Overview:

In accordance with the consistency I would like to keep, it is most fitting for me to write this post to document this period of my life. The past year has been well-documented enough in metaphors and many verbose posts, with the exception of the past month. If I would, in the future, forget certain details, this would serve as a really good “memory booster”.

The past year has been great, sans the G.C.E. ‘O’ Level examinations, which I would like to call the proverbial “trial of valour”. Men who emerge victorious from it deserve my honour, but that is where my respect ends. Only those who take in one step further in their mental fortitude are worthy of remembrance, in life as well as the time beyond. And one such hero is my friend (arguably my best friend), with whom I have shared many experiences and have to agree that he is the one that spurs me on. He has proven to be a great source of inspiration, being the winner he is. He is none other than “Silent Fiona”. That’s his GamerTag. Go on, add him on Xbox LIVE!

November 30th, 2009:

I will never forget what has happened today. A great favour has been done for me and it is with deepest appreciation that I receive it. “Zombie Repeller” – 25 G. An Xbox 360 achievement, no doubt – but a challenge in its own right. It goes beyond thanks, beyond gratitude. It is worthy of much honour. For that, it deserves this paragraph. “Friendship is like a violin. The music stops now and then, but the strings will be there forever.”

Xbox LIVE GamerScore: 8120 G

November 29th 2009:

I have finished Fallout 3, netting a total of 1000 G for the original game. It is now one of my proudest achievements in gaming! A good game, too!

Xbox LIVE GamerScore: 8005 G

November 26th, 2009:

I went to Zhen Sheng’s house. We played several games of Halo 3. I put on hold my progress of Fallout 3 back home, and I spent the good part of the day there, together with Jun Hui. We had some crazy fun with Team Mythic, but got seriously trashed at a Social Big Team game. We also watched Death Race. It is so much better with the subtitles turned on!

Xbox LIVE GamerScore: 7420 G

November 21st, 2009:

This post appeared on my Tumblelog originally:

F*ckin’ A! My day went explicably well.

Morning: 40 EXP in Team Mythic in Halo 3 Matchmaking. 10 more to the ‘Spartan Officer’ achievement.

Afternoon: Met with Jun Hui. Ate lunch at Long John Silvers. Then, we travelled over to Raffles Town Club; played some Sega (classic) Arcade games, then watched X-Men Origins: Wolverine (another frivolous action flick but that’s what a man can’t stop craving, basically it’s to a guy what Twilight is to gals).

Evening: Played a few rounds of bowling. It’s my first time in a bowling alley. Alas, poor Yorick! My efforts in the “Gobble Gobble” achievement in GTA IV and GTA IV PC paid off. (Hey, who would’ve known the Physics engine in GTA IV is that realistic?) Scored a few strikes as per my ‘skill’. Thanks, Xbox360Achievements! The strategy of “taking two steps to the left, rolling the ball steady and straight, and with moderate strength, then launching it a tad to the right” to get a strike seems to have worked in reality as one wouldn’t expect.

Night: It’s where I ended up, Orchard, the de facto shopping district in Singapore. Here’s where I’m posting from, from my iPhone 3GS.

Peace out. Had a nice time! Let the good times roll!

November 17th, 2009:

School’s out! I don’t usually socialise (yeah, you read that right), but regardless, I went to the class barbecue party. It was fun, quite very inexplicably. Guess what? We played a few rounds of Halo 3 there. Yeah, I’m the “gamer geek”, what do you expect? Who else you know has a major video game production company sending them free stuff?

November 16th, 2009:

Halo 3: ODST was more or less completed. Co-op was fun, more so than Single-player, due to Legendary mode’s infuriating difficulty. Later in the day, I attended the Graduation Night. It wasn’t really fun. I wanted to dress like Luis Lopez but there wasn’t much of a choice. In the end, I looked pretty O.K., being my first time dressed more formally than a t-shirt. Although, there were many jokes – and I enjoyed them!

November 13th, 2009:

The examinations are finally over! (That’s three weeks ago!) I went to watch the movie “2012″ with a couple of boys from the school, and class – and 7 of us (yea, 7 – that’s as significant a number to me as it is to Bungie Studios) later went to have a steamboat dinner. It was fun and memorable. The scratch on my iPhone’s back was acquired on this date too – a mark left in time. Also, it was the first time I turned on my Xbox 360 to play something other than Grand Theft Auto.