My poor McQueen. My once robust race car ruggie-herbie.
It showed signs of moulting. But as always, it was mistaken as momentary lethargy.
It's been digging into the corners for awhile now. So I ought to have taken a hint.
Hey, I'm still a newbie to this ok??
It's still alive and well. But it's been victimised by Fossil; it by far the most notorious herbie on Carapace Island.
Two walking legas have be ripped off and shrewn all over.
I practically fell off my stool while sitting down to observe; when I discovered.
McQueen is now in ICU. And hopefully it will survive!!! Pls, don't konk on me!
Fossil is wild, bold and big. And it has been trying to get to McQueen for awhile. That too, should have been a huge hint.
Hey, I'm still a newbie to this ok??
The next two I must look out for are KaKa and Scarab. These two have been in their pits in B-Cave for a long while now.
But I might still be wrong.
Hey, I'm still a newbie to this ok??
Lastest update:
R.I.P McQueen .... u will be missed.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Time's a Wasting in campus
The new Academic year is NOW.
Though not in full swing , as always the case.
But, once again, what's annoying is how specific hours are allocated to each module and have to be adhered to and completed.
And you realise that the lecturers just go on and on and on.... For god's sakes, get to the point!
Give us our assignments. Tell us how to do it . Brief us once and for all what they want and expect of us and how to get them done. Let's get started NOW .
Enough with the time wasting and all the preachy preachy preachy.
We ain' got 4ever. We have lives to lead; other things that preoccupy us besides school work.
I trully believe that our academic time can be cut by half or even more if we just get down to the assignments pronto.After all, isnt' that what we ARE graded for?
Guess, after 3 years, it's just getting all so predictable and boring and we basically just want to get our degrees ASAP and move on with our lives .
Cha.... Then again...
I just got to brace myself and stay commited and keep the enthusiasm up for I'm still gunning for a good classification since I 'm well on my way to one thus far.
SO, No jinx-ing ! Focus.
What ever. LOL
Though not in full swing , as always the case.
But, once again, what's annoying is how specific hours are allocated to each module and have to be adhered to and completed.
And you realise that the lecturers just go on and on and on.... For god's sakes, get to the point!
Give us our assignments. Tell us how to do it . Brief us once and for all what they want and expect of us and how to get them done. Let's get started NOW .
Enough with the time wasting and all the preachy preachy preachy.
We ain' got 4ever. We have lives to lead; other things that preoccupy us besides school work.
I trully believe that our academic time can be cut by half or even more if we just get down to the assignments pronto.After all, isnt' that what we ARE graded for?
Guess, after 3 years, it's just getting all so predictable and boring and we basically just want to get our degrees ASAP and move on with our lives .
Cha.... Then again...
I just got to brace myself and stay commited and keep the enthusiasm up for I'm still gunning for a good classification since I 'm well on my way to one thus far.
SO, No jinx-ing ! Focus.
What ever. LOL
But when I eventually graduate, I'll sure miss this campus....
Business Opportunities Knock-ing
Today ended with such amazing coincidences!
I'm graduating in a year's time and I've a 4-year bond to serve out .... what next?
Well, of the millions of things I aspire to accomplish one day, one of which is to open my own bakery.
Of course , if this doesn't work out ('case it doesn't!), don't quote me here pls. ..
And I had a dinner-hang out with a school mate which I met while doing a module a year back. We've remained as friends and its been a while.
While driving to the nearby mall food court, we realised that we had this in common : We wanted to open a bakery one fine day.
He's got the relevant skills and industry connections. I had the business sense and plan in mind.
We needed FUNDS.
As we pondered over our food, out of the blue, my student who owns a Ferrari, a multi-million dollar business which is about to go Public no less, bungalow... yeash. You got the idea; called.
Nothing business was conversed through his Vertu, just smooth talk about cars and such.
Now, that's a friend. And surely a very potential investor !
There, things are definitely coming about.
Hopeful. Inspired. Wow.
I'm graduating in a year's time and I've a 4-year bond to serve out .... what next?
Well, of the millions of things I aspire to accomplish one day, one of which is to open my own bakery.
Of course , if this doesn't work out ('case it doesn't!), don't quote me here pls. ..
And I had a dinner-hang out with a school mate which I met while doing a module a year back. We've remained as friends and its been a while.
While driving to the nearby mall food court, we realised that we had this in common : We wanted to open a bakery one fine day.
He's got the relevant skills and industry connections. I had the business sense and plan in mind.
We needed FUNDS.
As we pondered over our food, out of the blue, my student who owns a Ferrari, a multi-million dollar business which is about to go Public no less, bungalow... yeash. You got the idea; called.
Nothing business was conversed through his Vertu, just smooth talk about cars and such.
Now, that's a friend. And surely a very potential investor !
There, things are definitely coming about.
Hopeful. Inspired. Wow.
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Missing Landscapes...
What do you get when you put an economic power house with not much land to spare for its ceaseless expansion?
High property prices matched with the buying power of global tigers...
"En bloc! En bloc !!" you say ?
True dat.
As our country nears yet another year of celebrating its Independence, if we look back in another 40-50 years time, we'll have this void in our heritage.
Buildings and structures define a society at its different stages of social and economic growth.
The Great Wall of China, the Pyramids of Giza, the Pantheon of Greece etc even the Stature of Liberty are examples of eras gone by; defining the trials, tribulations and upheavals the respective regions and their societies faced. Traditions and cultures were thus defined and transcended till this day.
For a nation like Singapore, we are both blessed and cursed by the the need to constantly renew and redevelop everything that speaks in the name of keeping the country's cash registers ringing and the coffers filled.
Buildings that defined our years of nation building and social setting, are gradually being torn down in the name of putting up new structures in their places.
Soon, we will see this awkward void in our physical history when we look back years from now.
We'll see the Colonial and Migrant influences of the 1700-early 1900s such as the City Hall area , the China Town/Little India/Kampung Glam area and the Singapore River side area. And then you'll see futuristic, commercially driven buildings we are busy erecting today to reflect our 'global position'.
This means what we have now and in the future are buildings that not necessarily reflect who we truly are but what we want the world at large to see us.
Then of course, back to the gist,this country will have little significant buildings that depicts the 60s-early 90s Singapore.
Nothing is new enough. Every things is old enough.
We tear down buildings that could have been upper class housing developments, posh hostels and high-end malls in other countries. But to us, at least to the authorities and money-faces developers, they are merely hindrance to bigger profits and fatter pay cheques and bonuses.
So, from now til 2050 perhaps, we're left with odd-looking, and even odder sounding, awe-LESS inspiring buildings.
Oh, but take heart, b'cos once their novelty shapes wear out, we'll tear it down again. :=P
High property prices matched with the buying power of global tigers...
"En bloc! En bloc !!" you say ?
True dat.
As our country nears yet another year of celebrating its Independence, if we look back in another 40-50 years time, we'll have this void in our heritage.
Buildings and structures define a society at its different stages of social and economic growth.
The Great Wall of China, the Pyramids of Giza, the Pantheon of Greece etc even the Stature of Liberty are examples of eras gone by; defining the trials, tribulations and upheavals the respective regions and their societies faced. Traditions and cultures were thus defined and transcended till this day.
For a nation like Singapore, we are both blessed and cursed by the the need to constantly renew and redevelop everything that speaks in the name of keeping the country's cash registers ringing and the coffers filled.
Buildings that defined our years of nation building and social setting, are gradually being torn down in the name of putting up new structures in their places.
Soon, we will see this awkward void in our physical history when we look back years from now.
We'll see the Colonial and Migrant influences of the 1700-early 1900s such as the City Hall area , the China Town/Little India/Kampung Glam area and the Singapore River side area. And then you'll see futuristic, commercially driven buildings we are busy erecting today to reflect our 'global position'.
This means what we have now and in the future are buildings that not necessarily reflect who we truly are but what we want the world at large to see us.
Then of course, back to the gist,this country will have little significant buildings that depicts the 60s-early 90s Singapore.
Nothing is new enough. Every things is old enough.
We tear down buildings that could have been upper class housing developments, posh hostels and high-end malls in other countries. But to us, at least to the authorities and money-faces developers, they are merely hindrance to bigger profits and fatter pay cheques and bonuses.
So, from now til 2050 perhaps, we're left with odd-looking, and even odder sounding, awe-LESS inspiring buildings.
Oh, but take heart, b'cos once their novelty shapes wear out, we'll tear it down again. :=P
Giving the Cold Shoulder
There are always the ups and Downs in any relationship.
But giving the other party the cold shoulder basically means you that lead each other into confusion as to what went wrong and at the same time let the problem (and each other) seethe in guilt, pain and anguish.
The 'Cold Shoulder' treatment is the Number One culprit when it comes to having 'communication breakdowns' , 'no longer talking scenarios', 'he/she is controlling' (too much whining and barking at each other; see what happens when too much pent-up emotions overflow the words?) and the classic 'irreconcilable differences'.
Let's put it simply, if you don't talk, don't discuss the issues at hand, how can the respective parties undersand each other's mentality and thoughts/ideas?
Problems cannot be solved by them selves. They have to be looked into and worked upon.
And that goes with not having egos and stuck-ups be in the way of things.
Be mutually fair. Don't go all biatchy. Be tactful. Be democratic. Be open. Be sincere. Not blunt.
Be sensitive. And most of all, be level-headed , which means, cool off first. (do that mini-meditation thing within youself for a couple of seconds to a few minutes.)
Tell yourself that you'd want to walk away a happier you, the matured one and the bigger person. Why make enemies? You see.
But giving the other party the cold shoulder basically means you that lead each other into confusion as to what went wrong and at the same time let the problem (and each other) seethe in guilt, pain and anguish.
The 'Cold Shoulder' treatment is the Number One culprit when it comes to having 'communication breakdowns' , 'no longer talking scenarios', 'he/she is controlling' (too much whining and barking at each other; see what happens when too much pent-up emotions overflow the words?) and the classic 'irreconcilable differences'.
Let's put it simply, if you don't talk, don't discuss the issues at hand, how can the respective parties undersand each other's mentality and thoughts/ideas?
Problems cannot be solved by them selves. They have to be looked into and worked upon.
And that goes with not having egos and stuck-ups be in the way of things.
Be mutually fair. Don't go all biatchy. Be tactful. Be democratic. Be open. Be sincere. Not blunt.
Be sensitive. And most of all, be level-headed , which means, cool off first. (do that mini-meditation thing within youself for a couple of seconds to a few minutes.)
Tell yourself that you'd want to walk away a happier you, the matured one and the bigger person. Why make enemies? You see.
Saturday, August 4, 2007
First casualty... Dead and Replaced.
G.I the gentle giant Ruggie-Herbie is the first to enter Crab Heaven (that's what all crab-thusiasts say online when one passes on) .
It had been gravely sick since Day One and had been in ICU since then and had never set a claw in my yet-t0-be-named Crabitat.
So don't go pointing fingers about me being a terrible owner or something....
I went to Uncle 'HaHa' this late afternoon and he had the dead G.I replaced, 'cos that's what written on the back of its Certificate rather than 'Dead', with 2 smaller Ruggie-Hermies which I've certified as Sea Biscuit and Scarab.
Well, G.I had a hard life. Considering it weathered longer enough than the rest to grow to its enormous size, it didn't have a home to call it's own for long. On top of that , it was literally flushed down the bowl and de-shelled on the spot (apparently, the shell is more valuable.... true true.) Where's the dignity?
So never mind it stank to high-heavens in my car. That was perhaps the only it mark it trully left on me. ;p
So enuff with the sentimental.
Let's welcome :
1)Sea Biscuit: It had a stalllion head painted on its Blue shell
and
2)Scarab: It's really another race car like McQueen(albeit a shyer one) but me and my bro kinda decided we just had to name one 'Scarab' after watching The Mummy video last night. LOL (Besides, two 'S's is fitting considering the circumstances these two were adopted together.)
Bitter sweet. Clap clap clap.
It had been gravely sick since Day One and had been in ICU since then and had never set a claw in my yet-t0-be-named Crabitat.
So don't go pointing fingers about me being a terrible owner or something....
I went to Uncle 'HaHa' this late afternoon and he had the dead G.I replaced, 'cos that's what written on the back of its Certificate rather than 'Dead', with 2 smaller Ruggie-Hermies which I've certified as Sea Biscuit and Scarab.
Well, G.I had a hard life. Considering it weathered longer enough than the rest to grow to its enormous size, it didn't have a home to call it's own for long. On top of that , it was literally flushed down the bowl and de-shelled on the spot (apparently, the shell is more valuable.... true true.) Where's the dignity?
So never mind it stank to high-heavens in my car. That was perhaps the only it mark it trully left on me. ;p
So enuff with the sentimental.
Let's welcome :
1)Sea Biscuit: It had a stalllion head painted on its Blue shell
and
2)Scarab: It's really another race car like McQueen(albeit a shyer one) but me and my bro kinda decided we just had to name one 'Scarab' after watching The Mummy video last night. LOL (Besides, two 'S's is fitting considering the circumstances these two were adopted together.)
Bitter sweet. Clap clap clap.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
A Crabitat .... to call me own:-)
To the uninitiated, a 'crabitate' sounds major crapola ... but lemme explain.
A 'Crabitat' is an artificial habitat created buy the owner of HERMIT CRABS so that these spoiled critters can have a whole mini-ecosystem to call their own. ( Crab + Habitat= Crabitat. Getit? :p )
Anyway, as mentioned, after years of haggling from my brother, I've finally took the chance and got myself my own Hermies.
Skeptical , even grossed out at first, but I was itching to bring in some new excitement into my life after the Venus Fly trap a close gal friend gave me a while back is becoming more a weed than a wacker.
Guess,my recent spate of depression is kinda making me more open to some meaningful retail therapy well...
Anyhow, I drove myself half way across the island to where it was the only place in these parts where I could adopt these exoticas.
Well, these Hermies needed special licenses to bring them in for legal rearing about 3 years back. It still appeals to an extremely niche clientele today. But in recent context, the word 'adoption' is hardly the apt word here.
My crabitat is only 'almost' done up and it had already cost me 300 bucks and rising.
Back then, perhaps it would have cost me 10Xs less.
Anyway, before I reel in the aftermath of a wanton retail therpy-spree gone bad, I'd say, I'm LOVING what I see !!!
The hermies come with cute adoption cards and their names are as follows:
A 'Crabitat' is an artificial habitat created buy the owner of HERMIT CRABS so that these spoiled critters can have a whole mini-ecosystem to call their own. ( Crab + Habitat= Crabitat. Getit? :p )
Anyway, as mentioned, after years of haggling from my brother, I've finally took the chance and got myself my own Hermies.
Skeptical , even grossed out at first, but I was itching to bring in some new excitement into my life after the Venus Fly trap a close gal friend gave me a while back is becoming more a weed than a wacker.
Guess,my recent spate of depression is kinda making me more open to some meaningful retail therapy well...
Anyhow, I drove myself half way across the island to where it was the only place in these parts where I could adopt these exoticas.
Well, these Hermies needed special licenses to bring them in for legal rearing about 3 years back. It still appeals to an extremely niche clientele today. But in recent context, the word 'adoption' is hardly the apt word here.
My crabitat is only 'almost' done up and it had already cost me 300 bucks and rising.
Back then, perhaps it would have cost me 10Xs less.
Anyway, before I reel in the aftermath of a wanton retail therpy-spree gone bad, I'd say, I'm LOVING what I see !!!
The hermies come with cute adoption cards and their names are as follows:
- Fossil (looks straight out of stone age)
- Crush (had Crush the sea turtle of Finding Nemo fame painted on; but has since then shifted shell)
- McQueen (my race car champion who had the entire family looking high and low for it)
- KaKa (my football darling who is somehow being bullied by the others now)
- G.I (we call it 'Gigi' bcos it sounds cuter; my gentle giant who's so limp & boring that it is beginning to become nothing more than a paper weight)
With a meticulous choice (ok , fussy) of furniture within the tank, my Crabitat is looking fantastic although I still feel it lacking something (more trees?) . Hmmmm.
I think G.I and KaKa are moulting and it's a worrisome time for me bcos they are so vulneralbe right now and have to be seperated from the rest and into dark isolation. Dun want the cannibalism to start! (Already, we spotted McQueen and Crush ganging up against KaKa! Phew! Was there on time. Gulp.)
BTW, I was totally grossed out when Crush slipped out of its shell, exposed it's alien-like soft abdomen area and slotted into another shell just to test for fit (it eventually settled for another one that is almost identical but bigger, a lil later) It looked like those Face Huggers from the Alien movies!
I'll be checking on them very often and I hope for the best.
I might even add pictures here. Stay tuned. :-)
Enthralled.
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