kristie lu from CNN gave us a talk on monday during our CNM lecture. she mentioned about virtual worlds and one of it being second life. I has heard about the second life but have yet to try it. So being lazy to do my readings, i downloaded and logged on.

Indeed, you could have another life on the virtual world. I can decide how i want to look, what i want to wear. in fact, someone commented i look real 'hot' on SL. haha... and i was lucky to meet another singaporean who brought me to a club. yeah.. clubbing online huh... not those dancing and drinking type. just went there, chatted with a few fellow sgporeans. Indeed, all of us agreed that not many singaporeans are on this game. After chit chatting, i realise this is so similar to what has been happening in our real life, in uni. I have been getting to know more people, make new friends, and that is exactly what i am doing in SL. Thinking back, it is really wow!

SL does not stop at chit chatting. One can also make money. their currency being Linden Dollars(L$) and i saw that they actually have an actual conversion rate. as in US$ to L$. So one can take on a job in SL and earn money. One can also create an item, such as furniture, paintings, figures and sell it in SL to earn money. Once enough money, one can then buy a land on SL. build house, invite people over. have fun, have party. the possibilites are infinite!

no wonder the company who created SL is making lots of money now. and yeah, there is a millionare in SL too...

I think I would not be in this game for long as school is gonna get busy. It is good to escape to another world once in a while, but living in this virtual world is gonna be bad for one in the real world.

I should change my SL name into something more facinating n interesting i guess. I shall get outrageous costumes. "you can be anything in the 2nd life. Go out! Have fun! Do things you would never do in the real life. no one knows who you are anyway!"