Muffled Noise

So I finally paid for my domain hosting LOL, and I think I’ll start writing again. I miss it. I know, something’s wrong with me. :)

But also let me take this opportunity to plug, ever so shamelessly, so you know that I have not abandoned the internet during my hiatus. Tumblr has been eating up a lot of my time, so visit if you have nothing better to do (chances are you do, but whatever woot!)

And also, my 365 Project — where I basically take one picture every day for one year (365 days) and post them. I’m a month into it, and hoping I can keep it up. I have it on Flickr and on Tumblr.

Oh blog, how I missed you, but I must get back to work now. I’ll think of something substantial to write on you soon.

I’ve been to Charlie Brown Café here in Hong Kong before, but that was a year and a half ago and we didn’t stay to eat. So this is practically my first time really experiencing it, and although the taste wasn’t anything extraordinary, the sights and the feel of the place is enough to make a trip for. Some pictures!

Charlie Brown chocolate mousse and a Woodstock plushie I bought

The Charlie Brown Sampler

Snoopy!

Poor Charlie…

In that last picture, the cup reads “Charlie Brown wins your heart with his losing ways. It always rains on his parade, is baseball game, and his life.” While we were there, we were joking about how depressing that sounded, but I used to read the comics as a kid and I knew it was true. Sad, but that really was his appeal. Poor Charlie.

More pictures on my Facebook. I loved it, so I might go back sometime to try some of the other stuff. :]

So I have no April Fool’s blog/website thing like Ade and Baddie, but in celebration of this holiday for pranksters, my short (and sweet) tribute to the wise guys at the office, for these lovely (and relatively harmless) pranks:

March 31: Appetizer

Victim: One of the senior designers. Keyboard, mouse, watch and monitor in a nice little package. Hid all sharp objects. The rest of them after the jump. Continue reading

So. You haven’t been updating me again. I thought you said you were gonna post at least whenever something major happened? Last I heard, you’re in Hong Kong and staying for a few months even, isn’t that major enough?

No don’t try to play dumb with me, I know what you’ve been up to. Just because I’m stuck here doesn’t mean I don’t have my sources. Huh? What? Yeah I know everything! Want proof?

Yeah I know it was your first time at the NAIA Terminal 3, and I know you thought it was nice. You even took a picture while waiting for the plane because you were an hour early.

And then you almost didn’t have enough for the cab ride to the hotel because you didn’t have all your money exchanged, and you were panicking, but got there with 6 HKD to spare. Then you had enough to get from the hotel to the office, and didn’t work that day. You like the atmosphere at the office and you’re really excited about the project. I mean, that’s the kind of thing you usually blog about!

And that’s not the worst part! When you get home, you have my Write Post page open all night but what do you do instead of type? You watch movies! You watched that movie Twilight, which btw you said you didn’t really feel like watching in the first place. According to my buddy Plurk, you even thought it was just “alright” after watching it. Psh!

And that other movie, One Night with the King, was it? You watched it 5 freaking times! I know it was about your favorite story in the Bible and you liked that Luke Goss guy in it, but could you not have watched it one time less to, I don’t know, post a two-sentence update on me?

Don’t think I don’t see you munching through that giant bag of Lay’s!

Have I not been good to you? I never gave you problems when you used the auto-upgrade plugin. I didn’t randomly eat up your posts (no matter how tempting that was) and I always tried to look my best in your custom themes. I mean, I know you’re busy and all, and I know this is just a phase. But you can’t keep me out like this! It takes two to make this relationship work, that’s all I’m sayin’.

You know what, I don’t want an explanation anymore. I’m just gonna take a walk through the archives. Don’t wait up for me.

Yours truly (though you make a sucky owner sometimes),
mufflednoise.com

P.S. This week’s spam is particularly weird.

…and I got the chance to get together with some of my best friends from highschool (the original “gang”, the ones I can imagine getting together with until we’re all old and gray). And if there’s anything we know about each other, it’s that everytime we meet we almost always have a weird, shocking or heartbreaking story to tell about out our lives. In particular, our love lives.

But that’s how it always goes, right? We don’t grow wise overnight, and neither do the people around us. So we’re “doomed” to go through (or suffer) these things a few times before getting it right. That’s both the danger and the beauty of it. We just have to take comfort in the fact that this world isn’t out to get us, despite how crazy a ride it takes us on.

Right after parting with them, I beelined to the bookstore and bought my second book of the year — He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccilo. I tell you, this Greg guy is annoying as heck! He thinks he’s so smart just because he managed to get his act together and land a seemingly perfect wife. Tsch. And what I hate about him the most is that deep inside, I know he’s right.

And as his co-author Liz says, it’s hard to digest. I finished the book in a day (thanks again to Cat for recommending it!).

If there’s anything I want to get at, it’s this — in my opinion, the week before Valentine’s happens to be the most tragic time of year. I noticed that people tend to think of the bad stuff around this time, not the good. Why is that? Well, I guess you can blame it on the bookstores, the publishers, the authors, the ancient Egyptians and their crazy ideas.

(Advance happy hearts day!)

Plurk 404′d me. I don’t know if that was really as routine a maintenance as you’d think, because the 404’s came at least an hour before they flashed the “routine maintenance” message.

And I find this highly amusing. This whole microblogging thing seems so addictive that when Plurk goes down, people don’t just drop it and do something more productive. They (rather, we, after all I did blog about it) move to Twitter to tweet that that Plurk is down. Not sure if it happens the other way around too.

I still love you Plurk, but you’ve been having a lot of problems lately. Feel better soon. (cozy)

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Today is a special day. I’ve come to share with you one of the main reasons why I know I am… a dork. I can’t, nay, shan’t deny it! What started as mild amusement has now grown to… something more than mild amusement! I’ve come to declare my love for cow– well, cow-themed stuff! And with that I announce the new page I’ve put up for the sake of my beloved “cow” collection.

I only have 24 right now (I forgot to take pics of the other 2), but from this point on I’ll be taking my collection a little more seriously. I just need to figure out where to put them all, they’re taking up a whole lotta space at my desk as it is.

Btw, don’t ask me to explain why I like cow-themed stuff. I don’t really know myself! And in case it isn’t obvious yet, this doesn’t make me anti-burger. Burgers are love.  Anywhoo, enjoy! :]