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A moment of silence for Coke.

Coke passed away today. Found him cold & lifeless on the floor of his cage when i came home. Poor boy still had the runs on his tail. I’m not sure but Coke may have died of dehydration from diarrhoea ‘cos he wasn’t taking in enough water. I feel bad… i should’ve left a dish of water in his cage but i didn’t ‘cos i saw him drinking from his bottle last night.

Poor poor Coke. Pepsi’s still ok. I hope i can find another rabbit that looks just like Coke… though i may never find another one as obedient & sweet-natured. ๐Ÿ™

Cute photos of my bunnies!

“Nobody gets between me and my water bottle!”


Muah Chee was sleeping soundly when she was rudely awakened by BZ hopping into the cage.

Pepsi hanging out with the big guy.

Best pals!

Kg vs Kati


Left – picture of Coke on his house!
As Coke is so tiny, Clown & i were curious how much he weighed so we took his weight just now. Little Coke is a mere 115g! That’s super light. In contrast, Pepsi weighs 400g – i’m pretty sure she’s grown a little since she came.

I also realised just now that previously, when i was taking BZ & MC’s weight, i read the wrong scale. Instead of reading the one for KG, i was reading the scale for KATI. Hence, BZ & MC’s correct weight should be 1.6kg & 1 kg respectively.

This would also mean that MC was about 600g when she first came. She’s all grown up and like an adult now! Heh.

What i find so amazing is that each of the rabbits have their own personality. BZ is obedient but extremely timid and doesn’t like to be carried. MC is confident & intelligent. She always gives in to BZ, and she doesn’t bully the “soft drinks.” But when BZ tries to get it on with her, she always runs away. Cute rabbi. ๐Ÿ™‚

Pepsi is also very intelligent but she’s more cautious towards humans. Coke is the most obedient and sweet natured. I wonder if it’s ‘cos he’s so tiny that he knows it’s pointless to retaliate when a human being wants to carry him. But he’s really so darn adorable!!

Animal Clinic

Coke, Bazhang, Pepsi & i made a trip to the vet yesterday. 2 nights ago, I noticed that Coke had diarrhoea. As diarrhoea can be life threatening to a rabbit, i decided to take him to a vet the next day (i.e. yesterday). I also noticed that Bazhang was wheezing / coughing intermittently so i decided to take him to the vet too.

As for Pepsi, i brought her along as well ‘cos she was being insufferably temperamental and her tummy seemed to bulge a little, which led Clown to think that she might be pregnant.

After examining them, the vet’s conclusion was this:

1) Coke was really ill – and was given antibiotics & charcoal+glucose to drink.
2) Pepsi is not pregnant. She’s just… heavy bottom… typical asian female…
3) BZ didn’t wheeze but was given antibiotics just in case he had a cough… but he does have a fungal infection affecting his ears & nose. The vet cleaned out his ears and prescribed antibiotics & anti-fungal medication for him.

BZ was the most traumatised at the vet’s. As he was having an infection (which affected his ears, eyes & skin), the vet was concerned that it might cause a fever so we had to take his temperature. Poor boy had a themometer stuck into his ass… u should’ve seen the look of anguish on his face. He was trembling as the vet was checking him. Poor poor fella. I feel so sorry for him.
After we all got home, i spent most of the day cleaning up their cages, sweeping the yard and so on. It was easy to administer the medicine to Coke. I just had to carry Coke with his tummy facing upwards and point the syringe towards his mouth. The little fella would grab & start chewing on the syringe.. he seemed to really enjoy the medicine.
BZ was the tough one. As he’s so big, i needed both hands to carry him… and he struggle and struggled (guess he was afraid we’ll stick something up his ass again)… in the end, i had to rope in Clown to use the syringe to feed him while i carried him. But BZ refused to eat the medicine and we had to force feed him.
This morning, i tried hard to get BZ to eat his medicine but he dead refused. I gave up after a few tries ‘cos i didn’t want to traumatise him further.

After i got back from work just now, i thought of an idea to get BZ to eat his medicine. I placed the medicine on a spoon and shoved it in his face. BZ’s instant reaction was to bite onto the spoon to “throw” it out of his sight (as he does with all foreign objects). The minute he bit the spoon, i tipped it so that the medicine would flow into his mouth. That worked… but he quickly learnt that he got tricked into eating medicine so when i tried it again with the 2nd medicine, he used his nose to push the spoon away instead of biting onto it.

This cause his nose to be dirtied by the medicine and he got annoyed and started cleaning his face. All i managed to do was to get him to lick the spoon once. Sigh. Too tough… i gave up after a whlie.

I’m going to have to feed BZ this medicine again tomorrow… not sure if he’ll fall for the spoon trick again. Really can’t think of any other ways to feed him… if anyone thinks of something, do let me know!!

1 Big Happy Family

Muah Chee’s water bottle cracked last night and we couldn’t stop the leak so my dad asked me to get her a new one. After work, Clown & i went to the pet shop and that’s when Clown spotted 2 cutest little tiny rabbits that he took a liking to immediately.

Without much consideration, Pepsi (female) & Coke (male) came to join Bazhang & Muah Chee. Clown hasn’t exactly decided if he’s going to leave them at my house or take them home. The main problem about leaving them at my place is that my dad bound to overfeed them… and Pepsi isn’t going to be the super mini dwarf that she’s supposed to be… and Coke will be a dwarf no more.

I mean, i’ve told my dad tons of times not to overfeed the rabbits but he insists on feeding them 3 meals a day. As he’s the one who’s home most of the time, i can’t jolly well stop him either. Would u believe me if i told u that Bazhang’s a dwarf rabbit too? Sigh….

Anyway, BZ didn’t take too kindly to the new rabbits at first. He kept throwing a tantrum & stomped the night away. Muah Chee was more positive. She was real curious & kept sniffing them. No bullying though (unlike BZ). I think BZ was real jealous ‘cos MC was paying them so much attention… and of ‘cos he tried to hump MC but failed (as usual). So… poor old guy just sulked & stomped.

The funniest part when we were setting up home for Pepsi & Coke just now was when Coke & Pepsi started sneaking out of their cage! We apparently bought a cage with grilles that were too wide & so the little rascals could just squeeze right out! Pepsi only did her houdini act once and after i caught hold of her & put her back in the cage, she didn’t make a 2nd attempt. Coke however, was the brazen one. He escaped over & over again, till Clown and my dad had to use wire mesh to fence up their entire cage. Haha… it was really funny.

Another thing i observed was that all the rabbits like to congregate in MC’s cage… as though she has the coolest bachelor’s pad or something. Haha. Everyone hip must hang out there… heh.

Here’re some photos of them… a little blurry ‘cos i haven’t used my digital camera for ages… so i sort of forgot what modes to use & so on. Will have better pictures next time!

Click here to see photos of : 1 Big Happy Family

Weighty Issues

My mom’s going to China for holiday for a week and my dad will be going to Dubai for 2 weeks… thus the heavy responsibility of caring fully for the rabbits will rest wholly on my shoulders. I’m going to have to wake up early every morning to feed them before going to work, as well as come home straight after work to feed them again, before i go for any appointments at night.

I hope the rabbits will get used to having only 2 meals a day. They better learn fast that breakfast is a very important meal of the day ‘cos if they don’t eat finish their breakfast cereal (read: pellets), the nasty birds will come & finish the pellets and they’ll have to go hungry. On the other hand, it may not be a bad idea for these rabbits to only have 2 meals a day for the next 2 weeks ‘cos rabbits don’t really need 3 meals a day, just that my dad’s spoilt these rabbits.

Muah Chee has grown a staggering 500gm in 3.5 weeks! She joined our family on 6 Sep 2005 and as of 1 Oct 2005, she had grown from 1.1kg to 1.6kg! Her cheeks are puffy now and her ass is definitely a lot bigger. She’s becoming a JLo i tell you!

As for Bazhang, he’s always been a sumo wrestler of a rabbit so i guess it’s good that he goes on a diet too! As for myself, i’m definitely going to get a good workout with all the chores – feeding rabbits, chasing them about, watering the garden / plants, washing & ironing…. ahhhhhh!!!

Irony is, while i know how to iron my own clothes… i haven’t figured out how to operate the washing machine… heh….

1 Tim 4:12

“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.”
~2 Tim 4:12

I’ve been having a bit of problems with some “lao jiao” (old-timers) agents in the industry recently. Sales at the showflat has been rather slow the past month. After close observation of the agents, i realised that most of them have very weak closing skills. While these agents are very experienced in the resale market, most are new to project sales and the closing techniques required in a showflat environment are very different from the resale market environment.

I tried to tell them about certain tips on closing a client but i find it difficult to get through to them. There’s this particular agent, Red Bull, who gets real defensive whenever i try to tell them certain things. And from the expression of some of the others, i can tell that they don’t really take what i say seriously at times ‘cos they think i’m a newbie when it comes to property. So far, as i’m still trying to build rapport with the agent, i’ve not been very strict on certain things but as a result of that, i feel that they’re taking me for granted at times.

Things sort of came to a head today when the IC of the agents, Rattlesnake, actually brought up an offer to the developer directly. (As these agents are actually sort of like “outsource” manpower, whenever they get any offer from a buyer, they’re supposed to let me know and i will in turn talk to the developer.) Not wanting to be confrontational, i told the Rattlesnake nicely over sms that in future, she should come to me instead of going to the developer direct. She agreed… but that was not the end of my troubles.

There was also some unhappiness between Rattlesnake and our co-marketing agents (another property agency) at the showflat today. Rattlesnake insisted that the co-marketing agents were not very fair in certain practices at the showflat. As she insisted that she personally witnessed the incidents, i brought it up to the developer as i felt that it wasn’t in my capacity to speak to the co-marketing agents, and i should let the developer (who’s basically the “boss” of the showflat) talk to them.

Unfortunately, upon further probing, it seemed like the charges alleged by Rattlesnake wasn’t true and hence i was caught in between the developer, the very lao-jiao co-marketing agents, and Rattlesnake! I’m still trying to sort things out and obtain an amicable resolution to everything but it’s really quite a headache. ๐Ÿ™ (Hope everything turns out ok tomorrow).

Things in the office haven’t been good either. I have some issues with a colleague of mine and as a result, i’ve been less than helpful to him. I feel bad about it ‘cos my attitude isn’t very godly and i think i’m being a bad testimony ‘cos i’m only nice & helpful to those that i get along with (which is basically everyone but this chap :P). Sometimes i think i should just be open about why i’m not happy with this person’s work attitude instead of griping & bitching behind his back… but in an office setting, i’m worried about the possible repercussions that might have… When i got home just now, i just didn’t feel good about all that has happened so far. I think i need a lot of wisdom on how to handle & in a way control these lao-jiao agents. I also need to learn to be generous to this colleague that i dislike.

While taking stock of things, the verse above came to my mind. I think it’s applicable not only in the biblical sense… but also in the corporate world…. to not let the veterans look down on me… and to be honest, sincere & godly in all areas of my interaction with them. I’ve been afraid to talk about unpleasant things openly so far ‘cos i’m afraid that i may be too harsh (don’t want to bulldoze people over, which i can be real good at). But yet i can’t be as soft as i am now ‘cos some of these lao-jiaos are stepping all over me. I guess i need to learn to put my foot down – gently.

The food is tastier in the other cage

Bazhang has finally settled down & accepted Muah Chee as his friend. In fact, MC has inspired BZ to be more active now and he loves to play catch with her. MC’s favourite game, however, is hide & seek… she’ll dart past BZ and hide behind some pots so that he’ll sniff around to look for her. It’s really amusing watching them play.

Another thing i observed about these two naughty rabbits is that they seem to prefer to eat the other’s food. They’ll go into each other’s cages to eat the pellets and/or drink water! Guess this is the house rabbit version of “the grass is greener on the other side”.

My dad went on a trigger happy trip today. He took 55 photos of BZ & MC hopping about our garden. They were absolutely adorable… especially MC! She really looks like a toy rabbit in some of the pictures. Haha. My dad also printed out old photos of TY & BZ, taken when they were about 2 years old and hung them in my dining room.

Here’s some links to photos of TY, BZ and MC. Hope you find them cute too! ๐Ÿ™‚

Bazhang stomped at me!

BZ & MC have been getting on pretty ok just that BZ can get a little bossy sometimes. It starts by a friendly sniff at MC’s back… then he gets more domineering and starts to prod her back… and when he’s really showing who’s the boss, he ends up nibbling at her fur and i think it hurts ‘cos MC always flinches and hops away when he does that.

2 nights ago i allowed BZ to visit MC’s cage. BZ was in a rather foul mood and started being a little aggressive towards poor little MC. After failing to calm him down, i removed him from her cage & placed him back into his own cage. I wagged my finger at him and told him that if he wasn’t going to behave himself & stop bullying MC, i would stop him from playing with her.

That’s when he lost his temper & stomped at me! That horrible rabbit! He stomped 5-6 times… BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! It was so loud that both MC & i were frightened. MC froze in fright in her cage & just stared at BZ when he stomped.

I was really worried ‘cos this is the first time any of my rabbits ever lost their temper & stomped their foot. I told my friend who’s really good with rabbits about it and he says it’s part & parcel of rabbit behaviour – it’s just a form of expression. But the thing is, none of my rabbits ever lost their temper before and i was worried about whether it’ll affect BZ’s health. He has after all been rather temperamental since TY passed away.

That was 2 nights back and BZ seems all right now. He still doesn’t eat much and mopes when he’s alone (we don’t let MC out during the day unless someone is in the yard watching her ‘cos we’re afraid the stray cats might come into my house & attack her, or she may somehow hurt herself in her pursuit of extreme sports). But whenever i let BZ & MC out to play at night, BZ loves to chase MC round the backyard and MC sometimes plays a game of hide & seek with him. It’s really funny to see MC hiding herself behind the potted plants & BZ running all over looking for his new friend.

My parents weighed MC last week when she first came. That was on 6 Sep i think… and she weighed 1.1kg.

Clown & i weighed both MC & BZ yesterday… MC is now 1.2kg & BZ is a staggering 2.5kg! Did i mention that BZ is a netherland dwarf? Hahahaha…

Muah Chee!

Clown & i got a new friend for Bazhang last night. We went to quite a few pet shops before i found the cutest holland lop at this pet shop at Serangoon North. Her coat’s a sandy-grey hue and i love her long lop ears! She’s 3.5 months old (which means her birthday’s the same month as me!) and she’s really cute.

We decided to name her Muah Chee ‘cos 1) it sounds cute & 2) the colour of her fur is like the colour of the peanut bits.

Muah Chee is really active…. to the extent of being foolhardy. The first thing she did this morning when my dad removed the rain shelter covering the top of her cage was to leap real high… and she ended up knocking her head against the grilled ceiling of her cage. When my dad let her out of the cage, she was so excited that she ran around our backyard really fast… and knocked into the side of her cage… then she started running on the drain covers at the edge of the yard… and ‘cos the grilles are really big, her front legs kept falling in! I was so scared she’ll hurt herself i quickly grabbed her & put her back on firm ground. But she kept wanting to repeat her stilt-walking act. Sigh…. u would think she’s into extreme sports!

This little rabbit also has no sense of danger. I brought her out to the front garden when BZ was there to see if i could get them to interact. My intention was to let them get to know each other slowly… but no… the word “slow” doesn’t exist in MC’s dictionary. When she saw BZ lying in his brick-hideout, she happily hopped towards him. I quickly pulled her back in case BZ turned aggressive. After a few attempts, she gave up and went to munch on the grass. I think that was the first time she saw grass ‘cos she was so thrilled by it. Round and round the grass patch she ran. Heh..

Later in the evening, MC brazenly hopped into BZ’s cage and BZ got a little ruffled by her. He started sniffing her & using his nose to prod her body. My dad managed to calm BZ down and he laid down at the front of his cage to take a nap. Undeterred by BZ’s lack of welcome, MC also made herself comfortable and took a nap in BZ’s cage. She seemed to prefer BZ’s cage to her own.

After about 15mins, BZ woke up to find MC still lying in his cage. He got a little offended and started showing her who’s the boss! He sniffed her left & right & left & right… this time, MC got a little frightened and “kowtow-ed” to BZ. She put her head right down against the floor, ears flopped by the side & remained motionless as BZ sniffed & prodded her. I tried to pacify BZ but he refused to calm down. Seeing that he was getting more aggressive, i quickly took MC out of his cage.

Looks like BZ still misses his childhood friend Tangyuan. Hopefully in time to come, he’ll treat MC as nicely as he used to treat TY – lick her back, let her grab food that he’s eating, and so on. At least i know for sure that MC feels a certain affinity for BZ. ๐Ÿ™‚




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