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Since last Wednesday midnight/Thursday morning I’ve been hooked to an online game – CabalSEA. It all started innocuously when Ding and I were at Jon’s house playing DotA, and seeing Jon playing it, we were like “Let’s give it a try”. (And indirectly converted Matt, my collegemate, into a CabalSEA addict when he read my blog about it and tried it out.)

I didn’t think it’d have that much of an impact on me – I used to play online games religiously over my high school years, but not as much as now methinks. I’m actually using all of my available free time to be engaged in this game, and I guess it’s partly influenced by the competitive spirit of wanting to stay in par in terms of levels with Jon, and Ding the No Life (who has still yet to resume college thus has tons of hours in his hands).

Fast forward a week later, we have already bypassed Jon who started the game 2 weeks before us – that shows how much we actually played hahaha. I’ve also been developing a myriad of strategies to keep my life in check and balance considering how I have college, a Chinese class, and a Japanese class, and now this online game comes into my life.

My character fighting a Dummy, click to enlarge.

Strategies include purchasing a ‘Premium’ package that lasts for 30 days that allows usage of in-game Dummies to level up skills while AFK-ing – Ding and I both purchased it for about RM60, justifying it by saying “It’s not like we play online games all the time…”.

In fact, I was so hooked that if you realised, the length of time between my previous entry and the post before that was 5 whole days, which is too long by my standards. I didn’t blog as I was playing the game all the time. >.>

But in all seriousness, despite my current addiction to this game (which I’m having fun with playing with my friends), it made me realise how excellent my time management skills are. I still complete my college homework in time (at twice the speed), I still continue to blog (while still playing the game by attacking Dummies while AFK-ing wtf), and I actually still eat and sleep okkk.

It’s just that my routine has changed a little – I wake up fairly early when I have no classes in the morning just to indulge myself in the game. And I still have my social life – I still go out for movies, yumcha, etc.

Speaking of movies, I watched Awake last Saturday night with Andy, Ding, and Fang Chyuan, and it was the scariest movie I’ve ever watched. T_____T It’s not even the usual ghost-horror film, but a medical thriller that documents how a heart transplant patient was administered general anaesthesia, felt his entire body “sleeping” but his mind was completely awake. That essentially means.. that when surgeons were cutting him up, he feels every minute of the pain acutely.

That, is horror in the purest sense for me. And of course the scariest part was that the phenomenon isn’t fictional, it’s real and has been publicised in newspapers. And it’s scary for me because I MIGHT be opting for GA to remove my wisdom tooth (teeth), and I need not tell you that I’m somewhat phobic of pain.

But my wisdom tooth isn’t aching anymore, and I hope that is enough to justify that I don’t need to remove it.