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Monday, May 16, 2005

Triops!!! Instant Pets! More Steady than Neopets!



I bought a pack of Triops!!!

Found them! I found it at the shop inside Little India MRT station!
You can't find them anywhere now! Steady Pom Pi Pi!
I didn't found it today. I found it on Sat! Forgot to mention it! They even sell something call sea monkey!

My ex-ex-colleague once bought a pack! He came into the "office" and told everybody just add water and the Triops will hatch! Most of us don't even know what the heck are Triops! I can't imagine there are these creatures still living in the world!
Basically they look like the aliens in the movie The Aliens. The first stage that is. After they came out the their silly looking eggs.

Everybody (except for the program manager) was so happy after that! Looking after the Triops in that little plastic tin and feeding it, and at the same time writing C++ codes and smoking the customers, with the program manager smoking with them.

This record was only broken when another fellow engineer smuggle a kitten to the "office". He also have a liking of the little black and white snake living in the drain in front of the "office". Luckily he failed to catch it.


And the most amazing thing is that these Triops are packed in their eggs, in the pack, and sold as instant pets! Who will have heard of instant pets! They can stay inside their eggs in "suspended animation" state and will only be activated once there is water! Wow! Can call constructor one. If human are like that, what would happen? Then everybody's birthday will probably be on Christmas day, New Year's day, the rice dumpling day, their father and mother's or ah gong and ah ma's Wedding aniversary, etc... etc...
Cause everybody will want a birthday on a holiday. The whole world celebrate for you.

But the pack says must use distill water... must remember to use distill water. The chorine from the tap water will kill it.
I better write in down on the packet in case I forget. Forgetful these days...

6 Comments:

  • hahaa... i haven't heard people using 'steady pomp pee pee' fer very long liao.... hahaha... u machiam teenager ah? ;p

    Anyway, your triops sound interesting; will go little india mrt to search fer a packet oso. when i m tired of them, maybe i can feed them to my hungrie hamsters. yummy....

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Thursday, May 19, 2005 11:57:00 PM  

  • they look awesome. I saw some at that shop but they're closed everytime I visit, dang!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Sunday, January 01, 2006 8:57:00 PM  

  • united square also have at the shop nex to toy r us 10dollar 4 one packet....... brought 2days ago don't know will hatch or not.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Thursday, January 05, 2006 3:52:00 PM  

  • Hi Andy,

    They will hatch. Just need to put them in water, not too little, but don't fill up to half tank or what.

    Not to put in containers, but try to put in those small plastic fishtank with the green plastic cover. Then they will grow big.

    Maybe I should put up the photos of my fully grown triops.

    By Blogger Pencil, at Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:58:00 PM  

  • hi, i was searching for where to buy triops in singapore and found your blog. do you know if that shop in little india mrt station still sells the eggs? is it a toy shop or a pet shop? thanks! -yan wei

    By Blogger yan wei, at Friday, April 16, 2010 11:07:00 PM  

  • so we can still buy from the shop in the little india?

    By Blogger Abigail, at Sunday, August 28, 2011 1:15:00 PM  

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