Failure made the climax of my day
31 March 2008, 10:43 pm. 42 Comments. Filed under Internet, Miscellaneous, Personal.
I thought all grown males (at least through the Internet) would have become accustomed to such scenes under their own volition over their high school years? But perhaps modern males have not failed that far—yet.
A couple of years ago, searching "failure" in Google would produce something along the lines of George Bush for the first result. Today, though George Bush no longer grins back at the first instance as Google thinks "failure", the fun has not just yet ended.
Not far down the Google search results page for failure...
Me: *eyes brighten up* OoOoOoOoh
Boyfriend: Don't click it...
Me: *clicks*
...
*watches boyfriend run for his life (literally)*
*LOL*
Three hours later... That mischievous boyfriend of mine decided to pull the prank on his friends. So there I was, tapping f-a-i-l-u-r-e-dot-o-r-g into the address bar on Jason's laptop. But four guys at the table, and none of them wanted to tap the final "Enter" key. Eventually, Jason's own finger triggered the last step of the prank.
Before the page was fully loaded, one of the guys shut the lid of the laptop at the sight of... Mmm. Well, and there we were, a group of psycho-maniacs ROFL-ing at lime green and crap.
Significance of Valentines Day
12 February 2008, 10:02 pm. 25 Comments. Filed under Holiday, Miscellaneous.
There's always been two different types of female mindsets in relation to couple relationships and Valentines.
The Pragmatist
My sister thinks Valentines is really nothing so special. Why go out when it's so crowded in restaurants and you're going to get crap food and service? (She's not just bullshitting either. She's been going out with her boyfriend for seven or eight years.) Plus it might get pretty awkward when the guy next to your table start proposing to the girl.
The Idealist
Here's the type that expects men to do all the work. And it's also commonly the type to think that Valentines is a must-date day. Because if you don't date on Valentines Day then you're not a couple and you don't like each other. (I'm not making this up either. My friend actually said this to me and it made me feel like crying. 
)
I'm surrounded by the second type of girls who make me feel emo by talking about how a guy is supposed to do this and that for a girl. Basically, a nice "surprise" Valentines dinner date with red roses and a box of chocolates. Thursday was meant to be the first un-lonely Valentines in my life but I'm going to start my salsa classes on Thursday. Yay?
So how important do you think spending Valentines together is for a (new) couple? And how do you think it should be compensated if they don't spend Valentines together?
There's a reason why you pay
28 January 2008, 6:47 pm. 13 Comments. Filed under Design, Miscellaneous, Rants, Work.
Why do you pay for a design when you want to dictate every single detail of the design yourself?
So she gave me minuscule design details at the beginning, and now she's trying to change every single element of it. The colour scheme I picked had maroon, brown and cream, which fitted closer to the description she gave me. In the last email she changed it to maroon, brown, saturated orange and really light saturated blue. I may have brown, orange and blue put together in the current site design but trust me, those colours do not look right on her design.
But what can you do? Clients are always right. I should give her the PSD and she can do all the rest of it. It pains me to output something so aesthetically wrong in every way.
On another note, about that arm in the previous post, I'm not going to post the face just yet because another gay guy like Xuan would come along and drool all over the computer at him.
Xuan: Holy shit, Ryl-Ryl, is that your boyfrienddd? *taunts* He's a cutie. Very cute, in fact ... (The ellipsis sounds so freaky.)
Me: Take your eyes off him. He's not your next target kk?
Xuan: ...DAMNIT! Foiled again...
He's still cute though. Don'ttt denyyy ittt.
Maybe someday when I get my Photographs page up. And I'm still fuming over the hideous design. Grr!
Hint: Blonde and blue eyes. Lol. 
