Busy Me

We are going to be very busy between now and Australia Day. The year of the Ox is just around the corner and this time, the first day of the Chinese New Year lands on Australia Day. What a coincidence? There are quite a few things we need to sort out before the 26th. This includes cleaning our ‘pigeon hole’ again and sorting out an issue we have with someone – I will definitely blog about this ASAP. We are determined to get things done so we can have a fresh clean start in the New Year. Today and tomorrow are going to be hot but we are lucky that we haven’t yet experienced many extremely hot days this Summer. So, I do seriously wish that the weather would be kind to me for the rest of the month like it has been.

Little Black Bird

On my way to the city yesterday, I saw a dead black bird behind the National Art Gallery of Victoria. It was a sad sight to me. It had landed on its breast and neck with his legs stretched out. Judging from the sand around its head, it must have struggled to get back onto its feet. How very sad? Do animals know when they are dying? I didn’t stop for long because I didn’t want to attract the attention of the guards from the art gallery. The bird died near the benches used by the guards during their short breaks. Council workers might have binned it by now. I just hope that the bird has gone on to a better world. Do you know that birds are living relatives of big dinosaurs that used to roam the Earth?

First Week of 2009

This is just a short post to give myself a pat on the back. The first week of 2009 is almost gone and I am proud to tell the world that I have been sticking to my mental to-do list each day without fail. One of my goals for this year is to not be lazy.

Turned Into a Mouse

Today is the 7th and as always I blog a little about my Guinea Pig on this day each month. I recently discovered a blogger who keeps multiple Guinea Pigs (+ other pets) and have been popping into her blog quite regularly to keep up with the latest news. After reading about that blogger’s recent post on the escapades of her son’s mice, I dreamt that my little Guinea Pig had turned into a mouse on Saturday night. LOL. Yes, my dreams can be quite bizarre.

In the dream, my Guinea Pig looked the way he was except that he was small enough to fit on the palm of my hand. He had escaped from his cage and was all over the living room. We tried to catch him, worried that he might run out to the balcony and fall to his death over the edge. Guinea Mouse he might have turned into but I was told that Guinea Pigs have poor eye sight and have difficulties differentiating heights. At one stage he somehow got himself up on the clothes rack and was hanging on one line for dear life. The vision of him holding onto the clothesline with his front paws looked suspiciously familiar. When I got up, I had a little laugh at what I just dreamt about. It was later in the day that I realised where that familiar vision of my Guinea Pig holding onto the clothesline came from. Around the time when the Olympics was on last year, I saw a series of photographs of Guinea Pigs doing sports and one of them was of a Piggy holding up weights. It looked just like my Guinea Pig holding onto the clothesline in my dream. LOL.

I sound like I am getting on with my life but there are still moments when I become incredibly sad, thinking about where his final resting place could be. In moments like this, I also get incredibly angry at those people who might have ruined my Guinea Pig’s final journey. The problem is that there is no absolute certainty whether these people did the right or wrong thing. There is no absolute way of proving what had or had not happened. I do try my very best to focus on all the good times we had with out little friend though. He was very cute and was such a good companion.

The Sun Shining at Eureka

I took this picture of the sun shining at the Eureka on Saturday morning. You can't even see the sky deck's outline. It was probably not operating at the time (around 9:15am).

Potential Con Job in Progress!

I am absolutely fuming at the moment (and it is only the second day in the New Year). The reason is because I think we have been lied to again. I had suspected something was not quite right in November but M thought that I was thinking too deeply into things. (M has a tendency to think the best of everyone.) Then I came across an article/story in last Saturday’s Herald Sun proving that something fishy is indeed going on. Luckily I did flip through the paper out of boredom. We are going to sort out this issue on Monday (5th of January) and will blog more about it later. It’s hard to believe that there are so many (heartless) local weasels out and about aiming to make a quick buck without giving a damn to damages they cause others during their greedy process.

2009 Is Here

Happy New Year Everyone!

Like I have said before, I am not sure if anyone is reading this blog but if you are, I thank you for visiting my blog. I hope it is not too boring. Although things are improving, the last 7 months have been quite horrible and this blog has helped me in some way. Do leave me a comment if possible and if you have a blog, share it with me so I can read about your life too. I do enjoy reading blogs and there are a few that I pop into almost every two or three days! On another note, the weather has been very kind to me lately. It hasn’t been too hot. My Guinea Pig would have enjoyed a less fiery Summer too if he is still around.