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October 16, 2017

Grape-kun - May he rest in peace!


I have never visited Japan.  I have no idea what the place is like.  Of course, I have watched countless Japanese Dramas (like a lot of people) and do know how to speak a little Japanese.  I am also very invested in a Japanese MMORPG - it has been 4 years since I started this game.

Last week, I read about a penguin, Grape-kun was his name.
He was dumped by his mate (who went for a younger male - now where have we heard that story before? Hmmmmmmm) - at around that time, Grape-kun's loneliness was not meant to be.

There was this festival (Japan has MANY festivals, most are theirs by culture/history/habit), which involved putting in Anime characters into the pens....a cardboard cut-out of Hululu, an Anime character, was put into the penguin's enclosure. 

What surprised everyone was, Grape-kun, fell in love with it.



From the reports I have read, I gathered that he spent a lot of hours just by her side.  There was a point, the handlers were concerned he wasn't eating because he was just staring at her.  He left his penguin family and rather be like how he is in the picture above, daily.



According to reports, how he is (picture on the left, is how penguins are when they are courting).

I am touched.

So touched, that here I was, never quite sure, what animals could clearly see.  Do they see the world in colour? Or is it black and white?  How do we know for sure?

Grape-kun had lived a long life.
I'm glad that the heaven's are kind to him.  For the months, before he died, fate twisted his heart and he lost his love to a younger male - instead of letting his heart bleed because it's broken, the GODs sent him Hululu.

If anything, Hululu gave Grape-kun back his pride, to face his rookery.

Thank you Japan, for being so sensitive to Grape-kun's dying unspoken wish.  The Japanese zoo officials, allowed him to breathe his last with Hululu next to him.  He was just a penguin, but what Japan did last week was to tell the world that they may have their customary fishing events, which the rest of the world condemns, but this little gesture is the real heart of Japan.


I have never met Grape-kun, but I shed tears when I read about how he died and how his last months were, alone. (before Hululu)

If everyone could save a life - whether it is an animal at the zoo, or abandoned, whether we donate food or take them in....perhaps the world will learn to LOVE more than preach tolerance when they actually don't have any.

**When we ask people to do this for us, we are asking people to MAKE PROVISIONS for us - that IS NOT us tolerating the world and working to adapt to it.  

Grape-kun, would have died a lonely penguin, who was dumped.....so he's old and he cannot find another mate to be attracted to him, but the Good Lord was beaming upon him and sent him Hululu.  Instead of wishing for Hululu to be a real penguin, to keep him warm and share meals with him, he adapted and stood by her, staring at her all day, just content to be next to her.  

He must be thinking "It's ok, if she is not responding, she's still by my side right?" 

Imagine that, he didn't have high demands.  He knew what fortune is, what fate is and what CONTENTMENT is.

May God Bless you and Keep you well, Grape-kun!


For more articles on the last few months of Grape-kun, do google his name, and read!