Last Christmas Kitteh

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Pics from last year.

The cat is Jelloe, my neighbour's.

He didn't eat the whole cake of course.

Only gave him the leftovers which were too many days old

and might not have been safe for human consumption.

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The Saga Continues...

The green type of 'cat's-eye' has thicker flesh. I like it more than the yellow type (see pics 2 posts ago).

This brown fruit is also supposed to be a variety of longan. The seed is similar to the cat's-eye seed but the outer shell is hard and crisp. You need to whack it real hard to break it open. Unlike the common longan and the cat's-eye longans, this variety is not as juicy. It has a sweet, drier taste. Love it.

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On an unrelated note, The Reel Yelloe Kitteh came around again yesterday. He seemed to miss me and was following me around in the backyard, meowing, wanting to be patted but I didn't want to anymore, since he bites.

T.R.Y.K. (Teh Reel Yelloe Kitteh) - Windchaser the Faerykin: Teh Animoskitty kontinues...

Mīn ælfcynn frēond, (My friend of the elf-kind)

ðu ðe eart on windan, (who is on the wind)

frēolic on flyhte; (pretty are your wings)

Gehealdan mec every deag, (Hold me everyday)

and forgyf mec mīn wōh (and forgive me my wrong)

swa swa ic forgifaþ ēow, (as I forgive you)

Līcian? (Please?)

Teh kitteh speaks fractured Old English hehe.

Of course I forgive the clueless kitteh.

But am not patting him anymore for safety reasons :)

Anglo-Saxon poem by Windchaser.

T.R.Y.K. is the neighbours' cat in the hometown.

Stargazer B Eatung Our Eyez!

A "cat's eye".

Moar cats'-eyes :)

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The mata kuching (literally "cat's eye"), I heard, is a variety of longan, though I dunno how true that is. I also hear it was originally only found in Sibu, though nowadays it is also available elsewhere in Borneo. It is a seasonal fruit available during the fruit season in Sibu, around November-February.

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The flesh is usually thin, much thinner than the longan, so you can usually see the seed through the translucent flesh, giving it a cat-eye-like appearance. It is also not crunchy. Tasty and sweet, agreeable indeed :)

Cat in this post:

A cat at an open-air mamak

in Taman Saga, Ampang, K.L.

on Tuesday, 9 Dec 2008.

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Teh Ultimite Kitteh Mashine

U maked me goed 2 teh 'ER' (as it was after office hours).

T.R.Y.K. is my neighbours' cat.

Lifes in Plastiks

...is no fantastiks.

Pics: Teh Reel Yelloe Kitteh.

Not to be confused with his bro, Jelloe,

Teh Reel Yelloe Kitteh is so-named because he's

all yelloe from top to tail with no white patches.

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Expanding Your Circle of Friends

Text by Rubel Shelly

More and more of us appear to have fewer and fewer people in our lives whom we would consider friends. And lest the word friend be left too ambiguous, let a friend be defined as someone with whom you have confided matters that are truly important to you within the past six months.

In the June issue of the American Sociological Review, researchers cite evidence that Americans have a third fewer close friends than just a couple of decades ago. More disturbing still, the data seem to indicate that the number of us who have nobody to count as a close personal friend has more than doubled.

The findings hold for both males and females. They are consistent for people of all races, ages, and educational levels. Even within families, the degree of intimacy has diminished considerably. All this information can't be good news, for it translates into people who feel lonelier and more isolated than ever.

Emotionally healthy people form meaningful ties with other human beings. They don't just exchange information but share personal things. They talk about likes and dislikes, their joys and fears. They extend themselves to help others and know how to accept assistance when they get in over their heads. When they have important decisions to make, they get insight and support from their friends.

No man is an island! Everybody needs a handful of people with whom to connect in these intimate ways. Nobody is smart enough, strong enough, or competent enough to negotiate something as complicated as this human adventure called life alone. John Donne protested the idea that men and women could function in splendid isolation from one another. "No man is an island, entire of itself," he wrote.

I know. You're busy! So is everybody else — including the people who are healthy enough to have emotional ties. You don't have time for the obligations in your life already? I understand that excuse too. But the issue here is priorities. Which is more important? Playing computer games or having a friend? Getting a bigger house or loving (and being loved by) the people in the house you have now? Making extra cash or having a real life?

The same research shows not only that people have fewer friends these days but that more and more of us are feeling the need for them. With the circle drawn so tiny, people are feeling lonely. Everybody needs people to count on.

If you are one of those people in need of friends, the best advice I can give you is this: Don't go looking to find friends but to be one to somebody else. Would you care to guess what dividend is returned on such an investment?

Some friends are fun to be with. But a close friend can be even better than a brother.

~ Proverbs 18:24

Taken from Heartlight.org

I Has a Creative

Job of the day was to take them to a creativity workshop at Taylor's Uni-College. They had 3 activities, the first of which was a talk, which I like best among the 3, perhaps because, though they had given it before and I had stumbled on some of the points once or twice before, I hadn't had the chance to sit through it. The following are some of what I got from it.

# the Petronas Twin Towers is worth USD4 billion, while Google, USD80 billion.
# Queen E, whose family has ruled Britain for 400 years, has USD420 million, while JK Rowling, has made USD1 billion in 12 years.
# The Iron Man comics have made up to date USD650 million since 1963
# Hello Kitty has, up to 2006, made USD500 million

Pic from a page from one of my teenhood diaries :)

If you can think... you can have ideas.

If you have ideas, you are creative.

Some creative people:

1. Leonardo da Vinci. Famous for the Mona Lisa.

2. Bill Gates

3. David Beckham

4. P. Ramlee

5. Richard Taylor

Another 2 pages.

And that, we are are ALL creative.
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How to get more creative:

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1. Look for more than one answer to everything. Instead of asking, "What's the answer?", ask, "What are the possible results?"

If this question was asked, "Twelve?" and the answer was, "Six."

And the answer to, "Six?", was "Three."

What do you think the answer to, "Three?" would be?
The correct answer is, "Five." The answer has to do with the number of letters that spell the numbers, not their division by 2. :D

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2. Be a Pattern Breaker.

Do things differently from what is usual. Some pattern breakers include Beethoven and Dick Flosbury. (You can google them to find out why they're pattern breakers.)

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3. Open Up Your Mind

What is 1 + 1 ?

Google it and you will find more than 1000 answers to this simple question.

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4. Don't Give Up

Thomas Edison tried more than 900 times before the light bulb worked.

A Hello Kitty bedsheet at my house in my hometown. (Not mine.)

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Get creative today! :D

~*Stargazer*~

How to Stay Young

Author Unknown

Illustrated by My Kittykins and Friends

1. Throw out non-essential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them.

2. Keep cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.




3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.





4. Enjoy the simple things.





5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.





6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is God. Be alive while you are alive.





7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.






8. Cherish your health. If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.





9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but not to where the guilt is.





10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.





And always remember: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

I'm Electric

Usually after driving and when I get out of the car, I often get (static) electric shocks when I touch the outside handle of my car door. And you can even hear the electrons snapping. Sometimes I even get it a second time when I touch the gate to open it.

Funny. But can get quite annoying though. Especially when it's extra painful sometimes. I guess when the voltage is extra high. Dunno if other people get static shocks as often as I do. I never used to have this at all and suddenly I'm getting it daily nowadays. Wonder why.

~ Close of Negative Electrons Love Me entry ~

~*Windchaser*~