Time to put aside Black Myth: Wukong for 2 weeks…. XD
Gaming
Weekends
It’s been a while since I feel weekend’s too short!
Even though I was just sitting in front of the PC for two days as usual, time flew past so quickly for the past weekend.
Let’s see. I was busy playing PoE 3.25 Settlers of Kalgur expansion, and this new league mechanic is all about building towns and resources (something that I really hate), but this whole town building experience is rather linear and I don’t need to worry too much about thinking what to expand/upgrade first. Basically I just upgrade whenever I have the resources, while keeping in mind to put aside some resources for shipping (a really good way to collect uniques!)
And then, I finally registered a MeWatch account, and I found myself playing PoE on one monitor while following the Paris 2024 action on the other, lol. And because I was a little too mesmerized by the Artistic Gymnastics qualifiers, my whole PoE progress was rather slow… :D Two days flew by and I haven’t even finish campaign omg… >__<
Ah well, I’m not in a hurry anyway. League has just started, there’s plenty of time to play this league. Maybe with this new league mechanic I can also play the league a little longer than previous leagues. It’s so interesting to send shipment over to other Kalgur ports and waiting to see what rewards will be sent back.
Last night after the Artistic Gymnastics qualifier 2 ended, I was thinking perhaps I should go to bed already. But Ye Wei was telling me how nail biting Archery’s QF was… so out of curiosity I switched to the Archery channel to take a look (I’ve never watched Archery events before). He patiently gave me a brief explanation on the bow the competitors are using and for some weird reason I continued to watch the event (even though I wasn’t interested in Archery) and stayed up all the way to watch the gold medal match.
It’s been a while since I last watched any kind of tournaments while discussing/chatting with someone about the games in real time, be it sports or esports events. It’s nice to experience it again – to the point where I didn’t mind sacrificing some of my sleep time. :D
New week! I’ve already completed my Bulkers’ Jul-24 closing… now I’m just waiting for Tankers numbers to be listed before providing the analytics for my 3 tanker vessels, and then I’m good!
To-do for the rest of August:-
- Complete the rest of the 4 SPVs FS
- Prepare for UK team’s visit on third week of Aug – to conduct sharing sessions and attend team bonding event
- Prepare for Aug closing in 4th week
加油！It’ll be December soon!
Back to WoW?
Spent the long weekend playing World of Warcraft again – and I managed to get my Demon Hunter to max level from level 99 to level 120 in 3 days! I thought it’d be a long grind, but the levelling wasn’t too hard. Died a few times too, but I realised I’m not so averse to dying nowadays. I don’t feel the frustration of dying as much as I used to.
Demon Hunter was surprisingly fun to play and easy to sustain. Can do pretty okay-ish AOE, can self heal from talents and from Azerite powers. Not too shabby after all. There’s probably more skills that I could have used during one-on-one face-offs with rare mobs, but I guess that’s okay. I’ll learn how to use them at some point, haha.
It’s just such a long journey to get flying in Zuldazar – so long that I’m feeling a little turned off by it. I’m just doing random quests by running around even after hitting max level. Haven’t feel tired of the game yet – will just continue with it since I already sub for 6 months lol.
#LetsGoLiquid
Although Team Liquid has come in only at the second place at TI9, they are still the only Dota2 team I will support, as long as Kuroky, Miracle, and GH are in the team. I’m not sure if there’ll be any changes in the next season, but #LetsGoLiquid!
SEA Major 2018 / FGC
Attended Gamestart Asia 2018 for Sea Major 2018 – for the first time I stayed there from morning till late night, and only at the SFV booth, watching the pools going on till end of the day.
Saw the current legends and top pros like Tokido, Daigo, Fujimura (!!!!), Sako etc in real life, feels so unreal. At one point, Tokido was standing next to me. Sako walked right in front of me. Fujimura was just sitting right in front of me and I could totally stick out my hand to tap his shoulder to talk to him (but I didn’t). Xian brushed shoulders with me. Gachikun is so short in real life! Chocoblanka’s vocals are…. er…. hmmm…. okay never mind.
For once, it feels like these pro players are not so out of my league after all.
But then again, spending a day there also makes me realise that FGC is such a close knit community that we, as spectators, will have zero chance of barging into this community to claim a spot unless you are either friends with the pro players or you appear as a spectator often enough in every pro tour events and has the courage to talk to them.
That said, I was still glad I went.
Here’s some photos!
BigBird won the Opens on 13th Oct, while Gachikun won the Regional Final on 14th. I was only there on the 13th – and even though we stayed till 9.30pm, we couldn’t catch the end of it because it was really way too late. It was fortunate that we went home instead of waiting for the Top 8 to start, because the whole thing ended at around 1+am in the morning!
We were worried about the delays again on the 14th, and from the schedule the Regional Finals would only start at 6.30pm on 14th. So we decided to skip going to the actual event (despite already paid for the tickets) in case it got delayed too much. If only we both had applied for leave from work the next day… sigh.
That said, it was really fun watching the pros play in real life. You get so up close and personal with them. If I had enough courage, I would already have gotten photos with so many of them! But oh well… hope I’ll have the chance to attend these events again soon, not just in Singapore, but in Japan too!
Fujimura! Capcom Pro Tour! GameStart Asia! SFV!
Can’t wait for GameStart Asia 2018 tomorrow! Can’t wait to see Fujimura in person! I think it’s been a long time since I’m a hardcore fan of someone. I’m so glad Capcom Pro Tour comes to SG!
Oh, and can’t wait for my Tokyo trip! I feel so dead at work…
TI Staycation!
Got a staycation coming up this weekend, just to watch TI! Hope I can sleep earlier and wake up at around 2~3am to catch all the action on Sat/Sun! Will try and remember to post some pictures here – need to update my blog more!
Long Weekend
So what have I done for this long weekend, which is almost over?
Nothing.
Yup, nothing. All I did was to watch Kiev Major from Thursday evening till early this morning. *cough* Mhm.
The teams I support had pretty much a disappointing run, but hopefully they’ll still stay together during the roster shuffle period and come out better in TI7.
Back!
Well heyyyyyy I’m back!
Back from Hong Kong, actually. Haha.. my annual pilgrimage! Btw I’ve already finished up the Japan blog – you can read it here. It has all the links to the various day-posts. The write up is a little hasty, but hope you’ll at least enjoy reading and viewing the pictures!
Now that I’m back from Hong Kong, I wonder if I should post up another travel post regarding the Hong Kong trip. I have been there so many times already though! I’ll think about it, haha.
Came back on Thursday, and worked my ass off on Thursday night to clear my work as for the first time, I did not work while I was on holiday. I continued clearing my emails and invoices on Friday, before heading to meet Bruno in the evening for the movie John Wick: Chapter 2. Not a bad movie, not bad at all. Actually all the action and stunts are very believable. I was quite impressed. :3
Went to TCM today and then straight to office to finish up my work again. Argh tired as hell. Tomorrow meeting Bruno again to watch DOTA 2 SLI Starladder season 3 finals. No rest for the weary. T_T
Weekends
Spent last Saturday with Bruno, as usual. I went over to his place and we caught a bus together to Sembawang Hill Food Centre. Unfortunately the kway chup stall had closed for the day, so he settled for laksa while I settled for an unassuming mixed veggie rice stall, which turned out to be quite delicious.
Then we took another bus to Thomson where he grabbed his Bakery coffee, and we kinda just walked around Thomson Plaza a little (for the aircon) before heading to Bishan to catch the movie Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children. I have to say, this is almost the first time I’ve watched “typical” Tim Burton movie. The only other Tim Burton directed movie that I’ve watched was Planet of the Apes, which wasn’t quite “Tim Burton-ish”. I resisted the urge to google for the movie plot and ending before the show, so this is the first time (in many years) that I went into the cinema with zero idea what I’m gonna watch. And I have to say, the movie was quite nice! Nice enough for me to rate it a 4.1 at least, out of 5. Although it’s kinda like a “kid’s movie”, I still quite enjoyed it. It was a little annoying to keep hearing someone snoring in the cinema though… there’s a Dad sitting next to Bruno who snored halfway through the movie. -_-
After that we went to Canopy Garden Dining, where we had a dinner reservation. We ordered a sausage platter to share, and he got himself crabmeat aglio olio while I had a mushroom burger with fries. The mushroom burger looked plain, but it was still rather good. The fries had a right crisp to it, but unfortunately it was a tad too salty for me. Bruno loved it though. After that we walked a bit around Bishan Park, where Canopy Garden dining was located at. But it was really dark at some parts of the park, and we kinda “interrupted” a few couples who were lying at the reclining chairs there doing… you-know-what. It was kinda embarrassing yet hilarious.
We were supposed to go to Gamestart Asia 2016 yesterday, but we both kinda fell slightly sick on Saturday evening when we were on our way home. He was feeling slightly feverish, while I was feeling the onset of cold (was sneezing and having running nose). So we decided to call it off and just rest at home, despite the tickets already bought. We caught most of the StreetFighter V SEA Major action (that was happening live at Gamestart) on stream, so it wasn’t that big a loss to not attend the convention.
Aaaaannd, it’s another new week. This is getting so tiring. Wish I can have a break…. though the next vacation is like two months away. That still seems horribly far though…