Animal instincts

I saw this strikingly pretty bird in school yesterday, it flew past and above me to a tree across the road. Following its path, I stood transfixed for at least five minutes as i watch it pecking away at the branches. Then hop hop, upside down it stood, just as firmly, and peck peck away, all over the tree, sounding it out for worms perhaps.

A caucasian student walked past me and smiled. Maybe she would have smiled wider had she seen what i saw. Nice. I later identified it as the Pileated Woodpecker. Not a rare bird as I thought it may be, but still something hardly ever seen in an everyday life of Singapore.

Still on birds, last Sunday while on the bus to sunday soccer (which was fucked up by some people who lacked faith and integrity), I saw a brown hawk-like bird soaring above Sungei Punggol before it dived down head first into the river. Wonder if it caught a fish. Nice.



Of course the somewhat rare eagle who lost its way and landed up in singapore, and eventually found by us a couple years back. White Head Eagle is it? can't remember.

Maybe i have a hidden talent and passion as an ornithologist.

More on wild-life, sort of. Funny incident while running in school last night. On my left was Hall 14, on my right was a forest that buffers NTU from the army training ground. This guy was standing on the pavement and staring intensely across the road. As I ran past him, he waved his hand and pointed towards the forest.

I turned and saw a couple in the weirdest of dating place, sitting on the sloping grass patch which directly face the dark and hardly romantic forest. They were hugging in the dark.

'What's that?' .. he asked ... 'Monkey?'

Animal instincts, primitive needs.. whichever is weirder.