Dog Olympics - In The News

Wow! More excitement today. Turns out that mum and me were photographed by a daily newspaper, The Star's, photographer covering the Dog Olympics last Sunday. So, we're in the news again! (The last time we were in the news was when the Star published our post called "To BEagle or not to Beagle").

We weren't even aware that we were photographed. As I mentioned in my last post, there were amateur and professional photographers every where you turned. Out of over 500 dogs that turned up during the event, we were one of the 9 photographs that the Star published. What an honour! If you're interested in an excerpt of the article, check out the on-line Star article. Unfortunately, they only published 3 photographs on the on-line version and we're not in it...

But, we scanned the photograph to post on my blog. Here it is. And the funny thing is... it's a picture of mum taking a picture of me! Hah! Hah!

Girls Day Out at the Dog Olympics

Mum & I had a "Girls' Day Out" yesterday. Dad had gone on a mountain bike cross country race so, we gals had our own outing at the Dog Olympics in Central Park (no, not the one in New York City) in Bandar Utama. It was a gloomy morning but that didn't stop the doggies and their dog-loving humans from turning out in full force.

Although we didn't participate in any of the Dog Olympics events, we had a gala time meeting all the other doggies. At the rate I'm going, my social calendar is going to be busier than my humans! Let me show you some of the new friends I sniffed, eer...met (Beagles,Schnauzers, Spaniels, Huskies, Terriers, etc, etc) :



















Budding photographers and professional photographers were out in full force. I lost count how many times complete strangers pointed their cameras at me. Big, expensive SLRs, compact point and shoot cameras, mobile phone cameras were all being clicked away. Luckily, I'm an "experienced" model coz my humans are forever taking photographs of me, especially since I started the blog.

I managed to dodge the photographers long enough to catch a break.
Then, as I waited for the agility event to start, mum decided to take more pictures of me...
Finally, I managed to watch the agility event. Such clever dogs! A couple of them were rather entertaining. One Jack Russell decided that he prefered to run outside the course, than inside. His poor human had to chase after him!
What a super duper outing. Even the rain didn't dampen the day!

New Pals - Chester, Sabrina and Nigel

Woohoo! Car ride! Last weekend, Mum & I went to KL Sentral to pick dad up. We also gave Dad's friends Nick & Ivor a ride back to Nick's home. Nick took the above picture of me sitting on the back of the car and checking out the other cars on the road. Then Nick took a picture of me checking Ivor out...

But, the star of the day wasn't Ivor or Nick... Sorry guys. The stars are Nick's three gorgeous dogs - Chester, Sabrina and Nigel. Chester (brown) and Sabrina (black) are labradors while Nigel (the youngest) is a golden retriever. When I first arrived at Nick's home, I was a little bit cautious coz, hey, they are BIG (relative to me, anyway). But, after some intense sniffing...all is well in the doggie kingdom. Chester, Sabrina and Nigel are super-friendly, just like their humans, the Soo family. Below, Nick's mum & dad are welcoming me to their home.

The big boys were very protective and played bodyguard to me just in case I get lost in their big big house. Here, Chester is following me as I make my way up the driveway.

Then Nigel follows me as I check out his beautiful garden. The boys were great bodyguards, I tell you. I didn't get lost at all.

I'm so happy to have met Chester, Sabrina and Nigel. They are awesome (and so are their humans)!. And in case you're wondering who Nick is...

Meet Benjy!

My human playmate, Pei Yee and her brothers have a new addition to their family. Meet Benjy, a 2-month old mixed Labrador and Husky (although I do think this handsome little doggie has some beagle-like markings - white socks on the paws and white patch of the neck - just like me).


There was so much excitement in their household on the day Benjy joined the Fong household. Pei Yee loves dogs and have been asking her parents for years to get one. They finally relented since they figured Pei Yee was responsible enough to look after the dog. My humans were so pleased that they could join our friends in welcoming Benjy. I had to stay home coz Benjy wasn't vaccinated then. But, that's OK. I don't mind. The boys were busy setting up the crate for Benjy. (OK, their dad and my dad did lend a hand with the crate..., but the boys did the finishing touches)
The kids were busy showering attention on this lucky fella.


Left to Right: Pei Yee, Benjy's original human, Pei Der and Pei Jee. Centre of attention: Benjy

After all that attention, tired Benjy settled for a snooze in a corner (he is still a wee pup after all).I hope to meet Benjy real soon coz he's got his vaccination now. He would have grown so much by now. Mum, dad, can we visit this weekend, please?

More Changes To My Blog

Friends, thanks for all your positive feedback on the new look of my blog. I really loved Mr T-Bone Beasley's suggestion on adding the scent to the blog. Some blogs have music. If someone could invent a scent for blogs, it would be very popular among dog blogs!

Now that I'm on the roll, I decided to make more changes to my blog. I discovered that Blogger has recently released a new page element called Blog List. The Blog List improves on the Link List page element by using blogs’ RSS and Atom feeds to show update times, post titles, and snippets. Isn't that cool? I opted to arrange my blog list with the latest update on top. Now, with 1 quick glance, I can click on the latest updates by my paw pals. Of course, it does take up more space compared to the Link List. But then, now that my blog is 3-columns, I can afford to do that.

I would also like to share with you the "before" picture which I used for my new header. Dad painstakingly cropped my picture out so I can use it on my blog header. He is a sweetheart!

P.S. The reason my tongue was sticking out was because we had just completed a very long walk on the hill. It was a gorgeous day for an outing.

Upgraded My Blog

Mum & I have been experimenting with our blogs. We discovered a cool website called "Tips for New Bloggers" which is right up our alley coz we're new bloggers! We initially tried it out earlier on by adding the "Recent Comments" page element to enable us to quickly glance at our friends' comments on our posts.

We then decided to upgrade to 3 columns so that we could have more flexibiliy with adding page elements. Mum upgraded her blog "Life is A Journey. Enjoy It" last Friday. After her success, she decided to try it on mine too. It took us a lot longer as we had some problems with the margins on my template. We finally figured it out today. All this HTML business is foreign jargon to us. But, I must say that "Tips for New Bloggers" website made it pretty easy for novices to make changes to our blogs.

I also changed my title header. Dad took this picture of me during our walk at the hill. Still testing out the background. Haven't quite decided if I should maintain my previous background ocre colour. Work-in-progress still...

Excellent Award

Wow! 2 awards in 1 month. I am so honoured that Uncle Bok Jae has given me an "Excellent Award" for my blog. Mum & I have learnt so much from this man of wisdom.

And because all good things are meant to be shared, I would like to pass this award to:

Sweet Jasmine - for her excellent recipes
Amber - for her excellent "makan and makan angin" (which means eating and vacation in the Malay language) recommendations
Jazz & Dixie - for their excellent relationship

Xsara - for her excellent agility