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Working. Work. Job. These 3 words are not the beauty to the ears. Most of my friends hated their jobs. Especially when it comes to yearly bonuses, these people are looking forward to but more than 1.5 of bonuses.

A friend of mine once said, “If it is a month of bonus, time to tender the resignation. If it is a two-month bonus, I’ll shake the boss hand and say thank you. If it is a three-month bonus, I would eventually call him Daddy for once.” Wait till I applied it to my work. I’ll bring it up to my bosses if they asked if I am happy with what I am getting.

Considering him lucky that his boss decided to give him at least 1 month bonus, in which reflecting to what he is making per month based on last year bonus payment. I was confused that I asked him, what do his boss meant by that. He said, “Let say I was getting RM1000 a month. Last year my bonus was 1.5 of the monthly salary. Hence it means I should be drawing RM1500 bonus. This year, my salary has been adjusted to RM1100. The boss asked what my bonus was last year, in which I told him as above. He told me that this year I will be getting the same as last year but of 1.0 of the salary.”

I looked into his face, which he later added “I’m getting RM1000 this year despite that the fact that the company is doing a good revenue.” How I wish I could tell him that he should consider himself lucky that he is not only drawing basic and commission but also the year-end bonus. I, myself doesn’t have the luxury of getting bonuses just because this company I am attached to does not practice it for the sales team. ?

Coming back to the above topic, here is why I find that work is a game of Dota.
In the game, we begin with Level 1. Having armed with nothing greater items, we need to gain experience and farm some gold in order to get better items. We might face with experience players and lost the lane control. There’s nothing much we can do but to preserve, trying very hard not to get killed along. Then it comes to the part where you getting cornered and gangbanging. A little reminder from the team mates is like getting some advice from the colleague. They are able to sense the change of the situation and informed us to be wary of getting killed in a trap.

We need to have the teamwork to survive at later stage. There is no “I” in a team. Like my boss love to say, “Hero dies first.” Therefore, team spirit is important which I would say it reflect to the same at work. We need to stick together in the work area among ourselves. In Dota that there will always be 3 different types of hero attributes; Strength, Agility and Intelligence. Same goes to work, that there will always be the roles to carry out. For example that there is Sales team, Operation team, Production team, Management Team, Finance and Admin Team and more. Each of this team is like different type of heroes characters; Supporter, Tanker, Killer, Healer, Carrier. Just name it.

When it comes to items, it just like the tools we had in work. A sales man can never go without a proper shoe, cell phones and name card. Just like arming a Tidehunter with Battlefury. Imagine getting Tide for a Agahim Specter. It’s just seems absurd. Like giving a programmer to run a multi-million dollar programming on a 386 system?

I’m just getting started with this topic. There are few more micro-Dota to explore that will tell you just apply the same rules at work from Dota, then that’s the whole law of the universe. It never changed.

It’s been a while since my last update on the dota matches that I used to play with my friends. Well, the reason I find it’s time to blog about it is because I found free wi-fi access at my housing area. So, hooked to the free wi-fi and then access it leh.

Anyway, coming back to the match which I played just now after 1 whole week not touching it which gives me plenty of satisfaction. This is because I won the match despite 4 vs 5. My team consists of Chaos Knight, Sniper, Tiny (me) and Mirana going against the others which make up of Zeus, Vengeful Spirit, Juggernaut, Orge Magi and Razor.

In the beginning, I got pawned hard by both VS and Jugger. First blood and on dying streaks. Got killed by them many times since i was at the top lane. Nonetheless, I farmed sufficient gold later of the game. I up the first and second skills, which is the stun and toss. And after that focusing most of the stats. I need more hp to farm faster for the Dagger of Escape.

In the end, I ended up beyond Goldlike!!!!!! chasing from 0-5 to 11-5 k/d.
Guess tonight I will have a pleasant dream.

I stumbled upon this post. Comparing to the earlier coverage from the local media, I personally find that it’s not that bad after all.

An outbreak of a deadly disease in a virtual world can offer insights into real life epidemics, scientists suggest.

This is a good model for studying human behavior. After all, it’s human that manage the character inside the game.

The “corrupted blood” disease spread rapidly within the popular online World of Warcraft game, killing off thousands of players in an uncontrolled plague.

The infection raged, wreaking social chaos, despite quarantine measures.

The experience provides essential clues to how people behave in such crises, Lancet Infectious Diseases reports.

When things happened in real life, there are certain people reacts differently. As we can see, the World of Warcraft as today is similar to real life except that there’s always a second chance.

Hence, we should promote more dota. Just like when we know the chances to save the teammates are pretty low and eventually will contribute to the loss of the team, then it’s better to have one teammate die rather to sacrifice the rest of the 4 members.

It’s been long since my last match using Silencer. He rocks.

It started innocently when I was trying out my picasa. I never tried before and was wondering how good it is. Like the great once said “there will be no female bloggers if there isn’t photoshop”. I need to try that out.

As the Picasa scanned the harddisk, I found viola… my collection of photos from my phone book. Ehm… I found this.

It was taken when Lisan was supposingly be away to UK to further her studies / visiting her brother. I guess it was a fiasco, hehe. CKYeo was there too. And we headed for Dota after that.

Last weekend was playing dotA with CKYeo. He was using some don’t know / recall what hero while I got myself Azgalor - Pit Lord. One of my latest favourite hero.

The game started with me getting a Arcane Ring and then moved to Boot of Travel. Hence I am able to farm like nobody business, whom Cycorn called me, Superman farmer. With BoT, I am able to travel to the places where the creep wave is strong and using Dark Rift to teleport back to the base or anything. After that, I obtained Mekansm and Guinsoo.

Acting as supporter with Battlefury, we had the upperhand especially with pro on my side except for CKYeo. He farm like duck shit, according to Cycorn. In the other game, he so-called leave the game. He said that he was dropped but heck, you want to believe a noob? hahahaha!!! After that, I get myself Radiance. Cool heh.

In the end, I had around 5k unspend and was about to make Assault Cuirass, the game has ended. Sigh* wasted.

Conclusion that indeed Pit Lord is one of the great farmer. I rather getting skill 1 and 3 as it helps in putting the mana well spend. With every corpse, you get up to 80 damage per corpse. Imagine that both side of creep - 8 units total giving up to 640 damages. With stun effect some more.

Before the elimination just now at 10.15pm, she sms-ed me to remind me that she needed more vote. Hence her sms as follow:-

Dear friends~!! Still got 4 hours to keep me save in STAR IDOL MALAYSIA~ The voting is until 8pm. I really need your help here… Thank you!! ^^

The sms came in at 16:19, which means after that she was not eliminated but remains in competition, hence she follow up with the sms as follow at July 8th 2007, 03:48 :-

Dear frens!! Thk u so much for your support!! If not u guys i wont get into next round… Really thx u all~ I will do better next time! ^^ 2mrw we will hav a roadshow in sg wang at 5pm. Feel free to come ya~!

since that i didn’t tune in for the show, was wondering who got eliminated? On the female side of course.

So those who read my previous post about Hishiko - the dota girl in Star Idol, will be dating her tonight. Yes! Tonight. She’ll be featured in Star Idol tonight on her first round of elimination. Tune in to see if she can perform or not. If you think can, then vote for her.

Dear frens~ This friday Nite is my first round for the STAR IDOL Malaysia. And they wil kick one gal and one guy this week.. So I really need ur help here.. Pls type STAR HISHIKO and send to 36877, Vote me to let me stay in tis competition~ Friday 9.30pm: Performance and Saturday Results shw: 10:15pm at Ntv7. Your support really meant to me! Thank u so much!!
^^

That’s her SMS to me yesterday. So, what not… allocate your time to watch the show so can condemn more…. wakakakaka

6 heroes have joined the war. The battle between the Sentinel and Scrouge is getting intense. I believe that sooner or later, the dotA will reached to another level. It’s similar to the CounterStrike whereby teamwork is far more important.

The reason is that out of the introduction of 6 new heroes, 4 of them are the supporting heroes. Of course, they can be killer as well but strongly to be supporting heroes to the existing one. I haven’t really try out 6 of them yet.

Raijin Thunderkeg - The Storm Spirit

Intelligence hero. Sounds neat and heard its good. But the drawback is that it’s not much of typical nuker but more of relying on his battle skills.

Huskar - The Sacred Warrior

For the first time, a ranged strength hero. When this hero have enough hitpoint especially when he had Heart, he pwnzor anyone anytime.

Lanaya - The Templar Assassin

This is a very powerful yet hard to master hero. I recalled that one of my friend played this hero once. He claimed that he knew how to use it and everytime, he’ll just Meld to avoid gangbang while the rest of the team members got pawned. HARD!!

Azgalor - The Pit Lord

Similarly resembles the old Doom, it has the capability to farm like nobody business. :p In fact, it’s good for pushing and supporting. Added with its ability - ultimate for Dark Portal, hence a great teleport…

Dirge - The Undying

This is a totally imba hero. Need to be nerfed. With primary attribute of Intelligence and hitpoint of a strength hero, it’s way… uncool.

Ish’kafel - The Dark Seer

I’ve tried out this hero twice. In fact, it’s a melee intelligence hero. The good thing about this hero is the capability to photostat or photocopy heroes. Images.. multiple of them. Even better than morphling. Imagining that the Pit Lord opened a portal and hence, 10 heroes walked out along with the Wall of Replica (W)

So, when you guys wanted to teach me how to use these heroes?

Appearantly, the above statement seems doubtful to most readers. Some might agree and some might beg to differ. In fact, the answer is typical 50-50. So, if that’s the case why I say so? Last time when I played dotA, I happened to frequent a cybercafe where there are quite a number of hot chicks playing dotA there.

Then I noticed that there’s this chick whom often using Medusa. She seems like pro and most of the time, buying dagon. Maybe its been a while since I saw her at that cybercafe. Maybe she no longer noob. Or it could be that she so noob that she decided that being Medusa in Dota has no future. Hence she might have opted for other career that can take up the role of Medusa in future. She is known as Hishiko. Got one time she came to the cybercafe and played the dotA with makeup still up.

Somehow by chance I found her friendster. From there, I teased her few times about her as medusa and moreover, able to update her background even more. Wanna see how hot is she??? I don’t know about each of yours’ preference but heck no choice, I’ll steal some from her friendster just to pimp her.

Hishiko - friendster

This afternoon itself, I received a sms from her. Wondering what so sudden, I found what of her content.

Hishiko

Hey dear friends!! Im in STAR IDOL MALAYSIA now~ pls vote me ya~ cos this is 100% sms de~ type STAR HISHIKO and send to 36877. will start showing from this friday at ntv7, every friday night 9:30pm~ your support is very important to me! thank you~! ^^

Kawaii-des~neh!!!

How kawaii-des-neh~!!!! So, you all want to vote for her? It’s the STAR IDOL we talking about. Then one more thing we have to make sure is that she will represent dotA in the STAR IDOL. Maybe can we ask her to dress up as Lina The Slayer?

Hishiko - The Medusa

A guerilla has been alarmed. I knew that he was been eyeing a piece of me. Just like the group of hunter waiting for the prey to appear. A helpless hogzilla was surrounded. Yet with the ultimate on hand, I managed to finish off the anti despite the blink to escape my wrath of blades.

That feeling actually came upon me when I played a dota match last night. In fact, I couldn’t done it without importing a player from afar. SKY was invited to join alliance of the Scrouge in a battle of 5v5 All Pick as Queen of Pain. Helplessly, he was pwn-ed earlier by Sniper and Lion. These two awakening the QoP through their endless combo. With Zeus on their side and Balanar casting fear at the darkest night, the Scourge stand no chance for any of them.

Further added with an anti-mage on the Sentinel side, the Rhasta and Warlock had their worries painted on their foreskin forehead. With luck, Omniknight and Juggernaut assist the Scrouge in the gruesome battle of life and death. With the endless attack on the towers, the Scourge was losing their grasp of the game.

As the battle ventured deep into the distance, most of the Scrouge heroes managed to obtain valuable items for the quest to destroy the Tree of Life. Juggernaut and QoP managed to have double kill in the encounter of two Sentinel heroes. It wasn’t possible without luck.

Juggernaut in the end faces the Roshan twice to obtain the most fancied item of all time - the legendary Aegis of Immortal. In the end, it was a total imbalance game with 5 elites in the scrouge team versus the five neither.

It does not matter anyway because it is the feelings of conquerer but not triumph that counts.