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Ok, so I've been neglegting the blog since my exams were over so here's another wall of text.

I've actually wanted to write on many things for the past month but was just too lazy to actually think of the content and structure of the stuff I want to write. I'm actually quite particular about the grammar and spelling of the stuff I write here because I believe it helps keep my English from going rusty.

Firstly, I wanted to write about the big controversy going on between SM Entertainment and Mnet in Korea but that was during my exam period and I really didn't have time to look up on more facts to back up my knowledge of the controversy. I have all the time I need now but I figure there's no point writing an outdated article about the entertainment industry in Korea when everybody that's reading this crap is not interested.

Then there's the post-exam summary on how I did for my Macro. To keep it short, let's just say my fate is decided entirely on the bell-curve now. I've done what I could and I'll just have to wait till the end of this month to see how well/bad I did for the paper.

Ahh, jobs... Been looking at the job market throught JobsDB and I'm seeing a lot of job openings for Engineers but the thing is most of then are looking for experienced engineers or diploma graduates. Have already send in applications to those few that were looking for fresh degree graduates. Hope I get some good news by end of this year.

Going to Bangkok on the 13th. I'm not really into shopping and since we're following a tour, I guess we're gonna be moving from shopping spots to popular landmarks to shopping spots so I'm not particularly excited about that. However it'll be good to spend time with my family on a holiday. =)
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The grand finals for SMM Grand Dota Tournament (SGNDT) was held in Melaka last week. For those who don't know, SGNDT is probably the world's biggest Dota LAN tournament in the world with a total prize value of RM135,000. Malaysian teams are required to participate in state qualifiers for places in the grand finals and big teams from around the world were invited to take part in the lucrative event.

China turned out to be the biggest winners of this year's tournament taking first, second and third place with all top 3 teams drafting and playing amazingly well. I watched a few games live via GGTV streams and really thought Kingsurf (Malaysia) had a big chance of taking home gold because of Yamateh's godly performance and Chuan's huge improvements from the past but they lost out to eventual champions sGty in a great game that lasted more than 70 minutes. The game was pretty close and Kingsurf looked to have won the game when Papaxiong stold the opponents relic while they were leading in kills and towers but the Chinese continued playing with great determination and eventually won the game.

After watching a few of the replays of the teams from China, I realized that the Chinese teams are actually very smart and it's no wonder that they took home the top 3 prizes. Their drafted well and stuck to the plan no matter what happened without losing confidence eventhough being down on kills early. Europeans may complain that the way the Chinese (or to some extent, Asians) played were purely based on farming and delaying the game till their DPS is buffed enough to win the game, but it's undeniable that it's the best and most effected way to win a game.

However, the Chinese took farming to a whole new level. It's normal to have 1 player being able to farm incredibly well in a team but having 3 players farming at the same time and all 3 of them are coming out with items at incredible speed is just incredible. The whole team is working as a whole, and everyone is playing their roles to perfection. In the Finals, there was actually fierce 5v5 battle happened in the middle lane and after every hero has spammed EVERY spell and ulti they have, nobody died. Now it may seem like nothing to most people but to us we see it as 10 very smart players in a very skillful and intelligent engagement.

I was disappointed at Kingsurf's lost because Yamateh really played very well through out the tournament but I can't deny that the Chinese teams deserved the top places.