Sean Chin http://blog.seanchin.com Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:52:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Top 10 Video Games of “All-time” http://blog.seanchin.com/2010/07/top-10-video-games-of-all-time/ http://blog.seanchin.com/2010/07/top-10-video-games-of-all-time/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:52:39 +0000 Sean Chin http://blog.seanchin.com/?p=399 While I was E3, I met a lot of amazing people and new friends. I was asked quite a few times what my favorite video games were. I thought long and hard about this question because it is definitely not an easy one. When one says “all-time” that includes everything from nostalgia, graphics, music, game mechanics, innovation and overall production. I’ve seen many websites such as IGN stated that their #1 video game of all time is Super Mario Bros. Okay that is very respectable and all but really? Of course it was innovative at the time and has tremendous nostalgic effects, I love it too! But when you say “all-time” you need to include everything.

This is my top 10 list of my most favorite and what I think are the best video games of “all-time” which include all the factors I mentioned above.

  1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
  2. Final Fantasy IX
  3. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
  4. Final Fantasy X
  5. Super Mario 64
  6. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
  7. The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
  8. Final Fantasy VII
  9. Super Mario World
  10. Donkey Kong Country
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Just updating my blog about some really cool things that I’ve been doing this summer.

As you might all know, I crossed off something from my bucket list when I attended E3 2010! It’s always been a dream of mine to go to this video game heaven, and I still can’t believe that I did it.

I got to meet a lot of awesome people such as Leonard Nimoy, Felicia Day, Tommy Tallarico and many booth babes.

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The goal however was course trying all of the games and devices that will be coming out within the next few years. I was one of the very first people to play The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and am featured on Nintendo’s 3DS website (-> Videos -> Audience reactions @ 1:20)

Check out my Flickr Photos of E3

Check out my Full Review of E3

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The reality is that everything occuring on the mysterious island was real, and in the end, Jack manages to kill the man in black (MIB) and save the island before dying in the bamboo forest he has awakened in the pilot episode. He died while he the last satisfaction of seing his friends leaving the island on the Ajira plane.

Afterwards, Hurley assumes the new “Jacob” as Ben become his right-hand man and the two protect the island with some new policies, by allowing people to come by, and allowing desmond to leave it to go back with Penny.

Kate, Sawyer, Richard, Lapidus, Miles and Claire come back to the real world and live their life to the end, in their own separate and distant story lines we will never know about.

In the very end, everyone that was on the island manages to die (that’s life) and as they were all very important to each one, they all manage to reunite in “purgatory”, some after life waiting room where everyone seems to live a “near perfect life” where their main dissapointed in their real life is fixed (ex. Jack having a son to fix his parent-son poor own relationship with Christian, Locke having a real family with Helen, Hurley is not cursed, Desmond has gained Widmore’s approval, Faraday is a pianist).

In this “Happy Ending Storyline”, as they were all very important, they manage to remember their life together (ever since some died long ago and some recently) and being together helps them moving on. I truly feel that what everyone thought has a “flash sideways” was actually not so. I believe it was more of a “flash future renunion party”.

The matter of the fact is that what I loved is that the show seems to tell us that in the very end of our lives, we will be reunited with every person we ever loved in our life, every one who has a special place in our heart, leaving us with a special opportunity to make amends, to say what hasn’t been said in time, and to be in peace for real.

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I’ve been busy for some weeks now, but I’m glad to say that I finally finished my Undergraduate degree! That’s right, I am now Sean Chin, BHSc (Bachelor of Health Science with Honors).

I also just switched from PC, and got the brand new 2010 MacBook Pro 15 inch 2.4Ghz Core i5. Totally wish I did this sooner.

Anyways I still have to study my butt off for the Med lab national board examinations, CSMLS.

And…E3 is just around the corner as well. Looks like my summer is going to be interesting !

P.S LOST has two more episodes until the 2.5 hour-long finale ! And Doctor Who is still awesome :)

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So there are a mere 72 days before my buddy Chris and I hop onto a LA-bound plane to E3 2010.

Within these 72 days, I will have finished my UOIT comprehensive examination, graduated from University with a Bachelors of Health Science and written the CSMLS national board exam…

Sounds a bit daunting to me, but I’ve stuck thick and thin with my plans and I feel like there is nothing that can stop me now. I am in the home stretch.

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This is what I researched at UOIT previously.

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She & Him – In The Sun from Merge Records on Vimeo.

]]> http://blog.seanchin.com/2010/03/in-the-sun/feed/ 0 Links of the Week [2010-03-06] http://blog.seanchin.com/2010/03/links-of-the-week-2010-03-06/ http://blog.seanchin.com/2010/03/links-of-the-week-2010-03-06/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:40:34 +0000 Sean Chin http://blog.seanchin.com/?p=366 This is my first entry for my new end of the week posts. I noticed that on facebook, I post alot of really interesting and neat articles or websites. So I thought that I would just summarize all of my findings throughout the week on Saturdays (today will be Sunday of course :P ) I hope you enjoy this side project !

It’s official: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs

The Teen Brain: It’s Just Not Grown Up Yet

Nicaragua’s Anti-Abortion Policy Endangers Women, Criminalizes Doctors, Experts Say

How Grad School is just like Kindergarten

A measure for the multiverse

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And to all my Asian-Canadian/American friends and anyone else who celebrates or finds interest in the Lunar festival, happy new year. May the year of the Tiger be a prosperous and healthy one.

Sean

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