Ohai! Hope your weekend was just as exciting and eventful like mine was, if not better!

Today imma introduce you my little one. No, I did not go into hiding for 9 months and produce an offspring.

 

Born 7th June 2011

My 5 month old American Curl x Ragdoll kitten

 

BabyChivas, would you like a glass of Chivas on the rocks?

 

Many question the reason behind his name. It is Chivas, named after the 1st blended Scotch whiskey that introduced me to the world of partying and drinking, Chivas Regal. Behold the wonder:

 

Ohai. We meet again.

 

So yes, hence the name Chivas. Also because I wanted to name my furkid after a two-syllable alcoholic beverage but other brand names didn't seem to cut it for a name of a cat.

I'm pree sure you would've known all about Chivas if you've been following me on Twitter or Facebook.

 

Here we are at Old Town White Coffee for dinner

 

Monday blues begone! Imma spam you with photos of my kittyboy today. Okay?

 

Adorable one

 

My 1st day bringing babyChivas home!

 

In case you were wondering how a 5 month old kitten can be so big, it's because of its breed.

It's a purebred American Curl with a Ragdoll for its mommy. It took the traits of its father, an enormous cat.

 

Cradling babyChivas

 

Got him for a fair bit of a price but he's worth everything to me now.

One of the reasons why I chose Chivas from its entire litter of siblings, is because he magically winked at me

 

And I managed to catch it again!!!!!!!! He only does it to me though  

 

My one and only kittyboy

 

Brought him back to granny's place and there were dogs around so.. IN THE CAGE YOU GO!

For your own safety, boy 

 

I hate it when he's eyes/pupils get tiny (direct sunlight) cos it makes him look a tad bit creepy

 

See what I mean? Creepy.

Btw, check out his ears. Total curly-eared trait from daddy American Curl!

 

Talking to Chivas before bedtime

 

Bought him a red toy shark to play with!

 

Who's my prim and proper kitty?

 

Just chillin' on the sofa

 

Ready to pounce?

 

POUNCE!

 

Food??

 

Just fooling around

 

How can you not love him?

 

Coming from a family who despises cats, thefockers instantly warmed up to babyChivas – faster than I thought they would! Granny and mom hates the living daylights of felines; warning me never to bring him back.

But knowing my rebellious nature, I did anyway. And guess what???

 

Woohoo See? If you give everything a chance, it will turn out great!

 

Nommy!!!

 

No mouse for this computer, cat.

 

Outing with kittyboy at Desa Park City with my mates

Yippee yay for pet-friendly zones! 

 

Another outing!

 

Looking out the window

 

Although I look dreadful in this photo, babyChivas

looks simply adorable so I just HAD to post it up

 

Shocked expression LOLOL

 

Watching TV together

 

babyChivas being sucha baby!

 

I'm blessed to have housies that equally love and adore my kittyboy.

In fact, they do help me with disciplining him when he destroys our cables/wires by gnawing on them

 

Housie Edwin – Chivas' merciless discipliner, Uncle Edwin

 

Housie Darryl – Chivas' affectionate & pampering Uncle Darryl

 

"OH NO!

DID I DO SOMETHING WRONG AGAIN?"

 

Funny how we brought Chivas over to buddy Venessa's house to befriend her cat, Whiskey.

 

Chivas & Whiskey's 1st meet …….. didn't go well

 

"UGHHH. GTFO! NO! EWW! I HATE HER!"

 

Whiskey & Chivas not playing with each other

 

Chivas can be quite a whiner sometimes.

Especially when he wants more attention or food

 

WHINE WHINE WHINE

 

That's when mommy cajoles you 

 

Happy now?

 

He's sucha child sometimes.

Well he should be, he's only 5 months old (4 months, at time of the above photo)

 

Just like me, I love how he can sleep instantly anywhere he wants

This was taken while he was keeping me company on my roadtrip to Ipoh!

 

Or just on my lap while I'm busy with work

 

Or over-exposed & vulnerable on the bed

Or in my arms like a baby!

 

Although I don't sleep with babyChivas, we do take naps together

 

Jessicat and her kittycat off to catch some zzzzzz's

 

"MOMMY! HOW DO I GET DOWN FROM HERE??"

 

Smile for the camera!

 

When I figured I was bringing him out with me all the time, I thought I'd just get a kittybag for him

 

So he can follow me whenever and wherever!

 

Another random photo:

 

Looking all serious and shizz

 

Also recently bought a kitty tee for him too!

Look who's a handsome boy now?

 

Lookin' all smug

 

But still adorable nonetheless

 

Cuddly kitty! 

 

Oh and, you know what randomly came to my mind as I was choosing kittytees for him?

The fact that we always watch him poop – cos it's interesting to watch to be honest LOL

 

So.. no watching ey? Can we take photos instead?

 

POOP! You're on candid camera!

 

Oh, speaking of candid camera, you should totally see Chivas after showering. 

HE.LOOKS.RIDICULOUS. And extremely scrawny!

 

HOUMAIGAWD LOLOLOL

Wet cat 

 

BabyChivas snoozes a lot during the day but is tip-top alert during the night

 

"WHAT'S THAT, MOMMY?"

 

BabyChivas can be quite an intellectual kitty too.

Whilst I was slaving away at my assignments and exams, he just loves coming over to me and sitting there to keep me company. Sometimes even walk up and stare or sit on my notes!

 

Heh. Excuse me

 

Thanks for the offer, sweetheart, but I don't think I can trust you to give me a Distinction for my assignment

 

Microsoft Word kitteh

 

Another random huggable kitty photo of him

 

Better than any huggable plush/soft toy! 

Also, like clockwork, he mews softy and squeaks whenever he is being squeezed hehe!

 

Cuteness overload. Mommy and everybodeh loves you!

 

So there you have it. An entire post about my furkid.

Photo credits to housies Darryl & Edwin and my iTouch

Ain't he a celebrity cat? So many people wanted to meet him already for the past 1 month ever since I tweeted and Facebooked him to the world! One day, just maybe one day, I'll bring him out partying with me to meet his muse, Chivas Regal LOL

 

I was joking

Great week ahead peeps!

 

So my friend, Wei Jin posted this photo on his Facebook profile with the caption:

"Anyone seen this strange looking bug before?? @@"

 

I totally freaked the moment I saw it.

Pardon my language, but what the fuck is that?!?? 

 

It looks like a cockroach mated with a grasshopper, producing this hybrid, ghastly lobster-looking insect.

LOL If it's even an insect to begin with. By definition, insects have 6 legs.

 

My observation:

See that final pair of "leg"? It looks like a lizard's tail or a worm to me. 

It has wings, albeit quite short.

It has feelers, like those of a cockroach

 

I then gathered more details about this odd creature -

• He found it beside the kitchen table 
  
• It is about 3 centimetres in length, bigger than a cockroach (half the size of his palm)
  
• It's tail looked like the back of a snake and had white stripes on it
  
• It looked like a rat from far and when my friend wanted to hit it, it flew a little
  
• The yellow stuff is its secretion (shit and goo)

 

If you guys have any more questions, just ask

Any opinions of yours is good too.

 

Thanks! I'm just extremely curious to find out what this is.

Any help will be appreciated! Share this! We'll find out what it is together 

 

UPDATE! 

A few readers told me it looks like a woodlouse.

And others told me it could be a wood termite.

More of them claimed it was the famed 'Cockamouse' from How I Met Your Mother

   

LOLOLOLOL I quite agree. But it's a fictional creature so it's impossible

 

Any more opinions, guys?

 

BIGGER UPDATE!!!

Finally discovered what that underground monster is!

 

It's called a Mole Cricket! (discovered it when I was Googling and Wikipedia-ing all night)

Ta-da! Same, right?

 

Your new best friend

 

I was sorta right. It IS a hybrid. And from the grasshopper family.

It's a cricket! Not your average cricket FYI.

 

This creature is nocturnal and practically spend their entire lives underground and digging tunnels.

It feeds on larvae, worms, roots and grasses.

 

EUREKA!

 

I must admit that when I first arrived in Melbourne, I had a pretty hard time adapting to the weather.

It was temperamental and yet excruciatingly cold when the sun sets!

 

They say its very likely to experience 4 seasons in ONE DAY. That's how unpredictable it is.

 

The sun shines brightly during the day but the cold wind is enough to give you chills anytime

 

And you call that Summer? Yeah, I arrived in mid February – when it was in the middle of Summer.

I'm sorry, if ya think Australian Summer this year is anything remotely close to any other day in Malaysia, you're terribly wrong.

 

You would never want to be caught dead outdoors in the early mornings

it's FREEEEEEZING!

 

As mentioned, it's not too bad during the day but being typical Malaysian, I'm so used to wearing very

little clothes that I actually forget about how cold it is outside

 

A random mini green pinecone we found.

Whose palm is that btw?

 

 I spend the days indoors with my housies in the West

 

And my mates from the house next door!

 

Always up for a drink or two!

 

As fun as it is in the West, I spend more of my time in South now

I'm glad to have made an awesome bunch of friends there. Love them much!

 

The route between West rez & South rez

 

Sunny days for the Summer, but it never gets anything close to 25 degrees celcius

 

Chilling by South 9's porch

 

At the uni lounge deck with some of my mates!

From L-R : Levan, Todd, Devin and Deanna

 

Without realizing it, the days of Summer are over and we are now in the midst of Autumn.

 

The leaves on the trees has turned yellow in preparation to fall

 

Bright yellow, vermilion orange and deep, scarlet reds beautifully scattered on the ground

 

Different trees shed their leaves at different times.

This tree, for example, was a tad late in joining the rest of his kind, but boasts a beautiful, burgundy hue.

 

Walking by this tree after classes, I can't help but to stop in my tracks

and admire Mother Nature's wonder

 

One morning, as the sunlight peeped through my window and in the near distance, I spotted a tree with bright red leaves.

Seeing that red is my favorite colour and the fact that I never once noticed this tree just outside my rez, I whipped out my camera and bolted through the door in my pyjamas.

 

Excuse the straight-out-of-bed face and hair!

I just had to take a picture with it immediately

 

Here it is again. The rare, bright red ones standing out from the crowd.

Be inspired. I know I am.

 

As of now, it is nearing towards the end of Autumn and we are expecting Winter to arrive soon.

The days are even colder than before and the nights bring frost to the grass and mist to our mouths.

 

Every night hits below 5 degrees celcius and I spend all my time right in front of the heater now.

The roaring warmth helps to keep me from freezing my arse off.

 

 

Branches are left bare and empty for Winter

 

No wonder it's so cold. You can actually feel the chill in the air. I soon found out that it was already snowing at Bendigo, some 4 hours away.

I can't wait for my snowboarding, skiing and tobogganing trip up Mount Baw Baw with my mates in late June when the blanket of snow are inches and inches thick!

 

Here's to hoping it will snow in Melbourne city or Gippsland too!

Not that I intend to freeze or frostbite myself to death, but simply because I've never seen snow before in my entire life!

 

 

This is insane! Out from 9am – 11pm and at least 10 hours of non-stop walking has really taken its toll on me.

I'm maxed out tired to the bone now – resting while transferring photos and blogging this post.

 

Yeahyeah, I know I should probably hit the sack by now but being me, it is imperative that I blog an immediate snippet before the entire blogpost… because who knows, this might take another million years to be up LOL

 

I love my new prezzie! An adorable, furry, soft tigga hat to keep my head warm

 

So anyway! I was at the Melbourne Zoo in Royal Park for almost 5 hours; was impossible to cover every nook and cranny

I reckon it would be safe to say that almost the entire animal kingdom reside within the walls of that zoo

 

From the smallest of insects…..

…to the biggest of animals!

 

My whole afternoon was spent exploring the entire zoo hunting down the animals to take photos of.

I swear felt like Dora the Explorer LOL! But the fact that I'm lacking the binoculars and knapsack doesn't come in the way for I think I made up for it with a big-ass DSLR camera and a slingbag

 

And… the King of the Jungle! (yes, if you're wondering… I was THAT close to Simba here)

It was incredible, better than any zoo I've ever been! Melbourne Zoo is massive and the entire place was an extremely close-to-real-life makeshift rainforest dessert ocean underground grassland antartic tropics aviary all in one.

 

Unlike many *cough* places *cough* that my fellow Malaysians know….

There are certain zoos in particular who mistreat their animals, cooping them up in tiny cages with restricted space to exercise, not cleaning their already miserable cages and drugging them to ensure their benevolence during photo-opportunities.

 

Oh and yes, I know I owe everyone a photo of a kangaroo ever since I set foot in Australia

So… ta-daa! Here it is, shot in the zoo earlier today

 

Plenty more photos of the glorious (and even the unglorious, ugly, often overlooked) members of the animal kingdom to come! I did, as usual, took truckloads of photos.

And the most tedious part is filtering & batch processing them all. Bleh.

 

Headed to the Tutankhamun exhibition after that for another 3 hours!

On the right: a bag of Egyptian souvenirs I bought. On the left: a replica of Tutankhamun's skull

 

Verdict? It was magnificent and we were clearly in awe with everything they had to offer. Everyone was clearly enthused with the displays, footages, ancient relics, hieroglyphs, statues, fragile mummified skeletons,  and the like. More to come, I promise!

 

If you're an avid lover of Egyptian civilization like I am, you'll be star struck.

And now do you still wonder why I had the Eye of Horus tattooed on my left wrist?