Little mole thingy

Whoa hey, I'm writing about an animal that isn't a dog! Just a cute little fella which has been scurrying around my house for the past one week, occasionally making one off loud squeaking noises, and I thought it was some sort of rat, 'til I caught it and realized it's some kind of mole-like creature. It's really tiny and kinda cute too! I've never seen a house mole before, let also have one visit my house. Makes me almost wish I hadn't thrown away my hamster cages, although I couldn't really keep it anyway with all the traveling I do.

 Looook into my eyeeees

 

 Little bugger can climb

And I took a video too coz' I just can't get enough of how cute it is.

Tomorrow I release it and hope it doesn't come back to squeakify my house again!

Little mole thingy

Pet Adoptions by Independent Rescuers

So anyone looking for a dog or cat to adopt probably thinks the best places to adopt are from animal shelters like PAWS or SPCA, and while I won't argue that it would be great to adopt a pet from a shelters, the downside is that you can't really predict the behaviour of an animal from a shelter and you might end up with a troublesome pet. A problem that is avoidable if an animal has been fostered, as the fosterer would know the animal's behaviour and be able to tell a potential adopter the good and bad of an animal's behaviour. Good places to look for fostered animals in Malaysia is through the Malaysian Dogs Deserve Better (MDDB) Facebook page, as they are a dog rescue NGO with no shelter, only volunteers who foster the dogs, and Petfinder.my where independent rescuers post all the animals they have available for adoption. As I spend a lot of energy these days rescuing dogs and pups with my mum, I use Petfinder all the time for my rescued pooches, so much that I am now listed as an approved rescuer. Which means anyone who adopts from me can get a free 3kg bag of dog food courtesy of Eukanuba. And who doesn't love free stuff? :-D



Another place I recently found out where independent rescuers can bring to to find potential adopters is Ohana's pet store at Kota Damansara, which holds adoption drives for independent rescuers ever Saturday from 10am to 6pm. They usually have about 10 to 15 dogs here, and the fosterers also are around to tell you what the dogs are like.

If anyone is interested to put a pet for adoption or adopt a pet from Ohana's please contact Tan Chooi Chooi, the nice lady in charge of the shop at  +60102208113. The shop is located at Sunsuria Avenue, Persiaran Mahogani,  Kota Damansara, PJU5, Petaling Jaya. They also update their Facebook page regularly with new dogs or cats available for adoption.

Here are some pics of the recent pet adoption drive at Ohana's, with our very friendly and loving fosterers and volunteers (Sorry for the crappy photos, they come out weird when uploaded from my phone).

Some of the dogs up for adoption (people not included)

Some of the doggies looking for a home

A great dane up for adoption (He's been on a vegetarian diet coz' the family is vegetarian, that's why he looks skinny)

A fosterer using the Great Dane as a headrest

A volunteer, who's also a neighbour of mine, giving a dog a brush. I can't tell which one is happier. Lol!

Pet Adoptions by Independent Rescuers

Abandoned and aggressive... now my Angel

As I have blogged about before and shared in a similar post here, it's my belief that an aggressive dog is usually not truly aggressive. An seemingly aggressive dog only growls or barks because it it either very frightened and wants to protect itself, or trying to protect something else like the owner or its home. This is particularly true of house pets or strays, which are not trained to attack people. For guard dogs, however, don't play around, coz' they are trained to be really aggressive. Another experience I had recently proves my theory.

One morning a couple of weeks ago which happened to be a weekend, my lovely weekend slumber was disrupted by an early morning phone call from a frantic lady saying stuff in Chinese. Due to the fact that I am a banana who can't speak Chinese to save my life, I only understood that she was having a problem with a dog and needed my help to remove it. I presume she got my number from somewhere I posted online regarding some animals I was trying to rehome and she thought I do this animal rescue stuff on a regular basis (which I don't by the way. I have a full time job that keeps me pretty busy!). So anyway, I asked my mum to call and find out what the story was. And it turns out, the son of the women who called me has brought home a dog that was given to him by his friend who asked him to take care of the dog for a while and later he would take her back. But this guy had no intention of taking the dog back and later told his gullible friend that he could just 'throw away' the dog.

So what happened was that the dog went into one of the rooms of the family and growled at anyone who came in. They got so scared, no one dared to go into that room for fear of her attacking, hence why they called me and disturbed my beauty sleep.

So the evening of that same day, my mum and I went over to their place which was a flat, met the young man and his mother. And my mum spoke to them to find out the whole story, got the contact number of the guy who dumped the dog pon them, and did what she does best, which was call the guy and give him an earful on how irresponsible he was for dumping the dog. In the meantime, I was left with the dirty work of actually having to try and convince the frightened dog that I was of no harm and pick her up without losing a limb or some fingers to her. I found her looking like this.

And yes, she was actually growling when I got closer. So I had to sit down, slowly inch my way closer while talking to her calmly, and sloooowly moved my hand closer to pet her. The closer my hand got, the more her teeth showed, but eventually she let me pet her. After a little while of petting and talking and one attempt of her trying to snap at my hand, I managed to get a collar and chain on her, and also got her to roll over so I could give her a belly rub.

It was at this point when I knew she had trusted me, so I managed to pick her up easily and took her out, much to the joy of the family that called me. We then took her to the vet where we got her spayed and boarded for a few days, after which when I picked her up, I had to go through the whole cycle of getting her relaxed again to pick her up because she was again frightened and growling at me after being stuck a few days at the vet with many noisy and probably equally frightened dogs. When I took her home, she was also aggressive with my dog, who is actually a friendly fella who was just trying to be friends with her.

Initially, I wanted to put her up for adoption, but after a few days, I noticed her getting very attached to me. When around other new people, she'd be agitated, but with me, she was happy. I treated her like my own dog, let her into my house, and she followed me around everywhere and also likes licking my leg as a sign of affection. The best part is that she doesn't chew stuff and she hardly poops or pees in the house if I take her out regularly (there were a couple of accidents, but that was mostly my fault for not letting her out even though she clearly wanted to go out). She also quickly became very friendly with my dog.I'd feel pretty bad to give her away now, since she's been abandoned once and is now so attached to me and my dog, I don't want her to feel abandoned again. So I've decided to keep her and I named her Angel. 

 
It goes to show that her initial aggressive behaviour was simply due to her fear of being in a new environment, and after some care, she showed that she's actually quite a fantastic and loving dog. I have no idea why her owner decided to dump her, but then again, there are really too many idiotic people in this world who don't know how to recognise or appreciate the good things they have in life. 

And that's why, people, never judge a dog by it's cover or it's seemingly aggressive behaviour. The first time she saw me, she almost tried to snap at me. Now look how we are. :)

  

Abandoned and aggressive... now my Angel

9 pooches and a kitty cat

The past one month has been a busy busy busy month of animal rescues by team M&M (mum and me). Some were just mum, some were me and some were a join effort, but just in case you were wondering, we don't really do this animal rescue thing on a regular basis. I'm perfectly happy not going around looking for animals to rescue, but I usually just help out when I find an animal in need and if necessary, try to get it adopted. It just so happens about a month ago, as explained in my previous post, my mum decided puppy rescuing was going to become her new favourite hobby, and I've suffered a few sleepless nights taking care of noisy puppies because of that. Not that I'm complaining (much), I love them mutties too. :)

Here a run down of the furkids my mum and I have rescued or helped out this past month, and some are looking to be rehomed. So if you're looking a furkid to adopt, hope you'll consider these and if so, please do send me an email at carol.reads.in.red@gmail.com and I will reply to you a.s.a.p!

1) Laila Belle, Tracie and Scotch (1st vaccination only, 2 for adoption)

Scotch: Someone get my sister off my butt...

These puppies were born at a factory area near where my mum's friend's office, and seeing that they were getting older and at risk of being take away by the local council, my mum and her friend decided to try and rescue the puppies. Two got adopted the same day they did the rescue, by another guy who works nearby, so my mum took home the remaining three. Which was a very fortunate thing coz' apparently the day right after that, her friend saw the local council people come to the exact location where the puppies used to hide, which was under an old unused car, and saw they drag the car away with a tow truck in a bid to find the puppies. Apparently her own boss has reported the puppies there to the local council, and if they had been caught, it almost certainly would have been a death sentence for the puppies knowing how the councils treat them here. And the way they dragged the car out, the puppies would probably have been injured or killed if they had still been under there.

Far as I'm concerned, anyone who calls the local councils to catch dogs in Malaysia are either heartless scums of the earth or ignorant buffoons who have no idea what suffering dogs undergo at the hands of dog catchers engaged by local councils. Just watch this video to get an idea. The proper way to reduce strays is by educating people to spay their pets and the TRNM (Trap-Neuter-Release-Manage) method, or a nicer term is CNRM (Care-Neuter-Release-Manage), which I have used for one of my stray furry friends as well as will explain more in a bit.

Anyway, my mum was keeping them in the spare washroom of her condo for a while, and eventually decided to keep one of them, which was the most active one who loves licking people. By 'love', I mean she runs at you and launches herself at your face to try and clean your face off with her tongue. My mum decided to name her Belle, but I prefer to call her Laila, coz' in Chinese, 'lai' can be translated to 'come' or 'lick' which works both ways for her. So now her name is Laila Belle, and she's the pooch at the rear end of the room in the photo above.

The other two are now fostered by my mum's friend, and are up for adoption. Their foster names are Tracie and Scotch. Tracie is female, smaller, less active and little shy compared to her siblings. And she does not try to launch at you with frenzy licks. Which I think is a good thing, coz' I don't really appreciate hyperactive puppies.

Ooh, camera in my face!

Scotch, on the other hand, is a male and pretty active as well. According to the foster mum, he likes to bark at 5am in the morning. And he's also super friendly.

Scotchy boy doing his manly male pose

2) Silky and Satin (Adopted! :D)

 

Look into our sad little puppy eyes and go "Awwww", please!

My mum was informed about two puppies rummaging around the backlane of some resturants located in USJ1, went there and found they were in good looking condition and probably were dumped quite recently by an irresponsible dog owner (who, by the way, are also scums of the earth). So the next day, team M&M (mum and me, in case you didn't catch it the first time), conducted our rescue operation for the puppies, and I kept them for about a week. I named them Silky and Satin coz' their fur was so silky and smooth, they with have made a great shampoo ambassador.

In the first couple of days, they were scared and pooping and puking all sorts of nonsense, thanks to all the rubbish they were eating in the backlane, but after a few days of proper dog food, they got healthy, played with my dog and started trying to take over my home. Sometimes at night they would get whiney because they didn't like being alone at the back room of my house, and I wouldn't allow them in the house coz' I didn't want them pooping or peeing everywhere. So I had to assign my dog to the back for babysitting duty, and then they would keep quiet. But my dog didn't seem too happy about being stuck at the back room instead of being able to enjoy his couch.

These two furkids have been adopted into two different families. I would have loved for them to be together, but I think they'll be happy.


3) Cookies (stray female, spayed and can be adopted)

 Ear scratchies are naaaiiiise...

I just made up the name for this friendly female near my office which my German boss and I feed regularly. She was initially quite scared of people but after regular feeding, she became less afraid and now enjoys my ear scratches. She's so cute, everytime she sees me, she'll run to me then once nearby, she bows her head low like a servant, waiting to be petted. She has several doggy friends in the area who still don't dare let me touch them even though I feed them too. Most of the older dogs in the area are also quite mangy. So for the most part I'm ok to leave her there, the only reason I'd like her adopted is that I'm worried about her getting caught or catching mange from the other dogs.

Cookies is still healthy and I took her to a vet to be spayed, and she was relocated back to my office area and still looking happy and healthy. This is actually the CNRM  method I mentioned earlier, to help reduce the stray population in the area by getting the dogs spayed. This is why I would advocate anyone who knows a friendly stray near your area to try and get them spayed too, so you have less strays animals that may be caught and made to suffer at the hands of the evil local council dog catchers (did I mention they are also heartless scums of the earth?).

 4) Poopy le pooch (1st vaccination, for adoption)
I already dedicated a whole post to Poopy here, and in the past couple of weeks, the little bugger has grown quite a bit and has become one of those cute hyperactive puppies that most people seem to like so much. He's still recovering from his mange and is probably one of the ugliest puppies in Malaysia, but his activeness and adorable behaviour make up for it in so many ways.


Here's how the little le pooch looks like now:

I'M SO HAPPY!

I'M SO DARN HAPPY!

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY WEEEE!!!

Hehe!

How can one not love that face?

Still, I consider it unlikely that anyone would want to adopt the fugliest mangy puppy in Malaysia, but I'm keeping my hopes up that someone has that big a heart for this little poochy pooch (and his poo doesn't stink anymore, just so you know!). :P

5) Buffy (Can be adopted)

I got the face of a Rottweiler, but deep down, I'm just like a wee lil' puppykins. :)

Just to avoid confusion, Buffy is a MALE, but I thought it was an appropriate name, since he's big and buffy and looks fierce, but is actually really friendly. He's another stray dog near my office whom I don't see often, but everytime I do, he's got plenty of love to share. He is usually friendly with other dogs, but aggressive when it comes to food. Which is how I guess he got this nasty little neck wound a couple of weeks back.

I was so alarmed when I saw it, I wanted to take him to the vet right away, but only could wait til the next day coz' the vet was closing. Before it was cleaned up, it was so full of pus, and the doctor said flies could have laid eggs there and it would have become badly infected then.

Lucky for him, I helped him out and after a few days boarding at the vet and whining like a baby everytime I visited coz' he wanted to be let out, he's now back in my office area.

He's also the only dog I've even brought in my car that was completely not scared at being driven around. On the other hand, he was so excited, he climbed from the back seat into the front seat, which was the driver's seat and insisted on sitting on my lap and even standing on me to look out the window. And he's big and strong enough that I was unable to stop him, so I'm glad I didn't get into the accident the couple of times I had to drive him around. But like I said, he's a super friendly fellow, even the people at the vet fell in love with him and he gave no trouble at all with the doctor. :-)

6) Kitty with the Einstein hair (In kitty heaven... :( )

 

Not going near a Van der Graaf generator ever again!

I don't discriminate when it comes to animals, I like helping kitties too. So when I found a motherless kitty at the field near my place while walking my dog, looking like it has a bad hair day and meowing away, I couldn't really leave it there to potentially become roadkill.

So I took it back and after trying to feed to it with dog food (it was all I had, ok!), I decided to try and give it to my Malay neighbour across the street who owns many cats, and see if they could help foster it while I looked for an adopter. As it turns out, they were happy to adopt it themselves, apparently coz' they like cats with nice coloured coats and even try to breed them (though I wish they wouldn't since there are enough stray cats available for adoption as it is).

Unfortunately, the next day, they informed me that little frizzy haired kitty died, possibly due to virus infection. It was quite sudden since the night before she was quite healthy and happily running around. 

Oh well, I tried. RIP, little kitty cat. :(

7) Abandoned Angel (Adopted... by ME)

Lookin' good!

Well, of course I'd save the best for last, and the best was this pretty white female who was abandoned by her owner and was so scared initially when I found her, she was growling and wary of everyone who came near her. Fortunately I've had enough experience with dogs to know that a growling dog is not necessarily an aggressive one, and it's turns out she was such a sweetie and we both fell in love with each other so much that now I've decided to keep her.

And the story of the abandoned Angel, I will save for my next post!

9 pooches and a kitty cat

The story of Poopy le Pooch

This is the story of Poopy le Pooch. As you might guess and probably feel a little bit sorry for the rather cute but somewhat gross name, Poopy is a pooch, i.e. a puppy. And he was a very poopy one at that, hence the name. He's a sad looking little fella, really mangy with wrinkly skin, lost a lot of fur except a strip of fur down his back, and he was shivering with fear the first day my mum picked it up and brought him home.

This is Poopy le Pooch on the first day my mum found him.

My mum decided to name him Pooch, but I call the sad looking pup Poopy coz' not only do I enjoy giving dogs unusual names, but it's a cute play on words that he's a puppy and also pooped a lot on the first couple of days we had him. And that poop was no joke. I mean he was literally spraying brown watery poo all over the floor forming little puddles of brown stuff on my parent's condo's floor that probably needs a dozen mopping sessions with Dettol to remove all the germs. And every time he pooped, he let out a little moan. You know that moan you make when you're having a tough time doing the number 2 in the washroom? Yeah, that kind of moan. The vet told my mum that he has mange, so he's been confined to an unused bedroom in my parent's condo which used to be my room. And I can tell you the first day he pooped in there, you practically had to wear an oxygen mask to avoid fainting from the smell. And this is coming from me who has a poor sense of smell!




So the story of how he was found, according to my mum who is these days becoming a puppy rescuing vigilante recently (she was not always like this, and I'm putting it down to some form of empty nest syndrome), was that one night she was at my office area which is also nearby her condo, feeding some adult dogs which I also regularly feed together with my German boss who also loves dogs, when she drove around and heard some yelping noises. So she stopped and looked around for source, and found this little fella stuck in a barrel that was closed at both ends so he couldn't come out. Her deduction was that someone and tossed it in there and left it to die.

The next day, I went to the location where the puppy was picked up, and realized that the barrel wasn't really a barrel but a big concrete cylinder purposely at both ends. 

And there was food and milk in the cylinder.

But the food wasn't exactly the best thing to feed a young pup, considering it was full of fish bones (which can choke an adult dog, let alone a puppy!), rice with sauce (salty food = not good for dogs), and overrun with ants, in addition to what look like curdled HL milk (cow's milk is also bad for dogs, by the way).

In addition to that, of course, the cylinder itself was dirty and stained with Poopy's extremely yucky poo. So while clearly the pup wasn't exactly left there to die, it was being kept under really poor conditions by someone who didn't have a clue about how to take proper care of a puppy, or maybe didn't have the means to take proper care of it.

It's therefore quite fortunate for Poopy that my mum rescued him from that dastardly place, and after a visit to the vet, little Poopy got a round of deworming, mange medication, and diarrhea medicine. Which is great coz' now my former room doesn't stink anymore, and after a few days at my parent's place, Poopy is no longer scared, and is in fact being an extremely playful puppy trying to chew everything in sight, including our fingers. He likes trying to wave or high five us with his tiny paws. And he also really likes sleeping in a little basket he found at home, which turned into his bed. He even tried humping my knee while I was sitting on the floor to play with him. I didn't know they started that fast....

So my mum is only keeping him until he's healed from the mange and looking better, but since she already has two other dogs (one is our psychotic Shih Tzu and another very recently adopted stray pup which will definitely get too big for the condo, so I'm not really quite sure what she's doing), she can't keep him forever.

Therefore we are hoping for someone to book him for adoption once he's all better, and give Poopy le Pooch a lovely place to live in after his rather traumatizing start in life. You could also save him from having a really terrible name, and give him a nicer name. :-)

 Adopt me when I'm healthy please! I need a better name!

The story of Poopy le Pooch

Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia: A noble organization BUT with one extremely UGLY Malaysian

Recently I had the 'pleasure' of getting to know a member of Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM). I have no personal experience with this group other than with this individual, but from their website and online research, I believe it is a noble organization working towards the betterment of Malaysia. According to their website, they are an NGO with no political affiliation (although some of their leaders are from political parties), training and developing young Malaysians of all races and religions to become leaders and build a better country. According to this person I met, he is part of this group who works on the ground in rural areas, educating rural Malay folks and changing mindsets for the better so in future they will know to vote more wisely for a new and better government. All this is of course a great thing, and in general, I would think it's great for any young person to take time off to be part of this group.

EXCEPT that I wouldn't recommend anyone I know to join them due to my experience with this one individual who turned out to be the single most horrible, arrogant, and UGLIEST Malaysian I have ever met in my life. And since he's a member of SAMM, he has severely marred my impression of what I would otherwise think is a very noble group. As a blogger, I write about my experiences,so this is about me making SAMM look bad since I do believe they are doing good work. This is about one little member of SAMM who made himself look bad, and I as a blogger, writing my experience. So I would hope that if any SAMM leaders ever get round to reading my infuriating experience, they would better educate their young members better, or at least this kid in particular, so no one else undergoes the same demeaning personal attacks like this rude young man did to me, which achieves nothing except give people a terrible impression of their young members whom I hope are nothing like him. And just so you don't wonder who I'm talking about, he goes by the name of Dennis Chow. It would be easy for me to link to his Facebook account so you know exactly who he is, but that would open him up to online attacks by others who read this, and I am not as mean as him to resort to or encourage such cyber bullying of strangers. Especially since he has a face only a mother could love, which makes a prime target for bullies.

Early this month, I wrote an article called "What the Chinese want and why we wouldn’t ‘balik’ China" which came out on FMT, and subsequently reposted on Lim Kit Siang's blog.  I wrote it as a response to a recent question from a certain UMNO politician who actually did ask what the Chinese want, as a consolidation of the jumbled responses and brickbats I read from fellow Malaysians online. And then, after much positive response, I subsequently wrote the Malay version for the better understanding of our less English-educated Malay friends, in what I hoped was just little effort to try and bridge the gap between the races and explain why Chinese always complain about the country.

Soon after, this Dennis Chow fella sends me an FB message and proceeds to ridicule my article because according to him there is no longer a need for such messages to the urban community because all urbanites are already aware of the real issue with our country's leadership, and the real work needs to be done on the group with the rural people, which is what he and his group (SAMM) are doing. Which for the most part, I can agree with, and believe SAMM's work is good. But the way he spoke to make his point was what riled me, and ironically, he displayed all the infuriarating characteristics of the country's bigoted leaders which he claimed that his group was working against. Allow me to list down and elaborate on those intolerable characteristics:

1) Judgemental of people's intentions and character
This Dennis Chow, whom I have never met in my life, made all sorts of assumptions and judgements about me. So much that I'm ready to face God now coz' whatever judgements I get from Him, can't be any more worse than what I got from this guy. Firstly, he accused me of being an attention seeker and 'keyboard warrior' only wishing to stoke my ego. From writing one measly opinion article? By that logic, I can say that writers like Mariam Mokhtar, Marina Mahathir, Raja Petra and any other famous writer with blogs who share their opinions about the state of Malaysia are also attention seekers and keyboard warriors. We should all then quit writing and just go down to the ground to do the noble work of SAMM, because according to this Dennis Chow, every single urbanite already fully understands the country's issues. SO we don't need any more opinion letters or writers who just want attention to stoke their own ego.
Secondly, he accused me of being an intolerant racist and not being a true Malaysian, under his assumption that I do not understand our Malay friends simply because I have less friends of different races than him and also because I did not attend as many Raya open houses as him. I'm sorry, I was not aware that there was a contest for being a true Malaysian, nor that stuffing my face at people's parties was one of the judging criterion. But while I am certainly no social butterfly for my own reasons, that is no justifiable reason to accuse anyone of being a racist. If there's anyone I'm prejudiced against, it's arrogant people who behave better than God by judging people they know nothing about, like this little Dennis the Menace.
He also assumed I was an 'ignorant kid' who was just out of college and knew nothing about politics. Which at least I can consider as compliment on my youthful looks, considering I left college like 12 years ago.
Isn't such judgemental behaviour reflective of the same leaders who recently misjudged the intentions of a Muslim dog trainer and Muslim resort owner, accusing them of insulting their own religion although this was not their intention?

2)  Lack of Understanding and Tolerance
After such personal attacks and being challenged to drop everything to join his 'noble cause' (which in Dennis Chow's world is the only way to change Malaysia while the little efforts and writings of little people like me make no difference whatsoever), I did the normal thing and attempted to explain who I really am and why joining him is not an option for me. Yes, it's true that I do not have many multiracial friends, and that's because I'm not an incredibly social person in general to anyone of any race due to my introverted nature and a number of personally negative experiences with people that have made me even more introverted. It's also true that I was happy about the positive response to my article, and that's because after my demotivating experiences, it was one of the first things that helped me feel better about myself. In addition, like most people, I have a family to help care for, including aging parents and 3 young nieces in a country with no welfare, price of tuition and tertiary education is exorbitant and cost of everything else is going up. Anyone who understands responsibilities to family understands this already make it impossible to 'drop everything' and go gallivanting in the villages to 'save Malaysia'.
However, instead of even trying to be understanding of my personality, my personal issues or even my family responsibilities, this ignoramus named Dennis Chow effectively poo-pooed on my 'lame excuses', called me selfish, sad and insecure, and telling me to just 'suck it up' coz' that's life. All this time, he preached to me about being 'tolerant'. I'm sorry again, but tolerance is not just about have many friends of different races. It's about trying to understand ALL people of different personalities and their problems without making baseless assumptions about them. Not making them out as weaklings because they have had personal difficulties, or assuming they are selfish when they have family responsiblities!
This is again a extreme lack of understanding of others, which is no different from the attitude of some of our countries' leaders who also have absolutely no understanding of the real needs of the 'rakyat', telling us to spend less while they splurge and spouting nonsense like how much RM500 can go a long way in helping us to survive....

3) No conscience and Provoking people to anger
I'm a not a person who swears easily, other than in my car when no one else is around and I come across an annoying driver. But after everything I was subjected by this annoying stranger, making assumptions of my life and poo-pooing my problems like it meant nothing, I simply snapped and unleased the worst string of horrendously foul words that no one else on the planet has heard me say or seen me write, because that's how furious he had made me. And even that had no effect. He did not care that he made me incredibly upset. Which was absolutely shocking to me coz' never in my life have I come across such an emotionally devoid person with no qualms of how his actions hurt others. Which on a side note, makes me quite thankful that everyone else I know actually has some capability of feeling bad about hurting others, unlike this little arrogant anomaly called Dennis Chow who seems to have no conscience whatsoever.
Again, this reminded me of certain leaders who provoke the little people on all sides into anger by stoking racial and religious tensions, and clearly not feeling any sort of remorse or guilt about it even though they profess to follow a noble religion that teaches good. Mind boggling!

4) Unforgiving of mistakes
Along our discussion, I made some pretty statements which displayed my lack of understanding of the country's parliamentary. Yes, that is embarassing and I admitted my mistake when he pointed it out. Of course, everyone makes mistakes and anyone who is truly tolerant would just correct my understanding nicely. And that's how different people of different race, religion, background, etc learn from each other and live in harmony. At least most people would think so.
However, in Dennis Chow's world, part of 'tolerance' apparently is ridiculing other's people's mistakes (even after they admit it) and lording over such mistakes to show off just how 'intelligent' he is compared to others. Coz' making strangers feel small, stupid and hanging them out to dry for it is a fine example of tolerance.
In comparison, a certain idiotic online couple named Alvivi were also persecuted by the authorities and hung out to dry for their 'crime'. Even though they made a very public apology. It doesn't make them any less stupid and insensitive for what they did, but at least they admitted their mistake, which is a lot better than the real crooks in power would ever do. YET no forgiveness or tolerance for them from the authorities either, for the sake of their own political milage.

5) Hypocritical
He preached tolerance, yet was being the most intolerant person I've ever known. He accused me of thinking I am better than everyone else, yet he made himself out to be better than, by saying that my little efforts were nothing to help the country compared to the work of his SAMM group. And several times throughout, I critisized him for wasting time and being silly, picking on an ordinary citizen supporting the same party he was when he should be using his time to go off and better the country like he claims he's doing. I challenged him to go spread his 'true Malaysian' message to more famous writers like Mariam Mokhtar, who by his logic waste a lot of time online critisizing leaders when all urbanites already are bad. Yet he didn't take up my challenge, I guess because picking on little people like me who wrote one measly article is more productive to making Malaysia a better place.
Finally, I decided to give him a taste of his own medicine and made hurtful assumptions about his life, saying his lack of understanding of my family responsibilites probably means his was orphaned, abandoned or abused and has no family of his own to support. And then he said that me making assumptions about his life was me being petty. Which at that point was just hilarious. Sooooo him making baseless assumptions and ridiculing my little efforts to help the country isn't petty, but when I do the same thing to him, then it becomes petty. Hypocrite!
I don't think I need a comparison to our country's ruling leaders. We all know how hypocritical they are and how they love picking on small fry while ignoring the big fish.


Well, it might also seem extremely 'petty' of me to dedicate a long post to some insolent young punk who really means nothing to me and is 'supposedly' doing something good for the country with his SAMM friends, but unlike his perception, I don't claim to be trying to save the country. And I'm not representing any group. I'm just a ordinary blogger, writing whatever pleases me, which reflects on no one except myself. So I will happily go 'keyboard warrior' on anyone who barrages into my life with his immature notions of being a 'true Malaysian' but has NO qualms moonlighting as a cyber bully, with all the characteristics of a BN cybertrooper, and making another Malaysian's life just that much more miserable, especially someone on the same camp! All we need is one smart aleck like this picking on a much younger blogger with lower self esteem, and we could very have our first case of Malaysian suicide due to cyber bullying, which studies show is also just another one of many issues in this country.

So while he cheekily admitted that he was going have a great time joking about this sad little blogger and her insecurity issues to his bunch of friends, I do what introverts do best and write. And by writing, the rest of the world who googles SAMM out of curiosity, might just come across this little story and know that within this incredibly noble group doing good work, there exists this one incredibly ugly Malaysian. And this story will be around for many, many years to come, way after Dennis the Menace and I have forgotten each other, unless something unexpected happens like him apologizing to me, in which case I'd be happy to delete this post. Because that's what real tolerance is about. Otherwise I'm even happier to keep it up. And whether my terrible experience of this one person puts them off joining SAMM or makes them discourage their children from joining, I don't know. Probably doesn't even matter. After all, I'm just one little Malaysian whose sad little efforts and writings can't possibly make an impact or impression to the rest of the country. At least, according to Dennis Chow.

As the old adage goes, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Especially if that women is a blogger.

And just because this is one of those few times I go all out to bitch, this is for all those annoying little smirky smiley faces he just loved to pepper in our very memorable conversation.

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Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia: A noble organization BUT with one extremely UGLY Malaysian

The secret for super glossy doggy fur

So my dog has a little female friend living on the row of houses near me and owned by a lovely Indian family who also likes to chat with me and take care my dog on occasion. Their black female dog recently got such a shiny glossy coat that it got my attention (and apparently the attention of some other dog-loving neighbours of their). Here's how it she looks (apologies for the sucky pics, my phone is weird).







So what's the secret of the super glossy doggy coat? Well apparently she uses a super secret ingredient called.... coconut water! Note that that is not the same as coconut milk.

Yeah, first time I heard that too. Not sure exactly how much she uses though, but I was guess just enough to cover the coat and use a brush to brush it through. And voila! Super glossy doggy coat, and apparently a lot less fur shedding too.



Haven't gotten round yet to trying it out on my deary pooch, but I would figure that it might make him smell a bit like a coconut. And after a a few days, he would probably smell like a smelly coconut.

The experiment is on!

The secret for super glossy doggy fur

A true KL lite!

After a long day of 'lepaking' at shopping malls with my folks, surviving KL traffic and mucking around on my smartphone, I had the pleasant surprise of unlocking Foursquare's KL Lite badge.

Thank you, Foursquare, for acknowledging my achievements. I shall work hard to maintain my status as a true Malaysian mall rat! :-D :-D :-D

A true KL lite!

Grella's, new western food joint at SS19

Grella's tagline is 'Lambs, Burgers and Chics', which means their food choices are kind of limited to those, but that's not necessarily a bad thing as what they do serve is quite good. From what I can tell, it's a local business and not a franchise, so I think they deserve a bit more support as the food is worth trying.




I went with a friend and I tried the lambchop while she had a beef burger. No complaints whatsoever, as the lamb and beef burger patties were well flavoured and juicy as they should be. We shared a brownie with ice cream for desert, which tasted a bit harder than I think it should be, I guess coz' it's the frozen type brownie and not freshly made. As the place is still new, the owners are open to comments about their food, and the guy I talked to at least was friendly.
Price of lambchop and burger was around RM16 to RM18, and brownie around RM7, if I remember right.
Check out their FB page here!

Grella's, new western food joint at SS19

My photographer friend

So I know a guy who does pretty good photography, but hasn't quite made it big yet in photography and for some reason he's selling organic fertilizer instead of just doing photography, which personally I think he should be doing full time coz' I think he's pretty darn good and he makes me kinda jealous coz' I like photography too.  He mostly does nature photos, but also does wedding and photo shoots (Malaysians only, of course, unless you don't mind paying for his flight to wherever you're at). Thought I'd help give him some free publicity. And in this way I can bug him to give me a free lunch.

Check out his FB page here: www.facebook.com/KYTanKreations

My photographer friend