and now its down to the best of 8

have been massively chionging sc2 these days..usually it means for weekedays rush home to watch gsl season 2, which is getting more epic, and after tt dota/sc2..for weekends is as just like what ivan's fb event says "hardcore sc2 gaming".. hahah.

well if anyone, or any sc2 fan hasnt been following the gsl then well..actually most ppl would have known now... the last gsl's champ, fruitdealer...has been eliminated!! *GASP!! and he was pwned by "fake" boxer. now this guy isnt the real boxer... or i mean he jus used boxer's nick and entered gsl season 2.. he's a very agressive player as from what i seen in his last few vids, usually v quick 2 rax pump out units and start the aggression. which is what he did to fruitdealer(FD)... twice...

the 1st time fake boxer did an early aggression to FD he caught him offguard.. the 2nd time though i just tot FD didnt play to the best of his abilities.. he did a baneling drop on boxer's troops but it was kinda too little too late.. FD was seriously behind then and well he didnt gg immediately, he sent out drones and all to put up a final fight then gg.. sad ending for the previous champ of gsl. but well tt means now there will be a new champ!

there's a lone player from china in the gsl(aptly named as loner) who is pretty gd.. but there was one real noobish, prob unintended, play by loner..loner sent siege tanks to defend against enemy mutas attacking his base!! *GASP! haha..i think it was a misclick cuz there's no way such a high calibre player would do tt..but hey..loner did it and vic was saying et3000 has invaded korea..

nooooooooooooo!!! could we see more of such noobish play.. has eddism reached sc2 so quickly?!?!? will the emporer send his marauders against void rays due to eddism?!?! =(((((

but well later on loner had the suayness to meet the emporer himself, got outplayed and was eliminated. currently right now..is the round of 8, which will start tml.. and man tues is nada vs the emporer.. woooooo... epic epic epic match i tell u.. im gg to pk early from work jus to catch this matchup!! haha

there's only 1 sole protoss left in the round of 8(nexgenius) and he's going against the runner up last gsl, hopetorture.. man i wish nexgenius would advanced jus so there's a protoss play and diversity still left in the final rounds.. else it would be like TvZs or the epically boring ZvZ(sry i mean tts just my opinion..so far all the ZvZ ive seen is like baneling-ing each other..or in idra's case, getting swarmed by roaches)

this week is a short week! fri holiday!! woohoooo... and next mon i got med appt! so im having kinda like a half day mc. i really hope i can like walk then...really im so craving for so many things alr.. bubble tea, kfc, mos, ji pa, omg all the unhealthy food la cuz i basically have none at home..hahaha

and yest was the k tigers performance..man i missed it..argh!!!! i hope someone somewhere records it somehow so i can get to watch..haha..and besides tt i hope they come back next yr so i can catch them live..haha

will the real BoxeR pls stand up...

well guess what.. im blogging at work!!! lol... alright alright nt in front of bosses of cuz..they all went for lunch alr.. so did my colleagues who are all v nice in helping me buy lunch back everday,even though its more or less the usual chai fan or vege chai fan but hey i wont complain..they're helping me out so i no no need to physcally crutch to the lunch area.. which is quite near but full of up/down slopes and stairs. killers for those ppl like me on crutches temporarily. i hate going up stairs espically... somehow it jus drains alot of my energy..hahaha

well it wont be fully an sc2 blog..i'll still blog abt other stuff i think of..u know..when i got the inspiration..lol...

anw to reiterate a pt i brought up at the chatbar to SH.. apparantly the emporer himself, the legendary BoxeR, has came back to the starcraft scene, now playing sc2 since the prize money is so much more compared to brood war(so i heard from a commentator in youtube). but this time... well apparently according to some commentators and a website ive found( link here), the emporer has changed his name to "ManofOneWay" in sc2. though..though... in the GSL season league 2 there's a supposed 'fake' BoxeR and the 'real' one(ManofOneWay). guess we'll see who's the real emporer himself in the days to come.

well now for some of the cool pro replays..


too bad i dont think i can find the replay of game 1 of TLO vs OGS.hyperdub on GSL1 on youtube. its on GOMtv.net so go check it out, registration is free but to catch set 2 onwards u need to pay. that match is seriously epic i tell u. TLO came back from a situation tt was almost "un-comebackable". TLO was earlier harrassed by a proxy starport banshee, no gold expo(OGS.hyberdub alr mining his gold then), TLO's hellion harrass failiing, only a couple of thors,siege and hellions left vs a huge bunch of vikings, siege and later thors. if it was czy1985 controlling TLO's army he instantly would gg right away once hyberdub started the contain. TLO fought on, captialising on hyperdub's mistake of overextending his army and an extremely brilliant usage of nukes mainly for instilling fear, forcing wasted scans and to even nuking a reinforcement route tt hyberhub uses so he cannot reinforce an expansion tt was then being attacked by TLO. extremely brilliant play i would say(i love mind games in an rts.its shows tt the player its not jus a I-MASS-A-GAZILLION-UNITS-TO-PWN-JOOOO player, but reading his opponents mindset and manipluating it to his advantage). TLO of cuz took game 1..epic epic game...

so here's one pro replay i liked

fruit dealer(the winner of gsl1) vs ogs.thestc. both players v gd, fruit dealer shrugging off all the harass and drops of ogs.thestc. but a great great mindgame by ogs.thestc. well u go watch it...




great nuke..need i say more..=P

toss's forcefield and building placement is jus so good in this game.. and did i jus say his forcefield is really gd?

GSL2 is starting TODAY!! actually i caught most of the game save makaprime's game 3 when he nuked his owned army at the end when his opponent gg(its so call bad manners to do so by the commantators..tsk tsk) and also missing out on game 1 of OGS.inca vs Aya. but the emporer..SlayersBoxeR is back in action. and what a treat we've got when he shows us his epic micro within the 1st 5mins.. 3marines and an scv storming into the enemy base and killing off enemy marines+scvs..epic games not to be missed!

still moer games coming up this week.. too bad ill miss TLO's game which is tml afternoon at prob ard 3-330pm...sad still working..=(((

terrans are so OP, even their soundtracks are OP

well i jus changed the sidebar music to terran soundtracks in sc2.. imo these tracks are jus OP(overpowered).. the same word alot of ppl use to complain abt terran in youtube and forums. well i dunno.. mayb cuz i still feel im at best and average player in sc and never experienced so much "cheese" or expert players tt can abuse units to the max but i highly doubt terran are that OP. tanks are gd and all but they are so many counters to it, much like protoss colossi which rips all light infantry apart but jus can get hit by pretty much anything..even purely AA units can hit teh colossi cuz its jus so big...

well i play 'random' in bnet so yea..i get a feel of all the races. however i do agree on one thing.. zerg is underpowered(or mayb i jus nv use it to the calibre tt fruit dealer does,then again..will anyone ever use them to their full power like fruit dealer?)..

but hey..terrans are still my fav race.. haha..i used to said out loud "THOR IS 'ERE" in tt crappy accent of mine mimicing the game unit when i build them.. thankfully no one was at time then(when i was on mc for 7 days..i dare nt scream out THOR IS 'ERE when my bro is ard..he'll bash me)

well i do watch pro vs pro vids online and do try out their tactics and build orders(sometimes to horrible conclusions but hey thats what experimenets are for right?)think so far the one i had the most success was the hellion drop that jinro did on boxer on one of the games.. as shown in this vid at ard 5:15

now opening is stanard, 10 rax, 12 refinary, tech lab on rax, fact, swap fact with tech lab, starport, 4x hellions with infernal preignitor upg(+10 dmg to light units, workers are considered light units, a total 24dmg by hellions to all light units), medievac and drop the hellions to the unsuspecting enemy. boy i tried that a few times. success! esp to those who neglect to protect their worker line. best i had was i massacred this guy's 27 probes. i checked replay and he only had 4 probes left the 1st time. 2nd drop i did with the same grp of hellions(they all got picked off later on) and i killed another 17 probes with only 10 probes left in my enemy's expansion.tt harras brought him back so far, he nv recovered. i had thors, marines, marauders storming his base and he only has a measly grp of stalkers and 1 void ray. pretty neat... and cuz hellions are very unpopular in multiplayer its at times unsuspecting for the enemy..haha

alright.. anw today i went to have my checkup for my fractured foot..and of cuz the k wire removal. k wire stands for Kirschner wire and it looks like...

yup its tts small.. and the hook was sticking out of the sole of my foot. anw today was the removal of the k wire so well the doc used a plier, twisted the wire ard 3 rounds and jus..yank it out.. u prob might think "OUCH OMGWTFBBQ OUCH TT SERIOUSLY HURTS". well.. sry to disappoint(or not) tt its a really painless process. jus abit of pressure feeling..abit like if u rmb when u were a child plucking out a tooth after anesthatics(sry i cant spell) . tt kinda 'pressure' feeling. injection hurts way way more than k wire removal..haha..

but anw the main thing is i still cant walk.. =((((.. well of cuz tt means endless dota, sc2 and movies watching on my lappy during the weekend but still..=((((.. man im sooo craving for junk food and bubble tea now..hahhaha

WARNING: et3000 is back in power

okok i kinda lied abit..thurs night i was sc2ing(i think) the whole night online and actually i wanted to blog at work..but then again i was kinda caught up at work to blog..really getting busy now..i'm doing proj and suddenly another is thrown to me, and another, and taking over another..arghhhh..man tt really sucks at times..and i think there's worse to come u know...sianz...

well bad news or gd news 1st? i guess mayb bad news 1st..as some of you might or might nt have known i went for the tkd nationals on 12oct. and...apparently the opponent is one of my friends from the club.. during the match his right leg and my left leg clashed..and ended up i fractured my 5th metatarsal...or tt same bone david beckham fractured in 2002.

yea..it was pretty bad.. the bone was displaced and i had to be hospitalised and went for op again..yes i know i know..barely a yr since i became wolverine and now i'm ironman with the metal in the leg. fortunately the stuff in my leg are wires which are sticking out and so i heard the doc will pull them out..and i shld be slowly going back to normal.. well during the time i was hospitalied i really wanna thank all those ppl who came down and those tt gather ppl to come visit me..it was really really touching. must really thank all of them, esp those who stays really far away to take their time off to visit me in hospital. oh nt only tt..oso visit me when im at home after i was discharged on wed too..hahha

too bad i cant take pics of all the gifts they brought.. well alot are food,milk and sort and so its alr consumed by a really hungry and bored me sitting at home at tt point of time(i had mc until the 30th sept, i followed the mc till 20th sept then i went back work) but i liked one of them in particular..its v cool i think

pretty cool huh..like the olden chinese books. and it reads jiu yang shen gong.super power kinda meaning. i like it alot. the pages inside is blank like notebook like tt.but i cant bear to use it.haha..

Darth emo and xl gave me a hello kitty balloon! or smth close to tt..i still have it but its deflated and look kinda "lifeless" at my computer desk..i prob wont throw it away though..hahaha.

actually of cuz it does suck getting this really mafan injury. im on clutches now and even walking to the toliet brings some kinda difficult esp when the floor is wet.. but well its an accident and im ok with my friend causing me tt injury. however..im nt tt happy with the way he handles the whole thing i guess.doesnt matter anw..nt really tt close to him oso. no big loss..

well so i was at home for excatly 9 days.. and gd things b4 that..i bought..SC2! oh yea..i ok didnt speed thru the campaign.i took my time and played all the missions possible and even online play after tt. my lappy's running on low but when i (illegally now) use my bro's com to play on ultra setting. its gorgeous really...on ultra the graphics is sooooo gd... my eyes now hurt when i play low. hahaa.. and really smths u'll jus send units to death on ultra display(which is y my unit lost is among the highest.. ok tt and including my poor micro) jus to see them explode or fall off, roll down ramps etc etc.

well so back to the main topic. yes folks. et3000 is back in full power in dota. spawning nooblings all over. we used to nt want et3000 in our team. i mean this still holds a little bit. but when et3000 joins our team, he will implant nooblings in the opposing team. and boy those nooblings obey their master's command to the last word. they're so bad they make et3000 seem decent(whisper the name freestyler to zy and he will instantly emo. the fact tt zy wants to play with et3000 over fresstyler speaks v much for itself). just to let their master win games and get a decent k/d score. i mean of cuz there are times when still nooblings didnt make it in time to join the opposing team and of cuz with et3000 its a really freaking uphill battle to win but still the amt of nooblings all ard is jus..astounding..haha

reminds me of a pic i posted quite a while ago..guess ill repost it...

now we're jus hoping tt et3000 dun get sc2.. i mean there's alr a ton of nooblings in sc2, we just dun need more. i always rmb 2 of the best games i had with nooblings. one of them i scouted with my scv..i saw enemy massing void rays(protoss air ships tt deals more and more dmg the longer they focus on their targets). and so i told my ally "build AA(anti-air) i see voids". my ally f$^&ing massed zealots(protoss basic unit, melee, CANT attack air). wtf..i so so stunned and cant believe my eyes when the enemy sent like 15 or so voids to his base and massacred his entire army and probes.

2nd game with a noobling ally in sc2 was when i was rushed by 2 enemies. i was calling for help from my ally cuz i cant hold longer. my ally said he has no minerals to buy army. BUT... the next thing i saw my ally did was went to his natural(nearest mineral field to his main base) and f$^&ing expand(tt cost at least 400minerals to do, which can afford quite abit of forces). WTF. of cuz all my forces got killed. i sneaked out a few scvs but cant be bothered to carry on and i quit.haha

oh yea mooncake festival(i know i know its called mid autumn festival..but mooncake festival sounsd so much cooler) jus went by last week. and a bunch of great friends came to my place to celebrate! really niec of them too esp since it was supposed to be in sch but due to my injured leg they changed it to my house..hahah...totally lit up the entire wed night.

my next appt is like next mon. i hope the wires are taken out and well...mayb i can walk? i dunno. i rmb the doc saying a mth then i can walk. but ms pro took 2 mths or so. well im expecting 2mths later then i can walk. but we shall see.. hope for the best..haha

and a little smth for all you sc fans out there...