What i want but probably won't get, for Chrismas

Actually, my family don't celebrate Chrismas, so we don't get presents... boo-hoo
here is the list anyway.

1. Manfrotto 190XPROB tripod with 488RC4 ball head
2. Razer Deathadder, blue, 5 button mouse - its old, i don't ask for much, seeeee
3. Nikkor AF-S 50mm f1.4 - this will never happen, not released yet
4. Tamron 17-50 f2.8
5. Sigma 70-200 f2.8

And for New Years, i just want my D40x back from Nikon... buggers take forever to do anything.

Back from Taiwan

After painstakingly uploading my pictures in chronological order in Flickr, i have lost all the mood i previously had to blog about it... hahahaha, that was total BS. Never had the mood to blog about it. Anyways read about my adventures in Taiwan on Flickr here:-

http://www.flickr.com/photos/steven_wong

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Make sure to click on the pictures to see the notes i left. Will write more if anything comes up. Here's a short video of me shooting ...

Behold...

Feast you eyes on my Gold M60!

SHINY! Fast eh.. it just took me two days to get it.

This is how it looks indoors. Thats 450 headshots... I am a certified MG Sniper now... hohoho!

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Come Play With Me!

If you play COD4 and use Garena... join me-

• Server name: All Welcomed
• Time: Around 8pm - 12am
• Hardcore mode, Friendly Fire is on
• Game: Team Deathmatch
• Duration per map: 20 mins
• Max Points: 1500
• Max players: 10
• Max Ping: 200

RULES!!!

1. No tubes (Grenade launchers... M203, GP-30... RPGs allowed)
2. No Martyrdom
3. Apologize if you team kill, its common courtesy...

LOL segment - How to tell if a player is a noob

1. Uses the tube, under rifle grenade launcher
2. Picks up guns
3. Blocks entrances
4. Stand up in otherwise good camping spots
5. Team kills because he can't tell the difference between Spetsnaz and SAS
6. Stuns/Flash team mates
7. Throws a grenade, nade bounce off a wall/signboard/ceiling back to himself... killing him and possibly a team mate as well
8. Uses Juggernaut + Martyrdom, gets killed.. frags his own team mates
9. Sprays like mad and knife air
10. Waste UAVs and launch blind Airstrikes... possibly killing some team mates
11. Swears after every death. Blames deaths on lag or a broken mouse.
    

Don't worry... everyone is a newbie in the begining... one that does not admit he is... thats a noob.

Favorite Maps: Wet Work, Backlot, Crossfire, Bloc, Strike, Crash, Winter-Crash, Killhouse

Leaast Favorite Maps: Countdown, Showdown, Downpour, Shipment

My gun isn't Shiny!

That what I thought when I first wipped out my Golden SVD. Don't get what i mean? Have a look.

Looks like its made out of chocolate huh. Apparently, you have to switch on Specular Maps to see it shine. Thats Options>Graphics>Specular Map>On. After that, you'd get...

Bling! Yeah. I have unlocked Red Camo for every sniper rifle in COD4. Thats 750 headshots. Woo!




More BLING! BLING!



See! 100% all the way! Woo! Call of Duty 4 Sniper pro I am!




And this is what I do when there is no heads to pop. (Note: Red Tiger Camo on M249)


Challanges yet to be completed...

• Search and Destroy Victor II & III.
• Sabotage Victor III
• Counter Claymore II & III (13 more)
• Carpet Bomb
• Hot Potato (11 more)
• Invincible
• thats it!

Next: Golden M60

I've already got Red camo for M249 and PRD, just M60 now.

Duty Calls

As some of you might know, SAM is over! I took the final tests and went for the prom. Now you'd might expect me to write about the prom... but i feel an obligation to tell you what I've been doing during the holidays now. I've got Garena to work and have been playing Call of Duty 4 on LAN non stop! I've reached the final level, which is level 55, Commander and unlocked all guns and digital camouflage for them. I've become quite good in the art of sniping! LOL!

I prefer to play in hardcore mode, as bullets do more damage and there is no HUD, making the whole experience more realistic. I make full use of this mode by finding out which weapons will result in a on shot kill (AK-47, PRD...) that would not have been possible in normal mode.

Now I am planning to unlock Golden SVD by unlocking Red Tiger Camouflage for all sniper rifles and to complete all my challenges.

Challenges i've not completed... yet

1. Counter Claymore II & III - Kill enemies by shooting a claymore.
2. Airbourne - Kill 2 enemies with bullets in mid-air.
3. Carpet Bomb - Kill 5 enemies with a single air strike.
4. Hot Potato II & III - Kill enemies by throwing back a live grenade.
5. The Brink - Get 3 kill streak while near death.
6. Dominos - Kill enemies by staring a chain reaction of explosions.
7. Invincible - Get 5 health regenerations from enemy damage without dying.

Screenshot Time!

Lvl 55 Commander. (Look! My kills is higher than my deaths!)

Extremely difficult challenges.

My M21 in Fireman Red

My R700 in Boy's Scout Blue (now also in red)

Barret .50 cal. No red camo for this guy yet.

Now... back to COD4. Semper Fi!

An update

Today will be the last time I play Call of Duty 4, well at least in FTZ. I am stopping to focus on my studies for the finals coming November. Its was difficult thinking about stopping. I really hope i can continue playing after the test by getting GArena to work, i have no idea how it works... I wonder how the online comunity is like compared to the crowd in FTZ (bye The Durians, The Professors and the noobs that helped me so much to gain experice pts and unlocks.)

Top 10 Most Wanted Unlocks

1. Overkill (dual primary weapon)


2. P90 (red dot + silencer + ACOG, for all guns listed here)


3. G36C


4. M14


5. Barret


6. Desert Eagle


7. Frag x 3


8. Humuliation Challanges


9. -wtf, just reallised that there isn't 10 worthy unlocks... oh well...

Screenshot Time!

Boot Camp Challanges: Complete!

Next rank.. Lieutenant Colonel (silver leaf)

My Heckler & Koch G3 assault rifle in pixel camoflage

(next camo unlock Blue Tiger [75 headshots] and Red Tiger [150 headshots], both totally unpractical and silly, just for showing off)

Isn't it beautiful? G3, pixel camo, ACOG scope.

My favorite Class: ATKR (read as Attacker [don't copy, its my trademark])

• G3, ACOG scope, pixel camo
• USP .45 silenced (no Deagle ma..)
• Bandoiler (more ammo)
• Sleight of Hand (faster reaload)
• Last Stand

The M40A3 looks great with default woodland camo. My R700 look like rubbish with woodland camo, so i put pixel on it, still looks bad.. but can showoff ma.

Thanks to Yee Hon, Chih Ping and the guys who let me farm you. Also special, thanks to all the noobs which I totally owned in FTZ today.

New

I've got a new phone. Had enough of the jammy joystick on my old one.
No its not an N85, just a Sony Ericsson K630i.

What I like about my new phone.

1. It looks good.


2. Its cheap. (RM580)


3. NO JOYSTICK! (or Painstick!)


4. Its louder.


5. Comes with a nice pair of earphones and a 1Gb M2 card.

What I don't like about my new phone.

1. The camera sucks. (2mp, no autofocus)


2. The keypad is too cramped.
3. No dedicated music button.
4. The shell creaks, feels plasticy.


5. The new interface is complicated.


6. No torchlight. (unlike my K750i that got traded away)


7. Has a few bugs.

Conclusion?

I like it. The bad point is nothing I can't live with. I take more pics with my D40x anyways. Miss the tochlight though... Saving money to get the new AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens... ooh prime lens..

Call of Duty.

I have recently discovered that i can save my profile when playing COD4 (Call of duty 4) in a CC. Ever since then i am so hopelessly addicted to it that its affecting my studies (bye-bye Trials). Every time i try to study i'll end up thinking about what to unlock next and what Perks (abilities) i would put on my custom classes.

I am currently a Master Sargent III, the next rank i'd get would be Master Gunnery Sargent (lvl 22). I have unlocked the M21 (currently ma favorite sniper rifle), M4 (automatic version of M16), a Mini-Uzi (retared sub-machine gun), M1911 (retared Vietnam era handgun) and a M60E4 (fat ass Vietnam era machine gun [accuracy sucks, bad.]). Next would be a SVD (a Soviet made AK-like retared sniper rifle).

The most useful Perks i have unlocked is Last Stand (shoot ur enemy with your sidearm before dying), Martyrdom (drop a frag nade [grenade] with a 2.5 sec fuse after u r killed). Martyrdom is bloody useful against backstabbers and chargers. (F U superNinja Hahahahaha!). My most recent Perk unlock is Sleight of Hand, which doubles ur reloaded time, i used it on my shotgun class. The reload speed was insane! Woo! Its like.. shckshckshckshckshckshckshck, shck-shak!! Done. Ready to blow brains. I am really exicted about unlocking Claymores (anti-personnel mines that explodes when you walk past it). hehehhehhehehhe, imagine how many idiots i can frag while i snipe-camp.

I have red-dot sights on my MP5, M16, M4, M1200 shotgun, and M249 light machine gun. The retarted thing about COD is that i can't put 2 attachment together, its either red-dot (25 kill to unlock), silencer (75 kill to unlock) or an ACOG (150 kill to unlock).

Another fun thing to unlock are Challenges. When you unlock a challenge and complete one, the game rewards you with experince points. I have almost finished my Bootcamp challenges. 1 more prone kill and i'll complete Prone Shot III, 250pts, yeah. I am 4 shanks away from completing Knife Vereran III. I would really like to play Humiliation Challenges, but i can only unlock them at lvl 44. Ma-de. One challenge is called Misery Loves Company, where i have to kill myself and 1 enemy by cooking a grenade but not throwing it. LOL! Another is Cruelty, where i'd kill an enemy, pick up his weapon, and kill the enemy with his weapon when he respawn. ROLFMAO!

Screenshot Time!!

COD4 multiplayer main page

One of my custom classes, Big Stick. And, if anyone is asking, i hate camo on my guns, desert camo look like baby crap... and how is Red Tiger camo supposed to conseal anything?!

Generals would probably go, pfft lame... now.

I love knifing, 4 more shanks! I changed Q to my melee button, so chargers, beware, hahahhahahahhahahahh!

Knifing air just for fun, i like the knife in CS more, but this one kill in just one slash.

Top 10 most anticipated upgrades

1. Claymore
2. Overkill (dual primary weapon)
3. Iron Lungs (hold breath 10sec while sniping)
4. Humiliation Challenges
5. M14
6. P90
7. G3
8. G36c
9. Bandoiler
10. Barret M82 .50cal

Obscenities

Bird Nest Stadium?

Think again.

Cockerel?

Think again.

Don't get what i mean?

Don't bother thinking.

Still got lots of pictures to edit. Cherrio...

List of camera accessories that i want

1. Image sensor blower
2. PT-o4
3. Diffusion Dome for SB-600
4. AA Battery charger
5. 120 medium format film, (B&W or colour)
6. Remote shutter release trigger (bulb capable)
7. Good tripod
8. New camera bag

Yup another totally useless and uninformative blog post.

What i did in my two week worth of holidays...

Because i am too lazy to blog in detail and because i don't have to, i'll just summarize what i did into this chonological list..

• One day before holiday- Shot (shot as in shooting pictures) law school students with CS, for kiamsap Taylor's Law prospectus
• Ate at a stupid restaurant in the middle of nowhere and went to Lookout Point
• Went to Nikon center to get my CCD cleaned
• Shoot pics of my Hotwheels
• Attended a relative's wedding
• Lepak with Jerry
• Bought my AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm macro lens and a SB-600 Speedlight flash
• Tried out my new equipment in Semenyih
• Flickred those pictures
• Installed and finished Call of Duty 4: Modern warfare in 2 days
• Replay COD4 in arcade mode, found 20 enemy intels and unlocked every cheat except the last one, infinite ammo
• Whatched Ironman
• Caught a fever
• Packed for my trip to Belum
• Went to Belum, took photos, fed leaches, slept on hard floor,
• After holidays, procastinate bout blogging Belum, editted and burned pictures into CD
• Distribution
• Blogged this, Flickring Belum pics to Strike Freedom account

If you wanna see what i did in Belum, go here, Take the slideshow and comment here!!

Semenyih Campsite

Ahh.. first time this year going to this site. My dad found this place, its his favorite campsite because its the closest to home. Nothing much to write, just went there last last weekend with my D40x, did a lot of shots that i've been dying to do with it...



Road to the site, 4WD only..




Campsite




Green Guy (not an etomologist of anykind, don't know the name of these)




Camoflaged with skin




Black Dude




Waterfall ..finally..




Jungle Coils




Weird Fern

MSN charging for its services!! Forward this to all your contacts!!

I have received countless e-mails form my friend with a similar title to the one above. The most recent one being this one...

Subject: FW: All msn / hotmail usersDate: Tue, 6 May 2008 13:09:52 +0000
Good afternoon all msn / hotmail users, I am Tara and together with all the directors of MSN, we apologized for the interruption.

Please be informed that msn is closing down due to the increasing numbers of inconsideration. In our current report, it has clearly showed that there is an overflowing percentage of population using one name to sign up for lots of new and different accounts. This draws us to a shortage of new username accounts. Report shave shown that we are left with only FIVE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EIGHT names. So this actually forced us to close down as many wasted accounts as possible for our company sake.

To do so, our company has decided to use this idea. If you would like to keep this existing account, please kindly follow the instructions given below.

01: Copy this entire email.
02: Go back to inbox, and click on new
03: Right click paste
04: Sent this to all the names / emails address in your contact

(*To help you to ensure that you have followed to given instructions, once you sent this email to all your names / emails address in your contact , your msn will turn blue) ** Closing date: 30 JUNE 2008 If you would like to close your existing msn / hotmail account, ignore the FOUR (04)steps given above. Any new account that is being signed up for will be charged at the cost of US$10.00 a month.

Please go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1189119.stm more details. Thank you for your understanding. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/


Oh my gosh! MSN is gonna charge for its service?? TOTAL BOLLOCKS!!

First of all, MSN makes MILLIONS in just from its ads, anyone of those annoying animation ad that you see bellow your MSN Messanger costs a bomb!

Secondly, why would MSN staff BOTHER to send this kinda personally to their contacts? They can just freakin send a MASS MESSAGE to all its users, thats isn't that difficult! They do it all the time whenever there is a new version of Messanger out!

Thirdly, if you'd actually read the TERMS AND CONDITIONS before singning up, you'd know that if your account is inactive for 9 months it will be AUTOMATICALLY DELETED.

Furthermore, your 'MSN guy' wouldn't change blue even if you did senD this to all your contacts? Have you seen it turn blue?

Need more convincing? I had received at LEAST 20 similar e-mails and did absolute-ly nothing! And i can still use MSN FREE!

Need more proof? Try these sites... (just copy and paste in your address bar, don't worry, I personally guarantee there you can't get any virus thingy this way.)

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/msn-shutdown.html

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/msn-18-contacts.html

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/msn-petition.html

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/m/msn.htm

http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=9;t=002257;p=0

http://www.f-secure.com/hoaxes/msn_hoax.shtml


This is a HOAX its just a CHAINMAIL, probably started by some lonely bastard that doesn't receive enough e-mails from his/her contacts. If whoever started this kinda crap is reading this, read on... GET A LIFE.

Don't bother sending this sorta crap, don't worry about being charged or getting your MSN or Yahoo or Friendster account being delete, it won't happen, IT'S A HOAX.

I am so sick of getting chainmails, and you know whats worst? Those "Pity this girl" chainmails, the ones with pictures of deformed babies or children with ugly burns, that get you to forward the e-mail to all your contacts to get "support" for them.
I actually pity the poor baby, and i know too well that sending e-mails don't do any difference, if some billionaire actually wanted to donate to this he'd just freakin do so! Why'd he bother to ask people for signatures and support. And some idiot actually used the poor girl's picture to get more e-mails!!! F_cking @$$#01e!

Batu Caves Photography Trip

Today i went to Batu Caves for a photograpic trip organized by TPS. I got to meet some 'semi-pros' and mess with their cameras, expensive hardware... Umm.. generally fun.. first time going to batu caves and actually remembering it.. (i went there once when i was really really young). Took 510 pictures today, and only this 10 is lookable at... I wasn't thinking when shooting today... what the hell happend to me? I just stick my camera in Programme mode and shoot like crazy...

Who's counting?

Chicken Run, haha!

Inside the cave; practically everybody that came took this scene

Hole in the cave

Innocent look..

A monkey did this..

Plasticbags are not toys, Suffocation Hazard

Monkeys are more or less the main attractin here in Batu Caves

Pidgeon

Group photo

I call this guy Scarface, big male, wasn't afraid of me one bit..

These are some portrait shots i've taken there, i'm not really good with portraits, so don't laugh!..

Beefy Keane (he says he's fat, hah..)

The adorable Su Zhen