Animal Instinct

It's amazing how nature can be so weird yet normal. It's in our everyday lives but one would fail to notice unless he's some weirdo working for Discovery Channel. I was on my way home from work yesterday when I saw this swarm of flying objects in the sky. Normally, birds do fly in the evening in a huge ass swarm. Yesterday was different. It was this huge ribbon like pattern in the sky with THOUSANDS of birds. I felt like I've been shown a trailer for the movie "Birds" in real life. Then, my chauffeur told me there was this swarm of bats that flew to our pagoda from Brazil or something, but when I had a look at the swarm, it was itsy sparrows in a huge ribbon pattern formed by thousands of them. The length was the total width of six cars parked side by side. It was freaky to be honest. Is this another Nargis indication? If so, it's hallelujah, work opportunity but a bad bad thing catastrophewise. I mean, you are never sure if your house would be in one of the locations any bad shit's gonna pass.

Two days ago, mom came over to my place when I was at work and bathed E-Boo. My dog, E-Boo, is one crazy motherfucker. He would ONLY allow mom to bathe him. Even then, this consists of him playing hide and seek with mom for like half an hour and only when one of them insisted the game is over, it'd be dog shampoo time for E-Boo. E-Boo never knew mom went overseas. To him, it seemed like it's been a while since mom last visited our house. So, as predicted, when I came back from work that day mom bathed him, he was more than overjoyed to come greet me. Now, this is the dog who refused to take pics with me or even come to me while mom was away. It was nice to wrestle with him as well, given he smells way better and his 'what the fuck did you eat' breath was long gone.

Yesterday, it was quite heartbreaking to see E-Boo. Mom is leaving today and I bought a tiramisu for her to eat. Ok, NO ONE IN MY FAMILY KNOWS tiramisu. Seriously, god's creation at its best and they have yet to learn. So, given I got paid not long ago, I offered to treat everyone tiramisus. Sadly, uncle had a bad stomach, grandma had a bad cholestrol level and gramp refused to eat since grams was not eating. So, mom was my only victim and I somehow convinced her to eat it. She thought it was too rich. So, when I got back home from mom's, I got this two huge ass plastic bags with food in them that mom's bought for me. E-Boo sniffed them right away, wagged his tail and pointed his nose to the door. I would like to think he meant to say "Where's mom?". I love E-Boo and E-Boo loves me a lot to the point he will not bite or do me any harm but since I come second to mom, E-Boo was not happy. However, that poor son of a bitch kept loitering around hoping mom would just pop up in any seconds. I rubbed his belly and kissed his nose. Played with him a bit. Poor dog. He had NO IDEA mom is gonna leave today, probably for a very long time.

Watching E-Boo and the birds made me think. Are we humans really smart or have we been ignoring some senses that we might've had since birth? How can birds tell there's a storm coming? How can cats leave the house of someone who's about to die? How can dogs know their favorite owners were around them? It makes us wonder. At the same time, the mystery in itself is just yet another beauty of life. Won't it be boring to know it all? (Hear that, nerds????)