Hello readers, contrary to most suspiscion, I'm not dead, yet! Sigh, the reason that I've not been updating is because I felt that I've lost the motivation to write. So many bad things has happened to me lately, I think I have to see a feng-shui master to channel my bad luck somewhere else!

So I treat myself better by going travelling to many new places. Yeah! I just came back from Taiwan and I might as well just confessed here that I've been having continous epileptic shopaholic seizure! OMG! My credit card microchip has been acting weird (malfunction) due to excessive continous swipes, ugh, its TRUE.

I'll make a short update what has happened since my last update.

1. I'm still so much so single!
2. Sora has grow up much! turning from cute to Handsome!
3. I've gained some muscles! far from what I'm targetting though!
4. Still buying underwears (I've sworn not to buy already this year)
5. Bank Account suffered from a series of earthquakes!
6. Mentally stronger & wiser (hopefully)
7. I have like 20 jackets+sweater+cardigans (half bought from recent Taiwanese trip!)
8. Tons of new face mask, eye mask, more kiehl's, and korean facial products!
9. Got an LV bag, its a macassar keepal (huhuhu~ :P)
10. I'm 50% vainer than before, teehee!

Okay enough words, I know you guys are like me, enjoy looking at pictures more than reading.

A mask a day keeps the pimples away LOL!

What you're looking at??!

Random shots at Ximending, Taipei!

Random street shots again!

Camewhore in bus!

Sora's replica!

Looky! look! Does it give you the college boy feel?

Yummy Lu-Rou fan!

Taiwan is so full of temples, but this is on top of a lake!

Bleeeh!!

Eating steambot in the cold weather!

I found LOVE outside Taipei 101

I like this Jacket i found in ZARA Taipei 101, but didnt buy it though!

Who likes my Military cap? :)

SORA with a cute bow I found in Taipei's Street!

Its SHI BA KE (sparks), Starbucks is called SHI TA BA

SORA so serious.. scary..

Okay la, i'll try to prepare my photos taken with DSLR and post it up soon.. very soon okay don't worry :)

Dance Dance Dance!

Two days ago I received my copy of dance central 2, my highly anticipated dance game on kinect! The most talked about feature of this game has to be the two player simultaneous dancing which is a big miss in the first game as kinect has always been able to detect more than one player on screen since its launch last year! A quick recap for those who doesn't know about dance central, basically its a dance game which uses the xbox kinect to detect your body's movement and by far the most accurate dance game in terms of body recognition! So how was it ? Let's find out!

Two player Mode! Yes!

I played through a new sort of career mode and won the first crew, riptide, over medium difficulty, and it will unlock stuff, story wise it's very simple not cutscenes or whatsoever, don't expect an RPGs-esque story telling here, it's just a dance game. Just some chat between the crew and then you start dancing already, so to me basically you will want to play over for the unlockables only.

Dance central 2 BoxArt

The usual dance option let you select all the songs from the start of the game, and dance central one music is no where to be found when upon first load up the disc. You will have to enter the code found on your first dance central disc's back cover and then pay 400 MS point for the game to download from the online server! (what....??? Paying again for something which you already paid for? Ridiculous!) but I still pay considering how much fun now I can challenge my sister to Lady Gaga's Just Dance side by side, how awesome is that! And then the third mode which was already available since the first game was fitness option where you will just dance song after song for calories burning.

All DLC from the first game is playable directly on Dance central 2 and I just read from the twitter today, Harmonid is going to have a special discount promotion for all their DLC this november, sweet! New music include hit songs from Lady gaga, Rihanna, Bruno mars, David guerreta, Justin Bieber and Far east movement. So those who has a kinect should definitely grab this gem, and those who have an Xbox who are still waiting for a reason to buy kinect should definitely give this game a try!

Journey to the 8-Pacs

Body progress so far, so near yet so far.

Someone asked me to post my abs picture on the blog, so here it is. I took the picture 2 days ago, and am still working hard for the pacs. Also I realize I have to work extremely hard for my upper body as well and strict fat free diet, to flatten my lower abs! If any of you who are gym-pro here who wants to share with me how to train more efficiently please do drop me a message, thanks in advance! My target body would be like the model below, bigger arms, more defined abs, and bigger chest! Okay Jia you to me! jia you! Gambateh!

Model wearing CIN2U underwear! sexy tattoos.

And my next post of body shot will be a month from now, and lets see how much I've progress, feeling excited! Okay below a beautiful cover of Adele's someone like you, for those having Monday blues, enjoy!

My Gym Experience so far..

 Somewhere in the blog, I mentioned before that I am a late bloomer. Yes, just like many metrosexual guys out there, you know who you are! I care bout my appearance and what I am unhappy about myself is probably the fact that I had never had a 6-pecs before. I am not a person who likes outdoor, let alone sports. I'm more an indoor person so subscribing to gym has always been one of the thing I want to do before I hitting grave. Anyway, to cut the story short, I finally joined gym (yes, I think I hear cheers, and champagnes popping!)

Taeyang's HD 8-pecs

I read some men health magazine but frankly I like looking at pictures more than reading words, so I'll admit that I have zero knowledge when it comes to exercising and muscle building. This is another factor why I need help from personal trainers from gym to help me shape and build my body, yes I want to those HD 8 pecs goodness I saw on Corbin fisher! (repeat, high-def people)

Zac efron's nice beach body!

Besides doing strenuous weight lifting, my gym offered a variety of classes too including yoga, muay Thai, body combat, body work and pound down. So far I took muay Thai, body combat, bodywork and body pump. All of them gave me very different experiences, some I dig but some I don't. My top favorites are body combat and body work!

are you ready for Muay thai?

Firstly the body pump! Totally loved it!
What I love:
- sweats a hell lot of it
- music very upbeat ( luv them!)
- workout for most of the major muscles by using weights
- The most intense has to be the abs workout! which I failed to finish
- feeling extremely satisfied and happy at the end of class
They instructor say I have to come for his next class, I think he saw that I really enjoyed myself lol!

Body combat
-Very excited to join the class!
-Music are very upbeat, basically you do a lots of punches, kicking, then punches again, imagine non-stop for an hour in a fast pace
-I feel I'm not made up for such high intensity workout yet, but I'm going catch up!
-I feel more tired as compared to body work and muscle aching as well! Which is good!
-Will definitely come again, good and enjoyable cardio!

Muay Thai:
The starting part of warming up and later part of warming down is extremely challenging if you do it properly. I'm not really interested in the whole muay Thai thing, it's difficult cause you need to learn the stance, punch and block. I only sweat a little. And for this class you'll need one partner, training consist of you doing blocking, he doing the attack and vice versa. Unfortunately my partner was a sadist. He really attacked me it was so painful! Coz he's bigger size as in fatness, when I attacked him back, I felt pain again! Grrr! So no I never really liked it! Pain! pain! pain!

Pound down
ER.. For the first 5 mins I knew I joined the wrong class already. It's basically for girls or men who like to shake their Bon Bon. The music was excellent though. We warmed up with tae yang's I need a girl! Love the song! When can my body become like taeyang's? The routine was really boring for me, I at least yawned 20 times in that hour alone. Didn't sweat much, only stretching the muscles. Many routines involve vigorous shaking of hip and my hip was really stiff! They also require you to do many poses, most which is also frequently seen in pornos. Leg wide opened, and then lift up to the sky, hip thrusting movements, bending forward on your knees to do doggie styles etc. Err absolutely not my cup of tea!

eXerciseBOX

2AM for Mens Health

So in my quest to becoming the next abs model in mens healths magazine (I wish), err, farcry? well sometimes people need dream yo! Gimme a break. Okay, call me vain now and I will admit it, but sometime a year ago I don't really care if I'm fat or if I have a tummy, was going to go with the excuse of having fat genes (yes! My grandpa was in the local newspaper back then being one of the fattest guy around). And of course I started rethinking about my life and how I should start losing weight and live healthier in terms of lifestyle and be more active physically. Also, I want to look more sexy and determine to abandon my twinky look (yes I still consider myself a twink at 27 of age, lol).

Your shape fitness evolved.

So I got myself an xbox slim and kinect last Christmas as an excuse to do exercise, with ubisoft fitness game called, yourshape fitness evolved. It's a very comprehensive game as it has multiple program selection, some for weight lost, some for body toning, and then they track your progress online to be compared to your friends and families. Then it was updated with more fitness Options, yoga classes, bollywood dances, boxing classes, and cardio classes.

A typical screenshot from the game, the person on the right is a miror image of yourself.

TV ad for Yourshape fitness evolved!.

The game tracks how much calories was burn, and the information on screen tells you if you are in sync with the instructor. A typical timer on the top, and exercise information on the top right. You are presented with a virtual version of yourself (how cool is that), and every movements is mirrored on screen so you can do comparison with the instructor on the left, very useful! The graphics here are very well done, interface is very intuitive and modern ala in minority report, cool x10!

Ea Active sport come in a box bundled with resistant band, and heart rate sensor!

Graphics are more cartoony and colorful as compared to ubisoft's your shape.

Trailer shown in E3 demonstrating the game modes.

The second fitness game I got was ea active sports 2. This game is very cool, it comes with a heart rate sensor that you wear over your arms and as you do exercise your heart rate will be displayed on screen! How cool! This game also has online component, and the exercises concentrates on different body part you wish to target, extremely customizable! Kinect is really meant for exercise games. The instructor will constantly give you feedback saying your too slow, you have to jump higher, your arms not straight enough, every angles matters! Highly recommended game as well and it comes with a resistant band for more effective workout and for those who are more serious you can add weights (buy from furthers shop) over your wrist and feet so you'll burn more calories.

Harmonix crafted a masterpiece, yet again!

The 3rd games is not really a fitness game but it is the game I had most fun with! It's called dance central only available exclusively for kinect made by the genius behind rockband series, Harmonix! This is probably the best kinect game ever, essentially a dancing game with great song list, updated monthly and downloadable through xboxlive but with a fee. It's also a great party game and it's such a blast to have danceoff in your living room with friends and family. It's does has a workout mode, although not too comprehensive, basically just cardio workout. By just playing game itself, you'll not only guaranted to sweat profusely, your muscle will ache as well!

Ellen degeneres introducing dance central!

So, who said games are for lazy, fat bum? Think twice!