fat fat cat's left ear is tipped, no idea why it's so huge? maybe this explains e 2 thin thin black cats down e road, which share food from e same feeder with this fella ;)
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yet another new colleague today, crossover #2 from e institution of banana-engineering, which according to him, has already lost about 30 monkeys (including 6-7 alpha males) out of about 200(?) since e start of e year.
this monkey is from Segamat, adding to e diversity of e lab menagerie (Inner Mongolia, Johor Bahru, London, Hubei, Turkey, Kunming, Singapore, Jakarta, & 3 different parts of India - e Swiss & French have left). & e cat had to go through this yet again:
where are you from?
followed by:
you're local?
followed by:
NO KIDDING!
happens at every introduction at work, seminars, conferences, trips abroad, whatever. now e cat knows just what it feels like to be a Singapura cat. nobody, including Singaporeans & Singapore cat breeders & cat fanciers, believes that you are from Singapore. except maybe for a few deluded American cat breeders who have never met a real Singapore cat on e streets here, & e even more deluded (since they appear to believe e Americans rather than e Singaporeans) Singapore Tourism Board.
in KE7, e Malaysian JCRC president & hon gen sec both thought that e cat was a fellow Malaysian, & wondered why e cat was appealing for master's list when it had 10 times e ECA points required for foreigners to keep their place in hall & was high up on e room draw rankings =P
oh you're not born here?
aahhhh no wonder
this seems to explain everything to these people, despite e fact that e cat has 100% Teochew & Hokkien Singaporean parents & grandparents. these people make pretty strong believers in e environmental component of genes+environment=phenotype. especially when e cat was imported into Singapore (no quarantine! =P) via Heathrow & Paya Lebar airports when it was just a months-old kitten *grin*
[ filed under: 9_lives_2005 + cats1 + labrat ]
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