Sunday, February 19, 2012
Balance
Finding balance in life would be the ultimate achievement. Being able to cater time and effort for everything equally will mean a certain amount of satisfaction for everyone. Being home, going out. Spending the amount of time we are required to spend, making sure we make do the best we can while spending time.
Yet even as we know all these steps. Balance is so hard to achieve.
I really wonder if I can find balance in this life of mine.
I cannot spend more than a fixed amount of time on this, or that. I would always be told that I shouldn't spend time on things that I enjoy. Doesn't matter if I were to fulfill my responsibilities for specific tasks. At the end of the day, I would have to totally forgo what I enjoy in life.
Take away my responsibilities, even for just a day. When everything has been said and done, the result would always be the same. Why? Why are you always spending time on the wrong things?
I guess I just have to stop doing everything I want to do.
Stop playing soccer, because I can't have lunch together with my family. If I were to limit the time for me to play, I might as well forgo the activity entirely. By the time I were to calculate traveling time and money, it simply would not be worth it.
I should stop meeting friends, because I won't be home. I can't tell my friends to come over every time. Wouldn't they be missing out time with their family members? We can't say that our outing must end at a certain timing. What if we were suppose to finish our outing or activity at maybe 3? Would that mean that I must just stop whatever I was doing and just leave?
I should just stash my consoles and laptops away. Since they don't give me sufficient knowledge on how to make a living in the real world. They make me spend less time with people.
Then I would have more money. Then I would have spend all my time doing the Correct and appropriate thing. And my friends should follow suit, because they should find balance too, or they are bad influences.
Man... I'm just a bad person. Yea. Always thinking for myself. So selfish. Don't deserve anything worthwhile. I must give in and learn to be the role model.
I'm a father now, I have to live a fixed and idealistic lifestyle.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
How Street Fighter made a difference!
Before this, I had absolutely no clue on any fighting games, occasionally after school I would sneak to the arcades and spend a few dollars on mvc2. But all I knew was to mash as hard as I could and hope I would have some spectular skill be activated.
2 years ago I was introduced to Street Fighter 4 by my facilitators in my school. As usual, having no idea of how to play the game, I just took the controller and mashed. I lost, and I lost hard to everyone in class. Especially my facilitators, who were much more experienced than I was. Most of the time, losing continually would make a person think that it would be just a waste of time.
I was ready to just quit and go find something else that would interest me. That is until one day, my close friend opened the command list and told me to try every move. It was hard at first, accidentally jumping when I wanted to do motions for the fireball. Staring at the controller wondering why I could never do the link from mp to another mp with ryu.
But what made me want to put in the effort to learn that game, was doing ultras. In SF4, that was the highlight for me, whenever I could end a match with an ultra, it made my day. Coincidentally, I had picked up smoking awhile before engaging myself in SF4. Street fighter 4 made me smoke less, when my friends went to smoke, I would tell them, "hang on, let me try this combo I saw from youtube".
Although it didn't help me quit, it delayed me and made me think before lighting up.
On my final year in school, we held a mini course tournament among ourselves and our facilitators. It was the first time I actually competed for anything concerning games, and I finished the tournament as the champion. It made me realize that age plays no matter in the world of gaming.I won my facilitators on that day as well. (OH YEA!!!) Age doesn't determine the results, it was the effort and the experience.
Playing Street Fighter has let me meet people that I would never have crossed paths with. I got to play with Xian, my country's top sf player. (It was a quick and swift victory for him. Ha!) I got to meet people from other walks of life, and I would normally keep to myself but because of my love for street fighter I came out of my shell and made some awesome friends.
All these past experiences were great, but the one experience I would never forget was when my wife was having our first child. Every night she would sit beside me and watch me battle for pp and bp online. To the point where, whenever we wanted our baby to move or respond to us while he was still in her stomach, all I had to do was to turn on any sf videos from YouTube. He would always be active whenever I played sf videos.
To others it may just be a video game, but to me, it is and will always be more than just a learning experience. Whenever I feel like I can't achieve something, there will always be someone who tells me...
SHOR-YU-KEN!!!
(Oh I'm from Singapore, but I hope if I do by some stroke of luck get picked, want you guys to know I don't mind paying for any shipment billing or stuff)
2 years ago I was introduced to Street Fighter 4 by my facilitators in my school. As usual, having no idea of how to play the game, I just took the controller and mashed. I lost, and I lost hard to everyone in class. Especially my facilitators, who were much more experienced than I was. Most of the time, losing continually would make a person think that it would be just a waste of time.
I was ready to just quit and go find something else that would interest me. That is until one day, my close friend opened the command list and told me to try every move. It was hard at first, accidentally jumping when I wanted to do motions for the fireball. Staring at the controller wondering why I could never do the link from mp to another mp with ryu.
But what made me want to put in the effort to learn that game, was doing ultras. In SF4, that was the highlight for me, whenever I could end a match with an ultra, it made my day. Coincidentally, I had picked up smoking awhile before engaging myself in SF4. Street fighter 4 made me smoke less, when my friends went to smoke, I would tell them, "hang on, let me try this combo I saw from youtube".
Although it didn't help me quit, it delayed me and made me think before lighting up.
On my final year in school, we held a mini course tournament among ourselves and our facilitators. It was the first time I actually competed for anything concerning games, and I finished the tournament as the champion. It made me realize that age plays no matter in the world of gaming.I won my facilitators on that day as well. (OH YEA!!!) Age doesn't determine the results, it was the effort and the experience.
Playing Street Fighter has let me meet people that I would never have crossed paths with. I got to play with Xian, my country's top sf player. (It was a quick and swift victory for him. Ha!) I got to meet people from other walks of life, and I would normally keep to myself but because of my love for street fighter I came out of my shell and made some awesome friends.
All these past experiences were great, but the one experience I would never forget was when my wife was having our first child. Every night she would sit beside me and watch me battle for pp and bp online. To the point where, whenever we wanted our baby to move or respond to us while he was still in her stomach, all I had to do was to turn on any sf videos from YouTube. He would always be active whenever I played sf videos.
To others it may just be a video game, but to me, it is and will always be more than just a learning experience. Whenever I feel like I can't achieve something, there will always be someone who tells me...
SHOR-YU-KEN!!!
(Oh I'm from Singapore, but I hope if I do by some stroke of luck get picked, want you guys to know I don't mind paying for any shipment billing or stuff)
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