Ask Eil

Hey Doggies, I got the questions that you all wanna ask Eil. So I put on my smart looking specy to take notes.
Due to not wanting any enemies (yes, she's that unpopular), her boss or any cats to be able to identify her (You never know who is reading your blogs in the World Wide Web) NO actual age and full name can be revealed. But if you really really wanna know, drop me an email and I'll tell ya.



Que #1 is from Holly, who wants to know how old is Eil, and what does she do during her days? Does she go to school or work, or both?
Ans: Let's just say Eil is about 4 dog years old (give or take... you go work the maths). She likes to read, surf the internet and she's a tv junkie. She does go to school and she does work.. Ok she works in a school and she has been working full-time for more then 1 dog year now and has completed her degree in Computing (via distance learning) a couple of years ago (human years this time not dog years)

Que #2 is from Luckie, who asked if Eil be getting a doggy brother or sister for me? How about another hammie? Does Eil have a boyfriend?
Ans: Eil would love to have a dog but as Eil is still staying with papa & mama (her parents) she can't keep one without them agreeing to it. Knowing the responsibilities it takes to have a dog, I dont think the family can make the commitments yet. Yes to another hammie if the opportunity comes. No boyfriend now but she'll say yes if Mr Rain asked. Or maybe Mr Kaneshiro, ok she'll even accept Mr Jerry Yan. (Eil: er.. ok Girl girl. I think you can just stop at the 'No" part)

Que #3 is from Joey, who would like to know how long Eil has had hamsters!
Ans: Eil has been keeping hamsters for about 4 years + now (human years) and I'm the 8th hamster she has.

Que #4 is from Ben who wants to know the process/progress of Eil getting hammies?? How & why she pick me??
Ans: Other then Bibi (the 6th hamster) who Eil bought from a pet shop that was closing down. The rest of the hamsters were given to Eil from her neighbour, friends, relative who found out that she has hamsters. I was given to Eil as a pair with another boy hamster from her colleague. But mama only wants to keep one of us as she dont want us to breed to produce a million hamsters. So they kept me (because I'm the cuterest) and returned the boy hammie to the original owner.

Que #5 is from Boy and Baby who want to know what is Eil's chinese name
Ans: Well since I'm not allowed to reveal her full name here. I'll give you her name in korean instead, it's 위령 (wi ryong)

Que #6 is from Amber who asks 1) Is she still studying?2) Why doesn't she have any doggies or other animals besides hammies? 3)What's her full name?
Ans: 1) Eil is not studying anything academically now but she does study other stuff on her own time that interest her. Like some foreign languages, pets stuff, interesting software...
2) Refer to Que #2, 3) Refer to Que #5.

Que #7 is from Oscar who wanna know Eil's favourite colour.
Ans: She loves PURPLE

Que #8 is from Maggie who asks how Eil has time to sign all of the blogs she signs!
Ans: Eil eats lunch really fast so she'll try to read as many of our friends blog as possible during lunch and she used her "research" time when she's not so busy to catch up too.

Que #9 from Boo who asked how old is Eil? bingo! that's one hard question for her to answer. then, her occupation.
Ans: Boo.. she's about 4 dog years old. and she's working as system support and she also helps out colleagues who have IT problems.

Que #10 is from Finnegan who asked what is Eil's favorite food?
Ans: That'll be chocolate and ice cream.

Que #11 is from Ike who asked what is Eil's favorite treat and does she like belly rubs?
Ans: That'll be Ice Cream and I dont think she likes belly rubs.. She said it's ticklish...

Que #12 is from Nachos who wanna know what are her hobbies??
Ans: That'll be listening to her mp3s, reading and travelling

Que #13 is from Tadpole who asked how long has Eil liked Mr. Rain?!
Ans: Slightly less then a year

Que #14 is from Mackie who asked if he followed Eil home, would she keep him?? (one of Eil's fav que)
Ans: Yes, definately YES!

Que #15 is from C-K-C who wanna know how many hamsters do you have beside GG and if none, are you going to get GG a playmate?
Ans: Currently, I'm the only hammie in the house. But yes, we will have another hammie if the right opportunity comes (e.g we see a hammie that we really have to bring home from the store/one of Eil's friends pass her another hammie)

Que #16 is from Ruby who asked Where is Eil's favorite place to visit?What makes Eil happy?
Ans: Eil likes to travel and the places where Eil enjoyed visiting are USA, Korea, Bangkok, Taipei. Reading our DWB friends blogs make her happy.

Que #17 is from Lorenza who wanna know Does she has a car??Does she works or studies??Does she has a boyfriend??Does she loves Mr. Rain?? Forget this... I know the answer!
Ans: No, she doesn't even have a driving licence. Refer to Que #1, Refer to Que # 2. And since you said no need to answer, I'll leave you with the picture below as the answer (and that is just one third of the loot she brought back from Bangkok)



Que #18 is from Bella who asked - where does she live and has she always lived there?- what is her favorite place to visit?
Ans: Eil lives in the west part of Singapore and she has always lived there all her life. Fav place to visit... refer to Que #16

Que #19 is from Huskee who asked the cutest questions: 1) Is she dating? If 'no', proceed to Qn 2. If 'yes', I have no other questions.2) Does she mind younger guys? (More like 8 yrs old??)3) Does she mind shorter guys? (Somewhere up to her knees??)4) Does she mind a 4-legged boyfriend who's umm.. a bit furry(in black and white with some silver)??
Ans: 1)No, she's not dating. 2)She dont mind younger guys (Mr Rain is also younger then her) 3) Ok one thing Eil doesn't like is guys who are shorter then her. 4) Hum... I wonder who you're talking about here...

Que #20 is from Copper who wanna know Does Eli live in a highrise or a house? How old is she?
Ans: Unlike me who has my own 3 story house, Eil lives in a highrise just like 90% of Singaporeans. And she's 4 years old refer to Que#1

Ok, that's a wrap. Phew taking notes is such a BIG task.. I gotta take a nap now. Bye~

Farewell and Welcome

Those who have been reading my blog since it started last year knows that I have a hamster neighbour Bibi who lived in a cage above me. I'm very sad to tell you doggies that Bibi passed away on 31 Jan 2007. I didn't blog about it at that time because I really didn't want to make you doggies sad. But the family have come to terms with it now and thinks that we should say a proper farewell to Bibi. And being a good hamster, we believe that Bibi would be in hamster heaven with lots of other friends and is happy now. I'll miss you Bibi, thank you for your companionship~

Last week, one of Eil's colleage gave her a pair of hamsters when he heard that there's only old me left.

(aren't they cute drinking water)

But being a practical person, mama didn't want a billion hammies to come out from this pair of hammies. And there isn't a snip snip operation available for little hamster boys. So, we could only pick one of them to stay with us.

(Girl girl with stuff friend)

So we pick...... the girl hamster and mama and Eil can't think of any cute name to call her and so they have been calling her Girl girl (that's so... original). The boy hammie have been returned to the original owner so we know that he's been well taken care of too.

Girl girl is really full of energy, see this little clip of her. She just can't stop moving about, she looks cute washing her face too. Everydoggie, say Hi to girl girl my new sister hammie. :)

Bibi loves tissue too

My neighbour Bibi is such a lazy *oops I mean relaxed* hamster that he just likes to chill in his home the whole day.
I've even gave him the remains of my monkey toy as a pillow, and you see that with the tissue paper given to him, he's really getting comfortable.



See, doesn't he look like a BIG baby all snuggle up with the tissue as blanket.



He's so happy just chilling everyday. And if you look carefully at the picture below, he's winking. ;)

Weird cleaning

My neighbour Bibi has a weird way, or rather a weird position to clean himself.



He lies on his back to clean his legs and hands



Doesn't he look like he's having a big chicken drumstick...



Could it be coz he's too chubby that he has to clean himself lying down. I think he's real lazy. Hee...

My hamster family

Before the family had me and Bibi, they had 5 other hamsters already. But all 5 are in hamster heaven now. I didn't get to meet all of them, but when I came into the family 2 of them are still around. I thought it'll be nice to introduce them to my friends. Sorry for the blurry pictures as Eil's photography skills were real lousy back then.

First hamsters to come into the family are a pair of Roborovskis. They were given to the family from their neighbour. They were very small in size and can run very fast.


The girl hamster (left) was call Jerry (nickname Jer-jer)
The boy hamster (right) was call Ah Pui (nickname Pui-pui)
(see Jerry sleeps belly up too)

Jerry was such a sweet girl and never bites Eil but she grew a growth from her tummy and went to hamster heaven in about a year.
Pui-pui was like a bad tempered old man. He's such a grumpy hamster but he lived the longest at more then 2.5 yrs. I even met him when I came into the family.

Next to come to the family were 3 siblings of Winter Whites that were given to Eil from her
colleague last time. The funny thing is their parents are both pearl white, yet they produced a batch of 2 pearl white and 3 sapphire babies. The family adopted both the white babies and 1 grey sapphire.



The sapphire boy hamster (left) was call Gu-zai (nickname Ah Gu)
The pearl girl hamster (middle) was call Whitey (nickname White-ti-ti)
The other pearl girl hamster (right) was call Sleepy (nickname Sleep-pi-pi)
So at one point of time, there were 5 hamsters in the family. The 3 siblings got alone well in the beginning. Then Ah Gui gang up with Whitey to bully Sleepy so mam had to seperate them at later stage.
Whitey was the funny one in the group who loves to jump from toys and chew stuff. She lived for about 1.5 yr.
(Whitey happily smiling)


Ah Gu was the greediest one of the lot, he was even fatter then Bibi. He was papa's favourite so he was given lots of treats. He lived a little longer then 1.5 yr before he went to hamster heaven. Sleepy was mama's favourite girl and would lie still to let mama stroke her back. She lived for about 2 yrs and was still around when I came into the family.

Then next, I came into the family around Feb 2005. And as some of you might already know, I was given to the family from their cousin.
Bibi was bought from a pet shop by Eil. He came into the family around Aug 2005 but when he came in the other 5 hamsters were no longer around. So I'm the only other hamster that he know of.

So here's the hamsters that the family had and we hoped that the 5 of them had a good life when they were living here and are all now in hamster heaven together with each other.

Bibi from Mafia?

Sometimes I wonder if my neighbour upstairs Bibi is from the Mafia.
Look at how sulky his face is when taking his picture



He does look more like the security guard uncle then a pet hamster looking out from his capsule house doesn't he. Heee
And when he decided to go nutty, he try to fight his water bottle and bite it.
Haa.. silly boy, that thing is made of metal... You think you can bite that.

Bibi is a baby

You might have already know that my neighbour Bibi got his name because he is like a baby.
How? you might ask can a hamster act like a baby???

Well for starters, he looks like one when he lie down on his back. And he's so chubby...



Then, he drinks water from his water bottle just like how a baby would...



So now you know how he get his name. And in case you think Bibi is real cute.
Here's prove that I'm way.... cuter. :)

SuperHam

My neighbour upstairs Bibi claims that he can run very fast.
There's a picture below to prove it.

I dont really like to run on the wheel because I think walking up and down a 3 story house is pretty tiring and enough exercise for a hamster like me.

My Neighbour

Let me introduce my neighbour. His name is Bibi, I think it's derived from the fact that he looks small like a baby when he just came into the family. And he always like to lie on his back to drink water from the bottle. Dont he look cute with those beady black eyes.


He's a sapphire winter white hamster and he's really chubby. Wonder it's water retention from all the water he drinks

He live in a small tank which is always placed above my landed property cage.



But his house got lots of things too. A toy turtle, wheel and a small house. But he likes to sleep in his small pink house. I think it looks like those capsule hotel in japan, where the room is just enough to sleep in. haa. Well compact hamsters stay compact house.