To make room for data and to free up some memory in our laptop, I decided to unistall my warcraft III frozen throne game. I told andrea that it’s my way of turning over a new leaf… Now I can’t remember why in the world did i make such a decision? Now it’s gone.It has not been a week since I deleted the files and yet I already miss the game. That was the only game I was ever addicted to in college. I also played counterstrike, Jedi Wars, Starcraft and even Battle Realms, but none of these games even interested me enough to make me buy a pirated copy to install in my computer. Only Warcraft III gave me enough excitement and appeal to motivate me into doing that. I was even shortly tempted to buy the original copy just so I can play the battlenet version. (Good thing I didn’t) Now it’s gone.

Oh well, there’s no use crying over spilled milk. I guess I just have to wait for Warcraft IV… Although with the way things are in Blizzard right now, I figure it’s going to be a long wait.

Huhu! Goodbye Warcraft! Goodbye Priestess! Farewell Thrall!

Recently, we came across a car show in SM City. This time, instead of a sedan, a hatchback was being featured - the Hyundai Getz. Now, if you read my previous post about the Aveo sedan, you’ll see that it takes a lot for me to get impressed by a car. So initially, I wasn’t at all with the Getz, but my wife egged me to take a closer look.
Up close, this Hyundai subcompact car looked interestingly sporty. The interior brandishes the same two-tone color and texture that we loved in the Aveo sedan. The space ofcourse was incomparable to the sedan but amazingly enough, when I jumped in the driver’s seat, I was surprised to find a spaceous leg room. The 3-spoke steering wheel lacks the music control buttons in the Aveo but otherwise feels good to touch. It will still take a bit of getting used to with the dashboard controls though but it doesn’t look bad at all. The plastic material of the dashboard gives a synthetic (but almost cheap) feel to the touch. After all, let’s not forget. It still is an econocar. Outside, the car looks less feminine than the Picanto. It has an angrier looking front face. The black trims across the body (body side molds) add excellent contrast to the color and give a more sophisticated look to the Getz (something that the Picanto designers could definitely look into).The engine, on the other hand, is definitely a stride slower than the Aveo sedan’s. The Getz sports a 1.1 L displacement SOHC engine - a rather poor comparison to the Chevy’s E-TEC II DOHC engine (VTEC equivalent in Honda). But then again, the Aveo Sedan is not an econocar. Chevy’s econocounterpart, which is the Spark, I feel will not hold a candle to the Getz at all so I did not compare it to the Spark at all. Furthermore, the Getz showcases different engine variants. It comes in 1.4 L and 1.5 L versions, with the latter sporting the CRDi DOHC type. (The CRDI technology is the same technology used in european top cars like BMW, Mercedez and Audi.)

The price, however, is a serious consideration. The P468,000 1.1 L Getz costs even less than the 1.1 L Picanto (P490,000). That for me is a big advantage for the Getz. However, the 1.5 L version with the CRDi DOHC engine, comes with a price tag of P628,000 - a slight disadvantage because at this range, it will be taking on the much bigger competitors like the Honda 1.5 L VTEC City (P700,000) or the 1.4 L E-TECH II Aveo sedan (P640,000), or even the 1.5 L G VVTi Toyota Vios (P687,000).For a while I seriously considered buying the Getz… but then again I remembered why I didn’t take the Aveo Sedan in the first place - obligations. Huhu!