Starting to feel very alarmed by so many evil people. I'm not talking about overgrown vampire (or VAMPS, if you will) bats swooping down on patients that apparently legally belong to her - it's pure evilness in the world.

Just learnt yesterday that Indonesian domestic workers get a mere S$10 per month in net salary during their first year of work - the other $200+ goes straight to the maid agency's pocket for stuff like commission and plane tickets. Wait a minute now ... why do tickets from Indonesia cost $2400? Shame on these people. It's one thing to earn a living, but exploiting the poor? Yes, and these are fellow Singaporeans. Shame, shame, shame! And another thing - if the domestic help has been employed but was found unsatisfactory by the employee, resulting in the domestic help being sent back to the agency to await a second employment, she'd have to pay the agency a daily fee for accomodation and food etc. Excuse me - these people are poor enough?

OK, I digressed .. just feeling indignant about how some people are treated. Still have a lot more to grouse about in life, not just domestic helpers, but that comes another day. Feeling much better after a good hot bath yesterday, it was unbelievably refreshing. Ended the entire episode by switching the showerhead to a misting mode, and with cold water - it's like standing amongst the mist on a mountain, you get wet through but hardly feel water landing on you.

Friday at last, and with any luck I'll be able to go off earlier today to catch Harry Potter (try typing it on SMS - it ends up being Happy Potter) . Have a nasty feeling about something brewing this weekend, we'll see if I'm right about it. Karma will always catch up with the evil though, it's just a matter of time.

Thinking of doing something satisfying this weekend, but tentatively I've got a birthday party on Sat evening, and something else on Sunday afternoon. And have to return my rented VCDs on Saturday. It's so difficult to find satisfaction nowadays, for whatever reason. OK, don't tell me it's depression or the schizoid personality showing through. There must be something else. Doubt I'll be renting VCDs this week, not really in the mood. I need something more fulfilling.
Cooking? Nah ..
Reading? Other than my texts, I have little else to indulge in ..
Exercising? Oddly enough, I've been feeling nasty about dancing this week. Totally not in the mood. TOTALLY.

Maybe gardening. Stuff to be repotted, seeds to be sown. Drosera filiformis to be repotted, arum lilies to be fertilised. And Tillandsia to be propagated.
And perhaps another water change this week, just for the heck of it? I know at least someone will be thankful.

Oh, about the tank. Was in a FRIGHTFUL state last night. I was feeding my corals, and realised that the water's WARM. Checked the thermostat, it reads 26C .. can't be! After some unintentional meddling, the culprit turned out to be a clogged chiller pump, resulting in cold water remaining static inside the chiller and giving a false reading. I quickly cleared the clog, and the thermostat read - 32C! Horrors! Hope the stuff don't die from this heat spike. One of the Dendrophyllia refused to open up for food, do hope it'll be fine. The chiller's been running nonstop the whole of last night to bring temps down to 26C again.

And Yx told me over the phone last night again that I'm overfeeding my tank ... an odd, almost psychotic answer slipped my tongue. "I couldn't help it, every time I look at my tank the sun corals (Dendrophyllia) start squeaking for food!" Oh dear.

And other misc stuff - my baby mice are now 1 week old and are so fuzzy-wuzzy!! Awfully cute at this stage in their lives, full of downy fur and with eyes still closed. Was tempted to buy 2 cavies (guinea pigs) when I passed by a pet shop, but resisted the temptation. One day, maybe .. when I have the time (and a bigger garden) to build a proper hutch for them. Not a fan of keeping larger rodents like rabbits and cavies in cages - they deserve proper wooden hutches filled with Timothy and alfalfa hay, with easy access to a grass patch.

OK, time's almost up .. time for school. Been therapeutic writing this morning, feels slightly better.