Kitty Update

So my kitten is not a girl... it's a boy. It's official name is Owen. I wanted English heritage, so I named it after Michael Owen.. Okay, so he's welsh, not english, but at least it's from the United Kingdom!! My friends wanted to call him Beckam, but I refused!! (my kitten is quite a good footy player:))
One of the highschool girls has the brother kitty and she brought him over this afternoon.. well, they certainly didn't remember that they were related and once played very well together (only a week ago..) They were hissing and growling at each other!! We couldn't believe it! No more play dates for a while..!!
Owen spends a lot of time sleeping.. compared with his brother that is sooo full of spunk! I'm kinda glad mine is a little more placid and relaxed;) He also loves playing with my shoes and watching my laptop!
Here are a few more pics:

A typical Saturday..

It dawned on me that I only ever post "events", or things that I've done. So I thought I would tell you what a typical weekend would be like for me. Like today...
8:34am: get up
9:07am : walk to school and pick up the school car and drive to the market to buy fruit and veg and eggs
10:00am: Drive home, pick up Wendi, go grocery shopping
12:00pm: Come home, drop off groceries, go back to school to drop off car. Do some work in my classroom
3:00pm: Paint my bathroom! (And run out of paint...) - will post you pics when it's all done... looks so cool:))
5:00pm: Shower, get ready to go out for dinner
6:00pm: Go out to Italian restaurant in Batu with girls from church.
9:00pm: Decline night market shopping and get ride home with the non-shoppers!
9:30pm: Sit on the couch with my kitty and tea and toblerone chocolate watching Gilmore Girls on TV.
10:30pm til...??: Email, blog.. ect.. think about hitting the sack...

So... I don't paint my bathroom every weekend.. but trying to get some DIY stuff done now and again!

You might have found this blog entry interesting.. you might have not.. in any case, it sort of gives you an idea of "normal" things I do..
Gotta go get some shut eye now!!

my valentine...

I have fallen in love... ok, don't all gasp at once now.. :)) It's not what you think... The day after
story..;)) I found myself falling in love with a kitty... There was an abandoned litter at a Valentines day (which over here is a HUGE deal - like a national holiday.. but that's another student's house across the street from the school. And word got out about these kittens.. So I ended up taking a 5 week old little thing home with me! He/she is sooo cute! Not quite sure if it's a him or her yet.. I was told when I picked it up that it was a boy, but then the vet (I took it in for de-worming and flea bath) kept calling it a "she"... (Though he is known to get his pronouns mixed up as he's Indian and English is not his first language!!) So, we shall see... when it gets a little bigger, and I take it in after a month for it's first shots, I will ask the vet straight out if it's a male or female! For now, "her" name is Libby:)) She's already getting into mischief, but since it's still a tiny baby, play time is short and nap time is long and very frequent!

batik painting

Last weekend, I went batik painting with a few of my collegues from school. It was a lot of fun! Batik is a traditional Malaysian type of art. Let me explain... It's done on cotton fabric, where wax is poured to outline your picture, then you "paint" inside the waxed outline. It's like water colours, as you just have to dab some paint onto the fabric, and it just runs til the wax part. Hope this is making sense!! Anyway, I made 4 napkins - only RM8 each! A very cool and relaxing thing to do on a Saturday morning! The Batik factory is in Batu which is only about a 15 min car ride from home.