Active again

While waiting for the Maple server patch to be finished, I have some time to update this dusty blog with some events and happenings over the past few weeks....

News@Today
Bought PS2 games, FFXII, FFCerebes and Gundam Seed. Had to go down to exchange the faulty ones but the graphics for FFXII blew me away. Its been almost 1.5yrs of not touching PS2 ever since I started Mapling and doing so daily. One thing sad about working life is that you only have enough time for one activity after work; be it reading, sleeping more, mapling or PS2ing.

Mapling-wise, I have reached lvl 104 and still going on strong. Even my pig is reaching 1 yr old soon in another 2 mths time. Now currently trying to get to a billionaire status inside. Oh I learnt one new face which my brother invented

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means Vomit blood, notice the tongue? Haha my sms language and short forms have just lvled.

BadEvent@last2weeks
This happened last week. Collegues went for an e-gaming session as a whole group activity. The game designated for play was CS (counter-strike) And as many would know, I had played that in my JC days about 6-7 yrs ago. Havent touched it in a while. So when the game began, after 10 mins of adjusting, I was able to reach a decent lvl of gameplay. As a chiongster, I just went ahead and killed as many opposition as I could find. Fortunately or unfortunately, I used my name and was the No 2 fragger. And those whom died under my gun were collegues, many who used presuedo names which I dun know, including the boss. That day itself was quite fun cos we went to a hip and famous lan centre and it was my first time there. The faciliites were great but the rates were quite expensive. And it was fun for me cos I played a game I hadnt touched in a while and it brought back some good memories of killing, also we watched some others playing some cool xbox games. After that session, a few of my collegues hung around and shopped for an hr. Quite okay outing for me.

The aftermath came the next day. The boss in the starting few sentences of the meeting, said something along the line that I was a good shooter from behind, wording it such that there was no mistaking the malice. The boss said something along the line of good at shooting from behind, hope is not a back-stabber in real life. HUH? What has my gameplay got to do with real life back-stabbing? The connection is illogical. One is a reaction & strategy whereas the other is devious planning & personal attack. It caught me very off guard that I had nothing to say but to have a look of disbelief on my face. If it was meant as a joke, it was done in very very bad taste.
The brief smiling-it-off-apology of using me as an example the next day did little to remove the bad taste and mistrust from those words. Am staring to 'see' the real one behind the mask. The actions starts to betray the real face behind the masks. Cos that week, beside being very tiring, was also fraught with enough of such examples. Nvm that I will think about that after the holidays.