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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Selingan

I have only about 10 minutes to celoteh. Ye lah...dlm 24 jam, masa sungguh terhad...kena pandai2 bagikan masa..kalau nak tunggu cukup masa sampai kiamat takkan cukup. Well, dgn fon2 canggih zaman sekarang, we can always hapdate on the go gitu kan...

Well uols, statement kat atas tu i tujukan pada kawan kita...i said to her, Esah..hapdate la...memula dia kata yes...ada a few drafts dah..Pastu ha...i think i want to blog about that woman....then, i sibuk berniaga ni....last sekali dia cakap malam kang lepas main2 dgn cucu2 bulu, dia akan hapdate. Janji capati buatan padaiyappa betul kawan kita tu! Then tup tup i tengok blognya dah di privatekan this morning. Katanya sebab i salu harrass dia..ces! Ginilah uols, esah cakap dirinya sudah tidak relevan lagi..dia sudah tidak fofuler...she's a has been katanya (this one i put words into her mouth).

Like the title, this is only a selingan..uols pegi la pulak harras (i have to go to the toilet), eh bukan, pujuk acik tu. Bajet diva sangat.

Friday, November 15, 2013

Hello Kitty

Today, the stars seemed to line up. Ceritanya begini...

Ever since Esah got back from negara benggali putih tu, dia telah membuat banyak chobaan utk kidnap Miss Boroi. In fact masa kat Inglen lagi dia dah wasap 'aku nak Miss Boroi tu..' Sudaahhh...! Dah ada pihak keempat nak claim si Miss B ...ngalahkan kepulauan Spratlys je..tah sesapa lagi nak claim? So i said...'jangan monyet...!' (Haaa..cer teka...dari mana 'pepatah' monyet tu...OK, ni kuiz ye..sapa cepat dia dapat...kalau yg pernah masuk kuiz vangang i dulu boleh cuba juga..tapi kalu menang dapat hadiah yg sama je..hihihihii). Esah cakap, nak jugak! She wants a tabby (i think i'd better sorok Abang Monty..kalau tak, tetau dah terlepas ke SA sinun)

Pastu i tunjukkan kittens for adoption from blog Dr Chan myanimalcare. Aduhhh..acik terkinja2 suh i book 2 ekor dan dan tu jugak. Sekali lagi i said, sabar ...get yourself here first, dah settle in kat brothel you tu barulah kita pikir nak adopt pets..lagipun rumah i kan rumah tumpangan ah chong bagi Esah...mau tak kebulur anak2 kat rumah kalau dia terlupa dan pergi berjimba?

Then yesterday, i was on leave from work. My colleague mms gambar kitten kat office i. Comel..my heart was in my throat. I forward gambar kat acik kita tu..dia sekali lagi buat tarian panggil hujan..happy berharap sangat. Alas, no one could pass the kitten to me on their way home. So i said to her, kalau ada esok, kita pi ambik..kalau ada memang dah tersurat..Tak boleh gopoh gapah macam Kak Jee yang kawin hubby anak raja dulu tu (eii..sempat aku ngumpat). The cat chooses you..not the other way round (uols agak abg monty mau ke dgn acik esah??)

Yesterday also,  Little D batuk macam nak pengsan. Teruk sangat! I dah nebbed dua kali pun masih tak jalan jugak. So after Isya pak mak and anak pi klinik. Elok dah nak bayar, masuklah dua ekor kittens ke dalam klinik tu ...terkedek2. Sekali lagi, jantung i dah berdegup2. The clinic was full...many kids around. Takut kena main sampai mati..takut orang terpijak. MG memula kata eii..comelnya! I saw hope...I went to ask the clinic assistant, dik, ni kucing ni mana datang? Ada sesapa punya ke? (the moment i asked those questions, i think MG cecepat masuk kereta..and muka dia masam ke? I didn't wait to see..tak mau tengok haaaarapann...harapan menjadi laaaayuuuuu..)

I saw another two cowered by the bin. Muka cemas sangat masing2. The assisstant tanya, akak nak ke? Ni orang baru buang ni...Ok, tell me..how does one walk away from tiny, helpless, defenseless kittens?  Camna nak jadikan hati ni hati batu? All sorts went through my mind: road kill, preyed on by stray dogs, kena pjiak, buli sampai mati, sepak..apa lagi? Dehydration, starvation...etc. The list is endless..

So, I lost my senses. I mintak adik tu kotak. I told her that the mum-cat might still be around. The kittens looked montok2 meaning they had been well looked after by the mum. Maybe she went looking for food...maybe she went and never came back. Therefore, i would round them all up in the box, put it somewhere safe for the night and come back the next day for them..kalau masih ada. Lagi bagus kalau maknya ada sekali. So armed with the box, i rounded all four of the kittens up..some kids helped me. I went kat tangga sebelah klinik tu to place the box...and i found another two! Six???! (mampuih aku!) .

I texted Esah while i was still in the car...Poon..(nama manja caruts)..i need to talk to you. Akak tak jawab..dalam pikiran i dah terbayang wajahnya dah tido dgn airliuq basi (kalau kat rumah i, itu je le kerojenya..baru maghrib dah terbongkang. Tak leh pakai langsung!) Rhope2nya aka tengah bermeeting. I started buka cerita penglipur lara pasal kittens tu....dia terus cakap, don't worry Pook, i will take them in. And you wonder why she does what she does for a living? 

Terus i lega sangat2...but still, that night i couldn't sleep well. Terbayang2 muka si Tompok kecik tu (cewah dah ada nama) yg ketakutan. I prayed and prayed that they keep safe..ataupun dah ada orang ambik depa dulu. The next morning, subuh sapiee lagi esah bertolak ke rumah i..(of course dia bawak beet mobileku serhope bawak kereta lembu). We went back to the clinic. Tetengok the box was still at the place where i left it. But someone pi tutup kelepetnya..i spoke to the staff kat clinic tu..i told them that i'd be taking the kittens with me..and mak depa ada mai tak? She said, tak tau but mak depa yg warna cicak tengah makan (sapa bagi sekut kucing..thank you and alhamdulillah ada insan lain yg prihatin) tu. I paksa Esah pi pikap anak baru dia, masukkan dlm carrier. She was docile and tak takut orang langsung...rasa2nya macam kucing yang pernah disayangi dan kemudian dibuang bila dah termengandung.We went straight to the vet for checkup. Mak and anak2 sihat. Mak kuruih gila...imagine menyusukan 6 ekor anak..taknya tinggal tulang? Pastu makan tak tentu pulak tu. The nenen bengkak because she couldn't get into the box to feed her kittens. The kittens pulak mesti tak minum/makan from the time i left the clinic (if we were to arrive later..or forgot about them completely...aiyo..) Beli semua yg perlu utk anak2 bulu, and off we went back to Esah's. 

Seriously, everything went smoothly for us..daripada pikap to vet visit to setting them up at their new home. Esah and i were supposed to meet a friend. Ingatkan lepas berjimba baru nak pi inquire about the kittens. Then the friend fell ill and couldn't make it. Pastu nak bawak Little D jumpa Paeds pulak because balik GP malam tu, dia masih tak ok lagi. Selalunya klinik Paeds tu macam tadika ramainya patients menunggu. But tadi, there was hardly anyone. 

It's like all the stars were lined up for us. Allah permudahkan, thank you Allah.

Mutiara kata (cewah!):

1. Please spay/neuter your pets. We do not want to add more to the already unwanted stray population. Pengkasian haiwan belaan adalah harus untuk kesejahteraan ummah (JAKIM).
2. If you have extra $$, please spay/neuter street animals around your home. Can ask for subsidy from www.myanimalcare.org
3. Yes we cannot save the world, but we can at least make where we live a better place. Manusia adalah khalifah di dunia ini..so tunjukkanlah ciri2 khalifah, not only to where humans are concerned.
4. Pasang niat nak menolong, insyallah Dia akan memudahkannya dalam kerja2 'merescue' haiwan jalanan.

To Esah, semoga you berbahagia dengan anak cucu you hingga ke akhir hayat. You rock!

(Aik...apsal gambar terbalik??) Ni masa depa kat vet. Sekor tengah kena periksa.


Sunday, November 10, 2013

Join custody - edited

This is one of the cats that come to visit daily at no. 31. Pemalu taknak tunjuk muka. Baby X suka timang dia pasal dia boroi. Once upon a time, she was quite emanciated, full of mange which was quite bad that her ears looked like cauliflower. Other than feeding her twice daily with the rest of the gang, i also took pains applying minyak gamat on her ears, removing the dried crusty skin etc. Of course not forgetting the compulsory snip snip. I thought she belongs to the acik depan rumah yg bela kucing tapi utk sayang2 je. 

One day, my maid saw another neighbour meneman dia makan in my house compound. So she asked the neighbour, pehal. That akak from a few doors down said that's her cat. She picked her up from the market. She told my maid lenkali kalau dia datang makan please tell her to go home (ewah!). She has her meals at home. But i tak sangka ni akak tu punya bec her other cats semua ada loceng and are kept indoors most of the times. My maid replied, oh...apsal dia banyak kurap? Tau tak ibu CK dah bawak dia pi klinik semua, cuci kurapnya? That neighbour cakap timakasih. Lenkali si comel tu datang utk makan, sila hantar dia balik. At that time yg dia banyak kurap tu apparently akak tu baru ambik dua dari pasar. Hmmm...dia tak heran ke yg kucing tu balik rumah dgn greasy ears and bau minyak gamat? Btw, bukannya sekejap she had mange until i tak tahan and took charge.

Well i yang selalu kasi makan and no i tak sampai hati. Subuh sapiee nak pi kerja dah dia tertonggok kat pintu dapur mintak makan. Balik kerja dia yg kejar kereta kita dulu. Of course mulut i yg serhope lahar ni bila nak bagi makan akan cakap kuat2..'helooo...sesapa yg ada tuan, sila balik rumah makan or kasi orang lain makan dulu...'

 Then acik depan rumah claim custody pulak dgn kucing tu. She asked my maid, kucing akak tu dah 4  malam tak balik. Aikkk?! To which another neighbour's maid yg happened to be there replied, 'bila dah cantik semua mengaku tu kucingnya'. Yes, she's turned into a beauty what with her bulu separa panjang and badan dah bulat...sometimes i thought, eh pregnant ke dia, sebelum teringat yg dia dah kena sunat. Even Esah yg nampak dia pun boleh jatuh hati and had planned to kidnap her.

With acik tu yg ingat i ni menjalankan petting zoo, i cukup tensi tau. I ikhlas bagi kucing2 kat kuar tu makan tapi tak yah milking it for all its worth. Masa raya puasa dulu, dia ada upah orang utk bersihkan rumah. Bila orang tu tanya tak nak upah bagi kucing makan ke sepeninggalan dia balik kampung nanti, dia boleh jawab, ' takpe, akak depan tu bagi makan'. Ni orang tu seniri cakap kat my maid to confirm.

Hamboi sangat tau! Now ni tak kisah la sapa punya. What i know is that her food and welfare have been looked after by me. Rasa macam nak contest for sole custody je ni. Hmmm...siap pindah rumah esok2..nanti 'terangkut' sekali cik boroi dengan barang2.

Monty and his food.  I want him to switch partially to wet food...apparently much better for cats. Masih trial and error. Last time i bought primal freeze dried...pandang pun dia tak hingin. The stray cats berkenduri ria. They actually went berserk! Kalau ada yang jinak2 merpati and needs to be snipped, masa bagi primal senang je nak scoop up and put into the carrier. Then i tried natural balance - pergh! Applaws - no way. Padahal the tuna were chunky and i feel good enough for human sandwich pun. Monge? This one is OK but possibly tuna only. Not many petshops stock this so i would hav eto go to the big ones in MV, Ikano etc. (adoi malasnya saya). Semalam try cari petfood home delivery yg ada Monge. Found petsmore..but not many choices of flavour. Yg purely tuna takde..see how it goes lah. Cerewet betul budak bulu tu!

As for Ugi, i'm trying to get her to eat wet food too in preparation for 'old age' i.e. subsequently loss of teeth. She would eat kibbles only..kenkadang je dia jilat2 soup si Monty. A few weeks ago, her upper left canine was pushed inwards. Dia tak boleh tutup mulut dia. The other one dah patah lama dah..surprisingly no hassle to her at all even though the root was still buried then. So she had to undergo GA to have both extracted. The very young vet kept warning me that considering her age (7 tahun dah considered tua in cat-dom), GA would be risky for her. But then again, did she mention of other alternatives? No.... Possible ke nak cabut gigi under LA? Tak, kan? And it's not as if we could leave her unable to close her mouth like that. Thank god, she woke up from the GA. Satu hari i tak boleh concentrate kat office....

Terasa2 nak budak kecik bulu lagi kat rumah... 


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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Just the whole tooth, nothing but the tooth

'Macam cantikkkk je...macam comelllll je...'

Macam gilaaaa je..

Pic of Little D with her missing upper incisor. Masa cabutkan gigi dia, MG dgn anak beranak dia macam dlm drama padaiyappa ammapoddi betul! There i was trying to tweak LD's tooth yg dah longgar sangat2. Dianya buat gaya2 tutup mulut and meronta2. Baby X pi ke MG dgn cakap takut....takut....MG cringed and buat gaya cam nak pitam. Boleh? Drama kels sangat! Sib baiklah senario berlaku di rumah and not you know where. If not tak tau mana maknya nak letak muka.


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Monday, November 4, 2013

Mister Arogan

Little D yg memula cakap, mummy jangan tukar channel, bibik nak tengok cite Mr Arogan. Hah? Ada cite kels adik beradik Arumugam Murugan ke time2 maghrib ni? One day i pun tertengok sama. Yelah..i ni jarang tengok cite melayu (tapi ada secret society dgn Esah and Piah to talk about drama melayu. Ala si Esah ngan Piah tu bukan apa sangat...as long as ada adiputra je..). MA ni satu actor pun i tak kenal except the tansri puansri. But I teruja tengok pompuan segedik Sherry and Puan Sri sedengki Mariam. So cliche'...tapi tengoookkkk jugak. Asalkan takde JalaluddinH yg semedang berlakon cakap cam orang sembelit...and about the only Dato character on tv that you'd never seen in tshirt pagado and kain pelekat (please kalau ada sesapa bini dato or anak dato kat luar sana, tolong verify, laki or appa uols tido in pajamas ke?).

Anyway, i tak puas hati that i had no one to talk about the drama. Colleagues tak nengok..Esah sibuk berjimba halloween tak habis2 and Piah time2 musim haji ni mesti occupied ber 'you'd like kopikote?'. Lucah sangat ko ni tau Piah!

Back to cite si Arogan tadi, I tertanya2...adakah pompuan yg sanggup dgn laki yg sebiadap dan sekasar tu? (I sanggup uols! Demi X6 and mahligai di tepi bukit...pastu kita buat le dia mereng sikit2.) Adakah drama tu terover2 dari novelnya? Therefore, I surf baca citenya online ...tapi had bab 25 je le pulakk! Then decided to order the book online kat karyaseni....but the website cam jam...never got the email to activate my login. Jiwa dah tak keruan ni...serope cam i want sushi and i have to have it today...which Esah could never understand my impatience. The next morning, MG nak pi grocery shopping dgn Little D...i 'racuni' pikiran LD suh bawak pak nya masuk MPH..she got herself AnaMuslim and me Mr Arogan. Sib baik MG tak ingat i dah sewel - sejak bilalah bininya baca novel melayu Bukannya kekwat, i cuma tak tahan yg dlm novel melayu pompuan selalu dipotray meek sangat. Cam ni pun, Zaraa tu sikit nangis...sikit2 nangis! Mak mertua kejam seghope IdiAmin pun patuuhhhh jugak. Pastu bila kawin je mesti panggil 'abang'. Geli la! Ok la i used to call MG abang. Until we got the furkids. Sekarang ni kalau nak suh panggil abang balik mesti geli geleman satu badan. I think the drama on tv is much better than the novel. But then again, the writer is only in her 20s...such talent. Imagine something you have written is now on tv....mesti bangga kan? Itu yg membuatkan i terasa2 nak terjah dunia penulisan novel chenta in BM. Perghh angan2 tinggi! Besides terngiang2 sore cikgu BM form 5 i kata yg my BM teruk, lebih teruk dari budak pan-asian dlm kelasku tu Esah, katanya...Nanti tak sudah2 novel tu jadi ceritaku ceritamu je..that i should just leave it to besfren Esah on pesbuk..hihihi...

Anyway, go read the novel, sapa miss drama on tv, pi tonton.com. Arahan ni khas buat Esah and Piah..!

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