*Light Bulb* Moment

Wanna washes teh car? Ran outta teh car shampuuu?

No problim! Kitteh shampuu does teh job just as well!

Bushtails is not around anymore. Cat and car. I think it will work out fine :) Just a single letter difference. Furthermore, Calansil is an animal too. Different species maybe, but still a pink unicorn animal. And they say to recycle! :D

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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