GEEK IS CHIC!!

A geek and his life(the happy one)

I hurt my bird! March 14, 2009

Filed under: Uncategorized — bennycan @ 9:21 pm

Last night while minding my own business in the house I heard a frantic chirping call of a bird. Looked out of my window and I saw a cat with a baby bird underneath its paw.  Rushed out immediately to chase the cat away and manage to rescue this baby bird from turning into cat food.

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My guess is that the recent pruning of trees by town council has cause this baby bird to fall from its nest which it survived and unfortunately attracted the local puss in boots. Could also be that it failed its first lesson of flight.

Anyway we decided to adopt this poor xiao niao and to do so we had to create a nest! :) :) :)

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Chris made the “nest” while I did the tricky part of trapping the bird.Actually all i did was chase it into a plastic bag with a twig, heyyy for a bird brain like me that is pretty hard work!

Hope little birdie here recover soon and lives to fly in a few weeks to tells his birdy community how well we treated him and to stop stealing the little fishies in the pond outside my house.


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Chris Suggested I start dressing up as a mother bird to avoid scaring the shit out of this baby bird.

Dun be so niao can!



 

fragments of life March 8, 2009

Filed under: Uncategorized — bennycan @ 2:43 am

I can safely say I can live without the internet. Infact the number of times I’ve logged on to my MSN, facebook, friendster, blog etc..  can be counted with all the dangling parts of my human anatomy(toes and fingers).

Partly the reason why is because personally I believe people who get too caught up being online, blogging,gaming or updating their online social network are too damn free.

Imagine freeing up all that time you spent in cyberworld, a huge chunk of that time could be spent somewhere else, on something that etches itself into your memories.

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Maybe part of the reason why I am spending lesser time at home is because of this:

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My new ride!

Maybe its the wind in your face or the torque and power beneath you as you twist the throttle round the bend. Whatever it is, its in my blood.

Actually almost everyone I spoke to was agaisnt me riding a bike.  Well Since I was a kid I have been a sucker for two wheelers. I practically grew up with bikes. My dad is a bike fanatic himself and has probably rode more bikes then the amount of underwear I changed.

Well, my riding stlye is pretty simple. Safety first and always arrive at your destination in one piece.

There is something else about riding your own bike. Responsibility of your life and that of others. Paying for your own petrol,getting your first summon, fetching your soulmate from work etc. It feels great. I actually flashed a smile and rushed back home to break the news that I got my first summon of $8 for parking without a valid coupon.

Just graduated with a diploma and currently waiting for NS, the ’stint’ at NDU was an eye opener and for all I know, not everyone has the privilege to join the ranks. Been working hard and playing pretty hard to make sure the last of my teenagers years are worth bragging about to my kids and grandchildren in the future.

Imaging sitting on your rocking chair telling your kids about how during your younger day you were part of a clan in WOW and you slashed a level 55 mage with a toothpick you found in the land of teletubbies and you played gunbound and some virtual pet game which you found a series of bug and exploited to gain points. Shudders

Till then cya!

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