Litter-training Ellie

We have a cat :)

Mummy says Ellie the cat isn't allowed into the house until she is litter-trained. And so! We litter-trained her.

It was surprisingly easier than I thought it would be. All three of us, Sean, Jean and myself gave her a bath, gave her some food and we waited there in the toilet with Ellie. I prepared her litter box, and we held her paws and clawed the lint in the box.

She liked the lint :) (they say some cats don't litter in the litter box cos they don't favor the lint o.o picky picky). She played around in the lint, jumping up and down, here and there.. while the three of us watched her, laughing our heads off.

and then ...

She stops jumping.

Sean : is it happening?

Mae : Omigod is it happening??!!

IT HAPPENED!!!

When we saw it .. happening ...

Mae, Sean, Jean : YEEEEESSSSS!!! WOOHHOOO!! YEEAAAHHH!! Arrrriiiiiight!!

Ellie just stared at us at she .. umm .. happened and we cheered her on.

Next mission : Train her to sit on command. And train her to jump. I know she's not a horse. But this cat can jump.

KLDA repeat

Tonight was quite fun :)

I went for the KLDA repeat dinner and dance.

This afternoon, I told myself I wouldn't get on the dance floor. I get nervous when I'm dancing an improvised-at-the-moment dance. Like, when I dance, I'm much comfortable when I know the next step, and the one after that, etc etc. No choreo, Mae no dance. What I always say :)

That was in the afternoon.

When I got there, 30 minutes in and already a few people started dancing.

OH BTW VERY IMPORTANTE DETAIL !! QISCAMEQISCAMEQISCAME !! :)

So yeah. I thought maybe I could get away throughout the whole night not getting on the dance floor. Almost everyone else from WDA was on the dance floor, but I turned to Qis and pretended talking to her.

nope didn't work.

Kenneth came up to me, asked me to dance. I gave him my best excuses, no shoes on, skirt too long for latin, song about to end .. :\ none worked. He waited there until I got my shoes on and we did one round of the rhumba choreo.

I was a nervous wreck. When I realize the floor was getting empty, I made it to get off. But he said, "no there's another couple there." ... dang it!

But it was pretty okay :) After that, I didn't feel so nervous anymore. I did like a little bit of Waltz and some Samba with Kelvin Choo :) hahah, he can lead well. I didn't know like half of what I was doing. I did Waltz and Samba with Sean. I did the chacha with vernon. :D

Some random person was nice enough to ask me to the floor. The whole time, the dance was improv and yeahiwasprettynervous. But I got used to it :D And then it turned out to be lots of fun! :D haha

My feet were sore. I finished dancing one rhumba song with the random person, was about to sit down and johnston asks. what to do? dance lah. I thought we were gonna do the beginners rhumba routine. noooooope. improv. but then again. it was fun :)

What I liked about tonight was that, just anyone can dance with anyone. You don't have to be afraid or nervous, just ask someone to dance :) You don't even have to know the persons name. Just dance and have fun :) Everyone from WDA was dancing with everyone else. Heck, everyone in the studio was dancing with everyone else :D

P/S : Every performance was an enjoyable one :) Yahoo and congrats.

The month of September

This one week break from school has been great. Raya was sort of low key this year, not too many open houses. I sorta like it that way. Gives me more time to think.

I realize there's so much I want to do but i never got around doing it. I feel like I'm stuck in a little box in the middle of a something great and i cant get out. The box isn't pitch black as if to cut out everything great happenning outside....

Ugh I'm going no where with this.

Lets try it again.

I feel like everything is right there in front of me but I can't seem to grab hold of it. Its like, I can reach it, whatever IT is, but I can't grab hold, and bring it in. I don't even know what IT is. I just have this instinct, this gut feeling that IT is something really wonderful. Something so great I'd be in complete bliss. IT, just might be something I've been waiting for, what I'm here for.

:/ what in god's name is IT..?

Like what one of my best friend said, I want a great writer to jump into my body, figure me out, write about who i am, how i feel, and then read it to me. Only i would want the reader to be Mo, Silvertongue from Inkheart but lets not go there.

Speaking of best friends.

I miss her ):

AHHH :D

this iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis supercalafragitastic.

Wade Robson vibe aaall over this dance.

Song : 'Hi' by PSAPP

Convo at a traffic light

Last night was the thank you dinner for those who helped out at the Crystal DanceSport. Teacher Joanne says they don't usually organize thank you dinners but this time, there was something about extra tables for the event and a no-refunds policy.

ANYWAY.

Dinner was great :) The evening was pleasant. I was sitting at the back of the car, about to fall asleep. The car stops at a traffic light and all of a sudden my mom says, "MAE! YOUR FRIEND!"

I immediately got up and looked out the window on my right.

And true enough, there was Trishi and her family smiling. HAHAH! THAT WAS TOOO WEIRD! My dad rolled down the window and Trishi and I had a short conversation. HAH.

That is definitely going down memory lane.

Sean : ... A convo at a traffic light? Mae, if I saw my friend at a traffic light, I'd just do this, *then he does this thing with his eyebrow and raised his palm*

Mae : Oh.

Sean : ... tsk. Convo at a traffic light.

Stuff to blog about - blogged.

The Crystal DanceSport went well. I was one of the runners, collecting the result sheets after every dance and trust me, it's something you'd be excited about at first, but by the end of the day, my feet ached, I just wanted to lie down and listen to some music.

I loved the latin couple from Moldova. Then again, who didnt'? Every move was executed with such energy and such grace, watching them was so enjoyable. And the couple from Hong Kong, oh the lady's ballroom dress was gooorrrgeuss.

So ANYWAY!

We're on the road at 1.30 in the morning, and out of the blue Jean tells me we have a cat named Ellie. I could hardly believe it true cos my mom doesn't favor animals in the house. Not that she doesn't like animals, but come a cute pet, come responsibilities. I thought they were joking.

they werent.

I got home, and there was the kitten on our front door mat looking up at me with its adorable goo-goo eyes. Ellie the cat. Adorable. She was a splash of black, light brown and white. Pictures will be up ... someday.

*****

I HAD THE BEST ICE CREAM BAR EVERR.

Snickers Ice Cream Bars. Oh-yummm. Vanilla ice cream, a layer of caramel and some peanuts on top, with the whole thing coated in chocolate. You've got to try them.

*****

Mae : Daddy! Do you know about our cat?

Daddy : Cat? What cat?

Mae : Our house cat!

Daddy : We have a house cat?

Mae : Yeah! Ellie the cat!

Daddy : Wha- an ALLEY CAT?

Mae : -.- uhh. no, daddy. The cat is named Ellie.

Daddy : Oh. Yeah I saw Ellie the cat at the front door. haha. Alleeyy.

and my mom. It was late at night and my mom was lying on the bed, she was really tired. You could tell cos her eyes were doing the whole, droopy closey thing. My sister was giving her a massage and all of a sudden mummy wants to tell us about the musang in our neighborhood.

Mummy : Hey. You two wanna hear about the musang?

Mae & Jean : Yeah, okay.

Mummy : You know, the musang came to our house, and our animals made a deal with it (we don't have animals).

Mae & Jean : Okayy

Mummy : They made a deal with the musang, they asked him to leave them alone. But the musang didnt want to ....

Mae & Jean : Mhmmm..

Mummy : ....

*silence*

Mummy : I made my blue rice. (yeah, sometimes we eat blue rice. :D)

Mae : Oh. okay.

Mummy : The musang liked it. So the animals asked me to make some more blue rice. And they made a deal with the musang. They give him blue rice, he leaves them alone. The musang agreed.

Mae & Jean : O.o (Jean stopped massaging)

Mummy : Do you guys understand what I'm saying?

Mae & Jean : No.

Mummy : Yeah cos I'm too sleepy.

Mae & Jean : ????

Mummy : I should go to sleep.

Stuff to blog about

:) but not right now. Maybe tomorrow. Or sometime during the weekend.

• Our new kitten :D
• Snickers ice cream bars (they're awesome)
• 9th Crystal DanceSport
• ): Latin class
• and something else. I can't remember what was it.

I didn't go to school today. I told myself I'd do some self studying. Ended taking a 'nap'. A 3 hour nap and in the end I didn't get much 'self-studying' done. :\