gaming, addiction & journalists

i can't remember the last time i read something positive in the local news about gamers and gaming. and as for negative? oh just about 25 minutes ago.

it makes me wonder who are the people behind these pieces. what they hope to achieve to do by writing them, and the future of esports in singapore.

can it be possible that they see gaming addiction as a case in isolation, divorced from influences like parenting and education? that they dismiss the many positive effects of gaming just for those few wayward ones tee-totaling over the edge?

or is it simply because they do not know, because they do not care to know?

journalists need to be more responsible, more rigorous in their presentation of 'news'. for many people take "news" as fact, and do not question otherwise.

a ripple of ignorance is never a good thing.

A list of pretty much everything I posted on this blog, in chronological order, and a compact and neat format. And some other stuff too.

The very active month of November 2006. The beginning. Random rantings. Some discussion about what we know of sponsorship. GXL league phase starts.
10/11/2006 - My First Post
10/11/2006 - The short followup to that
11/11/2006 - Play like you maphack
12/11/2006 - Cross-neighborhood lag
13/11/2006 - I miss all AoE
Tammy 13/11/2006 - Something interesting?
Ice 13/11/2006 - His only post
Tammy 13/11/2006 - About sponsorship
14/11/2006 - Me about sponsorship
Dawn 14/11/2006 - More sponsorship with pink text
15/11/2006 - Tammy is a leaver
Tofu 16/11/2006 - Tofu's only post
Tammy 16/11/2006 - Response to first (and only) posts
Tammy 16/11/2006 - What makes furryfish PMS
16/11/2006 - Warlock VS Viper
17/11/2006 - CS and some other things
Cyn 17/11/2006 - Cyn on improvement
18/11/2006 - Battle report featuring the OD Eulogy
19/11/2006 - There was a time where my teammates were all on time
19/11/2006 - First of the brief Team Zenith histories
24/11/2006 - What not to do when being pwned
26/11/2006 - Hunter in the night

The still active month of December 2006. Competitions galore. Zenith photoshoot. GXL playoffs. Random things. IHCS starts. RGN Season 3.
Tammy 02/12/2006 - Tofu is a model
04/12/2006 - GXL elimination rounds
Tammy 06/12/2006 - Zenith photoshoot
Tammy 08/12/2006 - Randomness
Tammy 10/12/2006 - GXL Finals
10/12/2006 - Battle review, Asterisk vs va1zard
10/12/2006 - Fairly fun features
Dawn 11/12/2006 - My boss is a QOP
Tofu 11/12/2006 - Tofu is 1337
13/12/2006 - GXL Finals report
Tammy 14/12/2006 - GXL Finals again
17/12/2006 - Some e2max 15 minute event
Tammy 18/12/2006 - Competition rule discussion
Shan 19/12/2006 - I am only a mini marshal
Tammy 19/12/2006 - GPS eats girls
23/12/2006 - IHCS
Tammy 31/12/2006 - End of year news

January - February 2007. New year. RGN Season 3. Hero loggings. More random stuff. Random stuff is everywhere.
01/01/2007 - RGN review
01/01/2007 - More RGN review
01/01/2007 - More RGN again
02/01/2007 - I never covered the RGN finals
03/01/2007 - How to challenge Zenith
05/01/2007 - Bigger compes needed
08/01/2007 - Start of hero logging
10/01/2007 - Hero logs 1 2 3
13/01/2007 - More hero loggings
15/01/2007 - The FURYFISH
20/01/2007 - MORE LOGGING
Tammy 21/01/2007 - ANT READS MY BLOG
24/01/2007 - Unfortunately CAPL site is gone
05/02/2007 - It's like, an appreciation post
Tammy 06/02/2007 - Wow. A ranked list.
07/02/2007 - I got mail on this one
11/02/2007 - I talk about myself
12/02/2007 - On improvement
Tammy 25/02/2007 - Zenith actually had trials

March - April 2007. Not posting every day. Zenith trials. Inter-school competition. IGC competition at HIGH. Gamers INC competition. TFL bootage.
01/03/2007 - Zenith trials are troublesome
03/03/2007 - Hero loggings
Tammy 04/03/2007 - Tammy responds
10/03/2007 - What do you think GPS stands for...
Dawn 12/03/2007 - HAPPY BIRTHDAYS
Tammy 13/03/2007 - Gurmit Singh plays DotA next door
Tammy 14/03/2007 - Gay Zenith
Tammy 16/03/2007 - Wow international compliments
Tammy 17/03/2007 - Inter-School catching up
Tammy 22/03/2007 - Praying Mantis Ant
23/03/2007 - Inter-school summary
Dawn 28/03/2007 - Asterisk trials
Tammy 31/03/2007 - Asterisk trials end
01/04/2007 - April 1st State of the nation
10/04/2007 - What Ant can't do
13/04/2007 - More of what ant can't do
Tammy 15/04/2007 - Fighting Zenith in compe
16/04/2007 - Ummmm... what ice puts at the end of interviews
24/04/2007 - IGC Battle reports includes an ode to Tammy Tang
30/04/2007 - Booted from TFL

May - July 2007. Retiring for exams. Phase 1. TTTT and MYM PD. More hero logs. Ice + Asterisk vs dNGurls + lei. Batu Pahat Malaysia trip. CAPL without Tofu.
Ice 04/05/2007 - The Tammy Tang Tofu Team Truely
07/05/2007 - TTTT in MYM. I want moon to host for me
07/05/2007 - MORE HERO LOGS
Dawn 21/05/2007 - BE PUNCTUAL AND CONSISTENT
Tammy 09/06/2007 - DAMN GREEN THING
Dawn 11/06/2007 - Ice subs for Asterisk
Shan 11/06/2007 - Studying for A levels...
22/07/2007 - Malaysia trip featuring NUTZ
29/07/2007 - CAPL WITHOUT TOFU

August - November 2007. Exams come. WCG 2007. WGT 2007. Testimonials. Mizencrononith. Team-zenith.net goes up for a while. Not written, Zenith European Tour, CAPL Winter 2009 (all on Team-Zenith.net).
Asta 01/08/2007 - WCG for Asterisk
Asta 03/08/2007 - WCG for Asterisk more
Shan 04/08/2007 - I AM TIRED MARSHAL
Tammy 07/08/2007 - Manner and marshal
14/08/2007 - Short on WCG 2007
15/08/2007 - State of the nation
26/08/2007 - Friendly late game heroes
29/08/2007 - Damage reduction
20/09/2007 - Fun tourneys
03/10/2007 - WGT 2007 and XL mode
15/10/2007 - Mizencrononith state of the nation
Tammy 15/10/2007 - State of her nation
15/10/2007 - NutZ testimonial
17/10/2007 - Tofu testimonial
20/10/2007 - ZX testimonial
25/10/2007 - About Musica

2008. Enlistment. Small things happen. Most stuff covered on team-zenith.net. ZENITH WINS ESWC. WCG 2008. SMM 2008. WGT 2008 not covered.
Tammy 08/01/2008 - Expanding Tofuball
17/02/2008 - Shameless promotion
18/02/2008 - I want fun modes
12/03/2008 - ENLIST LO
Tammy 16/03/2008 - Ice chooses KS
Tammy 21/03/2008 - The Ice Saga
Huayan 27/03/2008 - One version of Zenith
23/06/2008 - Reflections
29/06/2008 - Ant from DotaSG
13/07/2008 - WCG qualifiers
29/08/2008 - Emo Zenith ESWC
31/08/2008 - Moving on
Tammy 04/09/2008 - Appreciating Ant
31/10/2008 - Goodbye Zenith Good morning Singapore
27/11/2008 - XtC and SMM
01/12/2008 - Training and pubs
23/12/2008 - Edward Cullen = Stone Giant
28/12/2008 - Classifying stages in DotA

2009 - present. Nothing, really. Articles for the most part. Win CAPL, ESTC, a few small competitions, but not written up. Some articles at GWSG, which died.
17/01/2009 - Stages of DotA
24/03/2009 - Moving articles to GWSG bye blog
Tammy 10/04/2009 - Lei Wan Sher Ice Tammy Malaysian tournament
29/10/2009 - Maybe it's time to start again
Tammy 30/10/2009 - Closing down and moving away
10/04/2010 - Putting a cover, putting a content page

BUMP PREVIOUS POSTS!!!

THIS POST IS IN MOSTLY CAPS. AT THE START.

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Like anyone actually visits this blog any more? Leave your farewell comments here!

Oh. I won CAPL 2009 with ice and a team that never trained together. I won ESTC Winter 2009 without ice (albeit with a great team). HAH!

Why am I posting? Well, I just decided to save the entire blog in soft copy on my computer, and read through it. It's about 250 pages. Wow. Lots written here. I didn't even paste the walls of images because those cause open office to crash.

You know, since It's gonna be the last few posts, I'm going to go back and make a post to summarize the happenings in this blog, and this blog can be wrapped up properly for time immemorial.

hi ANT! thanks for the very glamorous picture?

ANYHOW, i have an important announcement to make.

PMS | Asterisk*'s New Official Site is http://pmsasterisk.blogspot.com/

We havent really decided what to do with from a to z yet, but if both sites are kept alive, pmsasterisk.blogspot.com will be more team-centric.
DO pay us a visit! its a neat, pretty site, thanks to our lovely sheep, and jospie.

ONE MORE THING for now,

PLEASE CONTRIBUTE TO OUR SUPPORT A W4ndeRz FUND!!!

Every dollar counts. Yes. Even your measly $1 that can't even buy you a drink now at food court. =X So contribute now! We appreciate it very very much.

If you wish to meet us personally to give us it's fine too. We can be found at Game Haven on Saturdays around 3-4pm, or you can pass it to ziLcH at Cybernet Alliance Society (Parklane, B1 behind IRC!)

Wall of pictures deserves wall of text!

So for all of you wanting to see more pictures, scroll down one post! Very sorry to disappoint you, all ye in denial hormonally charged boys and confused girls.

Just to confuse those people who only look at pictures and skip all the words, here's one picture that's completely irrelevant to anything I'm going to type about. Though to be honest, there probably isn't a picture that could be relevant to what I'm going to type since I'm typing about nothing at all!

And for those of you who have realised that the above picture is completely irrelevant, congratulations, you are literate!

This is the first time I've started a post without any inkling of what I'm going to write about. Bleh. Just to buy time, I shall post up another picture.Seems like a great idea to post pictures every once in a while just to colour this wall of completely irrelevant text. Then of course, some people will browse through all the pictures and wonder "WTF WHERE AER TEH GURLZ?!" and then I shall laugh at them.

Silently laugh of course. In their heads. At them. Although I won't know, and neither will they.

If Ant laughs at you through the internet but you don't know it because you are semi-illiterate, does he still laugh?

I'm out of pictures of the turtle of doom. I'm pretty sure I can find more though. Until then, since I have problems keeping this utter incoherence partially interesting, just watch this space.

Watch this space for more of ME ME ME and ME ME. Blogging after all is an entirely selfish affair. It's not like I blog for no one to read.

Hello peeps! I spent 5 1/2 hours on these... Blogger is really irritating. It only allows me to upload 5 photos per go. And i edited and uploaded 219. *claps!*

Anyway, there're more photos uploaded in PMSAsterisk* facebook page! Do check em out! These are just from my own camera. There's still Cyn's, Kim's and Tam's.

Thailand = Good and cheap food, extremely bad traffic(with red light of 300 seconds..), friendly and helpful people and gosu shopping. Weather wise was still tolerable.

We visited Siam Ocean World @ Siam Paragon, it was really huge and magnificent. The sharks there were enormous!

Shopping together was super enjoyable can! LOLS! Kimchi and Sheep were crazy over the bottled milk tea there. The price difference of the milk tea made them even crazier. I'm not crazy over milk tea but i'm crazy over Pocky! LOL.. Super cheap can! Its like 50 cents + for a box of yummilicious Pocky! Wide array of flavours. SG selling at $3-5 lor, tsktsk! So i bought a lot home! Overall, shopping there was quite good! We bought a lot a lot of things, clothing, shoes, accessories. Street food there were gosu too! Many things to buy. Many loves!

Ok, enjoy the photos.... Its hard work ok... Liew...