I headed down with one of my friends to Comex 2009 at Suntec yesterday. Even though it was a weekday and it was only the first day of the four days event, Suntec was so packed! The parking lots at Suntec and the surrounding buildings were all full and my dad had to pay $12 to park at the hotel opposite Suntec Convention Center.  It was MAD!

Comex 2009 basically occupied the entire convention center from 1st to 6th floor and it’s full of gadgets, electronics, computers, and everything that a computer fair should have.

My hunt ended with:

SteelSeries 5H v2 USB $159

SteelSeries $39 (promotional price with the 5H)

LG W2261V-PF $258

When I was looking for a new headset, there were so many choices at Comex! Sennheiser and Audio Technica had booths there too, but they didn’t had any headsets that I liked and fit my budget. Monitors wise, I’m not sure why Samsung only brought in their top end monitors so most of Samsung monitors were out of my budget too.

The LG monitor I got was really worth it. 21.5inches, 2ms, Full HD 1080p 16:9 widescreen LCD monitor. Exactly what I wanted for a very very reasonable price. I love it!

Comex 2009 will be held from 10 – 13 Septemer 12noon to 9pm at Suntec Convention Center

With 4 Metres of comfortable walkway in each of the hall, visitors can easily breeze through an extensive array of the Latest Tech Gadgets from over 820industry leading Manufacturers and Suppliers such as Acer Computer (Singapore) Pte Ltd o Altec Lansing o Apple o Asus Technology Pte Ltd o Benq Singapore Pte Ltd o Brother International Singapore Pte Ltd o Canon Singapore Pte Ltd o Casio Singapore Pte Ltd o Cisco Systems – Linksys (Asia) Pte Ltd o Compaq Singapore o Creative Technology Ltd o D-link International Pte Ltd o Dell Singapore Pte Ltd o Epson Singapore Pte Ltd o Fujifilm (Singapore) Pte Ltd o Fuji Xerox Printers Pte Ltd o Fujitsu PC – AsiaPac Distribution Pte Ltd o Hewlett Packard Singapore(Sales) Pte Ltd o Infocus Systems Asia Pte Ltd o JVC Asia Pte Ltd o Kingston o Lenovo Singapore Pte Ltd o LG Electronics (Singapore) Pte Ltd o Logitech o Microsoft o Mitsubishi o MobileOne Ltd o Netgear o Nikon Singapore Pte Ltd o Oki Data (S) Pte Ltd o Olympus Imaging Singapore Pte Ltd o Philips o Pioneer Electronics Asia Centre Pte Ltd o Samsung Asia Pte Ltd o Sandisk o Seagate Technology International Pte Ltd o Sennheiser o Sharp o Singnet Pte Ltd o Sony Ericsson o Sony Electronics (S) Pte Ltd o Starhub Ltd o Symantec Singapore Pte Ltd o Toshiba (Singapore) Pte Ltd o Western Digital (S.E.Asia) Pte Ltd and many more………

Someone linked me to the “Do you want to date my avatar?” music video on youtube, and I must say it’s pretty well done for a fan video! They really put in effort into making this, and I would say this music video, lyrics, song etc. really kicks ass.

I don’t think anyone would want to date my character in Team Fortress 2. My main class the the medic, and all TF2 characters are male.

Anyway, you younger generation have it lucky. It’s so cool to be a geek nowadays, as compared to our era. I would date a geek anytime over a hunky chunky air head, obviously my dream guy is one that has got best of both worlds!

Enjoy the video! The girl is hot

Why are Facebook games so popular? I’ve started to play Restaurant City and Mafia Wars on Facebook when I was overseas, since I didn’t had my computer with me to play any other games. I gave up on Restaurant City after a few days, but I’m continuing to play Mafia Wars, and in some ways, I am addicted to Mafia Wars.

The simplicity of Facebook games, them being casual games, allow for students and working adults to mindlessly click on their little sanctuary and to grow them. Like traditional MMORPGs, these games are basically farming games. By farming, we mean clicking and clicking, doing repeated actions in the game, to level up and achieve certain items or game money. I’ve always wondered why farming in MMORPGs are so addictive even though it can be so tedious, and I even wrote a blog post on how MMORPGs is a reflection of life.

I guess in casual games, it doesn’t matter if you’re smart or stupid, pretty or ugly etc., so as long as you are willing to click in the game, a few times a day, you will be rewarded. That doesn’t always happen in life. It doesn’t mean if we work hard enough, we’ll all be millionaires someday.

The reason why I stopped playing Restaurant City was, it was simply too easy and too mindless. By clicking on your restaurant, making your workers work or rest, and earning money to renovate your restaurant, just doesn’t make sense to me. In the end, all you get is lots of money to renovate your restaurant. If you’re one that is easily contended, the most basic restaurant given to you will suffice. Boring. Next.

Mafia Wars, on the other hand, farming mafia jobs gives you money and skill points to build your mafia. The stronger your mafia, the more power you have to fight other players and “beat” them. I guess the addictive factor of Mafia Wars is that it appeals to our competitive nature. We want to be stronger and better than other players. We want to win. The only thing that is stopping you from becoming a multi-millionaire with the sickest mafia crew is the risk that your manager might catch you clicking away on Facebook during work hours!

I had an awesome time at World Cyber Games WCG Singapore 2009 this year. This is my first ever WCG I’ve participated, and I’m thankful that my team, Team Anomaly, won 2nd for Team Fortress 2. I’ve taken some pictures from Spotgamers website,,, I will upload my pictures soon!

Priss standing up and celebrating win over o9k. LOL

To be honest, I do felt that WCG 2009 did not have the best arrangements, although, I have to give credits to the organisers and game marshalls that have worked their butts off for this event. I’m sure it wasn’t an easy task for them too, and I had the privilege of watching them set up the computers 2 days before the event.

These are my suggestions to future gaming event organizers, especially one that is this big in scale… The post on Team Titans’ blog had some really good points that I have to agree on as well…

1. It is very tiring for teams to wait for many hours for their matches. Titans had to wait 7hours in between their matches and my team waited about 4hours for ours. For Team Fortress 2, I understand that that were problems with setting up the computers and having computers getting the Blue Screen of Death BSOD, but a 4 hours delay of match really tire out all the TF2 teams that were involved. I guess for TF2 case, we can only blame Windows?

2. The gaming arena was too cramped and to place the main stage beside the tournament wasn’t a great idea. During one of our matches, I could hear the Cosplay people on stage singing songs and performing. It was really distracting at some point. I think there was a band playing behind us, when we were having our matches, too. I screamed my lungs out during WCG so that my team mates could hear me. Ratsyc (TF2′s game marshal) commented that I was one of the loudest/aggressive TF2 girls there -_- Ok, it wasn’t very feminine of me to shout like the guys, but hey, this is what makes the game exciting! And, that is why we game

3. Titans and SCOGA made a good point that the onus is on WCG and WCG’s sponsors to send our national champions overseas to play for WCG finals in Chengdu. I wasn’t aware previously that if you win WCG, it only means you have the right to represent Singapore, but you have to fork out your own wallets to attend the WCG finals. It’s quite sad really. If you check WCG Singapore’s website, only Asphalt 4 and Wise Star 2 winners get sponsored hotel stay in Chengdu. The Counterstrike winners gets S$3000 for the team, which isn’t enough to cover airtickets and accomodation for the entire team. Or perhaps, they should request from MCYS for monetary support! Gaming is afterall, a national past time and sport (arguably).

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Updated prizes for WCG SIngapore 2009. So sad! No extra prizes for Team Fortress 2

The Date and Time for each game scheduled for WCG Nationals at Suntec between 3rd and 5th July can be found here

Counterstrike

1st:

1. $3000
2. AudioTechnica PRO5MS Headphones x5
3. Right to represent Singapore in the WCG Grand Finals in Chengdu

2nd:

1. $2000
2. AudioTechnica FC700 Headphones x5

3rd:

1. $1000
2. AudioTechnica FC5WH Headphones x5

Team Fortress 2

1st:

1. $2000

2nd:

1. $1000

3rd:

1. $500

Left 4 Dead [ Read the rest of this entry » ]

Let me repeat for those of you whom haven’t been following my blog…. My Team Fortress 2 team won the tournament held in Kuala Lumpur just last weekend! The whole team consists of pro Malaysian boys, except for me, nub Singapore girl -_-~! They’ll be sponsored by e-Club Malaysia to come Singapore in July 2009 to pit against our local players for TF2 Open category WCG National Finals.

It was really an eye opener for me, since I haven’t played in any gaming tournament since I quit Counterstrike years ago. I got to meet the other Malaysian players, and they’re really nice and friendly people

team anomaly: msc, xel, shin, pure, priss, cazza, boom

team iP:r: myuu, kyuu, cicak, bobo, allen

anomaly group hugggg!!!**!!

We had to be on stand-by to play from 11am, and our final match was played until 7pm+

Boom <3 Priss ?

Haha… nah… Boom’s our team’s youngest player, he’s only 14 years old! I’m not a paedophile… really… >,<

After Final Fantasy concert, the next big gaming concert is here in Singapore – The Video Games Live Singapore 2009. VGL will be held in Singapore Indoor Stadium this Friday 19th June 2009 8pm. Tickets are available at Sistic.

Songs from classic and popular games will be featured…

Produced and performed live by world famous video game composers Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall, with our very own remarkable NUS Symphony Orchestra & Choir, VGL features music from the most popular video games – Pong, Mario, Sonic, Halo, Warcraft, Zelda, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy and more.

Being a geeky socialite gamer, I know at least 5 different groups of people going for the concert, too bad I don’t think I’ll be sitting near them though… The tickets are a little on the expensive side too, but for a two to three hour event, it’s quite worth while

Updated 15 May 2009: Click on this post for more updates

Taken from GameSync and WCG Singapore

There will be 15 games featured in WCG Singapore 2009

National Finals

• Asphalt 4 Mobile
• Counter-Strike 1.6 PC
• DotA Allstars PC
• FIFA 09 PC
• Guitar Hero World Tour Xbox 360
• StarCraft: Brood War PC
• Virtua Fighter 5 Xbox 360
• WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne PC
• Wise Star PC

Open Category

• Blackshot Online PC
• Left 4 Dead PC
• Team Fortress 2 PC
• Viwawa Groword Web
• Viwawa Stwack Web
• Viwawa Sushido Web

For now, I’m super confused when the Team Fortress 2 will be played and WCG’s website is not fully updated yet. Tentatively, WCG Singapore National Finals will be held from 3 to 5 July at the Suntec Convention Centre alongside The Games Xpo 2009.

Taken from

Seven games, including Counter-Strike 1.6, Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead, are slated for a World Cyber Games Singapore 2009 event in June according to an undated news item posted on the Game Haven cyber cafe website.

PC games

• Blackshot
• Counter-Strike 1.6
• DotA All Stars
• Left 4 Dead
• Team Fortress 2

Xbox 360 games

• Virtua Fighter 5
• Guitar Hero: World Tour

I’M SO HAPPY THAT TEAM FORTRESS 2 WILL BE ONE OF THE FEATURED GAMES! WEEE! Except… I don’t think my team will pick me to play for them because I’m still so noob. *sigh* Oh well!

Weight has always been an issue to all women, it has been particularly difficult for someone like me – I was never a thin person. I don’t have a huge self-esteem issue when it comes to looking good, because I do think I’m attractive enough. However, girls being girls, nothing’s ever good enough, I want a flatter tummy!!! It can be a slippery slope, and I always monitor my thoughts, to make sure I don’t have any unhealthy thoughts such as thinking about going anorexic. I just want to be the size I was 3 years ago, before I went Australia and put on a good 8kgs.

I have been on a diet recently and it has been working out so far – I have lost 4Kgs in the past 2 months! The diet is called The Otaku Diet. Initially it started because I fell really ill and I couldn’t leave the house. I had to stay at home for almost 2 weeks, and do nothing but watch TV and play computer games. Slowly, my weight started dropping. Initially I thought it was going to be a temporary thing, and I will put the weight back on once I recover. However, since I have been playing Team Fortress 2 competitively for the past week, I have been doing nothing at home but play Team Fortress 2, watch TV / anime, and doing my assignments. As a result, I don’t consume much energy and I don’t feel the need to eat as much as before. I try to still balance my diet with fruits and vegetables, and always make sure I eat enough

Now, I just have to lose 4kgs more to hitting my goal. At the rate I’m losing weight – 1kg a week, I’ll be there in no time It’s sad that even when I reach my goal, I wouldn’t be considered a thin person, but working crunches and going for walks, I hope I’ll have a better figure.

It’s rare I discuss my personal life in my blog, but I have been talking to my TF2 friends over voice chat, and it’s really fun discussing these topics with them. It’s refreshing to talk to a bunch of 18 year olds, listening to their secrets on girls, looks, shopping, life, school, gaming etc. etc. They were even giving me tips on losing weight. Ha! As one of my friends say, I’m a Shotacon.

I bought two gadgets from this year’s IT Show 2009 held at Suntec – a Sonic Gear speaker and a 4Gb thumbdrive.

I opened my Sonic Gear speakers this morning and was quite excited to test out music, movie, and gaming on the speakers as compared to my Sennheiser headphones.

I was quite shocked to find that my speakers started playing radio! The Sonic Gear Tattoo 333 model does not come with FM radio, so I was scratching my head when the speakers started playing an English radio channel. It wasn’t clear music playing, it was more like a hissing static sound, with a very poor reception of the radio station playing in the background. It sounded like something out of a horror movie.

I immediately went to google my problem and I am not surprised to find others having the same problem

http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=1856292

i just bought a new sonic gear tattoo 333 speaker, reach home immediately try out. after i turn on the switch, i heard high pitch noise and buzzing sound and fm radio also. i called my fren to check and he seems to have the same problem except fm noise. anyone knows wad is the problem or has solution?

I knew immediately that the problem was with the speakers, since there were so many others that faced the same problem as me. I feel very dreadful to the realization of having to return to IT Show at Suntec and squeezing with the crowd!!!!!

I returned to IT Show on Saturday, after searching for an available carpark for 30minutes, squeezing through tens of thousands of people, finally reaching the sixth floor. Luckily, my friend accompanied me there and helped me carry the bulky set of speakers up.

When I went to the Sonic Gear booth, I told the guy about my problem with the Tatoo 333 speakers, and he looked at me very puzzled. He said he would have to test the set first. He tested my set with his Ipod, and obviously there wasn’t any hissing sound. I insisted that the problem would still surface if I brought the speakers home!! I told him about Hardwarezone forum, that others had the same problem as me! He was shocked and asked me for more information regarding what the other forumers were saying.

I think he didn’t want me to make a din at the Sonic Gear booth so he issued me a refund immediately, seeing that I wouldn’t be satisfied otherwise. I was contemplating whether to blog about this or not, since the guy was kind enough to give me my $59.90 back, but I was still pissed that he made me come down to IT show again.

Anyway, on Sunday I did some search on Hardwarezone forums again, this time for any good recommendations for 2.1 speakers below $100. After some searches, I decided to get the Creative Inspire T3200 that is retailing at SG$89.90. I saw on one of the forum threads that there’s a new online shop that was selling the T3200 at SG$81.90 from http://noble.sg and the delivery is about SG$5! I didn’t hesitate due to the good reviews given for the T3200 model.

I was surprised that Noble.sg made the delivery on the next day! That is very efficient! I could even select the cash-on-delivery payment mode, so I don’t have to worry about giving my credit card details online. I have set up my speakers and they are working very fine. The bass is good and loud, and my mother was complaining they could hear the bass from the living room -_- Although i still prefer my Sennheiser when it comes to listening to music, having a 2.1 speakers for watching movies and animes is definitely better!

Oh yah, I nearly forgot the point of this post – DO IT SHOWS SELL FAULTY GOODS?!