The Hamster Nanny - Escape Artiste, Latte

Now I am breathing a sigh of relief.

To cut a long story short, Latte (the female white hamster, breed unknown. Can't tell between Roborovski and Syrian hamsters. Should be Syrian judging from its sharp face) jailbroke while I was hanging out with Mama and Daddy yesterday. Mum found it when she opened the storeroom door just now.

Till date, how it escaped is still a mystery since the cage is still firm and secure when I got back and found Latte to be nowhere in sight.

I am so glad it didn't jumped out from the window as what my Dad said.

So ironic that the only person scared of it is the one who gets to find it though.

Mama said that if she opened the door wider, Latte will be crushed to death. Or at least end up with broken bones all over. Coincidentally the night before I was so worried about Latte that all my dreams end up to be about her, and the one that I remember the most vividly is that I found her behind my parents' bedroom door, crushed to death!

Anyhow I am gonna take extra precaution to make sure the cage is secure. Most probably I will get a new cage after all the scare.

I feel like I lost a few years off my already short life. I am gonna die at 76 remember? Only 53 years to go! Oh....that seem like a long time...

Welcome to the Family - Mocha & Latte

Welcome to the Tan family! 1 month old baby Syrian hamsters Mocha & Latte!

Frankly giving you names give me headache and I am pondering whether to leave you guys nameless like the previous hamster. The previous one is just called "Ham Ham" for convenient sake. The major factor that prevents me from naming you guys/gals - I have no idea what your genders are! Even the all so mighty Mr Internet is left speechless this time round.

Then Mr Internet decided to throw me one piece of internet that I didn't really ask for, but got me real interested. I can conditioned you guys to react to me! You have no idea how tempting this is considering how you guys didn't exactly warmed up to me (is it my face? blame my mama...).

Therefore the unisex names - Mocha and Latte are born! That, and the fact that I luv Starbucks!

So once again welcome to the family and I will try my best to remember your birthday - 25 November 2010. Haven't really decided yet whether to do an yearly or monthly celebration but leaning more towards monthly or quarterly considering your short life spans. Let you know when the time comes.

Ta-da~

US Trip (6st day, 24th nov 2010)

Woke up by the sound of Hailey' alarm. She must be tired too since she took quite a long time to reach it and turn the alarm off.

Dammit...just as I was getting a good night's sleep.

We went for another field trip today - to Witchita mountains. Awesome place with many endangered animals in the refuge, e.g. Buffalos, Elps, prairie dogs etc.

Prairie dogs are the cutest thing ever! And doesn't look anything like a dog.

Don't believe me? Just see the pic below:

Its like a safari tour today.

Might be going to gym today if there's mood and time. Cya tmr~

US Trip (4th & 5th day,22th & 23th nov 2010)

22th is a full day of school. Super boring! The teacher is a nice old lady who likes to mumble to herself. Drained my energy just trying to listen to her talk.

23th however is an outdoor field trip day! Not very happening but at least we get to go outta the classroom and wander around instead of listening to her talk...and talk...and talk. We went to this urban praire which has a creek where another professor (fat with long curly white hair) explained to us how they determine if the water is healthy. Seems that there's such way of just looking at it and you will know for sure. You will have to examine and take the water samples back to the lab for testing.

So science right? I know.

I have no idea why I am taking this class. Unless I want to be a weather reporter with really atas scientific knowledge.

Not really that interested frankly.

After that we went to lunch at this Louie's Sports Grill place. Not sure how good is their grilled food, but the pizza is good! Beats Pizza's Hut anyday. And please go bankrupt soon, California's 2-for-1 pizza. No idea how you can survive this long with pizza that tastes like flour, cheese and tomato paste. Separately.

After lunch, we went back to the school for a presentation by OERB (Oklahoma Energy Reservation Board I think...), and after that to a lab where they tested various water, oil or other samples.

Went to Dollar Tree when class ends (at 4.30pm...YEAH!!!), but we didn't bought much. Even Jayvern agrees that it gets boring the second time. Seriously its fun, but only when you have things to buy and is in a shopping mood. And even then I don't get as high as Jayvern when she sees cheap sweets.

Photos up asap. Stay tuned...

US Trip (3nd day,21th nov 2010)

Went for orientation. Expected it to be the super childish kind with lotsa ice breakers but fortunately its just Virginia Oden sharing lotsa much needed information (and warnings) with us.

Went for a tour in the 'school bus' and visited the Oklahoma bombing memorial park and museum. Nothing much there. Got bored after just a few minutes.

Then the bus drove us to the Golden Corral for lunch. In the midst we past by the liquor warehouse 2 times and Jayvern and Sendya got real excited. Ironically the only alcohol in the house is Mojito.

Golden Corral (yup, 2 'r's) is fantastic. Akin to Mache but so much better! Unlimited refill. Buffet style! What's more, its like a standard price for everything. With so much good stuff to eat, I am starting to worry about my parents' reaction to my new body size when I dropped down at Changi Airport 3 weeks later.

Sendya arranged 3 gummy bears together (in Jayvern's unwanted bow of ice cream) to form a 'threesome'. Jayvern stubbornly refused to tell Sendya how to spell 'threesome'.

After that I was so shagged when I got back home, I slept at 7 p.m.!

SHIT SHIT SHIT~

US Trip (2nd day,20th nov 2010)

Was supposed to be fetching Gena from the airport today. Arranged with Shirley (is it spelled this way?) and Jocelyn (same previous comment applies) to go to Walmart. Instead we head to Dollar Tree where every single item is EXACTLY USD1!!!!

Try beating that Value Dollar shop. Your item varies from $1.05 to $12.05 (I think...higher or lower depending on items on sale for the period) lor. No consistency at all. QC failed big time.

After fetching Gena, we went back to our hotel and sleep after a expensive and not really that tasty lunch. Lunching at restaurants (other than the fast food kind) is so not worth it.

We head to Walmart for some heavy grocery shopping. The shopping power of women can never be underestimated. We shopped for a total of about 3 plus hours. Some minor melodrama happened when we lost Jayvern and Hailey missing. Erm....like literally. For a moment there Ic contemplate the use of intercom. But "Can Jayvern and Hailey reports to the customer service counter please? Your friends are waiting for you. I repeat.." sounds...erm...cheeky? Therefore we decide to save both them and us embarrassment lest we get mistaken for country pumpkin.

Luckily we found them in the end. Stay energetic for quite sometime after that. Managed to only fall into deep slumber at around 2a.m.

*Photos up asap. Stay tuned...*

US Trip (1st day, 19th nov 2010)

Using the in flight moving map application. I see that I am in the air above Philippines. Already I wanna get down. Can't find the toliet initially. Such a noob. Can feel the other passengers laughing at me. I like the turbulence, the setting off and touching down (◦'⌣'◦)
- Touched down at narita and to our surprise, our flight is delayed for abt 2 hour! (From 3.15pm tkt to 4.50 tkt) Luckily it turned to be a scare, still delay though. To 3.50pm tyt. Now its 3.14pm. Still waiting....
- Saw snow at Minneapolis airport! White blanket covering entire Minneapolis! Awesome!
- 2nd flight delay of the day from Minneapolis to Oklahoma City for abt 45 mins! What luck!
- Small and cramped Delta Connection has a wide array of soft drinks. Still prefer the comparatively spacious (but still tight aisles) to this domestic flight. Pretzels are yucky but I finished 2 packets of those biscuits. The ONLY flight attendent (compare that to abt 6-12 attendents on an international flight) is a fat male with an attractive voice. Lol!
- Touched down at Will Rogers airport. Waiting for our luggage when the coveyor belt stops suddenly. Turns out some idiot kicked the emergency stop button. But we got our luggages in the end. Met 2 nice part-time 'schoolmates/modulemates' (.....watever....). Nice persons. Bonded with them over a salty macdonald meal. Its dirt cheap btw. Hate the strong winds and blazing cold though.

*Photos up asap. Stay tuned...*

Weather Conditions from The Weather Channel

This alert was sent from a friend.

Severe Weather Alert for Oklahoma City, OK

Freeze Warning until Thu Nov 18 2010 08:00 AM CST

..FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CST THURSDAY... * TEMPERATURE: UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S AFTER 3 AM TONIGHT. * IMPACTS: TENDER OUTDOOR PLANTS WILL LIKELY BE DAMAGED BY THE SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES. AREAS OF FROST WILL ALSO FORM DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. &&

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Dammit....
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Beyond Expectation (The Competitor in Me)

This is the email sent to me by my values and culture lecturer:

Dear Megan Tan Wei Shan- 

Your grade on Essay #2 is "A-".
 
Sincerely,
 --Leo Werneke

This might not be a great grade for most, but I am already exceptionally grateful. Especially considering the fact that I missed most of Leo's classes and never return after the break until the lessons are over.

I so afraid he will flunk me cause I am 100% sure he knew about my absence.

Even got caught red-handed a few times.

To show my gratitude, I am gonna work real hard on the post assignment!!!

Yah....like real.

I had already finished the post assignment and it was sloppily done. And it will take a giant buffalo to make me redo it again.

But....

I promise to add in if I think of anything Ơ̴̴̴̴̴̴͡.̮Ơ̴̴͡

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Packing (12 Days to OKC)

Luggage packing is a tiring job. I didn't even get much today!

But thank goodness I made a checklist of the stuff I would put in my luggage, handcarry and what I would wear respectively! How's that for orderly?

I thought I misplaced my US dollars yesterday. Nearly broke into tears. I probably won't had found it if not for my determination of 'not gonna sleep tonight if I don't find my usd".

Sometimes you just need pure determination and a stroke of luck. Memory is important too but then its not always reliable.

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Nothing beats the real thing

After staring for several hours at my computer (doing my v&c essay. Extremely slow progress, dammit!), the view out my window seem to have more vibrant colors than usual. HD LCD monitors can't beat this even if they tried...
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Testing Post - Nails

I don't think I'm apt for growing nails. Since I start growing them about 3 weeks ago, I had been scratching my neck with them. Either I should just learn to not flick my hair (always scratched my neck with my nails when I brush my hair away from my face) or I should just cut my nails.

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Its so freaking weird...

I woke up by the sound of alarms.....coming from my parents' bedroom, which is 2 rooms away!

Must be sleeping really lightly by then.

Of course the 3 alarms sounding at the same time help a little somehow.

The reasons for the alarms are that I am heading to my 2nd Aunt's bdae party in Johor. Dunno if I will do another post about it with pictures cause I doubt I will take any. Since I am not a photo person and all...THAT plus the fact that I will only bring my bb8520, which comes equipped with a ok quality 2mp camera. Okay quality for a 2mp but not really wonderful for taking pictures.

We'll see how.

And of course, my new Touchy will be coming as well. Helps to drive boredom. I am so prepared with the frantic downloading of apps yesterday.

Oh, mum's calling.

Tada, off to showers.

Virgin Touch

I got my new Ipod Touch! Anyone wanna congratulate me? Or at least reprimand me for wasting money unnecessarily?

Finished my AOW exam today. Don't think I did too fantastic cause nothing went into this dumbass of a head even after studying for so long. Think I'm getting old....

No more school after this.

Anyway I checked whether my salary was banked in today and I got more than I deserved! Mandy I LOVE U!!! I didn't work so much but I got more pay? Haha...don't mind if I keep coming back for more~

Only like about a month to the day when I am supposed to depart for the states. Its coming too fast yet not fast enough. One moment I was dreading to go to a foreign country to chiong studies, another (moment) I am like hoping it will come faster so that I can have no exams no more. Super weird mindset but its okay, don't mind me.

Preparation for departure is like only 45% done! OMG! WHAT ELSE DO I NEED??!!!! PANIC ATTACK!!!!

Visa Approved!!

Yeah! Visa was approved yesterday!

Another thing out of the way! Woohoo~

The previous batch went to the American Embassy on Tuesday and they said it was a long and tedious process. The horror stories really creep us out and that's why yesterday (Friday), many of us are rather fidgety and scared of what's going to happen.

Aside from the main entrance which we are to pass the cumbersome security checks (liquids are allowed but I have to take a sip to prove that it wasn't liquid bomb (-_-III)), the rest are pretty smooth sailing. I love counter 5 where we have to be 'interviewed' by a pretty American woman. She is so pretty and friendly! I don't mind getting interviewed but her over and over again but then she have to talk louder. I have to tip toe over the counter to hear her!

Anyway the pretty American woman told me my visa is approved and I am now holding a pink slip to collect my visa and passport (they took it =_( ) next Tuesday.

Can't wait!

What should I do??!!!

Times passes so fast. At the blink of an eye, its already Sept.

SEPT??!!!

My god, that means I have less than 2 months to prepare for my trip to oklahoma, usa at the end of the year!

I am super clueless on what should I do now. Ever since I bought the luggage last month, i had been staring at it (and I think its staring me back as well. What a defiant luggage) wondering what should I put inside 1st.

Till date, the inside is still clean and shiny. And empty.

I can't pack the clothes cause I will still need to wear those. I have no thermal wears and thermal wears are super exp in Singapore. No turtleneck sweaters as well as I am quite reluctant to purchase those as I dun like the feeling of something struggling me.

Aside from clothings, can I put other utilities inside...erm...I scared it kena squashed by the clothings leh. That's y I wanna put those hygiene or watever products on the top.

Arghh!!!! Frustrated!!!!

An Ordinary Day

Me: Mum did you touched my phone just now?

Mum: Yeah...it was ringing so I pressed until the sound stops.

Me: (mumbling) No wonder it was shut down...

Mum: I press until the ringing stops lo. And it did!

Me: (exclaimed): Shut down le of course it stops la!

Sometimes my mum is just too cute.

I love emoticons but so far all I know is "T-T" and "=)".

Super bland.

Good thing I found this on the web. It gives a vast glossary of text emoticons to give your sentences more "feelings".

And some are really interesting! For example, guess what this is:
()()
=(-,-)=
(")_(")

It's a rabbit? Damn cute rite?

More from the website shown below:
<[~.~]> Dog

<('@')> Pig

(.)(.)
__
OOOOOO Alien

Alignment got problem. It looks better on the web though...

Super Bo Liao...

Guess I am really bored to the max! I am reading up stuff about Chinese Horoscopes.

Well...at least its with the elements so it should be something different. At least not everyone knows about chinese horoscopes with elements.....right?

Mine is Fire Rabbit.

FIRE RABBIT Horoscope Feb 2, 1927 to Jan 22, 1928 Jan 29, 1987 to Feb 16, 1988 Rabbit people love to play under the moonlight. Quite fanciful, they respond to the power and beauty of nature and are always being pulled one way and the other to examine what they find. They are the luckiest of all twelve signs! But, it's more a result of "the harder I work, the luckier I get" than taking crazy chances. They are cautious, conservative, bright, and have a good head for business. Supremely pleasant to have around, these affectionate, naturally shy peacemakers seldom ever lose their temper. They sometimes appear to be singing the blues because of a natural but short-lived tendency towards despondency. Rabbits always inspire deep admiration and trust. Ginger Soup and Ginger Noodles are among the keys to good health!!

The Fire Rabbits stand out from the crowd of other Rabbits. You might expect Rabbits to be passive, quiet, and loners. Not so, the Fire Rabbits. These extroverts are leaders of the pack! Fire Rabbits intuitively sense the right way to bring out the best in themselves and other people. They are brave creatures, thirsty for life. Others eagerly follow them because of the promise of adventure and great fun, and they are never disappointed. Visionary explorers, Fire Rabbits inspire others to see beyond the surface. Unlike other Rabbits, Fire Rabbits have the potential to be truly rich. Enormously capable and hardworking, Fire Rabbits can achieve great things others cannot match. Captains in charge of their lives, they experience smooth sailing in their careers. The multifaceted Fire Rabbits experience great versatility in their lives. Their interests can range from Agatha Christie to bungee jumping, from caviar to enchiladas, from snowskiing to Scrabble. Speaking of Scrabble, spell Love: L-O-V-E is very kind to Fire Rabbits. Excellent lovers, they rapturously charm their partners with cozy fireplaces, affectionate hugs, and, most of all, undying support and loyalty. Famous RABBIT people: Hu Shih, Hu Yao-Bang, Kim Young Sam, Sally Ride, Leonardo Di Caprio, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Arturo Toscanini, Leontyne Price, Clare Boothe Luce, Tiger Woods. Don't really like the last person mentioned, but I guess I will forgive and forget. Besides, he is the only name I recognised besides Leonardo Di Carpio. Link