Perth Farm stay (2011) - Day 3/4/5 (Tractor ride)

(IV) Other animals


Turkey:



Kangaroo:








Goats:


This horse is tall and huge:

Pigs! really dirty:


I don't remember what bird this is:

Lynn in the genius pig enclosure:


The feeds:



(V) Visit to winery (Day 3 afternoon)/Fish and chips dinner at Margaret River:





Hay bale in plastic wrap:



(VI) Tractor ride (Day 4 afternoon)







Mash-mellow camp fire:

My blog, my diary

I have wanted to do this post for quite some time already.

When I started blogging 4 years ago, I have quite a few friends who were already active bloggers. Subsequently, other friends also started blogging. At the height of it, there were probably 10 such blogs, in which I can find words and pics about the latest happenings in my friends' lives.

How i miss those times. Blogging takes a lot of time, effort and interest. It's probably a fad too. And different people blog for different reasons. For many, the reasons that had spur the start of their blogs just weren't reasons that could sustain the blogs.

I like writing. I like expressing my thoughts. I like sharing my thoughts. I want to keep a record of my sweetie growing up, of what she did and experienced.

Sometimes I get strange comments, like I'm wasting my time by still blogging. When faced with such insensitivity, I can only tell myself that it takes all kinds of characters, belief and behavior to form the world.

I like blogging. I will continue as long as I can...

Zoo in Jun 2012

Looks like my postings are going on an overdose of "animals", haha.

If it's not been 3 years, I think it had been at least 2 years since we last went to the zoo. I hinted very strongly to WK that during the June school holidays, when Lynn doesn't have class on Saturdays, I want to do some pre-planned activities rather than nuay at home. So on the first Sat, we went to the zoo.

Now that Lynn is older, this trip was more organized. We skipped the 1130 elephant show, so that we could watch the sea lion show at 1030 and then the dog show at Rainforest Kidzworld at 11. I remembered to bring a set of clothes for change in case Lynn wanted to play at the water park at kidzworld, but forgot the towel again. So we persuaded Lynn not to play at the water park, by offering her a pony ride.

The most memorable and enjoyable part of this trip was the Rainforest Experience. It is a big enclosure where quite many different kinds of animals are allowed to roam freely. Although the animals were close by, they seldom let us touch them. Except for a mouse deer that let Lynn stoke it. I love the beautiful butterflies there.

We reached the zoo before 10, and we left around 3. It was a great day. It will probably be a few years time that we will be back there again. And here's some pic, on Lynn mainly, haha..




Her new shoes (adult size one!!), with socks from HK disneyland:

The Malayan Horn Frog, really freaky:

Some of the animals that can be found in the enclosure:

The friendly mouse deer:

Butterflies feasting on sugarcane:

Such a beauty:

New Born

The list of topics that I want to blog on just gets longer and longer.  Usually I don't get much time to blog during the weekends.  During the weekdays, I spend my free time (after 10pm) on TV, cos it's my favourite way to wind down (brainless activity).  If I'm not watching TV, then I will be reading my Ibook. 

Let's see how many posts I can do tonight.

Last Saturday, something very exciting happened - we got baby hamsters!  It's just so funny how they were discovered.  On Sat morning, I took a quick look at the hamsters, placed the food dish in the cage and walked away as usual.  Me and Lynn were in the living room, when WK (who had just came back after being 10 days away) looked into the cage and said "How can there are baby hamster????".  Lynn and myself rushed over and saw 5 new born.  Immediately I posted pics on facebook.  The whole weekend, even till now, the focus had been the baby hamster(s).

But most of the baby hamsters didn't really make it.  The first one to die didn't even last a day (was dead by Sat night).  Then on Sunday morning, we couldn't find 2 out of the remaining 4, most probably eaten by their own mother.  On the previous day (Sat), we learn (from reading internet/talking to experienced people) that we should try to aviod distrubing the new family, not clean the cage for sometime, not hold the little ones (else their smell may be altered), and the mummy may turn hostile towards the little ones. Lynn did hold one baby on Sat morning before we found out about the do and don'ts. However, I think it may not be our fault either (could still have happened anyway).  So we hoped for the best for the remaining 2.  We were doing some art and craft on Sunday morning in the living room when we heard loud squeak from the cage.  We were horrified to see ants attacking the babies!  We were panicky and upset.  I told lynn to kill the ants (with her fingers).  Lynn did the best that she could, alternating between flicking/pinching the ants off the tiny/vulnerable 1 day old new borns, and stopping/looking/mumbling that there are just too many ants.  I was quite useless, and kept repeating to her to "kill the ants, kill the ants...".  I remembered that at one point, Lynn raised her little voice saying "I'm trying!".  Towards the end, she held the babies in her hand to get to the ants on their bodies, and I wasn't even protesting.  After that, we cleaned the cage.  I'm actually very proud of her that morning, because Lynn's actually a little afraid of ants, and would demand that we kill the ants if she sees them on the wall or near the food.  So I told her that she's very brave and that she saved the little hamsters.

The family seem to settle down better in their newly cleaned cage.  We did notice that the 2 remaining babies were located at different parts of the cage, and the mummy seemed to be only nursing one.  By yesterday (monday morning), the neglected one died too.  We are really hoping for the best for the sole survivour, which the mummy is nursing/cuddling very regularly. 

Over the past 4 days, Lynn learned a lot about animal behaviour - motherly instinct, sense of smell, nursing, natural selection (many offsprings, fittest survive), etc..  I asked her yesterday night if she would like to be a vet when she grow up, and she said yes..  Haha.. still a long way to go for my sweety, and most people don't become what they dream of, but become what they work for.  But children should dream.  And most importantly, this experience in itself is already priceless. 

Here's some pics:
The 5 new born, pic taken on Saturday morning:

The sole survivor. It has definitely grew bigger in size over the last 4 days:

Lynn named him (or her) "Clever":

I still can't tell the 2 adult hamsters apart, as to which one is mummy and which one is daddy. I think the greedy one is mummy and the playful one is daddy:

Quarterly break

Every school holiday I will let Lynn stay overnight at her nanny's house on a weekend. There are many benefits, such as keeping the relationship and bond. Lynn enjoys the visits tremendously.

For me, I absolutely love it too! While I enjoy motherhood, it comes with its "price". On a typical weekend, I spend a lot of time doing stuff with Lynn, else she end up playing games or watching movie on iPad with her daddy. Sometimes when I decide that i need to do house chores, I get angry when I see them using iPad again.

I do not know how much iPad she gets to play at qy's house, but it's "out of sight and out of mind". There are so many things that I want to do today, so I better get going. For the past half hour, I enjoyed the relaxing and cooling mid morning with a cup of kopi-si-siudai and a yummy curry puffy.

Sky blue

This top I'm wearing is an old top. I have wore it multiple times. It's nothing special to me..

Today, I feel beautiful wearing it. This morning, Lynn was in my wardrobe when I was choosing my clothes, and I asked her casually "what should mummy wear today?". She looked for a while, pointed to this top and said "this one". I started to say "hmm no, I think I will wear black..." but then I hear her say "..it's sky blue.." I paused and looked at the top again, and suddenly I "see" the beautiful sky.

Miraculously, an old shirt became special, brightening up my day, because of a sweet innocent thought of a child...