An Adventure to Live

More than a week ago, something hit Singapore.

Remember in the past whereby people queued up for Hello Kitty! at MacDonald's?

But this time round, it's something different. More than 15,000 people queued up OVERNIGHT at Suntec City to get the World of Warcraft Expansion Pack.

15000!!!

I think majority of those people who are engrossed in playing World of Warcraft are guys. I know myself. If I have the game, I would be playing it a lot too.

What draws many guys to this game is that this game paints a fantasy world to them. This world is so huge that people can spend a lot a lot of time exploring it. Every moment is an adventure where you can kill enemies, form new alliances with other places and complete quests.

There is something that is inside guys that goes for adventures. Guys like to take risk. They like the thrill of it. Even if some guys don't enjoy playing World of Warcraft, things like roller coasters and viking boats do have appeal towards them.

The name of the blog of a very good friend of mine, Ee Jay, is "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing". On this blog, the key quote is by Theodore Roosevelt:

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."