Mat-Mat for BlackBerry Bold
Home. Exhausted. No sight-seeing, no shopping. Cats happy. Can’t move suddenly, bed crowded with cats.
We’re among the first creatures on earth to get the new BlackBerry Bold 9790.
Who would you rather see on a BlackBerry billboard: Phil Younghusband or Mat-Mat the Cat?
After looking at every bookshop we passed in the Jakarta and HK airports, we found the last copy of The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst in the Page One closest to our boarding gate. Next Reading Group pick? We promise not to touch “Which one is the worthy Booker winner?” Like we said, not that big on prizes; our dicks are huge enough.
Why not that anatomical reference? Almost the first thing we hear about on returning to Manila is the former president’s counsel’s testicle.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
November 17th, 2011 at 13:11
Mat-Mat McCaw hands down hehe :D
November 17th, 2011 at 16:08
Mat-Mat. :)
Jessica, speaking of which, since I’d been contemplating getting a cat – how do you ensure they get fed when you are out of town for a lengthy period of time? Do you entrust their care to someone else? Or you leave them behind with food put out – lots of food? Sorry, it might be a stupid question, but I’ve never had a pet since I started living independently, so these things I’m not very knowledgable about…
November 17th, 2011 at 16:09
Mat-Mat, Mat-Mat, Mat-Mat!
November 17th, 2011 at 16:23
allancarreon: You can leave cats in your house with enough food for a month and they will manage. However they do need fresh water and the kitty litter has to be changed or we’ll never be able to set foot in the house again. So we ask our sister, brother-in-law or catsitter to check in on them every other day to top up their kibble dishes and put fresh water in their bowls, and the maid to change the litter and clean house every week.
We’ve learned that cats prefer to stay in familiar surroundings instead of boarding with friends or staying at a cat hotel. They get stressed when they change residences, which is why we hear reports of cats walking thousands of miles to return to their previous house. And if you put them with other cats: territorial wars! When Koosi was our only cat we went on a trip with our sister and left Koosi in the care of sister’s friend. Koosi tore up his room, broke his favorite stuff and attempted to murder him. She has never forgiven us, and will periodically bite and scratch us as a reminder of our bad cat-parenting.
Of course pedigreed cats are gorgeous, but we recommend adopting a pusakal. They need fewer consultations with the vet, are less fussy and will eat supermarket kibble.
November 17th, 2011 at 17:47
Mat-Mat, because I seriously do not find the Younghusbands that attractive. But that’s just me! Substitute Phil with a Philippine Volcano and Mat-Mat will have serious competition.
I’ve read somewhere that the novel has homosexual content and it’s set in world war era. Sounds interesting!
November 17th, 2011 at 18:14
Naku lestat, sayang. Nag-text na si Phil eh. Iiwan niya daw si Angel Locsin para sa yo.
Yes there is gayness in the new novel, which opens in the days before WWI. In the meantime read Hollinghurst’s previous novel The Line of Beauty. It’s gorgeous. The protagonist is doing his thesis on Henry James’s The Aspern Papers so we tried to read The Aspern Papers. We do not have the stamina.
November 17th, 2011 at 19:12
Well, mahilig yata talaga si Phil sa chinita/o. Hahaha!
I’m still slogging through the Pale King and got tons of Edward P Jones who was or still is in Manila. But alright I’ll read him! I’ve been meaning to but I’ve always been intimidated with the Booker Prize chuchu awards. So would you say that this novel is the gay Atonement? Looks like it!
November 17th, 2011 at 20:00
I concur; mas-pogi si Mat-Mat.
November 17th, 2011 at 23:50
lestat: At kinilig ka naman. Etchosera!
Mas nage-gets pa namin yung mga Booker chorva kaysa sa Pulitzer o National Book Award.
November 18th, 2011 at 08:02
Votes for Mat-Mat! =)
November 18th, 2011 at 08:50
Jessica, thanks for the cat advice. Very helpful… especially given what I just read on Yahoo or some other news website the other day, wherein this guy in Indonesia went on vacation for two weeks and forgot to leave care/food for his seven dogs. When he came back, they literally ate him; he was found a few days later, along with a couple of other dogs mauled as well. There were hints though that he wasn’t keeping the dogs for pets but rather for whatever the Indonesian version of azucena is, in which case, irony.
Did I just ruin everyone’s lunch?
November 18th, 2011 at 08:52
Oh, and I’m with lestat. ‘Di ko masyadong keri ang Younghusbands… although kung karirin nila ako, sino ba ako para maging choosy?
November 18th, 2011 at 09:38
Mat-Mat, the Sexiest Cat Alive.
November 18th, 2011 at 10:49
“Our dicks are huge enough.” Wasak!
My cat Cognac and I choose Mat-Mat over an Azkal.
November 18th, 2011 at 14:11
Ako ayos lang sa akin ang Younghusbands, pero mas gusto ko si Mat-Mat sa Blackberry billboard. I’d rather see the Younghusbands on different billboards.
On Alan Hollinghurst, I read The Line of Beauty and because of that, I intend to buy all Hollinghurst books. I now have The Swimming-Pool Library and… The Line of Beauty. All his novels have homosexual stuff, right? High level of gay lit, if you would allow me.
November 18th, 2011 at 16:17
There is a famous transgender beauty queen in the Philippines named Mat Mat who has been joining pageants since forever and is also quite endearing. If only for that, I vote for Mat-Mat!
November 18th, 2011 at 17:38
For Team Mat-Mat!
Speaking of itlog, naalala ko lang yung game namin noon: Mag-isip ng salawikain/ pamagat ng awit o pelikula at palitan ang huling salita ng salitang itlog. go!
Ang hindi lumingon sa pinanggalingan, di makararating sa itlog.
Bituing Walang Itlog
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November 19th, 2011 at 19:57
mat-mat!