Something that I've discovered recently and I would like to share this knowledge with public.

Let me tell you how I get into knowing HDR.
I used to check out new artworks in DeviantArt and I saw many landscape photographs that really impress me. What impressed me is that they could capture everything clearly even the shot was taken under bright condition. Usually photos taken under bright condition will look quite dark except for the sky, of course, I mean the shot was taken without flash, photographers seldom use flash on landscape.

So I make my own experiment, starting to shoot in day time. I tried to play with exposure at first and it didn't really work well, then I did some research and I found playing with aperture helps. Unfortunately, it still didn't turn out the way I wanted to.

I'm kind of impatient and decided to go get the answer very directly using Google. Guess what? I search: "how to shoot landscape with clouds". Why clouds? Cause whenever I shoot landscape during day time (bright), after captured, the sky looks really bright until I can't see a single cloud. Cloud is very important to show the atmosphere of the scene.
Thank god, that search engine shows many results and clicked on the first link which brought me here.

After going through that discussion, I found out something called "Dynamic range". And again, I went to Google and search "How to shoot HDR".

And that's how I finally found what I've been looking for. If you are interested in learning HDR, you can search it yourself or you can listen to mine.

Preparing for HDR shot:
1) A tripod stand (this is highly recommended for landscape shot)
2) A digital camera that allows you manually set up the exposure and aperture. (DSLR is highly recommended)

Shooting for HDR:
1) Switch your camera to Aperture mode to avoid change of aperture for your shots later.
2) You need to take 3 shots with different exposure, under expose (-2), normal (0), over expose (+2).

After you got all 3 shots, merge all 3 with Adobe Photoshop (CS3 recommended), and you will get a HDR photograph.

The purpose of getting 3 different exposures:
1) Under expose = shadow
2) Normal = midtone
3) Over expose = highlight

Example:


This is my house, my experiment shot:
I took this in the morning, as you can see, the clouds in the under expose shot was the clearest, whereas the over expose shot can see my house number plate clearly.
After combining all 3 shots, you can see everything clearly! Huuurraaay!!!


There are more to learn, it never ends....

EDIT: I've decided to not upload any more photos of CAS Platinum, but you can add me as friend in facebook and you can view all my photos including CAS Platinum 2008.

Don't forget to check out the Podcast at www.cempaka.edu.my.

The cameramen have worked hard for the both Podcast and the DVD, so hope you guys give some support.

I've also taken some nice shots. Will show you guys once I'm free to upload. Stay tuned. :)

Photos of Day 1:

Haha...someone took this picture when I'm busying making a cinematic trailer for West Side Story. Kinda cool though, 4 macbooks, 1 PowerMac G5, 6 keyboards, 2 tablets, 1 mouse, 6 screens, and lots more stuff...so messy...

It might look cool, but try this at your own risk because the sum of everything you see in this picture is approximately RM55,000.

I really do need all these, definitely not for display, I'm working on 5 trailers, 3 of them screen on this Friday, the other 2 screen on next week. Stay tuned. :)

People used to say SLR, but that's really outdated...Why? Have you ever heard of DSLR? Have you ever search for the meaning of SLR? SLR means "single-lens reflex camera". DSLR? Digital single-lens reflex camera. Of course it's digital, almost everything is digital now. Photos taken will immediately store inside memory card instead of film.

I'm a Canon DSLR user, I own a 350D which is very old. That doesn't really matter anyway, lens are always more valueable than the body.



If you are not really into photography, you probably ask,
Why choose DSLR? Why so troublesome? Is that necessary? Must it end up like picture below?


Skip the following paragraph if you are not interested in my opinion
Well, I actually had answered all these questions and managed to convince my parents to buy me one.
My opinion is, it allows me to fully control a result of an image, I can control its brightness, blurness, colors, and so much more. Even though it's troublesome, but I tell them, no pain no gain. With ordinary automatic digital camera, just one click and it does everything, and that is so....simple....(people are getting lazy nowadays huh?)....However, with DSLR, I get to learn many things, for example, ISO Speed, Shutter speed, Aperture, Exposure, White balance, Lenses, filters, lighting and many more. Is that necessary at all? Why not? Learning new things aren't good? Taking photographs can earn a lot though, you can't really study these sort of things in school. I learn it through exploring, trial and error which is quite risky, therefore, do more research through internet, I also buy magazines and some references from MPH.

Okay....those are just simple reasons to convince my parents since they wouldn't understand if I go any further.
Now, comes the true advantage of Digital SLR. Oh wait, before that, I should say, the disadvantage of Compact Digital Camera which frustrates you immensely. Let me reminds you.

• You're attending a big event and want to grab a shot of a fleeting moment
• For some reason your compact digital camera just won't focus
• FINALLY it locks the focus and you're ready - you press the button
• But there's a DELAY - the camera pauses for a second, then it takes the shot

At last, you've missed the best moment. ARGH!!! Darn it!! That's it, go for DSLR!!!
Haha.

Now, I shall begin my talk on advantage of DSLR. So obviously, it's FAST! How come? Hmmm....it's like electronics VS mechanics. Here comes the Shutter which you can't find it in compact digital camera. What so good about Shutter? Well, Shutter is instantaneous, which means, you click the shoot button, it instantly closes *chick* and opens *chak*. Whereas in compact cameras, the sensor is electronically activated every time you take a photo, after all these processes, theres delay, which means SLOW........

Also, wtih DSLR you can have a lens for every occasion. For landscape shots, I will use wide angle lens. For close up potraits, I'll use telephoto lens. For plants and insects, I'll use macro lens. Theres no such thing as 3-in-1 or All-in-1. Be specific, be professional. Maybe you would say, compact digital camera only has 1 lens and it does everything. Lens in compact digital camera has built in mega zooms, x10, x20....but it takes time to zoom plus the quality of the picture will decrease as you zoom in. Unlike DSLR, the zoom is driven by a motor, plus you can control it manually either fast or slow, close, or far.

Thirdly, DSLR can shoot anywhere, anytime, no matter how bad the weather is. You see...I'm sure you noticed, you will face problem when shooting night scenes, a slight movement will makes the image look blur, so difficult. With DSLR, you are allow to manually control the ISO speed which controls the sensitivity to light. At night, there will be less light, so you need high ISO Speed so that your camera detects more light and your image will look fine. Whereas, a compact digital camera needs flash to shoot a proper night scene.

Again, this is same as my own opinion, you can fully control the result of an image. Most importantly, you can do it manually instead of letting the camera do all the job.

Currently, I have 3 lens:
A standard lens comes with the camera, 18-55mm
Wide angle lens (L-series), 17-40mm
Zoom lens, 70-300mm

You might ask, how far is 300mm? Well, I can tell you that your eye is 80mm wide angle lens. You should have learnt this in science, human eyes are stereoscopic, which similar to wide angle lens. Why wide angle? It's because our eyes is convex shape. Agree? You probably learned this in Physics. Another words, image produce by wide angle lens will have slight distortion at the corner. Bascially, almost all lenses will have slight distortion just that we can't really see it.

You can choose your own path as a DSLR user, choose your lens:

Wide Angle lenses View the world with a wide perspective. • Standard lenses What you see is what you get. • Telephoto lenses Get into the excitement of action. • Zoom lenses Produce innovative photographs with a variety of angles of view and perspective. • Macro lenses Discover the beauty of the small things in life. • Tilt & Shift lenses Tilt and shift the perspective anyway you like it.

Pictures and links will be added when I'm free.

This is a great news to all apple fans, I'm included. Macbook and Macbook Pro are fully furnished, new design, new features, new technologies, all engineered to standards that don't even exist yet.

Most importantly, the new Macbook family is the greenest laptop ever. They are highly recyclable and even more energy efficient. And plus the following features to reduce its environmental impact:

• Arsenic-free glass (Wow!)
  
• Brominated flame retardant-free (This is madness!!)
  
• Mercury-free (O.M.G!!!)
  
• PVC-free (ROFLOL!!!!)
  
• 41% smaller packaging (HOLY!!!!!)
  
• Highly recyclable aluminium and glass enclosures (LOL....)

These features make me feel like trade-in my current macbook for a newer one.

Regarding tech specs, there isn't any big change in processor. But the Memory (RAM) is crazy, Apple is now using DDR3 and it supports up to 1066MHz which is freaking awesome. Before, it was DDR2 and only 667MHz. This is really worth buying it.
The new Macbook is now equiped with stunning graphic card, NVIDIA 9400M graphics processor with 256 of DDR3 SDRAM. So basically, with this graphic card, it can support up to 2560X1600 resolution if you have a bigger screen.


Bad news

• The new Macbook does not have a firewire port, which means, movies will not be able to import in best transfer rate from DV to macbook.
• The new Macbook Pro does not have anti-glare screen, which means, your screen might have glare if you are under the sun and you will not be able to see clearly what is on your screen. Bad for video production. Good for watching video.

Only 2 disavantages I found so far.....

Well, make up your mind, Buy or Not Buy? Get from school! Educational prices are cheaper!!

For more informations, go to http://www.apple.com/

To all Form 4s, welcome back from your final examination! These are what I've done during Final Examination period.

During Final Exam Week 1 (Before Hari Raya holiday), we've got the most unexpected breaking C-News brought to you by the broadcast network. Unfortunately, the form 4s missed it that day, so, its no longer "News", its "Olds"....lol
Don't feel sad, the movie is just right below.



During Final Exam Week 2 (After Hari Raya holiday), we've got the most scary movie brought to you by Vince and Voon Fei (not representing any clubs). This movie is made for the event called "Wear with Pride" which is also in collaboration with the Fashion and Design Club. This "Wear with Pride" event also includes the Breast Cancer Awareness which I've already mentioned on the previous post. The video is in somewhere around the world.

Good morning, afternoon, night everybody! I've been working on this "BCA" project....Argh...Give me a break!

Let me just introduce it a little.
Basically, Breast Cancer is cancer in a breast. This includes men and women, no joke. 2nd most common type of cancer after lung cancer. A person who is affected will look like you, they will have a tumour around breast area which you cannot see usually, but can feel it by examining it. Breast cancer kills by spreading and humans' pretty cells will die! Argh!

That's enough! I'm not a doctor. I'm doing graphics for this project, Vince animate it.
I'm sharing the title page with you guys! I hope you will like it....not the cancer...but the graphics.

Here you go:


It is available for download. I did a Standard size 1280X1024 and a Wide Screen size 1280X800.
Click on the picture and you will be redirect to my deviant page for download.

The previous Hip Hop Dancer on Fantastic Contraption was a failure. However, I did not give up making more random stuff.

At last, I've invented this: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2920180

With only 2 clockwise wheels, 2 wooden rods to join the object together, 6 water sticks to increase the mass.
The 2 wooden rods and 6 water sticks are too heavy for 2 wheels to move them, however, the wheel is still spinning, at the same time, generates potential energy. When the potential energy reaches a level, it automatically converts to kinetic energy and it gives an amazing spring-like effect. You must watch it. Here I give you again: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2920180

I call this transportation "Butterfly", it has 2 wings, a head, and some patterns, most importantly, it flies.

I started using Final Cut Pro yesterday and it was really powerful....salute Apple!
Final Cut Pro is an advanced, strong, powerful, incredible, awesome, insane, professional video editing software for Macintosh user. It is similar to Adobe Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas, and other professional video editing software.

Its original icon doesn't suit my desktop theme, therefore, I purposely made an icon just to make my desktop looks nicer. Here it is:
You are free to download now, here, it is in PNG format. Soon, I'm going to upload this to deviantart for download. Probably, I might release Final Cut Studio icons which includes Final Cut Pro, Compressor, Soundtrack Pro, Motion, Color, and more.....

Made a very cool hip hop style transport in "Fantastic Contraption"...the way it moves is seriously...very crazy.

Here it is: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2829896

2 clockwise wheels. And many wood rods and water rods.

It freaks me out but also amazed me at the same time. I'm the inventor :)

I've introduced you the physics puzzle game, Fantastic Contraption on my previous post. If you are stuck at the map, you can check out my build. I'll post all solutions here. From map 1 to map 21.

1. Rolling Away - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2781809

2. Reach Up - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2782093

3. Mind The Gap - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2782155

4. Junkyard - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2787161

5. The Wall - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2787414

6. On A Roll - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2789065

7. Full-Up - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2789353

8. Higher - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2789571

9. Around The Bend - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2789703

10. Up The Hump - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2791181

11. Mission To Mars - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2829280

12. Up The Stairs - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2792502

13. Big Ball - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2792877

14. Four Balls - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2794762

15.Down Under - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2735334

16. Awash - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2740869

17. Handling - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2743168

18. Tube - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2746459

19. Back and Forth - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2769549

20. Unpossible - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2795978

21. U-Turn - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2768886



These are my solutions....of course...it is not necessary to follow these...you can come up with a better idea which I couldn't think of.
By the way, you can view other solutions by Vince Cheong.

My first thought of this game was some children puzzle game....but after I tried it. It totally amazed me and it is truly fantastic.

This game is created by Colin Northway, music by James Mark, art by Sarah Collins.

In this game, you will have to make sure the given object go into the goal, just touching the goal is not considered victory, you must make sure the object is totally....fully...completely...went deep inside the goal.

To do that, you have to make a transport with these items:
Clockwise wheel, anti-clockwise wheel, water rod, wood rod, wheel (immobile, unless pushed).

Using knowledge of physics, build a suitable transportation to transport the object to the goal.

Is a very fun game, I'm already addicted to it. Try it HERE!

You know...good people love to share photos, music, video with their friends. But sometimes the file is just way too big to be sent through email.
Moreover, your email account might have limited capacity.

So, why not give it a try on free file hosting service? It is totally F.O.C.

TRY THEM:


































You can upload stuff to those sites. It is 99.9% safe, virus free. Once the file is uploaded, you will receive a download link. You just have to give the link to whoever is interested in getting the stuff you uploaded.

My personal's favourite is RapidShare because it sounds good, its Rapid, fast, quick. It is up to you. All of them are not same, each of them has its own advantages and disavantages.

Here is the comparison table of those services: >>>CLICK ME<<<

No tutorial for this unless you beg for one. I bet no one will beg for a tutorial.

I shall repeat my post title....How much do you know about "File format"?

Learning file formats is very fun....
You can determine one's file by looking at its file format....

For example: Don't Stop Me Now.mp3
I can already tell that it is a compressed audio file. Its full name is "MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3", commonly referred as MP3.

Cool right? You must learn some too!

Alright. First you have to know a few common file formats.

Compressed/Archive
zip, dmg, rar

Graphics
jpeg, jpg, png, bmp, psd, gif

PSD and GIF are quite special, they both can be in video and graphics categories. People used to make short animation with pictures and they save it as GIF.
PSD is Adobe Photoshop Drawing, usually 2D graphics or non motion picture. Nowadays, people can even make a video using Photoshop, therefore, PSD can be in Video category as well.

Video
mov, wmv, avi, rmvb, rm, mpeg, mpg, mkv, ogg, flv, dv, swf

I've been working on video stuff recently, so I'm quite familiar with these formats. These formats are quite widely used. You came to that when you start video editing. But for now you just need to get a right video player that plays those video formats.

Sound
mp3, wav, wma, aac, aiff, m4a

I'm sure most of you know MP3. Nothing special already. When you came accross recording, you will have to use WAV, it is "Microsoft Wave", an uncompressed lossless audio, extremely high quality.

Web
html, xhtml, htm, xml, php

I'm a web designer in school, these are formats that we used. Currently, our school Cheras LimeLight is also using HTML for home page. The HTML loads all necessary contents such as SWF, SWF is a video format but I'm using it for web as well, that's why you can see many motions in the LimeLight. Those SWF files are controlled by fully coded XML which is also linked by HTML. So basically, you open the webpage, load HTML>find XML>load SWF.

**Learn its full name as well, it might help you in EST**

For slightly detailed informations: >>>CLICK ME<<<

Recently I watched this movie called "Eagle Eye". Before the movie, I have no idea what's the movie content, can't even guess one. 

Did you notice that the songs in CD and the songs that you have imported from the CD to your computer are different in quality?
My sensitive ears could tell me the difference very clearly.
Therefore, I did some research regarding this....music quality.....

Music quality is being differentiate by its "bit rate". Higher quality music has higher bit rate of course.
Songs or music in "CD" have bit rate of "1411 kbit/s". This is really high.

Who's low then?
Songs that are played by "FM", hitz FM, MY FM, Whatever FM, Anything FM.....They all have a same quality which is "96 kbit/s".

What's the standard quality in bit rate?
I would say "128 kbit/s" because that's the default import settings for iTunes.

Whenever you import songs from CD to your iTunes library, you are actually converting the CD quality which is 1411 kbit/s to 128 kbit/s.
Of course, you can always customise the settings to 320 kbit/s. (That's considered high quality)

What's the advantage of using 128 kbit/s?
In terms of quality, no. However, low quality audio saves you more spaces for your hardisk.
In short, the higher the quality, the more spaces you need.

If you are not so into the quality type, I suggest you use 128 kbit/s.

What if I want high quality but small file size?
If that's the case, I suggest you go for "Variable Bit Rate" (VBR).
While this setting is enabled, your computer will decide a song's bit rate.
As you know, some songs are not necessary to have high bit rate or you will end up having limited disk space.

IMPORT SETTINGS
As I mentioned before, you can customise your import settings, not just bit rate but also file extension (mp3, aac, aif......)
I guess you only knew mp3.
MP3 do gives you a very high quality if you chose the right "encoder".

Encoder is just like your "workers", setting is just a "plan" and you are the "Boss".
You shall decide which workers to use, which plan to apply, and how's the product should look like.

No more worries, I found you the best plan and the best worker!

He is LAME
*Let's give him a round of applause!*

You can download LAME for free!
With LAME, your imported or ripped songs will be in mp3 format. Also, it automatically import your selected songs with VBR settings.
All you got to do is, decide the output folder, select your desire songs to be imported or ripped, and click on the "import" button.

Simple and Clean. Just like ABC, easy as 123, and sing DO-RE-MI.

This is a continuous version of my previous post. The colours of the photo is not accurate because it has been compressed for web usage.

Here is the link to the online flipbook >>>CLICK HERE<<< It will take some time to be loaded.
This is just like a real book, therefore you have to drag the corner of the page to flip. Try it.



I couldn't upload it here because that book is quite big for my blog. The book size is 800X600. Enjoy!

Again...this tutorial is for Mac User. I'm so sorry Windows users, no tutorials for you guys, but I'm sure you guys are expert in Windows.:)

Have you ever heard of Address Book? I'm sure you do. Base on the name itself, it definitely has something to do with Address. I must say Address Book is a great software, it not just stores contact but also you can use it to work with other softwares such as Mail. You won't know how it works until you try it.

It looks like this:



I already had all my contacts here. But if you are new, you should only see Apple Computer Inc.



Now I select Interact Club directory, so, you see all my Interactors' contact here including myself for no reason. Then, you see my contact, my name, nickname, post, school, phone numbers, emails, birthday. You can have more details if you want to.

To add new contact:
1) Make sure you are at "All" in the "Group" column.
2) Hit  + N, which means "New Card".


3) Then just fill in the blanks.

Grouping
If you want this contact to be in specific group, just drag the card from the "Name" column to your desired group.

Sending email to a person
When you want to send an email to someone, just find that person in your Address Book, again, drag the card to the correct field (To, Cc, Bcc).

Sending email to a group of people
If you are about to send an email to a group of people, for example: I want to forward an email to all members of Interact Club, therefore, I will drag "Interact Club" in "Group" column instead of dragging the name card one by one since there are so many people in Interact Club.

Two days ago, I've been to Cameron Highland for vacation. It is really a nice place for those people who loves nature and cold weather. As usual, my job as a photographer is to spam snapshot like no one's business. Then, I've made a online flipbook which contains all the photos I took in day 1. Day 2 coming soon.

Here is the link to the online flipbook >>>CLICK HERE<<< It will take some time to be loaded.
This is just like a real book, therefore you have to drag the corner of the page to flip. Try it.



I couldn't upload it here because that book is quite big for my blog. The book size is 800X600. Enjoy!

Sometime around August...I accidentally dropped my most precious macbook and my keyboard cracked terribly. I was scared to death even though its just keyboard, I was worried that it also damages the hard disk because some of my data were not backup yet. I could hardly survive without my macbuku.

Fortunately, my macbook is still under warranty, therefore I ordered a new set of keyboard. And today, the new set of keyboard is installed. I, now officially announce the arrival of my new Yang Berbahagia, Yang Berhormat, Tan Seri Tunku Mac Bin Buku Shah Kunci Papan.

Here are the pictures:

The school has finally uploaded the movie that very is waiting for. Well, I made this movie actually everything was fine except for some spelling mistakes because I was really rushing and considered last minute work for all subtitles and text. The front part suppose to have audio but you will not be able to hear it, I guess the person who uploaded this must have done something to it. Anyway, here is the video:

I experience this myself and its really a lot fun than studying through books. Maybe some of you would prefer reading through paper instead of screen, I understand because sometimes reading through screen is really hurting your eyes. However, that doesn't really matter, nowadays, all computers are come with a LCD screen which reduces many problems.

Back to e-learning. In order to learn effectively through internet, you must have the right resources or you will be learning something incorrect.
You do not need a very good search engine to search for good resources or references. All I use and only use is "Google". But you must know some basic so that you can search as accurate as possible.

For example:
I want to search for "SPM Mathematics". You should type ""SPM+Mathematics"" instead of straight away type "SPM Mathematics". Trust me, it does make a difference.

I have some useful links for certain subjects:
Chemistry: Structure of Atom
Mathematics and Additional Mathematics
Many animations regarding Biology

You have no idea what's my feeling when I first see this. This is totally madness! There are 118 elements in this table, in another words, there are 118 different style of fractal arts! If you look into each and every element closely, those fractal arts are representing its element.


Periodic Table by =f--l--A--r--k on deviantART

If this impressed you a lot, please favourite it, or you can even print it if you like.

I'm really into graphic designs these days. Most probably because of the previous wallpaper designs are driving me up. Now, I feel like my brain is full of inspirations. So, I came up this abstract art with attractive colours, even a 7 years old kid loves it.

Here is the preview:


This is just a low quality preview. To get the actual resolution, please click on the image, you will be directed to my deviant page and download page shortly.

The theme of this design is "Distortion". Since its colourful, I also added the word "colours".
Please support. :)

Have you ever thought of the how butcher get their meat freshly? I'm speaking this in terms of science, biology....

Form 4 Biology, Chapter 7, Respiration. All living things do respiration, animals, plants, humans...There's two type of respiration for humans and plants. They are aerobic and anaerobic. Not going to detail, aerobic is with oxygen, anaerobic is with very very limited oxygen or even no oxygen. Usually when people having vigorous exercise will have anaerobic respiration. What will happen when you are having anaerobic respiration is that you will produce lactic acid and energy (150kJ) instead of carbon dioxide, water and energy (2898kJ).

This lactic acid is no good to our body, it will make us feel tired. Same goes to animal, cow, horse, chicken, and so on. In order to get their meat fresh, their body must not contain lactic acid. So, to get rid of lactic acid, they must not suffer from pain. You might ask, how to kill them if they must not suffer from pain? Very simple, the answer is, One-hit K.O. It sounds really simple but how to do that, we have no superhuman ability. Well, that's not a problem now, we have advanced technology.

Firstly, we let the animals enjoy some romantic music instead of rock music. Just make them feel calm, never make them feel scared. Then, slowly lure them to the killing spot. By using high current electrical shock, the animal should be dead with one-hit. Knock out! That's it, the butcher will now collect them fresh.

If you like my previous wallpaper pack, Simple and Clean, you will love this one as well. Here is the preview:

For actual resolution preview or download, click on the preview, you will be in the preview and download page shortly.

My next post is something really interesting, so, be sure check it out, you don't want to miss it....

Once again, "Simple and Clean" is back with extensions. Here is the preview:

I'm out of ideas already, so this is the last wallpaper pack of Simple and Clean series. Don't worry, will come out some new ideas soon....

I'm glad to hear many good responses on my newly designed wallpaper, "Simple and Clean (Flourish)". Some people actually requested for my permission to put it up on a "non-commercial magazine". And some blogged it as featured wallpapers by "Change My Desk".

I know many of you don't even bother to click the link to My Deviant Page, so, I guess I should show you the preview of the wallpaper here.


Hah! Like it? Then click on it, you will be transferred to My Deviant Page shortly.

Yesterday during 2nd period of class, Vince showed me his newly designed wallpaper and I feel it looks a bit out of colour and not attractive enough. At that moment, all designing inspiration came up out of sudden. Then, very quickly I designed a "Simple" and "Clean" wallpaper. You will see, there's just black and white, really plain, but I'm sure you will still like it :D

You can view it in >>>>My Deviant Page<<<<>>>>My Deviant Page<<<<>>>>My Deviant Page<<<<Vince for giving the inspiration and design elements used in creating the wallpaper.

You know what....lets just forget about Devil May Cry 2 because it s**ks

It does not continue the story of Devil May Cry 1. It just being produced for the sake of fun, a game, for gamers. Unfortunately, most gamers or fans of Devil May Cry don't seem to like Devil May Cry 2, 1 simple reason, is just a game with no story, just hitting, killing, dying, reviving, new game and game over.

So, fly to Devil May Cry 3.

Devil May Cry 3 opens in Dante's as-of-yet unnamed shop as a mysterious man called Arkham appears to offer an invitation from Dante's brother Vergil, in the form of a brutal demon attack. After Dante defeats the monsters inside and outside his shop, an immense tower erupts from the ground a short distance away. Sensing Vergil atop the structure, Dante takes the situation as a challenge.

At the tower's entrance Dante encounters Cerberus, defeats him and claims the monster's soul, which transforms into a new weapon. In what becomes a recurring game mechanic, the souls of some defeated boss monsters are transformed into new weapons for Dante's arsenal. Dante is then attacked by a woman on a motorcycle, whose name later becomes Lady. It is revealed in subsequent cutscenes that Arkham is working for Vergil and they plan to take Dante's half of the amulet their mother gave them, and use its power to reactivate the tower's ability to connect the human and demon worlds. It is also revealed that Arkham is Lady's father, that he murdered her mother, and that she is pursuing him to seek revenge.

After numerous battles, an encounter with a being calling itself Jester, and another run-in with Lady, Dante attains the tower's summit and battles Vergil. Vergil soundly defeats Dante, steals Dante's amulet, and departs. As a result of his defeat Dante's dormant devil powers emerge, and he sets off in pursuit. He eventually catches up in the control room located in the tower's basement, where Vergil is having no luck reactivating the tower. The brothers battle again and seem evenly matched, until they are interrupted first by Lady and then Jester. Jester reveals that he is in fact Arkham, and has been manipulating them all to reactivate the tower. Arkham's plan is to cross over to the demon world and steal the Force Edge, the dormant form of Sparda's original sword which contains the bulk of Sparda's old power, and use it to rule over a demon-infested Earth. The tower then transforms as the spell is broken, carrying Arkham upwards to the summit, while Vergil vanishes in the confusion.

Dante battles his way back up the tower, and eventually fights Lady for the right to pursue Arkham. Dante wins, and Lady lends him her most powerful weapon. Reaching the summit once again, Dante crosses over to the demon world and catches up with Arkham, who has assumed Sparda's demonic form. Overwhelmed by the power, Arkham transforms again into a blob-like creature and battles Dante. Halfway through the fight, as Arkham is gloating that Dante has no chance against his father's power, Vergil reappears and the brothers work together to bring down Arkham. Arkham is thrown out of the demon world in a weakened state and lands atop the tower, where Lady kills him. In the demon world, Dante and Vergil battle over ownership of the Force Edge and the amulet halves. Dante is victorious. As the portal closes, Vergil decides to stay behind and vanishes into the darkness with one half of the amulet.

Returning to the human world, Dante meets Lady outside the tower where she coins the phrase "devil may cry" while trying to comfort Dante over the loss of his brother. They form a friendship and the beginnings of a partnership in demon-slaying, and he names his shop "Devil May Cry". A scene after the credits reveals a weakened yet determined Vergil, still in the demon world, where he charges into battle against his father's old foe, Mundus.

Cool huh? The story is really interesting even though its not logical most of the parts but I really do enjoy.

Later on, a special edition of this game is released. In that particular edition, player gets to use Dante's brother, Vergil. That's even cool!

Be right back. Devil May Cry 4....

Lol-e....Devil May Cry. Do they cry?

It has 4 series...oh god...I'm not going to emphasis every single episode, I'll just a brief synopsis of "Devil May Cry". First and foremost, "Devil May Cry" is not a movie, not a show, not a song, not a person's name, it's a game, a third person action game. I believe this game must be Wen Wu's favourite game.....my sixth sense....

"Devil May Cry" begins with "Dante" who is a demon hunter. His job is to eliminate all demons exist in human world. So where do these demons from? *Cough* I have to start the story from Dante's father. His father, "Sparda", who was a demon that rebelled against his own kind for the sake of the human world. Somehow, Sparda met a beautiful lady, Eva, and fell in love with her. They got married, and Dante was born. In another words, Dante is neither human nor demon. He's not gay but he's cool, so **** **** *** **** cool! He has a lots of confidence and most importantly, he never cry. And he named his company "Devil Never Cry". But still, devil may cry sometimes....no one will laugh at you.....just cry out loud.

I changed my mind, I really so into this, I think I'm going to write a continuous version of this post. I'll start with the first series then.

Devil May Cry begins with Dante being attacked in his office by a mysterious woman named Trish. He impresses her by easily brushing off her assault, and tells her that he hunts demons in pursuit of those who killed his mother and brother. She says the attack was a test, and that the demon emperor Mundus, whom Dante holds responsible for the deaths of his family, is planning a return. The scene jumps to their arrival at an immense castle, whereupon Trish abruptly leaps and vanishes over a high wall.

Dante explores the castle and encounters the game's stock enemies, demonic marionettes. He also finds a new sword called Alastor, and battles the first boss, a giant spider/scorpion demon named Phantom. Dante wins the battle, but in what becomes a recurring theme, the defeated boss monster reappears a short time later in a corridor, forcing the player to choose a narrow escape or to fight in the tight confines. After further exploration and combat, Dante battles a demon named Nelo Angelo who impresses Dante with his confidence. The demon wins, but suddenly flees upon seeing the half-amulet Dante wears. The demon attacks twice more in later missions, and is eventually revealed to be Dante's identical twin brother, Vergil. After Vergil's final defeat, his amulet joins with his brother's half, and "Force Edge", the game's default sword which belonged to the twins' father, changes into its true form and becomes the powerful Sparda sword.

When Dante next meets Trish, she betrays him and reveals that she too is working for Mundus. But when her life is endangered, Dante chooses to save her. Saying he only did so because of her resemblance to his mother, he warns her to stay away. Yet when he finally confronts Mundus, who is about to kill Trish, Dante again chooses to save her and is injured. Mundus tries to finish him off, but Trish takes the attack instead. This unleashes Dante's full power thus allowing him to take on the form of Sparda. Dante and Mundus then battle on another plane of existence.

Dante is victorious, and leaves the amulet and sword with Trish's immobile body before departing. Mundus returns and corners Dante, who is now back to his regular strength, before he can flee the island; Trish also returns and lends Dante her power. Dante defeats Mundus, who vows to return and rule the human world. When Trish tries to apologize she begins to cry, and Dante tells her it means she has become human and not just a devil, because "devils never cry". Dante and Trish escape on a plane as the island collapses. After the credits, it is revealed that Dante and Trish are working together as partners, and have renamed the shop "Devil Never Cry".

Yay~ My Happy Ending. "You were Everything, Everything, that I wanted...." ~Avril Lavigne

Be right back. Devil May Cry 2....

Ever thought of writing new entries even though you do not have any connections?

I should extract a quote from last year's Merdeka Movie which presented by Interact Club of Sri Cempaka Cheras. An actress said: "Merdeka means....Unity to me....". Well, its very true, as you know, there are three main races in Malaysia, but no matter what, we are still Malaysians. We the "rakyat" lah!

Student Tech's creativity division, "Student Tech Motion Pictures", in short, "STMP"....Lol-e (-e represents education......swt.....=.='')

I'm currently working on the Merdeka Movie, it will be screened during the next assembly. The movie is wonderful, you know what....The both best directors of Cempaka Cheras are working on this movie, so you should expect something cool.

Don't get misunderstood by the title. I'm just too over excited. I can't believe that I've sat for 21 papers in 8 days. Why I say "Fart"? Because this examinations have made my digestive system malfunctioning due to the messy timetable, including many last minute changes, so, we don't have a fixed time for break and lunch, it's totally screwed up.

Yes! Finally, a quite satisfied look for my blog. I've been doing this for months, trying to get inspiration, but failed.

Today, 08/08/08, is the day of the opening ceremony of Olympic games in Beijing. That's the world thing, my school also had a big event, it's JOGATHON! Of course, we not just call it jogathon, the title is "Run And Roll" which I believe the title must be inspired by the title "Rock and Roll". It was such an amazing event, happened at the right time (exam week). Anyway, it was really fun, I've never participate in Jogathon before, this time would be my first time jogging as a cempakan and for Cempaka 25th anniversary.

Time goes really fast....don't you agree? The school events almost drove me crazy. Most of the time I wasn't in class, therefore I must do home revision to catch up the syllabus.....Just hope I can still maintain my "above average" result this time.

It's Updated! Go check out my galleries, have many cool artwork. :)

*Woof* I need to take a deep breathe....*inhale*, *exhale*

I just found out some of my friends actually install "Windows" in their macbook because "Mac OSX" couldn't play some movie format. For example, .rmvb, .wmv, .mkv, .ogm, and so on. Those video format are not playable by default unless you do something to it.

Besides taking notes from the whiteboard, you can also turn those notes into a beautiful map with "NovaMind". NovaMind is powerful and easy to use mind mapping application not just for students, teachers but also for business use. I can't describe how cool it is, but trust me, it is super-duper cool!

Continuation of previous news.