An "intensely" contested Sleeping King/Queen competion is ongoing.

It is a hot summer afternoon.

The air con is humming, injecting the arena with the much needed comfort.

The calmness fused with the air, the silent duel has lasted longer than expected.

.......it's not going to end anytime soon, I'm afraid so.

...and the winner will get to keep this mice I found on the street of Maadi.

-VINcE

Why....

Why:

1. Expat has to pay extra cab fare and get yelled at even if we pay fairly.
2. Everyone has to ask where I come from. I already told you I come from Mars.
3. You yelled again when I was not interested to buy your cold drinks....I have weak stomach you know?
4. I never see you wash the cup after that uncle gulp down your drink and you offer the same cup to me.
5. You have to pick up the biscuit you accidentally drop onto the dirty floor, put it back to the bag and sell it to me. Didn't you notice that you are looking at a horrified Chinese man?
6. I must pay extra monthly fees to bawaab
7. Must you make me think lowly of you after I found out that you double charged me on the monthly fees
8. My ADSL line has been activated for 3 months and I still don't get any signal
9. Every time I call your technical support about the problem and you tell me not to worry it will work the next day.
10. The next day my ADSL still dead
11. The pedestrian pavement is always clustered with rubbish
12. You dig so many holes on the pavement and leave those bricks scattered around
13. Must you build so many advertisement boards on the pavement that leave me no space to get thru to the other side

-VINcE......tell me why.

What a Cat can do....

....after I had my 4th supper of the night
....sharpened my claws
....finished my urgent business
....digging bunch of tissue paper out from the bin and slashes them into pieces
....ambushed mummy but she seems to know where I hide everytime
....give daddy a bite but he keep knocking my head everytime I try to show some love
....haiz, he seems to be angry with me, ignored me and go to read his book
....I even try to act cute by seating next to him and give him my kawa-ee look
....and he still wanna act cool
....maybe I can try switching TV channels to irritate him...I know he hates channel switching
....and turn the volume to full blast...he sure hates it!!!
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Oh shit....I actually doze off before I manage to turn on the TV...and daddy caught me red handed. Siao liao, tomorrow sure no yummy cat food for breakfast liao.

Random Update

It's been quite awhile since we wrote something on our blog. Miraculously..time seems to be propelled by a pair of wings.

ADSL at our apartment is down at the moment, we are trying very hard to get it fixed (you need extra calories intake to handle the frustration of setting things right here). Our neighbour Rosy has gone back to Spain so the option of connecting to her ADSL line is out as well..

I am still chuckling whenever I heard this from the Egypt tourism advertisement on CNN :

" Egypt offers you their most precious treasure , THE SUN ".

Most of the Egyptian that I spoke to didn't seems to aligned to that statement, they dislike the heat during summer and prefer winter. July's weather is hot but still bearable. I heard that the August heat is the most punishing, we shall see.

I am actually quite fascinated by what Egypt can really offer me, aside from the SUN and some annoyances. I would say so far I am enjoying the life here and I didn't miss Singapore that much!

There is still so much for me to explore in Egypt. We shall be more active travelling around when the summer is over and the weather is more accommodating.

We are expecting a few groups of friends to visit us, we will try to travel with them whenever my work schedule permits...Red Sea, Mt Sinai, Alexandria, Luxor, Aswan, Abu Simbel, the desert.

We also has the luxury to visit the neighbouring country across Mediterranean Sea..The Europe..Spain, France, England, Turkey...it's going to be fun!

Here's the official website of Egyptian Tourist Authority: Here here here....

Some photos:

We went to Wagamama restaurant at CityStar for our dinner. I supposed it's a Japanese restaurant even though their menu is not convincing enough.

Chicken Ramen. Eve ordered this and was surprised to see the ramen was served in dry. Haha, she didn't read properly....as usual lah :p

This is my soupy ramen! The soup was quite standard and the rest was just barely edible. I only ate 1 piece of the meat and the rest "ta bao" as a supper for PiPi.

My company laptop is less than 6-months old, and start to give shit. Strangely though, it has stopped giving shit for 2 weeks now. I suspect it got something to do with the electrostatic charges. Due to the dry weather, static shock is actually quite common here. During the winter, I actually developed a minor phobia whenever I want to wash my hand :"Shock...shock...and more shock."

PiPi is growing healthily and exponentially. He was last weighted yesterday at 1.75kg, gaining 150g in just a week time.

He's the sleeping champion in the house, and also a whining king. He will whine and whine whenever he is hungry. He also want a bite of everything that we eat... Spoilt child!

-VINcE

Really Noti Pipi

Yes I backed these, this afternoon. I wanted to try if my baking skill is still intact, not bad on the outside. I had a taste on one of the muffin. Yum Yum. Very nice. But the way it is Blueberry muffin, double yummy...

Careless Evelyn left the tray of delicious blueberry muffins on the table. And this give pipi a chance to grab a bite or two. See he ate 2 of them.... so angry with him and myself. Hubby said maybe he is trying to show some support to me, But I think he is just curious to try anything that is edible.

Ok here is the Killer, trying to look innocent and cute with the head and eyes.

Pipi's thinking: Not me, not me, it is not my fault. It is their fault, they seduced me.