the first white hair

I guess I am considered "lucky". Among my peers whom have strands of whites spread around, I never had a single strand.

That was until yesterday.

My girl, spotted a white image and promptly told me about it. My first reaction? Pluck it out, so that I could see. And true enough, its white without a single black coloration.

I turned 30 this year and at the prime of my life perhaps. I am happy the way things are for now, but perhaps from next year I would be keen on the next step forward.

This little white hair of mine has now pointed out to me that its time for a change.

Christmas reflections

Its after all my 30th Christmas.
30 years have went by and things are different at each year.

Growing up, I looked forward to the tons of Christmas gifts that my parents and relatives have gotten me. Its a time of expectation and joy for me. A time where worries are no more than getting thru the examinations and the hopefully passing my Chinese.

Years later, I became less incline to receive but to give. Went about shopping and hunting to look for the gifts that would made someone happy. I guess the smiles that I get back, is worth more than the cash that was spent.

Looking back, this festive season always is a important period for me. I used to love to join my brothers Scouts and sister Guides in songs of carol and spreading the love to the less fortunate. A time I cherish dearly and looking back never fails to be a little sadness to my heart.

The wonderful period spent in my teens has led me to find great and closed friends with Eejean, Shups!, Inky and so on. You guys are the bestest and I hope to remain close with you guys for eons to come.

As I close of this post, I would dearly hope to once more come together to bring the joy and cheers to the everyone all around.

Smile. and you be sure someone would smile back at you

The 2 lobsters

After several weeks, I began to see that my 2 lobsters dun see eye to eye. They tend to stick out their craws when they are near each other. And its not becos they are looking for a hug.

Apparently I read that they can get quite territorial and would be waiting to kill off their competitors.

However I am guessing that this 2 creatures are either both Females or Males. There is no way they could get along.

I guess I have to move one of them home and keep the other one here.

Google talk

A long while back, my former colleague secretly installed an older copy of messenger and thus allow us to chat with the outside world. Months later he left and strangely, the older copy of messenger was declare obsolete by MS and we were forced to upgrade (which we cant) and thus our connection was lost.

Much later, I have embarked on using web based messenger for chatting. Sad to say, ebuddy tends to disconnect often and iloveim seems to be a few mins laggy. Just then, my former colleague suggested to try google talk.

And guess what, I dun need admin rights to install and use this. GRIN

Topgear driving through a tunnel

And doing a loop in it

The nagging cough

Being sick sux. It sux sooo bad that it keeps me from doing the routine stuff.

And recovering from it, aint exactly better. I am in my cough phase and judging from past experience, you would likely to hear me cough for an entire month (if not more).

Is there a better way to solve this?

Oh and Scrubs is back for Season 9. It looks familiar but feel different somehow.

The 2nd 10 km run

Last year I ran with 2 good runners and they kept me going till I lost them at the 5km mark. Later on, my ankle gave way and I stopped at the 7km mark and walked pretty much on and off from there till the finish line.

This year I ran with this guy. He was a veteran runner whom came in 3rd back when he was in secondary school. My bro was too suppose to run with us today, but I called a frantic call from him this morning. He said that his wife not feeling well, then added her breathing was heavy. It took some time before he actually said that he think his wife is going into labour.

PS. He is a dad of a cute baby girl now :)

Oh and months ago, we actually had this joke that he may have to sprint to the finish line if he knows his baby is coming during the run.

Anyhow, I met M in the dawn of the morning. He complained to me about the lack of sleep, a slight headache and a damaged bonnet which surprisingly din crash his hand. I myself had 4 hrs of sleep, mild flu like symptoms and pretty much lost my voice. We were 2 misfit runners.

We set about to complete the run in the best we can. And as soon as we are line up to start, the kenyans were finishing their 42km stroll in little more than 2 hrs.

I had targeted to run throughout this round without stopping. Also hope to better my mark of 1:13:20 (official) which I did last year. The ran was enjoyable and fun for most part. We ran together right up to the 5km mark (top of ECP bridge). Its there that M spoke to me like a wounded soldier. Go on, he said, dont let me slow you down.

Anyhow I went on my own. My ankles were starting to ache and my throat was killing me. The devil on my left said, its time to take a break. Walk like the rest of them. The angel said, WTF! you ^($^%@#*# better not stop.

So I carried on till the the 9km mark where for no reason at all I stopped. I was just passing Esplanade at that point and within a few short steps, I pushed myself on. Ran to the finish line and cross the counter at 1:13.

M ran pass not too long after at 1:20. He had been thinking of nasi lemak throughout the run and as soon as we were rested, we went for a good meal.

BTW, I am suffering from some dehydration. Gotten a mild fever since I came back. Dun think I would ever try running again when I am not of good health.

The Italian Police

This is what the Italian Police has in its arsenal to combat against the illegal racing speedster and the getaway bank robbers.

Its the Lamborghini Gallardo. Much much more powerful than the Subaru WRX which our local police has.

Unfortunately, one of only two of this beautiful machines had been totaled by a careless driver. You could almost felt the tears in your eyes when you see the picture below.

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new plants

The office tank (see earlier post) now has 2 lovely baby lobsters.

Now onto the home tank. I had remove the bottom netting that holds a bundle of moss. It was meant to be a moss flooring but the moss din ended up growing too well. Upon removing it, I shift it to the back of the tank.

this reveals plenty of shit. lots and lots of shit that have been lying underneath the netting. This is where the filter fails to gather the necessary dirt. Having said that, I set the filter on high and immediately the tank was cloudy shit. Everything looks like a dirty washing machine.

I bought 5 plants which were neatly pack in the bag. Having open them, I realise 3 will be all I need to cover the background. I have no idea they could expand so much.

Anyhow, I would pose some pics after the shit settle down. May take a whole day. In any case, I do hope my inhabitants wont mind living in a peculiar condition.

Update: Apparently the renovation is quite stressful to the little creatures. About 5 were spotted dead this morning and 20 more are missing. Sighs

baby lobsters

This is my second attempt at raising lobsters. Previously my $4 crayfish live for a week before laying dead in the tank. I could not find out any reason why.

Now I have spent $14 on 2 smaller lobsters. They seemed to be enjoying the new tank life. One is even feasting on a dead cherry shrimp as I speak.

They are no larger than 50 cents. And I mean the coin, not the rapper.