Firefly in da House

My friends would know that I live in a kampung area. As a kid I had tons of fun catching dragonflies, setting traps to catch birds, digging earthworms to fish at the nearby river, etc etc.

As I grew up I realised that these creatures were just disappearing….. Maybe its the urbanization, the climate change, whatever. So it was quite a surprise when a lone firefly flew into my house on one fine night.

I caught it and took some photos of it :)

Tried to take one with the lights off, but the “glow” didn’t come out too well. You can see the 2 strips of green light near the bottom of the insect and the ARE bright if you switch off the surrounding lights.

Then I thought: “Is this really a firefly?” Did some googling and found this image:

The scientific name is Pyractomena angulata for this variety. Not exactly the same but I did learn that there are many variety of fireflies… So maybe the one I caught was the Asian variety :)

Some facts about these cute insects:

The light they emit is almost 100% efficient. i.e. almost all the energy is converted to light and not to heat  and so it is not even warm. Fireflies are also used in the research of cancer, multiple sclerosis and cystic fibrosis. Useful little bugger eh?

I did check my garden and on SOME nights you can actually see about 20 of these fellas glowing and gathering around a tree. Couldn’t take a picture of it as a normal compact camera just could not capture the blinking dots of lights…. pity….

New Furniture

Had a bit of time on my hands…. so I decided to make some minor changes to my room. Just minor minor ones… specifically my PC and TV area :)

I have been know to like to change the orientation of my room every few years. It makes the room feel “nicer” with a new breath of “freshness”. Have something in my mind now but we’ll just see how it goes later on.

The room originally looked like this.

Bought a rack, some drawers and a notice board from Tesco. Did a little modification and now it looks like this

You can never have enough place to store everything, especially if you keep almost everything like me!!! Gonna make a light feature / shelf for the bed in a day or two. Just can’t seem to figure out how I like the design best. Will post once its up.

Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete

Just finished watching this. For those uninitiated, this is the COMPLETE version that comes with the Blu Ray release. This has additional scenes which are not found on the DVD release.

VERY VERY GOOD!!!!!!!

The additional scenes not only lengthens the movie but it also provides more details and depth to the storyline – like how Cloud found Denzel and many more. I would say that this version would allow people who are not familiar with the FF7 story to have a better grasp of the movie.

One tip – watch all of it including the end credit part. Like the FF games there is a short – very short continuation of the story right at the end. I don’t know if this was on the DVD release. I’ll go through the DVD release again.

If you are a die hard FF7 fan, DO NOT miss this!!! Thumbs up to Square Enix!!!!

About Rechargeable Batteries

Most people have many battery operated gadgets nowadays. Remote controls, alarm clocks, wireless controllers, keyboards and mouse. I came across this article about rechargeable batteries - the normal batteries, AA, AAA, D etc and not those propriety batteries that came with like PSPs or laptops.

Very useful read if you are like me.... with wireless stuff all around.

Adventures in Rechargeable Batteries