To wake someone up

Somehow when one of us has to wake
someone else in the family up for some reason,
we always turn to using the cats.

We put the cat on the bed,
let the cat walk all over the sleeping person,
and when the sleeping person wakes up blearily to Thai massage,
we go "Oh, it's time to wake up" very casually,
as if the person woke up herself

I think there is a smaller possibility of the sleeping person
getting irritated and saying "Don't disturb me lah!"

A much less offending method to wake someone up

Auntie Momo

The closed room

Observations made on a quite typical night:


1. Emily goes to sleep and closes the bedroom door.

2. While the two other mamas are awake,
Pepper looks at the closed door in bewilderment,
wondering why it is closed.

3. He stands on his 2 feet and starts pawing the door.
Sometimes he even jumps up onto the table beside the door
so that he can paw the doorknob (but he has no opposable thumbs!)

4. When he decides he can't open the door
he starts to or-nell!~ rather despairingly.
Someone gets soft-hearted and opens the door for him.

6. He is happy that the door is no longer closed.
He goes in, walks one round of the room, and then comes out again.

So much effort just for that one round of the room.

The poor maligned cat

Many a times Momo plays too roughly with MiaoMiao,
and jumps on her to bite her (that is his idea of fun)

Then MiaoMiao calls “Nyak Nyak Nyak Nyak”,
then someone will come over and rescue her,
and scolds Momo for being so naughty.

Now i think actually Momo gets scolded wrongly
because of this sometimes.

There was this morning
MiaoMiao and Momo were chasing each other around,
and as MiaoMiao's mouth was going after Momo's butt,
I heard the same “Nyak Nyak Nyak” sound coming from her

Miaomiao just doesn't learn

MiaoMiao got into her adventurous mode last night again
and jumped out of the window
onto the corridor.

Luckily


1. The stupid stray cat wasn't on our corridor at that time.

2. Ougwee heard a sound at the window
and then the sound of MiaoMiao's bell outside the house.


MiaoMiao just doesn't learn.
Of course she got a stern scolding from Ougwee.
(Apparently Miaomiao held a grudge
against her til the next day,
she walked off when Ougwee came to her. Tsk.)

Momo doing leg stretching exercises

"1-2-3-4.."

Momo's very important duty

Guard of Guinea Pigs

The Cat who is ALWAYS there.

Ougwee and I were using our laptops,
and Momo has this irritating habit
of climbing up the table,
lying on our mouse or keyboard
(and basically announce that he is there)

So as soon as we saw him
preparing to jump up again,
we quickly:

we quickly placed everything in that corner
to block him from jumping up


and if you had been observant
to see what is in the left side of the first photo,
you would have known

He still managed to come in after all
(He merely went by another route
and then slotted himself between our laptops)

At Bedtime

I was so tired yesterday night,
that I went to my bed
and simply (actually intended to)
just crash into sleep

I slumped into my bed,
and in shock felt cold gooey stuff on my arm

I quickly asked Ougwee to switch on the light,
and there it was,
cat vomit evilly sitting on my bedsheet

And to think that I just bought a new mattress protector
to replace the previous one I threw away
(which was also stained by cat vomit)

So instead of being able to sleep straight away,
Ougwee and I had to change the bedsheets,
put everything in the wash.

Thanksfully this time
the mattress protector was only stained very very slightly.

Shall spray it with Emily's Febreeze later on.
Since it says that it is able to wash
without putting in the washing machine

Finally after that,
I was able to go to sleep.

Pepper's vaccination

Today Pepper went for his annual vaccination.

We took quite a while trying to get him into a bag,

then as soon as we were out of the house and into the lift,

he started making his howling sounds

His howling while on the car: 

The video was extremely short
as I had to put down my phone
to cuddle and console him.

I had to drape my cardigan over him
while in the car.
Perhaps if he doesn't see anything,
he doesn't think that it's actually happening.

Pepper while waiting for his turn.

While we were waiting,
the very friendly assistant who likes cats a lot
came over to talk to us shortly.

He remembers Pepper
as the cat who was very angry
after his sterilisation surgery.

Perhaps his howling sound when he is scared.
But anyway,
he might not have remembered the correct cat too,
since Pepper got sterilised about two years ago.

The man who was sitting next to Pepper and Emily,
perhaps thinking that Pepper looked so cute in his bow tie,
sort of looked over at Pepper and smiled a little at him.
What he didn't know was that
staring is very intimidating to a cat.

Pepper immediately turned to face the other direction,
a little frightened
(Why is the weird uncle staring at me ? :-<)

Pepper is 4kg,
and now people at the vet clinic
knows that he is a 'fussy eater'
(He forgets to continue eating
whenever he hears some moving sounds behind him)

The assistant had quite an easy time
feeding him the deworming pill.
By some way or other
he managed to drop the pill right into Pepper's throat.
Done!

Anyway, finally after that,
HOME SWEET HOME!
Pepper was so super relieved...

Momo eyeing Miaomiao's food

He doesn't go right in and snatch her food of course,
he just waits quietly by the side.

Because he knows unlike Pepper,
Miaomiao is not to be trifled with. ;)

Miaomiao sneaks out

Today we were woken up by Miaomiao's calls in the morning.
A loud, calling for help kind of scream.

I thought it was Momo bullying her again,
but turns out it was not

The stupid stray cat from downstairs
decided to climb many flights of stairs up again,
and was right outside our house.

Miaomiao by some way or other,
managed to sneak out the house through a window pane,
and was outside our house too!

At first we were trying to look for Miaomiao in the house,
but to no avail.

Then I saw Miaomiao sitting outside our house,
from through the window,
and we immediately ran to open the door for her.

For one moment I thought she would sustain serious injuries,
but thanksfully she wasn't hurt.
She was, however, in a bad state of fright,
and was panting quite heavily while she was back in the house.

It's really lucky nothing happened to her,
because if that cat had attacked her,
the injuries would be really bad.

It's been 2+ years,
and the cat never tires of climbing up so many flights of stairs all the time..

The unglam cat

Momo creates so much news all the time.

I was looking at Momo's back one morning
while he was sitting,
and I was thinking to myself,
"Hmm.. Momo's body shape looks so much better now"

Then the next moment he shifted his feet outwards,
so that he was sitting like he always did in the past,
like this:

                                             (same pose just that he's slimmer now)



he's as unglam as always