Back to EVE

It's addictive but I just can't help it. I first signed up for this online multiplayer adventure a couple if weeks before Irfan was born. January 2006. Now coming up to the eighth anniversary and after seeing a posting from a former gang member on Facebook, I though about giving it a visit.

The game had been updated over the years and it seemed that I would have to download a new server - 6 GB of it - which took me about an hour at the apartment.

I still have the subscription ready, so I fired up the client both on the iMac and another on the MacBook Pro, signed up and I was back to fantasyland.

EVE is a virtual world set in the far future when mankind had explored another universe through a wormhole from Earth. After a period of exploration, the wormhole collapsed and connection to Earth was severed forever.

In the world of EVE, you explore. UK title galaxies, fight, built up corporations, make a fortune and basically all in a self-contained, open-ended environment. Fascinating stuff. You interact with real people, from other parts of the World - usually 30000 of them at any one point being logged on - just like on twitter or in conversation.

You could be as basic or as complex as you wanted to be. As a casual gamer, I just went with the flow. I just loved to explore. Occasionally, to make ends meet, you had to do chores and Mission, build your fleet of spaceships and mods. You can just do what you want. Some of the arwa worlds were prim and proper, while others were lawless. You take your pick....

I spent the morning exploring. As I usually do, until it was time for my ward round. Yes, real live could get in the way.....

Straight to ParkCity

Rather than starting my day in Subang, it would be straight to ParkCity this morning. I discharged my patients yesterday, so I had nobody to review this morning over in Subang. Might as well wait for the traffic to ease up before driving the opposite directions from my apartment to my other clinic.

But this would be rare though as I normally have patients to review. This happened since the last time I was on call was almost three weeks ago, and I discharged all my chemotherapy and transplant patient home before the weekend.

I still have clinic and Day Care to attend to this afternoon though.... and tomorrow would be another public holidays. Let's see what Anita wanted to do tomorrow. The joys were talking about museums.

Leaving from the Apartment

A slight change of plan for this week. The boys would be going to school from the apartment rather than from Gombak. It would be against the traffic, so we were not anticipating delays. The only thing was, our driver would have to take his motorbike from his house at Taman Melati early in the morning to the apartment in order to drive the boys to school.

We would be trying this for the rest of the week as eventually we would be moving here. It should be doable. The only problem would be coming back later in the afternoon as the traffic might be bad then. It would all be about timing. And finding the right route.

As it was today, the boys checked into school on time. Woke up earlier than usual but seemed happy enough to hit the showers early. Will be how they get on ....

Reopened Jaya ONE

I must confess that Jaya ONE is not an area I was familiar with. Been there a few times. The last time being some 5 years back. Since then, part of the mall had been rebuilt.

One of the main tenant of the new mall would be a group of shops called The School. Mainly a place for children's activities during weekend. A Lego play area, robotics, music centre and the likes.

Another shop of interest for me was the Centre for Asian Photographer. As mentioned on another entry, one of my friend held an exhibition there, which I visited earlier today.

Back to The School, we learned about this when we attended an exhibition at Mid Valley around July last year. Idlan got interested with the drum class on offer there. Since then, Anita had been keeping a close tab on when The School going to be opened.

So today, we physically went to the place. It would be operational by April. The facility so far looked amazing.

Looking forward to sample what on offer when it launches later.

Metals by Ming

I got to know Ming Thein from Flickr and over the years had became a fan of the work of this remarkable man. The word got out that he had some of his work on show at Centre for Asian Photographer over at Jaya ONE. And since Anita and the boys wanted to check the place anyhow, so I thought I could hit two birds with one stone.

Why not?

The Centre was a lot smaller than I thought. Privately funded, it had a cafe at the lower floor and you take a step on the top floor of the duplex unit to see the exhibition area.

Ming had around a couple of dozens of prints on display. The theme concerns metalwork. People working with metals and fabrication. Quite literally.

The prints were gorgeous, but I found that the walls were too crowded. And the lack of narrative to take me through the photos were disconcerting. Maybe I was used to exhibits being of a certain look. This certainly was a slight departure to it.

None the less, the works would be something to be proud of. Something worth looking at, both the work and the centre.

The centre is located on the second floor of the newly reopened Jaya ONE.