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Sunday, September 25, 2016

New Zealand: Day 1

I came to the airport with a lot of time thanks to my good friend Bala. We had some Burger King before I'm off to my flight. At the gate the queue was massively long. I waited a while until I realized that it was 9:40 and they are not even halfway done. They open two security checkpoints and I am off

In the flight I sat next to an old dude. He was nice. We chatted a while. I feel asleep before the plan took off. The sturedess gave some peanuts and water and then I fell asleep again. What's good with the flight is that I got the first row of economy class. That means a lot of legroom. 

They served dinner around 11:30pm Malaysian time. The choice was chicken pasta salad or fish with rice. I took the chicken salad. It was bland and didn't taste that nice (fun fact that the rice with fish was not nice either) 

Feel asleep again until 2:00. Woke up because people were making a lot of noise. My neighbor was having a problem with his earphones so I gave him mine. I use my own earphones and watch Grimm on my phone. 

Slept again at 3 until 530. After that it was time for breakfast. The choose was chicken sausage with egg or nasi lemak. Being a Malaysian I am. I choose nasi lemak. It was ok. Not that bland.

Landed in Auckland and it was wet. Raining non stop. Got my bags and pass customs. Fist thing I did was buy a local SIM card. Probably to play some pokemon go. My wife was the first to hug me after 39 mins she was late. Went to her friends friends house and ate lunch there. After that went to her friends home. 

Around 5pm nz time my wife say lets go to new world. It's a grocery store 


I miss New Zealand snacks. So here are some things that I bought 


My favorite bread. It's so good


My favorite juice. Honest quencher mango and orange. Taste as good as I remembered 

And lastly my favorite monster cookie 


Look at the size of it 


Overall great first day. Now off to bed 





Saturday, September 24, 2016

Day 315: Finally...

Finally the last day of work and after that is 312 hours of vacation time... Which means NZ here I come. Great food, Great weather, Great Friends and lots of games... nothing much to write about. Here is me signing off.... See you in two weeks. I'll probably will be blogging on the vacation.. Food... yummy food

Oh yeah, work related news. I am the admin of something. It turns out the whole office has not being use the system and this means all their user accounts have been purged. So I know what I am doing when I get back.... Key in user ID... Tally ho..

Day 314: And the answer is...

Wouldn't you like to know. Well on Thursday I came to the office but nothing was said or even mention. No one even knew what I did except for RN and ZN. Well I took it as a learning experience. Anything I send out of the company must be blanked out. Apparently P and C means Private and Confidential not Please and Cheese (haha, can't think of any rhyme). But since CK is on leave he left me the opportunity to handle this tender. I didn't liked it that much since I didn't handle from the beginning. But I never backed down on a challenged. Went back home late that day. Good thing there was someone to pick up my daughter. Being a single parent is hard

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Day 313: Bad day today

I thought I was home free already for today. But I got a call from one form one of my CM saying I gave some confidential information to an unauthorized person. She was yelling, but she was telling me that was wrong. I did apologize and I feel bad but seriously there is nothing else I can do.

Let's run through the scenarios that will happen tomorrow when I go to the office

a) will be told off by someone of high power
b) will be told off and get fired
c) will be told off and get disciplinary action
d) people will joke about it and that is it
e) everything isi normal and I just keep quiet about it.

Well it is a learning experience. I do notice everytime close to a long vacation shit always hits the fan. To make more bad news. CK will be on leave for two days and I will be in the lead for this tender. Let's see if I can churn everything out tomorrow so I can ask for half day on Friday. Since I need a vacation from work. My chest hurt but after blogging I do feel better. People  say blogging doesn't help with the soul. But I do feel that, my blog makes me feel happy.. My mom was trying to give me solutions but I guess better I just ride this out. I have less than 16 hours left. Haven't packed yet.

Day 312: New systems, new problems

Yesterday we got to test a new system the we all will be adopting soon. The new system present to us with more problems than solutions. I think that everyone is just lazy and don't want to do it. I suddenly got in charge of doing another tender that I didn't ask for. Well at least I don't need to stay back. Since I am telling you that I am not going to do that s#!T...

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Day 311: 5 More days

5 More days till my long overdue vacation. I can't wait. This Monday there is nothing that much on my plate by the work is still there. My friend CK is forward his work to me. He said is for me to "learn" but I feel that just 50% true and he doesn't want to do it. Hey.. I don't mind doing it since I really have nothing to do. Had lunch at burgerlab with H2 today. I found out that H1 had food poisoning. So not sure when I will be seeing him.. This week I am a solo parent. Which is a bit daunting and scary at the same time.

Monday, September 19, 2016

Ultratron

Another dual stick shooter


Genre: Shooter
Platform: PS Vita

What's is it about:
Some kind of space invaders clone where you control a robot with 360 degrees of motion

Gameplay consist of:
- Shooting
- Avoiding obstacles  
- Upgrading

What I liked: 
- Shooting is fun even though movement is a bit janky
- Upgrading weapons system is good but not as great as Titans Attack

What I didn't Liked:
- You die very fast.
- Enemies you kill, you need to go over there and collect points to get money. Very tedious system.

Status: Played until the 2nd level. Didn't beat the game 

Score: You'll be bored after a couple of hours

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Day 310: Beat the system

Today got a couple of  small things that I need to clear up and then after lunch I decided to take a certification on the product that I am handling. After 6 times doing it and failing. I decided to take a different approach. I did it one question at a time (the thing has unlimited questions) and found out what is the correct answer. After doing it Im going to say more than 50 times. I finally got the correct set of answers. The best part of it that I managed to help my boss pass his exam as well.  Great day. Tomorrow I am taking half day leave and working from home... hmmm

Level up: +1
Current level: 56

Day 309: Quite a busy day today

After a long weekend I am back to work on Tuesday. Surprisingly the office is 60% full. Even there is more than 12 staff on leave. Probably on different floors. Today the work was not that much. I had to get ready for my big trip in 2 weeks. So I was making arrangements for my wife and me. Works comes in a steady flow so I was not that bored. Today I have a couple more things to do but at least I really am not bored. Yesterday we were missing one H2 and today we are missing H1. Well at least I have some company for lunch.

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Day 308: 5 days late

Its Tuesday and I am blogging for Friday. I'm 5 days late. There is a reason for that. On Friday last week I actually did nothing. I came in the office.  Sat at the pantry and listen to the sales people discussing on what is the future plan for 2017. Which doesn't look good. I manage to did some work in the morning. But in the evening I was just listening to the rest of the team sounds their concern on what they plan to do. After that is a long weekend... 3 days of public holiday and 3 more on Friday. Yay...

Thursday, September 8, 2016

Day 307: Great day today

Today arrived in the office before 830. It turns out that everyone else arrived earlier before me. We had a presentation to dish out to the new joiners. My presentation went first and I think I nailed. Most of my slides were pictures and I was talking out of my ass. Which is awesome since I know about the product in the back of my mine. My boss was there so he did correct me on some thing I got incorrect no big deal. At 1130 me and ZN had a talk and a luncheon about network security. I arrived at that place and parking was difficult to find. I was the first one there and the talk went well. It's just basically for us to sell their product. I didn't mind since I did learn something from it. Came back at home at 430. Another one more day until the long holiday.

Day 306: Work done before lunch

Yesterday was a good day since the all the presentation slides were done. I got invited by ZN to attend a luncheon with a talk. So I am going to there now. Err.. .That's about it.

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Day 305: I need to do a presentation

Well as the title say this Thrusday I need to do a product presentation for the newcomers and explain to them what excatly I do. The issue I need to condense a lot of 5 different product into 30 mins presentation. So Wednesday task is to finish the slides before I go home. Hopefully I can make it. Yesterday's lunch is only H1 and me. It was good... I guess. I think 3 of us we have a lot more to talk to but when there is two it just get over too fast.

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Jak II

Dark souls of action platformers


Game no: 174
Genre: Action 
Platform: PS Vita
First Played: 2002 (PS2)

What's is it about:
The continuation of Jak and Daxter but this time it is set in a city. Like GTA.

Gameplay consist of:
- Jumping
- Fighting
- Platforming
- Shooting 
- Vehicle jacking
- Racing 
- Upgrading Weapons
- Escort missions
- Puzzle solving
- Skating
- Evolving into Dark Jak

What I liked: 
- The storyline and voiceover is great. More cutscenes
- The stages are well crafted 
- No load times
- The city is big and you rarely feel lost
- The bikes handle well
- The weapon is just one weapon with 4 different transformations
- Skate plays a huge part in the game. When it work, it good.
- This is the longest action game I've played. Clocking in at 18 hours ++

What I didn't Liked:
- Where do I start... The game is hard as nails. The segments are less than 5 minutes long. Assuming you have cat like button reflexes and can make every jump in one continuous motion
- There are some stages where it will take a while to reach checkpoint. Then you keep dying again and again.
- The skating segments are hit and a miss. the grinding seems uneven and you keep falling down.
- The transformation its not a intuitive until you get the final upgrade
- The traffic in the city is a mess. You will end up hitting a guard and it will cause everyone to fire you. 

Vita port (what's wrong with it)
- Framerate is stable. (30 Fps
- The L2, L3 and R3, R2 button are mapped at the back which makes you accidentally hit it by accident. 

Status: Played until the last 5 mission. After dying for the 50th time. Just youtube it until the end credit. It still counts 

Score: A rare gem, worth to be played once (but not on Vita)

Day 304: Back to work

Monday is here again. As usual. As a corporate drone I am happy to go to work. Today there is no client meeting since everyone is not in the office. Sometimes I think work starts at 10. Nobody is ever at the office by 9. I have some stuff that needs to be delivered by today. Still haven't finished it. Probably will be done today. Other than that, business is as usual.

Monday, September 5, 2016

Deus Ex GO

Another fun GO game which is not Pokemon



Game no: 173
Genre: Puzzle
Platform: iOS

What's is it about:
Never played Deus Ex before. So its about some goverment conspiracy and the hero is kind of a cyborg. The story is not that important.

Gameplay consist of:
- Puzzle Solving
- Hacking 

What I liked: 
- The puzzle are damn fun to do. When you solve a puzzle, the feeling is so exciting. 
- Multiple enemies with different abilities
- Hacking 
- Using Stealth and the Electric gun to dispatch enemies

What I didn't Liked:
- Getting stuck on the same level after 1 hour and you keep doing the same thing
- The story really is not that engaging 
- The graphics are not as good as Lara Croft Go... Probably is the future setting
- Short around 54 level. But you can extend the replay by getting all gold in the levels.

Status: Beat the game until the end credits. There is a branching path at the end. So unless you follow the story. It doesn't matter. Got some items for Dues Ex Mankind Divided which I am not a fan

Score: Worth to be played at least once.



Saturday, September 3, 2016

Inside

What the heck did I played...



Game no: 172
Genre: Puzzle
Platform: PC

What's is it about:
Ok, let me see if I can understand this game properly. It about a boy trying to escape some evil men out to get him. He needs to overcomes obstacles and puzzle to be free

Gameplay consist of:
- Jumping
- Swimming
- Puzzle Solving
- Timing 
- Controlling minions like lemmings

What I liked: 
- I have no clue about the story but the visual is great. Playdead (from the studio that brought you Limbo) made a visual impressive game.
- Variety of game play.
- 2D perspective is great. But sometimes it made you wonder why you can't just go to the left

What I didn't Liked:
- 3/4 in the end of the game the boy became a (SPOILER). And this (SPOILER) is 100% wrong as hell. I really don know why did it change to the (SPOILER)
- The (SPOILER) gameplay is also somewhat frustrating
- The Ending (I was like the fudge???). It end abruptly. But after you change into a (SPOILER) I don't see anyway coming out of that one.

Status: Beat the game until the end credits. There is a secret ending. Is it worth to get all the secrets to unlock the secret ending? Probably. I just YouTube it. Saves a lot of time.

Score: Worth to be played at least once... But really this game is short. Like 2 hours. Short. So it's good for one sitting.

Day 303: I'm not feeling well

Thursday is upon us. And after a good one day break because of our independence day. I am back to work. It turns out the technical report in the tender that day was not completed. So this means that we need to reprint again. Good thing it was only one copy so it was not that bad. I really didn't feel well so I said to my friend that I am not going to work on Friday. Which is true enough since I got MC... 3 days break

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Day 302: Well I'm still here

It Thursday but I am blogging this as a continuation on day 301. It's been close the 24 hours and I am still working. I have not got a good nights sleep. Only a couple of hours. My wife is worried sick. I am hanging there. KL has a weird thunderstorm at 7:00am in the morning. At least we got some Nasi Lemak for breakfast. That was a good pick me up after I vomitted on 3am KFC... Note to everyone... Do not eat KFC after 2 hours past its date. It doesn't age well. Everybody was frantically trying to finish the tender up. I had to content doing a lot of compiling and printing work. After 9am my brain went on to autopilot. Like my body was here by my brain was somewhere else.

The funny thing is the tender was due at 12pm and the place was 40 mins away. But by 11:20 we were all still doing it without any urgency. The boss say she will work her magic and we don't need to worry about the late submission. Which I find highly suspect. We manage to wrap everything up and leave the door around 12:20pm. I didn't follow the group since I was so damn tired and I decided to drive very slowly back home and catch a couple of hours of sleep.

The sucky part of this was the HR lady did not approve my unrecorded leave for working 14 hours above the norm... Grrr.