Penguin Movie With Bear Bear

We were so bored at home the other day and so we took out the whole stash of VCDs, found one we haven't watched before and decided to watch SURFS UP together with Ace.

In the end, Ace was busy running up and down, climbing up and down the sofa.

Because he was afraid of loneliness, he even brought his favourite Bear along to watch the movie with him...

Nevertheless, I think the movie did go into his head cos the next day when Max was using the computer, he told Max, "Penguin..." and so Max surfed the net for some penguin photos to show him...

Speaking of penguins, my mother told me that penguins are the most nobel fathers on earth! "So during father's day, you should use penguin to demostrate fatherly love..."

We were watching this documentary about penguins living in the artic...

I really think that penguins lead very boh liao/ boring lives...

The female lays a single egg, and the co-operation of the parents is needed if the chick is to survive. After the female lays the egg, she transfers it to the feet of the waiting male with a minimal exposure to the elements, as the intense cold will kill the developing embryo.

So if they not careful, the chick will die!

The male will ''babysit the egg' for about two months while the mther returns to sea to feed herself and to obtain extra food for feeding her chick when she returns. She has not eaten in two months and by the time she leaves the hatching area, she will have lost a third of her body weight. But the journey back and forth also takes about two mths!

If mother dun come back with food, the chick will die! But the journey to and fro is LONG and DANGEROUS!

For an additional two months, the males huddle together for warmth, and incubate their eggs. They endure temperatures approaching -62 °C (-80 °F), and their only source of water is snow that falls on the breeding ground. When the chicks hatch, the males have only a small meal to feed them, and if the female does not return, they must abandon their chick and return to the sea to feed themselves.

The chick will die!

By the time they return, they have lost half their weight and have not eaten for four months.

Then while growing up, the chicks may also fall prey to birds and the harsh winter cold. If eaten by predators, or the weather is too cold, the chick dies!

The mother penguins will then come back and feed their young, while the male penguins go all the way back to sea (70 miles) to feed themselves. This gives the mothers time to feed their young ones and sympathize with them.

Unfortunately, the fierce storm arrives where most of the chicks perish either by misplacement (the winds blow the chicks away) or they cannot stand the cold.

Many parents die on the trip, killed by exhaustion or by predators, dooming their chicks back at the breeding ground.

The parents must then tend to the chick for an additional four months, shuttling back and forth to the sea in order to provide food for their young. As spring progresses, the trip gets progressively easier, until finally the parents can leave the chicks to fend for themselves.

While the movie touched me with the penguin parent's strong and deep love (I dunno whether I can do that for Ace or not even..), I feel so sorry for the penguins as well..

But I also felt kind of upset for them as well...

I asked my mum, "Why they so stupid ah.. just live near the ocean lah. Then dun have to make such long trips and wouldn't have to bear such long wintery cold... Can increase their chance of survival mah..."

What is the point of living if it is just to cheat death and sit there and wait so tat you can give birth to another person that just does exactly the same thing that you do?

They sacrifice so much and the male go hungry for 4 months just so that their chick can survive but yet the odds are so against them.

Thank god I am human. Thank god I can find more meaningful ways to live life...

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