Monday, March 28, 2011

Postcard From Cat City

I've been meaning to post this a while back but, excuse me, I'm a bit lazy.

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I got a postcard from my friend, Nur, all the way from Malaysia.


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Cats! Why?


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Because it's from Kuching! A cat city! Can you believe it? With a cat museum!


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Look at her neat handwriting! She could shame any architect, I say.


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Nur mentioned that she knows someone who has 25 cats on his/her property! :O


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Apparently, the trip was great because she inhaled all of her food.


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There you go. My collection of postcards are growing.

Next project? A postcard banner!

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Dancing Saturday!

It's a rainy Saturday afternoon. So I'm taking a break from studying to dance! Will you join?


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By the way, it's very hard to do this kind of stunt without a remote control. Since I'm a fan of MacGyver, I came up with my own method!

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This was the set up. The camera was set on continuous shooting mode. I used the light switch as the "pressing finger" and a book to put enough pressure on the light switch so it would stay down.


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Here's a close up of the business.


Happy rainy California weekend, everyone!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Cookies From Afar

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Today, I receive a nice package in the mail. My neighbor was nice enough to bring it up to my door. Thank you, neighbor!

It's cookies from Helen!!!


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Naturally, I ripped it open because Helen said that in addition to the cookies, she included a very pleasant surprise. Something that is very versatile that I can use!


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I found the pleasant surprise! I laughed and laughed and laughed because it is indeed very versatile and I have use for it. Apparently, them Pittsburgh people are nuts about recycling.


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Look at the snickerdoodles!


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...and the peanut butter stuffed cookies! Oy vey! I ate one of each before dinner.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Sometimes, I Think I'm Funny

Work load

This means I can saunter into work at around 9 or 9:30 am...but I don't. Why?

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Sunday, March 6, 2011

Zorba Babysitting

I got to babysit a dog for a night! Meet Zorba!

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Zorba's human had to go off and did fun stuff without him.


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He lives in a really swanky place. This is Zorba's entrance.


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Zorba's swanky dinning room. Yeaaah...I don't know why my shoes were in the dinning room.


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Zorba's fine view.


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Zorba also has really cool toys.


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Zorba really likes walks.


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On our walk, we spied cute steps. Zorba peed here.


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...really cool yard decorations. Zorba also peed here.


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...and he peed under this tree.


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Look! A square root! Hahahah... Zorba and I laughed. We were so amused. He did not pee here.


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...but he peed around here.


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We walked and walked until Zorba ran out of pee.


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We came back to Zorba's place with the swanky light fixtures. What were we going to do after the walk?


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Zorba's human left really detailed instructions on how to turn on the teevee.


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But we decided that we did not care for Pandora and Netflix.


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So we looked out the window!


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And we explored the kitchen.


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We found out that Zorba's human is as swanky as Zorba. He has All-Clad pots and pans. When LeTran is 42, she hopes to own some swanky All-Clad pots and pans, too!


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We found this cool magnetic beads on the fridge!


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And we spent a lot of time playing with them. Each bead is a magnet! Each bead is capable of sticking to another bead and the fridge. They blew LeTran's mind.


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I thought I could make a miniature of the Eiffel tower with this stuff...but I failed. My Eiffel tower ran out of money.


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Zorba said "Really, LeTran? I think you just ran out of skills."
Oh, that Zorba!


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So we spent the rest of the time snapping pictures and putting treats in Zorba's toys.


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"When is Steve coming back? *sigh*"


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"Maybe after I open my eyes, Steve would be here."


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Zorba went to get a drink and got some water droplets on his muzzle pouch.


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"Okay, I'm getting really sleepy now..."


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"ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...huh?...wah?"


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Snoozitude!

By the way, Zorba slept with me. I don't know about you, but when an animal like a cat or a dog chooses to curl up next to me (or on my legs, or my face) to sleep, it's pretty awesome. One of the best feelings in the world!