Shit man, I just bought The Sims 2 on Wednesday and I can't stop playing it! I've been playing the game till 5am every day since! Oh my god, what a cool game!
It's the most amazing game I've ever played! The new 3D engine is great but eats quite a bit of memory. I recommend it to everyone, but you had better make sure you have all the requirements on your system so that you can fully enjoy this awesome game!
Alright, that's all from me, I want to get back to my game! :D
I've been trying to find tutorials on how to do these kind of images.. I'm not even really sure what they're called.. Anyone knows? Do you know where i can learn to create them? I hope somebody will tell me..
This very cool image was made by trajik from [b]customize.org[/b] and is available here!
Kings Of Convenience is really cool.. What excellent music they create! I'm kinda broke right now, but as soon as I have some money, I'm gonna get their album, Riot on an Empty Street!
I presented and handed in my Javascript website yesterday, and also my 3d final project. After 3 days of hardly any sleep, I finally caught up on my sleep yesterday night. Ahhh, I'm so refreshed...
I spent my Wednesday at school, helping my 3 of classmates do their website.. They were calling me one by one, I felt like a teacher or something.. :? Of course I couldn't help 3 in such a short time, so I think I kinda neglected one of them.. :oops:
At 10pm, we were forced out of the school.. I don't think we had any breaks when we were working, so after that my friend and I ate at McDonald's and then we caught a cab home.. I didn't really managed to help her during school, so I felt a little guilty and told her to send her files to me through MSN Messenger..
I helped her touch up on her website till 4am, then I did some final touches on my own.. I finally went to bed at almost 6am.. At this point, I hadn't even read my notes to study for Javascript exam the next morning..
I had planned to wake up at 8:15am and reach school at 9:30am, and have at least an hour to read through my notes.. But I woke up at 9am, and then I realised I had some more touching up to do for my website..
So I took a cab to school at 10am and reached there around 10:25am, I tried to do some reading in the cab, but couldn't get much information into my head.. :(
By the time I reached school, I had only a few minutes before the exam started.. Before the paper was handed out, I asked my lecturer whether it was all multiple choice questions, she said there were 15 MCQs and 5 structured questions.. We were all freaked out, because prior to this, she never said anything about structured questions!
So, everyone struggled through the paper, and I think a lot of us are going to fail.. :( Anyway, my website presentation went ok.. My lecturer seeing that some people hadn't done their websites to fit her requirement, gave them until 6 o'clock to work on their website and hand it in to her..
Just when I thought I could finally relax, they asked me help finish up their websites.. Sigh.. It was a very long day for me, I'm glad I got through it.. :)
I didn't get to help some of my classmates, so I feel a little bit uneasy.. On the other hand, I think I did quite a lot already, considering it's not my project..
Today is the deadline for my video project, but I'm kinda tired from yesterday, so I told my group that I wouldn't be coming to school.. And I think they're okay with it, because I helped one of them quite a lot on her website.. So in a way, she's returning the favor.. :)
I've been kinda busy with school and all, lots of final term projects due in 2 weeks or so...
The biggest one is the video and special effects project, and my group and I were silly enough to opt for a 30 minute video.. It's really ambitious for a student production, I'm not sure if we can get everything done by the deadline..
Then, I have a 3D animation due on the 24th of June, given a choice between doing the striking of a matchstick, or pouring of a liquid..
Also due on the 24th, is a javascript website for a company selling flowers or gifts..
Finally, on the 9th of July, my Macromedia Director project is due..
Anyone knows where I can download a fake certificate for a doctor? I don't know what it's called but we need something to certify a doctor working in a mental institute.. What would that be called and where can I download for free?
Or if anyone has any idea what the layout of the certificates look like and what is stated on it, could you please tell me, I'd need to get it done by next week.
You can now download a little mp3 musical montage from The Sims 2! Now you can get a feel for just what sort of sounds will be pumping out your speakers when you finally pop that Sims 2 cd in your computers cd tray!
Firstly, I'd like to say that I might not be leaving after all, I've decided not to use this blog as an outlet for my personal problems, but I might write about them on ocassion. I'll just focus on the happier stuff..
So anyway, I've been using 3dsmax 5 quite a lot lately, browsing thru' 3dsmax 5 Bible, looking for good tips.. I've been trying to make clouds instead of using sky images as the background as they don't look so good.. So, I followed the tutorial in the book, which was quite easy. They don't look half bad..
Yesterday, I came back from school and the sky looked really amazing with altocumulus clouds. Hmmm.. Now I'm wondering how to create them in 3dsmax.. Anybody knows?
Can't believe it's been almost a month since my last post.. In case you're wondering, I didn't go anywhere, I wasn't holiday or anything like that. I just didn't feel like blogging..
Anyway, being on tblog just takes up a lot of time, I used to spend hours here, blogging, checking out people's blogs, and trying to make my blog look good..
When I first started my blog, I wanted what most other people wanted; to have sort of an online journal of my daily life. I mean, the thought of sharing your life experiences with complete strangers without having to reveal your identity, was oddly appealing. My life is pretty crappy and I guess, in a way, I wanted some sympathy.
But then, checking out other people's blogs and seeing them writing about how crappy and miserable their lives are, I realise that not many feel sorry for them, most of us just don't even bother and let's face it, no one likes to read about people living sad, pathetic lives.. We all just want to read fun, happy stuff. So, that stopped me from writing what I wanted to write.
Also, somehow with time, I got more and more concerned about page hits, with the number of comments.. And this is not why I came here.. I shouldn't have to worry about the number of people reading my blog. I also tried to write about stuff I thought people would like to read, which I now realise I probably shouldn't have done.
And so, there's a lot that I haven't revealed about myself because I've been so worried about what others might think. I'm hiding so many secrets from the people who know me. I thought I could at least have an outlet here on my blog, but I'm such a coward, I'm too scared to even say it here. I'm too scared of being judged by people who I don't even know..
My blog's not turning out the way I expected it to be in the first place, so I'm not sure if I should carry on.
Guess what Neopets' word of the day is! It's [b]Petpetpet[/b]! I can't believe it! I submitted this quite a while back, but I'm not sure if they picked it from my submission... Petpetpet! Haha! I was thinking of how Neopets could have pets, which are called petpets.. So if petpets could have pets, they'd be called something like petpetpets! Then I guess if petpetpets had pets, they'd be called petpetpetpets! Of course, I just had to submit that one as well! :lol: Weird, huh?
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooo! My pathetic one week break's over! I gotta go to school again tomorrow.. Can't believe I'll have a class on Monday morning.. Welcome back Monday blues.
Have you heard? The new Sims 2 will allow you to create custom content. With The Sims 2 Body Shop, you can design skins, clothing, have cosmetic options and also customize your Sims' facial features using 50 different modifiers! Wow, I sound like I'm a spokesperson for The Sims 2! :D
Anyway, how exciting is that? Take a look at these pictures!
I'm tired of waiting! I heard they've delayed the game release until the second half of 2004..
Sigh... It seems I can't enjoy my one week break as much as I thought I could.. :(
I still have quite a few things to do before school reopens.. I have to create a series of CD designs for a competition which must be submitted by this coming Wednesday. I haven't even started on that.
I also have to touch up on the one of my projects and give it to my lecturer on the 5th of April..
And yesterday, I was asked by three of my classmates if I wanted to join their group for next term's Video & Special Effects project. I was hesitant, but I said yes anyway. My god.. The term hasn't even begun yet and already they've been planning and preparing for a story and a script.
I'm honoured that they would invite me to be part of their team.. I mean, I think this would be the first time that anyone has actually asked me to join their group. Before this, I would always have to wait for everyone to form their groups, then see which unlucky group had to take me in because they had fewer members... Yes, I was that pathetic... I don't know what changed, but I guess somehow I've proved that I would make a valuable member.
Although I'm honoured and excited to work with them, I feel unsure and nervous at the same time, because two of them are like those super creative types, with great ideas and are really good students! The other member is good too, though not as great as the previous two. But the thing is, I'm really scared because I'm sure they'd expect me to contribute a lot and give tons of great ideas like they do and I don't think I'm capable of that! I'm not nearly half as creative as them! :(
Anyway, they've already been discussing about what to do before they asked me yesterday.. I had an online discussion with them and realized that I had a lot of catching up to do! They also want everyone to think of possible stories and meet up on Wednesday to make the final decision..
Why are they already starting on the project before the term, you ask? Well, it's because my lecturer had showed us this website where this organisation give out grants for people making videos/independent films, but they have to submit a story proposal and storyboard and stuff like that before getting approval.. And it usually takes about 2 months before the grants are issued, so we have to do it now..
