my day out with mum...

Took a couple of shots (complimentary, courtesy of someone who recommended)
Well, it's all in the name of fun. Glad we didn't have to pay for it!

the scare

got very worked up yesterday when my bro called me in the late morning while i was at work.

"tick fever. virus attacking her red blood cells. the vet says sherry has a 50-50 chance. he said we could buy and strike 4d if she recovered."

was already tearing when i heard that. and what sort of comment was that from the vet?! sherry wasn't her usual self the past few days..stopped eating..not even our human food which we slip to her sometimes. and she didn't growl in the mornings like she did. didn't really run around. didn't even come to the door to say bye to me when i left for work! she got bitten by ticks. ticks that were infected (not that common - vet said only 1 in 50 dogs get it - but she got it anyway..sigh)

rushed back during lunch to see her. apparently her ears were turning yellow - jaundice. iced her and force-fed her water. think she must hate me now. but it's for her own good.

went back to work all worried. when colleagues asked me what happened i starting breaking. one of them was mean enough to laugh when she found out the reason for my distress. it might sound ridiculous but i do treasure my puppy and i treat her as family - what's wrong with feeling the way i do?

really hopes she pulls through.

my new puppy sherry

meet sherry :) the frisky little jack russell.

who adorably clung tightly to me, shivering and afraid, on the very first day we got her.
who slept oh-so-soundly in the basket and cloths we prepared for her.
who peed, crapped and toppled her drinking bowl such that all three matters were a beautiful mesh.
(and we wondered how one small 3 month-old puppy could have stored so much ...)

who yelped and whimpered through the second night
but behaved on the third
and further delighted us by taking the initiative to crap on the newspapers!

sherry's getting smarter :)

one thing's for sure: it's sure not easy looking after a puppy!

things have been happening, one after another. are those His signs?

i think there's no bigger crisis than to be planning for a milestone event, and have your key personnel die on you (literally). the event is postponed and the whole company changes tack. we change too, according to the new leader.

managing uncertainty. being on call 24/7.

it consumes you and takes a toll on your physical, emotional and mental being. the trick is to draw a line.

but i can't help wondering when this would all be over.

what an irony. the very place that brought us together is driving us apart.

i forget how books suck you into a world of your own. or rather, a world of its own.

you start thinking, empathizing and feeling.
of things both foreign and familiar.

how we all fight so hard for the things we want
and how we get them
only to realise it's temporary
and that our paths have already been planned by above

do we really get a choice at all?
or do we just think we do when we don't?

you decide. (do you?)

is it just me or it happens to most females?

the confidence to step on the accelerator only comes with my familiarity with the route - which means i need practice. put me in a place like yishun to navigate and i'll cry for baby to come pick me up instead (which he did, actually)

still remember spending two hours to get home from school (ntu) by car when it normally took me about an hour and a half by public transport. driving up the wrong expressway made me feel absolutely intelligent too. up till now, i can't say i won't make the same mistake - unless i'm driving the same route everyday. even the area around my own house is a challenge at times - i got charged twice for ERP in the span of less than an hour when it wasn't even my destination. [writer's note: pls note that all this happened a long time ago]

doing my homework helps - finding out where it is, which route i should take. and of course, the most important thing is having the emergency number to call when i'm lost on the roads (that would probably be my brother and my boyfriend. heh)

other than the route or routine headache (can be taken both ways), i still find the skill of driving useful. unless, of course, i get so flustered that i forget that a manual car has a clutch. in an emergency two weeks ago, i mistook the brake pedal of a MANUAL car to work the gears (which works for auto cars). i spent 15 minutes literally pushing the gear stick. had i lifted my dormant left foot meant for driving manual cars, i would have found that the gear-box was still fully functional. thank goodness i hadn't told my dad (ever the skeptic of female drivers, but gives me a go at times) that his car was spoilt - i actually crafted an sms to him!

but i digress. my point is, i should practise more. so that there'd be one less stereotyped-driver on the road.