Singapore’s version of The Blair Witch Project is finally here and though I wasn’t too impressed by their trailer, but just because I’m quite a huge fan of such genres (love Paranormal Activity’s ending), I’ll probably try to catch it once I get back home.

Opens islandwide tomorrow at all major cinemas.

WTF WTF WTF?!

Needless to say, this video is exactly as the title of the post and definitely not for the faint hearted. A worldwide manhunt has already began in search of this girl’s identity along with calls for her prosecution.

Following the recent Manila bus hijacking incident (unbelievable right?), I came across a very interesting blog supposedly written by a SIA cabin crew.

The post that caught my attention was this true story related by Toby, a former steward who was working on Flight 117 when it was hijacked by 4 Pakistanis on 26 March 1991.

EX KL:…flight was somehow delayed…captain came on PA addressing that we are expecting four more pax and we should be on our way….stomach was getting hungry and jus cant wait to have my Mac meal when we return to Singapore..

Finally the four pax boarded and we are all set to go……and the four Indian pax were ther nightmare that no one on the flight expected…flight took off after much delay and the seat belt sign were off before we start to run down the aisle to prepare for the drink service…being the most junior, I was working at AFT galley…or back galley…GLF was my LS and together with 2 other senior girls. As the aircraft stabilised, we were serving the pax a drink…a lady ask me if she could have a glass of warm milk as she was not feeling very well….ayah…have to heat up the milk then…

Back in the galley, heating up the milk…from the corner of my eyes saw four Indian pax seems to be looking for the toilet…pointed out to them where is located and to my surprise, two went into the each toilet…..wow…toilet must also go together…these idiots must be drunk at such early hours…

Getting ready to serve the warm milk….the four Indain pax came out of the toilet…with items holding in their hands….and shouted…”HIJACK HIJACK…this is a HIJACK…stay where you are”…..gosh..they must be really drunk……hijack on SQ…you must be crazy….confirm drunks……I was not really bothered with their shouts…in return, I smile at them and said…..”Sirs ,would you like to return to your seats”…..you probably will be laughing at my response but if you were to be on board…you may react the same I do….drunkards …trying to hijack SQ….way out of your mind…….my smile didn’t last long until I realise that punches has already landed on my stomach and face…..kicks and I was fell to the back of the galley.

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While the whole world is enraged over Philippines’ inability to handle the entire hostage situation, several students and apparently even members of the police force are actually posing with the earlier hijacked Hong Thai Travel bus and uploading online.

I wonder how will family members of the victims involved feel about this?

Representing Singapore in the latest and upcoming installment of the Amazing Race Asia Season 4 is musician Claire Goh, 21 and freelance actress/model Michelle Ng, 22.

So do you think they have what it takes to slug it out with 9 other teams for the coveted cash prize of US$100,000?

Yet another Roshan bug/abuse, this time with Visage!

Time for 6.68d?

DotA-Allstars.com Visitor,

Some of you may know me; many of you probably won’t these days. This website was born on October 14th, 2004. It was a mere 2 months after I turned 18, and it was the first website I’d ever made. Guinsoo was the lead developer (before Icefrog), DotA had no competitive scene and maybe 5% of the players that it does today.

In the years that followed, the site turned from a small forum with only 30,000 users to a massive community with over a million visitors every month, a million page views every day, and a staff of over 100 volunteers. It’s been incredible discovering the generosity of individuals who selflessly donate their time to create a positive experience for others.

In the summer of 2008, I met Guinsoo in real life for the first time. He and his boss were in town and they wanted to meet up and go out for a steak, (how could I say no!?). I soon learned that they were working on a game based on DotA, free from all of the limitations of the Warcraft III engine and Battle.net. Several months after meeting them and after several trips to their offices to learn more about the project, I joined the Riot Games team working on League of Legends.

When I first joined the team in September of 2008, my original intent was to work on League of Legends full time and continue to build DotA-Allstars.com into an awesome thriving DotA community after Icefrog’s departure.

While I originally intended to leave this out of this letter, in light of the fact that this information is now out in the open, I think it’s important to set the record straight. Many believe that Icefrog left because I wanted to commercialize, and he did not. In reality – I had learned that Icefrog had been secretly working for S2Games after conducting a series of meetings where he was attempting to sell a full DotA game concept to a number of companies (including Riot). The differences of opinion that we had were merely that I chose to be transparent and honest about the project that I was working on, and the direction my career was going.

After working on and launching LoL, I began to realize that – in addition to having no free time anymore – with LoL available to play I no longer possessed the passion for DotA which once drove me.

The traffic on the website slowly began to decline, settling where it’s at now (about 50% of where it was a year ago), and I recently realized that I had a decision to make. I could either continue to say that I would rebuild the website as a strong DotA community, knowing that my heart wasn’t really in it, or I could archive the site, ending an almost 6 year chapter of my life that I’ve invested thousands of hours into. Ultimately I believe that the right decision here is to not trick myself into thinking that this site will be rebuilt into what it once was, and to shift my full focus and time to my new project, with an eye towards the future.

This website and the DotA community will always hold a special place in my heart. It’s been an amazing experience working with so many wonderful people and gaining so much insight about communities, people, and ultimately myself. There are more people deserving of thanks than I could possibly remember – so rather than leaving anyone out, I’ll simply thank everyone who has volunteered or contributed to this site over the last few years, and everyone who helped make it one of the premier DotA websites in the world.

The website will be offline for the next week or so while the database is moved to its new permanent home where its contents will remain archived and available to the public for the sake of historical preservation.

In the meantime, I hope some of you will join me and over 3 million other players for a game of League of Legends (it’s free!)

Should you wish to contact me, you can reach me at:
AIM: Gippis
MSN: DotA-Allstars@hotmail.com
Email: Pendragon@dota-allstars.com

Sincerely,
Pendragon

I don’t know how long has the message been there, cause frankly, even before my current hiatus from the game, after losing its “official” website status, I’ve stopped visiting DotA-Allstars.com.

I guess I wasn’t the only one and that’s not unexpected.

Thank you for all the good times DotA-Allstars.com!

On other DotA related news, Valve (the company behind Half-Life) has recently filed a trademark application for DotA. What does that mean to the future of this awesome game?