O Happy Day~

Had a tiring but fun & exciting dive at Semakau today. First dive was to help epoxy some corals to the reef, where i saw a big, fat nudi (I think it's the Ceratosoma gracillimum)! :) Too bad I didn't have my camera with me. Then during my 2nd dive where i was trying to take the GPS readings for my transects, I saw... a big BOO BOO! :( Really upsetting. During the previous dive (last week), I'd seen the same (I think) boo boo, with a big fish (dunno what it is), a medium-sized fish (also dunno what it is, haha), a couple of butterfly fish and 3 catfish!! And today, this was the last straw:TWO huge cuttlefish!!! :(
So I made a bold move and got my dive buddy, KB, to help tow this big boo boo back to the boat to get a cutter...
The creatures were still a lil' stunned and not sure how to get out..
So we had to shake the boo boo a bit to help them out. Job well done, KB! =)

Then we stopped by SJI and I got to see the new pair of kittens that has been charming everyone's hearts - Troy & Spunx. They are soooo cute.Aren't they, aren't they!! :D I can't stop gushing over them. My heart has melted and melted again.

Wallaby in my backyard!

Finally settled down in the hostel here in JCU, after the crazy series of plane rides. Between dozing off and transferring planes, at some point i kinda lost track of where i was! But it's been really good and i feel so pampered - can you imagine Andrew Baird (aka Andy), the "boss", personally fetching me from the airport, bringing me back to the airport later to pick up my luggage cuz it got delayed (hehe at least it's my luggage that lost it's way amidst all the transfers, and not blur ol' me)! ="= Goodness gracious me, i don't know what to say! He's really very friendly too =) *blessed me*
HAHA and guess what i got a pleasant surprise when i was shown to my hostel room - there was a wallaby hopping around!! :D Heehee, it was munching on the grass while i was munching on my banana :p Apparently they are common around here! Check out his super muscular arms too..

AND there were many really lovely birds flying around! Only managed to catch a picture of this pair of kookaburas though. Hehe anyone find this bird familiar? Think it is in one of the camping songs we used to sing in secondary school! Esp the guides/scouts, think you will find it familiar ;) Aren't they just adorable!

By the way, to all the people who complain about food at NUS, you really should stop complaining. The food's great, compared to here! I mean, I've never complained about the food at Science faculty (in fact i quite like it), so can you imagine, if i say the food here is terrible?! :p If not for the fact that i was starvin, i don't think i coulda had my dinner tonight haha. Plus i swallowed my food most of the time. Hee to think i didn't really believe my friend when she said the food was bad (she said she lost 4kg in 8mths here). Well, she's used to yummy Malaysian hawker food! :p