Sneak Preview for Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian

WoW!! Just got this from Rick Riodan's friendster....i think it's he's cause i registered at his website and viola! I got invited to become his friend in friendter...kinda funny though XD

OMG! I cant wait for that book!!! I too cannot wait for my Artermis Fowl: Time Paradox T_T Here's Percy Jackson's last book's sneak preview/sneak peak...

1)One of Percy's monster enemies from The Lightning Thief reappears, and the battle is on! Can you guess who?

2)Ever wonder why the Oracle is a mummy in the attic? You'll discover her secret in book five.

3)Typhon stirs in book four. What could he be like in book 5? Check

4)Percy visits his father's undersea kingdom for the first time, but he's in for a shock.

5)You'll meet Luke's mom in book five. Yikes! Maybe you'll understand Luke a little better . . .

6)The Hunters of Artemis are back! And man, is Percy gonna need their help. Last Olympian comes out May 5 for u who r asking.

7)Tyson plays an important part in book five, and he's got a new battle cry. Stay tuned to find out what.

8)Grover is back in book five, but where is he? Our favorite satyr seems to have mysteriously disappeared. What can that mean?

9)Shout out to my friends in Westport, Connecticut. Your town is an important setting in The Last Olympian.

10)Rachel and Annabeth both play important roles in the final battle. Does Percy get together with one of them? Wait and see!

11)Ever wonder why Annabeth uses a knife and not a sword? You'll find out in Last Olympian. Can you guess who gave her that knife?

12)You will find out Nico's plan to defeat Luke in book five. The question is: Will this plan cost Percy his life? Stay tuned.

OMG! I JUST GOOGLED IT ACCIDENTALLY AND I FOUND THIS!!!

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief THE MOVIE!!!

This is the direct link of the casts and stuff like that. IT'S GONNA BE RELEASED NEXT YEAR!!! To be exact, 10^th of February 2010!!! OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!! OHHHH MYYYY GOOOOOOOOODDD!!!! YES YES YES YES YES!!! The movie stars are view full cast Logan Lerman ,Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman. Sadly, i dont know who're they =.=" WHO CARES! The movie is gonna be out! It's directed by Chris Columbus under 20^th Century Fox. 5^th of May will be debut release of The Last Olympian. Hope i can buy one...

Anyway, im sure the price of the book is going to SOAR UP HIGH after the debut of the movie...better to buy some now and sell some off later XD HAHAHAHA...NO I WONT SELL!!!

Artermis Fowl The Movie too is coming up but the date is still unknown and the casts and stuff is still a mytery or such. Maybe Eoin Colfer havent got the contract with the movie makers or such...hope Artermis Fowl will be there soon...Anyway, HARRY POTTER SUCKS!!! PERCY JACKSON AND ARTERMIS FOWL IS 10 000 TIMES BETTER THAN STUPID HARRY POTTER!

Asiasoft on Smart Kids Education Fair!?!?!?!?

Seriously??? What's so educational about Maple? Smart Kids Education FAIR!??? Wow seriously big laughs i tell you. I could not resist not making a harsh reply back to asiasoft. This is what i replied in their annoucement.

Smart kids? Seriously???

Wow! Playing games makes you smarter...hmm...tell that to the parents.

Bring your friends to Smart Kids Education Fair, okay...
INTRODUCE THEM TO THE WORLD OF MAPLE?

Why not just introduce them to the world of gaming rather than maple instead. =.=" There's not much differences between asiasoft and those p*rnography companies for 'seducing' those who're interested. SUCH AN OUT OF PLACE FAIR!

Yes, like what poeinstict said, BE ASHAMED!

If those Smart Kids Education Fair is really for education, they should ban asiasoft from setting a gaming stall in the fair. If the game is related to education then its fine, but is there any calculation, language improvement related stuff inside Maple? NOPE...not at all....instead you learn l33t, vulgars, bad atitude, some bad friends and worse of all, TO STEAL MONEY FROM PARENTS AND BUY @CASH!!!

Currently, there's more negative responses in that thread rather than positive responses. What can i say, Asiasoft really is Phailsoft. That's what most of them like to say or, Maplesoft. Why? Maple is their only biggest source of income while others arent going really well. Let me see, Asiasoft (AS) hosted Cabalsea, Maple, Getamped, GrandChase, Rappelz, DarknessAndLight and Pangya where both DAL and Pangya had closed due to lack of players while GrandChase is going to join those two failures soon which is 14^th of April. It'll officially close down at that moment.

Cabal's player decreased drastically after the bot dissapeared while Getamped's community isnt big so is Rappelz's. Before that, Rappelz actually have lotsa players but had decreased badly. Why is it so? It's because the open beta of Rappelz is over quite some time ago already and there's no Cash Shop. Most players tends to spend a few extra pennies in the game they play but sadly AS didnt see through that i guess. The green bar of the server changes into dark green and eventually dark blue as time passes. Green is when there's lotsa players as light blue will be where the server can be said as, empty.

Basically, AS fail in everything. RO2 had been 'under development' plan since around October 2007 and what year it is now? 2009 right? Roughly 2 years on the account of years while 1 1/2 year by the count of months. They're slow...even those patchings are slow except Maple's patches. So, should AS really change their company name to Phailsoft??? I think so...

Anyway, here's something on a thread which those Moderators actually didnt remove and stickied the thread.

MoneySoft: Used to Defame AsiaSoft for being money-faced
Definition: AsiaSoft caring about money instead of the players.
Example Of usage: "MoneySoft noob lar! Always so money-faced and never fix the lag!"

Here's some pics made by those who wanna criticize AS or Maplesea. Kinda funny to me...






















One word to AS, PAWNED!

Google Chrome CRASHES!!!

OMG! To my delight, Chrome CRASHES!!! Wahaha! I laughed like hell when i saw this...instead of cursing for failure like what i did when Firefox or I.E crashes, i laughed! So damn funny! Why is it funny? It's because all these while, i never thought Chrome could crash! Why? It's because well, i do tab browsing and from my experiences, only one of the tab crashes and not the whole browser crash! So WAHAHAHA! First time ever...luckily i wasnt sleepy that time and took screenshot on it. One of the best moment in computer life. Google FAILS!

Anyway, yes! I stopped working and next week is the start of a new sem...good or bad? No idea... Yesterday Father talked to me about that letter i wrote last urm....sunday or something. Well, he thinks he understand what i wrote inside but sadly, many of the things he said isnt what im thinking. What the heck, i dont really wanna explain. So i just leave him and his lectures...i mean as in well, he lectured me for an hour or two yesterday but those stuff doesnt go into my mind. Because lol! He likes to self-praise himself and sigh... i am speechless. At least he got one point right...i dont really respect him. Last time, YES! Now, not really. Why?? After sooo many incidents that happened, i just get bored trying to fix our father-son relationship.

Phew....basically i've done all my chores in the office. Finished those origami and paper works...LOL! I've got nothing to do right now. Went downstairs to the urm...production area and disturb Ida and Chris(a maid's name), YES! I do know lotsa people named Chris. Anyway, kinda fun actually. I tried to do what they're doing. That includes urm...taking off existing price tags a.k.a stickers from the returned products, stuffing cottons into that little car pillows, packing and stuff like that. It's fun actually but to make it as an everyday chores, NO THANK YOU! I aint dont want to have any such everyday chores. I will get bored to death!

Im not gonna work tomorrow and was wondering, should i come on Thursday? Or should i stay at home and gaming for this rest of weekend? New sem starts next week and it's a short sem and there' OOP! Object Oriented Programming! Zzzzzz Keat Liang showed me some simple code and what can i say is ZZZZZZZZzzzz..... Okay dont wanna blog so much. Sleepy mood now. Oh yeah! The picture above is from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. Cool huh....a 'hand' reaching to grab some red nebula or such.

Out of Home

Wow...it's been years since i actually came to cyber cafe. Maybe hmm...more than 5 years or so. Haha....eh wait...maybe 3 years or so. XD Forgot already. Why am i here today in such an early morning... Something happened at home. I got fed up with my family so i run out just to have some time for myself. I do not want to have those negative-feeling-aura/environment around me. So i came here to relax myself i guess. I just slept for 2 hours+ or so after chatting with Jun, Honey and a bit of Edward. Sigh...i really got fed up with my family controlling my life. So i've decided to do something about it.

Im sure that i'll get scolded badly when i got home but sigh...i dont give a damn. At least for once, i did what i wanted to do without telling my family. It's both a good thing and a bad thing i guess. On the good side, i get to voice out what's inside me. On the bad side, i know that Mother is worried sick. I've got no choice but to do so. I really had to put a stop to this. Like what Vin told me before, to voice out my opinion. Sadly, im more of introverted even towards my own family. I've learned to keep quiet and obey their orders for years and vent frustrations towards my family myself...or more exactly, towards this blog. It's a good thing that i actually blogs. Or else, i wouldnt know where to vent all my frustrations or whom to tell. Of course there are people who're willing to listens but blog is the best. Why? Because they dont reply...they just be my ears. Furthermore, blog helps me to recall my lessons, what i did and stuff like that.

When im older, maybe i can review back my life and judge if what i did that time was right or wrong haha....!! Basically, i've got nothing to do over here right now. I tried to play Cabal private server but my heart wasnt in it. So i quitted, tried ragnarok, registered, get onlined, quit. Didnt even play or hit a monster. Then play my all-time favourite game, Dynasty Warrior. Well, it do cheer me up a bit but im still very moody i guess. I play for one match and i lost. I dont even give a damn when my camp got invaded. I just let the whole game lose. Maybe i play just because i wanted to kill those 'people' to vent my frustration or something.

I am sure Mother is worried sick and stuff like that but ah..what the heck. I dont really bother no more. Anyway, this CC isnt really good. Why? LOL! Rappelz isnt here...no rappelz! So basically what i do around here is just....N.O.T.H.I.N.G. Take my time to blog i guess... Wanna go to dad's place but i guess i cant. Because he's going over to mom's. Ah what the hell! There's this kpc guy who actually come and look at what i was typing. How rude of him! So KPC. Listening to Time of My Life by David Cook right now...so nice... I wanted to listen to more music in this CC but sadly, i cant. Why? Because this CC uses headset and not speaker, which is a good thing but in the same time, LOL! THE HEADSET IS FREAKING DIRTY! SO SO SO SO SO DUSTY AND DIRTY! So i've to live in the world of silence and listen to my 'neighbour' and his friend talk and cursing all those 'beautiful' and 'magnificent' language.

Oh yeah, i too scolded Chris. First time ever i scolded vulgar towards my family. I never ever scolded vulgar towards them and rarely use vulgars towards anyone. I just sort of exploded. Well, what happened actually? Might as well said it here for my future references. What happened was i got 2 days off from work. Cause aunts dont have anything else for me to do, so they think it isnt neccessary for me to work...for now. Aunt Joselyn do wanted me to work but sigh...what i am doing there is just some menial jobs which can be done by the maids. Why bother hiring me to do their job? Wasting money... So the day yesterday and the day before.

Again, "it's been a long time" (i like this sentence XD), since i sleep late at night. So my thought was "Yay! No work! Can sleep late. Let's play and relax for a day. I deserve it after working at aunts'." Mother do warned me before that i shouldnt sleep so late. She warned me before she sleep, she woke up at 3am++ and she warned me again that if later when she came out and i didnt sleep, she would confiscate the laptop. So fine by me...i know the consequences but i still played. Was playin grand chase and i told that girl, 92 (yeah her IGN), that it's the last round and i got to sleep. While 1/2 way through the round, Mother came out and scolded me and all these kind of things. Chris heard, came out and said nothing and carry Darren boy to her room. (I was suppose to take care of Darren boy as in to sleep with him). Fine, i know im wrong so i just keep quiet and let Mother confiscate my laptop. She do warned me first hand, it's just that i refuse to listen. So, fair enough.

The next day...skip all unimportant thing. I do realize i am giving full detail. Who cares, nobody read it except me myself. Anyway, at night, as usual, Chris, Cat and Tat Ko went out to eat and stuff like that. I wanted to follow but was playing Grand Chase half way and i know they cant wait. So i just tell them to go by theirselves and tapau for me. The time was 2100++ or maybe earlier than that, so of course i've got many time to kill so do this and that, eat some chicken while waitin for them to come home etc etc. Then while i was playin rappelzsea's ursa dungeon, Tat Ko called, as usual, he forgot his HP and wanted me to take it down for him. I said no because i was playin rappelz and i cannot quit. He said nvm and wanted to take it himself but then Chris took over the phone and scolded me and warned me to carry the phone down and to take my food. I keep saying no cause i was playing rappelz. To them, game is nothing, but to me, game is a part of my life. Games always was.

I refused, mom came up, scolded me a bit then went down to get the food for me and stuff like that. When Chris came up, she scolded me badly and SHUT DOWN MY GAME WHILE I AM PLAYING! Before that, i tried to push her hand away from shutting down my game but, she pressed that "Power" button on the laptop. So it shuts down. I HAD A MEETING WITH SHURELIA IN GAME! I PROMISED HER THAT I WILL TALK TO HER LATER! I BROKE A PROMISE NOW!!! To most of you, it's no big deal since it's just in game friend, but to me, a promise IS a promise. She herself told me before that she hated it when she's half way through the game and people shut it down or stuff like that. But she did that to me! WTF!

I shouted at her for a while and try to make my point but sigh...i dont really care anymore that time so i just went back to sleep. More to like lie on bed... Anyway, i guess she know she was wrong and tried to make up for me. She tried to talk to me in quite a polite way by telling me, "Tomorrow onwards you close the game at 11pm, you want or not?" I just ignored her... If you're doing something 1/2 way and i disrupt it, you like? Her reason for shutting down the game was cause "I shut down your game is because of what you did yesterday. If you didnt play till so late at night, i wouldnt've shutted down your game etc etc". WTH!!! Then what bout taking those stuff from her? HELLO!!??? We're stayin at 20th floor and for me to get down there and come back usually takes me min, 5minutes or so y'know? I NEVER EVER SAID NO when they asked to take stuff for them! Everytime "William, can you please bring this and that down for us?", i'll always say ok or just whine like "Haihz...ok la ok la". Then get down... NEVER SAID NO!

This is the first time ever and IS IT OVER!? IF IT IS OVER THEN WHAT BOUT WHEN YOU TALK ON PHONE FOR HOURS? The only differences between my gaming and your chatting is i am staring at a 24inch monitor while you're holding up a cellphone. Furthermore, i use my hand to socialize while you uses your mouth to socialize. Other than that, i cannot find much differences. We're socializing, we're having our own fun, we're wasting money (mine electricity while yours is phone bill and cellphone battery). Oh! Another difference is i am POOR and you're RICH. You can pay that expensive phone bill of yours while i cant! What i can do is MSN and chat with friends through game. I am fine with that though.

So what? Money is not important to me... True money can do wonders but when it comes to true feelings (cept greed), money cant do much. Money can buy you friends, but can you guarantee that money can buy you true friend(s)? NO! I switched off my phone just now, i on it back and Cat sent a message. Mother's crying...i've expected this but i've got no choice. I really wanted to be heard and put a stop to all these. I am 19 and i do not want to be controlled to badly anymore. I dare to say i am a much better person now but of course my old habit still lingers around...but not that severe.

Conficker

Im sure many of u heard about the latest hardcore virus, Conficker right? Well, i just got these infos from Shurn Heng and oh damn! He's a hacker cum programmer himself and he himself admit that his virus is just very tiny and will be rendered useless compared to Conficker. Damn! This is how powerful Conficker is...btw, the follow quote is from Shurn Heng's.

I have never seen such a virus as advance as Conficker. It is the combination of the best features of all the viruses in the wild. This is one heck of a virus maker. Let me list of some of its features:

It uses 4096 bit RSA Encryption. 1024 bit RSA Encryption already very very hard to break. The virus makers actually went one step ahead! It is already reported by a lot of anti-virus vendors that strong encryption is usually missing in malwares or at least incorrectly implemented, making the virus completely useless eventually.
It also borrow high quality codes from OpenSSL. OpenSSL is an open source project and very well tested. Very smart of the author, since most virus fail because of their author writing their own codes that is not widely tested.
The author also uses it's own psuedo-random number generator. Looks like this guy has a lot of coding experience.
The design concept of the virus is resistant to reverse engineering. Such resistance requires an up-to-date state-of-the-art knowledge.
The virus can detect whether the machine is physical or virtual.
The virus is double packed binaries. Compressed and encrypted.
Has thread injection capabilities.
Memory image of the virus does not contain a valid PE header and does not import table that hampers dumping.
Spreads through internet and external devices like thumbdrives. If the system it is trying to infect is password protected, it will initiate brute force attack. This significantly increase network traffic.
Contacts over 50 000 websites across 110 top-level domains, to download its own virus updates.
Is able to named pipe to tell other infected computers in the network that a particular website has a valid virus update.
Is able to create ad-hoc peer-to-peer network to give and receive virus update to and from a lot of internet audience. Infecting better and more than the number of audience in named pipe infection and even possibly website updates. This part of the code is heavily obfuscated so even the white-hat community has a hard time figuring out how this works. But they have observed large-scale UDP scanning to build up a peer list of other infected computers. They also observe a lot of TCP connections for subsequent transfers of virus updates. Port numbers are also hashed from IP addresses of each peer.
Blocks all major anti-virus websites, security related websites and Microsoft.
Blocks Windows updates, Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS), Windows Defender and Error Reporting Services.

I just remembered that yesterday is April Fool =.="

Phew!!!

Woow....so long didn't post an entry already. Always either i am tired or it's because im lazy or because I'm just too busy haha... Anyway, darn! I know im losing images from Oddee. Should've uploaded it myself instead of using it's link but lol lazy XD My previous posts gonna be like....broken images for sure but lazy wanna modify d...so just let it be lol! Kinda tired nowadays. Oh sweat! Well, when i went to aunt's office. I thought i was gonna be clerk or something right? NO!!! I am like =.=" do everything in the office. Clerk cum personal assistant cum technician lol!!! Basically, i do origami in the office. When i said origami, i do mean ORIGAMI but not to fold them into paper arts but lol! Just fold them to fit into envelopes and in the same time, I've to do some invoice-statement thingy which is kinda blur for me. Oh yeah but at least the fun part is i get to play with Photoshop ^.^ Hehe....photoshopped photos for my uncles to make his products look nicer and such. In the same time, haha...recall my skills. I really forgot everything lol! Even rendering! OMFG! Such an easy stuff also i can forgot =.=" But at least i managed to experiment it around and work it out! YAY!

Sadly, i forgot the easy way Liang taught me. LOL! He taught me quite a number of times but till now =.=" I still forgot. Anyway, thick face me photoshopped myself into Chris+ Michael's pic. It's kinda lame though with my current noobie photoshop skill. Haha! Kinda funny for me though to surprise Chris... She asked "EH!? How come you're there? When did you went there?". And i gave her sarcastic answer that she lost her mind and managed to convinced her that i was there with them when they went to Penang Hill.

Before (Original)

After (Photoshopped, obvious duh. I dont know how to make the color of my skin become

warmer in color =.=" Tried color and contrast but doesnt seem to work)

Tat Ko took this pic. LOL! Big ice-cream eater =.="

Oh yeah! All my time in the office, isnt so bad at all. Why? Because HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Since i work for my aunt and uncle, i actually loiter, play and fool around while working. I even take a nap during working hours =.=" Mother said that lol! It's more i like went there for working-vacation rather than really working. Every lunch break of mine was full of feast. Either Aunt Jenny brings me to restaurant to eat expensive stuff or Aunt Joselyn fetch me to buy some tasty food, best of all, LOL!!! They treat me XD Chris said, "WHOA! The ones that asks you to work have to bear your cost of living too while you yourself get salary and dont need to pay for any single thing". It's true haha! My breakfast was sponsored by Father where he fetches me to work while my lunch is sponsored by my aunts and dinner was sponsored by Mother. XD HAHAHAHA!!! Kinda fun actually but in the same time, i HATE PAPER WORK! So, i've to suffer to do paper work. Aunt Joselyn know my style i guess cause LOL! It takes me 1/2 a day to complete a simple paper work task like sorting documents while an hour or two to finish computer-related task like keying in details of products and such.

SO SAD!!! GrandChaseSea gonna close soon!!! Migrated to HKGC upon the request of Jun...kinda fun actually but lol! It's Chinese words and i dont understand a single thing =.=" So complicated and lol! What i can do is memorize the characters and roughly guess what this and that are for XD

Kek Lok Si Temple during CNY

ARGH!!! MY DARREN BOY! SO CUTE! Squatting down and smile...he looks so tiny in that picture.

He's soooo naughty nowadays. Throw tantrum and humph here and there lol! Always, "Humph, i dont wanna friend you". LOL! I learn that from him XD Used it on my friends... I like to piss him off though where he'll scream and scream and MWAHAHAHAHAHA! The evil me will scold him and if he throw stuff or kick me, LOL! CANE CANE!!! *PIAK PIAK!!!* MWAHAHAHAHA! Well, not really XD I am rational enough to know when to whack him and when not to. It's my fault cause i pissed him off so haha...aint no gonna whack him..