A personal blog by members of the Cat Welfare Society Singapore

Members of the Cat Welfare Society’s committee are blogging at catwelfaresg.wordpress.com - “the Unofficial Cat Welfare Society Diary.” Like Dawn’s before, “it is entirely personal, and does not reflect the opinions of the society.”

So we will continue to get to peek into their thoughts and experiences and readers will offer up support and suggestions as they have before.

In a recent post, Sarah says,

“As usual, we don’t know how Dawn managed it.

Ah well, the best way to get it done is to get started. “

Ah, brave heart.

More?

Xylo says, “more?” Unlike the other two boys, he never stops asking for a bite to eat. Although he likes to come by and look pathetic (which can be very effective, growl), he will not touch junk food, or cheese. That’s Tiger’s domain.

Note the Mighty Minds map on my table. With street directory down, I am back to using paper maps against Google Maps and guess what? It’s faster!

Tiger helps introduce Ticked Tabbies

Tiger makes it to the introductory page of the Flickr pool Ticked Tabbies as an example of a ticked tabby with a Siamese-like colouration. As I look at the other cats featured there, the thing that strikes me is what are their personalities like? Are they suckers for KFC too?

Pool admin Jane S admits Tiger’s a favourite with her so I must find and take more of him. Have not been doing that for awhile. I also need to video one of the boy’s sparring match for the behaviour class next year. Perhaps I’ll stay at home a day and stalk them. Without falling asleep that is.

“Cats and Dogs living together”

Photos from Sue are coming in, heh-heh.

“Cats and dogs living together”

This phrase this was used as indicator of doom in Ghost Busters. If so, its time to head for the hills.

For Dawn: yeah, cats and dogs can get along

In response to Meep and River on Dawn’s blog. Sue and VJ have more photos; I’ll get ‘em!

Hair on my chest

Okay actually I meant fur. Featuring Mr Bats, the purring machine.

Exhausting week, too tired to blog

I have been hunting down students, marking and processing marks for the past two weeks. Did what I could and my Reading Week schedule went out the window; good lesson though. It’s all over now and boy oh boy, was excel useful! I updated the post about excel functions I use to check marks and will provide it with figures as a webpage for the TAs. I will be getting them to use the gradebook functions built into NUS’ web-based IVLE system.

Am now dealing with the last of student queries via MSN; setup a live.com account for that. Still have the honours theses to examine this weekend. Hopefully I finish that before the exams begin on Monday. I am actually looking forward to marking exam papers to make comparisons after the changes in teaching methods I applied this semester.

Meanwhile, the exam invigilation reminders have turned up at the entrance of the department office. This announces the final and critical leg of the semester. Laurence used to present them like performance billings but I guess he’s too busy mopping up coffee to get fancy. At least he kept the colour, very useful. Its a good reason to drop by the department office every now and then. You can keep track of breaking news!

The notice reminded me of the stress our students must be under so I I SMS-ed cheery greetings to my research students and Toddycats project managers - I had their numbers in my handphone and ssw their replies come in thick and fast!

Thankfully, back at home, Mr Bats has been keeping me company during my marking processing and student hunting phase. He will reprise that role next week.

Sometimes he crawls in to a nice comfortable bag and territorially swipes at my hand when it ventures too close his “cave door”…

Mean Kitty Song, featuring Sparta the cat

This is the Mean Kitty Song, a rap by Cory “Mr Safety” Williams, SMP Films about his cat Sparta. Nice!

Read about Sparta as well as Cory’s story. Hat tip - Kevin.

Going offline…

Been module blogging as usual after the lecture and attending to email chores. It’s been 5 hours since so Mr Bats has declared a break.