I made this video after reading Affix's blog on gameriot.
1. Hit your 'Shoot Wand' hotkey
2. Immediately hit your spell cast key before your wand actualy shoots
3. The moment your castbar appears, start strafing (almost the same time as you hit your spell cast key)
4. Continue holding strafe and your cast will continue while moving.
I traded fame for love
Without a second thought
It all became a silly a game
Some things cannot be bought
I got exactly what I asked for
Wanted it so badly
Running, rushing back for more
I suffered fools so gladly
And now I find
I've changed my mind
The face of you
My substitute for love
My substitute for love
Should I wait for you
My substitute for love
My substitute for love
I traveled round the world
Looking for a home
I found myself in crowded rooms
Feeling so alone
I had so many lovers
Who settled for the thrill
Of basking in my spotlight
I never felt so happy
The face of you
My substitute for love
My substitute for love
Should I wait for you
My substitute for love
My substitute for love
Mmmmm, ooohhh, mmmmm
Famous faces, far off places
Trinkets I can buy
No handsome stranger, heady danger
Drug that I can try
No ferris wheel, no heart to steal
No laughter in the dark
No one-night stand, no far-off land
No fire that I can spark
Mmmmm, mmmmm
The face of you
My substitute for love
My substitute for love
Should I wait for you
My substitute for love
My substitute for love
Now I find I've changed my mind
This is my religion
I've retreated to one of my favorite study areas of all time - a small airconditioned room in the clubhouse at my estate. I spent a considerable amount of time here to study for my 'O' levels more than 3 years ago and I feel kinda nostalgic. I've been doing some reflections over what I've achieved over the last semester and I'm trying to make sense of the decisions I've made over that period of time.
Very simply put, I'm pleased with what my project group has achieved. As the Lead Designer, I think I've fallen short of my responsibilities but nonetheless the final week showed how much our group could produce. With that amount of work done in such a short period of time, it was clear that the group packed some serious potential. In fact I think at some level, we did even better than the so-called heavyweight group in class (you know who).
Quite a huge amount of class politics has been ongoing over the last few days, especially after Chi Yong announced that we had to start thinking whether to reform our groups. **If you're reading this Aishah, I'm serious about wanting to join your group. I think you guys have a great work culture, and it would be my pleasure to work with you guys. With that said, I know some people have been talking behind my back. This is normal and I'm not taking any grudges against anyone. It's just you know, politics. While a group can be overpowered, the group members might not be happy due to the assumed pressure from both external and internal. I always felt that it's important that group members should remain happy with one another, and that everyone is always working along the same ideology. Think Ascendancy.
Today, I stumbled upon Peng Leng's group at McDonalds in Clementi. A lot of people might think Melvin fell short, but I noticed he was a really happy individual because his group accepts him and I could tell they truly enjoy each other's company, even though I know some tempers flared up at some points. I looked at my own group and noticed some level of deviation, especially when various parties were slow at submissions. At that point, there was little support and encouragement given. It's a problem but I don't think anyone is to blame. It's just the fact that we were all buddies and tried to give each other too much leeway. I would quote Andre: "friendship and work ethic are very different." Therefore, I want to work with a group that I may not be very familiar with. In other words, I could work with almost every group. At some level I think one of the key reasons why I didn't give as much as I would like to was the fact that I subconsciously exploited the friendship. To some extent, I think it's human nature. Which is why again, I stress, I may be able to work so much better with people I'm not so familiar with. Hint hint*
This Saturday could be interesting. We'll be presenting our projects to bigwigs from Ksatria and Scrawl Studios. I would really like to hear some industry comments, and hopefully we won't be utterly destroyed. I think in general, all the projects achieved at least the minimum requirements. Oh wait I didn't sit in for every presentation, but the projects I saw were very successful considering the limitations we had. I'm sure Hubertus was very astounded and/or impressed by our progression, especially during Gavin's presentation. I don't know who said this, but apparently Gavin is more skilled than Hubertus... On a sidenote, it's kinda weird everyone comes up to me and say, oh noes your boss is coming down. I'm actually quite anxious about the boss encounter, really.
As I'm typing this I have not submitted my GDET Serious Design Document. This is ridiculous, 9000 words and I'm just above halfway done...
A lot has happened over the last 2 weeks, maybe too much. I slept very little due to over-extended procrastination on assignments. I'm still recovering from the afterburn and it really hasn't been easy. At times you feel like giving up but somehow you always pull through. I'd usually like to things seriously and candidly until when it sounds like it matters. So the trick to getting myself to work is to make it sound like it always matters. It's like trying to recover from a business gone awry, not so good, definitely need for change.
I really enjoyed Mun Ying's final lecture last week. I talked to him about it during the open house and suggested he had individual lectures for each book he introduced instead of having a messed up buffet like it was. I actually prefer a course meal over a buffet. Anyway, Mun Ying is quite an interesting aspiring intellectual and that makes him someone I want to talk to in future. In all seriousness, I think he does have a lot of knowledge that can be injected into a game's storyline. I mean Warcraft's story is quite cheesy and unoriginal in many places, yet so many people get captivated by it. More original exciting ideas please!
I especially liked Ken Wilber's Integral Vision. I thought it was quite provocative and certainly truthful and visionary. Looking at the diagram makes you go, oh dear we're still just half-way there.
Nigella is a GODDESS. Her recipes are so easy and so deliciously good. I must try these ChocoPots some day.
