About
Will Ooi is an aspiring Sydney writer currently working on a “top secret” novel project and several extended short stories as he balances full time employment in the public health industry, engaging in harsh and scathing yet wholeheartedly deserved criticisms of Hollywood, occasional escapism through the video game medium, and playing a role in “being social” with a view of one day getting his work published. A few of his favourite writers and artists are George Orwell, Nick Hornby, Haruki Murakami, Sid Lowe from the Guardian Football website, and Keita Takahashi, the creator of Beautiful Katamari and Noby Noby Boy.
Having held an interest in creative writing since high school and then progressing onto years of 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 haikus, and reviews of horrible and/or strange movies.
Will thoroughly believes in the importance of art and creativity in an otherwise financially-focused and corrupt capitalist world. Don’t tell anyone, but he may well be a socialist at heart (albeit of the Triple J-listening variety, provided that the station is broadcast in full in this uber-egalitarian fantasy world that exists in his mind). He is a big fan of films and can literally spend hours in front of IMDB, clicking away into the early hours of the next morning looking up useless trivia to his heart’s content. Such as: Dolph Lundgren received a Masters degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney the year he was born. Will is not sure how he feels about that.
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, which rather poetically happened to coincide with a bountiful adolescence. A few of his most beloved games include Shenmue 2, Suikoden II, Planescape: Torment, the Grand Theft Auto and Metal Gear Solid series, Dead Rising, Bully, all the Fallout titles, Hotel Dusk, and Mass Effect. Will currently owns an Xbox 360 and PS3, the latter of which is being used mainly as a Japanese language tool via Ryu Go Gotoku 3 (Yakuza 3) which contains no English whatsoever.
Ooi supports Arsenal FC, loves Japan, is a tennis fan, and his favourite ever 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 they are bulgy or glossy or scratch and sniff, and regardless of how difficult they are to remove. He is sometimes known as ‘William Ooi’ – and yes, he totally just put that last bit in for Google search result purposes.
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