Catpunzel

My hair is getting sooo long! I could play the Chinese version of Rapunzel. Now, I am just waiting for my prince to show up. Note to sweet prince: remember to bring some lobsters, and crabs and clams for me to munch on... otherwise, Catpunzel will not put her hair down! Anyways, once you are at the bottom of the castle with the seafood basket, follow directions as set forth below :-)

Crocheted Rapunzel & Sweet Prince by SimpleArtsPlanet
Hairdye job by Bella

Happy Chinese Tamale Day!

Today is Chinese Tamale Day, aka Duanwu Festival, aka Dragon Boat Festival. Being a delinquent Chinese, I am unsure of the holiday's origin or its significance, but supposedly it's when all the stars in the heavens line up or something like that. Anyhoo, Chinese people eat Chinese tamale on Duanwu Festival... usually it's made of sticky rice, either with Chinese ham (for salted tamale) or jujube (for sweet tamale) as filling. There would be dragon boat races between the villages before they eat the tamales... here is a picture of Baby Cat racing a dragon boat when she was itty bitty.
Picture courtesy of Hello, Kai Lan.

Joy Ride

Wheeee! Just got back from a super special trip to Seattle... here are a few pictures to share with you! Approaching Seattle with downtown in the middle.

Closeup of Seattle: Space Needle on the left and downtown to the right.

View from the cockpit: Mt. Rainier with Mt. St. Helen behind it.

Chateau Ste Michelle, Seattle, Washington

What a beautiful winery -- we even saw peacocks here! They are such goofy birds with that humongous tail at all. But alas, I think human boys should emulate the peacocks, groom themselves well and be our eye candies, hehe :-P

Summer is here!

Hammock... so comfy... I can take a catnap, or brainstorm on a mystery novel (set in pre-Communist Shanghai! It was a dark, rainy night...), or day dream about yummy food... kekeke, so many things to do... Purrrrrr.

Music

Beautiful music... such a sense of hope and renewal -- reminded me of when I was little, last day of school year, walking home along the tree-lined street, with a long carefree summer holiday ahead...

Boo Boos

I made a few booboos on my humble little Catmobile AND my neighbor's very expensive Mercedes... doh! Would it fix things if I put a few band-aids on the scratches and give them a kiss? Well, actually he scratched my car a while back too, so we've decided to call it even. Hmmm, on second thought, maybe I'll save the world with a big band-aid and a big MUAH too! K, Happy Memorial Day!