About
Will Ooi is an aspiring Sydney writer with an odd surname currently working on a variety of blog articles and several short stories as he balances full time employment in the health industry, a psychology degree, engaging in harsh and scathing yet wholeheartedly-deserved criticisms of Hollywood, and escapism through the video game medium.
Having held an interest in creative writing since high school and then progressing onto years of incomprehensible scribbling into ever-increasingly ragged notebooks, he finally embraced technology and began blogging online in early 2007 through the 1up Network, where the entire archive of his random thoughts, aside from the blogs reposted on this site, can be found here. Be warned, though: ugly html abound. For a while he contributed occasionally to the satirical game site Phase1Phaser and indie gaming blog Fantastic Glory (both websites now defunct), but is now refocused on more “serious” writings, poems that don’t rhyme and yet are too long to be classified as haiku, and reviews of horrible and/or strange movies.
One of Will’s favourite forms of journeying into fantasy is through the realm of video games: his first console was the Sega Master System II and his favourite of all time being the underrated and much-maligned Sega Saturn. A few of his most beloved games include Shenmue, Suikoden II, the Grand Theft Auto series, Metal Gear Solid, Dead Rising, Bully, Fallout, Deadly Premonition, Hotel Dusk, Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines, and Mass Effect. Will is a current owner of an Xbox 360 and a PS3, the latter of which was mainly used as a Japanese language tool via an import copy of Ryu Go Gotoku 3 (Yakuza 3) prior to Sega doing a u-turn on releasing the game to the West. The Japanese has since gone downhill, and the machine has now come to symbolise the inevitablity of death via Demon’s Souls.
Ooi supports Arsenal and misses the glory years of Dennis Bergkamp and Robert Pires, loves Japan, is a tennis fan, and his favourite musician is Neil Finn. He also adores stickers; the fact that they adhere to their surfaces like an ever-trusting obedient friend, the sheer variety they come in whether it be bulgy or glossy or scratch and sniff, and regardless of how difficult they are to remove. He is also sometimes known as ‘William Ooi’.
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