Almost One

Well well, guess what. It's been three weeks since the last update. Yay, another new record..

I'm not so sure myself why I didn't update my blog in the last 20+ days. Maybe I just got lazy, I suppose. Or maybe I didn't have anything truly groundbreaking to write about.. But me being me, I just kept telling myself that I would update as soon as I can and before I knew it, almost a month had passed without a single word conjured.

Lately I seem to be having a lot of reflective thoughts. It's kinda odd cause back then I used to live life from day to day without really doing so much as to ponder on personal issues, and 'future' to me was truly what Crayon Shin-chan depicted in one issue of the comic that I can't quite remember : my future extended only to thinking about what was for dinner.

I can't say that it's a good thing that I'm being so contemplative now, although it's not a bad thing either. Only sometimes, I wish I could be a bit more simple-minded.

As usual, the torrents of thoughts running around beneath my skull have to give way to my yearnings for my trip to slumberland. My eyes are starting to weigh more than Justin's Matthew. I think I should start keeping a diary again...there are obvious benefits but I might not be diligent enough to keep it updated enough. Guess I'll think about it another day..

Boomshine

Seeing how the last few weeks had been filled with countless hours of Tabuto-ing and monkey kick-offs, I thought we should at least take a quick break from hounding on each other's high scores to play something a lil' different.........a little lah, not too much :D

Boomshine is a very simple (again) Flash game that emphasizes fun over everything else. Well, it's fun at least until you try to break past the last few levels :D It's got a nice cool background music and the gameplay is self-explanatory. Click anywhere to make an explosion and the the moving coloured-dots that collide with the explosion would in turn explode. Try it, the last level was where Justin and I took forever to break..there's not much of a high score here to squabble over since the game takes too long to finish, but there IS an interesting fact that should get you worked up enough to complete the game. ONLY 4% of players ever complete the game, according to the website's details and Justin and I are among the proud FOUR PERCENT, heheh. It looks like the statistics now show that the SUCCESS RATE is 4%, and not that only 4% of all the players ever completed the game..but still, it's a fun game to play nonetheless and I hope me and Justin would be able to find another nice Flash game to post sometime soon :D . Take a break, relax, play Boomshine xD By the way, I finished it three times liao :)

SJGC's Success Rate so far = 100%

Where Love Leads

When Uncle Kah Wan first lent me a copy of the book "Taming The Tiger" by Tony Anthony, never would I have thought that he would one day make a visit to Malaysia. So I was obviously thrilled when presented with the chance to see him in person at a youth rally of sorts at SAGC. Things never turned out the way I planned it of course, otherwise I wouldn't be posting this here in the first place..

Earlier this week my friend approached me to attend her church's Easter play and persistently hammered into my head the whole 'my church is the coolest and most fun one, so you better come' sort of thing. I wasn't so willing to let go of the chance of the chance to catch Tony Anthony's message however, so I hesitated initially, though in the end I made the decision to go for it anyway because a non-Chirstian ex-classmate of mine didn't quite have any teman to go with. The church is called City Harvest and is located behind 3K (somewhere there) and is actually a renovated warehouse-style building.

I went there today at around 5 something and there were just SO MANY people who attended the play..the church sits a maximum of 1000, I think. But the turn-up was probably 30-40% more today. The queue poked through the main door of the building and though unable to squeeze inside into the hall, me and my friends managed to settle in a small room with a dozen others watching the play on a tv set. Not the best of scenarios, I know, but hey, it was better than totally missing it.

Being the charismatic church that they are, the order of things were of course Praise & Worship, A Short Bible Discussion, The Play, Altar Call and then a final song to sum things up. Overall, I thought the play was pretty good and managed to inject a lil' bit of humor into the events leading up to Easter (I mean, the first song item was in Hokkien, singing that popular Million Dollars song by dunno who and the actors were happily swinging their hips around).

Personally, I think their acting is just okay, not bad at all actually but not quite good enough to leave a strong impression. Perhaps I'm too used to plays acted in the style of our Footstool Players, which are more serious and detailed, while the play at City Harvest was more like a musical in terms of the story. But that's just my opinion, of course. The team that took part in City Harvest's play deserves credit for their efforts, nonetheless. (pats their back)

The one thing about the church that caught my interest is the friendliness of the church members there. They seem to give a lot of emphasis on running their cell groups (there are 70+ of them) and the cell group members looked very close-knit and warm to each other..not an easy feat considering the size of their congregation (~1000). As always, I found it very encouraging and cool to see the many members there who serve in the different ministries. I was certainly most curious at a girl who did a simultaneous translation of the pastor's speech inside the room where I was watching the play on the tv. She was pretty good, but that's beside the point. What I found most entertaining was her constant smile and the way she did what she did with not only hardwork and dedication, but total passion that drives a person to continuously do better..probably what we'd normally call 'the joy of serving the LORD' :D It's great to see people who eager servants of God and I only pray that our church would also be blessed with more of such people. Time to sleep then xD

My Blog's Not Dead Yet :D

Before my blog beats Justin's in the most-lazily-updated-blog competition, I thought I should post this interesting game called Tabuto that Liesl and Gabe have tried earlier. This one's very quick to play, and requires nothing more than good concentration and some degree of luck. Have fun, and as usual winners get to brag :D Oh yea, there IS a prize, or prizes depending on how things go, so go get those scores ya! When I posted this game, I had a good level of confidence that my 2.9 million score was divine enough to fend off even the most seasoned gamers (like JON!!). Of course, poor ol' me got shocked enough in the frame of one day to make me feel like a complete gaming buffoon..oh well, all for the sake of entertainment, heheh. Oh yea, Curry, you better gimme a new high-score, or I would have to remove you from the score table cause I don't think that I'd be able to find a font small enough to represent the difference in score..Well, the week has finally come to an end and the winner of this Tabuto Championship is regretta... *ahem* I mean obviously our resident flash gamer with epic proportions of kiasuness, Jonathan Tan!! (insert confetti and cheering and clapping, or jeering and protests whichever suits your fancy :D)

And the prize is? Well, it's not quite worth much, but hey, it's still something lah at least :D For his hardwork and determination (and the truckloads of kiasuness needed to pull off the 6 million score), he receives a free copy of PC Zone UK's Christmas Issue dual-layer DVD jam packed with this and that and everything else, courtesy of Sprint Sunway, hehe.

Tabuto-NinjaKiwi Games

Score Table

Jon Tan (^_^) 6,365,990
Hwok Chuen 3,298,310
Christina How 2,782,960
Simon Sim 2,524,840
Currynoodles 1,426,710
Low Iishan 752,000

Ps : Just to get you all started, my initial high-score was 300,000.
My second high-score was 700,000.
My current high-score is 2,990,000.
Rankings are sized according to the difference in score.