Cats

"Adik nak ikut"
"Mama boleh tak adik ikut?"

I watched the Malaysian Airline ads. It was about how a girl asked her parents to bring along their cat, going back to kampung.

Comey en.en en en. Macam nak penyek ja muka kucing tu. haha.

Seriously, the ads shows the reality about having  a cat. The ads explained exactly how we feel when we had to leave our cat. It's hard.

When Ummi and her princesses had to leave to Krabi, we can't bring Tomei and Tiger along. We don't have any choice so we decided to leave them under Along's supervision.Well, I'm not really worried about tiger, because he can look after himself so well. Goes out daily in the middle of the night is enough for us to know that he did have a high life skill outside haha.But for Tomei, I'm quite worried. He is a very naive and innocent cat *masih belum tercemar macam tiger*. He would chase the birds outside the window and end up going down the ground.He fell once, so we rushed him to the vet.Thank god he had minor injury except for his legs, they are fractured but he is okay now :).  While all the way in Krabi, I keep asking Ummi

"Tomei okay ke Ummi kat rumah ngan Along?"
"Rindunyeeee Tomeiii"

So after a few days in Krabi, we're back to home sweet home and the first thing i would look for is Tomei. His reaction is like

"Mane uolls pergi, sunyi tau I kat umah sensowang"
"Sampai hati uolss pergi tak ajak I"
haha.

Sometimes, it's like that. Cats is not really an animal to some people but they're family to some of us. They treated, called and being loved  as one of our family members. In fact, Ummi layan Tomei lebih dari Ummi layan kami adik-beradik. Tomei sleeps with ummi, Tomei follows Ummi everywhere and even enjoy watching Ummi cooks some Rendang. I once asked Ummi why did she treated Tomei more than us?

"Awat Ummi layan Tomei lebih?"
"Sebab dia kecik lagi, korang dah besar"
"Eh eh eh. Dia dah tua lah Ummi, dah empat tahun. Dah leh jadi daddy kucing dah tu haa"
"Sebab Tomei tak kuat melawan"
Amik hg, padan muka kena troll ngan ummi.

Cat can be a children to a spouse that do not have children. Cat can be siblings, a younger sister or a younger brother to those that do not have one. Cats can be a granchildren to a folks who were being left alone by their children.

Even Abah and Ummi adressed themself as abah ummi to our cats.

"Tiger makan dah belum? Meh abah bagi makan meh."
"Tomeiii jom masuk tidur ngan Ummi jom."
And our cats would simply anwser
"meoooowwwww" *godek godek godek godek* the sound of Tomei and Tiger running towards their "parents".

It's normal for us to talk to our cats. It's normal for some of us put our cat's picture as display photo in our phone. It's normal for us to upload our cat's picture/video on Instagram and Facebook.
Ummi even called Tiger to go home without caring about people around viewing and looking with their annoying reaction

"Amenda lah cakap ngan kucing. Bukannya dia faham pun."
"Lulz, cakap ngan kucing"
Tiger understands. He would come back waddling towards ummi.

That is why we cared and loved our cats so much. They understand us. They're not just an animal being, they're family. It's normal to say that we missed our cats.

If you don't own a cat. Go and get one bruhh.
If you're afraid of one, start with a kitten.
I'm sure you would own another family member. Trust me.

"Dogs is a man bestfriend"
Eh eh eh, kalau lagu tu Cat pun boleh jadi a girl bestfriend.

Assalamualaikum :)

Credit to Luqman San

Underlined words
Waddling - Terkedek-kedek