And My Last Princess Says Goodbye
17 Jun 2010 Leave a Comment
in Pets ♥
I don’t know what else to really say. My last princess, my first pet in almost two decades is gone. She was the first pet out of three, the hardiest, prettiest, and admittedly my favorite of them three. Precious darling Mimiru.
I guess I’m still a bit of shock. She was just full of life yesterday, playing in her pen and being the way she was, albeit slower because she was old..something I’ve noticed in the past few months. Then when I woke up and we began setting up her playpen, we realized she wasn’t moving inside her cage anymore. It was then we realized that she’d been dead…for quite some time. Probably during the night.
I was too in shock I guess, I just picked up her stiff cold body and placed it carefully aside as we took out the rectangular pot where her two other sisters lay in rest and began digging under that last one spot to bury her in. It still hadn’t sunk in that she’s really gone.
Some people will say I’m over reacting because she’s just a measly rodent, and not a cat or a dog. Well here’s a message for you: Go. Fuck. Yourself.
A pet is a pet, and simple rodent or not, she was precious to me as all my other pets were. I remember being such a mess when Yuki first passed away. I got lost driving around frantically trying to find a vet that won’t turn me away (because finding vets who handle small animals is rarer than hen’s teeth here). But when I finally got to my destination she passed on, leaving me in such a terrible terrible mess.
My experience with Suki was a lot more fortunate, we found a vet in time but I was told she may not have too long to live even with her medication. She died the next day while I was holding her.
I guess some people will say Mimiru was being kind, dying as she did quietly, without my worrying or stressing to see my favorite pet pass on. I don’t know what to think..maybe they’re right, that Mimiru’s final act of mercy for me was dying quietly away from my sight, sparing me from the stress and worry when Yuki and Suki died.
It doesn’t change the fact that she’s gone though and I’m left more than a little saddened, and a tad more heartbroken. I just hope where ever they are, all my princess are having a wonderful time together. At least now Mimiru’s no longer alone as she’s with her sisters now in pet heaven.
Know that Mommy loves and misses you all, so very very much.
Late Reaction
08 Jan 2010 Leave a Comment
in Family & Friends, Private Thoughts
I suppose I should have posted this photos earlier but things got busy (or maybe ‘lazy’ would be the most apt term) after the holidays and I didn’t get the time to make the next post as I should have.
Anyway last January 3, 2010 was our family reunion. Now normally I’ve never been a big fan of family reunions. They were always so noisy, in an out of the way place, and surrounded by people I’m not all that close to (and sometimes get annoyed with). This is especially true with my cousins. I blame this to location and age-gap. We live a little out of the ways with everyone else and being an only-child growing up I was used to being on my lonesome (I was also fairly uppity).
Of New Years and Soap
01 Jan 2010 Leave a Comment
in Cooking & Food, Home-Made with L♥ve Tags: bake, baked pasta, eco-friendly, fabric softener, home made, pasta
A Happy New Year to all you loverly freaks out there~!
I hope your New Year was a good one, mine was. Meaning I’m not outside being set ablaze by fireworks or inhaling the godawful smoke and triggering my asthma. Plus being thirty-two stories up means I get to watch all the fireworks from the safety of my apartment window.
Although re
ally I spent most of the evening in-front of the PC than partying and the day was spent mostly trying to make sense of this baked pasta recipe I inherited from my mom’s previous nurse many years ago. It was not exact, neither was it complete nor was it organized. So getting it right is a hit and miss type of thing.
Regardless I pushed on. It was New Year’s Eve after all, and I guess it wouldn’t hurt to have something nice made for dinner right? So I decided to unearth this slightly incomprehensible recipe and decided to give it a go. Instead of Lasagna noodles, I opted to use the Rigatoni that has been lying around or cupboard for a long time. I figured why waste it right? Instead of lasgana, I’ll be having a weird baked mac.
Pick Me Ups
30 Dec 2009 1 Comment
in Health & Beauty, Shopping Tags: cosmetics, essential oil, etude house, make-up, Shopping, SM
It was the day after and my beloved Pointyman invited me out to SM Megamall to take my mind off things. I was initially hesitant because beloved’s got a cold he was recovering from and I didn’t want to aggravate it further. In fact we’ve already canceled two days worth of dates because of that damnable cold.
However he insisted and so there we were, enjoying the morning due to it being a holiday so there wasn’t a lot of traffic, giving us enough time to actually get a cozy breakfast at Cafe Breton by the Podium, before walking back to SM Megamall.
A Second Princess Says Her Good-bye
30 Dec 2009 1 Comment
in Pets ♥, Private Thoughts, Random Tags: death, gerbils, mini kangaroo rats, pets
I lost my second roo, Sukiru or Suki-Roo last November 29, 2009 around noon time.
Saying Good-bye to a Princess
22 Nov 2009 1 Comment
in Pets ♥, Private Thoughts, Random
Last 2007, I blogged an article about my precious princesses: my three female mini-kangaroo rats. I got them just a few months after my mother’s passing in October 2006, and I did it because I had felt so lonely and I was told that a pet would help calm me down. Unfortunately, due to space and condo rules against pets, I was limited to very few pets I can get. Birds and fish were out of the question, so were exotic pets.
Hand-pulled noodles. Yay!
13 Aug 2009 Leave a Comment
If there’s anything I’ve always found frustrating when it came to looking for good Chinese food places, and I’m not talking about those Chinese restaurants here in Makati who keep on adapting “pinoy-nizing” their food. When I go to a Chinese (Japanese, Indian, Thai, whatever) restaurant to sample Chinese fare, and not something that has been altered and bastardized to taste -nothing- like what it is supposed to taste like.
Bento~
23 Jul 2009 Leave a Comment
in Cooking & Food Tags: baon, bento, japanese, tofu
I did it! After god knows how long I’ve had these bento items in my cabinet and a few weeks of practice, I finally did it. 
I made a bento that actually looks like a bento. I’m not exactly what you’d call a prolific cook–given someone else does do the cooking here (which I seldom butt in because conflict usually arises)–and my initial attempts at bento making always ending up looking boring.
Soup for Rainy Weather
16 Jul 2009 Leave a Comment
in Cooking & Food Tags: cooking, japanese, mushroom, recipe, soup
It’s been a wet and cold day today. I don’t think I remember seeing the sun much today. The skies are cloudy, it’s raining cats and dogs, and cold. At least cold for this tropical girl’s standards.
And More Shopping
09 Jul 2009 3 Comments
in Shopping Tags: bento, cages, japan, pets, play pen, Shopping
Wow it’s been a year since I last blogged, and I feel a tad bad being negelectful of not blogging in a long time. Who am I kidding? Of course I don’t feel bad! It’s not like I have hordes of readers waiting to read the latest tidbits about my life!
