Ahhh cybercafes….
Where I wasted soo much of my life.
I used to spend almost 10 hours each day in a cybercafe playing Counterstrike back when it was still very very new (Beta 3).
It was ridiculous! If I had spent 1/10th of that time doing something productive like read a book, I would be a much better man today.
I was talking to a friend of mine and we started talking about funny things we’re heard happen in Cybercafes.
Story 1
This actually happened in my college library many years ago. You know how college libraries these days come fully equipped with the best computers you can find for students to do research on.
Once I was studying in the library and I saw a rather peculiar guy consistently refreshing his Hotmail mailbox. Wondering what the heck he was doing, I peered closer only to find that he actually had a little browser window opened.
And in that little browser window on the right corner of his screen, was a picture of a naked girl.. or at least a quarter of a picture of a naked girl like this.
The dude was surfing porn, but he was too shy to open the entire browser window, so he decided to instead open a small window to view part of a picture.
Then scroll up down (and left right) to slowly see the rest.
The poor poor dudeeeee….
Story 2
Some guys were playing Counterstrike in a cybercafe. 
You know how cybercafes are, noisy, smokey and full of guys cursing
“NIAMA!!! WHAT A FAKE SHOT!!!”.
Then somewhere in the midst of a high pressured Counterstrike game, a 15-year old boy managed to sneak up behind his opponent (in the game) and knife the opponent to death.
The gangster-looking person playing the opponent on the other side of the cybercafe shouted
“BASTARD YOU!!! BELAKANG MARI!!! NO SKILL AR?!?!?”
The 15-year old boy laughed
“AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA YOU LAH DIN SEE ME COMING… YOU NOOOB!!!!!”.
The gangster dude then got up from his seat and walked towards the boy who was busy playing away on the next round.
The gangster took out a REAL KNIFE… and stabbed the kid in the back.
Then he laughed
“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! YOU DIN SEE ME COMING!!! YOU NOOOB!!! KENA BELAKANG MARI!!!”
I think he got arrested after that but I’m not sure.
Story 3
This is my favourite story of all the ones I’ve heard, which actually happened to a friend of a friend.
Again because of a very high-pressured game of Counterstrike late one night, a few guys got up from their seats and started shouting at each other, calling each other cheaters.
Then one of them said
“OKAY!!! COME WE SETTLE OUTSIDE”.
And they all went outside the cybercafe to fight it out.
It didn’t take long before the police arrived and broke up the fight.
But the funny thing is this.
When the police arrived, they walked into the cybercafe and saw everyone playing away at their computers not knowing anything.
One of the policemen walked around the dark noisy room full of computers and turned on his torch light to shine at all the guys there.
He then shouted
“SEMUA BALIK RUMAH SEKARANG!!!”.
One of the guys turned at the policeman and said
“Boss… last game last game!!!”.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space