Little Laundry Helper

Ginger : Its the weekend and I am helping Mummy with the laundry.

Ginger : I need to make sure all Mummy's laundry smell of me.

Ginger : I know.  I am such a good helper.

Stick-On Kitty

Garlic is not much of a lap kitty but he likes sitting close to Mummy's thigh when he is hanging out on the sofa.

He would snooze beside mummy while mummy is watching TV.

 

 

 

Garlic : What?  I find mummy's thigh very comfy.

Garlic : OK, back to sleep now...

Ear Check-up

Ginger : What is the dog doing in the house again?

Ginger :  Hmmmm.... your ear smells funny.

 

Ginger : Let me clean it for you. We can't have dirty ears in the house!

Ginger : Your ear tastes funny too!

Ginger : Better clean myself now....

Ginger normally complains when Winter is in the house or gets too near to her.  But occasionally, she does show her affection towards Winter.

Pussy on Patrol!

Pepper loves going on a car ride and sitting in the front seat. She loves looking out the window and watching the world goes by.

Pepper : What does the sign say? Where we going?

Pepper : I know this place, we are going home!

This is how she stand on the dashboard. Be sure the nails are all cut if you wanna try this! And no sudden step on the brake!

Just chilling.....

Pepper : There is such a big world out there.....

What?!? You are going away again!?!

Garlic : Mummy, you have been going away too much nowadays. I shall not allow it!

Garlic : I don't care. You are not having your luggage back!

MOHAWK!!!!

Cathy asked me whether I would like to try Mohawk on Ginger. I said why not, as long as the fur is short, just like Ginger likes it. So here is the result. I think its pretty cool!

Ginger enjoying her short fur. She is now the purr machine!

This is how it looks like. She hardly notice the fur on her back and it doesn't bother her.

The only time Ginger is not princess-like

Need I say more?

We're Back!

I know we have been quiet for awhile now. The Spice Cats is just not complete without Sesame. Thank you everyone for your condolences and also everyone who has been asking when my next post will be. We have been mourning for about 2 months now, and although we still miss Sesame terribly, we are back :-)

The photos are taken about 2 months ago, a few days after Sesame left us. It reminded me so much of him, as he is normally the one who loves flowers.

Ginger is obviously more interested in the grass than the flowers or teddy bear.

Ginger : Hmmmm..... yummy! Munch.... Munch....

Goodbye Sesame

I have been thinking for a while on how to bid Sesame goodbye. My dad’s comment on facebook inspired me to finally write this post. Quoted from Facebook….

“How not to miss him ?! I still remembered the day Pepper brought him out to this world,and how we enjoyed seeing him growing up and learning how to walk. It was so amazing to see him grown up to be bigger size than his mother, Pepper, and later bigger than Garlic.

Being the youngest in the family, he had left us so unexpectedly! May be his sudden departure is to remind us that our life in this world is so uncertain and we must value all those who are close to us as one day they will depart from us too.

He had brought so much joy to all those who had come into contact with him. It would be so unfair to him if there is no life after death!

So there is life after death, and Sesame's soul had gone to a peaceful place and will reincarnate to a higher form of being in his next life; may be a human.

So let us keep the sweet memory when he was with us, but no with sorrow as always remember he had gone to a better place and better life.”

Sesame, thank you for 5 years of wonderful memories and happy moment you brought into the Spice Cats House. You came into my life totally unexpected, and you left without any warning. I have loved and cherished you with all my heart, and you have become part of my life in every single way. Every part of the house brings back memory of you. Even now, I sometimes half expect to see you waiting for me at the door whenever I come home from work.

I still remember clearly………………

……. When Pepper was at the vet after struggling to give birth to you after more than 16 hours and the vet has to give Pepper 2 injection to induce birth

…….. When I first laid eyes on you at the vet, you fat tiny thing that is happily suckling away

…….. How happy I am that you are suckling day and night when you elder sibling wont even eat

…….. How I weigh you every single day and how proud I am that you gain about 10gram per day.

…….. How excited we all are when you started crawling all over the place before you can even walk

…….. How blue were your eyes when you finally see the world for the first time

…….. How you used to fall asleep on my lap when you were a little kitten

…….. How happy I am when you started eating kitten canned food

…….. How proud I am when you first used the litter box all by yourself!

…….. How hyper active you are, always running up and down

…….. How you love to pounce on people’s feet when you were little!

…….. How you slowly grow, and eventually become bigger than Pepper, then even bigger than Garlic!

…….. How short your furs were when you were a kitten but then how long they became when you got older!

…….. How much time I have to spend to comb you and remove all the matted fur!

…….. How much you love to be brushed

…….. How you always follow me into the bathroom

…….. How you always look down the toilet when I flush

…….. How your god-mom would always carry you into the bathroom with her

…….. How you love to bully Ginger and would never stop even when she hissed at you

…….. How you used to stick your paw into the water bowl and play with the water

…….. How much noise you make when I bath you!

…….. How high you jump when you are playing with the mouse

…….. How you love to sit in front of the small standing fan and enjoy the breeze

…….. How you love flowers and is always the first to smell it

…….. How you love to sleep on my bed and enjoy the aircon and hide under the blanket when it gets too cold

…….. How you would complain even when I just accidently step on your fur

…….. How you would run and hide whenever the vacuum is on

…….. How you love when I mop the house because you can chase after the mop

…….. How you love to be carried and cuddled

…….. How you would greet me at the door whenever I come home from work

…….. How you would respond to my voice and nobody else’s

…….. How you would come running whenever I shake the Brewer’s Yeast bottle, your favourite treat

…….. How you would come and sit by me when I am having dinner alone at home

…….. How I used to show you off to my friends and everyone would be amazed by how big and furry you are

…….. How I would always bring you over to my parents’ place for Chinese New Year

There are just so many things that will continue to stay in my mind for many years to come. May you be happy at the Rainbow Bridge….. you will be remembered always.

I wanted to upload some photos that were taken 1 week before you left us, but somehow seems to have lost the memory card..... so i posted this photo instead.

We love you, Sesame....

Hanging Out in Mummy's Room

Garlic : I love hanging out in Mummy's room. Not only her bed is nice, her floor is very comfy as well!

Garlic : Oooppsss.... Mummy's taking photo now. I better give her my cutest look.

The Noisy Lady is here again!

Every Saturday, Kak Ro comes to clean the house. Sesame will disappear upstairs whenever she comes, especially when she starts using the vacuum cleaner.

Sesame : Its safer up here.

Sesame : What? I am not going down until the noisy lady goes away!

Toe Cleaning Services

We provide toe cleaning services at the Spice Cats house......

We start with the big toe....


The we work it down to the small toe....

And of course, we NEVER forget to clean in between toes!

Neglect

Mommy has been neglecting our blog and we are all not happy about it. In fact, she has been neglecting her camera as well. After taking up Salsa, she seems to have no more time for anything else.

I had a long talk with mommy over the weekend and mommy promised to start taking pretty photos of us and updating our blog frequently.

King of........ Spice Cats House!

Garlic has been feeling good about himself ever since the lion cut. He walks around the house proudly, showing off his perfect lion body (He is the only Spice Cat with no tummy).


ROAR!

I am the King of the Jungle!
OK OK, mummy said I wont survive in the jungle....so I will settle with.....
I am the King of the Spice Cats House!

Princess Tummy

Well, Sesame is not the only way with the tummy..... I wonder if Pepper and Garlic have it. We will know soon....hehehe......

You know what you looking for.....

A closer look.....

What is revealed with the lion cuts?

Can you see what I see?

I am sure you can see what I see now.....

Tummy! A big one!

Sharlene and Garlic on Women's Weekly

The article is finally out in Women's Weekly Dec 09 issue, after more than 1 year from the interview.

It was 3 months ago, when the photographer showed up unannounced at my doorstep on a Saturday morning. Women's Weekly has forgotten to confirm my photoshoot date with me and imagine my surprise when I greeted him in my pajama! I was barely awake and recovering from a late night-out with some friends. Luckily the make-up artist did a fabulous job in covering my eye bags. Haha....

It turned out to be quite a fun event and both the photographer and make-up artist are extremely patient and friendly. I promised the photographer that I would not use or post the photos he gave me until the magazine is out. Now I can finally post the photos here as well as facebook!

We took about 100+ photos, but Women's Weekly only used 1 photo. We realized that photographing the Spice Cats are extremely difficult, especially if the photographer is a stranger to the cats! The Spice Cats absolutely hated the attention, the gadgets and all the flashes. Luckily my mom came over to help capture the Spice Cats attention, else we would never have a photo with the Spice Cats looking straight into the camera.

Below is the article in the magazine and some of the unpublished photos.

The 1 page article in the Women's Weekly Dec 09 issue.


Garlic : What are you doing?!?! I wanna go down!


Garlic : Mummy, stop pressing me!

Garlic : OK, if I stop moving, will the man go away?

Garlic : Maybe it will be safer if I stay closer to Mummy.

Garlic : Maybe if I stay low behind the laptop, no one can see me.


Sesame : NO! NO! NO! I am not coming out, no matter what you say!


Sesame : This man with the strange thing on his face and the bright lights look weird.


Sesame : I am going back inside my cage.

Sesame : Its so much safer inside.


Watch out for my next post on Pepper's and Ginger's photos from the photoshoot!

Peace Again

With Tiger and Ninja gone to their new forever home, the Spice Cats house is quiet again (well, quiet for 4 cats and 2 dogs).

I do miss Tiger and Ninja terribly, especially Tiger, who would always rushed to me and jumped up my leg for a hug and cuddle and purred like a little sewing machine while I hold him against my chest.

Sesame, on the other hand, is enjoying the peace without the kittens running all over the house. Sesame is the only one who refused to be anywhere close to the kittens and hisses at them, though Tiger and Ninja soon learnt that Sesame is just a harmless big teddy bear and ignored Sesame's hisses altogether.


Sesame : I can now sleep in peace....... ZzzzzZzzzz......