Momo's 1!

It's Momo's birthday tomorrow!
About a year ago,
he was born.

2 January 2010 was the first day
we saw him.
He was just a tiny little tot,
yet to open his eyes.
Him, his sister Mimi and his mother Mini
were living in a shoe box provided by someone

The one facing the camera is Momo! :)

Momo looking out of his box home

which someone made for them.

A photo of him and Mimi at their then-home,
the MAILBOX!
Momo feels that human beings are good because
people will come and feed his family!

Anyway,
human beings are not that good because
someone called the Town Council
to remove the family of three,
which was as good as sending them to their death

I guess that was how Momo ended up in our family
because we put them up for a while,
and to put a long story short,
Ougwee fell in love with him

How to make your human being fall in love with you

But of course
Pepper wasn't too happy about it,
because all the while
he was the baby of the family
and suddenly there was a cat younger than him

Pepper sharing food with Momo

(Perhaps before realising that he was about to be replaced

as the baby of the family)

There has been quite a few humps this year
because we had to take them to the vet
for several illnesses,
to the extent that the receptionist
don't even ask for our names when they see us

Finally for now we kind of striked a balance
For one thing Pepper don't mind sleeping
on the same bed as Momo anymore!

And secondly
Momo has morphed from a troublemaker kitten
to a sweet little cat,
who from time to time acts as the ambassador of our home

Whenever visitors come,
he makes it a point to come out to greet them,
and basically makes sure that they see him,
no matter where they are.

But one thing I found quite funny that
when he just came,
he just had that super-innocent look
(refer to photo above)
Why is it that as he grows,
he starts to have this very kaypoh face?

Kaypoh-cum-gonggong face

Of course there were many other changes.

Long long ago Momo was a 800g kitten
(evidence below)
Now he is going to become a 8kg cat

When Momo was a 800g kitten

 When Momo was the same size as Kopi

He hasn't got the attention he deserved as a kitten

because we were trying to make Pepper not dislike him,

so we didn't shower that much attention on him

It was quite unfair to him,

but luckily they are able to receive the same amount of attention now!

Despite his weird quirks

(ie: lying down in the middle of nowhere,

screaming at barely-awake human beings)

and his several damages done to our house

(ie: causing the roof of the closet to fall in,

toppling a fan such that it couldn't work anymore),

he is still a very sweet cat :)

We celebrated his birthday just now

with a very cute cake

Chocolate cake with a mouse on it!

He didn't get to eat it,

but it's the thought that counts?

Stop spoiling the cats

From today onwards,
the three cats are all going to be put
on a fixed number of meals per day

That means no more
Miaomiao-sit-in-front-of-her-food-bowl-
and-look-pitiful-then-eat-four-pellets-and-walk-
off habits

No more eat-a-few-pellets-and-decide-
they-want-more-ten-minutes-later

Must be Miaomiao's fault,
waking up Emily at 5am
by calling very pitifully,
getting her out of  bed just to
eat four pellets and then strut off

So it was decided that the cats cannot be spoilt too much

When we feed Pepper we even have to
hold up his plate and "beg" him to eat

Thing is,
at 10 in the morning,
I'm the one available for Miaomiao
to meow pitifully for food,
and I have to ignore her
*heart pain*

Then she goes around biting plastic here and there,
perhaps to show that she wants to eat

At 11am (about 5 hours after her first feeding),
she finally gets to eat,
and true to the theory behind the fixed meals,
she gets quite hungry and doesn't
"eat four pellets and struts off"

Then after that she goes to my bed
and sleep like the pillow belongs to her

Hope this thing will work out

Miaomiao reading Facebook news feed

Momo turning 1 soon!

Momo's birthday is coming soon!
Only for him,
we celebrate his date of birth (approx 28 Dec 2009),
because the first time we saw him he was just a few days old,
quite furless and eyes still closed

For Pepper and Miaomiao,
we only celebrate their date of arrival

Momo has grown so much in one year!
The quite funny thing is that,
even though he was never with his mum
since about 1 month old,
he grown to meow like his mum (Ahhh!!~)
and certain behaviour traits of his are so similar to his mum!

Genetics really plays a part in many things..

Double standard

Miaomiao has now taken to snitching
from Momo's bowl whenever
we don't give her new food pellets.

About two days ago,
Momo ate from Miaomiao's bowl.
Miaomiao saw him do that,
and stopped and looked over at Momo

I think she wasn't too happy about that

But then again,
Miaomiao does that to Momo,
so why can't Momo do that?

Talk about double standards....

Pepper and Momo's "feud"

Last night Pepper slept on the same bed as Momo!
For one whole night!

That's good,
because I remember that when
Momo just figured out how to get onto my bed,
Pepper was sooo pissed off at him,
that he threw noisy tantrums,
making threatening sounds at the then tiny Momo

After that whenever Momo got onto my bed,
he would immediately jump off

So yesterday was the first time I saw him
willing to share a bed with Momo
for such a long period of time.

Here's a picture of them sitting in the market trolley,
one of their favourite leisure activity
(the sitting in the trolley part, not the together part)
So cute,
but Pepper jumped out of the trolley
one second after the picture was taken.

Sweet! :)

Poo on the blanket :(

One of the cats suddenly thought it funny
to poo on my bed.

Oh no!

So far we suspect Pepper,
who might be too shy to use the litter tray
in front of the visitor today,
so he decided that my bed was
a more private place for number two

Anyway
it was only a tiny round poo
on my blanket,
but the size of the poo was greatly disproportional
to the amount of stench it was capable of giving out

I had to wash my bedsheet and blanket immediately :(
I guess it's Pepper's way of reminding me
to change my bedsheets regularly

Pepper's Smartness

Pepper has a new game!
It's called the "Find the Scrunchie" Game.

He has this scrunchie fetish since very long ago,
and whenever we hide that scrunchie
anywhere in the bedroom,
he will go searching for it,
sort of in an "own time own target" way.

When after an hour
we thought that he would have
long forgotten about the scrunchie,
he suddenly brings it to us
while we are all watching television
in the living room,
then we all gush compliments
about how smart Pepper is,
making him quite overwhelmed

Then we hide the scrunchie
in another location in the bedroom,
while keeping him in the living room,
and sends him off to find the scrunchie again

So far Pepper has found the scrunchie:
1. On the dressing table
2. In my cupboard cubicle (I placed it right inside the back of the cubicle)
3. Under my pillow
4. On the hard drive of the desktop computer
etc.

He is so smart! :D

Momo on leave

According to Popo,
Momo is now taking leave.

For many months
he has been our alarm clock (Ahhh!!),
making sure that we do not sleep beyond 9am
(sometimes earlier)

But today and yesterday
he hasn't been calling

Ougwee misses his alarm calls.

Of course, cos she isn't the direct victim
of Momo's daily alarm calls..

Random pics

Momo trying to look like an ah beng

Pepper makes a new friend again! Once he hugged the

bear pencil case to sleep..

 Miaomiao and Momo taking afternoon naps.
As usual Miaomiao manages to look unglam sleeping

Miaomiao staring at an innocent piece of paper,

trying to wonder what was it...

Wruhh!

Some old video I discovered and Linda insists that I upload it.
Someone (I forgot who) sneaked up on Pepper
and Pepper wruhhed in shock. ^^

Pepper loves Garfield :)

Here's Pepper watching about an hour plus of Garfield. (Video is only a few minutes though)
He love the bits where they focus on Garfield alone,
he shows it by attempting to test whether his paw can go through the television
so that he can touch the fat orange cat.

Before that he was simply standing on his back paws
front paws holding onto the tv console
Or just sitting on the floor, right in front of the console and strains his neck to watch
so I gave him a chair to sit on
which he insisted must be within 15cm from the tv screen.



I remembered in the past how MiaoMiao did not even bother watching for at least 5 minutes.

Practical Miaomiao

Today Ougwee was feeding
boiled chicken (yay!!) to the three cats.

Pepper and Momo came to enjoy their treats

Miaomiao haven't came yet,
so Ougwee called out her name 4 times,
asking her to come join in the treat

I went over and peeked at Miaomiao,
who was on Emily's bed.
She had that very look like she was
deciding whether to go or stay,
perhaps thinking something like
"Is Mama calling me for fun,
or she has something good for me?"

Miaomiao is too practical sometimes...

Forbidden places

The cats like to go to forbidden places lately.
Actually only the male cats.

Pepper loves lying on the ironing table,
looking like a sweetie pie,
but it's so dangerous!
The table could topple,
and worse the iron on it could be hot

Momo is another naughty cat.
Recently he has paid more attention
to where we prepare cat food,
and although the food is not for him,
he still jumps onto
the washing machine top or kitchen sink counter,
and smuggle the food to the living room,
when we are having our dinner in the kitchen

(in this sense he is smarter than Pepper,
because Pepper once smuggled a satay
to where everyone was sitting and watching television,
and tried to eat it. Obviously it was confiscated)

Momo is more and more cunning by the day!
He always has a habit of making loud crashing sounds
when jumping onto higher surfaces
but somehow he managed to jump silently
onto the washing machine top
and steal the food without any of us noticing.
Hmmph.

Launch-pad!

For some reason or other,
the usually obedient Pepper suddenly
decided to go into his crazy kitty mode,
and started running across the double decker beds.

While he was doing so,
he launch-padded across Emily's forehead
(She was sleeping at that time.
Emily, not the forehead)

Emily yelped awake,
shocking Ougwee and I,
who were having breakfast.

She now has a chinese character "two" (二）
on her forehead.

Pepper's punishment for being so naughty:

Standing in the bold corner

Spot-on treatment for the cats

Got the 3 cats on Revolution anti-mite treatment
a few days back,
and halfway I was worrying
whether Momo would be able to use it
(The Revolution Anti-mite Spot-on treatment
have a few types meant for cats of different weight ranges)

When I saw the weight range printed on the product,
"5.1lb to 15lb",
I thought "Hmm good, cover such a large range Momo sure can use"

After putting the spot on for them,
I went to use my handphone converter function to
convert 15 lb to kg.
It returned 6.8 kg.

We then proceeded to weigh Momo.
7.2kg

Oh. so actually he's still out of the range.
But only by a bit so I guess it should be okay? : S

Miaomiao takes revenge

Today morning,
Momo as usual imagining himself as something recyclable,
jumped into the plastic bag of newspaper
and jumped around crazily inside the plastic bag.

I think Miaomiao must have been waiting for a chance for revenge,
cos Momo always likes to bully her.

She jumped onto the plastic bag,
hitting the plastic bag with her paw,
and even executed some sort of a kung fu swoop
while jumping from one side of the plastic bag to another

Momo is lucky Pepper didn't plan to take revenge at that time too.

Considerate Momo II

Momo's second method to keep my foot warm at night:
Hug my foot to sleep in the middle of the night.
(My foot = His free bolster)

Considerate Momo

Sometimes the night is cold,
and the considerate Momo worrying for me,
helps to maintain the blood circulation in my toes

Thank you so much for biting my toes
every few minutes at night Momo,
that was REALLY helpful...

Random Pics!

Someday Miaomiao will know how to use a toilet bowl!! :D

Kopi trying to smile for the camera :)

Why Pepper wasn't scared

Yesterday there was loud clanging
from the lion dance performance downstair,
and Pepper wasn't one bit scared at all

(He gets stressed easily from loud noise and commotions)

Of course, he has his tissue box lion dance good friends,
so he wasn't scared..

Momo snitches

Momo just snitched a bite from
the chicken wings on the table

Actually, chicken wing
(without the s)

They announce their guilt by
licking their mouth after each "crime",
without fail.

*Yum yum*

R.I.P

We just lost one of our "half-cats"
(Don't worry, nothing happened to
darling Miaomiao, Pepper or Momo)

We love you Miaomiao!
We love you Pepper!
We love you Momo!

Despite the destroyed toilet rolls,
and the too-early morning calls,
and many more...


R.I.P Gingin (19 November 2010)

How I wish I was not a cat

I could be a guinea pig, eating hay all day long...

I could be a hamster, and run on a wheel all day round

 I could be RICE, so that people wouldn't be hungry!



Momo is always right

How Momo deceived us into thinking he was a harmless

little cat to keep..

Today Momo woke me up at 7am

(by screaming at me),

which I got up and fed him

(the other two cats also benefitted)

Then I went back to sleep

At 7.53am,

he woke me up again,

and I ignored him this time round.

He then decided to keep up with his screaming

(AH! AH!)

from then all the way to 9am

Which I finally then woke up

Complained to Popo,

which she said

"Momo ask you wake up then

you wake up lor.."

She indulges too much on Momo,

Momo is always right.

Can't get the message across

Someone should invent a Chinese-to-Cat Language translator

Really don't know how to get it across
to Momo's head,
that NO, jumping on Miaomiao
and biting her til she yelps and
her fur comes off in Momo's mouth
is totally not accepted.

Perhaps to him,
we seem to be scolding him for nothing,
and we are siding with Miaomiao

But, how else if we don't scold?

Miaomiao and her fish

"It looks like a fish, yet it doesn't look like a fish.."

Miaomiao saw a rubber fish on the table
(those silicon fish-bone shaped thing
for earphones to wind around to be kept),
and she spent about 20 minutes trying
to figure out what was it.

I used the fish to prod her in her side
(not in video),
she got so startled,
she jumped up on all fours

Causing a noise because she jumped,
and the table shook,
then her Popo turned to look at me
and "What?", rather disapprovingly...

Cunning Beanbean

The guinea pigs get their "happy meal"
almost every day,
but Beanbean still think of ways
to get better and nicer food!

Such as snitching from prayer offerings.
There is one plate of fruits on the floor,
and when no one's looking,
she sneaks over to the fruits
and takes a few bites from the apple

Maybe Kopi has a share in this too,
but only Beanbean was caught red-pawed.

Beanbean looks super innocent,
but she is not quite so actually..

Momo's motive

I was clearing the litter tray just now
when I saw Momo staring intensely
at Kopi and Beanbean

Of course things were not so simple,
he had a motive for getting so close to them

..


How could I have forgotten that
we have a cat who loves to eat
GUINEA PIG POO!!

Upon the sudden realisation
that it's quite suspicious for him to be there,
I looked up,
and sure enough,
he was eating poo, "freshly out of the oven"
(can I add "with relish"?)

I chased him off
and cleared up the poo.

After a while he came back
to look for the guinea pigs,
stared at Beanbean's butt,
and stuck out his paw to touch her butt

Probably asking her to make more poo or something

Perhaps he is too hungry from his food rationing
that he resorts to poo to supplement his diet

Then again,
he is always hungry..

The Momo Manual, Chapter 1

In this Chapter,

Momo shows us how he gets himself

into a bag that is much smaller than himself

This is me and the bag!
I'm twice as long as the bag!


Now I shall get myself into the bag

See! I can get into the small bag!

Actually, this was what he really did..

Pepper after bathing

I haven't gotten completely dry from after bathing,

so I must NOT fall asleep or I'll get mouldy

(Trying to keep awake in a sitting position)

Plan failed. 

(Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz)

Toys!

The cats' Popo has on some occasions,
bought nice toys to entertain the cats with

However,
her idea of nice is not exactly parallel
to the mamas' idea of nice.

Toy #1:
Wooden Snake

We had to get used to the idea
that it was not a real snake,
before daring to use it to play with Miaomiao
Miaomiao quite liked it though...

Toy #2:
Some plastic frog that is supposed to be placed in the bathtub

We are absolutely repulsive of frogs!
it's lying somewhere on the table,
untouched.

One year older!

Miaomiao is (about) 2 years old!!

Neow neow!!

Victimised Miaomiao

There was a loud yelp coming from Miaomiao,
and the next thing we knew,
there was a tuft of her fur in Momo's mouth

Poor Miaomiao
Everyone scolded Momo on her behalf,
but I think Momo wasn't affected much

Pepper the Peeking Tom

How to ask for food

Ougwee's explanation on why
Pepper is better for begging for treats
than the other two cats.

When Pepper wants us to feed him some Fussy Cat,
he goes "Or-ell!" in this rather musical meow,
and we go all soft hearted because
he rarely meow that way since very long

So he gets his Fussy Cat

When Momo wants his food
he screams : "AH!! AH!!"

When Miaomiao wants food
she meows demandingly
"NEOW-NEOW!"

Which can sound rather rude and demanding,
both Miaomiao and Momo, at times

Tone of request is very important you see..

Miaomiao back to modelling career

Miaomiao in her little girl dress

But she doesn't like this one so much!

She complains spaghetti straps are too revealing

Actually it's because she doesn't have shoulders

to hold the straps in place :(

Momo's lesson

We have unknowning created a verb
in honour of Momo

We were discussing about how
Momo loved to "launch-pad"
on our face, hair, arm etc.

launch-pad (verb):
using something as a surface to help
propel one off when jumping

I think the inspiration is from
The Diary of the Wimpy Kid,
cos Greg's dog always do that to him

(We are not alone! :D)

Thanksfully my hair did not drop out from my scalp,
and more thankfully I didn't get disfigured when sleeping,
cos my hair was covering my face.

But somewhat some damage have also been done.
With Momo around
I learnt that arms good for propelling cats!

I believe I'm not the only one who learnt such an interesting fact

Miaomiao!

Miaomiao our little ballerina :)

The new door

Now that we have just changed the door,
and the doors now have magnetic door stoppers at the back,
so it doesn't have this hook that can be hooked on
to this hook-hole in the wall to hold the door

In the past,
when the bedroom door was closed
and Pepper or Momo wanted to get out,
all they had to do was to swing their paw
at the hook on the door,
so that the hook would knock against the door,
then someone would hear them and let them out

Miaomiao's method was more demure;
she miaowed till someone heard her

But now not only the new door doesn't have the hook,
it is also much more soundproof,
so we can't really hear them when they want to get out!

Miaomiao just kept meowing and meowing,
til someone finally opened the door to let her out

Cats vs. Dogs

Emily has (had) a SPCA poster,
with a dog and a cat cuddling together,
accompanied with the slogan
"Friends forever".

Yesterday Pepper was on her bed,
then out of the sudden
he stood up on his hind paws
and tore the poster using his two front paws

Then he sat there looking very innocent

What probably was going through his head was:
"Cats and dogs can never be friends! NEVER!!!"

If not I don't know why he decided to do that
to the poster either...

Glorious Sunday morning

Today is a Sunday
and once again Momo didn't really figure that out

He went "Ah! Ah!" in the bedroom,
then probably Ougwee carried him out of the room
and shut the bedroom door.

So once in a while he "Ahh!"-ed outside the door,
persistent in his attempt to wake all his mamas up
to enjoy the glorious Sunday morning

Later I woke up,
and went to entertain him,
carried him around the house etc.

He was pretty persturbed that Emily has not waken up,
and went "Ah-ya-ya-yya-ah!"
outside the bedroom door,
in a howling manner

He only quietened down
when after that,
he managed to wake Emily up too.

Miaomiao's toy

Miaomiao is a self-creator of her toys.
Her many toys include
the netting package of the onion bought from NTUC,
and recently she found another new toy:
a piece of Pee Wee pellet,
found amongst many other pellets in her litter tray!

For some reason
she finds much enjoyment
kicking around a tiny pellet with her right paw.

Once she caught Emily returning the pellet
to its original place (the litter tray),
and she stared as if wondering
if Emily was in her right mind.

Cunning Momo

I realise these few mornings,
when Popo and I are awake,
Momo would go to Popo to beg for food.

He's smart,
he knows Popo is more likely to give him food

And his Popo would be saying to me
"Momo got eat? Feed him some food"

Which I would tell her no,
cos Momo already had his morning feeding
an hour ago

Then she would say:
"Just feed him a little will do lah"

I suspect his Popo must have gone soft-hearted before
If not why does Momo go specifically to her to ask for food?

Pepper the timid cat

We got our doors changed today,
so there is this paint smell lingering in our house

Poor Pepper,
ever since the person came to change the door
(in the morning),
he got so stressed and kept hiding behind the television

Even when we managed to lure him out,
he would return back to his hiding place after a while

Maybe the change of smell at home
is also a cause of disturbance for him

Anyway,
today when the person came over,
Miaomiao squeezed herself
somewhere into the window grille,
where she thought she wouldn't be seen.
Pepper hid in the corner of the room under the bed.
and Momo tried to bury himself in my bed

Observations made when sitting in the kitchen having dinner

1. Miaomiao: "NEOW NEOW!", while there is
    still food in her dish. When no one gets up to refill her dish,
    she looks up at us with an extremely disappointed expression.
    Which causes us to burst out laughing, she looks very comical.

2. Pepper accompanies us for dinner and sits on a chair beside us.

3. Sometimes he forgets he is supposed to accompany us and not
    eat with us, so he comes up a little too close for comfort.

4. Miaomiao "NEOW NEOW!!!!!!!" again. Someone has to stop
    eating for a while and hold up her dish to her mouth so that she
    will start eating. She eats four pellets and struts off.

5. Pepper goes to his dish and waits for food. Someone pours food for him.

6. Momo, upon hearing the sound of food pellets pouring out, dashes into the
   kitchen, looking expectantly for his food. His food is rationed, so no one feeds him.

7. While no one is looking he starts eating from Pepper's dish. Pepper looks up helplessly.
    Someone comes over to rescue Pepper. Pepper continues eating.

8. Miaomiao walks into the kitchen, sits at her dish and "NEOW NEOW!".
    Again there is food in her dish, but she continues to give us that comical accusing
    expression.

9. Someone shakes her dish lightly in front of her. Satisfied that her food pellets can actually
    move across the dish, she eats a few more pellets again

Painting works!

Our block is undergoing painting right now.

Miaomiao was so curious when
she saw a painting long stick
moving outside the living room window
(The workers were painting the part
above our window)

So she went to see why there was something moving,
and jumped up on the television to see

After a while she realised that those people
probably wasn't people she was familiar with,
so she ran into the bedroom and hid
(As usual)

Pepper hides himself under the bed all the time

Momo is the only brave one
who tries to peek under the door
to see what's going on outside

How to be comfortable

The three cats are pretty smart in
making themselves comfortable

When I stroke their chins,
they rotate their heads like a fan,
so that all sides of their chin
get an even distribution of stroking

Miaomiao even turns her chin upwards while lying,
when she knows someone is coming into the room

R.I.P Peanut

R.I.P Peanut (10 Dec 2008 - 29 Sep 2010)

We don't know what happened though,
he hasn't really reached old age yet.

He was discovered last night motionless in his house,
with some dried discharge on his nose.

Rest in peace, Peanut..

The demanding cat

Ougwee read before online about
how a cat owner complained that
tortoiseshell cats are very demanding cats

Proved by our Miss Miaomiao at home

I was busy replying to an SMS,
when Miaomiao from the kitchen went
"NEOW NEOW!!",
asking for her food

I was trying to think what to type,
so I just "Ah ah ah" back in an attempt to "entertain" her,
which she was not very satisfied with,
so she continued
"NEOW NEOW! NEOW NEOW!!",
until she sounded like she was shouting at me

I gave up and went over to feed her.
She ate about 4 pellets and strutted off.

We really spoilt her too much!

Pepper's fans

Ougwee was carrying Pepper in her lap,
while sitting near the kitchen window,
when she heard shrieks from the block beside

Apparently,
the kids from next block
saw Pepper and got very excited

Pepper's fan club is growing...

Glutton Pepper

Ougwee heard some sounds from the kitchen
which she didn't thought was very suspicious.

That is,
until she realised Pepper was not within her sight

(FYI: If Pepper is not within your easy sight
he could be doing something naughty,
like sitting on the altar or washing machine)

Then she went to check on the kitchen
Pepper was indeed up to his old tricks,
seeing that the food on the dining table
wasn't covered properly,
and the tail of his yummy fried fish
was sticking out of the food cover

There he was,
caught red-handed standing up on the stool,
with his two paws on the table,
trying to grab a bite of the fish

When he saw Ougwee appear,
he immediately ran off
with what he had in his mouth,
into the living room.

Of course his loot didn't last with him for very long.

Minutes after that
I caught him licking his mouth
(*Yummy yummy*)
SO NAUGHTY!

Momo's tactic

I realise that sometimes
Momo bite to get his way

Today he came onto my bed while I was sleeping
My legs were on the side of the bed
very near to the wall,
which he probably wanted to sleep on

So he bit one of my legs.
I sleepily moved that leg away.

But the other leg was still blocking him.
*Bite*
*Leg dutifully moved away*
*Goal completed*

After that when I was awake then
I thought about why he was biting my leg

So that's why he keeps trying to
bite Miaomiao or Pepper
whenever they are lying on some chair.
He never fails to get his wanted spot
by using that trick

Miaomiao fine now

Went to check on Miaomiao
when I woke up this morning,
and she gave me her very pitiful look,
as if asking for consolation

The string is now not stuck in her butt
I don't know where is it though

She should be fine now
that she can get up on my bed

She's sleeping there right now
(But I wonder if my bed will have
a smelly spot later on..)

Horrible thoughts

We the mamas start to imagine in horror,
Miaomiao happily sitting on our beds,
dragging her dirty butt across,
with the string trailing behind her


*FAINTS*

The cat don't learn 2

Miaomiao just pooed a moment ago,
then the string came out a little.

So after she done her business,
we held her,
and I tried to pull out the string

It was good for about 5 cm,
then after that the string was stuck,
and I couldn't pull out any further

Not to mention that she yelped in pain :(

So what we could only do
was to cut the string a second time,
so that the poo-contaminated string didn't drag all over the floor

She was very distressed the whole while
and kept making her angry sounds

Hope the whole string will come out soon...

The cat never learns

Great,
now there's a long long string
stuck in Miaomiao's anus,
and we can't pull it out.

The best we could do was to cut it shorter,
and maybe wait til she passes motion
to get it out

Cats never learn their lessons
about eating up random things

Miaomiao must have eaten up the thread
while she was accompanying Popo sewing...

The guilt test

How to check if Miaomiao was the one
who caused that spill on the floor:

Look at her face. Does she have that
very guilty expression?
If yes, it's her!

10 sleep poses of Momo

Momo shares with us his various sleep poses

that his mamas just adore!

Suitable for bowling over girls of all ages

    The Vampire Pose

The Sleeping Beauty pose

The spread-out-and-put-your-paws-to-the-left pose

(As caused by the lie-in-the-middle-of-no-where-and-

block-people's-way syndrome)

The Not-Here-Yet-Not-There pose

The Yoga Pose

The little boy pose

The prop-head-using-laptop-screen-to-stop-falling-asleep pose

The act-cute pose

The chor lor pose

The surrender sleep pose

Lovesick Momo

"Where are you my love?"

Pepper's tail at work again!

Poor Pepper's tail is at work again

When he was little,
I remembered that with him being so naughty,
it's no wonder that his tail gets him into trouble
without him making an effort

Now that he's grown up,
and not so naughty anymore,
his tail has decided to give him trouble lately!
(FYI: His tail is hooked at the end)

A few nights ago,
his tail accidentally hooked to some wires,
causing things to topple over when he moved.
He really panicked and went into hiding after that

Just a few minutes ago,
he was happily walking on top of my laptop
when his tail hooked onto the fan's wire
and he couldn't move.
I had to help him ease the wire from his tail

He's now lying behind my laptop
trying to bat at my hands while I type by the way

Weekend wake-up call

Much to the mama's sadness and misfortune,
Momo doesn't see the difference
between a weekday and a weekend day

At about 8am today,
on a glorious Saturday that
normal people should be allowed to sleep in later,
he sat on Emily's bed,
looked at her,
and started "Ah! Ah! Ah!"

Emily's bed isn't surrounded by soundproof walls,
so I also got woken up by a screaming cat.

Sighs.

The Versatile device

For your information,
we now have a mousetrap in our living room.

It is a mobile trap,
positioning it whereever it likes,
in the living room.

And it doesn't catch mice,
it catches legs

Momo,
with his "lie-in-the-middle-of-no-where-and-
block-people-way" syndrome,
has this irritating habbit
of using both his front paws
to grab the leg of anyone passing by him

(Once I walked around him 3 times,
in an attempt to make him dizzy.
I think I got more dizzy)

And when Miaomiao or Pepper walks past,
he converts himself to a cat-trap,
of course making them angry again

Miaomiao's mum

Miaomiao has it bad now
These few days
when we walk past her,
we look at her and say
"Your mama very fierce you know?"
("你妈妈很凶！！")

Then she sits there wondering what happened..

The contented cat

Today I was feeding Pepper,
(actually I told Pepper: "Eat!", which he didn't really obey,
so I had to hold his plate to his mouth, so that he would start eating)
then Pepper was feeling quite happy and contented,
so he started kneading the ground with his paws,
while eating his food.

So he was slightly bobbing up and down,
while eating

SO CUTE!
Quite comical looking actually

Miaomiao vs Mum

Miaomiao's mum is in our bathroom right now

She looks almost like Miaomiao,
her expression and the way she walks,
but her temperament is surely nothing like Miaomiao

Thanks goodness our Miaomiao is so sweet and gentle :)
Maybe that explains why she has that bit of antisocial trait

Pepper and Momo

Here's Pepper to accompany virtual Miaomiao!!

Momo here but maybe look a little funny

                                             Pepper bathing in his nice bathtub


Somewhat people tend to do weird stuff
when they are facing more stress...

Momo's valuable leson

I'm starting to have a slight ache in my right back now
Must be from carrying Momo last night,
and leaning backwards to counter the weight

Momo is teaching me what mothers have to suffer...

Miaomiao on cartoon

A friend introduced me to www2.shidonni.com,
where you can draw animals
and make them into animated pets!

I drew Miaomiao which is quite hard to do,
considering the program is similar to paint
and I was using a mouse

And Miaomiao has so many colours!

Here's Miaomiao with her fridge:

The drawing's not very fantastic,
but it's passible! :)

I clicked some icon,
and Miaomiao had a baby animal
following her after that

Pepper's first annual vaccination

Time passes so fast,
today Pepper went for his first annual vaccination

The taxi driver who drove us to the vet
was quite unhappy with
the presence of an animal carrier in his cab

Moreover,
Pepper was very scared of going out
and howled once in a while

Halfway during the journey,
the smell of a fart wafted through the cab

Ougwee asked Pepper:
"Pepper did you fart?"

So poor Pepper helped cover up
the farting crime of the taxi driver

Pepper was still so scared,
I had to let him hide in my cardigan
while we were waiting for the vet

I forgot to mention that
Miaomiao came along as usual,
to comfort Pepper.

So at the same time,
Miaomiao was hiding in Emily's Puma bag

While in the vet's room,
Miaomiao watched from the bag
as poor Pepper had his injection

Miaomiao: "Lucky not my turn.."

But she still hid her head well inside the bag,
in case the vet saw her and
decided to give her an injection too

The vet is moving away! :(
We would love to follow over,
but Toa Payoh vet clinic is quite far for us
So we shall see how next February,
when it's time for Miaomiao's and Momo's vaccinations

Feeding times for Momo

Momo is currently participating in
"The Mama's Food Ration Exercise"

Meaning to say that he has feeding time

He still keeps screaming (AH! AH!)
even though he just ate about 20 minutes ago

Then he can't seem to remember if he had eaten already
When I woke up this morning,
he readied himself at his food bowl,
expecting me to feed him.

But Emily fed him earlier already!

And when Miaomiao and Pepper eat,
he trots into the kitchen,
thinking that it must be feeding time for him too

Sometimes when it's our mealtime
he also thinks it's time for him to eat
(and sit at his food bowl of course)

He has also very dutifully cleaned up
Pepper's and Miaomiao's dish

When I see Miaomiao's (a.k.a the Dribble Eater)
food dish so clean,
I wonder whether Momo had helped her clean off the plate

Pepper's bad habit

I look at Pepper digging in the litter tray,
and now it's my turn to faint

He dig and dig and dig til
there is no litter in that spot,
and he continues to dig and dig
and dig and dig and dig and dig

As if he wanted to dig a hole
in the base of the litter tray

Then once in a while
he makes a digging action
with his paw in the air

We wonder what he was trying to dig

Bad habits always carries through from young

He keeps peeing on empty ground
(without the litter to absorb the urine)
and you see why the urine always flows to his feet
and we have to take him to the sink to wash his feet

Pepper locked out

Two nights ago
Pepper took the chance to run out
on to the corridor
when someone came home
and the front door was opened

I went out to carry him back into the house,
then Miaomiao ran out to the corridor

Then I carried Miaomiao in,
and closed the door after me

A while later,
there was the sound of a cat
howling outside our house

Emily: "What's that sound?"
Me: "Must be Ougwee playing Youtube videos"

The cat outside must feel like fainting
for having such a dumb mum

I went to look at what Ougwee was doing
Turns out that she wasn't at Youtube

Then next I thought
"Must be Fat Cat from downstairs
up to disturb again"

At this time the cat outside our house
might have felt like knocking his head
against the wall

I climbed up on the stool
to look out at the corridor
through the window

PEPPER!!!

I quickly went to open the door,
and Pepper quickly sprinted into the house

He got so frightened
when he realised he was locked out of the house

So poor thing! :(
I didn't see him run out of the house again,
and I thought he was already safely in the house

For now Pepper is not so interested in going out I guess...

Miaomiao and her weirdness II

At about 8pm last night,
Miaomiao and Pepper were sleeping on the bed,
taking their night-nap

Miaomiao always slept with her head
propped up on the pillow,
the very proper way to sleep.

Pepper was sleeping somewhere
near the foot of the bed,
lying on his side

Halfway through her sleep
Miaomiao woke up,
and there she saw Pepper sleeping on the bed

She had this expression like
"Why is Pepper sleeping on my bed?",
then raised her right paw up,
as if preparing to tap him awake

Pepper was sleeping peacefully,
oblivious to the offended Miaomiao beside him

The three of us watched amusedly,
to see what Miaomiao would do

Anyway she did nothing in the end,
maybe she realised that
the bed doesn't really belong to her

Miaomiao and her weirdness I

Last night while I was sleeping
(about 3 to 4am),
I felt something ticklish on my face,
then on my arms.

I opened my eyes to see
Miaomiao sniffing me all over,
making her whiskers tickle me

Funny habit she has,
sniffing people in the middle of the night like that

** Miaomiao

It's comforting to have Miaomiao
come beside me when I lie in bed.

Until I figured out why she came.

Every time (on weekends),
when I set my alarm at a certain timing,
and I decide to lie in a little longer,
Miaomiao would jump up onto my bed,
and lie down.

After a while I realised it was because
she knew I would be waking up soon,
so she chose that time to start sleeping on my bed

FYI, she is quite 孤癖(anti-social),
she doesn't like that much contact at times

Momo now and then

It's funny looking through
past photos of Momo

He used to look so very innocent,
and now he just looks... very kaypoh.

He even literally pokes his nose
into everything,
like closets etc. etc.

Momo's news

Anyway as an update,
the fur on Momo's paw
(from the nail polish incident)
has almost grown back!! :)

I don't have to be guilty about
creating a bald spot on his paw

So I don't have to hold myself back
from scolding him when he disturbs me in my sleep

** Momo is currently 5.5kg,
10% heavier than the last time he took his weight!

Random pics

The Long Service Award recepients

(For being good company for Miaomiao, Pepper and Momo)

Miaomiao obviously enjoying her sleep :)

(From left to right: Guinea Pig, Large Guinea Pig)

Momo sharing tomatoes with the guinea pigs.

(More like snatching actually... His big head is blocking the dish)