Abandoned!

Yestereday weez thought that we would get to spend the whole day with Meowmie...Meowmie J was off on some course so we knew Meowmie wouldn't go and meet her and we also knew that Meowmie didn't need to go out or meet anyone else for anything so we assumed - and rightly so - that we would get Meowmie ALL DAY! But oh no...she went out to see something called football! When I say 'football' I mean proper Rest Of The World Football - not 'American' Football, which to be honest looks exactly like Rugby but with the players wearing lots of protective padding.

Meowmie supports a football team called Chelsea FC. They have been through total turmoil the past 10 days. The manager, Jose Mourinho, walked due to differences with the club owner, a Russion billionaire called Roman Abramovich. Jose Mourinho is without doubt one of the BEST managers in the world and it is a HUGE loss to Chelsea (we topped the league and won 6 trophies under Jose's guidance!). You see, Roman wants to buy up all the 'star' players but Jose wants players who can play good football in a team together - not a team full of egos!. Roman also interfered with Jose's team selections and this has caused untold problems on and off the pitch. So, anyways, Jose walked (or was pushed), he had had enough. Jose is also quite possibly the best looking manager in the World too:



Yesterday was Chelsea's first home game since the turmoil and Meowmie's friend at work let her have his season ticket for the day!!! What a selfish man, does he not realise we NEED her at home? Chelsea had a TERRIBLE game - the captain John Terry (below) got a smashed cheekbone and it is busted and he can't play for some weeks, then our star striker Didier Drogba (below John Terry) got sent off and to cap it all the team on the whole played badly. The new manager Avram Grant got booed and the WHOLE crowd chanted for Joe Mourinho repeatedly! Not a god day for Meowmie...that will teach her for abandoning us all day again!





Here are a couple of pics of the ground which Meowmie took ysterday:




An update on me now: I LOVE the catfish and tapioca dry food but unfortunately i can't seem to digest it, or it won't pass through my system properly. I think the pellets are too big for me (I have no back teeth so can't crunch them) and I am just bringing them up again about 30 minutes after eating. So Meowmie tried soaking them this morning and softening them up a bit...I ate some soft mushy ones about 30 minutes ago so hopefully they will go through me properly this time. Appetite is good though, even after I chucked up I went to my bowl for a refill! Hehehe, poor Meowmie...the catfish-scented vomit is totally pungent and rancid!

Good and Bad Vet Visit

So today I went to see Ben Vet with my brother Castle cos he had to have his annual check-up. Castle cried and screamed like a big baby when Meowmy left the apartment (I would say 'flat' but I think most of you call it an apartment). The neighbours came out to see what was going on, they couldn't believe that ONE cat could make such a racket! One of them asked if Castle was seriously ill - Meowmie explained that he was just a big baby and there was nothing wrong though.

When Stormie's Limousine arrived Castle spent the entire journey trying to burrow beneath me, so I ended up squashed against the roof of our carrier for most of the journey. He did pretty much the same at the Vet Place too and wouldn't look out of the prison bars on the front of our carrier. He is supposed to be the big protective man of the house....hahahaha...Meowmie's Aloe Vera plant is braver than Castle! Mind you, it was nice to have him with me on the trip for once...

So anyways, I got the once over and Ben Vet and Ann Nurse were extremely pleased with my condition and appetite and demeanour, they said I was a star, a proper little fighter and quite possibly their most-loved patient! I therefore had a GOOD DAY! I coud see Castle going green with envy hehehehe - especially as they had just called him 'grumpy'! Ise put on half a pound too (about 200 grams) and now weight just over 7lbs (3.2kgs)!!! Mind you, my poo-chute felt 'quite full' apparently so that 200 gramms could have just been poop! Ben Vet also wants to try me on an exclusion diet to see if we can eliminate the one puke every 36hrs. Apparently cats that go through chemo for gastric lymphoma can develop allergies to foods that they may have been OK with all their lives, so from tomorow morning I will be on a strict Royal Canin Sensitivity diet ONLY - this is made of catfish and tapioca. I've never had catfish before so am looking forward to trying it.

Now...on to Castle..who had a BAD DAY at the Vet Place. He weighs 13lbs (almost 6 kilos) which is bloody fat for a Meezer, so he too will be joining me on a strict diet - to make it easy he will have the Catfish Royal Canin food too. He got fat by eating the foods that were supposed to be for me when I was going through chemo - Meowmie left food out for me when she went to work, to keep my strength up when I was being fussy! And Castle needs to exercise and move his fat backside around a bit more! Ironically, considering the recent post bout his teefs, he also needs to have a tooth out so he is going back on Thursday for the day for an operation!!! Poor Boy! Maybe he will let Meowmie brush his teefs in future now and not struggle and fight her!

In other news...Here are some of the first victims of the new Olympic site developmnt in East London, they are little feral kittens and they are now 'homeless' cos the wooden palletts they were living beneath have all been cleared away. They are now at the Celia Hammond Trust and need Forever Homes. The first picture is the derelict warehouse and wooden pallets they lived in. Meowmie is quite taken with the little grey one doing a Full Monty in the picture at the end...

Thoughtful Thursday

Today I'm going to dedicate my post to the people struggling for their freedom in Burma - an amazing country full of beauty and love - despite the military junta's best efforts to suppress the population. Burma is also the next-door neighbour to Thailand, which used to be Siam, our ancestoral home so weez feel a litle bit of a bond...Please please take a few moments to think about how brave the people are to stand up against the regime that brutally wipes out any sign of defiance. Here are some Burmese images:

Aung San Suu Kyi - a truly amazing woman...

Shwedagon Temple...stunning...

Brave Burmese monks...

Burmese kitten

Meezer Rule Wednesday

Don't yawn when your human has the flashy-thing in their hand! You can see here how my brother manages to carry whole eggs around in his BIG mouth!



Not saying much today cos it is supposed to be Wordless Wednesday too!

Keywords

Ise checked my stats and some people look for some funny fings in Google! Here is a selection of keywords and phrases that have led people to my blog:

Furry catfight
I don't wanna be alone
Shave up furry kid
Furry telephones for a girl's room
Cancer smelly farts
Me on the wheelchair

I of course also get loads of searches for lymphoma, leukeran, chemotherapy, feline, sick cat etc. I want to liven up my stats so I think I 'm gonna have some fun...let me see...

River Thames flood
Jose Mourinhio manage England
Madonna hand claws
Elvis alive cambodia
Iguana smuggle wooden leg
Lindsay Lohan sober
Schwarzenegger President
Ben & Jerry heart attack
Continental shelf collapse

I think that should do it for now.

I heard Meowmie call the Vet this morning...I think I have a visit coming up...I'll keep you posted! I am still chucking every other day so I imagine it will be a check-up...My appetite is brilliant though, I am OK in every other respect. I might take Castle with me to the vet this time, seems unfair that he never gets to go!

EDIT 1 hour later: I AM going to the Vet Place on Friday at 5pm to see Ben Vet - and so is Castle! Hehehehe...he hasn't been for ages. Hahahaha. He cries like a baby too, so much so the neighbours often come out of their homes just to check no babies are being hurt!

An Award and a MeMe

Firstly, I am totally honoured to receive the Nice Matters Award from Karl at The Cat Realm!!!! Please check out Karl's blog and his new shop for buying lovely thingies!!! Look at my beautiful award now please...yet another one whose colours nicely match my blog! :) I am going to pass this on to News Paws for their wonderful round-up of current affairs and lovely messages! And to Samantha and Tigger for being such lovely supportive furrends!




I'se gonna do a Scattergories Meme cos Meowmie is too busy (lazy more like) to think about anything special or do any photoshoppery!

What is your name? Storm
4 letter word: Hmm, a four-letter word beginning with S...SIAM!
Vehicle: Skoda Rapid!!! Meowmie loves 'em! She wants one for her next car but they are hard to find now.



TV Show: Seven-Up (a show that has followed the progress of some children from the age of 7 years-old - the film crew return to the kids every 7 years for an update on how they are. The next show in the series is gonna be 49-Up I think - so technically it is not 7-Up anymore!)
City: Saigon (many Vietnamese do not like to use the other name 'Ho Chi Minh City')
Boy Name: Samuel or Syla
Girl Name: I would say 'Storm' but I am not allowed so I will say...Saffron or Shiloh
Alcoholic Drink: Satan's Whiskers
Occupation: Space Cadet Storm
Something you wear: Smile!
Celebrity: Sharon Stone - I think there are two Sharon Stones cos Meowmie told me to choose which picture I wanted to use, but this obviously isn't the same woman so I will put both pictures up cos I don't want to upset one of the Sharons!!!



Food: Steak
Something found in a bathroom: Soap, socks, stinks!
Reason for being late: Strike on the Tube
Cartoon Character: Scooby Doo
Something You Shout: Sick Ups!!!

Thirteen on Thursday

Hello everyone on this awful Thursday - my Meowmie's football team, Chelsea, are in turmoil - their manager Jose Mouriniho has walked/been pushed out and now they have no decent manager! This means they are unlikely to have a good season now which means Meowmie will be a bit sweary at the weekends.

In other news, i continue to vomit every day or so, and only the once...but apart from that I am eating really well and I am very much normal and 'myself'.

Now, my thirteen for Thursday is for Meowmie cos I know she has been dreaming of holidays and visiting India again - but she can't at the moment cos she has to take care of me. All these pictures are taken in an ancient Hindu religious site called Hampi, in India, which meowmie loved! Hope you like them.

The kids in India work hard - this little girl was helping her father set up his herb stand at the local market before she went to school. It was 7am!


Be careful when you stop to put something in a bin - sometimes monkeys sit in them scavaging and you could get a nasty surprise!


Some pilgrims visiting the ancient Hindu temples.


Another homeless Indian kitten - I reckon this one has got a belly full of worms! Meowmy said that it belonged with the other ones who had set up home under the shoe-stand, by the lovely restaurant mentioned in an earlier post, so it may just have been overfed!


A troop of wild monkeys at Monkey Temple. Meowmy had a packet of biscuits in her bag and about 5 of them jumped on her and clambered up and down her body trying to find the food - they could smell it! Meowmie was very scared.


Just a lovely temple picture!


An Indian Holy Man - also called a Sadhu.


A frequent dinner companion! This fly is licking a grain of sugar.


These were stables...for the king's elephants!


Rush hour in an Indian town (view from the side of a motorised rickshaw)


This snake was waiting for Meowmie outside an Indian toilet (basically a hole in the ground in a hut). Meowmie bent down and started taking pictures, just after she took this one the snake flared it's neck...it was a COBRA!!! An Indian man ran up to my Meowmie screaming for her to move away. I am glad she did! If you bigify and look carefully you can just see the neck starting to flare out.


These temples is musical! Each column plays a musical note when tapped - Meowmie said it was truly beautiful. In the Olden Days a person would stand by each column and form an orchestra and play for the King!


Meowmie took a picture of this little boy and his parents, they were pilgrims visitng the Hindu shrines - they were wearing their best clothes specially. This was the first time the young boy had ever had a photo taken - hence his look of bewilderment.