Firstly, let's start off with Stardust.. a long anticipated movie, fitting right into my favourite genre of fantasy and sci-fi. It was motha'f***in' good.. although it was the usual 2hrs, it felt much much longer than that, and every moment was fully savoured and enjoyed.
The fallen Star, Yvaine, played by Claire Danes wasn't very appealing to me at first.. just not the super hot kind, i.e. a certain Ms Alba.. but as the show progresses, she just seemed more and more lovable. All the characters were so real and well played by the uber cast, such as Captain Shakespeare by Robert De Niro, Witch Queen Lamia by the epitome of "lao-chio" Michelle Phieffer(?), and the many actors who played the violent/evil princes.
The show can be simply summarised as warm and fuzzy, sprinkled with fantasy and intrigue, peppered with exciting fight scenes, but somehow it's one of the few shows that actually made me feel lovey-dovey.. wahahaha.. and it had a ending that I liked =)
I would actually recommend people to go watch this show, and if you like it, let's wait together for "Golden Compass" to come, which is supposedly an even bigger hit. But be warned though, the story is quite rushed, as they had to squeeze the whole novel in.
The Fallen Alien Star
Haha just went for tuition today, and came back at about 10:30pm.. yesterday XKB (the name of my newest youngest parrotlet chick, a noisy gal we called Xiao KaoBei) was weaned, and feeding perfectly fine on seeds, free from hand feeding. Just when I thought the parenting was over.
When I got back tp dearie was telling me all about this little chick that the block B people found in the midst of the good luck supper. So I hurried to Ritchell's room where they made a little cosy nest out of a hamster habitrail part, which I think was perfect.
They actually tried getting some formula from tp to mix, and fed a bit to the chick, but was kinda too watery and might risk aspirating the chick by going into the lungs. It's now on my desk in its cosy little nest, being fed every ONE HOUR.. I was like wtf when I did my research online on mynahs, which was my first guess.. and yep, it is a mynah chick and its really super ugly and gross if you are accustomed to seeing parrotlet chicks and thought they were pretty ugly. Imagine those kind of carnivorous plants that ate people up in b-grade movies, miniature size.
One good thing is that mynahs are actually very smart birds, as those of you who, like me had pancakes stolen by them before would know. Which means that like parrotlets, they do grow attached to their caretaker and actually remembers people and can be tamed if handfed from young. And, they're well known mimics, able to talk from the young age of 2 months. Soon, then block B can have its own block Pet! One that is expected to live up to 25 yrs.. lololol.
However, multiple bad bruises were observed on both sides of its head, which it must have sustained from the fall from the nest.. and its abdomen seemed wayyyyy too distended and stretched in my opinion, and I fear that it might have more serious internal injuries, but maybe its just the way mynah chicks are.. Well, at least its eating and pooping fine now.. let's hope for the best. AND cheers! the chicks requires no night feeding hehehehehe.
So after XKB, here comes yet another 1-2 months of intensive handfeeding.. Check out the pictures below of tp feeding the chick, which people are contemplated naming "Beeker/Beaker" haha..
P.S. those of you who dunno what a mynah is, they're the little brown birds with yellow beaks you see everywhere in Singapore.. or go google for images.
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