During last week's tournament, I talked to a chess player who actually resigned from a job to take part in the coming Malaysian Open. Now that is what I call 'GilaChess'. As for me, I didn't have to do anything as drastic as resigning. Thankfully as I got leave for the whole week of the Malaysian Open (it's 99% confirmed anyway). Wished I could get more leave to play in the Merdeka Team events but that's really asking for too much. Anyway I'm going to miss the team event as it holds fond memory for me last year. Guess you can't have everything ..