Isolation From The Internet Computer

Thanks to my motherboard - which was 75% confirmed as the main culprit of my signal-lost drives, I was finally able to enjoy the other part of my life better.

The "other part" of my life?

Uh, I don't really think so - I think I should use the term "my actual life".

Well, I've just looked back to my past and realized that I'm literally "living in a virtual world". The MSN me isn't like the real me. The blogger me is one hell more mature than the real me (Is it?). The gamer me is more commanding, more decisive than the real me.

And where does that lead me to?

Multiple personalities?

Probably, but my point is something more minor - Constantly relying on my computer.

Whenever I have free time, I wouldn't be thinking "Hmm, what new skill should I learn today?", no, I wouldn't be thinking around those lines. Instead, whenever I have free time, my first destination would be my computer.

My computer was my way of relaxation.
My computer was my source of merriment.
My computer was my method of communication.
My computer was 75% of my daily life.

I bet that 75% of my daily life in front of a computer accounts for my saintly myopia degree.

Uhh..

Left : -8.00
Right : -8.75

Well, I used to argue that my high leveled short-sightedness was mainly due to family heritage - my brother and sister have powers of -6.00 and above too. But it seems that it isn't - entirely - true.

I have the highest degree of short-sightedness in my family.

Oh geez, this comes from a teenage boy who had his first experience using a computer since the age of 4, Yahoo! mail since age 5, and my first pair of spectacles before I even entered preschool. Weirdly, I still remember my first way of holding a mouse, and my first game I played in my computer - Counter Strike beta 7.

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[Walks away from the topic]

Now.. Here I come ranting about my computer history.

I've always been "home-trained". That is, I've never ever been in a cybercafe - no matter how absurd that sounds. But trust me, I've never entered one before.

How do I train up my gaming skills then?

Huh?

Firstly, I have friends who're patient enough to help me, training me up as a "gamer".

So - A lotta thanks to fat404 firstly. My DotA experiences and lessons came mostly from him (And his blog). Strategy-planning, skill-building, stuff. He played a great role as a team-leader and a player too.

Coming next - arc. He's my brother - who introduced games to me (As I never bothered to download games myself), and "provoked" me to be more skilled in some games more than him. I've been (Pardon me for the lack of modesty) training hard to beat him in every game possible - CoD4, DotA, O2Jam, NFS, etc.

Of course - fatty87. The one who owns mp_creek in CoD4. He was the one who brought up my CoD4 skills, training up my reflexes etc.

And of course, something to take note of - the three guys above are not the same age as I am. They're, to be precise - 6 years older than me.

Till now, no one from the same age as I am had been able to "train up" my skills at a specific game. They're all more interested in playing MMORPG games, which I dislike since mid-2008.

"Home-trained" - it applies to mostly everything I have in my computer. Simple programming, PhotoShopping, computer performance-optimizing, etc. I still remember the time when my sister and brother went to "Informatics" to take Visual Basic C++ trainings, and I was the little brother who stayed at home to leech their lessons. Java, C++.. I have books left by them in my keeping. PhotoShop was a little bit different though. As no one in my family used PhotoShop before - I had to resort to the way I preferred the most. Self-learning. It was undeniably hard at first, with all those weird tools and things, but.. as my personal adage goes - "The more you know it, the more you'll love it". A pioneer in my family to start using PhotoShop? Dream on.

Who says that a gamer must have entered a cybercafe before?
Who says that PhotoShop must be learnt using a handbook or manual?
Says who?

I'm proving them wrong.

[End of off-topic]

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I guess I've been spending way too much time on the computer.
I think I need more fresh air.
I decided that I need to try more new things in real-life.
I plan to eat real food instead of feasting on my computer electricity.

That's why I planned for some more new things for the Year 2009.

= Have another 90+% in my English paper. (Kinda impossible)
= Learn up a new instrument. (Most likely piano / whichever Chinese instrument)
= Join the choir. (Gawd?!)
= Get a nice position in whichever organization / society I'm joining now. (By nice, I mean something high up)
= Have a frisbee pickup at least once this year.. (Sounds easy, but its actually hard)

Might probably update this list - with new goals / achieved goals in the future.

Till then. I might not be online much for this year (Or probably only for this few days, XD. See how long could I endure my isolation..)

Cheerio.