Muffled Noise

So today marks my 44th day in Hong Kong. Here’s a quick rundown of the stuff I’ve seen on those weekends (and occasionally, weeknights) when I just stayed in my room and cozied up to my endless supply of chips and cup noodles. And yeah, I’m posting this coz I got nothing better to write. Ain’t I clever? :D

Bolt. I loved this one! Fun, funny, cute and made me cry a couple times (well, that’s not exactly hard to do). I’m glad Disney can still make stuff like this, I heart Mittens! Though I wish Jack Black did the voice of Rhino, it would’ve been perfect.

Fast & Furious. Screw the Tomatometer, this movie was awesome and a bag of chips! Well granted, you don’t watch this movie for story per se (though we didn’t expect the Braga revelation), the level of awesome from the opening scene was just too high up there, that story and plot twists are just a bonus. Dominic > you. :]

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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.

I cannot begin to explain how epic The Dark Knight was, or IS. I watched it with officemates today, and wow. Just… wow. It was done so well, and Heath Ledge[nd] was insanely awesome, pun intended. That’s one disturbing Joker. Oh words fail me.

You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

If you haven’t seen it, I can assure you that it’s safe to set your expectations high before you do, and it will be great. It’s not even a matter of opinion, it is EPIC. And if you have seen it, a virtual high-five to you, for our lives will never be the same.

It deserves the 9.7 / 10.

I love Scrubs. I really do.

Yesterday I bought season 1-6 and I’m currently going through season 2 onwards (Yeah I’m still watching HIMYM don’t worry). I remember catching it on TV before and immediately deciding that it was one of my favorites.

There was a column on it by Alan Sepinwall, as he thought about its current and final season (season 7), and here’s how a part of it goes—

Because it debuted in the waning days of NBC’s comedy empire (even briefly airing after “Friends,” but so irregularly that it didn’t help build an audience), overlapped with several other laugh track-free comedies that got bigger ratings and/or more award show love (“Malcolm in the Middle,” “Arrested Development”), and comes to the end of its run with so many other shows having cribbed from it, “Scrubs” never got and probably never will get the credit it deserves. But at its best, it was as funny as any other comedy on television, as moving as any drama.

How sad and unfortunate. But for the rest of us who love it, and get as many insights with a short dive into JD’s mind as with an entire speech from any speaker, it’s really one of the best out there.