photos of pip..

starting off with an ugly photo of pip.. all wet and skinny.. only less than an hour old..

pebble drying the baby..

first feeding time..

when pip is dry.. it is much cuter..

below are random photos of pip.. i shall let the photos speak for itself..

how cute this little chinchilla is.. =)

this is the mother, pebble

and this is the father, whisky



feeding time again..

these are my favourite photos of pebble and pip... =)

pip can now jump!

actually i think pip jumped long time ago but i only got the photo and news that pip could jump to the wooden shelf.. so i am really excited to see pip when i get back...

but i am more eager to see a friend when i get back.. hopefully everything will go well..

something I've learnt today...

next time when you know a guy.. or a boyfriend.. who puts you first before everything.. whose life revolves around you... who seemed to have 'no life' beside spending every minute with you.. and you thought that wasn't healthy and it meant an imminent break up.. think again..

he loves you.. he loves you to bits.. and the reason why he would agree to your decision is only cos he wanted you to be happy.. and he thought you would be happy without this relationship...

so he would agree.. and assures you that he will try again when he is ready and if you are still willing to take him back..

pebble delivered a cute little baby yesterday!!

she was supposed to deliver one or two days ago but she was late... and when i went to school for a meeting without my phone.. i knew smth must be wrong (or right! haha).. so when i came home.. i asked kah ying whether anything happened.. but nope.. she said nothing.. pebble is still not delivering... so i thought i was wrong...

so when i approached her cage i saw this wet and skinny little fella in the tree trunk!!!! and pebble was all wet in the face! omg she gave birth without kah ying knowing at all.. so felt her abdominal area.. jellyish.. good! that means only one baby! yay!

both of them are okay! and initially pebble wasnt drying the baby or feeding it so i helped a bit.. and in the end she got the hang of it... didnt get to see them for long cos i had a bus to catch.. only got to see them for an hr and off i go..

so below are some pics gladys had kindly sent to me... =)

and the baby is so cute isnt it? so pretty!!!

alive and kicking!

after being so worried for the past few weeks (or months... -___-) over whether or not pebble is pregnant and whether or not she will have complications when giving birth.. i thought she would give birth either yesterday or today... but nope.. she is still running and jumping ard like she isnt pregnant... she even fled from her cage when i opened the cage door.. she ran so fast that i couldnt even catch her.. so i let her run ard.. didnt think chasing after her resulting in miscarriage is smth i wanted.. nope no thanks.. so she runs ard the kitchen while i swept the floor...

but anyway.. hehe this is the exciting part!!!! i was so worried after reading abt still borns or dead fetus in a chinchilla that i often put my fingers over abdomen to feel for movements.. well thats what the websites say.. the kits are supposed to move and we can feel it.. for the past few days there wasnt any movements.. except for the imaginary ones i thought i felt...

but today!!! i carried her and there was suddenly a kick! it was such a hard kick that even pebble jumped in my hands (probably shocked her.. haha).. i was excited.. so i brought her to kah ying and told her i could feel the baby kicking.. then there it was again! (ok the reason why i said 'it' was cos i am hoping it will only be one kit...max two.. nothing more) this time it was as though the baby was cycling in pebble's womb.. haha you knoe like those repetitive kicking.. and kah ying felt it too! ok that was the exciting part...

the not so exciting part is that im leaving for home tmr for more than a week.. and im relying on friends to help me care for them.. i really hope they will be ok and things go well.. otherwise.. i think i will be miserable at home...

it baffles me how a friend that i thought i've known for so long and so relatively well can change into a completely different person in just a matter of weeks...

someone who used to be quiet, somewhat caring and very thoughtful and careful with words can morph into someone so bimbotic, desperate and just plain weird...

its just so odd cos the last time i saw her, i would never had guessed that thats the last time i will ever see the friend i once knew for more than 6 years..

i really hope its just the pod she is taking... otherwise.. she must be possessed... -___-

The expectation is dwindling,

The confusion is gone,

Acceptance is here,

and the waiting is finally over...

Just a child?

I was just walking along the void deck of my block with hwa chin two days ago and decided to check if NCC had send us our long overdue cheques..

We just got back from IKEA and I was holding on to a lot of things so when we opened the mailbox, I grabbed the big pile of letters and threw it onto the floor so that I could sort them out on the ground.. I was just sorting out the letters into three piles: the landlord's, ours and those to be thrown away..

suddenly I could see a figure running towards me from the corner of my eye... before I could turn, the hand of a young boy in school uniform, he was a down-syndrome child.. I realised, reached out for the pile that was 'ours'. Thinking that he was just excited to see letters (you know... kids), I muttered " That's our letters"

He then let go of the pile of letters he was holding on to, stacked them onto the landlord's pile... promptly after that he reached out for the pile to be thrown away... I wanted to tell him that I wanted to throw that away and he could have them if he wanted to... but to my surprise he stacked that pile onto the pile he previously created... and ran away.. I managed to catch a glimpse of his smile.. only then that I realised he wasnt excited by letters or just being plain 'kid-like'...

He was merely helping me to pick up the letters he thought I had dropped onto the floor... I was definitely dumbfounded and I couldnt help smiling after being touched by such an adorable act of a child... =)

Tell me... how sweet was that...? grinz...

I'm a girl and I get affected by what and how I feel 99% of the time... thoughts raced through my mind when I accidentally (I swear it was accidental) stumbled upon her blog address on his computer... i pretended not to see and closed the window very quickly.. but it was quick enough for me to remember the blog address...

It was crazy how i tried to recite the address in my head... though it was really easy to remember and there is no way i can forget it.. i just kept reciting it as though I was afraid that Alzheimer will suddenly hit me or something...

A while later, curiousity got the better of me and I paid her blog a visit...

I regreted doing that... I hated what I saw... It hurts to see what I saw.. merely pictures were enough to make me want to go mad with tears... I didnt go past one page and I closed the window... I dont want to know anything anymore... all I want to do now is to go home... I'll rather be home where it is warm and uncomfortable with my housemates than to be here in the first place, discovering smth that I -if given second chance- would have chosen not to know, not to see...

Girlfriend vs Game

What is it with games anyway? What exactly is so interesting or addictive about them that an animated inanimate object can gain victory over the girlfriends with guys who are addicted to them? The battle began when World of Warcraft was invented.. that's my guess.

Maybe I will never know whats the joy of playing, or being very good at a game. I've never been good at or win any games I've played so far. Well, unless Hexic or PSP1 Disney Tarzan game is counted. But still, what's the addiction with games?

I used to hear friends complaining about their boyfriends who played so much game that they are abandoned. I just never thought about how it would feel like being put second in the list after games. Girlfriends can throw tantrums and be upset about their boyfriends' asses being stuck to their seats and their eyes glued to the computer screens; their boyfriends will know that their girlfriends aren't too happy about their addiction - but what else can they do?

Can you imagine three deaths had been reported related to gaming for long hours? How do someone die from playing games?!!! Don't they need to eat, sleep, go to the toilet or date their girlfriends? Maybe that explains how they could die... they died from starvation, sleep deprivation, and toxic waste accumulation in the body. An autopsy done on their body will probably find the colon filled with faece impactment. -___- Gaming is ridiculous.

But as ridiculous as it seemed to me, one thing for sure is that I will never ever be able to win a game; pun intended.

It's Yuki Yaki not YuGi YaGi

over the weekend, it was a time for catching up with friends.. it was really really wonderful spending time with old friends... too bad mel couldnt come.. and probably it was really last minute decision too.. or else im really sure we could be eating more and having more laughters..

'No Reservation' was really good... it was very touching... under normal circumstances, i would have teared rather badly BUT just because i had eyeliner and mascara on(!!!!) it was a concious effort to blink back the tears... -___- i knoe thats lame.. but i wouldnt want to come out of the cinema looking like i had bad make up on.. haha~ and it was really romantic... the guy was so sweet... and great looking tiramisu!

dined at cafe cartel... we had pork ribs, cabonara and some appertiser platter... and free flow of bread... as usual Ling was busy flirting with the waiters.. she is especially attracted to the 'obviously-showing-off-his-boxer' waiter...n yes Ling... i know you are dying to lay hands on that pair of jeans of his!

after the dinner we went around looking for suitable 'ahem' for mel... but to no avail... i guess its just not easy buying things for mel... though best friend for so long.. i dun really knoe wat she will really really like... oh well... we'll see... so after dinner we decided to walk back to UE square... yes... from marine parade to clarke quay is not a short distance... haha but we made stops here and there... first stop was just outside marina square building taking pics with ronald macdonald haha~

yes... doesnt Ronald look overjoyed?

haha... the rest are just photos of us... trying very very hard to get the proper lighting...

then we were just sitting in the middle of no where talking and laughing away... people were staring but did we care... haha no...

*when Ling was small, and Christmas tree was tall,
Now she's tall, and Christmas tree still tall...*

i know there is another version to this but we shall not go to that.. shall save it for my wedding day yah Ling and Linsey.... haha

You look absolutely gorgeous Ling.. LOL

A long long walk along the river... it was a pretty interesting walk with weird or rather funny people who are drunk or half drunk talking nonsense to us... plus we were rather crazy singing songs along the river too i guess.. people fishing or dating along the river turned and smiled at us.. haha..

we can still see you acting cute though it dark okay??

stop it Ling!!!

The Esplanade

Boat Quay

Fullerton Hotel

somehow it felt good to be back in Ling's beautiful apartment... my legs are tired from all the walking... watched Fear Factor with Linsey while Ling goes to sleep... she woke up half way saying her legs went cramped... and we stayed up till 4am just talking about old school and Nanyang days.. sigh.. those were the days...

Next morning.. we officially woke up at 1pm~actually Ling woke up way earlier and woke us up cos she was hungry alrd... so we went to Cold Storage and bought premixed brownie and salad ingredients... and so we had Mama instant noodles, a humongous bowl of salad and crispy brownie.. yum yum... and oh... Ling just told us she could get Ben and Jerry's for a really cheap price... -__- when all these while me and Linsey had been craving for Ben and Jerry's (but didnt get to eat them cos they are always so expensive)

Pictures of the apartment later... cos i think to blog for such length is alrd a good progress for me... haha... great weekend... satisfied... =)

back to reality and hell week next week.. and really... why cant everyday be a weekend and why cant life be this simple everyday..? =)

ok gtg cos Ling and Linsey are talking about getting a WIFE... =S and water going into their armpits from washing dishes... LOL