Well, Veni Vidi Vici, here I come.
Today I finally became the Emperor of China, after many hours of battles, training, economy development, human relationships, recruiting of troops and generals, conquering city after city and building barracks and crossing rivers, I've done it!
Maybe you already understand that I've been playing computer games, heh. To be exact, I played one game, named The History of Three Kingdoms (literal translation), which has its roots in the famous Chinese book The Three Kingdoms. Anyhow, the game was rather addictive at beginning, full of challenge. Towards the end it lost its glory, mainly due to me being so superior to the computer adversaries (perhaps also because I chose the basic level of AI to play with). Many hours wasted, but historical and some geographical knowledge gained.
Above all, cultural adherence to Chinese university students have been gained.. I heard that this was / is the most popular game that Chinese uni students play, mostly male uni students. Someone can comment if this is not correct. Now I can say that I understand better the "inner world" of those young people addicted to this kind of strategic computer games. Helps me in counselling sessions.. ? :P
Anyhow, addiction, it is a huge topic and I'll go on to discuss it in the next post entry, in due time. It's good to talk about it, my experiences and explore the nature of it and the ways to overcome it. Such is life.
Btw. I'm rather happy Finnish national hockey team didn't get too far in this year's world championships, otherwise I would've spent many more hours watching their game and reading their stories... :)