//...strike!...\\

Sunday, January 15, 2006

I remember not too long ago when i'm walking to Potong Pasir MRT station 'cos i rushing back to mshs to oversee the CCA Maze. It was a wet wet week; downpours everyday here and there. I was at the midway between the Broadway food centre and the station, the pathway through a big big grasspatch, or should i say 'field'... It was so totally flooded, it looked like a padi field up close.

It was just a spilt-second image, but it's locked up for quite some time in my mind and provided me with food for thought. Shucks, i'm becoming another mr lim, basket... Anyway while walking on the pathway and looking downwards -it became a habit to look low while walking- i noticed something amist the padi field. Tadpoles, hundreds of them, black little dots scurrying around in the flooded field. Some muddle-headed frogs must have mistaken the flooded field for a swamp or marsh and laid their spawns there, nice choice there froggy... I stared at the tadpoles while walking for a few seconds; they dont look big to me, might be hatched just a few days ago. After all, the monsoon season started not too long ago, so the field couldn't have flooded so heavily anyway.

Which brings me back to present. It had not rained heavily for two whole days, and it's quite hot. Is the padi-field still around? What will happen to those tadpoles trapped in the field? When all the water evaporates, how are they going to survive? Are they going to die off just like that? Does anyone know of thier plight? I wish i can do something about it, but everybody's gonna call me a crazy kid. I loved the wildlife since young, after being fascinated by all the wildlife documentaries i've watched on Channel 12 (now Central) and the SCV channels. I wanted to be on TV like Steve Irwin and Jeff Corwin to promote facts about the wildlife and spread the message around, which is to protect Mother Earth. Too bad, these kind of jobs wont earn you a living in S'pore, except maybe working in the zoo which ok doesn't attracts me much either.

Somethimes i feel like one of the tadpoles stuck in that padi-field. Difficult circumstances surround me; it threatens to destroy my life and take me out of this world. Mother Nature created the monsoon seasons, will she do something to help thesse tadpoles out? Not that i know...

//Brandon struck at 10:06 PM\\