Tuesday, September 30, 2008
♥ Won't Someone Stop This Train
No I'm not dead yet.
I've been reading everyone's blog regularly, catching up with what's happening around the world (well, Melbs and SG) beyond Animal Health Management and Welfare.
Anyways here's what's happening. I shall exclude the bad stuff this time (well most of it, mainly because i don't feel like talking about it).
Mum and dad are here. Kinda glad, because mum's supervision makes me procrastinate less, so I can get a tiney fraction of my work done. Well, better than nothing right.
My brother finally graduated. And of course I am MOST PROUD. Not of my photography skill. I guess I was watching him cross the stage, catching the moment through the tiny camera hole, and my hand did not click as many times as i thought it did. Guess my multi-tasking skills aren't as good (or is even worse) as(/than) i thought. That's besides the point, I feel guilty, luckily we took nice photos before hand.
Just finished reading Eclipse (the 3rd instalment to the Twilight series which EVERYONE should read). Don't you wish you could be as lucky as Bella. I would gladly live in constant danger to have even 1/2 of what she has (i.e. either Jacob or Edward). Those who read the story knows what I mean.
Ok on to more interesting matters. On the 27th and 18th, I helped out at the Royal Melbourne Show. haha indulge me for a second: YAY FREE PASSES! And nice fluffy alpacas. On the first day I was there alone, and Valencia the girl I was handling (alpaca not human of course) won 4th, and Benoit (the alpaca farmer) let me keep the 4th place ribbon :D. And poop scooping for 18 alpacas is a really tough job, there's just too much shit around haha. Thankfully The Gez aka GezzieBooBoo was there on the 2nd day. It was quite boring most of the day, caz there wasn't as much to show as I thought, and we sat around in the cold breeze/burning sun. And we were also on the losing team, and that sucked. So when it came down to the very very last alpaca, his name is Fire Dragon (yup Gez's bear is named after him), Gez and I decided it was time to intervene. So we used our magical words of wisdom and gave Fire Dragon a pep talk, telling him how he was our last hope of being the only alpaca from the farm to win first place, and putting alot of pressure on him. After which, he strutted into the ring like the champ that he is, and HE WON 1ST PLACE!!! After which he also won the Championship for his age category.
Then the deciding moment came... it was time for the supreme championship... where the champion of the champions was gonna be picked out (i.e. Supreme Champion = the best alpaca of the entire show across all age groups within that species of alpaca). And surprisingly Fire Dragon won that!!!! We were having a ribbon drought, then suddenly, we claimed the biggest prize, it could not have been better! I was seriously happy for Benoit and Philippa, and they are not paying me to say this, but i am truely happy for them.
Anyway sorry for making you read through that extremely boring animal talk here's some pictures:
FIRE DRAGON!!! RAWRRRR
She was actually really talking to her. Marichi and Gez
The judges were really judging the humans not their furry masters
Sancho, Arturo and Sergio. Aren't the brothers just so darn cute!
Me and Sancho (we didn't win anything)
Yvette (another fellow vet student) with the judges checking out her farm's alpaca
Valencia, the girl who won 4th, and whose ribbon I am treasuring!
Benoit and Magnifica. He didn't want me to take this photo really haha
Me and Magnifica on day 1
Isn't magnifica just sooo cute... You really wanna cuddle her don't you!
GezzieBooBoo with ExquisitoYup, I actually have all their names memorised. and i just love the smell of alpacas. Oh and I shouted at this annoying guy who tried to scare the alpacas. He truely had it coming, I wonder why he didn't see me in the next pen with a poop shovel in my hand glaring at him when he took out his squeeky toy to scare the alpacas. I wonder why i didn't smack him in the head. But he ran off so quickly I didn't get a chance to have a 2nd look at him... hmmm.
I need a shower.
I need a shower.
4:49 AM
