79 - 'Under a South Sea cerulean sky ...'; R.I.P. Meepy

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Something sad happened. One of the friendliest strays around the place - Meepy, by name - was apparently hit by a car. I found him dead in the drain. We had pretty much adopted him. I saved him twice from the drain when he was tinytiny - his mom kept leaving him there, and then it would rain, and he would cry, etc. He looked like a tiny white bat. When he was wet he looked like half a tiny white bat. He was always super friendly with a giant purr engine inside. More of a dog-cat actually. Following you around. He always had a wet nose. Poor little guy.

The car thing is particularly creepy because on Friday I was walking Mei Mei and Zoe to school and we were crossing with the light at the crosswalk and a car just burned through the intersection at about 70 km an hour against the light, missing Mei Mei by all of 5 feet. Everyone honked. It was quite un-Singaporean. Anyway, here's a pic of Mei Mei and the Meepster from back in the day:

Zoë was very upset. She wailed "But Meepy was the nicest cat in the whole neighborhood. Why couldn't it have been a .... BUG!"

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[pholbo]

With sympathy to Violet, Zoe, and Meepy, and all the family. Meepy was the only one who would sometimes let me pet her.

Have a good trip to NY, Grandpa