Liq's Aquatic Kingdom

Our friend (and Fab’s ex-housemate) Patrick once owned a wonderful marine aquarium which he then sadly had to give up when he relocated to another country. The poor thing (aquarium) sat outside on the porch of the bachelor house until my brother, all the way from Singapore, talked me into bringing it back home to our new place.

It took me a while to build up my case to convince Fabian why we should take the aquarium:

1.) It’s such a waste. (He would say ‘it’s not your problem’)

2.) It would look nice. (He would say ‘The dining table will do just fine’)

3.) Our fish needs more space. (He would say ‘It is ONE fish…4 centimetres!!’)

4.) Blah blah blah….

Until one night when we were sitting side by side, and he reached over to move my mobile phone across to the other side of my glass of water. And he dropped the phone right into it! BLOOOP!!!! Wide-eyed, I was speechless for a few seconds and then went totally hysterical while trying to fish my precious barely-one-year-old phone out of the water. Fabian did not know what else to say but SORRY, and I just blurted out – “YOU BETTER SAY YES TO THE DARN AQUARIUM NOW!”

And there it is now, acting as a partition between the dining and living room. Of course I expanded the lonely ONE fish to a whole colony of tiger barbs. I am so proud of my pretty aquatic habitat and am spending hours watching the fishies dash about.

Our 2 oscar fish are now in rehab as they kept chasing and eating up the smaller fishies. Uncle at the fish shop said they have very short term memory so by isolating them, they will forget who's boss and stop thinking of the big aquarium as their territory. Funny! Oh well, we'll see what happens when they return.