29/10/04

Greetings, blog reader.

Today is my last class in school before exams. My first paper is on next Tuesday. Kinda panicked because exams always give me a feeling of uncertainty. No matter how much you study, there seems to be a luck element that affects everything. Lets not talk about that today. I would like to dedicate my blog today to my dog. So the main bulk will be about my dog! Hee. But lets start with a Slice of life.

Slice of Life

“People often face misfortunes and difficult situations. They tend to think negatively about the experiences. They apply blaming, either internally or externally. This can also be applied to those nasty people who they meet. Bad experiences are a pain to us.

Instead of thinking negatively, why not think about the lessons we can learn from those experiences. We can always treat misfortunes as a test we have to face in life. Life is not always smooth sailing. We thrive on crisis. If we can continually think of what we can learn, we would accept things that come in our way and build on our life experience. When facing with nasty people, it is the same. There are always things that they know and we don’t. Or, there are actions done by them that we should not follow. Learning from experience can always take over blaming and negative thoughts.”

My Dog –Meimei

Lets now talk about my dog. She is a 6 yrs old white Maltese. I think she has been in my family for 5 yrs. For those who have me in their MSN would know how she looks like. As what my friend F said,” she looks like a mouse”. I wonder who has the same sentiments as him hee.

Her behavior is really very unique. We don’t give her any proper training because my father wants her to behave like a natural dog. Indeed, she behaved not like a trained dog, but what do you know….. she is like a normal human with emotions. I’ll tell you more in a moment. The only thing she likes is….. food.

First, I’ll call her a human. She has emotions. When my mum is not at home, my father and I often provoked Meimei. We said something like this,” Where is mum? Very angry right!! Mum very bad, never let you eat” After that, we can see Meimei’s expression change. She would stare at the door, and sound a light “brrrrrrrr”. Her mouth would move in a way as though she is hesitant in saying what she wants to say. Kinda comical. Every time, we would do that to Meimei.

When my Father is not at home, Meimei would become very nice towards my mum. But when my Father is at home, she acts like she is the queen of the world. Here is one situation. Meimei usually sits on the sofa as though she is watching the tv with us. But she often takes up a big space on the sofa. So my mum would tell her,” excuse me, go there go there.” Meimei would go,”brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr” and she would stare at my mum. Most of the time Meimei couldn’t win my mum, so she would reluctantly move away after a loud burst of “brrrrrrrrr”. I could only laugh.

Actually Meimei is really not very sociable. I guess its because we didn’t bring her out often enough. But she is really hostile towards those people who walk past my house. When she hears footsteps, she would run to the door and bark at the top of her voice. Sometimes she is just paranoid. My parents would open the door and ask her to go out and see who is there. She wouldn’t dare. Behind the gate, she is just so strong and brave. But when the gate is opened, she is a little mouse (like what F said). Even if my neighbor’s dog comes to my house, Meimei wouldn’t want to socialize with them. My parents conclusion is that, Meimei is a human that doesn’t like dog.

I guess that’s a very long dog tale for you. I don’t know if I would have time for blogging in the next few days, but I’ll try. Hee