Been some time since I last blogged eh. Well, the com's back! It's been down at the OT for a total body-part replacement. Apparently Fujitsu is still supporting the lousy Panasonic drive it uses. Good. I shall send it again and again for repairs and FINALLY they'll realise that my 3-year warranty would have cost them way more than what I paid for the laptop itself.

Anyway, was totally irritating yx by disrupting her revision with repeated displays of the cutest reptiles EVER. She got totally distracted. Mr. Ye, you might want to rethink your hatred for geckos. Here are some links to the cutest reptiles on the planet! Always had a fetish for them ... sigh. The day someone gives me a knob-tailed gecko (or when we are allowed to keep one legally) is a great day for Singapore indeed. I can understand the ban on snakes, tigers, bears and alligators, but geckos?? Frogs?? OMG. Either they are lead-headed, incorrigible fuddy-duddies, or they are plain down-to-bare-skin cowards. Neither of which are very complimentary eh? Here goes.

Knob-tailed gecko
White's tree frog (Dumpy treefrog)
Axolotyl

Anyway, had a tutorial on hand today. Prof. Pho's a little scary. And he was drinking coffee - I sat next to him, and had this really strong urge to snatch the coffee for myself. Oh, HS .. you might be glad to know that EW came to school today with a wry neck!! Hahahaha ... it was tilted to the right! Oops. OK, poor EW .. must have hurt. We suggested Gardner-Wells tongs for her. Just drill it into the Evil Scalp and string her from the ceiling to correct the torticollis.

Spent the weekend reading this fantastic book - "The Last 7 Months of Anne Frank", which was a translation of the original Dutch piece. Watching Schindler's List rekindled my interest in the holocaust i guess. The book was fantastic. Awfully sad, and there's no way anyone could imagine what these survivors went through. Unlike the Schindler-Jews, who barely arrived at Auschwitz before they were sent back to Czechoslovakia, these women actually went through the plain horror of the camp, and survived till the day of liberation. What's haunting in these stories is, these 6 other women had all known the Frank family at different points in the story, and saw the situation in different angles. Like, in one of the stories, this woman was telling about the bravery of some of the women in camp who went to the fence of Bergen-Belzen to somehow "get food to eat", Anne Frank among them. And in a second account by yet another woman, she talked about how she had received Red Cross packages and tried to throw them over the fence for Anne. Reading the book was like having several very captivating narratives that slowly pieced together to form yet another dimension to the story.

One thing that really stood out like a sore thumb in every one of these - the women, if they were ever religious, lost complete faith in a higher Power then. One looked at the huge pit of dead women and children, and thought ...

"Oh God, how could you let this happen?".