Sunday, 22 January 2012
Suddenly reminded of the sermon which talks about simplicity in life...
I realise that in the army, things are going to get alot simpler. Going to adopt a lower state of technology like my mobile phone and even my bible! Bought a NLT version which is much easier to read than NKJV cause I realise when I'm very tired and try to read NKJV, I will end up not understanding it. Hm but then yesterday at DI, they issued a pocket NIV version so I ended up having three bibles now...and they are all camo!


Started playing portal 2 and it is definitely much bigger than portal, with puzzles of increased difficulty and quite comparable to that of Half Life 2, minus the shooting and what not. Chell should have a HEV suit!

Thursday, 19 January 2012
Originally, me, Justin, Zhi and Jeremy P. were supposed to go jamming after our O-levels. However, that plan didn't get realised until now, about three years later! First time going to a jamming studio and it kind of reminds me of a certain K-ON! episode where the band couldn't practise in school and had to go to a jamming studio. Ah now I feel like rewatching the series again!

Went to this jamming studio in Chinese Garden called X-Jamming. A pretty decent place with really good rates! $13 for an hour and the jamming room is really not bad. Many amps, chairs and a fan! Hm why didn't I took a photo of the room?

Never thought jamming could be this fun and different than just going to someone's house and just play music. Unfortuantely, my electric guitar's e string snapped so I had no choice but to use the jamming studio's guitars (which are $150 if I'm not wrong). Jammed to many Coldplay and We the Kings songs but we were sadly unprepared. Didn't expect us to jam to many old songs we listened to in secondary two such as Welcome to My Life, Disenchanted, Untitled and Everytime.

Highlights!
Jeremy saying "Let's play Fix Me, you know the song by Coldplay?"
Eugene and Le Fa making an appearance too! Really didn't expect them to be here. At first I saw Euegene through the small window while jamming and he gave that :o face. He came in and said something like "What the, what are you guys doing here?" Turns out they were helping Si Er tutoring some people with music. Didn't expect us to be jamming in the same place and around the same time too! It's times like these I'm grateful that the church is not a building!

Wouldn't mind going jamming again before enlisting! On a sidenote, I finished Portal and it's really a great game. Time for Portal 2!

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
I heard of this game back in secondary 4 but haven't really gotten into playing it yet...
until now. Might as well play it since I have quite the free time eh?
It's a good thing I don't know any spoilers for Portal except that the cake is a lie. Wait, is it?

Portal is a really fun and interesting game. Heh I stoned awhile at the start listening to the instrumental version of Still Alive on the radio. Got stuck at one point cause I thought the portals were one-way. Something like blue is strictly the start and orange the end.


I like the physics the steam engine has. Quite realistic actually. Like how momentum is conserved when going through portals.



Had some fun falling indefinitely through the ceiling and the floor.

Heard that the game is rather short though. 19 "tests"? I think I may finish it by tomorrow, assuming I don't play Skyrim.

Saturday, 14 January 2012
I finally got the continuous strumming thing down! I realised it's actually much like how I learn how to play the drums on the iPhone. I broke down all the drum hits somewhat like DJMax or o2jam or whatever rhythm games there are nowadays and play them in time. At first it was mechanical but soon it became much more natural.

Justin asked me to play Happy Day on the guitar and I played it in a style similar to that of Promises. They sounded similar to me and I checked the chords and I was right! Justin said he can never hear Happy Day the same way again heh.

Learning new songs on the guitar this week...
Here in Your Presence and Happy Day.
The first song is a challenge cause it has a 6/8 time signature which is not common in most songs we hear. I find unlearning the guitar and relearning to be very very difficult. It is not natural for me as I'm so used to playing the guitar my way for about 4 years. Apparently I have to learn this continuous strumming thing and to do that I have to unlearn my way of strumming =\.

Considering getting a new bible for my time in the army as I think my current bible is rather fragile!