I wasn’t sure why I chose the title above. Apparently I was drafting this post on Thursday after my presentation for MDeC preseed at Cyberjaya. But I was pretty lazy to finish it up. To sum up something related on the day, it was pretty hectic which gradually turned to mellow. My friend, Amin, had his presentation as well. Despite his best efforts to convince the judges, it seemed they couldn’t accept much of his idea. Basically speaking, the result would likely be a negative notion. Honestly speaking, I was quite a little bit slacking because of my crowded weeks earlier. Well, hearing unconvincing news from him made me doubting my luck. So there I went to the Innovation Center inside MMU with my other friend, Sapri.

Bloody hell

We arrived there at around 2:00 pm. There were some other people there as well. Pretty much my guess of them being some sort of participants were true as they’re also being called for presentations of their ideas soon after. My team’s presentation was supposed on 2:30 pm. When it was about the time, our group number hadn’t been called yet. I don’t really mind at that time because there were like many other groups there. But waiting until like 4:30 pm was really something. Well, according to the time table given, our group will be the last to present on that day and also for this batch as well. But only after some waiting of nearly 3 hours, even my confidence level was certainly reduced. Then again, why don’t we give the best of ours? After we were called to enter the room, the environment inside was quite pleasant. Not because there were some pretty chicks inside but the judges were calm and didn’t show any sign of fatigueness. Quite amazing as they were judging people’s ideas from the morning until that late afternoon. So we immediately started the presentation. After a brief presentation about our idea then the best part came, Q&A. They kinda like the idea of ours and started asking this and that. I believed I managed to give my best answers to them. Upon a question where I was asked by a judge of what may I proceed after finishing the project, I saw a brighter light. Though another judge quickly stated, “IF your idea approved” and they laughed gently. After that I went back to the office before going home.

BOOM! HEADSHOTS!

I did a few things at office on Friday. Well, I have to present my Masters’ progress report on the Wednesday, next week. Yeah, the semester kinda wrapping up before break (but no off days for working guys like me). But most importantly on that day was the yesterday’s results. My friends and I were waiting like until the end of the day before the results were sent to our emails inbox. I was kinda pessismist earlier though I do have high hope for my chances in getting good news. Amin’s proposal was rejected as he received an email from them. I only getting my email later on where my team is granted for approval cycle which means I will be having a second pitching with approval committees. Thank God.

Time for Siegheil

As I went back home, my copy of Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor just arrived. Oh, my PC was fixed, thanks to linkinstreet. But I lost a partition tho where my video collections of Minorin vanished. Yeah, pretty sad. Fishing sad ;_; Back to ToV, this is one of the game that I certainly buying it as I stated before. While there are some sort of additions, the 3 campaigns kinda short. Each campaign has 3 missions only. Within few hours, I finished all the campaigns and unlocked customizable units for multiplayer game. The AI pretty smart though. Previously when my friends and I were playing against Expert AIs, we could beat them easily but this new expansion brings better AI to fight with. Currently we were facing defeat by defeat as quitting the game halfway will be counted as a loss now.

Nutbladder 2: Return of Wideface

So, I went to Lowyat Plaza on the next day. Sora and I were planning to exchange PS3 games between us. I wanted to borrow his Disgaea 3 while he wants to play Valkyria Chronicles. It’s been a long time I haven’t had weekly /AS/ gath at Lemon Food Court. In the same time, Sora wanted to meet linkinstreet because he borrowed Rin Tohsaka and Haruhi Suzumiya figmas from linkinstreet long time ago and he wanted to return them back.  As usual I parked at Berjaya Times Square. Simply because it will be easier for me to go to KL-Seremban highway for going back home from there compared to Lowyat Plaza’s basement carpark. Since there’s Borders bookstore at BTS, I went there first. Finally, there’s Hidamari Sketch (Sunshine Sketch) volume 2 released. Immediately I bought the manga and grinned until my face became wideface. Then I proceed to the gath. Well, I gave to Sora my Valkyria’s game but Sora forgot to bring his Disgaea 3. Cibailancaufuck you Sora. After having lunch, talkcocks and whatever, we went around to find good deal for Sora’s memory stick. He wanted to buy a 4gb memory stick for his PSP. So there we strolled around from floor to floor. After strolling through several shops, we went to All IT Hypermarket at the 3rd floor there. While finding the thing the he wanted, I saw some LCD monitors. Range of brands and sizes. First, I was looking at Samsung. The 24″ LCD monitor was like just below RM 900 but no HDMI though. Well, not bad as it’s Samsung after all. Previously I had a thought of getting the Dell S2409W as it’s priced at RM 729. Of course I can only buy that LCD online which requires a credit card. After looking through Samsung monitors, I saw an Acer monitor there. Hmm, 23″ and priced at RM 669. So I looked at its specs; VGA/DVI/HDMI supports and Full HD 1080 resolution. Wait whut? I went to an ATM out there, forked out some money and then bought the LCD lol. Man, ever wonder how cool is that. Even the Samsung 24″ HDMI monitors are usually priced over RM 1000.

Acer H233H

My one year old Samsung 22" LCD monitor

Dual widescreens anyone?

I plan to sell my old monitor to linkinstreet. I was about to give the monitor to him on Sunday but it was raining heavily just now. Perhaps, next time.

Cool things about Acer H233H:

• It supports resolution up to 1920 x 1080. Widescreen. Full HD.
• It has VGA, DVI and HDMI slots.
• Audio output for sound from HDMI source.
• Sleek panel and the buttons are like touch-panel rather than actual buttons.
• Input button that cycle through inputs from sources. Which means I no longer need to connect/disconnect my cables to switch between PC and PS3.
• It comes with cables for all inputs. (I nearly buy an HDMI cable previously)
• It’s RM 669!

Meh things about it:

• The whole size of the monitor is not exactly that bigger than my Samsung.
• The screen is like a mirror. Too much reflections especially during the day compared to my old one.
• Bigger resolution means more burden to my Ati HD4850 graphic cards. So I have to reduce some details to make my game smoother.
• It’s kinda hard to find cool anime wallpapers at such resolution.

After all, it’s a good deal. Welcome to the Full HD World.