JJ and Poi Poi off to a good home

Pras from dogsports NZ came to pick up JJ this morning. He was so impressed with Jet and believed in the quality of his offspring that he convinced his friend, Bryce to pick up Poi Poi as well. Hannah and I are happy that JJ and Poi Poi are going to be owed by Pras and Bryce because they will be working with them in Schutzhund as well.

End of Semester 1, 2012

It is the end of Semester 1, 2012. I have officially finished my tutor assignments for the labs. Hannah and I will be marking the exams for both BIOSCI 101 and BIOSCI 107 in the upcoming weeks. Since it is already June (half a year has passed!), it is a good idea to do a quick review of the goals I have made for 2012.

1. Finish and publish the two papers I have been working on for the past 3 months (ON-GOING) .
2. Portions of the PhD research to be done : location recce (ACHIEVED), collaborators negotiation (ACHIEVED), literature review (ON-GOING), experimental design (ON-GOING).
3. Publish at least one paper from my PhD research before end of 2012.
4. Pass our GUE fundamentals (ACHIEVED)and Rec 3 (Trimix) (ON-GOING) .
5. Conduct at least one exploration dive on the Blue Creek resurgence with TechDive NZ.
6. Clock a total of at least 40 recreational dives and 10 technical dives  (ON-GOING) . 
7. Teach 2 labs per week (this will help with the monthly finances as well :) )(ACHIEVED)
8. Stick to a strict exercise regime ( I already have a regime, but sticking to it is another story :P). (OPPS!)
9. Run the Auckland Marathon.
10. Call home (Singapore) at least once every fortnight  (ON-GOING) .
11. Go home (Singapore) at least one time in year 2012 (not counting the wedding date!) (ACHIEVED).
12. Go back to Iron Mountain.

8.5 weeks... ears are standing up :)

Puppies are 8.5 weeks old now. There have been expressions of interest but unfortunately no one has yet to follow through and adopt any puppies yet. We have advertised in more online classifieds etc hopefully to generate more interest.

Today JJ's ears are totally up. Following closely behind is Poi Poi with one ear standing, then Tiny with the tip of her ears still drooping. Tiger is a bit slow in this area of development, making him look like Dobby (in Harry Potter) :)

JJ with ear fully up!

"Dobby" looking Tiger

Tiny (left) and Poi Poi (right)