Tranqulity Gold v8

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Due to personal commitments, this blog's author will be on a temporary 3-month hiatus.

This blog may never be updated again, but then again, it may. That depends largely on fate.

FX undergoing transformation.

7:48 AM

Friday, October 12, 2007

Alienware SCREEN

This is still a prototype, but this sweet doublewide curved DLP display with OLED illumination from Alienware will reportedly be available in the second half of ‘08. The curvature of the 2880 x 900 rez screen mimics peripheral vision, and in action the performance seemed pretty flawless to our Crysis-dazzled eyes (official specs report less than .02-millisecond response time). There’s not even an inkling of an MSRP on this thing yet, but you know we’re gonna be keeping our eyes on this sucker for ya. Sure trashes out multiple LCD screens that we're all using now! I mean, when Matrox first came out with it's dualhead, then triplehead, then Nvidia with it's DVI-dual heads, now THIS! WOAH.

iWant.

Pics below and don’t miss our video footage.

From Engadget.com

6:25 PM

Friday, October 05, 2007

Today is the final and last day of the Chemical Defense course! The morning begun with a hectic start and I was already worrying about a whole slew of problems that I had to settle. Everything was so last minute! Suddenly I was told that instead of them, we are the ones that have to provide the safety rover and not them, so I was scrambling to get a rover on such a short notice, a last minute medic and there was a guy who needed XL size boots and getting my own protective suit.

After the initial rush, everything plateau-ed into a smooth passing, I had a quick lunch whilst still worrying about the indents and commercial bus, then got my 2 helping auxiliary instructors to draw their protective suits as well.

After a late start, the guys were finally on their way to the gas chamber, and I finally left camp in a land-rover. Suddenly for this I felt quite lonely. Normally for an operation like this I will have a superior supervising officer over me, helping me sign forms that required Captain-level establishment to sign. But suddenly, I've become the over-all-in-charge officer.

With the guys coming directly to me for instructors, I had no one to turn to or ask for advice. But this time, I was already at the top, with no one to turn to and ask for instructions; suddenly I was the officer-in-charge for everything! So whilst the trainees left in a bus, I had to commandeer a Land Rover over to the site. I gave direct instructions to the medic, directions to the driver, thinking about a hundred things in my mind, going through a mental checklist over and over again, hoping I had not forgotten anything. I made decisions that I would not normally made, suddenly the harsh reality of the situation dawned upon the immense responsibility that I had to bear. I was in-charge of 2 officers, 40 trainees, 2 drivers, 2 vehicles and 1 medic!

The ride from camp to the chamber was a maddeningly slow journey. But I was the commander for the rover with my medic, just the 3 of us in a pathetic journey to the chamber. We arrived late at Pasir Laba camp, but with me dressed in OCS-red PT, I extruded an aura of a ranking commanding officer reporting at medical centre. That really helped me to skip the damn queue and demand for an in-charge immediately, that really got things speeded up!

When we finally arrived at the chamber training shed, the guys carried out with their chemical defence drills but everything was smooth. My trainees and the other trainees from other units did everything smoothly.

I went into the gas chamber again in my full protective suit, it's my second time going into the chamber, this time as an instructor, how times have changed. The trainees went through the chamber and exited one by one, I believe it will be an unforgettable experience for them to experience the stinging and burning sensation of CS gas (Tear gas.) Hell it was an unforgettable experience for me myself!

Finally everything ended smoothly, and the trainees returned back to camp, the medic, driver and I made our way back to camp slowly, finally this time consuming training as come to an end. And I am only this busy because some others didn't do their job.

Nevertheless, I took in all in stride, it's still a responsibility that I had to bear.

4:47 AM