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Adelaide trip 2012

By Jaychan | Published: January 9, 2012

Had a great time with the cofa guys down in Adelaide last week. Tho I must admit, there wasn’t a whole lot to do down there, but hey, it’s the people that matters. My cousin gave me an awesome Nikon P7100 as a departing gift and I sure made some good use of it. Here are some pictures of the trip, they’re all taken from my Nikon =)

Our cosy holiday house – Lounge area. Also Burpy and MZ’s sleeping couches.

One of the busier streets of Adelaide.

Cute Chibi travelling on the tram =)

A nice focused shot of some flower

Me jumping, trying to touch the branch! pretty easy considering I can dunk now.

Meiji Gardens (Japanese Garden)

The hot girls

The cool guys

Chibi posing for nice perspective shot at botanic gardens

Whose taking a picture of who??

Ray doing Brookes Super 45 degrees pose!

MZ using his levitation skills next to cute doggy

My turn to use my levitation skills (required for dunking)

Ray running on water. I really like this shot. Nice pose ray!

And finally my super extreme looking down pose! “I look down on you!”

Fantastic trip overall except I’ve eaten too much junk food and lacking in exercise. It was nice and refreshing though. Gota thank Emily for organizing and everyone for making this a memorable trip.

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2012 has arrived

By Jaychan | Published: January 2, 2012

I shall also write a reflection of 2011 entry and see what’s in store for 2012.

2011 resolutions:

Become even stronger, work even harder and more frequent at the gym than ever before – became a little stronger, but wasn’t enough! not quite satisfied.
Stay healthy all year long – Was fairly healthy throughout the year. Just a light cold here and there.
Improve sitting posture – Not sure about this one, but at least I tried!
Finish off my gundam modelling – Done! =D
Draw more – Didnt even know I wrote this lol, well I guess I should…
Perfecting my ultimate Salad – Failed. Sorry to keep you waiting chibi!
Prepare for upcoming Japan trip (learn some japanese!) – Unfortunately this was planned during the quake period.
And finally, must play Dai-2-Ji Super Robot Taisen Z (Just announced today!! zomg!) – And it still hasnt come out yet! cmon Banpresto, stop making me wait. ~~”
Be able to dunk – Easy peezy =P see below…

So there you have it, most of the goals I set for myself has been attempted one way or another but the results weren’t too bad =). But much much much much much more work needs to be done! I want to be able to accomplish sooo much more next year. Let’s have a look and see what’s to be done.

2012 resolutions:

Model Ex-S gundam and deepstriker
Plan Japan/HK trip again (I’ve decided I want to give HK a visit too! should be an amazing trip)
Learn more Japanese
Become much much stronger. Do cross-fit training. Gym at least 3 times a week.
Become an excellent squash player
Draw more (since I didnt do much last year)
Eat well. And that means less junk food, more fruit+veg, water, whole grain, protein.
Learn more about photography. Thanks to my cousins for giving me an awesome Nikon camera. I will make the most out of it and become more pro with photography.
And finally – Play Dai-2-Ji Super Robot Taisen OG!!!!!!!! release already Damnpresto!!

hmm actually one more and that’s only if I have time:

Do a windmill dunk

That’s it for the now. I hope I can accomplish as many as possible. I’ve set many goals and should prove to be a challenge. Happy new year everyone and hope you’ll be able to accomplish your goals as well!

That should be it

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Replaying Chrono trigger on iOS

By Jaychan | Published: December 12, 2011

Chrono Trigger came out on iOS 4 days ago and I just had to get the game pretty much imediately as if it was first released. I’ve been talking about this game pretty much all my life. I get asked alot about which is my favourite final fantasy series. Well you know what? my favourite final fantasy series is Chrono trigger! Screw FF, why do we need to talk about FF before CT?!

After finishing the game over 10 years ago, CT simply lives on in my life. From the gorgeous graphics to the heavenly harmonic tunes, there has never been a month (ok a day may be exaggerated) where I don’t think about CT. It was CT that got me started playing guitar. The first guitar song I ever learnt was ‘Radical dreamers’ and to this day, it remains as my favourite guitar song. Then there’s Zeal Palace and the hundreds of thousands of remixes out there. All in all, i just can’t stress about how excited I am with this release.

With it being in my iPhone, I basically have the best RPG ever with me at all times no matter where I am. And sadly, this is the only way I could ever play it. Not quite sad though, as the experience is phenomenal. Square did an excellent job porting the game to the iOS. Everything just fits the screen nicely and the touch controls work the way it should. Not sure why the game is nearly 600Mb though as the original snes game was only like 32Mb or something. But I ain’t complaining, It’s worth the 500Mb allocation on my iPhone and will permanently stay there forever =)

CT lives!

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Back from my hiatus

By Jaychan | Published: November 27, 2011

It’s been a while since I last blogged so I think it’s time to perform a backup of my memory incase I forget =)

Firstly, gota welcome Markuz back to Oz as he returned from HK on a hellova trip – in a good hellish way. Thanks for the gundam Battle online game! I’ll see if can find a dreamcast emulator to play the game =)
Been so busy lately that I havent been working out much. Will try to play squash every week and hit the gym more often. only half a year left till I’m 25 so I gota get my body pumping as much as possible!
Currently playing Zelda Skyward sword , my first Zelda game. If you don’t know yet, Zelda is that cute female goddess character, Link is the name of the guy with the green outfit and sword =P. I must say, this game is truly amazing in every aspect. I always wondered why Zelda was such a popular game. I now know why. Good games these days arent about graphics, but the gameplay, Zelda excels in both! and brilliant story on top of this. I havent played a game this good since FF7 i reckon.

Zelda

Link

Loppy has grown so much he is now about double the size. He’s doing just fine and in good health =)
Will start planning for the Japan trip. Really inspired by Markuz’s trip that I’m planning to stop by HK with Chibi for 1 week and do some crazy shopping. This trip will be the highlight of 2012, I just cant wait!!
Will begin Project EX-S stage 2 shortly. I’m really looking forward to this, the beefed up version of S-gundam will surely look impressive. More on that later.

That’s all for now =)

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PS Vita Rainie Yan stuff up

By Jaychan | Published: October 30, 2011

I had such a good laugh when I first read about this. During a Press conference in Taiwan, Spokeswomen Rainie Yan (a Taiwanese celebrity) was there for the media. During her time on stage she was asked what her favourite playstation game was. She replied to the crowd “my favourite game is Super Mario Bros” – a Nintendo game ^^”. Her answer wowed the crowd at the press conference so to divert the attention she started posing with the PS Vita held to the media for pictures. However only to make matters worse, she accidently held it upside down. Buahaha! this girl obviously has no clue about games =P

“Hi, I’m Rainie. This is the new PS Vita and I love playing Mario”

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My new companion – Loppy!

By Jaychan | Published: October 9, 2011

I use to have a homebred baby rabbit called White Paws. It came as a surprise because I felt my rabbits were no longer fertile to have babies as they have already passed the breeding age. White Paws brought me much joy and reminded me how much I love rabbits. Because I’m so busy these days, I haven’t been spending much time if any at all with my little animals. Sadly, White Paws passed away recently at the age of 8 months and has left me feeling really empty. Since then, something felt missing from life. I would walk towards the door to my backyard with the feeling of a sense of purpose. But there was none, because White Paws is no longer there. They say a dog is a mans best friend, but to me, White Paws was my best friend.

So I decided for in remembrance of White Paws, I went to seek another companion. At first I had in mind that I wanted a plain grey dwarf bunny that resembled White Paws. I looked around many places starting off at my local Padstow Pet Shop. Unfortunately every place I went didn’t have any that matched my criteria. They all had different spots around them and interestingly around 50% were plain black. I had almost lost all hope but there was 1 shop left to check out. There I met Loppy! – a unique brown/orange colour baby mini lop which instantly won my heart! Sitting quietly in the corner along with 2 other plain grey dwarfs – That’s right, ’2 other plain grey dwarfs’!. I thought that this is truly my lucky day as I could not believe that sitting in front of me were 2 rabbits that I had been seeking for such a long time and an extremely adorable mini lop! It was a tough decision to make as I was only prepared to purchase one. But in the end I felt that White Paws could never really be replaced. I shouldn’t be choosing a rabbit just so it can be the next White Paws, because that can never happen. So finally I chose the mini lop because I felt I should follow my heart. Then I named him Loppy due to the ears =) really cute stuff!

Loppy now lives in white paws’ old home. On the first day he was really nervous, sticking to the corner like glue. Bhibi and i kept trying to feed it but it would not respond.

But after spending more time with Loppy it is now as energetic as ever! Really friendly and tame =) sometimes it would dash around randomly and do a binky. He is never shy for a pat and loves to play with people.

The cutest thing about it is when you wave your arm at it, he will generally respond instantly and run towards you. Loppy loves his new home and welcomes anyone who wants a visit =)