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Sylvee’s tree house

bidyut — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:56:25 +0000

Recently I got Sylvee a tree house; specially since she will be spending a lot more time indoor than she usually does. When I first got it, I didn’t see Sylvee play much on it. In fact, I haven’t see her on it at all. However, last night I took of the cone from around her neck – completely freeing her from the stop-licking restraints. Since then I have actually caught Sylvee in the tree house. See for yourself.

Sylvee’s getting better

bidyut — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:38:34 +0000

As some of you may or may not know, Sylvee got into a cat fight last Friday. The other cat gnawed on her arm and scratch a small part of the skin off her belly. The visit to the vet this Friday confirmed that she has been healing well. In fact, she has been dying to go out and can’t wait for me to take the no-lickey collar (also known as the Elizabethan collar) off her.

What has been kinda neat, however, is the fact that no she actually sleeps with me instead of sleeping on the other bed or chair at night. She does move away if I move, but she stays close unlike before. Which is really nice since she hasn’t done that since she was 5 months old.

Of Crabs and Gators

bidyut — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:56:58 +0000

Yesterday was our second day at Miami. Even though we are staying at Fort Lauderdale, we have been going to South Beach for all our beachiness. Yesterday, however, we did spend some time at Fort Lauderdale. We went to the lower parts of of the Everglades and got on a air-boat, drifted on water and saw a bunch of alligators.

Later at lunch we tried fried alligator, and I also tried a golden crab. The gator tasted great, I’ll try that again any day. The crab was good too, but by God it was a pain trying to get through all the shell and all. So no more fighting for crab meat for me. I’ll stick to the gators, chicken and fish.

Also news from the north says that Sylvee is doing fine. She’s a bit lonely, but I go back tomorrow and then it all goes back to normal.

Sylvee is so cute!

bidyut — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:03:41 +0000

Today I came home and before starting to cook played with Sylvee a bit instead of doing it right before going to sleep. And then it was the cooking and eating while enjoying the latest from Omid Djalili. While I was watching it though, I saw Sylvee go upstairs. So far nothing out of the ordinary. What followed, however, was just too cute.

Sylvee managed to find her bag of treats and then manged to get it down and carried it all the way to me downstairs. It was just so cute!! How can I say no treats to a cutie pie like that?

Something different

bidyut — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:04:44 +0000

Today was a bit different for me. To start I’m testing a HDTV tuner. I don’t watch that much TV, but sometimes I want to. HDTV has weird channel numbering schemes so I haven’t found all the channels yet. But we’ll get there. I have a couple of weeks to return the thing if I don’t like it.

The other thing is that I got a Rubik’s cube. I saw this really good tutorial online and wanted to really learn it this time. I could always do one side without a problem, but I figured it was time to explore further. And after a couple of painful hours with several mishaps that made me restart. But I did it!! That’s the big news for the day. Sorry to anyone who called me during then because I really couldn’t concentrate on anything else.

On other news, Big Cat is going to get a new name since some people are revolting against it. I’m thinking Vombol Daas. What do you think? The weird thing is that sometimes I get afraid that he’ll scratch me. It is weird because if anyone met me in the last year, they know I am all scratched up. But that’s by Sylvee, and she was there with me since she was a baby. Anyway, we’ll see whatever ends up happening with Vombol.

Of cats and food

bidyut — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:15:27 +0000

By now, I’m pretty sure that I’m feeding two cats – Sylvee and the cat from across the street whom I aptly named Big Cat. Just a few nights back, I got home and proceeded to go through my get-in-and-settle-down ritual, when I was greeted by Big Cat comfortably taking a nap on my desk. Well, it was a bit over 0º C (32º F) outside, but what I don’t understand is why not got back to his house.

At that point I realized that Big Cat doesn’t have a collar. I don’t think I have ever seen a collar on him. May be he just lives around here and doesn’t really have a home? Got to figure that out. Because if that is the case, then he needs to go in for some mandatory shots.

Story of my luck

bidyut — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 04:01:59 +0000

About a month and half ago Sylvee lost her collar. After searching around the property grounds, me and my sister finally gave up and bought a new collar. Today morning, I woke up and noticed that the wooden floor by the front door looked puffy. Almost as if it got soaked with water, unfortunately I had work and could not check it out then.

When I returned home after work I noticed that there were actually water drops on the floor. It was then that I realized that if I step on the puff, the water is coming out from under the floor. This was critical! After a little look around I figured out that the condensed water from the air cooler was leaking some how and it’s really really bad. It was then that I found Sylvee’s old collar inconveniently stuck inside the water pump.

It turns out that Sylvee’s collar fell off here (for some reason) and the name managed to fall into the pump and stopped the motor. What are the freaking chances of that happening!!