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06th January 2009, 04:30

3rd and 4th Jan - The Departure of 4 Great Players

Internet was down for one and a half days. Finally it's up and I can blog again! The internet here is not stable and very very slow, especially when the tournament is ongoing. It takes 1 to 5 minutes to load one page. I think it has to do with the amount of people tuning in to pplive, or maybe it's PGL using up all the bandwidth. In the early morning, before the tournament starts, the internet speed seem acceptable though.

suhO, Grubby, FoV and and LiKE out
In Step 2 of PGL tournament system, we see the departure of 2 players from Team C and 2 players from Team D. These two teams didn't do well in the team battles, so someone had to be punished! It's sad to see these four great players going out of the tournament, because it means there will be less great games to watch. Still, there are some interesting games out there. Personally, I enjoy watching Russian Fede- Undead Happy's games. His micro is really good and he makes nice surrounds. Let's hope he goes far into the tournament. :)

 


The orginal scribbles from the drawings. It shows HoT will play against Infi, WhO plays against HopeStar etc.

 


Finally we bought a heater as well! It's smart of HoT and White-RA to buy it already on their first day here. But as White-RA says, "It's better late than never!". We still have to survive about 2 more weeks here, with WC3L and Extreme Masters coming up, also in the same location. At least no more shivering with coldness in the hotel room for now. :)

 


For players, to get food isn't easy. If you ask PGL to order food for you, they can only order KFC. Fast food is not that healthy for progamers. For some progamers who want to eat more healthy, they have to walk out of the compound to eat in Chinese restaurants which are anywhere from 10 to 25 minutes away by walking. The past few days we have been eating in the same restaurant and got sick of it. So HoT, Grubby and me took a cab to go to a shopping mall where we found this Japanese restaurant from the chain "Ajisen-ramen". The food there is quite nice. I ordered Eel fried rice while HoT and Grubby ordered Katsu-don. I cook Katsu-don at home sometimes, so Grubby is familiar with it.

At night, it's not possible to find food at all when all the restaurants are closed. Once, Happy was hungry, so he walked out of the compound at 11pm in search for some food. Mission failed, so he came to our hotel room to ask for food. Luckily we always stock up food in our room because we knew we might get hungry at night sometimes. Grubby gave Happy some bread and jam, noodles, cookies and mandarin oranges. It's important that we all take care of each other, especially when we are together in foreign countries.

 


I also had a fish roe sushi roll.

 


Grubby is in the center-fold of the most popular/famous gaming magazine in China. A fan passed the magazine and poster to Grubby so it may get signed.

 

Funny Quote of the Day
Happy: WE.PEPSI.LiKE should change his nick to WE.LiKE.PEPSI. :D

 

--> myMYM.com's PGL Coverage <--

 

 
Comments (30)

 

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(last year)  #1 PMSPinkSheep
PinkSheep
Happy Happy New Year Cassandra! =D
the world is my playground...
(last year)  #2 GKoOCassandra
Cassandra
Happy New Year girl! :)
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
(last year)  #3 kakaGL
 
hello PPG, When you come to Beijing ,
I am in Beijing,


from grubby fans
(last year)  #4 kakaGL
 
Happy Happy New Year Cassandra! :p
(last year)  #9 GKoOCassandra
Cassandra
Happy New Year, Grubby's fans!

May your idol bring you many more great/epic games this year! :)
Last edited by Cassandra at 06.01.2009, 10:05

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
(last year)  #5 PCgames-zcJspi-
-zcJspi-
happy new year Cassandra!CEA(China Electronic Athletics) is the name of the magazine.Wow you bought this heater??
game ends when life ends!
(last year)  #6 PCgames-zcJspi-
-zcJspi-
WE like pepsi,yeah,of course
game ends when life ends!
(last year)  #7 Oceanus
 
Enjoy yourselves in the following days.
I think Grubby will do much better on WC3L finals.
Maybe you could try to taste hot pot, it's really delicious, just little spicy:D
(last year)  #18 GKoOCassandra
Cassandra
We just had hot pot for dinner! Hehe.. it's spicy, but it's quite nice!
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
(last year)  #8 LunaFrost
 
While I bet living in China for a while could get uncomfortable, living in the same hotel room, always eating either Chinese food or just takeaway, not much that you're used to, it does sound like a bunch of fun as well. That said, I guess you and Grubby are used to travelling, although maybe not for this long eh?

And lol, while Happy's quote is funny, I think that joke was made the very first day Pepsi became WE's sponsor.

Keep the blogs going, always very enjoyable. Thanks Cassandra : ).
(last year)  #19 GKoOCassandra
Cassandra
Well, yeah this trip in China will be a little over 3 weeks, it's really pretty long. We never been this long in China before.

Once we stayed in Korea for around 3 weeks as well, that's in year 2006.

The longest period we travelled and stayed away from home was 6 weeks, that's the summer of 2007. We went to Paris, then to Korea, then to Orange County in US, then back to Korea, and finally back home to The Netherlands. It was something like that. Forgot whether China was included in that trip. It wasn't easy, we end up having lots of laundry, and I had to try to wash them or get them washed during the long trip. It was a lot of luggage too, Grubby wanted to keep those big cheques he got from being top three in tournaments, and trophies and medals, and any extra gaming equipment he got as well.

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
(last year)  #10 NeverGG
 
nice read! nice pics!
Better light a candle than curse the darkness!
(last year)  #11 kakaGL
 
cang kaka
(last year)  #12 losemann
losemann
i like taht Steelseries folder :-)
benson rox

[www.losemann.asia] - my blog
(last year)  #13 Obelisk7
 
WE LIKE PEPSI!!!!!!!!
"Take Nothing For Granted, For Everything Changes"
(last year)  #14 Guizac
 
"Happy: WE.PEPSI.LiKE should change his nick to WE.LiKE.PEPSI. :D"]

LOL?
(last year)  #15 grubbycrizefans
grubbycrizefans
Happy New Year Cassandra :D
i am very happy to see u and grubby in the pgl site at yesterday, and have a photo with grubby ,it is so wonderful .
you are so beautyful . Good luck to you :D
(last year)  #16 imported_ixion
imported_ixion
Happy: WE.PEPSI.LiKE should change his nick to WE.LiKE.PEPSI. :D


very old joke
(last year)  #17 Spito
 
HaPPy nEw yEaR ._. a.q
(last year)  #20 Lun-
 
nice blog
(last year)  #21 GKoOJustLittlestar-
JustLittlestar-
Happy New Year Cass and Grubby :) Wish you to be always happy , new excellent blogs , and new tournament wins ! and Enjoy your stay in China , while i'll enjoy my stay in Utrecht :)

P.S nice read , great pics and GOGOGO Happy!

We are 4Kings
(last year)  #22 Wingblade
 
Quoting Cassandra:

Happy New Year, Grubby's fans!

May your idol bring you many more great/epic games this year! :)



Im a Cassandra fan ? :O

Happy New year pieps
(last year)  #23 MrJayGatsby
MrJayGatsby
Happy New Year Cassandra :D

I have one of those heaters at home, it's a good alternative to heating because you can heat up your bedroom at night while not wasting heat on the entire house. Plus saves you a lot of heating bills :)
(last year)  #24 GuideWiki
 
Happy new year!

Nice article, its a good thing you got a heater, it sounds so cold >.<
(last year)  #25 bonzie
 
Happy new year Cassandra .. im a big fan of your blog .. keep it up !!
so i may have readings for my working day :D

too bad Grubby didn't make it to the next phase =(
(last year)  #26 4KFXythical
 
Isn't it very expensive in China?
(last year)  #27 __LoG
 
i dont think so!
(last year)  #28 4KFXythical
 
Have you been in china?
(last year)  #29 __LoG
 
Once!
(last year)  #30 romarez
romarez
I LIKE PEPSI!

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