Risa, the Golden Retriever

Our family welcomed a new doggy, a Golden Retriever, which we have decided to call her Risa.

She's about 2 years old and had not been well taken cared of by the previous owner.
We took her over and decided to be responsible for her life starting a few weeks ago.

Bathing Risa for the first time we got her home.

Golden retrievers...my first knowledge about this breed of dog is when I watched the Air Bud movie many years ago where there's this GR that knows how to play basketball.

I have learned that they're quite a popular breed, amiable, friendly, bred with an instinct to retrieve, easy to train, etc.

We remove the tick and flea off her, fed her meds for heart worm, dewormed her so far, the next thing would be her vaccination.

Risa, although been through a terrible life before this, is not out of hope, although still uneasy sometimes, she has learn to trust the family, she has found her place in the family.
In a few more months time, i would like to see her being more happy, healthier too.
We taught her to sit but she's still quite confused with the command.
Also, she's a retriever that seems to be too stressed to retrieve yet.

I hope to tell her,

Good Luck Risa, we'll take care of you from now on, that you will be safe with us. This is your home now.

Took Risa on her first walk around the neighborhood when she got better.

cross out checklist.

just like crossing out a checklist, last night i crossed out another one off the list.

the item? Hoegaarden witbier (white beer).
As part of self development initiated at a time i myself not known, i'm trying to taste as many type of food&beverage as i can before i die.

Alcohol drinks is one of the largest category of the menu, although sad enough as it is that us, being an Islamic country made enjoying alcohol slightly costly than other places...

i'm still not missing this one out.

Hoegaarden, is a beer that's golden and slightly cloudy white beer, upon check made in Belgium.

Spicy, and seems to taste like lemon is my comment after drinking it.
The alcohol content seems to be slightly higher too.

One off the list, on to the next XDXD

11.11.11

Sometimes the date depicts slightly extra happiness and emotions.
Especially in numerology, where numbers are studied, i do believe that the date 11.11.11 display such a unique sublime text to mankind, also its one that we may never be able to discover the reason behind it.

However, I do also believe that no matter what date it is, what day it may be, life is supposed to be lived in, and not lived out.
To adore everyday, to its fullest, our fullest.

Anyway, it IS a triple 11, might wanna make some special memories out of it.

Great day everyone, great day world.

Changed?

I used to say many things with little doubt and thought, foolish in another sense.

Time passed, though I'm not saying I'm no longer a fool, nor does it makes me a wiser person.

But all these time due has led me to learn that word weighs more than it did whence I have little to lose, little to gain.

Whatever I say, in some of the words I utter, I would like them to matter when it is my willing.

Time, taught us that words have different weight to each and every different individuals...weight its value, can only be done by yourselves.

Changes in life

Remember how "we'd" spend times thinking about life, now i'm just trying to live it.
There's no grand theory about it, and everything just keeps coming and leaving.

But just "you" wait, things will definitely get more interesting as the time flow...
better catch up with "them".

Hurdles toward the end of the year

Within a few quick winks the year which seemed to just began a few months ago is now no more than 3 months in the counting.

Resolutions aplenty yet to be fulfilled....

Expectations

This morning, I woke up feeling just like any other day in life to enjoy.

Same o' bed, same o' routine of making myself a cuppa coffee, it has been awhile but not very long back, I started to resent instant coffee, drinking it only when I have no other choices.
Yup, I've bought coffee powder grounded from coffee beans and even got hold of a sock just for my morning Cuppa.

My expectations for the day?
A usual day to tackle as always...
But before I knew it, I've made appointments and received appointments from all aspects.

Yes, today's appointments is definitely out of the usual, totally something out of my expectations.
Then despite the short amount time I have, everything started to sort themselves out for me, rather than requiring more effort that could have cost me more time and strains. Yes, I shall not disagree for its indeed a miracle unasked for.

It reminds me yet again, my mistakes and failures had just begun to run its course, more is to come, and in return, a better outcome and brighter prospects is up for grab.

So why should I hated the person that had half a share in all these?
Very little. Little and bits I'm starting and willing to believe, to convince myself that I am actually welcoming these outcomes that has surfaced for more than an issue.
It had did nothing short in the past few months in challenging my very faith, as did it my sanity, courage, confidence, and what not.

You know...
I'd say, do whatever I can while tackling whatever I cannot...and I shall solve them.

The worst parts may have yet to come, but I had managed one, I had suffered heartaches of the worst kind, one that I had never imagined up to my 20 years of life, such naivety and ignorance.
I had woke up and gone to sleep with a painful heart that twitched and toiled me, these I had experienced, yet I did not break then, so neither shall I break now, and let it be for the future me. Break we shan't, not until life ran its course.

Expect the unexpected.

Back to training.

After missing for more than 2 months from my Taekwondo trainings, I went back for some the night before.
New floor mat, new faces, fresh body...
But this morning, wake up with the ever so familiar muscle aches as usual.
And the sand bags are finally beaten.

Still, Its good to be back.

DreamS.

There's many end to the word "DREAM".

Anyway, the point is that... its something that we mostly taken for grant easily in life.

We dream about our future, about life, love, health, wealth, fun, etc. And with that we struggle through hills and valleys, trying to reach the destination of these dreams.

We dream about all sort of wild things in our sleeps. The good ones, they call it sweet dreams.

The bad ones, nightmares.

We dream about something that's probably slightly difficult, or very difficult, or impossible to attain.

Yet, nothing stop a person from continuing their dream. 

Not the valleys that may break them down, not the nightmares that leaves them awake in bed with sweat, nor the impossible something that they all dream about.

This is us, this is the human nature, this is how human civilizations came to, from then...and as long as the world shall spin, as night and day follows, we shall not stop our dreams from being dreamt.

Sweet dreams folks.

Planned vs On-the-go

There's a thing about what we've planned and what we've decide upon on the go.

The latter, means that we have to make a quick decision on the spot, sometimes with little time to think it through, and sometimes with the lack of vital information.

Either ways, at those situations, we usually have to decide to take another route to end up at our planned destination or give it up ultimately for something else.
This goes to explain that what we originally planned,will almost always end up with us gaining something else.

Sacrifices. Devotion. Breakage of friendships. Change of inner thoughts. Lifestyles. Life...

dire situations

These are dire situations and difficult time...

Nothing but the sort that strip me off all Passion and positivity that I possess and left nothing in my way akin to that whence one couldn't even find a speck of Hay to grasp to to save myself from when fell into a rapid current river.

Quite much that it shall even reap me off of what I had adore and cared for all these times.

Where does I quit it to, now that surrenderment isn't unobvious and near at sight?

My last ray of light had I kept, not giving up, yet hoe insignificant it seemed in the light of a much sinister malifice.

This is indeed as thought Invictus is enacted, right off my very life it does...

who am i, whom i was.

My name is Then Hon Hua.

My name is Then Hon Hua.

My name is Then Hon Hua.

My name is...
My name...


:S

Keep climbing.

Despite not living up to the deadline of 25yro i've set for myself around the time i left secondary.
Despite nothing exactly went as planned, from here on, it's keeping trying to climb, no matter its ups or downs, will be able to get there some time.


Whatever things may be that thrown themselves in my paths, i shouldn't falter, and quickly recover from recumbent situation.
As the Art of War says, when in death or entangled ground, keep moving.

All these, I need to remind myself to think and believe so...for now.

Meet Phebbi, more than just lucky star.

BB Phebbi.

Meet Phebbi, my ~4 years old Rottweiler.
Phebbi belongs to the 1st batch of the puppies Nicco gave birth to.
And she is my super lucky star, we'll get to that a bit later.

As each of my Rotties does with uniqueness, Phebbi has the most mischievous face in the family, it is from her eyes alone that you could felt as thought the little noggin of hers is constantly processing some kinda information or mischief that I can never fathom.
Phebbi also has a Stature that's different than the other 2 Rotties i have and resemble much of like a Doberman Pinscher.

She has a nature of causing disaster and disobeying command due to delay her training, which proved to be a much more difficult feat to perform by amateur trainer slash owner.
She boast a strong affinity to newspaper it seems, and reserves the highest potential to receive 'Fetch' training.

Cuteness, a quality also found in the mutt, tends to keep the best part of her food for later consumption compare to other dogs which is the other way around, definitely the only one l've seen doing so.
And she would even frown like me given enough time and provocation. They got circular eyebrows!
/_\

One of the coolest thing about Phebbi is that whenever you're down or you're pissed with her, a look in her face and all your anger might have dissipate and evaporate from you very soul.

Phebbi is actually the sole survivor of Nicco's 1st batch of litter, the rest which had all died due to the lack of antibodies and sufficient nutrients from the mother's milk...
All in all, Phebbi is the only 1 that made it out, out of 8 puppies. Lucky? more than that.

I want aTattoo!

I wanna get a Tattoo, mark for life^^,
But i wonder what designs should l get, my concern is not issue being regretting that l got one, but that the design is not to my liking for the next say 30,40 years so.

What i have in mind are currently tribal or batik-que designs, but l can't seem to really like the one l've seen so far, save for a very few.

Hopefully a "I got a Tattoo" post will come out soon enough.

Driving VS Growing up.

Suffering from lack of vocabulary, i find myself having much difficulty in trying to wirte out this post.
Seems like a few of the friends are blogging again and so did I.

Growing up, we learned to drive, and since then things would never be the same.
Growing up, we started to enter society and work our way through most things.
Growing up, everyone's spirit is renewed into something that may not be what they once were.

Ever since I've learned to drive myself around, I've done so to learn swimming by myself, take on piano lessons, going to class, and to work.

With this ability, I've also join everyone else in enduring the dreadful peaks of traffic jam everyday.

Since I started working, I found myself sometimes to stay out later than usual even after work.
With all the hiatus in a day's work, there is just some place that I'd go to chill of those fumes...

and, that's all part of growing up...other than my utter brain memory loss.

The end of the world X2

times two because, this post is actually about 2 stories that happens to come together.

It was just like any usual days, but on the 21st of May, it was suppose to be the end of the world, as per worded by someone i later found out to be a deluded old retard that probably has nothing better to achieve and do in life, and i definitely find it achieving just to say how inappropriate this retard is without a care in how appropriate i'm being.

Anyway, it was also a friend's birthday, so i thought, assume that the end of the world would really come forth, i'd go out in a boom, and try to have all the fun i can in case it really does come true.
and if it doesn't, i would be so glad to see how the world says to the deluded old retard who i've also just found out to have made a statement about how he made a wrong calculation about doomsday, and how he'd bring down part of the world with him, why not just an apology first you old retard...

anyway, we had fun, we went out for a simple dinner, something extravagant didn't come by as our numbers are low.
then, we tried to go for a movie but the theater was crowded and tickets are sold out.
and so did we end up crashing on the weekend party at our local Nightlife squares, we see people sipping a Flaming Lamborghini, and played till the end of the world that didn't come...

The thing is, maybe we should just treat everyday like it the end of the world and live life to the fullest, i know it isn't easy, but at some point we all have to try, even if it really do ends tomorrow.

Thanks for reading.

Drink up!

not your constant blogger

as the title implies, I'm just not your constant enough blogger, the blog itself lacks the focus that i would like to write about like some of the people out there.
I'd just put something up when i really felt like doing it.

i mean, its all good right?no harms done.

Recognition Internationally.

This is a post that I had seem to forgotten about, suppose to have made it right after i got it but laziness prevails.

anyway, i've written up something before this, here it is.

"Finally!
This cert marks the formality that us, as practitioner of the Taekwondo art has begun a new journey further into fining the art that we had came to learn.

To attain a DAN level is not where it ends, but where it all begins anew.
That all we have learned before this level, had prepared us, to enter the world of Taekwondo.
As one of the many form of martial art that once aided man in defending for their lives, their family, and their nation.

Today, we live to find those values that great people once held on to...and this cert, shows that we are not alone, but one of the millions of practitioner out there that had become our siblings...blablabla"

That's about that i guess, hope to see more new things with this new beginning:D

Test post.1.

Trying to put up a post with my mobile email...

A well-aged life is like making wine.

Some times you would probably feel that our lives are like a bottle of wine.
Cuz' it just seems to get more complicated and stronger taste and the years go.

In many parts of developed countries, people our own age are going through various reforms, and it isn't any different for us, no one is ruled out from this process.
Just as how catalyst such as yeast must be added to the grape juice to produce wine, we all goes into fermentation like wine.


I say fermentation instead of evolution or something else, this is because I assure you it is exactly like how wine age, as life can well disintegrate us from our previous forms before finding ourselves back, or find something for ourselves only through quite some time.
In the wine making process, grape juice with sugar content is disintegrated by the yeast added to them and result in producing wine in time.

See...

To-Do list

1. Graduate from Uni.
2. Play Bungee Jump.
3. Own a pick-up car.
4. Brush up Piano skills.
5. Own a PS3/XBOX 360.
6. Read more.
7. Make saving habits.
8. Complete one round 50m swim using Butterfly stroke.
9. Get shelves for room
10. Get a tattoo.
11. Improve Japanese language.
12. Visit Australia, Europe, UK, US.
13. Get to 2nd Dan in Taekwondo.
14. Make a Carp pond for the house.
-Dad covered this one. 15. Get a girlfriend.XD
-Proceed to keep the girlfriend.


Non time-sensitive to-do list that will be updated from time to time...

1st edit 06/03/11

2nd edit 03/04/12

There was the 90s

just not long ago where might have thought the 70s, 80s, is so long ago and wayyy corny...

then right below our nose, while living in the 90s, it had pass us by with such velocity.

and while the speed seems to everly picked up, come the new millenium...


fast forward, its been 10 years from then, and 20 years from the 90s...


it really is amazing how time has gone and felt it a few seconds in flashback some times:)

Responsibility for our own actions.

No matter how hard i tried, there are still time when i will feel low, so to speak, "in life, there is ups and down."

Maybe its because of the year which is coming to an end again, and none too many nor none too much had I done for the year that has come to pass soon.

For living with the personas that one have to withhold within oneself, does it leads to weary heart.
That sense that...you have not been living at all, and just a walking dead.
This sense of hopelessness, being lost, had brewed the dark clouds within each and everyone of us into sky-tearing thunderstorm.


When there is conflicts between persona, as though we were forced to make decisions for what we must lost in order to obtain.


They said, what you decide is what you must live for, and with great responsibility for those actions we took, and I shall keep on believing it, as I believe it is what that will aid me with going through life.

Meet: Nicco

Nicco is a Rottweiler breed dog given to me as a puppy from my cousin, that was more than 7 years ago.

Being the Rottweiler that I first raised from puppy to adulthood, Nicco has a lot to teach me, and there are many things to be seen from just looking at her growing up. And many memories created through the years.

Although very protective of the bones we gave her, Nicco is more than eager to please us any time.

Nicco is the first dog that I manage to teach in obeying some simple command, such as Sit, Stay, and Come, as well as a few more that doesn't really consider as command.

I remember that I would join my friends in visiting the library where I would seek out books that teaches how to train dogs and spending countless times going through websites that tells how to train dogs in order to be able to try teaching them those too.

Together, both of us has seen each others years gone by, her, from her puppy days, to the days she became a Rotty mummy till the present days, while I had spent my teenage days in secondary schools, which were the days when I know nothing about dogs, until this very day, where I know a little more.

It's been more than two years since I've entered society and have the change of my life from academics to careers.

Nicco and I grew up together, and I wanted to share these little thoughts that I can't really put into words with, that my life is a lot brighter with her and the other Rotties. That bonds can be created with these doggy, maybe that's what you call Love??^^,

One of the very 1st photo of Nicco, cute?

Nicco's 1st Batch of Puppies.

 

 

Nicco when at the Vet's

Nicco's latest photo giving a paw.

The New Year 2011

there goes another digit being added to the year,and to ours,for me,the chinese zodiac will make to two full cycles after my lunar birthdate...
I guess that makes for two wonderful cycles of my childhood. And though my grasp for the past years has been somewhat blurry,it doesn't deny the fact that it has been a long while since all of our friends had graduate from secondary and been moving on to our very own next phase of life.
It has been a journey for our approaching to adulthood,yes,though 21 was years gone,true adulthood cannot be obtains just by measurement of of life time,but by it's experiences.

Though the journey is ever so difficult and never lack of surprises, I know not another way that men had live their life through.

Wherever it may takes us, myself,family,friends...pray that it be yet the best the world has to offer to everyone that lives.