I'm still thinking of my words for this post. For those who don't know, O.C has recently passed away yesterday (according to my mum, at 1745) after suffering what is diagnosed as kidney failure. It is a sad news and a great lost to the family who have loved him so very much. I'm dedicating this post as a tribute to the adorable feline who coloured the lives of the family all this time.
It was 5 years ago when O.C was brought back home by Yaya. My mum was never a pet lover, and initially didn't really agree for him to enter our lives. It will be such a hassle taking after a pet, she initiially thought. Little by little, that negativity turned for the better, and was well accepted by all of us.
It is hard not to recognize O.C when you enter the house. He is perhaps the reincarnation of Garfield in real life (minus the colour and the attitude of course). I think he was last weighed at 6.5 kilos. Yeah, that surpises many, I'm sure. His way of sleeping is also funny, sleeping pretty much like human (tido terkangkang)..He's quite the kampong type of cat; he can smell fish in the kitchen prepared for lunch right from the front entrance. Once left unguarded, he will make his move and ruined everything. Eventually, he got scolded, haha. That's all he cares about, eat and sleep (which explains his roundness). He may sometimes act all psycho and run here and there for no reason at all. He's very pantang when he sees the front door opened, he try his best to get outside to fight other outside cats. He's quite a bully towards his 'sister', Cendol.
But what we loved about him is his 'manja'ness. He will come near you and purr on your tummy, he will walk along the top part of the couch and starts licking your head, he'll regularly come next to you and gesel gesel at your feet. He even sleeps with my dad and my sister when they want him too. He enjoys sightseeing when our maid was doing her chores outside the yard.
I'm not sure if this is the right length of what I'm planning to write, but I'll stop here. Despite everything that has happened, good or bad, one thing is for sure; he is family. We are truly sad of this lost, and he will be missed. The house sure feels different now without you. We love you, O.C...
1) The fasting month is the time where your workload is at minimal, and so you can enjoy some quality time...sleeping! Almost everyday without fail, I'll spend my afternoon taking a 1-hour nap...You have know idea what it feels like after waking up...You basically feel like not working anymore, haha! But seriously, the hours spent on sleeping increased up to 20% I supposed, during fasting month...
2) You know how people of all walks of life enjoy the coming of the fasting month because of the melting pots at the Ramadan bazaar which are just...so...tempting? Usually the beginning fasting is the time which I would say...most challenging; Challenging in the sense that you can't keep your eyes on one type of food, you just think about what to eat next, next and after that. Now fasting month has reached half way, and to be honest, my cravings are gone! Everyday during the fasting month, I only look forward to fill up my appetite with the food that I think is only appropriate. After work, I shall only hunt for a main course, a drink (be it coconut or sugar cane juice) and just a RM1 kueh. I just don't feel the urge to eat anymore...because in the end, you'll never have time to finish everything as you'll be busy sleeping...
3) I just found out that someone who I love dearly has lost her cat. It's a terrible news to hear since I was quite close to both the pet and the owner. I know how much she loves her, and the cat has got so much love thanks to her. I can only understand how devastated she must feel after that incident. Rest in peace Lucci, and you will be missed...
4) Last Thursday I discovered a new spot for my tastebuds. I went out for buka puasa with my office mates (basically bachelors, which is led by a head 'bachelor'; a 40 year old principal engineer whose wife and family are in the UK, huhu). Anyway, the place is called Restoran Tiga Lima (located somewhere near Mahkota Parade) and it serves local authentic assam pedas, which I think is just marvellous. Worth checking out, and I might just pay another visit some day...
5) The US Open is currently airing on TV, and my dad and I happened to be quite an avid fan of tennis. Anyway, we were watching Federer - Hewitt match (which the great RF advances to the next round), and all of a sudden, my dad was like 'Eh lawa pulok baju Federer paka..kalu gi keda napok tolong beli ko papa' The attire he referred to is Federer's red shirt with black collar, huhu. So yesterday I went to OU and specifically to the Nike store, and found the shirt! Not of the exact colour of course. There's also the one the RF wore during Wimbledon this year, it's white and has this gold stripe at the collar which I think just translates into 'the great Roger'. Anyway, I thought the cut of the shirt is a little slim, so I'm not entirely sure if size M or L fits my dad better. So I took the picture of both shirts and let my dad to decide! That way, my dad will be satisfied, and I will not be frustrated for buying the wrong size (or the wrong shirt!)
6) Now, for what I am talking about in the main header. Recently there was the passing of one of the prominent figures in the nation's judiciary system. So it happens that my sister in law's older sister is married to him. So my mum and I went to this majlis tahlil held at her house somewhere in KL. Woww, her house is just gorgeous and huge! Lavishly filled with top notch furnitures, a pool, grand scale bathroom (my sister took picture inside it, huhu). And the neighbourhood just reminds you of Hollywood Hills, or the Upper East Side. Anyway, she was thinking of selling it since it is just too big for her and her only daughter. The price tag? A hefty five million ringgit. Ka-ching! I wouldn't mind living there if I happened to be a multi-millionaire. So, any takers out there?
It's approaching 6am (I just had my sahur), and I better get ready to head to Melaka...to work...Weekday blues is back...at least I can now look forward to sleeping in the afternoon in the office, hahaha...Selamat Berpuasa!
Well well well, little that I know that one of the most luxurious coffee that we fancy to drink every morning (at least for the rich and famous, not us middle and low-income mere mortals) came from what turned out to be from some animals...let's just say..droppings. I was watching this movie on HBO, 'The Bucket List' (starring star performers Jack Nicholson & Morgan Freeman), which by the way is a great great movie to watch. If you had the chance, turn in to HBO. In that movie, the character played by Nicholson is a rich ass business mogul who fancies, well a certain type of coffee; the type they called 'Kopi Luwak'. According to the movie, it's the most expensive coffee in the world, and in the end of the movie, he has been told of the origins of the coffee. Check out the movie quote, courtesy of IMDB:
[Carter hands Edward an article about Kopi Luwak, Edward's favorite coffee.]
Edward Cole: [reading] Kopi Luwak is the world's most expensive coffee. Though for some, it falls under the category of "too good to be true." In the Sumatran village, where the beans are grown, lives a breed of wild tree cat. These cats eat the beans, digest them and then... defecate. [pauses]
Edward Cole: The villagers then collect and process the stools. It is the combination of the beans and the gastric juices of the tree cat that give Kopi Luwak... [Carter starts laughing]
Edward Cole: ... its unique flavor... and aroma. You're shitting me!
Carter Chambers: [laughing] Cats beat me to it! [Carter and Edward both laugh hysterically.]
I was laughing my ass off, hearing that quote. And today, I started digging out 'Kopi Luwak' in Wikipedia. Check this out. 'Kopi Luwak (pronounced [ˈkopi ˈluwak]) or Civet coffee is coffee made from coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). The civets eat the berries, but the beans inside pass through their system undigested. This process takes place on the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago, in the Philippines (where the product is called Kape Alamid) and in East Timor (locally called kafé-laku). Vietnam has a similar type of coffee, called weasel coffee, which is made from coffee berries which have been regurgitated by local weasels. In actuality the "weasel" is just the local version of the Asian Palm Civet.
Kopi is the Indonesian word for coffee, and luwak is a local name of the Asian Palm Civet. The raw, red coffee berries are part of its normal diet, along with insects, small mammals, small reptiles, eggs and nestlings of birds, and other fruit. The inner bean of the berry is not digested, but it has been proposed that enzymes in the stomach of the civet add to the coffee's flavor by breaking down the proteins that give coffee its bitter taste. The beans are defecated, still covered in some inner layers of the berry. The beans are washed, and given only a light roast so as to not destroy the complex flavors that develop through the process. Some sources claim that the beans may be regurgitated instead of defecated.
In early days, the beans would be collected in the wild from a "latrine," or a specific place where the civet would defecate as a means to mark its territory, and these latrines would be a predictable place for local gatherers to find the beans. More commonly today, captured civets are fed raw berries, the feces produced are then processed and the coffee beans offered for sale.
Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling for between $120 and $600 per pound, and is sold mainly in Japan and the United States. It is increasingly becoming available elsewhere, though supplies are limited; only 1,000 pounds (450 kg) at most make it into the world market each year...'
Hmm, never thought cat's shit taste so good and cost so much, hahahaha...Well, let's just leave the story there. I don't have the balls to try it, now that I know where it came from...Till the next post, happy sipping you favourite cup!
For my blog, I'm going to introduce a new section called Seen and Heard (S&H) Basically every week I'll try my best to publish or upload any form of media that interests me; and hopefully does interest you as well. It can be songs that I fancy, creative adverts, or some funny viral videos in YouTube.
Anyway, today's S&H is a viral video. Bad kitty(or should I say gooood kitty)hehe..Enjoy:)
a twenty-something-something kelantanese, working his ass off in the O&G industry, a maintenance engineer by day and a professional slacker by night, a music junkie (loving his iPod and Sennheiser earphones so very much), a not-so-chronic couch potato, loves and adores feline creatures, an avid moviegoer, a gadget geek, a noob going on a photography learning curve with a DSLR
