My smileys died for a couple of hours when my image hosting account went down . but all is good now, my smileys have been revived .

Sometimes i just wish i have a camera with me here in oz. Then i could snap up all the lil wild ideas that i come up with to show you. I guess i'll have to describe it.



I have a scene of minatures, which i call the philosopher's rock, where two lil frogs and a cow surround a tiger eye stone as if in some form of a discussion. Close to the philosopher's rock is a tiny clock. The clock is supposed to remind the philosophers of the importance of time, and that they should not idle time away with purposeless debates. The clock is not doing a very good job, with the batteries flat and all, but it serves well as a metaphor. Clipped to the clock is a tiny hair clip. The hair clip is irrelevant to the philosopher's rock theme, but i clipped it there so i can find it easily when i want to. It's a memento from a friend.



I've got another scene, which i couldn't think of a name for. It consists of one stress ball pig, one beanie pig, one beanie dog, one plush dog, and one stitched plush bear. The group is huddled together and all looking at me when i'm sitting in front of my laptop. Can't think of a theme for this scene, but i kind of like the way they are huddled together looking in the same direction.



Well, that's about it, not a very informative post, but does tell something about watz on my desk.

The following song can only make me think of my ex-housemate michelle. We didn't start off as friends, i had my reasons for not liking her, and she had hers. The old adage never judge a book by its cover, phhhtt. It's an understatement, reading the content page is not enough. She is a true friend indeed.



If i were to describe her in the shortest description possible, i'll say 'bittersweet'. Those who know her know what i mean .



How did i come to relating this song to her? well, there was one time, after the exams, when everyone had gone home (from the on-campus hostel) and we're the last few to leave. I was playing my list of songs from my laptop in the common area. It happened to shuffle to this song. I had a hunch, and asked her to listen to the song and she really did ended up crying.



Life, up til that point, hadn't really been fair to her. I remember another fond friend of mine once said, "Life is never fair", but did it have to be unfair? Thinking back, is there really a shade of grey between fair and unfair? Here's the lyrics of the song :



This Used to Be My Playground

by

Madonna



This used to be my playground

This used to be my childhood dream

This used to be the place I ran to

Whenever I was in need

Of a friend

Why did it have to end

And why do they always say



Don’t look back

Keep your head held high

Don’t ask them why

Because life is short

And before you know

You’re feeling old

And your heart is breaking

Don’t hold on to the past

Well that’s too much to ask



This used to be my playground [used to be]

This used to be my childhood dream

This used to be the place I ran to

Whenever I was in need

Of a friend

Why did it have to end

And why do they always say



No regrets

But I wish that you

Were here with me

Well then there’s hope yet

I can see your face

In our secret place

You’re not just a memory

Say goodbye to yesterday [the dream]

Those are words I’ll never say [I’ll never say]



This used to be my playground [used to be]

This used to be our pride and joy

This used to be the place we ran to

That no one in the world could dare destroy



This used to be our playground [used to be]

This used to be our childhood dream

This used to be the place we ran to

I wish you were standing here with me



This used to be our playground [used to be]

This used to be our childhood dream

This used to be the place we ran to

The best things in life are always free

Wishing you were here with me

1am and i'm back in my lab. Welcome to workaholics dot com... Oh wait, that's a wrong welcome message. My simulations are running at home, i'm taking a break coming to the lab to use internet, so let me try again. Welcome to insomnia dot com.



There isn't much to talk about these days... i guess i'll chat up about the stray cat that i've been feeding. Speaking of the cat just makes my blood boil, the stray cat has absolutely no loyalty. I can feed it daily and the moment i put it back out of the house, it would forget who i am and would flee if i approach it. dam no good @#$%^& cat.



Hmm.. so much for now, i'll post a song lyric next time round.

Atleast by the time this is finished, i can say i know what it is like to walk under hail. and it ain't nice . The good thing about the ordeal was that i had a piece of thing that was once called an umbrella. Man... the things i do for my work... hail, rain and wind, yeah bring it on... yer can rain on my parade, but ain't ne-one gonna go home just yet... atleast not while it's still raining .

Yipee, i finished my exams. Four papers in three days, with a study time of three nights and three hours (if you're wondering where the three hours is coming from, then try give some thought to the statement 'Four papers in three days' and you'll figure ), i just hope i'll pull through.



Now back to my simulations

Added a link to Alicia's blog.

I've added three more smileys today . As you can see, they now have bigger eyes. I've also resized the previous two smilies, see them in the earlier post below.



I've thought about making the :p smiley, but working with only 15 x 15 pixels at around 125 pixels/inch, there isn't much space for doing it .I'll put that off for awhile, unless there's a request for it.



I'll be playing around with animated gifs for the next batch of smilies, but i don't know when i can get around to it, with four exams coming up and stuff .

Hi all again It's been a couple of days since my last post, and you might notice something different about this post. Yup, it's the addition of smileys My very own smilies.



Feel free to use the smilies. But if you choose to use it, please do not use my remote link, please download them and host them yourself. The reason for this is that bandwidth is limited and i don't want my smilies to die :(



Currently i have only two smilies as seen in this post. If you want to see any kind of smiley, write in the tag board. I'll make the smiley when i have the time. And if you're contactable, i'll even email the smiley to you when i'm done.

I have a friend who have always had a fascination with wolves. There were times he claims that he is a were-wolf and would even try and bite someone :)



I can't really remember what we were chatting about that led us to briefly mention a creature that is a cross between a wolf and a dragon. So years latter, i'm doing some research, or rather, google-search to find out the possible ecology of such a mythical creature.



When discussing wolves, the first thing that comes to my mind is pack hunting.



What is a pack?

Packs are groups of animals that are usually related by close blood ties (family units). Hierarchical order exists within the pack.



Wolves are highly social animals living in packs. Their cooperation in hunting allows them to hunt larger prey. However, wolves are not very successful hunters. It is common for a hunt to fail, if the prey is very healthy, fights back, runs fast etc.



So would a dragon be a social animal if it did exist? Most people/cultures would agree that dragons are powerful creatures in it's own right. And most people/cultures have the idea that dragons are creatures of considerable size. Most people/cultures believe that dragons are capable of flight, yes chinese dragons swim, but they also fly, without wings.



It is difficult to conceive huge and powerful creatures banding together to hunt prey. Given the sizes and power attributed to dragons, there isn't really much game that are larger than them or powerful enough to require a pack of dragons to bring down. A dragon's hunting habits would conceivably be more similar to that of an eagle.



http://sommerland.org/anatomy/hunt.htm

This website provides some perspective on dragon hunting habits.



But what if there is a species of dragons that are the size of sparrows? Then based on physical attributes such dragons might possibly hunt in packs.



So our theorectical wolf-dragon would be tiny-sized social animals.



Please let me know if i made any mistake about wolves, pack-hunting or anything.