Resolution fulfilled on the 20th of January 2010 (around 1+am)!

Some screenshots I took:



My guildmate was urging me to level on a Saturday instead, cuz I would be flooded with many pms from people and more megas. But I didn't want to because I just wanted to level asap haha.

Of course many thanks to everyone who had been a part of my maplestory journey to 200 - my dear bf, Jo, maria, the whole guild DesTInyZ which I've joined for close to 2 years and all the buddies who have trained with me thus far. And especially to my dear bf because he actually logged in and trained with me for close to 6-7 hours straight for my last level when he doesn't really play anymore <3

Indeed, it takes a lot of effort to reach 200. Throughout my 4 years of playing this online game, I've met with many ups and downs. There was indeed a period of my introvert-ness and addiction especially when I entered university and had "a lot of free time". It takes a lot to keep going despite everyone around me getting negative with me playing the game because I was too addicted and didn't keep up with my responsibilities in real life. (not in a gd way btw) It had caused friction in my relationships with my family and my bf at some point of time.

Looking back, I do dearly regret for getting so addicted with this game. Sometimes I regret at my money spent on the game, but sometimes I don't because if I didn't I would have done it anyway. On the bright side, it really did bring gaming satisfaction compared to despairing over the slow rate my exp bar was filling up. Definitely I regret shunning from my work and social life playing this game. But I never regretted playing maplestory, ever.

Let's face it. This game is virtual, it's a bunch of worthless pixels that are not worth sacrificing reality over. That I do agree, but I don't believe that abstaining from playing it is the "model" way to go. The people behind the screens that we make friends with, the emotions that we experience and the interactions we experience, they are all REAL. People can cry, laugh, fall in love, forge such strong friendships that transcend the boundaries of a virtual world. I have met up with my guildmates on several occasions, and they are a bunch of people just as normal as you and me, except that we play maplestory and you probably don't. (though my bf always thinks that they must definitely be all fat) Of that, I truely appreciated the values of having met some people who have gained my respect and learnt from in terms of values, views in life and their character.

Values? Maybe one may scoff at how maplestory would be able to do that. But it's true. Although it's a virtual world, morals over how we should act and behave bind as just as reality would. I have learnt how to be more tactful towards people in situations that I had never experienced before, be more outgoing, be kinder to others, and I got advice from adults regarding certain aspects of life. It's kind of brief, but I find it hard to describe just how much there was to gain. I won't say that maplestory is a great platform that everyone should go for because they will become a better person, because it depends on the individual. I happened to be lucky because I was introduced into a dependable guild that was mostly filled with adult players. Even though people comment that maplestory is filled with childish players (that are really kids) and that the community sucked, I always had my guild with me to not be like them but I never had the discipline that they had :'(

In the end though, taking a leaf from many of my guildmates, I took a hiatus from the game last sem because I didn't want to bring down my grades. Resetted my priorities in life and that sem went well (for once in my uni life). It was a hard lesson learnt, seeing my cap like this but I'm glad of my self improvement. So thus I learnt that if you have discipline, it's ok to play every once in a while - the hard way. I always knew that, but it was until I experienced a fall that I truely learnt.

Surprisingly though, quitting from the game for half a year had cured that itch to click and play maplestory every single time I'm free. It's only when I have nothing to do that I click on maplestory now, and even online I just leave my character there, afking. Even if I don't go onto maple, it doesn't feel like anything because I probably got used to not playing maple during my hiatus. In a sense it feels great to break free of this bind. Except for the promise that I made to people that I would attend some boss events regularly (else I would get kicked out), I could always go out freely and enjoy myself. And of course, being 200 now means that I have no reason to train ahha. (not that I want to, a bit sick of it) Now I mostly just farm a little money and logoff, or do my quests.

So more or less that ends my maplestory endless training. Of course I would still login to chat with my buddies, play a little here and there and attain those small goals that I set years back when I was still dreaming of being 200. Definitely won't sell my account. I believe I said it last year that it is a stupid move, and I think it still is. My character is mine and I don't believe anyone should claim her with just the mere offer of money.

There may be a day where maplestory closes down, or that I quit but I would always remember this experience in my life. Maybe when I have a child, I can show him/her this blog post of mine to tell him/her just how much I had gamed and what resulted. Good learning experience for him/her haha.

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http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/960/960334p1.html

I'm quite impressed with the outcome actually. Moving bosses is quite an ideal solution to making boss fights exciting!

It's really got players hyped over it. How long it lasts though, time will tell.

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woots happy 19th birthday!!!! haha.

today woke up at 11.45 and realised i need to arrive at jjc by 12.15pm. so obviously i was very late but luckily, the bus was oso late haha so i was kinda saved.

anyways today was the last day jjc badminton guys were gonna play. yeah we were booted out of the competition this year, no surprises. today versus TJC which was oso booted out so i dun really think there's much to fight for, eventually everyone cant continue. so sad.

and we lost 4-1, somehow i was rather... hmmmmmm. maybe its because our morale was rather down so we didnt play as well or something. or because the linesup sounded so screwed up(they put singles as doubles and vv) but hey, who cares? TJC did the exact same thing but they had better players, bleh.

i was focusing on the RJC vs MJC match mostly and it was rather boring. can tell that, even if they were the top two, MJC is still no match for RJC if they ever meet in the finals. hohoho. strike that attitude behaviour off them!!! GOOD. even their doubles oso couldnt win even though they tried. awwwww.

lately having some problems with my shoulder when i play badminton. i recently took it up again at the insistence of my former coach and since then im having loads of pain at my right shoulder. today when i played with xiaojun my bone just felt like it was jerked friggin hard (and i had muscle ache at that time too) and i was really in great pain cuz it felt like my shoulder dislocated. ouch. maybe i should go see those er... "tie da" doctor.(i duno wads that in english, cant rmbr) until now, its much better but still there's a swollen or sour i duno how to descibe, feeling. maybe its just muscle ache now. but i rmbr whenever i start to play badminton, i will get this problem, especially when i have not played for quite awhile. any ideas wads happening?? o.o

anyway everything wrapped up and we waited almost 1 hour for the stupid bus to pick us up from tampanies sports hall. later reached sch, and ran to the hall to play a little badminton. unfortunately when we arrived there was a power trip in the hall=.= then cant really see the shuttle. zzz. anyway things have really improved much since ive graduated, kinda envious. for one, there is now a badminton RECREATIONAL club. so cool. i rmbr last year(j2) pple requested for it but mr seah rejected the idea=X anyway i think they come and play during every friday or something. its kinda nice to see people getting so interested in badminton cuz as u know, jjc badminton team doesnt have that many people to join so it looks as though there's very little support. hahaha.

oh and one good news. bikila house is the champ for this year's sports meet!!! WOOTS!! 2nd bannister, and the 3rd was owens or rono, cant rmbr, and vv. so there =D i heard the last house got like only 91 points or something, poor thing lol.

after whacking a little headed to jp for our badminton dinner. sadly many couldnt make it and it ended up with me, xj, ph, yl and rishil. huai an was the organiser and in the end he cant make it?! ridiculous. heard he couldnt book out on friday cuz of his sergeant or something. lol. so sian. anyway we ate at swensons! wheeee my favourite curry baked rice! XD

while eating i saw someone familiar.. and who but our birthday boy jie sheng lololololol!!!! i was damn shocked cuz earlier nc sms me if i wan to go celebrate together, but i told her i have my badminton dinner. then we ended up eating in the same restaurant and we didnt see each other until jie sheng walked pass. hahhahaa wad a coincidence!XD

came home at 10.45pm when my 2X started at 10 already. zzz 45 mins wasted. anyway now im lvl 95 and somehow a little sian today. maybe cuz i didnt have anyone to talk to while i trained and also because i was in a bad mood. finally sold the green scarab for 10M (finally have money to finance my pot consumption), so happy ^^ im planning to train till 100, and take a short break from monglong cuz its really straining my mesos X_X im really broke from training there. i wish my com didnt lag so much.

so many things that i want to do on sat.. hmmm.

Labels: badminton, maple life, updates

ok finally edited the links, thanks CC XD wah lao i stared at that part and really went through all the stuff but i just couldnt find that missing part. zzz.

next thing, ive been mapling like a manic these days. those who plays maple too will oso know. and lately ive been going into a lvl 2 times a day in 4 hours mode so im really tired.

now im lvl 91, and one more lvl to pyogo!!!!! motivation motivation!!

just an observation, but one day i passed by SMU and the bustop in front of it actually pasted NTU advertisements. sounds really IN THEIR FACE or something. LOL.

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woo hoo i finally lvled my dear's bowman!!!!! but i duno how to up the stats and the skill points =.= so i leave it to him to tell me when he books out. the bowman drains all my hp and mp pots like crazy at FOG but the exp is too good to let out. i hope the mesos dun fly away....

anyway for safety's sake i bought a safety charm using 1k cash (with his money=.=) dun blame me k... later die 10% lost again i will delete this character i tell u. (ok just joking..)

today i watched a movie with my badminton mates. before that we had a badminton session at je sports hall and finally i sweated at least ONCE in the month of april through a physical workout! woo hoo! played 3 matches and was too lazy to play more though.. lol.

we watched this movie called "Shooter". last time when my sister watched it with her boyfriend, she complained so much abt it that i got a bad impression of it, but too bad Huai An watched "Meet the Robinsons" earlier (dammit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and i hated horror shows(i abstain from it as much as possible now) so left shooter and the guys didnt like the idea of the movie "Sunshine" cuz it was a fucking stupid impossible fictionous show with monsters sprouting out when the bomb exploded due to a survivor of the previous mission that mutated or something (as described by Benny) so we went for Shooter!!!

anyway the show was pretty good i thought, worth the 8 bucks (cuz of the safra card yl had) for a longggggg 2 hours and 20 mins. plot's quite like the bond something movie that i watched last time (not james bond mind u) but for me it was pretty exciting in a way although u knew wad was going to happen. duh. ok just say i like it. wonder wad crossed my sister's mind to degrade it until it sounded like a bore lol.

today my dear called but i was watching the movie T_T so we didnt talk for long, could only whisper "im watching this show called Shooter" for like 5 times cuz he cant hear me, "ooooo exciting part exciting part!!!"... something liddat. thats how the conversation went lol. nvm he will call me again tmr ^^

12 more days=)

Labels: maple life, movies

FUCK. i was training my dear's bowman late into the night and finally hit 70% so i wanted to quit the pt already. anyway i was grateful to the sniper who helped me clear lane 1 for like 3 times (very paiseh=.=) so i wanted to thank them for having me here. it goes like this

susumuaura: hey i gtg thanks for having me here.
at this pt i wanted to say gd luck in lvling, and suddenly a fucking stone golem just sprouted on me cutting 300 hp off and leaving another 300 plus.

*stares in shock thinking, shit im gonna die*
thats when i started to react but i wasn't in time. and the stupid tombstone fell and 10% GONE GONE GONE GONE GONE!!!!!!!!! URGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

now i have 60% only all thanks to wanting to thank someone else. maybe its because its friday the 13th. dammit! grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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whee my dear called me again tonight XD apparently they dun train when it rains, so good nia but he's bored cuz they got to clean up stuff or something. lol.

13 more days to go...

Labels: boyfriends and BMT, maple life

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