Happy Birthday Yongie!

Tomorrow October 10, marks 23 inglorious basterd years of Lim Yong Hsin's existence on this planet. Yong was one of two people who really encouraged me to start blogging, so I'm going to dedicate this post to him. Thing is Yong and I share A LOT of things in common. Its freaky really. First things first, we are both Librans born in October (and we all know that the Librans are the coolest rite? =p). We both hail from Taman Indah. Indah, just in case you failed your BM, means beautiful. So stop asking us why we are so gorgeous ok? Sure there are other guys who fall under both categories too (e.g Phang), but here is where we are virtually indistinguishable:

1. Food:

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

We were born with almost identical taste buds. Yong shares my disdain towards certain food, the most infamous being EGGS. I hate eggs. When this comes to the attention of other people, their eyes will pop out and they will ask: "You don't eat eggs? WHY?" Unfortunately I am unable to give a definitive answer, the feud goes so far back I don't remember how it started. Aaron (who btw does not have an academic background in psychology or anthropology) theorizes that the reason why I don't eat eggs is because when I was still small, I was traumatized when learning about Humpty Dumpty's story, and that it has somehow changed my perspective towards eggs. Eggs are friends, not food? -__- Anyway, so when I found out that Yong also didn't eat eggs, I was so overjoyed to find out that I wasn't alone in this respect.

King of Fruits? Not to us! 

I just found out today that he doesn't eat Durian either. It always amazes me when people, especially the foreigners, rave about Durian. How can they tahan the smell....and the.....Ok lets leave it at that before the ISA comes and catches me. Tofu, bittergourd, petai are among the long list of stuff we both refuse to eat. What's funny is that there was a time when we both didn't like mushrooms either, but due to whatever reasons (for me it was erm.....oh nvm and Burger King's Mushroom Swiss Burger), we eat mushrooms now. A recent example of how we are so alike was at my sad graduation convo. At the buffet, despite the variety of food available, Yong filled his plate with just meat pies and he quickly tried to find me to give me some. Funny thing was that once he found me, he saw that my plate was filled with meat pies too. Guess that sums it all up.

2 .Philosophy in DotA and perhaps even in life.

If there is one phrase that characterizes the way we play DotA, it is:

NO GUTS, NO GLORY!

Its not uncommon to see us 1 take 5 (like in the pic above) or to chiong past enemy tower even at the low levels. Whenever we chiong together I feel a surge of optimism as I know there will be at least one person who will go with me to the very end, even to oblivion (aka our retarded deaths). The only problem is that, well even though we chiong together, sometimes the chiong timing is just wrong. Either one of us is too fast or the other is too slow. The other problem is sometimes we chiong together but aim different target. I guess we never really plan about how we were going to chiong.

This doesn't just apply to DotA but to our real life situations as well. We always have each other's best interests at heart but we never really discuss with each other, thereby jeopardizing 'the mission' with wrong timing. In short, what we have is a failure to communicate. Its not that we don't talk to each other, we talk A LOT. In fact we can open a talk show and invite people to just watch us chat. Seriously the stuff we talk about.....really -_- But we never really have a mission briefing where we discuss the specifics of the mission. In fact we only really talk about it during the 'mission debriefing'.

Exhibit A: When I chiong too fast.

Yong: omg....WHY???

Me: But you must realise, I'm in a 'I-got-nothing-to-lose' frame of mind. -_-

Exhibit B: When he chiong too fast.

Yong: Whoops <3

Me: Whoops ur ass. Aih.

So yea, having the same philosophy is not enough. If only we could truly communicate, who knows where we'll be right now.

And finally, the coup de grace...........

3. We both have whiny 'roomies'. LOL!

But why does it seem as if I got the shorter end of the stick? Haih. Yong type -swap roomie pls. So anyway Shu Ning this pic leng enough anot? Oh and btw I call her Shu Ning because Melissa or Mel is just too similar to my sister, which just feels weird somehow. She suggested that maybe she be referred to as Mel L while my sis be referred to as Mel C, but I just don't think my sister is cool enough to be associated with the Spice Girls.

With all things said and done, happy birthday Yongie! <3