Wednesday, March 08, 2006
i came to vancouver to learn how to play DOTA
first off, i apologize to people who have sent me emails over the past few days. i know i haven't been replying. i wish i could say tt i was swamped with work, but truth be told... i was just busy engaging in vice. so yeah. not tt much of an excuse. but i'll get back to the emails asap.
anyway the past 2 days have been strange. in fact, i wouldn't call them days. i'd call them nights. coz i'd done the whole "wake up for dinner and sleep after breakfast" vampiric routine.
it started off from sunday. after a really lousy rest on saturday night i was in a state of half-asleep/half-awake till at least 6pm on sun night. and ben who had gone to the casino on sat night, had woken up around tt time, and since we hadn't yet had dinner, diana and i decided to join him at the chinese restaurant.
after tt, we came back to totem so tt ben could lend his old laptop to boon ping who wanted to do his assignment and play DOTA (for the uninitiated: warcraft - defence of the ancients) on it. boon ping happened to be in kelvin's room, and kelvin happened to be playing a round of DOTA with siang sheng and mu shi when we went to pass the laptop to him. so i watched tt game and i found it really intriguing (plus it reminded me of the days long long LONG ago when i played warcraft (version 1) and dune), so i was quite gian to try it.
plus i wasn't sleepy either. so after leaving kelvin's place, i asked ben where i could get the game from so tt i could try it out. he took me v seriously. in fact, i ended up bringing my laptop over to his place so tt he could help me install the software. and then to test it out and to teach me, he got kelvin and boon ping to play 1 round of the game with us so tt i could get used to my character, the crystal maiden. but of course, as a complete newbie i still have no idea how the controls work, what commands do what, what items to buy and why etc.
we ended tt game around 1.45am. upon which ben said tt he was hungry. so we decided to walk out to mac's for supper. but mac's was CLOSED, so we ended up taking a cab to the tim horton's out of ubc on broadway and willow.
we were just chatting there for an hour or so, but we were getting bored and we didn't want to pay another $20 for the cab fare back. so we went to ben's #1 fave place now - the casino.
spend about 3 over hours there watching him play blackjack till the casino closed at 6am. then it was back to tim horton's, this time for breakfast, and then on to catch the 99 b-line back to ubc.
but we STILL weren't sleepy. and it so happened when i went back to fairview to get my things, tt ben's friends in singapore were awake.
so it was 2 more rounds of DOTA - with me as an incredibly good feed - till around 11 am. and tt was when i went to sleep.
woke up at 7pm on monday night. in time to meet ben for dinner after his class (he had 2 on mon; he overslept the first and woke up for the second. i skipped my only class to zzz). after tt we decided tt we had to be hardworking and actually STUDY, so he came over to totem in an attempt to find a place to study.
we settled in the study room ("the twilight zone") in the basement of dene house for around 2 hours. it was productive for a while, but not for too long. coz of the lack of internet connection. finally out of boredom we went upstairs to ka cheow diana around midnight. she was watching garden state in her room.
so coz i really love tt show and wanted to watch it again, we watched it again.
the show ended close to 2am again. we thus decided tt we would leave poor diana to catch some sleep and head back to ben's place to attempt to study further.
our good intentions lasted until the moment we logged onto msn. and then his friends were online and they asked us to play DOTA.
and so we played another 3 rounds of DOTA. with me doing everything wrong like not being able to kill any heroes, feeding like crazy, not knowing when my teammates are talking to me, and accidentally destroying this treasure box worth 5000 points.
which got ben's friend so mad with me tt he spent one round continually killing my character.
but yeah, tt aside. but the time we were finished with DOTA it was 9am.
time for mac's breakfast, and then for me to go back to totem to do my laundry and prepare for my fundamentalism class at 2.30pm.
not gonna sleep in these few hours, so tt i can get a good rest tonight before we go snowboarding tomorrow at cypress. maybe i'll practice my DOTA against the computer again. :)
now playing: hotel costes - cafe de flor
anyway the past 2 days have been strange. in fact, i wouldn't call them days. i'd call them nights. coz i'd done the whole "wake up for dinner and sleep after breakfast" vampiric routine.
it started off from sunday. after a really lousy rest on saturday night i was in a state of half-asleep/half-awake till at least 6pm on sun night. and ben who had gone to the casino on sat night, had woken up around tt time, and since we hadn't yet had dinner, diana and i decided to join him at the chinese restaurant.
after tt, we came back to totem so tt ben could lend his old laptop to boon ping who wanted to do his assignment and play DOTA (for the uninitiated: warcraft - defence of the ancients) on it. boon ping happened to be in kelvin's room, and kelvin happened to be playing a round of DOTA with siang sheng and mu shi when we went to pass the laptop to him. so i watched tt game and i found it really intriguing (plus it reminded me of the days long long LONG ago when i played warcraft (version 1) and dune), so i was quite gian to try it.
plus i wasn't sleepy either. so after leaving kelvin's place, i asked ben where i could get the game from so tt i could try it out. he took me v seriously. in fact, i ended up bringing my laptop over to his place so tt he could help me install the software. and then to test it out and to teach me, he got kelvin and boon ping to play 1 round of the game with us so tt i could get used to my character, the crystal maiden. but of course, as a complete newbie i still have no idea how the controls work, what commands do what, what items to buy and why etc.
we ended tt game around 1.45am. upon which ben said tt he was hungry. so we decided to walk out to mac's for supper. but mac's was CLOSED, so we ended up taking a cab to the tim horton's out of ubc on broadway and willow.
we were just chatting there for an hour or so, but we were getting bored and we didn't want to pay another $20 for the cab fare back. so we went to ben's #1 fave place now - the casino.
spend about 3 over hours there watching him play blackjack till the casino closed at 6am. then it was back to tim horton's, this time for breakfast, and then on to catch the 99 b-line back to ubc.
but we STILL weren't sleepy. and it so happened when i went back to fairview to get my things, tt ben's friends in singapore were awake.
so it was 2 more rounds of DOTA - with me as an incredibly good feed - till around 11 am. and tt was when i went to sleep.
woke up at 7pm on monday night. in time to meet ben for dinner after his class (he had 2 on mon; he overslept the first and woke up for the second. i skipped my only class to zzz). after tt we decided tt we had to be hardworking and actually STUDY, so he came over to totem in an attempt to find a place to study.
we settled in the study room ("the twilight zone") in the basement of dene house for around 2 hours. it was productive for a while, but not for too long. coz of the lack of internet connection. finally out of boredom we went upstairs to ka cheow diana around midnight. she was watching garden state in her room.
so coz i really love tt show and wanted to watch it again, we watched it again.
the show ended close to 2am again. we thus decided tt we would leave poor diana to catch some sleep and head back to ben's place to attempt to study further.
our good intentions lasted until the moment we logged onto msn. and then his friends were online and they asked us to play DOTA.
and so we played another 3 rounds of DOTA. with me doing everything wrong like not being able to kill any heroes, feeding like crazy, not knowing when my teammates are talking to me, and accidentally destroying this treasure box worth 5000 points.
which got ben's friend so mad with me tt he spent one round continually killing my character.
but yeah, tt aside. but the time we were finished with DOTA it was 9am.
time for mac's breakfast, and then for me to go back to totem to do my laundry and prepare for my fundamentalism class at 2.30pm.
not gonna sleep in these few hours, so tt i can get a good rest tonight before we go snowboarding tomorrow at cypress. maybe i'll practice my DOTA against the computer again. :)
# posted by Kitana @ 3/08/2006 02:44:00 AM 
