Baby otter

Last night, I was running at the Botanic Gardens. I saw some otters at a distance away. Later, I came upon a baby otter abandoned by the four adults. When the adults have truly left. I went up to the baby. I fended off dogs, joggers and people from getting too close. I called the Botanic Gardens, no one answered. I called ACRES.  Some passer-bys helped me in guarding the baby otter and also sending pictures to ACRE. 20 minutes later, they sent two persons from the Otter group. One hour later, a director who is licensed to handle wildlife came from the National Parks and took the baby away. I stood there for an hour, helping. Then, they all left in the golf cart. Suddenly as soon as it started, it was over, I was there in the darkness. I went home after.

Poor Mimi is hospitalised. He has not eaten for two days now. I am sad. It looks serious.

I dreamed of Sweetie last night.

I find that my HP printer turns itself on daily. It then proceeds to do something before switching off again. It is presumably sending diagnostics information back to HQ.

I did try to interfere with that by pressing the switch once. In any case, it continued the same process the very next day.

Singapore Restaurant Week is back. I haven't heard of it for about five years or so now. I was surprised to see an email from them appearing in my mailbox.

I don't go try restaurants much anymore. Earlier this year, I did visit two which is actually rare for me these days.

I am like a hermit these days, haha.

Cause and Effect - You Think You Know Her

Lightning

Bread

The problem with buying bread at night is this, you can't find any!

I was at Barcook Bakery at Square 2 at 8:20 pm. Zip, nada, nothing! I was then at Breadtalk (I know I know, horrible stuff) but they are under renovation. Same for Cedele at Novena Square.

I went to Duke Bakery at United Square, sold out. Same for Cedele. I finally found a loaf of multi-grain bread from Swiss Bake at Cold Storage!

F-4 Phantom II

What am I reading?

I have just started on the two volumes on French tanks by Steven Zaloga. This was sparked by playing War Thunder on the computer as a friend had taken to using French tanks in the game. They were pretty horrible in the game though their cast, shaped armour were pretty advanced for its time.

I am also reading "Battle Flight: RAF Air Defence Projects and Weapons Since 1945" by Chris Gibson. This is about British Cold War air defences as denoted in the title, much of which were paper projects and prototypes that were never fielded. This is an area that I know little about.

A few decades ago, Singapore did field the Bloodhound surface to air missile (SAM). This is examined in the book by Gibson.

I have read a few books about the Battle of Stalingrad over the years. I have also read much more on the Eastern Front.

"Winter Storm: The Battle for Stalingrad and the Operation to Rescue 6th Army" by Hans Wijers has just arrived in the mail. I have always wanted to read more accounts of the firefights in the tractor factory, the city fighting in general. This volume should have the narratives I seek.

And as I usual, I am reading numerous others, each at various stages of completion.

Oh dear, a friend has been reading Ken Ham's creationist site. ☹️

I have used metal straws some years before. This weekend, I had the experience of using one in a café. Needless to say, sucking a metal straw isn't pleasant, I rather drink from the glass. No, I don't like straws period, metal or plastic. This move to stop the use of straws is absurd and amusing at the same time, almost Kafkaesque.

I wish the Orchard library will carry Air International and Jane's Defence Weekly. However, I don't think they will.

I also finished Marble Age, a unforgiving but fun game.

I tried Gremlins Inc, TASTEE Lethal Tactics, Bronze Age, Polaris Sector, Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville.

Not bad, promsing games. I did finish Bronze Age, a neat little package, fun.

Someone was telling me something in what seems to be in English but I cannot make out what she was saying. She could not get to the point.

Yesterday, I had two insurance folks visit me. They also said a whole bunch of things. Again, they seemingly spoke in English but I could not make out what they were saying. I asked many things for clarification but they left me puzzled.

I did also try Wartile. Slick and well implemented. However, despite my interest in Vikings, the gameplay doesn't seem compelling.

I tried a few more games yesterday. I had tried 16bit Trader some time ago. This time, I went a little bit further and I think I figured the game out. It involves doing quests to supplement income. It is hard to trade without quests as travel is extremely costly.

I also tried Killing Floor 2, it is not bad at all. It runs on the Unreal Engine. Unlike other games, this doesn't give me any headaches. I tried the Berserker, the Gunslinger and finally the Commando. I managed to get through four waves with the Commando only to meet my demise at the Boss.

I tried Airmech Wastelands which is a RPG-ish implementation of the basic Airmech. Slick, evocative but.. it feels a bit like a cash grab despite the amount of great work put in. I hear Front Line Assembly music in the background. Very nice.

I tried more of Battlevoid Harbinger. Good game. I think I have pretty much exhausted it. Time to move on. Recommended.

I went to take a look at Torchlight II again. No, I don't like it.

I also took a quite look at Void Destroyer. Five sets of tutorials. It looks involving.