Phui Phui and His 1st Birthday Cake

Phui's first birthday cake - from this angle of the camera, the cake looks even bigger then Phui Phui ! Heheh

Vital Statics of the cake : Strawberry chiffon
Strawberry Cream cheese
Whipped Cream
Fresh Strawberries
**ingredients are all puppy safe. YUMMY!

My "powerful" puppy

That's what my colleague calls Phui Phui. My powerful puppy. We were musing what damage phui can do to my enemies. But, that's just mean talk - we know better then Phui will never hurt a soul - well, at least, if you've got 2 legs, he'll be more then happy to have you sayang him rather then he chewing a screaming being.

Talking about powerful puppies - I met the most ill informed dimwit ever on Sunday evening. Yes - I've never met someone that unreasonable, and that ill informed. PD and I made arranged a blind date for Phui Phui. It was with one of the owners of a female bull terrier. He was keen to have phui as a stud, hence, we arranged to have both the little ones to meet.

That was about a week ago that we made the arrangement - I had clearly forgotten about it. But, it was our usual ritual to bring phui to the dog run every weekend evening. So, it was no mayfair when we set off for some play for phui.

I was pleasantly surprise when I saw another bull terrier - with a large patch over the eye.

Me : Look Baybee! Another Bull terrier!!! YEAH!

PD laughed, absoluately sure that I've clearly forgotten about phui's blind date today. He said that's Tiger's sibling. Tiger was a usual sight at the dog run. She's a lovely brindle coloured Preasa. On all fours, her body reaches to my waist. I love her muscles too - her owner brings her out for 5km runs on a daily basis...

WOW.. no wonder look so well built.

With phui on leash, we met up with Whisky, the bull that I spotted. Together with her entourage. There's of course Tiger and also Ruby the brown mastiff. Whisky was trying to get off her leash to sniff at Phui. Phui looked at her - shocked probably from her naughtiness. Whisky was trying to lauch forward at Phui Phui and trying to nip him in the process.

The owner, M, reassured us that his just being her playful self, and isn't agressive at all. So, we unleash phui and whisky. Whisky tried to pounce at Phui and Phui retreated... he ran a few steps backwards. Eventually, he started running away from her. It was quite funny to see Phui running away like that. PD and I caught sight of him ducking a few times and even saw his tail went down on the first encounter.

Strangely, after retreating, Phui decided to give chase. He chases Whisky and Tiger around the dog run. And, after 15min, they were best of frens. In the midst of chasing, Phui took interest in a cocker spaniel and wondered off to check her out.

We were not far away from him, so, when he slowed down his pace from the chasing saga, we strolled toward him and the cocker. Instead of a frenly smile from the owners - we got a hostile look

ignorant male dimwit w/glasses #1 - How can you let your dog run like that ?? Don't you know that his breed bites other dogs????
ignorant female dimwite in white - [scrowls at phui]
PD - huh? did he bite your dog?
ignorant male dimwit w/glasses #1 - Yes, he bit this dog over here [pointed to a black cocker]
PD - did he?
owner of black cocker - errr... no-no. its not his dog that bit. its the other one.
PD - [was soooooo mad at this point and walked off]

I was really mad. I went over to confront them with Phui. Honestly, I was hopping mad. How could anyone make such remarks. Its a discrimination against the breed. True. Bull terriers have a bad reputation for bitting. But not ALL bull terriers bite.

Have you ever read that in the newspaper that a golden retriever or a labrador bites too???? I'm sure you have. But, these breeds roam free - an everyone walks beside them oblivion too.

Truly, its pure ignorance and anti social to make such comments. All dogs bit - why discriminate some breeds ? Why made such accusations?

Me - if you are so afraid, you may want to bring your dog into the fenced up area where small dog owners go to.

A little boy said when i Phui ran toward his dog wanting to play. He said "Get this bull terrier out of this place. His not allowed here." At this point, I was too angry for words, I really did want to tell the boy off, but, I know it was not his own perspective. He was surrounded by the same dimwits who hated Phui Phui. All I did was gave him a murderous glare.

His mother sssh him and told him not to be rude. I turned heel and walked.

At this point, Ruby came along to my side. She's really lovely isn't she.

Strange, Ruby is 2 or maybe 3 times the size of Phui, but no one seems to be afraid of him. She's a mustiff for god's sake. They are as agressive as Bull Terriers, but no one says anything, and no one gives an evil glint.

Why oh Why oh Why - Phui's just a dog. Like any other pet dogs - why do people want to do that to him? He isn't being naughty at all. All he did was went over, wagged his tail and wanted to play.

This hasn't only once - it has happen several times.

These dimwitts should be locked up and educated on social skills and EQ.

Even right now, when I think about it, I feel so angry and unjustified for my sweet little pea. :(

Sigh...

Ode to Staffordshire Bull Terrier - The REAL Stories

Yes, these are the news reports and radios that were selectively airing and writing. Feeding the people with ill informed reports. Where was the depth of information that will educate the general public on attacks from dogs. Isn't it an irony where these entities fail to educate proper information, thus, resulting in such breeds, or, pets in general to be ill treated, abused and neglected.

Are we the criminals, are we the condemned then?

That aside, I love the track used during the clip (",)

And also, Phui Phui's not a Straffy - his a bull terrier. A plain, pink bull terrier. (",)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHUI PHUI

Happy Birthday little boy! Well, I'm late in blogging it. (",) Been too busy celebrating this milestone event for little phui.

PD and I had taken leave from office to spend this important day with our little boy. His finally 1 year old. And, PD and I have never regretted bringing him home. Well, maybe PD in the initial first weeks. But, its difficult for PD to give him up anymore I'm sure. (",)

We started our day with a little emails from work (yes, we cannot escape from that. sigh) and we were off to Changi village for some morning dim sum. About the only place that we can go with phui phui in tow. It was a lovely morning - neither humid nor baking sunshine. . It did drizzle a little and it made little phui's feet all black and eeky. Thank God for puppy wipes! Cleans off the grim in a jiffy. Hehe.

It continued to pour in the morning as we made our way to collect little phui's birthday cake from US Doggie bakery. Strawberry Cream Cheese. YUMMY! Looks yummy enough. We were a tad bit early, hence, the lady was a little grumpy. However, she lighten up and smiled even when I told her that its my puppy's 1st birthday, so, only 1 candle is required. And I pointed out to her how my little puppy looks like as phui phui was pouring on the dashboard of our car parked in front of the bakery.

She laughed. "that's a huge little 1 year old" - and she went on to be really nice and chatted for a while. (",) I'm glad it was a good start to her day.

We headed home as it was still pouring.

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Part 2 of Phui's Big Day

Cake Eating session - of course, we couldn't discount on the photo taking. We took loads of photos. From phui posing with the birthday cake, to him woofing them down greedily with cream cheese on his snout and him trying to lick the cream off. He was gobbling down all the strawberries and cream cheese and not even touching the cake - arrrrgggghhh...

So, PM comes to the rescue. I have to cut it and feed him with cream cheese on top.

Phui loved his birthday cake. (",) Not to mention that he gobbled the entire birthday cake on his own. Little mounts did go to PM... yummy! mummy agrees that its nice too..

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Part 3 : Phui's Day in the Fields with his very own basketball

The rain stopped and the weather was lovely! We decided against bringing Phui to Sentosa, in case, we meet more dim CAMs again there. Its phui's birthday, we're suppose to be all happy. (".) So, lets avoid.

We brought him to the dog run and to our delight, it was empty and we had phui chased after his favourite basketball. We were just throwing the ball around from one end of the field to the other, and phui was chasing the ball from one end to another. It does sound quite boring - but strangely, our little boy was really happy to run after the ball.

The usual doggie pool was empty - and phui was puzzled when he wondered over to dip himself off from the heat of the run and weather. He paced the lenght of the pool looking pensive. In the end, PD did a made-shift pool at the water point area. We hose phui down and phui sat sprawled on the cool, blue tiles. He gave us a blissful and contented look. (",)

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Having all his play and quantity time with his daddy and mummy, phui also had his fill of food. Here's what his eaten the entire day

1) 1 bowl of milk for the morning
2) 1/2 a cup of dry kibbles
3) 300g of Strawberry Cream Cheese Cake
4) 200g of meat + carrots [dinner]
5) 1 bowl of milk for supper
6) durian treats from daddy
7) 2 milk bone treats from daddy

By the end of the day, we notice phui phui had a huge-huge-huge tummy. We were wondering was it caused by the food, or our little boy has put on weight at the wrong areas. hmmmmm...

But all the same - A very very very Happy birthday to our little boy!

[ps - i had 1 fren sms-ing early phui phui early morning to wish him happy birthday. thanks - keai! I had another colleague calling and singing happy birthday to little phui in the evening...... heheh... thanks pepper's mummy.]

ADDons..

A colleague of mine from Saigon send me a cute little email to wish little phui a happy birthday

Ok.. . she saved it as an img icon instead of the pic. here's the picture itself...

Sweet isn't he!??! (",) Thanks Princess!

The Dreadful People we meet at Sentosa

Sadly, phui wasn't very welcome by those chao-ang-mohs. [call me racists... maybe I am? Hmmmm...]

They are worse then our home grown, overly protective, overly cautious Singaporeans. Generally, small dog owners are frightful of phui phui - that I can understand.

Phui plays pretty rough - and having these little ones play with him may be sucidal in a their logical minds. Phui for one thing weights a hefty 40 odd pounds. And their little ones, probably less then 10 or 15 pounds.

But for these CAMs... they've got huge dogs - labs, goldies, there's even an Airedale Terrier. The Airedale Terrier is about 23cm in heigh - much taller then my little boy. The CAM owner was so afraid of his dog playing with phui!.. oh pls!!! Honestly, if he doesn't like his dog to play with certain breeds, he might as well cage her at home. And for the record, it was HIS dog that was tail gating my little phui when he was busy exploring the sea water at the beach.

Such ill-informed dimwitts.

Little Phui's Activities

Hehhe - guess what phui phui's doing - hopping around with his yellow plastic ball... so cute hor....

But, its a ritual he needs to go through to...... ..... .... ......

YES!!! Pooping - he has to do this crazy dance before he starts to squat like a weird little lump, all crouched up. Notice how straight his tail is ? Machiam gek-sai.... so funny.. hahahhaha...

GSS

Hello snippies. Manage to meet up a girlfren of mine for 2 very important activity during the weekend.

1) Catch up

2) LOADs of shopping without PD. hahahha..

We met up pretty late in the evening - thank goodness there's late night shopping these days. The GSS wasn't so bad... hmm... maybe it is, just that I hadn't been shopping for the longest time. So, its deprivation, not good sale. hahhaha.

Got a couple of stuff and am pretty happy with my loot. (",)

And guess what - almost 30 years of my life have went by without knowing that NYDC has a bull terrier as their mascot. Wait - is it their mascot ? Well, we commented that a bull terrier MODELLED for NYDC .. hahah - what a word - modelled.

Can phui phui model for NYDC in Singapore? The problem is, his not full white and his patch is too tiny.... not to mention at the wrong place. The NYDC bully has his patch on his butt. Which is sooooooo adorable. hehhehe....

Phui's oldest and youngest pictures

This is little phui - i can't remember if i've loaded this in before - but, I'm going to post it here again because, I simply adore this picture (",) Doesn't he look adorable?

Heheheh....

Here's how the little one have evolved to be.... Very handsome hor... hehehhe...

He looks a little skinny in this picture somehow... Hope and pray that he'll grow broader. (",) My little phui phui --- so handsome...