Battlefield Heroes Coming soon

Supposedly to be released mid year of 2008. It is now delayed and pushed back to 2009. Oh well I would rather wait than to pay.

About the game:

Heroes will be the first Battlefield game to be released under Electronic Arts' new "Play 4 Free" model, which will see the game released for free with revenue generated from advertising and micropayments. Advertisements will appear on the website and the 'front-end' of the game although none will appear in-game, while micropayments may be made for additional items to customize the appearance of players' avatars without any gaming advantage. The game is said to be placing less emphasis on skill and strategy, and will be less demanding on computer specifications than the previous games of the series to increase the audience base. In addition, a system will be in place to match players of similar skill levels together for fair play.

Reason for the Delay:

On July 29, 2008, it was announced that Battlefield Heroes will be delayed until sometime 2009. EA CEO John Riccitiello stated that they are going "to increase its focus on some of the social networking features".

What's happening to our world?

Was checking out the news on CNN and came across some pictures taken from ISS - the international space station. The pictures were supposed to be stunning pictures from Nasa, but was soon saddened to see 2 pictures. It's a true fact that the world is not was it was supposed to be. The breaking of the polar ice caps and deforestation are just a few things that are causing the world to fall apart. See pictures below.

Deforestation in Bolivia - Imagine other parts of the world where deforestation is taking place. (Source from CNN)

 

Borneo island. Analyst project that by 2020 this is what is left of our forest in Borneo.

The last update was in 2002 imagine how it is like now in 2008

 

Wilkins - Ice shelf disintegrates (Source from CNN)

 

 

See the pictures here

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/12/23/nasa.space.images/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

The Madagascar Penguins in A Christmas Caper

A great Christmas clip for laughs.

As usual the Penguins are in for another mission to rescue one of the Madagascar penguins as he ventures out into NYC to buy a present for a lonely polar bear in the zoo.However after being mistaken for a toy and being bought by an elderly lady, the three other penguins must save him from the evil wrath of the lady's small dog, who appears cute and cuddly on the outside, yet is evil, with menacing eyes and dagger-like teeth on the inside. The chaos and fun ensues from there, in this hilarious short by Gary Trousdale. Written by Ben

Download it here by pasting the following code in your browser.

http://rapidshare.com/files/175815548/xmas_penguins_extremezoneforum.rar

Note: This blog is in no way hosting the file but just sharing the link to where the file is hosted.

3 days to Christmas

At this point of time many people will be busy buying Christmas gifts and also on holiday enjoying the holidays but despite all that is happening around us I just want to recognize Jesus this Christmas season for Christmas is all about Him, for too long many people for have gotten the wrong idea and concept about Christmas. Many people think about Christmas as the season of buying gifts and receiving gifts, secondly they think about Santa Claus  and thirdly shopping. Well the greatest gift every Christmas season is Jesus for God has sent his son (Jesus) to become our Lord and Savior nearly 2000 years ago. I'm glad this year we can celebrate once again with Jesus and the Lord's greatest gift to mankind. In fact we can always remember Him everyday not only during this Christmas season. I'm also glad that this Christmas season I can celebrate with my wife Sharon, for we will be celebrating our first Christmas as husband and wife.

For all my readers, I personally want to wish you a blessed Christmas, be safe this Christmas season and enjoy the holiday season and have a blessed new year in 2009.

 

Never Alone, Always Cared For

Ever felt alone and not cared for? Well I do and I bet you do too. But don't worry. You're always cared for even though you may think that your circumstances are way beyond control, He will always be there with you and for you. Hard to believe? That's the first point in having no faith. I'm like this too but don't worry pick yourself up and wait upon.

Taken From New Creation Church Devotionals

Never Alone, Always Cared For

1 Peter 5:7
7casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.

It does not matter how tightly knit our families are or how many close friends we have. When we go through a difficult time or trial, many a time, we still feel all alone and that no one really cares or understands.

Martha knew that feeling. She had on one occasion cried out to Jesus, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone?” (Luke 10:40) Jesus’ disciples also knew what it was like to feel small, alone and in trouble. They cried out, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?” when they were swept up in a terrifying storm. (Mark 4:38)

Today, maybe the cry of your heart is also, “Lord, do You not care that I am left all alone… that I am going under… that I am perishing?”

My friend, the Lord does care for you. He loves you so much that He wants you to cast all your cares upon Him — not just some but all your cares. He wants both your big and small cares. There is nothing too small or big for Him. If it is a care in your heart, He wants you to cast it upon Him.

When the apostle Peter wrote “casting all your care upon Him”, he was talking about the continuous act of casting all your cares upon the Lord. As a care comes, God wants you to cast it to Him. That is the lifestyle He wants you to adopt. Why? The verse gives us the reason — “for He cares for you”. You are casting all your cares upon the One who loves you, and who left all of heaven to come and die for you. That is who you are casting your cares to. It is not just any person, but it is the One who gave His life for you!

When you are going through a difficult time, God wants you to believe that you are never alone because He Himself has said that He will never leave you nor forsake you. (Hebrews 13:5) As the object of His care, He will take care of you for the rest of your life. You are never alone and always cared for!

China Aid

 

I received an email from China Aid today and I didn't even know I was in the mailing list, until I received the email from them. This is the first email I'm receiving from China Aid. Anyway I checked out the web site and found that it's all about people in China serving the Lord and their stories and their prayer requests to rescue their loved ones from the government. This website will certainly make us aware of the trials and persecution the Chinese church is going through. It's certainly an eye opener. After reading a few stories I was kinda sad to hear families celebrating Christmas without their fathers and newly weds arrested on their wedding just because they are Christians. Hope you guys will check it out and hope the stories will touch your heart and hope we will pray despite the suffering God's children go through. Whoever put my email in the mailing list I appreciate it very much for sharing this site to me.

 

Read about a Christian wedding getting raided by the police

Sunday 13th December

As usual woke up and went to church. Had a very interesting and spirit filled service with Ps. Charles Twum from Ghana. Surely God was in our midst. He was a fantastic speaker and the message he delivered was great. Great to see many people getting ministered too.

Ps. Charles Twum (taken with Uncle Raj's D60)

You can get the full message from here.

 

Joseph's Birthday @

In the night we celebrated Joseph's birthday. We brought him out to Chili's for a good dinner. We really enjoyed ourselves and had a good time with the Joe and the guys. Man were our stomachs filled to the brim.

That's 2 big burgers

Julian and Joseph enjoying their tasty burgers

Our all time favorite Chili's dish, Mushroom Jack Fajitas 

Posing in front of Gurney Plaza's Christmas tree

Creativity Let Loose #2

Out of focus shot of the Christmas tree.

Handphone lost in silent mode...

Have you seen my black Nokia handphone anywhere? I lost my handphone either at home or in church and worst it is in silent mode. I'm still able to call my phone but I'm afraid the battery won't last any longer, guessing by the end of the day it will die. I've been searching high and low for it but still I can't find it anywhere. I even went back to church to look for it but not able to find it. I'm sure nobody has found it yet coz my credit is still intact and not used. Fellow church members if you know where my handphone  is let me know ASAP. Thanks

Just wondering whether there is such thing as a triangulating service to actually track where the phone is? You've certainly seen in on tv shows where cops use it to triangulate where a criminal is..but can this be done for normal users like us? Hmm wondering...

Asimo at Queensbay Penang

Was at Queensbay last weekend and managed to get a glimpse of Asimo the robot. Didn't get a chance to take a picture of Asimo in action but here's a picture of the stage where Asimo performed.

Asimo @ Queensbay Penang

 

Noticed this big Teleprompter on stage. First time seeing a teleprompter this big.

Exams are finally over

For the past one week, i've been studying like mad to pass my first paper of my CCNP exams and thank God I passed. Now it's finally over hurray!!. And it's also a long weekend so yeah can rest and relax and enjoy doing the things I like to do. Also today is sort of like an off day as I'm on exam leave which makes it 4 days off for me yippies. For all my readers hope you enjoy your weekends. Will update my blog with during the weekend so stay tuned.

Smiley from above

Unfortunately Penang was raining in the evening and it was cloudy as well. We wouldn't have gotten a chance to see the smiley in the skies above our heads. According to Astronomers if we wanted to see the Smiley we would have to wait for another 5 years. Anyway here's some shots taken by people round the world.

 

 

From Fox News

From Flickr member Daniel Bowen's

Monday Blues

Don't you hate Mondays? I really, really do hate Mondays. You come to work trying to feel refreshed and energized after a relaxing weekend, you're upbeat about the start of a new week, focusing on positive thoughts and believing it will be a good day (that's what I tried to think), when all of a sudden you arrive at work and your eyes are so tired and your body gives you signals needing more rest( that's me again). Weird that sometimes weekends are supposedly for rest but it turns out to be even more tiring than a normal working day. One thing is for sure I'm in no mood for work right now. I've got an exam coming soon and I was thinking of taking the exam end of this week, but I've yet to finish my studies and will I be prepared for it. Will wake up and will decide to take the exam right after lunch when I wake up from Monday Blues...

World Aids Day - 1st December

According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.2 million people living with HIV, including 2.5 million children. During 2007 some 2.5 million people became newly infected with the virus. Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35.

Around 95% of people with HIV/AIDS live in developing nations. But HIV today is a threat to men, women and children on all continents around the world.

Started on 1st December 1988, World AIDS Day is about raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. World AIDS Day is important in reminding people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done. (From Avert.org)

There are a number of things you can do to support World AIDS Day. As suggested by AVERT:

1. Play our AIDS game
2. Raise money for AVERT
3. Join our campaign
4. Wear a red ribbon and raise awareness

Click on the above to play the game

Watch the video to learn more about the campaign.

Let's continue to pray for those suffering with AIDS.

Happy Thanksgiving

It's Turkey time of the year. Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow American friends.

Enjoy the turkey, have fun, be safe and enjoy the holidays

Hanah Look Alike

I took this picture while in Taiping which looks like my pet dog Hanah. Anyway she looks pretty too, just that she is dirtier.

Trinity Guildhall & Rockschool Awards & Concert 2008

 

 

 

A Great Weekend in Taiping

Right after the Trinity concert on Friday night, we drove to Taiping in the middle of the night and arrived in Taiping past midnight. To be exact we arrived in Taiping at about 12.15 am. It's a blessing I know the roads in Taiping quite well, if not we would have taken a much longer time figuring the roads to reach our destination. We were put up in Kama Lodge near the foot hills of Maxwell Hills. I want to thank my aunty and uncle in Taiping who put us up in this comfortable and relaxing place. 

 

Kama Lodge ( A recommended place to stay when in Taiping )

 

 

Kama Lodge Taiping

 

The next morning once we got up I finally managed to meet all my relatives, some which I've not met for a long time from Singapore. I even referred to some of them as uncles and they reminded me that not to call them uncle as I was their cousins...so malu. At around 11am, we headed for the wedding ceremony. During the ceremony Sharon and I were given the first chance to actually "drink tea" served by my cousin and cousin in law, what an honor. We really had a great time there meeting up with relatives and also joking around and playing.

Her name is Money and she's part of the family...

Queuing up to give Ang Pow

 

First time "Lim Teh"

Singapore Relatives hanging around

 

Having our makan

Bride and Groom with family

 

Say "Roti"

 

Once we have finished the ceremony at my cousin's place we headed for a tour around Taiping. We drove to a place called Matang and Kuala Sepetang. It's about 30 mins drive from Taiping town. On the way there I was frantically searching for a petrol pump to refuel my car, to my surprise there was none to be found, until we asked the locals. We followed the instructions of the locals and we were quite surprised to see the petrol pump without any brand name like the ones we see on the roads like Shell, Caltex, Esso or Petronas. There wasn't any  names to the petrol pump, all we saw were 2 pumps operated by some local Chinese man.

Petrol Station in Kuala Sepetang

 

Next we went to some mangrove swamp which has a long bridge which ran through it which allowed us to walk into the mangrove swamp and experience the Lord's creation. This was really a geographical lesson for many of us. The roots of the mangrove trees were wonderfully shaped with all the roots hanging above ground..interesting indeed.

Posing with the mangrove trees

Next we headed to the Kuala Sepetang town, a small fishing village. We managed to get a glimpse of a fisherman's life. On the way back we stopped at a small stall right in the middle of the town and had some ice kacang and Laksa. According to the locals it's one of the best laksa around. Well in my opinion Penang Laksa is still better. Before heading back to Taiping we stopped one last time at a charcoal factory. Unfortunately I wasn't able to capture any pictures because my camera battery died at that point.

Shots from Kuala Sepetang

Fishing boats in Kuala Sepetang

The real Laksa shack

 

Overall we had ourselves a very good trip. Thanks once again to my relatives in Taiping......and remember ROTI!!!

A busy weekend ahead

It's a Friday again..phew this was a fast week. And it will be a busy weekend for me. Right after work today I will have a photo shoot at the Trinity Concert & Awards ceremony. Right after that I will be heading directly to Taiping at attend my cousin's wedding and will have a busy day in Taiping on Saturday. Sunday morning will be back in time for church, will have a good rest in the afternoon and evening and at 9pm will go straight to work. Yes I will be working the graveyard shift for 12 hours straight, that sucks. But then I'm already thankful I have a job and I'm able to work normal 8x5 considering the economic situations around the world where people are losing their jobs. I'm thankful Jesus that I still have a job and I can still pay for the food on my table. Truly you're my provider. For all others enjoy your weekends and be safe.

Why dogs bite?

Received a funny email today on why dogs bite...the pictures below tells it all.

 

Dogs: They make us look like burgers and fries. What do you think we are..promo dogs?

 

Dogs: Oh Lord, this humans are making us Hotdogs. Well we are trully HotDogs aren't we!

Dog: What in the world are the long  green stuff sticking out of my ears. I'm no Yoda from Star Wars am I ?

 

Taffy: Even my owner puts toilet paper on my head, and they call us man's best friend but treat us like clowns. Arrrggh...!!