Evolution of the Tiberium Universe

Time, it passes by so fast. You crawled and now you're driving a car. It all happen with just a glimpse. It feels like yesterday I was playing command and conquer, few hours later Tiberian Sun (Command and Conquer 2), then Tiberium Wars (Command and Conquer 3) and now soon to come Tiberian Twilight (Command and Conquer 4). Funny how 14 years passed by so fast since I played the first DOS-based Command and Conquer game.


The first Command and Conquer game, the best strategy game ever made during 1995. The best graphics had during that time and one of the happy factors that made me happy back then. I was still using windows 95 to play it and it was all in DOS.

Then it came, 4 years later, Command and Conquer 2 Tiberian Sun!


The graphic and gameplay has made huge improvements. Fancier graphics and cool gameplay. Cutscenes were rendered using CGI (Computer Generated Imagery). The rise of the 2nd Tiberium War between NOD and GDI.

The Command and Conquer Tiberium series (Strategy) stop for 8 years due to the failure of their FPS Tiberium series Command and Conquer Renegade and it's creator Westwood Studios went defunct in 2003 after acquire by EA Games in 1998. EA holds the rights to make the Command and Conquer series and suprise, Command and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars was borned after 8 whole years.(Under EA not Westwood)


As the 7th generation gaming system arisen, EA was able to create a total different of gameplay experience to gamers in 2007. The graphics and gameplay of the series has made a big difference between the older Tiberian Series.

The latest news release by EA is they are going to create the 4th Tiberium War game after the 3rd and it is stated that the main antagonist is making his last appearance in the Tiberian Series.

Command and Conquer 4 Tiberian Twilight will be releasing in 2010. Can't wait to have that! ^^

Thank you Yoshito Usui (Creator of Crayon Shin Chan)

First Micheal Jackson, now Yoshito Usui

Micheal's days of bringing pop music to the world ended on June 25,2009 and it brought sorrow to everyone in Earth as the King of Pop passed away.

Today I read in the newspaper, yet another guy in fact a Japanese guy who contributes laughter to this world since 1990 has also passed away in a hiking accident. He is Yoshito Usui the creator of Crayon Shin Chan.

So sad the guy who brought me laughter when I was a kid has passed away. Not only when I was a kid, but sometimes it stills entertain you when you are bored at home. Life comes and goes, guess we don't have a chance to watch Shin Chan shaking his butt anymore.



Thank you Yoshito Usui for bringing me happiness back in those days

The Lost Symbol

It's been quite some time since my last post as I'm quite troubled (Some emo and study stuff).

Books books books, so many books in the bookshop. Ranging from A ~ Z the only book I love to read (you can also say my whole life) are the books written by Dan Brown especially Angels and Demon, The Da Vinci Code (My Personal Favourite) and the one I just got recently, The Lost Symbol. Yeah!



I've been waiting for it since the day of the pre-order. ^^

But sadly now it's all a bunch of assignments, tests and conference paper are piled up in front of me, so I don't have any time to read it at all. Maybe after the conference or after the finals only I have time for that.

Something to share before ending this post... (What I read from the book)
"To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books."

So ladies and gentlemen, go and enjoy life and understand it as much as possible! ^^

Tao gathering 15/8/09

One of our semester's tradition is to have a good meal before saying goodbye for the holidays, the last time we went for BBQ Steamboat Buffet at Tanjung Bungah, this time is TAO Autocity.


Chit chatting and eating


Yummy lamb shoulders.....


Sweet and Sour chicken...


The Heineken gang.


Peoples of the republic of oOo


Fatty Murthy getting a rest after eating so much.


Enjoying my scallop.


Raja Uda big boss (The middle guy)


Me and Simon


Hacker Hng enjoying his Heineken

All most the whole class went for this event except for our Legend and few others as it is flu season as well. Well, here comes 2 weeks of holiday and time to start my research



Happy Holidays.

Do While (Repetition Structure) looping

When it comes to looping, it is all about doing the same process over and over again. To do that, we must have something to initiate the loop and something to stop the loop (condition).

Let's start with the While/Do-While loop. A Do While loop is a precondition loop which means before the looping process starts, there is a stated condition whether it should start the looping process or skip it. Similar to the IF/THEN/ELSE they use the decision making system. So if the condition is fulfilled (TRUE), it will start the loop. Else(FALSE) it will skip the loop.

Here is an example of Do While Loop

x=8
WHILE (x>5)
{ statement
statement
statement
x=x-1 (This is to decrease X every loop so that it can stop the loop)
}

When we initialized the loop, you have to do something to stop the loop or else you'll be experiencing and unlimited loop. Notice the x=x-1 in the algorithm? That is to stop the looping process. Before the looping, x has the value 8. It will start the loop as x is bigger than 5. So within the looping process, you need to have something to decrease the value of x until x is smaller than 5 to stop the loop.


After executing the statements fulfilling the condition, the looping process takes it back to the starting point where it checks the condition deciding whether should it continue the loop process or not (Remember to write an instruction to decrease/increase the variable value of the condition to stop the looping process or else you will be getting an unlimited loop).

Decision Logic

When it comes to Decision Logic, all you have to do is to think of these 3 words IF/THEN/ELSE. Why we need to use Decision Logic? We need to use decision logic because it is the only way computer can choose between one or more set of action. Computer can only choose either one because computer is running on Binaries, so it is either 0 or 1.

Before you start to think of how it works, relax you mind first don't think of complicated stuff first. Computers are not complicated as a human being, computer is just yes and no while a human can answer yes,no and maybe.

How the IF/THEN/ELSE structure function is simple. The computer will either execute Instructions for the True statement or the False statement.

Take the Algorithm below as an example.

IF (x=5) THEN
{ DISPLAY "The value of X is now 5"}
ELSE
{DISPLAY "The value of X is not 5"}
END IF

From the example above, if it fulfills the condition when x=5 then computer will execute the instruction for the true statement. If it does not fulfills it, it will skip through the instruction and proceed to the else part (FALSE part).

Kulim.

Well, it's something special on a Monday, Lab class are over so I don't have to go to school but have to do some chores. Have to wake up in the morning and fetch my aunt to Kulim for some religious business which I am not interested, so I decided to bring Han Phin along with me as I need some company.

After my aunt settled her prayers, we went to my third aunt's house in Kulim to take something there and the best of all plug rambutans to fill my stomach.... hehehe.........




Me washing ants off rambutan and collecting my harvest, hehe..

What is in my blog.....

So, what do I write in my blog? Basically my life experiences. Sometimes I may write something about my experience in blog and it may relate to some entities which I knew or never knew. So whatever that is, I'm just sharing my life experiences to my readers and not to insult or hurt anyone. If anyone find it very offending to him/her, you can email me personally at Garylim-03120@hotmail.com to me to remove the post and I will be very happy to do so as I don't want to make harm on others' feelings.



PS: I am not responsible for any emotional breakdown for anybody. As what I have said it is just sharing of experience.

Photoshop Presentation

Today, is SOCIT May 2008 intake's Photoshop Presentation. It was quite fun during the implementation stage of the project before the submission, we were working 2 days without sleep straight , haha quite some stupid marathon I guess.

My partner Murthy settled the documentation and the slides for the presentation while I focus on the graphical work. The best thing that happens is that both of us always do our presentation unprepared.

So judgement day for our photoshop presentation today, Murthy took around 10mins for his part, while me din even add my part of the documentation in the slides decided to give a live demonstration on how I created the effects instead. The best part is I manage to crap for 30mins, so total duration for our team is 40mins equivalent to 2 teams minimum duration as 1 team is 20mins.

PS: Teacher, i saw you taking out your handphone to record our techniques........






Our total photoshop presentation ended around 4pm and sorry to keep the "Princess" waiting for the photoshooting. But whatsoever, i get to take a picture with a pretty and cute cinderella.

The Cinderella aka my god sis Wikhe Foong and Me.












PS to everyone: Thx for your compliments for saying thanks to me for helping you all for your project especially Kar Chong, Dave, Alvin, Imba, Koay. And not to forget, I have to put the word Cinderella up there because of some reason.

Finally, something special on Sunday..

After creating my blog, my family decided to go to Prangin Mall to have an outing. It was also my mum's birthday, so we decided to have dinner in J.L Gourmet located 3rd floor Prangin Mall.

Chicken cordon Bleu and Black Pepper chicken chop for my brother and dad
Unfortunately I did not bring my camera along, so too bad could not get high quality shots.

As for me, I ordered the Special, combination of Lamb,Chicken and Fish, the white sauce on the fish is extremely tasty.
For my sister, she ordered a Lasagna, very delicious indeed.


After dinner, we finally get what we really planned for a long time, a Nitendo Wii. Woo Hoo. I can now finally exercise at my very home.

My brand new Nitendo Wii, yeah.

Created a new blog on a boring sunday.

As usual, Sundays are boring, instead of heading to the bed for a long afternoon nap (what I'll do every Sunday), I decided to create a blog.

I used to have a thought in mind that blogging would throw away my private life, but I make a 360' rethink, what the hell. By posting stuff here, I may get opportunities, especially business. ^^