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Hey, I think its bout time I refresh my scene.

Moving to Tumblr soon.

Work in progress. Will update here soon.

District 9

30 years ago, in 1979, a man named George Lucas came up with the idea of Star Wars.
That completely changed how the masses perceived Sci-Fi films.

Fast forward to today, 30 years later into 2009, a South African ad film maker and acclaimed 3D animator has done what George did. Redefining the Genre. 29 year old Neil Blomkamp to me has really topped it off since 1979.

District 9 tells the story of Aliens in coexistence with humans on Earth. Speculate all you want why it's filmed in Johannesburg, South Africa, but I personally love it. It brings a clear reflection of the world today with its mentality towards something "foreign" or "alien". Aliens in this film go through oppression similar to what South Africans experienced during Apartheid. Gritty, in-your-face, and heavy with cinema verite style, its FRESH.

District 9 completely destroys all stereotypes of aliens in sci-fi. Blomkamp's style of a documentary-like film may not appeal to most commercial movie-goers but not to true fans of sci-fi. Not saying it will not appeal to the masses, but its probably to "fresh" or unconventional to most.

Character development of the leads are also very in depth and their transformation throughout the film. This brings tears in your eyes, a raging anger in your heart, and a very busy mind afterwards.

My final verdict for District 9 is that it is really FRESH. Sci-fi fans, you're not going to be disappointed.

Also, out of randomness, Blomkamp was chosen to direct the canned Halo film adaptation. Shit. Imagine how Halo would've been.



word.

Injured, Bored, And Awaiting Uni.

Had a small accident at home. Some stray piece of broken glass I didn't see and I stepped on it.
Ouch. 2 stitches.

Oooh, saw my results online and I didn't screw up. Yay!!!!!

Shit, I have registration in the morning later.
Class starts on the 10th. There goes my mid year break.
Another 5 months of study study study and ASSignments ASSignments ASSignment.

Me and Love Affair are almost 6 months. Surprise, surprise =)

That's all for now folks.

Smell you later.

=P

Quick One

hello all!!....

Still vacationing here in Medan. Be back on the 21st.

Nothing much here. I can only go online from a coffee joint in a mall.

Had an interesting outing to Lake Toba yesterday.

Gonna go cycling around tomorrow I suppose.

More to come when I get back.

ATTENTION ALL DFTV STUDENTS, WE ARE TO COMMENCE REGISTRATION ON AUGUST 3RD.

w.o.r.d.

Windows 7

Ok, about 2 days ago I managed to acquire a copy of Windows 7 Beta from Fuzzy.
Been reading up alot about this OS and the rave reviews, so I decided to give it try.

Initially, I wasn't really keen because of bad experiences with Vista.
But I was convinced to give it a go. I reluctantly did, and woah!.
I never knew a Windows OS can be so good.

Windows 7 comes in both 32Bit and 64Bit versions.

32Bit requires:
1Gb HD storage space
1Gb of RAM minimum
1GHz Processor minimum
Support for DirectX 9 graphics device with 128MB of graphics memory
DVD-R/W Drive

64Bit requires:
20Gb HD storage space
2Gb of RAM minimum
1GHz Processor minimum
Support for DirectX 9 graphics device with 128MB of graphics memory
DVD-R/W Drive


Currently, I am running the Beta version of the 64Bit.


At first glance, it appears to look like a pretty version of Vista.
Trust me, its not just prettier, its better.


That's how Windows 7 looks. Its pretty elegant, and visually clear.
Bear in mind that the visual themes, wallpaper, etc, are all at default Windows 7 settings.
I like it =D

I remembered the days when I first got my XP and Vista, I spent the first couple of hours tinkering with the visual theme options and personalizing it.
I only spent 15 minutes tinkering with this one, and then I decided to keep it back to original settings. Its already pretty at standard. Not saying that the customization options suck, they're cool, but I decided that it's prettier this way.
My point is that its visually pretty and you don't necessarily have to do anything to it.


Another visual improvement over its predecessors is a clutter free Windows Taskbar.
Just mouse over the the icons in the taskbar i.e. the Windows Live Icon, and you instantly get a glance of what is grouped in it. No more taskbar clutters and eye sores.


The next major visual improvement is how Windows 7 helps you manage your browser window. Now this is handy when your doing comparisons between two pages in a browser.

Here's how 2 IE windows look like before drag and dropping them to the sides.


Ok, now here's when you drag and drop one window to one side, and the other window to the opposite side.


Windows 7 will automatically resize both browser windows, allowing much easier management and creating a clutter free environment for your display. Its pretty handy =P

Oooh!!!!!.....


Another really neat thing is that all these shots weren't taken the old fashion way of pressing the print screen button. Windows 7 comes win a program called 'Snip Tool', which allows the user to print screen, or selected part of the GUI.

As if that's not enough, this OS is apparently games friendly. Previously on my Vista OS, whenever I am LAN gaming Rainbow 6 Vegas 2, it has the tendency to crash alot and encounter numerous bugs. I had a 4 hour LAN session on this game last night, and not once did it crash or encounter bugs.

Another experience I am willing to share is the difference in performance using Traktor DJ Software. Traktor DJ does encounter some bugs in Vista, and has the very high tendency to crash under high strain. In Windows 7, no matter how high the strain, Traktor DJ remains functional and so far, I havent encounter any bugs and its NEVER CRASHED.

So seriously, you Vista users, get ready to switch to Windows 7 when it comes available for the market later this year. It really is sweet. DJs, f**k Vista, quickly switch to Windows 7 or get s Beta copy if you can.

This is just merely a tip of the iceberg of my experience. Plenty more to be discovered in this OS. Get it if you can and enjoy.




w.o.r.d.

And then...

This is totally out of mind, but yeah...

I think I'm slowly losing all sense of time and space.

This could only mean one thing.

Someone/Something has altered by space time continuum.

hahahahahaahahahahahahahahah!

w.o.r.d