March 9th, 2010
It all started when I saw this innocuous post on madhatter’s Twitter last night: “Wow young Edgey-poo was prettier than he already is. Can’t say the same abt his fashion sense tho.”. WAITAMINUTE HOLD IT RIGHT THERE (We’ve had this argument before actually), there is nothing wrong with the way Mr. Frilly Prosecutor dresses!
So I retorted with “HEY. HE HAS GOOD TASTE KAY?!”
It soon spiraled down into the Twitter bitchfight below (our condolences to anyone who happened to be following the two of us):
madhatter: LOL DEFINE ‘GOOD”
whiterabbit: BETTER THAN FEENY’S PINK SWEATER XD
madhatter: BUT IT WAS A SWEATER MADE OUT OF LOVE (yeah right). Can’t blame a dude in love kay?
whiterabbit: It was still bad taste XDD
madhatter: IN FENNY’S DEFENSE, HE WAS NOT A DA YET THEN XDDD
whiterabbit: At least it’s not a P on a red heart on a pink sweater XDDD
madhatter: A-at least it’s not frilly XDDD
madhatter: let’s not forget that he’s having utterly gross flu at that time too XDDD BUT HE GOT BETTER WHEN HE’S OLDEr KAY?
whiterabbit: Ok, but Edgeworth is still the better dresser XD
madhatter: ERRRR… YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY. ( good gawd, pink and frills whuttt )
whiterabbit: The only one who lacks fashion sense here is Feeny XDDD (what pink frills? @.@ Aren’t they white?)
whiterabbit: OH read that wrongly lololol. It’s not pink silly it’s MAROON
madhatter: OH PLEASE. It’s more to the shade of pink than maroon stop deluding yourself. FEENY HAS RESPECTABLE BLUE SUITS
whiterabbit: You’re colourblind XD Also, blue is BORING XD
madhatter: AT LEAST BLUE IS NOT EYEBALLS SEARING XDDD
whiterabbit: MAROON AIN’T EYEBALL SEARING XD
And then, because we are both graphic designers, colour charts got dragged into the fight.
madhatter: IT’S LIKE, BRIGHT PINK OKAY? MAROON IS DEF. NOT LIKE THAT IN MY CMYK/RGB CHART XDDDD
whiterabbit: OH YEAH? Well, I’ve got news for you buddy. Your CMYK/RGB chart is BROKEN
madhatter: PLZ TO BE CHECKING YOUR MONITOR CALIBRATION. MY PANTONE CHART HERE PROVES YOURS NEEDS FIXING.
whiterabbit: Your Pantone chart must be a FEW YEARS OLD THEN, THE COLOURS ARE OFF ALREADY XDD
madhatter: well, as off as the colours on the chart is, IT’S STILL BETTER THAN YOUR CORNEA, pal!
whiterabbit: Well, my cornea is still in better condition than your taste, pal! XD
In any case, since this is my blog…Mr. Frilly Prosecutor wins! XD
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February 25th, 2010
Annnnnnd I’m back from the dead! Happy Chinese New Year everyone (nevermind that Chap Goh Meh is coming right up). Sadly, I fell sick two days before the reunion dinner and we had to cancel eating out and settle for a simple home cooked dinner. The throat infection + flu then proceeded to take the entire week afterwards to disappear, so I spent most of the week at home. Darn. I guess it was just as well that I took the entire week off (though I had wanted to spend those few days cruising around an empty KL town. Grrrrrr).
This CNY is also notable because this is the year I started handing out angpows (yeah, I wanted to blog about my marriage registration buuuuut I got lazy… so, um, hey guys, I’m married! Woot!). Boohoohoo, no more collecting money for me. Giving your friends angpows is such a SURREAL experience.
Halfway through the week I suffered from a horrible nightmare. I was dreaming about something (can’t remember what now) when all of a sudden my boss popped out from nowhere and asked me if I could cancel my leave and come back to work on Thursday & Friday. I promptly told her that I already took leave, already made plans, couldn’t cancel them, yadayadayada… which is what I would have told her anyway if it happened in real life LOL. My colleagues’ reaction? “Wow, you must be damn stressed.” While on a week-long break? Hmmmmmm.
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October 14th, 2009
Another wet yellow puddle greeted me again on Monday morning.
I was not amused.
Grumbling, I cleaned up the puddle, refilled her food dish, and rushed off to work. I couldn’t concentrate the whole day because I kept thinking about the rabbit. Is Phoebe ok? Does she seem more settled in? Is she drinking her water? Eating her pellets? Am I letting her out enough? Did she spray pee outside the cage again? All day the only thoughts running in my head were rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit. Rabbit? Rabbit! Rabbit??! RABBIT!
When I finally got home I decided to try out my friend’s remedy and rubbed some vinegar onto the spot she peed on. To be on the safe side, I placed some newspapers over the spot as well. Feeling rather smug, I went off to shower before I headed out for my movie. As I was leaving the house, I decided to check on the rabbit again.
Lo and behold, there was another puddle of pee outside the cage… IN ANOTHER SPOT. WHICH ALSO HAPPENED TO BE RIGHT OVER HER FOOD BOWL, SO SOME STAINED THE SIDES OF THE BOWL.
I was quite ready to turn Phoebe into rabbit stew. But first I complained to my friend.
Me: SHE PEED IN ANOTHER SPOT. GYAHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Friend with two rabbits: Well, you just have to keep on rubbing vinegar until she stops.
Me: Really? *pause* Wait, how long did it take you to housetrain yours?
FWTR: A few months?
Me: *collapses on floor*
Man, I REALLY hope I have the patience to see this through.
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October 13th, 2009
It is advisable, when you first get a pet rabbit, to let it settle into its cage for the first few hours and let it pee there. Once a rabbit chooses a spot to pee in, it will return to that spot whenever it needs to pee.
Those were the facts running inside my head on Sunday when I checked on the rabbit first thing in the morning and was greeted by the sight of viscous, yellow fluid puddling on the floor right outside of the cage.
Why was the rabbit peeing outside her cage? How the hell did she even manage do that when she was inside the cage?!
“Male rabbits do that,” said a friend with two pet rabbits. “They tend to spray their pee outside the cage.”
Yeah, but Phoebe is female?
“Well, females do it too. Although most of the time it’s due to missing the mark.”
Ah.
“You can stop them from peeing on that spot by wiping some vinegar over it.”
Hmm.
I wiped the pee off the floor, stared at it, and observed the rabbit for the rest of the day. She didn’t seem to spray over the cage again, so I let her be. She was getting more well behaved as well, as I let her out again and she hopped back into her cage without me having to attempt getting her in. Yay, progress!
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October 12th, 2009
Hello! Meet Phoebe, the one year old albino rabbit Significant Other and I decided to adopt to save it from potential doom.
We just picked her up yesterday, and settled her into her new home on my porch. It is important to note that Significant Other and I had no prior experience with rabbits, so what “settled in” really means here is that we spent yesterday (and today) exhausted from stressing out over whether she was ok or not in her new home.
Our first impression when we saw her was simply WOAH, SHE’S HUGE (but totally adorable. Also, she is a white rabbit XD). After we got her to my house, we went out to buy her the necessities – a cage, food, some hay, and a water bottle – and placed her into her cage. I lined the tray with newspaper to prepare for what I was sure would be a bombardment of rabbit poop and pee.
After awhile we decided that maybe we should let the rabbit run around the porch a bit, as it had been stuck in a car and a styrofoam box for more than an hour. This turned out to be a mistake. Once the rabbit was out, it simply refused to go back into the cage. Every time we got near her, she ran away from us. Every time we managed to get close enough to her to pick her up, she panicked the moment we touched her. In frustration we called the girl who gave her to us to ask for help. She advised us not to let the rabbit out yet as it needed to get used to its new living space first… which was a bit too late. Whoops. Could she offer any advice on getting the rabbit back into the cage? Besides picking her up and putting her back in, nope.
So Significant Other and I spent the better part an hour trying to coax Phoebe back into her cage. Significant Other finally managed to grab ahold of her in a manner which she didn’t struggle… then she struggled the moment he reached her cage and scratched him -_- I was getting tired from trying as well, and it didn’t help that I had a dinner to go to in 15 mins. In the end Significant Other managed to grab hold of the rabbit again and bring her to the cage. She struggled again, hopping free of his arms… right into her cage! We shut the door before she could run out again. Phew. Significant Other quickly declared himself to be a champion rabbit tamer. I decided not to argue out of sheer exhaustion of chasing after the rabbit.
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October 10th, 2009
Well, of course I would rather jump into something less hazardous, but I’m getting really desperate here. And not to mention depressed. God knows how long more I can keep this up before I snap. Or go insane. Wait, maybe I already am insane.
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October 1st, 2009
Two days ago, I dreamt of insects. Yesterday night I dreamt of circles. I dreamt of things going around in circles, of circular shapes in every direction I look.
I related it to the same friend who interpreted my dream yesterday, and he told me that the circles represent infinity, going around in a loop without end, a monotonous existence… in other words, I’m stressed. Crap.
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September 30th, 2009
There was a museum, in a mall. They were holding an exhibit about insects, and I decided to explore it, along with a few other people. It did not turn out the way we expected it to be. I remember a huge mound of maggots on the floor behind us, threatening to engulf us. Streams of cockroaches scuttled all across the floor around us. We ran further into the museum to escape. Its path was like a maze. One of the “exhibitors” unleased two giant bees from one of the rooms we ran past. Strangely they did not bother us, although they were frightening. After some harrowing turns following the signs in the museum, we managed to escape to the carpark.
And I woke up.
When I related my nightmare to a friend, he pointed out that it fitted the description of my current office.
“It’s telling you how you feel about work,” he explained, and he recounted to me the numerous things I told him before about the place. And surprisingly (or unsurprisingly), the pieces clicked.
Hmm, maybe it’s time I put my escape plan into action?
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September 27th, 2009
For quite awhile now I’ve had to deal with a certain someone whose behaviour towards me, and other people, I cannot stand. Well, ok, other people can’t stand it either. On more than one occasion I have called her a total and utter bitch behind her back. But I do try to be fair to people, if someone annoys or infuriates me in a certain way, maybe it’s because I don’t like that certain aspect in people. Or maybe I’m having a bad day and was already irritable. Maybe s/he is actually a really nice person and I’m just being real mean.
The argument I usually phrase to myself (and other people whom I bitch about said person to) goes like this: “You know, she is a nice person, but…” And then today I realized that I could use that line to excuse just about anyone’s behaviour. “Jacob’s a really nice person, you know, except for that time he raped and murdered that poor 8 year old kid, gosh, something must have gotten into him!”
Enough is enough. It’s about time I learn to call a bitch a bitch and stop giving excuses for other people’s behaviour.
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August 22nd, 2009
It was a few months ago when madhatter and I were discussing about redesigning our main site that I looked through my own blog template and realized how old, ugly, and in dire need of changing it was. It was horribly dated, and the more I look at it, the more horrified and embarassed I was at how bad it was, and how I knew that I could do a lot better. Then procrastination set in and I sat around mulling how to redesign my blog template for a couple of months.
Few days ago I finally set myself down at my computer, determined to at least start working on a new template. Since I had been very interested in typography lately, I decided that the best way to start was by going to dafont.com to pick out an interesting typeface and see where that would take me.
It was a very interesting journey, as I ended up making a template that I felt was very much unlike my personal self. This isn’t to say that it was bad. I actually really like it, even if it feels a little at odds with my personality. Surprisingly a lot of the elements of the current template also made its way into the new one, and it gelled together really nicely.
Now all I need to do is to code in the changes and make the new template come to life! Well, um, hopefully I’ll get to that soon-ish. Until then I’ve only got this header to show XD
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