So I’ve got a bunch of links on facebook. Those webpages are a whole lot easier to share, since I just needed to click on some javascript thingy on my bookmarks bar. Copy and pasting them here now.

In Early Tests, $99 Wii Balance Board Outperforms $17,885 Medical Rig

Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do>:: this book sounds awesome

Breach of Copyright – The Independent:: because too many are clueless

Mac OS X ipconfig:: we might need to know our router’s address at some point. me? i like to use it to prank my parents (i can make my home’s phone ring via the router.)

38 Snowmen Nightmares: Calvin and Hobbes In Real Life

The Sleep Suit: Ugly and Unnecessary

[CES 2010] RCA Airnergy Charger Harvests Electricity From WiFi Signals

Designer Cactus Terrarium

Chinese Coal Formed During Earth’s Greatest Extinction Is Still Deadly

A new approach to China

That rock looks like a…

Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell to Make Us Miserable

Meow seems to be the hardest word

Secrets of the Economist’s Trade: First, Purchase a Piggy Bank

Apple’s Technical Feats of the Decade

10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling

Yes yes, this is an uber eclectic list. This is just my January list. Too long. Shall forget about the rest. o.O This is also too inefficient! I’ll resurrect my delicious account and see if that will work out…

That all too familiar sinking feeling. How far into the ground can one go? You wish you can meld and sink into the earth, but it simply denies you. When bread is tasteless. When you just feel like floating away.

This time, I don’t have the luxury of disappearing. Lorazepam, how I miss thee. However, I also know I cannot have you again. It is pointless. It only numbs it, and shelfs it aside for a moment. What is the point?

My only option is to be strong, and strong I shall be. The temptation is great, but I shall not succumb. I will not let you stay very long this time. So go away.

For so many years, I have been so wrong. The people I most distrusted are the ones who love me the most. Thank you (you know who you people are) for having that incredible patience. Thank you for wanting to still stand by me, despite my utter coldness, occasional hostility and failure to reciprocate. I now know all of you have the kindest intentions in the world, and I most blind and mistaken.

(And the rest, if you don’t get it, you’re not meant to. Please pretend you don’t know while I pretend and try to be okay. It is easier that way. Sorry, but thanks!)

Day one

Mommy ham and baby.

(More pictures after the break.  Warning: photo spam ahead.)

Urm…pink and un-cute-ish.

Day three

Day four

Day five

Day six

Mommy and baby with their legs sticking out. :D

Day seven

Day eight/nine

Day ten

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Day eighteen

Day twenty

Day twenty eight

Day thirty

(Sorry, so many photos, so loads of text to reproduce. :P)

I am Here: One Man’s Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle

Top 10 Sandwiches

Who’s Hungry: An Interview with Issei Sagawa, Cannibal

通之廚房

Minds of Their Own

The Total Perspective Vortex

Drik’s Accident

Giant rat caught in China

Time lapse of snails slithering amok

You otter be in pictures: Just when you thought you had seen everything

Photos after the break…

Pie and Mee are my most inquisitive hamsters ever! They absolutely adore staring at me from where ever they’re standing in their cages, and sometimes would climb higher up to get a better view. Although they’re still really timid, but that usually doesn’t stop them from running to the door of their cage when they spot it open.

If you were to put your finger at the side of their cage, that’s enough to pique their interest enough to run forward to give it a sniff. Because they’re so shy, once they get a whiff of human, they run to the opposite end of the cage. A couple of seconds later though, they will run back to give it another sniff! This typically repeats some three or four times before they lose interest. :)

If you haven’t been following my flickrstream, dear Miss Sushi has passed on to join her former cagemates Pudding, Tofu and Dumpling over at the rainbow bridge. She was a proud 2y8mth old little hamster. More details about that here.

Urm, Mint Tea being sexy. I thought he was just munching on some nom he stored in his cheek pouches till after the photo was taken. Haha, perhaps he misses Muffin too much. ;)

Not to be outdone, here is Andora’s little sleepy sultry face. She was actually just sleepy. :P

Lastly, one of the sweet Asian small-clawed otters at the Singapore Zoo. I love to visit them between the opening and their first feeding, they’re often so sleepy then that it’s easy to take photos of them yawning. If you want to see that too, as their feeding time is at 10.30am, do reach them at least 15 minutes prior to that.

In case you haven’t noticed the box on the top right hand corner of this page, Andora has her own blog now. It’s updated far more regularly than this.

If you don’t drop by my flickr stream regularly, you won’t know that Dumpling left for the rainbow bridge on 22 June also. He’s dearly missed, especially by Sushi, his girl-ham-friend.

Busy ants. Was out at Alexandra Hospital’s butterfly garden some time ago with Debbie and Alwin.

These ants are actually rather big!

We dropped by Hort Park right after that (then on to Henderson Waves…which reminds me that the RAWs aren’t processed yet — oops). It’s worth a look-see, albeit on a weekday if possible. They’ve got some interesting plants there. Unless you continue the outing to either end of the southern ridges park, the botanic gardens might be more fun though. So man-made.

With Dumpling under the rainbow bridge now, Mint Tea is the current holder of the most handsome hamster I have. He’s really greedy though! Here he is, munching down on a b-chip.

From one of the airwells (?) in Fort Siloso, taken on one of the outings with Debbie and Alwin again. I like Fort Siloso, but it’s a little spooky to go there alone. Hahah, I’ve been reading too many ghost stories and have an overly active imagination. Bundle that with pure-o OCD, it leaves someone who’s incredibly able to spook herself out.

Anyway, I really like the colours in this one! I think the colours turned out this funky because the light was metered differently? It’s sunlight at the top, and a yellow bulb at the bottom.

How common is this strange fruit my sister called the “pepple”? It looks like some pear and apple chimera. We dropped by Jelita and saw it for sale, but I totally can’t recall what they labelled it as.

With Dumpling’s passing, the robos cage looked a little too empty, thus this new addition! My very first normal roborovski boy. Dumpling and Pudding were white faces.

Mee’s really curious, but timid! As usual, thanks to my dominant girls, he’s ham-pecked. ;)

Amelia’s blythe! Happy birthday girl! And urm…kambing soup! *hint*

Cheeky Pancake looking beggingly. This little guy’s a sweetheart, but D and I learnt that he’s escape prone like Pudding, Tofu and Pie! He loves attention from people, ah but Andora absolutely hates it!

Whenever she sees me playing with Pancake, she’d come over and nudge my hand, prompting me to put him back and give her a nice massage instead. If I were to leave Pancake running in front of Andora, if she happens to be in a bad mood, she’d actually pounce at him! It shocked me, sis and mom when we saw it happen. Bad Andora!

When D and I were waiting for Dr Hsu to be done with Mocha and Enoki at his telok kurau clinic, since we had time to kill, I decided to take D for a walk along east coast park. Hahah, the same length I liked to do when I cycle, except by foot this time! We walked all the way from east coast macs to the national sailing centre. It was utter madness for her, but really fun for me. Before she comes to kill me, I must stop gushing about how enjoyable it was. ;)

Andora and the treat drawer from the fridge. I love to see her desperation to lay her little tongue on her yummies. This girlie is so greedy. :)

Pancake and his little baby face. :)

Mee the sexy boy. He’s currently the most exhibitionistic of all my hams. Here is the man-ham doing the tama-zuwari (caution: do not follow the link if you don’t want to be bombarded with boy ham balls hahaha).

Kobe. Urm, I just came back from Japan.

Diamonds on demand

Alaskan playground

Lost parrot knows own address

Brunus edwardii

Wild animal hoax

Mac users don’t like people touching their technology

Tank on empty

Pig in boots

Leica M8 field test vs The Leica M8 on assignment

Microsoft-Yahoo! deal seriously dead this time

The cat and bear best friends who simply can’t bear to be apart

My little diva bun having the cutest look on her face. The bunny has her own blog now! I can’t be bothered to set up another one at wordpress because I don’t want to have to sign in and out of this one. :P

Also, the sis has finally completed her studies in the US and is back.

Andora wants adding if you are a bunny too! :D