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By a weird turn of events, I ended up at a Cybergames competition (!) with zeroKelvin, nerf and yae (cybergame names used to protect all identities, you'll know why soon)...
As ssr will happily attest, my coordinations skills kinda suck when it come to games. No idea why though. I blame it on the age.
So I joined the com (still can't believe it...) with zeroKelvin assuring me that he wasn't playing to win since he only played the game once (and so it didn't matter how badly I suck) and that yae had a fair amount of experience.
So I figured, how bad can it be? Afterall, the game has relatively few functions compared to the other 1001 lan games.
Quite, as it turns out.
Yae and I turned up at the venue representing like 100% of the female competitors. All of us had some time to warm up with the game only to realise half the time we had to ask each other what button were for what function.
Very noobish indeed.
While the other players brought their own headphones and KEYBOARDS.
We played a few rounds and our team record was like a survival time of 2.17.56 or something like that. In case you were wondering, the "2" refers to minutes. Not hours, thank you very much.
Oh and did I mention? Yae's experience that zeroKelvin was talking about? She played a grand total of 2 games before. And nerf never even played the game before. Haha. Which somehow made me the most experienced. Relative being the keyword.
Well the game soon started and I think we didnt really survive much longer than our "team record". When asked to choose a starting map, we realised we didnt even know what the maps were called.
The opponents amazed us with their teamwork and their apparent knowledge of every kooks and crannies there were. Needless to say our butts were kicked. Their scores were in the range of 1000 ~ 2000. Ours was 1/100 of theirs.
For obvious reasons, we couldn't stay in that place after our games ended to just "hang around". Thank goodness I didnt know anyone else there.
I hope I don't sound bitter. I just find the whole fiasco extremely amusing.
But the day got better after that. Despite once again failing to catch Transformers (4th day of failure already...), taking a lot of escalators (in many different malls) and bus 190 (to many different malls), ending up in ulu malls like BPP and Lot 1 and climbing an infamously horrendously long flight of stairs to sinema, what matters most was the company.
(: I guess sometimes, words don't matter.
When you say nothing at all - Alison Krauss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muKQWGMC-b0
I am all for the fact that you'd like to rip your eardrums apart. But if you subject me to the same trashy noise, lousily disguised as music, I have a great inclination to murder someone.
And it's ALWAYS trashy music. Noone ever blast classical music or even something remotely mainstream. As if early morning train rides are pleasant enough.
I wish they brought a radio instead. Then at least we can subject them to ugly stares for being outrightly inconsiderate.
I need a pair of scissors. The wires are thin... oh so thin.
How many times have we walked away, only to wish that we did something we did not?Would you like the person you see should you meet yourself one day?Everyone dreams of changing the world, but noone thinks of changing themselves.
I'd like to think that, in a way, we were there when we needed each other.
The busier you are, the more you want to jolt down stuff to remind yourself of the things you have been doing. Things that may one day lift the corners of your mouth when you are browsing through the cobwebs of your life.
And yet, the busier you are, the less time you have to do it.
Argh. Life.
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. - Frank A. Clark
