Initial D: Malaysia Stage

Me, Melvin and Yu Xin was discussing what would happen if Project D (the illegal road racing team from Initial D Fourth Stage) ever came to Malaysia to challenge the road racers here. Warning: Explicit content

**some place in Malaysia**

Ryosuke: So what information had you got about our opponents?

Team member 1: Well it seems to me that the road racers here have very low knowledge about cars. Their driving skills are horrible at best and they prefer to race in highways other than mountain passes like us.

Ryosuke: Any information about their cars?

Team member 1: It seems that most of the drivers here drive an underpowered 1.5litre car that looks like a direct Evo 3 rip-off called a Wira. The most powerful of them all is the 1.8litre car which looks like a horrible clone of the Evo 8 called the Wajah. All of the cars are heavily modded and look ugly too most of them have blinding xenon lights and unmatching neon lights. There is also another car which seems to be quite popular among racers here. It's a Move wannabe car called the Kelisa. It is seriously underpowered.

Ryosuke: I see. I think we had wasted a trip here to Malaysia here then. I will go cancel the battles with the leader then.

Ryosuke walks to the "clan" leader

Ryosuke: I think we will cancel the race. It seems to me that you guys can't match us in terms of skills and horsepower.

Leader: Kanina, what are you talking about? Why you scared to race with us ar?

Ryosuke: Its not that. Its just that your cars....

Leader: Ma hai, you think u drive RX-7 dunnit die ar? Scared to race us say la. I know we too good for you. Scared say scared la say we lousy.

Ryosuke: Very well if you insist then we shall race. Keisuke! Get ready.

After the race... (which is clearly won by Keisuke)

Leader: Kanina, you all damn cheater one. Use this type of cars to bully people. Hate people like you. Know your car beri fast still want to bully people. Nebermind you wait. I call my blah-duhhoot you.

Ryosuke to Team member 1: Sigh~ Why do we have come to this shit hole to race?

Why Blog?

Recently one of my friends said that blogs are for people who had seriously nothing to do with their lifes. I did not want to be bothered of what he said since he is that sort of person who speak loudly and emptily all most of the time. So the best is just ignore him whenever he barks in real life.

Too bad he fail to see that like his past time photography, blogging is some sort of a past time too. Like his typical self, he never respect things people do that seems different from his point of view. Ok enough about him. Let's get to the reason why I blog.

I was introduced to blogging by my ex-housemate Fazri a.k.a Silencers who told me that I should try it sometimes. Before I knew it, I had open an account at blogger. At first I treat my blog as a diary but as time goes by I decided that writing a diary online's where I find it kinda boring so I deleted my previous blog and started a new blog where I can state my opinions about anything. Be it movies, games, politics, babes, MLM bashing or anything I find interesting, I just want to voice out my opinions since most of the time I can't do it real life. Try discussing politics real life (in MMU that is) and you get those smart ass and immature comments. Try to bash MLM in MMU and you might get hordes of zombies after you. So since I have no place to voice my opinions real life I might as well do it online.

So what are your reasons to blog?

Mega Review 3: Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas (PC)

How do you describe San Andreas? Its controversial, funny, violent and fun. Porting it from the PS2 to the PC means it is now officially beautiful. Yes, the great gameplay is now paired with good graphics in the PC version.

Ok the story start off with Carl Johnson (CJ) returning home to Los Santos from Liberty City, a city torn apart by gangs, to attend his mum's funeral. Upon his arrival he is framed by Officer Tenpenny, a cop so corrupted that he can make Malaysian cops look squeaky clean, of murdering another law enforcer. After being threaten by Tenpenny to arrest him unless he help him do his "chores" (no not cleaning his house), he is thrown into a rival gang's territory. Here's where the story starts to kick off with one twist after another. The whole story is excellent. The chracters are well developed and are very colourful. From the crazy crack-smoking hippy The Truth to the funny Triad leader Wu Zi Mu. Enough with the story let's go on to the gameplay.

Gameplay is awesome. You have three huge cities to play with and between each cities there are countrysides which make San Andreas one huge virtual playground. Besides that you have tons of vehicles to steal from and tons of side missions to complete. The freedom in San Andreas is nearly limitless. You can play pool, do stunts with a BMX, play basketball or kill random people to boost your stats. Yes, San Andreas had turn semi-RPG. Drive a car and your driving skills increase, kill people with a Uzi your uzi skills increase, go to the gym your body grows stronger and eat more you gain fats. Simply put, the gameplay is just awesome.

Like I mention earlier, the graphics for San Andreas is beautiful. The details in the buildings had been increased and you can actually enjoy the scenary once in a while and not laugh at the bad graphics. Sound-wise, the sound is not really that good. I have problems with listening to WCTR. It seems that the sound of WCTR seems kinda soft when I played it on my computer. The voice acting seems louder than the background and the surround sounds sounded more annoying than adding flavour to the game.

So what is my overall rating for San Andreas? I give it a 9.5 out of 10. If not for the sound I might gave it a 9.8 out of 10.

Zombie Detection and Countering

The previous entry I posted a link and commented on the Lies in MLM, now I post some tips on how to detect and counter a MLM distributor.

Early Detection

1. A friend that you had never contacted for a very long time or an aquaintance you hardly know at all suddenly call you out to have a drink. Most probably this person is a distributor, so try to avoid it at all costs.

2. A close friend from your hometown come to visit you with short notice and do not want to tell you the reason for the visit. Since that person is your close friend, of course you can't avoid meeting him/her.

3. A close friend of yours started asking, "Are you interested in making money?" or "Are you interested in having your own business?". That's the most obvious of them all. Just answer "NO!" period.

Ok, just in case your friend is smart and ask you out to go have a drink with them with none of the "symptoms" stated above, here's how to know he/she is trying to force persuade you to be his/her downline before he even started talking.

Late Detection

1. He/She brings an unknown friend or relative along with him/her.

2. His/Her friend started to ask you questions on what you intended to do with your future.

3. They start asking random questions but most of them revolve around your career choice and how much you earn.

4. His/her friend will start to know you more.

5. Your friend will be most of the time the supporting actor during the whole conversation.

Just in case your friend come in alone and is very straight to the point, which happen to me one time, these are what of the frequent questions they ask and how you can answer them.

Questions and Answers

Q1: I have this great business plan. Are you interested in hearing it out? It is the most simple way of making money.
A1: No, I am not interested. I am not interested in Direct Sales or any Multi-Level Marketing company.

Been train to counter such reply they will continue asking

Q2: Why are you not interested? Can you tell me a reason? Don't you like making money?
A2: As interested as I am in making money, I also want to keep my friends. Nowadays people are annoyed of MLM and those who are not, haven't heard of MLM. True there are some people who get rich by joining MLM but what is the percentage? You guys said it is easy all the time, but is it that easy? Most of you guys are actually very dishonest when presenting your business plans. Have you ever read the actual statistics of a person succeeding in MLM? No? [Continue to tell him about the statistics you had read from the site I had linked from my blog].

If he still insist on and start telling about how this poor friend of his/her started making tons of money or this durian-selling uncle from God-knows-where strike rich when he started MLM, just tell him that you are not interested no matter what he tells you. Tell him that no economy expert had ever advice anyone to join a MLM company and stop talking about money. Call him to wake up from being a money-minded zombie and start looking at things the other way.

So here's all my tips for detecting and countering those annoying MLM people. If there are more ways to detect and counter it feel free to post it in the comments section.

Babes of the Month: Yuffie and Tifa

Its CGI babes galore this month with the release of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Never since Rinoa that looking at millions of pixels is such a pleasure to the eyes. Instead of just one babe I will feature two this month since I can't decide which looks hotter Tifa or Yuffie. So here's some screenshots of them from Square Enix's Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children.



Tifa smiling. Ain't she beautiful?



On the phone



Yuffie's cute face upclose



Yuffie with Tifa at the background.


Don't get me wrong people, I am still a big fan of Aeris but posting her as Babe of the Month does not suit her well. She is more suitable for the title Goddess of Video Games.

Lies in Multi-Level Marketing

I was looking at my friend's status on my Yahoo! Messenger and one status from Wilz which caught my eye. A link labeled The Ten Big Lies of Multi-level Marketing. I am never a big fan of Multi-level Marketing (MLM) because most of their "distributors" or whatever they call themselves are either damn annoying or they don't sound honest each time they try to persuade someone to be their "business partner. Please click on the link I provide to have a look at the site. Here are the few points I found true:

Lie #3: Eventually all products will be sold by MLM. Retail stores, shopping malls,
catalogs and most forms of advertising will soon be rendered obsolete by MLM.

Truth: Fewer than 1% of all retail sales are made through MLM, and much of this is consists of purchases by hopeful new distributors who are actually paying the price of admission to a business they will soon abandon. MLM is not replacing existing forms of marketing. It does not legitimately compete with other marketing approaches at all. Rather, MLM represents a new investment scheme couched in the language of marketing. Its real products are distributorships that are sold through misrepresentation and exaggerated promises of income. People are buying products in order to secure positions on the sales pyramid. The possibility is always held out that you may become rich if not from your own efforts then from some unknown person ("the big fish") who might join your "downline."

MLM's growth does not reflect its value to the economy, customers, or distributors, but the high levels of economic fear, insecurity, wishes for quick and easy wealth. The market dynamics are similar to those of legalized gambling, but the percentage of winners is much smaller.

I find this line very true. Most of the time those MLM guys will say that their business plan is the future. They say that their product is as reknown as another product and that their product don't even need advertising to get this far.

Lie #4: MLM is a new way of life that offers happiness and fulfillment.
It provides a way to attain all the good things in life.

Truth: The most prominent motivational themes of the MLM industry, as shown in industry literature and presented at recruitment meetings, constitute the crassest form of materialism. Fortune 100 companies would blush at the excess of promises of wealth, luxury, and personal fulfillment put forth by MLM solicitors. These appeals actually conflicts with most people's true desire for meaningful and fulfilling work at something in which they have special talent or interest.

Another lie that I totally agree. MLM zombies distributors always use this line to motivate people. They always use the weakness that every human being seems to have, money. According to them, the more money you make the more happy you are. By being their business partner, you can be happy.

Lie #6: Success in MLM is easy. Friends and relatives are the natural prospects.
Those who love and support you will become your life-time customers.

Truth: The commercialization of family and friendship and the use of"'warm leads" advocated in MLM marketing programs are a destructive element in the community and very unhealthy for individuals involved. People do not appreciate being pressured by friends and relatives to buy products. Trying to capitalizing upon personal relationships to build a business can destroy one's social foundation.

Another line made famous by MLM zomb... er.. distributors, the more you pressure your friends and family to be you business partners, the more they hate you and avoid you. By the end of the day all your friends might runaway everytime they see you and your family members will avoid you as if you have the plague.

I advice all of you to go to the site and read the entire content. It is very informative. So people, before you are forced persuaded by your friends to be one of those MLM zombies, please think twice. True there are some people who make it rich in MLM but exactly what is the percentage of such people? Of the thousands of people how many of them actually is that rich? I was tricked into MLM once by the "if you spend RM100 each month and each week you find 2 people to be your downline, in a year you can earn thousands". Thankfully the fees for membership is less then RM100. I treat this as a lesson to be not so materialistic or else people might capitalise on your that weakness and make you another mindless zombie who only think of getting rich in one year.

Credit goes to Wilz for sharing this piece of article in his status.

Not again....

Here's a message which had been circulating around Yahoo Messenger for some time:

Ppl dun go to MMU lecture hall and use their toilet there is a spycam there..pls forward and warn all ur friends... ppl have been forwarding images of ppl in the doing business...stupid idiots

Here's another version of the message, which seems to be the original source of the above message but seem to be the less popular.

Ppl dun go to Tesco Puchong and use their toilet there is a spycam there..pls forward and warn all ur friends...stupid idiots

Which asshole is so free to modify a forwarded message. First of all the message will cause unnecessary panic among MMU-ians and secondly it is very unethical. Please be ethical when using the internet people. In case no one had read my previous posts regarding this subject, click here.

P.S: The version about Tesco Puchong is just another internet rumour. Please do not believe it. None of the rumours is proven correct. Til' then don't forward anymore messages that can cause panic unless it is something called NEWS.

Spam!!!

Dammit, I just can't believe it. My comments area for my blog entries is spammed! DIE SPAMMERS DIE!!!! I just can't believe that spam had made its way to blogs. ARGH... I am so disgusted.

Poor kitty >_<

I was having dinner with my dear when I noticed a group of kids are bullying a crippled kitten. The poor kitty had one rear leg broken and is sitting helplessly when a group of kids are bullying it. They are slapping the poor kitty with leaves and poking it's eyes. To my surprise, the parents of these bunch of rascals is just sitting at another corner witnessing their children bullying the cat. My heart immediately broke. I have this sudden urge of standing up and scold the children them not to treat a helpless animal like that but unfortunately, their parents are there.

After witnessing this incident I thought to myself, what are parents teaching their children nowadays? Is it ok for their children to bully a crippled animal just like that? Did they pamper their kids so much that they can turn a blind eye on their children bullying a helpless animal? Or parents are more worried of their children's academic performance that they simply do not care about their children's morality? Things like that really distrubed me greatly.