But I felt good inside seeing her politely show feeling of thanks again and again, having been able to experience a bit of cross-cultural communication, and hopefully being able to help someone, even if it turned out to be only a little.

The End

Caterpillar

Most of you must have an experience of forgetting something that you were going to do, somtimes something important.

Recently, I'm having a bit of trouble facing such situation pretty often ... .

Here's what happened the other day.

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Caterpillar

Ususally, I make it a sort of a rule to go out on the balcony, to have a smoke while I wait for my computer to get moving afater I've turned its power on.

I might have written somewhere before, but my computer is about a decade old and it lets out a moanful sound like a tired old man whenever I try to start it up, keeping me waiting for a bit of time until it's completely prepared for work. ( Well, I suppose it's a matter of about a couple of minutes, though. )

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So anyway, I make it a rule to have a smoking break on the balcony, until my computer is ready.

However, as I was getting ready to go out on the balcony to have a smoke, while I wait for my computer to start moving as usual, I realized that I remembered something that I had forgotten entirely until then ... .

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Ohhh, my cigarrretttttttte.

I had to buy my cigarette. That day, I was gonna buy myself a fresh carton of cigarette on my way home, though not only did I come home without noticing that I had forgotten to buy them, but I also didn't even notice the fact at all, until I turned on my computer several hours later after I had come home.

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Well actually, I did feel that I was forgetting something, something, something, but how could I have let it slip out of my head completely until right now ... . Moreover, how could I not even notice the fact that I had forgotten to buy a new carton, until I pulled out an empty pack out of my bag to have a smoke ... .

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I did write about this computer that 'it lets out a moanful sound like a tired old man', but now it should be ME who's 'like a tired old man', not this computer.

Ohhhh man, I'm pathetic.

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Caterpillar

Some of you might say, 'what's the big deal it's just a pack of cigarette after all, why don't you go get yourself a pack at the vender nearby?' Though the situation isn't that easy, folks. You see, the brand of my cigarette is quite old just like this computer, and you can't ususally find these in vending machines.

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So I've been buying them mostly at the same cigarrete shop in cartons.

But something unexpected happened.

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About 2 months ago, the area inside a certain terminal station where a cigarette shop I usually went was at, happened to appear surrounded by temporary walls for a makeover. And it turned out to be that the cigarette shop too, seemed to be inside that closed area of temporary walls.

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Now this was an unexpected troubled situation for me. It was not that easy to find a place where they sold my cigarette brand, especially when it wasn't easy to even find a vender that did.

Oh man, this is not good, not good at all I thought, as my eyes caught sight of some bills stuck here and there on the wall that surrounded that makeover area.

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According to those bills, the shop where I usually dropped by to buy my cigarettes would be moved to somewhere else inside the station, after the makeover was finished.

Ahhh, would that be so. That means that the shop won't be closed down then. I was relieved to know that ... well for the moment, yes.

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So I decided to cut some slack on their having me go through the trouble, if it was because of the makeover.

Though the shop was located in a quite big terminal station which I passed on my way to most places, and since it was in such good access that was absolutely convenient for me, it was true that I felt kind-a disappointed about having the shop out of reach.

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Then, about a month later.

The makeover finally seemed to be finished, and the shop had gone somewhere else as it said on those bills, and at the place where it used to be there was another apparently different shop running that showed no sign of cigarettes. But those bills were gone all together with those temporarily built walls that they were posted on, which must have been taken away when the makeover has been finished, and now I had no idea where the original shop had been moved to ... .

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Now, what am I gonna do?

I had been buying my cigarettes at other places while the makeover was being done, though to me it was pretty much a bother since I had to go extra-distance, or because they didn't sell my cigarette brand in cartons in other shops. So I have been counting the days till it's finished, but now I didn't know where the cigarette shop had moved to ... .

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I'm sure those bills also showed a map of where the shop would be moved to, I remeber that. But where was my head? I couldn't remember the new location of the shop at all, which I'm sure that I had checked it out so thoroughly on that map ... .

Could I possibly be dumb?

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However, recently I happened to find a shop that must be the one that I have been looking for.

Ohhh, thank God. Seems like God hadn't forgotten about me yet. I was just running out of cigarettes again. Yippee, so I could drop by to get a carton here on my way home the next time I go out, I thought. Well, that was exactly what I was gonna do ... .

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Though I've come home without remebering it at all ... .

I could be dumb, seriously.

It's not a time for me sitting around laughing at someone elses's stupidness is it? Well, it's true Tono DID shot an off-the-beam question, 'how do I shut down this monitor' at the girl from the support center, who came just to connect our router to the modem, which I do think is pretty stupid. But with this forgetting and all, why it could make me even worse!!

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Speaking of cigarettes, actually there was another time before the makeover that I've come home without buying my cigarettes, failing to remeber that I had to buy them on my way home, having the memory completely wiped out when I saw Kishibe Shiro ( an ex-MC of the afternoon tabloid show who's been backed out because his huge debt was brought out to light, unfortunately becoming a scoop for other stations himself ) at the entrance to the subway platform ... .

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I have been disgusted with myself just to know that I've forgotten about the cigarette and come home, and now I've remembered that I'd done something exactly the same before ... I was totally discouraged ... .

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Though it still must have been better, I thought to myself. At least I noticed that I had forgotten when I tried to take my cigarette out. It was the spring of 2007, as I dropped a sigh and went tapping on my keyboards again.

I wonder if this is what getting old means.

Or is it so that I'm just a dummy?

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Caterpillar

I screwed up my trios and trifectas for the Japan Oaks ( a grade one race for fillies ) that was run on Sunday completely ... . Moreover, since I've screwed it up so bad, I went drinking AND singing at the Karaoke with a vengeance, that I've totally overslept ... .

Oh man, nothing seems to work out. In times llike this, I think it's best to sleep, sleep and sleep. Sleep tight and bad memories would fade, well at least a little. Then who knows, something nice might come your way tomorrow.

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Caterpillar

Today is gonna be a brand new day I thought as I got up on Monday, that is, the day before yesterday.

???

Fluffs of tissue paper ... were blooming here and there on the corridor of our house. What in the world was this?

Ohhh, I get it. It must have been Mikeco the cat. She must have thrown up again.

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Forgive me for writing about dirty stuff here folks, but one of the residents of this house Mikeco the cat, seems to throw up quite often. Why she does that is still yet unknown, though I think that it may be because she can't get her hair balls out smoothly.

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By the way, Mikeco has been experiencing a severe attack of sickness from about 2 months ago.

It was the morning of the first weekend of April, when JoOusama found a blot of blood on Mikeco's blanket. Since Mikeco didn't seem to have much appetite for a while and she barely ate anything for the past week, JoOusama who got worried has commanded me that morning to 'carry the cat to take her to the veterinarian', though I hadn't slept a wink for I had tapped my night away again.

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As JoOusama walked briskly ahead with only her purse to carry, I followed her far behind struggling with the weight of the cat that wieghed nearly 14 pounds, too heavy for a girl alright, until we reached the veterinarian and had her diagnosed as anal gland rupture ... .

According to the doctor, cats are supposed to have organs(?) called fat glands ( sorry, I'm not sure about what it's called ). As for Mikeco, her fat glands became oversaturated with fat overflowing into her anal gland expanding even more to cause a rupture, ending up wearing a hole on the skin of her rear.

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That must be waht's called visceral rupture, when put to human.

That's serious sickness, serious indeed. And I got what-for by the doctor, 'why did you leave her like this until it gets this bad'.

I'm sorry, I really am.

I deeply regret what I had done to Mikeco leaving her like that, although I didn't know what was actually happening. It probably must have hurt her a lot. The doctor has said that that may be the reason for her not eating, to control the amount of food taken into her body in order not to excrete them, since it must have hurt a mighty lot to do so.

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Mikeco originally was a stray abandoned in the middle of a farm, until she was picked up while crying mee-yi, mee-yi, and brought to this house before her eyes were even opened. Though it wasn't me who brought her home ( actually, it was Hime who did ) , nor have I been the one to take care of her either.

Because Mikeco comes from such backgrounds, I suspect her of not being able to get her hair balls out, as smoothly or naturaly as other cats do. I'm not sure if such things could possibly happen, though. But it's true I haven't seen this cat spit out anything even LIKE a hair ball before.

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So Mikeco usually goes out in the garden to munch some grass, then comes back inside the house to throw up. It already seems to have become something like an everyday routine or something to her, I guess.

At any rate, why were those blossoms of tissue paper there on the corridor of our house?

That probably must have been because of Tono. I bet that he left those tissues there on the spot where Mikeco has thrown up, in order to perpetuate the evidence to later show what has happened to JoOusama, who was out that day. Well, then clean them away all together, won't you ... .

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As I deeply regretted that I had made Mikeco experience such serious sickness, I carried her to the veterinarian every day for a while in atonement of my sins, having less sleep since I had to wake up earlier than usual.

Mikeco recovered and now new skin sealed up the hole in her rear completely, showing no sign of scars where it used to be a hole.

Thank God.

Though unfortunately, this type of sickness don't seem to heal completely, so Mikeco has to be taken to the veterinarian from time to time, to have collected fat squeezed out from her glands.

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Caterpillar

Speaking of squeezing them out, time for me to take her to the vet again was coming close. Was it because her glands got full that she threw up? Ar U Okay? I peered into the box where she was usually sleeping. But as I peered in, Mikeco turned her face away from me to the opposite side and went into a sleep, though she was awake when I peered in ... .

Heeeeyyy, who do ya think is gonna carry you to the veterinarian, eh?

There was no answer to my question. Just the fluffy blossoms of tissue paper dotted on our corridor, swaying in the whisper of the soft May breeze.

The End

Caterpillar