So I went to check on The Tortoise this evening.

I went to his pen in the garden and… HE WAS GONE!!

ACK! PANIC!! Oh my gawd, oh my gawd, someone stole him!!!

The way the bricks were arranged at the opening, I thought there was no way The Tortoise (1) had the strength to push the bricks away, and (2) could arrange them so neatly in a row, in order to escape.

So I called HIM and asked “Where’s your torchlight??!!” *trying not to be hysterical*
(Note : It was late evening — sky was dark — and it was raining as well. What “perfect” conditions to be out looking for a tortoise whose shell would be perfect camouflage in the garden foliage!)

Anyway, me being the animal lover that I am — would never forgive myself if I didn’t try looking for The Tortoise, in the hopes that he just might’ve tried to escape and was not stolen — held the umbrella in one hand and the torchlight in the other, went scouring in the garden for The Tortoise.

 … *looking*…

…*searching*…

… *looking some more*…

Waitaminute! … is that a pair of eyes I see behind that pot??? OH MY GAWD!!! The Tortoise is alive and not stolen!!!

Never in my entire life have I ever been soooooo glad to see a tortoise!!!

Phew!!! Thank gawd!! I secured his pen with more bricks and a couple of flower pots (try doing this while holding on to an umbrella and a torchlight and a set of keys with only a pair of hands, in heavy rain!), put him back in, and gave him his food.

I hope he doesn’t try to escape again tomorrow. I don’t think I can handle another almost-heart-attack.

o_O

…syiok sendiri, hehe…

Update

Hahaha!! I won again!!! 3 times in a row!!! And we gals kicked the guys butts!! Heheh

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I won again in Colosseum last nite!!!! Wheeeeee!!! I guess I can’t claim it’s just beginner’s luck anymore, hehe… I won twice in a row!! Haha!

So here’s our games repertoire thus far… and increasing from time to time…

• Ticket to Ride (Europe) – my very first boardgame with the Gaming Gang
• Pirates’ Cove – was my fave game since it didn’t require much thinking, mostly luck
• Railroad Tycoon – I was the richest on one occasion 
• Power Grid – never won this game. I think I’ve managed to be consistent being 2nd last but never last, haha!
• Hasta Bock (this is the German version. English version is called Sheer Panic) – this is the cutest game, with sheep tokens
• Heck Meck – another cute game, to do with grilled worms. Purely luck!
• Manila – HE almost always won this game
• Citadels – One of my favorite games… it’s one of the very few that I actually win!
• Hoity Toity – this also I like… coz I can win in it, hehe
• Settlers of Cataan – have never won this game yet
• Antike – This is NOT my favorite game coz there’re too many things to keep track of!
• Clippers – won this the first time we played… but didn’t manage to maintain the lead after
• Colosseum – this is the coolest game thus far… awesome detailing and cool tokens

… and a few others that we seldom play so I forget their names.

I lurve our gaming nights!

…because they report crap like this, this, and this.

I picked up the NST just now because I had nothing else better to read, and was reminded of the reason why I don’t read mainstream newspapers anymore. They get me all worked up and angry over their one-sided reports. And no prizes for guessing which side they’re on.

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Our so-called leaders are useless because they claim to be “reasonable and will listen to the people.”

BUT they don’t do anything about the people’s pleas or complaints.

Listen only, what’s the use?

And oh, what a laugh! Our dear PM says that “The five Hindraf members were detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) in the interest of national security“. If that’s the case, how come some fella, who loves bringing up the keris and “shedding Chinese blood” was not arrested for uttering seditious comments as well? Shouldn’t he have been detained “in the interest of national security” as well??

Such double standards. So absurd and appalling. And an insult to us Malaysians.

Yes, the people are not dumb. And they’re getting more and more disgusted and discontented with the way the current administration is managing the country.

You know what’s most infuriating? It’s the knowledge that we can’t do anything about it. And that these morons are just laughing at our faces because we can’t do anything about it.

Never mind, come election time, they will get what they deserve.

Apparently, it’s now a crime to display banners and posters on private property.

Are these jokers even for real???

Oh, and check out that fat @$$ fella who calls himself a cop. I guess his job is just to go around arresting people for holding private gatherings and hanging up posters and banners on private property, that’s why no exercise chasing criminals so he became such a fat lump.

This is a sad sad thing indeed. Our country is screwed, screwed by all those morons who think they can run the country.

…attract mossies more than others.

I learned on Oprah today that these are the reasons why mossies seem to like me more than other people:

• The scent of perfume, cologne or lotion (I dun put on much perfume so I dun think this is the reason)
• Genetics (This is one thing I can’t change!)
• Diet (Apparently, some foods attract mossies)

I went to rescue a cat and got attacked by mossies instead.

And ended up with dengue.

It was actually just a matter of time, since I’m so prone to mossie bites. Like yesterday, we were at Robinson’s. This big fat Aedes mossie landed on my arm and I think (I hope) I smacked it before it sank its big fat stinger into me.

A mossie managed to find me in this huge airconditioned department store. What are the odds?

And HE was laughing very amusedly, because HE was wearing shorts and slippers while I was wearing jeans and no mossies found him.

Bleh…

I hate being mossie bait.

So now I’ve got 2 extra weeks off from work to recuperate.

Oh, if you happen to have a persistent fever (regardless how high/low), just insist on a blood test. I had my fever for 6 days before I got tested because one doc said they only tested on the 5th day and another doc told me I had pimples (when I sprouted the spots on my face). Duh.

So by the time I got the results on the 6th day, I think I was over the worst, which was probably during the 3rd day of the illness.

It is so not fun. Especially the body aches and the nausea and the aching eyeballs. Oh, and the spots!!! Dun even get me started on how bloody itchy they were.

My new best friend is my bottle of insect repellent spray. And I look like a junkie coz for some reason, the lab technician who took my blood didn’t do a good job and I now have bruises on both my inner elbows.

o_O