How often do we get to experience a multitude of moods in a day with varying activities that range from getting lost out in the sticks (frustration), to meeting some friends for a play date (wonderful), to watching your little tot go crazy on a trampoline (amazing), to finally getting her to nap in the car on the way home (relief), to have her refusing food the entire time (not again!), to having to endure her tantrums for 2 solid hours before her bedtime (stressful), and nothing you could do was able to calm her from her piercing wails (gosh! enough already!) as well as she rejecting the mother while at it (WTF!)

Okay. So we had quite an eventful Saturday, which left the both of us knackered, and me completely shattered.

I have to say though, despite all of that, visiting our friend all the way to Si Kan, Don Muang turned out to be quite a fun thing to do. It was our first time visiting them at their new place and it was nice to get the little tots together again.  It was certainly great to see some friends whom we have not seen for a long time.

And it was even amazing that we get to go into the trampoline and let the kids loose in there while the mothers sat around in it, and Dads circled around it trying to take some pictures of 6 crazy looking females inside it. come to think of it, I don’t think I have ever played on a trampoline before.

While the other 2 tots were quite apprehensive, Spud just bounced herself off the nettings once she discovered the joy of bouncing off the trampoline.  She not only bounced off the nets, she bounced off Moms and the other 2 tots too! I reckon she did that continuously for a good half an hour, bouncing around like a jumping bean. She really was having fun, and here are a few candid shots of her that day:

Bouncing…

Bouncing….

Darting…

Recovering from a tumble

Wants to be let go

Monkey on the loose

Knackered…barely could keep herself awake

Light out…hands in snack container

Seeing Spud on the trampoline was priceless. She didn’t have a care in the world and, I have never seen her looking so animatedly happy. Just watching her go made my heart swell. 

She was so tired by the end of the day that she fell asleep without a fuss. We though had a pretty good day out, and thinking that a small nap would do her good,  we were quite happy that the day looked like it was going to end well…that was, until she decided to get superbly cranky when she woke up from her nap. It then went downhill for us.

The curve ball was in play as she remained inconsolable…and for some reason, I did not cope too well after she rejected my efforts to comfort her several times. (but we have made peace since!). Not sure what triggered her ultra crankiness, but Silver Bullet thought that her late afternoon nap could have something to do with it was nearing her bedtime.

I don’t have any theory on that, and I am just amazed as to how quick Spud seemed to have responded to the winds of change.

There goes to show that with Spud, we can definitely count on her to be predictably unpredictable. Still.

I have, in my years as a manic coffee drinker, been intrigued by Kopi Luwak – a type of “exotic” coffee, purported to be the rarest and most expensive coffee in the world.

For a long time, too, I wondered how scrumptious can the taste of the most expensive coffee in the world be like. I mean, it boggles the mind too as to how a beverage made out of (civets’) poo can be so prized and still taste so good as some have claimed?

I mean…poo. The darn coffee is made out of poo. A certain cat, has actually ingested coffee berries, past them through their digestive tract, and then defecate it all out. And somehow, we humans, make it fit for human consumption, and even made money out of it. Brilliant!
I heard so much about it, so when the opportunity presented itself when we were in Indonesia a couple of years ago, and despite being 5 months pregnant, I decided that a small, tiny cup will not do me or the baby any harm.

That was my very first cup of coffee in months since I got pregnant. and it was also my very first cup of Kopi Luwak…. a very monumental moment indeed.

I expected to float, or cry out in ecstasy or just melted to the floor because it was so good that I would be consumed by it. I imagined it to be just like when I pop the best tasting, creamy chocolate fudge into my mouth.

Bleahhh.

None of that.

While I remembered thinking that it was quite a good coffee, I honestly did not think that it was worth the hefty price tag. I thought I have had better, and at a more reasonable price, too. But then again, I am no coffee expert…so perhaps, I just did not know any better.

And that was ok. I can live with that and completely did not mind the fact that it was to be my last Kopi Luwak experience of the century.

The cats’ poo coffee is nothing but completely overrated. For that kind of money, I can have several cups of good coffee, and seriously get high on caffeine that I would probably be bouncing off the walls.

Bleahhhh.