Our first doggie gathering!

Lots of firsts recently! :)

So last Sunday, we attended a bbq cum our first doggie gathering. A papillon gathering to be exact. I was quite excited initially, to get a chance to see so many papillons gathered together. But after Popo's behavior at the groomer's the week before, I was starting to worry if she would be too stressed out. 

Thankfully all went rather well! 

When I put her down, she went around sniffing the butts of other paps. She seemed okay with other paps smelling hers too lol. Outside, we let all the paps loose and she started following me around. I think everyone knows her as the one who follows the owner lmao!

It was my first time attending such gatherings and I didn't know anyone, so my evening was spent at a side watching Popo and waiting for poor SSD to cook food for me. We actually weren't full too. Ke lian us.

Bought some pupcakes and a medium cake for the dogs. From The Barkery as recommended by a fellow pap owner. Here's the pretty cake. Didn't get to snap the pupcakes since they were gone unknowingly. 

The greedy pig had huge bites out of all the 3 pupcakes plus a few slices of the cake. Which ended up in a very bloated and uncomfortable night for her. Tell you all something funny. The next morning, I was feeling her tummy, and she let out a loud fart. And she jumped at the sound of her own fart hahahaha! Okay I'm bad. 

Anyway, that sums up our first doggie gathering. More to come hopefully! :)

Valentine's Day 2014

Valentine's this year was a simple affair, as with most of the other festivals. It was a busy, working day full of rushing tenders, a business lunch, and a site showround. Spent more than half a day outside. Phew. 

And as always, SSD sent me a bouquet of roses! To the office again. After I told him this year wasn't necessary. <3 

Pretty! But very heartpain cos it always ends up in the dustbin after some time. :(

Anyway, was able to get off work 'early', and we headed off to buffet dinner at Clover. It's located pretty deep, next to Seletar Airport. Had to walk a lonely stretch of road from the bus stop. Not for the weakhearted to walk alone at night. Lol. 

I thought it would be empty, so I was quite surprised when a family came without reservations and was told the restaurant was fully booked. And guess what, they only had 2 staff serving our section (not sure if they were in charge of other sections as well) of about 10 tables, so service was extremely slow. They tried to be nice and polite about it though. 

Food was average I would say. Not enough to make me go through all the effort definitely. 

Hits were the hotpot (we ordered beef and fish slices), the grilled mushrooms, grilled salmon, salmon aburi sushi...the end. Lol. I think we ordered some which didn't appear, whereas some would have been hits if they didn't come too late.

It was extremely disappointing that the salmon sashimi was a big big miss. It looks NOTHING like what was shown on the Facebook page. Quite obvious that it was frozen for quite some time and wasn't fresh anymore. (Don't doubt me, I deal with meat everyday lol.) Tasted weird too. In the end we shabu-ed it. -.- SSD ordered steak too, which was also disappointingly tough.

Price-wise, it was considered 'worth it', as it costs $39.90 nett per pax and the ala-carte prices were pretty expensive. The hotpot is $45, and steak is $18. Though I seriously doubt anyone would order ala-carte. 

The environment was okay; we managed to get a window seat, but as it was night, we couldn't see any planes taking off at all. There is also an open area at level 3 for a better view of the runway. :)

My fault this time, since I was the one who found this place. Where are all the nice and cheap Japanese buffets?!

Happy 1st Anniversary! =)

Today marks the 365th day since I brought Popo home. I used to joke how she's my valentine baby, since it's a day after v-day. And indeed, she has brought me a year of love, fun, and laughter. <3<3<3

If you don't already know, she's a one-person dog and I feel so so fortunate to be that one person! *haolian* It's an amazing and special feeling to have your dog so bonded to you; I've never experienced it with Bobby. I really hope it will remain this way LOL. *selfish*

Probably that's why I also feel so attached and protective of her. She's like my daughter. Her physical health, her mental wellbeing, her emotions......I just want to give her the best (that I can afford). It feels like my heart is just bursting with love everytime I think about her. (Shit is that what they call, maternal love?)

I guess I'm exaggerating. But doesn't anyone feel like this too? I can't be the only weird one?! Oh wells. 

Anyway. Some milestones in our first year together!

• Switched her from kibbles to 95% raw (5% goes to the blanched salmon and hard-boiled egg)
• Started her on supplements
• From totally untrained to basic trained
• Her being the cutest ringbearer ever in our ROM
• Swimming for the first time
• Her first official outing to Marina Barrage + first attempt at socializing
• Our first visit to a dog cafe

Our goals in the next year.

• Upgrade her meat quality (Please rain money!)
• To participate in a doggie gathering
• To let her try out agility
• Most importantly, to socialize her! 

I bought her a box of valentine cookies from Pawlicious last week. The happy girl with her present. The cookies are supposedly made with purpleberry, blueberry and cranberry. I tried it myself (Popo can't finish all herself) and they were not bad. Though I don't really like having flour in her diet, so I guess first and last time.

Happy anniversary baby! And many more years to come! <3
(SSD don't jealous okay? It's a different kind of love lol.)