alamak! guess wad! today was probably the most boring day of the week so far! oh noooo... :(

i woke up today at around 6 10 a.m. ! wat nonsense! then i quickly took my shower and stuff, ate bread today wif milo...( not enough) and then went home to skool on my daddy's motorbike! vroooom vroooom! today i decided to sleep while my dad rode to skool sooo i was like hugging him and closing my eyes throughout the trip :P

then i reached skool, sat beside sneha instead of sindhu! :P both my thangacchis ah! anybody dare to make fun of them will pay! then suddenly it was time for assembly... took a long time to get up to assembly area and then sang majulah singapura again... stuck wif this song for the rest of my life lar... everyday oso sing... then after jc got another two years of singing that song at some camp... aiyoooooooooo... nvm nvm it's okieee... all for my country man! :D

first two periods were taken up by chemistry practical... omg... damn irritating today... we were allowed to use 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine for the first time, which is a carcinogenic chemical and then perform distinguishing tests on some oragnic compounds... everything was going smoothly until when i added it into some particular test-tube, the whole thing suddenly shot up! and then my hands, which were gloved, got full shot of it! ohhh nooooooooooooooooo... i have been exposed to it... i gonna die people... appreciate my last days on earth and try not to be bad to me ok ? even though it is very tempting, please try ur best yea ? thanks :)

then i had bio lesson later where we had a stupid bio test on viruses... luckily it was MCQ but i need to revise more man... forgot a lot of stuff... after bio was econs, where miss chiang returned our econs test results back...omg... i failed by half a mark! blardie hell! wasted lar... i should have finished question c... but it's ok...it's over... after econs, which was long and draggy, we had maths and we got back maths results and i failed ! basket... fail here fail there, fail everywhere... i suck man... i made sooooo many careless mistakes and left out one question :(

after that, i had to go for some CCAL meeting... omg, it was quite lame... something about assessing our leadership practices... thanks ah... wasted 1 hour of my time over there for nothing... i was like very nervous the whole day cos i was gonna have a blood test today! soo after the meeting i rushed to the clinic together with my mummy... lol... damn mummy's boy ah... then over there i was surprised to see that i was the only patient! omg, made matters worse... waiting time was even shorter... i was like preparing my right hand, cos i thought they would extract the blood from there sooo i was like massaging it and like getting ready ah... then i went inside... and then the doctor was toking to me nicely all... then suddenly asked me to sit at a particular chair... ok man... this was it... time to feel the pain :( i held out my right hand and guess wad... doctor told me... no no the other hand... and i was like... shit! die!!! then he applied alcohol over my hand and yea, he extracted my blood while i was like staring at my wonderful blood... sooooo dark red and fluid! haha, if i was not mistaken, i think i managed to see some bubbles :P

omg the pain was ok but then as the day progressed, my arm became more numb... and i went to sleep for a while before waking up to mug for tomorrow's bio SPA and as i woke up, my arm was even worse... so numb... and i had to shit also! soooo major major problem! but i managed it... :D and i just finished studying for BIO SPA soo here i am blogging about my boring day today :( but to make up for this uninteresting blog entry, i shall add an extremely interesting animal of the day! ENJOY PEOPLE ! :D hope u like this one, it's short and sweet...

This crocodile is an opportunistic predator capable of taking any animal up to the size of a water buffalo, in the water or on dry land. Juveniles are restricted to smaller items such as insects, amphibians, crustaceans, small reptiles and fish. The larger the animal grows, the greater the variety of items that it includes in the diet, although relatively small prey still make up the majority of the diet even in adults. Saltwater crocodiles can take monkeys, wild boar, dingos, domestic livestock, water buffalo, big cats, sharks and anyone who fails to take sensible measures. Generally very lethargic – a trait which helps it survive months at a time without food – it typically loiters in the water or basks in the sun through much of the day, usually preferring to hunt at night. It is, however, capable of moving with astonishing speed when required, able to cover 10m from a standing start significantly faster than a race horse, especially from the edge of the water, where both legs and tail are utilsed for propulsion. As an ambush predator, it usually waits for its prey to get close to the water's edge before striking without warning and using its great strength to drag the animal back into the water where it is usually drowned (although if there is more than one crocodile about, it may be simply dismembered). It is an immensely powerful animal, having the strength to break a large animal's legs with its tail, drag a fully grown water buffalo into a river, or crush a full-grown bovid's skull between its jaws.

Saltwater crocodiles generally spend the tropical wet season in freshwater swamps and rivers, moving downstream to estuaries in the dry season, and sometimes travelling far out to sea. Crocodiles compete fiercely with each other for territory, with dominant males in particular occupying the most eligible stretches of freshwater creeks and streams. Junior crocodiles are thus forced into the more marginal river systems and sometimes into the ocean. This explains the large distribution of the animal (ranging from the east coast of India to northern Australia) as well as it being found in odd places on occasion (such as the Sea of Japan, for instance).

Scientific Classification

Kingdom:Animalia

Phylum:Chordata

Class:Reptilia

Order:Crocodilia

Family:Crocodylidae

Subfamily:Crocodylinae

Genus:Crocodylus

Species:C. porosus

References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltwater_Crocodile and http://images.google.com.sg/imgres?imgurl=http://www.animals-pictures-dictionary.com/files/images/85.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.animals-pictures-dictionary.com/&h=250&w=350&sz=59&hl=en&start=125&tbnid=c50w3rvrg5t4MM:&tbnh=86&tbnw=120&prev=/images%3Fq%3DSaltwater%2BCrocodile%26start%3D120%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

The Bald Eagle's natural range includes most of North America, including most of Canada, all of the continental United States, and northern Mexico. The bird itself is able to live in most of North America's varied habitat from the bayous of Louisiana to the Sonoran desert to the eastern deciduous forests of Quebec and New England. It can be a migratory bird but it also is not unheard of for a nesting pair to overwinter in a particular area.
Once a common sight in much of the continent, the Bald Eagle was severely affected by the widespread use of DDT in the mid-twentieth century. While the pesticide itself was not lethal to the bird, its exposure would either make an eagle sterile or inhibit its ability to lay healthy eggs: the eagle would ingest the chemical through its food and then lay eggs that were too brittle to withstand the weight of a brooding adult. By the 1960's there were fewer than 500 nesting pairs in the 48 contiguous states of the USA. Currently it is still slowly but steadily recovering its numbers; it can be found in growing concentrations throughout the United States and Canada, particularly near large bodies of water. The U.S. state with the largest resident population is Alaska; out of the estimated 100,000 Bald Eagles on Earth, half live there.

Description:

Bald Eagle at Combe Martin Wildlife and Dinosaur Park, North Devon, England
An immature bird has speckled brown feathers all over, the distinctive head and body plumage arriving 2–3 years later, before sexual maturity; it is distinguishable from a Golden Eagle in that the latter has feathers which extend down the leg. Their life span is approximately 50 years. Adult females have a wingspan of approximately 2.1 meters (7 feet); adult males have a wingspan of 2 meters (6 feet, 6 inches). Adult females weigh approximately 5.8 kg (12.8 lb), males weigh 4.1 kg (9 lb).

Behaviour:

Bald Eagles are powerful fliers, and also soar on thermal convection currents. They are long-lived, with reports of birds in captivity living to be 60 years old.
Bald Eagles normally squeak and have a shrill cry, punctuated by grunts. They do not make the "eagle scream" as often shown on television. What many recognize as the call of this species is actually the call of a Red-tailed hawk dubbed into the film.

Reproduction:
Bald Eagles build huge nest platforms out of branches, usually in large trees. Pairs, who mate for life, add material to the nest each breeding season. After several years, the nest may weigh upwards of 450 kg (one thousand pounds). When breeding in the tundra biome, where there are no trees, eagles will nest directly on the ground.
Eagles that are old enough to breed often return to the area where they were raised. They are more social than many other raptor species: an adult looking for a nesting site is more likely to select a location that contains other breeding Bald Eagles.
Bald Eagles are sexually mature at 4 or 5 years of age. Mated pairs produce between one and three eggs per year, but it is rare for all three chicks to successfully fledge. Both the male and female of the pair take turns sitting on the eggs. The other parent will hunt for food or forage for nest material in the intervening time.
Third chicks are sometimes removed from nests to use in reintroduction programs in areas where the species has died out.
In such programs, the birds are raised in boxes, on platforms in the tree canopy, and fed in such a way that they cannot see the person supplying their food, until they are old enough to fly and find their own.

Diet:
The Bald Eagle's diet is varied, including carrion, fish, smaller birds, rodents, and sometimes food scavenged or stolen from campsites and picnics.
To hunt fish, the eagle swoops down over the water and snatches the fish out of the water with its talons. They eat by holding the fish in one claw and tearing the flesh with the other. Eagles have structures on their toes called spiricules that allow them to grasp fish. Osprey also have this adaptation.
Sometimes, if the fish is too heavy to lift, the eagle will be dragged into the water. It may swim to safety, but some eagles drown or succumb to hypothermia.

Scientific Classification

Kingdom:Animalia

Phylum:Chordata

Class:Aves

Order:Falconiformes

Family:Accipitridae

Genus:Haliaeetus

Species:H. leucocephalus