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12 Aug
The Future Of Bruno
Presenting the new addition to our family, BRUNO! He is the offspring of Ms. Ken Lee, he was born on the 4th of July (2009) and he is officially my number 7 cat in my small house. Back in 2004 during my previous company, I already have a cat, her name is Chacapam, then she got pregnant and then came Lucio, Carinoso and Ms. Ken Lee at the same time I also take care of 2 other cats that I found outside, Fullah and Borat which are now living permanently inside the house. In total, I’m taking care 7 cats and I hope their number will not go up.
It’s not easy having so many house cats around, the food is expensive, they don’t just eat anything, and there are times their diet changes and they would want to eat other flavors. The cat litter is also expensive and you can’t do without it. Another thing that makes it hard having pet cats around is when I’m traveling. There are times I’m not home for more than 5 days and it’s a dilemma for me. whenever that time comes, I usually call my friends and instruct them on what to do with the cats. And oh yes, you have to clean their litter box, take them for a bath at least once every 2 weeks and play with them as often as possible.
My cats are not the kind that you’ll see in pet shops, they are not that fancy. They are I think what Americans called “Alley cats”, the type you’ll often see in the streets and dumpsters which unfortunately are too much here in the streets of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Most of you would probably say, why are you taking care of those alley cats?, my answer is…I don’t know, maybe because it’s hard for me seeing them in the street when it’s a 100 degrees out there and at the same time hungry and thirsty. Every time I see cats in the street, it’s like I feel what they feel and then I ask myself, where are they going? Where will they eat? What will they sleep for the night? My heart bleeds for them. I only wish the goverment of Saudi Arabia will do something about this problem.
And about the future of Bruno and my other cats. The day will come that I have to let them go, when I go back home, back to my Philippines. There’s a possibility that I could take a cat or 2 with me, but most of them are going back where they came from, the street. I hope I could stay longer for them. I love my cats.
31 Jul
Hilarious Dance: “Nobody But You” by Wonder Girls
This is one amazing video. I found it in You Tube. I think they are security guards, dancing to the tune of Wonder Girls’ “Nobody But You“. Sooooo Hilarious! Watch it.
15 Jul
My “Eternal Moonwalk”
Me in front of the window of our shop in Serafi Mall (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
I uploaded my Moonwalk video on “Eternal Moonwalk” , as you can see in the photo above (Yes that’s me) and I’m not in Manila as what you will see there because I’m in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. To see my whole video and the videos of people who uploaded their moonwalks, go to www.eternalmoonwalk.com, and at the bottom left side of the screen type my name, J.Villanueva Cabrera (or the name of the person you would like to see), click on the “GO” button then click the “arrow sign” and wait for the video.
12 Jul
“2012” Trailer
Here’s a trailer of a new movie which will be out this coming November, called “2012”. It’s another movie about the Earth’s destruction and all which is based on the Mayan prophecy that the earth will end on December 21, 2012.
Link: “2012” (You Tube), December 21, 2012 (Official Website), END OF THE WORLD 2012, More…
1 Jul
Road Trip To Yanbu 2
We rented a car here in Jeddah and went to Yanbu yesterday afternoon to visit our shop there. This is our second trip to Yanbu with myself driving a car. At first I felt confident driving the car, everything seemed to be going great, that was until our trip back to Jeddah in the afternoon the next day. We decided to stop a while to heed the call of nature and to take a few snapshots from our camera, but I made a mistake taking the car too far from the side of the road, where the ground is too soft and so the wheel of our car got trapped from the sand, we couldn’t get out, the more I tried to pump the gas thinking that we could get our wheel free from the deep soft sand, but the deeper our wheel sunk. I tried putting some pieces of woods that we found around the site but it was no use, the car was not going anywhere. Then I got scared, we’ve only got a small bottle of water and it was mid afternoon and was burning hot.
Then Nelson a co-worker of mine, said we should get help from some passersby. A Pakistani guy stopped and tried to help us. He brought ropes to help our car be pulled from the sand but because it was made of some plastic-like material, it was too weak and snapped. He then get another rope from his delivery truck, but this time it looked like a seatbelt from some old cars and it was made of nylon. We tried to tie it up at the rear of our car and to the front of his delivery truck, then he begun to pull our car out of the sand and sure enough it worked. Thank God! We offered him water and a lot of thank yous after that, without him we wouldn’t be able to get back to Jeddah this afternoon and we will still be there on that same spot at this moment. We asked his name and he replied “Mustaq”.
Nelson and I want to say Thank You from the bottom of our hearts once again to Mustaq. You really are a good Samaritan. God bless you.
Pepe In Saudi Arabia 