"Ciao"

"Ciao"

One more to go.

Woke up in the late morning @ CY's hse. I remember John saying he was late already. He hasn't pack most of his stuff yet. Last minute stuff, again.

We met in John's house before leaving for KLIA. CY's car was loaded w/ John's stuff. His backseat had to be brought down just so that he can fit all of it. haha, guess the Swift ain't so swift anymore. aha. lame. wtv.

Along the way we stopped by resting place in the midst of the highway to meet up w/ Joe. Joe said there was some famous satay around here, but it was getting late for John. He had to check-in by 7.00pm. His flight is at 7.45pm. It was already approx. 5.30pm. So we skipped that. Headed to KLIA.

@ KLIA parking lot...

From left to right; CY, John and me.

After check-in, we went looking for somewhere to eat. Something cheap. Something fast.

Sigh...McD's. it was the cheapest among all. So..in the end we chilled at McDonald's. Bah...

Left to right; Me, John and CY's arm. John runnig a final check on his luggage.

Left to right; Me, CK, Joe and John. A random pic.

Heading to the departure hall. Left to Right; CK, CY, John, Me and Joe.

It was soon time for John's flight. Yea, it was finally time to say goodbye to John. His one year in Subang is up. Another farewell to a K3-ian.

Hahz. Don't worry. He'll be back. He has to come collect a whole payload of stuff he left in Joe's house. It was just too much for him to bring all back in one flight. Haha...

John heading for his flight.

Sigh....

I hate saying goodbyes.

John if you're reading:

Be good. Do good. Keep in touch. Hope that you will stay w/ God and seek His Kingdom and Righteousness. See you soon next year.

• Jam w/ Band K3 - 23rd November 2005 - DONE
• SAM Corroborree - 23rd November 2005 - DONE
• Chor Yeow's BBQ Party - 24th November 2005 - DONE
• Send John Off - 25th November 2005 - DONE

Now i'm left for the holidays. What to do is up to my creativity. hahz. guess i won't be heading to Subang much anymore :(

-tsencai.

Out.

"Next"

"Next"

Phew, long post man....had a hard time uploading those photos. o_O

Anyways..

Jam w/ Band K3 - 23rd November 2005 - DONE
SAM Corroborree - 23rd November 2005 - DONE
Chor Yeow's BBQ Party - 24th November 2005 - DONE
Send John Off - 25th November 2005 - Coming up

Looks like i'm done w/ most of it. Only left one more. Haihz...



-tsencai.

Out.

"K3 The Gathering"

"K3 The Gathering"

Jam w/ Band K3 - 23rd November 2005 - DONE
SAM Corroborree - 23rd November 2005 - DONE
Chor Yeow's BBQ Party - 24th November 2005 - Coming up
Send John Off - 25th November 2005 - Coming up

Ok, so i'm done wt the jamming part and SAM's prom nite. Hmm, two more events to go. looked really forward to Chor Yeow's BBQ party, at the same time not really looking forward to the end of it :(

CHOR YEOW'S BBQ PARTY - Thursday, 24th November 2005

Prom nite's over and gone. Now to get ready for Jerry's party @ his crib. First things first. We're going to have a barbeque party tonight. Ok, what do we need?

Food. Drinks.

Lotsa of em'.

Ok, so Aaron, Kirsty, John, Shearen, Hor Pooi, Patrick, Huisha, ChoongKhin and I volunteered to do the grocery shopping. Here comes the hard part.

Met at Taylor's first. Had to pick up John, and the other 3 girls; Shearen, HorPooi and Huisha. Then not too SOON we met up w/ Aaron and Kirsty. We were soon headed for 1u.

Uh...grocery shopping at 1u? BAD IDEA.

The food really sucked there. We took one glance at the marinated chicken there and it was enough to convince us to head to some other supermarket. Fine, it was really silly of us to actualyl shop for groceries in 1u. what the heck, so we head for Tesco. Kinda rushed. We were behind schedule. As usual. o_O

At the end of all the haste for the afternoon, we manage to finally settle things down. I went home, showered, and went to get Kwee from the LRT station @ Kelana Jaya.

No problem, right?

Wrong.

My car has John, Huisha, HorPooi and Shearen and ME. That makes 5 in the milo tin can.

Now how we gonna fit Kwee in?

The back seat was cramped literally like a tin of sardines. Poor passengers. John had to cramp my guitar into the front seat w/ him.

Anyway so off we go to Subang.

It was so ridiculous on the highway. I could see ppl staring at my car w/ so many ppl stuffed in it (6 PEOPLE IN A KELISA). I dare not drive fast man.

Heavier weight --> Higher Inersia --> Harder to Brake

So that's why i maintained a comfortable speed of 70kmph on the highway. haha....also had to make sure i get my passengers to their destination safely. o_O

Anyway so we finally reached Taylor's SAFELY....then we saw all the other ppl w/ their cars all pei and waiting for us (yea, we were late...AS USUAL). Had to go around apologizing -.-;

Billy Ghee led the way. Next stop. Chor Yeow's crib. Looking forward to see that lil' bugger's hse. Heard it was nice. Especially their home theatre system. ooOoOoOooo... o_O

Approximately 7.00pm....

All of us got to Jerry's crib...despite some of us losing track of the leading car o_O So we head into this huge banglow......

the first thing noticeable

• A Toyota Alphard
• A BMW X5
• A Maserati Coupe

Where's the Suzuki Swift?

Guess he's not home yet. Lucky thing CY's family recognizes Ghee. So we were invited into the house first.

The living hall.

The living hall. Chilling place.

Most of us were really impressed by the design of the place. it could anytime qualify for a MTV Crib!oh yea, heard it was renovated already. So a job well done to that :)

Our stuff settled down. Notice the PRS!

More equipment for later.

Random pic. Patrick (left) & ChoongKhin (right) chilling(?)

Most of us were still exploring CY's humble hse while some were already at the kitchen. Haha...too bad no photo of the TV room. It was really nice.

Time for the photos. All photos courtesy of Joe's camera. Haha..faulty Canon products o_O

Ladies @ the kitchen.

Ladies @ the sandwiches

Left to Righ: RongJie's GF; Yuen Mun, YeanTHeng, Ah Boss (happy happy) and Pei Jinn

More people @ the sandwiches. From left to right: RongJie, Kirsty, RongJie's GF; Yuen Mun, YeanTheng and PeiJinn

Hor Pooi (left) and Ghee (right) @ the chicken.

A random pic. The dining hall.

Random pic.

Kok Pin @ the chicken.

John @ the chicken w/ Hor Pooi at the back.

A random pic. That's me in the brown T.

Eating by the garden.

Kwee. Joe thought this pic was funny. o_O

RongJie: Hey want anot?

GF on phone: (does not answer)

It's ok! More for me! :D :D

Hey. Remember the Maserati? hmm...it's vacant...CY's dad ain't home.

hehehe...

CHorYeow and Kwee @ the Maserati.

Joe @ the Maserati. Get the number platE! ahaha..

Driver's seat.

Joe (in red) w/ Kwee fooling @ the Maserati

Break out the champagne! ahaha nope, s' just sparkling juice. John made sure the party was on a non-alcohol policy. Haha...we disobeyed :)

One.

DonE!

Did i mention that the crib's garden has this little shed. Looks like it was made/meant for some yoga session. Well, i don't think anyone would wanna exercise at this kind of hour so....

We hooked up our equipment and ........

Patrick and I @ the electric.

John @ accoustics.

Band K3 w/o Joe. Haha sorry no drums.

Not too soon later...

Aaron: Hey

Us (Band K3): Ye...

Aaron: Kirsty's birthday is coming up this Sunday...

Us: Ye?

Aaron: So can you all like, play her a song? i already got the cake bal bla bla *tells the plan*

Us: Ye.....

Since it was only a birthday song, John agreed to just play the song on the accoustics.Well, yea takkan we go HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO U on the electrics JENG JENG JENG noisy gua. Just a birthday song anyway..

So plan went as proceeded...

Surprise, surprise...Happy Birthday la!!!

Kirsty and the cake. She looks teary o_O

Yea, guess Kirsty was kinda surprised + shocked for the birthday thing.It was getitng late and very soon all had to chow.

Haihz, i hate saying goodbyes. i really do.

At least we got one final chance for a class gathering. I'm glad that most of us made it. Our last chance of getting together.

It's sad y'know. they come and they just go. one year's finished. I could still remember orientation day. hahz...anyways...everyone left.

it was just ChorYeow, KokPin, GheeJune, Patrick, Kwee, Aaron, ChoongKhin, John, Huisha, Shearen and meleft in the house. Yea, we slept over. Mum wouldn't let me out so late, so i decided to stay over :) ahaha

Lamers. Losers. Hahz..

Chilling @ CY's TV Room.

Kwee on the PS2.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted; also being most watched in CY's crib. Check out the M3 and the Mustang!

Yea, we spent most of the night in the TV room. The crib's home theatre system is damn cool man. It's like the only place u wanan be when u get into house! Haha!

Oh, we slept at around 5.00am+ o_O @#*(&@)(#&@#

ChorYeow kept us up. The host himself didn't let us sleep :S

Being his frisky self he kept on touching his guests o_O....

zZzZz....

That's why i dun really enjoy sleepovers. I never get enough sleep. I rather go home late. ahaha but what the heck. It's a final class gathering. I'm all for iT!

HAHA...

Woke up at 11.00am the next morning. Had bah kut teh for breakfast. Yeap, tasted good :)

K, now gotta get ready for one more.

John's time is up here in Subang. His one year is up. He gotta go. No more John @ Subang.

• Jam w/ Band K3 - 23rd November 2005 - DONE
• SAM Corroborree - 23rd November 2005 - DONE
• Chor Yeow's BBQ Party - 24th November 2005 - DONE
• Send John Off - 25th November 2005 - Coming up. Soon.

-tsencai.

Out.

"Awan's Seven-in-One - Part I"

"Awan's Seven-in-One - Part I"

A link at the previous post dated back @ Sunday, November 20, 2005 didn't quite work properly, so i've decided to actually post the whole thing here.

Yes, the whole article is a copy & paste thing :)

Enjoy :)

This article has been submitted to FF7:AC Movie by Raven_237.
All credits goes to him for this Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Analysis, thank you Raven_237.

Cloud Strife's 6 Piece Sword in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children describes the mechanism behind Cloud's weapon using scene by scene screenshots to demonstrate its assembly process.

For those of us who have seen the movie, one of the coolest and also most stupefying elements in it was Cloud Strife’s sword. It was a sword that actually comprised of 6 individual swords that could be combined to form one big one. Through the movie Cloud used this to his advantage especially during the final battle with Sephiroth. However, some are confused as to how this sword combines the 6 individual swords and more so, what the 6 individual swords are. Did Cloud use all of them during the movie? Yes he did, and I’m going to show you all of them and how they integrate into the main weapon with screenshots from the movie.

The Base Sword (first sword)

The base sword is the most complicated of all the other swords so I’m going to be spending the most time talking about it. It’s the only sword (outside the 2 switch blade swords) with moving parts. The base sword has 5 stages to it and each stage is defined by how opened or closed the blade is.

The first stage is the one in which the blade and the hand guard are closed. Below is a screenshots of the sword in the first stage. Notice in the first screenshot that the hand guard is closed and diamond shaped. In the second and third stages the hand guard opens up via these pivot points (marked in red) and becomes rectangle in shape. More on this later. In the second screenshot, though it’s not very clear you can see the blade (green) and the hand guard (red) are closed. This stage is the mainly to allow the sword be carried easily in the sheath, as seen in the first screenshot:

The second stage of the sword is what I like to call the battle ready stage. In this form the sword’s blade (red) and the hand guard (green) are fully extended. Cloud tends to use this form the most in battles:

In 2nd screenshot the pivot point for the hand guard can be seen very well (red). Do you also see the little piece of metal on the inside (yellow)?

It can be seen a little more clearly here (yellow). Those are what hold the hand guard to the blade. Also it’s the main mechanism that allows the hand guard to expand:

I’ll try to explain here to the best of my ability with the diagram below how the hand guard thing works. Basically, the piece of the handle that the metal pieces connect to has a spring-loaded rotation ability. When Cloud sees fit he can activate it and it will rotation and push the metal pieces out which in turn forced the pivots on the hand guard to move outward as well and form the rectangle hand guard. With the rectangle hand guard the sword can now fit the other 5 swords in the assembly.

I’ll explain the 3rd and 4th stage of the base sword later on in the guide.

The Impact sword (the second sword)

I call this sword the impact sword because in the assembly is becomes the main impact blade. The sword itself is hollow and can be seen below (red):

Even the handle is split (red), which allows the blade to wrap comfortably around the first blade:

Now for the assembly. Here are the swords before assembly. Notice the gap in hand guard of the first sword (red) and the fact that the sword is expanded (green):

Now the 2 swords are together. The gap has closed and the first sword has contracted and the second sword is fitting snuggly in its position (yellow):

Last but not least, the second sword is slid down to lock in place (yellow). Notice that the 2nd blade does not connect to the center of the base sword but in fact to the right section of the blade (from Cloud’s point of view). Now the base sword is in its 3rd stage which I call the Phase 1 assembly stage in which the blade is closed, the hand guard is expanded and the gap at the base of the hand guard is closed:

Now the gap at the base of the hand guard is filled by 4 metal plates that fold out from inside the hand guard itself. One can slightly be seen here (yellow). It is noticeable due to the fact that it is a slightly different color from the actual inside of the hand guard:

When all four are down it looks like this. Notice the dividing points that indicate that there are in fact 4 (yellow):

The 3rd and 4th Swords (have no good name for them)

The 3rd and 4th swords are identical. In the assembly they occupy the same place except on opposite sides. Below is a screenshot of the 3rd and 4th blades before being assembled (red). If you look to the right you’ll see the first 2 swords already in the assembly (yellow):

Now for the 4th stage of the base sword. The base sword needs to be in this stage in order for the 3rd and 4th swords to be assembled. In this stage (Phase 2 assembly) the base sword’s blade is slightly expanded (red) and the hand guard remains as it was in the 3rd stage. Now why does the base sword need to be slightly expanded at this point? Well, you cannot lock the door till you’ve closed it. More on this analogy later.

Getting a good picture of the 3rd sword after assembly is only as hard as getting a picture of the actual assembly because it happens so fast and in the middle of the Bahamut battle. If you look closely below you will see the 3rd sword connected on the left side of the assembly to the top. The blade of the 3rd sword itself is facing down (green) the blunt end is facing up (red) and the handle is locked into the base of the hand guard (yellow):

Here is a screenshot of the 4th sword just before being assembled (red). This happens as Cloud’s friends are boosting him up the sky to hit Bahamut the final blow.

This is the 4th sword as it is being assembled on the right side of the main sword (red). It’s as clear as day here:

And here is Cloud snapping the 4th sword into the locked position. Notice that the base blade is still in the 4th stage:

Now that the first 4 swords are assembled the base sword can be put into the 5th and final stage (Phase 3 assembly). In this phase the base blade is complete closed, so in essence it’s the same as the 3rd phase. Now what this closing of the base blade does is 1.) It locks the impact sword and the 3rd and 4th blades together (red) and 2.) Now permits the 2 switch blades to be placed in the assembly:

Here you can see that the blade for the impact and the 3rd and 4th swords connect seamlessly. This also points out more accurately how the tips for the 3rd and 4th swords are shaped:

To be continued...