Sjani and the City

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

Sina unfortunately didn’t win to fight the illness. She left us for good yesterday, September 22nd, 2006.

May she rest in peace; may Pumuckl and I be given enough strength to go through this mourning period together.

As my in-laws are gone for two weeks on holiday, I’m taking care of their cats at home. They are Sina and Pumuckl.

Pumuckl is an easy-to-maintain guy. He’s very fun to be with and his life is like party-all-the-time kinda type. He is very fun-loving, warmhearted and gets along very fast to strangers. Sina is on the other hand a very sensitive girl. She keeps distance to everybody, especially those she doesn’t know well.

Sina has not been doing well the last few days. She’d been away long hours, more than usual, and acting very strange. So quiet and powerless. Seems like she is fighting something in her. Today when I came home after work, our neighbour, Mrs. Lehneis, showed me where Sina’d been. She was sitting in the bushes under the rain, and didn’t want to move not even an inch. She was like listening to me when I was talking to her asking her to come to the house, but somehow she was ignoring me. At a certain point I couldn’t stand it anymore, took her into my arms and brought her inside. She didn’t want to eat cat food i served her. She took some sip of water and that’s it. Then I tried to feed her with plain yoghurt, because I heard from my in-laws that both their cats always have some plain yoghurt for breakfast. You know what, she licked some yoghurt out of the spoon i served in front of her! You can’t imagine how happy I was!

Now she is downstairs and sitting in a not-exactly-look-convenient position. Poor Sina. Whatever pain you are fighting at the moment, I hope you’ll get well soon!

—–Original Message—–
From: Nana
To: Christian
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:18:25 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Schatz …..

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Kiss,
Princess

Chatted with Chris just now. He said, Kennedy town’s neighbourhood, where our new nest is located, is known as primarily Chinese. Near to our new place is a big traditional marketplace, I almost can’t wait! Smart shopping is my passion :)

He has taken some pictures of the apartment. Here is the view from our balcony, allow me to introduce you to our pool ;), and this is the view out of our bedroom window.

I didn’t mean to make myself sound too romantic; this is just the naked fact.

Anyway, we chatted yesterday thru ICQ, and he showed me around in the apartment using a webcam. Kinda sweet of him. I wanted to see the view out of the balcony, too bad the cable was too short. But seems like I wouldn’t be able to see anything anyway since it was so dark and our tiny little twinkle webcam doesn’t come with any sophisticated feature that can help us.

Just checked my calendar, if everything goes smoothly I only need to survive another three weekends without Prince.

Long time no sign of bloglife from me. No wonder, I’ve been running back and forth taking care of tons of things.

The apartment has been handed offer officially back to the landlord. Thank God. She didn’t make much of a fuss, so I was really relieved.

My successor has started working too about two weeks ago. So currently I am like transferring all my job knowledge to him so he can work independently once I left. Funny how you realise how much you know things in your job once you have to explain everything about it to others.

Chris has found a home for us too down in HK. At 15th level it is. The building itself has in total 43 levels. Seems like it’s pretty much normal for HK.

Currently I’m busy preparing the cargo. Not an easy job if you have to do it alone. I hope I can manage to finalize everything this weekend.