How To Own

New Beginning

2006-12-30T09:03:00.000-08:00

I was looking through my blog and I realised that my template kinda sucked. I think I need a change of template.

Hopefully I can do it just by thinking about it.

CHANGE TEMPLATE, CHANGE TEMPLate, CHANGE TEMplate, CHANGE Template, CHANGe template, CHange template, change template...

Exams

2006-11-30T06:37:00.000-08:00

Wow. Belated update. Its exams time!

Woohoo...shiok. I love that feeling. The feeling that you get when you are staring at your paper with a feeling that you should have studied harder. Good!

This is great. Yeah...

School

2006-09-12T10:27:00.000-07:00

School is really heating up.

The reality that everyone is mugging is smacking me right on my face.

Well. Not everyone, but at least everybody is making a conceited effort to do something. NUS life is not as easy as I expected, damn alot of readings and the worst thing is most of them are wordy and boring articles. Not that I want to mention it but the geography articles are some of the most boring, mind-numbling and act-chim articles that I have to read. Some of the sentences are so confusing that I actually have to spend 5 minutes to decipher each one of them and I'm not even trying to break the da vinci code. Ridiculous.

Ok. Maybe I should spend my time mugging instead of engaging in senseless bloggeristic activities.

Super Blogger

2006-09-03T00:22:00.000-07:00

Transfering files from my desktop to my laptop is such a bitch. Using a puny 128 mb thumbdrive to transfer 20 Gigabytes of information = Non-stop stoning in front of my laptop + checking the file transfer every 2 mins eventhough it will always say "144 Mins Left".

Oh Damn it...Bloody waste of time.

However, the genius aka IT Pro in me took over as I explored the possiblities of wireless transfer. Bingo! After enabling network sharing of the files I was able to simply leave my laptop to run. Eventhough it still says "144 mins left", at least I dont have to keep plugging/unplugging my stupid thumbdrive.

Yeah...haha

Blogger 2

2006-08-23T11:12:00.000-07:00

Yeah!

Today is a good day to blog. I just went for my first practical driving lesson. So fun so cool! Ok I shall be serious and stop writing like a 19 yr old girl. Driving was really fun, I swear I can still hear the irritating daytona repertoire in my head "Gentlemen Start your engine...start your engine...start your engine"

Haha.

I was browsing through some of the blogs and I realised that a highly acclaimed Blogger(Asian Blogger of the Year 05/06) managed to add a chatterbox to his blog. OH WELL! Not bad at all. In response to his act-pro ways, I have decided to take up the module "Introduction to Computing" next Sem. Soon you guys will get to see holographic images popping out of your monitor screens and high-definition laser displays when you visit my blog. All these will only cost you $9.95 per mth. Cheap right? What to do.

IT Pro.

Blogger

2006-08-16T10:03:00.000-07:00

Looks like everyone is busy updating their blogs.

I shall stick to tradition and do the same. Yesterday, I woke up and had breakfast. After that I went to the computer and started playing football manager.

Wah cannot lah! This is damn boring. Ok I shall post a question to all my avid fans out there. What is the first thing you will do if you wake up with a mysterious-looking box on your bed? The box has the word "Osama" written on it.

Group B

2006-06-02T07:19:00.000-07:00

England
Paraguay
Trinidad and Tobago
Sweden

The favourites for this group will be star-studded England. At the moment the English team holds arguably the best center-back in the world in Chelsea skipper John Terry. On top of that, they also have probably the strongest midfield set-up in the world with the quartet of Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, David Beckham and Joe Cole. Steven Gerrard is the star of this midfield, having displayed his inpirational form for Liverpool in the last couple of seasons. Team captain David Beckham remains a crucial member of the team as his laser-guided crosses are deadly against weaker defenses. England is expected to qualify from this group although group challengers Sweden may be a possible stumbling block. As we move into the second round, the fitness of the fantastic talent Wayne Rooney will be critical.

Paraguay arrived in Germany with an outside chance of progressing into the second round provided they can overcome group favourites England and Sweden. Their star striker Roque Santa Cruz has been having problems with his knee. This may prove too much for the south American country to handle.

Trinidad and Tobago will be the whipping boys of this world cup. Led by over the hill striker Dwight Yorke, the whipping boys should not even be hoping for a draw.

Sweden will be a big worry for England in this upcoming world cup. Well known to be a disciplined and highly physical team, the Swedish also has lots of quality in their squad. A fairly decent defence manned by Olof Mellberg and Teddy Lucic should be ably protected by their defensive midfielders. However, their greatest strength lies in their 3-pt attack consisting of Freddie Ljungberg, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrik Larsson. Larsson, in particular had just won the UEFA Champions League with Barcelona, doing exceptionally well to set up both goals in the final win over Arsenal. This team has the potential to push England to the wire.

Group A

2006-05-31T09:21:00.000-07:00

Poland
Germany
Costa Rica
Ecuador

Germany being the favourites will be expected to qualify as winners. However, the pedigree of the team is pretty suspect with a young central defensive pairing of Per Mertesacker and Christoph Metzelder. The star of the team is undoubtedly Micheal Ballack, regarded by many as 1 of the best midfielder in the whole today. Young exciting talents such as Bastian Schweinsteiger and Lukas Podolski will be looking to stake a claim in the starting eleven together with seasoned veterans Torsten Frings and Miroslav Klose.

Little is known about the Polish team, just that it is a solid team that made England sweat all the way to the finals. Expected to be the team to finish 2nd in the group.

The Costa Rican players are generally physically and technically off the mark compared to their more illustrous group mates. Can only rely on their famous striker Paolo Wanchope to put in some surprises. Still, not expected to win any games.

Ecuador, interesting prospect with players like Agustin Delgado and Ulises De La Cruz. Will be expected to challenge Poland for the second spot.

Soccer

2006-05-21T08:20:00.000-07:00

In view of the upcoming Fifa World Cup 2006, I have decided to temporarily convert my uber-nice Asian Blog of the Year to World Cup Coverage.

Starting from today, Howtoown.blogspot.com will invite viewers to generously contribute their highy-sophisticated views and professional analysis of the World Cup. On top of that, I will also provide some of the basic team analysis and lineups update of the competing nations.

This week on dota

2006-05-07T08:58:00.000-07:00

I like Tinker.

Early game will do well to spam missles and laser at opponents. Best position is to be kept in the middle, after missles lvl 3 can spam at both heroes. First item to go for should be Eul scepter. Keeps Tinker alive during mid game. Next item for me will be dagon. Should be able to get a few kills with the laser dagon missles combi.

Complete the Guinsoo. Hex dagon laser missles rearm hex dagon laser missles. Try to train fast fingers. I will go for boots of travel. A good item for slow poke Tinker. Rearm helps to move Tinker around quickly. Mekansm for me.

After that I will go for linken. May be better to go for manta. Depends on your style of play.

Aim

2006-05-06T01:01:00.000-07:00

A cruciate element is missing.

...

2006-04-29T09:27:00.000-07:00

When you close your eyes, you can actually feel clouds

Adam Smith

2006-04-23T10:32:00.000-07:00

According to Adam Smith, the efficiency of production can be noticeably enhanced by division of labour. By example, in the production of hamburgers, if 1 worker with his utmost diligence tries to make hamburgers he will at best struggle to make 10 hamburgers a day. He will be required to pound the beef patty from loose parts before frying it on the pan. He will also be required to bake the bun for the hamburger.

In contrast, 5 workers can be more gainfully employed in the production of hamburgers. 1 worker can pound the patty, 2nd 1 can fry it, the 3rd will bake the bun, the 4th will cut the bun into shape and the 5th will assemble the hamburger. This production line will be capable of producing up to at least 500 hamburgers per day. By calculation this is at least 10 times more productive than if the workers are producing the hamburgers individually.

Jeremiah 29:11

2006-04-19T04:06:00.000-07:00

For I know the plans I have for you, "declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Jeon Ji Hyun

2006-04-12T10:12:00.000-07:00

Prettier than Charlene

Clutch

2006-04-11T08:54:00.000-07:00

As I strode across the room the dreaded feelings start to well up within me. Cold sweat broke relentlessly down my sides. Mustering what little I had in my reserves I forced myself to peer into the keyhole to inspect the devastation next door. Bodies strewn carelessly about the floor only served to confirm my greatest fears. It has struck. Or rather, HE has struck.

This is not the right time to grieve about our losses. I need to bring the grim news to the council as soon as possible. The way out was definitely smoother and faster, slightly due to the fact that I needed to hasten to the council but mainly because of my escalating disgust for the surroudings. The council will certainly not be pleased. In fact, I can imagine them rushing through their countless policies and attempting to find a most politically correct solution to this threat. Slightly distracted and moving on auto-pilot I breezed through the gate, stopping momentarily as I caught something at the corner of my eye. Even in my disturbed state this kind of elementary shadowing skills are simply insufficient against me.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Dumb

2006-04-09T07:12:00.000-07:00

It is dumb to waste our time indulging in blogs. Worse, to indulge in dota-related blogs.

In other words, I am really dumb.

Guess I need to find a galfren soon.

OIC

2006-04-08T21:59:00.000-07:00

Recent games had been interesting. Thought about the ability of heroes like naix and naga siren.

Naix in particular, is downright interesting. With a sickening ability to leech life, it is an impossible hero to handle come late game. Just imagine, a lifeleech of 40% in late game is sick to say the least. For every 200 dmg/s you will be leeching back 80hp/s. Much of the intel heroes cannot even do 80 dmg/s! Naix is impossible to be defeated in hand to hand combat, even when faced with stunners/nukers he can simply activate his ulti Avatar to dispose of the enemy. As such, it appears that the only other hero capable of taking on Naix is the Naga Siren.

Naga Siren. Appears to possess mediocre skills such as her not-so-impressive critical strike(45% chance to 1.5 times dmg) and the song of the siren. This bitch, however is deadly in 1on1 situations. Net, disables the opponent for 5 Sec; Mirror Image, creates 3 images to deal 45% dmg. This 2 skills, when comboed together can kill most heroes in the game. That, includes Naix. Avatar is not immune to Net. A similar built Naga Siren can Net a Avatared Naix and kill him with her images before he recovers from the Net. Wow. Interesting.

Siong

2006-03-11T03:55:00.000-08:00

Wow...Today was super-siong. The cycling trip was a killer, nearly literally.

To think that we actually visited marcus's room in nus and caught him playing dota. Yep, dota and more dota. Wait you thought I was about to start talking about stuff other than dota? No way man! Haha...

He was using the Dwarven Sniper, which brings me to an important point. Btw, he happened to get Beyond-Godlike but most probably the opponents are all noobs so ya no big deal. The sniper is a sick and slightly imba hero. With an unfairly big range, he is almost invincible against all melee heroes. Imagine a sniper with hyper and his headshot, that is imba ranged no-penalty bashing. Thats right, a ranged basher hero that can deal damaged from a distance away making it difficult for the melee heroes to get close to him. That is imba, but not buggy.

Obviously there are numerous ways of stopping him...(Eg stunning) but the point is he is stronger than normal. Thats unfair. Another unfair advantage that exists in dota. We shall look at more examples in the future.

Something else

2006-03-03T00:33:00.000-08:00

I spent the last half-an-hour thinking of what to write.

Seems like I do not have the qualities of Asian blogger of the year.

Today's game.

2006-02-21T10:05:00.000-08:00

Recently, the games that I played have left me disillusioned. Is it true that all intel heroes are useless come end game?

Come to think of it. The few times that I got thrashed by intel heroes are normally against players that are much better than me at that point of time. To add to that, when they switch to using Strenght or Agility heroes the gap is clearer...and they actually win faster and better.

So in conclusion. Intel heroes can be good in the hands of better players, but they are still inferior compared to the other 2 types. This is why, dota is stupid. Why have these stupid heroes when they are distinctly weaker?

Boring

2006-02-19T09:52:00.000-08:00

I was just doing abit of thinking the other day.

No matter what you write about how to play the game is not going to change the way you play it. Which is why I am trying to rectify this.

For starters, I think I must stop playing it altogether. It is like a virus (something like bird flu), slowly eating away my life and time away when people are doing constructive and self-improving things like working and studying. For every kill I make they are making money, for every death they are gaining knowledge. This is so wasteful. I must stop this decay.

So I decided. I am going to officially retire from the world of DOTA. No doubt this is a sad piece of news for all my fans out there but this is absolutely necessary. No more Dota from today onwards...

That was 2 weeks ago. From then till now I stopped playing the game...No I didnt. Kidding. I played less. Around once per 2 days. Around 1 game a day.

However, I realized that I am spending more time doing useless things. Like this. Writing stupid blogs to document my adventures in DOTA. And all the fantasies that I have Dota fans. This is sad. I cannot continue writing. I must go...and play Football Manager 2006 now. Good game.

Farming Part 1

2006-02-09T03:35:00.000-08:00

Hi.

Long time since I updated my nooby blog. Today we will talk about the basics of Owning.

The purpose of the DOTA is for you to kick the shit out of the opposing team and eventually to destroy that Big Tree or Frozen Throne of theirs.

All you need to do to achieve the above-mentioned is to play damn well and to kill alot of heroes/creeps. When the game starts, you will be given a fixed amount of money to buy whatever items you need. That is unimportant. What important is how fast you can earn. For starters, you move your hero over to a lane. Yep, that means either 1 of the 3 empty stripes of terrain on the map.

Concentration is very important when you are creeping. Currently there are 2 techniques that i prefer when creeping.

Senario 1 : If you are using a ranged hero, it will be best to employ the "S" technique. This means that you place ur hero in a fixed position whenever an enemy creep wave approaches. Use your left thumb to continuously tap the "ALT" button to display the health of the creeps. At the same time, use whichever finger you favour to continuously tap the "S" button. This is to stop your hero from attacking any creeps. Take note that you should avoid holding the "S" and the "ALT" button at the same time as this will bring up the SAVE menu.

Now, observe the health of the creeps and attempt to estimate the damage that your hero will be able to deal. As the creep is approaching red health, time your attack to perfection and effect a hit on the creep. If you are able to kill the creep you will be awarded with gold.

This is damn tiring. I will proceed to explain about the second technique for Melee hero in the next entry.

Thank you.

First lesson on Owning

2006-01-23T21:11:00.000-08:00

For people who plays dota.

Feel free to drop your comments on how to own. I will filter them and insert accordingly.

Thanks.