Oh yes! *So excited*
Yup I’m going overseas!
First stop – Manila in June for Manila Major!
Second stop – Japan in December!
Event tickets and air tickets booked, hotels mostly booked.
Can’t wait! :D
VG.R Mikasa Tribute
So. Much. Feels. BibleThump.
Age is but a number. I certainly hope these awesome players (Mikasa, Fear, etc) will continue playing on.
PS: The background music was so haunting till I went through the YouTube comments to find out what song it is and who sang it. And… I’ve been repeating it on YouTube since then. <3
Oh yeah, and congrats on VG.R for winning the Starladder Invitationals! Thanks for making my wish come true, Fy and Mikasa! <3
Quick update
Yes I’m still alive!
Just a quick update:-
- I jerked too much on my W4 cable, and the right connection broke off internally I think. No choice but to buy a new pair of IEMs – and I went for W30. It’s odd but even though it’s a downgrade in specs (W4 has four way drivers while W30 only has three way drivers), it actually sounds better than my W4. Weird.
- I finally signed up for Friends of the Garden membership – that will allow me unlimited entries to Flower Dome and Cloud Forest at Gardens by the Bay! And immediately upon collecting my member card, I went to the Tulipmania exhibition! Very nice exhibition this year, way better than last year’s! Got a couple of photos posted up on Facebook, but I’ll post more here when I have the time.
- Na’Vi is back! China doto is back! Too bad I can’t catch tonight’s SLI GF as it’ll be way too late when it starts and I have to work tomorrow. But I’m still hoping for a Chinese team to win it. Asian pride, kappa! :3
- Caught a couple of movies this year already – didn’t really have the chance to list them all down. Caught The Jungle Book yesterday (not too shabby, but the child actor was pretty bad – not much facial expressions at all actually). Maybe I’ll do it in my next post or something… but gotta go soon, meeting up with Bruno to catch Huntsman: Winter’s War.
But yeah that’s about it!
PS: Hate the horrible hot weather lately omg. I’m perspiring as I type this… even though there’s a fan right behind me. -_-
Dream
So, I had like the weirdest dream ever.
It’s almost as if I’m part of a movie/game plot. I was a princess (oh, how predictable /s ) of some small city/village/whichever you name it, and due to some treaty, a bunch of my people and I need to be exiled / leave our land. Willingly.
So okay, the people who were leaving started streaming out and bidding tearful goodbyes, but I remembered feeling no sadness. There’s just endless green lovely fields right outside the village and different paths. Some people went this way, some went that way (I guess they were all heading to other villages or something), and when I stepped out, I started heading another path which had considerably less people, and I had no idea where that path would lead to.
Suddenly, almost like your typical RPG title, some text popped up in front of me and told me I’m supposed to lead my people despite being exiled. And I still remembered in my dream, I was pretty pissed and kinda said it out loud, “Huh wtf kenna exiled liao still want me to lead? Everyone went on their own ways liao leh, how to gather them up?!”
*cough* Yes, I think 1) I played too much games; 2) its quite obvious that I hate responsibilities; 3) I think I just preferred to be left alone, seriously. I’ve left the restrictive royal family, now give me my peace!
Anyway, I don’t remember if I did follow the instructions, but I did remember there was a guy with me. Now as you know, other people are just faceless humans in dreams, so don’t ask me who he is. I have no idea.
So, this guy kinda stuck through thick and thin with me, being an awesome company and all… We explored unknown lands, ventured to the coast and watch the horizon, the clouds, the ships that sailed by, etc.
Can’t remember what happened in between, but somehow another guy turned up and he was someone whom I was in a mutual relationship with. OK that’s not the right term, but its like… It’s somehow being seen upon by many that I would end up marrying him (if I wasn’t exiled, that is). So this guy turned up to “save” me and bring me back to his kingdom and I’ll get to be a princess (or queen?) again.
So, cool. It wasn’t just a status match thing, but seems like this guy really liked me.
But somehow, I didn’t go with him immediately, and the three of us were like spending the days together instead. My awesome company started to be a little quiet as the prince-status dude was a little condescending towards him. So I kinda ignored that pompous ass and just turned my attention to the friend who stayed by my side throughout.
So, the day finally came when I was supposed to go back with the pompous ass, and I guess that was what everyone was expecting me to do. Somehow I managed to get my hands on a large canvas, and I started drawing a portrait. The pompous ass laughed at my work and said he totally can’t get what I was drawing. And when I was done, I told my friend to stand opposite side of me, and I turned the drawing 90° and faced him.
Guess what? The drawing was unrecognisable if you looked it at normally, but once you turn it, the portrait was my friend’s face. (Like really, I suck at drawing. I have NO idea why I would think my drawing is so godlike in my dream.)
So… That’s where the dream ended. ANTI CLIMAX RIGHT? I KNOW. There’s no proper ending, I don’t know did I really go become a princess / queen in the end, or did I reject him and end up exploring the rest of the world with my friend. But knowing myself, I doubt I would want to live the rest of my life with a pompous ass. :3
Anyway that’s that. Thought it was too weird and funny, so I just wrote it down here before I forget about it.
In other news, I’m now totally addicted to playing Grim Dawn while streaming DOTA2 live games on my mobile at the same time. :D
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不是你的，就永远都不属于你。
不能勉强的事，就不该去勉强。
不能控制的事，就放手吧。
不是你的，再怎么牢牢抓住，都不会是你的。
Let go of the things that you have no control over. Let go of the things that never belonged to you.
Only then, you’ll become a happier person.
Wait what?
So where do I start?
Plenty of stuff happened… yet it feels like nothing much happened.
Hong Kong trip’s over, and although there’s some really bad incidents that happened during the trip, I’m really way too tired to recount those incidents here. At least the trip ended well, though my mom started nagging the moment we stepped back into our house. Sigh… so much for a “happy” ending. I hadn’t bothered to do any write ups, upload any photos, and geez I didn’t even bother to do reviews on Tripadvisor. Darn. What’s with this laziness….
Bruno recently taught me some basics of DOTA 2 (did I mention that he was a semi-competitive pro DOTA 2 player?), and we had fun watching the just-concluded Shanghai Major. We met like 3 times consecutively after work to catch the games together on his tablet, mostly at Suntec because there’s free Wifi to take advantage of. Streaming of video just eats so much data, omg. Although the event was a huge mess, there’s some really awesome dota games that went on. And even though I’m still newb at everything, at least now I roughly know what exactly the game is about, what objectives are the teams trying to achieve and what they are trying to do in the game. DOTA is definitely not a game that I will play as it requires too much strategy and skills (yes I’ll admit that I suck when it comes to using brains in a game, and I have zero gaming skills), but it was much fun watching the games. Just like I’ve never played StreetFighter, but I love watching those tourneys too. And Bruno was very patient in teaching me certain game play terms, some rules here and there, some character abilities, etc. And it helped a little, I guess, that I’m familiar with Warcraft races and skills. But I have to give credit where it’s due – Bruno’s a good teacher. Thank you! :D
Oh, and I was somehow swooning at two guys from Team Liquid, who happen to be Finns. :3 Hey I didn’t know they are Finns until I googled about them… Too bad they have girlfriends already, haha! =X
The next Major will be held in Philippines, and Bruno and I have this crazy idea to fly there just to catch the games. LOL! I mean, it’s quite rare to have a Major held so close to Singapore, so I guess Manila is probably the closest it can get for us. But yeah I guess we’ll see if we can grab the event tickets this Saturday first.
And no, in case any of you reading this is wondering, no no no Bruno and I are not together. Nor will we be together. He isn’t looking for a relationship (he values his freedom too much) and it’s really purely just friendship between us. Okay, maybe slightly more than friends, since we know each other’s innermost secrets, but that’s where the line is and we both have no interest in crossing that line. Yes we enjoy each other’s company, but no, we really are not that compatible.
On to work~ Work has been dull.. it’s just a mad rush every first two weeks, and then slack for two weeks, and then mad rush again. I don’t know how long can I continue to do this… sigh. But what else can I do anyway? Meh.
Hadn’t been playing any PC games lately. Was so addicted to Crusaders Quest for the past couple of months, and now that I’m gonna quit that game (I just haven’t uninstall it), I’m suddenly at a loss what to do. Yeah I have some games in Steam that I haven’t touch (Bastion is one… it’s just sitting there in my Steam library), some games that I wanna replay (oh Neverwinter Nights, how much I’ve missed you), some old games that I’ve just bought (hi, Arcanum~), and some games that I’m waiting for DRM-free version before I buy (oh yes, I’m looking at you, Grim Dawn). So, we’ll see just what I’ll play this weekend. Hurhur.
「用心」去愛
每個人看見愛的時間，都不會一樣；每個人決定投入一段感情的時間點，也不盡相同。妳好像比較早喜歡他──奇妙的是這世界妳越是喜歡的人，妳喜歡他的時間點，往往都會發生得比他喜歡妳的時間早。但是那沒有關係，妳不會計較這個，妳只要他後來也剛剛好喜歡妳就好。
妳用心觀察他的一切，妳很早就知道，他喜歡吃什麼東西？喜歡穿什麼衣服？而且妳一旦知道了，就很難會忘記。妳認為女生本來就比男生細心，所以在交往後，妳也只會跟他計較大的事情：可能是幾個對你們來說很重要的日子、可能是大多數的情侶們都應該會有的表示。妳不想做那個總是要用技巧提醒他的人，因為妳從來沒有想過愛需要那麼多技巧，妳心目中的「愛」就是當妳很喜歡一個人，就會很直接地想要對對方好。
妳從沒想到的，是他後來會習慣妳對他的好，習慣妳對他的退讓。妳一直以為當妳對一個人好，如果他接受了，那應該就是一個開始。於是，妳在那個開始裡等著，妳不知道自己在等什麼？也許妳在等的是一種溫暖的感覺，妳沒有要他全數回報，妳只希望他偶爾也能夠讓妳知道，其實妳所做的一切，他都明白。後來，反而是妳懂了，妳之所以一直沒有等到那個感謝的擁抱，並不是因為他不知道，而是他一但承認自己知道了，那他就要還──不是所有跟妳談愛的人，都想要償還妳曾經對他的感情；不是所有跟妳談愛的人，都願意像妳那麼勇敢地想為將來而努力。
所以，我們才可以看見那些人，竟然可以在我們的傷心裡，最後還那麼無所謂的走開，彷彿那一切都不曾發生……妳這也才他離去的背影裡看懂了，一個從來就不曾付出的人，本來就不曾失去，當然更不會懂妳的遺憾和可惜。
終於，妳開始整理自己的感情，那是妳從愛上他開始，就逐漸混亂的感情。妳發現感情本來就應該很簡單，跟性別無關、跟細心無關，感情只跟「心」有關，那是當你真的很愛一個人，就會把他放在心底；也只有當你把一個人真的放在心底，你才能真正「用心」去愛他。
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Small update!
Two more days to Hong Kong trip with parents! And I haven’t even start packing my luggage yet, damn.
Having my dinner at Percolate now, chilling to the relaxed atmosphere while watching the rain pouring outside… It’s kinda therapeutic, to be honest.
Haven’t been updating this blog for awhile… But then again there’s nothing much to write about anyway. Nowadays I’m just meeting up with Bruno every now and then, for dinner after work, and on some Saturdays. It’s always nice hanging out with him – no pressure, no expectations, no nothing. Just two relaxed souls, with not much problems going anywhere and everywhere. We kinda share the same preference for food too (except that he loves lamb and I don’t), we hate hot weather, we love to walk (though he needs to rest pretty often), and we have somewhat similar interests. We talked about everything and anything… There’s really no taboo topics between us. Lol.
I just helped him celebrated his birthday yesterday. We finally tried the salted egg lava croissant at Antoinette, and after that I brought him to S.E.A. Aquarium at RWS. We both hadn’t been there before, so we kinda enjoyed ourselves there. But we both got so exhausted at the end of the day lol. Though I guess that’s a good thing? :3 I’m not the best person to hang out with, but I hope he truly did enjoy himself! :P
I’m just hoping this relatively new friendship will last for a long long time to come, no matter what may happen in between. :)
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以后别做朋友，朋友不能牵手。
想爱你的冲动，我只能笑着带过。
最好的朋友，有些梦不能说出口。。。
就不用承担会失去你的心痛。