I've been wanting to do this entry for a while: a critical wrap of 2007's entertainment from my own point of view. This isn't really an overarching 'best and worst' of every single release of the year, but moreso a 'best and worst' of that which i saw/played/purchased myself.

Movies

Best Movie: Transformers

This was one of the easier decisions. Easily, easily the best movie of 2007 was Transformers. If you ignore the product placements, this movie was a masterpiece. As i said after i watched it, it was a perfect balance of comedy and action, it didn't … Read more →

Well it was definitely an interesting one: i spent nearly all of Christmas day home feeling sick.

The day had been planned: straight after Church go to Des's parent's place for morning tea, to my Aunty's place for lunch, then possibly the cemetery, and then onto Des's Aunty's place for dinner. It's the usual annual trench warfare of battling piles of food and missions to multiple relational destinations.

That was the plan. The actual day ended up being: woke up feeling very light-headed and dizzy as well as sick in the stomach; somehow managed to get to Church albeit 40mins … Read more →

It's been a great past few days. It's been so long since i haven't even thought about work on a weekend, i'm really enjoying the time off (and we've barely hit the weekday parts yet!).

Of course I have taken advantage of this time to catch up on some gaming. I've bought so many games in the past few months that they've quite literally piled up!

As i've promised earlier, I've also taken some time out to tally up how much (in pure monetary terms) this game wave has cost me. The list below contains each game, where i got … Read more →

Today was (hopefully) the last day of work for the year. After a relatively comfortable working year last year, this year has been absolutely nuts. To say it's been interesting is a massive understatement: we're onto our 3rd IT Manager of the year, and i've found myself having learnt so much, mostly through having been made to do it by necessity.

This afternoon was also the office Christmas party in which we spent the afternoon at Victoria Park Golf Club. With the annual office awards i took out the Best Support award. I was basically a shoe-in being the only … Read more →

It's been 24 hours of footballing goodness. Last night we played our last ever game at the complex at the Valley, as the owners of the place have sold up to developers and are moving it to West End.

We ended up playing in the last fixture of the place at 9pm last night, us comfortably winning the game 9-0, and myself scoring a hat-trick. It was a good lively game, and i think i played pretty good.

The bad news is that fixtures don't resume in the new complex until the start of February, so now i've got over … Read more →

Although this weekend was one planned for another one of work, unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately?) all the plans for our big projects fell through once again. So that means that I've had a normal two-day weekend this weekend, which is fantastic, but of course the other side of the coin is that the work has piled up even more and it might mean Christmas break work.

Anywho, i've played through the 'campaign' of UT3 these past few days, which means that from now on it's all online/multiplayer stuff, which recently has had me getting totally pwned.

I did have an … Read more →

I have conquered the postal service telepathic annoyance beams (at least for the time-being): today i finally received my Limited Collector's Edition of Unreal Tournament 3.

I've really gotten sick of waiting for stuff sent from Hong Kong to arrive, i guess it serves me right for saving so much money. The only other shipment i'm now waiting for is Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and i don't really care how long that takes to arrive, i've got plenty of others to play through before it does.

After that arrives, i guess that's it for the game … Read more →

I really need a holiday, it's felt like so long since i've taken a decent one: probably our last really decent one was our honeymoon, and you can't really count that as too relaxing.

The main cause of this feeling of late has mainly been work (unsurprisingly). On Friday night i worked until almost midnight and we put in another 5 hours on Saturday. It wouldn't be that bad if we actually accomplished what we sought out to do, but it really was one frustration after another and we barely got anywhere with our big projects. So it means that … Read more →

Time for a whiney entry.

Work is going to suck over the next few weeks. It's mainly because we have a few really important projects coming up, which means that at least for the next few weeks we'll have to be in on weekends to implement them because we have to take most of the servers down.

And again i'm bummed out about waiting for a game. It absolutely sucks: it seems that the postal service has a telepathic annoyance beam which has direct access to my brain: they can tell in advance which parcels i'm really intent on receiving … Read more →

Well it's good being able to blog whenever i feel like now that NaBloPoMo is over.

It's been a pretty good few days around here. Yesterday we put up our Christmas tree, and I spent that afternoon finishing off Crysis.

My experience with Crysis was a bug-filled one. Although the game was mesmerising in terms of the graphics and enjoyable gameplay, there were many, many bugs in the game that almost ruined the experience for me. It being an EA published game doesn't help it's reputation (EA being notoriously known for releasing rushed and buggy games to cash in … Read more →