Simply adorable, my darling Cuddles.....

I normally would be up and about by 7 am when my maid routinely takes Cuddles out to the balcony to defecate.

However, there are many occasions, when I will just slumber on following prior sleepless or late nights!!

And, since time immemorial, Cuddles, like an alarm clock, would wake me when it struck 8 in the morning just like today! She will keep pawing on my shoulder until I acknowledged her presence!

Ha ha, I can hear her unspoken words! "Mom! Wake up! 8 am dy!"

Opening my eyes to witness her leaning by my bedside with her pawing action always amuses me.

Many a time, I would greet her wryly murmuring, "OK la, OK la, mummy's up already...." 

There were several instances though when I would just brush her off with "Aiyo, please la Cuddles! Mummy's still sleepy!" or a stern "Enough! Go away!" when she persisted pawing repeatedly! 

Imagine being awakened at 8 am when I hit the bed at 5 am, with barely 3 hours of sleep!!

I felt sorry though when she would drop on all fours and walk away with her head hung low....

With a silent "Sorry darling, Mom will make up to you .......", I would proceed to pursuing my dreams....  

Scandinavia 16/7 - 27/7 ....backlog....

As with most tour packages, we were literally living out of suitcases every day! Imagine covering 4 countries within 10 days...Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland!!





Though it was summer, the weather was cool between 9-18 Celsius. 








Copenhagen seems a ghostly city with most locals away from home for the summer vacation!

We embarked for Oslo the next evening....our first overnight cruise experience.

Oslo, Norway, with its spectacular scenery is certainly not to be missed by avid outdoor lovers of landscape......



Never had I enjoyed long rides in coaches slipping past countrysides and breathtaking sceneries, as then!  

Waterfalls and fjords at every other corner!

Briksdal Glacier

Sognerfjord

Oslo Opera House

Ca-Ryn snowballing me!!

Snow clad mountain

Frogner Park - Vigeland Scultures

The Monolith at Vigeland Park.

Stockholm, Sweden, a city of bridges and islands.

Another overnight cruise took us to Helsinki, Finland.

Pampered pooches on board the cruise....
Pooches in hotels and shopping malls too, a common sight.

Sibelius Monument

Temppeliaukio Church

We journeyed back to Copenhagen for our departure flight home bringing with us souveniers, designer labeled handbags and, leather jackets which are mainly for Ca-Ryn since she needs them to brace the cold in China and Mongolia! 

Phew! Come to think of it, with that amount spent on this vacation and purchases, I could have driven home a Perodua Kelisa 1000 GX MET (A) 988cc to combat my poor parking skills!!!  

I have since named her Charcoal!

She would not have to go through this pregnancy if I had been insistent about having her spayed....

          

.......and I would not have to go through the hassle pleading for these puppies to be adopted!!

Two females and a male born on 05/07/12.





Her sagging teats are evidence of repeated pregnancies! 

Judging her by the teeth to be around 7 years of age, she could have had 13 litters to date!!! 

A week long spaying aftercare within confined home ground was too much for her and me to bear! 

With her incessant barking, it won't be long before my neighbors lodged complaints with the local council!

Charcoal, released to where HOME is to her! 

The home where she had spent her days for the last 7? 8? months!

Spayed, ear notched, HAPPY and FREE......

Is the CURSE never gonna end?

It is too much to bear! God...what is the name of your game??

My software problem with iMac which had since been resolved on Thursday played up again this morning. 

I couldn't access the Internet and tried everything possible as advised by the technical support assistant over the phone. 

Just as I have resigned to sending the desktop back again on Monday, the Facebook page suddenly displayed right before my eyes! Weird??? Anyway, this is not what I am about to share.

Look at this....

A silly lady brushed her car against mine when turning into Jalan Delima from the Jalan Mesjid Negeri traffic light junction and had the cheek to say I was speeding!

I do not deny driving fast, DEFINITELY NOT SPEEDING, to beat the light but I was in the right lane when she, trying to beat the light too, avoided the motorcyclists in front of her to cut into my lane.

My relief when sighting a traffic police who came to the scene within minutes was short lived! Instead of assessing the accident, he directed us away from the site, citing obstruction even when the light had turned red and not safe for us to drive across! 

Then, stopping the flow of traffic, he gestured us towards Jalan Delima and sped off!!

While the lady reiterated about me speeding???!, her insolent teen daughter was screaming her head off at me! 

Gosh! It took me all my might to resist slapping her hard across her face for calling me a bitch and bragging about me being jealous of their better new car??! 

Guess it runs in the family as at the police station, I overheard the father mentioning some side mirror replacement of Rm3000 plus!! So it seems, they are the ONLY RICH in town!!

I don't know much about cars but if I'm not mistaken, the emblem of a W symbolizes Volkswagen???  

The ironical scenario is the fact that I had left my hand phone at home knowingly when I exited my main gate, thinking it was too much of a hassle to get it as I was running late for my dance class!

I had thought, I hardly receive calls these days, so why bother?? 

And therefore....WITHOUT the phone camera, no shots were taken and it is now a case of her words against mine and vice versa when she was obviously in the WRONG!!!

They had probably assumed they were in the right as the right back side of their car was grazed, I told the inspector who recorded the statement.

However, the Inspector corrected me saying "Ini bukan belakang tapi tepi kereta...." meaning to say I did not hit them on the REAR which would have rendered me GUILTY without trial, I suppose??!!

I feel a CURSE on me.....

DAMN IT!! Since my newly purchased Mac OS X crashed, I have been tied by hands and feet!! 

Importing photos from both digital and phone cameras were unsuccessful, hence thwarting my attempts of uploading pictures for my blog and Facebook....watching online streamed dramas not possible and...WHAT NOT!!!

Gosh! It had been more than a month of HELL for me....the auto gate, the fish pond's pump and ALL 3 water cisterns system malfunctioned causing me hundreds of ringgit to repair and yet cannot be fully resolved!!

My few months old phone battery can never be fully charged! A trip to the dentist had me advised of braces fixed AT MY AGE! The body kit of my Camry etched yesterday!

GOD! HEAVEN FORBID ANY WORSE TO COME!!!