It sure does feel good to have a well deserved break. Honestly, at the end of my semester, all I focused on was to try my best for exams and the break after. Indeed, having a holiday does feel good. There’s more me time, family time and boyfriend time.

Lim Ah Meow and Jamie now have a stay at home mum too, as they’d be abandoned throughout the day as I was busy with classes and meetings. And Jamie is seriously making me grin with happiness, he’s the fattest cat I ever had weighing in at 7 pounds, and he’s still a young cat about 5-6 months old. Can’t wait to see how big he’ll grow!

Anyhow, I shall begin my holidays with a backpacking trip with Hugo to Hong Kong starting tomorrow, no tourguide, no big group holiday, just maps and our own common sense, we’ll see how it goes. We’ll be covering places like Macau, Disneyland, and all sorts of touristy places that Hong Kong has to over. Ironically, this is my return to Hong Kong after being there 10 years ago. I still remembered how’d Disneyland looked, it was just piles of sand and rubbles with barriers on top of the hill and I can’t wait to see how it looks like right now, although I do know it’s uncomparable with the Anaheim, Florida and Tokyo Disneyland.

So till then, happy holidays to my fellow classmates and yay I can finally catch up with my series and Breaking Dawn!

♥ Wendy

*sorry for the picture quality, some were taken using webcam, some were taken using my age old k700i which shows that I am in dire need of a camera.

I’m pretty glad that my first semester is over, in fact it felt like forever. One thing I can say about the ‘bachelor’ life is, there’s not much time left for having fun. Surely, there are times to go hang out during lunch breaks and fool around but when it’s crunch time it’s really time to crunch. Starting this course after my stint in KL has been eye opening, gone were the diploma days of fun and wonderland, this is the real life.

Surely, the syllabus has gone deeper, it perturbs me all the time just to understand the plethora of theories by a bunch of guys who ceased to make my life more miserable. Well some were fun, Entrepeneurship was a load of joy to do as it was a pretty carefree subject with no papers to sit for unlike Communication Technology where it is all about theories and theories and more theories. Yea sure I get the media imperialism and globalization shindig, very eye opening.

I’m glad Ett Ett waited for me before she passed on last Tuesday. Merely 2 days after I went back for just one day. I would definitely miss her cute-funny-bitchy meows.  I remembered the exact day I saw her for the first time, it was March 15th back in 2005. My then cat, her mother was preggers and on that day I came back from school and noticed her tummy was flat so I knew she had given birth.

I searched high and low for her babies but no they were not anywhere to be seen. So, I waited and just sat on the stool at the patio observing her, and few minutes later she jumped into the old Austin car deemed the ’store room’ parked there. That car, has been immobile since, 2001(?) I think, and has since became a store to keep the unused stuffs and junk that my mum wouldn’t wanna dispose.

Once she jumped into the car, I immediately lift up the protective cover of the car, opened the back left door and unloaded the barbecue grill, some boxes and there it was, one white and one black greyish kitten. She had a boy and a girl.

Aren’t they the sweetest things?

It was ridiculously heart warming seeing two blind kittens wiggling around with the slightest meow ever. Their mother would be so protective, she would carry them back into the car by gripping them by the neck using her mouth and jump back into the car. I tried hiding one of the kittens, and she would scramble all over the house crying looking for her baby. I know it’s mean of me but I was just testing.

Few months forward, the white kitten got hit by a car or a motorcycle, and it was only Mummy and Ett Ett left. Then my mum decided to send Mummy for an operation to stop her from reproducing more, and somehow the lousy vet operated carelessly. Mummy’s wound got an infection and passed on.

Ett Ett then became the only cat left in the house, and my parents became really attached to her because she was like a child to them. We watched her grew and she became the joker of the house with her funny antics. My mum again decided to send her for spaying but this time we went to another vet, and it was done without any complications, thankfully.

She would wake me up every morning for school when my dad lets her into my room and she would jump onto my bed and start purring beside my ear, biting my nose and snuggling under my blanket. She would follow me around as I was busy packing things for school, even followed me into the car and we would leave for school together. I remembered my friends seeing my cat and went “oh my god your cat is so cuteeeeeeeee!” and she would start making noise like in agreement to the statement.

I will miss her, definitely. She might just be a cat but she was like a sister I never had. Of course I do wish she would stay longer with my family, but when it’s time to go, it’s time to go. Like what Lasker told me, at least she waited for me. I was very bitter when I heard the news from my mum, I was in class at that moment and I almost cried that instant because everything about Ett Ett just flashed right into my mind. I went home crying while I was driving. If you must know, I am very attached to my pets, be it cats or dogs. I’m a bi with pets.

Besides, I have Lim Ah Meow and Jamie here with me, they seriously fill up my dreariness of staying alone in Penang.  And yes as fun as my friends tell me how great it is to be staying alone, it can get very sad living alone because I have noone to talk to. As if Hugo’s always here. They might be cats but they behave just like kids do, and I think Lim Ah Meow might secretly have a crush on Jamie. And for those who have not met Jamie before, here he is.

Teehee!

♥ Wendy