False Alarm

Every time I want to write something important, it always ends up with nothing, the most I could come up with, a title in the draft.

I feel a tad bit useless. I should've been writing something worth reading, especially for fellow teachers.

The 'aha!' moment always come up at the worst possible time ever.
So I would end up writing rubbish. Just a piece of junk, filling up the internet bin.


I want to write something about why is it that teachers feel that our curriculum specifications are rubbish.
I want to write something about why our pupils/students/teachers are so exam-oriented.
I want to write something about why do teachers hate short courses.
I want to write something about KSSR.
I want to write something about rote memorization and why do teachers still doing it whilst knowing all along that it doesn't work for English Language subject.
I have all the reasons, I just don't have a peaceful time to write.
I would write something important in near future. I promise.

...once I got this stupid-curriculum-that-takes-up-most-of-my-time out of my way. But to be fair, I learn, reflect and I relearn things when writing for this  stupid-curriculum-that-takes-up-most-of-my-time.

Fungus Fiesta!

No, it's not some kind of festival or whatever.
My room has been infected by black fungus/mold. So far, it has eaten up my wardrobe and it's disgusting, honestly. The worst part is because I have allergies, so I get itchy here and there and every morning, I feel like getting a fever. I didn't know if it was because of the fungus, I thought I got sick because of the rain, but this could be one of the reasons. Ntah.

The night I found the mold on my wardrobe, I simply wiped it off using Dettol surface disinfectant spray and I thought that was just it. Horror of the horror happened on the next day, when it was still bright, I found that the inside of my wardrobe is also infected and I found spores on clothes inside it. You can never be too careful with this fungus problem, so I decided to send ALL of the clothes in the wardrobe to laundry. Yuckssss! Geli is one thing, I coughed and sneezed when I come near the wardrobe. So that's the end of the wardrobe's life. Bye bye wardrobe. You have served me well. Though I like you very much *sobs*.

I found that the walls and the floor are quite cold, thus, they provide a comfy place for the mold to grow. You see, my bedroom sliding window takes up the entire length of the wall, so the sun shines straight into my bedroom. But because of rainy season, I close the window, but during midday when the sun shines brightly and warms up my bedroom, it dampens the air so the level of humidity rises. So the mold grew exponentially and I found them having partay at the back of the wardrobe especially, it was very cold and damp.

I put my air purifier for two days straight because I couldn't sleep because I am a paranoid.

I need to buy a dehumidifier. $$$!

Milestone Moon

This is either the first or the last house
This river
Runs through
And my mind is a mad house I only share
With you

Legs are dangling over
This old jetty here
And my light is
Supplied by
Nothing but the brightness
Of the Milestone Moon

Ripples in the water
Tells me that you are near
And as always it's a false alarm
If you wait too hard

Not long now
You'll be in my arms

Sitting patiently
For your return
When will I learn
That soon
Time will burn

Wondering and pondering
If I've been here before
Or am I a new born
Waiting to learn more
I want to learn more

Not long now
You'll be in my arms

With nothing but the brightness
Of the Milestone Moon
[repeat until the end]

Surprise surprise!

Went to KL live to see Zee Avi!
Woohoo!

http://www.youtube.com/user/KokoKaina

Cat and mouse

Tee hee!


Source

Google Tricks

If you google these tricks up (excuse the pun :P), you can find that there are about 9-10 tricks that you can play around using google. But my favourite ones are:


Google gravity

1. Go to google.com and type (not paste) "google gravity" and click on 'I'm feeling lucky'. 
2. Tadaaaaaaaaaaaa...watch your world comes tumbling down.
3. DONT STOP THERE, go on and use it as usual. Go to the search box and type something and press 'Enter'. Teehee.

Find Chuck Norris

1. Go to google.com and type 'Find Chuck Norris' and click on  'I'm feeling lucky'. 
2. I won't spoil it for you. Go have a try :)

Do a barrel roll

1. Go to google.com and type 'do a barrel roll' and Enter. Weeeeeeeeeeeeee~~~

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While writing these, I was listening to:

1. Guillemots: "Made up Love Song #43"
2. Freelance Whales: "Location", "Ghosting", "Starring", and "Kilojoules"

Eskimo the cat

I have been really caught up with work this year. I have been sent around Malaysia to conduct short courses. So, in a month, I would be home a week or two. Most of the time, I would be on the go. Thus, Eskimo  and Oreo cannot stay with me. They didn't stay with me since last June. They stayed with Mak & Abah in Seremban with the rest of the cats: Osim, Popeye (aka kecil menggelinting), and Embong. 

Osim the ginger, Popeye (kecil n kurus despite huge appetite), Oreo and Eskimo, keeping Emak company.

That's Embong, Osim's first baby

It seems that Oreo had a great time in Seremban. He has been a great brother to Osim and Popeye and a great uncle to Embong. He likes to roam around in front of our house (but he's very very timid to strangers, and would run away every time somebody wants to go near him - so I'm not worried about him getting catnapped by strangers). 

BUT........

My dear Eskimo yang manja cannot stand having other cats around him. He likes to be pampered, he likes my attention undivided. Just for him, uhum, all attention just for him. So he got a bit stressed up living in Seremban with the rest of the cats. When he got stressed up, he would intentionally pluck a bunch of his fur off. He would lick his fur non-stop, developing OCD-like behaviour. And he also becomes a very, very grumpy old man. He has this angry face, like kerut-kedut in between his brows and on his nose to show that he's annoyed. Poor kitty. I have no other choice but to take him home with me. Plus, my travelling has decreased this month. This is Eskimo 2 months ago with all the shedding and furplucking habit.

You can see on his tummy there was a big bald patch

Cimo, cimo, anyunyunyunyu nyomey nyomeynye cimo

So, long story short, now he's back with me. I took him to see Dr Edmund since he's quite near to my house, plus I heard that he has a good reputation. I should say, he is very caring towards Eskimo. Nice to have a vet who is concerned about your cat as much as you do. At the clinic, we look for any signs of fleas, earmites, but could not find any. So, it's either food allergy or stress. So he prescribed Eskimo with some anti-itch pills, topical cream and also suggested a new diet - Royal Canin Hypoallergenic (cost about RM84 per kg)

"No, doctor. I don't eat anything but wetfood sprinkled with catnips. Thanks anyway"

I had to come back after 2 weeks, and Eskimo has increased his weight as much as 8% of his body weight. He was a bit kurus when he was in Seremban due to stress. Now that he's the only cat in the house, he eats happily and would return to his food bowl so frequently. He also demands breakfast to be prepared at 6a.m. in the weekdays and 8-9a.m. in the weekends (he sleeps in during weekend)

So this is Eskimo recently:

Back to his fat-self, I mean, cat-self again.