Zephrius, Aventures d'un joueur d'élite

Everyone’s getting their 3 chevrons soon, whereas we have just arrived back at camp for further training. We have 3 more months to endure through before we can don that jungle hat and have people call us sergeants.  Our stay at Lim Chu Kang Camp was plesant, if not fantastic. We practically spend half the day in the bunk playing our PSPs and DS’s, not to mention going to the caterer to order a dozen of beer and some hella oily food. Of course, I’m disciplined enough to not indulge in food – especially supper – but beer is different. Beer is good, beer makes you high and takes you to places you never imagined before.

Ok.. anyway I’ve really let this place to rot, basically been going out every other weekend meeting the usual people. IDK how many times Ive met Josh and Terry this year already, but it’s a lot. I haven’t been playing all that much WoW, the fever has died down again since I’ve more or less reached my goal there, plus some of my in game friends aren’t playing anymore. I’ve been playing Yakuza 3 on the other hand, which is a great; if not one of the best Japanese games I’ve played in a damn long time. It’s a brawler-esque RPG with all that blood and gore  you’ll ever need, one can call it the “Japanese Grand Theft Auto without the vehicles”. It fills all the nooks and crannies well, you can say that it’s a modern day Japanese soap opera with the typical violence you’d expect from any Yakuza game on one hand and a touching back story on the other. The attention to detail of the in game environment is amazing, walking along the streets of Kamurocho and Okinawa greatly reminds me of my times in Tokyo – all the convenience stores, vending machines, neon lights and street structure. It’s all lovingly done to capture the real Japanese feel. Definitely a must have for anyone who owns a PS3 and wants to try something different for once.

That’s it for my little review. I’m on my way to downloading a *cough* hacked SC2 beta. I’ve actually already played it on my night’s out at a LAN shop. I brought the guys over to Al-Azhar at Bukit TImah for dinner, followed by some LAN gaming before returning to camp. That was after our first day of IV practical. Man, I don’t really want to talk about it already, I’ve been poked 4 times and poked 6 times. I failed a lot on my second day and more more was spilled than usual. I pray that I don’t have to do that shit anymore, having a yakult straw sized needle squirm in your body doesn’t feel good, plus it hurts. Bad.

Hmm, it’s been awhile. 3 weeks into the bike course and I think that I can ride better than drive a car. I wasn’t even able to do figure of 8’s on a bicycle 3 weeks ago but I can do it on a bike now, plus ride all bad ass-like now. Surely, I’ve had my share of falls, but they aren’t major nor did they hurt. The thing is that if you go too slow, you’ll fall; and if you go too fast, you might bang into something.

For the record, I still have not finished Final Fantasy 13 yet, neither have I opened my copy of Resonance of Fate, which I got 2 weeks ago. Instead, I’ve been playing a lot of WoW, like a shit load. I’ve managed to find passion in healing with my shaman and am actually gearing him up at a steady space as I write this.

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I know I haven’t been blogging in a damn long time but I seem to be drifting towards this once-a-month policy. There’s nothing to be said about army life, especially with the amount of security clearance for my current unit. It’s my 3rd week here in 2 SIB, life’s definitely really slack when it’s time to play, but when it’s time to work, things can get pretty tough.

We had our fair share of “peanut butter”, or rather, takan sessions. Being a recce commander ain’t an easy job at all, and I have doubts on whether I’m able to finish the course. On the welfare side, we’ve had 7 night’s out so far, this is for all the people who laughed at me when they heard I was going to recce..

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