In the previous post I wrote that I was suffering from severe (personal definition here) lack of sleep. So to remedy this 'problem', I slept for a total of 10 hours, only waking up at 1pm this afternoon. Now I have another 'problem' - oversleeping. You know that feeling? Yeah. Don't like it. So will revert to lack-of-sleep schedule. Prefer eyebrow muscle twitches to grogginess.
I saw a really cute picture today:
Isn't it the cutest little thing? I have a strange affinity to members of the Testudine family, i.e. turtles, tortoises, and terrapins. Maybe it's because I kept a few terrapins as pets many years ago. Note the use of the past tense kept. All aforesaid pets either ran away or died. I was devastated. But after seeing this cute little picture flashing on the Yahoo! website, I think I might be ready to try another pet or two. The little turtle on the right is a really rare breed. So rare are they that they are given a special status to call their own: "endangered species". The turtle in the picture is a Beal's four-eyed turtle. And no, contrary to popular belief, it does not have four eyes. Rather it's named that way because, and I quote some aquarium official from the Tennessee Aquarium, Chattanooga, Tennessee where this cute little critter hatched: "named for two white spots on the back of its head that look like a pair of eyes". Isn't it the cutest little thing? Awwww... I think I really wanna go buy a terrapin and keep it in a little glass bowl in my room and feed it lotsa food and refill his bowl with water from the sink and talk to him each night and... Wait a minute. Do terrapins like air-conditioning? And late night Cola-drinking? Hmmmm... A few good points to ponder. Anyway, if you guys wanna take a peek of your own at the article on the cute and now-famous non-four-eyed little critter, clickhere. Apparently it weighed only 6 measly grams when it hatched on June the 9th. 6 grams! That's, like, one swig of Coke! Or one swallow of pasta. Man. Poor little thing. I hope the other fishy occupants of the aquarium don't accidentally mistake him for lunch or something. They better take real good care of him too, 'cause they said in the article that "there are only 18 known Beal's four-eyed turtles in the United States and Europe". Man, imagine that! I wonder if they're all related.
Moving away from hysterical turtle stories, today is Monday, which means tonight is CSI night for all non-pay TV viewers in Malaysia! CSI:NY is on at 8.30pm, followed by some other non-related-to-CSI stuff after that, and then 10.45pm is the slot for CSI:Miami, which of course means that11.45pm belongs to CSI:Vegas! People, get out your Cola cans and pop your greasy popcorns! It's Crash-In-Front-Of-The-Idiot-Box night! Only once a week!
Okay. I think I better stop writing or some people might get really irritated and bang their heads against their computer screens. This blog is supposed to be safe and non-hazardous (yeah, right). So that's it from me for today. See you all tomorrow!
... that it's been exactly one month since my last blog entry. And a few of you guys (and girls) have noticed the sudden 'disappearance' of my blog from the Internet. I assure you, I have a truly valid reason for this phase of mine. It's not that I've suddenly gone all lazy with blog-writing, or that I've decided to stop blogging altogether (there goes your wish, triShie buddy!). On the contrary, I've actually developed a greater affinity to blog-writing, and to accommodate this great hobby of mine, I've decided to update my blog to, er, a much better one lar. So my blog shall be temporarily under maintenance repairs, muahahahahaha!
To move on to other (arguably) more important topics, this past one month of holidays have been really swell. At the start of the holidays - May 31st, to be precise - I kinda worried that my holidays would be similar to all previous ones. Y'know, the usual "boredom beckons" phrases every other day or so, the same old same old routine of eat sleep TV laptop eat sleep TV laptop etc. But I've been pleasantly surprised to find my days being filled to almost full with stuff! There was the Worship Retreat in mid-May, and of course the fabulously fun-filled Surrendered camp in the early days of June. Been hanging out and catching up with my great church buddies quite often too. So far we've hit the tables and chairs of Coffee Bean, Bing! (now wasn't that a hilarious experience, guys?), SCR, McD's (in and out, so funny!), a roadside stall selling fantastic chicken rice, and long car rides to nowhere. Muahahahaha! Yes, life is good!
Last Tuesday, the 12th of June also marked another milestone in my so-far-so-good life. Yes people, it's official: Esther is now a legal holder of a real-deal driver's license! No more "P"-license! Muahahahaha! Watch out, world! Here I come! And how did I celebrate? By vomiting up my lunch because I was sick. Why was I sick? Blame it on my lack of sleep. Seriously. I've had so little sleep this past month compared to my usual sleep pattern. The lack of sleep is starting to affect my face muscles. The area in between my eyebrows have been having some sort of muscle twitches since yesterday. It's like a cross between over-wriggling your eyebrows and pins-and-needles. A really interesting sensation. I need sleep.
This past month has also made me realise that I can actually access the Internet from my own room. I know you guys are probably wondering what's so interesting about this, but the thing is the telecommunications people (who shall remain nameless) actually told us that there is no wireless network in our neighbourhood or something along those lines. So that logically means that the houses here can't have wireless access right? Then why is it I can log on with just my laptop? Mind you, no LAN cables poked into wall sockets now. It's just that funny button I press that goes all red and says "wireless network connection is now connected"... Strange phenomenon, I tell you.
Talking about strange phenomena, the same thing has happened to me not once, but twice! I'm talking about my seemingly 'great' connection with the radio. Ever had one of those moments where you're just itching to hear a certain song only to have it played on the national radio airwaves moments later? I've experienced it twice! The song in question is one of my top top top top favourites, Howie Day's Collide (which by the way, if you don't already know, is the song that's playing whenever you access my blog or my Friendster - the video's at the bottom of this page). The first time it happened was quite a few months ago, when I was driving on the way up to UNIMAS. There I was thinking how nice it'd be if I could hear the song, and what do you know, the next second (no kidding, the next second!) the guitar strums the opening chords and there was the song. I was really freaked out at that time. The second time it happened was just two days ago, Friday evening. And this time I had 3 witnesses! We were chatting about what kinda voices we like, and I mentioned the words "Howie Day... I like his voice. You know him?" and like, less than a minute later it was blaring out on the radio! Aaaaaaaaaaarrrgghh! What is this? What's going on? Of course, logically speaking it's just a really really great coincidence, but yes, it can get rather freaky. In a nice sort of way, of course.
There. I think I've written enough to more or less make up for my one month's lack of blog entries. If you're not already snoring on top of your computer keyboard, I'm surprised. And touched. Touched that you actually took the time (and the effort) to read through all this random words. Teehee! So that's it from me. Till the next time I blog!
Isn't it the cutest little thing? I have a strange affinity to members of the Testudine family, i.e. turtles, tortoises, and terrapins. Maybe it's because I kept a few terrapins as pets many years ago. Note the use of the past tense kept. All aforesaid pets either ran away or died. I was devastated. But after seeing this cute little picture flashing on the Yahoo! website, I think I might be ready to try another pet or two. The little turtle on the right is a really rare breed. So rare are they that they are given a special status to call their own: "endangered species". The turtle in the picture is a Beal's four-eyed turtle. And no, contrary to popular belief, it does not have four eyes. Rather it's named that way because, and I quote some aquarium official from the Tennessee Aquarium, Chattanooga, Tennessee where this cute little critter hatched: "named for two white spots on the back of its head that look like a pair of eyes". Isn't it the cutest little thing? Awwww... I think I really wanna go buy a terrapin and keep it in a little glass bowl in my room and feed it lotsa food and refill his bowl with water from the sink and talk to him each night and... Wait a minute. Do terrapins like air-conditioning? And late night Cola-drinking? Hmmmm... A few good points to ponder. Anyway, if you guys wanna take a peek of your own at the article on the cute and now-famous non-four-eyed little critter, click here. Apparently it weighed only 6 measly grams when it hatched on June the 9th. 6 grams! That's, like, one swig of Coke! Or one swallow of pasta. Man. Poor little thing. I hope the other fishy occupants of the aquarium don't accidentally mistake him for lunch or something. They better take real good care of him too, 'cause they said in the article that "there are only 18 known Beal's four-eyed turtles in the United States and Europe". Man, imagine that! I wonder if they're all related. 
