will any of my highschool friends read about it lol.

How games evol. A story on Gameplay but it's not fun.

This post is my view on Games and how they evolve. It's my opinion, if you don't like it, you could always leave me a comment. Make sure it has to be logic though.

First let me explain Gameplay.

Gameplay is about everything but for me it is divided into five major categories.
- Storyline
- Controls
- Features
- Audio
- Graphics

Back in those days, you don't really need good graphics to enjoy a game, look at Tetris, 8 bit Famicom cartridge, Wolfenstein. Those are major games but we all have to know that time's changed.

Now, in the 21st century in order for you to be the top of the food chain you have to excel in every aspects of the five major gameplay.

Believe it or not, although now(21st century) people always said that storyline or control comes first, but deep down inside their hearts they would like to play games that have good graphics. Agree?

Well it don't have to be like the PSP 3000 but come on at least it was coloured, at least a Gameboy Advanced color... and of course stereo sound. Mono will do too but at least make it more channels. Okay I am going way off topic.

So, in my honest opinion to make it to the top of, it has to be like this. (21st century)

Gameplay
- Graphics (most Importance)
- Audio
- Controls
- Features
- Plot/Storyline (duh)

Cruel fact but it's true, I think it doesn't really matter if your storyline's a trainwreck because everyone has done almost everything. It doesn't matter if your storyline gets old, it's the way you present them. The way how you show it to the audience.

Imagine.

The heroes kisses the damsel in distress but it only focuses on one angle, black and white, 2D(block of pixels), few pigeons.

Now another,

Same situation but it adds a little music on the background, multiple angles, more colurs but still 2D(still it's square but getting rounder), more pigeons.

AND ANOTHER.

Same situation, but since they can have more things now due to technology. They decide to make the characters into high definition(more round and actually looks like human) edits the music, add in some bullet time while kissing, whole alot of high definition pigeons flying around. Okay that does it, getting way out of hand.

Now you see? The only thing that remains the same is the kissing scene but that doesn't really matters anymore. The important thing here is, how you present them with graphics and audio. So this is why, I've thought of creating a new type of structure that fits my reviews.

It goes like this.
Instead of Five it's Three.

Gameplay
- Presentation
- Controls
- Features

Still, after doing some heavy thinking. You still need a strong cement(storyline) to build a strong platform.

Then you need bricks(graphics) to hold the platform and you need paint(audio) to protect the building from sunshine rays and rains.

As for the controls and features, you can think of them as furniture or housewares. Here is where the game mechanics and controls kicks in.

Now for the definition of control.
The measurement of efficiency on controlling the game's features in a game....too formal.
Actually to put it short and simple, it is how well you can control your in-game features like camera angles, character's action, with your controller pad or keyboard.

Let's see how far has Control evolve.

First, we take a good look at your latest console's controller pads, count how many buttons it has then compared with this.


So we only need two buttons to massacre your opponents and clear the game. Hmm, makes me remember how I clear Super Mario...the good old days.

For the people who do not agree in my opinion that the controllers symbolizes the in-game's features, ask yourself. Can you play Devil May Cry 4 and Metal Gear Solid 4 with two buttons?
And will you mind pressing extra buttons just only to access menus? The answer? No.

Complicated games that requires good maneuverability and accessibility needs a good controller to fully unleash their potential.

That is why the proclaimed abysmal dragon-flying game, Lair, fails, good graphics, good gameplay, good concept but the controls were beyond nightmare.

Another good example is the Capcom's hit title Resident Evil, before Resident Evil 4, you control your character based on set camera angles despite that each room/hallway/corridors/stairs have different camera angles but once you get used to moving around you'll feel much more comfortable (the combat were hectic at first especially being mobbed by a group of zombies.)

Every game has it's own feature be it RPG, Action, FPS, or any other genre. Will you play an FPS that allows you to carry only one gun for the rest of the game? Unless it is stealth game or fill with realism. Or maybe I should ask, will you play an FPS that lets you carry only one weapon and most of your enemies do not die easily. Hell no!

Game mechanics/features must be tweaked, that is why WoW has endless glitchy patches and warlords being nerf by every patch. We have to admit that great games have splendid game mechanics but it needs to be constantly checked, tweaked, reexamined and download. Some patches comes in really large sizes....

Conclusion, perhaps this post is for you to know what I think about games. Those were my points and all of them were based on experience and few dead brain cells. Thank you for your time.

First of Everything.

It’s had been a while since I’ve updated my blog. There were a few reasons that I can’t blog smoothly.

Reason #1
My brand new Sapphire HD4850 GPU is making my Pentium 4 look ridiculous. In other words, my Pentium 4 is bottlenecking my performance. I have the urge to upgrade my computer once again but it’s still too early, it’s been three years I guess, I’ll stick with it for a while more. No ICore7.

Reason #2
Stupid Adobe “Fun pack” screwed up my computer really hard. I cannot even watch .mkv files smoothly now. Still, this is not the main reason.

Reason #3
The equation is,
Poor CPU + New Graphic card = New games running on less than 7 fps.
I’ve bought Cryostasis and tried the game. Unfortunately, It has come to a time that even the low graphical game settings were deemed useless for my CPU to keep up. I could hear my CPU wailing/begging for his master to stop torturing himself in the 10 fps mayhem.I give in.

*End of whining*

*Beginning of the actual content*

The sensation of surfing and trolling around the Internet made me realize that It’s time to share some of my game titles. It’s not that much don’t expect a whole bundle of them.
If you are bored you can always list down the games I have.

*caution* not all game are enjoyable.

Do you still remember what’s your first FPS game? or maybe RPG?
If your first timer were Minesweeper, Solitaire. Freecell or any other Windows component’s game I respect that but it’s not worth mentioning cause everybody touches them back on those days.

First Strategy Game.
Command and Conquer Red Alert. 1996
Windows 1995 version.

I had a difficult time remembering which come first, I thought it was either Starcraft or Red Alert or a very old game called Dark Colony. But I am dead sure it’s not Starcraft because I remembered Tanya’s hysteric laugh way more clearer than Infested Keriggan hatching out from the chrysalis.

I was 10 when my bro bought back a game and found out that it’s an expansion which is called, C&C Red Alert:Aftermath. Since RA is a hit during that time(even now) it was easy to get the original. I do not remember how I played the game, I think I sucked big time.

First First-Person-Shooter ( a pun? That was a coincidence.)
DOOM. (1993)
DOS

I was 9 if I am not wrong and I have no freaking idea how to load the game since it is a DOS version. It means you have to go to Run, type CMD then load..bla bla bla. (frankly, I have no idea even how to do it now.)

You can say that I don’t really enjoy the game, all I knew was I never grow tired of watching my chainsaw grinds through the zombie while watching their red angry blood that spills all over the place like an exploded bottle of jam…strawberries jam…emm…

First Role Playing Game.
Final Fantasy 7 (1997)
Windows 98.

I was 11 when I played this game since it is a RPG all I have to do is to learn the game system and voila. I don’t manage to finish the game until I was 14 due to my computer that runs on a Pentium 2 233mhz of RAM and a TWO GB worth of space. It somehow stop running at one stage of the game and I can’t seem to get through.

And at soon last my Uncle bought a PlayStation Hell yeah. I finished it in 2 days.

Ps. I have no idea what happen to the Dungeons and Dragons system I never really embrace games like Neverwinter Nights and Baldur’s Gates. Anyone mind to borrow?

First Survival Horror.
Resident Evil/Biohazard
Sega Saturn

Before my uncle owns a Playstation, he has a Sega Saturn. Before he owns a Sega Saturn, he has the 3D0. Before all of that he has the FAMICOM (NES).

Here is the link for the video. Click here.
Just scroll to 3.00 of the video and watch the cheeky video. I can’t help but to laugh at the bloody effects following by a horrific voice that says the title.I used to be scared by that. Damn.
*Watch the cast, Jill Valentine looks so much nicer than the current resident evil movie.*

I spend most of the time dying in the game and playing it on the day. At night I would watch my uncle explores and scavenges through the hallways with Jill or Chris. I miss those days…

First Action RPG.
Diablo (don’t remember the year)
Windows 98

I was 12 when I first become a Warrior and slain King Leoric with my holy sword. I bashed and hacked my way through the dark and eerie bloody hallways that filled with the stench of the demonic minions.

The sight of deformed and mutilated corpses that were left around the dark hallways were always filled with precious loots or traps. I hope it moves so i could hacked my sword to their throat sending them back to hell for the second time.

At last on the bottom floor of the Cathedral lies one of the Prime Evils, Lord of Terror, Diablo. He was my goal, my ambition, my glory, the time I spent on the quest, mazes, dungeons and all of this demon slash hacking monstrosity will finally end… until

After all the potions spamming, opening countless of town portals and enduring the painful walloping from one of the rulers from Hell, my hero deals the final blow by slashing his neck and sending back his demonic minions back to the fiery hellhole. It leads to a cutscene showing….

Our hero held the soulstone and plunged it to his forehead hoping that he could withstand the corruption from the demon itself . He failed miserably of course but good attempt, that’s why there is Diablo 2.

PS. I was shocked when he plunged the soulstone into his head. And I have no idea that Diablo 2 will be released.

First Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.
Ragnarok Online (2003)

Before I got my broadband which is the ever unreliable blood puking Streamyx, I used TMNet Dial-up to venture the cute cartoonish 2D world of Ragnarok Online. Since Malaysia connectivity has always been unstable, I suffered a huge lag time for about 2 -3 second until Streamyx is available at my area. It really didn't help much though because the servers were just drastically overpopulated.

Nevertheless, it was fun, dungeon exploring, decapitating monsters, dying an honourable death, teasing noob players, piss off the Pro players and then got owned, hell it was fun.

But all the fun ended when the beta closed and the game started charging money. My life came back to me and I was force to study like every the other two goody shoes students... until I found out that were things such as private servers, which is exactly 3 days after the beta closed.

So what is your first time? Do you remember? Adios, until next time, game on.

What's next?

*Depicted from IGN.*
The games industry keeps evolving- but how far has it go? Being honest, I have no idea what infinite possibilities will the creators create and what they can think of anymore.
While you are sitting in front of the TV playing your future-proof video game consoles, you have no idea when it will be replaced or it's outdated again.

In this post, I will be telling you what is going on the games industry and share some of my opinions on them. *You will find my post more Malaysia oriented.*

3D gaming.

Yes, put on the Rayband 3D glasses by Nvidia and you will see bullets flying out of your tv screens.

Other than movies, you will now experience 3D at your own monitor, it's easy all they have to do is to shrink the size of the cinema screen into a size of an average monitor right? Ok, back to the topic.

Nvdia developed their GeForce 3D Vision which is a 3D solution cost around 200USD$ which is aprox around RM 800. Instead of using the usual polarised glasses of other systems, it uses powered active shutter glasses and a transmitter for the glasses, which results in a very convincing impression of depth. You can also adjust the level of depth on the fly. Nuff readin'. Images talk.

I don't think you are interested on how it works.

In case your are interested, other than getting the 3D vision pack, you will still need a display that can handle this monster- this means a display that can refresth up to 120Hz and can be dual link DVI or a DLP HDTV. Not to mention, a GeForce Graphic Card that supports this tech. Here is a list of the supported GPU.

Once you are done, you can go gaming straight away- You will be amazed by the numbers of games that will work with the system, including the zombie shooting Left 4 Dead, the never ending MMO WoW: WoTLK, building hopping Mirror's Edge and the epic world war 2 shooter Call of Duty World at War. Click here for the list games.

How bout the PC?- Most monitors like iZ3D also has 3D-ready LCDs
What about ATI? - Yes, it can be paired with ATI Radeon cards.

In my opinion, I am not a fan of 3D although it look nice, wearing glasses while playing is abit odd, what about for people who have high power glasses? Do they have to take out their glasses and play like Illidan?I hope not...

Conclusion, 3D is really a hit for gamers, it still needs time to mature and newer models to be release. A very innovative concept.

Scale of Amazement: WOW.

Blu-Ray Super Disc.

I think they should come up with a new name? Who cares? All you want to know is the capacity this baby can hold. Thanks to Pioneer's new golden-bluish circle technology, which packs 16 layers into one disc, and each of them can hold 25 GB. 25x16 layers... 400 GB storage capacity in total. The best news is you don't need a new type of Blu Ray writer to read this baby. The advantages are so clear- more 1080p content can be packed into film/tv releases.

More space equals to more gameplay's duration on a video game. I can imagine the developers fitting their sweat and effort into this DVD.


The girl....*cough* sorry...I mean the disc looks quite transparent.

The girl *cough*.. Damn it....

Really there is no point of debating since the price is not out yet and most of us were still using DVD writers. Still, 400 GB is fascinating but do we really need that kind of memory? Like money, it is never ever enough.

Pirates will be happy as they can compile movies, games into one DVD and sell it dirt cheap. Well, at least you don't need a huge collection of DVDs anymore...or is it?

Scale of Amazement: Expected.

OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) screens.

I bet you can't bend your display.

The super ultra thin display that produces greater colour reproduction, excellent viewing angle (bye bye flare) and helluva refresh rate. SONY released the first commercial model, although 11 inch screen seems small and the price is definitely not cheap, which cost around USD 2500 but at least the technology is there.

Perhaps in the near future, larger screens would follow, and when the technology matures, the price will gradually drops. It is just a prediction but certainly not in 2009.

I see no flare...notice her two things near the screen? Look how small it is...the gap between the fingers. How thin can it get? It's from Samsung btw.

Explain the tech you say? Unlike LCD screens, OLED do not require a backlight to function. Resulting, a lower consumption rate and making the display much more thinner than a LCD.
Since OLED do not require any backlight, the display can still be seen even at a 90 degrees angle.

But, it is still an organic material, which means it has a limited lifespan, nevermind that they will soon figure out a way to prolong the lifespans for this Gizmo.

Scale of Amazement: I can fit this display through my door ledge.

Upgrades!?? AGAIN??

It's a scene, and it's a goddamn arms race by both Nvidia and AMD, who will rise as the new supreme ruler this year? You decide.

Intel's Larrabee: Intel's decide to join the AMD and Nvidia market with itis new GPU/CPU hybrid. Will this darkhorse win? Or will it ever see the light of day in 2009? I wonder...

DX 11: DX 10 dissapoint us......but this time they promise us (once again) that the new DX 11 proves to be far more superior than it's predecessor. The first tier of video cards will be released at the end of 2009, look forward to it.

New PhysX Comes Of Age: CUDA based GPU with PhsyX technology in one package.... we shall see.

New CPUs from AMD and Intel:....Yes, perhaps your CPU is outdated again.