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Today’s GGF is very Xbox-centric because we have all been swept into this crazy Xbox vortex, with so many exciting events happening in the Xbox world this month! I’m all dizzy, I swear.
Today’s GGF is also a crazed hyena with rabies doing the 100-metre dash because that’s about what I’m feeling, right now.
So, if anything feels wrong today, please blame the chocolates I’ve been overdosing on to give myself imagined energy boosts.
Also, I have one bit of very important news to announce. But I don’t want to say it now because I want to make you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the issue to read it.
(Blame the chocolates.)
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Table of Contents
- Meet Lara Croft in the flesh!
- You could be the next face of Xbox!
- Rocking out at Xbox Xperience Zone
- Sheylara Bus
- Celebrating Halo 3 anniversary by dying
- Results of last week’s contest
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Meet Lara Croft in the flesh!
This has to be one of the best news all year for all you hot-blooded males (and maybe females, too)!
The latest official Lara Croft, portrayed by sexy gymnast Alison Carroll, is coming to Singapore this month!
Bookmark your calendar RIGHT NOW!
She will be appearing at X08, the biggest Xbox event of the year, from Oct 24 to 26, 2008.
And fans will get a chance to get her autograph and have photos taken with her!
Because GGF is updated only weekly, you should stalk my Xbox blog for more regular updates on Lara Croft’s appearance as well as X08 itself!
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You could be the next face of Xbox!
Okay, I’m lazy, plus I’m running out of time, so I’m going to plagiarise my own blog and copy wholesale what I’ve written in my Xbox blog, okay?
Okay! (I gave myself permission to plagiarise myself.)
Woah! Yes! You saw right! The Xbox team is now on the lookout for a new Xbox Xpert to join me in my mission to shape the Xbox outreach in Singapore!
This means that one awesome person will get to do all the crazy stuff I’ve been doing here, and Xbox gamers will have more opportunities to interact with the Xbox team in Singapore!
The good news is that you don’t have to be a female. Or a male, for the matter. (Of course, it would be nice if you had a specific gender but either one is fine.)
What we really want are people with passion, people with a desire to help bring gamers together, people with the secret ambition to convert every last human being in the world into being an Xbox gamer! Mwahahaha.
Kidding about the last bit. That’s just me.
Very importantly, you should be an Xbox gamer, yourself.
HOW TO BE THE NEXT XPERT?
For a while now, we’ve been quietly building an Xbox Xperts page on Facebook. Sneaky, aren’t we? So, what we want for you to do is go there and upload a 2-minute video telling us why you should be the next Xpert.
Be creative as you can, but don’t break any laws doing it!
For more detailed instructions, CLICK HERE.
To upload your video, CLICK HERE.
The winner gets to be my slave!!!
No, I’m joking. The winner will get to do fun stuff together with me! (I’ll keep the slavery to a minimum, promise!)
Enough talk, now. Let’s see some vee-deeos!=)
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Rocking out at Xbox Xperience Zone
Before anything else, here’s a video of me playing Rock Band at the Xbox Xperience Zone last week, at Challenger Funan! I’m on the drums.
This was the last song I “performed” before I left the event. We had asked for volunteers to jam with me, but the crowd at the time happened to be super shy, so my real friends (who were there to support me) volunteered, so that I could finish up, pack up and go home! LOL.
My friends are sweet!
The Xbox Xperience Zone is a new space created by the Singapore Xbox Team to allow gamers to try the latest games and learn more about the Xbox from trained staff in the zone.
The first XXZ was launched last week at Challenger Funan, in conjuction with the launch of Rock Band for Asia and Infinite Undiscovery, the popular Square Enix Xbox 360 exclusive.
It was also an opportunity to meet with Xbox fans and be totally decadent by playing games on the job!
Since Rock Band is such a cool game, I spent most of my three hours there playing it! Heh.
I also chattered on (I can’t remember now what I was talking about)…
…and camwhored with my standee!
We held two Rock Band competitions within three hours and winners walked away with exclusive Xbox 360 bags and watches!
The fans really loved it!
And check out this little drummer!
He had a lot of difficulty following the coloured bars on the screen, but he kept persisting and wanted to get it right. Good boy! But his father was so worried about his little boy hogging the drums that he kept telling his son, “Enough, boy, let’s go!” Good man! LOL.
And tons of photos with Xbox fans!
See, we had so much fun! A shame if you weren’t there!! ;)
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Sheylara Bus
Multitudes of people have been kindly informing me via SMS that they have seen me on this bus that plies Orchard Road.
I reply, “I don’t take buses in Orchard lah.”
And they say, “I MEAN YOUR PHOTO LAH, IDIOT.”
Okay, fine.
So, I’m on a bus and now, I have photos of me beside me being on the bus!
We had to cheat a bit.
The Xbox Team arranged for the Xpert bus to be made available to us one sunny afternoon, so we could take photos of it without having to go camp Orchard Road like desperados, armed with ready cameras on tripods.
So, here’s the bus! TA-DAH!!
Does seeing this bus make you feel an uncontrollable urge to pick up an Xbox 360 to play? It’d better, or we’ll want our money back from the Secret Department of Subliminal Domination. We had subliminal messages magically weaved into the images on the bus saying, “Play Xbox!”
Oh wait, I think I’m not supposed to tell you that.
More photos!
Right, enough of buses. Don’t later people say I sua ku, like never see bus before like that.
(That last sentence, by the way, was a very fine specimen of Singlish, which I’m sure non-Singaporeans will be very impressed with because they don’t understand what the hell we’re saying when we lapse into that.)
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Celebrating Halo 3 anniversary by dying
The first time I got into a Halo 3 multiplayer game was with a bunch of International strangers and it was my very first time playing that game. I didn’t even know what buttons to press and what I was supposed to do.
Needless to say, I died countless horrible deaths.
Last Saturday, I got invited into a game by a group of Singapore gamers whom I had gotten to know through Xbox LIVE. They were cool! They took the time to teach me how to play the game before they thrashed me!
First, though, we all gathered at the beach to take some screenshots because, unbeknownst to me, it was Halo 3’s first anniversary!
Screenshot by Merdeka
There was a lot of screaming and shouting as a few jokers started killing everyone while people were trying to get in position for the photograph. Then the dead ones had to respawn and run back to the beach, cursing and swearing.
It was hilarious.
At one point of time, one of the guys asked me to jump on the back of his vehicle for the photo.. So I did.
And then he drove off with me clinging on for dear life.
The others yelled at him and asked him to bring me back but he just laughed.
And then one of the other guys shot him dead and he fell off the vehicle.
LOL.
With 10 players in the game all talking at once, it was quite a mess!
Anyway, we finally managed to get some nice screenshots, and then we started the game.
I did quite well. In one hour, I managed to kill about three people.
In comparison, I was killed about 3,000 times.
Wootage. It was fun.
Screenshot of me by Merdeka. I’m gonna get pink armor the next time.
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Results of last week’s contest
I put up a Microsoft LifeCam NX-3000 as prize last week and asked readers to answer five questions to get into the lucky draw.
The questions didn’t deter people at all. I got tons of entries for this contest. Good job, guys!
I really enjoyed reading all the answers, so before I announce the winner, I want to publish some interesting answers from random contestants!
Why do you want this prize?
Honestly — I like this one because it looks so cool. It looks like some fancy gadget from the future. With this in my possession, I would be invincible! — modchip
Because I dont have a webcam and it would be good for me to camwhore with it when I get bored waiting for Sheylara to update her blog. Hahahah. — felicia
Because my cam that is suppose to be a genius is not really that smart anymore. — Lee Mark Anthony
Because it’s a webcam! And also because I don’t have one? This is the only thing I’ve bothered to enter your contest for. Doesn’t that show how much I want it? — jwong
Do you actually read Gamer Girl Friday or do you usually just skip to the contest section?
sorry Guy don’t really read but skip to contest section — Chow SW
Honestly, I would go directly to the contest page. — Syazana
I usually just read GGf and ignore the contests. — jwong
What’s your favourite game?
Er… X-com: UFO Defense *blush* — tiger4
Starcraft (I know I am kind of old dork who lives in the past haha. Now looking forward to Starcraft2) — Aicee
What’s your gender?
Haha! What a silly question. ^_^ — modchip
Urhm. FEE-MALE. A silly question indeed. — felicia
Male (Wish I was female though. They get all the good stuff in MMOs) — Dominic
I know this is gross but the one that gives out red stuff every month. — Syazana
The one that hurts more when you are kicked between your legs. — Dwayne Tan
What’s the first thing you’ll take a photo of if you win this lifecam?
My bitter half and she refuses to be called a thing. — Lee Mark Anthony
Some of the cute dogs at ASD – Action for Singapore Dogs. These abandoned dogs need more publicity because they need homes. — Dwayne Tan
oooh my dog and I? i have a crush on my dog!! hahaha — mok ying ying
Hmmm nothing. Not into photography — Aicee
My happy face — jefflee893
AND THE WINNER IS…
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* * * Lindy!!! * * *
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Congratulations! Here are Lindy’s answers!
Why do you want this prize?
Because I lost my previous old and lousy webcam, and I want to get a new oneee!Do you actually read Gamer Girl Friday or do you usually just skip to the contest section?
I’ll read about cute games like patapon! Or game events too!What’s your favourite game? (Can be console or PC.)
For now it’ll be N+ on PSP!What’s your gender?
FemaleWhat’s the first thing you’ll take a photo of if you win this lifecam?
A mirrored version of the lifecam! =D
Lindy, if you’re reading this, please send me an e-mail to claim your prize (in case I forget)!
Thank you all for participating!
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Random photo for fun
So, here’s the important announcement: There is no contest today because there will be no GGF next week!
Sorry. =(
I am applying for a one-week leave and if you don’t give it to me, I quit!
LOL.
Seriously, I can’t do GGF next week because I’m travelling to KL and Penang for a feature film shoot and it’s going to occupy most of my time.
I will still update my blog as daily as possible during the week I’m there, to tell you all about the exciting torments that my director will be putting me through, but I will be out of the gaming scene, for sure.
I toyed around with the idea of making the Goonfather step in for me, and calling next week’s issue Gamer Goon Father, but then he told me that his idea of a good gaming blogazine looks something like this:
1. The Force Unleashed
Freaking good game. Buy it!!
2. Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway
Has great reviews. Didn’t try cos too busy playing The Force Unleashed.
3. Tom Clancy’s EndWar
Coming soon! But play The Force Unleashed first.
4. Fable II
Play THE FORCE UNLEASHED a million times and get all the holocrons!
The End
I’m of the opinion that you readers might just prefer that GGF takes a break for a week. Business will resume on Oct 17!
In the meantime, you should still continue reading Sheylara.com for daily rubbish and Xperts.com.sg for Xbox gaming updates!
Till the next time!