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Set of bookplates by Gallison, Php320 at National Bookstores.

We may be in bibliophilia rehab, but we can still pop into the bookstore to look at stationery. We love stationery. This probably stems from the penmanship training at our old school—we learned to enjoy scribbling on blank sheets of paper. This may also account for our choice of occupations.

The set contains 80 bookplates in 10 designs.

“Why do you have bookplates? Why don’t you just write your name on the flyleaf?”

“No reason. We just like bookplates.”

Pocket spiral notebook, cat design by Romero Britto, Php200+ (pricetag fell off).

We used to haunt the little stationery shop at St. Theresa’s, the one on the second floor near the cafeteria, for paper and rubber erasers. Did you sniff those scented rubber erasers, too? We know people who used to chew on them. They also gnawed on their Mongol pencils.

Box of Liberty art fabrics notecards by Chronicle Books, Php957. 16 cards, with envelopes, 4 designs: Clementina (1896), Pelagia (2007), Nesfield (1900s) inspired by William Morris, and Amarylis (1880s).

We would’ve gotten these notecards for the fabric-covered box.

Saffy invaded the frame, which meant she wanted a close-up.

To: Nestle Purina
From: Saffron Sassafras Z. Safin
Re: Where is my Fancy Feast??

New stocks of Fancy Feast Savory Salmon Feast have not arrived in the supermarkets and pet stores where my human shops for our supplies. I want my Fancy Feast Savory Salmon Feast! It is my favorite flavor! In its absence I usually settle for Seafood Feast or Cod, Sole and Shrimp Feast. They’re not available in stores either!

In fact the last batch of Seafood Feast and Cod, Sole and Shrimp Feast that my human bought in December was a bit on the dry side. They were probably older stocks.

I am not amused. You will send fresh cans of All the Classic flavors of Fancy Feast to supermarkets and pet stores immediately, or you will feel my wrath.

P.S. I also eat dry kibble, but I want variation.

According to a new book, Saffy thinks we are a very large cat.

In Greenbelt there’s a cat who looks like Hitler. Here he is listening in on our conversation at Lusso.

The neighborhood cats are welcome at Dr. Agnes Bueno’s cozy house.

They’re a little camera shy but can’t help posing.

So my cats and I were watching “Downton Abbey” last year. (I have two cats, one girl cat, who is twelve—in cat years, obviously—and a boy cat, who is seven.) And at one point my younger cat turned to me and said, “What is that human woman trying to say to that other man?”

And my younger cat thought about it and said, “Well, that is a very hard thing to do.” And then he said, “You have to pick just the right time.”

John Hodgman watches Downton Abbey with cats in the New Yorker.

This is Secret Agent Drogon Hiddleston-Cumberbatch transmitting a report to headquarters.
He is clever and brave.
He is debonair and elusive.
He loves trouble.
His mission is to destroy all the enemies of the Feline Empire.
He’s a cat.

Write us a story of any length about Agent Drogon’s adventures. The prize is this omnibus edition of the Smiley Vs Karla novels by John Le Carré.

Post your stories in Comments by 13 January 2014.

The LitWit Challenge is brought to you by National Bookstore.

“Which Meryl Streep movie are you? We are Heartburn. No, Plenty. Wait…Adaptation!”

“Noel is Still of the Night and Boboy is Silkwood. Juan, you are not Sophie’s Choice, more like Plenty. Ricky…Postcards From the Edge? Jon, you wish you were The French Lieutenant’s Woman, fall in line. James: Mamma Mia or The Devil Wears Prada. Michael is Out of Africa. Victor, the dingo ate your baby.”

“Ban hammers at shopping malls? That might stop the Martilyo Gang, but won’t it pave the way for the Showerhead Gang or the Paperweight Gang or even the Platform Shoe Gang? Great work, Secretary Mar, let’s see you stop Thor from coming to the mall.”

“Oh no, we are not watching all the Metro Manila filmfest entries this year. Maybe 10,000 Hours, which we think of as One Year, One Month and Three Weeks.”

“Shall we open another bottle? You know what’s a great Xmas movie? Besides It’s A Wonderful Life. Besides Metropolitan. The Shop Around The Corner.”

Model: Drogon Hiddleston-Cumberbatch. Photographer: RickyV.

“Build me an army worthy of Mordor.”

For years a family of white and orange cats has lived in our building. We call them Merry, Pippin, and Gimli. They have been joined by a dark orange cat we call Samwise. The cat in the photo is Merry, a pretty, cranky female who yells at us to hurry up with the food service and often tries to slap the bowl out of our hands. She does not allow herself to be touched.

The other day she walked by with her tail up and we realized that she’s actually male. Then he engaged us in a staring contest, and we realized that he has the eyes of Sauron.