Stop telling people I am a retiree? NEVERWINTER banzai!

Regular readers know that I spend quite a bit of time online gaming.

It is something I enjoy and the fact that it is free to play (F2P) makes it even more attractive for me.

I also enjoy meeting people from all over the world in the game.

Neverwinter has a gaming population that is almost 3 times the size of Singapore's population!

Therefore, the virtual economy is big and very vibrant as we can buy and sell stuff found in our adventures.

Although we can trade with NPCs (i.e. non-player characters), the more interesting and lucrative trades are with other players.

After more than a year gaming, I have had quite a few chats with fellow gamers and I am sharing one here.






Gamer #1:
What do you do in RL?

AK:
I am a retiree.

Gamer #2:
Oh, so are we!

Gamer #1:
Enjoying some good quality time with the grand kids?

AK:
Uh....

Gamer #2:
They grow up so fast!

Gamer #1:
Don't they now?







Do most people assume that retirees are in their 60s or older and probably have grandchildren?

To be fair, I think it is probably not an unreasonable assumption

I now wonder if I should stop telling people I am a retiree?





I mean I was telling people I was unemployed before but I was advised not to do that.

See:
You are not successful unless...

Well, to be more accurate, I am classified by our government as economically inactive and not unemployed.

The Japanese might call me an Otaku or shut-in or N.E.E.T. (i.e. not in employment, education nor training).

The Chinese will call me 宅男.

I have decided.

I will tell people that I am a full time gamer!

Neverwinter banzai!






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Tea with AK71: Mahjong RubiksCube.

I had lunch with an old friend whom I have known for more than 20 years. As we grow older, we grow more sentimental, perhaps. After lunch, I decided to walk into a shop selling comics and knick knacks. It is a shop I enjoyed going to frequently in my younger days. Just when I thought there's nothing interesting enough for me to buy, this caught my eyes!

The RubiksCube was first introduced when I was in primary school, I think. See how it has evolved? Amazing! My friend opened his, I scrambled it up and he tried to put it back together again. It is much more difficult compared to the old cube with solid colors.

We have to make sure that the 6 sides each has the correct family of symbols AND the symbols have to be in sequence if numbers are involved (as in the TONG ZI, WAN ZI and TIAO ZI) AND the right side up (this applies to all sides, the other three sides being HONG ZHONG, BAI BAN and FA CAI)! Wah!

A small detail on the packaging caught my eyes too. Why does one say for ages 3 to adult and another, ages 8 to adult? Hmmm... Maybe, I am not smart enough to comprehend this. Made in China, where else? ;p