Ever wonder why Gear Second?

Senchow's log,

I never thought this would come, I mean people actually read my blog, not people but friends :D. At first, my reason for blogging just to remind me of what has happen in the past. But now, they mock me for not updating my blog, well not all but some of them do that, I refer them as Kemetot girls(Putting this phrase means I'm starting a war with them) wa ga ga.

I'm so busy lately, with my work and haven't had the time to actually relaxed and enjoy my life. I haven't play badminton for 5 month now, added few kilo already, damn. But that can be remove. So today topic is about my Blog title.

Ever wonder why "GEAR SECOND!!". I purposely put GEAR SECOND because it has several meaning for me. This phrase come from Anime "One Piece", one of the best Anime I've ever watched. Basically it is a story about pirates, it is the new age of pirate where everybody is searching for a treasure called "One Piece".

This is the treasure left behind by Gol D. Roger, the strongest pirate alive, and owner of the legendary treasure known as One Piece. Roger was famed as the man who did what no one thought possible - he conquered the Grand Line (The location in One Piece story). Even before setting out, he was the only man who truly did not fear the dangers of the Grand Line and was even excited about venturing out there. Even with warnings about ships never returning from that ocean, he did not care; in fact, he even declared that was the reason for him going. He was said to be completely fearless, and those who witnessed his execution even claim that he grinned just before his death.

Anyway, back to the point, Monkey D. Luffy (Main character in the Anime). He is the captain of the Mugiwara(mean Straw Hat) Pirates. Luffy had the highest bounty in East Blue(Another location in One Piece Anime) at 300 million Belli (currency value in One Piece Anime), after defeating Rob Lucci of CP9, demolishing Enies Lobby and declaring war on the World Government. Gear Second is one of Luffy's skill set. Luffy namely calls these adjustments Gears; Gear Second and Gear Third. In Gear Second, Luffy uses his rubbery legs to increase the circulation in his blood, providing more metabolism in his body, making him much more agile and his attacks a lot more swift. In Gear Third, Luffy can inflate any part of his body to gigantic size with matching equivalent strength to that of a Giant's.

Monkey D. Luffy

So, I got the idea from One Piece :). Why I used Gear Second? Well because the word Second/2nd/2 has significant value to me. I'm born as a second child in my family, my birthday have twice no. 2 in it (24/12/79) hehehe.

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New Year Eve Activity

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On 31 Dec 2007, I worked until 9p.m. because my team need to deploy new version of our application. On the way to my house, I make a quick stop at Zati Manis Restaurant at W.Maju section 2 to buy dinner for my siblings. Reached home around 10p.m. straight away ate my dinner that I had bought. I called IceBlade afterward to start our ultimate battle.

We start playing Dota at 11p.m. The games was bad, I mean our team performance really suck. On top of that, the network was unstable, all players were complaining to host (IceBlade) why the game was lagging and delayed. Because of these reason they say they can't performed. But surprisingly, when they (our opponent) were owning, they kept quite as if the problem just gone with the wind. I hate this kind of people, really do. The only reason they can beat our team was because one of our teammate leaved the game, it was 4 vs 5, which gave them huge advantage to pawn us. But the good part was, I managed to get 10 kill, I died 8 times using Barathum - Spirit Breaker.

Come to think of it, when you played in a advance level , all players stick with each other, so its quite hard to kill them by your self, we also need to stick and start GB (Gang Bang) them, and in order to do this, all of our teammate need to synchronize with each other to get the absolute timing to gank them. Unfortunately, since one of our teammate leaved (I'm not sure the reason why), and another of our teammate started talking shit, we lost the game. Suddenly out of nowhere, he start blaming Aniki, I guess the main reason he got so angry was because nobody in the team listen to him, then when we start losing, he started to blame others..zzzz.

Aniki was trying to match with me on killing heroes, when I start to kill, he immediately search his victim, but since I'm using my all time favourite hero (refer here ) I managed to get more kill, Aniki managed to kill 6 hero :) thumbs up for him.

We played until 4.30a.m. in the morning, luckily it was new year's holiday, so no problem sleeping at that hour, but I must send my lil'sis to UiTM Shah Alam at 8a.m. so I only managed to sleep for 2 hours only, damn I was so sleepy, After drop my lil'sis at Shah Alam, I need to see her,which I had promised her the day before, I can't just cancelled like that, so, with the leftover energy, I forced myself to kept my promised to her. It was worth it though, she's happy, I went back home at 3.30p.m and sleep until 7p.m.

I've made plan with IceBlade,Aniki & Along to play Dota again afterward :)) - My life is corrupted by Dota hahaha.

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Barathrum - Spirit Breaker

Senchow's log,


An outcast of the Spirithoof clan, Barathrum retreated in shame to the Ethereal Plane, feeding off wandering souls to sustain himself, and wandered aimlessly for centuries, alone and miserable. Found and recruited by the Lich King, Barathrum's uncanny speed and wraithlike powers have now been unleashed upon the Material Plane, his lantern able to project nether energy into enemies, sending them backwards with sudden force. With the ability to close the distance between himself and a target in seconds, Barathrum the Spiritbreaker is more than a match for anyone.







In Dota, this is my all time favourite hero, most people refer this hero as SB a.k.a Spirit Breaker. Why this is my favourite? Because this hero can kill, I mean can really kill. Usually if you use SB and against one on one, by 90% you will win, why? because SB have this awesome skill to kill his opponent. One of them is the Greater Bash, with this skill not many heroes are able to escape from SB, I always believes that SB is the only hero that able to make bash loop, it happen sometime where when the enemy got bash twice in row, I just love this skill making my opponent vulnerable :P. I'm not going to blog about all of SB skillset, so for more info please click here.








In this past 2 weeks, my game play for Dota is suck, I think it was the worst performance ever, I loses almost all game that I played, I guess the main reason for that is first - I got heroes that I'm not familiar with, 2nd - I can't sync with my other team mate to get a good collaboration and 3rd - all of my opponent are pros. But that all changed yesterday evening. It has been long since I got SB, really long, and yesterday the tide has turn, I was the killing machine, I managed to kill 16 heroes but unfortunately I died 6, and more bad news, my team lost. But the game was very tight, a lot of pushing from one side to another and in the late game all of them aim me and my killing partner the Brood Mother (Spiderthrone), never thought spiderthrone a.k.a Along can play Brood Mother, but guess what, he himself was surprise that he can actually play Brood Mother, thumbs up for you bro.

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Busy Month of December (The Ultimate Month)

Senchow's log,

It's been awhile since my last post, I've been busy with work+life, hard to coop these days, I mean to fulfil everything that has been planned, but there are thing that have been fulfil or the more exact word should be achieved which is my dotarank, one of the ultimate game played nowadays.

Dotarank (please click here for more detail) is a website dedicated for Dota players to have a rank (they called it Arank) in the server we played. Well basically one of the purpose is to measure the frequent of times we played and the rest emm..better you read from the website it self. There are rules or criteria which needs to be follow in order to get point and to my understanding as long as you never leave before the game ends, you will get a point which will give you a ranking.

Currently, my rank in the Blueserver is 8 and in the top 100 my position is at 61 (click here), these position will change daily because everybody play the game all the time and submit it to dotarank everyday, so if you don't play even for one day than your current position can be drop, but again all of these depend on the frequent of the players sending the report to dotarank. Last time I checked, there were more than 20,000 players in blue server itself. So, its not easy to maintain your Arank.

The font of the image is to small to read :)

I will try to improves my position to be at a higher level, but this definitely takes time+effort+determination :)). Currently this is the only online game that I play, I'm waiting from Blizzard to release the prequel of StarCraft which goes by the name StarCraft2 (click here for more detail). I believes these will be the ultimate game in 2008 (I hope Blizzard will release it next year). Dota is actually a custom map (created by Guinsoo and now IceFrog) which runs from Warcraft3 which is a Blizzard game. So I guess I'm fond to Blizzard game. Just see the cinematic and you definitely going to fall in love with Blizzard, I mean for gamers of course.

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Dota-Allstars - The Owning Balanar

Senchow's log,

It's been a while since I post in english version, so now my next post will be about the above subject a.k.a Dota-Allstars. I know that there many² people already blogged about Dota, but still it doesn't hurt to share to those who still doesn't know about Dota, beside what I'm going to write is about my gameplay :).

Intro - What the heck is Dota?

DotA (Defense of the Ancients) is a very popular customized game for Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. There are two teams of five players and each player selects one of over variety heroes which they will use to try to destroy their opponent’s base, while protecting their own. It is a team strategy game focused on hero combat. The objective is to destroy the opponents' base using one's own Hero along with allied heroes and allied AI-controlled fighters called "creeps". Sharing concepts with role playing games, the player levels up their hero and uses gold to buy equipment in an effort to best the opposing team. For more info please click here.

So, enough of the intro and focus on my gameplay, I haven't played constantly because of my PC is to heavy to play Dota (old PC with to many data), when played sometimes it get stuck,delayed(due to network) but most of the time the processor is used 100%, which eventually will hang my PC for a short while, and since my dad (retired) & my lil'Sis (long vacation from UiTM) is at home, my PC (not mine actually but it is a family PC..wa ga ga) was never available when I actually needed, but I guess the main reason is still I'm to busy to play.

There are several modes in Dota but mostly people will only choose either All Pick (AP) or All Random (AR) and in this game, the host picked AR, I randomly got Tiny, but since I'm not that good handling this hero, so I asked to swapped with another hero which is Balanar the Night Stalker, lucky for me the other guy agreed to swap with me. One thing for sure the advantage is more on our opponent team because all of them got ranged heroes while my team are melee heroes, but with proper tactics and team work, you can still win (this is one of the reason why people like to play Dota)

Here are some screen shot of the game:

As you can see I'm chasing the blue cat to go for a kill :)) and he was my 1st victim wa ga ga.

Soon after I kill the Priestess of the moon (the Blue Cat) and recharged my life, I straight away hunt for my 2nd victim and the above pic is me team up with Tiny (the one that I swapped with the other guy). This battle is 2 on 2, advantages is on our side because Tiny (the gray rock hero) have avalanche skill which actually bombards an area with rocks stunning and damaging enemy land units(see above pic). I managed to kill Troll Warlord (an opponent hero next to sniper the purple hero).

I straight away chase Sniper to get the 3rd kill with tiny backing me up from behind, I got distracted by the creeps (damn those creep) but luckily Tiny managed to toss (another Tiny's skill - Tiny grabs the nearest unit, friend or foe, and launches them at a location. Upon landing, the unit deals damage in an area as well as receiving 20% of that damage to themselves) me to get near to sniper. See below pics:

Balanar going up up and away :)

Balanar high in the sky (I guess at this point Balanar is listening to Iron Maiden - Aces High :P)

Balanar prepare to land.

Balanar save on the ground.

At this point, Sniper are already behind his defence tower to take cover, but since I'm confident that I can still take the tower's damage and get a kill without getting myself kill, I fight my way to kill the enemy (hohoho).

By this time, my hero earn the title of "Killing Spree" because I'm able to kill 3 opponent heroes without getting myself killed.

The final ending of this game, my team lost, but I got most of the kill, they managed to kill me only if they combined, if it is 1 on 1, they flee away :)

You can click here to download and view my gameplay, I know that this is not a pro level game, but I'm working my self to become pro in Dota :)

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D project is done :)))))))

hahaha...akhirnyer pc 2nd hand aku dah siap..muahahahaha...akan ku ceritakan secara detail yg bole pasal pc yg aku baru wat nih..

Ekceli tak plan langsung nak nak beli pc...emm not this time around laa...plan tuh ader sebenarnyer tp bukan skang. so the behind story of project D are as follow:~

Setelah aku beli pc dari sahabat lamer aku Shah aka TomatoMan (dulu kami gelar dia tomatoman sbb muka dia sebijik mcm katun tomatoman..wa ga ga) Aku pun inspect every part of the CPU yg telah berade dlm genggaman aku tuh...dan mengenal pasti barang aper yg aku kene ganti...Shah penah ckp kat aku..dia mention ader something wrong ngan pc dia..maybe harddisk kot..tapi dia tak sure, harddisk 2 ketul dlm tuh 160gb sata ngan 120gb sata memang konfirm akan kong tak lamer lg...skang still bole pki tapi everytime aku try transfer data ke dlm harddisk..ader kuar bunyi yg tak menyenangkan ati aku..and aku tanak gamble utk pki harddisk yg mungkin bole mengkorapkan segale anime+cite yg telah aku donlod sejak azali..so aku decided utk beli harddisk baru. Aku ajak spupu (Adi) aku teman aku pegi lowyat, smpi je kat kedai lowyat:

Adi : Abengoh(panggilan aku kat kg) nok beli gapo?
Aku : Sayo nok beli harddisk jah..
Adi : pastuh monitor tokke tokse beli..cekak nok cocoh cabut woya ikut blake....tok mikir ko?
Aku : takdok pitih gilo...ingat sayo cop pitih ko..natang...
Adi : Ale² beli angkat laa slalu...bilo lagi nok beli (best tul dia hasut aku..hampeh)
Aku : emm..(time nie dah terpengaruh sket² dah)
Adi : Abengoh tengok tuh..LCD monitor...ale² beli baik amik LCD..baru puah ati...
Aku : err...aaaa..emmm (bagero punyer spupu..) gilo apo nok amik LCD..mano mampu

Adi : Huk Alohh..bilo lg nok pki LCD..buke hari² awok beli monitor..toksoh duk kupik pitih laa
Aku : tu laa pasa..bilo lg nok paka (time nie dah start terpengaruh)..emmm..

Adi : Beli slalu LCD 22"...hok nie bengoh...LG nie besa nok mapuh...

Aku : baik sayo amik samsung...design dio lagi bijok..

Aku : Award pun byk samsung mene...ko guano...

Adi : ikut awok laa..mugo awok jong baya buke sayo..hahahaha

Aku : Nate bewok...sajo jah nok mupuh sayo..ok angkat LCD 22" jom gi baya..

Adi : heh heh heh...

Time nie dalam pale otak tengah imagine main game ngan layan anime mcm bleach,onepiece,naruto,gundam byk lagi laa klu aku nak list down..wa ga ga..

Mcm nie laa rupe spupu aku yg telah berjaya hasut aku beli LCD 22", aku plan nak mount to the wall monitor aku nih..tapi since bilik nih aku sharing ngan Aniki maka kene dpt persetujuan dia dulu sebelum aku drill dinding..


Terpakse kuarkan fulus sket utk beli kerusi sbb selame nih aku duk pki kerusi mekap adik aku je..hahhaha..disebabkan harga LCD tuh RM1k lebih, aku terpakse cut cost beli kerusi computer yg biase je..but still harga dia mahal gak laa pada aku RM80 (sbb bole adjust turun naik ngan ade tempat letak tgn)




Kucing aku (DABU - umo 13 thn)yg suke menyibukkan dirinye tatkala aku sibuk pasang meja utk PC 2nd yg telah aku beri nafas baru..wa ga ga..


Walla...PC yg bakal aku stress test dgn game & development plus torrent download. Item baru yg aku beli utk PC nih:

i) Meja - RM60

ii) Kerusi - RM80

iii) Speaker Altec Lansing - RM215 (terpakse beli 2.1 dulu sbb kekurangan budget..hohoho)

iv) Keyboard+mouse - RM30

v) Harddisk 500gb - RM490

vi) LCD Monitor 22" - RM1088

So overall aku telah abiskan duit dlm 2k jugak laaa...I know people will said dengan harga tuh aku bole dpt pc baru..tapi aku ader specific item yg tak bole dpt dgn harga tersebut..hahaha..cth RAM DDR II 1gb, ATI Radeon PCI-Express graphic card..mobo yg bagus..etc.

Aku dah plan ahead utk buat CPU baru biler aku aku ader extra resources nanti...when the day comes, aku akan dpt aku punyer dream PC...wa ga ga...at the moment aku dah puas ati dengan ape yg aku ader..syukur alhamdulillah.



Nie dia..up-close of my LCD 22", muehehehe...tengok one piece High Definition giler best...tak pun layan citer heroes..pehh....memang puas hati yg teramat..aku teruja giler layan heroes,prison break, bionic woman,Smallville & segale Anime.

Up-close of my mouse & speaker..hohoho

So with this last pic, aku summarize spec pc aku.

1) LCD 22"
2) AMD 64 socket 3000+ (1.8ghz)
3) ATI Radeon graphic card (PCI-E)
4) 1gb RAM DDR II
5) Storage Seagate SATA 500gb & Western SATA 120gb (total 0.6 tera)
6) Altec Lansing speaker

CPU ni aku consider as a medium spec, but as at now, it can do almost everthing, from rendering graphic to playing games and even buat java programming (memory hungry punyer programming) sume dia capable lg...Oh ya, lupe nak mention mounting LCD ke dinding, currently cite² aku utk mount kat dinding bilik aku tak tercapai lg atas sbb² tertentu, segale toolkit & item aku dah beli dah..maybe later aku akan mount ke dinding, but as at now aku letak atas meja dulu...heheh.

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upcoming Project

huhh...terlalu lamer aku tak update blog aku nih, kali nie aku nak terai memblogkan dlm bahase melayu plak..susah gak nak karang ayat ayat ikut omputeh nih, nak kene pk btul² supaya grammar tak salah..ader rizen aku blog ikut english which is aku nak improve kan english language aku..wa ga ga...

tengok blog ijoy dok citer pasal the making of pc baru dia buat aku geram je nak sambar pc baru gak..sbb like him aku pun tech freak jugak..hohoho..cume skang nie tak mampu nak beli..byk bende lain aku kene konsentret lagi selain pc...cume lately..pc aku dah makin tak larat..dah makin tenat...bayangkan pc lamer aku tuh berjase kat aku+familia aku selamer 7 tahun...lamer tuh...aku raser pc lamer aku tuh bertahan selamer 5 thn kot..b4 new era of technology mcm dual core, ddr3, pci express, etc comes into picture. Almost sume software baru memerlu technology baru for smooth running. So, as at now..susah utk aku explore new technology (software base) utk aku mendalami & learn.

last wik aku jumpe kawan lamer aku ..old school mate aku...Shah...mamat nie ader company sendiri..antara kawan aku yg bole dibanggakan sbb dia berjaya dlm hidup both in career n life. Saje aku nak cite pasal dia sket...sbb aku raser dia bole dicontohi...namer company dia "Shahreza Advertising Sdn. Bhd" dia punyer main business is advertising, printing /packaging etc...sape tak kenal A&W and Bege King, for your info..dia supply segale packaging product for these two fast food..mcm kotak bege,cup air yg isi air gas, bekas fries..tuh sume dia yg design n supply...power tak...proud to be his friend..wa ga ga..

Nway, rizen kenape aku citer pasal dia is bcoz, dia nak tolak pc (graphic spec) kat aku...2 cpu+1 monitor dengan rege RM700...muehehehe..aku terase nak angkat..no..infact aku memang nak angkat..see below pic:

Nie salah satu cpunyer..wa ga ga..AMD64 tuh..lagi kuat dari pc lamer aku..although bukan dual core..tapi aku raser dah cukup utk experimen mcm²..wa ga ga..

2nd cpu yg bakal aku beli dari Shah..kabarnyer ia menggunakan mobo asus (brand feveret aku)..akan ku stresstestkan pc nie once dah berade dlm genggaman aku..muahahahahaha

Monitor Samsung 17 inci...ekceli cpu yg 1st ngan monitor nie member aku nak..so since dia tade pc n dia pun kaki main game cam aku gak..aku raser tak rugi aku jual kat dia...ader pc byk² kat umah pun nak wat aper..space consuming maa..bilik aku dah laa kecik..

dengan adernyer cpu nie..1st aku nak buat ialah pc lamer aku akan kujadikan file server aku..plan nak beli harddisk yg besa sket utk aku bubuh segale anime+manga yg telah aku donlod selame nie..also..aku plan utk install openbsd or fedora or pape je laaa utk aku blaja opensource OS...rizen aku nak bubuh linux OS adalah utk gauge performance between Linux & Windows..plus aku nak try buat networking Windows bole talk with linux or vice versa...aku dengar bole buat..emm memang bole buat pun cume aku tak pernah try..wa ga ga...some people said bende nie ilmu basic..n since aku tade ilmu nie lagi..aku raser this is the start...new age of knowledge (khas utk aku sorang..sbb aku baru nak start..wa ga ga)..hmm wonder linux support wifi ke tak...adsl router aku dah ader wifi..hmm..need to study on this....

Tajuk post aku ialah upcoming project...the above said is my mini project..starting tis wik..(if everything goes well) Main project aku ader 2...but baru initial stage (discussion stage to be precise) member aku (Shah) mintak aku develop satu webbase application utk dia utk dia mulakan perniagaan internet dia(klu sukses memang kaye mamat nih) proposal dia memang menarik..sbb dia nak involve ngan payment (deduct from credit card) susah tuh nak buat..sbb aku tak pernah buat lagi...but it will be good experience 4 me if I manage to do it :)

Satu lagi project ialah setup development server, configure application server ngan setting source code kat Jbuilder 2005 kat ex-client aku aka SMIDEC. Aku dah singgah SMIDEC minggu lepas utk tinjau² dulu ape yg aku kene buat if aku accept the offer. Dulu aku slalu gak wat free support kat SMIDEC but lately ni aku terlalu bz ngan current job aku & plus aku rase its not my responsibilities anymore to support them. So this time around aku nak mintak payment klu dorang mintak support aku..muehehe..bole dpt extra cash klu berjaya...wa ga ga. Emm back to the story, mase aku pijak kaki aku ke SMIDEC...humang ai..coding yg team aku buat dah abes di re-structurekan...mebi sbb dia tak phm kot konsep yg team aku buat dulu..sbb yg handle application skang adalah org baru..emm 2 jam lebih kot aku duduk kat situ n xplen balik kat dia structure coding asal & nasib baik aku ader coding lamer (dlm external drive aku)..emm few things yg SMIDEC kene buat..kene ader repository utk source code (currently burn cd..takde versioning) then tade development server (same environment - unix) so nak kene setup development server utk dorang, and last skali nak kene install & configure weblogic app server utk dorang buat enhancement on current system..hmm..byk gak nak kene wat nih...oh ya..satu lagi nak kene TOT kat dorang...hmm...byk tuh..byk activity maka byk duit masyuk..muehehe..emm come to thing of it..knowing SMIDEC..susah utk demand tinggi²..klu bole everything nak free..nak cut cost..emm but at least bole dpt sket pun jadi laa..better than nothing..huhuhu...

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