when I pose the question "which blog looks better, blogOSHT or welcome2thesocial?", the answer is always blogOSHT. Which is kinda sad actually, i've always thought this blog looked better than blogOSHT. I did spend more time on this skin that that. I also spent more time here (and still will) thinking up of the name for this blog, than blogOSHT. and thus that name, lol.

maybe it is true. blogOSHT does have a better skin than this. Sigh.

ah well. Bright side is, i'm confortable with how things are right here now. Anx said it was "cute". Sankarsh said it was "rather crude", and made several other valid points (surprisingly). Chu Ming said I could perhaps reduce the brightness of the lighting, and make it dimmer. I could, but right now, i'm just too lazy to re-render it that blgoOST banner, and working the lighting all over again will be a BITCH. Zephyre said I could write in proper sentences, with proper capitalization, but that isn't going to happen (LOL). It's called blogOSHT for a reason. I'll see how time serves that blog. It is a GFX blog, afterall. I'm bound to change that banner after i'm bored with it.

and speaking of change, this blog could do with a better, more meaningful name. Seriously! Problem is, I can't think up of any. Suggestions, anyone? speaking of change (again), this blog could do with a change after all those 30 posts.

moving on.

the PC show wasn't bad. It was VERY bad. For me, at least. To sum it up, let's just say the PC show is for the maintream consumer market. Computer enthusiasts (like me or so) looking for discounts on internal SATA HDD's, Processors, etc etc etc should stick to Sim Lim Square. If you're looking for a camera, printer, Notebook, or a HD screen, then go to the PC show. Seriously, notebook prices were rock bottom. Not sure about everything else, though.

Also, Games were slashed to half thier price. Awesome!

that aside, the show was crowded as hell, and while I don't understand those "booth babes", they are pretty nice to look at. Maybe Chelsea is right, they are some kind of "ornamets" of some sort. LOL.

SAY HI TO M1's "ornaments"!

It's funny sometimes, the way Chelsea puts things across. But, it works, and it's damn right. That's the funny part.

ok...they seriously look like an orange or a pumpkin

the one on the left looks really pretty
=)

okay, is it just me, or does the girl on the left look like Charmaine? what the the odds? and no, I didn't take this picture. I got it off a google search (pathethic, I know. But spare me okay? I don't have a camera!)

Ling Jie bought Team Fortress 2. As I type these words, he's playing it. His PC is a beast, and I know it, because I was there when we chose the parts for his "budget" PC at Sim Lim Square. Well, he can run GTAIV on his PC. It gets sluggish as times, but hey. At least it runs, and that itself is a achivement on its own. Most computers can't even run the game. That said, GTAIV is sluggish on consoles too, and the graphics aren't any better. Even on Jonathan's PS3, GTAIV can get pretty bad, in terms of lighting and framerates. The latter is especially terrible, GTAIV on the PS3 runs at horrible framerates, which is disgusting. Consoles lagging is disgusting. I'm not sure about how GTAIV on Xbox360 is like, but I heard it was alot better.

I remember how bad the lighting could get in GTA:SA could get on PS2 also(which is why I've always preferred the PC version), so this is just dissapointing. I thought things would improve.

PC games FTW!

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the day before this, was a compeition for ETP club. Was fun, even if we failed. The Exoro games is a stock trading game of some sort, and to say the least, it's difficult. NJC came up tops (yawn). We were against other JC's, virtually every single JC I know, besides PJC (lol). There were a few teams from SMU and NUS itself, and that's about it. Oh, a team from ITE college central was there too. And they did better than us.

Tetrina cracked a joke,

"aiyah, just let them take over us as the business college lah!"

sigh. But we had fun.

It still feels semi-retarded sometimes to be around people from my school. Not saying that they are bad people, but they are...just, different. The people i'm used to, I miss them. They are gone, I i'd bet the farm that I won't get to see even half of them, ever agian.

While walking back to the "nearest" bus stop, it was then we all realised how crappy the NUS campus was. It was even worse than a poly. Huge, barren, and old all over. If I ever make it to Uni (lol godsend), i'm not going to NUS.

it's true what the lecturers said about class SB. The people there are nice, and the guys I talked to in ETP club, from SB, are really pleasant people. Even if that class only has 9 guys (oh, damn). Still, no matter how distant we may grow, everyone in ITE can relate to each other; one way or another.

"We all ended up here by a similar set of circumstances" - Mr. Sunny Chow

Singtel was the sponsor for this event, and the chief of consumer marketing was present as a VIP. He gave us a talk, on young entreprenuers. Was really quite the eye-opener, especially coupled with some of the history tied back to singtel. Apparently, insing.com [where singapore clicks lol] is owned and was started by Singtel Digital Media, a subsidiary company of Singtel itself.

but that wasn't the point. The point was, the people behind those commercials. Those commercials, which gaurenteed insing.com's success as a awesome web portal for singaporeans almost instantly. Those commercials were created by just 8 people, 25 years of age, fresh poly grads. They formed a stuido called: *drum rolls*

you bet these 8 people made some serious cash right now! I wish I could be like them, but screw that, the shape of media industry here is just sometimes purely appalling, if you were to look at it from an angle.

made by 8 people of 25 years of age. This is pretty amazing, I mean, I never would have guessed. But then again, it isn't THAT surprising either (to me). 40-year olds would have never managed to come up with an ad like this.

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went over to Jonathan's house to play games yesterday. He has a nice room, and a nice PS3, and a nice Macbook (which are now Macbook pros, blame Apple). Burnout Paradise is really pretty on the PS3, i'll say. However, what we really had fun with was the Nazi Zombies mode in COD: world at war. I wasn't used to consoles, and playing a first person shooter was even harder, but I got a little used to it later on. Hell, it was so fun. SO FUN!

He has NFS: undercover for the PS3, and as much as that game lags like hell on the PC, it lags like hell even on the PS3. The graphics, aren't any better. Same goes for GTAIV, which I mentioned earlier on. NFS: undercover is bullshit anyway. GTAIV, is a pity.

Other games he had, like KillZone 2, were pretty cool too. KillZone 2, to start off, is really pretty. Problem is, it suffers from sluggish controls. It's impossible to aim. He also had stuff like Battlefield: Bad Company, which was hilarious, and a whole lot of fun. Too bad it's a console-exclusive game. Bad Company is a pretty game, too.

funny shit. Made by the same studios that made Mirror's Edge, which I happen to like alot. EA DICE musn't be that bad afterall.

Jonathan likes Rainbow Six Vegas 2, but that game just isn't my cup of tea. He had Bioshock also, but it's a ton harder to play that game on the console compared to my experience with that game on PC.

Lol, I miss those Nazi Zombies now.

sure, it doesn't fit the rest of the game, but it's fun! and that's all that matters!

talking games, i'm going to try Splinter Cell. I've heard and seen good things about it. It's made by the same developers that made Jonathan's fav, Rainbow Six Vegas 2. Haha, I pray that my PC can handle that game.