Seriously time passes really fast during work, hasn't been really busy for this whole week, nothing much to report and purely just playing the game to see if there are any crashes. And for today, it's Combined Happy Hour. What it means is actually, the every last Fridays of the month, there will be a Happy Hour session whereby all QA testers finish work at 5pm, and make our way up to the 4th level office(for your info, EA at Guthrie House have offices at 3rd and 4th level) , and we mainly just eat and socialize with the engineers. It's quite a good thing and something new for me to know about the company as well, now I'm anticipating the every last Fridays of the month, but not just cos of this Happy Hour, but also approaching to my pay day. =D

Hmmm. It's weekend tomorrow, not sure whether I'm going out to anywhere anot. But most importantly gonna have a good rest tonight, weather have been really good for sleeping these few days, but I've to wake up early for work. Damn. That's for my little update, nothing much to talk bout work as well, since I can't talk much also, so I just KISS (Keep It Short & Sweet). =D

Went to watch The Dark Knight after work yesterday with Choonwei, Meifong, Wei Kiat, Mindy and Leo at Shaw Tower. It's a must watch movie, the plot is really nice, although there are some parts whereby I don't understand what they are talking about, but slowly I get to understand it. It's a bit draggy and lengthy for the movie, 2 hrs and 30 mins, but it's worth the $9.50 that I spent. =D

And the Joker in the movie, is extremely funny and smart. There are some parts whereby he has some funny actions, but since his name is Joker in the show, of cos he must act as one. He acted very well in the movie, from a bad guy to a funny guy, facial expressions and etc are all well acted out. But it's such a pity that he passed away shortly after The Dark Knight had finished production due to an accident of drug overdose, at the age of 28.

Here's a picture of him in real life. Looks kinda handsome isn't it? Too bad he's already left this world and there might not be another guy who can acts Joker as well as him. His real name is Heath Ledger, click here to read more about him. =D

It's Saturday today, and I practically slept the whole afternoon away. Cool yeah? Was eagerly anticipating for the weekend arrival, but aftermath: Stayed at home for the entire day, simply sleeping away. Alright, guess I will be staying at home for the entire day tomorrow as well. Since I already stayed at home this weekend, 1 for all, all for 1 then. =D

Alright.. I sounds retarded. But nonetheless, haven't been updating for the past 1 week or so, things have been rather routine for me. Going to work everyday morning and going home in the packed 156 and the freaking long journey. Thank god I have changed my HP wallpaper to someone's picture to keep myself motivated at work. Interested to know who's on my HP, ask me for my phone and look at it when you see me. =D

For work wise, has been shifted over to another project. But the old project is still in progress, meaning which we will be asked to do on 2 different projects at the same time in a few weeks time. Right now I'm playing a soccer game on a Nintendo Wii.

It's a rather new and interesting thing for me as I've never touched and played any games on Wii before. Hence I was getting used to the kinematics of the remote controls and it is a totally different thing when you are playing a soccer game on a Wii. But it's a really cool experience for me. I might be getting a Nintendo Wii if I get save enough money and there are games which can attracts me. =D

Mr Jonathan Chee came to EA today to see how we are doing at the company, but he could only sit at the meeting desk and talk to us. He told us that we won't be having any holidays all the way until we graduate, meaning which we will be doing Major Project after the EA attachment, and after the project, we will be either doing another project or going for another attachment at a random company. We were rather shocked to hear this news, cos we knew that we won't be going for another attachment definitely as there are not much games company wanting any interns, so we will in school developing 2 Major Projects. COOL YEAH~

Alright.. Have started work for 2 days already. So far so good I can say, just that I hate the long bus rides to work and back home. Have to waste 3 hrs of my day just to get to work and go home. But no choice, I have no choice to make for my attachment, this is the best place that they can send me to already. =D

For the past few days have been quite easy for me, playing and testing out a game (I'm not supposed to update much about it as I've signed the Non-disclosure Agreement). It might sound really easy, we can just sit down there and play the game and do nothing, at the end of the day we get paid. But I'm getting the feeling that as time goes by, it will be getting even more tougher than it sounds. As we had only started work for like 2 days, of cos it sounds easy. =x

For food wise, Fifth Ave has got a lot of coffee shops just right across of the office. Nice food though, but we have not really try all the food yet, and for this 3 months we won't be having trouble at eating lunch. The EA QA office is quite spacious, there's this clean room where it's freakingly cold inside, just like a fridge, and Edward has to stay inside to test a game for 8 hrs a day. The overall feeling at the office was rather good, friendly people around. But at the end of the day it's still business, work must still be done.

I'm looking forward on finishing this internship and experiencing working in a gaming industry and knowing how it is like. And many of my lecturers told us, many good and successful programmers started off at the QA team testing and debugging games, and our supervisor at work told us that the Director of EA in SG started off at the QA team as well. So I'm sure this will be a good internship for me to start out my job in the future. So wish me luck in this 3 months!

Alright people.. If you guys had my MSN, you all should know that my major project has been changed for the 2nd time. And today me and my group mates went back for a short briefing held by Michael Gerard, he told us that my group will be replacing 3 other people for the EA game testers. I guess it's at least a good news for me as I won't be having my dad going down to TP to complain and talk to the directors.

So from tomorrow onwards, Monday to Friday 9am - 6pm, I will be working at EA as Game Testers. I'm quite anticipating this as I will be having friends like Leo and Eddy with me, Eddy will be going to the company with me as we are both taking 156 to Fifth Ave where the office is located at. Oh ya.. From what we heard from Michael, our monthly pay is $500, much more than the initial pay of others having SIP now. So it's a rather good news for us yeah? Be a game tester and get paid $500 per month. But I'm sure the work there will be very tough as well, cos there's no free lunch in this world. =D

P.S to Shirley: I'm sorry that I won't be able to help you with your FYP, but I will try to make myself free on Saturday if you need my help. =D

Went to watch 10 Promised to My Dog ytd at J8 with Bp, Serene, Bp's sis, Yiuhei and Shirley. Nearly couldn't make it for the movie, but luckily not much people are watching the show.The movie was quite nice, as in my point of view. Some people might not like it, but I felt that the movie was very touching, and although it's not totally about the dog, the story is heartwarming and of cos sad. This is the 1st movie that I actually cried after so many years of my life! Can you imagine me crying in a cinema? Haha. Of cos the dog was cute and obedient in the movie, if Pepper was half as obedient as her, I'd be very glad. =x But Pepper is still very cute most of the times. =D

Hmmm. Updates about school stuffs, changes in major project again. I'm no longer working on the "Vest" that was assigned to us initially due to some reasons, now I'm working on a flash game which involves action scripts. Nothing much, needa go back to school tmr for some SIP briefing and on Friday for my NAPFA test. Not very sure whether I can get a gold for it, but will try my best as choonwei mentioned that this is the only chance for us to get good results on. So yeah.. Go for it~!