tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304526502024-03-08T01:19:53.488-05:00Tale of SYSS MouseMy Blog, My life.SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-24840237743829259852010-05-26T22:34:00.002-04:002010-05-26T22:59:49.688-04:00Lots of stuf to write todaySo I am feeling like writing a real blog post today.<br /><br /><ol><li>Toronto Star wrote about Lost and 24 finale and I never expected a spoiler tag on printed edition of newspaper.</li><li>The topic of summer snow camp was brought up in a conversation today. It is about snow sport camps in the west coast mountains. No, I am not that crazy yet. Or, rather, "hardcore".</li><li>A couple of farewells in upcoming months. Kinds feel sad over that, one moving to Vegas and one to Seattle. :(</li><li>They are adding keyboards to Rock Band 3. GF+DM+KBM+vocal session anyone?</li><li>So hot last weekend. Two years ago it was snowing in the same weekend.</li><li>Writing up a bucket list now.</li></ol>That's all.SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-65829005960026159042010-04-19T22:16:00.003-04:002010-04-19T22:30:36.198-04:00Things happening now.Now, winter is over before we knew it. Time for a recap.<br /><ol><li>I originally planned a trip to Quebec, which never happened. It is too warm to worth the trip.</li><li>I can do the more difficult ski runs now.</li><li>No, I did not watch Winter Olympics men's snowboard halfpipe. Everyone knew that the Flying Tomato would have won.</li><li>Bought a bunch of game, and moved away from World of Warcraft.</li><li>hooked up with a ski buddy.<br /></li></ol>SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-58285172260769802582010-01-23T17:31:00.002-05:002010-01-23T17:31:40.202-05:00WarcrackWell, today I unsubscribed WoW. It is time to remove that link. More comment later.SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-7548203542977746122009-11-29T23:23:00.002-05:002009-11-29T23:24:11.656-05:00The FallIt is not snowing yet.<br />And it appears that weather has been like fall since like July. Does this mean we have a 6-month Fall? That's a very <span style="font-style: italic;">long</span> Fall.SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-6544214507056006702009-10-06T23:31:00.001-04:002009-10-06T23:47:13.339-04:00Best Job winter versionJust stumbled upon this contest about <a href="http://snowbumcanada.com/">being s snow bum</a>. To summary it up it is a contest where the winner will live at a resort, all expense paid, for 3 months in interior British Columbia. There, the winner ski/board,tube, sled, and blog, tweet, youtube about the life there in cyberspace and doing PR their event.<br />Just need to submit a 60 second video about yourself.<br /><br />Someone got the idea from that <a href="http://islandreefjob.com/">Island Reef Job</a>, apparently.<br />I'd be interested who will end up winning. Snow bum... hum... not really the thing for me, even I am a snowboarder. Going there means I will need to find a new job upon return.<br /><br />Certainly someone in Land Down Under have <a href="http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26155468-3102,00.html">noticed that</a>. (What we call ski hill/resort is called ski field there)SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-16963435869796830062009-09-24T00:10:00.002-04:002009-09-24T22:39:07.697-04:00Plan in upcoming weeeks.Sep 27 - banquet to attend<br />Oct 3 - party?<br />Oct 10 - Thanksgiving long weekend - Algonquin?<br />Oct 17 - Toronto Ski and Snowboard show.SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-49080817054383099162009-08-09T22:51:00.005-04:002009-08-09T23:08:58.206-04:00Something is wrong with this summer, when:<ul><li>You don't need to turn on air-conditioning</li><li>It is always cloudy</li><li>there is no smog alert</li><li>Your friend start talking about ski trip in July</li><li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=chill+on+the+hill&init=quick#/event.php?eid=196678935540">There is a snowboard event at yuor local ski hill in the middle of summer. </a><br /></li></ul>SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-60668171656356805472009-07-16T22:47:00.001-04:002009-07-16T22:51:56.521-04:00About this blogIn 2008 I made a total of 8 posts.<br />This post is the 9th post of 2009.SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-8657441311534434312009-06-04T23:06:00.002-04:002009-06-04T23:28:06.819-04:00White HeatStumbled upon this book in the library, by Wayne Johnson. It gives a lot of insight of the life around the mountain and the life behind it. Avalanche control, patrol, and the life around the resorts.<br /><br />This book is about the ski and snow culture. It is a good read for those new to the sports (this includes riders, thus plural) like me.<br /><br />Wait till winter comes....<br /><br />Oh, more snow quotes:<br />"Are you asking me to give a testimony, based on experience on snow, <span style="font-weight: bold;">in summer</span>?"<br /><span class="mainmenu"><span class="postbody"></span></span>SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-6506573359969119962009-05-05T21:23:00.005-04:002009-10-06T23:40:45.365-04:00snow quotes"Last weekend I was hanging out at Blue Mountain and people are still skiing and snowboarding. They are absolutely insane." First thing I heard on radio when driving to work - and that's what I did on the previous Saturday.<br /><br />"O Yea, we are learning snowboarding next season. You see, even my younger son had all his [<a href="http://burton.com">Burton</a>] apparel ready."<br /><br />"I am young enough to use the word 'stoked'. S-T-O-K-E-D."<br /><br />"I forgot my camera today."<br />"To take pictures of you falling [on snow]?"<br /><br />"Whistler? That's crazy.... yet awesome and EPIC."<br /><br />"good to know.... I should save more for 'misc expenditures' like snowboard trips haha."SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-29356420412647584402009-04-08T00:03:00.003-04:002009-04-08T00:24:47.094-04:00End of the snow season...I am back from Vancouver two weeks ago as I wrote this. Looking back of last winter it almost sounded like a dream.<br />I only thought of taking snowboarding class just after the season actually started (in December, around Christmas) and actually put it into action in New Year. In any case, the New Year's Resolution is kind of completed. Certainly I did not thought of ending the season in Whistler.<br />I had the vacation days, and some spare money: why not take the chance and see the outside world - the really big mountain, which does not exist in Ontario. So I did.<br /><br />By now the snow season *should* have ended in Ontario, especially when it stopped snowing mid-February.<br />(Apparently not for Blue Mountain... the place got a feet of snow on Monday and they announced that the place will be open in Easter - admitting that the snowstorm is unseasonal.)SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-47174610798361391682009-03-13T16:41:00.002-04:002009-03-13T16:42:52.145-04:00T-6 and counting.To Whistler, British Columbia... that's all I have to say.<br /><br />That's it. That's all. <span style="font-size:78%;">No, not that one. I am not crazy yet.</span>SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-1109691913994324552009-03-01T14:40:00.010-05:002009-03-01T20:35:52.591-05:00OK. This is getting so surreal for this winter.So let's rewind back to March 2008. As I mentioned in here before, there was a company ski trip. I had always wanted to try snowboarding so I chose snowboarding on that day.<br />My feeling was that I wanted to do it for real but the season was ending soon so this soon slipped out of my mind.<br /><br />Then another winter came. Apart from video gaming (one of which is Shaun White Snowboarding (which I got for PC version)) and stuff, I somehow decided to make my New Year's Resolution that I should learn snowboarding for real. So I signed up for snowboarding class at Glen Eden early January to put my New Year's Resolution. Then things are getting weirder by each week.<br /><br />By late January someone in office actually asked me whether I wanted to go to Mont-Tremblant (in Quebec) in the Family Day long weekend with him. Then, a couple days later he told me that one of his friends was injured while snowboarding (season-ending type) so out of respect the whole group would not be going. It was not really a problem since it never went beyond the planning stage anyway.<br />A week later another group of people asked the same question - i.e. to the same location in the same weekend. My thought was like "Again?" They ended up not going but history did not repeat - they just could not get the logistic to work.<br /><br />I heard they went to Blue Mountain on that weekend. In any case I had other engagement that prevented me to go.<br /><br />Yesterday was the last lesson of snowboarding. I was able to ride down green run and is chairlift ready. That's all good. I posted on my Facebook asking if anyone is interested for a ski/snowboard trip on March 14 weekend. The plan was actually a day trip but I had not planned which day of the weekend at that time.<br /><br />This morning:<br />Someone asked me whether I am going to Whistler with them (all skier...) during the March break... My thought was actually WTF. The trip posted on Facebook certainly does not mean a trip to the other side of Canada.<br /><br />But don't get me wrong. I am rather neutral on this atm.<br /><br />My supervisor will have my head for making him do the schedule again....<br />BTW, if I am going, date would be from March 19-24.SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-2571210949422491332009-02-11T22:06:00.001-05:002009-02-11T22:09:37.205-05:00Some MSN conversation[23:19] taiyo@T-5d - o contract, where art thou ?: how's your 50-50 on rails ?<br />[23:28] SYSSMouse.blogspot.com is pain.: not yet :p<br />[23:28] SYSSMouse.blogspot.com is pain.: still a beginner, so not jibbing yet.<br /><br />After I typed my reply my thought was WTF as I actually knew what he is talking about.SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-68230645230406158862009-01-17T21:29:00.002-05:002009-01-17T21:33:46.048-05:00Two disaster planning stories today,<span class="threePicListingTitle"></span><a runat="server" href="http://www.thestar.com/YourHome/News&Features/article/572762" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_leftContentContainer_ListWebPart_FeatureStories_ctl01___LinkLineup__"><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_leftContentContainer_ListWebPart_FeatureStories_ctl01___Title__">Power outage primer</span></a><br /><span class="linkTopHeadlines"> <a runat="server" href="http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/572754" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_leftContentContainer_ListWebPart_ThirdTierStories_ctl01___LinkLineup__"> <span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_leftContentContainer_ListWebPart_ThirdTierStories_ctl01___Title__">If a plane went down in the harbour</span></a></span> - but then, Hudson River was not frozen solid.<br /><br />Hum, the star is not of news today.SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-56843220211289700082009-01-01T21:14:00.002-05:002009-01-17T21:15:28.850-05:00New Year Resolution.Well, well. I am not really into this. But anyways, I am gonna make one this year.<br /><br />Perhaps I should learn snowboarding for real. (and promptly got mocked by friends.)SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-55091970504641243252008-12-30T23:16:00.002-05:002008-12-30T23:59:25.915-05:00A continuation from yesterday.Yesterday I mentioned about snowboarding games, which boils down to: arcade-trick style (SSX, Amped), tech style (Shaun White [regular - not Road Trip], Shaun Palmer, 1080) and back country style (Stoked).<br /><br />I should elaborate it further:<br />Those arcade-trick style like SSX tends to have absurd tricks (to the point of physically impossible) - little more than a button-masher on a snowboard. Graphics and plot also tends to be a bit cartoonish.<br />Tech is also about mad tricks but more realistic. Those are the frestyler in the snow park.<br />Back country style is about the freedom. The freeride down the mountain is what it is about.<br /><br />So it is essentially park vs freeride.SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-64809998752935740972008-12-29T21:06:00.003-05:002008-12-29T21:27:01.048-05:00On snowboarding gamesAs of now Ubisoft has published Shaun White Snowboarding, all is good. At the same time, some unknown developed named <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bongfish</span> announced another game simply named <span style="font-weight: bold;">Stoked</span>.<br /><br />Based on what I read it is all back country snowboarding. You ride alone; you are the hardcore snowboarder; you are the hero on the mountains.<br /><br />And all hell broke lose.<br /><br />Now gamers are debating which style of snowboarding is better. Between arcade-trick style (SSX, Amped), tech style (Shaun White, 1080) and back country style (Stoked, as mentioned above).<br /><br />This is just the beginning - Shaun White Snowboarding is nearly guaranteed to have a sequel.SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-44894782515354191152008-10-07T23:14:00.003-04:002008-10-07T23:26:24.784-04:00Spore and the wisdomSpore has finally come out.<br />Despite its relative non-violence of this video game, it still has its own share of controversy - whether it is a game of evolution or a game of intelligent design. EA and Maxis chose to be ambiguous about it.<br /><br />Now for a recap of what it is: The game is divided into five phase. In the first two phase, Tide Pool Phase and Creature Phase, you evolve your creature using DNA points, gained by eating meat and/or plant. You can add parts that are available throughout these two phases.<br /><br />Tribal Phase and Civilization Phase evolves the creature into a society and into space. Space Phase puts you into a UFO and, well, allows you to put creatures, create new world, terraform, and tweak creature, like God did.<br /><br />Here is the problem:<br /><br />Evolution: you start out as a aquatic cell, adding legs and parts so that you can hunt other creature, and not being hunted. Later you get legs and get onto land and eventually gain sentience and formed a community.<br /><br />Intelligent design: You, the player, dictates how the creature evolve. Not to mention pace Phase puts you into a UFO and, well, allows you to put creatures, create new world, terraform, and tweak creature, like God did.SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-66443626157765810892008-08-01T13:32:00.001-04:002008-08-01T13:32:47.679-04:00How to survive the rain<a href="http://www.thestar.com/Article/470082">Well...</a><br /><br />That should teach you one thing or two.SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-68842331786435898792008-07-06T21:00:00.001-04:002008-08-01T13:31:51.121-04:00People playing DS<a href="http://www.nintendocu.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1215379007&archive=&start_from=&ucat=4">DS Oynayan 75 Milyondan 205 Resim</a><br /><br />Of course many pictures are staged, but strong photo nonetheless.SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-25878361243060760522008-06-26T22:20:00.003-04:002008-06-26T22:24:49.314-04:00StuffWell, I have not updated this blog for a while.<br /><br />Stuff that happened:<br /><ul><li>A lot of rain<br /></li><li>CBC Radio One: For some reason I found myself listen to CBC Radio a lot.<br /></li><li>The World Ends with You. *Open up your senses*<br /></li><li>Video Games Live is back. This time it is free. Imagine 5000 nerds standing in Dundas Square listening to an orchastra.</li><li>Guitar Hero: On Tour. Heck, quite an odd game, and you cannot copy it...you HAVE to buy it!<br /></li></ul>SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-35814285057168831572008-03-16T20:28:00.002-04:002008-03-16T20:47:10.715-04:00snowboardingMany years ago back in high school (like 2000) someone told me: "You would look cool, very cool, on a snowboard." I responded with a laugh. I was not a active person. Plus, I did not know anyone who snowboards (except a few).<br /><br />Fast forward.<br /><br />It is now March 2008. In 2006-07 the winter was dry - no snow at all in December 2006. Many wondered it would be the same in future. Second fewest snowfall in record.<br /><br />This winter all we talk is just snow, hell lots of it. We are just 15cm short of record with one more month to go.<br /><br />Also, I have been working for a year now. The company arranged a ski trip. (rather, snowboard trip - more people opted for snowboard than ski, including our COO)<br /><br />Might as well try it for once - And got pwned by the board.<br /><br />Maybe I should really learn snowbaording.SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-55366681986619798832008-01-19T22:33:00.000-05:002008-01-19T22:44:39.620-05:00Today at OrbitWell, no longer Orbit. It is Playscape now :p<br /><br />So I saw MaxX, who is supposed to boycott Orbit, but apparently he is there for Maximum Tune 3. Wonder how many battle stars he got.<br /><br />And Khoa, who yelled out Diu lei loh moh out of frustration when he failed the stage in IIDX. The thing is, he is not even Chinese. Very funny.SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30452650.post-73226251831275338872007-12-24T22:09:00.000-05:002007-12-24T22:15:28.312-05:00Lumines PCFor some reason Q Entertainment decided to port this game to PC, which is not necessarily a bad thing. The problem is their delivery method.<br /><br />Wild Tangent.<br /><br />That company delivers *casual* game online (read - Flash). Even though Lumines actually plays like a Flash game on PC, I don't like it being actually marketed as one. Furthermore, people does not like Wild Tangent - it is accused of delivered spywares (this part is questionable however.)<br /><br />Worth a try, still.SYSS Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10617693200542886012noreply@blogger.com0