200!!!

I reached it! and over comments…
Since more than 1 week, i have been testing, updating my wordpress, customizing a theme, everything on my local machine at home.

Now, that the 200th post is reached, i have uploaded everything to my domain :D

Wordpress 2.5 is Great! Simply great!

Except its admin panel, but that can be modified using themes…

Moving to the new theme….

Just a little flashback at the previous design:

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Thanks a lot for your support!

Hello world! well, first i’d like to apologise for my interrupted blogging pace, actually am designing a new theme for the blog (so that i get aquainted again with css / php / xhtml ) i will try to post more regularly though

Now, you might be wondering about the title right? no? well doesn’t matter, i’ll tell you anyway xD
OverClocked Remix is a site where users can post their arrangements or “remixes” of soundtracks from video games. Well i know, put like this it sounds somewhat banal,
but i really like this site because the remixes are often not simple enhancements to the original tracks but complete reinterpretations of said tracks in a completely different genre.

Being a geek from the NES (or its pirate little brother the “family game” :P) generation, and then having owned a SNES and Megadrive, rediscovering those soundtracks which represent a large part of my childhood (ok ok, early teens, its all the same anyways :P) was really cool (nostalgia etc, fans of final fantasy / chrono trigger will understand what i mean )

by the way, speaking of chrono trigger, one of the best arrangements i’ve heard on OCRemix come from this game, Magus’ theme
, the saturated guitar just adds something to this soundtrack, excellent

Also of interest is This version of “materia junkie” (FF7), or the battle theme’s remix

this compilation of arrangements from FF7 is also excellent. am not specially a fan of all those soundtracks, but i must admit there’s some excellent work put into that o_O some tracks are even much better than the original, <3 :D

After quickly going through the “games” category, i must say i was impressed by the variety of games (pc / console) they had. it varies from 1988 Nes games to 2006 ps2
games (up to where i’ve browsed)

a word of warning though, if you get to see games that you like, you might be tempted to download all the related soundtracks :P

Aujourd’hui je vais vous presenter un groupe de rock Anglais, malheureusement tres peu connu et qui tristement n’existe plus (comment ca je detruis le suspens des la premiere phrase? :P) bref, découverte d’un coup de coeur musical

Le groupe est (était, erf T_T) composé de quatre membres:
Stuart Jones - Guitare / voix
Owen Richards - Guitar / voix
Matt Lunn - Batterie
Thom Craigen - Basse

Selon les critiques, leur style peut etre comparé a du muse / placebo / radiohead, mais selon moi c’est a la fois tout ca et un truc completement different, presque comme un OMNI quoi (comprendra qui pourra :P).

Le groupe n’ayant pas fait long feu (Il suffit de jeter un oeil sur leur site officiel pour comprendre…), on trouve tres peu d’infos sur eux via notre ami google. De plus, leur opus est super rare / introuvable (et quasi instroumphfable mais bon :P ), tellement que j’ai du commander leur EP, Single et leur album depuis 3 magasins differents (Japon / allemagne / angleterre, vive ebay :P)
le pire etant que malgre cela je n’ai pas toutes leurs chansons (certaines etant dispo uniquement en vinyl o_O):P

(Pochette de leur album)

Bon bon je vous vois venir, “Tu nous fatigues avec ton fichu groupe, nous on veut voir ce que ca donne leur musique namého!”
(de plus en plus éxigeants ces lecteurs de nos jours, non mais je vous jure! xD)

bref trève de blabla en effet, voyons ce que ca donne

(1) Candles

Peut etre pas une de mes chansons préférées mais bon je l’aime bien quand meme
Ecouter Candles sur Esnips

(2) The exile

Deja un peu plus energetique, genial je trouve
Ecouter The exile sur Esnips

ou alors en acoustique, ca le fait aussi…

(3) Images of you

Alors celle la, quoi qu’on en dise elle dechire bien (meme en acoustique et un simple djembé comme percussion, testé personellement :P )

Ecouter Images of you sur Esnips

(4) The Company Wont Colour Me

Magnifique, tout simplement.

Ecouter Colour of fire sur Esnips

il y a aussi quelques videos sur youtube, et quelques autres chansons dispo sur Esnips mais bon, meme moi avec un single, un EP et un album je n’ai pas toutes leurs chansons… m’enfin voila pour la découverte du mardi soir (ou mercredi matin, c’est vous qui voyez )

et a tous ceux qui me demanderont si c’est une heure pour poster je leur répondrais tout simplement “bah apparament ouais” xD

Found this in Quatre-Bornes while driving to work today… Where do I begin?

First, this is an eyesore. It hurts my senses so much that I felt compelled to get off my car, take a photo and blog on it.

Secondly, the one who has written this is an illiterate. Come on. “Nous Somè Fier Deton Sucses Sitanen”. He (must be a he!) cannot even get Sithanen right! Stupid guy!

Thirdly, what is the objective of that message? If the perpetrator thinks that this message will flatter Sithanen then he is wrong. This kind of stupid message can only tarnish the image of Sithanen according to me as it makes me associate the current Minister of Finance with a bunch of illiterate painters… and nothing more.

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It has been a rather hectic week for me. Peuhh!!! So let’s start from the start.

I got the opportunity to watch one of  the quarter finals between Croatia and Turkey in Austria. So last week I took the plane which was supposed to transit via Dubai then direct to Austria. Great was our dismay when the announcer informed us that the flight was cancelled. We were five Mauritians going to watch the match and the sponsors have already established a planning schedule for us.  Because of the delay we would lose two days as the next flight via Dubai was supposed to be in the evening and the connecting flight the next day. One of us knew of the procedure and contacted one the officers of MK, who after checking booking reservations informed us that we could get seats on the direct flight to Paris and thereafter a connecting flight to Vienna.

It was already four hours (4 in the morning) after our scheduled flight was cancelled and we were still in the airport terminal waiting of the new booking arrangements.  We were so tired that we dozed in the airport buildings and only woke up when we heard announcements. Passengers to Paris were already checking in and we still did not get our new tickets. Upon the advice of one of the ticketing officers we managed to check in with a copy of the booking reservations and we were held at the boarding gate. Announcements were heard that gate was closing and still no boarding tickets. It was typical of a drama or action film. It was at the last second that the officers came up with our tickets and we could finally board the plane and fly 13 hours non stop to Paris, and there another 2 hours to Vienna.

When we returned to Mauritius, i was informed that my aunt passed away. The funeral would be held in 3 hours and since it was a close relative, i had to attend it. So after a12 hours return flight, i had to do the chauffeur and be at the mass and the cemetery.  Needless to say i slept for 12 hours the next day.For seven days, I attended a small prayer session at my cousin’s place and missed two of them because there was inventory count at the company.  Hopefully this week will be a new and steady one because i would not last :p