Stuart is dead.

My little black and white puffy cottonball, otherwise known as my guinea pig Stuart is dead. Just a little over a month old.

Please pray for his soul and may he now be in heaven playing among the other guinea pigs.

As I was eating lunch the other day I noticed that the cured meat I had for lunch was a bit hard. I thought for a while that the meat has just been aired too long that it became hard. So I ate it without preamble nor complaint.

It wasn’t until I got home that I’ve learned that the meat wasn’t pork, as I thought it was. I was carabao (kalabaw) which is native here in the Philippines.

My reaction? I was surprised of course, but I wasn’t disgusted. I’ve already eaten some exotic dishes before like *censored to avoid readers’ disgust* and they weren’t that bad. The one main reaction I had though was that I suddenly remembered that when I was a kid growing up in the province, I’d go home riding a carabao after a day of playing in the fields.

Then I looked down at my plate again. ^^

I haven’t really been here for quite a while, have I? Imagine my luck when my hard drive had to be reformatted, not once, but twice. Oh, and did I mention that our internet in the office is getting funkier by the minute?

But probably one of the main reasons that I haven’t updated much here is because I haven’t touched Photoshop in a while, other than scan manga for Aerandria. Designing and creating graphics doesn’t hold much interest for me now as it did before. I see my friends who weren’t into designing before who are designing nonstop now. Maybe it’s an attitude of a ‘been there done that’ kind of thing. I actually am content just to let them create the images themselves and I’ll just post it. Maybe I’ll accept submissions in this site to slave off my laziness? ^_^

I’m more concerned about two things now. My Japanese lessons and web programming. At least in those two I don’t get bored as I am now with graphics design. Oh, and whipping WordPress to do what I want it to do, of course. That’s always such a fulfilling task. >D