edwards few and rare thoughts

Animal Convention

We just had an animal convention 2 days back, where we went to visit Gwen's ragdoll kitten, and fortunately she stays in KR B Block so its just right opposite my block =) Then we moved back to my room with the kitten to meet Lashe..

Haha it was amusing to see Lashe so eager to sniff and play with the kitten, althought she's more than 10 times her weight, and we were so worried that Lashe might accidentally injure the kitten Pooka in her excitement. So in the end when Lashe got uber excited we had to put her on the chair to calm down, where Gwen's friend stroked her and played with her. (Disclaimer: photos below were stolen from tp's blog)

that's gwen and her cute kitten - Pooka :)

first up! we've DOG meets CAT

then we have CAT meets BIRD

then we have DOG meets HAMSTER meets CAT

When I went out to retrieve the hamsters for them to see, something horrifying happened: My RF, Joti, came up to my level and walked past my room. My heart just fell to somewhere near my toes... The door was wide open, the dog was happily panting away on the chair, the kitten was rolling around in Lashe's blue bed shown above, the hamsters were in my hands, and the parrots chirping away. The horror, the nightmare.. getting caught red-handed..

However, strangely she just merely said: "Hi guys, I'm just here to make sure that there isn't much noise made in the block.. Ok, seeya!" (somthing along those lines) Wow, she just gained so many points in my favourite RF rankings lololol..

Studying and XiaoKaoBei

Studying EE2009, Signals, in the library right now.. felt good to sleep at 11+ (or was it 12) last night and woke up at 9 today to study.. YAY.. brought XiaoKaobei along with me though.. as she was chirping away as usual one woken up, and was disturbing tp's sleep.. she's now nicely snuggled on my shoulder sleeping, after climbing around the whole time.. and chirping.. which I hope did not disturb the restof the people in the library.

Benefits of having a parrotlet: They're so tiny they're usually missed, and their chirping's so soft most people don't mind at all (unless your bed's 1m away from the cage like mine, and they're chirping while u're trying to sleep). Plus they're blue, furry and adorable, everyone loves them hahaha..

XKB's trip to the library!

XKB enjoying her back scratch and closing her eyes

XKB finally sleeping on my shoulder and keeping silence

Ok, back to mugging spectras, Fourier transforms and yada-yada.

Labels: parrotlet

This is going to be a really long post.. hehe full of photos and all! Both my darlings are now deep in sleep, during this sleepy afternoon.. And I'm taking a break from chionging to mug to blog. =)

Lashe

Ok, today's updates will start with our darling, Lashe =) As usual, we brought her to the West Coast dog run on Sunday afternoon, this time cutting through this canal+road from Sheares and voila! we are at the dog run, all within 15mins, as compared to the walk we used to take from PGP to fongseng to West Coast park entrance, then back to the dog run, which was a big big detour that takes almost an hour.. thx to tp we explored an alternative and found this new route =) Now Lashe gets to spend more time at the dog run.. Sunday was a sweltering hot day, and esp. bad for a black dog with thick undercoat like Lashe.. She ran around a bit, and just came back, gulped water, and laid with us under the shade.. haha..

As usual, there were many small dogs, this time instead of an army of beagles it was a small troop of JRTs... so many of the little ones running about.. Then finally some big dogs appeared.. a couple with 2 big Labs came over, one black and one chocolate, looking very nice, a size we hope Lashe can reach.. and another Swedish family who just moved here brought their Irish terrier over from Sweden too, but their dog couldn't take the Singapore heat too and was just laying on the grass in the shade. Seeing that Lashe had her fill of fun and running about we went back to rush to shower Lashe, shower ourselves, then leave for my Grandma's birthday.

Grandma's Bdae

After settling Lashe, we rushed to PGP to shower and get changed for the birthday celebration. Haha, for the first time, I actually wore the white blazer I bought in Taiwan =) well I must say it looked pretty good wahahahaa... good enough for me to take a typical-cliched shot of myself in the mirror, in all true epitomised cam-whoreness, complete with the blurred mirror effect, and of course the important face-covering flash from the mirror. Check it out. So I turned off the flash and took again. LOL.

On the way to Novena MRT -> United Square -> Vienna International Seafood and Teppanyaki Buffet we took some more random shots to entertain ourselves. My relatives were all pretty surprised that I was actually ON time this year, since I was late for almost every year previously.. and we rushed for the food immediately, as you can see from the absence of mention of food the whole day due to Lashe.. The food was good, but not uber-fantastic.. good enough to fill our bellies though.

Here're some pics of the buffet. A few voyeuristic shots only though, as the manager was watching us with the camera, and alas, we got caught and were told to stop snapping.

A photo of my grandma's 12 grandchildren, with me the oldest carrying the youngest, a 3 yr-old boy called Qiheng who's favourite toy is a Transformer Bumblebee =)

All 13 of us! + tp

My grandma and Qiheng

Me and my sis

Ben's Musical

Yep, ben's upcoming musical.. haha always knew he was rehearsing for some Medicine Fac production, but never really knew what it was about. And then one day, while on the way to collect my lab reports at Engin, I walked past this poster. You see, it was a poster with 5 faces. 2 big ones on top, andd 3 smaller ones below. As I walked by I merely scanned across it, seeing the top left face, and the bottom 3. And of course, the title of the production, "Just Great", which I found to be odd as it reminded me of Jus Tea drink by Yeo's. Then after a bend, tp exclaimed: "Ben! Ben!" I went: "Where? where?" and looked around for ben. And there it was. "Omgwtfbbq" zoomed past my mind a couple of times. The last face I missed was freaking ben's big face on the poster. For those who have not seen it yet, here it is! Taken by the humble 2-megapixel Motorola A1200 phone.

Honestly I think he looks like some doctor version of GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka, the rascal turned school teacher), where some Ah Beng managed to get through MedFac and became a doctor. Since we're already on this, let's imagine...

Paramedic:	"Doctor! We need some help here! We have a burn victim here, mostly 2nd degree burns, and her condition is critical."
Ben:	"KK... coming coming.."
Ben:	"Wah lau eh.. you look like a freaking char siew sia.. kk let me see.. Hmm.. (serious face) ok your skin's a bit crispy already, but the flesh still tender.. Can. I know already.
Ben:	"Oi Missy! Get this woman here some Zambuk! and then get some Colgate also. My Ah Bu last time say got burn use Zambuk and Colgate best. Damn shiok somemore."
( Woman dies on spot at Char Siew comment )

Back to Lashe

Just visited the pet store today, as Lashe ran out of her pee pads and we urgently need them, if not a pee tray full of her pee in liquid form is really messy. Also did some grocery shopping for essentials at Sheng Siong, e.g. shampoo, milk, tissue paper. Today we bought this really cheap Japanese brand pee pad, about half the price of the ones we got at another petshop.. its $38 for 120 pcs, as compared to $7 for 12 pcs.. And they're packed really compactly in this diapers like packaging. 120 pcs.. hopefully it'll last us long. However its considerably thinner than the previous one.. now to wait for Lashe to pee to test out its absorbency. The pee tray I mentioned is the purple and pink yogi silver-nano technology pee tray, to prevent Lashe from stepping on her own pee and leaving pee prints all over.

Pee pads nicely folded

Here's an updated photo of Lashe taken while she was sleeping =) hrmm do you guys think she has grown.. well to me and tp it seems like she has ceased to grow.. she's still so tiny! haha..

Xiao Kaobei

Now now, you guys must be wondering, what's Xiao Kaobei? haha well it's the name of my youngest addition to the parrotlet family, the only surviving female baby of the latest batch from Titan.. hrmm sadly her other sibling passed away shortly after leaving the nest, and I suspect smth is wrong since the death rate since last batch is pretty high.. will investigate in the hols.

Btw, she's been named Xiao Kaobei as she's the noisiest baby chick I've ever encountered, chirping away, singing to herself non stop.. and crying right on time each time for food. This name was inspired by tp btw..

Due to the disappearance of my usual plastic aquariums, I had to use a makeshift wooden nestbox to house XKB.. which I thought was better too, as she spent her initial weeks at PGP in the air-con room, and the wood would provide some insulation. and keep her warm. The down-side I was worried about was that the nestbox was dark and cut-off from the room and people and I was afraid she won't be acclimatised to activities in the room, loud noises and people, and become a fearful bird like Baby.

However, she turned out to be the cuddliest one amongst all her brothers and sisters! haha.. despite just leaving the dark nestbox, she takes to humans very well, and it pretty bold and adventurous. One good measure of her tameness is her willingness to let me preen her, by fluffing her head into a ball for me to scratch. Only Titan used to allow this consistently previously. So I'm deciding to keep her =)

Also after reading about the successful training of a lovebird by a fellow local MoPa forum member, (lovebirds aren't exactly very easy to train, as are most small parrots) I'm quite tempted to attempt some basic training with XKB, as that member has kindly included step-by-step instructions of how he did it and even videos of his parrot. You guys can check out some amazing videos here at http://bryansangels.ohitsuji.com/. Especially the coin deposit and fetch.

Ok, that's all for now, XKB is currently nestled on my shoulder sleeping.. now that makes 3 sleeping darlings and only me awake haha.. this is bad.. all our pets are following our screwed up sleep cycles and turning nocturnal.

Random Shot

For an amazing stroke of luck, and to find out what the seemingly obscene and foul liquid is doing on tp's laptop screen, visit tp's blog to find out more =)

P.S. The mynah chick has unfortunately died a very horrid death last Friday morning due to unknown causes.. *sigh*

Labels: dog run, lashe, parrotlet, vienna international, west coast, yogi pee tray