Today school ended at 4 but I went to band until 6 and reached home at 7 and noticed I was the only one at home. Feeling very tired, i decided to bathe before destressing myself which in this case is playing DotA (Defense of the Ancients) with my classmates.
After checking my facebook and its applications, i logged into Garena and MSN instant messaging to see who were online. After a couple of phone calls and minutes, we managed to arrange a match with
Patrick,
Reuben Choo,
Shi Jan and me against some other oppoents match.
As the time before the match started slowly began to shorten, anticipation and fear built up within me. As this was my first time playing a match with so many of my classmates, i was naturally excited but afraid that i would make a fool of myself. Finally after what seemed like an eternity, the match finally started. All thoughts of fear were forgotten as i was absorbed into the game. Timing, the correct combinations of abilities and strategy were all that filled my mind as my classmates and I strove to defeat the opposing team.
However, due to my lack of experience and skills, i kept getting the timing wronged and lost alot of vitality points that was essential to my characters well-being in the game. As a result, I was unable to control my character for a temporary period of time for many times. (In summary, I'm lousy at the game and kept dying.)
Even though our team was seriously handicapped because of me, they had the advantage of experience and by combining our abilities and attacking together, we managed to push the opposite team. The enemy however, would not give up so easily and tried their best to counter us and to cut thing short we....(wait for it....)
(It's kind of hard to see but one of them has a score of 0/15)
WON! Lost.
Even though i was
probablydefinitely the cause of their failure, my classmates did not blame me and we discussed homework after the match before retiring for the night.
Personally I feel that games are not waste of time as it can help to build fellowship among peers and help to relax people so they have more energy to study :)
