Thanks Rose. Yup. I know how to speak Bisaya (Cebuano and Illongo). We Filipinos are very proud of our home country and are also fascinated by other cultures. That's why there are so many Filipino workers abroad.

On Kate:

She's my first breadmaker cat. Whenever she does that, you can see from her face that she enjoys it and her purr gets louder.

Kate is quite noisy. She loves the attention. When you say meow, she replies.

Yes! It's a real live mouse. We thought that she was playing with a dead mouse when we saw it. We were in shock when we saw the mouse ran in circles around Kate and seemed very comfortable with her. The mouse (we now call him Bob), even lies down with Kate. Serious! I'll try to take a pic next time he shows up.