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It rained last night and Olivia told me,

Quick! Close the windows! Wait the hamsters get wet!

I'm quiet

Me: I'm a very quiet person.
NTT: No you are not!

Hamster escaped

Hamster escaped and wasted an hour of our precious time trying to capture it. So now it's going to spend the night in my room, hearing me snore.

Oh well, who asked it to be so adventurous.

(It's actually spending the night in my room because we did not want to risk it escaping while we transfer it into its actual home, which is a very sad pail.)

Hamsters scared

Yesterday afternoon I came home to a surprisingly sight - all 4 hamsters' cage and tanks placed in the living room:

Moved from their original places, for some reason:

So I asked my mom why were the hamsters in the living room and she answered,

Because this morning outside doing something, then very noisy. Brother was worried the hamsters will be scared, so he moved them here (out of the balcony and into the living room).

My brother is better than me!

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Olivia, to me,

Eh, my yahoo mail is oliviaxxxxx@yahoo.com.sg then what is my password?

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Part of the conversation I had with my father just now,

爸爸: 要不然我们带 hamster 去植物园 让它们跑跑，好不好？它们会不会跑掉？
我：你不会说我们绑一条绳子在他们的脖子上！
爸爸: 对 hor！
爸爸: 还是去沙滩啦！我们带我们那个木的东西 (wooden pen which we built) 放在沙滩上，让它们在沙里玩！等下它们爬出来，我们追到半死啊! 哈哈！

(Father: Let's bring the hamster to Botanical Gardens, let them run about for a bit! Will they run away?
Me: Why don't you tie a string around their necks?
Father: Yar hor!
Father: Or let's go to the beach! Bring that wooden pen and place it on the sand, let the hamsters dig! Wait they escape and we have to catch them, haha!)

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Daphnemaia, on ping.sg's shoutbox,

... I think tampons are great for nose bleeds btw. haha. I used it on my friend once.. haha he was damn grossed out

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Father, telling me to put plants at my desk,

... If you don't put ah, then you will be very short-tempered then you won't be able to find husband then cham ah (something like "die" or "very bad" in English)!

I started laughing because he can link from plants to finding a husband. Olivia came in and told me she thought I was crying.

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Olivia, singing campfire songs from her Red Cross file,

Pizza Hut, pizza hut
Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut.
McDonald, McDonald,
Kentucky Fried Chicken and a pizza Hut.

Me, laughing after she has sung it at least twice,

Last time our campfire songs no "McDonalds" or "Pizza Hut" or "KFC", you know!

Quote - A full circle

Professor Goh, in last lecture of math,

... I have even made it a point to wear the same shirt I wore on the first day of lecture, so that we have really come one full circle...

Twitter-vomit

Not enough time to study = no time to bathe = no time to blog

Don't tell others I have not bathed.

There were so many times today I wanted to log in to twitter to twit using my phone then I realized I don't have an account anymore so I put my phone down again and laughed at myself - HAHAHA!

Ok, that was for fun.

Anyway my day was so much cleaner without twitter. Cleaner as in no interruptions (I mean besides the TV). My brother fell ill with fever so he did not return to camp tonight, instead he's going back tomorrow. His platoon is now 5 people short because 5 others called in sick as well - 3 truly ill, 2 chao-geng.

He came back and said he fired a gun and it was damn shiok (feels satisfying), then I murmured under my breath that Freud would say something like "that shows you unconsciously want to kill" and then retorted to myself, "Yar, right, whatever, Freud, haha!" All in public, while queuing outside Suki Sushi. Then he demonstrated all the positions, cocking and what to do when the bullet got stuck... In public too, outside Suki Sushi. Oh he also said the firing was loud.

By right tomorrow he would be throwing grenades around but now I guess alternate arrangements will be made. I told him he's sick, then wait he go back blur blur hold on to the grenade.

When Brother went down to fetch his girlfriend this afternoon, I asked Olivia at the dining table, why can't the girlfriend just come up himself, why must he go fetch her? She replied,

Because she is his (mouths silently) darling,

Then she giggled. I told her because then he can hold her hand and kiss her with none of our family present.

Oh yar, cousin Junxiang and his finacee, Shandy, are going to the Registry of Marriage this coming Tuesday. So exciting!

The reason why this post sounds weird is because I read Edmund's post first and his style influenced me.

Then I thought about it, how often when you see people walk towards the lift, then u faster press press press the close button press many many time!! then the lift close, you safely have the lift to yourself as you sing nonsense and repeat i fark u lah 1001 times and say i going to kill u ah your whole family all die i gangster i tell you etc. oh yah when the lift close fully then u point middle finger at the person who was running toward the lift (butcan no longer see you). Maybe I have mild OCD. Maybe. Sometimes I wish the person running towards the lift was a guy and he happened to have an erection then when I close the lift doors then his lan jiao will gana stuck and he will scream AHHHHHHHH!!!! NOOO!!!!! then if the lift move up can see his lan jiao moving from the middle of the doors, moving downwards then I can point finger and HA HA HA HA!! Ok no, I never thought of that before.

I'm his paparazzi.
For a moment I forgot my victim's name.

And this is what happens when I am deprived of twitting for 2 days - "twitter-vomit". It sounds more interesting than "twitter-diarrhea".

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Father, filling out a survey,

Do hamsters count as pets?

Piggy

Piggy is an angel:

Halo on piggy's head courtesy of Olivia.

Hamsters mating

Last night I put the male hamsters into the big tank where the female and kids are. Within the 45 minutes I was watching them, the hamsters have mated a total of 7 times, no less. The first time I saw him mount the female from behind and start to hump at rapid speed, I could not believe my eyes and thought it must have been just cleaning the top of the female hamster head very quickly. After all hamsters do groom each other. The second time it humped, I looked at them closely and was absolutely sure they were mating. By then, I don't think separating them would make any difference any more because we are going to have the babies 3 weeks later anyway.

Oh man, hamsters sure hump very very quickly! The following is a brief description of the mating, please auto-skip if you are below 18 of age or have a very clean mind.

He chases her, he kinds of climbs onto her back, uses his paws to grab her, raise her ass up and hold her there while he humps (at inhuman speed). Think doggy-style for humans. For some reason, his eyes were wide and bright while her eyes were slitted and small while they were mating. That she would scamper away and proceed to groom herself, they would play around for a bit and fight a bit. He would chase her and they would sniff each other's butt and kind of groom each other, they would snuggle up to each other, put their noses against each other (are they kissing or something? Do hamsters kiss?), then he would chase her again, she would refuse then allow him to mount her.

It's kind of sweet and very amusing to watch them mate.

Applying statistical concepts

From cousin surfslayer's blog,

Few days ago,I was (again) complaining to Mum about my lousy results. I always believe that having distractions will screw my results even further.

But Mum said:

"How come your friends who have boyfriends got good results then?"

Ok..I was stunned that I don't know to reply till a few days later...

I replied,

"Mum...Correlation does not equal to causation."

Ar...The wonders of statistics.. ^-^

Coversations with Olivia

On the weather,

me: Do you know why it has been so cold and so wet recently?
Olivia: *thinks* Because China is snowing?
me: Nooo! Why you say because China is snowing??
Olivia: Don't know. Anyhow say one. hehe.

On her going to after-school-care,

me: So do you like Child Care Centre?
Olivia: It's not "Child Care Centre"! It's "Student Care Centre"!
me: oops...

Overly nice guy

It is freaking 1 am, I have a test tomorrow in the afternoon and I had initially pledged to sleep by 11pm. I am up because I have just spent the last 2 hours or so doing math in my semi-conscious state and finally I'm done.

The day before, I was on the bus to school with MZ when an overly nice guy got up the bus. By the way, NTU has really gone out of its way this time. It has refurbished an entire bus to mimic that of nokia, except that the seats are a whole lot more comfortable than nokia's and I am, thankfully, able to balance myself a little more while sitting on the seats. I was initially so angry when I realized another bus had been refurbished that through half the ride, I was mentally composing a letter to SBSTransit.

What are your opinions on this idea of refurbishing buses for advertising purposes and the timings the buses are on the roads? Do leave a comment if you have traveled on any of these buses before. Tell me if you like it/hate it/are neutral about it and why.

Anyway I was on the bus to school with MZ when this guy boarded the bus. I didn't even notice that he was standing in front of me slightly to my left until I tried opening my new bottle of mineral water. Attempts by both MZ and I to open the bottle failed and suddenly there was a voice from above me,

(words are not exact)

Do you want me to help you open?

I looked up and realized there was somebody in front of me and he was offering to help. Surprised but glad, I accepted it, handed him the bottle and thanked him. I was talking to MZ throughout the journey about several things, including how cold the bus is and commenting on some year 1's happy conversation. Soon after, the seat beside me was available and this guy who had helped me sat down in it. After a few seconds, he took out his windbreaker and asked me,

Do you want to borrow my jacket?

This time round I was really surprised, but politely declined and thanked him. I think he might have been aware that I was more shocked than surprised so he went on to explain that it's because I look really cold. I just told him it's OK and thanked him again, then looked in front with a frozen smile on my face and elbowed MZ who was on my other side. He did not talk to me after that for which I was secretly glad because I frankly wouldn't have known what to do.

Turns out he was a NUS student as well because he alighted at the Office of Estate and Development bus stop. I was telling MZ after that that perhaps he knew we were from NUS and was being nice to us. She said he was being overly nice.

WAS HE HITTING ON ME HUH??? Because if he was, this is my first time, ever. The other time was with MZ and Bao Ling so that don't count. =P So exciting (although he was actually balding) and funny. Or was he just being nice? Hmm, it might have been he being nice though. Entirely possible.

Lend me a bag

Olivia, to me, sheepishly,

jie, do you have any bags? Because mine very lame...

She needed to bring a bag to Student Care Centre tomorrow and didn't want to bring her schoolbag (which she would then need to unpack) her barbie-doll sling bag, or any of the other bags which have some sort of prints on them (which are lame). This 9-year-old girl is growing up!

In the end I lent her my Nightmare before Christmas bag which I haven't been using nor intend to use in the near future. Kind of funny, exchange one type of print for another type of print.

Quotes at Band practice

Pearlin, after I mentioned to her we have 6 French Horns in the band,

The band is horny!

Me, after watching Pearlin rock on the balls of her feet, tried to do the same and found it painful,

I don't have any balls to rock on.

Kah Siang, referring to Pearlin and me,

They are like 881 sisters...

I'm flat, she's not.

"Give me leh!"

Olivia, to my father,

你看这本书！一个男孩子给我的 leh！我叫他给我他就真的给我 leh！
(Look at this book! A boy gave it to me! I asked him to give me and he really gave it to me!)

Wah lao. She's only 9! Oi, one of you guys! Give me a laptop!

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From Desperate Housewives, Season 1, 1st half hour,

An erect penis doesn't have a conscience.

Courtesy of a shy friend who does not want to be named. Heh.