Cat name 'Macan Tutul'.... aka my kitten

Dear friends,
This is the photo of my kitten back home in Muar. At first we don't have any idea to name it. After watching "Kungfu panda", Luqman and I agreed to give the name... Macan Tutul... this is after the character "Tai Lung".. which is a Leopard... Leopard in Indonesian is Macan Tutul or Macan Terotol.. We just give that name because the kitten is so fierce, especially to Luqman..I also have hard time to take this photo.... 

Najihah (Luqman niece) call it "misai".. cause of the black patch under the nose.

Luckily we don't have to register the name of our pet, especially cat,.. if not, I cannot imagine the headache of the Registration Department staff.... "hello miss, i want to register my cat name... M A C A N... T E R U T U L... alias.... M I S A I... alias .... M A C A N ... T E R O T O L.... alias.... ...the list go on....

Anyway, the cat mum just call the kitten... "Miauwww...."... to all her kittens....

Cat ...

... I have been thinking for some time to write something about cat. There are may saying, in many cultures  that relates cat with intelligence, bad, cunning, unpredictable behaviour, and the list go on... but we human can't just live without them,.. or ignore them... 

From being worshipped as god during Pharaoh ruling..... to being massacred by European during dark ages.... believed to be partner of devil and witches.. This action actually worsened the black death plagued, because without the cat, the population of the rats (the plague carrier) increase...

Cat has been living with us, inside our houses.. on the roof top... just outside the windows..  they never been far from us.. either we like or dislike them... 

• "In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats." - English proverb
  
• "Curiosity killed the cat, Satisfaction brought it back!" - English Proverb
  
• "Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." - Anonymous
  
• A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. - Ernest Hemingway
  
• If you want to write, keep cats. - Aldous Huxley
  
• "No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens." -Abraham Lincoln
  
• You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. - Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio
  
• "As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat." - Ellen Perry Berkeley
  

The following youtube link show that cat, ... is beyond our comprehension...and make us laugh...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONmhQJy1ViA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JynBEX_kg8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvBiSW5QFKY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdvLEiWzEvQ&feature=related

Note: the photo is my late cat... actually i found them (2 kittens) last year, on the 1st Ramadan 1428H... in front of my kampung house., hiding among the bushes...I guess the kittens is abandoned or unwanted.... Since then, the cats have been living with us... and we like them.. a few month ago, when I call my mother back home, she mentioned that the male cat has died, run over by lorry in front of the house.

.... Luqman and I been fighting what's the best name for the male cat..  we call him.. "Jerboa".. referring to the new species of desert mouselike animal found in Africa during that time.. we also call him.. "Hemo-Hemo" after the cat character in famous children Ninja cartoon series... and we also call him.. Polar bear.. due to his look... My mother simply name him... Ujang.. 

Paper plane...

Last year, during the long,.... year end school holiday, I took my son to his grandmother house in Muar. Since I am in between job (in other word, jobless), I have plenty of time to spend with Luqman. Normally, when it come to November, December.. the weather won't be so kind ... rainy all day long. But lately, the weather have been drifting and more unpredictable, probably due to global warming, ozone layer, etc.. 

The weather was windy and the sky was clear. I ask Luqman, what he want to do.... cause I don't want him to spend too much time in front of TV. (what a hypocrites, the father is building a new digital TV system (DVB-H) abroad, and yet.. he disapproved his son watching TV too much... well job is job... life is life.....I bet Astro guys also doing the same ). So I browse the WWW (using 56k dial up jaring service,...... crawling.....), searching anything that can give me idea... I found paper plane.... Eureka.. yes...  cheap, simple outdoor activity... 

There are many sites on paper plane, but i think Joseph Palmer (http://www.josephpalmer.com/planes/Airplane.shtml)  site is probably among the best, cause the design is not so complicated and doable. Well,..... I have to show to him that I can make the plane fly, as mentioned.... 

My chosen design is the second, PL-3 Squarenose... the designer mention the design base on Ken Blackburn world recordbreaking paper plane. 

If you want to spend your time with your kid, at almost no cost... try this.. your kid won't be dissapointed.. and so do you... but better clean up after that... or other people wont be happy.

You may think your current paper plane design is OK,.. no harm trying new thing. There is one site that has a good design, but I think due to copyright issue, i'm not putting the link.