hiya! yes, same timing again... and the same reason why i am still awake. LOL!
well today a few interesting things happened.
during noon, while i was cooking my lunch, my cats jumped right across my metal gate and at that instant i knew that they must have caught something. and true enough, when i went to investigate, i realised that 小花 caught a adult lizard. both of them were playing with their prey(the lizard) like any cats would do and i was like standing there, looking at them and the lizard. at first i thought," well, i shouldnt do anything. my cats caught it and i shouldnt take away their 'trophy' " and i went back to my cooking.
but after awhile, i went back to look at the cats, who were still playing with that lizard. that lizard is, of coz, not badly wounded and cats wont kill their prey immediately. they tend to, or have a liking, to play with their prey before consuming the prey. thats a very natural way of life and its just a part of "survival of the fittest". My initial thought was i shouldn't interfere because my cats caught it with all their predatory skills and the lizard lost its battle to survive. but after i saw the pleading, glittering pair of eyes from the lizard and the minor wounds it had sustained, i started to sympathise the state of that lizard. really, i could literally see the desperation the lizard was through those eyes. In the end, i gave up my stand of not interfering with a natural process and saved that poor lizard.
when i told my mum about this, she scolded me for almost letting the cats to kill that lizard. but i defended myself saying that i should not have interfere with it as it's just a way of life. and in fact, deep down in my heart, i actually feel guilty for letting the lizard go. and this incident reminded me of a event that took place mani years ago. In one of a very prestigous film/documentary making ceremony, a film maker was given the highest award for producing a film about a young African boy, who was at the brink of death due to starvation, being surrounded by African predators. the predators waited and did not proceed to kill off the weaken boy. eventually, the young boy succumb to his fate and the predators approached the lifeless torso.
you may think that that film maker was very curel and he used a dying child to win an award, but think deeper. would you think that the boy would survive even if the file maker rescuse him? he was at the point of severe starvation and even if food was given to him, his greatly weaken body might not even respond to the intake of food or water. and it's against the ethnics of a naturalist as one should never interfere with the process of nature.
Frankly speacking. deep down in your heart, do u feel as much sympathy for the afrcian boy as that for a house lizard? its really strange how such a thin line can be drawn between 2 totally different species of organism... i cant say much though, as i myself isnt a vegetarian. Haha~~
[btw, at night, 小花 caught a cricket and my mum says its OK to let the cats play with it! =_=!! but that cricket escaped the teeth and claws of my cats by itself. LOL]
anyway! i realised that my mum can be totally engrossed with her novels that she can forget about other things. this is what happened during afternoon
[Me looking out of the window and realised that its raining. so i walk out of my room and proceed to my mum, who was reading her novel]
Me: hey mum, it's raining outside now....
mum: orh..... ...... ......
(few seconds later)
Me: mum, *RAINING* now.
mum: orh... .... .... .... uh... HUH!!!!! IT'S RAIING NOW?!! omg MY clothes!! (and off she went)
haha! funny mum i have. totally blur when she is too engrossed with her novel. sometimes, when she is not reading her novel, she would take out her "无字天书" TOTO prediction book and try to deciper the next series of TOTO numbers. haha! and sometimes she's quite accurate too! lol!
okok! spent too much time blogging this entry... shall blog next time
oh btw, really proud of myself today. for today(22 June) is the most productive day of my whole June holiday! 4 chapters in a day! hahah! happy and sad at the same time! LOL
01:16,
love is floating in the air
