Fine Winter Day

Posted June 30th, 2010 in Perth WA No Comments »

JAPAN LOST !! (>0<)

It was a long game against Paraguay yesterday, and the first penalty shootout of the 2010 World Cup was carried out. Japan lost in the end, but I think they did their best and I’m proud of them for coming this far as a only Asian team.

Anyway…

It was my favorite climate during the day yesterday! Not too cold, but not hot, little windy and I could feel the air moving around me. I like looking up the sky and watch the cloud moving. At a glance it seems to be stopped, but if you watch it carefully the cloud moves pretty fast sometimes. It’s my thing: I used to look up the sky and think “Australia could be under that cloud!” “I wonder what people are doing right now under that cloud over there…” Then I felt that the world is such big and my little trouble seemed to be a tiny thing.

I was feeling little down over the last few weeks, as things happened around me and I wasn’t sure what I wanted. But now, I realized something important after talking to friends and also reading some books. Now I’m feeling pretty good 🙂

One thing that I still feel sad about is my cat. She passed away just few days ago in my house in Japan. Actually there’s a little weird story behind this cat, and I loved her so much.

Puu, a cat with mixed colors of black, grey and white, came to my house when I was around 17 ~ 18, I think. I don’t remember how we started to have Puu, but she was already an adult cat (♀) by the time she joined my family. She was a little strange cat! Every night when I was taking bath, she called me “meow” behind the smoky glass in the bath room, and comes inside the bathroom and sit on top of the bathtub (I used to take bath while covering half the bathtub with plastic tub-cover to keep water hot, and she sat on the cover and slept!). And, every night she called “meow” at the door of my room, then came inside the room and slept on my bed next to me, in my futon. I had never seen cat that likes taking bath…

She was so smart too, and I felt some connection between her 🙂 But, one of her weird hobby – she liked jumping to the tray of kei-truck every time she sees any kei-truck – caused a trouble. One day, she suddenly disappeared. We think that she jumped on the tray of a kei-truck which was stopping around my house, and the truck started to move and Puu couldn’t get off the car. I was so sad, and hoped she would come back soon. But she didn’t.

After few months, mum told me an unbelievable story. When my mum went to Lawson, a convenience store, one cat jumped inside her car and sat on the seat as if she was waiting my mum to drive home quickly. My mum came home with the cat. The thing we felt so weird was that the cat looked exact same as Puu! Same color, similar pattern, and same gender. We really thought it was Puu, but something was little different. (to me) And, the tip bone of this cat’s tale was little broken. Besides, this cat didn’t like taking bath and sleeping on my bed. It was a different cat.

I couldn’t believe what just happened. This cat already started to feel at home and sleeping in front of tv. The personality of the cat was obviously different from missing Puu, but we started to love this cat too. We named her “Puu”, the same name as the previous one.

“Puu Ⅱ” was pregnant when she jumped in my mum’s car, and gave birth to 6 beautiful kittens. She was really like a normal cat (very my-pace) but very adorable.

Since then she stayed with my family. I really thought she had some kind of power, as she seemed to know everything! For example, when I was walking towards my house from my friend’s house and started to see my house from the distance, “Puu Ⅱ” was already sitting in front of the house and looking at me. And she looked at me with the look: like “hey you”.

“Puu Ⅱ” passed away because of the age. I never knew how old she was, but she lived her long life like Mimi, my dog. I hope she was very happy.

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