Boring Month of Remedial Training

I am now in the 2nd phase of my RT and having to go to Bedok camp 3 times a week has been quite unbearable. That's training almost every other day. I had fallen sick and was thinking of getting an MC but once again, through the modern miracles of self-medication, I have gotten better myself. Meh.

I realized that it is the fasting month and the Malays in my RT group are all excused from training. They just come here to sit, eat and make merry while everyone else suffers. This was the same thing I encountered last year and now I am convinced they all deliberately signed up for RT during the fasting month to slack. That sucks. A lot.

I noticed a few interesting things in RT this year. Since I don't know anyone, I'm mostly just eavesdropping. There was this NUS guy (either he didn't know fulltime students are exempted from RT or things have changed) who chatted about South Park, WoW and the Odex incident. Then there were these two guys who played Gundam Seed Destiny Vs. on their PSPs. Maybe I should try to find people to register for the same RT schedule as me for next year though it is probably highly unlikely.

The last day of my RT is the 4th of October. I really look forward to that. Fortunately for me, it is near the end of the year and I have not been called up for reservist ICT. I hope I can continue to keep slipping under their radars.

A Little Bit of Reminiscing

These past two weekends had been pretty enjoyable for me. It's mainly because on both Sundays, my RT training was cancelled due to the Army Half Marathon and then again due to open house. The first month of RT will be over soon; one more month to go.

Life has been pretty mundane for me. I just go about my daily routine of work-WoW-sleep, work-WoW-sleep. I decided to be a little different this past few weeks by getting back in touch with my favourite old past-times; video-gaming and card-gaming.

I dropped by at FunZ Centre to shop for games and pick up Brave Story: A New Traveller (I was thinking of watching the movie as well but it seems so obscure and no one bothers to give it a try. haha). It seems like there has been some interesting titles lately among the sea of craptacular games over the past few months. I may not be able to play much anymore but I'll try to squeeze in some game time between work and WoW raiding.

I also drafted Fires of Outland at Toa Payoh with friends. I still prefer AMK's McDonald's with the McCafe but alas, we have to move on. Toa Payoh's not too bad with its massive selection of places to eat but the taxi queues are insane. During the draft, I managed to pull the Spectral Tiger loot card. After a lot of hesitation, I finally decided to redeem it for my own use. It probably would've been more logical to sell it for a hefty sum but the MMO gamer in me told me to keep it. I feel that it looks kinda plain but I did read they were going to improve the look in an upcoming patch.



These past few weeks reminded me of how much I miss playing the WoW TCG. However, I am somewhat miffed that any card game that is not M:TG does not garner much widespread recognition and success on our boring little island. Sure, I see lots of trades and gaming activities going on at Sgcardgames.com but I feel that the community feels a little weak and dispersed (I know that doesn't make much sense but I don't really know how to describe it). Oh, well, I guess so long as there is still official tournament support, I'll keep on playing it as always. I am always looking for a good reason to tear myself away from the computer and get out of the house on weekends.