Into 2009

-Eat a Quad Stacker (Done)
-Eat a Mega Mac (Done, Mega Mac beats Quad Stacker)
-Unlock Axtinguisher (Done)
-Unlock Blutsauger (Done)
-Finish up to Chapter 4 minimum
-Take over the world
-Resuscitate the plant above my desk (Failed)
-Return all of Sam's Discworld books (Done)
-Get the other two Gaunt's Ghost omnibuses (Done. There's only one other)
-Figure out why the *&!@ TF2 keeps shutting down on me mid-game (Done, and fixed)
-Convince parents to let me build my own computer

Before I go any further, there's a good guess that O-Level results will be out on 12 of January. A newspaper article involving a tuition teacher who scammed parents asked the judge to let her out on bail for her daughter's O-Level posting, and the judge agreed to let her out until Jan 19. According to another blog I saw, that means "the JAE will be done by Jan 19", so it must have started a couple of days before. The author guessed that it would be 12 Jan, given the posting starts a few days after the results come out.

I bought a microphone, so I can communicate/shout at the dumbasses who try and shovel enemies to death when I uber them. All I'll say is it's unlocked a whole new experience.

First time I tried talking in the Starhub servers, they thought I was speaking Chinese.

Then midway through Gold Rush, the building near the second point, me and another Medic were building ubers to rush the sentries on the ceiling. Then, all of a sudden, a red Demoman turns up at the door and attempts to blow us and our patients to pieces. With 97% ubercharge, I thought "Oh shi- I'm out of here!"

So I tried to back down the stairs and realized I couldn't go any further. Turning around, there was yet another red Demoman who tried to attack us from the back. I quickly switched to my blutsauger for a close range duel.

All of a sudden I'm bombarded with voice-chat screaming "MICRO, USE YOUR UBER YOU STUPID CH**BYE!", "UBER ME! UBER ME YOU F***KING C**T!". I got the Demoman, but the other one fragged me...

In the respawn room, I was assaulted once more with verbal abuse. That never gets to me, but the following line did.

"Eh, why you so stupid ah? Got uber why never use... Lucky I got or we all die liao..."

In a squeaky, lazy drawl that was far too high to be male. The girl was the other Medic. THAT really got to me. That annoying, bimbotic drawl that sends me into my own version of the Black Rage. If I knew the Dark Angel's Litany of Hate, I'd have chanted it.

I DIED TO SAVE YOUR BLOODY UBERCHARGE YOU STUPID BITCH! I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE GOOD WITH THAT DAMNED MEDIGUN! YOU WILL NOT TELL ME I WAS STUPID TO LOSE MY UBERCHARGE FOR YOURS! YOU WILL NOT RALLY ALL THE GUYS IN TEAM AGAINST ME SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU FLOUT RULE 16 OF THE INTERNET (There are NO girls on the internet)

Okay, that's out. Team furious with me, I furious with team. So I switch team, and everything became much better.

There was an old uncle on the other team, given how he sounded and spoke on the voice chat. And he was very, very good.

It was like being lead into battle by a grizzled veteran of war, the one with the perpetual unshaven face and greying hair, a lean frame that nonetheless manages to overpower muscled barbarians on the other side of the lines. The one who always manages to keep his squad alive and lead them home while looking and sounding badass the whole time.

Very nice to Medics he was. Disappointed I didn't have a Kritzkrieg for him, since he made one more effective on defence than an ubercharge. Won every game and came in top three whenever I stuck around and healed him. Watched him rape enemy team as Soldier when another Medic Kritzkrieged him.

Microphone's greatly reduce odds of an ubercharge becoming a dud. Most players will be considerate enough to tell you that they're out of ammo. Still accidently ubered an AFK Heavy once. We stood there like a bunch of dummies, unmoving and watching the world go by surrounded by a blue tinted glow.