This past weekend was Thanksgiving holiday for us. So my mom made a feast of the turkey, with lots of veggies..the usual. My favourite is baked sweet potato and the cranberry sauce, so i usually stack up on those lol . There was no dessert, no pumpkin pie. My mom decided to skip it this Thanksgiving, but no one really missed it since everyone was satisfied and fell asleep 20mins after dinner.

Anyway, this Thanksgiving we were really blessed to have my old hamster around.  A week before Thanksgiving, Mr. Cloud became ill and wasn't his usual playful self. For two nights he didn't want to come out to play, and i noticed that he had difficulties urinating. At first I thought it was a bladder infection, but when i saw him get up for food, i also noticed he was limping! I was very fortunate that my mom was understanding. She helped me take him to the vet and it turned out to be a tumour growing in his testicles that was causing all this! Well, the vet gave us the option of giving him meds to ease his pain, or he could undergo surgery to have it removed. She also advised us of all the obstacles he'd have to overcome due to his size and age (2yrs):
1. He may not wake up from anestetics.
2. Hamsters are usually very sentivitiy to painkillers and antibiotics, could be side effects
3. The operation could be a shock to his system, and he may not recover or survive.

There were 2 vets in the clinic that looked at Mr. Cloud and what i noticed them saying was "that he's a good age". Not once, but 3 or 4 times they said this, "he's a good age". Good age for what? to die?! Well, i didn't say that but it was really emotional making the decision. My mom agreed with me to have him undergo surgery and she said "it's the fact that we tried, that is important". Well, when we went back to the clinic the following day after his surgery, i was really afraid to go in not knowing what the outcome was. But sitting in the car made me feel like a coward. So i went in and vet told us that they had just finished the operation an hour ago. Mr. Cloud was just starting to wake up! I was so happy that it was successful, but again, the vet said to be optomistic with caution (which i understood).

So it's been 5 days since he came home from the vet. Only 1 day after his operation, he was eager to come out of his cage. So we let him out for a free run around the kitchen. I don't even know if he noticed that he was missing his balls lol . He was having a good run! It never crossed my mind, but my mom said it was ashame that we couldn't breed him. He is a very good hamster. Just like his name, Mr. Cloud is a gentleman (or gentlehamster)!

This october would mark the 2yr anniversary of when i first got him as a pet. So that would make him at least 2 years old.

This is sort of an old picture of him. But his post-operation self doesn't really look any different (minus the balls, not that any of us would notice). He's still his old self.


While i was finishing up my final year in university, I left him at home with my mom for a few months. Before i left, my mom jumped me with a piece of paper towel, which she took to wipe my face with. I was like, "what the heck are you doing?!" It was just a joke, but she said that he would miss me, and as long as he'd have my scent, he wouldn't forget me, or as she puts it "he wont forget his master" lol. So in that picture is him with that piece of paper towel lol.

Anyway, what felt like years since i blogged was in fact, only a few months ago.
Thank you for reading my story and all the nice compliments i get on Mr. Cloud.

Take care everyone!

During times of tests or exams, you can always bet to find me being the good student, slogging away at textbooks and lecture slides. However, during times of procastination, I can sometimes bet myself to be reading/youtubing about something else that I find more 'interesting' inbetween textbooks and lecture slides. The timing couldn't be worse, but I'd like to think that i'm 'diversifing' myself, or gathering more conversation starters lol. 

Here's what i read about recently:

1. Queen / Freddy Mercury / Brian May / John Deacon / Roger Taylor /
- I had recently acquired Queen's Greatest Hits Album and had been listening to them on repeat while studying. I never knew how many awesome hits they had! I mean, besides the obvious ones like "another one bites the dust", "bohemian rhapsody", "we are the champions" or "we will rock you". Other tunes like "killer queen", "good old fashion boys", "don't stop me now" and all the rest are enough to find me singing at all times of day from waiting for the bus, walking to class, coming home from class, during cooking, in the shower and before bedtime lol. I guess listening to Queen triggers some sort of nostalgic feeling, same with old-school Madonna and U2. I have memories of being in England, dancing to their music from a radio-cassette player while my mom was doing the ironing lol . So old school!

2. Live Aid / Queen / July 13th 1985 /

- You couldn't read about Queen and not know about their smashing performance for Live Aid. I think it's interesting to see how they've evolved their music and their looks. Plus, to see how it has transcedended through time and influenced other music. I have to note that a certain someone was born 1 month and 2 days after the Live Aid concert . I think "what an interesting year to be born in!"

Anyway, here's a couple of videos to share with you all! Hope you enjoy!

Video: Don't stop me now - 1978http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58CJih1iYC0

 

Video: Part 1 of Queen's performance during Live Aid - 1985http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDckgX3oU_w

 

Ok, so i figure it's been awhile...a long while since i blogged. Time to clear the cobwebs from this thing. I still come on AnD all the time to read about events and other bloggers, but i could never bring myself to complete a blog. Sometimes, I'll click on "new entry" and type for awhile, but then i'd wonder, "who read's this?", "is this too personal?" or "is this really anything interesting?". And then i'd click "discard".

What's stopping me now from doing that now? Well, learning something new about yourself isn't always such a bad thing. Plus, sometimes it's fun to be unpredictable.  My friend always tells me that i care too much about what other people think. It's not a bad thing being considerate of others, but i guess it's bad when it becomes discouraging. So it goes on to show that i'm pretty self-conscious of what i write...and maybe a few other things haha. I'm still talking about my inability to produce a piece of myself on cyberspace, but then again, i'm being so vague that maybe i'm referring to other things...

So i've learned something new about myself. Hopefully I can apply that and feel more open about blogging freely. Freely, freely, freely with no inhibitions...ok, well some inhibtions haha.

More later.

This is so adorable!
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgrrQwLdME8&NR=1

Been spending my days writing lab reports almost every week, studying for anatomy and immunology quizzes and other stuff like that. Don't think much of my weeks, when can i find time for shopping?

Anyway, this is what's been maintaining my sanity!

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAr_xL7r9Pw&feature=related

Yes, "My Lovely Kim Sam Soon" is an old series but i've only just got around to watching/finishing it! Loved the series and the music so much that i've been listening to Clazziquai non-stop while studying!



Hyun Bin is currently my latest hottie. Which is bad since i started noticing a lot of resemblances between him and my friend... Speaking of which, would you say he's flirting when he says that he'll try to score a soccer goal for you and if you're lucky, he'll even pull his shirt off afterwards? ahhh! crushing is bad!



What's more bad is that HB seems to be taken! sigh...

Anyway, enough procrastination! more from me later! Ciao!