The Sims 3 Generations

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The Sims 3 Generations has almost released for three weeks! Have you got your copy of the latest Sims 3 game expansion pack??

I quite like the whole idea of EA doing this expansion pack, ie to live each life stage to fullest with more interactions to do. However, I get bored quickly after several game plays with this expansion. I feel that Sims 3 game is losing its charm as each new games (expansion and stuff packs) are added to the base game. Although, The Sims 3 Generation is the 4th expansion pack of the sims 3 game, I can feel the game is so lack of depth. EA has great idea in doing expansion pack, but somehow I feel that they do not fully develop their ideas to make the expansion packs complete. For example, you can't bath your baby in the sims 3 base game and I thought this will be the perfect timing for them to introduce the interaction into the game. But, hell no. You still cant bath your baby. You change their dirty diapers in a blurry swirl hand motion and the baby will get clean again. How disappointing, EA...I love how The Sims 2 is made so fascinating that I can play up to many hours without being stricken by boredom. Well, there are many people who may want to disagree with me that The Sims 3 is worse than its predecessor, Sims 2, all I can say is that this is just my own personal opinion based on my own playing style in the games. If you want to argue with me that Sims 3 is definitely the best sims game ever, please show me or suggest on how to play the game, coz I am completely out of any ideas of how to make myself satisfied with the game.

Stop lamenting on the game, after all it is just a game! And the main topic in this post is : The Sims 3 Generations.

After installing the new expansion pack, the first thing that happened in my newly created safe game was a meteor strike! It was so cool, coz it rarely happens in my game. I like to watch sims getting singed by the meteor fire. Well, I dunno if this is just another EA glitch or they do it purposely to raise the probability of getting stricken by a meteor strike...

Sunset Valley is in danger...these sims folks are panic stricken!

Let's see what's new in the game beside the trivial meteor strike.

With the installation of The Sims 3 Generations, you will not only able to set how many sims days a sims can live but also adjust the number of days they may live up to in each life stage.

You can now adjust the number of days to live for each life stage.

Basically, I hate to play as babies because they are just total useless creation in the game with very little interactions and animations. Usually I will age up the babies as soon as they are born. I am not bothered to raise them as what good parents do.

As for toddler, they are now have more things to do aside learning to walk, talk and potty training. You can bring your toddlers to new park (move it to your game from Library)with pram. The new park comes with many playground objects which will satisfy your kids play need.

One of the many new kids outdoor activities : Toddler riding spring rider under the surveillance of parent while they play this alone when growing up as children.

Besides many play objects introduced, your sims kid may receive an imaginary friend after their birth. It is a friend with colourful outfit who your kid sims can only sees while others do not. At first, the imaginary friend acts like any ordinary dolls in the game Your child sims can talk to the doll imginary friend and sing to it. The imaginary friend will age with your kid sims too and start interacting with each other.

Child sims telling ghost story to her imaginary friend.

Pillow fight is back!

Sims are just like us..some are lovely while the other mischievous. Some find reading is entertaining while other find fun in pulling pranks.

Setting booby trap: Whoopee cushion on unaware victims.

Mum unhappy face of being pulled prank by her own girl.

Messing up the shower with crazy colour hair dyer trap.

"Jasmine! It is no fun. Stop pulling prank or i will punish you later!"

Sims being set up for the hair dye prank will have to re-shower themselves. And if the children or teen keep fooling around by setting up pranks everywhere, children will be grounded or punished by their parents. Their favourite toys may get confiscated while some very naughty sims might get disallowed to go outside home. They have to pledge to their parents or helping out the family doing household chores in order to get their freedom back. In addition, if parents find their kids are too uncontrollable, they may sign up after school activities for their kids such as ballet or scouting. In the most headache case, the parents might want to send their children to boarding school so that they can learn to be independent and picking up some good skills/values along the way.

Kid sims showing off her scouting badges to her imaginary friend.

Not all kids are bad. Some kids like to spend their time by role-playing. The dreamer's customer chest provides costumes for princess and prince, astronaut and cute-looking T-Rex.

My princess outfit

Playing in the princess castle (treehouse)..When will my Prince Charming come to my rescue??

It is cool to be an astronaut once in a while~

I am king of the world!

Is he going to finish his homework or playing as T-Rex? Or bury the homework in deep sand in the back yard?

A joy ride on living chair.

Teen sims like to pull prank as much as the little kids do. With more developed minds, that do not guarantee a more mature thinking , instead pulling out more wicked pranks! For those rebellious teens, they enjoy setting up traps and getting away from punishment! However,if get caught, they must bear the consequences of being lectured or even locked up in home.

Teen sims enjoy setting up stinky flaming bags.

It is even more entertaining when the resident of the targeted home comes out putting out the flame and ended up dirtying him or herself.

Old trick: Door bell ditch. I bet you did this too when young!

Throwing eggs at people's door. But don't get yourself busted!

Besides those pranks as shown above, teens may even go back to school to carry out more of their great mischievous ideas after school. Well, these actions are not visible as your sims will enter the rabbithole-school and all you can do is reading the consequences of the action.

Besides these features, this game is also incorporated with more varieties of parties so that your sims will never feel alone in the midst of their friends. Sims now can throw slumber party at home by inviting their friends over, wearing pyjamas. The partygoers will come with their own sleeping bags. It is a great time to tell ghost stories to your friends. And who knows, may be the timid sims will be awaken by their nightmares?

Slumber party. Beware to sleep too close to the fireplace coz you don't want your sims to get caught in burning fire.

Remember not to leave sleeping bag in your sims inventory as they tend to sleep in it in kitchen rather than their plus bed in bedroom.

For adults sims who are engaged and about to marry each other, they can now throw bachelor/bachelorette party.

Party dancers will also come to entertain your party guests. They are noticeable with the shower of overhead party lights with their special outfit to match their roles.

Nectar (sims' wine ) spraying

Cuddling under the stars

After throwing the bachelor/bachelorette party, sims can now marry each other in wedding party. Don't forget to have your sims marry your sims under the newly included wedding arch as it makes your wedding more real! The sims 3 Generations also includes a new wedding cake to compliment to your wedding party. You can either carry out the wedding ceremony at home or other community lots, but it is best to have the party with the wedding arch.

"Yes, I do" marrying under the wedding arch

After the party, the newly-wed sims can now woohoo in the treehouse. Notice those pink petals falling off the treehouse? Don't doubt it, they are doing that in it! But beware for your sims to get splinter! That hurts ok?

No new skill is added into this new expansion pack. However, your sims now can purchase new chemistry set in order to improve their logic skill. All age groups of sims are able to experiment with the potions making except toddler and babies of course.

The new chemistry set. It is a perfect platform to master logic skill at the same time discover 10 exciting potions which have their own functions.

One of the potions is to transform your imaginary friend into a real life person. The imaginary friend will be surrounded by purple gust of wind when transforming into a real sims.

He is still wearing the outlandish Imaginary friend-ish outfit after the transformation.

Another potion can temporarily turn your sims into ghost. It surely a mind-blowing experience to experience being a ghost right? You can drift through any obstacles on your way, startling other sims, etc...

Below shows some of the objects available in the game.

This cute looking car will boost your sims mood and needs while they are travelling in it.

Elder sims can walk with crutch in 3 different walking styles.

What?! A paparazzi intruding your celebrity sims house to capture their sleeping moment?? Yes, it is still a nuisance inherit from The Sims 3 Late Night. The problems of spawning of celebrities and vampires are not fixed also. Besides the paparazzi, do you notice the bunkbed in the picture? Yes! EA has brought in this highly requested object in this game. Pram is also another cool object to be checked out too.

Sims like to play this water slide game too.

There are still many gameplay (such as Mild life crisis, teaching your teens sims driving, new babysitter profession, building sand castle....) to be explored. Overall, The Sims 3 Generations is a nice addition to your The Sims 3 game. It adds more colours and depth to your dull base game.

Also, it is confirmed that the upcoming game release will be The Sims 3 Pets and The Sims 3 Town Life Stuff Packs. Click here and here for more information and rumours.

The Sims 3 Pets will hit the store in this fall.

The Sims 3 Town Life Pack will be released on 26th of July. In almost a month time only...are you getting excited?

My 21st Birthday

Sing me the birthday song and wish me if you had not..

I am now officially 21!

What should I do?
What can I do?

I can do many things legally now...nyek nyek nyekk....

But what first? U tell me ...

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I had a PEACEFUL 21st birthday. Since it rained cat and dog in afternoon, it made me lazy to go out. Besides, I could not find a friend to accompany me. Don't get me wrong. I have many friends, but they are just so busy with their work.

I woke up late in the morning cause I am still struggling with the nightly insomnia that I have currently. It is a real torture when your body is tired, but your mind is still fresh. You want to sleep, but your mind keeps thinking this and that..whatever ..hopefully with some determination I can deprive myself from my afternoon nap hence making me less energetic at night!

I had done nothing for the whole afternoon except online chatting with my friend. He really made my day because there were so much topics we shared. I was so preoccupied by our topics that I did not feel lonely or doing nothing at all for my birthday.

It was a no surprise birthday for this year. But I dont mind that for now I feel lucky since my birthday.

Later that birthday night, I had dinner with a few of my hometown friends. Though it was not a big celebration, we chatted a lot interesting topics, gossips from primary school era till we graduated our Form 5 study. Hometown friends are different from friends I come to know now because we grew up together, we shared same memories which are different from what the newly made friends. However, I am happy to receive so many birthday wishes whether they came from my hometown friends or non-hometown friends...hahaha...

My unangi dinner set. @ Shunka restaurant, Parit Buntar

Friends and I. The other guy was taking pic for us. Don't say it was a girls night!

Thank you guys. Thanks for all the good wishing.

Wishing myself have a good year ahead! Happy birthday to myself..

Pudu Raya Bus Station

Finally, they have finished renovating this bus station!

Overall, I am quite satisfied with what they have done to improve the old bus station. It is now alot brighter, cleaner, and comfortable. Except, I find the toilets are too far from the waiting area. Please, imagine yourself having to carry 1 big hand carry, 1 big luggage, 1 shoulder sling bag, and another backpack...and you need to drag all of these things with you for a f*king distance to find a toilet for you to ease yourself.Then when you are outside the toilet, you start to think where you should put these things, because you are all alone to wait for your bus! ...May be you will want to beg a differ about what I am complaining, but this was what happened to me during the day when I came back from KL after finishing my final examination. I had no time to explore throughly the whole area and found a shorter route to the toilets!

ok, stop talking gibberish. What I want to point out today is this! Look below...

Cool platform??

Now look clearly....

The sign above stating that you need to press the button in order to open the glass door of the platform when you want to enter/out of the platform. What makes me wondering is that, don't you think the "half-automatic" (since you need to press the button before the electricity kicks in and opens the door for you) door design is not suitable here? Every time, you want to enter, u have to press that thing before the door opens. And there is thousands of people using it daily! Will the door able to serve this large number of people before going haywire?? What should these people do if their platform door fails to open and let them in? Go to another platform nearby and then go down to search for the bus where it is supposed to stop??

Hmmm...may be it is just me that over think about the design. May be it really can serve up to many people, many years without any problems..

Just wait to see if many problems will surface soon...

Till then, I have much thing to explore in the new bus station, for i did not do that that day!

White Apple Black Friday New IC

Guess what??? I have bought a brand new iPad!

There was no any plan for me to buy it beforehand.

It was that Friday night (6/5/2011) when I was beavering away studying Numerical Methods for my final examination, then suddenly Kyle messaged me in msn messenger asking me if i could accompany him to buy iPad in the morning. I had rejected him at once as I knew that we had to queue for several hours before we could get the device he wanted. It never crossed in my mind that I would get myself an iPad eventually. Then later he showed me a link to the Ipad and I got all excited! I was deeply attracted by the iPad in the webpage. It just looks so cool to have one. Then, I texted Kyle a reply that I might want to buy too. Both of us were on the cloud nine when discussing about the iPad we were about to get on the next morning and I could not focus on my revision anymore. So, instead of continuing my revision, I lingered in the Apple webpage to compare prices of different iPad model. Since, I am not ready to pay more for every month 3g usage, I made up my mind to buy the one with only wifi and get the maximum memory capacity available. Then we went to sleep, waiting for the break of dawn to come and we would rush to Mid Valley Machine store to get our iPad.

When we arrived there at 7.30am, there was already long queue of people whom were all crazily (enthusiastically) waiting for the store to open. I brought my notes together with me so that I won't waste all the waiting hours doing nothing. After 2 and a half hour, the store finally opened. The staff gave each of us a card that indicated the model we wished to purchase. Before the staff reached to us, we were quite jumpy that the stock might run out before us and we would go back with empty hand. Fortunately, the staff did not disappoint us and both of us got the cards (iPad) we wanted. After the store opened, we still had to wait for another 1 hour before we were let into the shop. The customers were divided into group of 4 or 5 people and the staff would only serve one group at a time. And that's the reason why we had to wait for so long! Around 12pm, Kyle and me walked proudly out of the store, clinging to our shopping bags and catching glimpse of envy glares from other shoppers and those who were still lining up. We patiently drove back to our hostel before opening the box like kids do when they receive presents for their Christmas. Then, we started to set up the iPad together......(this is what happened that day la. no more story to tell)....

Ok, after exploring my iPad for several days, I have installed a new free game - Falling Fred. The game is damn bloody that I cannot resist but keep naming it as Bloody Fred instead. It is a game where Fred is falling down a tunnel with no end and all you have to do is to avoid him to crash into any obstacles (pipes, turbine, walls..)by tilting your device. The game gets all bloody when you crash Fred into the wall or any other obstacles. The turbine might cut Fred's head off if you fail to dodge it and you can see red blood sputtering out of the beheaded body! I wonder why the game is available for free. Don't you think it is too bloody and violent for kids to play huh?

White iPad, 64gb, Wifi

Long queue, we were already 70++th people when we arrived there at 7.30am

Eating McD and waiting

Got what we want!

White and Black

The Bloody Fred

This is not as bloody as other fall

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Black Friday - Friday (13th May)..

Who cares about whether it is a black friday or not? Who cares how the presentation went suckly in the morning ? ( I do care, please. Let's just hope the lecturer won't fail me for that subject...*pray hard*)...Life must still go on!

We had a plan to go clubbing after examination, and all of us managed to stick to our plan, except Miss June! She remembered wrongly the date we would want to go clubbing and had preoccupied herself that night with her meeting with our hostel management group, discussing about the things they would do for the new comer after the new semester starts in September. Though, we all think it would be less interesting without her, but we had a GREAT night out!

What amazed me so much was how I managed to wake up after 2 hours of sleep that night and still had the energy to go Pudu bus station to take bus coming back home.

haha...about the clothes I wore that night, there were stinky like hell. My shirts and pants were engulfed with thick smell of cigarette and alcohol that I had to hide them beneath the all other unwashed clothes so that my mum would not realize them when she helped me to wash the clothes. So far, she did not mention anything or suspicious about me hanging out in those places yet la.

The boys had a great night out!

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I went to update my IC yesterday for I am going to use it to get a passport. I am going to have vacation in Hatyai in early June. Hopefully the picture will turn out OK!

Dental Appointment again

Just came back from my regular dental appointment. The doctor said I have a good progression for my orthodontic treatment. Hopefully the braces can be removed before my new semester starts!!Bought two brushes (shown below) that cost RM12 each. WTF...the one shown below was bought when I was still in Kedah studying matriculation programme. The toothbrush was only RM7.50, the cheapest price i could find that time at the Aneka Mall,* haha reminiscing* And the reason why I insist buying this brush is that it is made for those who wear braces. I happened to use the normal brush before, but the brush bristle just worn out after two washes..><

Aneka RM7.50

And after the appointment, went to Gurney Plaza to buy this new antivirus for my lappy. I dont want to risk installing some virus-attached-pirated copy, so had to splurge some money to protect my laptop la. You will start thinking, necessary meh?? wasting money nia...But i dont want to take any risk!! So better be safe than in trouble.

Captured this picture before i go out. I love how this picture turns out to be. The lighting, the skintone, the lips..It just shows how fair I am (really?). And if you wonder why my nose looks so protuding-ly high, actually i had put on some bright eyeshadow on it to make it more 3d like. And the sexy lips (again,really?) was coated with just nude lipbalm, not lipgloss. Besides, if notice more closely,there is tint of pinkness on my cheek too. I must say that I did not use any blusher. People always suspect me applying blusher when seeing my face turn pink. Hello, it is natural one ok? The pink color will come out when i feel any slight temperature raise to my face. I do not have any blusher right now (may be will buy it someday, who knows), so dont be doubtful!

*ps. the camwhore pic is without any digital edit or touch up. you can still see my serious eyebags there

Look Out Point

It was a scorching hot day and the sun appeared like a huge ball of fire. The unbearable heat sucked up the moisture from the air and the air became still and dry. And my room had turned into a furnace. Though, the fan was switched on to its full speed, it did not clear away the hot air in my room. Instead, the lingering heat had made me so tardy and it appeared trying to suffocate me.

Fortunately, I was asked,out to Look Out Point to celebrate my friend, S.Lye birthday. I had managed to wriggle myself out of this hot situation before the stagnant hot air able to drown me! Look Out Point is about 40 minutes away from University of Malaya and it is located at the outskirts of KL city. It is a tranquil place high above 300meter sea level where visitors come here to indulge themselves with the night scenery of Kuala Lumpur and be mesmerized by the sparkling orange light emitted by thousand of households and the hustle-bustle of the city. Besides that, it is a perfect spot for couples to come dating and friends to celebrate birthday or let their hair down after tackling their onerous tasks for whole day.

There were not so many people when we arrived there since according to their website, Look Out Point attracts large number of visitors during weekends or public holidays. The place was not as cool as I imagined when I desperately yearning stepping out of my room.There is a flight of stairs to walk up before you reach summit where various restaurants are open to serve the visitors. There are a few (should be 4) restaurants available namely, Look Out Point Restaurant, Haven Restaurant, Gasoline and Panaroma Restaurant and we chose the latter to dine in. Panaroma Restaurant is the highest amongst the other 3 restaurants. There is even a tower like structure built to cater the customers who prefer enjoying their meals and scenery at a higher leval. Since, I am going to attend my college annual "prom night"and it is dire for me to keep slim, but, eventually I was overpowered by my voracious appetite and ordered a crispy chicken chop. It was an-OK chop, but the price certainly was reasonable(RM14.90) considering the panorama you can view at while gorging yourself on the food.

Beautiful vista outlooking over KL city (sorry for my lousy camera phone)

Gasoline on hill

Haven Restaurant

Since, we already celebrated once for S.Lye before coming he

re, so this trip was just an excuse for us to come to Look Out Point. We did not prepare any presents or birthday cake for him, just sang a birthday song for him before the day ended. Before we left at midnight, the weather had turned cooler. We could feel tinges of refreshing breeze caressing our cheeks, which was inexplicably pleasant! Later, we went to retrieve our car (the parking fee was just merely RM2)and bounded our journey back to UM.

The birthday boy with Peace hand gesture

Enjoying the breeze or enjoying people taking photo for me?

Sorta a sudden decision to go back Penang

Yes, I am back to Penang with my hometown friends. Though he already told me that he was coming back last week and asked if i wanted to join him, then at that time I just could not make my decision since I have keyboard lesson on Thursday night and occasional tutorial class on Friday morning.

So, after I got the message from my keyboard teacher that he had to cancel yesterday night class (because he still hasnt got the permit yet.WTF la, please, we already pay you, can't you just use those money to rent a room?? I suspected that he did not rent the room at all for my last level of lesson). After that, my mind was started to bristle with million of thoughts, I was in a VERY CRUEL LECTURER class, and I just could not find myself to stay focus on the lecture. Thoughts like "Should I go back later?" "Since my mom only will be back from Thailand tonight, would it be a 'waste' to go home?" "I have to skip my tomorrow tutorial class?"...etc...So to be safe, I texted my tutor and got the big good news that there would not be tutorial class. This freaking news made me freakingly lost my focus more. So, I quickly sms my friend YX to tell him I finally made up my mind to go back with him and he told me we would depart on 5.30pm. Since, my lecturer was until 5pm and considering the 15minutes journey I had to walk from my faculty back to my hostel, that meant I only left with 15 minutes to pack!

After I reached my room, I started to expeditiously cram in some usual stuff you would pack when you are travelling into my luggage bag. My roomate was quite surprised to see me going back (I am the 1 that rarely go back home amongst the 3 of us). And what made him more astounded was, I would go home right away. The situation was like this...

#I am hurriedly packing up, then

Roomate: " You are going back home ar"

Me: " Yes"

This got a bit surprise him la. Later I received my friend call that he already waiting me downstair, so I quicken up my packing, then my roomate asked me another question.

Roomate: " Going back now ar?"

Me: "yes"

And then he gave me an astonished look. I think because the whole process from me walking into my room and out again was only within 10minutes, and he just can't believe how a person would go home/travelling without any early planning. ##

And en route for home, I found this (see the picture below) was in my pocket.. Wow, I was quite amazed by myself how would i react when I was not completely focus.

Padlock to lock my locker

This picture was taken because I had the sudden urge to see how would I look like with my hair tied up and showing my bare forehead (ahai said my forehead is so high enough that people can play a mahjong game on it!).

And found an online free application (stumble across it visiting someone's blog) that you can download to make your picture goes poladroid feel. Click here to link to their page and download this cool application!

A few funny/ embarrassing/ irritating signs

When I first time found out this notice (it is pasted above the toilet bowl) I was like "omg, this is so funny and embarrassing, what if the girl that comes to use guy toilet and sees this (the girls don't use their toilet because it is always monopolized by someone else, so they have to use ours instead wasting their time waiting for the monster inside the lady washroom to come out)

This is really irritating when you need to withdraw your money. Come across this umpteen times recently. WTF