Yay, presents!

I turned 18 yesterday. :)

I share my birthday from many famous people. Jessica Alba, Terry Pratchett, Harper Lee ... Saddam Hussein. Yup, famous people.

And Ee Won! Happy birthday dear! :D

So here's the photodump of stuff I got. And that's my new laptop, under all the stuff! Still haven't named it. It's awesome, got webcam and everything. I love it. xD

Bracelet from Hanna. :)

The necklace also from Hanna. Purse from Maktuk.

Swimming dog in the mouse Mira gave me. Haha.

Baby Phat watch from Mama (It's GORGEOUS.) and a 'newton's cradle' from Nazim. I love the cradle thing, I've always wanted one. Hee.

The day went by very normally. Went to MPH warehouse sale, bought 6 books. Started reading Soul Music by Terry Pratchett yesterday (I think it's awesome that I share a birthday with this guy. He's awesome.). Hilarious.

After that was supposed to go to Pyramid with ze Collegers, but then Mr. Zul (my driving teacher) called and said that my Wednesday class has to be cancelled, so he moved it to Tuesday. I said OK, since that I have to pass my QTI test this week if I'm going to get to take the JPJ exam in the second week of May. So yeah. I passed my hill, parking and turn test, but failed the road test. So I have to take it again, by this week. Grarr. Engine died twice. Felt like an idiot.

At night, ate at Cozy Corner with the rest of the fam. Then went to the DVD store and bought a copy of The Secret Life of Bees. I'm only halfway through my assignment, 'cause I couldn't remember any of the 'verbal and non-verbal messages' I'm supposed to note down. Also bought Aristocats, because I was feeling nostalgic. Asked for Beauty and the Beast, but they don't have it. Haha.

Ooh and today, I went to the college to see if the computers there could access Malaysiakini. Turns out they can't. But I did my ECS journal essays instead. Then met Hamizah for lunch. It's so good to see her. <3>

Tapirs! And a puppy.

First off, Happy World Tapir Day!
And Happy Birthday to Fifi and Jess! :D

Back to the tapirs ...

Tapirs are large herbivores that belong to the Tapirdae family, of the Perissodactyla order of mammals. Four species of tapir exist on the planet today, all of which are endangered.
Info yanked from the World Tapir Day website. :)

Speaking of furry critters, I climbed into a longkang this evening to rescue a puppy. I heard it yapping while I was cycling. Found it wandering around in the deep drain, looking miserable and with a bad leg. I followed it around for a bit till it settled down to rest. Then I cycled back home, got Nazim and came back for a rescue mission.

I got into the longkang and tried to pick it up, but it kept moving away. It growled at me too. Heh. I followed it some 2 meters through a dusty spiderwebby tunnel, then it went into a bigger drain with a much lower roof. So I climbed out, crossed the road and checked under the longkang there -

And it was gone.
Seriously. It wasn't there anymore.
Nazim and I ran around in circles looking for it, but gosh knows what small ceruk it crawled into. So we left after ten minutes. Just a while ago, Mama went out for a while and came back saying she heard dog noises yapping. She said she's been hearing those sounds for days now! D: Poor puppy. Hopefully, next time I hear it again it'll let me carry it out.

Today is definitely going into my ECS journal project, man. Too eventful not to. xD

Monkey Business

A monkey stole and ate my Kinder Bueno chocolate today.

Climbed in through my window.
S/He tried to take my Toblerone too.
D:
Why must everyone steal my Kinder Bueno?
I've bought five packets in the past week and have only eaten one and a half!!
Credit: Pictures ganked from Mira's blog

Ooh, what's that lumpy thing that goes thump, thump?

The answer, my dears: A heart.

To be precise, what I really mean is a frog's heart. Yup, there has been a frog dissection in the Bio lab. Fascinating stuff. I won't go into terrible detail, but after Pn. Yong had shown us all the important bits (major organs like lungs, heart and liver) she let everyone pull on gloves and dig into what was left of Prince Charming (that's what the frog was named).

I didn't touch the little dude, just leaned over the table to watch the others explore. In the end, they sorta took out all the little frog-organs, so that we could look at the kidneys and backbone. So the heart was sitting some five inches away from the body - and it was still thumping.

Whoa.

And y'know, Pn. Yong was pretty impressed with Prince Charming, who was actually a rather fit froggie. Obviously, he'd had a lot to eat. His stomach was practically bursting. Anyhow, Prince Charming was buried after the class ended. I dunno where, because I wasn't around then.

R.I.P. Prince Charming. You've been an enlightening experience. :)

But Mira isn't very happy about that ... she's pretty pissed off at me right now, I think. She's become some sort of froggie-liberalist. I mean, I love the little guys too, but this is a learning experience. Even though I don't intend to study medicine, it's still good to know.

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