May May - Prison Break

May May is enjoying lying anywhere in her cosy bathroom.


* Hey, why are you staring at me?

* Can you see the Heart shape on May May's tortoiseshell?

* May May loves to lie on the stone

Suddenly, Momi gets in to wash the bathroom with a toilet brush. Once May May sees her scary-as-ever toilet brush, she RUNs.

* HELP!

She jumps up to a rack and the rack falls down (it is too messy to take any photo as prove).

Momi is so angry. She punishes May May by putting her into a small plastic box, places her outside the bathroom.

The box is too small to turn her body. May May does not like it, so she tries hard to climb up, she has to RUN AWAY.

May May is trying hard with her hind legs. She jumps out! Prison Break successful.

I pity the poor May May. As the Uncle Sun comes to our living room after hiding for ages, I think it is time to give May May a sunbath.

May May loved to have sunbath, but after 21 years, she wants to whiten herself.

Look at her! She RUNs away from the sunlight by making herself a 90 degree against the ground. How difficult it is.

* May May, "The ultraviolet of afternoon sunlight is too strong, it would hurt me, idiot!"

Dai-guai's funny story (2) Dai-guai is not stupid

o Dai-guai of today, enjoying 'sunbath'

30th December 1993, a day before moving house.

In that evening, we were cleaning our old home and preparing to move to new home the next day. There were rubbish and saw dust all around on the floor, not yet been swept. May May who always walks freely at home was crawling out from toilet to balcony, and was crawling over the doorsill towards dinning room. I stopped her immediately.

I kneeled down and spoke to her, "Don't come here, you cannot eat the saw dust on the floor, it would hurt you. We are moving to our new home tomorrow. You have to remember, if you heard Daddy Momi say 'We are leaving, bye-bye', you must come out immediately, otherwise they will forget to take you away, no one will feed you and you will die. Understand?"

May May was looking at me.

I asked, "Do you understand? Nod your head if you understand."

May May nodded and looked at me.

I said, "Understand? Then go back to the toilet, don't come out."

May May turned and crawled toward the toilet, she looked at me over her shoulder when she crawled over the toilet doorsill.

I reminded her again, "Remember to crawl out once hear 'We are going, bye-bye'!"

May May went back to the toilet. I was not sure if she was really understood.

I went to the new home alone next night. Daddy Momi and elder brother delivered the last few cartons of stuff to home at about midnight. Once the door was opened I could not wait and asked, "Where is Dai-guai?" Momi opened the carton on top right away, there came our unfailingly cutie Dai-guai extending her neck. I was so happy.

"When we were leaving we said 'Goodbye old home, we are leaving, bye-bye. Anything left?' we heard 'bang bang' from the toilet, then we saw Dai-guai rushing out madly, I said, 'Aiya, I nearly forgot Dai-Guai!' She knows we are leaving, she is so smart." Momi told me.

Haha~ Dai-guai really understood my words, she was waiting for them to say goodbye and come out.

Who say terrapin has no spirit?

Dai-guai's funny story (1) the clumsy terrapin

I think Dai-guai is clumsy at all time. She does not know how to eat if no water; she holds the food in her mouth, searches for water, then looks at you and asks for help if the water is not deep enough. She just does not know how to eat.

Furthermore, every time we feed her, she only looks at us or our fingers, then crawls like asking us to feed her, she just does not know the food drops into the water already. So we often say her, "Clumsy."

On the contrary, my friend Guai-Mui's over 10 terrapins are all so smart. They need a little water and fight for food, some even do not need water to eat. It is such an opposite of Dai-guai... we can only say she is cute.

That is the reason I objected strongly every time my parents suggested to free Dai-guai to a park, since I had seen a terrapin being eaten by a group of other terrapins. My terrapin is such a clumsy naive simple darling, I am afraid she would not only be bullied but also be eaten!

May May's chamber is destroyed

Today is the sixth day of the New Year of the Lunar Calendar, uncle no.2 and his wife, uncle no.3, aunt no.6 and aunt no.7, all on maternal side come to pay a courtesy call and play mahjong together, that is such a jolly time. In the meantime, an accident happened:-

Uncle no.2 needs to look after his unhandy wife to toilet. When he stepped onto the wet shower place with his slippers, he slipped and fell and knocked his afterbrain onto the wall, then sat on terrapin May May's chamber. We were startled, he is seventy after all.

Luckily, May May's chamber had been the pat for him, otherwise he would have badly injured. There is a "little house" built on his afterbrain now, but no dizzy so I think he is alright, just the blood pressure gets higher.

The chamber is destroyed, poor May May was aghast by the accident. Luckily uncle no.2 did not sit on May May, or else she would have been a "terrapin cake".

In the end, my big brother buys a new larger and more comfortable chamber for May May as her compensation.

* May May is leaving her broken chamber.

A Happy New Year with May May

Me: May May, say Happy New Year to everyone la~

May May: Happy New Year! Wish you wealthy, healthy and always be young… be diligent in your study.

May May murmured and was shivering: it is too high, put me back on the floor ~

Terrapin May May Wong Says Hi

May May WONG is Gertie-Yunis's dearest pet terrapin, also called Dai-guai, because there were two other younger male terrapins.

Her story started on 3rd August 1986, when Momi came home from market –

Momi, "Ah mui, close your eyes and stretch out your hands. Guess what is it?"
I did it and felt a tiny little thing moving on my palms, "what is it? It can move!"
When I opened my eyes I saw this 5 dollar coin size terrapin crawling on my palms.
"'Wao~it's so lovely~"

This little terrapin settled down at our home henceforward and has her own name May May.Today, Dai-guai has turned from an agile shit-eating baby into a lazy picky old maid.

After petting her for a long time, I found out this red-eared terrapin is native of Southern United States instead of Brazil.