I've just completed Soldier of Fortune Double Helix. Its a swell game and full of action. I loved every inch, every minute of it! I couldn't play without saving multiple of times and hence, lame me, I had to play in amateur mode. The challenge ahead is to play in the Soldier of Fortune mode. On the other hand, though SOFII is a good game I might not really have another go at it.
Instead I think I'll just see why my PES4 wouldn't work with the Wolf Patch!
Play hard.
Monday, November 14, 2005
Sunday, November 13, 2005
the time machine man
I just wanted the battery of a watch changed! My usual watch repairman (I went there once before) was all smiles to see me back. He was a dark round man with a smile that was too hard for him to put on ('cos of his muscular cheeks.) He was not really truly an authentic Nepali, but then again I shouldn't judge so 'cos there is so much of Indian & Chinese mix.
Anyways, he had complained earlier (3 months ago) that the battery replaced (5 months) by a repairman across the street from his shop was faulty and of "Chinese quality." This probably is why he had a hard time accepting the fact that the battery he had replaced earlier was at question! The first diagnosis from his exaggerated movements of examination through his monocle was, as he said and I quote "water." We interpreted as meaning to say that water had gotten in and had stopped the watch.
However, upon much request he checked the battery with his shop-made contraption of a tester ("testaru") and declared the battery was a bit weak but not that low! He asked us to wait (I was with a friend of mine, Tho, who declared that this guy was showing a lot of "charukeys"/gymastics.) The battery wasn't yet declared should-be-replaced". Instead, he replaced the three tiny batteries in his "testaru" and retired. This manoeuvre took over a good 10 minutes! Meanwhile, his waiter from a nearby tea-shop was there to collect the empty glass from his last tea delivery. This guy spent the best of those 10 minutes discussing something which neither of us two understood. They talked in Nepalese. We knew they were talking about the watch and that water had gone into it. The waiter guy left with the empty tea-glass and this chap re-examined the battery and decided finally to replace the battery.
He kept grumbling about how the Nepalese people still didnt accept the likes of his 'cos they were more Indian than Nepali. He comes from a town on the India-Nepal border. We nodded and answered a few questions about Maldives.
It is what came next that startled us. He made sure the watch was running and then poured in some yellow liquid from an empty whiskey bottle. Putting that aside, he took out a small gadget about the size of a case for an expensive watch. The wires of this gadget had to be put into the electric socket very meticulously to avoid a) electrocution or b) blow up the neighbourhood or c) all of the above. No, there aren't circuit-breakers or any trust in circuit-breakers if they existed. Then came the magic! He placed the watch on this magical box, and the arms of the watch went wooooosh! It rotated as if trying to catch up on the missed hours while it was dead! We stared at it in awe and nodded to each other, impressed. When the watch went round for one hour, in about ficve seconds, the guy quickly removed the wired from the electric socket and said that if there were any problems in there, that rotation of a precise one hour time travel, would have cured it! AMAZING! I quickly paid the guy, who was a bit hesitant to state a price which perhaps was a show of respect or modesty or something!
That machine / gadget that he had made the watch go an hour in five seconds! If I were wearing that watch would the world appear so slow, almost a still picture!? If I wore it for 3 months (2160 hours) would the world have run for just 3 hours??
Anyways, he had complained earlier (3 months ago) that the battery replaced (5 months) by a repairman across the street from his shop was faulty and of "Chinese quality." This probably is why he had a hard time accepting the fact that the battery he had replaced earlier was at question! The first diagnosis from his exaggerated movements of examination through his monocle was, as he said and I quote "water." We interpreted as meaning to say that water had gotten in and had stopped the watch.
However, upon much request he checked the battery with his shop-made contraption of a tester ("testaru") and declared the battery was a bit weak but not that low! He asked us to wait (I was with a friend of mine, Tho, who declared that this guy was showing a lot of "charukeys"/gymastics.) The battery wasn't yet declared should-be-replaced". Instead, he replaced the three tiny batteries in his "testaru" and retired. This manoeuvre took over a good 10 minutes! Meanwhile, his waiter from a nearby tea-shop was there to collect the empty glass from his last tea delivery. This guy spent the best of those 10 minutes discussing something which neither of us two understood. They talked in Nepalese. We knew they were talking about the watch and that water had gone into it. The waiter guy left with the empty tea-glass and this chap re-examined the battery and decided finally to replace the battery.
He kept grumbling about how the Nepalese people still didnt accept the likes of his 'cos they were more Indian than Nepali. He comes from a town on the India-Nepal border. We nodded and answered a few questions about Maldives.
It is what came next that startled us. He made sure the watch was running and then poured in some yellow liquid from an empty whiskey bottle. Putting that aside, he took out a small gadget about the size of a case for an expensive watch. The wires of this gadget had to be put into the electric socket very meticulously to avoid a) electrocution or b) blow up the neighbourhood or c) all of the above. No, there aren't circuit-breakers or any trust in circuit-breakers if they existed. Then came the magic! He placed the watch on this magical box, and the arms of the watch went wooooosh! It rotated as if trying to catch up on the missed hours while it was dead! We stared at it in awe and nodded to each other, impressed. When the watch went round for one hour, in about ficve seconds, the guy quickly removed the wired from the electric socket and said that if there were any problems in there, that rotation of a precise one hour time travel, would have cured it! AMAZING! I quickly paid the guy, who was a bit hesitant to state a price which perhaps was a show of respect or modesty or something!
That machine / gadget that he had made the watch go an hour in five seconds! If I were wearing that watch would the world appear so slow, almost a still picture!? If I wore it for 3 months (2160 hours) would the world have run for just 3 hours??
Friday, November 11, 2005
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