The Art of Animaling

Monday, August 14, 2006

introducing...

Kuaci is the teeny bundle of fur that SiuYook bought for me. He is currently residing in Malacca, being stuffed to the max - you should see his bowl of food >_> and ocassionally poked and prodded by curious fingers belonging to the Chew brothers.

*sorry for the blurry photo. kuaci's movements are erratic and he's one helluva hard creature to capture with the lens.

That's kuaci sitting on my hand eating kuaci. He was really tiny when we first got him. You should take a look at him now...FAT AND ROUND. He's really picky with food, though. He devours all the sunflower seeds and the corn, but merely sniffs at whatever else is chucked into his bowl. This hamster is also very lan si. That's the look he gives you when you wake him up in the middle of sleep. And if you persist on prodding him up, he'll bite.


Yes, he bites. He's claimed quite a few victims. SiuYook copped the most bites, obviously, because he just can't help disturbing the poor hamster. He tried to bite my fingernail once =.= but obviously it didn't hurt, duh. He's bitten Ah Yang, SiuYook's housemate and also the Chew brothers. Ferocious one, that thing.


Kuaci is also the first and only hamster I know who isn't afraid of heights. He's jumped off the table, the chair, our hands...highest being the height of my urm...belly? Psycho hamster. Other than that, I guess he's a pretty normal hamster. SiuYook didn't realise that hamsters were nocturnal creatures (i.e. they sleep during the day and are active at night) and kept telling me that "kuaci is sucha babi lar..." cuz he's asleep most of the day. Silly.


The first week we got kuaci, SiuYook brought him home to the apartment at Cyber. We were out somewhere and I think someone left his cage open. TJ (the other housemate) had just had a shower and opened the bathroom door to find kuaci strolling past him like it was an everyday affair. *imagine some gentleman taking a stroll on the street, ladeeda* Apparently, kuaci was too sleek and cunning for TJ's grasp and the latter had to catch him with a plastic bag before returning him to the cage. Tsk tsk.


As most of us know, hamsters have short life spans. When my first hamster died, I cried like the world crashed and burned and fell to a bajillion pieces that my evil nemesis hurled into my eyes. Ok, I cried like babi lar. So SiuYook and I were discussing about it and he said...

"Sure or not? Hamsters live about 1 to 2 years nih...then you go to Aus, by the time you come back the hamster is half gone."
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Walao, that was funny and sadistic. Makes the hamster sound like a can of tuna with shelf life. =p

by CharSiu at 12:23 PM |