Back To Life, Back To Reality

I'm on vacation.....NOT! It's slave to the grind....AGAIN!

So i came back to sunny Singapore on Thursday and was appalled that no one was at the airport to pick me up! Ok granted i landed 1 hour earlier than the time stated on my original itinerary but i thought someone (HEH!) would have double checked with teletext. Anyway, it was all cool (albeit the endless waiting and trying to make calls using public phones cos my handphone died!) and the four of us ended up at Maxwell Food Centre for some good ol' century egg/pork porridge later that morning.

The trip was a fulfilling one but it didn't come without a price.

Apparently, old Sophie was crying all the time after i jetted off. I remembered how freaked out she was when her previous owner abandoned her and how she spent a couple of days, wide-eyed and shell-shocked, just sitting under the table in my Kardinya home after i adopted her. I guess this time, my absence must have really affected her because when i came home to her, i saw the signs and true enough, my suspicions were confirmed when i brought her back to MP.

Poor girl is now on more drugs but fortunately, her kidney condition is not deteriorating. Mum said Sophie definitely looks brighter and happier now that i'm back and i just wanna spend whatever time i can with her till she can't do it anymore. I feel glad just seeing her trotting towards me every morning, her usual diva self, whenever she hears me opening her favourite canned food. And i tell myself that i have already done my best by loving and taking care of her in her sunset years.

I am greatly saddened by this but i try to take things in my stride and do all i can, whatever it may be. Trying to optimistic (or delusional maybe?) although i know that somewhere along the line, Sophie will just be living on borrowed time. I just hope it wouldn't be so soon, please....sigh.

It was my good fortune to have gotten that attachment slot at Freo Animal Hospital that year and to have known a wonderful and affectionate cat like no other - my dear old Sophie......

SO yeah. Work has piled up as well and there's so much to settle. I anticipate things getting even messier after my colleague leaves but oh well, we'll see. I like my present job but i still don't think it's what i wanna do for the rest of my life till i retire. Who knows what i'll do next? I've always been spontaneous and reckless so maybe you'll see me selling make-up at Metro tomorrow!

In case you didn't know, my hatchday is just around the corner and this is my wish list:

Feel free to get any item for me before this weekend! :) (Note: I accept belated presents too, so don't worry.)

p.s. EH, and i would like to know who is this psychopath who has been searching for "murdoch vet singapore blogspot" on google ah? To the others who read this silently, i know who you are la cos i log down your IP (and company name) when you visit! You think i dunno you're reading my blog 12,345 times per day meh? Be nice and say happy valentine's day/happy birthday/happy chinese new year to me!