My baby's home... finally.... but I'm still worried

Hyfa's day 1 in the hospital. She called out to us to take her home.

Hyfa's last night at the hospital. She still looks weak and sad. She looks like she has resigned to her fate. very heart wrenching.

Monday.... the day we learned that Hyfa was diagnosed with FeLV and FIP. OH was already in tears. I was reading on FIP, FIV and FeLV the entire morning and sorta prepared myself on the results.

I went to the hospital after work. She looked so weak. Her calling is also very very soft. I asked the vet if she has been like that all day. She said she stood up a few times. This is not acceptable at all. Anyway, we waited till 10 pm to talk to the vet. She's much much nicer than the vet that was on duty on Friday. She said we can take her home if we want to. Without delay, we said... ok.

I think she's better off at home given her character. I slept in the same room with her for the past 3 nights. She has started to knead me in the middle of the night. She has started too poo n pee, which is also a good sign.

I just wish that the doctors are wrong and that she doesn't have FIP n FeLV. I know FeLV is treatable. But not FIP.

I'm giving her habatussaudah once I get it.

I just want her to be better.

A wedding with Profit and Loss statement???

Went to a colleagues' wedding yesterday and it made me wonder.... do most people think of weddings as a business transaction? If they do, then, shouldn't they strategise like a real business? i.e. Cut expenses, get de best value for money so that the hong bao received will be higher.

There are basically 4 groups of ppl who attend weddings. Rich relatives, not so rich relatives, rich guests and not so rich guests. Rich people will giveaway hong bao like no one's business. Unless they are really the cheapo ppl who will count every little cent. Relatives... well.... some not so rich ones will give a bit more than usual. So actually the odds of receiving $$$ more than what you pay per person is around 30%. So why izzit that ppl are so hung up on profit and loss margin?

The best odds is, get a wedding done at the void deck (free), and pay like $5 per pax for food. Order like 20% less than your expected number of guests. Do a buffet cos no one will eat that much and less wastage and you don't incur money on manpower. Better still, get relatives to cook so that you only incur money on raw materials. Forgo decorations as, who bothered anyway? No need for mak andam and bridal boutique clothes. Get it tailored as you can always wear it again and again years after that. Plus you need not step into someone else's crotch. Plus, the phrase of being king and queen for a day is so passe and lame.... Kings and queens do not get to rule the country. Only presidents and prime ministers do.

All those beautiful dresses just to take photos? You can do that at glam shots and you spend less. Plus you get beautiful backgrounds to suit ur clothes.

40% of marriages end in divorce, so why bother to spend so much and make the industry so fetching?

I'm not bitter, it's just that, while the rest of the world are starving, we are feeding planners, restaurants, mak n pak andams with unnecessary cash which most of them dun even pay taxes as they do that freelance and/or not registered companies.

Plus, I'm a social pariah.... I hate superficial faux fur social gatherings where ppl will ask abt your life which they are not completely interested. Just lip service.

Peace!

My poor baby

It has been a really trying period for OH and I. Hyfa's still at the hospital. In my last post I mentioned abt not able to see that much difference.... well.... the vet agreed with me. Not the 1st vet, she sux big time. I've never seen a person working in this field and not having compassion. Hated the way she talk as if animals can't fall sick and if they do, it's the owners' fault. Hello... animals with owners pay your damn bloody salary. We don't get discounts, we don't have subsidies, we don't pay via medisave, all COLD HARD CASH.

Anyway, no use being angry over nothing. I need to focus on my baby now. She peed bright yellow pee and kena all over her fur. The hospital gave her fish, which stink up her breath. Bad enough she has ulcers and kept drooling. How she has to stink of fish too....

The 2nd vet informed us that, unlike any other cats with the same condition, Hyfa did not bounce back after the drip and medication. In fact, her progress is very slow. I do agree cos I've seen the difference in Zidane a year ago. From a rag.... to an alert cat in just less than a day. He was only 4 month old. Hyfa's already 10 month old. She will be tested for FIV and FIP today. Just to eliminate other illnesses that could have caused her slow recovery. The vet assistance, who is very nice, showed us a growth at her anus...

Oh God... I miss her kneading me. I miss her purring. I miss her chasing after Torres all over the house.

Please make her better. I know I have not been the best of a Muslimah but I really really really want her to be better. Please God, make her better.

Amin

My baby's sick again! I thot she was well. She recovered 2 days before the show on the 13th, she was ok the entire week, in fact, she was so happy exploring tampines house last Saturday and now she can barely move.

The vet suspected her to have cat flu but she doesn't display cat flu symptoms other than her slightly sore eyes and her sneezing. But she doesn't even sneeze all the time. Like only twice a day. She doesn't have ultra sore eyes, no mouth ulcers, no loss of appetite.... but now, she has all those. In fact she has lost so much weight that I can feel her bones.

Oh God! I know I said I prefer her sister more than her. But I love her the same. Please, don't take her away from me.... Please make her better. I'm not prepared for this.

I've faced this situation a year ago with Zidane when he was diagnosed with liver damage. I'm not prepared to face hospital visits again.

An outing.... photo extravaganza... ok a lil bit nerdy

The cluster organised a trip for all us.... the supporting actors and actresses. Heehee. It's an ok trip. I mean it's not a WOW trip. But it's so much better than sitting in de office being buried in paper. Anyway, 1st stop Aerogreen tech farm. It's a process of suspending the plant and instead of submerging the roots in water like hydrophonics, they spray nutrient filled water to the roots every 3 secs. Introducing more air to the roots. Makes sense cos if you overwater plants in soil, you get root rot. I got some arty farty with my camera too.

Butterhead lettuce in Singapore. Who would have thot? They got the seeds from Holland. I guess this aerogreen tech works on plants that grow in temperate countries. I hope they can grow grapes, strawberries and blueberries... yum.

They grow on wheeled racks like this so they save space. If they need to check, all they need to do is push the racks aside. So proud of my Singaporeans.

Next stop, dairy farm.... Goat's milk! Apparently it's much better than cow's milk cos it's warm. Cow's milk is cooling and can cause formation of phlegm. I guess that's the main reason why there are so many kids nowadays are asthmatic. The goats here are also imported. Forgot where they are from. They have been cross bred to get the best milk producing goats. They eat alfalfa that's imported from Australia. Good life.

Kambing jambul Elvis!

Okie, next stop, fish farm! After having cats, I dun bother much with fish but I still think they are calming.

After that, lunch at Seoul Garden at Ngee Ann City. I also just learned that it was built on an exhumed cemetary. So if you see Ngee Ann City from the top, it looked like a chinese cemetary tomb stone. Some geomancy thingy. To contra the spirits whose bodies were exhumed. Oh... and the tomb stone is curved to resemble a woman's womb. BTW, we walked to Kino and alamak, my stomach memulas and has to search for the toilet. We were late up the bus. Lucky my companions tak pecah lobang. Hehehehe.

It was off to fort caning park after lunch. It was drizzling when we reach there. I think it's typical of the organisers for not thinking of wet weather programme. Hello.... extreme weather here.... sun one moment, rain another. Anyway it was cloudy entire day.

This super on guide continued with the tour even after the heavy downpour. Someone offered him an umbrella... ella....ella...eh...eh. But hello... most of us are like sharing 4 ppl per ella...ella...eh. Most people cabut when it starts to pour. Half of us managed to reach the shelter but when the rain subsided, some of us cabut to the bus. Nice music and aircon. Haha. I'm like half drenched.

Hort Park. Lovely place. Very unique park too. It's near telok blangah area.

Me and my supporting actors and actresses. heehee. Hanging out with them is much better than those mangkuks. They are just more fun and more knowledgeable.

My beautiful photography. thanks to my Sony Cybershot. I finally learned how to use the Macro function.

Sucky job?

How would you know that you have had enough in your job? I know I'm well needed but this poses a problem. Other people around me will be irritatingly inefficient. Since when does being efficient means that everyone else around you will be dependent like needy babies?

This is not even my dream job but the money is ok. Things that I like to do does not pay well. So what should I do? Tape my mouth and brains and carry on? Or should I move on with my life? It'll be easier if OH get paid well. I can be satisfied with half of what I'm getting now.

Argh... I get sick thinking of this. My babies need food.... I need to pay for everything in the house. Can't depend on OH cos he doesn't maintain his finances well.

I hate tough decisions. My sister is so lucky to live with my parents. This is the price I get for wanting to be independent.

This sux

I'm not sure what is happening in the world. The word independance is becoming obsolete. The common sense has become uncommon. As the world move towards education, our characters move closer and closer towards the time of the neanderthals. We are now well equipt, certified cavemen who live in high rise buildings.

Why am I grumbling? People have lost the power to reason. The scary thing is that, animals get smarter and homosapiens get stoopider. Homosapiens depend too much on each other that they are no longer independant. Nat Geo say that unlike all the other creatures on this earth, only WE can do something to protect everything. Yet we become total zombie morons that keeps saying we can only do so much. If everyone do a little, it becomes a lot. Everyone takes a small step, we cover the earth in no time. But what do we do? Continue being our zombie moronic life and let the brainless single cell organism evolve to be smarter creatures and overtake us.

If the phenomenon in the movie The Happening were to really happen.... I won't be surprised.

Dumb ass, homosapiens!