Game Review: Rockman X7 / Rockman X8

6 years after the release of these 2 games, I finally have a chance to play these 2 games. As a big Rockman fan, why must I wait until this moment to play?

I remembered the last time I ever played Rockman X5 and Rockman X6 was when I was Secondary 1 and 2! And I had to go to either Derek's or Rong Teng's house to play... So at that time, I felt so pathetic when I didn't own any Playstation Consoles...

Now, I have finally got links for me to get the games to play on my laptop! Wahahaha! I don't care even it has any malware on it. I just need to play it!!! I played Rockman X7 during mugging period and Rockman X8 after my exams.

Rockman X7 discarded the old 2D platform style and changed to both 2D/3D playing style. This had created many criticisms from the fans because of the bad controls of the 3D play style. Well, I also found it quite bad because I fell into many pitholes due to the incorrect judgement of my jump, and led to parallex error... Rockman X8 reverted back into 2D platform but with nicer 3D graphics. This game had won back most of the fans' hearts, but still not as good as the X4-X6.

I personally like X8 very much, because the story was nice, and the game became very easy to play once to get the hang of it. I even completed the whole game in less than one week! I replayed the whole game in the same difficulty (which is Normal) in one afternoon! However, being the last game of the series, the whole ending to this series is a bit too abrupt. The series taking over Rockman X is Rockman Zero, the story go all the way to 200 years later after the end of x8. The main character is Zero, but no matter how you at him, he still does not resemble the Zero in Rockman X from any angle! Haha.

I have mentioned so much about X8, but not X7, because till now, I have not even completed the whole of X7!!! Not even once... Because I always get stuck on the last boss... Plus, the controls are really suck on keyboards because you cannot press so many keys on the same time... Same goes for X8, but because it is 2D so it became much more easier. But anyway, Rockman games are still the best!!!

The End of the First Week of December 09

My first week of holiday just ended so fast.

The first thing I get to enjoy after my last exams on Monday was to watch a movie with Russell and my new friend, Shaun. After loitering around Bugis, we went back to Tampines to watch Gokusen the Movie. It was a hilarious yet touching movie. Japanese movie never failed to move my tears...
Next, is a outing with the remaining F5 members and Mr Tan Chee Boon. And by mentioning the gang and the company, it is as good as saying "outing in Chinatown". Yes, that should be our regular outing place whenever Mr Tan is around. But that doesn't mean we are been forced to go there, it just came naturally out of our minds. Going there also means we can eat good food! We will always go there for the Claypot Rice, Chendol or Fish Head Bee Hoon. But because Song Guan is not with us, no one really wants to eat the Bee Hoon there... Haha. So we ate in OG Weatlake Snacks (Please translate directly into Chinese) for our dinner. As expected, Mr Tan spent another hundred during this outing.

Pok Yen heard of this bubble tea shop in Chinatown called KOI Cafe. And it is really nice, though a bit expensive. But it is really worth it!!! The amount of pearls they gave us is really a lot! Plus, health conscious people can choose the level of their sugar content for their drinks!
Next, my exercise training for my next IPPT which falls on the end of this month. Really really hope I can pass and get it done and over with. Ever since the school semester started, I have not been exercising. So after 2 sessions of jogging and 1 session of gym, my whole body is aching like and had a high concentration of lactic acid all over my body!
Just a few hours ago, we just had an official outing with VeNoM. It should be counted as official now as we finally get out of the campus zone and went out to Marina Square! We are supposed to meet at 1pm, but everyone (except Sohaila and Siti, who had exams that morning) was late! Edwin even had the cheek to wake up at our meeting time! Haha. In the end, the lunch session was with Russell, Randy, Sohaila, Siti, Irvan and me. Poor Randy, during the lunch, he told us about how packed his whole holiday is! And it is basically all about the school. Think he must really have a good rest during his trip back to his hometown.

After our lunch, we went to get the tickets for the movie, 2012. We expected lesser people to watch the movie since it has been already a month since the first day it was up on the theatre. Plus, there is only one timeslot for each cinema each day on that day. However, we were totally wrong. By the time, we got the tickets, we could only get the first row!

2012 is a story about how geographic scientists discovered the truth about the disaster that is about to occur on the year 2012. However, it is impossible to save the whole population, so the government secretly build some ships and allow the important people who can make contributions to the mankind to escape. When the day arrived, a family and their friends knew this secret and decided to get to the escape craft. So the story shown how treacherous the journey was when the whole Earth sunk, swollowed by the Tsunami, or hit by the sudden formation of volcano. But most importantly was how LUCKILY the family was to get all the way to the ships in the end. Of course, sacrifising some of their friends' lives in the process. There are many touching scenes in the movie. But just not enough as compared to the Japanese movies that really moved my tears. Haha.

End of AY2009/10 Semester 1

Finally! After 4 months of devoting myself on University stuff, it is time to break away from that life for........ Only a month...

Well, a lot of things really happened in that 4 months for me. Knowing a lot of acquaintances, learning lots of stuff and squeezing all your brain juice out... They may sound very bad, but I really enjoyed that period. But whether I passed my exams will be another issue. Because there was hardly any time left for you to study everything in depth after you have rushed and completed all your assignments... It can be very stressful when you know you will not be able to really get one subject at your fingertips... Still, that is the harsh fact studying in University...

In fact, the hardship doesn't end after the exams. It is time to face the stupid IPPT again. And it is the most suitable time to train for it before the semester starts and eats up my exercise time again... If I don't do it now, by the time after the semester 2, my birthday will be over and I will not clock for any IPPT attempts... Sigh. I don't understand why we have to do this shit... I know it is good to encourage exercising, but making compulsory IPPT just seems too overboard.

Birthday Parties on 3 Consecutive Weekends: Part Three

Part Three: Alvin's Birthday

Finally, the last birthday party before my exams was over! It was really well-prepared and organised. But I will sidetrack first to recall how I spent my morning on that Sunday.

Sidetrack:
I went to SMU early morning at 10am. What for? To study of course. Meng Yong is the student there, so we can have some access to the facilities! Ming Jie asked Meng Yong to book a study room in his school, for the 2 of us to have a place to study. After some time, 2 of us met up with Meng Yong and Potato for a late lunch at the Kopitiam opposite the school. And look's like each SMU student is given a premium Kopitiam Card which allows the students to enjoy 20% discount. But still, the food after discount is still no cheaper than the food sold in my school...

BackOnTrack:
After the meal, I went to find Jiunn Kai and Lionel to get Alvin's present. Later, Yi Sheng and Russell came. After shopping through half of Orchard, we finally got shades and a key and locket chain for the birthday boy.

Upon reaching the party, we all gathered with Jiunn Kai's classmates. Almost the whole bunch of 05S16 gathered together! When we reached the party venue, we were all welcomed by Alvin, who was shocked to see the whole gang of us appearing together, followed by his favourite hobby: Taking photos! Then, is the usual buffet dinner, and chat among ourselves, and this time, we chatted with the 05S16 people. His classmates are all interesting people, I was like laughing throughout the whole chat.

The cake cutting session carried out as planned. Alvin even made cards for his mother and his aunt as a gift to thank them for planning his party. The birthday boy also made an effort to print out photos for each of the guests! After taken all the photos and finished eating the cakes, we wanted Alvin to open his presents before we left. We (not his S16 classmates) went home after seeing Alvin was "touched" by us.

Birthday Parties on 3 Consecutive Weekends: Part Two

Part Two: Russell's Birthday

Another week passed after Huiy's birthday, and it was time to get Russell's birthday present!

I initiated to ask everyone to gather to buy the present. And so, Alvin, Joel and Yi Sheng could come out to buy the present. Alvin and I met each other first, and he drove us to Marina Square to search for the presents.

Frankly speaking, buying presents is always a difficult task since you have to make sure the one you brought is not the same as the one bought by his other friends. Alvin had an idea in mind, whic his getting Russell a bag. Then, after looking through some shops in the mall, we had some enlisted selections and we waited for Yi Sheng to come and give his opinion before we arrived at our decision.

Next, we were still clueless on what to get for him as the second present. We went through the whole mall, but to no avail. We thought of getting him a mouse, the book "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown or some other computer games. Yi Sheng then suggested getting him the new Nets FlashCard. Bingo! That was the thing that was slipped out of my mind. He wanted that card! So we called Joel, who was at Simei waiting for us, to get it as we made our way to fetch him.

Finally, we settled the presents and went ahead to the party. The party was held the same place as Sasha's birthday. We went in and sat down, ate the dinner, waited for the others (except for Wilson), and chatted. Everything was like what a person usually does in a birthday party. After the cake cutting and photo taking session, Alvin had to take his leave to rush off for another party.

After the whole party was wrapped up, Russell finally had the time to chat with us. Haha. We totally understand how busy the host is in such an occasion since he needs to entertain everyone. Then, we had some heart-to-heart talk before Wilson made his "Special Appearance". We decided to cam whore after some chat. Haha, what was quite fun actually...

Russell put up the photos in Facebook the next day, and I gave a hugh exclamation followed by a great relief. Because his family and friends did buy him a mouse and "The Lost Symbol"! Luckily, we did not buy that for him! Oh, and Alvin and I thought Russell would like to have his bag to have fewer compartments, but it turns out, he does like to have more compartments in his bag! Haha, and luckily, the bag we chose fulfil his criteria.

My OG group and I bought another present for him, which is a shirt. Hope it will come in handy for his future formal presentations.