Tiers

I still frequent a forum board known as Shoryuken. I was a member there since 2000.... Back when arcades were still THE THING TO DO. Before the emergence of the CYBERCAFE or the counterstrike. I would frequent the forum board, read up on how to play certain characters, and discuss anything. I would go there for information of comic characters, marvel or dc, Street Fighter canon etc. It was a great place to be.

SRK is a place of fanboys and nerds. Its a place where people can come together and argue if this character from this comic fights that character from that show, who would win? Thread after thread came through, and many nominations were submitted. A term was used, called Tiers, to decide who stood where. After a long journey, it was finally agreed of the Trinity of the Tiers. And to tell you the story, i'll leave it to an old guy from SRK, one who has been around for many years. Presenting, The Story of the Tiers.

Before this goes any further, I feel I should explain the SRK Tiers, and how they came to be. If you understand them, maybe you'll have a better idea of how it works. Gather round chillin, it's storytime...

The SRK isn't just for the good. The great. The awesome. Or even the stupidly good. No. It's for the absolutely, positively, Oh my God WTFBBQ no way in hell 100% pure Broken Beyond Broken.

Back in The Day, Sagat's C.FP sat atop the SRK Tiers, cause it was unparalled. We SF'ers had never seen anything like this before in our lives. "WTF?! A fierce punch that outprioritizes *EVERYTHING*?! And is faster than a JAB?! AND you can CANCEL INTO SUPER?!?!?!" Jesus Christ Get The Escalade! Broken.

Then the SRK Tier Wars broke out. The Tier Wars featured many comic book and cartoon heroes being viciously defended by their fanboys (Goku Vs Superman, anyone?). However, one group in particular really stood out - the Batman fanboys. Apparently, in some DC comics arc, it was revealed that Batman kept secret files on EVERYONE in the DV universe and their weaknesses...so if he ever got into a fight with someone, anyone, he had a way to defeat them. The Bats fanboys argued that with Batman's intelligence, vast financial resources, and these files, given enough time to prepare, Batman could defeat anyone.

The more sane members of SRK began to ridicule this. We played along, even including the 1960's TV version of Batman, who always seemed to have a gadget/contraption/spray for ANY situation he found himself in (Shark-Repellant Bat Spray, anyone?) We then figured that with enough Prep-Time, Batman could fashion an anti-C.FP spray and defeat Sagat, which then propelled him to the top of the SRK Tiers. Broken Beyond Broken. He would enjoy the top for a little while, until The Gospel™ was revealed...

Bowling Pin revealed to us a contender once forgotten - MacGuyver. Much like Batman, MacGuyver was well known for being able to get out of any situation...but unlike Batman, he needed *NO* prep-time at all! In fact, MacGuyver could make ANYTHING as long as he had any three random objects. This is because MacGuyver utilizes Absolute Zero-Prep...he needs no prep-time, because the universe was prepped before he created it. Absolute Zero Prep > Prep-Time, therefore MacGuyver > Batman. If MacGuyver ever got into a fight with Sagat, he could make anti-C.FP spray out of two sheets of paper, a slinky, and a booger. Broken Beyond Broken.

At the same time, Jack Bauer started to rise the ranks. He was a badass in the first season of 24, but in S2 everything went completely batshit insane. He was cutting off heads with a hacksaw! He was RC'ing death! He was kicking people's asses WHILE HAVING A HEART ATTACK! It was revealed that Jack Bauer actually works on CHAOSITY COUNTER, the direct and natural opposite of Prep-Time. The badguys would prep for Jack...make these elaborate plans, stadiums full of guards and shit, and still have their shit absolutely RUINED when Jack just runs in yelling and screaming and shooting and going crazy and shit, and THEN EVERYBODY GETS SHOT and Jack is The Winnar. Broken Beyond Broken.

It was here that a startling discovery was made. A long time ago, MacGuyver and Jack Bauer were actually THE SAME PERSON, an incredible GOD named MacBauer. However, MacBauer was simply TOO AWESOME, therefore he was forced to split into two, and in the process our universe was created. The split created a yin-yang/light-dark side of the force kind of balance between PREP and CHAOS, with MacGuyver inheriting the former and Bauer the latter.

So there you have it. MacBauer is the Supreme Lord GOD of EVERYTHING, and we try to serve in his name faithfully as high priests. MacBauer is MACBAUER TIER. Then, in GOD TIER sit his halves, Jack Bauer and MacGuyver. Then, we simply have the TOP TIER, which features those who are good but not GODLY like Bauer and MacGuyver.


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Musical Baton

Total volume of music files on my computer:
1.21GB

The last CD I bought was:
Greatest Love Of All - its a compilation of classic sappy love songs. Right up my alley!!!

Song playing right now:
Christian Aguileira - The Voice Within

Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:

1. Something Like You by N'Sync
2. In The End by Linkinpark
3. Higher by Creed
4. Perfect by Simple Plan
5. Love Me by Colin Raye

Don't hate me cos i happen to like boybands, rock, alternative and pop all at once.

And... well, i'm not passing it on because i don't really have anyone to pass it on to.... I have no online friends, and those i do know already got this.

Jar Jar Binks is The One

Of course, these images are not mine, but of a photoshop contest involving movie posters. Some of my favourites :






See them all here!

KaBaBoom, the Househusband?

In the TODAY forum pages, there's quite a bit of commotion a while ago about stay-at-home men. They were talking about whether that makes you a man, whether its feasible nowadays, whether men were willing to do it, blah blah blah.

I say... let the women stay at home. Wait wait wait... before all the females crucify me, let me explain. I am a firm believer a child needs a full time mother. A mother that will always be there for him/her in the all-important childhood. To bring up the kid in the way of God. Extremely crucial role. So, if possible, if i ever have kids, i will insist that my wife stays at home to look after them. Its a necessary role, i believe, for the sake of the kids. Nothing can replace a Godly mother.

Of course, i'm not so rigid lah. If circumstances are such that... hmm... perhaps my wife turns out to be a doctor earning 10k a month, and i'm a teacher earning 2k, then OF COURSE i will not insist that my wife stay at home while i work. I will stay at home and bring up the kids, while my wife works and earns the money.

But i wonder... me as a stay-at-home husband? Is that ever going to work? Half the time i'll be slacking away. My wife is probably not going to get a good dinner. The house will be like my room(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). The kids will turn to be chronic computer game players.

Maybe its not that good an idea after all....

To Blog or Not To Blog

Am i a true blogger? I don't really know... Sometimes i look around at other people's blogs(once in a while. i hardly blog surf, and know little of the Singapore blogging community), and they(if they update) have themselves an audience. Me? I seem to have an audience which i can count on one hand. I had one good post... which got me tomorrowed, then... BAM, that's it. One spike in readership, then back to almost nobody again. Few people stay. I wonder why. My friend, who just got her blog featured in the STRAITS TIMES for goodness sake(CONGRATZ!!!!) has a continuously growing audience.

And the audience is what keeps a blog going. For myself, anyway. Because if i didn't want anybody to read my blog, why would i post it online? Might as well store it away in my computer and save me the trouble. Having people actually interested in what you have to say... that's a big ego boost. Getting comments, and hits... it feels great.

Which brings me back to why i keep blogging, then stop, then blog, then stop. Because with few people reading, sometimes its difficult to keep updating. What sometimes... all the time.

I guess i'm just jealous. I would love to have a huge audience. I would love to have more people read my blog. But hey... i get what i deserve. I'm just way too lazy. If i don't visit other people's blogs, who's going to visit mine? If i don't leave comments elsewhere, who's going to leave comments here?

Ah, well. Whatever it is, i know i'll always have a few readers who actually want to read my blog. And that's good enough for me, for i know they are genuinely interested in what i have to say.

Won't get no endorsements, though.

Sith Sense

Beware.... for

DARTH VADAR CAN READ YOUR MIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was thinking of a gameboy, and he got it!

MORE Star Wars and then Some

Ah... seems to me that i'm not the only non-star wars fan around here! First of all, big apologies to Brian for not being able to be there with you for the Star Wars movie. My grandmother calleth and i needed to go to her place for dinner. And boredom.

But yes, its true that some of the things he mentioned i too would like to see. And to make it up to him, i shall bring them to life...



Yoda and Jar Jar Binks in a Casino debate

JJB : Mesa Jar Jar binks, cute little green man. Mesa like Casino... big, shiny.

Yoda : Yoda, my name is. Little, i am. Green, i am. But cute, i am NOT. Weak in the force, you are. Understand nothing, you do.

JJB : But mesa like Yoda... small and cute Yoda ees. Yes, yes... Mesa hungry.

Yoda : Small brain, you have. With the dark side, the Casino is. Destroy the Casino, we must.

JJB : Mesa thinking Casino nice place. Many people comming to Casino... Bring many many foodies. Mesa like foodies, mesa do.

Yoda : America, Singapore is not. Able to handle the dark side of the Casino, they are not. Poor, they will become. Weak with the force, the Singaporeans are. Self control, they have not. Integrated Resorts will lead to gambling. Gambling will lead to debt. Debt will lead to Ah Long. Ah Long will lead to the Dark Side.

JJB : But Mesa like Singapore food.

Yoda : Spicy and good, Singapore food is. But painful out the butt, it comes out.

JJB : Mesa think Yoda is not liking Singapore. Mesa think Singapore Gah-men too strict, not let Singaporeans do what they like. Mesa think..

Yoda : A fool, you are! Know little of Singapore, you do. Afraid of the Singapore Government, you are not. Live for many years, i have. But still afraid of the Government, i am. Not talk of the Singapore Government, we must. For sue us, they will. Destroy us, they will. Even unable to defeat them, the Empire are. No no no... Not talk of them, we must.

Other things he wanted to see :

Botak Qui Gon Jin with Tapered Pants



Mace Windu as Coach Carter




And i'm sorry, brother, but i can't photoshop the last one for you.

About Star Wars and then Some

Man... i never thought i would have gotten on tomrrow.sg man. Especially since i've not posted for like... forever. Then i update once... and BOOM, i kena tomorrowed, and my blog has more visitors than its ever had in the past 6 months! That R0Xx0rz so much. Makes me want to update more... which i am going to do.

One of the biggest and most anticipated movies of the year is comming out soon... (though in my opinion it ought to be Batman Begins, coolest superhero ever to grace our earth), Stars Wars and the Revenge of the Sith. Its like... big. People queue up overnight(overweek,overmonth,overyear) to be among the first ever to see the film. Seriously, i never got that... I mean, as much i as i love my favourite movie, which happens to be the BEST MOVIE IN THE WHOLE WORLD AND UNIVERSE AND OMNIVERSE AND WHATEVEROTHERVERSE, A Walk to Remember, which had the best plot ever conceived by the human mind and the best actress ever to act in it(so i'm a Mandy Moore fan... so sue me), i would never queue overnight for it. Yes, its a chick flick. Yes, i like chick flicks. I happen to have dreams about romance and stuff, finding me a perfect and beautiful girlfriend, getting married, etc etc... I happen to read romance novels(the ones without the weird sex in the river with the forests burning and a mountain lion watching from the sidelines, owls flying overhead in a blue sky with a raincloud in the distance, but the ones which focus on the romance, not the sex).

But hey, people are that crazy over it and are willing to do it. But hey, to each his own. There are things i'd queue overnight for... like maybe.. uh... ok, there's nothing i'd queue overnight for. I take that back. Maybe if i would get to see Natalie Portman live in a bikini i may consider...

Which happens to be related to Star Wars, as Natalie Portman DOES happen to star as Padme(Padme? what kind of name is Padme? why not Tamponme? i hear those are more popular nowadays, though i could never in my wildest dreams stick something up anything of mine. But then again, i am a guy, so what'd i know?). Those that know me know that i happen to like girls who being with the letter K. See, i happen to believe that the 4 most beautiful women in the world happen to have their names starting with K. They are, in no particular order, Keira Knightly, Kirsten Dunst, Kristin Kreuk and another girl who's name i shall not mention. Natalie Portman, all of a sudden, has overtaken these other girls to second in my list of most beautiful women in the world. Second only to... i'll leave that to you to guess. I would watch Star Wars Episode III solely to see Natalie Portman in her blue dress.

See, i'm not that big a fan of Star Wars. Never have been. I didn't even watch episodes IV-VI until this year. I've watched episode I(which was all right. contrary to everyone else, i absolutely LOVED Jar Jar Binks. I thought he was the funniest thing ever.) I'm yet to watch Episode II, though i would soon because Natalie Portman is in it. Most of my friends are big fans of Star Wars... i'm not. Sure its a good movie, but A Walk to Remember is so much better.

And nowadays, everywhere you look, there's a special feature on Star Wars and its impact on the world. And its true. Everyone knows about Star Wars. The Force has become part of our vocabulary. Star Wars is in The New Paper. Its in the Straits Times. In 8 Days. Everywhere i look, there it is staring at me in the face. So i decided... you know, maybe its time to check out a little bit more about this Star Wars thing and try to understand it a little bit better....

The Force
What is The Force anyway? How does it work? Are they all telepaths with telekenetic powers or what? What can it do anyway, and what can't it do? So i check up the net for a little bit of research.... And i got plenty of stuff, half of which i didn't understand. But what i did get was its some kind of energy thingie which is in all forms of life. The more midi-chlorians that are in a being's cells, the more Force he/she/it has to control. What in the world are midi-chlorians? It sounds like some kind of bug to me... like maybe the amount of force you have depends on how many of these bugs exist in your body. Does that mean if i transfer blood from a jedi to myself i'll get more of these bugs and become more power?

Lightsaber
So how does this glorified torchlight work? Why does the light stop halfway instead of going all the way to the sky and stabbing the moon? After a bit of research, i learn that its some kind of crystal thingies that are aligned by the jedi using the force and concentrate some kind of weird energy into the torchlight using a power cell. The jedi use various crystals which give various colours to the lightsabers, and the sith use synthetic crystals for theirs, which result in their red colour blade. I wonder though... how come only mace windu gets to use a purple one then? not very fair, is it... Also, about the power cell... if i were to use a more powerful power cell, like say, instead of using triple A batteries i use a double A battery... would the blade be longer? Image that... a blade that's 5 meters long... it wouldn't matter the weight because light has no weight. He'll have a sword bigger than Cloud's... and rule the world.

Spaceships
There are lots of weird looking spaceships that make no sense... A-wings look quite stupid to me. But B wings take the cake. Someone please tell me how a ship of that design can actually be useful please... its long. for a reason i know not. it doesn't look very agile. why can't it be a normal ship with normal wings?

Anyway, by now i've gotten bored of the Star Wars universe... so until next time, May the Bugs Multiply in You and make many many more Midi-whatchamightcallit in you!

Singapore Boys Immature?

Ah yes... there's an article in the Straits Times today about someone calling Singaporean boys immature, especially when applying for scolarships(how do you spell that?), and they're irresponsible and don't even know what they want. Some female graduates also agree that yes, that's the case, Singaporean boys ARE immature, even in their early twenties.

The guy, Philip Yeo, in his book(if you haven't yet heard of this topic) is saying that they're whiny, break their bonds, etc etc. This, he says, even though they have been through NS. That some of them even start to complain more after they come out of NS.

You know what? I actually agree with him. NS doesn't make men out of boys... That's bull. If anything, NS makes boys out of boys. Its in NS that we learn how to complain. Its in NS that we learn how NOT to work hard, because we aren't rewarded for our work. We're rewarded when we 'carry balls' so to speak. Even then, its negligible. We learn how to chao keng. We learn how to pretend to do work. How to action action only. How to swear. How to gossip. How to curse your superiors and the government.

The real growing up only starts AFTER NS, i believe. When we actually go to the universities... When we actually start work and have to support ourselves. The meagre allowance that the government gives us during NS means we HAVE to still rely on our parents. Independence during NS my foot. Indepence can only truly be learnt when we go out to work.

During which, of course, the girls get a headstart on us. While we're doing our pushups and cleaning our officer's bunks, they are already studying in the universities, overseas or working, learning and growing. For two years, our growth is stunted because of NS. Sure, we can grow because of NS, but hardly in the way people want us to.

Add to that the fact that mentally girls mature 2 years faster than guys, they will now have a 4 year headstart on us.

So i guess its only more fair if we compare 22 yr old guys to 18 yr old girls.

Yeah. We are immature and irresponsible. And i blame NS.

DISCLAIMER : THIS PHOTOS ARE NOT MINE, I KOPE FROM MY OFFICER'S COMPUTER!!!!!

Christon=Lousiest Blogger Ever

Basically, i am probably the lousiest blogger i know... yes.

All my posts are about me not blogging.

I have lost my readership. Not that i had a huge one to begin with.

Simply because i'm too lazy to write down anything.

Lazy lazy me.

You know, sometimes i wonder whether i should even delete this blog. It is rather useless...

Its been like... years since i've posted something interesting.

I don't even find interesting stuff on the net anymore.

I hardly even surf the net anymore.

I don't even know xiaxue.




Ok. I lied. I know xiaxue.

So as a blogger, i should be shot.

I make a good fire fighter though.

Oh wait... i don't make that great a fire fighter, simply because there are so few fires to fight. Sigh... i blame Singapore for being such a fire safe country, that i have so few fires to fight.

I have a huge muscular body though.



Ok, i lied. I have a VERY huge muscular body with a face that makes girls go ga-ga over me.

Yes, they are lining up to date me at this very moment. They love me oh so very very much.

Its True.

Don't look at me like that.... i don't lie.



Ok... so i lied twice. I'm not lying now. I'm really good-looking and buff and stuff. Girls want to date me. I'm that powerful. Its true.

And i'm also rich. Like... i own a private jet and helicopter. You just don't know it because there are few places i can land my own helicopter in Singapore, so i hardly fly it around.

The Backstreet Boys are back with a new song, Incomplete. I guess they're tired of failing as solo artistes, so they're trying now to fail as a boyband again.

What boyband. They're so old they should be called mid-life crises men.

Imagine that. "Up next, its the Midlifecrises Men with a song, Midlifecrises' back"

Man, i've got 10 more years before i hit the mid-life crises. That's bad.

I don't know where i'm going with this.

I think i'm just wasting space right now.

I think i'm sleepy.

I think i should stop thinking of someone as she's not very good for me.

I also think that my workplace should have better higher ranking people as some of them aren't very nice and abuse their power over their subordinates.

I wish i had a girlfriend.

I wish God would send me a girlfriend.

But i also know that God ain't sending me no girlfriend right now cos all i'll do is ruin hers and my life.

Especially if its the girl i'm thinking about, though it could be the opposite then.

Opposite as she may ruin my life as much as i ruin hers, not as in it would be a good thing.

Newcastle is now 12th in the EPL. For those that actually care, that means they suck this season. Really bad. Like worse than Man U.

Whom just got taken over by some rich american dude who doesn't even care about football. Poor Man U. I guess they're so poor thing... Having many of the best players in the world, being the richest club and all, because some rich guy has taken over the club.

I don't understand girls.

I don't understand bikinis.

I don't understand micro mini-skirts.

I don't understand the beach.

I don't understand why i can't stop thinking about someone even though everyone is telling me to.

I don't understand how i can become a fire fighter.

I don't understand why someone can wear their pants at their like thighs, with a belt, and look so weird walking around orchard road.

I don't understand my little sister.

I don't understand how people can enjoy playing the piano, yet i hate it so much.

I don't understand why i am writing all this nonsense.

I think i'm sleepy now. I'm going to sleepy. Ignore the ramblings of a sleepy man. I mean boy. I mean man. I mean man-boy. I'm not a boy, not yet a man.