About My Neopet (Part 2)

Damn it. The damn lab ray just turned my Mutant Grundo into a Blue Koi. I hate fish. Ask anyone. None of my goldfish or guppies survived more than 2 weeks.



Childhood memory of the day:

1 of my favorite cartoons as a kid was... (No you dweebs, I wasn't a girlie girl who watched crap like "My Little Pony"!) He-Man, Masters of the Universe! Uh huh... Warriors and protectors of Eternia... Fighting against Skeletor and his nasty sidekicks - Beastman and Panthor... And against the leader of the Evil Horde, Hordak, who for some strange reasons, reminded me of Darth Vader. :P


In addition to an entire basketfull of He-Man toy figurines (Teela! The Sorceress! Man-At-Arms!), my brother and I even had the portable model of Castle Grayskull. God only knows how we managed to entertain ourselves for hours with a bunch of cheap figurines brandishing plastic weapons.

I was so into the damn cartoon, I even went to a fancy dress party dressed as She-Ra! (Don't laugh! It seemed cool at the time!)

Anyway, I recently found out that a new Masters of the Universe cartoon series started in 2002, some 20 years after the original made its debut. To my horror, the new He-Man looked nothing like the old 1. In fact, he distinctly resembled some horrible Japanese anime doll on steroids. Ick... Check it out.


What's up with the humongous sword?!?!

Anyone have any idea where I can get hold of the old series?

About The Blog Pets

I thought this was totally adorable...

adopt your own virtual pet!

adopt your own virtual pet!

About The Mogwai

The Stiletto and I happened to catch "Gremlins 2" on HBO yesterday... It brought back a flood of childhood memories of me begging my dad to get me my own mogwai after I watched the 1st movie back in 1984. I was 6. And I wanted a mogwai as much as I wanted my own puppy. Well... At least the puppy dream came true 10 years later...

It was at the old Orchard cinema, when cinemas in Singapore still had circle / upper level seats. There was an old Indian man selling kacang putih wrapped in magazine paper... The sugar-coated peanuts were my favorite. :)

I've mentioned before that many people marvel at how much of my early childhood I can recall. I think I'll start blogging more of my kiddie memories... Just in case I start forgetting them as age catches up with me. :P

About The Idol Finale

Taylor Hicks, leader of the Soul Patrol, had better win American Idol. I'm so gonna throw a hissy fit if Caberet Queen Katherine McPhee (What kinda surname is that anyway?!) takes the title. Especially since her performances during tonight's finale show were merely passable...

Bored. It's been an interminably long week. I can't wait for the weekend. X3!!! And I'm in need of some serious retail therapy. *yawn*

About The Recovery

After 4 days of bed rest, I'm finally on the road to recovery. The fever's finally decided to break and my bones no longer feel like they're about to splinter when I sneeze.

I didn't need a doctor to tell me that this bout of flu was a by-product of 18 hour days in the office, lack of proper rest, crappy meals, and the mountain of stress and frustration that's been building inside me... All thanks to The Bitch From Hell (My client) and The Invisible Man (My boss). Anyway. Now that my nightmare campaign has launched, life promises to be slightly better. It also helps that I no longer give a shit about The Bitch's tantrums and The Invisible Man's incompetence in managing her. Let them rant and rave all they want. My health, my mental well-being and my life takes priority.

p/s: Singapore Idol auditions were bad as I thought they would be. I don't fucking believe The Whisperer, The Pink Lady and The Schoolteacher (Do-Re-Mi!) came back!!! What the hell are they thinking?! And the fuckwit that did Shuang Jie Gun? Wah lan eh!!! Favorite moment? The Ah Beng singing "Nong Nong Ago". (Check out midi file and actual lyrics here.)

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear...
Nong nong ago...
Nong nong ago...

Update at 10.18pm... I just found the video of the "Nong Nong Ago" performance... You need to sign up with the Singapore Idol website to view their videos, but it's free and the entertainment value is sky high. Heh heh...

About My Neopet (Part 1)

I've been a Neopet fan for the longest time. Ok, it's a little kiddy, but it's also a whole lot of fun when you're extremely bored. For those of you who've no idea what I'm talking about, you get to create your own virtual pet, and be part of a whole virtual community that has a ton of games and activities for you to indulge in... When time permits, of course.

Anyway... I've been conducting a little experiment on 1 of my Neopets and thought it'd be interesting to keep a log of sorts on the entire process... In a nutshell, on and off for the past year or so, I've been bringing little Jadyn Love to a secret laboratory found in the land of Neopia, where she gets zapped by a morphing ray. I have absolutely no control over what the ray does to her and she's morphed into a rather interesting variety of animals and colors since.

My original pet was a Red Wocky... (A kitty cat looking creature that for some reason, brings the Slinky Cat to mind. :P)


In a matter of hours, the lab ray happily zapped her blue.


Then it made me go through an entire Cybunny phase, where my pet ended up looking like a frigging rabbit high on shit.

From left to right: Yellow Cybunny. Green Cybunny. Tyrannian Cybunny. Gah...

Just as I was getting use to the whole Cybunny getup, the lab ray decided to mess everything up again by changing Jadyn Love into a Yellow Acara. Don't ask me what those floppy things between her ears are. They look mildly phallic to me. *grimace*


Thank goodness that didn't last too long and she was soon zapped into a Blue Blumaroo (Some sort of weird cross between a kangeroo and Gonzo from Muppet Babies. *rolls eyes*), and soon after that a Uni.

From left to right: Blue Blumaroo. Blue Uni. Rainbow Uni. Rainbow's kinda pretty, don't you think? Heh...

Things started looking up for a while though, when the ray morphed Jadyn Love into a Chomby, which is a limited edition species...

From left to right: Yellow Chomby. Purple Chomby. Goodie gumdrops...

Of course, good things never last... A couple of months later, she turned into a merhorse creature called a Peophin. Ick.

From left to right: Green Peophin. Shadow Peophin.

And then into another horsey creature called the Kyrii, which looks like it's severely in need of a haircut.

From left to right: Blue Kyrii. Starry Kyrii. Fire Kyrii. The last one's kinda cool. But what I really want is my Wocky back. :(

The lab ray then decides to add insult to injury by poofing Jadyn Love into 1 of the pet species I utterly loath. The Techo! A damn lizard! In a whole range of colors too! Aiyoooooo...

From left to right: Red Techo. Halloween Techo. Island Techo.

Silent oaths and labelling of the lab ray as being totally birdbrained didn't help, since it decided to turn the tables on me and zap Jadyn Love into a Pteri. Fuck...

From left to right: Blue Pteri. Striped Pteri. Doi. Double doi.

Finally, to conclude this rather meaningless post (That I'm typing as I wait for my artwork in the office...), 2 days ago, Jadyn Love mutated into a Grundo. Which is the alien species inhabiting Neopet's Virtupets Space Station. A Blue Grundo... Which was kinda cute.


Today, however, the ray changed her color. To Mutant.

Fuck. The damn thing looks like it's been on steroids!

p/s: If I haven't bored the lot of you into a coma yet, and you're actually thinking of joining me in my insane meanderings around Neopia, sign up for Neopets here and create your pet here...

About The Breakdown

I know that I've said this over and over but I hate work. I really do.

I swear I've never been so close to a nervous breakdown in my life. The projects are piling up. Missdurh and I have been pulling crazy hours. There doesn't seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel. We're going quite insane.

It wouldn't be so bad if the clients actually appreciated the efforts we put in. What sucks royally is having them take everything for granted, as if we bloody owe it to them to meet their ridiculous deadlines, their incessant demands and their utter disregard for what's humanly possible.

What do you do when you're up against a client whose catchphrase / professional mantra is "I don't care!"?

Me: I'm sorry but I really can't turn this around within 24 hours.
Bitch From Hell: I don't care. Find a way.
Me: It's not that we're not trying but I really need more time.
Bitch From Hell: I don't care. We don't have time.
Me: I'm really doing all I can. But with your change in brief...
Bitch From Hell: I don't care. My deadline still stands.

My solution? Locking myself in the office toilet to hyperventilate for 10 minutes, throwing up my breakfast from a panic attack, washing my face and heading back to beg and wheedle my way into trying to work things out.

I'm not ashamed to admit that for the 1st time, I feel totally helpless at work. I'm not adverse towards working within tight timelines. I am, however, wondering why the fuck I'm killing myself and the people around me, trying to pander to a client that obviously doesn't give 2 hoots about the way an agency-client relationship should be.

To The Bitch From Hell - I am not your fucking slave. I hate you and your crazy demands. I don't appreciate you telling me the agency isn't doing it's job when we're bending over backwards to help you rush things out. I hope you die a slow, painful death (Gangrene of the nipples!) in which you end up a rotting, putrid, oozing mess of green and purple goo.

For some reason, blogging about all this isn't helping with the tide of frustration that's building within me. Everything I've said above doesn't even begin to describe the shit that's been happening in the last few weeks and the pain we're going through.

Ah screw it. I'm gonna take a hot shower and head to bed. It's gonna be another long day tomorrow... Things can only get better, right? At least, that's what I'm telling myself, since I really can't imagine them getting any worse.

To Missdurh - Hang in there chickie babe. We'll get through this together. One way or another. Or we can always just up and leave. Let The Invisible Man handle all this shit on his own. Hahahaha... That's something I definitely wanna see! :P

To The Stiletto - Come back soon baby. I need someone to hold my hand at night and tell me everything's gonna be alright. I miss you tons...

About The "I"

Thanks to Missdurh, I've been tagged to do this little "fill-in-the-blanks" questionnaire. If my answers are a little weird or vague, I apologise. I've been working 15 to 18 hours a day for the past week and my brain's about to implode and leak big purple globs of goo from my ears.

I AM: On the verge of going insane because of work.

I WANT: To go on another holiday. Very desperately!

I WISH: I felt more motivated towards work and life in general.

I HATE: Feeling like I'm not in control of a situation.

I MISS: Idyllic nights spent snuggling with The Stiletto, talking about nothing in particular.

I FEAR: Failure.

I HEAR: Things get better as you move up the corporate ladder. I'm still waiting.

I WONDER: What the hell am I going to do with the rest of my life.

I REGRET: Nothing. I don't see a point in regret.

I AM NOT: Spending enough time with my family and friends.

I DANCE: After I've had half a dozen drinks.

I SING: When I'm happy. When I'm sad. When I'm bored. When I'm stressed. All the bloody time really.

I CRY: When I'm happy. When I'm sad. When I'm stressed. When I'm suffering from extreme bouts of PMS. All the bloody time really.

I AM NOT ALWAYS: As strong as people believe me to be.

I MAKE WITH MY HANDS: Lots of vulgar hand signals. Usually when I'm on the phone with my clients. Saccharine sweet voice. Rude hand gestures. Evens things out. And what my clients don't see won't hurt them. :P

I WRITE: Well. 'Nuff said. :P

I CONFUSE: Reality with dreams.

I NEED: To lose some weight! Now! Argh...

I SHOULD: Start dieting again! Now! Argh...

I START: But I don't always finish.

I FINISH: Work at ungodly hours.

I LOVE: Potato chips. Chocolates. And The Stiletto. (That was NOT added on as an after thought baby! :P)

I REMEMBER: Large chunks of my early childhood... Most people I've met find that weird because they don't.

I TAG: The Stiletto. Princess Liliput. Queen Plinc. Slinky. Ivory Petals. (Don't hate me people. Blame the cow who tagged me! Hahaha!)

About The Questions

Got this off Mufflepoof's blog. Thought it'd be kinda interesting to see what sorta responses I got from the people around me. (Be warned - The last few questions are a little weird. Heh...)

What would you do if...

I cried:
I asked you to help:
I died from natural causes:
I said I liked you:
I kissed you:
I told you I smoked occasionally:
I told you I have bisexual tendencies:
I stole something:
I was hospitalized:
I ran away from home:
I got in a fight and you were there:
I got dumped:
I pissed you off:
I pissed someone in your family off:
I did something that you could never forgive me for:

What do you think of my...

Personality:
Eyes:
Face:
Hair:
Clothes:
Voice:
Humor:
Choice of music:
Mannerisms:
Family:
Body:
Friends:
Decisions:
Future:

Would you...

Be my friend:
Bring me home to your mom:
Tell me the sweetest lies in the world just to get me in bed:
Move half the world away for me:
Tell me the truth no matter what:
Lie to make me feel better:
Spread rumors about me:
Keep a secret if I told you one:
Loan me some cash:
Hold my hand:
Take a bullet for me:
Keep in touch:
Try and solve my problems:
Love me:
Have sex with me:
Ditch me:
Use me:
Date me:
Rape me:
Beat me up: