My passion towards RO

RO ~ Ragnarok Online, the first online game in Malaysia

I started to be in touch with RO on December 2003, the holiday before my form 5 started.
During the holiday before that, I used to be very hardworking, did exercises for my english grammar as I knew I was very weak in it [now the same =p]. After I knew the existence of RO, I indulged in playing game, didn't do my english exercise anymore. There was still few weeks time before my form 5 class started, I kept playing RO whenever I was free but the computer is sharing between my brothers and I.
Everyday, I woke up automatically early in the morning (my early not really very early, about 8 am), just to play game. It's because that time my brothers haven't wake up.
Until after my form 5 started, I still kept thinking of it. Right after I back from school, I would do all my things included eat and bathe, then did my homework while my brothers played, then in night time, my turn to play game. Sometimes my brothers and I fighted for our turn to play RO.
At first, everyone played the game without need to pay, but after few months, we had to pay to play this game, quite a number of people stopped playing after that but there were still many people like us continued.
Even my father was attracted to play this game, affected by us. Many of my net friends were shocked to know this. Besides, my mum's shop also started to sell RO reload cards and books about RO, kinda be the distributor.
Then, there was a programmed designed especially for RO, bot, for leveling up the level of the character we playing automatically. It's illegal but almost everyone playing RO did that. Before we used the bot, we handplay to level up the character hard, but with much fun as we could get to know many friends from RO while partying to fight monsters. After we started to use bot, we reduced the time to play as we wanted the bot to run to level up our character faster.
However, our hearts were still on RO. We couldn't stop thinking of RO, we couldn't concentrate on our study like the past. My result wasn't really bad, but if I studied more, I knew I could get a better result.
Form 5, as we all know, it's the year we having SPM, a very important exam to decide our future. I didn't see it as very important but only important. Frankly, I didn't have much mood to study or struggle to do exercises to get the best result.

Many people wondering, is it the game so attractive? hmm... at first, I can tell you yes. It's normal for all people to be indulged in doing something very new, something that you haven't master the skill to do the best, something that you are still weak in it. So, the same with RO, I coudn't stop thinking of it because I still haven't master the game, I still got many things unknown, I was like a noob there. But now, I am going to start my form 6 in about one week time, I can tell you, I can stop keep thinking of RO already. Very simple reason, I have no regret in playing it already because almost all the thing I want to do I'd already done. It can be said as, I quit ROing. ROing ~ the new word we created for playing RO, a verb. I don't say that I already master the whole game, but... at least half or more than half, it's more than enough.

The biggest reward I obtained from RO ~~> I'd got to know many many new net friends. They are sincere friends to me, better than those we knew in ICQ. RO friends are true friends to me, mostly but not all. ICQ friends, mostly are pretending, cheating, but can't deny that there are small parts of them are true to you. As many people agree, RO is just like another Real World, it reflects most of the people's real personality.
I think in future, I may go in RO to walk walk inside to search for my net friends once in a while, maybe once in a few months, but it doesn't mean I am still indulged in playing RO.
There are a lot of sweet and bitter memories in RO. I will have them in my memory forever.