My life for Aiur!

"My life for Aiur" - this is what a Zealot says when it comes out of the warp gate. Zealot is a unit in Starcraft and along with starcraft it has made its appearance in my dreams as well when my starcraft addiction was at its peak in 1998 or 99.

Anyways, these days my life is for Aiur as my starcraft addiction is growing again and why shouldnt it grow when i spend two nights every weekend playing this game with my old gikian fellows and have started winning few of the games. .

I have been a loser in the game for a long time. Failing to understand the basic concepts, i make mistakes that usually provoke my allies. Long time ago, while in Giki, while on bnet (the server on which starcraft is played) I made a mistake - ( to be more specific , i had a dozen dragoons but i couldnt make them cross a river bridge when my ally needed them badly to protect his base ). My ally got pissed . He sent me a few angry words & left the game. On that day , like a priest who takes the vow of celibacy , i took a vow that i will never play starcraft on bnet again. This was a stupid vow . As then i started playing against computer only and a computer AI is extremely predictable .You can neither have fun nor learning by playing with it.

On May 19, Blizzard announced that starcraft II is in production and so i finally decided to listen to bodi's constant calls to join bnet . Thus I shifted from playing-warcraft-daily to playing-starcraft-daily , got DSL at home and came back on the bnet server again.

Last weekend i followed a good routine of staying awake all night for the love of starcraft. Bodi and KB were too nice to teach me to overcome the main mistakes that i usually do. Bodi went out of the way by giving me a proper walkthrough lecture on the very basic build order in the game . Now i daily follow this practice religiously to improve the game.

I dont think of Starcraft as an addiction anymore.(earlier, i used to) Although it distracts me from my life routine and has all the ingredients of a proper addiction but now i have surrendered to the fact that of playing Starcraft lifts my mood..it keeps me happy.. it keeps me running . :D

Fits of laughters

Its been more than 2 weeks..I am sitting at the same place with same people..and i sit here from 8:30 in the morning till late night.. ..same faces that i see daily..I admit its fun ..more fun than seeing different faces each day..cause i happen to have very lively project partners...but every day when i wake up in the morning , i dont feel the begining of a new day..Its seems i am still passing a long day...May be i am not resting enough!!!

The project is going great...enjoying the company of my project partners is a real treat..and I am getting my usual fits of laughters like my very old days..there are some stupid funny statements which make us all very excited...we laugh whenever someone of us says that and we say it frequently.....it continues like this the whole day....and we keep laughing regularly...reminds me of my GIKI TA ship times...reminds me of one specific time when I and Kashif Bhatti had a long laughter that i guessed lasted for more than 15 miutes..may be more..I guess i never had a laughter longer than that ..and we were laughing because i gave him my reason of not playing starcraft on battlenet (multiplayer) ..basically it was a comment that my allied player gave me when i failed to protect his base..I had more than a dozen dragoons ( a strong fighting unit) but unfortunately I was not very sure of what to do with them...My ally's base was under attach and i was supposed to help him with my draggons..When the guy realized that I wont be able to reach to his base in time (cause i was having trouble in crossing a bridge..the dragoons are big units and with big units you can not cross the bridge so easily) he left the game after leaving a message for me.. . At first glance, It looked like an advice of what to do with those dozen dragoons.. unfortunately i didnt know the meaning of one of the english word in the message..so i , while playing the game , specially checked my electronic dictionary to see the meaning ...thinking it will help me win the game...and i found it it was an abusive term.. ..lol..

..and after I told this whole thing to Kashif Bhatti...we laughed like hell for so long....It was night..we had to go to sleep but we were standing in the doors (our rooms' entrances faced each other).... I had to finally sit on the floor cause i was laughing so hard that i was impossible for me to keep standing............Those were great days ....the best time of my life... I wish i could go back..I wish i could go back to Giki... back to that time.. with all those friends.... atleast for once more in my life... The time that i am having now is great too..but those memories ..that time ..it has set a benchmark for me.. a benchmark to compare happiness level...


I am happy that i got all those laughters back...but Oh God !! i am feeling so nostalgic...