festi-trivia!

hi all!

hope everyone's having a great time at Bakkwa Gorging and Pineapple Tart Snuffling. I certainly did! hehheh. oh boy. the past 2 days have utterly annihilated my near-religious dieting and exercise regime - aided by my insatiable greed for more once the tastebuds have been given a taste of the festive goodies. Ah, the wonders of the extensible, elastic and seemingly bottomless stommick! :) and thus, sad to say, I have given up 3 of my hard fought, 3-week-long struggle-won 5kg lost. lol. someone ought to ban festivals for us dieting people, eh? haha.

well anyway, i received quite a few compliments about my looks and my proposed entry to university (proposed, no doubt, by my stubborn and utterly ignorant subconscious, which is self-explanatorily subconscious. as i said, i shall be receiving sub-sterling grades and thus university entry for me is a question mark and not a full-blown, cocky AHA! confirmation :D). but also quite a few jabs at how i am 2 times as big as one of my paternal aunts (as alleged by my uncle, who promptly received a clutch-fisted glare from my laser shooters) and 3 times as large as my nanny's daughter (as proposed by my father, who got a very satisfying knead on the shoulder. satisfying to me that is. judging from his grimace, i'd say he didn't enjoy it nearly as much as i did executing it :P) thus the resolution to double my exercising efforts tomorrow plus reduction of festive goodies down to a maximum of 2 pieces. yes. haha :) ah woe is the girl who diets during CNY.

i've gone and gotten a tankful of fish! partly because of the insidious influence from working with fishes all day in the lab (plus 10 very very slimy, mucus-y, bloody and un-dead eels) coupled with the festive mood. now look here, i'm not the kind of idiot who goes around to the spca to adopt a dog or a chicken or a dragon everytime a new lunar year rolls by, ok? they are the culprits behind the massive pet abandonment around march-april every year once the craze wears off and fifi's peeing on the rug doesn't quite amuse them anymore. those are abominable people. say: ABOMINABLE. they're honestly lacking conscience of any form. anyway. i intend to maintain my tank all through the tenants' natural lifetime, regardless of the lunar year of the dog or whatever. and the last time i checked, there wasn't a year of the guppy. so there. haha :) but anyway. one thing i don't understand is, my mentor has been standing close to me and whispering ominously "guppies DIE at the drop of a hat!" everytime i proudly mention my tank, but the guppies i've bought so far (around 10 or so) are all thriving and swimming and guppy-ing but the others have all dropped dead and gotten plastered to the filter pipe. i have been applying the right rearing technique as per the ah-pek's and my mentor's advice, and all the "weakling" fishes are thriving, so i really can't fathom how the hardier fishes like the tetra, the black-spotted tail and the swordtails are all upping their rears and going up to heaven. *shakes head* maybe i really ought to try the last resort. drop one of my hats and see if the guppies start upping THEIR rears. haha :D and amazingly enough, 2 of my relatives are rearing huge tankfuls of tetras! i don't get it. is there a new tetra craze going about? anyway. their tanks are utterly Zen and tranquil and beautifully lighted and the tetras are simply amazingly beautiful. heh. too bad my budget only allows for a teeny tank and no lighting. that would mean that any poor tetra in my tank would waste its luminescence cos no lights are available to promote its stripes.

i do SO wish my guppies would start producing guppy babies! i want to see what happens in a cross between the flare-tailed and the neon (light blue) strains! :) a regular scientist brain have i. hohoho. anyway, ll commented (with a hearty hahahahahahahahahahahaha) that i've been very excitable and agitated lately. which i cheerfully agreed with and attributed to the immense onloading of guangqiangs (teochew fried festive snack) and bubbly drinks :) heh. and i also produced a couple of virtual *hics* to further prove my point. haha :) come, hands up all those of u who've been stuffed silly! heh. i guess that's why drunk people get belligerent and start criticising the PAP. it's what i call the too-stuffed-and-talking-fart syndrome haha :)

anyway. i realised that pioneering cell culture on an ancient fish takes on meaning and wonder only within the confines of a lab. honestly. i was trying like a mad hare to boast about my accomplishments in the lab as a booster for my uni entry (cum scholarship appeals) and all i got was blank stares (in the general direction of the TV) and some stunned, polite-enough-to-garotte smiles. i guess not everyone's informed about the lifesciences heh. oh well. after the 3rd such sub-intelligent response i gave up with a huge exasperated sigh and retreated behind a Stephen King book :)

talking about intelligent, it seems i'm rather not part of that exclusive, elite group of people, either. my mum just informed me amusedly that i have my t-shirt on backwards. lol. and all through typing this darned entry i've been clawing at the collar and wondering why it's so damned high and whether my double chin has expanded to a quiveringly huge size. sheesh. sometimes i wonder if i'm paranoid or just bloody sub-retard. haha :)

ah! 1 more day of freedom to pursue the high-ended dream of sleeping in till 10am :) *blissful, beatific grin* how pathetic, the life of a member of the working population. just call us the sleepless zombies. haha :D so! you all take care k? and soak up all the festi-trivia, cos i wanna catch up on all ya kakis soon! (before i fly off on a one-way ticket to namibia to escape the results-releasing Doomsday) and go easy on the pineapple tarts! *_*