Valentine's Day And The Cat ...

Valentine has come and gone and I spent it doing household chores with wifey like washing the windows, mowing the backyard, cleaning the kitchen and sweeping the floor, you know the usual Saturday household stuff. When you have a family and kids to attend to, Valentine's day really takes a back seat. Besides, we all know how commercialized its become with the cost of everything that's associated to romance being tripled just for this 'special' day alone.

When you're young and just falling in love, I guess you'd probably want to make a big deal of of this particular day just to make and impression with your loved one and to show her how much she means to you by getting her and expensive gift of something. But my understanding of t romance is to show your love all year round and not just on the 14th of February with some expensive gift. You probably think this is my way of getting out of buying a gift for wifey. Well, yeah, of course it is ... LOL! 

I actually got wifey her Valentine gift last week, when things were not hiked up yet. And she loves the gift I got for her which makes me a happy man :D Besides, we did have a Valentine breakfast this morning, of course not an expensive one cos we don't believe in making some unknown person rich with our hard earned money charging us sky high prices.

The boys had replacement classes today so wifey and me took advantage of it by going out for a breakfast date this morning. It's not always that we get the chance to be alone without the boys harassing us for this or that. We went to this place called JomBali at Carrefour.

A pretty decent place serving local breakfast stuff, nice ambience, a resort looking atmosphere (yes, in Carrefour of all places). The food was good and most importantly, it was cheap ... hehehe ... We'll definitely go back there again. And that was our Valentine experience for the day. The rest of the day was spent cleaning up after we came back from our date. What about you guys? How was your Valentine's Day? Fun and exciting, I hope :D

And on another note altogether, in one of my previous posts long ago, I mentioned that the backyard of my house is like a playground for stray cats. Healthy, fat and contented stray cats who have all decided that my backyard is their public toilet. I've lost count the amount times I've cleaned up their crap (pun intended). 

It's always this same bunch of strays that hang around back that I've taken to giving them names. There's Whitey, Tigger, Devil Woman and Tabby, who happens to be my favourite cos he's the one who hangs out the most in my backyard.

This morning, wifey was doing something at the back and saw Tabby lying in the drain at the back. She thought the fellow was just being lazy and sleeping there like he always does. But he just kept on lying there and when I went out, he just looked up and then lay down again which got me worried. Now this is really surprising for me. 

I'm not one who is very fond of animals. The only animals I'm fond of are my two best buddies (LOL!) so the concern I was showing for Tabby was not normal.


Even when I went near to Tabby, who would normally move away, he just lay there with his head up looking at me. And that's when I knew the poor fellow was sick. I could see it in his eyes. I went in, took a wanton (not the best cat food I know) and gave it to him and he walked over really wobbly like and plonked his fat body down in front of the wanton and slowly ate it. 

He looks sick and I'm kinda worried that he might not live through the night. There are no obvious wounds or anything on him, probably something wrong internally, I don't know. I'm no vet. But I'm definitely sure he's not well cos he's been lying there all day. I hope he'll recover by tomorrow and that it's not serious. Maybe he had a heavy Valentine session or something and is just stoned ... LOL! Ok, ok, I shouldn't be laughing. Anyone has any suggestions on how I can help poor Tabby?
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