Of puking hamsters and writhing kittens

So i was playing with my niece's hamster the other day. It had a funny weird long name which was too difficult to pronounce (or even remember), but finally she changed the name to Pepsqueak and then to Pipsqueak and now its Pip for short. Yes in like Enid Blyton's Adventures of Pip. The pixie. Anyway..

So everytime i go to her place i'd just take the poor thing out and give it some entertainment. So i did the same thing the other day and after about 20 minutes, it suddenly started puking all over me. And i got worried lah kan, cos i thought tht maybe it was sick or maybe i had squeezed its stomach too hard or something.

Then my cousin tells me that it sometimes stores food in its mouth (god knows what for since they provide it with hamster food and carrots - diced, mind you - and apples etc).. Then a couple of minutes later, same thing happens. And this time, its a bloody barrage, like it was a mini machine gun or something spewing all the seeds out. Would have been funny if it wasnt a bit worrying.

And the other day, i was going back from work, and i suddenly saw this tiny black wriggling thing on the road near the traffic lights. and when i came near it was a black kitten. i think it just got knocked and it couldnt move but it was just writhing and jerking and twitching. and the cars on the other side of the road couldnt see it cos it was jammed and the traffic light just turned green so each car'styres were going over it like in slow motion. that was the worst part, i just stopped and couldnt drive. then a black merc went over it (not its head) and all of a sudden it went limp. that was one of the worst scenes i'd ever witnessed. then as i drive i look left and there's another bloody kitten writhing on the floor, this one'd grey, same thing.. and i cant stop cos there's a bloody bus behind me. i mean WTF IS WRONG with the mother cat? why give birth on the side of the road in the first place.. dumbass..

then was exchanging stories with my friend over beer on friday and he said tht he once saw a family of monkeys in templer park (apparently that park is famous for animals crossing - dont ask me, i didnt even know templer park was in KL!) and the "father" monkey had got his family safely across the road, but he got hit while he was crossing, and he couldnt walk so he was holding his neck with one hand and dragging himself across the road with the other while all his family screeched from the other side of the road. he finally got across but god knows what happened to him.

and there was another time when i tortoise was crossing and he stopped his car and carried it to the other side.

and there was once when he was with a friend and the friend purposely knocked into a dog and he told his friend to get him down right then and there and never spoke to him again. i think that should be the way, i mean who needs an asshole like this as a friend anyway?

and another time when i saw a dog and its puppy playing by the road, and suddenly a car came and knocked it and kinda just killed the puppy on the spot cos it just stopped moving and blood was pouring out of its open mouth. but it wasnt the driver's fault, the puppy kinda ran onto the road at the last minute.

sigh.. gory stuff on my blog today..

may these souls rest in peace..

Men Issues.. Sigh..

Yeah, well I suppose all women have them. But before I start, my current fave is Gloria Estefan’s Como Me Duele Perderto. Its so Spanish ;-) and yeah you know I have a fixture (wrong word I think) for all things Spanish. And Brazilian.. Hahahah..

So yeah - men - cant live with them, cant live without them. I like their company more than women and this wkend just proved it (no doesn’t include you, Thres). But I generally am closer to men, and this past couple of weeks have been SO boring. There are about 8 guys I’m pretty close to (apart from my dad :p), and, well, see below:

Guy 1: Is kinda far away (well abt 30 mins) but I havent seen him in ages. Had lunch abt a mth ago, and just been calling once a wk or so, but nothing like being there in the flesh.

Guy 2: Is going to UK to work. SIGH.

Guy 3: Spoke on the phone last abt 2-3 wks back.

Guy 4: Is on holiday in India and coming bc to MAL for a while before going to the USA to do his MBA. Sigh.

Guy 5: Currently pissed with him cos he pretended not to know where the bloody nasi lemak stall was.

Guy 6: Met him last abt a mth back.

Guy 7: Is far far far away. Talk on the phone once every couple of days or a couple of times a day or so but as I said, nothing like being there in person.

Guy 8: More email than phone

Pls note that the order above is random, and Guy 1 does not mean he is the most loved, or the most missed, etc. And yeah, there a couple (or more) that I think I’m forgetting - sorry *sheepish smile*

Was having tea with 3 of my guy friends a while ago, and oh my god it was such a FUN time. These guys were not bitching, not talking abt guys, not talking abt shopping and bags and shoes, not bitching, not talking about guys, not gossiping, not bitching, oh wait I mentioned that already. GAWD, it was so fun. They were reminiscing about school and college and all the RUBBISH they did and talking abt everything. And each sentence was followed by laughter. It was so laid back and random that and we sat there talking cock for like 3 hours ;-)

Aaaaaahhhh, the good times.. I LOVE you guys.. You too Thres, even tho you’re female ..

Insulin Related Incidences (and on being agnostic)

Ok first up, to all you people who have been following my blog (and I personally know some of you ;-), I havent had the time to update my blog in absolutely ages. Something interesting happens and I think to myself, wow I need to put this down in my blog and its not that I forget but its just that I have more “pressing” things on my mind.. So yeah..

Well, about insulin related issues - I have this uncle who is diabetic and he injects his insulin himself. And well, I’m not really close to him. So the other day, well he went out with his brother the whole day and when he came back to the house, he suddenly comes up with this thought that he forgot his insulin and left it at another aunt’s house. And that aunt’s house happens to be like an hour away and he doesn’t know how to get there by himself! I mean, if your life depended on something, would you be likely to forget it?

So then he comes inside and straight away goes like, in a really panicky voice “I left my insulin at this aunt’s place, and can you follow me to direct me?” and guess what time this was? 11pm at night! I mean, if it was someone I like and someone I was comfortable with, I would hv done it straightaway. So at first I didn’t wanna bother, but deep down I knew I had no choice and that I was doing it for my aunt and cousin whom I both love (which reminds me - how funny it is that people from the same family can be SO different)! And when I asked him in the car “how can you forget something like this?” and he goes like “like you don’t forget anything”. so then I just shut up. I mean, lets just drop it la.

The best part? He didn’t even say a word of thanks. Oh well.. Sigh.. I suppose somehow you collect some points in that great mansion up in the sky :-)

Oh and by the way, I need to explain myself here - on religion. Everyone thinks I don’t believe in god. But I don’t think they know what I mean. cos every time I say something even remotely related to religion, the always go like “but you don’t believe in god”.

So yeah: I am an AGNOSTIC, not an atheist. There is a link I would put up here explaining WHY an agnostic but I cant rmbr. But you can google it. There is this guy who explains himself really well. Oh here it is - http://arts.cuhk.edu.hk/humftp/E-text/Russell/agnostic.htm

So an atheist is someone who does not believe in god; they think that man evolved from monkeys etc, and the original specimen came from the big bang (which I think is utter rubbish cos it just doesn’t make sense. I mean all this deign around us is definitely creation. But I’m not here to argue abt creation and evolution.

I’m here to explain myself as an agnostic. And this is someone who DOES believe in god but couldn’t care less about it. Yeah well there is someone up there (and believe me, he’s been looking out for me quite a few times now, for which I’m totally grateful). But I don’t wanna do anything abt it. Cos I think religion is very restrictive and you can be a good person with good values without being religious.

Religion is just a means of getting to god and more often than not, all the rules in religion are more to culture - they just make your life complicated. Take a Hindu wedding for instance - enuff said :-)

So if someone can just pray to god directly (I mean, he’s great - he’s the caretor, do u really think he wont hear you if you didn’t go through some religion?) why not just do that. Which wil then bring us to the age old argument of which is the true religion. GOD, I WILL NOT EVEN START..

And yes, to all of you who have been missing my blog, I plan to at least update you on my life a coupe of times a week.. Cheers.