Friday, June 29, 2007

"Pets" at home

While our cats are in quarantine and back only on 4 July, we have a few pets at home. There's Bobby, our parents' mongrel that keeps the burglars at bay.

Then we have a stray ginger cat that stays next door but always comes over. Think he knows we're cat lovers. He slips in whenever the door is opened and hides under the dining table until he hears our voices. We give him a little tuna, roast chicken.

But after a few minutes, mum will carry him out. Now, mum has softened her heart & even leaves him some food outside. Hope our kitties won't be jealous of him.

We also found a rhinoceros beetle near mum's plants one day and here's a photo of it.

Gone fishing

Simon went fishing and managed to catch a fish and a crab, on two separate occasions. We steamed the fish and it was so fresh and delicious. When are we going to eat the crab, mum?

Simon is exploring the various places to fish and checking out the tides and all. Don't worry, Aaron, Albert and Daniel. Simon will find the right spots by the time you visit us!

And there's still open water fishing which has yet to be explored!
They catch way bigger fish out there

Our cats

Our cats, Tiger and Tigger, have to be quarantined for a month. It's OK considering that pets from other countries and even KL, have to stay in for 6 months! When we first visited our kitties, we only found Tiger in the room.




What about Tigger? He was so frightened when the vet's assistant cleaned the room that he did a ninja and climbed up onto the wire grill 6 or 7ft up! After Simon coaxed him down and he was happy to see us, he went to eat a little....sigh

Our new home

We are staying with Simon's parents in a modest 2-storey bungalow. It was built in 1976! What we like about our home is that we have a few fruit trees in the garden. So we get to eat pomelo, mango and longan. We had longan last week and mango last night. Yummy and sweet. We learnt that we must wrap the mangoes up when they are still young, otherwise the worms will get to them!

MIL loves orchids. Check out this wild Sarawak orchid that she grew. The blooms hang downwards!

Farewell Singapore, hello Miri

We left Singapore on 4 June 2007 after a whole month of clearing, packing, throwing and cleaning. We didn't know we had accumulated so much stuff over 6 years! We feel sad moving away from our matrimonial home, but we managed to find a nice Singaporean couple who rented it from us and we hope they will enjoy the apartment with their latest addition to their family - a baby girl.