Last day of the 2000 Olympics. Lynn entered this competition where you're supposed to guess the top three medals winners. She got the three countries, right but her medal tally is nowhere near the real thing. There goes another chance for easy money, Lynn.
Mon, 02/10/2000
Sasha Saidin of Elite was nice enough to visit and sign my guestbook (Thank you, you're the best!). Her visit gave me the idea to do a celebrity cat lovers page. But how do you go about interviewing celebrities? Can I just e-mail them? And would they reply? Hmmm...
Tue, 03/10/2000
Went looking for celebrities e-mail addresses. Plenty of international celebrities but can't find that many for the local ones. Looks like I have to ask Lynn's help. Not sure she'd want to make a fool of herself, chasing celebrities, asking them, "Can I get your input for my... err... cat's homepage?"
Wed, 04/10/2000
Replies! I got some replies! Thank you, Dina (Dina Zaman, newspaper columnist). Thank you, Nora (Nora of Intoxicated, a four-piece girl band). Okay this is not too bad. Maybe this thing can work after all.
Sun, 08/10/2000
Cloudy day. No bath for us this week. Yayyyyyyyy!!
Tue, 10/10/2000
Lynn heard about this SPCA pet neutering campaign on radio. She's trying to find out if she can get me neutered there. It's cheaper, she said. What IS neutering?
Friday the Thirteenth
Aarrgghh... A ghost! I saw a ghost!! Oh... it's just Gracie.
Aarrgghhss... A ghost! I swear this time it's real!! Oh... it's just Lynn -- wearing a face masque. Golly, it's hideous. It could probably scare a real ghost.
Sun, 15/10/2000
Malaysia Cup Football Finals. Yawn...
Lynn and Shila were complaining that Malaysian football has really gone down the drain. Well, I kind of like chasing a ball around but watching 22 sweaty men doing that? No thanks.
Thu, 19/10/2000
Got an e-mail from Scott Adams, the cartoonist and Gail Devers, the US sprinter. Scott has two cats, Smokey and Sarah, and you can have a sneak preview of their photo here. Thanks, Scott. Gail turned out to have three Rottweilers (yikes!) but she was nice enough to write back -- thanks!
Fri, 20/10/2000
Mega concert with Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Sugar Ray, etc. in conjunction with the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix.
Sat, 21/10/2000
Malaysian Formula One GP weekend. Lynn wanted to go but they won't allow cats, so she decided to watch it on TV with us instead. (Actually, she said she spend so much on catfood that she can't afford to buy a ticket. The truth is she's just a cheapskate).
Sun, 22/10/2000
My first visit to the vet... arrgghhh... The vet didn't do much except probe here and there but Gracie said to struggle, so I did. Didn't get a chance to bite him though.
Thu, 26/10/2000
Deepavali � the Indian festival of light. Hey, how come the Indian family in the apartment at the end didn't invite us to their open house*??
Lynn: That's because they were not at home, Chuwy.
*Open house: The Malaysian custom of inviting friends to help celebrate and share in religious or cultural celebration and festivities. Usually an excuse for people to pig out on good food.
Lynn has to work outside the house three days in a row. No humans to torture during the day... boringgggggg...
Wed, 08/11/2000
Esquire (Chuwy's nemesis for the female cats' affection -- Lynn) started hanging around outside our apartment. I don't know why � I think he lost his own collar and he's probably trying to steal mine.
Wed, 15/11/2000
Hey, I got an e-mail from Rina of Intoxicated! Another celebrity cat lover for my page. This is so cool, I'm gonna get working on posting her reply straight away.
Sat, 18/11/2000
Gracie is acting kinda strange. She's usually very good about using the litter box but today she started urinating everywhere. Boy, is she going to get it from Lynn!
Sun, 19/11/2000
It's not fair! Gracie's the one who's been urinating everywhere but I'm the one who gets blamed for it! Why is it that when anythig bad happened, they immediately associated it with me? I'm gonna go sulk for awhile.
Mon, 20/11/2000
I yelled my head off to alert Lynn when I saw Gracie not using her litter box. Hey, how come Gracie only got a little scolding? When they thought it was me who did it, they almost bit my head off. When they found out it was Gracie, they simply went, "Oooooo... why did you go do that for, Gracie?"
Tue, 21/11/2000
Lynn found out that when a cat's straining to urinate, it meant a blocked bladder which if left untreated could burst and a cat could die from that. Gracie can be one heck of a pain in the neck but she's also the only friend I have...
Boy, that Gracie sure knows how to struggle!! It took Lynn at least 20 minutes to get her in cat carrier!! But Lynn said that Gracie was good at the vet's; she didn't struggle or scream her head off. Unlike me.
Wed, 22/11/2000
Yaarrgghhsssssss... Lynn's nephew came for a visit! The way he chased us around the apartment, you'd think he has never seen a cat!!
Lynn has taken to feeding Esquire with our scraps from our plates. She thinks he has an owner but is just hanging around our apartment because of Gracie. Not that she's interested... That witch only has eyes for her food bowl.
Fri, 24/11/2000
Lynn's family is in K.L. for the school holidays, so she took them around the city on the underground trains � the first ever in Malaysia!
Mon, 27/11/2000
First day of the fasting month for the Moslems. Cats are not expected to fast too, are we, Lynn?
Tue, 28/11/2000
Another reply for my celebrity cat lover page! This time it's from Sasha of Elite! Thanks, thanks, thanks! For the great reply! And the pictures! I'm so excited! I can only speak! In exclamation marks!
It's the fasting month, so things are kinda slow. Plus, the weather has been hot the past few days, so everyone is rather lethargic from the heat.
Sat, 8/12/2000
Lynn is looking around for a place to park us when she goes home to celebrate the Moslem Aidil Fitri festivities. Relax Lynn, Raya is still more than two weeks away.
Fri, 15/12/2000
That stupid &%#!@!! Esquire!!
He's been hanging around our apartment hoping for glimpse of Gracie, right? Now every time I try to get out of the apartment, he would hit me! For no reason at all!! Hey buddy, if you want Gracie, be my guest... she's nothing but trouble.
Sat, 16/12/2000
I've got a swollen paw, all because of that fight with Esquire. It hurts to walk... ow, ow, ow...
Sun, 17/12/2000
Ow, the paw still hurts...
Mon, 18/12/2000
Gracie had to go to the vet for follow-up treatment for her bladder problem. To my big surprise, Lynn bundled me up along, too. Aw Lynn, my paw doesn't hurt all that bad, c'mon...
Yowzers! The vet gave me a jab! That hurts a lot more than my swollen paw!! That's it!! The next time I see him, I'm leaving bite and scratch marks all over his face!!
Sat, 23/12/2000
Oh no, not another trip to the vet... Both me and Gracie got drenched by this foul smelling and foul tasting liquid. The vet said it was to get rid of fleas, so how come Gracie is still around?
Hey! Lynn left us at the vet! Hey Lynn! Come back, you forgot to take us home! Lynn come back, please... I promise I'll be nice to Gracie if you come back...
Sun, 24/12/2000
Lynn didn't come back for us. She really left us here... I know that I haven't been quite an angel and I complained a lot, but surely that's no reason to leave me here...
Mon, 25/12/2000
Still no sign of Lynn. Had to spend miserable Christmas stuck in a cage at the vet's.
Yeah, yeah, Merry Christmas to you.
Tue, 26/12/2000
The cat in the next cage told me his human left him there because there's no one at home to look after him. His human family balik kampong (something like going home for Christmas) to celebrate the Moslem Aidil Fitri or Hari Raya. He said probably Lynn left us here for the same reason.
Wed, 27/12/2000
Hari Raya Puasa, the Moslem Eid celebration. I bet Lynn is having fun celebrating Raya with her family while we're stuck here in our miserable cages...
Anyhow, Selamat Hari Raya.
New Year's Eve. Still stuck in this cage. Still no sign of Lynn.
Mon, 1/01/2001
A miserable New Year's Day to you, too.