You know The Cat in the Hat?

You know Thing 1 and Thing 2?

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My Thing 1 and Thing 2 hope you had a great Christmas with loads of ham, turkey and pressies, and they want to wish you a Happy Boxing Day!

But I have to share this because it’s too funny…

P2, El and I went to MINT Museum of Toys on Sunday. And I wanted to show you this…

Berlin. Twenty years ago today, I was watching the news on tv with my parents as I did everyday. I heard about the fall of a wall in Europe. Of course at that age, I didn’t know what the fuss was all about, but I do remember everyone was talking about it. Some weeks later, the USSR collapsed and in Captain Planet, Linka now comes from Russia.

Some years later, I became a student of history and political science. The discussion of these events no longer became a stranger to me. Today, many still have invisible walls and conflicts continue to happen because of differences. Twenty years seem too short a time for much change to happen.

Perhaps one should take some time to remember the essence of this speech.

Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was civis Romanus sum. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’… All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!’

Cambodia. Cambodia also celebrates its Independence Day today. On 9 Nov 1953, Cambodia achieved independence and was no longer a French colony. Having just visited the country, I have been reminded yet again that I know so little of Asia. There is so much diversity and rich culture that one can never imagine some events only happened thus recently. And I realized I will be a student of history for as long as I live.

Pictures are still uploading from my trip… Hoping they will be up soon!

last week. it flew by just like that… things are quiet (literally) in the office since there’s no one around except 6 of us. over at my side, there’s only me. it was not very quiet email-wise, but i’m ok. I’m only upset that my weekend was burnt. -_-…. one document is all it takes i realize. One of my biggest and most tedious write-ups crashed (AFTER i saved…) and there’s no way the full document could be retrieved. The people who could come look at the system also didn’t manage to come in time. I burnt my friday knitting evening, my Japanese class, and the whole of my saturday because of that. Major SIGH.

flu-y. I’m also kinda flu-y these days. I might just take off on time today to get some rest. Too bad it’s monday.

Formulas and Hams. URGH…. what else is going to be worse???

Mang. Care for some dosage of fur?

On Leave. I’m on leave today… Miss staying at home with the girls… I like having to wake up to their happy faces and then not having to leave them alone at home within 30 mins.

Birthday. Today is also D’s birthday. YOOHOO! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Okok. Some pictures of Mang with no e-collar. She looks younger here somehow:

And here she is snoozing as usual

As you can probably see, she still has those polyps. But they aren’t as angry as ever and the ears are much more manageable now. She’s also a much happier cat now. =^..^=

Weekend. I had a great weekend. Saturday’s hash was a good one and we managed to catch up with Mollie’s most-favorite-person-in-the-world-other-than-Daddy, Anderson. That’s why I didn’t manage to catch a picture of her, but here’s Millie.

I also finished watching Mr. Brain and I wish I have Kimura Takuya’s hair now. I particularly enjoyed Nakama Yukie’s performance…

AND I also played games on my PSP, although I could do better by working on my PS3… maybe later today.

OH and on Friday I watched G-Force. it’s really cute!!! I wanna watch it again!

And yesterday I went with D to a PhilWiinds concert. Flavor of the day: Spanish. It was very enjoyable, especially the second half. These concerts always make me miss my days in the Symphonic Band.

Am meeting an old friend for lunch… and then I’ll see what I shall do for the rest of the day. Miss my Happy Corner though!!!

Mang is ok, one of her little lumps disappeared and the other is still there. No signs of becoming smaller. She will have a minor cauterizing session soon and then she will be discharged tomorrow.

Millie put on 200 grams and is a little squirmy taking her kennel cough prevention – the squirmy part is expected.

Mollie lost 1 kg (WHY?!?!) but is happy and chirpy and bouncy. – that is expected too.

They are all doing fine.

was relatively better than the long weekend last week spent running errands. Of course the highlight was a bowl of blue cheese. Anyways, see why.

UP. I watched Up. It was HILARIOUS. I also particularly enjoyed the details for the dogs – especially the snarl Alpha did … and I LOVE Alpha. Dug is cute too!!! I think the best thing I remembered from the movie was when Russell (was that his name?) the little boy said that the most ordinary things are the things he remembered best. hmm hmm.

Knits. I also knitted abit this week. Oh and I have more yarn!! HAHA

Ghibli. I bought more animated films by Studio Ghibli. (Note: I don’t want to write Miyazaki here because he didn’t produce some of those I bought) Some of them are my longtime favorites and one is something new. Added to my Ponyo limited edition tin case DVD, is Grave of the Fireflies 火垂るの墓, My Neighbor Totoro となりのトトロ, Nausicaa Valley of the Wind 風の谷のナウシ and Tales from Earthsea ゲド戦記. I haven’t seen Tales before so that’s new. I watched Grave of the Fireflies again last night and then Totoro and Ponyo today. I am quite disappointed though, that there isn’t Princess Mononoke… I might check next weekend though.

Ok here’s an evening before another busy week ahead. I can’t wait for the next public holiday already. SIGH!

Mang is very bossy!!!!!!!! my gosh…. i have no words. She’s been very bossy since she came back. She’s entitled to her bossiness though hahaha

So many things to do….

Oh KYOHO~! I just ate 7 kyoho grapes yesterday. (I couldn’t bear to finish the whole bunch) VERY YUMMY!!!! I like them better than the Hwaseong Grapes I previously had. But I think these may be the only two grapes I would gladly eat…. Oh kyoho 巨峰巨峰…食べたい～

naughty little mang. she’s been meowing and running around and hiding and rolling about. mollie’s all too tired following her everywhere and millie’s too lazy to be bothered.

Anyways she’s back to her queenly self. I only hope that her scampering and rolling around won’t affect the healing process. sigh!

Here’s a picture of her rolling around and having a tummy rub.

I think I only slept 2 hours last night… In total.

I was exhausted after the hash, and thought I could have a longer night’s sleep (something like maybe 4 hours?)… but nope.

Mang’s very happy to be home and spent the night eating, walking around, staring out the window, staring at me, hogging my pillow and just being herself really… So I only got (try) to sleep around 2am in the end and she only decided to sleep around 7?????? She rested in between on my pillow or on her Snoopy blanket. But other times she was busy walking around and I had to get up to feed her. Her e-collar makes her behave like a bulldozer when she eats from her plate so it’s easier if she ate from my palm.

Here’s her medication for the next ten days. Some are eardrops and the painkiller in a syringe is only for four days.

Here’s her pre-surgery medical report

And here’s Mang with her e-collar

Millie and Mollie are happy MangMang is home but they are wary… Mang looks ‘funny’. But of course they just keep doing that ‘wary’ stance and don’t run away from her so it’s alright. Mang can also drink from her water bowl so that’s one less thing to worry about. I need to find a way for her to rest her head and maybe get another bowl so I don’t have to hand feed her.