Counter-Strike

Met up with a friend for an hour of Counter-Strike in the cyber cafe and I was my normal self as noisy as could be. I just cant contain my emotions, nervousness when being spotted by an enemy I would yelp out in excitement. I love playing LAN games, its either I team up with my friend or I try to kill them, virtually of cos.
There was once, however, I almost killed my friend, literally. Let's call this friend of my 'Pointer'. Pointer would make sure he's playing in the same team as me. If I'm a Counter-Terrorist, he would join me in being a CT. The problem is, times when Pointer gets killed prematurely and starts 'floating' around and watches the game in first person mode, he would track on me and scans the area for my enemies. When he spots an enemy heading my way, Pointer starts coming over to my screen in my face and points out excitedly where the enemy would appear. He would tap on my computer screen exclaiming 'Enemy coming! Enemy coming!'
He doesnt realise he's blocking my view with all that tapping and pointing. When I finally yanked off his fat fingers, enemy had long arrived and next moment I'm lying on the ground with my killer enemy walking over my lifeless body. I wanted so much to club him with my optical mouse.
In another experience, it was a girl friend of mine who was game enough to attempt Counter Strike for the first time in her 23 years of life. We started smoothly from home base, charging towards enemy quarters, someone from my team threw a flash grenade by accident and it blinded everyone tempoarily, my girl friend got all excited, thought it was an attack by the enemy, started sweep-shooting across the area with us being in her fire range. I died while still in home base.
And yet another girl friend of mine, tried out this game also for the first time....nope I didnt die in her hands by similar freak accident. This girl couldnt take the close-up first person view of the gameplay, within minutes she felt sick, dashed to the toilet and vomited. Not long after, we had to go home cos she was too sick to play. I had to drag myself away.
Playing games with fellow friends is like having some kinda relationship with them, sometimes you just wanna kill them but most times you just end up being killed by them.

A Tribute to My Childhood Idol

Posted these pics before quite some time back. But I wanna post it up again.
That's it, I'm popping down the store and see if I could get my hands on the DVDs. If I'm not mistaken, I thought I saw a "Superman" Trilogy being sold. It was retailing at $99.

Man of Steel returned to Dust

My favourite actor passed away. Whenever anyone ask of favourite actors, my peers would have 'Keanu Reeves, Brad Pitt' and the likes. Mine was 'Christopher Reeves' and I remember I was once laughed at for it. B'cos Reeves was not considered the 'IN' thing. Hardly anyone would have seen the few Superman Movies he starred.

But I unashamedly proclaim he was my favourite. I loved the Superman Movies that had him in it. Co-incidentally I happened to update a website of mine with his picture last night. When I was vacationing in Hongkong approx 3weeks ago, I bought "Somewhere In Time" with him starring.

From Superman the Movies to Somewhere In Time, Reeves come across as someone really gentlemanly. His every move and the way he speaks was cultured and calculated. I
t's quite a shock really, died at the age of 52.

Somewhere In Time was a really sad sweet movie. This movie is about experiencing a really passionate moment of your life and then realising you could never have it again. I bought the VCD and watched it after I came back from Hongkong.

To end, I post the lyrics to the soundtrack of Superman, The Movie

Can you read my mind
Do you know what it is that you do to me
I don't know who you are
Just a friend from another star
Here I am like a kid out of school
Holding hands with a god
I'm a fool
Will you look at me
Quivering
Like a little girl
Shivering
You can see right through me
Can you read my mind
Can you picture the things I'm thinking of
Wondering why you are
All the wonderful things you are
You can fly
You belong in the sky
You and I
Could belong to each other
If you need a friend
I'm the one to fly to
If you need to be loved
Here I am
Read my mind