(An article taken from today's NST online)
Link: http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Sunday/Columns/20050821081347/Article/indexb_html

Remember your beef? This is what happens when you're not eating your veggies...

My whole perspective of the quiet docile bovine is slowly changing...

Yesterday, I've realized something...

If you try stepping on a wasp (with shoes on lar!) very hard, it'll give out this bursting *popping* sound like stepping on a small air-filled plastic bubble.

I was walking up the stairs in Jabatan Sains Haiwan, trailing behind one of the staff when he suddenly delibrately stepped on something (I didn't realize it was a wasp until later) which gives this echo-ic *pop*. He looked back and sniggered, saying "Nanti benda ni serang orang lain..." and he pointed at this huge big black-yellow stripey ass of a tebuan.

I tried stepping on a bee, but ended up with a sick squishy sound and a black gooey mess beneath my sandal...

Sorry! My Yahoo bandwidth exceeded it's limit, so you can't see the video of Sharmini (my cosmate) 'torturing' a calf's ear...

Dogathon was incredible! Imagine 1500 people coming with huge bunches of dogs (some even bring 4!) eventhough Serdang's air reached around API 150. Even the first dog (his name is Itchy...don't ask why, I myself don't know) that participate for the first Dogathon even came...though the reason he's there is more for the food...

I'll elaborate more on Dogathon and upload pics later... The strain of a straight 2-weeks of exams right after Dogathon, last minute studying and the haze is immuno-suppressing my body. I'll continue after my flu and toothache clears up.

Yeah....Like all committee members now going haywired with doggy event stuffs and annoying last minute additions and changes in our heads ( THE DAY OF THE EVENT IS THIS SUNDAY!!!), I'll be promoting to you.... DOGATHON 2005!!

Magazine, Newspaper Advert

Official Banner

Hand-Made Dogathon Banners hung around UPM

I don't want to sound like a nagging news reporter, so here to make it short... Dogathon is originally a marathon race for both dogs and owners held at Bukit Ekspo in UPM almost every early August, and as the years passed by (this will be our 9th year running it), it grows from a simple-running-around-the-hill thing to a huge mixture of dog fashion shows, carnivals, horse-rides, best tricks, dog shows,etc. and of course with the main dogathon event. This year is the seriously huge one so far, with Purina as our main sponsor since the first year and 15 and counting more co-sponsors. So to anyone around Klang Valley, around KL, around Serdang, Seri Kembangan, Petaling, Cheras, Putra Jaya...anywhere around UPM, KL, Selangor, N9, Melaka etc. ...dogs or no dogs, COME!!!! I BEG YOU!!! MAKE IT OUR BEST EVENT SO FAR!!! The Main theme this year is "Who Let The Dogs Out?!" and is mainly based on the cowboy era. Entrance is free, no age limit ( from 0 months old to 110 years old), but if you want your dogs to participate in any of the events, just register at our registration counter and pay just a small fee (it's for charity!). For more info go to this site : www.geocities.com/dogathon2005 or call the 2 people in the advert above, or even contact me.

Trust me...this will be one the biggest Dogathon our faculty ever organized and the one you'll ever remember... The whole committee is killing themselves to give you the best...

Our pamphlet (Limited 5000 pieces), a work design originally done by....ME!!! (and also the banner and the mag/newspaper advert--yerdehs..perasan diri :P ):

outside

inside

PLEASE!!! COME!!!

1 day and 45 minutes in counting to D-DAy.

Archbishop Dominic Vendargon of KL died yesterday. God Bless his soul. Please say a prayer for him.

The full body view of the mixed Brahman bull caught just now...

And his gang of 3 stooges...

Not forgetting the kambings ... (though i didn't manage to get photos at the deer farm, i got a video from my coursemate's digicam)

The Katjang goats (So manja like dogs!)

Cute eh? The kid actually cried out like a human baby...We the evil people secara susah payahnya separated it from it's mother to cuddle it, to shower all our "CUTENYA!!!" thingies on it ( but in the end we let it go also wat!)...

As a result of all the tugging and pulling and pushing of kambing horns... I was 'awarded' with tufts of goat hairs all over my cover-alls...

The people whom sama-sama berganding bahu wrestling with the goats...

Oh...and one whom still manage to be the cheerleader for all...

(previously)

The Cattle-ShittyPatty-Galore producer is having their sweet time regurgitating whatever they ate on the hill...

For student-oggling purpose...we caught a bull and a cow ... WITH NO HANDS!

Oh, by the way...the thing that holds the mixed Brahman bull above is the squeeze chute. That's why no super big tough man is required to catch him. The man with the white hair is Dr. Baljit, our Ruminant + Farm Mgm demonstrator.

Dr. Baljit happily swatting some flies while expressing his enthusiasm about some parts of the bull...

The typical Brahman hump infested with buffalo flies(this are not your normal domestic house flies, this one is even scarier)...

Like I said...not your typical house flies...

And next is the drooling Friesian cow that moo-es annoyingly almost every minute...

A cow's ass for yew!...

Oh, and the drool from the mouth of the ass-owner...

Hey! Guess what! The cow's drooolingg all over me!

*Hearing Deb screaming in the background*

The milk clamp that stops traditional milkers from constantly landing in the hospital due to a grudged milking cow...

This is the face of your future beef...

So eat your vegetables...

Or else...

Or else you'll ended up being 'ditanduk' like him...

*to be continued*

The much awaited Ladang Trip (Farm Management + Ruminant Production) photos accumulated for the past 3 weeks...

Approaching UPM's Taman Pertanian Universiti's Ladang Ternakan where they keep the cattle, deers (yes...deers...the shy shy big-antler-rusa) and the doggy-attitude kambings...

And look what greeted us!

SHIT!

And the culprit(s) are happily munching on a hill far away...

to be continued...

Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.

COol! Me with the stripey-bleached hair!