Workload.

I hereby now forbid myself from playing video games.

5 Days until my first exam , 10 days until the end of exams.

At the rate at which i study (slow.) , i'll need at least 5 days before the start of my first exam to be able to do ok.

This is all the stuff im supposed to know , at minimum.
I think i only actually managed to cover about 80% of the course , and at minimal - medium level of detail too :/
So as you can imagine , learning almost 30 pages of bullet points is not the easiest thing in the world.
http://www.mengsbizarreadventure.com/uploads/studywork.docx

Workload.

SPY SPY SPY SPY SPY SPY SPY

This is pretty much how i play TF2.

Dream - 27th may

So im at home and about to go on a car trip with my dad , someone else and 2 of my grandma's (kinda.). rush back into the house to get my wallet and phone coz i forgot them the first time. We get in the car first , the two grandmas come last. Instead of getting in the car , they decide to climb on top of it where there are roof bar things (the type that used to be used for holding roof luggage).
so my dad is like 'k' and starts driving, he floors it.
We're now going like 60 miles an hour through a city,  going around roundabouts and stuff with my 2 grandparents holding on to the roof and nearly flying off multiple times.

We eventually get to our destination , a hotel by the looks of it.
<segment missing>
I get in the lift on the 25th floor and hit the ground floor button , i turn around and everyone else im with doesent get in the lift , the doors close.
I realise ive lost my phone and wallet.
Get to the bottom and i hit the 25th floor thing again to go up the building.

This time , the lift floats away from the building and starts traveling around and away from it. I can see the building we just came from... its only 4 stories now. *shrug*
I stare out the window worried , im not keen on heights and here this lift is , floating around at 20something stories high. I start to worry what if the lift breaks and we all fall...
It does.
The lift (its like a glass lift btw so you can see everywhere around you) starts falling in slow motion ,  and tilts on its side. I float inside the lift where its falling so fast.
It hits the floor , i get up and am like 'fuck.' , there is another hotel nearby so i go there.
Bitchy lady at the counter says the computer isnt working and is like 'yeah. just take a room on the 3rd floor' so i start walking up the stairs.
The building gets progressively colder the higher up i go , by 3rd floor there is icy steam sorta stuff (like in a giant freezer) , its rather cold here.
There is 1 bed left , i start to walk towards it when a guy walks past me and puts his luggage down by that bed - oh also. he's on fire.
... well.. i dont really wanna steal the cold bed from the guy thats on fire. I walk back down to the receptionist.
Apparently someone by name of Frances Meng made a reservation thing for a room with double bed - only problem is that its in maidenhead , which the receptionist tells me is 'pretty fuckin' far y'knooowww'

<wake up>

Weird dream :S

Uploader / Uploads

For some reason , the code that was running the file viewing stuff on my uploads folder stopped updating new uploads. Being the PHP genius that i am , i spent an hour playing around with it last night , fucked up the website in about 20 different ways duffing around with PHP scripts and htaccess files and at 3am i finally.... gave the fuck up.

So to 'rectify' the problem , ive created a new uploads folder... kinda. Well i renamed the old uploads folder to (/archive) and made another uploads folder.
This is kind of useful anyway as the uploads folder currently has around 1.4k files. And some of you may remember that i left a bunch of files behind when i switched server.

So all the old files are now at http://mengsbizarreadventure.com/archive

And all your new uploads will be in the same place as before.
Have updated the links on the right as appropriate

Shit son - emailed one.com asking how to allow folder viewing and instead they hooked me up with some beast script.
Uploads folder is back and working , and now amazing.

http://www.mengsbizarreadventure.com/uploads/index.php?dir=&sort=date&order=desc

A rough idea of how bored i am doing revision.

Quack.

Bedknobs and Boogers

mm.. been a while since my last post - or it feels like it anyway.

Exams:
Revising still , i think im almost done with the bulk of my revision ,may need to go back over stuff for extra detail but then its gonna be just learning all of the facts ive condensed down. Its currently at 10k words and 25 pages or something like that. This shit is in condensed bullet points too so its gonna be ridiculombo to learn >_>
I may put the final word document up on here so that you guys can have a look see at all the shit im supposed to learn.
exams are at least semi-far away , relatively. Everyone else's exams are starting this week i believe but mine start on the 4th and end on the 9th - of which im very thankful.

Uni:
Went swimming today , we found what are essentially water cinder blocks made out of rubber or something. They just weigh a ton each and make you sink super fast. Is quite fun going to the deep end holding about 5 of them (kinda like holding an additional 4 stone in your hands) and then sinking down to the bottom , jumping up for air and then sinking to the bottom and running around the floor again, i imagine thats  kinda how mario feels what with the giant floaty jumps and such.
Also last night they stole christinas mattress then while she was out looking for it , snuck into her room and rigged up water bombs above her door..... Funny stuff.
Oh also. i got bored this morning and...

Hoping it will help me stop looking at my keyboard , i CAN touch type , i just have a habit of glancing down at my keyboard every now and then. Also i guess it'll give particular keys a break - that S in particular is a little worse for wear.

Anime :
Haruhi Season 2 started recently , watched the first episode and it seems pretty cool - direct continuation of the first season it would seem.
In other news , Fairy tail (manga) is getting pretty heated again , its a shame it comes out once a week and when it does you only get about 1 minute of reading time.

Games:
TF2 update is stupid. Ive completely given up hope on finding stuff , i guess i'll just aim for the achievements i havent gotten yet - of which there are alot. Kind of lame that alot of the sniper/spy achievements are to do with the new items though.
The Sims 3 seems to have fucked up for me , im not sure whats on but its periodically running too fast , as in it'll run normally for 0.8 of a second , then speed up to 3x speed for half a second and then back to normal. Its pretty fucking irritating , and upsetting - just got married ingame too D:
Also , Jason statham flipped the fuck out when he didnt pay his bills and the repo man took his microwave.

ps. yes. title was completely unrelated im afraid.

Capsule // Jarate!

This is such an awesome mix.



On another topic , holy shit TF2 DOUBLE CLASS UPDATE YAAAASSSS
Also , Jarate! JAAAAAASSSSSS Ive always wanted to play a game other than postal where you can shoot piss at people.

A day in the life of Jason Statham

Jason first likes to start the day by dressing in a full suit and sitting in front of a shitty pc and play generic looking video games

As he is new in the neighbourhood , the neighbors have come over to visit. JS greets them in his normal way.

Apparently this bitch is not impressed by JS critisizing her family. He proceeds to imply her mother is a llama.

He then decides to cut to the chase and just lay her out.

Finally he heads back into his house to see people watching a shitty movie, he walks in front of them and freaks out.

And what better way to finish the day than....

Yup. rumaging through the bins. His own bins of course - im not sure what he was hoping to find.

Ambassador

First , www.teamfortress2.com/spyupdate/ (day 6)

Someone on the steam forums was very bored and decided to calculate how big the gun actually is...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v401/aboojumsnark/ambassadorcaliber.jpg

.885 cal apparently.

For comparison sake :

AWP from CS = .338 cal
Anti-Vehicle Rifle = .50 Cal

Cant wait to wreck people with this thing.

Weekend back in Londontown

Saturday :
Spent most of the day dossing around , did some revision , played some GHWT , ended up playing some patapon. Also went to dim-sum and then went to a family friend's house for hotpot later on in the night - they were watching britains got talent and then eurovision so i watched some of that too between playing patapon at their house.

Sunday :
Bit of a boring start to the day with revision. Weird lunch of pie and meat on a stick and then went out to Romford to meet frances. Walked around Romford for a bit , looking for an ice cream scoop (coz ive bent far too many spoons at warwick trying to scoop icy creams) and then ended up going to lakeside - little did we know that lakeside on a sunday apparently closes at 5. We arrived at around 5. Not nize.
We needed something to do before heading 'home' to sleep so we basically ended up watching Wolverine - she hadnt seen it before and i wasnt too bothered , i figured it would be nice to see what the film is supposed to look like.
Obviously i was pretty disapointed , the scenes where you could blatently see the wires you could tell they used wires anyway , people dont (bbbbb)bounce into the air like that. The cardboard cutouts for helicopters were all placed , little extra sparks here and there , the island was added in , along with the lazer beam blasts from deadpool (THEY REMOVED THE ORANGE CIRCLE COMPLETELY IM FURIOUS.).
It was kind of enlightening , but for the most part kind of boring for me , ah well. There are worse ways to spend a fiver. Headed to nando's afterwards for some chickenz - got the lemon and herb one , frances thought it was kind of spicy. fml.
Started feeling kind of sick on the bus home and stayed like that until fairly late , went to sleep.

Monday (the big one):
Woke up at 7 o'clock for some reason. saw the time and went back to bed.
Woke up at 9:30 due to alarm , ended up on the bus to the station , figured we should eat before (shit gets real) we head in to london. Ended up getting a pretty big jacket potato with tuna and sweetcorn - yum , the sick feeling from yesterday starts to creep up again... but backs off fairly quickly. District line to westminster, i thought id take her to the london aquarium , she likes animals - fish are animals i thought to myself.
She seemed to like it , big fish small fish cardboard box etc , turtles , ugly fish , neon fish  ,  noteworthy mentions include:
- fish which was apparently worth £250,000 - it was huge and golden coloured , supposedly asians like it because they're good for prosperity.
- fish which float up to the surface , stick their head above water and use 'water gun' to shoot down prey (or in this case , shrimp stuck to the wall above the tank)
- pirahnnas which arent as vicious as you'd think , they did fuck up whatever fish was thrown into that tank though.
- the shark room , which is above the shark tank , has a glass floor and you can walk along it. Dared frances to jump on the glass, she wouldnt.
Left the aquarium then , walked to trafalgar square to sit around for a bit , went to trocedero to look around , new stuff:
- Razing Storm (?) or some game to that effect , its kind of like time crisis mixed with crisis zone but with a few changes , like destructible enviroments and being able to see over your shield without taking damage , which doesent make much sense realistically.
- Museum nightmare or something , which is a lightgun game , looked kinda fun.
- DDR X machine , sporting big widescreen display.
- Guitar hero arcade , which is £1 per song, or £2 for a 'premium song' which is probably a song which has been played in the last week or something idk.
Kind of disapointed in the lack of new games since ive been but oh well - also not sure where Jubeat disapeared to. I heard there were SFIV cabs in there as well but i didnt see any so i guess they took them out , also disapointing lack of DJmax Technica.
Went into tokyotoys to take a look around , fairly depressing amount of otaku stuff , figures , costumes , and the like. Accessories i dont think are so bad , but when you're paying £18 for a fabric poster thing , or £80 for a 1/8 model Hatsune Miku figurine you know your life has taken a turn for the worse.
From here i think we just didnt know where to go (it was only about 5-6pm and my coach was at 9:30pm) so we ended up walking in a random direction , it took us.... to the red light district! odd that.
Saw odd posters for 'Black Balled 5' and 'Jock strapped' featuring muscley naked blackballed men / muscley naked whiteballed men , not sure if they were advertisments for a musical or a DVD or what.
A little more walking down the street, past XXX shops left and right and we saw a club/bar called 'G-A-Y'.  i deemed it rather gay and kept walking.

More walking and we ended up in covent garden somehow , stopped to watch the statue man , juggling man on giant unicycle , guitar man etc and then started heading back towards picadilly.
Ended up walking down chinatown and then to the park in leister square. Wasted time here and there , went to get subway , ate it , wondered around abit more , watched the crazy people on the DDR/PIU machines and then headed to Victoria for the bus station. Thought i should go to the toilet before i got to the bus station since they try to charge you stupid amounts in there. Went to a toilet in the food court area attached to Victoria station. There were toll barriers here as well but nobody was around , 20p? fuck that. I slipped under the barrier and did my thing. On the way out i was greeted by a large black woman. I tried to walk through the barrier but picked the wrong one.
"Oh good job you deednt paey"
i was silent. i had been caught D: i tried the other barrier and it was the exit , i walked out of the toilet
"um hello? excooz me? EXCOOZ ME YOU DEEDNT PAY"
"I WILL CATCH YOU LAYTAR. I WILL CATCH YOU LAYTAR."
I kept walking , without looking back , hurried my pace.
Thankfully she didnt persue , otherwise things could have gotten messy , not sure what i would have done if a security officer started coming at me , probably have ran i guess.
Got to the bus station at 9:10, bus was at 9:30.
Waited around , talked etc until the bus came and then got on the bus. Probably the emptiest megabus ever , 63 spare seats upstairs - or so i was told by the driver. Everyone upstairs had about 3-4 rows to themselves , which was nice and relaxing. the bus drives damn fast as well at night time. Home in about 2 hours. Ended up buying an ice cream scoop from tesco at warwick at around midnight.



Happy 1 year to us.

Essex

Its weird how after being at warwick for a while you forgot how much of a ghetto 'back home' actually is.

On the shortish bus trip going from becontree station to home where i live , i had the please of seeing about a dozen black people , 3 dozen chavs , a dozen black chavs (admittantly the same ones as the normal black people) , some chavs kicking the side of a bus as it drove off and then shouting at it , police sirens coming from two completely different directions...

Scummy indeed , but at the end of the day , i guess its still home.

I totally forgot how long it actually is to get back home from warwick , i left cryfield at about 5:30 and only got to london at 9pm , megabus being 40 minutes late may have had something to do with it , but regardless it took me until about 11pm to get back home (after stopping off at dave's house and having his family pretend to not be in - i guess i have a menacing looking silouette).
Faces i got from family back home were pretty priceless , i didnt tell anyone i was coming back so i just sorta showed up and got double looks from both parents. Good stuff. Unfortunately with the 'surprise' comes the recoil , in that everyone seems to be going out tomorrow - mum is working all day and dad is gonna be doing god knows what and even my brother is going out with some friends. I guess i'll be at home studying ~.~ (speaking of which , 'mengspersonalinformation.docx' is just my revision notes , not actually any personal information , sorry to disappoint. - its also password protected. Just because i can.)

MMO's

im sure its just because i really should be revising , but this morning i had the hugest urge to play WoW ever. Dont know whats up with that.

I also found out that apparently Blizzard is making another MMO and it'll be a completely new and original game , sounds good to me.

On the revision plate today , Genetics! Who knew that 1 cell turning into 2 cells could be so complicated.

TF2 Sniper update

It begins.

http://www.teamfortress.com/sniperupdate/

Life burns

So i thought id practically give myself the week off lectures , we only had 4 this week and i read over most of them over the weekend so i could justify not going. This has lead to late nights and late morning - and generally speaking from morning to night ive been attempting my hardest to study.
Often distracted by games , people or just myself wanting to dodge doing some work.
This is the main reason why there hasnt really been any posts of late , because theres absoloutely nothing happening in my life.
Unless you guys want 14 posts of 'today. i did the kidneys, there are a fuckton of hormones in there for no real reason at all and we have to learn them all. my personal favorite is angiotensin II because it reminds me of ANGER-TENSE IN , the 2nd. which would probably make a really good film about a guy who kills people with his abs."

While im here , new MS Paint adventures story is kind of rubbish so far. Cant really see where it can go - maybe it just cant touch Problem sleuth , which was a thousand something pages of awesome. This new guy just aint cuttin it.

Cake Party

On sunday everyone was like 'yay! lets make cakes!' so they did.



He put thyme and rosemary in it , and i dont even know what the hell is on the top , cheese with flour and milk or something i heard.

Best tasting chicken cake ive had yet.

Talk about picking your own poison.

So went to pigeon hole today , this was waiting for me.
Along with a note which says submit by thursday.

They gave us 2 and a half days to decide what we want to do next year.

Original Prankster

^Bed in a tree. But then what about his room?

200 spoons baby. Proud to say i stuck the ones on the ceiling , the ones on the posters are pretty good though.

Meanwhile in another part of cryfield...

James left his room open, his room was then swiftly relocated to the kitchen.

And the kitchen swiftly relocated to his room.

They also duct taped the front of sonals door , but i dont have a picture of that :<

Few games we been playing

^Splinter cell chaos theory , the game which was made to be played with objectives , straight up spies VS mercs deathmatch doesent work at all since mercs essentially get god mode and spies get about as much killing power as an origami duck (you can maybe stab someone in the eye with it i guess?) Nonetheless , it can be pretty fun when you manage to get the sneak/jump on someone and snap their neck.



^We also tried the Warhammer online beta about a week ago , i was going to do a full blog post at the time but thought id wait until i got more picture , then we all stopped playing. The game does have a lot of cool features , the open world PvP and how it does public quests for example is very cool - the problem lies in that nobody plays the game (probably because people that join see that nobody plays the game). This obviously leads to long queues for PvP and nobody in the open world pvp areas with public quests rendered impossible by the lack of players. It also seems to lack the addiction factor which WoW has , much the same with every MMO i play nowadays - i just feel no urge to keep playing unlike that which i got whilst playing WoW. *shrugs*

Splinter Cell : Chaos Theory

So yeah , as much as we like playing and such - come to the final decision that unless playing objective mode like the game wants you to (read: FORCE you to) - the game is almost impossible for the spies to win.
For those who havent/dont play , spies get the ability to jump and roll around in 3rd person , mercenaries get to shoot through walls , throw grenades and be invincible.

Thats not to

Crank : High Voltage (2009)

So we went to Coventry to watch Crank 2 yesterday , being that it is a film on dying end of its release (in that it probably wont be showing in cinemas next week) and that it was a bank holiday monday - the entire theatre was empty except for us (me , and 4/5 of next years housemates). Let the film begin then!
The film started off silly and nonsensical,  introducing crack whore chinese lady and transexual brother of the other transexual guy from crank 1. It then started becoming more ridiculous as time went on
The following graph sums up the ridiculous factor in the film pretty well i feel -


The film also has tits. lots and lots of tits. Like... way more than the first film , i imagine they had a goal of everytime they ran out of ideas in their board meeting they agreed to put some tits in the film to symbolize this. The film's plot is like everything else in the film - ridiculous.

I dont even know what else to say , if you want more of the same ridiculous, fast paced but nonsensical action that was in the first crank - watch this film. It takes everything amazing about the first film and hooks it up to a power pack. Worth noting that this film is best watched as a comedy rather than an actual action flick.

Meng Rating :



8/8 Inverted Sean Connerys
Amazing film - although at points (godzilla) its a little too ridiculous for its own good , but you'll forgive it after watching the end sequence. (Fuuuuuuuuuuucccckkkkkk yooooooooooo cheliossssssssssssshhhh)

Wolverine in 30 seconds.

Swine Flu?

http://doihaveswineflu.org/

Sophisticated coding in this website detects whether or not you have swine flu.

My bed.

....

Octopush!~

So after playing Age of Conan today trying not to get molested by level 25 barbarians...

We went to the swimming pool , we've been going semi often recently for the diving treasure hunt thingies. After about an hour and a half of being in the pool , they start segmenting the shallow end off , we decide to stay for a little longer so i went to the toilet. On the way back to the deeper end of the pool i see some of the guys i came with in shallow side (which had been segmented off). A girl approaches me from the water 'Wanna play?'
'You're in uni , you gotta try everything once at least' sam says to me from the water. I guess he's right , i went over to the other side where all the gear was.
Aftwer spending 5 minutes or so trying to find some flippers that fit me (ended up in 9's) we went into the water and was given
1x Glove (yes. 1.)
1x Wooden Spoon paddle looking contraption.
1x Goggles
1x Snorkel

We jump into the water.
I had no idea flippers were so awkward to move around in. You cant turn your feet without extreme pressure and it puts a lot of stress on your ankles when you try to swim.
Ive been snorkeling once when i was in florida on holiday so that bit wasnt so bad at least.

The jist of the game then , move a very heavy puck across the bottom of the swimming pool floor , and get it in the opposite teams goal.  The catch is that the bottom of the swimming pool floor is too deep to be able to use your snorkel , so you have to dive down and swim underwater to move the puck , its also incredibly hard to pass.
Its essentially Hockey - without oxygen.



^Artists impression of what meng looks like whilst playing octopush. - probably not very accurate.

Also , be prepared to run out of breath alot , get kicked in the face/stomach/groin with flippers , have your hand smacked by other peoples paddles , get stabbed with the paddles , have water go in your goggles , have water go down your tube , and get cramps - i did all.

It was a fun experience i suppose , although probably not one id soon repeat just because it was so very tiring - no oxygen = bad.

Making the best of a horrible situation

^ K Cells sound like some sort of Mortal Kombat character , delivering LETHAL HIT's to everything it comes into contact with.



^Possibly the most intense ATTACK COMPLEX of them all.

Random Pictures from my phone i havent been able to put up coz of virii

^Innovato use of the hoff to promote people to donate the insides of their bones or whatever it is they're wanting people to do.



^We deemed it neccesary to practice our 'Zombie outbreak' scenario , by blocking one of the doors with every chair in the room , it couldnt even keep one paddy out - although he did wrench his arm round the door and pick stuff up vertically - so i dont know if that counts , i dont think ive seen zombies do that before.

ps. Nice larger pictures allowed now by the increased blog resolution :3

Widescreen blog?

Im currently in the process of TRYING to get my blog to display in the new wider format, for the most part it seems to be working aside from i need to replace the banner at the top of the page.

if anybody notices anything funny please tell me in the comments , i dont browse my blog as much as you guys do so i'll never find this shit. My CSS coding is shoddy at best and so theres bound to be tons of stuff that doesent look right.

I also updated my blog to 2.71 , i have no idea what version it was on before but it was  clearly really fucking old because the interface in the admin mode has had a complete overhaul.

EDIT : aight. Done with the new banner and background fade. HD Ready? 200 pixels off but i dont really want to excluse anyone on resolutions lower than ..... whatever the res is that comes after 1024x768 - which is what the blog is now displaying at. An extra 200 pixels from before.

The water looks clearer from above

Yeah... those 80something infections on my last post?



UNNNNGGHH

Moving on.

Went swimming today , apparently if you just romp through the cupboard near the life guard lady you can just take all the stuff in there. We got a bunch of these little diving sticks and rings which are basically weighted at one end so that that sit on the floor of the swimming pool with it sticking upwards so they're easy to grab.
Spent a good hour or so just diving down and picking stuff up from the deep end.
Ive been trying to train myself to be able to see underwater without goggles because i dont have any , its not going particuarly well and ive made pretty much zero progress - until today! I discovered that by super squinting your eyes you can look around underwater without it hurting too much , its rather cloudy down there. I think my main problem is that its just reflex to close your eyes when water touches them and until i get round that i wont be able to do that shit properly.
I also learned how to shoot rings of air underwater today , duncan showed me , he looked strangely like a mudkip or something using a shoot rings of water attack, or some sort of underwater turret.

Later on in the day , went to see slumdog Millionaire , unfortunately when we got to the art centre we found out that elaine had read the time wrong. We were there for 8:30. the film started at 6:30. FAIL ELAINE.
We then decided to trek through the nearby forest and get completely lost , we wondered out on the other side of campus around an hour later.

Studying done today = 0
Computer Fixing done today = Not enough
Walk done today = Fair bit
Swimming Done today = Fair bit i guess
Eating Done today = Chips and Fish fingers (holy shit i forgot how awesome fish fingers are) , and leftover lloyd grosman spagbol. Yum.
Drinking done today = 1 glass of strawberry ribena and some lychee juice.

win32/Parite

as the guys on vent know , i got a virus recently - from trying to make a viral video rather ironically. (installing vegas)

I got the win32/Parite , which didnt seem so bad at first - until i found out its one of the most damaging viruses around - and a total cock to get off your system.

2 full AVG virus scans , 1 regedit , 1 disabling of system recovery , 1 Full windows XP Reinstall/format , 1 downloading of NOD32 and the motherfucker is STILL on my system.

It is very close to have destroying everything on my computer , i believe about only half my games are still intact, every .exe in my programs was infected and destroyed , everything in my F:/Backup , everything in my G:/OVERFLOW , F:/WipePrep....

Essentially , PC = Fucked.

It even fucked up my AoC , dont even know if i'll be able to get that back to working ~.~

Definately the worst virus ive ever had (out of.. 4?)

Still scanning on NOD32 now , 83 infiltrations found so far. >_>"
oh. it infected my E:/Gamestuff and emulator folders...
not nize. :(