New cushion for Miko~

I have a doggie soft toy in Miko's cage for her to rest on. But it's rather small, now that she has grown big. I've been looking for a suitable size cushion for her.

The other day went dinner with YY, I came across this. It's a bag actually. But it is really really soft. But it's width is too short for my liking.

So, I did some alteration. I opened the zip and sewed it like this.

Voilà! a nice size cushion just for Miko~~

And tie it to the cage bar. Done~!

Now persuading Miko to go check out her new cushion.

She was trying to reach the strings that I tied the cushion.

Miko checking out her new cushion.

I think she likes it. hahaha.

Zoo again-Nov 07

I am now a member of the Singapore Zoo So happy. Angel and me went to zoo last week. As it was a public holiday, it was soooooo packed. And inevitably, in the zoo, you can always bump into rude kids. They are really "abundant", I'm telling ya.

My head looks really ugly in this elephant picture thing.. So I only put Angel's. hehe.

I forgot their names.. but these small monkeys (marmasot?) are so pretty! They've got golden hands!

Don't you just love the proboscis monkey? They look so much like a 40+ yrs old man with big beer-tummy.

One of my favourites in the zoo, sloth. It was perching on a low branch and looked like it's sleeping, or just resting. The funny thing was, it put its 2 claws, hanging in its mouth. It looked soooo funny!


A lemur baby! Super adorable! Didn't see many lemurs that day though. Just saw 2 adults and this baby.

"Oh don't take my picture, I am shy~"

Another super adorable creature - manatee. Manatee has round shape tail, whereas dugong has a tail like dolphins/fish. This should be just a baby.

Click on the photo and look closely. It's 2 dugong, in a 6-9 position. hahaha..

Look closely they were hugging. Really hugging, instead of fin-touch-fin type which is common for dolphins to show intimacy.

Super super adorable!!!!!!

Happy~

Recently I am quite happy. Starting to lose some weight, getting fitter as I do more cardio exercise lately, there's gonna be a diving trip in December, and I've got my strobe (underwater flash) today!

I was crazy about purchasing the strobe. Had been thinking about it all night and day, literally, night and day. I had been sms-ing my friend Andy constantly. He might find it a nuisance. hahaha. but he was very nice to answer my questions. And eventually he helped me bought the strobe last night. Sooooo happy~~~~~~~

And I went his house today to collect it from him. Guess what, those who knew me well might have guessed... "dream". I dreamt I went to Andy's place to collect the strobe! ha! so typical of me, isn't it?

And another thing so typical of me was... I.LOST.AGAIN.

I checked yesterday and was supposed to change a bus mid way. I don't know what went wrong when I browsed the bus/map guide book. There was no such bus at that bus stand. So I thought I just walk and look for that particular block. I knew it's quite a distance away. But I didn't want to take taxi. Not that I can't bear the taxi fare but I wanted to try and see if I can find it, without map.

So I walked walked and walked, it was a very hot day today, mind you... I don't really like to ask for direction.. but after some time, I had to. I asked an uncle, where are block no 700+. I was still in 800+... He said it's the other way.. So I walked towards that direction.

In the end, it took me half an hour's walking to find it. Whew.. at least I found it. And thanks to recent work out, I wasn't tired at all.

Then I was so happy to go back home with my brand new strobe~ ha~~!! Walking also became lighter, I'm telling you. heheehehe.... I can't wait to get hands on with my strobe underwater! 3 weeks to go!

Slut

I am such a slut... I am.

Bird Park

Went to Jurong Bird Park on Sunday. BP is quite run down compare to the zoo. Less things to see too. However it's $1.50 more expensive than the zoo!

Reached there just as the feeding of penguins began. They are so well-fed that most did not bother to move when the worker carried the fish out. Some did follow the worker asking for fish. But there were a few where the worker walked right up to them and sort of force them to take a fish. hahaha...

Look at this bird. So weird.. the way it sits.. haha. cute. Our knees bend forward, its "knees" bend backward.

Owls. Soooo pretty.

This one was so cute. It perched on the top most branch and looked down on us. I walked back and forth in front of it and its gaze kept following me. So majestic feeling as all we can see is a body and its two big dark eyes.
Another type of owl. Their flat faces serve as an antenna for sound.

Look~ many "big birds". haha..

Amazingly red birds. I don't know the name.

My favourite place in BP is the Lory Loft dome, where you can purchase food for the birds to eat. They used to use fruits but I guess it was messy so they changed to something like fruit juice. And the birds can't resist them.

They used their beaks and claws to pull my cup towards themselves. If your finger comes close they will bite you. I tried to touch one of them and it freaked a little. hehe..

Look at me, so fat... got double chin. Fat arms too.. sian. Somehow my cheek became a little hollow... wonder why is that... old age, maybe... I think I look like a ghost. Perhaps been bitten too many times by the vampires in Facebook. hahaha...

They are just sooooo cute.

Brilliant colours.
You can tell it was looking at me, scared of me trying to catch it, most likely.

Beautiful hawk. Look at its eyes and beak.

The best surprise~ big iguana~ There is one in the zoo as well. And it always rest on the middle of the pathment like this too. But that one was green colour. This one here is orange, so pretty.

Extremely beautiful~ if only I can have one. I got one years back, got stolen after one week. shit.

At first I was afraid that we might frighten it if we touch it. But then, when we tried, it looked so enjoy loh. hahaha. It will close its eyes when we stroke its head. haha... shiok. So we got closer and closer. It didn't budge much.

If only I can hug it. hehe..

And we found a feather of hornbill~! So big. hehe. I took it home as a souvenir. Maybe I can use it to write to Harry Potter. kakaka....

Melancholy

This time every year, I will be melancholy, for Tioman's diving season is off now. Have to wait nearly 6months before we can go there to dive again. Why is our Monsoon so long...??? We only get 6months to dive. Sian.

I bought a new Karrimor backpack despite my Deuter bag is still in perfect condition. The Deuter is a pear shape bag, out of fashion already. Although it's my favourite pink but still... My brother asked me to use it until it's torn or whatever. I asked him considering the frequency of me using that backpack, when will it be torn?????? It will never! And last week I saw this Karrimor on sale, the one and only on sale. It's 50%!! Maybe it's an old model. But it's lean and tall and just the right size for my height. Any bigger I would look ridiculous. In fact I already do look a little ridiculous with this length but heck, I don't care.

BUt....... I am not having any vacation in near future. No dive trips until next season open either. So, no chance for me to use this backpack YET. Sian. We are going for local dive next month and my friend Andy asked me to use the new bag loh. But haha.. it's too big for local dive, like so 夸张.... sian sian sian. I want a holiday~!

Miko update~

Can you tell what this is?


It is... no, it was, my measuring tape...... hahahaha... It fell on the floor while I tidied up my stuffs and didn't realise it. One day, I pulled out Miko's hideout.... and saw this...
It had been shredded to a thousand pieces... hahaah (yeah well, a thousand is an exaggeration). I had totally forgotten about my measurement tape. I saw tiny pieces of blue colour things on the floor once or twice but didn't investigate what they were. Imagine my shock when I saw this. haha. Oh, yeah, those are Miko's poo mixed in it.

She must have been extremely happy when she took the tape. If the thing she tries to bite is light enough for her to carry away, she becomes excited and will run away with it. She once took my screwdriver n bit the handle. I have a piece of thin but long wood on the floor, it's light enough for her to bite it and she did. And she froze for 2 seconds and decided to run away with the wood. But....... the wood is too long and while biting the wood horizontally it bumped into this and that. So she couldn't take it to her hideout. It was sooo funny.

Yesterday I bought many things for Miko. 3 packets of tidbits and 1 gumcare bite, er.. dunno exactly what they are called.

I don't know exactly what is buckwheat. It looks cute. I suppose she'll like wheat but turned out that she hates this. She bit one and made a noise.... and not interested with it anymore. So I hand these to XiaoBai, my hamster. She took it all and stuff it in her cheek. I can't tell whether she'll like it.. Cos she hasn't really taste them, she just took it and stuff them in her cheek like there's no tomorrow. haha..

And this~ is dried rose! for small animals~ I didn't know they eat flowers... Anyway, I bought just to see if Miko likes it. It's really really fragrant. Before I gave it to Miko I thought if she doens't like it perhaps I can make rose tea with it? hahahaha. I then gave one to Miko and she took it immediately. But I guess it's not very tasty. Cos she discard it halfway eating when I gave her a second one. I gave one to XiaoBai too. But... Xiao Bai tore the petals into pieces, all over the place and didn't seem to really eat them.

And also bought a 3rd hay container. This is a real ideal one cos it's hanged outside the cage, won't cramp Miko's room. And best of all, she can't pee on it! wahahaha..

Another Miko's favourite hideout.

XiaoBai "shredding" the rose.

Miko eating the rose. I can't take a photo like this without the flash cos she moves and it'll turn out blur without the flash. But with flash, she looks like the devil...

Miko doesn't like the 3rd tidbit at all... Think I'm gonna have to eat them myself.................... hahaha.. nah.... just kidding.