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| Work and CookieHey all,
Sorry for the lack of updates, working life killed my social life and the free time I get seemed to precious to blog. It's been 2 weeks already and boy, do i miss my student life. All I wanna do after I get home is watch tv and sleep. People at my work place are too hardworking, going in at 8am and leaving at around 7 pm. They even work till 4pm on Sat. As for me, I try to seem hardworking la..but I quickly flee whenever I can and usually reach home around 7pm.
The 1st week, I had to observe them implement lean management to 1 of the production lines...I had to stay till 9 pm..Wah, I literally could just fall asleep standing up. I now understand why Andrew and Andy don't seem to wanna talk much after work. I still cannot get use to sleeping early so I don't get enough sleep during the week and by Sat, I'm like a walking zombie.
This is my office at 8.15 am...I know..I can't believe I can get there so early myself.
I did hope to get to know some interesting people at work...but my colleagues are all older and the few younger ones are very quiet and keep to themselves most of the time. Oh well~at least Siao Khee is still following me to work now while waiting for her job applications in SG to go through. We have to share a desk and fight over who gets to surf the net :(
I'm very excited about Nike sending down their designers and fit models down from Europe end of this month. I think I will look forward to work more then. But so far work is ok, I get to learn different things all the time and since I am not committed, there is no pressure. I also get to see new designs for next year, but too bad I'm not a sporty kinda person, see already also don't wear.
As for the dog-Cookie, he is as obnoxious as ever, everyday barking the house down. He got a new haircut...which is okla...cannot complain. At least he now feels cooler. The weather has been horrible last week...The whole of Penang was covered in haze, thanks to the tree burnings in Indonesia...again.
Ooh, today my dad had enough of Cookie thinking he's the boss of the house and decided to let Ben & Michelle into the house to scare Cookie a bit. How to know..the boy managed to piss Michelle off within the first 3 seconds and she bit his ear and refused to let go....wahahhahaha. We had to break them apart, and this Cookie thinking he very brave started scolding and screaming his head off when I carried him away, like he still wanna go back n fight. Please lor, Michelle is like twice his size...this dog really no brains a bit. So project "Get Cookie, Ben & Michelle to be Friends" has failed once again. My dad had to shoo them out after not even a minute.
Later, I discovered that Michelle actually drew blood....poor Cookie had a few puncture marks on his ear.
 sorry for the blurred pic :P
I wanna feel sorry for him, but then again he really brought it on himself la. I think Michelle really cannot stand him now, she never bite until so serious before. Uh oh!! So, we're thinking of getting the dog trainer/groomer who's my mom's friend to come try get Cookie to make friends with Ben & Michelle soon.
See la...dogs giving me so much trouble....*grumble grumble...*mutter mutter...
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| I got a job!I have finally stopped moping around at home and started going out a lot more..which also explains my lack of updates.
I finally got a temporary job as a Management Trainee in my cousin's garment factory. I start next week and my working hours are 8.30- 4.45 Mon-Fri and 8.30-1pm on Sat...boohoohoo..I have to work Saturdays, which is like my fav day of the week. It also takes me 1 hour to drive to work as the factory is all the way on mainland- Butterworth. Yay..can't wait!!!(u can tell i'm being sarcastic right?)
I'm feeling very nervous about starting...since u knowla..working for family...and there are certain expectations. Oh well...this is just for a coupla months until Andy comes back and we decide where to go from there. The job will be good learning experience...so i hope everything goes well.
On other dog news, Cookie and Lady are getting along fine now. They are so cute. In the car they expect me to be their car seat. So I would sit there with Cookie cradled in the right arm, Lady in my left arm and their butts overlapping in the middle. Lady likes to be cheeky and sometimes deliberately face the same direction as Cookie. He would get pissed and growl at her...then she purposely lie on top of him summore...:D
Oh..Ben and Michelle are good friends again now...they forgot all about the fight the next day. I still look at my hands and grumble...
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| Dog fights and battle wounds.Last week, Ben and Michelle had a huge fight with each other....and I got bitten. :(
It all started with Michelle digging through the trash and hogging this bag of chicken bones she found. Cookie smelt CHICKEN and snapped at her through the partition. Ben wanted some as well, but Michelle snapped at him. Poor Ben, always kena bully by Michelle.
 
My sister hollered at my maid to grab the chicken bones away...coz they might choke on them. (Cooked chicken bones are dangerous as they are small and brittle and can lodge in dogs' throats) I distracted them with doggy snacks. Michelle got really angry when my maid took the bag away, and dunno why Ben got pissed as well. I think underneath his cute silly exterior lies a huge mountain of fury. They both just started biting at each other...sinking their teeth at each others necks and basically whatever they could latch on. They were both so furious!!
I was horrified..I mean I've seen them fight before but never this ferociously and for so long. It must have been for more than 5 long minutes of biting and shoving each other on the ground, knocking over plants and breaking the pots. I decided to do something about it after seeing each of them drawing blood all over. I have seriously never seen animals fight so fiercely in real life before and was so scared they were gonna kill each other or at least seriously injure each other. I went out and started hitting them with newspapers, (I was panicking and at a lost..wanted to throw water at them..but could not find any water to throw)
They still bite and shoved and mauled and growled and snapped at each other everywhere. I couldn't even pull them apart, their teeth were latched onto each other's flesh and they refused to let go. When I finally could pull one apart, the other would take the opportunity to attack again. Man...I got scratched and bitten...the worse was when dunno which dog sank its fangs right into my fourth finger which resulted in a huge gaping hole...by then I was visibly traumatised. They simply refused to stop fighting. (If u are wondering what the small dogs are doing at this point, they
are barking furiously at the side, adding to the commotion. Cookie
wanted to charge as well...stupid anot..had to put him in his cage.)
To make matters worse, my sister and my maid were just looking horrified at the side...dumbfounded!
Finally my sister came to her senses....(luckily my mom came back) and we managed to pry them apart...although Michelle still refused to let go of Ben's back. I think after fighting for so long they were tired. Ok..at this time, my hands were stained with blood, both mine and the dogs....man was I still in shock..actually felt like puking.
I had to clean their wounds with antiseptic lotion summore..luckily all were superficial wounds. Michelle got it worse, the flesh around her neck were raw. She had a wound on her cheek, and more on her legs. Ben, being bigger and stronger than her just had minor wounds everywhere. After washing and treating their wounds then I could tend to me and boy...was I pissed!
I had over 12 fang marks on my hands, a finger that is as swollen as a sausage and bruises on my legs.(Ok..my wounds look worse in real life than the pics) Summore I had to get a freakin tetanus shot after that made my other arm feel like a punching bag. I was not a happy girl that day.....
 
Now my bruises have turned green along with my sausage finger...I just look like I have gangrene.
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| Warning!
Behold, the face of deception and all things evil!
Cookie is really giving me a handful nowadays. I think its coz he knows he is cute and that his "cuteness" will get him out of trouble. I have always been convinced that he's more cunning than he looks. Even in Melbourne when he will exploit his cuteness to the max, esp in front of Andy. Everyone assumes Cookie is a silly, happy, easily excitable dog without balls (literally) that will definitely get bullied by other dogs. (I mean he does look silly and tends to cry a lot) At least thats what we thought before we brought him back!
Now I have confirmation that Cookie is so much smarter than he looks.He bosses all the other dogs around : he has to be first to enter a room (rudely pushes Lady out of the way), he has to be first to eat and he has to eat the most! He has to be the first to bark whenever someone comes home and the first to greet whoever comes in the door. He has to be the first for everything!!!!He freakin scolds Ben and Michelle for barking..not realising he barks more than them by doing that. Every bark that comes out of Ben or Michelle's mouth, there are 20 more barks waiting to be let out of this boy's mouth. I could kill him, especially when this happens at 6 am when he insists to be let out to (sigh) greet my maid. He is also super kaypo..has to be everywhere all the time. He guards the stairs protectively and sleeps right in front of the stairs during the afternoons so that he can boss both the people(& dogs) upstairs and downstairs when needed.
Anyways, this incident totally confirmed my suspicions. The other night, Cookie was already sleeping peacefully when Lady wanted to be let in. She was in my parents' room before. As she is so tiny, she always have to be carried up onto my bed. She lets me knows she wants to be let up by standing up and leaning her front paws on the side of my bed. Cookie jumped off the bed as I was letting Lady in just coz he was kaypo and wanted to see who was at the door. Upon seeing me carry Lady up on the bed, Cookie looked at me forlornly and then FREAKIN PRETENDED HE COULDN"T JUMP UP on the bed. He pretended to make several half hearted attempts to jump and then showed me how he just couldn't and didn't have the strength to do it. He then looked at me with his innocent eyes and whined. I looked at him, dunno whether to laugh or cry and had to carry him up on the bed as well. After that, then he kam luan and went back to sleep.
Later that day...after whacking him for barking too much at Ben and Michelle, I sat down on the sofa in the living room. I called out to Ben who was walking pass outside and Cookie beh kam luan again!! He immediately jumped onto the sofa and climbed onto my lap!! As if to show off to Ben that he's the boss and the most lovable dog in the house. You tell me this dog cunning anot!!
I do admit I forgive him easily because he does look so CUTE, esp when he gives me his guilty and sorry face.
Maybe thats why he thinks he's the boss of me...:(
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