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Had been playing pool at Yahoo! Games for the past 2 hours and now my right wrist feels so numb, probably due to it resting motionlessly on the computer table for a long period of time. I finally decided to stop after my wrist started hurting when I moved it.

This is what I call the Excessive Computer Usage syndrome, which happens when you hand is clasped over your mouse and keyboard for too long a time to an extent of it losing all sensation of movement. So far, I had been struck by this so-called syndrome for two times. The first happening in July this year when my left wrist continued to throb for three full days due to me typing too fast when I was using the computer. I wonder how many computer addicts in this world had already been struck by this syndrome. Care to share your experiences with me?

JW introduced the Virtual Pool game to me during our Project Work meeting yesterday. Being the usual curious person I am, I decided to try it out and I got hooked on it almost immediately, spending three hours playing it last night and a total of 4 hours today (2 hours in the morning and 2 hours at night). After playing it for so long, I have come to the conclusion that I am absolutely hopeless at the game, with opponents beating me at least 90% of the time.

However, there was something which I had learnt during the course of the game, and this lesson is… there are perverted people out there! I was playing with this 20 year old male half an hour ago and he started to chat me up. Thinking that it was only a friendly chat, I responded. As the game progressed, he started to ask me more and more personal questions until the last one became *cough* sexually-related. Completely ticked off at his attitude, I ended that game immediately.

This is throughly frustrating. Some people actually take the other party’s friendliness for granted and actually dare to go one step further to ask such questions. Now I understand what people mean when they say that the Internet is a good place to conceal your identity, although this is nothing new to me. Thank goodness I am someone who has the correct sense to ignore such people. What if the person he was chatting with happened to be come impressionable child? For instance, a nine year old girl who does not know how to deal with such a situation? She would definitely fall prey to such people and it is unpredictable what may happen after that.

From now on, I am going to be extra careful when responding to other people on Yahoo just in case it ends up to be another chee ko beh (Translation: “Pervert” in Hokkien) Either that or I’ll give up playing anything on Yahoo for the rest of my life. It all depends.