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Green house

There is this house that I pass on the way to Jiqiong's place...it's pretty "special" in the sense that plants are growing all over the walls...with only holes for the windows and door! I wonder whether anyone is living there...and whether this was coincidence or design!


I've been back in Lyon since Monday...a whole week before the start of classes. So now I'm spending this week "leisurely" cleaning my room and renewing my titre de séjour. And I had to fall sick as well...I have a cold which the doctor says is a common virus that's going around a lot now.

So I had to be welcomed back to Lyon with rainy, cloudy weather, AND a virus! -_-

Whatever. So here are a couple of photos from my summer hols in Kuantan. (I might put more later, I'm not sure which are actually worth posting...)

A cute little mouse in Megamall:

A cat eating yong tau foo in a food court:

For those who don't know yong tau foo, it's something (usually veggies or tofu) stuffed with minced fish or meat. Here it's a piece of chilli stuffed with fish...so the cat's trying to pull out the fish! It still hadn't managed it when we left...but then it found the food when we had almost finished eating.

Koala prints

Just a little fact to share, since I haven't posted lately.

Koala bears and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints.

Whoa, really? What about those primates?

(got it from here)

Will the real egg please stand up?

On the 22nd of July 2009, there was a partial solar eclipse. My little brother was in school, and somehow he found out that eggs could stand up on that day. We (and by that I mean my family) had already seen photos of this phenomenon in the newspapers more than once, but we had never yet succeeded in doing it ourselves. So on that day, my little brother called home excitedly (okay, I'm not sure whether that word is true, but he's got to be excited to call home from school, right?) to tell our mother to try making an egg stand up. The "time" when it works was supposed to be over in a few minutes.

So my mother placed an egg to stand on the floor. And it worked.

Ta-dah!

She initially thought that the egg would topple over in a few minutes, but wonder of wonders, it didn't. It stayed standing (blocking the path as it was) till my little brother got back from school...and then he got out another two eggs and stood them in the living room. Here they are:



They were a little harder to stand, though...it seems that the "strength" had weakened...my mother said that the first got into standing position more easily.

But the eggs that managed to stand stayed that way for well over a day...we don't know how long they would have continued standing, since they had to be returned to the fridge, for fear that they would spoil.

And then here are a couple of photos with Pikachu "guarding" the eggs, just for fun :P



How often do you see a Pokemon egg? ;P