Just came back from KPMC yesterday.
I have like about 3 competitions to update now.
25 more days to exam.
Study like mad.
PS I'm thinking of changing this blog into a Go/Baduk blog, since I write stuff about Go most of the time. I prefer to move my grumblings and complaints elsewhere and put all the stuff separately from Go... Maybe tumblr?
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Stress Venting Post - The 3P Incident and IGS
Firstly I need to apologise for all the unhappy posts so far.
I was a actually a more emotional person than I thought I was.
And this one will be another one of them.
I just felt really stressed after coming back from Singapore.
I really need to vent it out somewhere.
And here it goes...
So far I've had 3 major incidents involving my passport.
Once, a few years ago, right before going to the airport to board the plane for Thai U-Go, I couldn't find my passport anywhere.
In the end I found my passport in my other house, but by that time it was already too late.
To make it to the competition, I had to buy another ticket to Chiang Mai myself.
Second incident happened last year, when I actually brought my mother's passport by mistake to the airport.
I only realised it when checking in.
Luckily there was still a lot of time left, so my parents drove and passed me my own passport.
3rd incident happened just yesterday.
I was almost in front of customs, when I realised I left my passport on the plane.
I had the habit to keep my passport in the seat pocket.
By the time I ran back, the door was already closed.
I talked to the information counter, and they called the tiger airlines staff.
They say they will check the airplane and pass me my passport if it's found.
I waited for almost 1 hour, but still nothing.
In the end I managed to came out using my IC.
They called me a few hours later after I reached home, and they said they found my passport.
I'm going to collect it later.
I was so upset I didn't have the appetite to eat anything after I reached home and I just slept.
Got a lot of scolding from my mum.
She was right, I didn't learn from my lessons.
1st incident: Always check your passport early.
2nd incident: Always check whether it's your own passport.
3rd incident: Always keep your passport in your bag.
I listed down all my mistakes.
Basically, I didn't treat the passport an an important thing.
From now on, I will never make the same mistakes again.
Just when I thought I could have a happy day after managing to get back my passport, some other incident happened...
I had a competition on IGS on Tuesday.
If I keep winning in the competition, I will get to go for Sports Accord World Mind Games in China at the end of the year and play with the pros.
The first game was an easy opponent.
But on Tuesday, I had to fly back from Thailand to Singapore, hence I couldn't play.
Therefore, I found a friend, YF to help me play.
His Go Strength is about my level.
After reaching Thailand, the organisers sent me an email telling me the details of the competition.
They said if the time is not suitable, I could discuss with my opponent to change the time.
We must finish the game by Wednesday.
Which means, I could have changed to time of the competition to Wednesday night instead.
However, I wasn't sure whether the opponent would read the message if I sent him.
I also found it troublesome to communicate through the IGS portal, hence I decided to just let things go according to what I planned and let YF play for me on the stipulated time.
In the end, after I returned, they sent me an email saying I lost by default because I didn't log in at that time but my opponent did.
That's totally the opposite story of what YF told me.
He told me he logged in and waited for the opponent for 1 hour but he didn't appear.
The organisers sent me my accounts log in details.
I was not online at the time of the competition.
What exactly happened?
I don't know.
All I know is that I lost the game without even playing it.
Because I made a serious mistake once again.
I should have at least tried to negotiate with my opponent to change the time.
Because it's always better for me myself to play rather than someone who has never used IGS before.
If my opponent didn't agree, then there was nothing else I could do, but I should have at least tried.
I was confident that I would at least win the first 2 rounds of the competition.
But now I already lost in the 1st round to someone I could've won by default.
Which made my 100+ games I played in the preliminary useless.
Just because of 1 wrong move.
This kind of makes me want to feel like laughing at myself.
I always underestimate things and think everything will be ok.
I should try to change things myself.
I should stop waiting.
This Thai U-Go also had a lot of waiting, but I won't talk about it this time.
Now I'm really more sad about this than my 3P incident.
Not because I can't go meet the pros anymore, because I knew it will be difficult.
But it's because I lost by default because of such a stupid mistake.
That's so much more painful then losing a game by 100 points.
Assignments and tests coming up, but somehow I don't feel like studying...
Stress venting post done.... Hopefully I can make a happy post next time...
I was a actually a more emotional person than I thought I was.
And this one will be another one of them.
I just felt really stressed after coming back from Singapore.
I really need to vent it out somewhere.
And here it goes...
So far I've had 3 major incidents involving my passport.
Once, a few years ago, right before going to the airport to board the plane for Thai U-Go, I couldn't find my passport anywhere.
In the end I found my passport in my other house, but by that time it was already too late.
To make it to the competition, I had to buy another ticket to Chiang Mai myself.
Second incident happened last year, when I actually brought my mother's passport by mistake to the airport.
I only realised it when checking in.
Luckily there was still a lot of time left, so my parents drove and passed me my own passport.
3rd incident happened just yesterday.
I was almost in front of customs, when I realised I left my passport on the plane.
I had the habit to keep my passport in the seat pocket.
By the time I ran back, the door was already closed.
I talked to the information counter, and they called the tiger airlines staff.
They say they will check the airplane and pass me my passport if it's found.
I waited for almost 1 hour, but still nothing.
In the end I managed to came out using my IC.
They called me a few hours later after I reached home, and they said they found my passport.
I'm going to collect it later.
I was so upset I didn't have the appetite to eat anything after I reached home and I just slept.
Got a lot of scolding from my mum.
She was right, I didn't learn from my lessons.
1st incident: Always check your passport early.
2nd incident: Always check whether it's your own passport.
3rd incident: Always keep your passport in your bag.
I listed down all my mistakes.
Basically, I didn't treat the passport an an important thing.
From now on, I will never make the same mistakes again.
Just when I thought I could have a happy day after managing to get back my passport, some other incident happened...
I had a competition on IGS on Tuesday.
If I keep winning in the competition, I will get to go for Sports Accord World Mind Games in China at the end of the year and play with the pros.
The first game was an easy opponent.
But on Tuesday, I had to fly back from Thailand to Singapore, hence I couldn't play.
Therefore, I found a friend, YF to help me play.
His Go Strength is about my level.
After reaching Thailand, the organisers sent me an email telling me the details of the competition.
They said if the time is not suitable, I could discuss with my opponent to change the time.
We must finish the game by Wednesday.
Which means, I could have changed to time of the competition to Wednesday night instead.
However, I wasn't sure whether the opponent would read the message if I sent him.
I also found it troublesome to communicate through the IGS portal, hence I decided to just let things go according to what I planned and let YF play for me on the stipulated time.
In the end, after I returned, they sent me an email saying I lost by default because I didn't log in at that time but my opponent did.
That's totally the opposite story of what YF told me.
He told me he logged in and waited for the opponent for 1 hour but he didn't appear.
The organisers sent me my accounts log in details.
I was not online at the time of the competition.
What exactly happened?
I don't know.
All I know is that I lost the game without even playing it.
Because I made a serious mistake once again.
I should have at least tried to negotiate with my opponent to change the time.
Because it's always better for me myself to play rather than someone who has never used IGS before.
If my opponent didn't agree, then there was nothing else I could do, but I should have at least tried.
I was confident that I would at least win the first 2 rounds of the competition.
But now I already lost in the 1st round to someone I could've won by default.
Which made my 100+ games I played in the preliminary useless.
Just because of 1 wrong move.
This kind of makes me want to feel like laughing at myself.
I always underestimate things and think everything will be ok.
I should try to change things myself.
I should stop waiting.
This Thai U-Go also had a lot of waiting, but I won't talk about it this time.
Now I'm really more sad about this than my 3P incident.
Not because I can't go meet the pros anymore, because I knew it will be difficult.
But it's because I lost by default because of such a stupid mistake.
That's so much more painful then losing a game by 100 points.
Assignments and tests coming up, but somehow I don't feel like studying...
Stress venting post done.... Hopefully I can make a happy post next time...
Thursday, October 11, 2012
4th and 2nd Time
Going for my 4th Thai U-Go tomorrow.
After coming back from Thailand and 1 week of rest, I will be flying off to Korea for KPMC.
Why did I choose to do this?
Well initially I wanted to see whether I can go KPMC before choosing to go Thai U-Go, because that has always been my priority.
However, this year, the Thai U-Go selection was held first, and I had no choice but to make a choice.
Not knowing whether I could go KPMC, I chose to sign up for Thai U-Go because it's almost certain that I will get to go for it if I sign up.
So I thought I might as well sign up for one since it will eliminate the possibility of me not being able to go for both.
In the end I won Yuxiang in KPMC selection and got to go for both.
What will happen to my studies?
Honestly speaking, I believe if I study hard, I can do well.
Or at least improve my grades.
Or at least pass.
It's just a matter of whether I will study or not.
Studies aside, actually now I don't really feel like going Thai U-Go anymore.
Reasons are written in my previous post.
I don't feel that Thai U-Go this year will be that much of a happy trip.
Oh well, maybe I will just try to enjoy the Baduk part.
I should aim to get 4 wins out of 6, so that I will have an excuse not to go again next year.
But then I haven't been playing serious games lately, so I don't know what will happen.
Good luck to myself.
After coming back from Thailand and 1 week of rest, I will be flying off to Korea for KPMC.
Why did I choose to do this?
Well initially I wanted to see whether I can go KPMC before choosing to go Thai U-Go, because that has always been my priority.
However, this year, the Thai U-Go selection was held first, and I had no choice but to make a choice.
Not knowing whether I could go KPMC, I chose to sign up for Thai U-Go because it's almost certain that I will get to go for it if I sign up.
So I thought I might as well sign up for one since it will eliminate the possibility of me not being able to go for both.
In the end I won Yuxiang in KPMC selection and got to go for both.
What will happen to my studies?
Honestly speaking, I believe if I study hard, I can do well.
Or at least improve my grades.
Or at least pass.
It's just a matter of whether I will study or not.
Studies aside, actually now I don't really feel like going Thai U-Go anymore.
Reasons are written in my previous post.
I don't feel that Thai U-Go this year will be that much of a happy trip.
Oh well, maybe I will just try to enjoy the Baduk part.
I should aim to get 4 wins out of 6, so that I will have an excuse not to go again next year.
But then I haven't been playing serious games lately, so I don't know what will happen.
Good luck to myself.
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