Clark Quay

My MM went on a howliday last friday and since my M is not working that day and she has the use of the car, she said that we should have some bonding time while she is still mobile.

So off we went to Clark Quay, which is a place with lots of tired people I think, because there are loads of Restaurants for people to rest in.



But funnily, I don't see a lot of tired people. My M says coz it's a Friday afternoon, and the restaurants are mostly opened for the dinner crowd. It makes sense coz I like to rest at night too!

We walked for a while and my M got hungry so she had lunch at a Jap restaurant. The people were very nice to let her eat there. Because in Singapore, pets are actually not allowed at human eating places, but because it was before the lunch time crowd, and with my M being so fat, they gave her an outside seat at a corner.

Our corner


She ordered a beef and foie gras set lunch, which she said was yummy. Sadly I didn't get to eat any. They even gave her sand to play with together with the meal! (M: It's not for play! It's to time the food, and when the sand in the hourglass runs out, you can open the lid to the food)

The sand


The covered yummies


The cooked food


And after that, because the weather was so hot, we got tira-missing-me I-Scream! (M: Not missing you, it's Tiramisu!)

Is that Tira?


Now I know why my M is fat, coz she ate most of Tira, and I got only 3 tiny spoonful and the empty cone. But it's better than nothing.

See the size of the tiny spoon?




After all the yummies we went for a short walk, and I found this place with leaked pipes, because water is shooting up from the ground! I tried to stop the water from coming out and got all wet. And my M didn't try to help at all. I was initially a little worried because there's just too many water shoots and there's only one me!

So many of them!


Lemme see if it's yummy first


Stopping the water


Attack!


After a while, I realised that my efforts were futile. So if I can't beat them, I'll join them. So I decided to have FUN instead! Some tourists who walked past had fun looking at me having fun too and they took peektures of me playing and laughed when I went after the water.

Yippee run!


I ran....



Jumped...





And had so much fun that I went home a wet, tired, but happy dog!

Happy me!

Foto me?

Well, last week was my M's burpday, so my MM got for her as a burpday prezzie, a family studio portrait session. Actually, I think my MM was forced to pay, but I'm not supposed to know about it. My M thought that my big brother herbie had studio family peektures taken when they got married, so I should get one too. I mean the studio part, not the getting married again part.

ANyway, my M also wanted to take some peektures while she's still fat. I ask her why she want to take fat peektures, when people usually take thin peektures, or is she doing an ad like me, but for the 'before' and 'after' slimming ad? She kok my head and said she's not fat. I don't know about you, but that certainly looks fat to me.



We went to this studio where this nice Aunty Wai Peng took peektures for us. She even said I'm a very good boy!

Our family photo


Me trying to kiss my MM


I think all those peekture taking was very tiring coz my M decided to sleep, and use me as a pillow.



Then nice Aunty Wai Peng asked my M if she wants individual photos of me, and of course she said yes!

So we have nice peekture of me...

sitting nicely...


Catching balls...


SUPER-dog me still catching balls...


Holding pwetty flower...


It was so much fun, I wonder when my M will go back and take the 'after' peektures.

Things that go 'woof' in the night

Last night, my M and MM went to bed at around 11pm. As they were drifting off to sleep, I thought it's too early to be sleeping so I just stood up and started to bark. It was only 1 bark but it woke them up. Thinking it's something outside, they opened the bedroom door and I went out and barked once again.

My M looked at the clock and it as 12:10am. My MM went to the living room but found nothing out of the ordinary. So while he was checking the house, I went to take my toy and did my butt dance with my M. After making sure everything was all right, we all went back to bed, with me happy that everyone was woken up and I got my toy.

(M: I don't know why Helios suddenly started barking in the middle of the night when he has never done it before and he's never really a barky dog. And it doesn't help that he was barking so close to MIDNIGHT! I was wondering just as I was falling asleep if he saw 'something' that we didn't. And I ended up dreaming that we have a 'spirit' in the house that night, no thanks to stupid Helios. grrr.... )

When no more....

... doesn't really mean no more.

No more?


But there's still crumbs left!

But I don't bite!

My M was a little irritated with this lady who has a chihuahua, whom she passed by at a park. What happened was, we were on the way to the dog run, and this lady with a chihuahua in her arms saw us walking past.

So she said to her CHH: 'Look, big dog.' In a sing song way, much like how a mother would point out to a kid to look at that dog.

My M heard that so she smiled at the lady just as we passed them. As we continued walking, she heard the lady continue in a cooing fasion to her CHH: 'But you can't play with him coz he will bite.'

My M was a little pissed, but I was pulling her towards the dog run so that I can play and she's not in a confrontational mood that morning, so she did not turn around to correct the lady.

Sometimes, my M will encounter owners with small dogs who will immediately scoop up their dogs protectively once they see me. I wasn't even charging or pulling, and it's obvious that my M is in control of me. Am I really that scary?

There was another incident when we passed by a father with his kids and his son just said very loudly, 'Wow a big dog!' and the father immediately smiled and said, 'Ya, big dog will bite you.' My MM immediately turned around and told them, 'No, THIS dog doesn't bite.' I heart my MM for standing up for me!

Why do people always think big dogs bite? There are big dogs who don't bite, and there are small dogs who bite all the time.

(M: I also hate it when parents sometimes use my dog to 'discipline' their kids. There were times when I was walking Herbie and there'll be a parent(s) with a screaming kid and when they see us, they'll tell the kid 'If you cry somemore, that dog will come and bite you.'. If they're still within earshot, I will just say loudly, 'He doesn't bite!'. It's their problem they can't take their kids in hand, but leave me and my dogs out of it!)

Advert

I finally went for the advert shoot on Saturday! However, I cannot reveal too much until the ad has been aired, but what I can say is that it's not a TV or print ad. It will be available in the internet and also the store's videos. I'll post up a link as soon as they air it, which I think is around mid-june.

Ohh.... I can't wait!

Or rather, I can wait, because I realise shooting an ad is all about waiting. I spent about 15 min shooting the actual thing, but 3 hours waiting. Partly because of bad weather, it was raining and we had to wait for the rain to stop. Unfortunately, the rain didn't stop so we had to change location.

So since I can't post all the pictures yet, I guess I can post this of a very bored me waiting.

When will it be my turn?

Award and fame?

Girlgirl gave me this award, I'm not too sure what it's for but it has the word brillant so it must be good! It's my very first award and I'm so excited!



I'm gonna pass on the award to Maggie & Mitch and the brat pack!

But I have something else to be excited about too! I think I'm going to be a star! Or maybe not a star, but I might get to be on TV! My big brother herbie was on the national papers, and now I get to be on TV (or at least I think I will be, I'm not sure if it's TV or print). My M's friend who works in advertising is looking for a dog to run in an ad they're making, so she asked if my M is ok.

If all goes well, we'll be doing the shoot either this saturday or sunday. But I'm not supposed to post or say anything concrete until they've aired the ad, so that's all I can reveal for now. For all you know, I may only appear for 3 seconds, but My M thought at least it'll be fun!

I'll be getting paid a token sum and my M said it's high time I start earning my own keep. She's already planning to use my salary to pay for my heartworm tablets which she's gonna order soon, and to pay for the meat orders for my dinner.

I wonder if there's gonna be any money left over for a new toy. I think I need a new one.

I need a replacement for dead toy toy

Updates on the kitty cat

Guess what guys? The kitty cat came to visit me again yesterday! Now I'm very sure he wants to come and play with me. Unfortunately, he came when I was out. My M took me to the park and since my MM was home, she left the wooden door open, with only the gates locked. The cat must have thought I was home and invited himself through the gate to play with me.

After that my MM came to meet us for dinner and locked kitty in the house. When we went home, this time the kitty was in the toilet. I guess he knew I'll have to wash my paws in the toilet and he was trying to surprise me. Oh boy was I surprised when he came out! And I think the humans were surprised too. I wanted to go say hi but my M recalled me to her side and pushed me to the living room while Aunty P scooped up my guest and deposited him outside the door and closed the door on him. I could still hear my guest meowing outside asking to play with me.

I thought it was quite rude of the humans to chase away my visitor. (M: I am not gonna risk having you guys playing a 'chase' game in the house and potentially knock down my stuff!)

So now my MM has told Aunty P to keep the door closed at all times so that kitty can't come in anymore.

It's so unfair. Why can they have friends over but not me?

An Uninvited Guest

Guess what? We had an uninvited guest at home last night, but I didn't get to meet him, unfortunately. What happened was, we came home late after the humans had dinner at my MM's parents house and once I stepped into the house, I was made to go was my paws in the toilet.

And while I was in the toilet, our guest made his appearance. A stray black and white cat crept out from beneath our sofa and was meowing. My M was utterly shocked and immediately closed the door to the kitchen (the toilet I was in was in the kitchen) and told Aunty P not to let me out coz there's a cat in the house. My MM opened the door and shooed the kitty cat away.

The funny thing was, when we were on our way to the lift earlier, my MM asked my M why she did not take the path on the right to the lift landing. Instead, she waited until another family walked past on the left side before we took that path on the left. My M then said it's because there was a stray cat on that side of the bushes for the last few nights and she didn't want me to get attacked.



I guess she never expected that the cat is not downstairs, because it's upstairs right in our house!

You guys must have been thinking, how did the cat get in without me knowing? Well, it was a humid sunday, so my M was in the airconditioned study the whole day and I was snoozing in the room with her. We left the main door opened with the gate locked, so the cat must have snuck in when Aunty P was busy. When I left the room, I was fed dinner and we went out immediately after that.

Well, the cat saga did not end just yet. This morning, a neighbour from another level asked us if we keep cats at home. She said that a cat has been pooping along the corridor around her area for many days and creating a stink and she just wants to check if the cat belongs to anyone. So my M told her we don't have cats, and she believed it's the same cat that snuck into our house.

And since I can't get close to the cat, I did the next best thing this morning. I rolled in cat poop when my M took me down for my early toilet break. I think she didn't really like it coz she scolded me and made Aunty P give me a bath. I don't know why I should bath on Monday when I've already had my bath on Sunday, but I decided it's wiser to keep quiet than to argue.

And that's the long story about the kitty cat. I do hope he comes back again, maybe he wanted to play with me?

Beach again!

We went to the beach last weekend coz Tommy's dad says Tommy has not gone to the beach since his baby brother arrived, which is almost 6 months! (The last time we went to the beach Tommy didn't come coz he just had his bath). I hope when my baby sister arrive I don't have to wait that long to go to the beach.

Anyway, I was the last to arrive, and my M got me a new beach toy, right out of the plastic wrapping. Unfortunately, before I have much chance of playing with it, Tommy got to it first. He even ignored his own rope toy.

Tommy: Who wants old toys when there's a new one?


He got my toy! *sulks*


I tried to complain to my MM but I don't know why he's trying to keep me at arm's length. He kept trying to push me away. Doesn't he like me no more? (M:That's because you SCRATCH him with your nails!)

Me: Tommy took my ball!
MM: Stay away from me!!


Why? Doncha love me anymore??


So I have no choice but to take the rope toy.

I'd rather have my ball...


My ball was so popular that even another GR, whom the humans thought was my big brother herbie look-a-like, took it.

But herbie doesn't like toys!


I'm still not getting my ball back


Tommy was so greedy that he took Joey's ball as well. You can't see from this photo, but Tommy actually has 2 balls in his mouth, Joey's smaller one inside and my big orange one outside.

Gimme back my ball!


So after that Joey kept a very close eye on his ball.... or rather he tried to.

Where did it go again???


So when I finally saw that my new toy (now not that new) was untaken, I leapt at the chance!

My turn finally! I leap...


And leap...


And leap again...


Still not done leaping...


Until I finally got the ball...

Gotcha!


Besides all the ball activity, I need to maintain training on my superpowers, so I practised flying again.



I also tried to practice breathing underwater, but I think that's too advanced for me... for now.



And I swam with my eyes close, to train my other supersonic senses.

I wonder if that's the right direction


Of course, my M had fun taking awful photos of me. She was laughing at my running photos, saying that when I bounce up, my eyes are opened...

Nice big eyes


But when I bounce down I have funny droopy eyes...

small beady droopy eyes


And I have beady droopy eyes when I shake as well.

Deformed eyes


But there's this peekture she likes, she says I look so puppyish in here, then I told her I AM still a puppy!



Anyway, after all that swim the humans took us to blow dry and have lunch again (they had lunch, we had nothing).

And I'm glad to say that this time, my tail was not broken. Maybe less posing did help!

More food!!

I went to the vet today for my needles. (M: Vaccination!)

They lifted me up on the cold metal table and I was a little worried. The vet said my hind legs are splayed out and I was a little hunched, so he said might be indicative of hip problems. He also said I'm too skinny. I can afford to put on another 5 kilos.

My M said she's trying to fatten me up. She has increased my food intake but I'm still not putting on much, so nice Mr Vet says feed more! I like that part. But I don't think I got hip problems. My doggie mum and dad are all hip checked so possibility of my having hip problems should be low. My M told the vet maybe coz I'm scared on the examination table and I should be better on the ground but he didn't ask to check me on the ground. Anyway I'm supposed to build up my muscle tone too.

So now my M has decided to feed me TWICE a day instead of once a day. I'll be getting an extra quarter to half a chicken every morning! And she went to the supermarket earlier to buy some wings to feed me immediately!

I think I'm gonna like my new diet!

Aunty P

Our new domestic helper finally arrived on Friday, and I am told she is Aunty P. She's very quiet, maybe she's shy. But she's not scared of me, so although I try very hard to control myself, I finally pokey her butt when my MM was teaching her how to clean the sink.

Erm... it's toy toy who poked you, I was trying to hold him back. Really!


Luckily she's all right, and she even played fetch with me. But one bad thing about her living with us is that she vacuums the floor EVERYDAY! And I don't like the vacuum.

I wonder if I can distract her enough not to vacuum the floor.