Girlfriends meet-up

Today, Mei, Peiying, Yimien & myself - we met up after a year. We had a good catch-up session and summarized our life events that happened in 2006. It was good to know that everyone of us are doing good in our life. Most exciting news of the tea session was one of my gfs relocating to New Zealand for 2-3 years. There would be endless flow of fresh quality milk and fruits! We spoke about despite Singapore being an affluence country, we are unable to have abundant supply of fresh quality fruits, vegetables or seafood. I never realised all this until I returned from Tokyo.

The other 2 gfs are also going to be kept busy with Europe honeymoon planning, and a new house coming up! We have all moved on to a second phase in life.

Bf was busy running around this weekend for his project. Despite that he took time to have lunch with me today, and brought me to Kate Spade to try to get my wallet fixed. Appreciate it.

Just as our friendships have blossomed over more than 10 years, I noticed another bizzare friendship between a predator and prey.

THE FREAKY friendship between an Axis deer and an African lion at the Doha Zoo is flourishing well, despite their disparate behaviours.

One is a predator while the other is always the prey. One is a carnivore while the other relishes leaves and grass as a repast. One is aggressive in nature while the other as docile as, well, a deer.

Because they belong to different environments, they are now separated at night, Dr Abubacker explains. During the day, they mostly share the same paddock, though the veterinarian doesn’t like the idea much. “The deer likes an open, grassy environment while the cub loves to be on dry, hard surfaces,” he said.“But, we are doing our best and trying to create a dual-purpose accommodation with a sand bed inside the paddock for the deer,” he said. At night, the Axis deer is removed to another enclosure. In fact, they are left together only when they are watched by the keeper.

They don’t know how long the two will continue their strange relationship. “We are keeping a close watch”, Dr Abubacker said. You never know when the lion takes a fancy for some fresh deer meat and goes for Fantu’s jugular. That will be a sad day for the zoo. Keeping the two young animals together is an experiment, according al-Yazeedi, the zoo chief. They want to see how long the predator and the prey could continue to be friends.

Gulf Times Newspaper 2007/2/11