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Earth Hour

March 30th, 2009

On Saturday the 28th of March 2009, I participated in Earth Hour between 20:30 and 21:30 local time. It was nice having the whole apartment lit up by a few candles. The animals couldn’t care less of course.

Earth Hour

Except that I cheated a little; I didn’t unplug the frige nor the stove 0_o

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Vischaca

March 20th, 2009

Boyfriend has a background picture of Machu Picchu on his computer. So I casually mentioned to him that Machu Picchu is where Tubby & Winnie’s cousins are from. He gave me the weirdest look; after all these times of owning 2 chinchillas, he had always thought that the Andes mountain (where chinchillas are from) is geographically located somewhere near India & Nepal 0_o

Then, he curiously searched for “Machu Picchu chinchilla” and he found a bunch of travel pictures of ‘chinchillas’ residing in the Machu Picchu ruins. When he shared the search results with me, I remember of another creature my friend had emailed me about; those are not pictures of ‘chinchillas’ residing in Machu Picchu, but they are Vischacas! They’re close cousins of chinchillas, no wonder people mistakenly believe that they are in fact chinchillas!

One of these days I do want to make a trip to Chile’s part of the Andes mountain, where Tubby is from; and then I’m going to throw some raisins at the wild chinchillas*

*I’m just saying; don’t do this because it’ll only make the wild animals dependent on humans & it’ll just make it harder for them to survive on their own in their natural habitat.

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Lollipop

March 12th, 2009

Call my [Tubby] lollipop
Tell you why
Cause he’s sweeter than apple pie
.. I call him
Lollipop lollipop
Oh lolli lolli lolli

Tubby is the best!

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Static

March 2nd, 2009

I remember when Baby Hamster was running on his Ovo wheel, I noticed that all his fur stood up. When I took him out of the wheel, his fur no longer was spiky. Then, I did a little experiment with my plastic comb. Voila!

BH static