another cat story

smitten by the kittens

Such a great day to be shared with loved ones. Great food, great company, great vibes everywhere. It was sheer happiness, like dancing in the rain butt naked, or half naked, or just without a head cover that can be quite a burden while soaking wet.

It's funny how people love and see things, how different yet similar everyone is in that matter. "Distance makes the heart grows fonder" or so it goes, but I don't think many people would go by that. People tend to forget how special someone was to them once they've met someone else (s); like the old ones have outlived their importance and becoming less significant. Or once they've stopped seeing each other. Or lost contact and drifted away, blame it on geography. Or hormones, again.

I am a very nostalgic person. I remember things. I love my past, and the perspective of a bright future. Sentimental, some might say. Emotional, you might say. I guess that is one reason why those who were important to me back then, are important to me still ; so it's hard to imagine not even being friends anymore with those you cared so much about, you know (well my supersentivity annoys me at times, like this time, but trust me, I don't go and give people a hard time about it, and I kinda like it that way, so no worries). Nevertheless, despite losing some, those who stick around, and will be sticking around till death do us part insya Allah, you guys rock!!! (high five people!! come on, spread the lurrrrrrrrrve - sambil menempelkan sekuntum bunga di telinga). God knows how much I love you, all of you(s), even those who won't be reading this trashybloggywoggy.

Loved ones, are they the ones you loved, or the ones who make you feel loved?!

Thank you cikiku, thank you orang orang kampungkuh, family and friends, thank you all for the wishes and happy returns, and for remembering, and keeping in touch. You've all made my day, yeay!!!

Cheers!

addition

yesterday

June 21, 2007, my muffin gave me five new kittens, yeay!

The delivery was around 830-1130pm, while I was out having dinner.
She knew I'd be panicking, so she decided to gave birth while I was out, or so I assumed.

I didn't see blood, I didn't smell blood, I just found her sitting quietly inside the box, not expecting anything unusual until I saw two white heads sticking out underneath her. Then only I saw the rest of them (tu pun mula mula ingat empat je, skali ada lagi satu bawah ekor)

Muffin is a kitten still, and yet she has shown a great deal of motherly gestures and care, cleaning up the babies, biting off the umbilical cords, eating up the placentas (good for producing milk), all by herself. You'd say, hey, of course she'd know what to do, she's a cat, they shouldn't be having any problems giving birth and stuff. Still, I was scared you know, what if there were too much blood, or that she needed a cesarean, stuff like that, ha!

OK OK I fret over nothing. Nevertheless, it would be a nerve wrecking experience if I were to watch the babies coming out literally, you know. Might have recorded the whole event on tape, pretty fascinating I'd say. (asni gelila tuh, kucing-kucing nih, haha)


On the other hand, to this special someone, thanks for last night. Whenever I felt unloved, or lonely, you have never failed to make me feel loved again, aiceh ceh. Thank you.

pork

A rather resourceful explanation on why we shouldn't eat pork, not just because it is haram. Courtesy of miss jibeng.
My greatest thanks to Bobby Tan & Najib Khan Surattee, as caring is sharing is caring. God bless.

From: Surattee Khan
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 11:59 PM
To: Bobby Tan
Cc: Ust Abu Zaki; Ust Mohd Ghouse Khan Surattee; Ustaz Anang
Husaini Al Banjari; Ustaz Iskandar; Ustaz Jallaludin Hassan; Ustaz
Khair Rahmat; Ustaz Mohamed Bin Ali; Ustaz Muhd Mihdhar Mahmood;
Ustaz Rosman Al Habsyi; Ustaz Yousef; Ustaz Yusri Yubhi; Wesley Neoh
Subject: Fwd: FW: Fwd: wonder why we don't eat pork??

Hi Bobby,

Please watch the forwarded video. Maybe this is just one of the reasons
why muslims are strictly not allowed to eat pork. The pigs are created
not for eating. They are created for something else.

In the Holy Quran, God mentions in 4 separate verses that we are not
allowed to eat pork purely because the pork is dirty.

In Chapter 2 Verse 172 & 173, God says:
O believers! Eat the clean things which We have provided you and give
thanks to Allah, if you worship only Him. He has forbidden you to eat
dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine(pig), and that on which any name
other than Allah has been invoked; but if someone is compelled by
absolute necessity, neither to sin nor to trangress, they shall incur
no sin.
Surely, Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

Similar instruction can also be found in Chapters 5: 6, 6: 145 and 16:
115 of the Holy Quran.

I have a Chinese friend who went to visit a pig stye in Malaysia and he
did not eat pork for many months because he saw most of the pigs were
eating and licking the excretion of the other pigs even when the
excretions were about to come out, they started to lick them. He almost
vomitted.

The animal (pig) is an eater of the highest degree. It is shameless and
indecent. They have very high sexual desires most of them are
homosexuals too. It is clear now why it is forbidden. The flesh of such
an impure animal will have similar impure influence on the body and
soul of the eater. It is affirmed that the soul will be affected by the
type of food eaten and without doubt, the result of a bad thing like
pig will be bad. The Greek scientists have shown before Islam, that the
flesh of this animal reduces modesty in one who eats and promote
shameless behavior. Eating its flesh causes distancing oneself from the
angels and growing of the character contrary to good manners.

The pig is much inclined to impurity especially human excretion, which
it relishes. Its flesh, therefore is developed from faeces and eating
is like eating one's own excretion.

So why does God creates the pigs? We'll discuss this issue separately.
I have to thank you for having interest in Islamic knowledge. It is
always a pleasure to share with you as well with our religious teachers
such knowledge.

Warmest Regards,
Najib Khan Surattee

Bobby Tan < > wrote:

Hi Najib,

I only know that MUSLIM cannot take pork because it is uncleaned
according to your religion. No one has explain to me like you does and
even the Bible does not mentioned on this subject matter. It seemed to
me that you are very knowledgeable and understand the "KORAN" very
well. I am glad and honour that you had taken your valuable time and
going extra mile to to think and
explain to people like me.

Many thanks for your great effort.
With warmest regards,
BOBBY TAN

From: Surattee Khan
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 1:33 PM
To: Bobby Tan
Cc: Ust Abu Zaki; Ust Mohd Ghouse Khan Surattee; Ustaz Anang
Husaini AlBanjari; Ustaz Iskandar; Ustaz Jallaludin Hassan; Ustaz Khair
Rahmat;Ustaz Mohamed Bin Ali; Ustaz Muhd Mihdhar Mahmood; Ustaz Rosman
Al Habsyi;Ustaz Yousef; Wesley Neoh
Subject: Did the Bible mention about pork?

Hi Bobby,

Thank you for taking your time to read this article. I have to make a
couple of comments to your statement below before continuing to explain
to you why Allah created the pig in the first place.
I am also glad that you have decided to stop eating pork after watching
the video. It is for your own good health.

My comments are as follows:

1. The Bible does mention that it is forbidden to eat pork: It is also
mentioned in 4 separate verses (like in the Qur'an).

The verses are:

1. In the Book of Leviticus, Chapter 11, Verse 7& 8:

"Do not eat pigs. They must be considered unclean; they have divided
hoofs, but do not chew the cud. Do not eat these animals or even touch
their dead bodies; they are unclean."

2. The above verse is repeated in the Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 14,
Verses 7 & 8.

3. In the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 65, Verses 2 to 4: The Lord says:
"... I have always been ready to welcome my own people, who stubbornly
do what is wrong and go their own way. They shamelessly keep on making
me angry. They offer pagan sacrifices in sacred gardens and burn
incense on pagan altars. At night they go to caves and tombs to consult
the spirit of the dead. They eat pork and drink broth made from meat
offered in pagan sacrifice... "

4. Also in the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 66, Verse 17: The Lord says:
"The end is near for those who purify themselves for pagan
worship, who go in procession on sacred gardens and eat pork and mice
and other disgusting foods."

By now I hope you are purely convinced that pork is dirty and
disgusting.

2. My second comment is that you should spell out the word "Qur'an"
with the letter Q instead of using the letter K.
God swears with the letter Qaf, the Arabic letter for Q, as in the word
"Qur'an" (Chapter 50, Verse 1), and not the with Arabic letter Kaf, as
used in the word "kafir" (unbelievers).

If you go to any bookstore and find some Qur'an with spelling "Koran",
as a title, try to look at the author: 99.9% they are non muslims!
These are people who do research on Islamic studies and are not having
the Islamic faith. Their translations are usually
not accurate and biased to their personal perception on Islam. A good
example is a book called "The Koran" translated by N J Dawood, Penguin
Classics. The author is a Jew. He did not convert to Islam.

This is part of the CODE of the Qur'an!

Next, let's talk about why in the first place Allah created the pig.

In the book entitled, "Noah's Ark and the Universal Deluge" by Mohamad
Yasin Owadally, I quote:"Two species of animals that did not enter the
Ark were seen coming out on Mount Judi namely the pig (and the cat).
These animals did not exist before the deluge, but Allah created them
in the Ark because the Ark was filled with filth and the human
excrements that pervaded and unbearable stink. The people of the Ark
could no longer bore the bad smell, so they complained to Prophet Noah
(may peace be upon him). Therefore Noah passed his hand on the back of
the elephant and lo! The pig came out from the anus of the elephant.
The pig complied with the instructions of Allah, it consumed all the
filth and the human excrements within the Ark and the stink
disappeared." (I will not write about the cat here.)

So I hope by now you understand what is the purpose of pigs in this
world. They are not meant for eating but for cleaning those dirty
stuffs. Otherwise you will not find 4 verses in the Bible and 4 verses
in the Qur'an mentioning about it.

In addition to the pork, all meat that are not slaughtered in the name
of Allah is forbidden to the muslims. That's why we can't eat those
cakes, sweets, food containing gelatine, emulsifiers etc. I'll stop
here for this topic and hope to share with you on some other miracles
of the Holy Qur'an in future. May Allah bless you!

Thanks and Regards,
Najib Khan Surattee


Bobby Tan < > wrote:

Hi Najib,
Thanks for your comments, corrections and pointing out mistakes to me.
I am glad to learn something from you.

I just wonder do you read the whole BIBLE? You seemed to be very
knowledgeable in both "Qur'an and Bible" and you are able to quotes the
verses even from Bible.

May Allah bless you too!
Warmest regard,
Bobby Tan

moblog

Started out as a 'brotherly' weekends.

Shopped-till-we-were-almost-broke.

Youngest bro bought a new set of PC.

Eldest bro bought toys...

Brotherly turned into grandmotherly,

and grandmotherly turned into fami-ly, the extended one.

Had 'icing' fight, a bit of singing here and there, and a lot of catching up.

One cousin just got married.
Another cousin had just dumped her fiancee - good riddance.

Then another bro crashed his car into an old mercedes.

The car's injury was near fatal.

But it was his wallet that suffered the most, and still suffering.

Last but not least, a meet-up with 5 of my favorite girls at the good, old Mamak Bistro

One of us is getting married

Endless weddings, priceless memories.

Happy birthday (s) to toman atukkuh, asyraf adindaku, fozz & natt kesayanganku..!!

Selamat pengantin baru : siban & dilot, farhana & akmal, asni & hasib, kamilah & izani

(not to forget, Pak Lah). Semoga berbahagia ke akhir hayat..

Sekian laporan. Me is bored is me, already.