Buddy's Birthday celebration

Dear Diary,

Its Buddy's 3rd birthday and we come together to celebrate his birthday! Buddy's fur-parents wanted him to run around freely to celebrate his birthday. So they have chosen Sembawang Dog Run. We met up at about 12pm but surprisingly, the sun wasn't very hot that day. So we settled down and the furkids went crazy running around! While the fur kids were playing crazily, we (fur-parents) were scratching crazily. There were a lot of mozzies and my legs were "buffet" to the mozzies. Our regret, not bringing the mosquito repellent. *hahaha*

Time for cake blowing and Buddy was so distracted as he was so happy. Introduction of Buddy. Buddy is a Beagle. He is a brother of Wulf the Chihuahua.

The Cake was baked by his fur-mama. Blue berry flavor with pork base. yumz

Compliments to his fur-mama. She did a great job!

It was so yummy that Princess Bumbie is eating food outdoors for the first time! Well, Princess needs to be hand fed. 

Look at how much fun is having!

Its so hard to get a portrait of him as he always shy away from my camera. Finally i manage to get a good shot of him looking into the camera.

My 2 precious also enjoying the time.

Bumbie is dating with her Lilo boy as usual. Romantic time alone together.

Back: Wulf, Buddy's brother.

Front: Yogi, Lilo's brother

It was really a very fun day. We had to end the party at about 4pm as the sun became very hot at pm (weird). The fur-kids were also tired and i was so busy entertaining my mozzie bites. I have learnt my lesson.Next time i will bring mozzie repellent where ever i go. I brought my flee & tick repellent for the girls but forgot to bring my own insect repellent. *hahaha* Well, a life of a fur-mama, i will always put my girls in priority and often forget my own. I wonder if any other fur-parents are the same as me *haha*.

Anyway, for the flee and tick repellent i'm still at the midst of researching. Will update once successfully.

That's all the fun for this weekend. Bumbie and Clover have to reserve energy for the upcoming Chinese New Year. It will be very hectic as they usually follow us for visiting. 

Thanks for reading!

Love, 

Bumver mummy.

Hort Park Sunday

Dear Diary,

This is my second time visiting this park. I have previously blogged about this park before. Well this will be the second entry about this park!
Its a beautiful park where many people choose this park for wedding photoshoot. The sun was shinning very bright and the weather was good! We met up with minnie and mikey for a catch up. We walked for a short distance and we were sweating already. We took some good shoots on the way. During the afternoon there are not much people around, so we offleash.

The girls enjoying the freedom.

chasing the sun!

The girls with mikey and minnie, exploring the place on their own.

runnnnnnnnnn~!!

posing for the photo.. Minnie's head held high!

*lick*

So many cute things around.

Minnie enjoying the freedom.

Mikey wants some grass smell on his body.

Love this. but the sun was so hot and glaring. hahahaha!

I love my walk there and will love to go back there again. Maybe this time i will go towards the evening when it's less hot. HAHA! This park is a gardening park. So there are lots of plants and they have labels on it. Its a very educating park and its recommended to bring kids there. They also have a very big playground for the kids. 

We had a lovely walk and lovely day! Bb and clover also accompanied me for facial before that. 

I am so glad i have the girls in my life!

Love,

Bumver Mummy

Punggol Settlement + Coney Island

Dear Diary,

We started off our weekend with a hearty breakfast at Punggol Settlement. It has been a while since i last went to Punggol Settlement. This cafe is my personal favorite. They have very delicious food. All-day breakfast till 3.30pm. This cafe is called Just The Place. There are a few dog friendly cafes on the second floor, just have to ask the store owners.

Happy smiles!

Farmers platter

I forgot what is the name of this plate my friend ordered. :p

We had a very slow and relaxing morning. Then, we decided to take a walk. We initially didn't intend to walk Coney Island as we didn't prepare our full gear. We are also afraid that there will be monkeys that may attack our chihuahuas. Chihuahuas are so small after all! I know, i am a very paranoid fur-parent. *hahaha* 

Anyway, as we walked closer, we got curious and we didn't see any monkeys. Previously, few months ago, I saw a lot of monkeys sitting outside the gate of Coney Island. No monkeys for the day, that's why we walked in bravely. To take more precautions, i carried the girls. On the way in, i saw beautiful butterflies. I do no own a Micro-lens for my DSLR. So i couldn't get a best shot. We walked by the side and sat by the sea. Still no monkeys. :)

The Gate of Coney Island

Beautiful Butterflies 

BB enjoying the wind

This is Buddy!

The brave fukids that are not afraid of monkeys!

Clover just don't wanna look into the camera today.

The sound of thunder came. We faster packed and walked back to the car. The distance from Coney Island back to the main entrance of Punggol Settlement is quite a far walk. Suggest to rent a bike. 

One day when i got all my precautions ready, we will explore Coney Island deeper. For now, we don't want to risk any thing. hahhaha!

Thanks for reading!

Love, 

Bumver mummy

Labrador Park

Dear Diary,

Last weekend, we went to Ladrador park for a short walk. The weather has been quite bad lately. There is no sun and has been raining in the afternoons. This is my second time coming to this park. The first time we came here, it was also a rainy day. Previously, we only managed to walk for less that 15 mins and got stuck waiting under a shelter for at least half an hour due to the sudden downpour. This time, it sky didn't look too promising but we were already on the way there. We managed to walk one round around the park. The floor was quite moist and muddy since it was a wet weather day. We intended to explore towards the Cannon area, but was afraid of ants due to the rain. I noticed that during raining seasons, ants come out to play all the time. So we have to be very wavy. Not long later, it started to rain again. We hid under a shelter and waited for the rain to stop.

The park is quite small but the air is so fresh. If lucky, we can also catch a glimpse of a cruise departing!  There are only 4 bbq pits there. We have yet to explore further due to the rain. We will find a good opportunity next time to explore the whole park again.

Clover greeting Wulf!

Crazy bb enjoying herself

Wulf wulf, catch us if you can!

Hide and seek?

Hanging out at the playground

  

Bb figured how to play with the tunnel!

Didn't manage to take a picture of the environment because it was quite cloudy due to the wet weather. 

The furkids didn't get wet at all as these shots were taken after the rain. The floor was quite muddy but I was intending to give them a bath after all. 

Due to the rainy season, its not surprising that other bugs may come out to play. Safety precautions to prevent ticks and fleas have to be applied. Bb and Clover are under Bravecto, a medication that has fleas and ticks prevention for 3months. Everyone has different measures and different methods for prevention. Many people do not dare to try oral prevention as it may be harmful to their body. Actually, as long as its not natural and it's a form of chemical prevention, i feel that it's equally harmful. Bravecto it's certified and recommended by our vet. Some other dogs have side effects of vomit. I intend to switch them to natural prevention. Eg, Essential oils. 

I have been doing some research on some essential oils and intend to try it out to see if it works. I will do an update soon once my research on this natural prevention is successful! 

Have a good day!

Love, 

Mummy bumver

Sembawang park - Dog run!

Dear Diary,

This was our 3rd visit to Sembawang Park. The park is big and there are a lot of things that we can plan to do there in the future. There are BBQ pits, a mini beach area, a cafe (not sure if dog friendly as i didn't ask), playgrounds and most importantly, a enclosed dog run! This park is located at the end of Sembawang, that's why there is a mini beach area.

We visited the park at about 2pm in the afternoon. It was the raining season, so we took opportunity when the weather seemed good. There was a small incident that happened in the park but i had already feedback to NParks about it and they were very efficient in their response to the situation,

The incident: When we arrived at the park, we made our way to the dog run. When we were approaching the dog run, we saw a park worker driving Tractor around cutting grass. He was talking on the phone while he was on his job. At first i didn't pay much attention to him as it was none of my business anyway. So i proceeded to go into the dog run to have some fun with my girls. My girls were so happy running around and i was taking pictures of them. Then suddenly i noticed one of the fence was widely opened. I looked closely to make sure i didn't see the wrong thing because it is not a usual thing to have a missing fence in the dog run. I was shocked at first then i saw the same park worker who was driving the Tractor driving the Tractor into the dog run! Despite me shouting at him to stop whatever he was doing, he ignored me. I guess he was still on the phone and couldn't hear me. I quickly grabbed my girls and got out of the dog run, I was very furious by his actions as this might cause any unwanted accidents. If he was scheduled to maintain the grass in the dog run at that timing, he could have informed me first so that i can leave the dog run. I was so concerned what if my girls dashed towards his Tractor when he drove in? Well, I went back home to send in a Feedback to Nparks to notify them of this issue.
Nparks was very responsible and called me back within 1 working day, They informed me that they will take necessary actions and ensured that this will not happen again. I did mentioned to them what if there are other people in the dog run as well. What if there are dogs who will run out of the fence while it was being opened. What if the Tractor knocked one of the dogs down? Well, as long as Nparks ensured that they will take necessary actions, i am contented already. Hopefully there will not have any other similar incidences like these.

Lesson learnt: no matter where we are, we can't be complacent with our environment. Our Furkid's safety is our responsibility. No matter what happens, we have to act fast.

Anyway, Sembawang park is still a very beautiful place. I guess that incident is just a one off mistake so we will just shake it off. I will still come back to Sembawang park again. We met a few friendly dog owners on our first few visits there. We will come back one day in the evening to catch up with them again. Well, we left the park ar about 4pm as it was about to rain. It started drizzling and we had to run back to our car. Overall, we had a good day. At least some pictures where taken before the Tractor came to spoil our fun.
Enjoy the pictures!

WEEEEEEE~~~!

Wait for me~!

Sisters walk

mummy! stop taking pictures already! Let's Walk!

Love, 

Bumver Mummy

New Year 2016! - the proposal

Dear Diary,

Its 2016! We planned to countdown the new year at Bay East garden as we heard that there will be fire works at Marina Bay. We chose Bay East garden is because this garden has very beautiful view. We brought BB, Clover and Kashew along. Kashew's owners came too! We wouldn't leave them at home for such big occasion. They are very important to me, therefore they should be involved in every important part of my life.

We thought that there will not be alot of people there as on normal days, the park is usually very empty. Least we expected, there was a massive jam to enter the park. There were road blocks and the traffic police stopped us from entering the car park. No choice, we countdown in the car. We managed to have a small corner view of the fireworks. Well, better than nothing. haha! most importantly, all of us are together for the countdown, no matter where we are.

We waited at the side of the road. Even after the countdown and many cars had already exited the car park, the traffic police still refuse to let us in. They even tried to chase us away. We managed to persuade them to allow us to wait as we really wanted to go in the park. Finally after 1 hour wait, we managed to drive in.*piew*.

There were no more fireworks but there will always have good night view!

this is the night view from Bay East Garden. Beautiful right? This garden is also connected to Marina Barrage. A lot of cyclist enjoy riding thru the park connectors.

I also had a very huge surprise. Bumver daddy proposed! His initial plan was to propose during the fireworks, but we missed it. It doesn't matter at all because i was very touched! With our friends witnessing the whole process, i felt really blessed! First beautiful thing that happened in 2016!

I wanna thank our friends, KK and SH for being with us during the process and helping to make this possible. BB, Clover and Kashew were also there to witness us. My night was so special and we spent the whole night celebrating the occasion. 

Kashew greeting us in the morning. 

Seems like 2016 will be a busy year for the both of us since there will be a lot of preparations for our wedding. we have yet to decide on location and other details. 

Reflections on 2015:

2015 was a tough year for me. Bumver daddy was working overseas and not home most of the time. i had to overcome alot of things alone and have to be independent. Lucky i have true friends who were there for me to overcome obstacles. There were times where i didn't have the courage to drive far places and edra and gang taught me how. They took care of me like family would. I am really very glad i have them.

There were times miss Daddy Bumver so much that i randomly flew overseas to look for him, yuki would help me take care of my girls unconditionally. I really appreciate and the girls really love her a lot. 

There were lonely times when PK will come over to my place to accompany me or invite me to her house for dinner. She would accompany me anywhere. 

Many true friends also reached out to help me once they found out that i suffered from anxiety. i really appreciate all the love and concern and i really do treasure each and everyone of them. 

 I was lucky to have my family members to support me and always there for me whenever i was down as well. I had my neighbor's support who invited me for dinner everyday. I felt so loved and well taken care of. 

With everyone's love and care, i grew stronger. i had to face many situations alone. It wasn't easy but i was thankful to be given this opportunity to learn. When i look back at 2015, i know i been thru a lot. most importantly, BB and Clover was there to give me the courage. It was them who made me learn as it was my responsibility to look after them. 

2016 is here and more challenges ahead. A new phase of life is coming for all of us. 

2016, here we come!

Love, 

Bumver Mummy.

Christmas celebration 2015

Dear Diary,

It is the season of giving! Time for celebration!

Christmas party - Part 1
We planned a small celebration at Tanjong beach. We wanted to take this opportunity to introduce the beach to Kashew. He just got his 3rd vaccination a few weeks ago and was ready to explore the world! I was really very excited for him as this will be his first outing as well!

I baked a mini Christmas cake for the furkids to share. What is Christmas without a cake right? haha! I used pork as the base so that it will be more gentle to the stomach as this will be Kashew's first home cooked meal. Usually i use lamb as the base of my cake as it will be more yummy. This is the cake!

Kashew couldn't wait and started to lick the cake. i felt so satisfied that my cake was a success!

BB and Clover were also enjoying the sun running around and having a dip in the sea.

Clover is very curious as Kashew is trying his first swim too!

Slow and steady, Kashew managed to swim on his own! he was afraid at first and later, he got the hang of it! So proud of him!

After the swim, we play with sand. some kids at the beach gave him sand bath! 

BB had her fun digging a big hole as well! Clover helped by supervising. 

The mini party was fun and all the furkids were tired at the end of the day. We exchanged presents and all were so happy of what we got! 

Christmas party - Part 2

This was a post Christmas party with our chihuahua gang. We went to Bay East Garden for a mini picnic celebration. As usual, i prepared the cake! This is my second Christmas cake for the furkids!

Strawberry snow man!

Its also pork based with the same ingredients as the first Christmas cake. Just different decorations. 

All the furkids enjoyed the cake as usual! yum!

We had presents exchange on the spot! Look at all the smiles on their faces!

BB was busy dating her favourite boyfriend, Lilo.

It was a super wonderful Christmas and everyone had so much fun!

We love holidays!

Love,

Mummy Bumver