Finally finished that survey thing that I've been doing for the Soci department. If there's anything that I've learned, it's something about the "wildlife" of quiet HDB estates at night.

There're what Pam likes to call, Ratticus Giganticuses; giant rats. And there are plenty of stray cats. (Some of whose colouring really is quite nice.) And then there're suspicious looking men and bad tempered old men and middle-aged ladies lurking behind their curtains in their flats and screaming at you from inside. Or sometimes they open the doors and do it.

Oh well. Let's hope that I get paid for all the trouble a lot sooner than later.

And Venus is high in the sky tonight. A beautiful constant point of light which doesn't flicker, unlike all the stars around it, with a strange sort of pinkish aura ringing it. Or maybe that's just because of all the pink clouds in the night sky, looking like someone's been through them with a comb, faint furrow lines scored into them by the wind.