A year wiser?

I'm 23 today! Haha. A year older yet I don't feel any wiser. When will I ever grow up? :)

Anyway, I'll be off to my Mum's village soon. Long Pillah. Haven't been back there since 2004. Hoping to have fun there. :)

Gotta go now. Merry Christmas everyone!

Cheers!

All Dogs Go To Heaven

:: This post was supposed to be posted on the 14th of December ::

13th of December, 2009.

Ryder died. :’(





He died right in front of our eyes. Poisoned. My heart aches for him. He was really in great pain. Yet still when he was in pain he still lifted up his head and wagged his tail when Mum called him. He always answers when we call his name. I looked away while the last waves of convulsions racked through his body. I couldn’t even bring myself to stroke his fur for the last time. I was too sad … … Ah-Der, you must have felt so scared and confused. Even when your body has stopped convulsing, there’s a puzzled look in your eyes. As if you’re wondering what’s wrong with your body …

I just gave him a bath the day before. He hates it when we give him baths. He’ll always find a way to escape. Even while we’re giving him a bath, he’ll try to slip away. Ha-ha. I love you Ah-Der. That evening after his bath, I hugged him. His fur felt so soft, so fluffy.

I love it when he looks at us in the eyes, as if trying to make us feel guilty. He’s a smart dog. Yet he can be sly too sometimes. Once in a while he’ll come slinking into the kitchen, as if wanting to remind us that it’s time for his dinner. He’ll look at us with that big round eyes of his, making us feel guilty for not giving is meal on time. Ah-Der, I miss you.

I miss how you’ll wait for us at the gate when we’re out at night. I miss how you’ll jump on us when we arrive home as if we have been away for a month, even though it has only been few hours. I miss calling out your name, just too see you wag your tail at us. I miss how you’ll sit in the middle of the road and not even flinch when car passes by (as if we’re feeding you stones). I MISS WATCHING YOU RUN!!! You make me feel so proud when you run, with that long strides of yours, trying to out-run cars. I miss you Ah-Der …

Be good, Ryder. You’re with Billion and Palappy now. At least Palappy will be glad to see you. His big brother will be there to play with him now. Billion will also be glad to see you. Don’t worry bout Ah-Han. He may be puny, but he’s a tough dog. He’ll miss your companion though. Calvin will be ok soon too. Don’t worry bout him.

All dogs go to heaven. It’s the name of a cartoon movie I use to watch when I was a kid. All my doggies are in heaven now. Be good doggies. Shadow, Pinky, PuiPui, Palappy, Billion and Ryder, be good. I love you my doggies.

Goodbye my handsome Dark Knight. I miss you terribly.

My quaint life in Sri Aman

:: This post was supposed to be posted on 3rd December ::

Hello.

I’ve been home for almost a week now. I’ve been meaning to blog since last week but darn Streamyx won’t co-operate with me. *sigh* Come; let me show you what I’ve been doing ever since I’ve arrived home.

Home Sweet Home.

Bit messy coz Mum and Dad is too busy at the shop. My sister is left to do all the tidying up. That’s her and the dogs in the picture. :) Only have 2 dogs now since Billion died. I miss her dearly; she’s been a good companion.

It’s nice to be home. Sure, I have lots of chores to do. Christmas is almost here and CNY just 2 months after that. I have to start cleaning up the house now. Starting with the cushion covers. Next will be the curtains (My house has ridiculously lots of curtains. For the windows in the living den itself, it has 3 layers of curtains!) Then there’s the windows to be cleaned, the garden and, and, and .. what else? A LOT!! But still, there’s no place like home. :)

One thing I don’t like about coming back here would be the “beautiful” view and “soothing” sound from across the road. :( Owh, and don’t forget the “wonderful” smell too.


Darn those logging company. This is like right in front of my house. Every morning I’d wake up to the sounds of those machines blaring away. Once I woke up in the wee hours of the morning to go to the loo, and when I opened my bedroom door, I was greeted not by the sounds of birds chirping, but the sound of the logging vehicles. How soothing can that be? Luckily my bedroom seems to be soundproof. The view used to be quite pretty in front of my house coz it’s situated right at the river banks. I used to bring my dogs for a walk there. Now, it’s all ugly. Once again, thank you darn logging companies. :S

What else have I done? Hurm … Owh ya! I’ve been cooking! My brother is crazy on one of the Indian dish my Mum learnt from her best friend back in Solomon. We think its Chapatti. Haha. I miss Auntie Praful and her cooking. I used to go to her house after school every Monday.






And my sister baked a birthday cake for her boyfie. It was a chocolate cake with Vanilla Butter cream icing and a pinch of cocoa dusting on top. I only helped to spread the icing and did the dusting. Felt too lazy to do any baking or washing up. Hehe.



By the way, the cake was delicious. And it should be. Me and my sister have been baking since ermmm, I don’t remember. Haha. Owh, and I flipped through Mum’s recipe book a few days ago. My hands are itching to try out some of the cake recipes in there. I better copy it down into my own personal book and bring it back to Miri. First recipe I wanna try would be the Truffle Chocolate Cake. Yum! :)

Besides Chapattis and cakes, I also had a few of my favorites. I don’t know some of their names in English though. Sorry!





Hurm … What else? I think that’s all for now. Owh wait! I’m currently hooked onto a certain game. It was introduced to me by my game freak brother and surprisingly my book loving cousin. :)

*eyes rolling* Childish, I know.. Haha!

Guess that’s the end then. Nothing much to tell anyway.. Maybe in my next post, I’ll show you some pictures of Sri Aman’s new Waterfront. Haha! Sri Aman is not as quaint as it use to be ..

P.S: I almost forgot. My sister is a cruel, cruel, cruel person. Need proof?


Hahaha!