i had a crazy cyber life once. crazy, to the max. you can ask my mum.
at that time she was terribly worried over my internet addiction...
i was 17 and waiting for my Form 5 result out. tired of waiting i started to do web-surfing. it started out as an innocent web-search on places to study after college then everything changed once i clicked on a game named HABBO.
in HABBO, i started decorating my room, wearing cute outfits, getting a "virtual" job, making new friends all over Malaysia and Singapore, played HABBO indoor games with them.. everything was fun.
i had a bunch of virtual friends: prettynora, miszfara, klukkluk, oresama, zan, -=JW=-, godluvme.. just to name a few. that was the first time hanging out with friends who don't share the same age and continent as me.
and my, those were the days i wouldn't want to miss. there are so much things to talk, so many things to do, things to share...
we were in HABBO SG, meaning the people who played are locals from Malaysia and Singapore. i remember one night when we all made a pack to create ourself a new profile at HABBO AUST. that was because that time the snowball game in HABBO australia was free. we waited for each other and we played snowball together. even though it's a virtual game, i do feel that we were real friends who hang out together and have some fun =) it was a whole lot of a game, because we only stopped at 4 in the morning.
then i have a great companion too. the one who wants to sit next to me and talk all night until HABBO closes at 3am. the jokes and laughter are playing in my mind now, like a black and white movie without a sound. sometimes we had countdown before the game closes and bid each other goodnight. =)
i received many virtual presents, too. they are all from my friends and some from people i don't know. i decorated them in my room and few months back when i revisited, everything was still there. my heart somehow aches to see the memories i had in that room of mine. how time had passed and changed us.
i can consider i was playful at that time. there are many 'virtual' boyfriends but none were serious. so far i heard one is engaged and another had stable girlfriend already. the rest just come and go with the wind, but there is one, i think, maybe, just maybe, is a keeper.. that, we let nature takes place =)
i had sleep deprivation, zero attention, and HABBO minded after weeks playing it. nothing in real life matters. i even unintended-ly ignored mum's calling because my mind was not there. my temper was extra bad, i get angry easily. then i finally try to change back to my old self, cutting down my time playing HABBO, then eventually stopped.
i tried to keep in touch with my HABBO friends, but never can do so. moving out from home and staying in college without internet connection made me lost contact with them. well, not all of them. there are few that i can consider changed from HABBO friends to real friends.
take for example, a friend who was sponsored by MARA scholarship had helped me to go through interview. he even called me and give me encouragements. though i did not make the cut, i am still thankful to him.
and then another friend, haha i got too many to talk about him. this one is a special case. to simplify it, he is from nobody to somebody in my life. he changed me to be a better person.. believe it or not =)
i never wanted to go back to my HABBO days. like what my brother said(an ex World of Warcraft serious gamer), "going back would only kill the mystery" (or something similar).
probably my longest post so far.. but yea, those were my pieces of memory playing internet games and meeting people.
