MaGaCon 2012 @ Publika

What is the best way to spend your weekends? Well, normally I will spend my weekends going swimming, cook some nice food to treat myself (one of the reason why I'm getting cuter chubby than before*sob sob*), hanging out with friends or family, read a book....etc. But guess what, I've cancel all my routine weekends activities and have an awesome "geeky" weekends by attending the MaGaCon 2012 that was held at Publika last week (Publika is like my second home now, kind of.).

For those who got tons of question marks popping out around their head now, stay cool, I'll explain to you what is MaGaCon. It's called Malaysia Games Convention which is like the fun fair version of digital and analog games. Awww~ I love to play games and how can I not to attend this event.

*Tada* Gamers everywhere~

Different gaming platforms at MaGaCon.

There were variety of games available, Assassin's Creed, FIFA, CoD, and etc. But I'm diggin' all the board games, call me a frog under the well (direct translate from the proverb) but all I know is Monopoly before I went to MaGaCon. I've played the chicken memory game, chop the tree bark and I was really craving for the ghost card game (I don't know what is the name but there are few objects available and the people with the fastest response grab the piece and he/she will get the card). Just a personal opinion, I thought more interaction will be involved by playing analog game, good for youngster nowadays. 

On the other hands, I HEART JUST DANCE 4 SOOO MUCH (as a loyal fans of Sony PlayStation, Just Dance 4 just shake my loyalty and I'm thinking to get Xbox 360 kinectic just for the game, NOOOO~)!!! I've tried Street Fighter X Tekken and I wonder why my Hwoarang will be defeated by Kuma (Shame on me!). Played FIFA 13 with a little boy and lose to him (Double shame on me!! My life is ruined by a little boy, I shall quit gaming~ No, the reason is that I play Winning Eleven all the time and I never touch a Xbox console before in my life. EXCUSES!) 

Of course, that is not all. There were some quests to be completed and you will have the chance to win some awesome prizes. I didn't took part in the quest because IT'S WAY TOO DIFFICULT I'm in for the Nuffnang Quest so I thought of not to grab the chance for the other person from the public to win *Ehem* (well, the kind hearted side of me). I mean seriously POP THE BEANIE quest is almost like mission impossible where you need to pop the beanie bag from Freeasy (It's leather and it's so firm.), somehow I think we have some warriors manage to complete the quest as well (they must have brought a blade or AK with them to "pop" the bean bag.). There is a cosplay session as well and I saw Link!

Pop it!

Cosplaying!

Rilakkuma rilaksing and gaming at MaGacon.

And we were given a task too for Nuffnangers, the few chosen one to complete the Nuffnang Quest. Our quest is CoD4, Jenga and challenge a game with the public.

Giving a brief for us.

CoD 4, no eyes see at the result.

Our Jenga piece! So tall!

I was in OMG mode when they let us know that one of the quest is playing CoD. Yes, no surprise at all but the thing is that I never play CoD before and I seldom play PC game (I play console game and MoH, totally unrelated~). Without any doubt, search for a quick briefing on how the control button work and the rest just count on luck, seriously (T___T). The coolest part is I brought my dad as my game partner and he MUST play that game (He never go near to the PC in his entire life and I need to teach him how to play CoD on the spot, imagine that!). I was kinda laugh till I roll on the floor when I guide my dad playing. Below is the conversation between me and my dad during the game.

Me : "Turn around, turn around, enemy at your back."
Dad : "How, how?" (He start pressing the move forward button...)
Me : "NONONONONO, drag the mouse, I mean turn around the gun position, move the mouse~TURN AROUND TURN AROUND~" (In very kan cheong aka nervous mode where the enemy start shooting at him.)
(Look at the PC, still in the same position)
Dad : "Okay, okay, is it like this??" (The following part I ald burst out laughing and tell him it's okay, nvm we just try our best in Jenga.)(Because he position the mouse in the opposite's direction and flip it upside down as I ask him "Turn around".)

We end up at 8th place in CoD which is quite good (REALLY!?) if you will like to know there are 8 teams in the Nuffnang Quest. We did okay in Jenga and we didn't win in the quest but we were having so much fun.  I'm a bad daughter as I really can't stop laughing at the CoD Mouse issue.

Finally, it's over!

I met someone at MaGaCon that kinda made my day! Guess who?

It's Dark Vader! Trying to control the Jenga piece using his force.

Yea, I like Obi Wan but kinda fancy Dark Vader as well. I think they should have more cosplayer at  MaGaCon. Overall, it's a really awesome event. I hope the next one will be organised at a larger place, with more gaming device for the digital game section (difficulty walking around and more chance for other people to try out the game). The analog section is doing good! And I hope they provide some drinks and energy bars if it's possible (a little greedy but gamers need them)! Last but not least, more prizes for lucky draw~ Oh and thumbs up for the staff at the event (Thank you for teaching us how to play a game~)!

Me, joining the dark side.

Probably the happiest moment of the day, holding the lightsaber and slashing other players. The End!

HY's Doodle for Comic Bloggers Gathering

I have come across Nuffnang blog post on Comic Bloggers Gathering (How come I don't know about it!) and I feel like I wanna take part in it. I always enjoy seeing people drawing, painting or creating their own comic.

This will be Nuffnang first Comic Blogger Gathering which will be featuring awesome comic bloggers like CheeChingy.com and Dontlikethatbro.blogspot.com and will be held at CAFFEine.

Basically to take part in this contest is to draw a comic version of myself (Ain't no Picasso's blood flowing in my veins~) and give the reason why I want to attend. First of all, just take a look at my first doodle, don't laugh. 

"It's a SIGN!"

Yes, the cavemen with beard is me (it's comic so everything make sense~)! First of all I thought that it's a SIGN for me to come across the Comic Bloggers Gathering as my drawing skill is so-so and blogging skill still require some experience to enhance it. I thought by attending this gathering will offer me the chance to learn something from other comic bloggers. And oh the doodle of mine is indicating that I got to know about the comic bloggers gathering at last minutes and the rest just decipher it by yourself~ (irresponsible comic artist, I am.) I bet attending this event, I'll get awarded with loads and loads of knowledge regarding comic blogging~~~

Next thing to do, to draw a comic version of myself. Me, my "outstanding" characteristic will be my glasses and long messy hair so here it is, the comic portrait of mine, credited to the artist of HY's Doodle which is me! 

*sangat memalukan*

A picture of me pleading to go to the gathering....as a return, I promise you I'll comb my hair when I attend the event (Meh~). So, here it is. First attempt to show my doodle to the world. Awww~a big sacrifice~~~

HY's tutorial: Anti fog goggles trial

Swimming has been my favourite sport of all after I retired from football (aka American call em soccer). That's not what I'm trying to blog about but I thought an introduction will be a polite way to start my post. Call it. I can't open my eyes under the water (I have no idea why, I feel like someone poking my eyes if I did that.), thanks to whoever who invent goggles, that save my life.

However, one thing seems to trouble me after I use my goggle for a while. It form fog like Dementor is around whenever I'm swimming, just that the fog happen to be on my goggle's lens. NOOOO! I remember my goggle come with the anti fog layer. Without any doubt and not wanting to spent money buying on those anti fog spray, I've google for the answer.

Baby Shampoo, Saliva, Shave Cream or Toothpaste. Choose one and proceed. Seriously most people said saliva work the best but due to some hygiene reason I choose to keep it as last resort. Shave cream? I'm a little girl, although I hope I grew some macho beard sometimes  no shave cream. Toothpaste, there might be chances that it will scratch your lens, so I give up and choose the purest remedy of all, Baby Shampoo.

My goggles.

First of all, gently apply a small amount of baby shampoo inside your lens. Then, just dunk your goggles into the sink that filled with water, I'll just lay it gently inside the sink.

Rinse it, rinse it!

Rinse it, till no more bubbles of shampoo.

Oh, goggle looking good.

Then, dry it. Do this the day before you go to swim. Now you will have a goggle that smell good  My goggle work on the left one but the right one still form a partial fog. Not sure what went wrong but I might try it again. Or any swimmer, diver out there want to teach me a trick or two how to get rid of those Dementor-like fog on my lens? You're welcome to do so!!! Suggestion will be appreciated.

(PS : Rainy season is here. Can't really go to swim these day. Sigh~)

Churp Out 2012 @ Publika

Tada, I'm back, HY's back (Can't help spreading my new name around, HYHYHYHYHY~)!! Weeks ago, I've attended a carnival-like event by Churp Churp, probably the first, or maybe first few Churp Churp event I have attend (HY don't have much chances to attend Churp Churp event compared to Nuffnang~).

It was held at Publika, seriously I love that place so much. It was fun but it will be great if there were no rain on that day.

Churpie booth~

There were plenty of games to play and prizes to be won. As always with the luck I have, completed all the game, I have won a.....badge!! No, there were more prizes to be won like H&M vouchers, Churpie doll, tablet and etc. But I didn't took part in the Dunk & Draw because I'm a coward kid without the gut to do so.

Bzzz, bzzz, bzzz~

This is not easy, I've tried a few times on this.

Dunk & Draw probably is the most exciting game of the day! Because you get to dunk people in the water and yeah you got the chance to win some awesome prizes. But the coolest part being the audience there is that you get to watch people get dunked into the water (PS : On rainy cold day), muahahahaha yeah heartless people like me exist, just like my blog's name, Rock it Heartless!!!

Ready, set...

*Splash*

Of course, I'm there for a reason. Because they were having a car painting contest as well, main point is you get to bring the car home, it's a model car but it's Mini. Whatever with talent of not, I'm took part in it and glad that I got to bring the car home.

The Mini. Argh so cute!

Didn't really stand a chance to win because the other participants are really artistic but I'm having fun though, hahaha. Winner get a S3 home. And I get a Mini toy car as souvenir.

Yes my car it is, such a mess huh.

I was having this so called on vacation and lovely mood theme. Obviously it didn't work out. But now I have my mini Mini with me now. Let me show you what happen to my mini Mini. When I got home, I give it a indoor car wash.

Oh car wash yeah!

Clean it thoroughly so that I can do some graffiti on it! Muahaha you're mine, all mine!

This is the outcome!

It's a halloween theme Mini. Spot anything on that?

Oh I'm out of topic. That's it. Was exhausted till the end of the event and went home happily.

Halloween Special : Pumpkin Surgery

Halloween is just around the corner and before that, when I'm in the mood of celebrating the massive festival of the year, I found a disaster happening to me this morning.

Few days ago, I brought home a faceless pumpkin from the market and thought of giving the pumpkin a plastic surgery which I name it as Two-Face Pumpkin. The surgery went well although I'm not sure whether my skill of carving the little pumpkin a new face is in a satisfactory level. Okay, I start babbling again~ Fast forward, this morning, I found that Two-Face Pumpkin had fungus growing over his teeth (Sweet tooth! Told em not to eat too much of sweets!).

See the black spongy thingy! Eww!

First thing came across my mind, hell no! Halloween is coming and Two-Face Pumpkin must not be absent for the big festival. Grab my surgical tool (engraving knife) and be a doctor I always want to be, Doctor Who? Doctor HY it is! Deep down I think that Doctor Banny might sound friendlier (Still miss my old name Urbanae/Banny.).

With all the skill I learnt during my uni life, first thing to do is to scrape out the fungus and throw it a fungus test to certify it!

You dear little fungus~

Of course I don't have any chemical or apparatus with me to perform a test for the fungus piece but I guess I just identify it through the morphology. Yay, spongy and dark, fungus, it is (start to talk like Master Yoda)! To be specify, it's a mold.

Two-Face Pumpkin isn't feeling well.

Without any doubt, I make a decision to perform a skull operation as the internal of the pumpkin must have been infected and needed to be removed immediately (Oh man, I sound like Rick from Walking Dead! Ooops, spoiler alert!). It would have rotten no matter how but we are doing this just to lengthen Two-Face Pumpkin's lives, without anesthesia (Poor thing!). The following picture is disgusting and with strong violence and gore, please avoid if you're under 16.

The skull taken off with some brainy and internal organs and etc etc. *vomit*

To avoid the condition deteriorate, spatula has used to removed all the infected parts, which is almost most of it (><)''. Half way through the operation, the worst thing happened.  

Two-Face Pumpkin is striked by nausea and vomiting...

This cause difficulty in removing the infected parts but lady luck is with me, I found the main infected area and remove it!

It was building its base at the jaw area! Mushy and slimy! Yikes!

Totally forgotten the other faces of Two-Face Pumpkin, having a brainiac time. Poor thingy!

After hours of hours struggling with this surgery, all infected area has been removed. Good news is pumpkin survive but bad news is I have to amputate two of its teeth. Meh~

Two-Face Pumpkin after surgery, it's feels blurry, side effect from the surgery.

Pumpkin under quarantine.

Dear Two-Face Pumpkin is under quarantine aka ICU room to prevent further infection like fruit flies laying eggs, oh gosh, that is one deadly disease I can't do any operation but decon it which is send the pumpkin straight to the coffin. Hopefully pumpkin will last till Halloween! We need you badly! Hard times, people, please pray for Two-Face Pumpkin.

PS : I'm trying to label my photos and it's looks weird but as times go by, it will be better. Still thinking about Urbanae's Photography or HY's Photography. Love both name so much.

HY's Food Experiment: Bruschetta with Cheese and Tomato

Great news! First of all, Me aka HY will start to share out my cooking recipe. Yay! Because sharing is caring and of course I hope to find someone who loves to cook as well and share their opinion with me. I was thinking the name, HY's Food Experiment sound like I was cooking some hazardous food and scared people off. HY's little kitchen sound dull. Same goes to HY's Recipe so I'll just stick to the origin one.

Today I'm going to give my very first lesson of cooking (Oh I'm so excited! I'm going to be like Jamie Oliver~Day Dreaming again.). It's a very simple and refreshing dish. It's Bruschetta with Cheese and Tomato. Good to be served as breakfast~ HY's style breakfast!

Chemical/Materials needed (Basically it's just ingredients! Somebody is trying to make it sound so mystery!)

• Baguette
• Colby Jack Cheese
• Tomato (2)
• Mint leaves (handful, chopped)
• Basil leaves (handful, chopped)
• Salt and Pepper (a pinch)
• Lemon juice (1 teaspoon)
• Garlic (2 cloves,minced)
• Olive oil

First of all, cut the Baguette into slices, not too thick as I found that I have difficulty biting through it (I know I need calcium~). Next on, cut the cheese stick into slices. The cheese I'm using is Sargento's Colby Jack. I love Colby Jack because it kinda give me a cheese-kick! The aroma of it, awww!

Yes students, slice all your Baguette and cheese.

Cut the 2 tomatoes into cubes. I chose a not too ripe tomato so that it will give a tiny little soury taste. Throw the tomatoes, chopped basil and mint leaves, minced garlic, salt and pepper, few drops of olive oil and lemon juice into a bowl and mix it up. 

You'll have something like this and the aroma of the herbs is releasing to the air~

Place the tomato mixture on the sliced Baguette and place a few slices of cheese on it. Recommend more cheese to be placed on the top layer. Preheat oven to 450 F, before sending your tiny ship of Baguette into the oven. After that, send them all in and bake till the cheese melt.

Nicely set and bake them!

You can bake a little longer if you like your baguette taste more crunchy but I just love it to be not too crunchy so I leave it 1, 2 minutes more in the oven after the cheese melted. And here you go, cheesy Bruschetta with tomato and basil mint.

Yummy!

The cheese can be replaced by Mozarella. But I love Colby Jack sooo much! HY's food experiment, Bruschetta with cheese and tomatoes! Nom Nom Nom!

Selangorlicious Season 2 Food Blogging Competition Winners Prize Giving Ceremony

I would like to apologise and yes, you can throw stones flowers to me for vanishing for such a long period because I've been BZ doing something else, ex: my convo (Yes, I've graduated~ *applause* Kids like me able to graduate is like a miracle that never exist.).

Booyah to all those stuff I just mention. I'm going to blog about much interesting event, yes Selangorlicious Season 2 Winners has been chosen and was invited to the prize giving ceremony. How irony am I being happy for getting invited but being so sad deeply inside where seeing people getting/winning $$$ from the competition~ (Such a tragedy to a poor kiddie!) Nah, just kidding, I got some awesome food there too, that's more than enough!

Let's browse through the photos~

Prize Giving Ceremony held at Gulam Mee.

Elizabeth Wong giving a speech.

There were the winners. Yeah! Extra $$$ to spend~

With the YB.

They are having 3 category, mandarin, malay and english for season 1 and season 2. Rumor spreading there will be an extra category, what will it be?? I place my bet on Tamil! After the prize giving session, it's dinner time!

Sticks and sticks of Satay.

Gulam Mee!!

My portion of food, having a diet, never!

The Gulam Mee taste really good, you can feel the aroma of the stir frying mee on your tastebuds and I bet it would taste better if we add in a small wedges of lime in it. The fried chicken is good but the satay is just nice, I think they overcooked the satay so the meat is a challenge for weak teeth and gums.

Can't wait for the next season! Perhaps I would take part in it next time!