FIFA 13: Finally, no Rooney on the cover photo! :P

After the considerable success of FIFA 12, which introduces many new features that enhance gameplay, it is now time to put our focus on the next instalment of the FIFA series, FIFA 13. FIFA 13 seeks to capture all the details of real-life soccer, and has announced a couple of innovations that serves to further improve on the already impressive features of FIFA 12. This includes Tactical Free Kicks and 1st touch control. As to how these features really influences the gameplay, we would have to wait until further details have been released.

And yes, for the first time, Rooney did not feature on the cover photo (although this requires confirmation) and Messi takes over as the poster boy! Not that I dislike Rooney, but he has been on the game covers since FIFA 06. Surely a change would be welcome, wouldn't it? :)

EA Sports has thus far released a trailer of the highly anticipated game, and here's a tongue-in-cheek review of the trailer by KSIOlajidebt. Don't take the jokes too seriously though. :P

So Many Things, So Little Time!

With so many things happening these couple of weeks, there's simply no time to update my blog!

I was randomly searching for things to watch on Youtube, when an interesting title caught my attention.

The title read, "Nonsensical Saints Row The Third". Now, we know that 'Saints Row: The Third' is an action-adventure open world video game which focuses on the urban gang war between the Saints (i.e.players) and three other gangs (namely the Luchadores, Deckers and MorningStar). With such a dark and violent theme, one would wonder how nonsensical it can get. After watching the first video posted by gamer Nova, I couldn't stop laughing from start to end. The silly/ridiculous things that Nova and his friend Spoon did in the game, as well as their enthusiastic commentary, blended well with the game's knowingly crazy and juvenile sense of humor. This series consists of 68 episodes, and I guarantee that each episode is fun-packed.

To watch the videos, simply click on this link and have fun!

Meanwhile, I had also been waiting for the highly anticipated Angry Birds Space to be released, and it has finally hit the Apple App Store on 22 March! This time, the battle between the Angry Birds and the pigs takes place in a whole new galaxy. Prior to the game's release, Rovio has released a couple of trailers which introduced the new birds (including the Ice Bomb Bird and Lazer Bird, among many others), and also featured a demostration of microgravity by NASA astronaut Don Pettit. Check out this video to see the physics behind the latest installment from Rovio:


That's it for now! Meanwhile, back to episode 36 of "Nonsenscial Saints Row The Third" for me...

Xander VS PaperPokes

I have to admit I have poor hand-eye coordination, but still good enough to get a driving licence and drive a car around town. As such, tasks like origami actually pose quite a great challenge to me. Not that I cannot make folded paper cranes though, it's just that I take awfully long to complete them. T.T

Henceforth, papercraft is murder to me.

As usual, I was surfing the web for random stuff when I chanced upon a Youtube video. All the video showed a Pikachu papercraft model flying around the desk for the entire 7 seconds. Obviously, it drew a bit of flak because instead of teaching people how to make a similar paercraft model, what the guy did throughout that 7 precious seconds was to show Pikachu walking around his desk. Bothered.

Fortunately, he put up the link for the papercraft template.

*Stares at link and click*

That was when curiosity killed the cat (read: yours truly)

Half-completed! Only head and body
done by the 3 hour mark

So for the next 6 hours or so, my life was thrown into despair, as I struggled to cut and glue the various parts together. My agony was furthered worsened when I realised all I was equipped is an old gluestick, a scissors, and loads of tape. But anyway, I got it done step by step.

Ta da! After 6 hours, this is what I got!
(Although loads of tape)

Anyway, for those who like to try making a papercraft model, here is the link to the templates required:
http://papercraftprintable.com/free-kawaii-pikachu-pokemon-paper-craft/

Merry Christmas 2011!

Merry Christmas to all!

Time has passed so quickly and pretty soon, 2011 will be coming to an end. Before we welcome 2012, let's immerse ourselves in the Christmas spirit!

Here's a short video for everyone. Enjoy! :D

Connect With The World...via Postcrossing!

Finally, November is here! :D It's been so long since I last posted, but better late than never!

Anyway, it's been an awesome month so far, and I recently came across an interesting hobby. If you are the sociable type and would like to make friends from around the world, this is the hobby for you!

Introducing Postcrossing, which is an online project launched in July 2005. Postcrossing allows its members to send and receive real postcards from random places in the world. As of September 2011, Postcrossing had over 251,000 members in 198 different countries who had exchanged over 8.4 million postcards.

Signing up to be a Postcrosser (as the members are called) is very simple and only takes a couple of minutes. Once you have registered as a Postcrosser, the first step is to request to send a postcard. The website will display (and send you an e-mail) with the address of another member and a Postcard ID. You then mail a postcard to that member. Similarly, you will also receive a postcard from another Postcrosser from a different country. Of course, where you send the postcard to and receive from are anonymous. You can have up to 5 postcards traveling at any single time. Every time one of the postcards you send is registered, you can request another address.

If you are an avid stamp or postcard collector, this is another good reason for you to join in the fun. You will be able to exchange and receive postcards and stamps from different parts of the world. If you are lucky, other Postcrossers may even generously send you more than one postcards or stamps at the same!

So what are you waiting for? Get started with Postcrossing now!

COOOOL Body Facts That You May Not Know!

I was listening to a radio program the night before and learnt some new information about the human body. Piqued by my increasing interest, I went online to find out more. The following are the top 5 facts that I thought was the coolest and the most amazing:

1. 80% of the brain is water. So people keep describing the brain as the "grey matter" within your thick little skull. However, it actually is a squishy, pink and jelly-like organ due to its high blood and water content of the tissue. So in Mandarin, people tend to use the words "大脑进水" to describe someone who is crazy. And unfortunately, they are factually correct.

2. Monday is the day of the week when the risk of heart attack is the greatest! Another good reason to whine about Monday blues! A 10 year-study revealed that 20% more people die of heart of heart attack on Monday as compared to any other day of the week. Perhaps it's the stress of getting back to work after partying too much during the weekends.

3. Women with larger breasts "have higher diabetes" risk. To the well endowed ladies, you have been warned. Young women who have a fuller figure are at greater risk of getting Type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes only occurs when the body becomes non-responsive to the insulin produced by the pancreas, hence unable to bring the glucose level down. The fatty tissue in the breast, known as adipose tissue may have contributed to the percentage of fat in the abdominal area. And as we all know, obesity, especially fat storage in the abdominal area, has long been pegged as a key contributor to the ailment.

However, there isn't much to worry about yet! There are many other factors that contribute to diabetes, including an unhealthy lifestyle. So as long as you eat healthily and exercise regularly, you should be able to steer clear of many health risks! :D

4. A normal human produces enough saliva to fill up two swimming pools during his/her lifetime. Saliva plays an important part in the digesting system by keeping the mouth lubricating and breaking down the food via the enzymes present in saliva, and your mouth produces quite a bit of it on a daily basis. But two swimming pools worth of saliva...? Ewwww...

5. We are about 1cm taller in the day as compared to in the evening. Our cartilages between our bones get compressed by standing, sitting and other daily activities throughout the day, making us a little bit shorter by the end of the day. Darn, I bet I always took my height measurement at the wrong time of the day! I knew I was taller! :D

Auto-Correct Needs To BE Corrected...Somehow.

Whew, what a scare!

As many may have known, Blogger was down for more than 20 hours due to a maintenance-related glitch. That had me worried for quite a while. Luckily, Google managed to get Blogger back online, just in time for me to update! :D

Anyway, I was scouting for cool sites to go to, and then I finally found one.

We rely a lot of technology in our daily communication. So sometimes, we become so overly dependent that it does not matter whether you type a word incorrectly. Why so? Well, there always the autocorrect function to help amend your typo errors. Not saying that autocorrect is not good, but I just felt that it can lead to disastrous (read: hilarious) results. So this website I am about to introduce gathers all sorts of mistakes made by the Auto-Correct function on iPhone.

Introducing: Damn You Auto-Correct! It's a website where netizens post their screenshots of Auto-Correct failures, and I can guarantee lots of entertainment by looking at some of the screenshots.

In order to uphold the clean image of the blog (although I felt that this image was somewhat ruined by my previous post "What If My GP Teacher Was A Geisha?"), I have decided to look for a less obscene example to post here:

A: What do you want with your chicken?

B: Umm I'll have porn.

B: OMG I mean corn!

B: Stupid spellcheck!

A: Um excuse me!?

B: :(

To end off, if you need something that can keep you entertained for the day, don't hesitate to search for this website!

What If My GP Teacher Was A Geisha?

Note: Before watching this video, please note that parts of the video may be offensive. In that case, please refrain from watching and skip this post.

My colleague introduced this video to me, and I laughed like there was no tomorrow.

Enjoy. :D