8 Steps in choosing a Rabbit Cage

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Life, as it is, is not simple and straightforward.

I think the one bad thing is that when it comes to shopping, we almost ALWAYS get sidetracked.

The last time I did a very motivational TARGET-ONLY shopping trip was when I wanted to go buy a surprise gift. That was with Yin.

We ended up heaving home not only the surprise gift but shoes, hairband, hair dye, make-up... you name it.

And today was no exception when I went to shop for a rabbit cage.

To summarise...Popiah's habitat has been downgraded due to Fengshui-related reasons. So this was the first time in a long time that she came back to my room, more specifically, she came back to where she first lived when she joined the Lim's Family and its Ever-Expanding Animal Population that overpowers Humans; ...my balcony.

Since I am possibly her one and only favourite person (who else feeds her her favourite dried mango treats?) whose finger she doesn't actually try to gnaw off, she gets extra motivated to get out and run towards me.

She did. At close to 12 midnight.

Not exactly a good timing after an 'outter-world' experience I recently had together with Lynn. Chubby was sleeping and using my feet as his pillow when suddenly a shadow dashed across.

I got such a fright, thankfully it was a non-screaming one, that I think my height shrank from 158 cm to 153.

It took me a few seconds for my eyes to adjust to the darkness away from my table lamp, and I heaved a sigh of relief when I realised it was Popiah.

But not for long. Because it soon dawned on me that she actually jumped out of her playpen (possibly after hearing my voice in the room and with my bad habit of always talking to myself), and managed to get through a small opening of the balcony's sliding door and then run around in my room.

At first I ignored the sound because I thought it was just a flying Cockroach making its way through the dark.

Sidetrack: I know alot of macho guys who are afraid of flying Cockroachesssss! HAHAHAHA!!

Ok, anyway, here are the steps to buying a rabbit cage (don't see these steps as a guide to buying a proper rabbit cage. It is meant to ridicule how we always sidetrack while shopping).


1) Having to make my way to Serangoon North despite being super tired, especially after waking up with a headache and having it follow you the rest of the working day...

2) Choosing a shop to splurge at, out of the many shops there are at Serangoon North, the Pet Hub of tiny Singapore

3) Being side-tracked when petshop owner tried to tempt me to buy a Chinchilla by letting me hold one and making it pose like a kangaroo on my palm (yes. the little bugger really stood on his two hind legs like a kangaroo!)

4) Spend the next 15 minutes with a random Chinny leaning against my neck, which strangely enough, felt warm and comfortable because of blistering cold and powerful air-con in the shop (they turned on both the fan AND the air-con). Maybe the Chins like the cold? I don't know...

5) Spend the next 10 minutes coaxing a suicidal Chinchilla and preventing it from jumping onto every damn thing in the shop I touched because it starts 'aiming' to leap whenever I actually hold an item close enough within its jumping range

6) Rolling my eyes as Des bails out of the shop in order to smoke a cigarette and get away from his one pet peeve: Rodents. Des constantly reminds me that he only bought Popiah for me because he THOUGHT rabbits are docile creatures. Obviously, the poor guy doesn't think so anymore.

7) Chanced upon a HUGE teeth-grinding pumice stone that Chinny on my shoulder actually grinded its teeth on. I pushed it away gently and told him "No! This is for Popiah!"

8) Finally made my way to where the cages are and chooses the one out of 1 million types of rabbit cages available at the shop. I breathed a sigh of relief as my shopping trip has now officially come to an end. I just wanted to make my payment and get out, so I quickly signaled to the shop assistant and pointed out the cage I wanted. She turned around and say "That's great now that you have chosen the cage. So... what colour do you want?"

CiiN Sniffed Her Pillow At 10:31 PM