A Letter From Heaven, In Loving Memory Of Mimi
AnimalCare 
Jun 5, 2013 
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My friend, CP, started caring for cats a few years ago after she read my books. Mimi, Didi and Manja are her first rescues and adoptees. About 2 weeks ago, CP lost Mimi. We share and truly understand her grief. It has taken CP many days to write this tribute in loving memory of Mimi, the family’s loving pet and CP’s loyal companion.
With all the love showered on Mimi during her tour on earth, being a part of the Lim Family, Mimi is definitely in a happy place now. Her tour on earth is over and she has moved on. But some things do not change. Love and joy, once given, will always be there, and in that way, Mimi will always be with the Lim Family, for always.
Have a happy new life, Mimi!
This is a tribute to Mimi, from CP:
A Letter From Heaven
Dearest Mummy, Daddy and my two ko-ko,
I am writing to tell you that I miss you all but I am doing fine. I am now at peace, so please do not worry about me, especially Mummy please do not get too sad and shed more tears. I am sorry that I had to leave suddenly but you know it was not my choice. I would love to continue to be near you but I had served my time in the animal realm.
Mummy, you know about karma, you spoke to me when I was very ill 2 months ago. I remember you said this to me Darling MiMi, is your time up? If it is and you have to go, mummy has no choice but to let you go although mummy will be very, very sad. But if your time is not up, please hang on there and get well soon. Hearing this I shed tears (you were shocked to see my tears and you yelled out at daddy and ko-ko and they all saw me crying) ooo, I was embarrassed but I just didnt know how to tell you – yes, mummy, my time is up. I was very touched by your caring words and I really wanted to continue to be your little Princess. The next day you rang up Aunty May across the road to look after me while you went to work. Aunty May said similar things to me and insisted I should recover. So I had no choice but to ask for extension of time then from above.
Mummys tender loving care when I was very ill in March 2013
But mummy, I have paid and my time as your pretty cute cat is up. I am now an angel, yes, I heard you telling me at my little graveyard to be your guardian angel, so here I am. I just need to pass this message to each and every one of you at home:-
Daddy, I miss your loving touch and I miss nibbling on your toes when you forgot my presence sitting next to your feet, waiting lovingly for you to rub my small but chubby body. Oh, and Daddy, do you remember how I would chase you round the house just to be near you? It was fun right? I won all the time hehe, coz you gave up pretending to run away from me and finally said Ok la, ok la, come sayang sayang and I would show you my butt high in the air waiting for you to sayang me. I remember too how you would look angrily at me when I sat on the dining table and how I would quickly respond with my Uek Uek (you know I couldnt meow just dont know why must be my genes) and look at you with my big round eyes before you could even raise your voice on me. Smart of me? You kept telling me that if I were a human being, I would have been a very intelligent, beautiful and determined one and of course, I would succeed in everything that I do coz I do not give up easily. I came, I saw, I conquered that was my motto in life as a cat. Daddy, thank you very much for making the cat toilet for us. I just love the toilet, especially after you have cleaned it up every now and then. I know, I know, no other cats dared use it while I was around. Hope Manja and DiDi will make use of it now.
Big ko-ko, I miss your morning greetings when you peeped at me sleeping soundly on top of the cabinet in the little Vietnamese hat and commented about my polka-dot nose. Cute leh? Remember how I would always accompany you while you take your meals? You tried to trick me by clicking your fingers near the floor, but I was smarter than you, I stayed put on the dining table until you called for help from small ko-ko to carry me away. I lost because you called for help, but I won in terms of IQ. Daddy didnt say I was intelligent for nothing. I remember how I wanted your company when we were both alone in the living hall late at night, and you were glued to the tv and ignored me. The only way to get your attention off the tv and on me was to rub myself on your legs and nibble on your feet like what I did to daddy. Heh heh.. we had nice games of catching ya I love the hide-n-seek games I used to play with you when you came home from college. How you would go round looking everywhere for me and finally found me either on top of the fridge, covered by the portable ice-box, or under the shelves, sofa or in the store room. Gave you some heart-stopping moments huh?
Ahhh small ko-ko, I miss the way you carried me back into the house when I tried to get out to greet mummy when she drove her car into the porch ya I know, you were concerned about my safety. I know too that you were forced to carry me into the room and lock me in coz daddy didnt like me to be around when you were having your dinner. You would say MiMi, naughty ya, so off to your jail now. You were very kind to lock me in the kitchen sometimes so that I could still show mummy my pitiful face through the window panes and got released soon enough Yay! I won all the games we played dont you all agree? I remember too how I would sneak into mummys room and jumped onto her bed and mummy would call for you to carry me away. You would carry me into your room quietly and let me roam your room.
I love to do this to everyone in the Lim family J
Do you recall opening up your clothes drawer and finding me looking innocently at you once? I just woke up from my nap when you rudely open up the drawer. I love the look on your face when you called out for mummy. Well, it was not my fault really, I couldnt possibly open up a drawer nay, I was not that strong. It was you who left the drawer with an opening big enough for my little chubby body to squeeze in. Thank you for giving me a nice room to sleep in without DiDi and Manja disturbing me J
Ta-Da U just woke me up, ko-ko L
Mummy dearest, I miss sitting next to you, touching you and jumping on you when you were either relaxing on the lazy chair or on the computer the keyboard was such a nice place for me to rest on I could touch your hands and show you my big beautiful eyes. And of course, I miss the time when you were preparing our meals, especially my favourite food -Monge and fish, and I would sit with my body touching your feet so that you would put a bit more on my plate. I love the times when I followed you around as you went about doing your chores cleaning the fridge, cleaning your room, washing clothes ahh.. I miss sleeping on top of the washing machine. You were always telling daddy and two ko-ko that I was your loyal cat accompanying you whenever you were alone in the house. Manja and I love to sit outside the toilet door while you wash your clothes in the toilet and you would always tell us If both of you are reborn as human next life, you need to do all these so you girls are watching me now to learn? Well, I tried to help you once, remember, but then I jumped out of the toilet when you poured the water on the floor. Mummy, my best memory is when you greet me with your flying kisses on the tip of my nose and telling me MiMi, I love you very, very much when I lay on the piano top. I love you too Mummy, just that I could not tell you in words, so my actions said it all.
Mummy, it has been 2 years 3 months since you took pity on me and allowed me to be part of your loving family. I went into your porch one morning while you were having your breakfast at your little patio and you saw me eating your plants. I heard you telling daddy that this cat must be very hungry to be eating plants. Since that day, you put out food outside your gate and I was the first to feast on it. You saw my scrawny skeletal body with sorrowful big round eyes peeping cautiously at you from underneath the car and you told me to drop by your house every evening for my meals. I know then that I have found a place to call my own. I had just given birth to 3 beautiful kittens and was looking for a safe place to take care of them. I remember that fateful day it was a Friday. DiDi was guarding the door to your patio and I was nursing my 3 kitties behind your bamboo plant. Suddenly you and small ko-ko came back for lunch and saw us. I remember the horror on your face and how you quickly ask ko-ko to close the sliding door and not to touch my kittens. (You told ko-ko to refer to Pawprints on My heart and learn to gauge the age of the kittens and what you should do next). When you came home that evening, you bought nice kibbles for my kittens but I ate them all coz I needed food to produce milk for my kittens. You have been talking to Aunty Kahyein on what you should do and how to take care of my kittens. You kept commenting on how cute my kittens were. However, good things didnt last and I lost all my kittens to a heavy downpour one evening. It was my fault coz I was a kitten myself (just about 6 months old) and I do not know how to look after them sobs. They were so cute right?
My 3 cutie pies
Since that night, I tried to go into your house to look for my kittens and although you were not happy, out of pity for me, you allowed me to do so. Slowly, inch by inch, I came, I saw, I conquered your whole house. I even brought along the father of my kittens, DiDi, and his mother Manja to accompany me. You were all so kind to let them stay with me in your house. I remember once a lady came to take me away to nurse some new-born kittens. I heard you telling me to be generous and compassionate towards these little kittens and to give them milk to survive. But mummy, they were not my cute kittens! I was not happy but you kept telling me to help, so I went reluctantly. I was so glad to come back home to you the next day coz I really miss DiDi and Manja.
The only time I hated was when all of you went away and left us sleeping outside your house, wondering when you would be back. Luckily you made arrangements with Aunty May and Aunty Wong to feed us while you were all away. I would always be sitting outside your sliding door looking up at the lock to see if any of the kind aunties would open up the door for me. The sound of your car always brought joy to me as I know all of you were back and I would be safe again in your house.
L-R Manja, DiDi and me waiting anxiously for you to open the door
All of you have certainly made me feel so much a part of your family and I couldnt thank you all enough for taking me in and giving me so much love and joy in this short period of time. I love being introduced as Lim MiMi whenever daddy talked about me to friends, neighbours or relatives. Daddy, I know you wish for me to be part of your family again I too hope to be one, but I cannot promise you this as it is not my call you know that right?
Please convey my meow-ful thanks to Aunty May for all the love and care as well as her nightly delicious supper. Thanks to Aunty Wong too for all the lovely food while I was with you. And not forgetting Aunty Kahyein for introducing CNRM to my mummy so that I could have stress-free days without having to worry about the well-being of more kittens.
Manja and DiDi, please be good and help me look after mummy, daddy and ko-ko. I miss you both too.
I miss DiDis morning kiss
Lastly, I wish all of you happiness and good health.
I love you all from the bottom of my little heart Uek Uek (read Meow Meow)
From the little pawprints of your beloved Princess, Angel MiMi J
Rest In Peace Our Dearest Princess MiMi
You will forever be in our hearts
From Your Human Family
The Lim Family
Mimi, Didi and Manja
For always
Source: http://myanimalcare.org/2013/06/05/a-letter-from-heaven-in-loving-memory-of-mimi/
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