Too Tired

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Gosh.

I’m just so tired lately.

TCM doc forbade me to drink coffee, but I told her I can’t.  I’d get headaches if I don’t.  Then she gave me this cordyceps powder, which I tried yesterday. Yup, I took it at 11am, and it instantly kinda woke me up and the effects lasted till around 6+pm.  After that it’s just a downwards spiral when the effects ran out.  I was practically a dead zombie at around 8+pm, and I almost wanted to hit the bed at 9pm.  But my hair wasn’t dry yet, so I forced myself to stay up till 10pm, then I couldn’t take it anymore and went to sleep.

So a full 8 hours sleep, yet I still didn’t wake up feeling refreshed.  Geez.

Today I tried the powder again… lesser quantity this time.  Felt a little bit of effect right after I take it, but I started yawning at around 3pm.  In the end, I went for another cup of coffee at 4pm.., Is this coffee addiction or what?!  Argh.  I’m so gonna get scolded again by the doc this Saturday.

On the side note, Manila Major’s coming but somehow I’m not feeling the hype anymore.  I mean, sure I’m looking forward to the trip, but somehow I’m not super excited about the Major.  I wonder why…  maybe I’ll get a little more hyped next week when it really starts.

Or maybe it’s just the Dota withdrawal.  There hasn’t been any proper dota matches to watch these few days as most of the major tier 1 teams were flying / in transit to Manila for the major.  I’ve checked the schedule and it seems like there should be some matches going on tonight, albeit between non-tier 1 teams.  But I guess something is better than nothing!

Ugh, dota 2 and coffee addiction.  Which is worse?!

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ESL One Manila

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Wow.

So, I just spent the whole weekend at home, watching ESL One Manila live stream on Twitch.

And one of the best DotA2 plays that I’ve ever watched, is this, which happened on Saturday:-

Like, wow.  I was only initially being hyped up by Tobi (best hype caster ever), and after the match, I have to re-watch the video, read the reddit explanation line-by-line, and watch the video (many many times) almost frame by frame, to be able to actually understand what happened.

Here’s what’s posted by a fellow reddit member on /r/dota2:

Wow, that looked absolutely amazing. I had very little idea of what exactly happened there. For my own sake, I made a short summary of events – hope it will help you too:

  • 1. Team Secret run onto Spectre
  • 2. Dark Seer vacuums four players from Team Secret
  • 3. Invoker throws double Deafening Blast and Chaos Meteor at Dark Seer and Spectre
  • 4. Enigma uses Black Hole to catch Spectre
  • 5. Rubick steals Black Hole, blinks in, and uses Black Hole on five players from Team Secret
  • 6. Nyx blinks in and stuns the five players caught in the black hole
  • 7. Tidehunter uses ravage on four Empire players just as Enigma is finished off (Empire dead: 0, Team Secret dead: 1)
  • 8. Crystal Maiden gets off full duration Freezing Field on these four players that die almost instantly (Empire dead: 4, Team Secret dead: 1)
  • 9. Spectre, Dark Seer and Nyx buy back
  • 10. Enchantress joins the fight, Spectre uses Haunt, and together they finish off three low Team Secret players as Dark Seer BoTs in onto Spectre, to quickly push up mid (Empire dead: 4, Team Secret dead: 4)

Some things to note:  Green HP Bars – Team Empire (hero lineup consists of Spectre, Dark Seer, Rubick, Nyx Assassin and Enchantress); Red HP Bars – Team Secret (Invoker, Enigma, Tidehunter, Crystal Maiden, Drow Ranger).

So the main and most heart stopping part is where the whole Team Secret caught Ramzee’s Spectre with Black Hole (advantage with Team Secret now), but end up the Black hole got stolen by KingR’s Rubick and ended up the skill being now used on themselves (advantage swing to Empire), and then after Empire’s stuns went off, it’s Team Secret’s turn to stun them with Universe’s Tidehunter Ravage and killed them off with PieLieDie’s Crystal Maiden Freezing Field (advantage swings back to Secret), and then Enchantress came into the foray and picking up/killing the rest of Team Secret with the help of Spectre who bought back (advantage now with Empire as 4/5 of Team Secret dies with no buyback).  All these – happened within that one minute.

Oh geez.  The play.  So hype!

VG.R Mikasa Tribute

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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

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Yes I’m still alive!

Just a quick update:-

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. 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

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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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Wait what?

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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.

 

 

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