January Recap of being back in Subang

In unchronological point forms, this is what I’ve done this month ever since I returned from Melbourne and Brunei:

– met up with the u8 gang at two Friday night mamak sessions at Tanjung. The first on the 15th was a small group with Jon, Ding, and Wai Hong (where we eventually returned to Jon’s house, played Left 4 Dead 2 on his laptop briefly with his new 40” TV as the monitor, and watched some HD movies like Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete and Kungfu Panda), while the second (on the 22nd) was with a much larger group that it spanned three tables, with Andy, Sarah, Geok Leng, Jean Hwei, Shawn, Ding (who picked me up), Wai Hong, Esther, and Tony in the picture.

– Bought a 23” Acer H233H widescreen LCD monitor (in full 1080p HD too!) at the USJ 19 Digital Mall for RM660 on Sunday the January 17th.

– I’m really digging the PS3 that my bro bought in my absence (with my money too I may add wtf). Thus far I’ve only been playing games purchased and downloaded from the PSN (Playstation Network), partly because they’re bite-sized games, and partly because the other two games my bro has purchased (Metal Gear Solid 4 and Grand Theft Auto 4) were from a series I’ve yet to play. But Flower and flOw (which I managed to download for free, thanks to a good online friend of mine (from our old RO days), Shearn, who lent me his account) are exquisite, serene games. I’d even venture that Flower, a beautifully rendered game whose sole goal is to guide a flower petal towards its goal, has a certain degree of emotion sheathing it whole.

– In order to rectify the situation of not having played a single game in the MGS series, I briefly contemplated reading plot summaries off Wikipedia for the first three Metal Gear Solid games, but taking the advice from both Matt and my brother, I chose to start playing from MGS1, which my brother has conveniently downloaded from the PSN into our PS3. I finished the game in two days last week, and finished MGS2 on our PS2 in the span of two days: on Thursday I played for about 5 hours, while Friday saw me hooked to it for nearly 12 hours wtf. Words are hard to describe the intricate universe of the Metal Gear Solid series, which involved strings of conspiracies involving the American government, Russia, a nuclear fallout, etc. As I type now, I’ve only begun Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, and I’m slowly getting the hang of it, even though I had thought these stealth games in the series would be incredibly difficult to get into.

– I only have three subjects in my final semester: Introduction to Organisational Behaviour, Risk Management, and Management Accounting—the latter is an elective which I took on the advice from scholarship arch-enemy Ho Sheng, who told me (as well as Estee) that you won’t actually learn anything of practical use from my other elective of choice, Small Business and the Accountant.

– Shawn, Ding, and Wai Hong came to my house for a short while last Saturday to check out my PS3, and then we went to FTZ for more L4D2 gaming goodness, with Jon and his friend as well.

– During our 2nd Tanjung mamak session, we discovered how about 6-7 of the attendees would actually be graduating sometime in the middle of this year. Sarah herself has already graduated and she’s looking for a job herself.. and it’s a prospect I’m not looking forward to.

– For some reason, I don’t really feel like blogging these days.