According to the my highly unaccredited source (myself), there are only 4 reasons to correct someone’s grammar and/or spelling:

1. It is your job/responsibility to do so — and no, “It is my responsibility to society/the English language/mankind” doesn’t count.
2. You are genuinely concerned about the person and what may happen should others see the error, or should they make the same mistake in important situations (e.g. official business).
3. You want to clarify for yourself or others because the meaning could change due to the error.
4. You were asked to do so.

Otherwise, I think it’s rude especially if done publicly. Now I won’t lie, sometimes the mistakes are really funny or even ridiculous (I’m a Journalism major after all), but I just don’t think it should be a big deal if you understand what they meant anyway.

But that’s just me. Come on, I know English but my math isn’t good, for all I know that apostrophe-loving person can multiply 10x faster and more accurately than me in his sleep. Huh.

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.

Like an old man scribbling out his dying days, I shall blog about my first days in Azeroth. Okay srsly enough with the drama. (Lame) screenies for everyone!

As a personal rule in MMORPGs, I only play support or tank. Since there seemed to be too many tanks in the guild I was joining, I started out as a Night Elf priest. It was okay, I got the hang of it playing this character. I hit level 10 or so in a couple of days then, after some account issues, I restarted as a Human priest.

Before I continue, don’t judge me for choosing Alliance! I’ve heard it all! And after playing for a couple of weeks I think I get what all you Horde folks mean. *WINK WINK*

So anyway, Human priest. The starting town was way more fun to be in, and Stormwind was awesome— You walk in the Valley of Heroes and awesome music plays, it has the grand entrance and all. Had a bunch of firsts from that point on… My first gryphon ride:

My first instance, the Deadmines:

My first tram ride from Stormwind:

And then there’s Ironforge:

A friend toured me through here, the land of the Dwarves, and it’s even more epic than Stormwind. I love the design of the city, like a fortress, like a machine of awesomeness. Check it out:

Obviously my screenies aren’t all that awesome, I’m using an old low-specs laptop here at the hotel. I cannot wait to get home to my gaming PC and fire up all the settings!

Aaaaand that brings us to today. Today, almost hitting 21. Today, maintenance (which is the only reason I’m not playing). Today, the day we decided…

…to move to Horde. HAHAHA.

In fact I just got back from buying The Burning Crusade, so I can rock a Blood Elf of awesomeness.

So concludes this indulgent blog post. I think I can still manage to keep a healthy social life, and get enough sleep. I only play 1-4 hours a day, including lunch breaks (1 on days when we go out)… except on weekends, I think I play for at least 8 hours. So don’t give up on me yet. I may not be ruined just yet *shakes fist trimphantly* :D

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. :]

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. :]

Marley & Me. Another dog movie, so worth the watch. It wasn’t the kind of dog movie I was expecting (see: Beethoven) and I like Owen Wilson in it. Also, Marley reminds me so much of Bruce, my Belgian Mal. I cried at the end. Anyway if you love dogs and you haven’t seen this, I recommend it.

He’s Just Not That Into You. I’ve pretty much been in the mood for chick flicks recently, and this came just in time. As you know, I did read the book, and this was an entertaining summary. I’m not ashamed to admit that I could relate heavily to some issues here, but I won’t say whose and what in particular. I’m pretty sure we can all find something to relate to in it. Also, lol @ alternate Bennifer.

Ever After: A Cinderella Story. Did I mention I was in the mood for chick flicks? So yeah, it was worth going back a decade for. I’ve already seen this movie but I felt like watching it again. Top-notch if you ask me :D

Pride & Prejudice. So now I feel guilty for never picking up the book even though I’ve considered it a dozen times. This movie is really good, and I get to swoon over it because I’m a girl. YAY! I absolutely love Mr. Darcy, and he has a couple of scenes that I can watch over and over. Now this is a romance movie, because it actually is romantic.

27 Dresses. Nothing particularly special about this romantic comedy, but it was definitely likable, and so I liked it. :]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Half an hour before we watched the movie two days ago, it’s Tomato rating was at 79%. Right after we watched it, it had gone down to 64%. Now, it’s at 37%. Personally, I still found enough from it to enjoy a bit, but still… it was pretty bad.

Been watching Heroes, Scrubs S8, Whose Line Is It Anyway? S4, and the stuff on TV (like Hell’s Kitchen and Ugly Betty hahaha). On my movie waiting list right now are Slumdog Millionaire, JCVD, Valkyrie, and 17 Again (don’t judge me).

Couch potato much. :D

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.

April 1: Main Course

Victims: Someone from business side (top), and the two senior designers (YES, one of them got clingwrapped again haha). Also wrapped the honey jar (don’t ask why we have one there) and one mug, sealing random stuff inside.

Extra: Masking tape under the optical mouse. No picture sorry, but the guy actually thought we messed with the wiring lulz.

April 1: Dessert

My favorite! Victims: Creative Director (top, booyeah!) and everyone else in the office, because those keys are the keys to the bathroom (yes, they are locked). On the bright side, they had a valid excuse to sink their hand into jello. I mean come on, who doesn’t want to do that at least once in their lives?

Btw, I did NOT do any of these pranks. I just cheered, laughed and took pics. After work, we hit this restaurant in Aberdeen, what I had was pretty good.

Anyway, for the pranks, credit to the boys who keep life interesting. Hope you had a fun and brawl-free April 1st, pranksters! :D

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.

5. Because of the changing Google logos, occasionally reminding me to celebrate people that I don’t know wouldn’t normally pay tribute to.

125th Birthday of Walter Gropius (May 18, 2008)

4. Because of Google Maps, which have been the cause of many arguments between people who think they know rooftops, and have brought us Atlantis.

Because I refuse to believe their “logical” explanation. Lulz.

3. Because when you search for “french military victories” and click “I’m Feeling Lucky”, it will lead you of this very sad history lesson:

Try it. And if you’re French, I’m sorry.

2. Because you can come up with very interesting search suggestions as you type.

Click it or open in a new window, it’s surprisingly insightful (and funny).

1. Last but not least, because Google co-founder Sergey Brin reminds me of both Zach Braff and Jerry Seinfeld.

And this is reason enough.

So for all you Google-lovers out there, don’t take her for granted. If I missed a good reason in this short list, let me know! :P

As believable as that story is, I’m afraid it isn’t true. If by any chance you insist on believing it then, yay for me! :D

Truth is that work has sucked me dry of all blogging skills — pulled out a black crayon and scribbled all over my heart cutouts. Lolz. Seriously though, I’ve just been busy. Not miserable, mind you (I happen to really love my job) but yeah. This blog tends to suffer at crunchtime, because the pink bunnies convinced me that my readers were very understanding. Yes, you shouldn’t believe everything you read — the pink internet-savvy bunnies are actually very wise and gentle creatures.

Belated Happy Valentine’s, and I promise to be a good blogger again. For the bunnies.

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!)