I completely forgot to post updates in the blog. Must’ve been the ‘grace period’ of me getting used to living back with my parents. Nothing bad, but I just find it interestingly weird that I feel awkward living here for the first few weeks.Things are better now. I still don’t have my own internet connection at home, so I would have to go to the Cybercafé once in a while to check my mail and stuff. It’s not as bad as I thought it would be.

Oh my. Kids here are playing the oh-so-famous War Craft III: Defense of The Ancients (also known as ‘DOTA’). What interest me is, when I saw the people playing back in Malacca, they just shout in excitement and laugh and stuff. Over here? Well, the kids started bragging about their skills every time they made a kill or survive an assault from another player. What happened next? They started throwing bad words at each other and calling names. There’s once where they started quarreling across the terminals. Imagine this, there’s 3 (three) rows of terminals, and I happened to be in the middle row. The kids are shouting between the leftmost and rightmost rows. The Epilogue? They get together, push each other on the wall and started shouting and calling names. It went on for about 10 minutes, before the Cyber Café’s attendance shove the kids out of the cafe.

This reminds me of the article about a ‘Live PK’ incident that happened in Korea. ‘PK’ generally stands for ‘Player Kill(ing)’, which refers to the act of killing an opponent’s virtual character. In this particular incident, a geek (nerd?) played a character of an online game and he killed a group of people, who turned mad, and drive to the Cybercafé he’s at, drag him into the toilet and bash his head on the toilet bowl. Nobody died, but the kid is hurt.

Where was I? Oh yeah, back to the story of JB. JB have changed since the last five years I actually explored it. Well it isn’t significant but you can notice some of those. Anyways, I followed my dad, he needs to run an errand at the City Square (a shopping complex/office btw). So while he is waiting at one place for his stuff, I went exploring the area (looking for a PC shop, just to see what’s on offer, as always). After walking a whole circle, I found an entry to a so-called ‘Cyber Zone’ - with an icon of a robot.

The area have weird lighting, darkish feeling. As I entered the zone, first thing I saw is a rainbow-colored shop selling t-shirts, pants, basically fashion stuff. I walked further in. More fashion stuff. “Cyber Zone = clothes? o.O” I thought. Then I came across this tattoo station. They have lots of nice designs, can accept custom ones too. I walked around and keep seeing fashion shops here and there. There’s even one shop that sells only panties. Yep, no bras even, it’s sort of like THE panties shop. Funny, I know fashion can be funky in the cyber world, but is this ‘Cyber Zone’ only full of fashion things? o.O.

Only after I reached the end, the last 4 shops are the ones that don’t even sell any clothes at all - three of them are PC shops (yay!) and another one is a console game shop. Saw my dream XDA IIi on display there. Going to get that one (or similar kind of device). I just want to carry one multifunction device, rather than carrying one PDA, one Phone, one MP3 player, one Digital Camera into my pockets (EW!).

Oh look. I’ve got more time to write about stuff now that I’m offline. Ha-ha! Yep you’re right; I typed this at home and bring it here. The Cyber Café’s aircond is too cold; it always numbs my fingers over there. So it’s harder to type. Plus I’ll be busy chatting anyways :p

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