Friday, July 18, 2008

*silent maniac laughter*

* The semester, and with it my second year in uni, is over. I have 2/3s of a BA. This also means test season is upon me. Next week's going to be fun:
Sunday + Monday + Tuesday: Invert lab trip
Wednesday: A revision class before the test in evolution, at noone.
Thursday: a 9 hour long revision lab in invert lab
Friday: Evolution test

Fun stuff, isn't it?

* Finished Churchill's third volume in The Second World War series and here's the review:

The Grand Alliance (Second World War) The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill


My review


rating: 5 of 5 stars
In this volume, as evens take a faster pace so does the writing. Churchil was never a bad writer, but in the previous volume he didn't quite find the right balance between putting in every memo he ever wrote and every small background history detail.

Events are well told in good details and the sense of interest and intensivity is kep very nicely.

So far, I'm very pleased with this series.


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Am now reading Stephen King's The Dark Half

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Rats!

*I've adopted two rats from the store; Rizzo which I've fallen for and grown attatched to and Lieby (short for Liebgott, very Art Spiegelman) and they're now staying with university gang member, Guy, until I'll have a place of my own to keep.

I've spoilt them rotten; they've got top food, dog food, mineral and vitamin stone, fresh fruits and vegetables (courtsy of Guy) and a granola honey stick.

The move was a little rough on poor Lieby but he's doing great now and Rizzo's his good old curious, energetic self ^_^

Here are piccies:

Rats on me (this is Rizzo)
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Don't look at my face like that's how I usually am; I've had very little sleep that night....

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Guy, the keeper of rats
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The cage
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And the travel ball they've got too
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Rizzo (front) and Lieby (back) exploring
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Lieby!!
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And just because he's (still) a handsome devil, here's Jack again
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* Test season's looming by and I'm in denial ^_^ before the horror comes down on me like god's wrath, there's a three-day trip from invert lab to cut some more into cramming time. Fun fun.

* Sam-Sam is a year old today!! For his birhtday he got a mouse jumpy toy and a bag of nip-treats which Scarlett eats mostly and he probably avoids after a strange experience; he ate a few and found himself on the kitchen cupboard, something none of us imagined his plump body could achieve....

Anyways, here's a video featuring Sam and Scarlett in which Sam shows his two favorite nasty tricks to win a fight; sitting on Scarlett and biting her...well, you'll see...



Happy birthday, bunny!!

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Boring books, too much work and one eye-candy

* I'm not reading Lewis Carroll anymore, I'm fed up with it. Here's why:

Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll ((Wordsworth Collection)) ((Wordsworth Collection)) Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll by Lewis Carroll


My review


rating: 3 of 5 stars
I gave up in the middle of the Bruno and Sylvie saga. The Alice in Wonderland stories were fun and interesting to read but by the saga the nonsense and the bizzare attraction to young girls who are a symbol of prefection was getting on my nerves. Call me a cold-hearted person but there's only so much strangely-placed nonsese I can tolerate and if there's too much child-adoration and not enough plot I give up.



Don't bother with the whole collection; Alice's stories are quite enough to enjoy Carroll.


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Currently reading: Winston Churchill's The Second World War series volume 3; The Grand Alliance

* Too much work @____@

* Now there's a fine young man for you:
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Friday, July 4, 2008

Hyena project = complete!

* Yup, it's over and done with. I've still statistical analysis to do but the testing is OVER. So far it seems the ice lolly's winning on the what's favorite.

* There's a new rat friend; Rizzo Rat and he's a cute and smart little fellow. He used to curl up in my pockets like Nathan but he's grown used to the movement and much prefers sitting on my shoulder facing forward like a pirate's parrot or sitting atop of my head. The only down side is that he pees freely...fun, not!

* Haven't had the time to tell you but I've finished Karl Marx and here's the review:

Karl Marx Karl Marx by Francis Wheen


My review


rating: 5 of 5 stars
Wheen's wonderfully written book illustraits, with colors as vivis as possible, the life and works of Karl Marx, warts and all; from blood-thirsty arguments with opponents, to medical details of the various many ailments Marx suffered from to the horrificly true and not-so-nice predictions of Europe's political future including the world wars and what brought them about.

Karl Marx is an educating idol for anyone who wants to think on their own, to conclude only what their mind understand by constantly checking for contradictions and 'plot holes' in grand theories around them and Wheen describes wonderfully both how Marx came about this and what it brought him.

The book is well written, light to read and enjoyable. The style is humorist and serious at the same time, with a keen eye on the various misdeeds various politically-enclined historians twisted or wrongly presented Marx history and work, which is always nice to see.



A very good book, I highly recommend it.


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Am now reading Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll

* Due to the fact that people in cat forums are stupid enough to think a troll would go all the way to invent a story describing my cat research, or that I'm the MI5 (people are really, honestly stupid) I've decided to turn to places where I can proove my identity more easily, so I've opened a FaceBook account and here it is.

* I'm officially have been working at the store for a month and now I'm getting precenteges for my sales, which is another bonus in an already bonus-packed work place ^_^

* Piccies!!

This is Anat, she volenteers at the zoology garden, helping Shimon (the hyena's keeper) with his work. Those two were such great help to me in the project, they were simply marvelous. I wrote them each a thank you letter and got them a box of chocolates for their bother and help.
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The hyena enjoying the fishy ice lolly. It took him a while to wrap his brains around the concept of the ice lolly, and he didn't like the fish at all!
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Egret tree at the zoology garden
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The hyena cheating; he was supposed to keep the bone ine cage so that I'll know if he prefers the bone so much that he'd go into the cage for it while there's the yard and all its treasures to relish, but he took the bone out to the yard as you can see
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Yum yum yum, Ice Lolly Version 2.0; chicks and fruits and the hyena is loving it!
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Having a dust bath
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The wolves dug a tunnle (*commence The Great Escape jokes now*) in the yard and it's the hyena's pleasure the destroy it from time to time, as you can see here; he's pulling out a log they stuck in it...
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A happy hyena; having a short dip
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One of the wolves
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Sniffing the fat stain a dead sheep the wolves got left behind
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And rolling in it....
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The yard
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Moi in the final toy-free observation today, a picture taken by my dad who climbed on the roof with me for 'security reasons' (Mr. Safety's orders *rolls eyes*)
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The garden
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A herd of gazelles
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And that's it for today!!