Revisit the chilling thoughts

Yes, it's mid-February and the daylight is already longer. Some of you couldn't wait to pull the Hawaiian shirt out of the bottom dresser, but being a naysayer, I would say "not so fast." Daily high is still below or right at the freezing and in the low twenties in average at night. I don't need a groundhog to find out if Spring is here, the frozen little pond in my backyard tells me it isn't yet.

Speaking of my little pond, I can't help but giving myself credits, yes, again, on saving Shrek's life. "No big deal, man," you may say. And you're right, maybe I'm a little narcissistic. However, as I read the news on Feb. 12, which was the 200th birthday of two famous historical national icons - Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, I also found out that 2008 was named The Year of Frog, which was a global campaign to raise public awareness and understanding of the crisis of amphibian extinction. What a coincidence? How appropriate on my rescue action, eh! Honest with you, I didn't really know about that until last Thursday.

Now, compare this photo with the one above, which one you think Shrek would like to be in if he has a choice?



See this link for more info on The Year of Frog campaign

http://www.amphibianark.org/yearofthefrog.htm

baby fish update

If you read the comments from the previous posting "Oh babies", you know one of my followers, Chao, suggested that I could have a TV interview on Ann Curry's NBC morning show. You know what? I counted the baby fish in the aquarium again last night and I found seven of them. Yay... the mother fish, a platy, is just one baby fish shy of tying the record of Nadya Suleman who gave birth to her Octuplets.

New video

I have posted a new video at the bottom of the previous post if you missed it. If you haven't read the post, read it before watching the video clip.

OH, BABIES !

Sometimes life happens.

Ahem, don't get me wrong... I already have two kids and my will doesn't have extra space to add any extra names. But things got a little out of hand, a few babies did came out of nowhere in my house just a couple of days ago. "What?" "I didn't do anything, they're not mine!" Sounds familiar?

OK, let me explain. There's no secret of it. Just think about when I have ahhhh..... two fish that have big bellies and the chance that they give birth to a few fishy babies is nothing new. Of course, I'm grateful to have a few little fishy friends hanging around in Shrek's neighborhood. However, whether they can survive and grow up is all up to the law of natural selection.

After spotting the first one, I couldn't help but spending the next twenty minutes trying to get an accurate head count, but I gave up after counting only five of them. I realized that there's no way the mother fish can beat Nadya Suleman, the 33-year-old woman who lately captured the headline news by giving birth to octuplets. If you don't quite know how to pronounce it, try to pronounce "octopus" first.

Wait, but she is a single mom and already have six children! And those young children are raised pretty much by her mom Angela. Well, you can fill in the rest of what you can think of.

The last thing that I want to say is, yes, sometimes life does happen, but in this case, lives ARE made to happen. I don't know. What do you think?




Here's a snapshot of the mother fish.

Size matters

One of my followers asked how big Shrek's neighborhood is, i.e. the size of the aquarium. I hope he isn't planning to file litigation against me on frog abuse. Just look at how big Shrek has grown and you'll know he's just a happy camper there.

OK, it's a 30-gallon aquarium. The filter is a cheap underwater filtration system that costs 15 bucks or so.

Good question!

Shrek: Am I fat?

Lewis: You want an honest answer?

Shrek: Yes.... wait, no.... arrrrrgh! O... K...

Lewis: Your weight is equivalent to the top 50 percentile of the obese population in the U.S., how about that?

Shrek: That's it? Whew! I feel better!