Sunday, April 16, 2006
Porcelain Cat
And so I am back again. It is Easter break this week (meaning I have a one week holiday). Can you feel my bursting excitement? Really. This is probably the first holiday since I am in Sydney where I have nothing planned up. CY is busy with her honours work. Christian has to work work. Me? Just a blank. Some assignments to do but not that time consuming. I have actually been looking for a job but to not much success. Excuse me, rejection is the brother of success. I will probably be facing more rejections after I am back in Spore so this will be good training ground.
Anyway, life is exciting. I have been arty-farty this year. Going for pottery classes and making my own cups and bowls. Like hello? I will be using cups I made? Like how cool? Been doing canvas painting. This is self learnt. No classes whatsoever. Just amateur brushes, cheap canvas and paint, using plates as palette and plastic cups as water holder. I think my paintings are going somewhere. Maybe I will be a famous painter. Muahaha! I paint for interest ok interest not M.
I have had brushes with a couple of animals this semester. I shall introduce them to you.
This is our resident cat. He/She (e) has been loitering around our apartment since a couple of weeks ago. I think one of the residents might have abandoned it. I have been feeding E to the "screaming excitement" of CY. Once, E followed me up to my place and entered my home after I opened the door without me knowing. The next thing I knew, CY was screaming her heads off. I turned around and there E was sitting peacefully in my kitchen behind me. I feed E milk mostly. Christian told me to buy cat food. I would if E eats the food everyday. Sometimes, I wouldn't see it. I don't wana waste the food so I figured I might as well feed it human food. CY has labelled the bowl I use to feed the cat Kitty's Bowl. She will learn to live around it.
This picture of the cat reminds me of the cover of the book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" by T. S. Eliot. I have the book lah that's why I know.
This is Christian's fish tank with 2 goldfishes. It was filthy after months of not cleaning and so under my persuasion (more like gun on Christian's head), Christian and I decided to clean the tank. It is quite an experience. Have to transfer the fishes, keep some of the old water, scrub everything including the moss-filled rocks, clean the sand, pour old and new water back into tank and then let fishies get accustomed to the water temperature (picture above). Quite a job but well worth it. We were just as happy as the fishes seeing the sparkling new fish tank and bubbling filter (it was so clogged up it stopped bubbling). And today, Christian bought some plants and put them in the tank. The fishes adore them. Swam around them, hid in them, ate them. Happy fishes!
Introducing Pigeon King (The one on the left)! Christian and I found him beside the park near his place. He is F~ing huge. He looks like a chicken can? Pigeons are supposed to look like..... birds, flying kind. He can't fly for shit we think. We love him. We worship him. We adore him. The Pigeon King.
Anyway, life is exciting. I have been arty-farty this year. Going for pottery classes and making my own cups and bowls. Like hello? I will be using cups I made? Like how cool? Been doing canvas painting. This is self learnt. No classes whatsoever. Just amateur brushes, cheap canvas and paint, using plates as palette and plastic cups as water holder. I think my paintings are going somewhere. Maybe I will be a famous painter. Muahaha! I paint for interest ok interest not M.
I have had brushes with a couple of animals this semester. I shall introduce them to you.
This is our resident cat. He/She (e) has been loitering around our apartment since a couple of weeks ago. I think one of the residents might have abandoned it. I have been feeding E to the "screaming excitement" of CY. Once, E followed me up to my place and entered my home after I opened the door without me knowing. The next thing I knew, CY was screaming her heads off. I turned around and there E was sitting peacefully in my kitchen behind me. I feed E milk mostly. Christian told me to buy cat food. I would if E eats the food everyday. Sometimes, I wouldn't see it. I don't wana waste the food so I figured I might as well feed it human food. CY has labelled the bowl I use to feed the cat Kitty's Bowl. She will learn to live around it.
This picture of the cat reminds me of the cover of the book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" by T. S. Eliot. I have the book lah that's why I know.
This is Christian's fish tank with 2 goldfishes. It was filthy after months of not cleaning and so under my persuasion (more like gun on Christian's head), Christian and I decided to clean the tank. It is quite an experience. Have to transfer the fishes, keep some of the old water, scrub everything including the moss-filled rocks, clean the sand, pour old and new water back into tank and then let fishies get accustomed to the water temperature (picture above). Quite a job but well worth it. We were just as happy as the fishes seeing the sparkling new fish tank and bubbling filter (it was so clogged up it stopped bubbling). And today, Christian bought some plants and put them in the tank. The fishes adore them. Swam around them, hid in them, ate them. Happy fishes!
Introducing Pigeon King (The one on the left)! Christian and I found him beside the park near his place. He is F~ing huge. He looks like a chicken can? Pigeons are supposed to look like..... birds, flying kind. He can't fly for shit we think. We love him. We worship him. We adore him. The Pigeon King.
