tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329508492011-04-22T08:32:15.208+08:00Well, this blog is successfully opened by the RJC BLAEKES! :D haha... that's itM Senthil Kumerenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878089449130721433noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32950849.post-1166022146946107462006-12-13T23:00:00.000+08:002006-12-13T23:02:26.963+08:00The Slow Dancer Deliberate Gentle Love Dreamer (DGLDm) Steady, reliable, and cradling her tenderly. Take a deep breath, and let it out real easy...you are The Slow Dancer. Your focus is love, not sex, and for your age, you have average experience. But you're a great, thoughtful guy, and your love life improves every year. There's also a powerful elimination process working in your favor: most Playboy types get stuck raising unwanted kids before you even begin settling down. The women left over will be hot and yours. Your ideal woman is someone intimate, intelligent, and very supportive.<br /> While you're not exactly the life of the party, you do thrive in small groups of smart people. Your circle of friends is extra tight and it's HIGHLY likely they're just like you. You appreciate symmetry in relationships. ALWAYS AVOID: The Battleaxe CONSIDER: The Maid of Honor or The Sonnet<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32950849-116602214694610746?l=trackgod.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M Senthil Kumerenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878089449130721433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32950849.post-1164565180649120732006-11-27T01:28:00.001+08:002006-11-27T02:19:40.663+08:00now is man utd vs chelsea and i have no sports channel... knn ccb... never mind... i shall do this thingy...<br /><br /><br /> 1.how old did u wish u were?<br /><br />21 :D:D:D<br /><br /><br />2.where were you when 911 happened?<br />sleeping like duhhhhhhhhhhhhh...<br /><br /><br />3.what do you do when vending machine steals your money?<br />if it steals my money, i will make sure it pays back ;)<br /><br /><br /><br />4.do you count yourself kind?<br />me? abit i guess... not too kind...<br /><br /><br /><br />5.if you had to get a tatoo, where would it be?<br /><br />on my right arm...<br /><br />6.if you could be fluent in any other language,what would it be?<br /><br />Latin !<br /><br /><br />7.do you know your neighbours?<br /><br />yuppz...<br /><br />8.what do u consider a vacation?<br /><br />me being alone wif anyone special, spending time at a clean blue beach relaxing and slacking! orrr i would be in africa checking out the savanna's animals :D<br /><br /><br />9.do you follow your horoscope?<br /><br /><br />naaaah never...<br /><br />10.would you move for the person you love?<br /><br />depends... i would bring my family along if i have the money too :D<br /><br /><br />11.are you touchy feely?<br /><br />kind of...<br /><br />12.do you believe that opposites attract?<br /><br /><br />haha yeaa...<br /><br />13.dream job?<br /><br />Sports scientist!<br />(but i got no physics eh :( shit laaa....)<br /><br />14.favourite place to go to on weekends?<br /><br />to any field and train under the hot ass sun...<br /><br />15.showers or baths?<br /><br />BATHS !<br /><br /><br />16.do you paint your nails?<br /><br />nooo... i am not like jheeva :P<br /><br /><br />17.do you trust people easily?<br /><br />nooo<br /><br /><br />18.what are your phobias?<br />dogs! that's it... but i kinda relaxing on that now ah... got courage siol :P<br /><br />19.do you want kids?<br /><br />obviously man! i love kids!<br /><br /><br />20.do you keep a handwritten journal?<br /><br />nope<br /><br />21.where would u rather be right now?<br /><br />US and A<br /><br /><br />22.who makes you feel warm and fuzzy?<br /><br />no one... i dunno how that feels<br /><br /><br />23. heavy or light sleeper?<br /><br />can adjust mode... :P<br /><br /><br /><br />24. are u paranoid?<br /><br />nope...<br /><br /><br /><br />25.are you impatient?<br /><br />sometimes...<br /><br /><br />26.who can u relate to?<br /><br />Muhammad Ali<br /><br /><br />27.how do u feel about interracial couples?<br /><br />haha... i think it's coolzxzxz... can u imagine... chindians, chinlays and mandians? :P<br /><br /><br />28.have u been burned by love?<br /><br />haha...<br /><br /><br />29.whats your favourite pick-up line?<br /><br />dun have anyyyy :P<br /><br /><br />30.whats your main ringtone onn your mobile phone?<br /><br />michael jackson's the way u make me feel!<br /><br /><br />31.what were u doing at midnight last night?<br /><br />sleeping ?<br /><br /><br />32.what did the last text on your cellphone say?<br /><br />"Man utd scored! whee!"from milo... :)<br /><br /><br />33.whose bed did u sleep in last?<br /><br />mineee<br /><br /><br />34.what colour shirt are u wearing?<br /><br />silver<br /><br /><br />35.most recent movie you watched?<br /><br />CASINO ROYALE.<br /><br />36.name three things you have on you at all times.<br /><br />clothes, spectacles and wallet...<br /><br /><br />37.what colour are your bedsheets?<br /><br />white<br /><br /><br />38.how much cash do you have on you right now?<br /><br />dunno? like $ 2...<br /><br /><br />39.what is your favourite part of the chicken? BREAST!!!<br /><br /><br />40.whats your favourite town/city?<br /><br />bangkok!<br /><br />41.i can't wait till...<br /><br />i represent singapore for the sea games.<br /><br /><br />42.what did u have for dinner last night?<br /><br />fish n chips :D<br /><br /><br />43. do you own a gun?<br /><br />noooooo, that's why i wanna be in the US and A :P<br /><br />44.what do u prefer to drink in the morning?<br /><br />hot milk<br /><br /><br />45.where do you think you'll be in 10 years time?<br /><br />in singapore :D<br /><br /><br />46.last thing u ate?<br /><br />some food after the engagement ceremony in the temple... combinationzxzx of mee, briyani and all yehehh<br /><br /><br />47.what songs do u sing in the toilet?<br /><br />hahaa... mj ?<br /><br /><br />48.last thing that made you laugh?<br /><br />my neighbour (small kiddo) hugging me suddenly :P<br /><br /><br />49.worst injury you've ever had?<br /><br />basket... must tok about this now ah... ermmm... dun realli noe how to judge how bad my injuries are just that each one breaks my heart whenever i get it from training... like this new one... but the one of the worst would be two years back when i was in sec 3, i was playing soccer when suddenly i realised my knee was getting swollen... i went to ttsh immediately (i couldn't even sit properly on my dad's motorbike) and went for x-rays and the doctor herself didn't noe wat was wrong.. she consulted her senior doctors and they suspected that there might be a growth plate fracture... if i didn't wear a cast, i would probably have one leg longer than the other... was on crutches then and i was really down... just 2 months before nationals... haha... but yeaaa... anticipate worse injuries to come :P<br /><br />50.does someone have a crush on you?<br /><br />nope...<br /><br />51.whats your favourite candy?<br /><br />no favourites all! just whack!<br /><br /><br />52.what song do you want played at your funeral?<br /><br />Michael Jackson's Billie Jean!<br /><br /><br />53.four random people to do this?<br /><br />sneha, milo, two other ding dongs... i dunno<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32950849-116456518064912073?l=trackgod.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M Senthil Kumerenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878089449130721433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32950849.post-1164565178596698662006-11-27T01:28:00.000+08:002006-11-27T02:19:38.866+08:00now is man utd vs chelsea and i have no sports channel... knn ccb... never mind... i shall do this thingy...<br /><br /><br /> 1.how old did u wish u were?<br /><br />21 :D:D:D<br /><br /><br />2.where were you when 911 happened?<br />sleeping like duhhhhhhhhhhhhh...<br /><br /><br />3.what do you do when vending machine steals your money?<br />if it steals my money, i will make sure it pays back ;)<br /><br /><br /><br />4.do you count yourself kind?<br />me? abit i guess... not too kind...<br /><br /><br /><br />5.if you had to get a tatoo, where would it be?<br /><br />on my right arm...<br /><br />6.if you could be fluent in any other language,what would it be?<br /><br />Latin !<br /><br /><br />7.do you know your neighbours?<br /><br />yuppz...<br /><br />8.what do u consider a vacation?<br /><br />me being alone wif anyone special, spending time at a clean blue beach relaxing and slacking! orrr i would be in africa checking out the savanna's animals :D<br /><br /><br />9.do you follow your horoscope?<br /><br /><br />naaaah never...<br /><br />10.would you move for the person you love?<br /><br />depends... i would bring my family along if i have the money too :D<br /><br /><br />11.are you touchy feely?<br /><br />kind of...<br /><br />12.do you believe that opposites attract?<br /><br /><br />haha yeaa...<br /><br />13.dream job?<br /><br />Sports scientist!<br />(but i got no physics eh :( shit laaa....)<br /><br />14.favourite place to go to on weekends?<br /><br />to any field and train under the hot ass sun...<br /><br />15.showers or baths?<br /><br />BATHS !<br /><br /><br />16.do you paint your nails?<br /><br />nooo... i am not like jheeva :P<br /><br /><br />17.do you trust people easily?<br /><br />nooo<br /><br /><br />18.what are your phobias?<br />dogs! that's it... but i kinda relaxing on that now ah... got courage siol :P<br /><br />19.do you want kids?<br /><br />obviously man! i love kids!<br /><br /><br />20.do you keep a handwritten journal?<br /><br />nope<br /><br />21.where would u rather be right now?<br /><br />US and A<br /><br /><br />22.who makes you feel warm and fuzzy?<br /><br />no one... i dunno how that feels<br /><br /><br />23. heavy or light sleeper?<br /><br />can adjust mode... :P<br /><br /><br /><br />24. are u paranoid?<br /><br />nope...<br /><br /><br /><br />25.are you impatient?<br /><br />sometimes...<br /><br /><br />26.who can u relate to?<br /><br />Muhammad Ali<br /><br /><br />27.how do u feel about interracial couples?<br /><br />haha... i think it's coolzxzxz... can u imagine... chindians, chinlays and mandians? :P<br /><br /><br />28.have u been burned by love?<br /><br />haha...<br /><br /><br />29.whats your favourite pick-up line?<br /><br />dun have anyyyy :P<br /><br /><br />30.whats your main ringtone onn your mobile phone?<br /><br />michael jackson's the way u make me feel!<br /><br /><br />31.what were u doing at midnight last night?<br /><br />sleeping ?<br /><br /><br />32.what did the last text on your cellphone say?<br /><br />"Man utd scored! whee!"from milo... :)<br /><br /><br />33.whose bed did u sleep in last?<br /><br />mineee<br /><br /><br />34.what colour shirt are u wearing?<br /><br />silver<br /><br /><br />35.most recent movie you watched?<br /><br />CASINO ROYALE.<br /><br />36.name three things you have on you at all times.<br /><br />clothes, spectacles and wallet...<br /><br /><br />37.what colour are your bedsheets?<br /><br />white<br /><br /><br />38.how much cash do you have on you right now?<br /><br />dunno? like $ 2...<br /><br /><br />39.what is your favourite part of the chicken? BREAST!!!<br /><br /><br />40.whats your favourite town/city?<br /><br />bangkok!<br /><br />41.i can't wait till...<br /><br />i represent singapore for the sea games.<br /><br /><br />42.what did u have for dinner last night?<br /><br />fish n chips :D<br /><br /><br />43. do you own a gun?<br /><br />noooooo, that's why i wanna be in the US and A :P<br /><br />44.what do u prefer to drink in the morning?<br /><br />hot milk<br /><br /><br />45.where do you think you'll be in 10 years time?<br /><br />in singapore :D<br /><br /><br />46.last thing u ate?<br /><br />some food after the engagement ceremony in the temple... combinationzxzx of mee, briyani and all yehehh<br /><br /><br />47.what songs do u sing in the toilet?<br /><br />hahaa... mj ?<br /><br /><br />48.last thing that made you laugh?<br /><br />my neighbour (small kiddo) hugging me suddenly :P<br /><br /><br />49.worst injury you've ever had?<br /><br />basket... must tok about this now ah... ermmm... dun realli noe how to judge how bad my injuries are just that each one breaks my heart whenever i get it from training... like this new one... but the one of the worst would be two years back when i was in sec 3, i was playing soccer when suddenly i realised my knee was getting swollen... i went to ttsh immediately (i couldn't even sit properly on my dad's motorbike) and went for x-rays and the doctor herself didn't noe wat was wrong.. she consulted her senior doctors and they suspected that there might be a growth plate fracture... if i didn't wear a cast, i would probably have one leg longer than the other... was on crutches then and i was really down... just 2 months before nationals... haha... but yeaaa... anticipate worse injuries to come :P<br /><br />50.does someone have a crush on you?<br /><br />nope...<br /><br />51.whats your favourite candy?<br /><br />no favourites all! just whack!<br /><br /><br />52.what song do you want played at your funeral?<br /><br />Michael Jackson's Billie Jean!<br /><br /><br />53.four random people to do this?<br /><br />sneha, milo, two other ding dongs... i dunno<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32950849-116456517859669866?l=trackgod.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M Senthil Kumerenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878089449130721433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32950849.post-1164379612197876042006-11-24T22:19:00.000+08:002006-11-24T22:47:40.510+08:00hahaa heylooo ppl!<br /><br />i am back to blogggg about yesterday!<br /><br /><br />hahaha, yesterday was kind of a neutral day... could have been a very bad day but it could also have been a good day...<br /><br />k basically i was really enthusiastic cos i was gonna watch james bond!<br /><br />so at first... i went to skool to train...<br />sooo my dad vroooom vrooooom me all the way to skool and i was an early bird! was in skool at 7 15 a.m. when training was supposed to start at 8 a.m. hahaha... so i decided to call lavnea and tok to her... i purposely did it cos i knew she was sleeping... hahhaa... and obviously she was pissed... muahahaha... and she thought she could go back to sleep but nooooooo... i ended up talking to her for 30 minutes and she couldn't go back to sleep! hahaha! (sorry...)<br /><br />hahah so my training started and i was doing my workout well... until i had the last thing to do and that was form sprints... i was supposed to do 6 times of 50m form sprints... but i was doing it when during the second one, i ran and just as i was about to finish i heard (*cluck*cluck*cluck*) i knew i pulled my hamstring... n i was like wtf... not again... i was bloody pissed off and down cos i know it will take f***ing long to recover... and this one was kind of bad, worse than my previous ones... i iced it twicee... then i went back home... my dad was angry wif me for pulling it... lolol... but then, i knew i had to go and watch the movie... honestly, i didn't want to move out of the house... but since it was JAMES BOND, I HAD TO... [ EVA GREEN ;) ]<br /><br /><br /><br />soooooo i went to Plaza singapura to meet dheesha and jay who were enthusiastic too! i first met dheesha and we decided to go to the arcade to play daytona... i whooped her ass in that for the first race man! hahahaha... then the second one, dheesha being slow, wasn't fast enough to insert her coin and start new game sooo i didn't end up racing wif her but some unknown guy on another seat... and he kept banging me like an idiot... (chinese cannot drive) i always overtook him nicely but he just kept banging me and pushing me away...<br /><br /><br />then jay was nicely watching us race... hahaha, we didn't noe she had arrived but she knew where we were cos i told her on the phone while playing... hahaha... then we decided to go to the food court (food junction?) to eat lunch... i was starving man... had only a milo in the morning... and i told dheesha before we played in the arcade about it and she told jay that i was pissed wif her for coming soo late cos i was starving and i couldn't eat early cos of her... liar... hahaha...<br /><br />then i told them about my sji stories... i got loads more... but all equally lame... :P but i love my sji days... those funny moments... all the shit that we went through together hahha... k enough of the flashback...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />then we watched james bond! i didn't get the hang of it cos it was quite fast... but EVA GREEN WAS BLOODY HOT! omg! hahaha... however, most of the movie was focussed more on the casino set... i thought bond would be moving around alot and killing moreeee... haha... jay was nicely occupying two seats and we were eating loads of stuff... then after the movie (i didn't like the ending :P) we went to gelare's to eat waffle hahaha... and dheesha was being an idiot tryin to act cool and be james bond... she wants to be a secret agent... then we happily ate and left... i went back home, and realised that my stupid leg was getting worse<br /><br /><br /><br />kinda swollen at the back... sooo ice again... and then i read and went to sleep... today was kind of boring... i woke up at 11 a.m. lolol... and was chattinggggggg alot... reading... and here i am... blogging! k ppl! good night! sleep tight!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>Animal of the day !!!</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">The Hyena</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.suedafrika.net/Tiergifs/THyena1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.suedafrika.net/Tiergifs/THyena1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />The hyena is a meat-eater that lives in Africa, south of the Sahara Desert, and in parts of the Middle East and Asia. Hyenas live in a variety of habitats, including savannas, dry plains, and brush. They are territorial, social animals that live in large groups called clans. Hyenas have an average life span of 12 years and can live up to 25 years.<br /><br />When excited, a spotted hyena makes a giggling sound; this animal is often called the laughing hyena. There are many subspecies of hyenas, including the spotted hyena, the brown hyena, the striped hyena, and the aardwolf. The scientific name of the hyena is Crocuta crocuta. These strong runners are more closely related to mongooses and cats than they are to dogs (whom they superficially resemble).<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anatomy: Hyenas have a short, rough coat that is mottled, containing brown, tan and red colors. They have strong shoulders and a sloping back. The nose is black. Male and female hyenas are hard to distinguish because they have similar-looking external reproductive organs. Hyenas weigh from 82 to 190 pounds (37-86 kg). The spotted hyena is about 45 inches (114 cm) long plus a 13 inch (33 cm) tail. Female hyenas give birth to twins after a 3 to 4 month pregnancy.<br /><br /><br /><br />Diet: Hyenas are primarily meat-eaters; they eat wildebeest (gnu), zebra, gazelle, buffalo, topi, eggs, insects, and fruit. Although they often kill prey, they are also scavengers, eating dead animals that they find. Lions often steal kill from hyenas. Hyenas have powerful jaws and sharp teeth that they use to break open bones so thay they can eat the bone and marrow. They have very strong digestive systems; they can digest bones, teeth, tough skin, and horn! Hyenas can go without water for several days.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />References: <a href="http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/hyena/Hyena.shtml">http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/hyena/Hyena.shtml</a> and <a href="http://www.suedafrika.net/Tiergifs/THyena1.jpg">http://www.suedafrika.net/Tiergifs/THyena1.jpg</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32950849-116437961219787604?l=trackgod.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M Senthil Kumerenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878089449130721433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32950849.post-1162133546151441962006-10-29T22:18:00.000+08:002006-10-30T22:26:08.926+08:00hahahahahhha !<br />YES GUYS !<br /><br />the bastard is finally back... yeheh !<br /><br /><br />soooo today... i started off my day by going to amk mrt station to meet my ajc frens and our blaekes for soccer match ah... me and jheeva were in the same train and we were like second to kaswin in terms of punctuality ah, which is a good thing! :D:D:D<br /><br />then slowly, all the other fellas came, and my dear old goutham came too, arriving wif a stupid small dance... hahahah... then finally all of us came and we decided to proceed to the street soccer court cos that guy who was supposed to bring the ball was late and could only meet us there... hahha, sooo we bought some snacks and drinks along the way and then goutham saw the green man on the traffic light blinking, wif three seconds to go! he started running! and then when he realised that no one was running together wif him and when the red light came back on, he ran back to us! hahahahahahah ! idiotttt...<br /><br />but yeaaa, we walked all the way to the street soccer court... it was a good one ah, but the walls abit short ah haha, but who cares, the game we played was damn freaking shiok siol ! then i had to rush back home at around 12 40 cos i needed to visit my grandparents... gosh... i went back home in like 30 minutes and took a quick shower and took the taxi together wif my family down to teck whye... haha... my grandparents were delighted that we visited them! and grandma served me great food! i ate two servings for lunch! :D:D:D:D then we caught up with our old childhood stories... gosh... i wish i could return to that age... yeaaa... after that we had to leave cos my sis had to go to mediacorp to watch that miss vasantham (hehe... i am gonna tok about that later)<br /><br />soooooo, we took the cab down and dropped my sister first and i proceeded home... when i switched on the tv set and changed the channel to vasantham central, i saw that they were actually broadcasting anniyan the movie! hahahahahah! omg! sadha damn hot dei! i want to marry her!!! (kk enuff)<br /><br /><br />then 6 30... MISS VASANTHAM GRAND FINALS (WAAAAAAAAH GRAND SIOL)<br /><br />hahaa, i was watching it and was wondering how in the blue hell dracula got into the last eight... aiyoooo... so i watched it... the q & a session was not bad... REVATHI DID WELL ! and this fazilah screwed up... felt bad for her...<br /><br />then me and anisha were like sms-ing, and i was saying that i am supporting revathi and fazilah and she said she was supporting fazilah and indra... in the end, the gals whom we supported got into the final three! hahaha... then i was supporting revathi all the way! but she got third! i was like wth !!! and then the champion was indra! like wtf! moonju abit sodzzz... wat nonsense win first... but she was confident ah... but still... dunno wat was wrong wif revathi ah... she was good wad... aiyoooo... never mind... REVATHI IS MY MISS VASANTHAM! :D:D:D<br /><br />then i am here like blogging for the first time after promos ah! okkk!!! THE MOST EXCITING PART OF MY BLOG!<br /><br /><br />ANIMAL OF THE DAY !!!!!!!!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Animal of the day!</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The<span style="color:#000099;"> Peafowl(Peacock and Peahen)</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.birminghamzoo.com/image_gallery/hi_res/peacock.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.birminghamzoo.com/image_gallery/hi_res/peacock.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Peafowl (Pavo cristatus) are beautiful birds that are native to India and Sri Lanka. The male peafowl is called a peacock; the female peafowl is called a peahen. In the wild, they live in deciduous tropical rainforests. These magnificent birds do not migrate. A group of peafowl is called a muster or an ostentation.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anatomy: The male peafowl (called the peacock) is about 84 inches (2.1 m) long. The female (called the peahen) is about 34 inches (0.85 m) long. Both have a fan-shaped crest on the head. The peacock has a long, brilliantly-colored train of feathers that grow from its shimmering blue back. He can raise the train of feathers, forming a stunning display. The peahen does not have a train; her plumage is brown, white, and black.<br /><br /><br /><br />Diet: Peafowl eat seeds, fruit, other plant material, and some small animals (like mice and insects).<br /><br /><br /><br />Nest and Eggs: Peafowl build shallow nests made of sticks, leaves, and grass. Nests are usually located in the undergrowth of the rainforest.<br /><a href="http://www.birminghamzoo.com/image_gallery/hi_res/peacock.jpg"></a><br /><br /><em>SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION</em><br /><p></p><p>Kingdom: Animalia</p><p>Phylum: Chordata</p><p>Class: Aves</p><p>Order: Galliformes</p><p><br />Family: Phasianidae </p><p><br />Genus: Pavo</p><p><br />Species: P. cristatus</p><p></p><p>References: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/printouts/Peafowlprintout.shtml</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32950849-116213354615144196?l=trackgod.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M Senthil Kumerenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878089449130721433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32950849.post-1158826197459178652006-09-21T16:08:00.000+08:002006-09-21T16:09:57.480+08:00My Complete Personal Profile<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />You have always been on the move seeking affectionate, satisfying and harmonious relationships. Your ultimate goal has been the realisation of an intimate union in which there could be love, self-sacrifice and mutual trust. It has often been said that 'True love is just around the corner' and - if you haven't found it as yet - you possibly soon will.You are looking for something different. Your imagination has been working overtime and you are seeking adventure - and you'd like to share that adventure, the new experience, with someone like yourself: Imaginative, Enthusiastic and Sensitive.The present situation, not of your making, is forcing you to compromise. You will have to hold back and forgo some of your hopes, dreams and aspirations.As of late, you have been experiencing untold stress and this is a result of continuous frustration. You haven't been taking care of all your physical needs and it's beginning to show. It would seem that you have a need to find someone to whom you can really relate - someone perhaps whose standards are as high as your own. You want to be different - to be individualistic - to stand out from the common herd. Your inherent control of your sensual instincts is restricting your ability to give yourself to open up freely but this being on your own, being lonely, often makes you feel the need to give up some of your strict standards to surrender to the general flow - to be like everyone else; a part of the herd. Deep down you regard such instincts as weaknesses to be overcome. You would like to be loved or admired for yourself alone. You demand recognition and tender loving care.You have so many ideas that you would like to revitalise but you need to realise a stable and peaceful condition to do so. Once you can free yourself from all the aggravation and tension around you, you will make strides that may amaze you. You will not be prevented from achieving all the things you so desire.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32950849-115882619745917865?l=trackgod.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M Senthil Kumerenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878089449130721433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32950849.post-1157617914728797542006-09-07T16:09:00.000+08:002006-09-07T16:31:54.746+08:00heyloooo people... i will not be blogging until promotional exams finish, sooo yea...<br />and a few days ago, we heard about the passing away of one of the finest man on the planet and a great naturalist, Steve Irwin a.k.a The Crocodile Hunter.<br /><br />He was a major reason why i love animals so much... I grew up watching his documentaries and every single documentary was very entertaining, full of excitement... I learnt alot from this guy... A true hero himself... contributed sooo much to wildlife conservation... Protecting animals even in countries outside Australia... His education has spurred on many others to be involved in wildlife conservation... Many people would want him around, to watch more of his new documentaries, but sadly, their wishes cannot come true... This blog entry is a tribute to Steve Irwin, like him or not, you got to give him the respect that he deserves, every single time, risking his life to educate us about animals and eventually, got killed while doing so... Our sorrow and grief go out to his family, his wife Terri, daughter Bindi and son, Bob... Rest in peace, stevo... :'(<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"> Steve Irwin</span><br /><br /><a href="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42047000/jpg/_42047206_irwindaughter_pa.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42047000/jpg/_42047206_irwindaughter_pa.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Stephen Robert Irwin (22 February 1962 — 4 September 2006), nicknamed "the Crocodile Hunter," was an Australian naturalist and television personality, best known for the television program The Crocodile Hunter, an internationally-broadcast wildlife documentary co-hosted with his wife Terri Irwin. The Irwins owned and operated Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Queensland.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Shortly after 11:00 a.m. AEST (01:00 UTC) on 4 September 2006, Irwin was fatally pierced in the chest by a stingray barb while snorkelling at the Great Barrier Reef, at Batt Reef, which is located off the coast of Port Douglas in Queensland. Irwin was in the area filming his own documentary, to be called The Ocean's Deadliest, but weather had stalled filming. Irwin decided to take the opportunity to film some shallow water shots for a segment in the television program his daughter Bindi was hosting, when, according to his friend and colleague, John Stainton, he swam too close to one of the animals. "He came on top of the stingray and the stingray's barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart," said Stainton, who was on board Irwin's boat the Croc One.<br /><br /><br /><br />The events were caught on camera, and a copy of the footage was handed to the Queensland Police. After reviewing the footage of the incident and speaking to the cameraman who recorded it, marine documentary filmmaker and former spearfisherman Ben Cropp speculated that the stingray "felt threatened because Steve was alongside and there was the cameraman ahead." In such a case, the stingray responds to "danger from above" by automatically flexing the serrated barb on its tail (which can measure up to 25cm in length) in an upward motion.<br /><br /><br />Cropp said Irwin had accidentally boxed in the animal. "It stopped and twisted and threw up its tail with the spike, and it caught him in the chest. It's a defensive thing. It's like being stabbed with a dirty dagger." The stinging of Irwin by the bull ray was "a one-in-a-million thing," Cropp told Time magazine. "I have swum with many rays, and I have only had one do that to me."<br />Some reports have claimed that immediately after being stabbed, Irwin pulled the barb out before losing consciousness a short time later. Irwin's colleague John Stainton originally confirmed this account, but he later denied it in an interview on CNN. It is thought, in the absence of a coroner's report, that a combination of the toxins and the puncture wound from the barb caused Irwin to die of cardiac arrest, with most damage being inflicted by tears to arteries or other main blood vessels. It is also possible that he died quickly as a result of a punctured aorta. Until the coroner's report is released, however, the precise cause of Irwin's death remains conjecture.<br /><br /><br /><br />Crew members aboard his boat called the emergency services in the nearest city of Cairns and administered CPR as they rushed the boat to nearby the Low Islets to meet a rescue helicopter. Medical staff pronounced Irwin dead when they arrived a short time later. According to Dr. Ed O'Loughlin, who treated Irwin, "it became clear fairly soon that he had non-survivable injuries. . . . He had a penetrating injury to the left front of his chest. He had lost his pulse and wasn't breathing."<br /><br /><br /><br />Irwin's body was flown to a morgue in Cairns. His wife, Terri Irwin, was on a walking tour in Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park in Tasmania at the time, and returned via a private plane from Devonport to the Sunshine Coast with their two children.<br />As of 1996, only seventeen worldwide fatalities had been recorded due to stingrays, and the attack on Irwin is believed to be the only fatality from a stingray ever captured on film.<br />In episode one of the Crocodile Hunter series ("Steve's Story"), Irwin is quoted as emphatically stating:<br /><br /> <a class="image" title="Steve Irwin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cquote1.png"></a><br />"The one thing I would want to be remembered for is passion and enthusiasm. Conservation is my life, my job, my whole persona."<br /><br /><br />References : <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Irwin">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Irwin</a> and <a href="http://images.google.com.sg/imgres?imgurl=http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42047000/jpg/_42047206_irwindaughter_pa.jpg&imgrefurl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/5311848.stm%3Fls&amp;h=300&w=416&amp;sz=28&hl=en&amp;start=6&tbnid=VWetdYJnTTc2UM:&amp;tbnh=87&tbnw=122&amp;prev=/images%3Fq%3DSteve%2BIrwin%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN">http://images.google.com.sg/imgres?imgurl=http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42047000/jpg/_42047206_irwindaughter_pa.jpg&imgrefurl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/5311848.stm%3Fls&amp;h=300&w=416&amp;sz=28&hl=en&amp;start=6&tbnid=VWetdYJnTTc2UM:&amp;tbnh=87&tbnw=122&amp;prev=/images%3Fq%3DSteve%2BIrwin%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32950849-115761791472879754?l=trackgod.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M Senthil Kumerenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878089449130721433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32950849.post-1157211711613108552006-09-02T22:45:00.000+08:002006-09-02T23:41:51.643+08:00hahaha... today was a blardie boring dayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy... aiyooo...<br /><br />woke up today to go to skool for PW meeting wif jai singh...<br />woke up like 8 a.m. supposed to be in skool at around 9 am :P<br /><br /><br />but i didn't rush or anything... i had a feeling my group would meet her late... soooo i was like slowly going to skool... haha... smsing my dear frens in the train and all... so a bunch of hot gals in the train but i did not look at them too long due to my EXTREMELY HUGE egooooo :D<br /><br />then i reached bishan mrt station... SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH... haha... then i was on my usual lonely walk to skool... i finally reached skool and went to the third floor where my PW group together wif other PW groups were waiting to meet jai singh... lol... it was when i reached there that ralph told all my classmates there that jai singh didn't read our written reports... everyone was like wth!!!<br /><br /><br />haha, but nonetheless we waited and waited... one hour passed... two hours passed... haha... but i was using aik kwan's chem notes i believe, to muggg chem...<br /><br />haha finally it was our turn and she was really nice to us today when toking to us... haha<br /><br />then it finished after like 20 minutes and me and prabs decided to go to little india ! we tried to call jheeva but that cock didn't bother picking up his phone... so we msged him but he nvr reply oso... haha... so me and prabs went on a date to BANANA LEAF APOLLO ! :D<br /><br />but we hang around in j8 for a while then took mrt down to little india... over there, we proceeded to little india arcade where the restaurant was... i ordered mutton dum briyani and prabs had chicken dum briyani! haha and we had two cokes too... the total cost was like $19. 95 and we had exactly $20... haha waaaaaaaaaaah... tok about living life on the edge ahh... haha then just when we ordered our food a cock by the name of jheeva msged me... it said he might come and join us... i called him back and told him we just ordered our food... haha.. and he was like hey! i can be there in like one hour's time... then i told him to like bring some money and he was like i dun have money dei !!! idiot ! he was at home and he said he got no money... wat bullshit... then he dared to say that prabs owe him $1.50... idiot...<br /><br />haha... then we just continued eating and then i received a message from jheeva that he might not be coming... just might drop by... i was damn happy ! lolol ! jk jk... haha... sooo we finished eating and we left... prabs asked me to blog about him sooo here it is...<br /><br /><br /><br />PRABS : my very close classmate in class... haha, where else ah... toilet ah :P and he is always there to say lame jokes and make me luff at his lameness hahaha... sorry dei... u damn lameness god ah :P *bows downnnnn* haha then recently this idiot, everytime in chem lesson, for some reason when my teacher asks question, this fella just says the answer HCl(hydrogen chloride) and he is right ! on wednesday he said it like 6 times and he got all right lar ! hahahaaaaaa... damn funny dei... k i shall not be another manpreet over here retardedly swinging arms around all :P jk jk... haha... haha... basically he is a nice guy most of the times :P but he tends to get emo sometimes... dun worry dei... cheer up and yenjai life like we all should be doing ! haha... i loweeeeeeeee u too ! hahaha... got much more but i wun be boasting about the oxygen i breathe would i ? :P haha, jk jk... shall see u with a happy face in skool man ! :D<br /><br /><br />haha yeaa... then i got back home and was greeted by my grandparents ! woooohoooooo ! they came to like visit my family... haha... but it's sad to see my grandfather having difficulties moving around... i had to help him alot... i went to sleep ! and then woke up at around 6 pm... my dad came back from work and he was having a serious backache... like real serious... so i massaged him for like 30 minutes! he liked it and he thanked me ! WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOO! said i was really good! haha... then i was doing bio summary until it was time for my grandparents to leave... i followed them down and send them off... came back up to massage my dad's back again!<br /><br />haha... after i massaged, my mum asked my dad to gimme money cos only then, it is believed that his back will get better... my dad gimme twenty cents! wooohooooooo! my first earning :D hahaa... and now i am blogging nicely... and i shall update a nice animal of the day for a special special person ! muahahaha... CHECK IT OUT !<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Animal Of The Day!</span><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#cc33cc;"> The Seahorse</span><br /><a href="http://www.snapscot.com/post/040910/040910AquariumOfThePacific-Seahorse%20copy.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.snapscot.com/post/040910/040910AquariumOfThePacific-Seahorse%20copy.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Seahorses are a type of small fish that have armored plates all over their body (they don't have scales). There are about 50 different species of seahorses around the world. They live in seaweed beds in warm water and are very slow swimmers. Seahorses can change their color to camouflage (hide) themselves in order to hide from enemies. The most unusual seahorse is the Australian sea horse, which has leaf-like camouflage all over its body, making it almost disappear in the seaweed bed.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anatomy: Seahorses have a long, horse-like head (hence their name) and a curled tail. Seahorses range in size from under a centimeter long (Pygmy Seahorses) to about 1 foot (30 cm) long.<br /><br /><br /><br />Reproduction: The female seahorse produces eggs, but they are held inside the male's body until they hatch; he is pregnant for about 40 to 50 days. The sea horse is the only animal in which the father is pregnant.<br /><br /><br /><br />Scientific Classification<br /><br /> Kingdom: Animalia<br /><br /> Phylum: Chordata<br /><br />Class: Osteichthyes (bony fish)<br /><br />Order: Gasterosteiformes (armored, small-mouthed fish)<br /><br />Family: Syngnathidae (pipe fish)<br /><br />Genus: Hippocampus (meaning "horse sea monster" in Greek) and many species.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />References : <a href="http://www.snapscot.com/post/040910/040910AquariumOfThePacific-Seahorse%20copy.jpg">http://www.snapscot.com/post/040910/040910AquariumOfThePacific-Seahorse%20copy.jpg</a> and <a href="http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/fish/printouts/Seahorsecoloring.shtml">http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/fish/printouts/Seahorsecoloring.shtml</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32950849-115721171161310855?l=trackgod.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M Senthil Kumerenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878089449130721433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32950849.post-1157122222389416722006-09-01T22:41:00.000+08:002006-09-01T22:50:22.423+08:00HEYLOO WONDERFUL PEOPLE !!!<br /><br />i am back after a few daysssss... i miss blogging... haha... anyway! i shall start with what happened yesterday!<br /><br />YESTERDAY WAS TEACHER'S DAY CELEBRATION AND IT WAS HALF DAY !!! but when i woke up, or rather woken up, in the morning, it was raining !!! omggg... so nice weather to sleep in but my sleep was spoilt... soooo i had to go to skool :( and i realised that my dad couldn't bring me oso cos it was raining ! i had to take bus... no vroooom vrooooooom... so i went down to the bus stop and took bus service no. 13 to reach school... i reached the RI bus stop soo i had to like walk all the way to their general office sooo that from there, i could proceed to RJC... it was raining like crazy and i was lucky so i had an umbrella! but then, i saw this chinese gal, standing down there and staring at the rain, waiting for it to stop... somehow, i became like Mr. Niceman and i asked her if she would follow me to skool under my umbrella... she agreed happily! haha... but when i started walking, i realised that my umbrella was too small, so i tried to like shield her from the rain as much as i could, and i got myself damnnnnnnnnnnnnn wet... it was as if the umbrella didn't help me... hahaha, but it was okayyy... once i reached skool, i felt damn happy by helping someone ! :D<br /><br /><br />then i decided to go the toilet and get myself changed to my PE attire... gosh... i was soooooooo wet, my bag was wet, my socks were wet, my jacket was wet ! and most importantly, my MJ poster got wet abit! :(<br /><br />then i went to watch teacher's day performance... i realised that i didn't noe where my class was sitted and mr hodge was like hurrying us up to quickly settle down... so i just like decided to sit somewhere at the back all alone... somehow, but fortunately, i saw anirudh there... sooo we crapped alot and were watching the show... the dances were damn funny! the guy teacher who was dancing was super pottai paiyaae... dance like some gay lar! but the subsequent dances got better, especially the hot female teacher who danced to hips don't lie ! wooooohoooooooo... and the fat guy teacher oso! very daring and sporting... but then the magic tricks guy was super lousy! like please larrr... how come the cards suddenly come to ur hand from the air ah... aren't ur hands like super duper close to ur chest! idiot... haha, then they had this teacher's day video whereby all the video segments were damn farnie! the econs teacher using like spider web to confiscate SAMUEL'S handphone! hahaha... then Mr Sha in his motorbike! helping that gal do pull ups wif his finger hahah... and the best, mr leong saving a guy's life by stopping the car ! hahaha... soooooooooooo cuteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...<br /><br /><br />after the performance, i quickly rushed over to sji wif my sji frensss... over there, we were just in time for their teacher's day performance... their's was a hit man... they had nice nice videos too and the dancers were gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood... haha... after the performance, i met all my former batchmates and sji frens and seniors and the teachers... super duper fun... but i miss Mr Bernard Low... my maths teacher who is the bestestestestest maths teacher in the world... like how super duper cool can u be as a maths teacher lar... so muscular build and hailing from the Air Force and explaining to students about the weapons system in the fighter jets in first ever maths lesson !!! he is sooo damn cool... but he left singapore to set up skools in myanmar... he will be away for two years... haizzzzz... hopefully he still keeps in touch with us...<br /><br />haha.. then i had a good talk with Mr Daniel Chua, one of my track teachers in sji and like talking about the progress in track in sji... they might be bringing back track camps and i might join them!!! :D<br /><br /><br />haha after that the sji makkals all decided to play soccer in our school street soccer court... it was wet due to the rain but nonetheless we played... gosh... so fun! playing there like after one year brings sooo much memories... soooo happyyyyyyy... then it started to pour again so we stopped playing and went to the canteen... we were crapping around alot and then decided to get changed and go town...<br /><br /><br />hahaha... on the way, goutham was like talking alot of shit... goutham being the cock he is hahaha... but in the bus we decided to go PS to eat... soooo we proceeded all the way to PS... once we reached, we all like were getting of the bus when we so goutham still sitting there like some hero... we were like byeeee goutham... that idiot, deciding to be a cool guy, just nicely said bye to us and remained sitted! haha, we knew he would alight so we got down first... then we turned around... haha... goutham got up.. and he tapped his card... but the doors slam shut! and the bus started moving!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !<br /><br /><br />goutham suddenly ran to the bus driver and like asked him to open the doors... he finally got down and we were like laughing at him crazilyyyyyyyyyyyy in PS hahaha... the people around us thought we went nuts but i bet they would behave like us if they had seen what we saw... hahaha...<br /><br />then we went to the food court and started eating... i ate the chinese mee goreng which was super duper yummy... the others had fried rice and alot of stuff... and we shared our food and toking happily... goutham was having some problems sooo we were discussing our problems oso... it was soooooooooo fun! then it was time to leave... :( sooo we went to the mrt station and realised it would be another like 2 months before we meet again... hahah.. so we shared hugs and parted...<br /><br /><br />i reached home finally... damn tireeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed ah... haha... then i started mugging for chem thinking that chem test was tomolo... then i like went online halfway and asked prabs if he was going... he was like, huh ! there is no chem test tomolo lar... it's next friday! i got sooooooooo embarassed!!! hahaha... but it was okayyy... i chatted damn long after that and went to sleep late...<br /><br /><br /><br />TODAY....<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />today i woke up damn late ahhh... haha, first thing i did was give lavnea a call and inform her that i woke up... she was like wth ! haha, but her story was worse... she woke up thinking there was skool today ! hahaha... she woke up at 6 am summore... loser... hahah<br /><br />then i took my shower n stuff, and started eatin roti prata :D :D :D then i went off to do chem<br /><br />and i was slacking abit and like ate my mum's food for lunch... SAMBAR TODAY! MY FAVOURITE ! THE ONLY CURRY I LIKE WHICH MY MUM PREPARES :D haha... mummy... ur cooking is great!!! :D soooooo yummy yumms... got thovael, appalam, beancurd rice all<br />haha<br /><br /><br />then i watched michael jackson videos in youtube... so nice... i was watching BEN TODAY omg... it was soooo cool... then i slacked until like 8<br />then i studied chem till now... haha, gonna eat dinner now! nice slacky day today haha... to people who are close to me... i love u all alot !!!<br /><br />i dedicate this song Ben to uuuuuuuuuuuuu people... yuppz.... everyone of u souls :D<br /><br />Ben, the two of us need look no more<br /><br />We both found what we were looking for<br /><br />With a friend to call my own I'll never be alone<br /><br />And you, my friend, will see You've got a friend in me (you've got a friend in me)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> Ben, you're always running here and there<br /><br />You feel you're not wanted anywhere<br /><br /> If you ever look behind<br /><br />And don't like what you find<br /><br />There's one thing you should know<br /><br /> You've got a place to go (you've got a place to go)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> I used to say "I" and "me"<br /><br />Now it's "us", now it's "we"<br /><br />I used to say "I" and "me"<br /><br />Now it's "us", now it's "we"<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> Ben, most people would turn you away<br /><br /> I don't listen to a word they say<br /><br /> They don't see you as I do<br /><br /> I wish they would try to<br /><br /> I'm sure they'd think again<br /><br /> If they had a friend like Ben (a friend)<br /><br />Like Ben (like Ben)<br /><br />Like Ben<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I LOVE U ALL PEOPLE! I TREASURE THE MOMENTS WHICH I HAVE WITH EACH AND EVERYONE ONE OF YOU !!!<br /><br />AND NOW! TIME FOR ANIMAL OF THE DAY !!!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Animal Of The Day!!!</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <span style="color:#ff6600;"> The Asian Elephant</span><br /><a href="http://www.cardamom.org/images/elephant_large.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.cardamom.org/images/elephant_large.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />The Asian Elephant (also known as the Indian Elephant) is a huge land animal that lives in India, Malaysia, Sumatra, and Sri Lanka. This elephant is used extensively for labor; very few are left in the wild. Their life span is up to 70 years.<br /><br /><br />This mammal has very strong social bonds and lives in family groups headed by a female (called a cow). Males (called bulls) occasionally join the group. Elephants are excellent swimmers. Elephants have few natural enemies except man, and they are in extreme danger of extinction due to loss of habitat and poaching (they are killed for their ivory tusks).<br /><br /><br /><br />Anatomy: Asian Elephants average about 8 feet (2.5 m) tall at the shoulder (smaller than African Elephants). Males weigh up to 6 tons (5,400 kg); females average about 4 tons (3,600 kg). Only males have tusks (large, pointed ivory teeth). They have wrinkled, gray-brown skin that is almost hairless. The ears not only hear well, but also help the elephant lose excess heat, as hot blood flows near the surface.<br /><br /><br /><br />Trunk: Elephants breathe through two nostrils at the end of their trunk, which is an extension of the nose. The trunk is also used to get water and food. To get water, the elephant sucks water into the trunk, then curls the trunk towards the mouth and squirts the water into it. The trunk has a prehensile (grasping) extension at the tip, which it uses like a finger or scoop.<br /><br /><br /><br />Diet: Elephants eat roots, grasses, leaves, bark, bananas and sugar cane. Working bulls can eat up to 300-600 pounds (130-260 kg) of food each day.<br /><br /><br /><br />Classification: Kingdom Animalia (animals), Phylum Chordata, Class Mammallia (mammals), Order Proboscidea, Family Elephantidae, Genus Elephas, Species E. maximus.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />References: <a href="http://www.cardamom.org/images/elephant_large.jpg">http://www.cardamom.org/images/elephant_large.jpg</a> and <a href="http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/elephant/Asiancoloring.shtml">http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/elephant/Asiancoloring.shtml</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32950849-115712222238941672?l=trackgod.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M Senthil Kumerenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878089449130721433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32950849.post-1156699678848441462006-08-28T00:40:00.000+08:002006-08-28T01:27:58.986+08:00hahha... okieee i shall start toking about saturday first... i had to wake up damn early in the morning at 7 30 cos i had to meet the project uthavi team at 8 a.m. in farrer park station for an outing :P<br />soooo i took my own sweet time, being a typical indian and i ended up there at 8 15... haha... and as i predicted, i wasn't the last one... muahahaha... then after everyone was there, we proceeded to eat our breakfast in annapoorna's opposite mustafa centre... i didn't want to eat breakfast sooo early! but i had no choice... haha so i ate my food and was crapping around wif sushma ani and jheeva... we kept coping food ah... haha... being indians once again... haha...<br /><br />after that, we went to perumal temple! wooooohoooo! i thought i would miss one day of prayers due to this outing but when god closes one door, he opens another :D soooo i went to pray!!! and then the others were looking around and some were praying too... after that, we had to walk all the way from perumal temple to little india arcade... along the way we see the usual things... the little india pigeons flying around... and we were talking crap... Jheeva is an idiot! He thought i was of vainave caste! cos i prayed to perumal... basket!<br /><br />sooooo we reached little india and preetha and sushma handed out this quiz kinda thingy where we had to find out the answers for the questions and the winner got nothing i think :P butt nonetheless we played and we were like damn fast lar! we thought we were gonna win it but then i think we got second...haha... never mind it's okieee... winning and losing is all part of the game... sometimes u win, sometimes u lose... just like i do always, but me much more of losing than winning :P hahaa, anyway, enough of that crap, sooo we went into banana leaf apollo to eat and i ate ice kachang wif ice cream thanks to aisha! :D<br /><br />then we tok alot of crap... n i was explaining how i would never( AND SENTHIL MEANS EVERRRRR) let my wife grow fat... :P<br /><br />alot of them left and by then, only manpreet, dheesha, subash, jheeva and me were left... we decided to go to tekka mall to buy waffles! :D i bought chocolate waffles while the other two ding dongs dheesha n jheeva bought kaya i think... haha... bet they had stomach problems later :P<br /><br />we walked up to sheng shiong and slacked arounddddddd... then we kinda got bored sooo we decided to leave... jheeva was gonna wait for his uncle in little india sooo he left us first... the rest of us went all the way to little india mrt station... dheesha and subash were going home via subash mum's car sooo they walked further to meet his mum and manpreet and me were left to take the train...haha... i forgot wat both of us talked! it was damn fast ah that day... then i went back home to sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep...hahah... woke up to do PW WR third draft... goodness... was a nightmare... but i finished it :D then i was chatting late into the night wif lavnea and others and we crapped soooo much... I heard that Mars was gonna be it's closest to Earth and the next time it was gonna be that close was in 2287! sooo i went to the last storey in my flat to observe... guess wat... i saw absolutely nothing! not even the blardie moon ! where did it go!!! oh nooooooooooooooooooooooo... i wanted to see mars but the stupid clouds blocked my view... then i got disappointed and went back home... and i slept... only to wake up at 12 noon...<br /><br /><br />The next day...<br /><br /><br /><br />haha, today is vinayagar chathurthi! and i woke up at 12 ! waaaaaaaaaah... damn nice feeling... haha... i did abit of chem... and slacked alottttttttttt... continued doing chem then it was time for miss vasantham! hahaha! my favourite show... not because it's nice but because i can criticize alot :D and waaaaaaaaaaaah... all the gals were damn *cough*pretty*cough*... actually a few were good... but then... there was one particular gal who cannot speak ENGLISH for nuts! i ting that blah blah blah is vazhuuble... dunno wat shit! aiyooooo... and some gals... haha... i dunno why... first sight of them already makes me laugh... but they all did their best lar sooo hats off to them... perhaps if u cannot make it in miss vasantham, try to do something else yea ? like go and represent singapore in SEA GAMES :D much much prestigious... miss vasantham all jujubii... i also can start mr vasantham and crown jheeva as the winner... :P<br /><br /><br />then i proceeded down to the temple after taking my shower and i was there for like 30 minutes today... omg... vinayagar looked really nice today... all the decorations and stuff... then i went back home to study... did PW again helping my fren and chem oso and now am blogging :D<br /><br />okieee... i shall fulfil sindhu's and sneha's special requests...<br /><br />SINDHU : my really cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool thangacchi who needs to change her laughter and her duck-like-running style :P she's really cute ! showing me her sailormoon face and greeting me with sooooo much enthusiasm that makes my day sometimes... haha... and she is like damnnnnnn tamilachi ah... starts singing songs all... AND OH YES! her acting is super prooooooooooooooozzzz... Sindhuraaaaaaaaa Kalidass... that's her name... i think :P<br />wat else to say about this ding dong ah? ohhh yaaa... she gets angry wif me alot of times cos i do not acknowledge her presence online sometimes... :P i already see ur azhagaana mogarakatteh everyday at home... must keep saying hi all to u izzit! jk jk...haha... ohhh... and she likes redbull! i wonder why! hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... dei, u better stop drinking it otherwise u will become diabetic... and secondly, u r really sweet urself sooo consume more sweet stuff :D<br />and my sindhu thangacchi noes alot of sji guys! u noe alot of guys actually... i wonder why! stop thinking about guys anyhow ah... appa already told u right that he will find nice nice maapillai for u... yea... he gave me a suggestion of ur future maapillai oso... it's this guy... brahmin fella... Phd holder for dunno wat... he is currently living in Chennai below some tree... his phone number is 939239+23017201+23023920+32703209+232537565+34614. that is like the country code number + the state code number+ the district code number+ the street code number+ the estate code number+ the tree code number ah... sooooooo call him ok! make his day like how u make mine :D<br /><br /><br />Sneha: haha... my eldest sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet thangacchi... always smiling! :D haha... and artistic like sindhu too! My whole family artistic lar... except for me... no use all... only good thing i do is run and jump around like an idiot... haha... anyway... back to sneha... she has a better smile than that idiot in the movie ah... she sings sooooooooooooo nicely... her voice is soooooooooooooooooooo melodious... haha... and she looks alot like me! and both of us have alot in common... especially ego, but i have much more ah cos i am like the ego king and no crown can fit my head :P haha... she is actually much nicer to me than sindhu la... sindhu u must try harder if u want me to bring u out all to the zoo and stuff :P<br /><br />hahaa... anyways... i loweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee both sneha and sindhu... u r ma darlingssssssu...<br /><br /><br /><br />SOOOOOOOOOO if u people are wondering, where is the animal of the day for the past two days! well, i just described about two to u... :D bye bye !<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32950849-115669967884844146?l=trackgod.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M Senthil Kumerenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878089449130721433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32950849.post-1156518510055754162006-08-25T22:32:00.000+08:002006-08-25T23:08:30.073+08:00hahaa heyloooo ppl! yes the sji bastard is back again blogging about his everyday life in the most pathetic way any human being has ever seen before... but oh wells... it's the sji bastard :P<br />anyway! today was a very very good day! I went to skool on my daddy's motorbike! vroooooom vroooooooom ! hahaha... then i reached skool and i was wondering if we had extra chem tutorial cos i didn't do my work :P (Bloody slacker lar me) but luckily in the assembly ralph, my CT rep told me that there wasn't and i was sooo happy!<br /><br />next up after assembly was PE ! The Best Lesson in RJC :D it was our last day of our electives :(<br /><br />but no matter what, i wanted to have fun today soooo we learned how to serve! and i was quite good at it! as in for the first time i was good in something ah !<br />and we had rallies and stuff so it was great great fun! although i kept whacking the balls sometimes to god knows where and the PE teacher Mr Koh looks up at me with sooo an irritated look and just gives the Wat-the-Hell? look :P haha... then after that i had my break sooo i stuffed my stomach wif nasi lemak and stuff... then i bought coca cola bottle and as i was eating it, bloody idiot jheeva took some lar... i was okay with that but when i wanted to drink, that CB never return... KNN... then he playing hide and seek with the bottle and me all... aiyooo... then finally i got it like half empty lar! and the taste wasn't good anymore... like obviously... cos of jheeva lar... but it was okayyy... still he my good good fren ah :P<br /><br />haha then i had econs tutorial where the other groups had presentation of the airlines econs case study... our group never present cos prabs damn farnie! he took the cd yesterday and he nvr come skool today... anyway thanks ah prabs... gives us more time to prepare :P hope u get shrwell soon yea !<br /><br />then after that we had econs lecture where the teacher was rushing through like a bullet train! omg! i didn't understand anything! and she looks like a witch with sharp nose and all ! but nice features for a manjan... but she's got an ugly dot above her lips... :P<br /><br /><br />after that we had break ! i spent it with sruthy and manpreet and karthik! haha... thanks karthik for supporting me against manpreet and sruthy! i loweeeeeeeeeeeee u...<br /><br />haha... after break was GP timed assignment piece... comprehension... oh my goodness... damn rushy!!! and i manage to do two paragraphs for AQ when time was up ! alamak wasted... but it was a good practice... finally we had Maths... SUMMATION! it is a good topic but must use alot of brainpower ah which i lack totally... so yea... i suck at it :P<br /><br /><br />after skool... i was eating crispy noodles nicely... slacking with the blaekes when we decided to play frisbee! haha... khabil came today too! blardie cock! idiot nvr inform me before coming... i still never return his maroon shirt ! aiyoooo... u want me to keep it till next year for National Day ah... aiyooo...<br /><br />we were playing frisbee and getting thrashed by manpreet's and jheeva's team like no business... they had like four guys and a few gals while ours had two guys and all the other gals... aiyooo... we only scored one... :( but then we later played netball! i am only good for blocking lar... the rest i suck! i cannot shoot!<br />the gals make us guys look like noobs totally in this game lar!<br />special comments hafta go to sophie and dheesha today... very good scoring techniques...(i dunno wat i am toking about) then we finished playing and a few of us like dheesh,vani, karthik, jheeva and me decided to slack in the assembly area while the rest went down... by the time we went down, the rest had left lar! tok about being indians... aiyoooooo... but never mind... i slacked in skool for like damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn longggggggggggggggggg... until 8 10 and this stupid jheeva was going home wif his cousin... idiot tell me last minute only... so i rushed to the mrt station aloneee... (YES ALONE!) and i went back home and started toking to my good friend loosu on the phone and here i am later bloggingg!! tomolo project uthavi outing in little india... we are sooooo gonna see the OORU MAAMIS :D hahaha all of u going for it, get ready for my crticisms MUAHAHAHA :D<br /><br />AND ONCE AGAIN, WITHOUT FAIL, WE SHALL HAVE OUR ANIMAL OF THE DAY! :D<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Animal Of The Day!</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <span style="color:#33ff33;"> The Girrafe</span><br /><a href="http://albums.laurenstravels.com/albums/album19/giraffe.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://albums.laurenstravels.com/albums/album19/giraffe.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />The giraffe is the tallest land animal. Can you draw a person next to the giraffe? Use the scale next to the giraffe when you draw, and you'll see how tall a giraffe is when compared to a person.<br />Anatomy: The giraffe is up to 19 feet (6 m) tall and weighs up to 2,800 pounds (1270 kg). A baby giraffe (called a calf) weighs about 130 pounds at birth and is about 6 feet tall. Even though the giraffe's neck is extremely long, it has only seven neck vertebrae, the same number that people and most other mammals have. The front legs are slightly longer than the rear legs. Different giraffe sub-species have different patterns, but most have brown polygons on a cream/tan background. The polygons are larger on the body and smaller on the face and limbs and act as camouflage among the trees. Giraffes have two short horns; males have knobbed, hairless horns, females have thinner, tufted horns.<br /><br /><br /><br />Protection from Predators: These herding mammals can see their enemies (like lions) from long distances. Giraffes can run up to 35 mph (56 kph) for short bursts.<br /><br /><br /><br />Diet: Giraffes are plant-eaters, eating mostly leaves, twigs and bark from the tops of the thorny acacia plant. The giraffes carefully eat around the thorns, and their tough lips and thick saliva protect them somewhat from the thorns.<br /><br /><br /><br />Water: Giraffes can go for days without water. In order to drink water, the giraffe has to spread its front legs and bend its long neck to the water. This is a dangerous position for the giraffe since it can't see its enemies and can't get a fast start running.<br /><br /><br /><br />Habitat: Giraffes live in African grasslands (savannas).<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32950849-115651851005575416?l=trackgod.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M Senthil Kumerenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878089449130721433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32950849.post-1156428110471318342006-08-24T21:33:00.000+08:002006-08-24T23:07:23.280+08:00<span style="color:#000000;">today was an unforgettable day! ok...i woke up in the morning, ate my breakfast in the morning and like waited for my daddy to bring me to skool... guess wad... he was too lazy to bring me to skool and asked me to go myself! sooo i gave him this pissed look and told him fine! then i went down to the busstop outside perumal temple for my bus laaa... as i was there i just turned to face the temple and prayed abit :P and then i turned around n i saw indian gals in the busstop staring at me! aiyoooo... i just ignored them and i was like messaging my fren when suddenly... i felt something in my sleeves buzzing around... and i was like huh ?! wat is this thing flying??? it was inside my sleeve summore u noe... sooo me, being the cock i am, decided to whack it hard! and guess wat... i felt a damnnnnn sharp pain! i knew immediately that what i whacked was a bee! i was nervous but excited at the same time! this was my first ever bee sting! hooooray! :D then i called my mother and told her " Amma, i think a bee just sting me,ma" and my mum was like "wat! kk wait... i am coming down!" Soooo she came down and checked my arm and telling me it was not a bee and all but i knew it was, like come on, who is the animals expert here... soooo i went up back home, and my mum was like shouting at my dad, telling him that if he had brought me to skool, none of this would have happened... then i received some medication and went to skool wif my daddy! :D vrooooom vroooooom !</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">sooo i went to skool... it was sucha boring day today k! everything was soooo draggy and i was concentrating on bio SPA today... damn focussed ah... then finally, at 2 pm... BIO SPA... i was slacking for the first 30 minutes of the BIO SPA i think... damn slow! like turtle like that... aiyoooooo... but i was rushing in the end and managed to finish it :D sooooo i went to the canteen after SPA and got myself something to eat before i had a track meeting... we were discussing about some budget matters and stuff and then <span ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color:#000000;"></span>halfway through, mok our dear friend decided to interrupt us and show us magic tricks... damn entertaining but damn idiotic :P hahaa, but it was damn farnie ah... then after the whole thing was over, roy and me decided to go home via mrt... we were talking about how our track future was gonna be and stuff... how RJC is gonna uphold it's colours next year :D hopefully we get back our GOLD from HCI... </span></span></span><br /><span ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color:#000000;"></span></span></span><br /><br /><br /><span ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color:#000000;">but my arm still hurts from bee sting and i feel very weird... i shall end today's blog haha... but once again... ANIMAL OF THE DAY :D check it oooooooooooooooooooout...<br /></span></span></span><span ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Animal Of The Day!</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><br /><br /><br /> <span style="color:#3333ff;"> Hippopotamus</span><a href="http://www.enjoyart.com/library/animal_art_photo/large/hippopotamus.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.enjoyart.com/library/animal_art_photo/large/hippopotamus.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />The Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), from the Greek (hippopotamos, hippos meaning "horse" and potamos meaning "river"), is a large, plant-eating African mammal, one of only two extant, and three or four recently extinct, species in the family Hippopotamidae.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Characteristics</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br />Hippopotamuses (hippopotami is also accepted as a plural form by the OED), also called hippos, are gregarious, living in groups of up to 40 animals, called a pod, herd, school or bloat. A male hippo is known as a bull, a female, a cow, and a baby, a calf. A hippo's lifespan is typically 40 to 50 years. Female hippos will reach sexual maturity at 5 to 6 years, and have a gestation period of 8 months.<br />Hippos average 3.5 metres (11 ft) long, 1.5 meters (5 ft) tall at the shoulder, and weigh from 1,500 kg to 3,200 kg (3,300 to 7,000 lb). They are approximately the same size as the White Rhinoceros, and experts are split on which is the next largest land animal after the elephant. Male hippos appear to continue growing throughout their lives, whereas the females reach a maximum weight at around the age of 25. Females are smaller than their male counterparts, and normally weigh no more than 1,500 kg. The value given above of 3,200 kg is often quoted as being the upper limit of weight for a male hippo. However, larger specimens than this have been documented, including one of which weighed almost 5000 kg. Even though they are a bulky animal, hippopotamuses can run faster than a human on land. There are estimates of its actual running speed varying from 30 km/h (18 mph) to 40 km/h (25 mph), or even 48 km/h (30 mph). The hippo can maintain these higher estimates for only a few hundred yards.<br /><br /><br />The eyes, ears, and nostrils of the hippo are placed high on the roof of the skull. This allows them to spend most of the day with the majority of their body submerged in the waters of tropical rivers to stay cool and prevent sunburn. For additional protection from the sun, their skin secretes a natural sunscreen substance which is red colored. This secretion is sometimes referred to as "blood sweat," but it is not actually blood, nor sweat. This secretion starts out colorless, turns red-orange within minutes, eventually becoming brown.<br />There are two distinct pigments that have been identified in the secretions, red and orange. The two pigments are highly acidic compounds. They are known as red pigment hipposudoric acid and orange one norhipposudoric acid. The red pigment was found to inhibit the growth of disease-causing bacteria, lending credence to the theory that the secretion has an antibiotic effect. The light absorption of both pigments peaks in the ultraviolet range, creating a sunscreen effect. Hippos all over the world secrete the pigments so it does not appear that food is the source of the pigments. Instead, the animals may synthesize the pigments from precursors such as the amino acid tyrosine.<br /><br /><br />As indicated by the name, ancient Greeks considered the hippopotamus to be related to the horse. Until 1985, naturalists grouped hippos with pigs, based on molar patterns. However evidence, first from blood proteins, then from molecular systematics, and more recently from the fossil record, show that their closest living relatives are cetaceans – whales and porpoises. Hippopotami have more in common with whales than they do with other artiodactyls (even-toed ungulates), such as pigs. Thus, the common ancestor of hippos and whales existed after the branch-off from ruminants, which occurred after the divergence from the rest of the even-toed ungulates, including pigs. While the whale and hippo are each other's closest living relatives, their lineages split very soon after their divergence from the rest of the even-toed ungulates.<br /><br />Range<br />Before the last Ice Age, the hippo was wide-spread in North Africa and Europe, and it can live in colder climates on the condition that the water does not freeze during winter. It is now extinct in Egypt, where it was a familiar animal of the Nile into historic times. Even on the island of Malta, at Għar Dalam (the Cave of Darkness), bone remains of hippopotamuses have been found, dated to about 180,000 years old. Hippos are still found in the rivers of Uganda, Sudan, northern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ethiopia, west to Gambia as well as in Southern Africa (Botswana, Republic of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia). A separate population is in Tanzania and Mozambique.<br />The less familiar pygmy hippopotamus of West Africa, Hexaprotodon (Choeropsis) liberiensis, exists in two populations. One ranges in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire. The other population, with a different shape to the skull, ranged until recently in the Niger Delta but may now be extinct.<br /><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">Lifestyle</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br />Hippos are highly territorial; a male hippo often marks his territory along a riverbank from which to draw in a harem of females, while defending it against other males. Male hippos challenge one another with threatening gapes. Their canine teeth are 50 cm (20 inches) long, and it uses its head as a battering ram, especially against rival males while fighting over territory. Since their habitat is often encroached upon by farmers and tourists, and because they are so territorial, the hippopotamus is one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. They are said to account for more human deaths than any other African mammal. The hippo does not hunt humans, but defends its own territory vigorously. Hippos are usually found in shallow water, and rarely come out of that depth. Most hippos that look as though they are floating are in fact standing or lying on the bottom. They feed on land mostly at night, consuming as much as 50 kg (110 lb) of vegetation per day. They have been known to occasionally scavenge meat from animals found near their range, but hippos are not carnivorous in any real sense.<br /><br />Adult hippos are not generally buoyant. When in deep water, they usually propel themselves by leaps, pushing off from the bottom. They have been observed to move at 8 km/h in water. Young hippos are buoyant and more often move by swimming, propelling themselves with kicks of their back legs. One hippo calf survived after being pushed out to sea during the tsunami generated by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and was rescued on a nearby island.<br />Baby hippos are born underwater at a weight between 60 to 110 pounds and must swim to the surface in order to take their first breath. The young often rest on their mothers' backs when in water that is too deep for them, and swim underwater in order to suckle.<br />Adult hippos typically resurface to breathe every 3-5 minutes. The young have to breathe every 2-3 minutes. The process of surfacing and breathing is automatic, and even a hippo sleeping underwater will rise and breathe without waking. Hippos have been documented staying submerged for up to 30 minutes. A hippo closes its nostrils when it submerges.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>Scientific Classification</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><br />Kingdom:Animalia<br /><br />Phylum:Chordata<br /><br />Class:Mammalia<br /><br />Order:Artiodactyla<br /><br />Family:Hippopotamidae<br /><br />Genus:Hippopotamus<br /><br />Species:H. amphibius<br /><br /><br /><br />References: <a href="http://www.enjoyart.com/library/animal_art_photo/large/hippopotamus.jpg">http://www.enjoyart.com/library/animal_art_photo/large/hippopotamus.jpg</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32950849-115642811047131834?l=trackgod.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M Senthil Kumerenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878089449130721433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32950849.post-1156342897824322392006-08-23T22:05:00.000+08:002006-08-23T22:44:20.946+08:00<p><u><span style="color:#0000ff;"></span></u> </p><p>alamak! guess wad! today was probably the most boring day of the week so far! oh noooo... :(</p><p>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 </p><p> </p><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</p><p> </p><p>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 :)</p><p> </p><p>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 :(</p><p> </p><p>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</p><p> </p><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...</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><br /><u><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Animal Of The Day!</span></u><br /><u><span style="color:#0000ff;"></span></u><u><span style="color:#0000ff;"></span></u><br /><u><span style="color:#0000ff;"></span></u><br /><span style="color:#cc66cc;">The Saltwater Crocodile</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.animals-pictures-dictionary.com/files/images/85.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.animals-pictures-dictionary.com/files/images/85.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The saltwater or estuarine crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) is the largest of all existing reptiles, and is often said to be the most dangerous to man. It is found in suitable habitat throughout Southeast Asia and northern Australasia.<br /><br /><br /><strong>Diet</strong><br /><p>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.</p><br /><br /><br /><strong>Size</strong><br /><br /><br />Adult male saltwater crocodiles are typically 5 metres (17 ft) long, although larger individuals may surpass 6 metres (20 ft) or 7 metres (23 ft) in length and weigh more than 1500 kg (3307 lb). Average sized males weigh around 500 kg (1100 lb). Females are much smaller than males, with typical female body lengths in the range of 2.5–3 metres.<br /><br /><br /><strong>Habitat and Range</strong><br /><p><strong></strong></p><p>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).</p><p></p><p><strong>Scientific Classification</strong></p><p><br />Kingdom:Animalia</p><p><br />Phylum:Chordata</p><p><br />Class:Reptilia</p><p><br />Order:Crocodilia</p><p><br />Family:Crocodylidae</p><p><br />Subfamily:Crocodylinae</p><p><br />Genus:Crocodylus</p><p><br />Species:C. porosus</p><p></p><p>References: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltwater_Crocodile">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltwater_Crocodile</a> and <a href="http://images.google.com.sg/imgres?imgurl=http://www.animals-pictures-dictionary.com/files/images/85.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.animals-pictures-dictionary.com/&amp;amp;h=250&w=350&amp;sz=59&hl=en&amp;start=125&tbnid=c50w3rvrg5t4MM:&amp;amp;tbnh=86&tbnw=120&amp;prev=/images%3Fq%3DSaltwater%2BCrocodile%26start%3D120%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN">http://images.google.com.sg/imgres?imgurl=http://www.animals-pictures-dictionary.com/files/images/85.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.animals-pictures-dictionary.com/&amp;amp;h=250&w=350&amp;sz=59&hl=en&amp;start=125&tbnid=c50w3rvrg5t4MM:&amp;amp;tbnh=86&tbnw=120&amp;prev=/images%3Fq%3DSaltwater%2BCrocodile%26start%3D120%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN</a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32950849-115634289782432239?l=trackgod.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M Senthil Kumerenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878089449130721433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32950849.post-1156256211835733042006-08-22T21:54:00.000+08:002006-08-22T22:41:03.633+08:00<span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#000000;">okieeee man ! today was a crazy day! like totally.... everyone is going weird today... dunno why!<br /><br />k firstly i woke up in the morning and i took my breakfast and stuff... yes... crackers and milo again... getting irritated already... then i went to check my blog and i saw that preetha had tagged! hahaha... not bad not bad... soooo i then followed my daddy to the motorbike and rode to skool! :D vrooooom vroooooom... on the way, i saw this cock, riding a damn nice mountain bike, having nice helmet and gear on and riding with sooo much enthusiasm... but guess wad... his freaking tyre was punctured dei! then when he rides he keeps on bouncing... eh please lar, u riding on the road wif a freaking punctured tyre and wat is worse! u look like a retard riding that wif professional gear and u wanna get killed on the road issit if somehow ur brakes fail u and then u start flying... use ur brain larrrrrrr... okieee... then i reached skool to be greeted by sleepy faces haha... sneha was nicely sleeping ah... then i went up for assembly and the brunei students got introduced to the skool... </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#000000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#000000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#000000;">then assembly was over and we went for civics which was about some manners thingy... then after that we had extra bio lesson with mr ngan... haha... as usual the funny and entertaining mr ngan who acts fierce! :P but he is a nice guyyy... after that had maths lecture...omg dunno wat shit the lecturer was toking... she is damn blardie monotonous... ohh then i received message from lavnea saying that she had no skool and she was in j8 and i could collect something from her... soo i was happy that i was gonna meet her after quite a long time... lol... but before that, after maths lecture, i had PW where i got screwd by my PW teacher together with the rest of the class for shitty written report... omg... PW SUCKS! and she damn happily criticizing us for our shitty work... please la... we got sooo many other subjects and PW is like a not-so-important subject... no one gives a damn! i think MOE should like remove it... it's of no use...</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;">then after that had Chem lecture where i was unusually awake and listening to the chem lecturer about how to distinguish amines, amides and ammonium salts :D not bad ahhh haha... then after that decided to go j8 to meet lavnea but then as i got message from her that she was in the macs at the bus interchange... but i needed to go j8 cos i was in need of a toilet! :P sooo i was proceeding to the j8 toilet when suddenly i heard a squeak! i turned around n i saw dheesha n vani together! haha... n i was like ok... wait for me! :P sooo after i did my business i went to tok to them and we decided to go for window shopping! lol... i decided to go n meet lavnea later... sooo... i was walking around with those two loosus... then we were looking at toys, teddy bears holding cakes, books, cards etc...then we took the lift to go down... omg... once we entered the lift, there was not turning back... THOSE TWO decided to go up and down, up and down all the levels like dunno how many times! haha... and i was like ok... wat is wrong wif u! haha... then we left the lift finally and we walked to the sports shop to see my favourite tights ! i wanna buy them man! they are soooo pretty! :D</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;">then, we were standing at one weird spot and i was like looking at the photo of dheesha's hair supposedly curling up to a heart immediately after it fell on the floor after cutting... i refused to believe it! haha... but now i do, just a little bit... a little only :D haha... then i decided to meet lavnea and her fren anisha... felt damn bad for going late but guess wad... i stayed with them for 2 hours inside macs! haha, bought mcchicken meal first and nicely eat and i realised the guy blaekes were next door so i decided to go say hi to them and then later return to eat... then i was doing chem together with them... we finished at 5 45 i think n i decided to take the bus service number 13 together wif lavnea to Potong Pasir and from them, we parted and i took the train back home... I continued my chem and here i am blogging too! i have got bio test tomolo! omg! gotta study man! see ya people! have a good week ahead and another animal of the day to make u believe that u can FLY ! :D</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#000000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#000000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff0000;">Animal Of The Day!</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">The Bald Eagle</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.tobinphoto.com/images/photos/bald_eagle.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 288px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="236" alt="" src="http://www.tobinphoto.com/images/photos/bald_eagle.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />The Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), also known as the American Eagle, is a bird of prey found in North America, most recognizable as the national bird of the United States.<br />The species was on the brink of extinction in the USA late in the 20th century, but now has a stable population and is in the process of being removed from the U.S. federal government's list of endangered species.<br />This eagle gets both its common and scientific names from the distinctive appearance of the adult's head. Bald in the English name refers to the white head feathers, and the scientific name is derived from Haliaeetus, the New Latin for "sea eagle," (from the Greek haliaetos) and leucocephalus, the Greek for "white head," from leukos ("white") and kephale ("head").<br /><br /><br /><strong>Range, habitat, and restoration:</strong><br /><p>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.<br />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.<br /><br /><br /><a id="Description" name="Description"></a></p><p><br /><strong>Description:<br /></strong><a class="internal" title="Bald Eagle at Combe Martin Wildlife and Dinosaur Park, North Devon, England" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bald.eagle.longshot.arp.500pix.jpg"></a><br /><a class="internal" title="Enlarge" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bald.eagle.longshot.arp.500pix.jpg"></a>Bald Eagle at Combe Martin Wildlife and Dinosaur Park, North Devon, England<br />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).<br /><br /></p><a id="Behavior" name="Behavior"></a><p><br /><strong>Behaviour:</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>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.<br />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.<br /></p><p></p><p><br /><strong>Reproduction:<br /></strong>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.<br />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.<br />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.<br />Third chicks are sometimes removed from nests to use in reintroduction programs in areas where the species has died out.<br />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.<br /><br /><a id="Diet" name="Diet"></a></p><p></p><p><br /><strong>Diet:<br /></strong>The Bald Eagle's diet is varied, including carrion, fish, smaller birds, rodents, and sometimes food scavenged or stolen from campsites and picnics.<br />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.<br />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.<br /></p><p></p><p><strong>Scientific Classification</strong> </p><p>Kingdom:Animalia</p><p>Phylum:Chordata</p><p><br />Class:Aves</p><p><br />Order:Falconiformes</p><p><br />Family:Accipitridae</p><p><br />Genus:Haliaeetus</p><p><br />Species:H. leucocephalus<br /></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />References: <a href="http://www.tobinphoto.com/images/photos/bald_eagle.jpg">http://www.tobinphoto.com/images/photos/bald_eagle.jpg</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_Eagle">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_Eagle</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32950849-115625621183573304?l=trackgod.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M Senthil Kumerenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878089449130721433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32950849.post-1156172691041474892006-08-21T22:53:00.000+08:002006-08-22T00:48:43.596+08:00omg! today i woke up realising i have maths test ! aaaaaaah ! then i mugging my blardie notes for one hour, guess wat, i checked my handphone to see preetha's msg about my blood group thingy... she messaged at four a.m. dei ! wat the hell! nocturnal creature... haha...<br /><br /><br />then i went to take my breakfast which was wad ah... oh crackers and milo... baaaaaaasket, my mum useless lar... no proper breakfast... then i went to skool in my daddy's motorbike... vroooom vroooom! then as we were passing by the roads we could see the typical china nationals and india nationals running across the roads as if they are being chased by a dog... haha, blardie cocks, traffic light just 20m away...<br /><br /><br />sooo first period chem... i didn't do a single question for chem tutorial dei! like wat the hell! i was lost ah! maybe i understood abit but i was lost totally! kadavulaeeeee bad experience... then had bio lecture about genetics of viruses toking about the operator, promoter kandravi all... then got gp and then maths test! deiii !!! I AM SERIOUS ! I DUNNO HOW TO DO THAT QUESTION! 5 MArks! but now i noe lar... thanks to nithyaaa... lol... thanks thangacchi! maths test was okok lar...<br /><br /> then had break which i spent wif the blaekes, jheeva and his sneaky sneaky smile all haha... blardie idiot who keeps coping his class' money to buy his food :D AND WE HAD PE! THE BEST LESSON IN SKOOL !!!! haha... we played floorball and we owned! haha... we had like guys girls mixed matches and then we played 4-a-side... i scored from a blardie flick like 15m out! hahaha! omg... didn't expect it... then i played volleyball wif my classmates for 30m after that on the track... wahh liaooo... ball kept flying out like dunno where ! must run 100m to pick the ball back again once it drifts to dunno where...<br /><br /><br />after that had chem focus dei... and that teacher(i wonder who), blardie hell, pregnant still revealing skin!!!! AIYOOO... please be more cautious about ur image cos u dun want ppl giving u weird names lar! i mean... grrrrrrrr... u ppl should see her... but her lesson not bad ah... right or not prabs ? ;) prabs damn excited the whole lesson listening to her... wonder why :D haha, we finished one hour earlier for chem tutorial! i was soooo happy! then i was toking to prabs about something under the G.O. and i was toking sooo animatedly that i was flailing my arms around like a cock when suddenly... oh no! i realised prabs was not wif me! that idiot went to drink from the water cooler and there was this manjan gal who was luffing at me! watt kinda embarassment is that! damn bad to me larrrr! tok n tok to me n then cheat my feelings! wah liaoooooo. hahaha... nvm nvm...<br /><br /><br />then i proceeded to the canteen and slaekeeeeeeeeeed wif the blaekesssss ah... for like almost one and a half hours... haha... and me and jheeva toked about all sortsa nonsense and he was bullying me like a bitch as usual... lol...<br /><br /><br /> then we reached j8 where most of them decided to take buses and only prabs, manpreet and me were left to take the mrt... then today i decided to be damn nice to manpreet ah and take bus wif her from toa payoh to my house... soooo... we went to toa payoh interchange leaving prabs in the mrt, and then at the interchange, when we were like queing up for the bus manpreet kept saying that i looked shorter and she was making fun at me! ok... that was not funny but wat was about to happen was... the bus arrived and then, when everyone was walking, this manjan lady was like about to go through a short cut via a small gate, and everyone behind her were like waiting for that piece of shit to move cos she was too busy talking in the phone! ok not talking (shoutingg!) naaaaabey... then i think that idiot realised and decided to not further embarass herself and get her smelly unwashed ass out of the way and move... sooo me and manpreet were in the bus... toking about training and stuff... hahah... the good times we have during training... and it was her turn to alight... so i was alone in the bus and it took a while to return home... then i went home, did my usual stuff like working out abit and then take showe and do EOM! i just finished it! PW SUCKS !!! blardie blood sucking subject... and i realise i have bio summary and homework left to do which i am gonna do right now ! haha.. and i leave u with another interesting animal of the day!<br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Animal Of The Day!</span><br /><br /> <br /><span style="color:#660000;"> THE GREAT WHITE SHARK</span><br /><a href="http://www.ngsednet.org/community/resource_uploads/Great%20White%20Shark%202.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.ngsednet.org/community/resource_uploads/Great%20White%20Shark%202.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />GENERAL DESCRIPTION: The great white shark is a streamlined swimmer and a ferocious predator with 3,000 teeth at any one time. This much-feared fish has a torpedo-shaped body, a pointed snout, a crescent-shaped tail, 5 gill slits, no fin spines, an anal fin, and 3 main fins: the dorsal fin (on its back) and 2 pectoral fins (on its sides). When the shark is near the surface, the dorsal fin and part of the tail are visible above the water.<br /><br />COLORATION: Only the underbelly of the great white shark is actually white; its top surface is gray to blue gray. This is useful in hunting its prey. The great white usually strikes from below and its grayish top coloration blends in with the dark water, enabling it to approach the prey unobserved.<br /><br />SIZE: Great whites average 12-16 feet long (3.7-4.9 m) long. The biggest great white shark on record was 23 feet (7 m) long, weighing about 7,000 pounds (3200 kg). Females are larger than males, as with most sharks. Shark pups can be over 5 feet (1.5 m) long at birth.<br /><br />DIET AND FEEDING HABITS: Young great white sharks eat fish, rays, and other sharks. Adults eat larger prey, including pinnipeds (sea lions and seals), small toothed whales (like belugas), otters, and sea turtles. They also eat carrion (dead animals that they have found floating dead in the water). Great whites do not chew their food. Their teeth rip prey into mouth-sized pieces which are swallowed whole. A big meal can satisfy a great white for up to 2 months.<br /><br />TEETH: The great white shark has 3,000 teeth at any one time. They are triangular, serrated (saw-edged), razor-sharp, and up to 3 inches (7.5 cm) long. The teeth are located in rows which rotate into use as needed. The first two rows are used in obtaining prey, the other rows rotate into place as they are needed. As teeth are lost, broken, or worn down, they are replaced by new teeth that rotate into place.<br /><br />SENSES: Shark's primarily use their sense of smell followed by their sensing of electric charges. The shark's other senses, like sensing changes in water pressure, eyesight, and hearing, are less important. The great white's nostrils can smell one drop of blood in 25 gallons (100 liters) of water. (Shark nostrils are only used for smell and not for breathing, like our nostrils. They breathe using gills, not nostrils.) The sensing of minute electrical discharges in the water is accomplished by a series of jelly-filled canals in the head called the ampullae of Lorenzini. This allows the shark to sense the tiny electrical fields generated by all animals, for example, from muscle contractions. It may also serve to detect magnetic fields which some sharks may use in navigation. The great white is the only type of shark that will go to the surface and poke its head up out of the water. No one knows exactly why it does this; perhaps it is to see potential prey such as surface-dwelling sea lions.<br /><br />GREAT WHITE SHARK ATTACKS: Most great white attacks are not fatal. Great whites account for about 1/2 to 1/3 of all 100 annual reported shark attacks. Of these 30-50 great white attacks, only 10-15 people die.<br /><br />SOCIAL GROUPS: Great whites are usually solitary animals but are occasionally spotted travelling in pairs.<br /><br />HABITAT: Great white sharks are found near shore along most of the temperate (not very hot and not very cold) coastlines around the world.<br /><br /> DISTRIBUTION: Great white sharks have been observed along the coastlines of California to Alaska, the east coast of the USA and most of the Gulf coast, Hawaii, most of South America, South Africa, Australia (except the north coast), New Zealand, the Mediterranean Sea, West Africa to Scandinavia, Japan, and the eastern coastline of China and southern Russia.<br /><br />MIGRATION: In the fall, some females migrate to warmer waters (for example, southern California) to give birth.<br /><br />SWIMMING: Great whites are propelled through the water by their powerful tails. The fins are only used for balance. Their movement is more like an aircraft's flight than other fishes swimming. They average about 2 mph (3.2 kph) but can swim 15 miles per hour (24 kph) in short bursts. They swim constantly or they will sink since, like other sharks, they have no gas filled swim bladder to keep them afloat like bony fish do. Like other sharks, their large, oily liver provides some buoyancy (floating ability). but they are still heavier than water and will sink unless they are propelling themselves through the water. Also like other sharks, they cannot swim backwards or even come to an abrupt stop, because their fins are not flexible like other fish. In order to go backwards, they must stop swimming and fall backwards, using gravity to propel themselves backwards. It has been recently discovered that great white sharks can jump out of the water. They jump into the air from deep water in order to catch fast-swimming seals. :D<br /><br />REPRODUCTION: Great white sharks reproduce via aplacental viviparity; they give birth to 2-14 fully-formed pups that are up to 5 feet (1.5 m) long. Like all sharks, fertilization of the eggs occurs within the female. The eggs hatch within the female and are nourished by eating unfertilized eggs and smaller siblings in the womb. There is no placenta to nourish the babies - they must fend for themselves, even before birth. They swim away from the mother immediately after birth, there is no maternal care-giving.<br /><br />LIFE SPAN: No one knows the life span of the great white shark. Some people estimate it to be about 100 years, but this has not been proven.<br /><br />POPULATION COUNT: Great whites are decreasing in numbers and are rare due to years of being hunted by man. They are a protected species along the coasts of California, USA, Australia, and South Africa.<br /><br />GREAT WHITE SHARK CLASSIFICATION: Kingdom Animalia (animals)Phylum ChordataSubPhylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)Class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish)Subclass Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays)Order LamniformesFamily LamnidaeGenus CarcharodonSpecies C. carcharias<br /><br /><br />References: <a href="http://www.ngsednet.org/community/resource_uploads/Great%20White%20Shark%202.jpg">http://www.ngsednet.org/community/resource_uploads/Great%20White%20Shark%202.jpg</a> and <a href="http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/sharks/species/Greatwhite.shtml">http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/sharks/species/Greatwhite.shtml</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32950849-115617269104147489?l=trackgod.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M Senthil Kumerenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878089449130721433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32950849.post-1156073715132265232006-08-20T19:02:00.000+08:002006-08-20T20:02:36.566+08:00another screwd up day... haha... guess wad time i woke up today ?<br /><br />10.30 am ! waaah, i woke up by myself this time, thanks to my mum's loud voice when she was talking to my sister... grrr... i wanted to sleep longer but i felt like crapp... so i just woke up lar! sooo my day started off, with me taking a good and long one hour shower and my mum constantly banging the bathroom door to ask wat the hell was i doing and she said that i take as long as a girl to shower... then i came out, realising i never shave... kadavulaeeeee... but i didn't bother shaving oso... haha...<br /><br />sooo i remembered that i had to go n get myself medically checked for uthavi so i decided to go down to the clinic... over there, the stupid lady at the counter gave me a very uninviting face and was staring at me as if she was gonna eat me up... talk about good service man... this issue should be referred to the PM so that he can talk about good services in Singapore next year :D waaaaah, me advising the PM siol...<br /><br />haha yeaa, sooo i waited and waited for my turn, looking at the beautiful ceiling in the clinic and all and i realised that it was gonna be my turn when a guy came out of the doctor's room... i waited for that lady to call me but noooooooooooo... i didn't hear a single voice... so i was slacking and looking around when suddenly i saw something moving... i saw the lady at the counter gesturing me to go inside! blardie cock ! my freaking card was wif her lar! and she was indian! dunno how to OPEN ur mouth and say my name issit! aiyoooo... like this, tomorrow u will be sacked by the doctor for ur wonderful service lar... soo i went to meet the doctor and i explained to him about uthavi and gave him the form lar... then he asked me to take height and weight... guess wad... my height was 176 ! like wth! how can i shrink by 3 cm dei ! how can ! something wrong wif the machine... and weight was 69kg... basket, i better go lose some weight already... aaaah...<br /><br />GUESS WAD! I DUNNO MY BLOOD GROUP! and i have to get it checked on wednesday ! soo i cannot give the uthavi form on monday ! omg! i am soooo dead larrr... sorry preethaaaa sushma n uthavi team... i am sooo sorry :(<br /><br />then i went home feeling down... and i got worse cos my mum cooked chicken... i hate her chicken lar... not nice at all... :P then i rested alot today and decided to do maths! again ! and then i went online to check wat homework we have and it's alot ! got bio which i just finished ! chem, i dunno whether should do :P<br /><br />then got EOM... stupid PW... waste of everybody's time ! grrrrrrrrr...<br /><br />shit, got maths test tomolo... i am damn scared... oh oh !<br /><br />i watched miss vasantham!<br />it is the stupidestestestestest show i ever watched in my life... first competitor already cannot make it... tok english like dunno wad ! think soo pro in beauty ahhhhhhh... come n get embarassed on tv all... i just realised that alot of singaporean indian gals cannot make it lar... what kinda representation of the indians is this ! and to think that najip is there laughing out loud at them is aiyoooooooo... (not gonna finish my sentence :P)<br />and they sing oso like dunno wad... i think even the kaakaa crowing is much better than ur singing laaa... (k lar not soooo bad) but if u cannot sing, show some other better talent... dun tell me that's ur best talent... kadavulaeeeee...<br /><br />basically, the show sucked and i dun think i gonna watch it anymore for the gals... maybe perhaps for the judge :D she is very sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet looking... And she is sweet too !<br /><br />yeaaa... now i watching the PM speak... hope he is not gonna bore us for four hours... cockanathan...<br /><br />kk people ! enjoy urself! here is some animal which most people never knew that existed :D<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Animal Of The Day !</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;">The Asiatic Lion</span><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5332/3611/1600/paigntonzoo_lion.0.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 228px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 250px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="240" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5332/3611/320/paigntonzoo_lion.0.jpg" width="228" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The Asiatic Lion has been known in India for centuries. The Ashoka Pillar, which is the national emblem of India, depicts three snarling Asiatic lions with beautifully carved curling manes and expressions. Their accurate depiction testifies to the skill of the sculptors of Mauryan times, as well as their awareness of this magnificent animal, the Asiatic Lion, often called "The King of Beasts". Asiatic Lions are built similar to their Afircan cousins but often look smaller due to their smaller manes.<br /><br /><br />Zoological name: Panthera leo persica<br /><br />Range: The Asiatic Lion is found ONLY in the wild in India in the protected wildlife park of Gir Reserve Forest in Gujarat.<br /><br />Estimated population: It is estimated that there are around 300 Asiatic Lions in the wild with over 50 in captivity, including zoos and animal parks, though many of the zoo bred lions are the result of mixed parentage between African and Asiatic Lions.<br /><br />Physical appearance: Asiatic Lion is the second largest of the "Big Cats" after the Tiger. A fully- grown male lion can reach 9 feet long including its 3-foot long tail, with a dark tuft of fur at the end. An Asiatic Lion can reach upto a size of about 4 feet tall and can weigh over 200 Kg. Lionesses are smaller in size, but equally ferocious. Lionesses are usually sandy or tawny in color. Male lions can range in color from orange-yellow to dark brown. Males are characterized by their manes, which can sometimes be black in color.<br /><br />Habitat: Asiatic Lions live in open grasslands or forests, including scrub jungle. Lions have been known to occasionally climb trees but are usually seen on the ground.<br /><br />Diet: Asiatic Lions are carnivores and hunt for their prey. They prey includes various species of deer, antelope and wild cattle or buffalo. (In Africa lions also eat zebra and wildebeest. Lions have also been observed attacking the young of hippopotamus or elephants in Africa.)<br /><br />Behaviour: Asiatic Lions are the only Big Cats to live in large groups or "prides". Prides usually consist of around 15 members, including several related lionesses, their cubs and a few males. The lionesses do most of the hunting, while the males defend the pride's territory. Lions establish their territorial boundaries by roaring and scent marking. Lionesses usually stalk their prey, until they manage to approach nearby and then attack, killing their prey with a bite to the neck. Young male lions are usually expelled from the pride after they are around 3 years old. Young female lions may stay with the pride or join other prides. Many male lions remain solitary and do not join any pride.<br /><br />Status: Asiatic Lions are a gravely endangered species. The last surviving Asiatic Lions in the Gir Forest in Gujarat are threatened by habitat loss and human encroachment. However they are recognized as extremely threatened and efforts are on to promote a captive breeding program in various zoos across India.<br /><br />References: <a href="http://www.india-wildlife-tours.com/wild-animals-in-india/indian-wildlife-asiatic-lion.html">http://www.india-wildlife-tours.com/wild-animals-in-india/indian-wildlife-asiatic-lion.html</a> and <a href="http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/reptiles/snakes/Kingcobra.shtml">http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/reptiles/snakes/Kingcobra.shtml</a> for my previous blog on king cobra :D<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32950849-115607371513226523?l=trackgod.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M Senthil Kumerenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878089449130721433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32950849.post-1155996673303335732006-08-19T21:51:00.000+08:002006-08-20T10:26:19.790+08:00<span style="color:#33ffff;">aha! my first ever proper blog entry! wheee!!!<br /><br />ok, today was a boring day overall... i didn't wanna wake up at all today! sooo lazy and my body was aching all over due to yesterday's training... My mum kept shouting at me, asking me to wake up... i woke up but i went to sleep again n i did this several times before my mum did something which irritates me alot and that is to use the water spray and spray it on my face! WAAAAAAAAH ! THANKS AMMA ! THANKS ! baaaaaasket... i think i threw the pillow at her after that :P<br /><br />ok, so i was woken up properly, had crackers and milo for breakfast and went down to the temple. A couple of funny things i saw in the temple today... Firstly, when I was walking around the perumal sanctum, i saw this old lady, sitting down, using the compact mirror to check if her make up was alright... blardie vain piece of shit... Come to the temple to pray or for wad! She shouldn't even have to worry about her face cos firstly, no one is gonna look at her and secondly, GOD is not gonna punish her for not looking pretty... Then secondly, got another lady, blardie fat, wear sari in a weird manner such that can see alot of her stomach... omg ! think u sexy issit! aiyooo... wat is all this nonsense... coming to the temple looking atrocious! not pretty sights... sometimes i wonder whether people really go to places of worship to pray... nvm... but there were some nice people too! they were picking up the flowers on the ground so that no one steps on them, and place it somewhere else safe... (dunno whether they are trying to look nice and sucking up to saamy but ohh wells :P)<br /><br />ohhh and i prayed for everyone! (for those ding dongs who want to ask "What did u pray for? Did u pray for me?") haha<br /><br />soo i finished my prayers after that n went to buy vegetarian mee... yummy yumms... damn nice ah! haha<br /><br />then after that i slacked, slept, listen to mj music :D<br />did maths went online<br />did maths again and here i am ! wahh liaooo skool sucks man! sooo much stuff aiyooo<br /><br />but nvm! i hope that together wif my frens, we can get through our difficult times :D<br /><br />ohhh and that's abit it i think ! i am leaving u wif something interesting... ENJOY ! :D</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Animal Of The Day !</span><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5332/3611/1600/king_cobra.0.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 202px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 284px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="249" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5332/3611/320/king_cobra.0.jpg" width="108" border="0" /></a><span style="color:#ffcc00;"> The King Cobra is the largest venomous snake. The solitary King Cobra lives in rainforests, tropical deciduous forests, tropical scrub forests, and tropical grasslands of India, southern China, and southeast Asia. Several of people die from the bite of the King Cobra each year. A King Cobra can even kill an elephant.<br />The King Cobra can slither on land, climb on trees, and swim on water; it often lives near water. It has a life span of about 20 years.<br />The Hood: When the King Cobra is threatened or on the attack, it will hiss, rear up, and flatten its neck ribs into a hood. There are false eyespots on the hood, which can scare some predators.<br />Anatomy: King Cobras have been found up to 18 feet (5.5 m) long, but average about 13 ft (4 m) long. Its hollow fangs are up to 1/2 inch (1.25 cm) long. Poison is forced through the fangs when the cobra bites. The scaly skin glistens but is dry to the touch. Adults are yellow, green, brown, or black; the throat is light yellow or cream-colored. Juveniles are black with yellow or white bars crossing the body. The King Cobra smells using its forked tongue. Although it is deaf to sounds, it can feel vibrations (like footsteps).<br />Like all snakes, King Cobras are cold-blooded; they are the same temperature as the environment. They continue to grow all their lives, getting bigger and bigger each year.<br />Hunting and Diet: The King Cobra is a carnivore (meat-eater). King Cobras are venomous; one bite can paralyze and kill their prey within minutes. The victim dies from suffocation, as the lungs and heart stop.<br />Like all snakes, they swallow the prey whole, head first. The top and bottom jaws are attached to each other with stretchy ligaments, which let the snake swallow animals wider that itself. Snakes can't chew their prey; food is digested by very strong acids in the snake's stomach.<br />The King Cobra eats mostly cold-blooded animals, including </span><span style="color:#ffcc00;">snakes</span><span style="color:#ffcc00;"> (like the rat snake) and lizards. After swallowing a large animal (which can take hours), the King Cobra can go without food for months.<br />Reproduction: Female King Cobras build a leafy nest early in spring; they lay up to 20 to 50 white, leathery eggs, which have an incubation period of 60 to 70 days. Nesting females are very dangerous.<br />Classification: Class Reptilia (reptiles), Order Squamata (lizards and snakes), Suborder Serpentes, Family Elapidae, Genus Ophiophagus, Species hannah.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32950849-115599667330333573?l=trackgod.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M Senthil Kumerenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878089449130721433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32950849.post-1155911444267931442006-08-18T22:26:00.000+08:002006-08-18T22:30:44.276+08:00haha finally, i have got a blog ! haha... heylooo ppl ! will blog alot in the next few days... haha... anticipate the entertainment ! :D<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32950849-115591144426793144?l=trackgod.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M Senthil Kumerenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878089449130721433noreply@blogger.com0