Idle Thoughts

Yesterday I was so bored with invigilations that I found myself glancing out the windows each time an LRT train passed by in the distance, timing its frequency. Hehe... talk about necessitated idleness. There was one every 5 to 6 minutes in each direction at first and toward midday it was more frequent. Like 3 to 4 minutes :) Today was equally boring.

Anything can drift into your mind when you're invigilating. From thinking about what you're going to have for dinner, to the style you're going to cut your hair into, to the laundry you haven't got done, to having internal monologues with God, to contemplating the meaning of life, to trying to solve the infinite mysteries of the universe and more!

Once I produced a whole poem just standing, staring, waiting for the students as they sweated it out over their papers. Because you can't do anything else except sit or stand or walk around slowly. You're not exactly distracted, you're still watching them, still scrutinizing, but this appear to be the outcome of your usually multi-tasking faculties being so under-utilized in the absence of noise, activity and movement, as opposed to your usual day-to-day chaos and racket!

Stuck in the emptiness of a peopled room, can't talk, not supposed to sms, can't read, can't sleep, can't daydream, can't anything! you're left with only the activities of your thoughts.

But this can be good. Not all the time of course but now and then it's good for you. Intrapersonally so.



So what's on tomorrow?

08.10am to 09.25am: Physics 1 (1 & 1/4 hours)

10.00am to 12.30pm: Physics 2 (1 & 1/2 hours)

02.00pm to 03.30pm: Physics 3 (1 & 1/2 hours)

*Gulp* It's going to be another long day...

Suddenly the stars don't shine so bright...

I'm no longer Mr. Bushtails' pat-o-matic

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My kittykins' wings, collar and bell.

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... and Calmwaters Polite Society has closed down.

Rachelfins' wings...erm actually it's my hairclip :)

Faerykin misses them :(

Back to Being Petless

kittykins: i think i'll blog about how my fish died
Soofoo: considering your nick, you probably ate him :)
kittykins: Soofoo hehe no i didn't
kittykins: my fish was a girl
kittykins: she loved to jump out of the water all day
kittykins: jump jump jump
kittykins: but that day she landed on the floor

Poor Rachelfins. Last Saturday I woke up at 9:30am to find her lifeless on the floor. Not even a slight movement, she was so stiff, appeared totally dead. So I scooped her into a container, left her in the backyard & i then went into the shower. The amazing thing was, an hour later (10:30am) when I was about to dispose of her, I saw her fins wiggling weakly. She was still alive! After so long out of the water! Goodness knows how many hours altogether. I quickly put her back into the water and she came back to life as the minutes ticked by. In the end she could swim again! Wow, I was so happy. Amazing! But my happiness was shortlived when some time much later she stopped swimming and lay down on her side gasping & gasping every breath she took, her mouth opening and closing continuously. It was a pitiful sight. Poor thing. Heh, disappointing. She was just a fish but still nice too. She'd get excited when I came into the room and would swim up to the surface.

Brutus Has A Sad

Bring It to Big Bro Bushtails 1

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Brutus has a so sad.

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Brutus still has a sad.

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Brutus has a love problim.

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Bushtails has teh clever.

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Teh cute.

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Still teh cute.

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Bushtails has a angry.

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Aw~ Brutus has teh too cute!

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Hee hee...

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Brutus has a handsome.

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Bushtails has a bushy tail.

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Brutus has teh latest short sox!

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Teh 2 grate cats!

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Love problems? Is your heart aching? Aww...it's awright! Bring it all to Big Bro Bushtails! Expert in matters of the heart (of cats).

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You are accepted. You are secure. You are significant. That's what you are in Christ.

Introducing Snowcat

Snowcat was Mr. Bushtails' friend who often came to play. She was a sweet cat with a pink nose and very, very white fur with a few splotches of grey. She often reminded me of Hello Kitty or a Japanese anime cat, I don't know why. Bushtails adored her and followed her wherever she went and would let her eat his food. Once when she was trapped on our roof, Bushtails tried to climb up to her, I suppose he was trying to rescue her. It was a moving sight, we all agreed it was so, so very sweet of him.

Prison Break: Cat

I don't know if Snowcat was a stray or if she belonged to anyone. She looked real thin & bony so I thought she might have been a stray. And everytime she came round, she was always hungry. But at the same time she looked too clean to be a stray. The whites of her fur were super white so I thought her name should contain a 'snow' in it :) I finally named her Snowcat after coining several other 'snow' names.

She was also a very curious cat, super curious she'd want to explore every little place like inside cupboards & drawers, & on top of tables & on top of even really high places like cupboards & roofs. That's how she got trapped on our roof once.

She could get really annoying and it was hard to get her out of the house once she got in. At one point I decided to take her in and I had 2 cats for a while. I usually didn't let her into the house unsupervised because she'd just go crazy with her exploring.

She wasn't a very gentle cat and didn't like to be patted much, total opposite of Bushtails.

There were a couple of times when she came home all wet like somebody had bathed her. So I guess she wasn't exactly my cat then. Then again, she wasn't exactly like their cat either, whoever bathed her, cause she was always hanging around in my backyard.

Snowcat was hit by a passing car and died either on the night of 1 October 2007 or on the morning of 2 October 2007, 2 or 3 days after Mr. Bushtails went missing. She was pregnant & we were eager to see how her litter would turn out. My bro's gf had wanted to take one of her kittens & I had planned on putting their pics up here, maybe some people'd be interested to take them. Disappointing. Goodbye little Snowcat! You were one beautiful cat! The sweetest & the prettiest I ever met.

Thank You

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