~Locked Hearts & Hand Grenades~
The Same Deep Water as You
Lifetime Piling Up
----->Kenny Chia
--> Est. 3rd November of 1987
Some BackStory
-----> Hmm well I was born over in Boston, was there for like 9 years. It was a nice place to grow but hahah havent been back there since I left...
--> Moved to Kota Kinabalu,Sabah. Grew up here, and actually most of what I know of Asia came from here. Loved growing up here, the beaches at the islands were beautiful. Sometimes you couldn't tell where Heaven ended and Earth began =) Another slow paced town where most of the ppl know each other yea =) KK rocked =)
-----> Left for Singapore around 2006, definitely the fastest pace I've been. Life here so far is pretty fast but met alotta nice people ere yea. Singapore has been an awesome place so far ya =)
----->Schools :
-Parker Elementary
-Montclair Elementary
-SRS Datuk Simon Fung(Moved to KK)
-SM All Saints =)
-Nanyang Polytechnic: Diploma in Digital Entertainment Tech 06
--> Scorpio! Hmm a myth about scorpions... they sting themselves to death when they are on fire. It's not to kill themselves but to try and kill the fire. Neway I can see how that applies to me,sometimes I tend to make things worse too & screw up lols
----->Email & Msn : significant_traitor@yahoo.com
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Old Home~The UnXpected!NadiaNigelIvanVincentJing LongZhi FengClarenceCynthiaXinYiCheow FernChing HoonBelindaGui ShengHan MingTheodoraFadillahTrudySamuelQue LynJing RuCong ZhengJonXoXoXo-Links-OxOxO
Infinitelives.netSorethumbsblog.comUltraNekoMyNameIsMark~~*Loves*~~
My friends & family , all the little things that make me smile
Pool & catchin bands live, the local music scene ere rocks ! unXpected =)!
Going new places, there's always something amazing that I havent seen yet yea
The smell of rain , yeah! tar! =)
Movies! Huge movie buff ere ya
Being young & free with my friends! Hmm though hahah, getting old here lols
Listening to all sorts music , tho usually mainstream stuff... Mostly alt or indie rock yea. I especially adore music from the 90s =)
Beachbumming! The beach,sand & the sun. R&R at its best, the #1 solution to most problems in the world=)
A beautiful day =)Something we can all share=)Tho maybe not in places like South Pole, where winter brings more than a few weeks without the Sun lols
Expand my knowledge in alotta stuff, trying to pick up kickboxing,dancing & guitar now yea. All you ever do & see, is all your life will ever be
~~*Hates*~~
Tiredness
Durians X.x damn hahah I will never get the taste & why ppl bother
Being far away from friends
I procrastinate way too much
Seafood... Ughh.. the taste and smell of the sea on a plate?Esp the prawn,the cockroach of the sea =p
~~~*My Wishlist*~~~
Would love to go backpacking in Europe or NZ with friends in the future!
Better time management yea
Finally climb MtKinabalu with friends from KK =)
True & Lasting World Peace!
I ~ M ~ A ~ G ~ I ~ N ~ E by John LennonImagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
T A G!
The Story So Far
Sunday, 11 January 2009
Right well this is pretty much a post about something that recently happened over the weekend. I'll just get right into the shtick , 1up.com and the fabled Electronic Gaming Monthly has gone the way of the dodo. This is a part geek-ish admiration of the two & also the general feelings I have about the print industry upon this two-strike blow.
1up.com ... well ... yeah as the EGM hit its late teenager years... It kinda lost track I guess? Well I kinda thought 1up.com took over.. I mean the podcasts hahah, there were some funny shit going with Shane & the rest. So yeah... this it you know, its hard to see such a tight community there torn up... The staff were great people ... Here below is a pic...
What's going on? Well over in Gamespot.com a reviewer was fired for a "bad" review of a game called Kane & Lynch.. And these guys came out to bat for him for injustice to a fellow journalist.
Right, if you want to see people faced with real loss , over here. As to what happened? Here.
On to EGM... And this one is the one that hurts the most for me... Come on ... If you're not pissed off or the slightest clue what this magazine means & stands for then.. this post isn't for you. This mag... it was here back when the hardcore gaming crowd were the only gamers, not all these mainstream "look at me, I'm a gamer too with the Wii Sports/Skateboarde/Guitar Hero/whatever" hippies... Not knocking the games just the new mainstream crowd ... I mean... Yeah more gamers is good for buisness but when games start coming out to cater to them and not to the hardcore you know the gaming industry has changed so much since the days we all 1st Shorukyen's someone's ass..
Granted.. I know EGM on the last few years had a less spectacular run... but I think we all are still on WTF mode as to how easily the best gaming mag is gone when GamePro is still there.. I mean no offense, but EGM >>>>> GamePro... That and the staff... They had such a great Review staff .. plus you could generally tell these people working behind the print really did love their work..
Some of EGM high lights... Hmm Shen Long anyone heheh? Which actually went on to sorta becoming a character in the new SF 4 ... ... Hmm also I thought Shoe's interview with Peter Moore was legend too.. It wasn't the typical "polite and geeky" gaming journalist interview. There were some serious problems with the Xbox 360 & Shoe wanted to know what was going on... What happened to "Next Gen?" I mean as Penny Arcade put it.. It was a necessary step for the easy-going way of most gaming journalists.
I think I'll miss it most when it was just... Shoe.. Sushi-X .. Crispin.. and Shawn... Four man review crew and the mag was so damn fat too : )And now... really.. I don't ever expect any of the other mags to ever step up & try to become the new EGM..
And now well.. how this all hits home... In case you don't know.. I'm studying to become a journalist at the moment... And then this horror story comes along.. It makes you certainly question your career path.. I was probably too naive not to notice that ... print media is dying... Once again as with TRL, internet killed the magazine star... I mean 30 good people lost their jobs.. and they are probably better than what I can ever hope to try to acheive... And yet still... As Shoe puts it... "We know they’re talented people with great resumes from working there, so they should be back working 80-hour work weeks for some other website or magazine soon enough. We just hope this economy cooperates with that theory."
I mean your dad or mom would tell you go become a doctor or lawyer, you'll make guranteed big $$$ .. I always thought doing what you wanted was most important.. but I'm not sure if I can even get to do that 5 years from now... I mean not counting the whole 2012 stuff which hahah I bet all the tea in China is going to be just another boring night. I mean will the industry I aim for even be there after all this economic mess? I mean I know this doesn't just go for me.. but for DET & DMD peeps as well.. We are in the creative industry one way or another.. I mean it isn't set in stone whether we are even going to get a chance to do what we've been studied for so long.
I'll close with pretty awesome quote from Jenn ... "But this is what 1UP very literally means: you will always get to have one more life to play on, because you fucking earned it."
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Labels: The World And Me~
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