Few people have asked me why I like Lucky Star. Well, for one, it very much mimicks my conversations in real life (yes, I talk about Chocolate Coronets, and I dare you . . . → Read More: On Randomness]]> I know, I know, I haven’t been blogging for a few days already. Don’t sue me.. I’m extremely busy nowadays with school, and various projects…

Few people have asked me why I like Lucky Star. Well, for one, it very much mimicks my conversations in real life (yes, I talk about Chocolate Coronets, and I dare you to tell me you haven’t played a game that was meant for a more mature audience when you were still young. Ahem.. GTA?)

I guess, that’s what’s so interesting about randomness (and yes, I know Lucky Star was shown last year). Now, here’s a slice of the random conversations I get into (and ooh, it has annotations!):

cfgt says:
that tutorial
nearly made me go to sleep
there’s this differentiation
since I am king of skipping steps
I did all four partial differentiation
in 8 lines

Chewxy 0, Algebra 5 says:
………¹

cfgt says:
tutor went through every alternate line of so of the full proper working, which means about 9 lines per partial differentiation
so he boringly explained his way through nearly 36 lines
over the course of 20 minutes

Chewxy 0, Algebra 5 says:
…

cfgt says:
hahaha

Chewxy 0, Algebra 5 says:
I personally think Joshua Gans’ kids are way too mature for their age²

cfgt says:
hahaha

Chewxy 0, Algebra 5 says:
either that, or american kids are just too stupid

cfgt says:
we know americans can be kinda stupid
Exhibit A: Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader

[personal conversation - censored]

Chewxy 0, Algebra 5 says:
95% chance of finding higgs boson
that is… really really really high
compared to 15% chance of finding Dark matter
# Antimatter: 100%. We detected antimatter long ago! In 1932, to be precise. It is no longer a mystery.
# God: 10^-20%. More likely than stable black holes, but still a long shot.³

cfgt says:
God LOL
maybe we’ll find hyperspace! LOL

Chewxy 0, Algebra 5 says:
there is a 20% combined chance of finding something like hyperspace⁴
and once we find that
we suddenly see a lot of spacecrafts in it that look like the Millenium Falcon

cfgt says:
nah
first we need to make sure living things can survive within hyperspace

Chewxy 0, Algebra 5 says:
and I’ve got a curious question: does the Death Star have a hyperspace engine?

cfgtsays:
doesn’t it?
I thought it jumped to Yavin

Chewxy 0, Algebra 5 says:
oh ya, it did

cfgtsays:
quite sure the Death Star jumped to Alderaan
and made it go boom!

Chewxy 0, Algebra 5 says:
I suppose it has to jump OUTSIDE the solar system
then slowly make its way in
then it won’t suddenly disrupt the gravitational field of the system

cfgt says:
different shows FTL have different rules

Chewxy 0, Algebra 5 says:
I mean, as itself, the Death Star has enough gravity already
no need to bother about supergravity/gravity-bending FTL drives
so to avoid collision into a planet, the death Star has to travel in the space where the net gravitational forces between planets is 0
forgot what that point is called already
but I remember the equation: GMm/r²

cfgt says:
hahaah

Chewxy 0, Algebra 5 says:
GMm/r² = 0
solve the quadratic equation
Winamp shuffle is screwed⁵

cfgt says:
we need encryption secure PRNGs!

Of course, while this particular conversation has a scifi/geeky bent to it, our conversations are usually completely random. One moment we may be talking about anime, and the next we could be talking about food (this combination is disturbingly becoming common), and then the next moment, we talk about random fantastical stories.

Even in real life conversations with cfgt and gang, it DOES turn random. Ah, I need to find more random friends over here.

And now, for something even more random… this is why I get EPIC FAIL in algebra:

My working was all correct, and a girl I lent my homework to found my mistake, and I copied her answer – 1/5. Which was also wrong. So I came back and re-did and found the answer was 2/3…. which is also wrong! cfgt pointed out that the actual answer for a^*₂ should be 2/5. FAIL in basic algebra. Ugh.

Here I am, doing advanced GT, and what I go bungle up? Basic Algebra… sigh. Then again, I shouldn’t do my homework at 3 in the morning.

And continuing on the topic of randomness, did you know I have 2 unannounced vodcasts? Well, lemme announce them now:

How to Fake Six Pack Abs -

The Headcrab Zombie Does Game On -

High Definition version of The Headcrab Zombie Does Game On -

1. cfgt’s a mathematical genius. I on the other hand, made the same mistake in basic algebra consecutively for 5 times
2. ah, gossip about other people’s professors
3. the source of these is here
4. i.e large extra dimensions, or warped dimensions, and there is only a combined 10% chance of finding either. I forgot that they were independent of one another
5. explain to me why its stuck on Motteike Sailor Fuku and One Year Later (from Battlestar Galactica) as sort of return-to constants? Every other song is Moeteike Sailor Fuku or One year later

Yesterday, Google announced an April Fools’ Hoax (or not), that the would be teaming up with Virgin on a joint project called Virgle. This is one of Google’s newer, participatory April Fools’ Day joke (or not), seeing . . . → Read More: Project Virgle]]>

The reason why I’m a suitable candidate for the Virgle’s Project is because I’m originally from a borderworld called Xen…

Yesterday, Google announced an April Fools’ Hoax (or not), that the would be teaming up with Virgin on a joint project called Virgle. This is one of Google’s newer, participatory April Fools’ Day joke (or not), seeing that they’ve motivated more than 100 people to post video replies on the Virgle YouTube channel.

Naturally, I too, posted a response:

I wonder how many of you caught the multiple references in the vodcast.

Ultimately, though, I’m genuinely interested in the Virgle project, if it turns out not to be an April Fools’ Day joke. Although the chances of that is supremely low (or high, depending if you take into account the recent holiday that Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Richard Branson, Tony Blair, and other high profile people took together on Necker Island as a possible launchpad for such a discussion), I am still very interested in such a project.

I don’t know why, but I’m keenly putting my hopes on such a project, hoping its real. It may be a product of hyperactive imagination, being on the frontier of space, very much like a wild west + outer space (Star Wars anyone?). You may dismiss it as a boyish fantasy, but I’m very sure I’m grounded in scientific fact. We can make it to Mars. And it is for the betterment of humanity. FTL for now is unfeasible, but living on Mars (or the moon for that matter) is achievable.

Think of all the scientific knowledge we’d get!

I personally hope to see outer space one day, perhaps step foot on another planet (or satellite, or extra-terrestial body), and if this Virgle project were real (alas) I’d really consider submitting an application. There isn’t much I know, compared to the expertise of others (very quickly, Sean Carroll and his ilk comes into mind), but it’d be a thrilling experience nonetheless.

Ah… well.. geekiness aside, here are some vital statistics:

Render Time: 9 hours (I shortened it to 2.5 hours)
Programs used: 3DS Max 2008, Vegas 7, Audacity
Music credits: Jien Han Cho
Retakes: 7 (I kept stuttering about going to Mars)
Number of game references: 5

Also, I’ve updated yesterday’s Sigh April 1st post to include a list of best April fools hoaxes I found yesterday.

Here’s a before and after picture:

Yep, ladies and gentlemen, I’m now bald. And obviously, the Venus Breeze was to shave my head. . . . → Read More: Bald-om]]> A few days ago, I posted a teaser picture of a female shaver. I asked my readers to guess what I was going to use it for, and offered a prize. Well, now it’s clear.

Here’s a before and after picture:

Yep, ladies and gentlemen, I’m now bald. And obviously, the Venus Breeze was to shave my head. Why did I shave my head though, you might ask. The reason is simple. I shaved my head to raise funds for the Leukaemia Foundation of Australia, in lieu of the World’s Greatest Shave 2008.

The prize was a $25 donation on behalf of the person who won it, and since nobody claimed it, it’s going to go to the most outrageous answer- Xingyi’s. Her answer is as below:

Knowing him, it’s probably to track the difference his purchase would make to affect Australia’s economy and its effect on the GDP. Then he’s going to draw a couple of graphs to illustrate why we should vote for him as King of the World.

Sorry, babe. I already won the position without contest.

I first heard about the World’s Greatest Shave from Natalie Tran, and proceeded quite immediately to join it. Cancer is something I identify it, with two women whom I absolutely love having had cancer, and having had to suffer through chemotherapy and lost their hair. I identify with the depression and the despair that can come, especially when they’re women, as its not socially acceptable for women to be bald.

Though personally, I find myself quite powerless to do anything to prevent them from entering a mental slump, I thought I might do something to prevent other people from having similar problems. And I decided, for reasons none other than that, to shave my head to raise funds. I must say I did quite well raising funds, though I believe I didn’t raise as much as Hugh (from Hugh’s News). Ah well.

Here’s a video of the shaving (sans the part where I actually got shaved by the razor, because I was running out of time to render):

I planned to record it live to YouTube, but sadly TPG had to go throttle my connection (serves me right for using 150GB a month), so after some thought, I thought of using the V mask instead of my typical headcrab zombie. And yes, I know, it looks quite a bit like Andrew the Angry Aussie at some points.

Before the shave, I looked up a few sites, and found HeadShaver to be a very comprehensive information site for shaving heads. I had decided to use a female shaver (and got a good case of the nerves trying to buy one – I’d never be caught dead buying a female razor!) because I’ve noted that they tend to be more gentle on the skin. Also, I found that the Venus Breeze is indeed a breeze to use. There was no need for any shaving liquids or anything. Just wet and shave. And oh, it was also very clean and smooth.

A day after, I met a friend of mine who had come to see my new hairstyle. She had just went to Hungry Jack’s and had a Bacon Deluxe with her. This was our conversation:

Me: You went to Hungry Jack’s?! And got a burger! Is it for me?

She: No. Monks don’t eat meat. No Hungry Jack’s for you.

Me: -_-”

Finally, I’d like to say a big thank you to these people (going in accordance to number of letters in name): Tou, Cat, Ash, Alan (who did most of the clipping and shaving), Amy, Suba, Kelsey, Vincent, and Jasmine for appearing and supporting the shave initiative (and also shaving me, and not nicking me, thankfully). Thanks to Shyuing and Liss, and Tim, for your support, even you couldn’t make it. Thanks to Stanley who made a very long distance TT.

p/s: See if you can spot the World’s Greatest Shave badge in the picture in a previous post of mine.

Anyways, watch the video . . . → Read More: Alien vs Predator: Requiem – A Review]]> I watched AvP:R two days ago. And in the span of two days, I made a video review of it. I’ve been planning this video since before I started the Headcrab Zombie chronicles. The only reason why I didn’t do it then is the same reason why the video is a bit crappy.

Anyways, watch the video review:

Technical Information and trivia:

• The tracking of the facehugger was done almost entirely by computer.
• Which is why there are some parts where the tracking doesn’t match – because my eyes move.
• The most challenging part is of course the chestburster scene where the headcrab jumps out.
• The reason why this was shot day-for-night is because there are some parts where the facehugger didn’t track well. Shooting it day-for-night hides the flaws.
• It is physically impossible for Bacall (that’s my headcrab) to jump out of the body, because a typical headcrab like Bacall is 2 feet long.
• The reason why my voice slurred is because I did the dubbing on my bed after I woke up this morning.
• And the canned laughter is added to help those who didn’t watch my previous vodcast.

Now, for the lengthy, wordy review of AvP:R…

AvP:R is not worth a watch. Here’s why:

First Impression
My first impression of AvP2 was “wow.. finally, a return to roots”, as the early scenes were set in the jungle. Alas, this first impression is quick to fade. 20 minutes into the film, and already I’m glancing at my watch.

Story
What story? Or rather, the story isn’t developed at all. With a barebone premise (PredAlien is born, Predator hunts it, humans caught in between), there is nothing to shout about the story. Indeed, it is no different from a video clip of random people being killed by random xenomorphs for any random reason.

There are no character developments that made any point in the story. Even the supposed relationship between Ricky and Jessie was poorly expanded upon. It feels like the director made up the relationship hurriedly, as an excuse for Ricky to get angry at the Predator (which wasn’t even expanded upon either).

Let me put it this way: Even the senseless Alien Ressurection was better than this in terms of story. And yes, the first AvP movie is most definitely better than this one, both in terms of story and execution.

The Good
Xenomorphs. They just look so cool. And the Predator. And the PredAlien. And the appearance of a Ms. Yutani at the very end. Other than that, it all sucks.

The Bad
When the whole cinema laughs at the scene where the facehugger attacks the boy, its a sign that the movie is bad. This movie felt like an extended video clip of blood and gore and nothing more. Compare this to this original Alien or Predator – those movies were filled with chills and thrills, but AvP2 clearly fails at that. You can see that the directors were trying hard to make is scary, but failed ultimately. It was boring, and it was uninspiring. A good thriller fills one’s head with imaginations of what’s coming up next, but in this movie, my imagination went into a coma.

The Brothers Strause, please repeat after me: blood, gore and violence does not equate to scary. The Shining did it with minimal blood and gore.

Also, the PredAlien and Predator looked so similar in their closeup silhouettes, that often times, I got mistaken between the two of them. And speaking of close-ups, what is it with so many close-up and tight shots? Without much light, it was pretty damn difficult to discern between Predator and PredAlien. An occasional wide shot would be helpful, as the PredAlien has a tail, and most certainly will help the audience identify the character. But did it happen? Nope.

This movie seems to go for a lot of shock value which devalues after time (i.e. the audience gets desensitized), which makes it ultimately, a poor movie. Also, the movie tries to be an ensemble film, but fails to focus on characters appropriately. In the end, it makes the audience lose focus.

The Ugly
At the end, this movie is a zero sum movie. If this movie ever had a tagline similar to the previous one, it’d be – whoever wins, they still lose. Ugh. Makes me feel cheated.

Conclusion
Don’t bother with this show. It was a waste of money. I didn’t even compare much with any precedent movies, because this clearly is in its own inferior class. 4/10. (4 because of the awesome looking xenomorph and Predator and PredAlien models. Otherwise it’s a 2/10). I only reviewed this because it’s one of those rare wide releases that Australia ever gets.

Technical Information and Trivia:

Here’s the video:

If you’re wondering why its so lame (with the headcrab so stiff and all), its because this is actually the longest video I’ve made so far – 4 and a half minutes as opposed to the typical . . . → Read More: Not Your Typical Vodcast: The Davos Question]]> Ola. Today’s vodcast is not your typical headcrab zombie vodcast. Today, I’ll attempt to answer the Davos Question.

Here’s the video:

If you’re wondering why its so lame (with the headcrab so stiff and all), its because this is actually the longest video I’ve made so far – 4 and a half minutes as opposed to the typical 1 minute stuff. Also, if you’re wondering why it doesn’t feel like the older vodcasts, its because I was lazy and didn’t hand animate the whole thing. In fact, what you see is almost entirely machine generated.

Technical Information and Trivia:

• This is the first video to be completely computer tracked, and no hand animation involved. I did this because there were more than 7000 frames, and it’d be next year before I finish hand compositing it.
• The video took roughly 90 hours in total to render. It’s roughly 50 hours per render, and with 16 hours remaining, my 3DS Max crashed. So it took another round of rendering before I could get it done.
• I didn’t move much. For a reason. It was 3 a.m. when I made the video. I was quite tired
• I thought of just uploading it straight to YouTube, but there were these horrendous eyebags.
• So I rather wait 90 hours more to get it uploaded.
• The reason why the headcrab looks a bit different is because I was sitting quite close to the camera this time. Note to self: Get a 35mm lens camera.
• In total, I re-recorded my speech about 100+ times, because I had problems pronouncing ‘utilitarianism’ and ‘antiretroviral’, and ‘WTC’
• The video and audio went out of sync at 3:09, because I miscalculated my frame rates. Bugger that, my math.
• Mental Ray wasn’t used

You may download the transcript of the vodcast here:Davos Question Vodcast Transcript [PDF]

Here’s a longer version of what I wanted to say:

There are many things we can all do. I can name a few off my hand, free education for everyone, come up with some innovative development incentive schemes to help the poorer nations, and stuff like that. I’d put healthcare and education above anything else, in the Davos agenda, but some plans are frankly, unfeasible, as it requires huge sacrifices on many people’s part.

I believe that the system in the world now is still inefficient – meaning, more can be done without anyone losing out. Instead of focusing on the macro-level, nations, companies and individuals should be focusing on the micro-level of economics. That is to say, we should focus on things more like individual supply and demands, as opposed to aggregate supply and demand.

Indeed, ingenious microeconomic solutions can arise – like the example I used in the video, where pharmaceuticals pursue a more efficient method of price discrimination to benefit the poorer nations. Likewise, could be implemented for malaria (still rampant in Africa), financing (microfinancing, i.e. lending on a small scale) or even education (Patrick Awuah (sp?) started a liberal arts college in his home nation in Ghana).

If we keep looking at the big picture, we cannot see the details. But yet when we straighten the details, the big picture becomes complete, so why not straighten the details?

This doesn’t mean macro-economists do not have a role to play. Fiscal policies and et cetera is still important. I’ve seen some videos on YT that suggest that we either do away with money (WTF??) or stop using the debt-based monetary system. While the latter seems to be a fine idea (like going back to gold standard), it’s also quite silly, in modern contexts. Money has always been, at points in history, fiat. Money is just a concept, so whether you use the gold standard or fractional reserve banking, inflations are still bound to happen. This is where macro-economists come in, to study and control the system.

Anyways, back to the video. I mentioned in my video that it is good to have some arbitary anchors. An anchor is some absolute beliefs that should be made absolutely irrefutable.

I mentioned that not killing, and non-violence is a good anchor to hold on to, while ideologies like political or religious beliefs are not good anchors. Before anyone flare up at me for criticizing religious beliefs (or in some rare cases, political ideologies), think about what I said. Think of how many religions have been misused as a platform for genocide. Think of how many political ideologies that have been used as a platform for tyranny.

Not killing other people and non-violence are good anchors in the sense that even if you misuse it, you won’t harm people. Concepts like Nazism, or God, has been misused many times in history. Take some time to think this through.

Now that you’ve thought through my argument, I’ve always favored the in-between. For instance, I believe in a fine balance of the free market system and some form of control. By thinking this question: “Will my actions benefit me and others?” it forces a person, a company or even a nation, to think and walk in between selfless altruism and selfish egoism. Sometimes it is difficult to come up with a solution that is ‘fair’ to all parties, but there’s always time to be creative eh?

Sometimes, the solution is unfair to most of us, but is fair to the others. Take South-East Asian sweatshops for an example. If Nike didn’t open a sweatshop in SE Asia, the people there would be living in abject poverty. But the existence of Nike sweatshops provides the people there a chance to make a decent living by their standards.

Granted, it’s not fair (considering many fat American yobs get paid few thousand bucks per hour), and many people (me included) see this as a complete and total disregard for basic (workers’) rights, but consider the alternative. The people of poorer nations, without the power of globalization, will be even more destitute. And of course, many things can be done to prevent such disregard of rights, such as an ethics committee that regulates these sorts of activities, but this is rather unsophisticated thinking coming from me. Personally, I’d look at each case individually, before suggesting anything.

My suggestion in my video, is most certainly idealistic. I’ve been accused many times that I live in an idealized world, and not in the real world, but I shall remain optimistic. Maybe Osama bin Laden and the rest of the untamed, barbaric terrorist world might not find this an appealing solution (with a mindset that says, ‘Conquer or Die!’, it’s hard to find it appealing), but I remain optimistic, that if most of the world had asked the question before they take a step in action, the world, will most certainly be a better place in 2008.

Let’s try this, mmkay?

p/s: It’d really be cool if I get an invite to Davos. Really. And about unleashing the forces of Xen on Earth… we’ll let G-man handle that. ‘Headcrab’ and ‘Xen’ is a trademark of Valve Software Inc, please don’t sue me. The Nike sweatshop example was adapted from Martin Wolf’s Why Globalization Works, which is an awesome read. Now, someone give me an invite and a plane ticket to Davos!

Yep you bet. Watch this week’s video to find out why.

Technical Information

Production Tools: 3DS Max 2008, After Effects CS3, Vegas 7, PFTrack and FumeFX plugin for 3DS Max 2008 Number of . . . → Read More: No Vodcast This Week]]> What?! After all the effort and waiting you guys have been putting up with and here I come, announcing that there is no vodcast? Is something up?

Yep you bet. Watch this week’s video to find out why.

Technical Information

Production Tools: 3DS Max 2008, After Effects CS3, Vegas 7, PFTrack and FumeFX plugin for 3DS Max 2008
Number of Shots: 1

Number of Takes: 1

Number of reiterative renders: n, where n→∞… nah, I was just kidding. n is more like 30 or so.

Total rendertime: 32 hours. (Compare it with 44 hours for my 1.5 minute Episode 2)

Number of voiceovers recorded: 0

Total HDD space used (inclusive of intermediary files): 2.2GB

Credits

• Ellen McLain as the voice of GLaDOS
• Dan Castellaneta as the voice of Homer Simpson/The Headcrab Zombie
• Special thanks to Miss K. Dahl for appearing as the burning headcrab zombie. Proves to you that headcrabs are not misogynists when choosing their victims.
• And also to all the wonderful people at Valve Software for making Portal and Half-Lifeverse
• No thanks to the Weighted Companion Cube who stabbed me.

Trivia

• Believe it or not, this is actually the most difficult vodcast I had to make so far, despite it being quite short.
• I worked on it continuously for 3 days (not inclusive of render time, or sleeping times, eating time and defacting time)
• For one, only one shot can be taken. The rest of the shots had to be digital effects.
• I tried recreating the portal from Portal – it worked, but it required so many layers that I could only afford to render one still frame.
• As a result, only the inner, brighter layer was used.
• The reason why portals in Portal looks thus is because they are prerendered textures.
• Also, due to an oversight, I forgot to make the portal expand (with a lot of particle effects). Instead, the portal just appears.
• I had to render the same video with different iterations about 4 times each, not inclusive of the amount of test renders I made.
• For this vodcast, I changed my workflow. I mentioned it in Varied Thoughts.
• I started using .mov files as my test render file (I used to use .avi files for my test renders)
• I toned down the quality of fires (anyone who worked with FumeFX should know how high quality it can get, and how sluggish your computer can get) by the time of the final render.
• Anyone whom I’ve discussed visual effects with before knows I hate masking. I had a whole load of manual masking to do for this video. Check if you can see where I started getting sloppy.
• The Weighted Companion Cube is hand animated. I thought of using Reactor to allow a more natural feel of things, but the thought of setting it up and doing repeated test-renders put me off.
• Again, hair was something that made the video look pretty bad. I should have realized hair moves! (Note to self: Watch more Superman Returns, not Superman I and II)
• The headcrab was tracked about halfway using PFTrack. I hand animated the rest.
• You may notice the return of the blue tinge. This was because for the majority of Portal, there was a blue hue (to make it feel like a cold, alienated experiment kinda area). I replicated that as well
• As a result of the blue tinge, the the portal background is indistinguishable. Damn.
• The original shot was longer. The headcrab zombie (me) was supposed to rise up from below, and say ‘Mmm… cake’.
• But to do that, it would mean another 3 layers of rendering. I had even gotten to the point of animating it, but I cancelled at frame 750 because I can’t wait any longer.
• So I replaced it with just an empty screen. Just like the Simpsons’ Hungry Jack’s ad
• And the following is an excerpt of a conversation with a friend of mine:
  

  A says:
  What’re you doing now?
  Chewxy says:
  Burning K [that's the girl who is the headcrab zombie]
  A says:
  Cool. I wanna watch.

Some Technical Details:

3DS Max render time: 30 hours.

Rendered with: Mental Ray

Actual resolution: 640 x 480

Original file size: 1.64 GB without audio (Uncompressed video).

Number of takes: 6

Number of audio re-recording (for V.O): 1

If you noticed, I actually updated the textures of the headcrab. The previous texture sucks – many people . . . → Read More: It’s Here! V-Log #2]]> Yep! It’s here! Episode 2 of my v-log.

Some Technical Details:

3DS Max render time: 30 hours.

Rendered with: Mental Ray

Actual resolution: 640 x 480

Original file size: 1.64 GB without audio (Uncompressed video).

Number of takes: 6

Number of audio re-recording (for V.O): 1

If you noticed, I actually updated the textures of the headcrab. The previous texture sucks – many people thought it was a hat, and I reverted back to the original Half-Life 2 texture. Here are pictures of the evolution of headcrab designs:

Try to spot the errors in the video where you can see my hair. Now I know why they always wear skullcaps. I’d say this video was sloppily done.

Also, credits go to drinkingcocoa, for the awesome music, and Adam, who helped me a lot during the 3D process. And Ellen McLain for being such a nice genetic lifeform and disc operating system.

Yes, you heard it right. Mr. Ne’er-show-his-face-on-his-blog is going to video-log. And this is not a joke. In a most serious manner, here’s my video blog… it’s a short one though:

Speaking of videoblogs, here’s Natalie’s YouTube. I . . . → Read More: Happy Halloween]]> All Hallows’ Day… is tomorrow. And today, on the eve of the Hallowed souls, I v-log for the first time!

Yes, you heard it right. Mr. Ne’er-show-his-face-on-his-blog is going to video-log. And this is not a joke. In a most serious manner, here’s my video blog… it’s a short one though:

Speaking of videoblogs, here’s Natalie’s YouTube. I love the way she does her video entries. It’s cheeky, and fun. Unlike mine (I assumed you’ve seen it). She has movie interests similar to mine too! Though, as she says, her videos do not reflect her. But I s’pose it DOES reflect on her creative spirit. And she’s cute. Damn. Too bad she has a boyfriend (whose iPod got stolen) though. She’s THAT impressive. Readers of this blog will know that I’m highly critical over YouTube videos and v-logs… so, it takes a lot to impress me, and she did it.

I’ll continue videoblogging from time to time. Only when I’m bored and have nothing to do save to bloody show off myself on YouTube. With a pretentious accent. Definitely with a pretentious accent that you can’t see (yay! Obscure Amber-from-House reference!)…In the meantime, this is what my housemates did for Hallowe’en (actually, only the prat Tou did the deco – and blogged about it!):

You should see what he pasted outside my door… too risque to post on my blog (but you can see what he pasted in his blog). OK. Back to studying with me!