It's A Dog's Life

That gullible person who looks after me has been so busy with work and running that he hasn't had much time to blog much about cute old me, I thought I'd hijack his blog and just post some cute little pictures of myself in case you all forgot about cute old me ... ok, ok, I know I can be so darned vain, but heck, I am cute after all, right? Right?? Right???

Come on, isn't this picture of me just adorable? Doesn't those huge puppy dog eyes of mine make you wanna go out and buy me lots of treats and goodies? BOL! It works on that gullible little fellow who takes care of me all the time. All I need to do is blink my big, beautiful eyes a few times and I get him to do all my bidding. I'm a smart little dog aren't I?

Just in case you're wondering why I'm hijacking his blog when I have my own little blog called Pebbles Tales, well it's more fun saturating and messing up his blog with my cute little face. Besides, seeing as how he hardly has the time to blog, I thought I might as well make use of his blog anyway.

Here's a picture of me snoozing away on his and mommy's bed in my nice little yellow top mommy bought for me a month or so ago. It's so nice and cozy that whenever I wear it, I'm always automatically sleepy ... hehehe ... Notice how deep in sleep I am. I love this yellow top and mommy has named it my 'baju tidor' (pajamas).

This is a picture of me nicely snoozing (what else) on that idiot's ... urrmmm ... I mean nice owner of mine, side of the bed when he's away at work. This is mommy's and my little secret. He comes back home and always wonders why his pillows are always messed up ... muahahaha!

Now here's a picture of me when I'm not snoozing and playing around with my best buddy Mac Taylor. Mac Taylor was one of my very first soft toy buddies and I love him so much. I can spend hours trying to rip him apart, unfortunately he's darn tough for little soft toy!

Most of the time, I love lazing around in bed with mommy and that slave of mine under the 'thing that blows cold air' (that's what I named the air-conditioning unit), but they don't always switch on the 'thing that blows cold air' in the day time and it gets hot downstairs so I find a nice cool corner on the tiled floor in his home office and tuck my head under the shelf to avoid the bright glaring light and heat. Sometimes I wish I can reach the switch that switches on the 'thing that blows cold air', now wouldn't that just be peachy!

There are times though when that fellow who looks after me will abuse me by forcing me to pose with his silly running shoes and medals! I know I'm a cute little furry thing but heck, it's not easy being cute all day and having to pose in front of ugly blue shoes and not get paid. I wonder if I can report him to the SPCA or something. You can just see my displeasure can't you?

But most of the time I'm totally bored with nothing much to do. I mean I can only sleep and look cute for so long, you know. Maybe I should get him to get me my own little tablet or something so I can play Doggyville all day and connect with other doggies out there? What do you think? And no, that's not a picture of me in a cage. He doesn't believe in cages or animals being caged up. That's just me poking my head through the bars at the foot of the bed looking absolutely bored.

But mostly, I'm a happy and contented little doggy who has all her needs taken care of by mommy and that silly fellow. He might be a little blur at times but he does make sure I'm comfortable and tucked in under my blanket before he goes to bed.

Sitting Out

Today is a first for me, running wise that is. This is the first time I paid to participate in a race and am sitting out of it on purpose. Well, not really on purpose but for a personal reason anyway.

Early Sunday morning, 3.00am, the PJ Dawn Half Marathon will flag off and I'll be fast asleep on my memory foam mattress and hoping all my running buddies will have a fun filled and most importantly safe race. I would have loved to have been there joining them for the race as the route is a pretty fast one and I was hoping to have brought down my half marathon personal best in this event.

But alas, that was not to be when I found out who was part of the organizing team. I signed up for this event the moment it was announced a few months back, way even before they actually announced who the organizers were. A smart move on their part if you ask me, cos if they did announced it early and people knew who was a part of the committee, they have a very low participation rate.

Well, to cut a long story short, the moment I discovered this person was part of the team, the wife and me decided we'd rather waste the entry fee than take part in this event. Looks like I'll just have to wait for another race to see if I can bring down my half marathon PB timing even more.

I'll be praying and hoping that the race will go through without any problems and that all the participants will come out of it having a good time. With that said and done, all the best to all the runners for the race tomorrow :D

Chill

I'm up to my neck with work that I think I need a disney world vacation for some rest and recreation soon. Everything that's on my plate right now is labeled as 'super urgent' that sometimes I'm running around like a headless chicken just making sure everything goes according to schedule.

As it is, I just recently lost a huge profit project from not being able to get things done on time, which really is a bummer! It would have seen some hefty profits coming in but unfortunately things didn't work out the way I planned and the job was lost. I was pissed with myself for a couple of days over it which added to stress that I'm going through these days.

As much as I'd like to pick and choose my projects right now but I simply cannot afford to. The price of things out there has tripled tremendously and if I don't accept every project that I can get my hands on, someone else will and I'd end up having a difficult time trying to put food on the table.

I don't know about the rest of you but I'm having a tough time struggling and slaving away just to be able to survive every month. Things are not at all cheap out there these days. Just this evening, the wife and me went grocery shopping and had to part with a heck of a lot of cash for the items we bought and the shopping cart not even half full!

I don't know how else to make more money except work like a slave. I honestly blame this all on the useless thieving folks we have running the country who live like kings and queens, living it up with the good stuff while the rest of the country have to suffer like fourth class citizens. And then they have the cheek to tell me to live moderately at that. Heck, how do you think I'm living right now?

I'm praying that the people of Malaysia will succeed in getting that change we all need for a fresh start and for a better future. With that said and done, let me go figure more ways to make some extra money.

Bersih 428

I've been complaining about the government and what crooks they are but haven't really done anything about it. Talk is cheap they say so today I decided to join the thousands of my fellow Malaysians and march up (or tried to anyway) to Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square for the benefits of two of my overseas readers) for the Bersih 3.0 rally!

It was an experience to treasure, mingling around with thousands of people from this country irrespective of race, religious beliefs and the like. For that 6 hours or so that I was there, we were all just Malaysians and none of that PM's 1Malaysia nonsense either, it was just plain, true and pure Malaysians who wanted a change in this country.

It was a decision that wasn't hard to make. The wife wanted to go but we didn't want to take the chance of anything happening to both of us and the children would be all alone at home so I went on behalf of both of us. We don't trust the the Police and DBKL (the town council) as they're all just stooges for the government. They wouldn't let this rally go by peacefully so it was better for one of us to stay home, besides she was with me in my heart all through the rally.

I woke up early and headed into town to park as close as I possibly could seeing as how the freaking cops had already started blocking all the access roads to Dataran Merdeka as early as the night before. I had planned to park in Bangsar and walk all the way to one of the planned rally meeting points about 3-4 kilometers away (one way). Now here is where my running training came in real handy. The 3-4 kilometer walk felt like a really slow LSD session ... LOL!

Anyways, true enough, on the way there I encountered the cops making a human chain across the roads and trying to deter us from reaching the main rally point. Not to be deterred, we just found another way there and sneaked our way around the boys in blue. I was a little emotional seeing so many people of different ages and races all being one and helping each other to find the best and safest way towards the rally point that I think there really is hope for this country after all, if only we could unseat the dictatorial regime, note I use the words 'regime' here cos that's what they are!

Anyways, I finally make my way through the blazing late morning sun towards Dataran Merdeka only to come face to face with barricades and razor wires strung across the roads leading to the rally location taking away my democratic rights of going where I want to. There was already close to a thousand, by my estimate, people there facing off the cops by just sitting peacefully and chanting inspirational messages so I decided to stay there with them and wait till 2.00pm which was when the actual 'duduk bantah' (sitting protest) would begin for two hours.

I had a field day snapping pictures of the event as proof of how many people attended the rally. Unfortunately I wish I had some duracell procell aaa handy cos my cell was running low on battery from all those pictures and videos I was snapping.

The FRU cordoning off the road towards Dataran ...

The people were all passionate about why they were there. The national anthem was sung on many occasions and I can't remember it being more meaningful than all those times I had to sing it every Monday morning during assembly back in my school days! I can't even remember a time I sang the national anthem with such pride!

The sun was blazing and by then the crowd started to swell. I can't really say how many there were at this location (there were a few other rally points) but I'd estimate close to a few thousand fellow Malaysians. Since we couldn't go pass the barricades and were also told not to by the event chairperson and marshals, we all sat there to protest for a clean and fair elections which was the agenda of this rally anyway.

Welcome to Tel Aviv ala Malaysia ...

Fortunately nothing untoward happened, though I was bracing for the worse and managed to head home peacefully. Unfortunately, by the time I got home, the wife told me that the cops fired tear gas and water canons at people who were leaving the rally without being provoked by anyone, at least that's what I read on Facebook and Twitter anyway. I don't really know what actually happened at that locations but a lot or reports came in saying they were shot at for no reason. It's as if the government weren't happy that we Malaysians acted civil during the sit in protest and wanted to teach us a lesson as we were leaving.

All that is unconfirmed anyway as it didn't happen where I was but knowing the way the government think, I wouldn't put it pass them to do something like that. I read a lot of people were hurt and arrested and I truly and sincerely hope that they're okay. I suppose I'll know more as the reports flow in on Facebook and Twitter. I'm not going to bother with the government controlled main stream media who are probably going to twist the facts anyway.

Was it worth it? To walk to and fro, close to 12 kilometers? To be baked in the sun for close to 6 hours? To shout myself hoarse demanding for my rights? You bet your bottom dollar it was. I'm fed up of being taken for a fool by the idiots in Putrajaya. I'm fed up of them stealing from us, living it up while I have to work like a slave for every single cent I earn just to put food on the table. I'm fed up with them telling me to live moderately while they live in million dollar bungalows and drive around in expensive sports cars.

It's time we all stand up and demand for what is ours. Besides I NEVER voted this incompetent prime minister and his deputy into power and I'm sure neither did a lot of you. I demand for somebody better to bring this country out of the rut it is in and that can only start with a fair and clean elections. Something the dictatorial regime knows they will lose hands down if they don't cheat, which is why they're so against this rally for a fair and clean elections.

Let's get real, if they lost, they'd lose their only source of stealing money from us and they'd probably end up in prison once the opposition takes over and uncovers all their illegal dealings while they were in power. So yes, I would say it was worth every bit of my time and effort to be alongside my fellow Malaysians today and I would do it all over again if need to!

Feels Like Hell On Earth

I'm expecting the day to be a hot one. The moment I woke up and after switching off the air conditioning in the room and was getting ready for work, I was already sweating. And it wasn't even 9am yet.

Then driving out to work, the sun outside felt like it was midday! That's a sure sign of the day being a hot one. It's going to make my evening run session later today an uncomfortable one if the weather doesn't cool down by then.

Even my office with all the air conditioning at full blast is struggling to keep us barely comfortable. I'm praying that there won't be any outdoor installations today cos I dread stepping out of the office. Looks like my guitar playing session later with those Mitchell Guitars we have in the office is a no go. Not that I could play the guitar in the first place, mind you!