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ShellShock 2: Blood Trails review (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2010-09-17T22:59:00.000-07:00

ShellShock 2 got me hooked after I read the back cover.
Eidos has developed a game beyond the stories of World War 2. Instead of recapping what happened in Germany during WW2, they decided to make a game out of the Vietnam War against the VietCong Army.

To add to the twist of background, zombies are added into the story!
I read the back cover and I thought to myself, "Nobody has ever done that!" so I purchased it for... 2 USD from a local store. So those this game live up to my expectation?

Story:
The story is pretty engaging as you try to find the cause of the plague that is turning everyone into zombies. The Spec Ops team who were sent to Vietnam was never seen again until one of them was found by your army. He turns out to be your brother, Cal but he doesn't look right. He is behaving like a crazy wild animal and is detained by the US Army. And of course, he escapes and you have to look for him. as you pass through stages, you will find out more about the war, key people who wish to use the virus as a weapon, etc.

Graphics:
The graphics is serious shit!
Everything still looks very fake and is not up to par to new gen games. It is much worse than Halo 3 even though I consider Halo 3 as "Bad". It is like a PS 2, Wii, X-Box game. If you are a person who looks at graphics (like myself), then avoid this game at all cost, I had to finish the game and everytime I finish a stage, I just wish that the next stage is the last or this stage is the last.

Presentation:
The stages are pretty linear. All you have to do is get from point A to point B with the mandatory requirement that you kill everything that stands and attacks you. They tried to diversify the surroundings by adding temples, different kinds of houses. But... it's all still the same and boring.

Gameplay:
If you have played other first-person shooter games, then this game should be the same. Wrong! In fact, this game is way back in the line. Sometimes, graphics may suck but if the gameplay is good, I won't mind. As an example, Terminate Salvation graphics are okay but the gameplay is amazing!

This game on the other hang, sucks like crap! Their AI is so dumb that they will only walk towards you and would rather hit a wall on their way, giving you free shots at them. But this can be one of the good points because for some reason, Eidos made these zombies Super-Powered zombies!

You basically die in 5 hits by these zombies and you can hardly survive when 4 or 5 zombies attack you at the same time. Sure, you have the ability to heal on your own (like all new modern shooting games) but you don't have time to heal! Everytime you run away from the pack of zombies, for some reason, they can run faster than you! Which means that you can't run away unless the dumb AI just walks.

You should be able to run through a door even with all those zombies chasing you but the game forces you to kill all zombies first before the door opens. Now this is quite normal in a lot of games. That means that a lot of games are simply... not realistic.

Conclusion:
This game is seriously dumb. Unless you wanna make love to a zombie and is crazy about blood, please avoid this game at all cost!

My rating: Boring

Transformers: War for Cybertron review (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2010-07-24T22:32:00.000-07:00

No, this is not the game of the classic Transformers.
This is a game older than the classic Transformers!

Don't you want to know how Cybertron became paralyzed, causing its inhabitants to escape in their rocket ships to other planets and stars? If you are a Transformers fan, this is a freaking good treat for you!

In the cartoons, we never really get to see how Cybertron was destroyed by Megatron but with the release of Transformers: War for Cybertron, we get to answer questions like:
a) Are Megatron and StarScream gay?
b) Is Optimus always a "Prime"?
c) What on Earth happened to Cybertron?
etc.

Let's start with the story.
So the story takes place before the Transformers G1 where they explained exactly what happened to Cybertron. There were snippets on what exactly happened to it but this game basically seals the story.

Cybertron is basically destroyed by the very power that gave life to all of the bio-mechanical life forms: Energon. However, this Energon is not like any other Energon, it is more powerful and unstable and when you mash it up with a tyrant villain like Megatron, all hell breaks lose.

You get to play as either sides, the rebel Decepticons or the original faction, the Autobots. However, if you are a fan like me, I will go with the chronology which means you start as a Decepticon, discovering the Dark Energon and befriending StarScream.

Next is the voice acting.
You know how bad the voice acting is for SoundWave in the 2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie? They did not use the original cast for SoundWave, making him sound like any other Decepticons out there. But in this game, SoundWave sounds like SoundWave (talking without any emotion or intonation). Everybody is fine, they sound like themselves from the cartoon, even Megatron.
Let's talk about the gameplay.
The gameplay is nothing new, it is pretty much the same as any other Transformers game where you get to the change weapons, shoot enemies, kill them physically and stuff like that but it is in a more fluid, flexible and easy-to-control way. The gameplay is ever more fluid compared to older Transformers games which is just hard to control, slow and plain silly.

The enemies do repeat itself but let me assure you, the gameplay is not always the same. You get to go on turrets, worms and etc.. The only thing that I did not see if that you get to transform into a head (HeadMasters) or something and attach your self to a bigger robot. I am also pretty disappointed that we did not get to use Trypticon and also Omega Supreme. It would be so nice to fry some puny robots.

If you have XBox Live, then you may play co-op (which will be a lot of FUN) with your friends through the storyline. Each mission takes about 45 minutes to and hour to complete, with a total of 10 missions, you should see about more than 10 hours of gameplay.

The cut scenes are amazing. I have never seen Cybertron in such detail. The details are so good that you really feel like you are in Cybertron, fighting off some goons.

Overall, this game is pretty good.
It is not as enjoyable when you do not have XBox Live but it is still a pretty good game.
Especially those who really want to know what happened to Cybertron.

My rating: Good

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Predators review (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2010-07-12T22:11:00.000-07:00

The Predator returns with a sole focus: themselves.
Rather than being a part hero from the Alien VS Predator series, this movies goes back to the original concept of Predators who are hunters.
Opens in cinemas now and the question is, "How does it fare off on the big screen?". With the rise of "Eclipse", Predators might suffer a big loss in market shares because for obvious reasons girls love looking at hot guys stripping every 10 minutes of the movie.

Anyhow, coming back to Predators.
The story is pretty simple. A bunch of humans were trapped in an unknown planet and they are being hunted by the Predators. Why? How? What? When? Go watch the movie. The story is very simple as it is about survival of these humans from the Predators who are preying on them.

Graphics and sound wise, considering that this is a remake of a very well-respected film, they have to have great sounds and believable graphics and yes, they do.

Nothing much can be said about the movie due to spoilers but I think I will spoil the party a little bit. There is a scene (must be the focus) where a Predator fights off another Predator. Note that both Predators are of different species. This can only be differentiated by their mouth designs.

The cool part of this movie has to be the hunting parts by the Predators. There were quite a number of strategies and tricks used by the Predators to bait their victims and also tricks used by the humans to kill the Predators.

Is this movie a "Must Watch"?
Well... if you are a fan of Predators then the answer is very obvious.
If you are not a fan but is looking for a dark-toned, alien, action movie, then this is the movie for you. And if you are sick and tired of your girl friend calling you to watch Eclipse over and over again just for the sake of watching Edward Cullen and Jacob shirtless, then you might wan'na reward yourself for going through Eclipse by watching Predators.

It is a fair movie. Not as good as Transformers and stuff like that but it is a totally different genre. In comparison to the AVP series, Predators has more focus and simpler story.

Rating: Not Bad

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

9 Temples: Death Ghost review (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2010-07-07T01:38:00.000-07:00

To all those horror movie enthusiast, this movie is the new sensation.
The poster pictures a pretty freaky little boy who looks as if he has been tortured and his organs been ripped off violently by unfortunately, that is not the case. That boy has something to do with the story but doesn't really look like that. He just looks like some kid who has been burnt to crisp.

Let's start with the story:The story is about this girl who is experiencing supernatural things and constantly gets a reflection from her pass life. The story might seem simple but in actual fact, it is not! You will be scratching your head by the end of the movie. It is just so super confusing!

You have this monk who follows them around. He is just some guy who will advise the girl and her boyfriend on religious issues and also respecting the dead and stuff but by the end of the movie, he is the one that actually plays a big role in the movie? Bloody confusing! From what I understand the girl's boyfriend is actually his brother. The monk and his brother were born to a woman who is struck by bad karma. One of her sons will die, but I don't know why did she give her monk son to the temple.

If this case involves these 2 sons and their mother, what does the girl have to do with anything!
It's so confusing!
I wanted to prove myself wrong that ghost movies don't make sense and Drag Me to Hell proved that to me but 9 Temples once again proved to me that horror films just don't make sense. Maybe only horror movies made by Thai people.

Shock value is also very low.
I was expecting a lot of shock value and will make me close my eyes all the time but hey! There are so little shock value that it doesn't seem worth it to even buy the DVD! And I spent RM 10 on the tickets too! What a waste of money!

In conclusion, this movie sucks ass!
Don't watch this movie and for the love of god avoid it at all time!
This movie sucks so bad that I am so lazy to continue typing.

Rating: Lame! Lame! Lame!

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Electro Choc - a City Under Siege (Ballad of Gay Tony)

2010-07-06T03:35:00.000-07:00

Another one of my many favourite songs from the club, "Maisonette 9" in the game "GTA 4: The Ballad of Gay Tony". Really kept me jumping but less than the Stickin'!

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Electro Choc - Stickin' (Ballad of Gay Tony)

2010-07-06T02:06:00.001-07:00

This is the music from the game Grand Theft Auto 4: The Ballad of Gay Tony
The name might not sound much but it is an awesome game!

This music is played in a club in the game called, "Maisonette 9", reflecting the real "Bungalow 8". I got this song stuck in my head since I finished playing The Ballad of Gay Tony. I just had to look for it online! Glad that I found a torrent with this song in it. Just have to wait for a day or two for it to finish downloading.

Anyways, I kept playing the beat in my head and it can't seem to come out!
Glad that I found the OST and now I can listen to it!

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Barney Stinson (The Path to Awesomeness)

2010-07-04T10:00:00.000-07:00

Barney Stinson!

The awesome one and also the character that gave life to How I Met Your Mother?

Just want to post this video up to show his transition from a hippie to... wait for it....

Suit-Up!

Notice how the antogonistic music plays and also the chair getting up, reminds me a lot about Darth Vader in Star Wars Episode 3! Awesome! Maybe I will be like him and always suit-up!

And he actually has a pretty good advise at the beginning of the video:

"To succeed you have to stop being ordinary and be legend... wait for it... dary!"

Contact:

Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2010-07-03T08:06:00.000-07:00

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

If you have seen the movie, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, this game is NOT based on the movie. That is good because games based on movies suck for some reason.

If you are a Prince of Persia fan, you would most likely followed the series. The Forgotten Sands sets during the 7 year gap between Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Prince of Persia: Warrior Within.

In Warrior Within, the Prince (not Dastan, apparently there are several Princes of Persia and up until now, there are 3 different Princes. Each of their stories are not related in any way.) has a serious personality 7 years after the events in The Sands of Time.

What made him a grumpy-grouchy?

This game and also the PSP version of this game (same name, different story) are one of the few events during the 7 year gap.

In the 360/PS3/COM version, Prince visits his brother, Malik at his kingdom, finds it being attacked by the rival, Malik escapes into the castle, releases the Solomon army but things went wrong and everyone died. That's the beginning, you go play the rest of the game to know more.

This is Prince:

Nameless as usual (except for the movie).

Character design?? Erm... he looks as if he hasn't fully gone through the last stages of evolution. He totally looks like an ape-man.

I have quite a problem with the number of characters in this game. This game is very focused and character development is there but come on... using only 4 characters throughout the whole game?

There are only 4 characters that you actually interact with = yourself, Malik (your brother), Razia (friendly Djinn) and Ratash (Djinn sent to kill King Solomon). Everybody else are like soldiers and monsters.

The game is okay, I guess.

It's not like God of War quality. There isn't much variety. In fact, if you think that Dante's Inferno is too repetitive, wait till you play Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands.

The gameplay is so repetitive that it gets boring. No doubt that the Prince's movements are very fluid and fast but the repetition made the Prince repeat himself and repetition is just plain boring. You go through the same traps, same jumps, same running on walls, same freezing of water, same enemies, same mini bosses with different skin, everything is the same. Not enough variations to kill an enemy.

And did I mention that most of his climbing moves are from Assassin's Creed?

Yes, almost all of his climbing moves are from Assassin's Creed. But hey! That is good because Prince of Persia is kind of like Assassin's Creed except with monsters and linear gameplay. It would be cool if Prince of Persia is a sandbox-style game but then it would just be another Assassin's Creed. But then again, if it is linear, it will be something like an inferior God of War. Okay, Sandbox-style is better, but it might break the progress of the story.

Not to mention the annoying freezing water tactic:
The cool thing about this game is that you get to freeze water and climb on them like a wall or even trap enemies in between these waters but when it comes to jumping from one water wall to the other water wall behind the water wall next to yours (bloody confusing, I know), it is really a pain in the aschenholler.

You are "O"

Water wall that you must freeze and jump from is "{"

Water wall that you must unfreeze immediate and jump through is "|"

Water all that you must freeze immediately after jumping through "|" is "}"

So here is the mapping:

{O | }

What's worse is that sometimes the mapping will be like this:

{O | }{ | }{ | }

And you got'ta jump like hell!

I got through that part out of timing, seriously... timing is the key to winning this game. You have to jump precisely, have to go through traps precise, everything has to be precise in this game. It's a challenge and it would be fun if the traps are varied but no! The traps are all the same! Boring!

Graphics: Great!

The graphics are great! Characters look believable and the surrounding is just amazing. BUT the surrounding became so bloody repetitive, it is no longer that amazing. There are some variations but overall, they're all the same when you come face to face with the traps. The sound is great but still prefer God of War sounds. They just sound more powerful.

Bosses: Bad...

God of War had giant Monsters and creative ways to kill them and slash them in half or beat their brains out of their heads. Dante's Inferno had giant Monsters and creative ways to kill them and cutting off their heads with a scythe. Prince of Persia had a giant Monster and a creative way to kill it which is to destroy the medallion.

Unfortunately, Prince of Persia only has ONE giant boss monster. No decapitating, no immoral ways to kill somebody (extremely explained in God of War). There aren't any bosses actually. The first time you meet Ratash, his attacks are like one of those mini bosses except with a different skin.

Replayability: None

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands does not really have any replayability. Beside obtaining all of those statues that give you tonnes of EXP, there is nothing much to do. There is no cinematic mode where you get to watch the cut scenes again. There is only one challenge in challenge mode. Basically, not much can be done after you have finished the game.

One good thing: Rewind

Like in the movie, the Prince gets to rewind to his previous state with the sands of time! This is really cool and pretty fun to play with and also a life saver. Whenever you fall off and die, the game gives you 2 to 3 seconds to hit the button to rewind the whole thing (even the music rewinds!) to the time before you die! That is the fun part of it! If let's say that you lose too much life, just hit the button and everything will rewind to the state before you lost those lives (depending on how long you hold the button and the limit).

You get to use Ezio Auditore de Firenze though... but you have to have XBox LIVE and go to UPlay to download the content. Damn!

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is not such a fun game to play. The story is not that good, too few characters, repetitive gameplay, enemies and bosses. The graphics are good but the gameplay just made the whole game pretty bad.

My verdict: in between Pass and Boring

There is a lot of room for improvement. Maybe open-world as a fresh start. But because fans want to keep the Prince of Persia "sacred" with the same gameplay, you might want to start off with a new character.

Bioshock 2 review (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2010-06-21T04:32:00.000-07:00

If you are a fan of the first BioShock then BioShock 2 will give you quite a ride. In fact, even if you have never played BioShock 1 (Like myself), you will still enjoy the ride! You might get lost in the storyline due to the constant tension whenever you find any insane human beings in the underwater city, but the gameplay will keep you going.

Story:

I got lost in the story but here it is. You are an advanced Big Daddy called "Alpha" who was hypnotized to kill yourself a long time ago. Your Little Sister was then left under the care of somebody and you must find where she is because the Little Sisters are the ones that will provide you nutrients to increase your power.

I got lost in the storyline in the middle of the game, so I kinda not care what happen and just keep going through the game. Big Daddies are big robotic-engineered people whose brains are reprogrammed to always protect their Little Sisters from harm. Little Sisters are kids who are programmed to collect ADAM (the source of Big Daddies' power) from corpses.
The environment is definitely an A because everything just looks so f-ed up!
Some of the things included in the environment are not even relevant to the story or the gameplay but they are added just for the sake of adding the atmosphere for the players. Cans that can be knocked off, lamps, tables, chairs, they don't add anything into the story but they do add something into the environment.

This is "Alpha" with a Little Sister:
The beautiful thing about this game is that it shows how much a father (Big Daddy) cares about his little girl (Little Sister) and would protect her whenever she is in danger. Adding to the beauty, the Big Daddies and Little Sisters converse in a very father-daughter tone. Little Sisters will complain to their Big Daddies when they are threatened and will sing while collecting Adam. Adding to the beauty as well, Big Daddies cannot talk but can only groan and make noises.

The picture above shows one of the many enemies in the game.
These people who look like creatures are called "Splicers". They are humans who have gone insane and would rely solely on animal instincts which means that if you go too close or if they see you, they will shoot you or attack you.

They are a pretty easy bunch. The next enemy is the pain in the ass:
As you save more and more Little Sisters, this enemy will appear (Above) - Big Sister!
Big Sisters are older Little Sisters and will pop out after you have saved 3 or 4 Little Sisters. These Big Sisters are a pain in the ass because they are very agile and their attacks are nuts. They can be beaten but it does put your skills to the test.

You will find out that you are also associated with a Big Sister but that it later in the game, you got'ta play it to find out.

This will always happen when your Little Sister collects ADAM from a corpse. It will take awhile and during that time, she is vulnerable. This is the time when endless waves of Splicers will attack the Little Sister. As a Big Daddy, you have to defend your Little Sister by killing all of the Splicers that come.

As you can see from the picture, the graphics are great. It makes you feel like you are indeed in an underwater city and once you get to see the sunlight by the end of the game, what a relief! Details are also added including words on posters (eventhough most of them are blurred out), smudges on walls, chairs, closets, tables, etc.. It just looks like a rundown city which it is.

Gameplay:
It is a first person shooter which means you can't see your character but only both of your hands and the weapon. However, the gameplay is smooth and everything is pretty fluid but you can't expect it to be fluid all the time because Big Daddies are not exactly small, they are big, bulky and heavy, so there is a certain amount of speed that you cannot achieve and also you have to hear the big foot steps all the time but that is good because it adds that whole feeling to the game.

Overall, this is a very good game. I am looking forward for BioShock 3. Things might get a little grumpy some times but you have to face it, nothing is very beautiful when your world sunk into the deep sea.

This game gets: Good

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Dante's Inferno (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2010-06-18T20:27:00.000-07:00

Dante's Inferno *Spoiler Alert!*

First of all, let's go through a little bit of background about Dante's Inferno.
Basically this game revolves around the poem known as "The Divine Comedy" but twisted in a way that makes it more dramatic. Rather than a poet being guided through hell, this story is about a Templar knight who goes through the underworld in search of his wife, Beatrice.

This can be said to be another rip-off from God Of War but hey, don't complain because people have been copying each other since the beginning of time. How many times have you played different versions of Final Fantasy?

Let's go to the "Goods" firstYou are Dante, a Templar knight who has committed countless sins and is finally killed by an assassin in the beginning of the game. Death comes to take you away but you cheated death by killing him and taking his Scythe, the source of your power of evil. Later you will find a cross once belonged to your wife, Beatrice and is bless with the holy power.

Those 2 weapons are basically, your weapons to slice or purify a demon. By killing demons or souls with the scythe, you gain unholy powers which unlocks more unholy abilities and by killing demons or souls with your cross, you gain holy powers which unlocks more holy abilities. I personally liked killing demons with the cross because I can say, "May the power of Cross heal you!" and stuffs like that rather than just ruthlessly killing them with the scythe.

Anyways, coming back to the story, you found out that your wife is dead and Lucifer (Satan) has her spirit and decides to marry her. You get pissed off at Satan and decides to travel through the 9 stages of hell until you reach the final stage: Treachery to God, where Satan freezes in his icy prison. While going through the 9 stages, reflections of your past come to you in the form of memories, reminding you of your sins while you were a Templar knight, one for each stage of course.

Now for the design, you will be facing off against giant enemies, specified enemies for each stages of hell until they fuck it all up through the middle stages where they used generic enemies and also enemies from previous stages of hell which did not make any sense to me, as an example, the naked lady with a mutated "down there" which should only be present in the "Lust" circle is suddenly present in the "Wrath" circle. So enemies are always repeating themselves, using cheap recoloring but this is very normal in games these days, should not be such a minus.

Above is King Minos, a king who will judge what sins you have committed and send you to the pits of hell:
Like Kratos from GoW, King Minos pisses you off by not telling you what you want to know and tries to kill you. In retaliation, you fight him and he is 100x your size. You impale him to his own gear with spikes used to send souls to the underworld and pulls the lever, mutilating his head upon the gear.
Again you will be fighting demons much bigger than you. But sometimes you get to control these giant demons to destroy smaller demons or to destroy a city. Similar to GoW but the setting makes all the difference.

Talking about the setting. Everything sets in the 9 stages of hell where they bring you through graphical environments, bodies being hung up in the air by spikes through their guts, bodies pouring down like a waterfall of dead bodies and sometimes you will find souls of famous people like Genghis Khan. Some will even be a boss battle like Cleopetra who has a pair of sickening mouths for nipples which produces unbaptized babies (yelk!!).

Some stages are specially made environmentally but some are just plain repetitive. Climbing through the same old chains but with different background colour scheme, jumping over rocks, etc. So things do get repetitive as you progress through the game.

And have I mentioned how sick it is to hear Dante say "Beatrice!" in every single sentence? I know you are looking for your wife but EVERY SINGLE sentence??

So the bad: frequent repetitive stages, repetitive enemies, some enemies just don't belong there, hardly any replay value.
The goods: Fluid gameplay, amazing graphics, some stages are just jaw-dropping, there is a sequel!

If you were to ask me if you should buy or rent. The answer would be a RENT!

This game is a good game, it really brings you into hell and makes you feel like you are fighting these goons in hell, the story gets kinda boring after awhile because the entire game is centered in saving your wife and looking through your pass sins. Things do get repetitive and especially the 8th stage where you have to go through arena matches which gets very very very very repetitive.

I am giving this game a Good.

No doubt GoW is much better in terms of.... almost everything, but this game deserves a chance and a lot of room for improvement.

Alan Wake review (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2010-05-29T02:05:00.000-07:00

*Spoiler alert*

Alan Wake is a pretty interesting game. After going through a barrage of first person shooting games, Alan Wake comes with a third person shooting game. However, the highlight of this game is not in the weapons or combat, but a lot of emphasis on storyline and eerie gameplay.

You are Alan Wake:

A best-selling book author who hadn't had any new ideas since his last book 2 years ago.

He and his wife travels to the small town of Bright Falls, a mysterious place with a lot of history. At first everything was normal, but after Alan encounters The Dark Presence (In the form of an old woman, later revealed as...) in the diner, everything changed. Moving into their new vacation home in the middle of a lake, the darkness dragged Alice into the lake and Alan jumps into the lake to save his wife which lead to a series of might-be-nightmare incidents until the ending where a big portion of the mystery was solved.

Alan in Bright Falls:

Throughout your journey to find your wife and also the kidnapper, you will unlock a series of history which will put a sense into all of the mysteries that you were encountering, from the identity of The Dark Presence to another writer in the past who had the same experience. During the course of the game, you will find out that everything that you have been through are already written into your "latest" book called, The Departure.

Is it a sandbox-style game?

It would be cool if it is a sandbox-style game. Then it would be like GTA. However, if you look at it, making it into an open-world game destroys the pace of the story. If it is an open world game, we would go exploring around first before going to the "point of interest" and we will drag the story to an extent that we have forgotten what the story really is!

Battle system:

You are a normal person, armed with a flashlight and also very minimal options of guns ranging from revolvers, shotguns, sniper rifles and also the "bomb" of the game: a flare and also a flash bang.

You are a normal person against an army of dark people covered by the shadows of darkness called "Taken". These supernatural beings are covered with darkness and are impervious to attacks until the darkness is lifted from around their bodies which you will use the flashlight to do so. After their defensive cloak is lifted, they are vulnerable to your attacks. You will not only be attacked by these beings known as "Taken" but also by other things possessed by darkness, mainly, crows and also unanimated objects around you.

And then there is the main boss:

The "Tornado".

You will encounter the tornado throughout your journey in-search of your wife and also the mysteries behind the Bright Falls lake. This Tornado will hurl objects at you and try to get close to you to kill you. You will have a final encounter with the tornado in which you will have to find a way to allow light to go inside the tornado. (Go figure that out yourself :P)

Overall, this is a pretty cool game. Very different from a lot of games as it focuses on the supernatural and the story is just amazing. You can't put the controller down due to the amazing story, filled with suspense and mystery. Some reviewers said, "This is one of those games where you enjoyed it like a cinematic movie".

This game is an awesome game. Not much action but it does keep you on your toes with fear by your side and also the suspense-filled story. You never know when will the next "Taken" pop out as you explore the area for supplies. This game is recommended to anyone that enjoys concrete storyline with a unique gameplay instead of shooting all the time. (Note: This game is ONLY for the XBox 360 gamers.)

The end credits hinted that there would be a sequel to Alan Wake. Can't wait!

Anyways, my rating:

Awesome!

- Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Metro 2033 review (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2010-05-25T08:06:00.000-07:00

*Spoiler Alert!*

The world is already dead and as one of the survivors of the nuclear apocalypse, you must save humanity from mutated animals and humans, now known as "The Dark Ones". Welcome to the year 2033, 20 years after the nuclear warfare which destroyed the world and forced humans to evacuate underground to spend the rest of their lives.

Welcome to Metro 2033...

You are Artyom:

A 20 year old Russian military soldier.

Born during the apocalypse that destroyed all of Russia, you spent your whole life underground, in the sewage system of Metro where humans have colonized.

Human colony in Metro:

Metro is divided into stations and your job is to travel to the most well-equipped station known as Polis to tell the council to destroy the Dark Ones.

The Nuclear Warfare in 2013, caused the world to be sucked out of it's oxygen supply. Now, only the Dark Ones and also mutated creatures can roam on the lands of Earth while humans have to stay underground. Being humans, the underground sewage system, Metro is filled with different political beliefs including the Soviet Union and the Neo-Nazi and the war continued. In dark areas, humans are threatened by mutated rats which is the size of a very large dog.

And if you think the future is hi-tech, think again. Everything has been downgraded due to lack of supplies. In fact, military bullets made before the year 2013 packs more firepower and becomes the currency to buy food, weapons, "new" bullets, etc..

The dangerous world outside:

As said previously, humans cannot roam freely on the lands of the Earth now. Everything is contaminated and the air will kill you. You have to put on a gas mask whenever you surface to the Earth. And don't think that your supply of air will be unlimited as you ARE limited to the amount of filters bought/found throughout your journey in which will run out and cause your demise.

The surface is not safe as you still have Neo-Nazis walking around and also creatures wanting to eat you up.

The realism of the mask doesn't stop there. The mask can crack!

Yes, your mask will not stay with you for a very long time if you are attacked by a horde of mutated rats. Your mask will eventually crack and cannot be used anymore which will also cause your demise.

Cracked mask:

This game really teaches you about saving up resources and also using things with care, especially your mask and filters as they are so limited in supplies and if you lose them in the middle of a mission, you will be sure to die.

This game has a lot of atmosphere. The underground world is so nicely done that you feel like you are indeed trapped underground with lamps and dirty clothing. Technology got stuck and you are still using outdated guns and lousy bullets to fend off your foes.

Overall, this game is not a bad game but also not a good game.

The mood of the game is there but it can get a little boring as what you practically do is go from one point to another, shoot the shit out of some mutated rats, flip a switch, run back to the same spot, shoot a bunch of rats again and the story progresses. It does get kinda scary sometimes especially when you are low on supplies and the enemies can just come at you from anywhere! I would not recommend a buy but more of a rent. It is not such a good game but it does have its merits.

My rating:

Not Bad

Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Who is that Handshake?

2010-05-21T05:56:00.001-07:00

Who is that handshake (How handshakes tell who you are?)

View more presentations from JacksonTeoh.

Just some slides that I made for an overview presentation tryout.

- Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Kazakhstan National Anthem (Borat Style)

2010-05-20T11:12:00.000-07:00

Number 1, I have nothing against Kazakhstan.

Borat is just a funny movie and the song is just so epic! :P

I've also provided the lyrics :P

Kazakhstan greatest country in the world.
All other countries are run by little girls.
Kazakhstan number one exporter of potassium.
Other countries have inferior potassium.

Kazakhstan home of Tinshein swimming pool.
It’s length thirty meter and width six meter.
Filtration system a marvel to behold.
It remove 80 percent of human solid waste.

Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan you very nice place.
From Plains of Tarashek to Norther fence of Jewtown.
Kazakhstan friend of all except Uzbekistan.
They very nosey people with bone in their brain.

Kazakhstan industry best in the world.
We invented toffee and trouser belt.
Kazakhstan’s prostitutes cleanest in the region.
Except of course Turkmenistan’s

Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan you very nice place.
From Plains of Tarashek to Norther fence of Jewtown.
Come grasp the might phenis of our leader.
From junction with the testes to tip of its face!

Hope you enjoy yourself and remember! I have nothing against Kazakhstan.

- Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Real Death Star in space

2010-05-18T04:00:00.000-07:00

Aren't those 2 the darnest things you've ever seen?

On the left, you have the FICTIONAL Death Star where Darth Vader sits in his throne of Storm Troopers while on the right, you have the REAL Death Star called, "Mimas" a moon orbiting saturn.

I was going through Wikipedia, reading about planets, dwarf planets and Mars when I bumped into a page, listing all of spaces "beings". The list had information about diameters and stuff like that. When I bumped into the picture on the right, I was like, "Hey... isn't this the Death Star?". Click it and it lead me to another page about it.

I was pretty amazed by it.

But the question is, "Did George Lucas copy the appearance of the moon from Saturn?"

And the answer to that question is "No!"

Shocking, right?

It is a coincident! Or maybe we were lied to :P

I am pretty keen to know more about Mars as well, I read that they didn't discover water back in the 60's but now, Mars does have water! It really reminds me of the early days of Earth when microorganisms start sprouting out.

Is it possible that Mars will be the next Earth?

- Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Ip Man 2 Review (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2010-05-09T01:59:00.000-07:00

Yet again, the new sensation of kung fu fighting, Ip Man returns with a sequel, Ip Man 2.

*Spoilers alert*

Went to watch it yesterday and it was awesome!

People said that Ip Man 2 isn't as good as the first, but I think that it still has the edge. Ip Man 2 is not as simple as Ip Man 1, but it is as dramatic as the first. The environment is different though. The first featured Ip Man struggling during the Japanese Occupation on China but the second featured the suppression of the British upon Hong Kong and also the Chinese martial arts.

It has a whole new set of story and also a whole new set of environment.

It's not inferior, it's different.

And being different can be awesome!

Above: Ip Man and Hung fights on a table

If you are Chinese, this movie will make you feel proud to be a Chinese.

If you are not a Chinese, this movie still rocks!!

So go catch this movie while you still can!

Thankfully, Ip Man 2 did not fall into the category of movies labeled, "The sequel sucks!" which a lot of movies usually do.

My rating: Awesome!

- Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Jackson makes Onigiri

2010-04-25T22:52:00.000-07:00

I was surfing the net yesterday and I don't know how the heck did I get to a page about "How to make an onigiri?" but I did and I read on. I thought to myself, "Hey! Why don't we try it? Looks like fun!".

I tried a simple onigiri since I have like... these strips of green stuff that I don't even know what they are. I pressed some rice in my palm, put pieces of meat in between them and then continue to compress them to hopefully make them stick. And then I rolled them around on a plate of sugar to hopefully, coat it with sugar. Then shape them to make them look like those Japanese cartoon onigiris and that's it!

How did it taste like?

Erm... you got'ta have soy sauce right next to you all the time because I couldn't really taste the sugar, so it's like... plain rice. But the satisfaction of eating something that looks so Japanese really is satisfying.

After eating like... 2 onigiri, I had to stop as I was so full!

It took a lot of rice to make 5 onigiri and having 2 just makes you full!

If you haven't read about the history behind the onigiri, soldiers and samurais at war carried them in bamboo shoots for quick meals in between battles. So the question of, "What happens if they need to eat?", well.... that's how they eat. It doesn't taste good, but it makes you very full.

So yeah... that's my attempt of making an onigiri.

Did I fail because I produced not-so-tasty onigiri? I don't think so... at least I tried. I always tell people, including those who participated in The Adliers 2009 that it's okay even if they fail because they have already given their best shot and they are much better than those who did nothing!

- Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Polling Results (since 2008)

2010-04-23T22:46:00.000-07:00

I have been running this blog for about 2 years now and I have always been happy with my blog. It's a place where I can express my thoughts, emotional state, experience, etc.. And one bloody fact about it is that there are several polls that have been on the right side of the bar for so freaking long and you must have been like, "When is he going to update the poll??".

Well, I will be updating the poll since it has been there for 2 years!

Let's talk about the results.

The first one is about what you are looking for in an advertisement (created 2 years ago):

71.4% said that the message of an advertisement is what they are looking for while the art is 28.6%.

Now, it's not obvious that the message that the ad is going to portray is very important. I once asked my bro what makes a good ad and he said, "Sex always sells" but the question is... sex is used for very awkward reasons. Sex is usually directed to men and men just won't buy cheese even if you flash a hot girl inside the ad because it doesn't make any sense! How does cheese get you a girl?

While people who convey the message correctly, now THAT will sell. An ad that really sells is a smoking ad made in India. They have a bus and these guys were sitting down. They saw an old man standing in the bus, so they got up to let him sit down. Then this young teen came into the bus and started smoking. The old man saw him smoking, he got up and asked the teen to sit down and then there is this message that goes something like, "Please sympathize smokers, they don't have much time left". I thought that was cool, it might not stop people from smoking but the message is clear!

The second poll that I posted was to see if people think whether an ad should be simple:

87.8% agreed and said, "Yes, ads should be simple" and 12.2% said, "No, ads should not be simple". What I meant by simplicity is where the message is clear and it is right in front of your face rather than a whole jumbled up ad where you can't event find out what is it all about by the end of the whole damn thing!

The 3rd poll that I posted up (2009) was about the usage of English to learn Mathematics and Science:

I posted this poll up because there was this group in Malaysia that started sending letters and memorandums to the officials stating that Mathematics and Science should be converted back from English to Malay Language (or else it is considered a treason towards the national language).

Okay, now I thought THAT was just bullSHIT.

We have to think practically... when you go to university or when you want to expand your career to a bigger scale, you need to learn it in English! So why not start that way? It's not like after you start learning it in English, people will start disrespecting the Malay language! They can't! Because anything official in Malaysia needs to be done in the Malay language!

They have to see the bigger picture.

With that, the world has spoken and a scary 94.1% said that they prefer learning Mathematics and Science in English and only 5.9% said that they prefer learning them in the Malay language.

Thanks for voting and I will be replacing them with a new poll.

- Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Batman 1966

2010-04-23T20:28:00.000-07:00

I was reading Wikipedia and it's very strange how I got from finding on Wikipedia:
Iron Man 2 > Superhero Films > Batman (1966 film)

I was a little too lazy to read the plot, so I went onto youtube.com to check it out. I found the fight scene:

And then I thought to myself, "This was considered 'cool' back then?"

Watch the video and you'll understand.

And then I searched for "The Dark Knight fight" on youtube.com and found this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGCHCR3p3fg

(Unfortunately, I can't embed the video. So you got'ta go there and watch it.)

Now, the 1966 film is the first ever film about Batman and there were 4 villains: Penguin, Joker, Riddler and Cat Woman. Can you see how much has Batman changed over the past 44 years??

New fight scenes are simpler and cleaner than old ones, you can pay attention to what's going on with the characters while they are fighting. In the 1966 version, there were just so many people fighting at the same time! They don't even hit one another!

We can really see how were things back then.

Very classical, very cute :P

- Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Iron Man 2

2010-04-20T21:32:00.000-07:00

Iron Man 2 is releasing soon and I can't wait!

I grew up watching Spider-Man and sometimes Iron Man comes to help him out. Of course, the suit was simpler in the cartoons. I believe they will be showing his hundreds of Iron Man suits in the new movie. In the cartoon, he keeps them in a globe-like structure with a hole in the middle for Iron Man to jet off with any suit he wanted.

I rarely see War Machine in the Spider Man cartoon but he did appear once. In fact, Spider Man met War Machine first before meeting Iron Man. However, War Machine was quickly taken off-screen by making him lose to the villain (I forgot who it was).

Those were the times... but hey! Now it's better!

Watching Iron Man and War Machine in a movie is really a bed to the eyes. So awesome to be able to see them shoot the crap out of their enemies and also fly around like they own the airspace.

If you notice, the poster above and below contain 2 different Iron Man suits.

The top Iron Man suit must've came from the first movie where the Electro-Magnetic Reactor is round. But if you look at the 2nd poster, the Electro-Magnetic Reactor is triangle. It's a different suit!

And did you know that Miss Potts, Tony Starks PA has a suit too?!

It's called "Mark 1616". You can search "Iron Man Mark 1616" in Google and you will find the suit. It does not have any combat capabilities besides defense and rescue as it was stated in the comics that Miss Pepper Potts did not want to fight, so weapons were removed from the suit except for The Repulsor.

"The Repulsor"

Perhaps one of the coolest weapon I see in the Iron Man suit. It's also the most frequently used as Iron Man needs it to do flight balance.

Just a little bit of classic cartoon stuff. This is Iron Mans theme back in 1962

Iron Man in the 1960s:

And this is his theme 2 years ago.

Iron Man movie theme:

Notice the simplification of the Iron Man model back in the 1960s??

And the song is pretty cute :P

Can't wait for this movie on the 7th of May. Just 3 days to my birthday (10 May)!

- Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

The Accounts Exam Feeling

2010-04-11T23:27:00.000-07:00

You know how annoying it is when people ask you, "So? How was the exam?" when you have just finished it? Okay, some people might take it as, "Oh, he/she cares for me" but I find it very annoying. That is the last time I will be taking this sub and I feel pretty damn good that I have finished the paper and you came to my face and asked how was the paper?

I hate Accounting. Never liked it.

Numbers everywhere and for some reason, all these numbers must be grouped in certain ways to tell a logical explanation about a business and how to work it. I know it is pretty important as you can see where your business stands (in a logical standpoint). But I hate doing it, it's a little too technical with rules, concepts and principles that must be followed or else you will be met with unforeseen terror. It's like... the "Science" for Business. Everything has to be 1+1=2 and can never be 1+1=3.

Anyways, I had an Accounts exam at the beginning of the Exam schedule. This is how it is like:

Before Exam:
Before exams, if you are having my standards of Accounts which is very low, you will feel like shit. Seriously, you will be like, "Oh no, this will be the longest 3 hours of my life (so far)". You feel that you should do more exercise and shit but at the same time, you feel that you are already ready for it (just not mentally ready).

And then you hope that the office carrying the exam papers will burn into bits. But eventually, if it ever happens, you will have to take it some other time in the future anyways. So... F that idea! When you finally come to your sense, the only way to go over this is... in fact to walk over it. Eventually, you will find yourself taking out all of your pencils, pens, etc. out of your pencilbox and facing the damn paper that you are going to open/close accounts, income statements, bank reconciliation, balance sheet, bad debts, depreciation, depletion, amortization and the shitty list goes on.

During Exam:
By the time you open the paper, you might:
a) Freak out
b) Fall asleep
c) Feeling like a boulder just hit your head because for the next 3 hours, you will only be dealing with numbers and they have to bloody mean something to you.
d) Extremely happy because it's so F-ing easy.

Some people think that I am smart (academic grades) and stuff, but seriously... if you were thinking that I was feeling (d) then you are totally out of your mind. Jackson Teoh? Feeling (d) for Accounts? Shoot me in the head and turn me into a panda bear, that's not gon'na happen to this guy! I felt a combination of (b) and (c). I felt like falling asleep and just fail that damn paper and at the same time, I felt like a boulder just hit me in the face.

I have to admit that I do not know how to do some of the bloody questions and it's really frustrating. First, you will admit that you don't know how to do the question. And then you will start counting the marks that you might lose and then divide it by the whole paper and times by 100%.

If it is a small number: "Ah! Fuck it, this is too hard!"
If it is of considerable number: "Shit! I have to do something! Even if it means crapping out some shitty answer"

I went with the second one because each question carries 20 marks or so out of 100 marks. So I wrote some crap that I don't even understand and just hope that I get at least a 5/20. Hey! It's better than none!

After I was done with the paper, my brain was spinning and I couldn't go into the where we usually check our answers. My head was spinning so badly that after finishing the paper, I did check it but I checked if I have done all of the questions instead of wondering if it is right or wrong.

After Exam:
You know how it feels like after you escape from getting into trouble and there is a black sheep that other people blame on for your evil doings?

I felt like that! I was so freaking happy and glad that Accounts is over and also possibly, over from my study life! When somebody asks me how was it, I will be like, "Don't ask me about it" while silently imagining that person being strangled.

So that's how it feels like taking an Accounts exams if you have my brain.

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Don't STOP Loving Yourself

2010-04-04T07:22:00.000-07:00

In Malaysia, if you talk good stuffs about yourself, people will say that you are boasting.

I constantly say how awesome I am and how awesome I can be and my friends will look away and say, "Action oh you!" but some of them did catch the "awesome-ness" and instead did not react but did it on their own.

Now THAT is not boasting!

It's just giving myself confidence in doing things!

I don't want to fear, I don't want to run away, I just want to do it (Just do it!)

Loving yourself is not really a bad thing!

People just say, "Action oh you!" because they are jealous that they can't say it because in reality, they think that they are not. But hey! I am not too! Just that I think I am!

We have to throw away the habit of saying, "Action oh you!" or "You are so arrogant!" and instead, be happy that others are feeling confident (unless you are a competition, then you got'ta find a way to crush him/her).

To all those who were affected by "awesomeness", people might not understand you, but just keep it up, one day they have to cope with it and feel the awesomeness in you! But of course when you say good things about yourself, make sure you are friendly to them too :P

- Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Super Cute Rilakkuma

2010-04-03T05:09:00.000-07:00

I was just minding my own business through Facebook when I bumped into this video posted by one of my many friends. I watched it and damn! That's SO CUTE!

I feel like hugging that bear and squeezing it or even just punch it in the face over and over!!

It's like a teddy bear but with a bigger head and it has the look of Japanese animated cartoon-look. Argh!! That's way too cute!!

- Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

"Why Does Your Life $uck??" by Jackson Teoh

2010-03-29T05:34:00.001-07:00

Hey, fellow readers!
I posted up my "book" cover yesterday and I receive more-than-expected heat from my friends. I thought I was gon'na get 2 to 3 hits only, but it turns out to be more than 30 hits so far. Not a big number, but the "congratulation" wishes from my friends certainly increases my morale.

So... yeah... this is my book about my life.
Published by Penguin books and should be on sales soon.

Some of the comments that I received are like, "This is fake la, Jack..." and "Who photoshop-ed this?" and YES! They are right! It is not a real book but hey! The moral of this cover is very awesome!:
We have to DREAM BIG!!
especially if you are guy...

It would be cool if I can write a book about my life and get a publisher interested to publish it. An angle that I can further explore. :D

Sorry to disappoint any of you who might have thought that this is a real book but be rest assured, I will be publishing a book in the near future. Thanks for your support! Truly touched by the response received from my friends. By the way, my bro hasn't even reached the title of "Tan Sri Datuk Dr." yet. :P

I was inspired to do something that after reading Eric Bischoffs book, called, "Controversy Creates Ca$h". I liked the book cover for its simplicity, so I remodeled the book in my own style.

The message of the "book" is to ask people, "Why do their lives suck??".
Take a good look at all those things that you dislike about your life that made it suck and ask yourself, "Is it really worth caring about things that are sucking my vitality??", "Why not focus on things in my life that doesn't suck and love them more by always trying to bring them into my life?".

I was also inspired to design this book cover because of a friend of mine who I think is going through a hard life. He/She cares a lot about how people feel that he/she hurts himself/herself in the process and studies is really taking its toll on him/her.

If this book is published, I will certainly want to tell people and especially him/her that life does not suck that much. Sure it gets very very hard and painful and we do get nervous breakdowns because of it but we can feel better by saying, "Let's JUST DO IT! I ain't gon'na turn weak by this ordeal!" and maybe just scream, "F*** YOU, PROBLEM!! I WILL BEAT YOU!! F*** YOU!!".

To all those who are supporting me, thank you very much again. I am very proud to have friends like you!

And remember!
DREAM BIG!

-Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Jackson's Dilemma on Motorcycles

2010-03-26T21:16:00.000-07:00

Earlier I blogged about how motorcyclists can be very annoying.
This time, yours truly has found another reason to why motorcyclists are so bloody annoying!
Not only do they make you feel bad for killing them (even though it is very well-known that motorcyclists die because they are RIDING on a motorcycle in the first place), but they annoy you while they are still running around the road.

Below are some sketches drawn by yours truly, Jackson Teoh. It's not a work of art, but come on, I drew it in an hour and I am a beginner at it too :P

So, in Malaysia, one of the main reasons why motorcycles are so annoying is when you are at an intersection, ready to turn to where ever you want. There were no cars and you thought, "Hey! It's time to turn!":
A split-second later, before you could put your plan into practice, a bloody pest comes from your 90degree in very high speed:You can't cross because you risk knocking them over (Quite a dilemma sometimes).
What's worse is that sometimes, these motorcycles run at such slow speed ("slow" as in "eventhough you cross, you still knock them down" slow) that you just gotta say, "Hurry up, you F***! F*** that motorcyclist B******!! F*** them!!", of course, that is IF you have been waiting there for over 20 minutes and still fail to cross.

After they have passed... the terror of waiting is not over:
as CARS start coming in again!
So you have to wait and wait and the process repeats itself until you get a clear road.

So "What is the dilemma?"
When I drive and these things happen, I always thought to myself, "If I cross now, I might just run over a motorcycle, causing his death while I laugh at it." or "I will wait now for another 20 minutes to cross and risk getting honked from the cars behind me and also being beaten up by one of the angry drivers".

Those are sort of like the 2 choices we have to make all the time unless there are no cars behind us to hack us through it!

One more thing is that when you try to avoid being honked and beaten up, you will think to yourself, "Hey, maybe if I drive a little bit into the road, cars will have no choice but to stop." but hey! Okay, they do stop or run you over. If they do, they will give you several honks which make you panic! But I guess better being panic than being slaughtered by drivers...

Damn you motorcycles!
Cross if you got'ta cross because we have no choice but to play along. BUT please, cross quickly! Don't just go in a "If I cross, I will still knock them over" slow-speed!

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

How do Lousy Ads turn Effective?

2010-03-22T09:28:00.000-07:00

Today, I'm gon'na type about... advertising.
Just read an article online and that guy had some valid points about why some lousy ads turn effective?

He referred more to the ads in telephone books, newspapers, magazines, especially telephone books. Why??

If you open your telephone book, you will see a bunch of pages with ads on them.
The writer of a post saw these ads and they have a similarity. That similarity is that they follow a specific guideline to advertise in the phonebook:

1. {Company name} Insurance Brokers [Inc. / Ltd]

2. [Established / Since] {Year}

3. Home, Auto, Life, Commercial, Industrial, Small Business

4. Quality [Personal] Service

5. Call [Us First] For A Free [No Obligation] Quote

6. {Telephone Number}

7. {Address}

So I got curious and went onto Google to search for phone book ads and to my amazement, they DO follow those set of "Rules"! All of them!

Now, if you are the president of a country of stupid people and you are looking for somebody who is smart besides you and your secretary, let's call her "Pants". Anyways, Pants obeys and goes around your country in-search for the smartest your country has to offer, let's call the country, "Trousers". These people have to go through a mathematics test and the highest of them all will be invited to construct a grand monument for you.

After half a year wandering around, Pants came back to you and said, "Mr. President... I have searched high and low for the smartest person that our beloved Trousers can offer and this is what I found". She called in a man dressed in dirty clothes, holding his maths paper with the left hand and biting his thumbnail on the right hand. You asked her, "Is this the smartest Trousers can offer?"

She replied, "Yes, Mr. President!". "How much did he score?". Pants held up his maths test paper with a mark of 1%. You were like, "What?? That sucks!" and she was like, "But, Mr. President! He scored 1% higher than everybody else!"

When you have a whole page filled with lousy ads, the ad that is the most effective will be the ad that makes the most impact, even if it is lousy!

If you are forced to choose rotten apples, wouldn't you pick the ones that are the least rotten among other rotten apples?

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Saw 7 in 3D

2010-03-14T01:07:00.000-08:00

Saw...

A movie that freaked me out with its gruesome ways of killing victims.

Victims are picked by Jigsaw (played by Tobin Bell) for a reason (a little more on that later)

Some traps are really sick and it really makes you close your eyes as that victim screams in pain, cries and finally die. An example trap is below:

This is a trap designed to pull your hair. (Only applicable to those people with long hair)

A girls hair was tied up in a spiral and as the gear moves, it will slowly pull her hair off her scalp. And it is not fast too. It's okay if it is fast as you will die less painfully but this... it is so damn slow that you wish that somebody would just take up a gun and shoot you in the head.

A detective must decide whether she will live or die. Jigsaw wrote on the wall, "See as I See" and suggested him to walk away as this girl did something in society that probably caused a death and she never regretted of doing it.

She originally wore a pig mask as above would suggest. The detective wanted to see who she was, so he pulled her mask off, but as the mask was pulled off, a timer starts and the gear started to twist, thus twisting her hair off her head. Now the detective must find for a key or something to save her hair from being pulled off her head. Now, if your whole bunch of hair is being pulled by something, it will also bring along the scalp, which means that your entire scalp will be pulled off from your head (Ouch!!)

She screamed and cried, asking the detective to find the key to open the trap and end her suffering. The detective found it, unlocked it but she stood up and tried to kill the detective as she was warned by Jigsaw that if the detective lives, he will convict her of a crime. The detective pulled out his gun just in time to shoot her dead.

Below is the mastermind, Jigsaw:

So why the hell does jigsaw do this shit?

Is he so inhumane that he loves to kill people in very painful ways?

The answer is this: "Dude! He is a freaking smart guy!"

Why is he smart? Is Jackson Teoh some sick ass who finds amusement in watching people die slowly?

Jigsaw is actually a true human being.

He thinks human beings are becoming less appreciative of what they have and are becoming less of a human. Doctors won't treat patients without enough money. Insurance companies will not issue health insurance due to "procedural errors" to lower societies. Prostitutes, robbers, rapists, sadists, you name it.

He thinks these humans must be taught a lesson. And as we know, humans do not learn anything unless mental or physical pain is inflicted onto him/her. So he designed traps according to the sins done by specific targets. However he always allow his victims to escape his traps, either by sawing off a body part, sacrificing a person, etc. for them to learn their lesson painfully. If they do not, they will slowly and painfully die.

As an example, a thief who used knives as his primary weapon to steal must go through a test where he must press his face through a set of knives to free himself from captivity, a rapist who likes tying up his victims and rape them must poke both of his eyes by pressing 2 buttons (one for the left and the other for the right) to blind himself from ever having the urge to rape women. If they fail to do so, they will die painfully and slowly.

You got'ta watch one of the traps.

It's painful, sometimes I got'ta watch it without sound as they do amplify cracking of bones, splatting of blood, etc.

The Saw series has been very gruesome all this time, I hardly opened my eyes to watch them suffer, now imagine it in 3D:
What the heck??

3D??

Are you nuts?

It's like experiencing it for real! SHIT!

Malaysian 3D is really not much, Avatar 3D was over-rated for me and the best 3D I have ever seen was Terminator 2 in 3D in the United States. Nothing beats T2! Malaysian 3D is like... just protruding images and that's it! There's hardly any interaction but IF Saw 7 does have these interactions... I might just dig my own eyes out...

I am not looking forward to the movie in theaters this October but just want to see what other ideas does Jigsaw have for his victims and also Jigsaw's way of thinking. So, maybe I will watch it on Youtube. :P

- Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Terminator Meets Jesus

2010-03-08T08:54:00.000-08:00

Terminator meets Jesus to prevent him from being crucified

It follows the story from Terminator 2 where a remodeled T-800 was sent back to the past to protect John Connor from being killed which will ultimately change the future where robots will take over the world.

Anyways, this time, the existence of Christianity is at stake.
A T-800 was sent from the future to protect Jesus from ever being crucified which will enable him to spread his teachings.
Can't wait for this movie!

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Confessions of Jackson Teoh on Motorcycles

2010-03-07T06:00:00.000-08:00

I was planning on making it a dialogue blogpost where I interview a motorcycle talking about his life. But after awhile, I found out how lame it sounded, so I deleted the whole post and decided to write a more opinion-like blogpost where I talk about... well.. motorcycles.

You see them everywhere in Malaysia, on the streets, beside the road, on the road, in the middle of the car lane. Yes, motorcycles in Malaysia ride on the car lane. It is very annoying when they ride in the middle of it. Based on the Malaysian rule, they are suppose to ride on the left side of the road unless they want to turn to the right not long after riding in the middle.

But some motorcyclists are just being asses that they ride in the middle of the road. I told somebody about my concern for these asses and she was like, "Dude... run them over!".

Talking about running them over, don't people realise how dangerous motorcycles can be?
The death toll in Malaysia is mostly increased by the motorcycles!
You have no protective gear on except for your head. If your helmet is too heavy, a small accident might even break your neck. The rest of your body is exposed to the very serious injuries. I mean... seriously! Can't you see how dangerous that is?

Especially when you collide with a car head-on, you will fly off your motorcycles because motorcycles do not have any seatbelts to hold you back from flying off! The best part is that the last thing you will feel before you die is to feel like SuperMan, before the "CRASH!!" and you start to see the light right before your eyes.

So, if you value your life, get off the road!

If you don't value your life, carry on riding a motorcycle. Because the exciting part of it all is the ability to be SuperMan before you see the light, right? xD

For those in GP races of something. The good part of being on a motorcycle is that you get to ride on a cool bike. And I think the bikes are even happier if they are male-bikes (as people will always portray race bikes as males) because they get to have Race Queens posing next to them. As for the bikes in Kampung (rural) areas... too bad for you. xD Have a look at Mat Minah's daughter and the whole village comes to you with a fork and flatten your tires, break your lights and probably burn you in fire or acid.

Oh, yeah.

And also something about those Daredevils on Motorcycles called, "Mat Rempit" in Malaysia. They are no longer a hot topic in Malaysia. The Mat Rempits must be very sad...

But you do have these buffoons riding their bikes around. Wait... did I say "riding"? No! They are not riding their bikes, they most probably are standing, sleeping, or flying like SuperMan. It was found that they do it because they have always loved the Man of Steel and wanted to be like him.

They tried riding on airplanes but they are just not satisfied because the wind isn't blowing into their faces and they can't collide with anything and penetrate them like SuperMan. So they resulted in flying on their motorcycles and try to penetrate a truck like SuperMan. They eventually tried that but learned a very good lesson, "SuperMan is only fiction"

- Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Borderlands (Awesome, Good, Not bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2010-03-02T07:45:00.000-08:00

Today I am gon'na do a review on Borderlands.
Just finished the game yesterday on the 1st of March.
Had a really good time shooting people, especially when you get to see them melt to crisp.

Let's start with graphics.
Their graphics are unique. It is sort of like the Okami type of graphics where it looks as if it is being painted. But not as excessively like Okami. They have a unique kind of graphic that make things work smoothly but at the same time, you know that it is like a cartoon game. Unlike the Final Fantasy series where everything looks real.

Eventhough the graphics may seem like a cartoon, it actually isn't as well!
Maybe some of them do, but a lot of them looks very realistic too!
I guess it is the mixture of both worlds that made it look so unique.

Gameplay.
Their gameplay is by far, the biggest plus in the game.
Their controls are very nicely done as everything is pretty nice to press and comfortable according to your need. There is no need for you to press mindless button combination in order to perform your special ability. Just a press of a button and your special ability is unleashed.

Oh, yeah. This game is a first-person shooter game.
Pretty much like any other shooter games, but the difference is the exploration part of the game. Sometimes exploring the maps might be a little boring because of their dull music, but there are very few first-person shooter games that allow you to explore. Imagine if Modern Warfare 2 allows exploration and also co-op on exploration, that would be really something! Borderlands allows up to 4 players to play, each playing as one of the 4 characters available.

You basically go around killing monsters and also collecting loot but the fun part is actually the killing part as there are many weapons to collect and try. And seriously... there are MANY weapons! Pick up a gun and try using it, it might not be powerful, but the feeling of shooting through a new gun adds a new taste into the whole gameplay. Especially after you've found alien weaponry, you would wan'na use it just to see how it can instantly kill a hard-to-beat enemy.

Characters & story.
The characters in the game are not very well-developed as it is pretty much affected by the story. The story is very simple and you won't even notice it while playing the game! Since this game is on mission basis, a lot of the storyline will just slip away as you always try to go to the next area and the next and the next, etc.

The main characters are also not that well-developed as you are the quiet hero. You don't talk much. It is much like Digital Devil Saga but at least you have your friends to make you into somebody. As for Borderlands, you are pretty much... YOU! Your character does not have any special characteristic.
ClapTrap is sort of like a helper that you find along the way.
It is a small tin box that can talk and guide you through missions and inform you when a new mission pops up. He does the most talking in the game as he keeps reminding you of new missions. If you are far away from it, it will dance, sing or just roll around. If you go near it, it "shies" away and just stares at your face.

In the ending, they left a sort of comedic "clue" to who is the next big boss:
Cl4p-TP!
This is the ending, the last scene that you will see in the game with that background.
This game is based on comedy and having an ending that is not really an ending, like the evil ClapTrap seems okay. It might just be a practical joke, but who knows?

Eitherway, this game is an awesome game.
It might get a little boring walking around, but the missions can actually keep you on the "Go". Enjoy shooting people or things and you will pretty much enjoy this game. Especially when you are stressed out, owns an alien gun and wants to shoot somebody, this game is definitely for you.

They even made an online video as part of their promotion, ClapTrap as the director:

Enjoy!
My rating: Awesome!

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

15/02/2010 (Malaysian Time): The Flight

2010-02-17T10:12:00.000-08:00

The flight was crazy! Flew from Penang to KL and I got a headache! Must've been because I have not flown on a plane for years! I don't know what else to feel when I say "Good bye!" to my family, besides wanting to go there and Just Do It!

Arrive in Kl 55 minutes later. Had lunch which cost me RM 21! And that is just like... Chicken rice with a glass of Milo! 21 ringgit for that? What the heck??! That's nuts! I can get both of those for like... RM 6 back in Penang: I waited for 3 hours in the airport for the plane to Taipei. Finally, flying off again at 3.25 p.m. (Malaysian time). KLIA:

Flight to Taipei took about 4 hours and 30 minutes. Watched 2 movies on the plane, one called, "Paranormal Activity" and the other, "The Invention of Lying". Both movies are okay but not a big hit. My bro got to watch Red Cliff while on his way to U.S.. Guess it's my luck. So far... I have been sitting on the plane for 5 hours and 25 minutes not including transits.
Taipei airport:

Got to Taipei and I had a walk around to have a feel of the airport. It's like a long stretch of road with stalls and gated beside it. Not very user-friendly as the floor escalator only goes in one direction! Waited for another 3 hours, reading Permission Marketing, hoping to finish it.
Came across a very nice display or the Lion:
By 11.30 p.m. (Taipei time), I am off to the smuggiest place in the world, San Francisco!

"It's a smuggy day... in San Francisco town!"
-Song from South Park

The flight took about 10 hours!
10 freaking hours! My legs were killing me! I had to sit down and get up just for the toilet.

Arrived in San Francisco and I am getting pretty tired but used to flights. I no longer have a headache and also my ears don't "pop" that much anymore when the plan takes off. Waited in San Francisco for another 3 hours and by 10.35 p.m. (San Francisco time), I am off to Boston!
San Francisco airport:
The Boston trip took about 5 hours. I looked at the night lights from the plane down to San Francisco and it was awesome! Night lights everywhere! I arrived in Boston at about 7.05 a.m. (East America time), got my bag and off to Harvard! All on all, being on the plane amounted to 20 hours and 25 minutes, not including transit time which is another 9 hours.

While I was in San Francisco, you must go through a thorough security check. The line will be very long and the wait is... well.. bearable if yo9u are patient. The officer looks at you, your passport and asks you a bunch of questions like, 'Why are you here?", "Have you been here?", etc.. And then takes your picture and scans both of your thumb prints and hand prints. It is a long wait but you got'ta understand! They have to keep America safe!

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Two And A Half Men crossovers with CSI??

2010-02-11T06:02:00.001-08:00

Have you seen Two and a half Men? (Above)

It's a tv show that tells about the life of a man, who is like... the "all good" guy, with his son, living with his brother who loves having sex with different women (sometimes settling down with one for awhile). The comedy comes up when his brother and himself have different views and also his son, who is being affected by both his uncle and his dad which makes him funny too.

Anyways, if you have seen a few seasons of this show, you should know how does their comedy work and it is seriously funny!

Guess what, they had a crossover with CSI! An investigation tv show!

CSI is very famous and even branched out to many other series like Miami, New York, Vegas, etc.. If you have seen CSI, you will know that it is a bloody serious movie! Somebody gets killed and they must find out who and catch that person. Involving guns, drugs, investigations, police, everything serious, etc..

Anyways, I was reading Wikipedia today and found out that Two and a half Men and CSI did have a crossover! What the heck?

A comedy tv show having a crossover with an investigation tv show.

Their atmosphere is so different!

Two and a half Men is like... so bright while CSI is like the dark one with low tone of light.

I don't know how they did it, but they did. In fact, the crossover episode is loading now as I am typing this. Can't wait to watch it! I am watching the Two and a half Men crossover episode, can't wait to laugh my ass off!

- Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

The Handshake that Tells Who You Are

2010-02-08T04:22:00.000-08:00

How does a handshake tell whether a person is dominant or submissive?

It is actually pretty simple.

When you meet somebody, walk up to him/her and offer a handshake. If that person's palm is facing down when he/she wants to shake hands with you, this person wants power. He/she would want to dominate people, even you, to follow his/her liking.

Don't believe me?

Let's look at a very famous historical figure.

Mr. Hitler.

Yeap, the dictator that was marketed as one of the biggest bad asses in the whole world and also the history or mankind. Osama bin Laden tried to be like him but I guess Osama is just a dumb guy who has nothing better to do than bombing the WTC in America and have to live the rest of his life on the run, either in an underground base where his crap will be on top of him or a mobile truck that carries shit since the smell will piss the American soldiers off from even checking it.

Anyways, back to subject at hand.
As you can see from the picture, Hitler had his hand forward and his palm is facing downwards which means "Dominance".

Being a dictator is not easy, alright, he has to have a lot of dominating power in order to be somebody like this. From one of the historic stories that I have read, he could hardly sleep and had to rely on sleeping pills every night. I guess that is what happens when you try to dominate a world filled with people who are more dominant than you.

So, now do you believe me?

Okay, maybe you might argue, "That is his taunt! Like The Rock with his 'Peoples' Eyebrow' or John Cena with his 'You can't see me!'"

But hey! Maybe so!

But why did he do it?

He felt that he should dominate all those people.

Alright, now you might say, "Hey... people don't do that anymore. After Hitler, nobody does that anymore. It's like... his trademark".

Hitler made it look very obvious.

It is actually happening every day. It was mentioned earlier about handshakes. That's when they do it!

Obama & Medvedev:

Over here, Medvedev is having the dominating side. Obama on the other hand is showing the opposite which is a submissive handshake. When the palm is facing up, it represents a direct opposite of the dominating palm. Obama is clearly afraid of Medvedev.

They shook hands twice and Medvedev constantly dominates Obama.

You gotta buckle-up, Obama!

In pictures, the person who stands on the right side of the person that he/she is shaking hands with will look like the dominant figure. Because the camera is facing the top of his/her hand. So if you want to look powerful, make sure to stand on the right side so that you will appear on the left side of the picture when it is taken.

It would be weird to say, "Hey, can I stand on your left?" to somebody. Especially when you have great respect for them.

So, here is the question, "How do you appear neutral when somebody gives you the dominating handshake?"

No, you can't turn their hand while shaking.

The solution is simple:

Show respect but not being submissive.

Now, you know the secrets. (Haha! It's like "World's Greatest Magics Revealed")

- Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

You Are Mine (Why people hold hands?)

2010-02-05T09:53:00.000-08:00

There are many things that couples do to express their "Possession" over their partners.
Remember all those times while we were lil' kids, we have a tendency to make an object ours? That is our "Possession". Or when you bought something with your own money, that is your "Possession" as well?

Well, our habits while we were young, reinforced with experience of "Possession", will be brought to adulthood. It becomes sort of a reflex. Except that now instead of possession of toys and inanimated things, we have a possession over a person. This person may be your honey-buns, sugar-pie, babe, or whatever funny words that people come up with to get the other sex's attention and of course hoping for a "funny word" return call.

Anyways, we always want something that might slip over our hands. Your partner may slip out of your hands at any time. When you realise this, you want to show "Possession". You want to show that "This girl is mine and you other guys can just fuck off!" or "This guy is mine and you other girls can just fuck off!". You won't even realise you doing it as you will take it as "This is what couples do" but in actualy FACT, you want your partner to be YOUR "Possession". You want her to be yours only and vice versa.

Because we have experienced possession back in our early days where we told everybody else to not touch our possessions, we transmit the same signal in our adulthood. The language of possession can be a hug or when you see a guy hugging a girl while she is walking (She looks awfully hard to walk, but I guess she enjoys being a "prized possession" of her man), he is expressing "Possession". He is telling other guys out there to fuck off because she is his girl.

Other ways to show this are like:
- Hugs

- Holding hands
- Grabbing the arm
- Hand on chest (Girls do this to guys that they "Possess")
etc.

Basically, anything that has a certain degree of "Grab" action that says "He/She is mine!!!".
So now you know the reason why people hold hands, grab each other, etc.
It is to give-in to our reflex of "Possession" over an item. (Oops, I mean our lover)

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Why Door Locks Piss Me Off

2010-02-02T05:51:00.000-08:00

"Oh, shit! I using the toilet la!!", a phrase that we hear several times a year.

I have a problem with door locks, especially the toilets.

It's not that door locks don't work. They are perfectly fine, but the problem is with people! They don't know how to use door locks!

Remember all those time where you looked at the toilet door lock or changing room lock saying "Vacant" and you really need to pee or try out a shirt. You opened it and somebody yelled, "Fuck! Who the fuck are you!??? &$%&$#%@%$&!!!"? And you will be like, "Oh, shit!". Or all those times when people say, "Oii!!!" when you open the toilet door and somebody is peeing.

THAT is the bloody problem!

There is a technology called the "Door lock"! Can't they just use it?

Geez!! Is it so hard just to turn the knob from "Vacant" to "Engaged"?

It's not as if you are trying to jump from being "Single" to being "Engaged"!!

Just turn the bloody knob!! And you can undress all you like and start trying things on!

Why on Earth would you not want to lock the door and you just take off all of your clothes and change?? What the heck is wrong with these people?!

Imagine if you are a guy and you opened a changing room door with a girl half naked inside and suddenly her boyfriend comes. You are creamed!! Okay, that seldom happens.

The one that is always occurring over and over again most probably will be in the guys toilet. I cannot count how many times have I opened a toilet door and people saying "Oui!" to me. It's not as if the toilet door lock is broken or something. They just don't want to turn the bloody knob! Sometimes I feel like screaming at those people telling them to just PLEASE lock the f-ing door!

This is a message from yours truly, Jackson Teoh.

Please lock the doors if you want some privacy time.

- Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Gamer (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2010-01-30T18:42:00.000-08:00

Jackson Teoh is back with a pretty old movie that is no longer in cinemas worldwide.

I watched it online (Shh... don't tell anybody!) a few days ago.

I can say several things about Gamer.

I don't really know why people rate it as one of the worst movies of the year. I am not a very technical movie reviewer, so I see more on concepts, flow and such. I know that there are several things that didn't make sense in which I will address them later.

The first thing I found about Gamer was that the concept was pretty cool. Gaming has been taken to a new level where people are paid to be the characters that you control in the game while you pay to play using that character. Except for the part where the characters who are hurt in the game are also hurt in reality. If only that gaming engine allows those people who got hurt feel 10% of the pain in the game and 0% pain when they go off work, then Ken Castle wouldn't need to be chased around by The Humanz.

Now I can't say that he is awesome for coming up with the gaming engine because of human rights and stuff, just thought that it would be cool to have gaming that way.

About a minute ago, I just thought to myself. The only way to make gaming this way is to improve the graphics to an extend that they look like real people, real environment. Then Ken Castle won't be hunted down and people don't need to work as characters in the game. Imagine the environment that looks so real and characters that look exactly like people in an open world game like GTA, Assassin's Creed, etc.!

The plot is not very simple but predictable.

A guy wants to break lose from the gaming world, struggles a little bit but got out in the end. Finds out that Ken Castle is afraid of him because he was the earlier test subject who was controlled to kill his friend. He rescues his wife from an open-social-world game. Ken Castle became a foster parent to his daughter to blackmail him. He goes to find Ken Castle and kills him.

See! It's not simple!

Just a little bit twisty here and there. It might not be simple but it is easy to follow.

Some people complained that the gaming engine needed more "cast time" that is they needed to be explained more thoroughly like The Matrix. But... think about this, I am just a normal guy who loves watching movies, I will be like, "What the heck are they talking about?" if they were to do that!

Favourite part of the movie?

There is only one part that I really like, the rest... okay, some are forgettable and some are not. Those that are unforgettable are not my favourites :P

That part is when Ken Castle dances with his controlled soldiers. He just looks so... evil and sarcastic... The video of him dancing can be found in the post before this post titled "Ken Castle of the movie: Gamer"

Issues: Okay, fine. To me there is only one issue about the movie. That is the part where the main character (he was King Leonidas from 300) drank alcohol before the game, "Slayers" started and he vomited and peed into the truck to get it started. I don't know about you but he could've just... easily hidden the bottle of vodka out of sight while he is loading his gun for "Slayers". Hide it, run over the terrain to the truck, pour the vodka in and start the engine. He didn't need to be drunk while he is running. Of course, that sets away the drama but it's more logical that way!!

Eitherway, Gamer is an "Okay" movie. You can watch it for fun, but not necessarily earn the title of best movie of the year. Gamer might be brutal but it is still better than "The Punisher" which... didn't make it as a "Marvel" movie along with Elektra.

My rating: Not Bad

- Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Ken Castle of the movie: Gamer

2010-01-27T08:49:00.001-08:00

"Gamer" The (Ken) Castle Dance

This video will direct you to another website. I thought this part is cool, so I put it up in my blog.

Ken Castle is the main antagonist who created a live version of "Second Life" using real people.

The game is called "Society"

However, credits go to the guys who made the movie, "Gamer" and also this video.

- Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Lie To Me 109

2010-01-23T22:55:00.000-08:00

More "Lie To Me 10X"
This is a request by several readers to split the posts up. So this is basically Lie To Me 108.5, but you know what, let's make it Lie To Me 109

1) Giving the finger
Everybody knows about giving the finger to express hate. Some people do it without his/her knowing. Especially politicians who have to behave on national television. And you know who did it?

Barrack Obama!
That's right. He pointed the middle finger unintentionally when he talked about McCain.It might look as if he is just scratching his mouth, but it's a body reflex that says, "You must point the middle finger to suppress your anger!" but since he has a reputation, he did not do it intensionally but... erm... reflexively? If there is this kind of word.

It can range to scratching nose, eyebrows, etc. As long as it is a middle finger, no matter at what position is still the language of hate.

2) "Okay" hand gesture while talking - bringing positive comfort while lying
When somebody has an "Okay" hand gesture like this:He or she is trying to comfort himself/herself while telling a lie. This is to tell the brain, "It's okay to lie as long as you are not in trouble" and the brain reacts by saying, "Okay! Go ahead!".

3) Micro Expression of Disgust
This is a micro expression to hide his/her disgusted face. When a person is disgusted, the face of anger will be accompanied by the showing of his/her teeth. Now, the micro expression works similarly. His/her eyebrows are slightly brought together for a split second, mouth is in the "blank expression" and he/she will show a small part of his/her set of teeth. It's like opening the side of your mouth a little bit and quickly close them back, that is the micro expression of disgust. It is still an expression except that you are aware of your surroundings and want to keep a stance.

4) Bow of Disrespect
Japanese people bow to show respect. Now there are many levels to their bows:Now if the bow is 30 or 45 degrees, he/she is showing respect but if it is less than 30 or 45 degrees, he/she knows that he/she shouldn't be bowing to you that is to show the sign of disrespect. This is also called "Shallow bow"

5) The "Shut down" facial expression
When a person shuts down all systems and leave it all to reflexes, he/she will have his/her eyes closed and lips stretched. A shut down usually happens when startled. So if somebody comes in with a gun and shoots into the sky, people will usually have the shut down-startle expression which is having his/her eyes closed and lips stretched.

6) The sign of Protection
When a person wants to protect another person, his/her body will immediately move in front of the person he/she wants to protect when something bad happens like a shooting incident. This is like... a reflex, people do it without realising it and falls purely on the emotional connections associated with the person that he/she wants to protect.

7) Shoulder Shrug - Lie
If somebody's shoulder shrugs:while saying something, he/she is lying. The shrug indicates that he/she does not know a thing about what he/she is talking about. So if somebody says, "I don't know", looks away and shoulders shrug, he/she knows something! (Also applicable of only one shoulder shrug)

8) The expression of Concealed Anger
If somebody is angry but wants to conceal his/her anger, more like controlling, his or her mouth will be in the "sad position", looking down and his/her eyes will be closed. Imagine this guy's eyes in a closed position:
That is the expression of concealed anger.

That's all for now, as requested, it has been split into 2 separate posts.
Enjoy reading people's faces.
Just realised that by watching things like that, you will notice when people does something very unsual.

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Lie To Me 108

2010-01-23T22:09:00.000-08:00

It has been awhile since I wrote something about "Lie To Me 10X"
There are just so many things to type and explain!

Good thing is that today, I watched a video about body language and got hooked up to watching peoples' movements again. So here it is! More ways to detect emotional reflexes of the body:

1) Expression of "I am going to kill you" (Act of Violence)
If a person has his/her eyebrows pulled together, tightness under the eyes (like a "I am going to kill you" stare), raise his/her upper eye lid, he/she is going to commit violence. If this expression comes while he/she is looking at somebody, a few moments later, he/she will commit violence towards the person that he/she is staring at.
Example:
2) Expression of Fear/Worry/Apprehension
When a person has the emotion of fear clouding his/her mind after something is said, done, etc, his/her eyebrows will be raised and pulled together.
Example:Notice the eyebrows. Raised + pulled together = Fear

3) Expression of Embarrassment
When somebody is embarrassed, they always try to conceal what they feel but ended up not knowing what to think, do, etc. to fix it. Embarrassment can be spotted by watching for a small smile while looking down.
Example:He is not smiling for joy, but small smile and looking down mean embarrassment.

4) Expression of "My lie succeeded! You Fool!!!"
When a person's lie succeeds, a certain enjoyment will come. It feels like... accomplishing something very hard to get. So this makes he/she happy. If the expression of happiness (mouth widen like a smile, wrinkle at the sides of the eyes) comes after a lie, he/she thinks that it has already succeeded in fooling you. So if you already know that he/she is lying but pretends to be stupid, then he/she smiles, it just solidifies your conclusion that he/she is a bloody liar.

5) Explanation for the "Hiding something" expression
When somebody is hiding something, his/her eyes will blink multiple times, faster than normal, as stated in previous Lie To Me 10Xs. But what is the explanation to this?

Our emotional body works faster than our own minds.
When you ask a question to somebody, if he or she blinks multiple times quickly, he or she is hiding something. If he/she says "I don't know", you know that he/she is lying. The multiple blinks that he/she did immediately after you asked the question signals that the answer ran through his/her mind.

6) Hesitation and repititon of words - Lie
When someboyd hesitates to say something or repeats a word, his/her brain is having trouble processing what he/she says. When he/she says something that is untrue, his/her brain reacts and tells him/her that "it is not true, change facts immediately!". But in order to convince his/her brain that it is true, he/she re-thinks what he/she has just said or repeat certain words. That is to lie to their own brains into making it "the truth". So if somebody hesitates or repeats certain words, be careful, he/she might just be lying.

7) Explanation for looking at one place while pointing the other way
When somebody points at one direction (maybe to tell you where somebody has gone to) but his/her eyes looks at a different direction. The direction that his/her eyes are is the truth, the hand pointing is the false one. This is because our mind made that hand point that way, but our eyes can't keep up with the speed of which our mind calling our hand to point that way, so our eyes will tell where is the real direction.

I wrote down a lot of others, but I was requested by several readers to break them apart.
See you in the next post!

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Mall Oranges

2010-01-21T06:11:00.000-08:00

As some of you might know, Chinese New Year is dawning again.
With the arrival of Chinese New Year, it's always a tradition to give oranges, receive oranges, buy oranges, sell oranges, everything oranges!

I came home yesterday and brought my g'ma to Carrefour to buy some oranges for her friends at the place where they jog every day, let's call it... "Jogging Hill". Anyways, we went to the fresh fruit area where they sell many kinds of fruit.

Buying oranges is easy, but the hard part is choosing the right oranges!
If it is too sweet or sour, old people can't eat it. If it is not juicy enough, it doesn't taste very good. Now the thing is that I have no idea what oranges must I buy!!

I love oranges to have a level of sweetness, but not too sweet. The problem is that I have no bloody idea which orange will give me the sweet sensation!

It is always:
"Mandarin, RM 5.99/kg"
"Arabian Orange, RM 2.45/kg"
"Hokkien Mandarin Orange, RM 6.00/kg"
and the list goes on...

That's the problem!
So many kind, I have no idea what to buy?!!
After I randomly picked some, my parents said, "Too sour"

So, here is an idea for malls.
In order to help dummies like me about oranges, why can't they make it like... a menu?
It doesn't need to be a book about oranges, just add some information to the sign!

My idea:
"Mandarin, "Sweet while giving you plenty of orange juice", RM 5.99/kg"
"Arabian Orange, "Sour with a soft flesh", RM 2.45/kg"
"Hokkien Mandarin Orange, "Sweet with hard flesh, refrigerate it and it will last for weeks", RM 6.00/kg"
bla bla bla...

Just some basic information on how different they are!
I will feel more secured when I buy oranges and it doesn't make me feel very stupid like the other day.

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

A Touching Story about a Father with his Son and a Sparrow

2010-01-18T04:35:00.000-08:00

If this is an ad, it is so damn effective.

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

District 9 (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2010-01-16T02:17:00.000-08:00

I have always wanted to watch this movie but didn't really had the chance.
I bought the DVD yesterday and watched it as a midnight movie.

District 9... is very unique.
Storyline-wise, it is not like any other alien movies out there. If you'ce seen independence day, THAT is a regular alien movie where to story is based on killing aliens to save the planet. The awesome thing about this movie is that it's not like that! It is more like a documentary about the aliens who are stuck on Earth.

The cool parts are when their camera and interview works very similarly like a documentary. The camera man would walk around with the main character and filming details of his explanation and alien activities. Then they would jump to interviewing experts about the alien activities and possible human-like explanations. Very realistic just like a documentary.

Of course, there are some parts where it goes into a normal movie where they have all those technical camera angles to shoot a movie. It's not like "Cloverfield" where the entire film is on a video camera. This is partly. The exciting part is when they talk about the differences of the alien, also called "Prawn", compared to humans.

The story is not simple, yet it is not complicated. It is not simple because it is very rare to find movies like this and it is not complicated because you can follow the storyline.

District 9 showed several things about humans.
1) Humans are intolerant towards alien species (creatures who are different)
2) Abuse of power
3) Greed

When I started watching District 9, I thought that the aliens were going to betray the humans and try to take over the world, but it was the other way around. After watching about half of the movie, you will realise that the aliens are just doing their thing (eating cat food, tearing off limbs if startled) and humans who couldn't accept them, capture, run tests, kill and make them as a target to practice shooting. Then you will realise that humans are more evil than those aliens!

It ended in a cliffhanger after Christopher Johnson (a 'Prawn' who is trying to repair the ship to save his friends) flew off into space, promising to return 3 years later to turn the human-turned-prawn (main character) back into a human. He left his friends back on Earth who tore apart the villain in the movie after he tried to kill the main guy.

Hope that they will make a sequel :P
Really curious about the fate of the 'Prawns'.
Will Christopher Johnson wage war on Earth?
Will the main guy ever become a human again?
What is the government going to do with the alien after relocating them to District 10?
So many questions!!

This is a low-budget film, but the movie is just too good to look like a low-budget film.

Before the movie, they came up with a viral marketing campaign to attract peoples' attention on the 'Prawns' issue. They stuck poster, made signs all over U.S. to warn them about the 'Prawns':

That's pretty cool!
If only Malaysia had those billboards and signs...

All on all, this is a pretty good movie. It's not really action-packed as it is more to understanding the possibility of the life of non-humans on planet Earth.

Rating: Awesome/Good

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Lie To Me Analysis 1: Malaysian Minister of Information, Communication and Culture

2010-01-14T22:27:00.001-08:00

This is the Malaysian Minister of Information, Communication and Culture.
In Malaysia, we always have to conquer 2 languages when you are in a formal sector as most international matters need English as a medium of communication and Bahasa Melayu and English as mediums of communication internally.

Now, this minister... I can say a few things about him given my limited knowledge about reactions and all. I am just a starter at this, so not really good at it, but I will try.

1) Time: 0.09 - 0.10
He rolled his eyes up when saying "Merdeka" = "Independence". When people roll their eyes up, it usually means "Disbelief" in a statement or "Why am I talking to this ass?". Apparently, this minister took the "Merdeka" word as a joke. Now he does believe in Independence, but he has to cover up his "Why am I talking to this ass?" statement. If he only rolled his eyes and looks away, people might notice. So, "Merdeka" became a cover-up.

The word "Merdeka" came up because it might be the next thing that runs through his mind when talking about the national language. Maybe he had an emotional attachment to it that brought it running into his brain like a reflex.

2) Time: 0.15
He said "jap" which is "sekejap" in Bahasa Melayu and "jap" for short which means "wait". He is asking himself to wait as if he stops talking after saying, "Saya tak jawablah soalan begitu" which means "I won't answer this type of question", he thinks that people might get the wrong idea. I mean... there has to be a problem if a Minister does not want to answer an interviewer's questions. They might be hiding something. So he wanted to set things straight, so he just said that the reporter should as in Bahasa Melayu, the national language.

3) Time: 0.16 - 0.24
He waved his right hand while talking. Now, if you've noticed, he did not wave his hand when he says, "I won't answer this type of question" or "Saya tak jawablah soalan begitu". THAT is the truth. He hates this guy for humiliating him and does not want to answer. Now when he starts waving his hand, he is not being himself. He is forced to do that as a way to convince people that he can speak English.

4) Time: 0.26 - 0.28
If you notice, he looks pretty pissed at that reporter!
His eyebrows are brought closer together and his eyes are saying, "I am so gon'na eat you up". So he tried turning the tables by saying, "Where are you educated? You can't speak Bahasa at all?". He is trying to make the reporter look stupid and feel stupid. And the laugh... it's like a deep breathe kind of laugh, so it's not real. It's sort of like... forced. It is most certainly forced out of hatred.

5) Time: 0.30 - 0.32
He is still pretty pissed at that guy but he wants to further kill him. He said, "Cakap orang putih" which means "Talking in a white man's language". When you reach 0.30, pause the video and you can clearly see his disgusted face. Now, his angry face has transformed into "Disgust" a language of even greater hate. His eyebrows are closer now and he is showing his teeth. And the hand-waving... well... that's just him trying to not look stupid after using a lousy accent.

6) Time: 0.35 - 0.36
He shakes his head. He is thinking, "This guy sucks, I hate this guy and he shouldn't have any of my attention". He is thinking that this guy is stupid in general.

The rest of the video after that is just him trying to run away from the question. Clearly his English isn't good and he realises it himself, that is why he said, "Give it to the rest... the others". He corrected himself and there are a bunch or "er"s at the back as his brain can't process English words fast enough.

Seriously... you are the Minister or Information, Communication and Culture but the way you speak just doesn't reflect that way. Communication requires at least a Malay and English in our country. Culture... obviously you didn't do much cultural homework.

Okay, that's all for the analysis!

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Zombieland (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2010-01-14T04:32:00.000-08:00

"Rule #1: Cardio"
The main reason why fat people gets eaten first during a zombie apocalypse.

So what does Zombieland have to offer?
Is it like any other Zombie movies out there like Resident Evil?
Or is it more than that?
Or much worse...?

At first glance, Zombieland looks like the brother to Left 4 Dead. It's all fun with hordes and hordes of zombies running to eat you up. And guess what? You are right and also... not so right as well...

During the first few seconds of the movie, you get to see guns and also shotguns on the floor, much like Left 4 Dead where survivors get to pick up weapons at the beginning of a stage. It does have the Left 4 Dead feel sometimes, but not all the time.

The story is all about survival.
The main character tries to live in a life filled with zombies, stocking up food, looking for places to hide, getting petrol for his car in a zombie-infested world. The experiences he obtained from running away from zombies became his life lessons. So he wrote down a bunch of rules in his notebook which he carries around.

"Rule #1: Cardio" for example, states:
Fat people always become the first to fall because they can't run fast enough to escape from zombies! So you got'ta maintain your stamina to run and run and run.

He wanted to go back to his hometown where his parents live or "lived". On the way, he met a few humans, a cowboy who is obsessed with Twinkies and the 2 sisters who always take away all of his possessions. Finally, they are at the fair to save the 2 sisters because he had fallen in love with one of the sisters played by Emma Stone. After shooting enough zombies and saving the both of them, their adventure continues, living in a zombie-infested world.

The story is pretty common and simple, but we don't want to get too sciencey now like Resident Evil, do we? The Resident Evil series is not bad for me, but Zombieland totally falls in a different category. It's more like... comedy with a little bit of gore but FUN all the way!

It breaks laughs all the time which not a lot of zombie movies will actually do.
And I have to admit that Resident Evil does bore me sometimes with all their science stuff.
Zombieland keeps you going and just have a good time in the cinema hall.

This movie is for all those people who wants to watch a movie for fun but still feel that it's all worth watching. The only down part of this movie is that on the poster, they have like... a chainsaw which is something that I kinda look forward to as you can use a chainsaw in Left 4 Dead 2, but it's just not there!

So how do I rate this movie?
It's not an epic movie like Transformers, G.I. Joe that will actually make you go like, "Woah!!" but it is very very intertaining. If you want a good laugh but still want to keep up with the action and gore, this movie is for you.

My rating: Good!

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Ronald McDonald Smacks a Boy

2010-01-07T09:34:00.000-08:00

You know how each McDonald branch has like a Ronald McDonald statue?

Usually they will let him sit down on the chair next to you. But the multi-national company came up with a new policy after finding so many people disrespecting the Ronald McDonald statue.

Remember all those times when you happily sit next to Ronald McDonald in front of a McDonald's outlet and at the same time, you are chewing a chewing gum while waiting for friends?

After chewing the chewing gum, you want to throw it away because it makes you thirsty but you are lazy to find for a dustbin. And then you saw Ronald McDonald, innocently sitting next to you. An idea flash! "Eureka!" you thought you yourself, "I will stick it at Ronald McDonald's shoes!" And there you go, sticking it there to make it look as if Ronald stepped on a chewing gum before sitting on that bench. You found it funny and thought that you have done a good thing by making other people laugh.

Or the time when you sat down and you stared at the statue of Ronald McDonald. You got back up, look at it into the eyes and punched his face hoping to get a reaction.

Due to problems like these, the McDonald's company came up with a defense mechanism.

The ONLY solution to stop people from sticking chewing gums on the sole of Ronald McDonald's shoes:

One of the boys was caught by the new Ronald McDonald defensive system and immediately smacked him as proven by this picture. Next time... better think twice before doing anything to Ronald McDonald statues...

I found this photo around my Facebook wall and the first time when I saw it, I was like, "OMG!! Haha!!"

THIS is seriously funny!

The angle is just perfect!

Look at it!

A boy getting smacked by Ronald McDonald!

I couldn't stop laughing when I first saw it.

Now it still gives me the creeps and a good laugh :P

Nice picture, guys!

Hope to see more of stuffs like this!

Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Late Merry Christmas!

2009-12-27T21:20:00.000-08:00

I know it is pretty late but cut me some slack!

I created the banner to wish you Merry Christmas even before Christmas!

I have been tagging people on Facebook to wish them Merry Christmas. Can't tag too many of my friends because my family members whom I wished would not like a flooded inbox, so my apologies to those that I did not tag. It's still a Merry Christmas to you!

And I can't tag over 400+ friends of mine! That'll make me crazy!!

The day before Christmas, thought of going to Gurney Plaza, the place where Christmas parties go wild, but after reading the newspaper on the next day, thank god I didn't go. There were like... people fighting with the cops to obtain rights to spray white foam on cars that are passing by. Those people were eventually arrested :P

Serves them right!

I wouldn't want to drive blindly on the road with many people on it.

Somebody might just get knocked down and killed!

It might look fun to those people, but if somebody gets killed for what they did, will it be funny then?

Christmas came and I just sat at home like any other days. Going online, filling up application forms and answering essays to be qualified and checking out Facebook. I go on to Facebook everyday but I hardly do anything there. Just checking out photos of friends and status worth talking about.

Oh, yeah.

And I designed that picture at the top.

On the right, you have me! I Photoshopped my face on to Frosty and called myself Jack Frost. The name of the character from Shin Megami Tensei series. But considering that my name is Jackson, you have:

Jackson + Frost = Jack Frost!

And that is my bro as Santa Clause, he called himself... Santa Michael!

Michael + Santa Clause = Santa Michael!

More Lie To Me coming up very soon!

And again... Merry Christmas!

- Jackson Teoh

jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Lie to Me 107

2009-12-22T07:21:00.000-08:00

Back for more Lie To Me, the tutorial to detect everyday lies that we never realised.
Also known as "Micro-Expression", very small and very fast expressions.

1) Step backwards after talking - Doesn't believe in what he/she says
If somebody steps backwards after saying something, he or she does not really believe what he or she said. As an example, a politician talks and talks and talks about what he is going to do if he is elected as president, then after the speech, he stepped back, as in reversing (if he is a car), this means that he is unsure if he can do what he promised to the people if he becomes president.

2) Hurried speech + Object between you and him/her - Signs of nervousness
If a person is talking very quickly and wants to go away from you, he is trying to tell you that he is very nervous and wants to get away from you ASAP. When talking to you, if he puts an object between you and him, he is also nervous while talking to you. He is creating a barrier to make himself feel more comfortable. Let's say you are talking to basketball player. He is holding a ball. The ball is on his left hand. While talking, suddenly, he raised the ball to his chest, creating a "barrier" between you and him. The ball is the barrier. He is nervous.

3) Eyebrows rise up + Eyes bigger + open mouth a little bit with jaws down
This is a facial expression for surprise. If a person is surprise, his eyebrows will rise, eyes will open bigger and he will have an open mouth. BUT sometimes, it is only in the eyes if he wants to hide his surprised face.

4) Mouth strokes (Wide then return to normal) - No confidence in his/her own words
When a person is talking, if suddenly his or her mouth turns wider then back to normal (very micro expression, only for a split second), he or she has no confidence in what he or she just said. Oh, yeah... they don't open their mouth. Your mouth will look like you gulped.

5) One side of the mouth is raised - Thinking a person is stupid
When somebody does something stupid but obvious, if you raised one side of your mouth, you are thinking that he or she is stupid for doing that. It's like a soft laugh, usually for only split second since you don't what he/she to know that you were thinking that he/she is stupid.

6) Touch neck - Lie
When a person touches his/her neck while talking, he/she is lying.

7) Hand waved over the side of his/her head - Lie
When a person suddenly waves his/her hand over the side of his or her face while talking, he or she is lying.

8) Arsonist ---> Rapist
Usually, arsonists will more likely be rapists. Why?
Because an arsonist wants to display power by burning down a victims house. Raping is also part of displaying power by having power of the victim. Thus, if you are an arsonist or if you know a friend who is an arsonist, be careful... he might just start raping.

9) Chin thrust - Anger
When a person is talking or doing something, if suddenly his/her chin thrusts forward, he/she is displaying anger towards what was said, head, done, etc.

10) Top part of mouth pulls up + wrinkle between the eyes + show teeth - Disgust
If a persons top part of his/her mouth is pulled up, forming like a sad mouth, there is wrinkle between the eyes and he/she is showing his/her teeth, he/she is disgusted. It's like showing off angry animal instincts.

11) Talking... talking... move hand! - Lie
If a person is talking without any hand movements, then suddenly, he/she moves his/her hand, he/she is lying about what he/she said right before the hand movement was made.

12) Eyebrows go up and pulled together - Fear
If a persons eyebrows are pulled up and pulled closer together, he/she is expressing fear. This is a micro expression. If it is a macro expression, the eyes will be bigger.

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Lie to Me 106

2009-12-20T09:44:00.000-08:00

Just got off from watching the first episode of Lie To Me!
Hey, I started watching it on television about the last quarter of the series, so going back in time to watch the first episode is really cool because it's like a new episode to me!
Anyways, there are a lot of things that you can learn through this show, but some of them are already shared on my blog, so if there are repetitions, then... my apologies :P

1) Breaking Eye Contact VS Aiming Eye Contact
Breaking eye contact is like when a person looks away from you to think, while aiming eye contact is like when a person stares at you and gives you his/her answer.

People always believe that people who breaks eye contact are in fact, lying. But the real fact is that people break eye contact because they need to recall or remember something. Looking at you straight would only build nervousness when recalling, so the facts will not be 100% accurate.

While Aiming Eye Contact means that they are lying!
What a contradiction to what people usually think!
When a person keeps looking at you and answers you without looking away to think, he is lying but tries to convince you with the eyes because he/she knows the myth of "looking straight in the eye means the truth".

2) Expression of Sadness - Eyebrows
Expression of Sadness can be found in the eyebrows. When a persons tip of eye brows which connects the eyes moves upwards, he/she is expressing sadness. Like... intense sadness. Remind yourself of something sad and take notice of your eyebrows, the tip of the eyebrows which connects both eyebrows together in a very small "u" will move up!

3) Rubs nose - something to hide
That's true. If you are talking, don't EVER rub your nose. Or else, people who can read other people will know that you are hiding something. An example is during the Saddam Hussein court case, he rubbed his nose, signalling the United States that he is hiding something.

4) Breathe Hard - Emotional
When a person starts breathing hard with his or her mouth open, he or she is currently very emotional about something.

5) Slight nod + a "no"
A slight nod, followed with a "no" means "yes". Our body reacts quicker than our mind due to the reflexes that our body have, thus if a person nods his or her head but says "no", he or she was actually saying "yes"

6) One hand in the pocket

When a person has one of his/her hand in the pocket, he or she is feeling nervous about something. It's like when you are talking to someone about something very important that might involve that person, that person starts putting his hand into his pocket to try to hide his/her nervousness.

7) Sleeve Up - Anger
If a person wears a long sleeve, if he/she pulls his/her sleeves up after a statement is said, this signals anger towards that statement. Why? Okay, when you want to fight, you don't fight with long sleeves, you will fold them up, THAT is why!

8) No Reference to Name, Only "That Person"
When somebody is talking, he or she refers a person with a name the first time, but suddenly, kept saying "this person", "that woman", that man", he or she is hiding something about that person but is affraid of being found out telling a lie, so he or she refers to the targeted person as "the person" to make himself or herself believe to be another person.

9) Hard to tell stories backwards - Lying
It is hard for a liar to tell a story/daily occurences backwards because there are no actual memories of these occurences. They are made up. So if you want to test if somebody is telling the truth, call them to tell it to you backwards.

10) Dilated Pupil - Sexual Arousal
This requires a lot of magnifying. If a person has dilated pupil while you are telling him/her about a person, he or she is sexually aroused by the thought of that person.

11) Arms straighten out with vertical hands (like saying "Stop" with your hand)
It means "Stop!". But the trick is that your arm doesn't have to be horizontal like you are calling a person to stop his or her car, it can be vertical with your arm next to your body, it also means "Stop!" or more specifically, "Stop what you are doing but I don't want to tell you to stop".

12) Cold Hands - Intense Fear
When you shake somebody's hand before talking and after talking to him or her, try sensing the change in temperature. If a person is scared, the first thing that will react is their skin temperature at their palms. If it is cold, he or she is having INTENSE fear!

13) Eyebrows go Up - Knows the Answer
When you ask a person a question, he or she answers that he or she does not know but his or her eyebrows go up, he or she knows the answer but is lying to you by acting dumb. If he or she is successful, look out for the slight upward movement along the tips of the mouth which signals happiness. It might just be for a split second, so pay attention!

14) Touch eyebrows while talking - Lie
When a person touches one of his or her eyebrows while talking, he or she is lying about what he or she is saying.

There are loads more actually.
Through just one episode, you can get like over 20 tips to look out for to detect liars.

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Ip Man (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2009-12-18T20:53:00.000-08:00

"Wing Chun, Yip Man"
I finally got to watch Ip Man yesterday. Due to the lousy subtitles, I had to wait for a freaking long time just to watch Ip Man. English movies... ok, subtitles are not really relevant unless you don't understand English or if your English is not as fast as the U.Ss. But since I hardly know any Mandarin or Cantonese, subtitles is always a "Must" for me to watch a Chinese movie. I am a Chinese but my Mandarin sucks!

I didn't really know who Ip Man was till my bro pronounced his name as Yip Man, the master of Bruce Lee who taught him Ving Tsun/Wing Chun. I knew about Yip Man's existence since the Bruce Lee's tv series, "The Legend of Bruce Lee", directed by his daughter, Shannon Lee. Yip Man was pretty old in the series and died after the third quarter of the series. But due to the spelling of his name, I couldn't recall.

The story is based on a part of Yip Man's life before and during the Japanese Occupation where Japanese took control of China (Okay, in the movie, a part of China) and Ip Man has to fight against bandits, Japanese Imperial soldiers and other Kung Fu masters for pride and survival. However, the story is totally dramatized and they can seriously make you feel the anger of Ip Man towards the Japanese Imperial Army, resulting in the paralysis and death of the 10 Japanese karate dudes that Ip Man fought at once. He was hardly scratched!
"Jyunin?"

Basically, for a fan of Bruce Lee like myself :P, Ip Man is a MUST watch. But even if you are not a Bruce Lee fan, this is definitely an awesome movie for Kung Fu-lovers, people who love stories of World War 2 in China, and if you think "Fearless" is a good movie, wait till you watch Ip Man!

From what I have read, Ip Man 2, which is premiering next year will feature a young Bruce Lee. Like... SERIOUSLY young. Or else they would have picked the actor from The Legend of Bruce Lee to act as him. The director, Yip (coincidently) promises a better movie next year even though I thought that this movie is pretty damn good. Let's just hope that this is a better sequel. It has been quite a trend these days to make a lousy sequel like Transformers 2, but I hope for the best. It's hard to find an awesome Chinese movie like this which is not based on super powers but pure martial art.

Oh, yeah.
I got hooked up with one of the soundtracks in the Ip Man OST.
The main theme is awesome!
Very Chinese, dramatic and it is a perfect fit for Ip Man!

This movie gets a rating of "Awesome"!

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Real Malaysian Police Story 17/12/09

2009-12-17T03:06:00.000-08:00

From: http://malaysiakini.com/news/120089

A man detained on suspicion of sexual harassment was tortured and beaten despite the Police being aware that a false report was lodged against him.

S Isaikumar lodged a report at the Seremban police headquarters. He was accompanied by his lawyer N Surendran.

Just did this for fun.
This is how I depict the situation using Kamen Rider! :P

So that is the depiction of the situation!
Hope you enjoyed it :P

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Heroes Over Europe (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2009-12-17T01:11:00.000-08:00

I recently bought this game from a local store.
It's on the XBox 360 and I thought "Hey! Might as well try out something new: Flight Game".
I was pretty excited since this is my first flight game and I just hope that my XBox 360 can read it without having the usual "Region Code" error which is very very stupid.

I started playing it for a few hours, obtaining scorepoints for my overall XBox 360 score and I can say that this game...

Totally SUCKS!
This game sucks BIG TIME!
It is not awesome, good, not bad, pass or boring.
It is LAME! LAME! LAME!

When I first saw it, the brand "Ubisoft" (Those who developed Assasin's Creed 1 and 2) was on the cover, so I thought, "Hey! I trust these guys can make a good game" but to my disappointment, that game was trash!
Worst game I have ever played for the whole year!
Actually worst game I have ever played since I got the XBox 360 last year!

I stopped for a few hours, playing Left 4 Dead 2 and watching television and also trying out Tekken 6, but can't progress at all since my bro is not back in Penang yet.
And then I thought again, "Hey... you know what... let's give this game a chance... maybe early missions might suck, but later missions with better planes will turn this whole game around"
Did it?
No!

Let's go into the details:
Graphics: Not Bad
The graphics are... not bad... for a game developed by Ubisoft.
Planes look realistic, but the cities are quite repetitive. When you go to London to fend off the Nazis, there are landmarks like... the London Bridge, the London Clock Tower and such, but the houses are... the same over and over and over and over again. The arrangements made the difference but with all those bullets going into your plane and you trying to manuever around all the time, there is not exactly any time for sight-seeing.

Story: Boring
The story is very simple, Nazis come to attack important places, you go there to fight them off. Then the pilots will start talking about their hometown in the middle of a battle. That is so "Cool". "They don't have this shit back in Canada" or "Hey! We should get a bear some times!" or "I hope I survive this day" and stuffs like that.

Well, saying "I hope that I survive this day" makes a whole lot of sense since your plane may crash any time. But asking if you guys want a beer in the middle of a fight? Er... if it is for comedy's sake... then it's LAME!

So yeah... the story takes place during World War 2 and you have to go around shooting down Nazi planes. That's about it! "Sweet"!

Controls: Not Bad
The controls are pretty easy to fit in (not Master). You will be maneuvering around with your plane in no time. But it does get kinda confusing when you lose your way or when another plane crashes into your plane. Eitherway, there are only a few things you have to know. The most critical part is to take-off and fly, some other things are... how to choose secondary weapons, shoot, fly around and that's it!

The annoying part is when you have to dive down to shoot something very small on the ground with your machine gun and if you get too close to the ground, you will crash and start over. I kept crashing over and over and over again. I think for like... 50 times and finally got it right. What a waste of time!

Gameplay: Lame
The gameplay is indeed... LAME
The idea of shooting down Nazi planes are pretty cool if you are in Modern Warfare or Medal of Honor, but shooting down Nazi planes over and over and over again, using the same techniques over and over and over again, makes it very very boring.

It's always the same, "Nazis K-101 approaching, go there and intercept them!" and you have to go there and kill them off. After about 5 minutes, "Nazis Flying Bombers approaching, we have to protect the London Tower, go there and intercept them!" and there you go again. Repeat this for about 5 to 8 times and you finish the mission.

Missions are quite annoying at times.
Some of the engines in the game are not very... realistic.

Take this as an instance:

I have to pilot "The Swordfish", one of the lousiest planes in the game but with the ability to sink boats with the torpedo. Now, I have to search for the Nazi vessel (not a problem) and after that sink it down to Davy Jones.

Vessel: Found
Sink it!: Problem...

It's not that I can't sink it, the game doesn't let me!
You know how in Pearl Harbor where the Japanese planes would fire onto the ship and make it explode and sink? That doesn't happen here.
I fired my machine guns at it and it is still in one piece, not even a scratch!
I fire my missiles at it (total of 8) and it is still in one piece, now THAT is realistic!
The only way to sink it is to use the torpedo, now that is not very flexible.

I got so pissed, I turned it off and decided to exchange it with a different game.

Overall: BIG LAME!
Overall, this game is LAME!
Must be avoided at all cost!
Never get it for Christmas, Never ask for it for Christmas because this is one game that even Santa Clause will puke.
The whole thing is not fun, in fact, you will get very pissed at some realism issues.
A ship can be sunk with repitive fire from an aeroplane machine gun! Or if not, it can be sunk with 8 missiles!

Remember!
Avoid this game at all cost.
I might even stick posters on streets to warn them about the arrival of this game.

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

The Four Approaches that keeps Mass Marketing Alive

2009-12-13T21:50:00.000-08:00

I am currently reading a book about asking for permission before you can sell to somebody. Basically this book tells you the differences between "Interruption Marketing" and "Permission Marketing" where one marketing/advertising technique is that you interrupt the audience with a sales pitch while the other... you ask for their permission first before you actually sell it to them.

We get annoyed when ads appear, as an adman myself, I am pretty aware of that, considering the fact that I am still human. :P

I am going to share with you about the Four Approaches that these advertisers and marketers use to hopefully keep their marketing alive. Basically, these are the four approaches that people ALWAYS use these days to market their product to reach out to A LOT OF PEOPLE.

1) Odd-Place Advertising
This is when the usual advertising space like magazines, televisions, online advertisements and so on are featuring multiple brands. Imagine a webpage with 4 to 5 ads per page. That is a lot of ads! Companies started realising that they hardly get any attention through this, so they decided to "Put where others won't put".

This is when they start featuring ads on the floor, on sliding doors, on the urinal, on the toilet door, on parking meters, etc.. They start advertising where others won't. When others see the effectiveness, others will follow. Changing it from "Put where others won't put" to "Everybody puts it there now". So companies would have to change AGAIN!

This is how advertisements are still alive. By advertising at Odd Places.

2) Controversial Advertising
In order to be "Out of the Pack", advertisers always look for a way to grab attention. Which leads to controversial advertising. They look for ways to make their advertisements very weird and hopefully grab some attention.

Some marketers agree that Sex grabs attention but not necessarily Sell the product to the person which they grab. Looking at this as an opportunity, advertisers and marketers use Sex Appeal to grab some attention. They hope to interrupt people with sex but the real thing is not selling sex, it's selling their water-cooler or something which doesn't make any sense at all.

An example stated in the book is a Nike print advertisement where they have a girl sitting on a toilet bowl. The camera focuses to her legs showing that she is wearing Nike shoes.

Er... what?
Haha! It might grab attention but I won't buy the shoes.
But that is what kept Mass Advertising alive.

3) Changing taglines
In every advertising/marketing campaign, there is always a catchy tagline.
Like the DiGi campaign with the Yellow Coverage Guy (YCG) had the tagline, "I will Follow You". And in order to make it look diversified, they change it to something else this year. I forgot what is it for 2009 but what I know is that the YCG campaign is one of the most successful campaigns in Malaysian marketing/advertising history. People started recognizing DiGi through YCG. Heck, I even imagined a YCG by my side where ever I go. :P

An international example is Apple.
They change their tagline every year. I don't really remember but that is what they wrote in the book.

They hope that they can grab some attention with this approach and hopefully, make a sale.

4) Direct Mail Advertising
When they want to get a little more personal, they turn to Direct Mail Advertising. This is when you get a bunch of newsletters, papers and others in your mail box. They hope that they can interrupt your day by giving you a catalog that tells you what they are doing now (which most of the ads that we don't care). But so far it grabs more attention than Mass Advertising.

This does not mean that it sells a lot, it just sell a little bit more than mass marketing/advertising.

The 4 approaches above are... well, a way to keep advertising alive and also interrupt our lives while we are walking, watching television, talking, taking a crap, taking a piss, walking through a door, opening our mailbox, etc.

Not to say that they are not effective, they do bring some sales, just NOT a lot.
Mass Marketing is like... throwing a rock into a crowd of people hoping to hit somebody's head. You might hit a head or two, but that's not a lot.

So those are the 4 ways to keep Mass Marketing/Advertising alive. It is what makes advertising more creative to grab attention, making it alive.

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Your Opinion: Streamyx the Slowmyx

2009-12-11T22:31:00.000-08:00

Streamyx is a Malaysian company that provides Malaysians with Internet.
As a lot of you might know, the Internet is bloody addictive, it's like a drug and if you can't go online, you are going to fall sick!

The Streamyx line is not that stable, I can't go online for a lot of days in a month due to "Station Problem" as what they say ALL THE TIME! But from what I've heard, it's more stable than WiMax, eventhough some Techies might not agree...

Alot of people, especially those people in the line of computer technology, also known as "Techies" came up with the term "Slowmyx". This term came up after several telecommunication companies in Malaysia like DiGi, Maxis and Celcom came up with their own broadband services. And surprisingly, they are faster than Streamyx and cheaper too! So the term, "Slowmyx" was born...
This is a fan-made logo by some Malay blogger and I just have to take it!
Look at the lil' tortoises!
I do get pretty pissed when I can't go online because come on... I need to check my e-mails and a lot of my friends message me through the Facebook wall, which I can't see and MSN Messenger which I can't log on after the Streamyx station "Breaks Down".

Their customer service people are nice enough to go through the steps with you and help you out. If the station breaks down once of twice in half a year, that's okay, but this... they keep breaking down every 2 weeks! Which is pretty annoying...

So that is Thumbs Up for the customer service people (I think they are better than the ones at Maxis, I don't know... is it?)
And Thumbs Down for those people at the Streamyx Station... You can't keep the connection going and it pretty much gives us space to switch to DiGi Broadband.

From what my bro said and from what I have seen, DiGi broadband is pretty fast!
At least faster than Slowmyx and we can get it at a lower price!
I usually go online on my laptop and my desktop, if I switch to DiGi, I can only go online on one computer... but... that sounds relevant :P
Why do I need so many computers?

DiGi Broadband or Streamyx (a.k.a Slowmyx)?

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Faith

2009-12-09T19:20:00.000-08:00

Nothing is real until you think it is real.
This is a post about faith.

Faith can be to anything, anyone, you have faith when you believe that this thing or this person is somewhat important to you.

This came to me after Sabrina asked, "Can I touch your Goddess of Mercy statue?" (The statue is in my car, a small one) I said, "Yeah! Why not?".
It is just a static object if you do not think that this object is actually the Goddess of Mercy!
What is wrong about touching a miniature object that represents God? Nothing!

This is faith!
Maybe by touching the statue, you get to have a closer look at God and actually have faith in Him. So what's wrong?

Like the giant statue of Jesus.
This statue holds no meaning to those who do not have faith in Him, but to Christians... this statue is like... holy, because they put faith in the statue, believing that Jesus is watching over them.

I believe in Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha and all the other messengers of God.
And if believing one messenger but not the other sends me to hell, that doesn't really make any sense!

Eitherway, they are messengers sent from God, aren't they?

Like what South Park portrayed all these prophets and deities, they are in a league called, "The Super Best Friends"This episode shows very high tolerance between the prophets and so must their believers!
So why fight over what religion you should be in?
If believing in your own religion doesn't bring you any harm, then... why not?
No religion is the correct religion.
You can be whichever you want, just be sure that it makes you a better person.

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Statistics (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2009-12-09T18:55:00.000-08:00

Took Statistics Exam today!

The course is easy, but this exam is just ridiculously hard!
Okay, maybe not "Ridiculously" but it is considerably hard...

Not that I suck in Stats or something.
I am pretty good at it.
There is only one problem...

Out of so many formulas, only 3 formulas were given!

+ The Normal Table that we have been using all this time is not given to us! In fact, they gave us another Normal Table, but with different interpretation of the graph! The usual Normal Table that we us is... they represent the probability value of 1, which is the whole graph. But now, they gave us the probability value of 0.5 only! That is HALF of the graph...
I was able to interpret it, but I just feel very sorry to those who couldn't or are not careful.

In the probability = 1 Normal Table:
If Z<0, style="font-weight: bold;">BUT since this is a probability = 0.5 Normal Table:
If Z<0,>
If you are not a Stats student, then you won't understand :P

One of the lame part of stats exam is that they didn't give us some important formulas like the Expected Value formula and a lot of questions on that appeared on the exam paper!
"GREAT!"

I totally forgot about the Expected Value thing, so I just skipped the whole damn thing!

I rate this paper... er... "Pass" but + a little bit of "Lame"

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Accounts (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2009-12-09T18:43:00.000-08:00

Took Accounts exam on Wednesday.
Forward, forward, forward...

I never really liked Accounting.
I hate the fact that if one number is wrong, the whole accounts will be wrong.
I hate the fact that I have to understand transactions without reading at or looking at them, but rather... analyzing the situation through credit and debit in accounts.
I hate the fact that once a question twists itself, what ever that we have memorized (not understand) will be useless.

But guess what? We still have to TRY to understand what the hell is going on because we need to pass this paper.

I never really understood Accounts and its transactions till a day before exam!
A day before exam, I tried to rationalize everything and connect the Income Statement with everything that we have learned and just found out that everything is simple to remember! Once you have the foundation and understanding what does Income Statement do, how does it differ from the Balance Sheet, you can finally understand the rest of the accounting chapters!

Amazing!

Came to the exam day where I sat at the table with the paper in front of me.
I can say that the only part that was hard was... Depreciation?
I didn't really understand the question, so that part was hard.
The rest are... OK... not to say that I can get full marks, because my Accounts sucks in the first place!

This exam paper gets a "Not Bad"

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

MacroEconomics (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2009-12-09T18:31:00.000-08:00

I took the MacroEconomics exam on Monday.
Cut the crap and get to it.

MacroEconomics is a pretty cool subject especially after you understand how things work in the country. Basically, you study about the economy of the country ranging from inflation, recession, etc.. And after you really understand it, it is pretty easy. And it is ONLY "Cool" after you understand it. If you don't... then it is a "Lame"

MacroEconomics was indeed, pretty easy, except the fact that I forgot the New Method for calculating R-GDP.

Lots of people think that it is hard, but once you are given a chance to think about what is going on by your lecturers, it can be pretty easy. You just gotta THINK! THINK! THINK!

Ask question like: What? Why? How? When?
and understand it, you can pretty much ace macro.

I ask questions all the time and I go online to search for them... Google is like... God of searching information. Okay, maybe not God, but more of a... library that doesn't complete itself until somebody talks about it.

If you want to ace Macro, just do one thing, go online and search, read then understand what the hell are these graphs trying to tell you. It is pretty simple once you go through it step-by-step.

So, Macro is an "Awesome"!

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

What do I think: The Few Sides of MatchMaking

2009-12-06T06:07:00.000-08:00

A lot of countries in the east of the world are still practicing MatchMaking where they bring a guy and a girl together to get to know each other and hopefully get them married. Most old people still practice this and their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren are somehow "victimized" by this.

Is it bad?
Not really... IF done correctly...

The good part is that if a guy or a girl is too lonely but does not want to look for love, probably a match-making session would help him or her back on the track of looking for love. That's cool, I mean... come on, 2 less lonely people in the world! (I think that's a song :P)

But what really made me go like, "What the heck?" is that when the have a match-making session and the guy and the girl know about the session going on in a specified location and time. My family and I were having dinner chat and they were like, "The girl didn't fall for the guy, what is wrong with her?". In my mind, I was thinking, "What's WRONG? Dude! They were match-made less than a week ago and you are expecting them to fall for each other immediately? Geez..." but of course I kept my mouth shut as to not get involved.

But I did say something about the issue like,

Me: "If you bring a girl home and tell me that she is a nice girl, meet her, get to know her *wink* and stuffs like that, I will be like :O "What?" It would be so awkward! I don't even know her!".

Parents & G'ma: "Hey... a long time ago, match-making works and they will fall in love immediately".

Now, the funny part is not that!
The funny part is that they start by telling the boy and the girl, "We are going to match-make you with a guy/girl. We will bring him/her here to meet you at this time, next week". This might be the old way of match-making where the parents and grandparents sit down and watch these 2 "soon-to-be" couple talk and get to know each other.
BUT it is not really... well... practical.

Why?
1. I don't even know her
2. Why must you tell me that you are going to match-make me? This just sets my mindset to start evaluating if she will be my girlfriend IMMEDIATELY without getting to know her more.
3. Should start with, "Hey, this is Audi, my daughter, she likes advertising psychology" rather than the tell-in-advance, "Hey, we are going to match-make you at this time, day and location"
4. Why so rushy? I need time to know her before I actually fall for her!

That method might work in a conservative society like old-eastern, but I don't think it will work now because we have choices and more freedom!

Again, match-making is not bad... just do it properly and NEVER tell me that you are going to match-make me at this time, day and location!

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Assasin's Creed 2 (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2009-12-05T01:26:00.000-08:00

I have just finished playing Assasin's Creed 2 and it is an Awesome game!
Everything is very realistic and it does give you the feeling of being in the time of Rennaissance in Europe. There are historical characters like Niccolo Michiavelli, Pope Alexander VI (main antagonist)... Yes, the Pope is the main antagonist! So fun when you get to bash him up in the end. Just beat up his fat ass!

Enough spoilers for now...
The game is awesome, you get to freely roam around famous places like Florence, Rome, Italy, etc. Just be sure that your level of notority is down as to not alert the guards to attack you.
You can kill innocent people, but by killing them, the game forces you to "Die" and revive at the last checkpoint because Ezio Auditore de Firenze (Protagonist), the assassin, does not kill the innocent.

There is a prequel to the game on YouTube.com which you can watch.
You can't buy it because it is not even on sales anywhere! It is meant to be free for the fans of Assasin's Creed 2 who have been wondering how did the Assassin costume that Ezio is wearing in the game appear to be in the secret room and also how did the Hidden Blade broke (Leonardo Da Vinci will fix it for you at the beginning of the game... yes, there is THE Leonardo Da Vinci).
Search for: Assassin's Creed 2: Lineage

The plot is really political, with many aspects of politics, the Templars, religion, deception, betrayal and so forth. And it will keep you going as you would want to know what will happen in the end. The bad guy losing (he didn't die) in the end, but... you would want to know the events prior to the bad guy (The Pope) losing the Apple of Eden.

Some stuffs are really annoying to find, especially the glyphs to unlock the video called, "The Truth" which shows Adam and Eve stealing The Apple of Eden. (Note: They run like assassins, maybe they are assassins!) (Warning: Adam and Eve are naked... duhh! So if for some reason, you don't wan'na see naken people, then don't watch the video and don't complete the glyphs)

Youtube description: -----SPOILERS BELOW-----

If you beat the game, and did the glyphs, you would understand this video.

But, if you're not going to do that, here's an explanation.

Strictly speaking, it isn't just a video. It's a memory, as recorded by the Animus. This means that Subject 16 must be a descendant of Adam. Not figuratively, but born of Adam's genetic ancestry.

The memory reveals that the story of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden is true - in a fashion. It would appear that they disobeyed their masters and strove to rebel by stealing a Piece of Eden, an Apple, presumably to give themselves some kind of defense or power to resist. This could have been the first act of defiance that led to the conflict described by Minerva. The "innocence" of humankind was lost when we realized how much of their superiority lay in their technology, and a war between the two species, First Civilization and humans, began.

Subject 16's record also shows that the artifacts, the Staff, the Apple, the Pieces of Eden, were tools that the First Civilization used to wield power over humans. Whether the artifacts were made to control humans, or humans were made to obey artifacts, is another matter. Even so, some are immune to their effects.

Moreover, the Glyph puzzles give hints to the involvement of Pieces of Eden in world history. Famous figures and crucial events may have been shaped by the influence that the technology can exert. =END=

The Awesome thing about Assassin's Creed 2 is that they relate to real events, real people, real society, real places. Unlike Final Fantasy... well... it is all fantasy. But Assassin's Creed 2 really twists history to a more... "Assassin-active" world where Assassins are everywhere and all of them are historical figures.

The game also centres around warning the players about 2012, about the weakening of magnetic field which might as well be the end of the world. The game also suggests that The Templars found "The New World", they are in Vatican as The Pope, and other very influential figures, while the assassins are those that try to tell people the truth but are killed for it... like Niccolo Machiavelli.

The facts in the game are twisted but still in-line with history. They even twist the Adam and Eve story! How cool is that?
Really looking forward to the third one...

In the vault where all the statues of the assassins rest, we have assassins from all around the world, Greece, China, Mongolia, Egypt, etc.
I hope that they will allow us to explore the lives of all those assassins, maybe through the mysterious Subject 16!

This game is a whole lot of fun, go get it!

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Mata Pelajaran Wajib 1153: Moral Education (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame)

2009-12-04T19:09:00.000-08:00

This is a post dedicated to one of the most awesome subjects in the history of humans: MPW 1153, Moral Education.

Basically, this is a subject where they force you to memorize a bunch of moral concepts and characteristics and assumes that you will practice these moral values...

Well, guess what? You suck...
"You" as in those who think that by memorizing these moral concepts, people will be better people.

Who are the ones that force you to study Moral?
The Ministry of Education of course!
It is not even part of the original course structure. Just that the government had to be there to make the students' lives much harder than ever! Memorizing lame concepts about morality for no apparent reason.

Even some of my lecturers were like, "Har? Moral? Stupid subject la..."

I have just finished this damn paper and glad that everything is over for Moral Education, subject code: MPW 1153.

And after finishing several months memorizing these dumb concepts, I realised that:
1) I have become a more loving person
2) I will never commit anything wrong again
3) I will obey the rules of society and to my ruler
etc...
Those are all a load of crap!
We are who we are and we are who we choose to be!
If Moral Education works, why are the policemen still arresting people? Why are ministers still corrupt? Geez...

Basically, they hope that MPW will change those who are considered bad and stuff, but... neh.. memorizing a bunch of stuff won't change anything.

I posted a message on Facebook about how lame Moral Education is and everybody was like, "Agreed"... I was expecting some people to say, "Hey! Moral made me a better person, okay! Haha!! *sarcastic laugh*" but I didn't get that message, unfortunately :P

So, how will I rate Moral Education, MPW 1153 (Mata Pelajaran Wajib)?
It's not an "Awesome", "Good", "Not Bad" or a "Pass"... as there is no reason to study this subject... "Boring"? Erm... a little over-rated (Yes, "Boring" is over-rated for this subject)...
That leaves "LAME"!
That's right!
Moral is "Lame"

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

What do I think: Yataimura Noodle (Forgot the name) (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame)

2009-12-04T03:38:00.000-08:00

Today is a pretty sad day for me as it is the last day that my CFP friends and I are going to class together. Life goes on anyways and thanks for providing me the best study life so far! You guys are basically the reason why I wake up to go to college anyways :P

I don't usually do food reviews but I just feel that I have to do it!
Why?
Well... because I have already taken a picture of the food, so I might as well utilize it!

Okay, so since this is like our last day, we wanted to do something special.
So we spent the whole day taking pictures and eating at Yataimura.
I saw this bowl of noodle which I forgot the name but it is Number 2 on the menu. :P

It looks delicious, bringing the presentation of the food to a 9/10!
The bowl is pretty big and there are tonnes of "side food" besides the noodles to eat. Basically, you can couple the noodle with a few strands of vege or even that shrimp stick that they put on top of the noodle!

The soup is pretty spicy, I ate at Level 1 spiciness (Yes, the Japanese have levels for spiciness)
The higher it is, the spicier it becomes.
I didn't want to spend my entire time sweating and gasping for air through my mouth, so I just told that guy to reduce the spiciness to Level 1. I heard that one of my friends ordered the same dish but at Level 4! Crazy hell! It might just be like hell!

Get your drinks ready.
I ordered a strawberry pearl juice and asked a friend to go get it for me, considering the fact that she wanted one too. Unfortunately... (Yes, I am saying "unfortunately") the food arrived first! I kept staring at it and kept thinking how awesome it will taste but my drink is not here yet, so I just waited.

Finally it is here!
The awesome strawberry pearl juice!
Tried the noodles together with the ingredients, and found that it tastes very good! Awesome! You just can't stop eating till the last drop of soup. BUT beware if you cannot eat spicy food as it is pretty spicy eventhough it is as Level 1. One of my friends who ordered the same dish with Level 1 spiciness was like... constantly gasping for air.

How full can you be?
Very very full!
You wouldn't even want to try the herbs tea that the sales girl give to you while you are walking around the mall.

The price is... well... pretty high for 1 meal but it will last for about 6 hours, so it is pretty much worth it. It is around RM 16.00, not including government tax and service charge, considering both taxes, it should be around RM 18, but not beyond that.

All on all, this is the noodle that you should look out for when you are in Yataimura.
Oh yeah, and don't eat too much of it, no matter what it is, you will eventually get bored of the taste. :P

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

New Moon (Awesome, Good, Not Bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2009-11-29T20:29:00.000-08:00

New Moon... The movie that everyone has been waiting for since Twilight (Oops... I mean the movie that every girl on Earth has been waiting for), grossed a sales of half a million so far with a budget of 50 million. Pretty impressive for the directors.

Now, it is back to the most basic question in this movie review today is that how will I rate this movie?

Awesome? Good? Not Bad? Pass? Boring? Lame?

Obviously, the rating for "Lame" is out of the questions because it is not exactly lame.
You can keep up with the story's pace by just asking a few questions about who is that, what is that to a friend who has seen the first Twilight.

I went to watch it yesterday for my friend's birthday, Yi Xian.
Yeap, she is a girl... so what can you expect? New Moon it is!
Zer Ling, another girl friend of mine said that she seen it already, so I suggested her to watch another movie with me because I don't want to watch New Moon! But she was like, "Neh... I don't wan'na get separated from the pack...", so... ah, well... you got lucky this time, New Moon.

So now, since "Lame" is out of the question, how would I rate "New Moon"?

I returned home at around 12.20 a.m. and finished telling my brother the story of New Moon in a minute. I am not going to spoil it for you. Go watch it and you will know... but all I can say is that the story is so simple that Vampires and WereWolves became a decoration to attract girls to watch it over and over and over and over and over again. And when girls go watch it, they will bring a pack or a guy to watch it along... increasing ticket sales by 2 to 3 times! What a strategy!

Okay, now back to the review...
For girls, it might be an "Awesome!" because look at the movie!
They put pumped-up guys in there!
What made girls drool even more is that they made the pumped-up guys... shirtless!
Yeap, shirtless!!
So some of my girl friends became hot because of these guys, yesterday! And then I kept looking at them with the weird eye... :P
And so... girls don't really care about the story, except do not kill the guys or they will kill the Twilight directors!

Now from the guys' perspective...
I, as a guy, rates this movie...

"BORING!!!!"
I might be killed by a pack of women WereWolves by tomorrow but I don't care!
The plot is just like a simple love story decorated by Vampires and WereWolves!
The action... not that much... I was expecting more fight between the Vampires and the WereWolves... but... what a disappointment.
Zer Ling even told me not to sleep!
I can't go on blogging about this movie because it might turn into a spoiler then... so if you really want to know why I say that this movie is Boring, go watch it, increase their ticket sales and get bored in the cinema!

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

5 types of Annoying People

2009-11-09T05:13:00.000-08:00

1) When people don't reply you even after you send them multiple e-mails

This happens to me a lot of times. People do not reply you even after you send them multiple mails, waited over a week and stuff while they can update their Facebook status but not even replying a single word to you.

Especially when you are awaiting a very important answer from that person!
Do come clear with people if you do not agree with that person. instead of running away and leave that person wondering if you will ever give him/her an answer.

2) When people think that they are being smart by saying stupid things

I was in QueensBay Mall yesterday and I went to interview a few people. I just found out that Malaysians do not speak English and they can't even say anything more than "Money talk" (like stating how much is this, you wan'na use credit card etc.). Anything more than "Money talk", they will be like, "Har? Erm..." *Calls a friend* and stares at you.

That is not annoying, just a little disappointed with Malaysians because they can't speak the international language. The annoying ones are those people who try to act smart but they give you stupid answers.

Yesterday, I was talking to this guy and I asked him, "What was the first thing that you buy with your own savings and how did you feel after you got it?" and that guy looked at me and said, "Oh, I don't save one". He is around late 20's and working by the way. Then I looked at him weirdly and he said, "My FATHER saves money for me". Even weirder look! And then he thought that he gave a very cool answer, so he showed his stance of arrogance + masking smile (Chin up, eyes looking down at you, with side lips up). I just realised that that guy is one of the stupidest people I have ever interviewed! And he is proud that he gave me a dumb answer. Interesting!

3) When motorcyclists ride in the middle of the road like a car

Okay, this is really annoying. Motorcycles are suppose to ride on the left side of the road and these people kept riding in the middle of the road. What's worse is that these motorcyclists ride REALLY slowly to be careful. Now there is a difference between being careful on the road and being careful of yourself.

No doubt he/she is being careful on the road, but if a driver gets really pissed off at you for riding so slowly in the middle of the road, he can just give you a small bump to the back and you will skid and fall.

4) When turning drivers don't use signal lights

Let me ask you a question: How the hell are we going to know if you are turning to the right or left or changing to the right or left lane if you don't tell us!?!??!?!
These drivers are seriously annoying.

I get these stuffs of the road all the time. The driver just turns into your lane without signalling first and you go like, "Woah! Fuck!". And what's worse is that if you almost knock their car, they honk at you and stare at you once you over-take their car. If you want to add a little bit of flame into their heads, just laugh at them while they are staring at you then drive off! But I don't do that :P I just let it pass as that driver is not worth my time.

5) When people tell you, "Okay, okay, I'll confirm with you tonight" but never answers you till you call them the next day

Not good for business.
Prompt replies are needed for a reason.
We need to prepare something for you and it it for YOU. Not for me, but for YOU.
So if you have anything that you need to answer to a person, please reply him/her immediately or within the promised time!

I learned it the hard way during BarCamp Penang where I got lectured by my brother. If that is the only way Malaysians will learn, then... we are always a third-world country with people of slow response!

Of course there are many more super annoying people, but let's keep at that for now.

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Why are We Sad when Somebody Dies? (A Case Study)

2009-11-07T20:36:00.000-08:00

About 2 months ago, the manga artist of Crayon Shin Chan, Yoshita Usui died.
People started wondering if Crayon Shin Chan will end with his death and the decision will be made on the 16th of October 2009.

Me: I was worried sick! If Crayon Shin Chan is no more, then we would lose one of the funniest cartoons in history!

Time went on and the day of the announcement passed.

Me: I forgot what was I doing on the 16th of October, but I must be busy with my tournament and also The Adliers.

Time passed again till today.

Me: Checked the net and found out that Crayon Shin Chan will continue. I was so happy...

And then something hit me.

Was I sad that a human being died or was I sad that the product of this human being is going to end?

It turns out that I was more worried of Crayon Shin Chan than the manga artist!
This must be through my selfishness of getting a weekly laugh from the anime series...

A little weird but when you look at it... it does make sense...
When a person dies, we can't come in contact with that person anymore, thus we are very sad.
So why are we sad?
It's because of our own selfishness of wanting to come in contact with that person!

Isn't that weird?
The reason of sadness in human beings after the death of somebody...
We don't love that person, but we love what he/she can do for us!

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

This IS It!

2009-11-05T05:17:00.000-08:00

I went to watch Michael Jackson's This Is It yesterday with my mom since it has been quite awhile since she watched a movie. I think her last was... Godzilla :P

Anyways, the movie was awesome!!!
Eventhough it is just at prototype stage where Michael Jackson is organizing everything and determining how the show will go, that concert was great!
If everything came about, the show will blow the brains off other artists!
Sadly, it didn't happen...

Eitherway, the movie is great!
And to all those people who think that THAT is not Michael Jackson, screw you! He looks like Michael Jackson to me. And you can clearly see his lack of energy. His new version of Smooth Criminal did not have as much energy as before and he didn't do the 45 degrees stand. But eitherway, the movie sequence and the song for Smooth Criminal is cool!

Thriller is still as good as always for some reason :P

When you watch the movie, you can feel as if you are there with Michael and it just makes you feel attached to him.

To all those fans who said that Michael wouldn't want this film to be released because he is a perfectionist, screw you too because Michael would have wanted this film to be published to fulfill his wishes to perform for 1 last time in front of his fans which he is unable to do. So this film has made his wish come true.

Sadly... he is no longer here but he will always be inside the DVDs, CDs and mp3s that we have.

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Lie To Me 105

2009-11-01T21:12:00.000-08:00

Hey, dudes!
Today I'll be updating about Lie To Me 105 :D

1) Chest and Chin up with a smile
When somebody's chest and chin are up and then they smile, they are arrogant of their position. Let's just say that you are talking to an executive and when you ask, "So I heard that you were awarded 'Executive of the Year' award last year" and then the executive boosts his chest up and chin up with a smile, he is arrogant.

2) Smile - Shake - Wait - No
When somebody smiles, shakes his head then wait for awhile and then respond to your question with a "No", it's actually a "Yes". The smile is actually a way to hide his intentions, the shaking of the head is just to convince you that he thinks that you are stupid and when he waits, he is waiting for his conscious mind to take control of the brain to say "No".

3) Look away and use general statement
When you ask somebody something and he looks away and gives you a general statement, he is trying to evade your question. By stating a general statement, it is safe because it is neutral and does not affect him/her. As an example, your make up for Halloween sucks, but you asked somebody how you look anyways. If he/she looks away and uses a general statement like, "Everybody has his/her own opinion", he/she is trying to evade the real answer.

4) Sides of the Lips go Up
When the sides of the lips go up, it is a masking smile. It's sort of... fake or he has an intention that he is hiding. That is to "Mask" his intentions.

5) Short breath and woozy
When a statement is said and somebody take short breaths and seems a little bit woozy, he or she is grossed out of the statement. Like when you state about a corpse being eaten by cockroaches and somebody takes a short breathe and looks a little woozy, he or she is grossed out of your statement.

6) Doing - Happens - Slowdown
When you are doing something while on an investigation of a target, and the target approaches you, and then you slow down on your work, you are seriously trying to hard to be "undetectable" by the target. Being focused is one thing, but being too focused can be easily detected.

7) Nostrils expand and quick intake of breath
When somebody's nostrils expand and takes in air very quickly, he/she is in a state of panic. This usually happens before exams when you are entering the exam hall unprepared for it. You start to panic and you take in air very quickly causing your nostrils to expand.

8) Shake head and look down
When somebody shakes his head and looks down, he is denying your statement but at the same time he is ashamed that he is a suspect. Just a tip: psychopaths don't show shame because they enjoy what they do (whatever that may be)

9) Being hasty due to bad memories
When somebody is being hasty to complete something and say something quickly while emphasizing it angrily, he has experienced the pain of failing to complete a task and he will not want that to happen again. It's just like when somebody says, "Have you COMPLETED the assignment?", he emphasized "Completed" because he knows what happens when he does not complete the assignment.

10) Look down, look down, look up
Let's say that you made 3 statements. The first statement, the target looks down. The second statement, the target looks down. For the third statement, the target suddenly looks up at you. Your last statement is a statement that he knows about and it is the truth. He is just shocked that you knew about the third statement.

11) Skin temperature rises
When somebody's skin temperature rises, one of the possibility for the skin temperature to rise is because he/she is sexually aroused by something that is said, seen or heard.

12) Heart rate increases
When somebody's beating heart rate increases after you make a statement, he or she is shocked by the statement.

13) Confidence and Defense
Usually for a normal human being, when their confidence level is skyrocketing to the top, their defenses will get lower and lower and lower. To most of us, it is termed as "Over-confidence" that is when he/she is very vulnerable to ambush attacks which will destroy his/her quest.

14) Anger + Adulation
When somebody is seen to experience anger but at the same time, adulation, which is excessive admiration, he or she is faking his/her anger based on the situation to hide his/her true intentions.

15) Look down after chin up
When somebody has his chin up, he or she is arrogant but while his/her chin is up and then he/she looks down, he or she has faint anger towards the position that made him/her arrogant. It's just like when an executive has his chin up because he/she is high and mighty but looks down because he/she is not happy with his/her life, that is faint anger for his/her position as an executive.

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Memories: Tunak Tunak Tun

2009-10-31T22:21:00.000-07:00

Hey, people!
I was just browsing through Facebook.com when my bro shared a video called Tunak Tunak Tun.

Ah... this song is so old.
I remembered the last time I listened to it was like... when I was still... 4?
That time, it was featured on television. My bro, myself and also my cousins always make fun of the chorus but it took me 14 years to just realise that this is a pretty AWESOME song!

I always remember the chorus part of the song!
"Turturu Turturu Turturu TaTaTa"
Haha! Sweet song!

Just realised that it's very energetic. :P
Well, this is like... one of the very few Indian songs that I like...

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Halloween Special: Indian Thriller with Lyrics!

2009-10-31T20:07:00.000-07:00

Yes!
I just figured it out that if I can't go out trick-or-treating since I am in Malaysia and nobody believes that there are decent strangers due to high crime rates, I will bring trick-or-treat to me!!

Remember last time, around March (I think) I posted up an awesome video which featured an Indian version of Michael Jackson's Thriller. This time it is with Lyrics!!

English lyrics:

And for those who understand Malay, this is for you.
Malay Lyrics:

Awesome song with awesome lyrics!
If you had a good laugh then just click on comment and say, "Haha!". I am seeing how many people are actually affected by this Halloween special of theartofads.blogspot.com :P
So, Halloween ain't that scary! Even in India!

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

SEACHANGE (Are you one of the 1,000,000 youths who will change the world?)

2009-10-24T23:19:00.000-07:00

Hey, guys and girls!
I was going around Facebook and found out that they were promoting something called SEACHANGE.

Okay, now... if you are my classmate for the past 10.5 months, you'll realize that I always talk about Change and stuff. Now this is the REAL thing. This movement has been initiated by YouthSays.com, Malaysia's largest online youth community and hey! If you are a youth, just go to this website:
http://blog.youthsays.com/seachange/about/

Read up on how to join and stuff.
Now of course to every sign up engines, there are always some offers that they will give.
The website above is attached to YES (Youth Engagement Summit). Now it is a summit, but you will have a chance to meet people who made Millions and Billions of dollars through effort and smart-ness of course :P So if you are able to be there and befriend them, then try to learn from them, your millions are there for you to grab.

Now, of course, to get the ticket is not going to be easy.
Once you sign up, the more people you call to sign up for SEACHANGE, the higher your chances to win a ticket worth 2,500$ USD. We are very lazy people (me too :P), so I will do the conversion for you.

1$ USD = RM 3.40
2,500$ USD = RM 8,500!!

Basically, all you have to do is sign up to SEACHANGE first. Then ask your friends to sign up to SEACHANGE too! The more friends you call to sign up, the higher your chances to win a FREE ticket to YES (Youth Engagement Summit) worth RM 8,500! This includes your flight, hotel, and summit pass worth USD2,500. You will be joining 500 Southeast Asian youth to meet global change icons, right here in Kuala Lumpur.

This is the website on the step-by-step process to get the ticket:
http://youthsays.com/seachange/my

This is a rare opportunity, it's like... a pot of gold to grab!
So, dudes! Get clicking!

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

WhiteOut review (Awesome, Good, Not bad, Pass, Boring or Lame?)

2009-10-24T00:14:00.000-07:00

Hey, dudes!
Jackson Teoh is back with the 2nd post of they day!
Basically I went to watch the above movie with my friends on Wednesday. We thought of watching Surrogates but thought that a movie that starts at 6.00 p.m. is just a little too late for most of us.

Anyways, here is what I think about WhiteOut:

I was impressed with their trailer as I get curious on whether it's a horror movie, thriller or sort. However, I wasn't impressed by their actual storyline. Their story is just this girl in the Antartica who goes to investigate a murder of a fellow ally. At last the bad guy gets caught and he kills himself. That is it!
The story is not impressive, nor do the other plots. It's very... normal and nothing special at all!

The good thing about the movie is that they show you the life of human beings living in the Antartica. The temperature can go down to -60 degrees and people can still live there! That's cool! That is of course until the winter season starts. Even so, if you live inside your cabin for the next 6 months, you will be safe :D

I can tell you that I was pretty bored in the cinema as I was expecting more from WhiteOut. While The Prestige, a supposedly boring movie, blew my mind with their plots and characters filled with deception and paranoia. As for WhiteOut... everything went too smoothly that it does not make you go like, "Ohh!!". It's just... TOO smooth!

Overall, the movie is okay along the way, but after you find out who the murderer really is... you kinda think that the movie is kinda lame...

Because I spent RM 6 to watch the movie and I think that it is the price that the movie is worth, I am giving it a rating of "Pass" but it gets pretty lame by the end of the day :D

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

THAT was a Busy Day!

2009-10-23T22:16:00.000-07:00

Hey, you!
Yesterday (23/10/09) was a damn busy day!

9.30 a.m. - Woke up, got ready for college. Checked e-mails and replied e-mails.

10.10 a.m. -Drove to college, over the always busy bridge. Reaching at around 10.40 a.m.. Went out with Caryn and Lee Ann to have Pan mee. Returned to college at around 11.30 a.m..

12.00 p.m. - Had MacroEconomics class (I don't know... but MacroEcons is kinda fun sometimes, especially when you know what is he talking about. And of course when you are praised :P) Who doesn't love praises? Learned about the Multiply thing in MacroEcons and he said that he is going to teach something new, but by the end of the day, he was actually teaching us the same Aggregate Demand-Supply curve, except with more detail.

2.00 p.m. - Finished MacroEcons class. Friday is always one of my favourite days because we have 2 hours of break, so I usually go hang out at Queensbay with Caryn, Shilou and Lee Ann (my friends). But for today, I have a meeting with a part of the INTI management team (Marketing and Students Affair) to discuss about an upcoming event that I am organizing called 'The Adliers' in support towards Global Entrepreneurship Week.) I thought that the meeting would last about an hour, but shocking it lasted for 2 hours! There goes my break! I didn't have the time to eat!

4.00 p.m. - Went to Statistics class, bought 2 suasage breads on the way to eat in class. I was so freaking quiet in class and also ignoring any questions aimed at me by the lecturer as I was freaking tired! Busy all day and only ate 2 buns? I was amazed that I survived! Statistics was easy, all we got'ta do is understand how things happen.

6.00 p.m. - Statistics class ended and I said good bye to all my friends who were already on their happy mood for the weekend. I was happy too! I went upstairs to Level 6 to meet with my GIT team mates to film the video. Nope, no food yet, except water. Met a portion of my team mates with some outside help. We ran up and down the building looking for locations to shoot the video. Finally, everything was done by 9.30 p.m.

9.30 p.m. - Everyone was relieved after the filming was done. In reality, I should be freaking tired, but I wasn't! In the end, my drive took me this far throughout the day with only a small bowl of Pan Mee and 2 sausage breads. We went to Kim Gary to eat and I had a very nice mixed fruit ais kacang there, but I always love the Pearl Juice more :P due to the price. The mixed fruit was like RM 4.50 and including government tax, service charge and all that, resulted in an RM 6.00! That sucks!

10.20 p.m. - Drove home, reaching at around... 11.00 p.m. I received news that my bro is coming back at around 2 a.m. Not that I was excited as it is pretty normal now :P

12.00 a.m. - Watched South Park's new episode: WTF on my computer. That episode was really funny and the part where Edge and John Cena appeared was cool! Finally, WWE is in South Park! I ate Sah Poh Fan while watching.

12.30 a.m. - Went downstairs to read Gordon Ramsay's book: Playing with Fire. I want to finish up the book but I just don't have the time to do all that these days! Damn!!

1.00 a.m. - Went to Facebook to check out updates on friends and such. Why? For fun! Replied some e-mails and then realised that it was already 1.30, so I went to sleep. Why didn't I wait for my bro? Neh... I was kinda tired. But I didn't realise that I was tired until I dropped onto the bed.

2.00 a.m. - Bro came back while I continued to sleep, so I didn't realise it till morning.

Well, all the way throughout these busy hours, I received calls and also answered e-mails, sent out e-mails. I guess this is what it feels like being busy :P And I can say that handling 2 projects at once is never easy, you need loads of help, motivation, self realization and such... Just another busy day with Jackson Teoh. I have to get used to it :P

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Facebook (You are 299 lbs! applications)

2009-10-21T08:04:00.000-07:00

Hey, dudes!
Have been really busy and stuffs just keep happening and happening and I feel all stressed out, but the stress made me realize that the only way to curb this is to solve the problem that is giving me this stress. Slowly, I worked it out with my awesome team and we have a solution! Awesome!

Alright, Facebook is a freaking large online community now.
It's like a freaking online world! Where you can poke your friend and your friend can poke you back... weird stuff but people do it anyways.

If you constantly use Facebook, you will realize that there are many funny applications out there like "How much do you weigh?", "What is your girlfriend like?", "How many girls are thinking of you right now?" and all that. And you will start to see people typing "Har? Serious?", "Wow! This is so cool!", "Wow! 8 girls are going to kiss me this year??" and such after they get the results.

Are you freaking serious?
Dudes... it's an application! It is not the book of life and death or something!
Okay, so maybe I am just taking this a little too seriously, but seriously... it's just an application.

From my understanding, we do these applications and get excited over them because we have an unfulfilled need. Or we just do it just to pass the time. Or we just do it for fun and of course out of curiosity.

No, I am not saying that it's wrong to feel and behave that way. It's totally fine!
It's like a form of relaxation and also something to temporarily fulfill your need to know something that you can't answer! If somebody can give me the answers to all of my questions, then I would love to allow that person to talk to me about my questions.

When you are stressed out, take some time to relax. Don't be like me as when I am stressed out, I will think until I find the solution. Only then can I be at rest. And Facebook applications just don't cut it. Music? Sometimes... but sometimes it gets annoying too. I guess the only way is to solve it! Just felt that relaxing will only add into the damage as there is no progress in the problem.

Just some thought about Facebook "weird" apps :P

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Modern Warfare 2 is out!

2009-10-17T02:00:00.000-07:00

Hey, dudes!
Great news!
Modern Warfare 2 is finally out!

I watched the video of the gameplay on YouTube.com and I immediately fell in love with it!
It has offline multiplayer, means that I can play with my bro and best of all... Check out the Gaphics!!

SHIT! They look like real people!
Eventhough I do think that they can work on the rocks and close-up environment a little more :P and it will be perfect!! Like a real world!
How cool is that?!

Can't wait to get the game in nearby stores... let's just hope that my XBox 360 can play the game and not stopped by the dumb-ass region code problem!

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

Lie To Me 104

2009-10-13T05:29:00.000-07:00

Hey, dudes and babes!
Jackson Teoh is back with more updates on "How to detect lies?" - learned through the show, "Lie To Me"

Oh, yeah... and my SIM card is broken!
Not physically, mentally! Basically tomorrow, I will try to get the soul of my SIM card, transferred to another body. :P

Anyways, back to business.
What I learned from yesterday's episode:

1) Touch below my nose
When somebody talks to you and he/she states something, then touches below his nose (or while telling it), as if he/she is wiping mucus off below his/her nose, he or she is lying about the statement or is hiding something. As an example:
2) Talk, talk, talk, WAIT! stop...stop... stop... talk, talk talk
When a person is talking, then you asked him/her a question. After that, he/she stops talking for awhile, then starts talking again, during the time when he/she stops talking, he/she is thinking on a reply. Now he/she can have the choice to lie to you (hoping to see more signs of lies) or can choose to tell you sincerely.

3) High High High Low.... low.... low... High High High
When a person is talking about something, pay attention to his/her tone of voice, if it suddenly goes soft, take note about that. After he/she beats up his/her tone of voice again, you know that while he/she is speaking in a lower tone, he/she is not confident in what he/she is saying.

4) Don't worry, I'll look at my partner
When a person is talking about something, then suddenly he/she looks at his/her partner while talking, he/she and his/her partner have already planned the story up to tell you.

5) Becoming somebody else
When a person tries to act as somebody else, everything that he/she does will look like a lie or will show a lot of signs of lying.

6) Touch my hair~~~
When somebody touches he/her hair while talking to you, the statement that he/she is talking about is a fake! He/she is lying!

7) Look! It's a spot!
When somebody looks at a spot or something, as in ALWAYS look at it, he/she is concerned over what he/she is staring at.

8) Tilt while talking
When a person tilts while talking, there is some information that he/she is keeping away from you. He/she knows that if the information goes to public, his/her position will not be good. As and example:

9) Point your lips - regret
When somebody talks about something, then suddenly, both upper and lower lips sticks out of his/her mouth, he/she is expressing regret.

10) Shake head- doubt
When you tell a person about something, and then he/she starts shaking his/her head, he/she have doubts in what you have just said/suggested.

11) Stare at you - Frustration
When you are talking to a person (most of the time, interrogation), then that person stares at you. His/her forehead tilts to you and his/her eyes look at you with a sharp stare, he or she is frustrated. Example:

There are lots of things that I can learn from Lie To Me.
You should watch it too :D

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com

I knew they will do this!! (South Park Season 13 - 08 )

2009-10-09T04:31:00.000-07:00

I watched South Park today (Yay!! South Park is back with the next half of the season!)
And they featured Michael Jackson! Again!
When Michael Jackson died, my bro and I knew that South Park is going to rip on him again!
And you know what?
They did!!

With so many celebrities dying over the past few months, why wouldn't they rip on Michael Jackson again? Haha!
Eitherway, it was really funny!

Ike was possessed by Michael Jackson and he sang, walked, talked and all that just like him!
They took some old voices from Michael Jackson's previous appearance in another South Park episode, "The Jeffersons".

Some notable characteristic returns of Michael Jackson:
1) Loves climbing trees
2) Loves to be a child
3) His voice
4) His dance and his "Cher-che-pid-ter-tap! Oww!!"
5) Loves to play
6) Loves saying "No~ you're being ignorant~"

Some new characteristics introduced into the Michael Jackson character:
1) Loves being white
2) Loves being a girl
3) An altered version of "You Are Not Alone" into "I'm Just a Lil Girl" with the exact same music

Then they had these guys from the "Ghost Hunters" show.
And they were really funny too!
Any occurence that is considered normal by most of us are considered "super-natural" by them! Like when they got too scared, they started pissing in their pants and they called that "Super Natural" occurence too! Haha!! Then this guy shit his pants for being too scared, and THAT is also considered super natural!

What a way to rip people off!
Nice one!

Overall, it's a pretty funny episode with a slightly more major for Eric Cartman but the character with the most dialogues is Kyle, 2nd in line is Michael Jackson :P

- Jackson Teoh
jackson.teoh.sc@gmail.com