ha. actly i was home at 3. but i walked my dog and went for a run. run ok. not jog. RUN. but short run. and during my run, jiaqi called me to ask me about thermal and she could tell that i was running. lol.
ok so since the last time i updated, nth much happened. school as normal.
sailing was great ytd. there was wind, a bit erratic but there was wind. need to hike out kind of wind ok. long time dun hv liddat alrdy. there was current, though it wasnt to our advantage but nvm. haha. apparantly, cos wad full moon then tide dunno wad or wad la. anyway it was before a rain so we moved. jolene moved :D haha.
my uncle and aunt came back from holland and they are sleeping in my room so im sleeping in my brother's room and when my brother returns from thailand on sat he can sleep on the sofa. my hse got a lot of sofa let him choose. yay my brother coming back :D
u knw when my brother first left for ns, it felt weird not having him ard in the hse. like sth was missing. then i got used to it but there are times that i will miss him one. aww so sweet. heh.
oh and i was reflecting ytd why i dun like some teachers and i got my conclusion. because the teachers cannot teach me what i dunno. i dun like those teachers that just teach us wad we need to knw then dun make sure we understand. all they care is we knw how to apply and score for a lvls. i want to understand wad im supposed to knw. and plus the way the teacher carries himself or herself and how he or she communicates with the students also very important. if the moe advert (u knw the one wad study history test geog study geog test history passion is children that one) interview me i will thank mr nigel koh.
ok and i was watching cna (which is wad the school canteen tv shld be showing) just now and all the news are like australia big fire death toll 191 and expected to rise, or people die in iraq cos of dunno wad shooting, or earthquake magnitude 7.0 in indonesia which activated tsunami warning, or pyongyang dunno wad nuclear test which dunno wad (basically sth bad), or some company lost over a 100 million USD in dunno which quarter. like all bad news u knw. if i only watch news, i will be a very pessimistic person. oh and i saw this news title but didnt read it cos the newspaper wasnt mine and its sth abt gum disease triggering aids.
that's a reason why i dun want kids. ok partially. i dun think i will make a good mother with my temper and yah u knw la har. and yah the world is a place gng downhill. oooh gp gp. discuss -.-
and i will share with u a piece of news regarding the australia fire.
SYDNEY - ONE turtle's shell melted and fused to its body, while a baby wallaby's ears were fried to a crisp. Kangaroos seared their feet, and birds scorched by Australia's worst-ever wildfires plummeted from the sky.
More than 180 people were killed in the weekend's fires, and on Wednesday, the scope of the devastation to Australia's wildlife began to emerge with officials estimating millions of animals also perished in the inferno.
'It's just horrific,' said Neil Morgan, president of the Statewide Wildlife Rescue Emergency Service in Victoria, the state where the raging fires were still burning. 'It's disaster all around for humans and animals as well.'
Animal shelters and clinics across the region have been inundated with hundreds of burned and blistered creatures who escaped the fires.
Many of the kangaroos rescuers found were suffering from burned feet, a result of their territorial behavior, one rescuer said. After escaping the initial flames, the creatures - which like to stay in one area - likely circled back to their homes, singeing their feet on the smoldering ground.
Already one furry survivor has emerged a star: a koala, nicknamed 'Sam' by her rescuers, was found moving gingerly on scorched paws by a fire patrol on Sunday. Firefighter David Tree offered the creature a bottle of water, which she eagerly accepted, holding Tree's hand as he poured water into her mouth. A photograph of the encounter has now been seen around the world.
Sam was being treated at the Mountain Ash Wildlife Shelter in Rawson, 170 kilometres east of Melbourne, where she has attracted the attention of a male koala, nicknamed 'Bob,' manager Coleen Wood said. The two have been inseparable for the past few days, with Bob keeping a protective watch over his new friend, she said.
Meanwhile, workers at the shelter were scrambling to salve the wounds of possums, kangaroos, lizards -'everything and anything,' she added.
'We had a turtle come through that was just about melted - still alive,' Ms Wood said. 'The whole thing was just fused toether - it was just horrendous. It just goes to show how intense (the fire) was in the area.'
The animals arriving appear stressed, but generally seem to understand the veterinarians are trying to help them, Ms Wood said. Kangaroos and koalas are widespread in Australia and are not particularly scared of humans.
Wildlife Victoria, a wildlife rescue group, has teams in place at several staging areas near the worst-hit regions, with volunteers seeing a range of injuries from burned lungs and smoke inhalation to singed paws.
Rescuers were just being allowed to venture into the blackened zones on Wednesday, and while the scope of the impact on wildlife was still unclear, it was likely to be enormous, Wildlife Victoria president Jon Rowdon said.
'We've got a wallaby joey at the moment that has crispy fried ears because he stuck his head out of his mum's pouch and lost all his whiskers and cooked up his nose,' he said. 'They're the ones your hearts really go out to.'
Rescuers had set up vaporising tents to help creatures whose lungs were burned by the searing heat and smoke.
'There will probably be a significant number which probably can only be euthanised to end their suffering,' Mr Rowdon said. 'And my heart goes out to the people who are given that task.' -- AP
from straits times interactive.
happy birthday to the many people whose bday is today, sieuping, kk, kennard and chinyi (though i dunno u but nvm). and abraham lincoln and charles darwin. today google got a lot of birds.