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I was jobless for 5 months before and hence, tasted depression. I
remember shedding tears while I was sitting in my car waiting at a
traffic light. Not a good place for anyone’s mind to be in.

Stupid rite 

, all of a sudden without logical reason your confidence just plummets,
all -ve thoughts rush in to choke you, and feel like the whole worlds
burden is suddenly on your shoulders.

After that, I think each
of us needs some strong, great and resilient principles embedded in our
minds. These indomitable beliefs in our minds will stop us from
dropping to a lower state, and instead is a solid weapon to overcome
troubles and to beat them, instead of letting it beat us. 

To get out of it, Initially it’s like dragging 20 bucket’s of water in the hot sun. but as you fight to move forward, more of the water spill out

.

So
it becomes easier to move faster as the buckets lose more water. Soon
can walk normal as the buckets are emptied. Finally can run when the
buckets are all empty! BUT don’t stop too long because rain will surely
fall again and buckets will fill with water.

Ah.. I just read
from the same article that depressions is part of karma, cause and
effect. Like a hukuman for something we all did in the past. So just
bear with it lar, something like bayar hutang. After the period is
over, then your debt is lighter.

So keep up your strength. It’s only temporary! Don’t lose to laziness.

Other relevant reference:
http://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/depression.html

Recently, I have fallen into something like an information addict. Having the need to know the latest news of IT tech, IT hardware, Gundam models and various topics and very regularly checking up on the various information sources.

Several forums, websites, email accounts were the drugs, since replies are fast and can come from unexpected persons. I always had the urge to check again for new updates, or posts regularly every day. I needed to know and it is a bad form of attachment.

My saviour was a buddhist book and it helped me to get over this real difficulty I had been facing. In the book, it states that everything is temporary, not worth getting and there is no self. This will help you to be detached.

The book prompted me to examine the "Cause and effect" rule, the Karma rule. So what if everything is just an continuous chain reaction?  1 thought is an effect of another thought /stimulus and this 1 thought again will be the cause of another like a domino effect. If this is true, then perhaps Me, I , U , We all don’t exist. The famous line "I think therefore I am" is not quite enough to justify existence anymore.

I also think this relates with the first law of Thermodynamics: Energy can be changed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or transformed. I tie this up with reincarnation where each of us is at least a mix of energy  contained within a body. So when we pass away, this energy has got to be changed into something else. Thus,  due to the good and bad actions each of us has been accumulating, the resultant energy will determine what you will be reborn again next. Maybe  Reincarnation=transfer of life  energy to another form.

Back to my case…. (used IS instead of WAS because I still do it currently)

So the first step is to find a time and place where I will not be disturbed to distracted. Tvs, handphone,PC, traffic noise, people walking around can be pretty distracting and sidetracks your mind to another trigger. So the purpose of this step is to make it easier for myself to get control by reducing the things that can distrupt me.

Secondly, I slowly orientate my mind to face the mental struggle and stand firmly, unwavering in the storm of thoughts. So many different thoughts wanting to get my attention but a guilty feeling arises when you ignore a thought that seems important. However it has to be done, be brave and ignore the thoughts. "I will not be swayed by my own thoughts". Purpose is to get a foothold and a firm stance, a platform where other actions can take place.

Thirdly, detach my mind from the thoughts. It’s such a tough battle trying to do this. The addiction domino is sometimes stronger than my will to resist it.  "Everything is temporary, not worth getting and there is no Self" I remind myself.  It’s like you are taking a step back from the storm and can now see it like a 3rd person point of view .
Slowly,  the storm of thoughts momentarily becomes a drizzle, then sometimes it immediately changes back to it’s original fury and other times, it’s just raining and not much of a storm. Briefly you can taste the freedom, peace a little bit more each time you try.

Second and third steps may be repeated several times on different occasions. I do this even in the LRT to work. Minor distractions like noise and moving train is present, but it’s still your mind that can to filter this out and continue the battle.

Fourthly, by being detached enough from the storm of thoughts and the feelings that continue to pull me back, to be informed and to check for updates, I can somewhat decide now and make a decision, not to check and not to feel bad about not being ‘updated’! Pretty soon I am fine if I check a forum once every few days, instead of few times a day and it doesn’t bother me as much as before.

So this is my personal battle of ‘mind over matter’ and not letting matters around me dictate what my mind is doing. The fight goes on everyday and I don’t always win but it has helped in my situation. I now can use my mind to concentrate and complete more important things. I also save time by not checking for ‘what’s new’ so often and not be penalized by not knowing.

Nowadays, it’s so difficult to keep our minds within our control and understanding. So much media, so much information, so many products are trying to influence us. IT and other technologies makes it worse, as they delivers all these to use much faster than before. Emails, sms,  forums, websites, telephone calls now gets the message across almost instantly, forcing us to react just as fast.

So please hold on, built up the courage and stance to resists, ignore and have some control of your own mind. 

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( It may be an Irony, A self contradiction where i have used the words I , We when ‘I’ just mentioned that self may not exist, but hahaha.. i’ll blame it on the language where it needs a subject and object to make a sentence.

(quote of the book’s title will be placed here soon)

(rebirth / reincarnation.. need to study the difference of the words.. will make corrections here later if necessary)

Aaa.. it’s been maybe 15 years since i’ve used a PC and have been consistently been in with this field. Currently working in this line as well. So here are my thoughts of it. I do try to skip those items can can be found in textbooks and googling.

Emails:
Sometimes I like the days where this was not invented.Life was slower as emails are often expected to be replied immediately.  Spam, lost emails, delayed mails are issues i deal with on a weekly basis. This is compounded by the fact that it is not difficult to send, forge, masquerade emails.

I guess it’s part of the technology lifecycle. Oh! I’ve discovered this new thing i could do, and i let people have access to it. I’m so Excited! But other users may be excited in a peculiar way like "great, with this new thing , i am now able to steal,cheat a little easier". Soon this issue is known and the original person may work out something to stop  the exploit. However, it  may be too late and older copies of it are everywhere. So this is the cycle that never ends.

Piracy:
Software development is costly for the first copy. subsequent copies of that are really nearly no cost at all, it’s just the dvd and the packaging. This is unlike manufacturing a car where the next car will still need to have the physical metal, materials to built it.  But this good thing is also backfires as pirates can make perfect duplicates of this.

So I do wonder if one day when xtremely fast internet connection is as common as the air we breath, All software will be in big server and no DVD’s or blueray discs will be ever sold anymore. If you want to use , you will have to log in and do it through there. Even traditionally standalone games.

The crazy idea is , allow the pirated discs to be considered legal. As long as the unlocking key is legally purchased. So original software companies suddenly have a free and wide distribution chain. In the Agreement, put certain clauses and disclaimers.

Programming:
Yup, it’s tough. Yup it requires a specific kind of mindset. It’s unlimited creativity in a limited scope. Sometimes it’s so enjoyable, like playing a good game. Other times , it excruciatingly painful to do it.

I’ll add more as the thoughts comes.

Here’s a recreated description of what goes on…..

So I’m doing my time attacks and someone sits down at the machine next
to you. Ok, I take a quick glance at him (super rare to race wif a gal
actually). Haven’t seen him before, so I am not sure what to expect. He
puts in a coin and turns the steering to the right and presses the
accelerator, to select the option to challenge me.

Immediately
my game is stopped and a sign slides on to my screen +sound effect
informing me that I have a challenger. Right, so I do look at his
screen cause it will show which car he’s using. Ok Eg. Rx-8 LVL 14.
Should be an ok challenge and have moderate chances to win. (I’m
average lvl 19 btw)

It’ll take a little while for him to select
track,direction,wet/dry… so in that time i will quickly press the
view change button on my right to look at his time attack records. This
will show his best time on all tracks ,directions and weather. Well
this is what I will use to plan my strategy. 

Eg..  He’s using
an rx-8 and I am using the Skyline ER34 and I saw which track he is
fast or slow. In those few seconds,I already know I will have an
easier time to beat him on Akina,myogi, high probablility to lose on
Shoumaru, Pretty much equal on Akagi,Irohazara and Tsuchizaka,
disadvantaged at  happo,usui.  In all honesty, I would be considered
the disadvantaged car since Rx-8 is the best car in this version.

So
he chooses shoumaru. Crap, prepare to lose.  Comes as no surprise as
the rx-8 will startup and accelerate faster then the skyline and this
is what happens, so I’m right behind tailing him. Shoumaru is the most
difficult track to overtake as it’s very narrow with many tight corner.
But I do not slack,continue to play well and stick to his rear bumpers
to keep him on the edge and more chances for him to make mistakes.
Feels lousy to lose it like that with virtually no chance to win.
However, once in a rare while, the rx-8 screw’s up big and I get to
pass him and win much to the groans or cheers from the spectators.

Fine,
you take me to shoumaru, my turn to return the favor. I select Akina
downhill wet, since his attack time is around 3′14" and mine is 3′08"
thus I am theoretically 6 seconds faster. Again, Rx8 takes the lead at
the start ( yes, it’s possible to beat the rx-8 on startup but that’s
another long description).

I stick close again and when it comes to the
2 consecutive right and left, he slides wide and I take the inside line
and the lead. Nice feeling, since i outcornered him and can see a
slight body reaction from him. After that  my focus changes more to
blocking him from overtaking. I feel the pressure on and off depending
on how close he is.  Feels nice to win! He  challenges again and so
on..

Guess it’s fair that i should do a write up on this driving game since I have been playing for a while. More so on Initial D AS ver.3. Version 4 is going to come out probably later in this year 2007.

Well, basically it’s a one on one racing game based on the Initial D story  on Japanese mountain roads. I believe that Sega Rosso have made a killer combination that is hard to
resist. Using the highly succesful initial-d as the theme and
backstory, tense one on one battles and a high pressure time attack.
Sometimes will have the high motivation to get as close to the world record
times as you can but takes so much skill. If you’re bored, you can always pick a fight with Bunta  but I rarely do.

It also trains your concentration, reflex, strategy, accuracy and skill. It’s also a really great thing to train your calmness and self control in a fun,pressurizing situation. Against easier players, you can afford to relax, fool around and still win comfortably. But once you face good or exceptional players or have a partly disadvantaged car, then that’s where you focus and put in effort to win.It’s  high pressure,woohoo! fun, intense and exhilarating.

The tactics used in challenges are different from time attacks. When challenging, you won’t mind taking a slightly  incorrect line or a few scrapes on the wall just to block the car behind. In time attacks, line is very important and it’s best to have a clean run without wall contact which will slow you down.

This game has a unique cornering style. First you have to know basic out-in-out, then you have to know basic feint drift, then the magic ‘eraser’ and finally a combinations of all in the ‘TST’! which makes your corners faster in this game. ‘TST’, ‘eraser’ is not to be done in real life. It’ll  make you look stupid  in real life but often essential and cool to do in this game.

Irritating stuff i face sometimes…..
   steering wheel force feedback broken, so you have to imagine and estimate how much you need to steer and countersteer.
Accelerator pedal acting funky, sometimes on sometimes off
The other person’s idiiiiotic attitude + smoking at the same time.
Dumb sore losers who keep taking you repeatedly (sometimes up to 5 times) to the same track and settings because it’s the only track they can beat you.

Funny stuff….
I get challenged by a totally new player. So I’ll let him take a big lead 1st, then i will over take. After that I will abruptly flip my gears from 5 to 2 and turn the car around. haha.. accelerate and like a missile targetting to get a head on collision. It’ll catch the other player by surprise much to the smiles of the spectators. Then I’ll turn the car around again to chase,overtake and win. It’s more fun than just boring take the lead from start to finish on a newbie.

I get asked the question and Yes!!!!, I do know the differences between driving in these games and in
real life. It’s  very different and No!!!, I won’t simply do stupid stuff I do in video games in real life driving, cause it’ll screw up many thing on me and the real car.

.. more than 800 one-on-one battles already, which i will never be able to get in real life anyway.

Hey!, I’ve been in Taekwondo for some time now. So I guess i would like to share share, the experience of a competitor in a tournament.

Around the waiting area for spectators, teams usually smells of Counterpain, traditional  ointments and some  hard to describe  odours. ..  You’ll see teams gathered in different areas. Some do last minute kicking, other’s line up to take turns to kick the pad the coach is holding. You’ll also see team members lining up in a circle and doing warm up’s together.

I get genuinely nervous before sparring matches ya. Sometimes it just saps
your energy so badly, like you already use up 40% even before you enter the ring. Feel butterfly in stomach, ticklish and wanna
go toilet.  Hands shivering. IMPORTANT.. cannot eat heavy,oily,spicy,curry food before match.

Before
going to the ring, You’ll get your teammates to help you wear the protective vest ( since the strings to tighten the vest are at the back), guards and headgear. Don’t get mixed up with the different groin guard for males and females , Or you’ll  have the referee’s smilling at your embarrasing mistake.

You double check you brought your small paper with your bout number, your water bottle and small towel. It feels heavy and slightly restrictive in the full modern TKD armor.

While at the inspection table, you look around sizing up
the other guys there. "hmm this is my opponent? or the other one?" It’s
hot under the headgear and take a few breaths with the mouthguard
feeling in the mouth. Ookok.. do abit of stretching,  jump jump abit.

Chong! Hong! with the referee pointing
to the mat. Wahaha.. feeling is tense and feels like fire raising in the
body. See chak! immediately focus on opponent + coach voice and
everything else is a blur. furious kicking chess starts..Boom! boom…

Sometimes
you hear the shouting from your teammates, it does help to raise your
spirits and makes you wanna score another for them."satu tak cukup, dua
tak cukup…", "MMMM mu … MMMM mu"," Har! Counter", "don’t scared! go
in","guard guard"

Bell
rings, and half time. you momentarily remove the mouthguard and drink
water ( usually I mix 100plus plain water shaken to remove gas)  while listening to your coach’s instructions and trying to
program yourself. "okok, this time no backthrusts and next time follow up with
double turning" ..

If you clash at your shin, it’s painful and hopefully your coach has the magic spray!. You’ll do a hand signal stating time out. Your coach will rush in with the spray with you pointing to your shin. Feels like ice cubes were suddenly placed on your shin.  After several seconds, the area feel’s numb and you take your mind off it to continue the match.

At the end of the final round.. if you’re
leading, then you’ll feel more relaxed and try to run away so that the
opponent has a harder time to score. If you’re losing, you feel very
high pressure "I need to score! I need to score him!! ,come on!" And
target his head already,change tactics and use high kicks to his head
hoping to get a win by KO…

Once the final bell "Ting!" ,
referee rushes inbetween me and the other guy to stop the match. We
each walk back to behind our respective red and blue lines, sometimes
sit down and wait for results.

After it’s over.. wow.. bigh sigh
in relief either very happy with the win or frustrated with a loss
(your coach consoling and sometimes telling you what went wrong). Feels
so much cooler after remove vest, headgear.. breathing slowly back to
normal. Perhaps in the mind I am thinking , ok whose next, maybe i
should stay back abit and watch him if his bout is close to observe his
style.

Sorrie.. got carried away with the descriptions. Hope
you guys have fun reading of my feelings and experience when going for
TKD WTF sparring.

Right.. continue some more games. Really funnie to imagine that I’m 60 years old and play these games wif my ex classmates. haaha..

Got a pleasant surprise as i had a few replies on this topic. Even more surprising is that ppl do visit this blog.

4. Catching / Tag
Requirement: A large open space like a field. Many persons, as many as 10 who are prepared to run run run run run run.

Evelyn reminded me of "Catching" or kwai lou term is "Tag".Thanks Eve. This 1 jia lat man.. run like crazy + fancy footwork. So basically 1 person is "it" or the catcher while the rest will try to run from being touched or caught by the catcher. If you are touched by the catcher/"it" person, then it’ll be your turn to catch the other people around you.

To decide who is 1st to be "it", all the players kinda gather around in a circle and do a mini game wif your hands. So we sing "lat ta li lat ta li tam plom". At the end you have to show 1 hand with either palms up or down. If everyone has palm’s down and you are the only one with palms up, you’ll start to be "it" 1st. It get’s exciting, as the naughty "it" person can be pretty fast and tag another person before they can run away from the circle.

Sometimes you play in a closed space and get cornered. So you’ve got to do the shuffle,cha cha or some cool footwork to get yourself out of the corner without being touched!

Nice to watch also.. added with the screams and laughters. Also sometimes abit ‘ganas’ as they catch at the end of your pants and you partly spin out of control. A sure way to get your shirt untidy sticking out of your pants.

4a. Chopping.
This is another variety of the tag, except that you thrown something at another person to sort of touch or tag. The usual used is the green baseball. Crap, i can remember the pain, getting hit at close distance. Worst case, you get hit then the same guy catches the rebounding ball and hit’s you again. Headache for my mum, since when we play in the field, you’r white uniform’ll get a nice round mark if you get hit. So it’s better to run n avoid!

Mervyn, my ex teammate he reminded me of the 3 games below>
5) tepuk ice cream stick… damn dirty… i remember i use to bundled/won up 100++ of this sticks. :P  ( I think i saw this in school.. The bundle of ice cream stick tied together using rubber bands. But I can’t remember how to play already :()

6) Paper Football~!!! Folding up papers to create the players, the goalkeeper, the goal post and the ball~!!!    . ( yes this 1 Remember as well, play on wooden table. Folded a paper boat and then bent the ends to use it as a goal post.   )

7)
Bola lagi… this is a simpler version, two durable pen, two 10cm
rulers, a 20 cents coin, some lines on the table… Do you know this
game~!?? Using the tip of pen to pressure the ruler. This will move and
position the ruler. When in position, may try to score goal with the
coin. You may end up breakin the pen or the ruler… haha.  (Sorry mervyn, this one’s I have never seen it before so I am not familiar. help to elaborate)

8.pen shooting ? I dunno wat’s the name, but i got addicted to this as well..
requirement: a piece of paper, bigger is better. The easy to find A4 is ok i guess.2 players and of course 2 pens/pencils of  different color (easier to differentiate the marks).

The objective is to make a continuing line until it reaches the other players end and destroy their base.

So the 2 players sit facing each other with the paper in the center.Each player takes the opposite ends of the paper as their base. They mark it with a line across the paper, just about 1 inch from the edge. So now you have a long rectangle at each end of the paper.This rectangle is is then divided to several smaller boxes, like rows of teeth in you mouth. Each small rectangle is like a mini base.

Now starting from any mini base, put the tip of the pen/pencil at the edge of the drawn line and just hold the top of the pen with just 1 finger.tilt the pen slightly closer to you, so it looks like your balancing a pen on the paper with your finger. Now you press down on the pen. Naturally, the tilted pen will drop to the paper and make a line towards the other player. where the line ends, you put a mark, let’s say mark 1.

The other player then does the same from his side of the paper.  Once he has a mark 2, you will now continue by placing your pen at the mark 1 and do the same pen balancing and pressing down to create another line joining the 1st one.  Take turns until any player’s  line crosses over another player’s base, so then that crossed base is considered boom! PauChar!, destroyed.

You can be irritating by  scribbling on the other player’s base once you so called "destroy" it and make funny remarks.

Phew.. it’s a challenge and nice practice writing this blog thing. Need to think and restructure the sentences to make it easy to understand. I must scan pictures and put it up to make it clearer and easier for my words to come out.

I’ve grown up in the times before kids carry handphones and online games were developer’s dreams.
So here’s some list of what games i could remember. These games are using what available stuff we had and some can be picked up from the ground to play I try not to include board games,commercial games that you can buy at supermarkets.

There are many varieties.

1. Konda Kondi
Requirements: 2 teams maybe 3 ppl each, earth ground wif about 20 feet space around,a few wooden sticks. Basically we dig a hole in the ground. Then place a smaller stick 1 across the hole. Another stick 2 is then used to flick the smaller stick 1 in the air. The hole in the ground allows this as the flicking stick 2 uses the hole to go under the other stick 1.

So one team (say team A) flicks the stick 1 in the air, while the other team (say team B) tries to catch the flying stick. if team b persons catches it, then team A loses and both teams switch places.
Now if Team B didn’t catch it and stick 1 lands on the ground, then team b person will have to pick up the stick and try to throw it to hit the stick 2 which is placed by team A across the hole.

If team B manages hit the stick 2, then team A loses. Well, if team B misses, then stick 1 is walked back to the hole in the ground. Each step of the stick counts as 1 point to team A. So a shorter stick get’s more points obviously. Once the counting is done, then Team A flicks a 2nd time

I played this game while waiting for the primary school bus after school. Sometimes will get hit by the flying stick , so need to be careful.

2. Bottlecaps
Requirements: Several single players, 5 bottle caps (preferable metal type) and a floor or table with about 1 feet space.
I can’t remember fully, so here’s probably somewhat accurate. So 1st the bottlecaps are stacked up. Then using 1 finger from each hand, you spin the stack to fling the bottle caps apart.

Once the bottlecaps are scattered like a snooker table, You have to choose 1 bottle cap A to hit another bottlecap B.  Use your thumb to hold another finger, then release your thumb so that the other finger flicks like a catapult to hit bottle cap A. If done accurately, bottle cap A hits bottle cap b. After that remove bottle cap A and B from the game. Do the same wif bottlecap C and D. So remaining bottle cap E only. You may use another hand as a wall to deflect the bottlecaps.

( blurry from this part on..) After that, arrange 3 caps in a pyramid shape ( 2 below  Caps A & B, 1 above (Cap c)) and put this pyramid inbetween the other 2 caps, (let’s say D and E). the two other caps are each like 10 centimeters away from the center bottlecap pyramid. Now you have to use D to hit E with the bottlecap pyramid as a barrier which you cannot hit.

So you will  have to use 1 shooting hand to flick cap D and no choice but  use the other hand as a wall to deflect cap D avoiding the bottlecap pyramid to hit cap E.  If you do this correctly, you earn some points.

I believe that if fail to do any of the steps above, then you lose your turn and next player repeats the same steps to gain points. If not wrong, if you spin the caps initially and 1 cap is on top of another, there’s some special position other than the pyramid to clear (Jamban position izzit??)

I played this just behind classroom block on the floor during recess. Sometimes on the wooden tables in class.

3. blowing up cards?? No official name lor.
requirements: 2 players , stack of tiny paper cards ( width 2cm X 3 cm length ), space around  1 feet floor or table. 
Again, i can’t remember vividly what exactly goes on. but here’s a rough guide.

The 2 players sit facing each other Each player puts a small stack of card in front as a bet. So player 1 would cup both hands and slam down on the floor just infront of player 2 cards. It’ll cause some air to rush out and dislodge player 1 cards. So Those cards that remain on the stack is safe. The cards that get thrown around will now belong to player 1. And then 2 players take turns to do this. Most cards win.

4. Conquerer.
Requirements:  1 sheet of mathematics paper (paper filled with 5millimeter X 5 millimeter squares) which looks like a grid, 2 players and 2 different color pens. The paper is like a battlefield and each

Have a hard time describing this, pictures surely helps here.

So the basic  aim is to surround your opponents marked points on the paper.  player 1 starts by putting a dot on any of the line crossing or grid points on the paper. player 2 then put a different color mark anywhere on the paper.

So this continues until you have can see that your marks can form a fence around the other player’s marks. Immediately connect those marks to form a fence around your opponent’s marks. So then , the opponents marks are considered conquered and cannot be used anymore.

This goes on until the whole paper is filled or your opponent gives up. In some tight battles where the whole paper is filled, the conquered marks are counted one by one. the player who conquered more marks wins.

I think of making nostalgia 1  for the PC, 2 for the arcade and 3 is for Playstation / Playstation 2.

So this time it’s about the the favourite games on the PC. so i guess it would go 1-2 -> 1-3 -> 1-4…..

Right…. friends will know I am fan of tomb raider, lara croft.Imagine having loads of cash, being able to fly to anywhere in the world at a moments notice wif a private jet, explore those exotic, remote, sacred, lush,breathtaking locations and still get a mind workout wif ancient traps and puzzles.

\I finished tomb raider 2 twice.  Played and finished nearly all it’s pc games in existence. (Except expansion packs and the awful,crap TR Angel of darkness). The latest TR development changed company from core to Crystal Dynamix which is a good thing.

Next addicted game would be need for speed series. It’s still going strong till today NFS carbon. I think i have played nearly all it’s iterations since Need for speed 1 (this even had something to do wif Road & Track magazine).  It’s  basically moved from simulation to  police chasing to arcade, illegal racing + police chases + drift.  Car’s from Exotic to jap tuners and now a mix of tuner, exotics and big muscle cars.  Would they do, need for speed airborne? haha..

There are other memorable games like c&c red alert/tiberain sun , colin mcrae rallys, SPACE QUESTS!, mechwarrior that would keep me  in front of the pc for hours and hours…

I remembered going to arcades when i was still in primary school. One of the shoplots behind Simpang Lima klang.  I think it was ‘DOUBLE DRAGON’ or another beat’em up games wif one of my best buddies at the time Eddie Lim. We’d like put a small bag of 20 cent coins at the center of the machine, so that won’t need to dig pockets to continue playing.(it was easy to lose the 3 lives lar)

The hottest game at that time was definitely Street Fighter. Many kids were ‘expert’ on it, discussing Guile’s no touch throw/sonic booms and chun li’s upside down helicopter (+ her sexy "ahem" outfit, ryu n ken’s syooryuken, e honda’s irritating huhuhhuhuhuhuhu hands, dhalsim’s yoga fire and rubber limbs.,e.bison near impossible to win…, sagat’s irritating knee and poses…,…,..,..,…

Yeap.. we primary still get in regardless of the dark glass door and a sign " budak dibawah 18 tahun atau dalam uniform tidak dibenarkan masuk."

After that it was to the big arcade just beside Ocean supermarket in klang.Probably to play raiden, Art of Fighting, street fighter and some puzzle games.  I remember running out  the back door when the police came in to kacau kacau ..