Marmalade on Toast

Is it just me, or does anyone else find this Facebook ad funny:

No, seriously, why are her armpits giving out starbursts?! Sometimes people really do come up with the strangest ads. People, artistic license only gives you *so much* leeway!

Remember Geocities? Angelfire? Tripod? gURLpages?

Back then, animated GIF page dividers were the bomb, and we had guestbooks and webrings! That’s some seriously retro stuff. If you remember, it just means that you’re kinda sorta old… kinda sorta like me.

I recall sitting in our secondary school computer lab, some 13 years ago, with AN. We selected which “city” to be based in (was it SoHo? or SunsetStrip?), and then went about eagerly created our very first webpage called… wait for it… ChocPuddz (don’t ask)! We decorated it with all manner of neon-coloured blink-bling-animated graphics, and we couldn’t have been prouder of it, haha.

Kudos to GeoCities for the big part they played in the history of the Internet. For those who’d like to revisit a slice of that history, you can head down to Reocities, where some good folks are trying to salvage the early webpages from being deleted forever.

This is the game we’re currently addicted to:

Planting, harvesting, hoeing, watering, planting, harvesting, hoeing, watering…

Desperately trying to move up the levels so that i can earn more money to buy the bigger ticket decoration items for my farm. Playfish’s graphics are too pretty to resist. Just reached Level 20 today and finally got my lamb:

The lamb is super cute lah, here it is enjoying the brushing:

While the Cat is away, i’m going all out to catch up with her:

Almost there!

Playfish is really good at what they do. The way they’ve integrated their games into Facebook and planned out the game mechanics makes the game very interactive, and the graphics are just amazing.