Life So Far

Hi all.

Life had been a roller coaster ride lately with all unexpected issues going on and on . With Deepavali around the corner definitely this is not the time of the year for problems to come my way. But somehow everything seem to be manageable. How have u awesome people been doing? Hope things r well on your side.

Many issues lately that I have been facing, all personal . Sigh  but let's not make this post a sad one! ;)

Well Noels birthday is just 14 days away. Initially my plan was to celebrate it big time but with all the things , especially with my cousins engagement and Deepavali around the corner I have actually settled for a very simple celebration at home. I have met Noels photographer as well but not planning on anything before her birthday. The photography session with a huge album would be Noels first birthday gift *hush hush* . The session will be taking place after her birthday , somewhere in November. I am so glad I have planned this for Noel as I feel she deserves all this as my only child. I will definitely be doing more and more for her and the limit would be the sky! ;)

Apart from Noels celebration , I am actually least bothered about Deepavali this year. Haven't done shopping, haven't baked cookies.. no mood for all that. The only thing I can think of is Noels birthday. Cousins engagement will be in two weeks as well.. One day before Noels birthday to be exact!

October has been hell so far but I am actually getting better with my family so that doesn't make October totally a bitch but yeah. LOL.

I hope to stay positive and get a new job ASAP so that I can keep myself busy again and can resume all my shoppings and hang out sessions. Till then take care and see you guys in my next post which will be god knows when. Hahaha.

Love you munchkins!

I got I.N.K.E.D

Hey there readers... It has been a while since I stepped into my blog . The last update was about my trip to India. And then I dissapeared! To be honest, I havent been focusing much on my blog. So i am making this grand appearance all of a sudden to talk about my second tattoo. *I swear this is an awesome tattoo*

Well if u read my very first post.... U'd probably know what am I talking about. Remember my plan to get a tattoo as a tribute to Dudju?

I got this tattoo on the 13th of July 2014. It was well designed by Hustla Ink, PJ. These awesome artists came up with the idea of a adult dog paw surrounded by tiny paws. One of my closest friend suggested that I should go for this tattoo and as we were looking at the design.... He asked me 'how many puppies Dudju had?' My answer was 'Nine,why are you asking'. He immediately said 'you can have 9 small paws then around the big paw'. Well I thought all this while I was just focusing on Dudju... i had tears in my eyes. I went for that design where one big paw is surrounded by 9 small paws with a banner thats says 'Dudju'.

I settled for that tattoo and i decided to have it on my lower stomach. The manager of Hustla Ink advised me that it was going to be too painful as that is considered as one of the most sensitive part of our body.. I told myself I could take the pain and go ahead with it.

The initial part of the whole process was so painful that I really have no words to describe it here. My first tattoo was not as painful as this. This one was so painful that I scratched my fren and he started bleeding and he could not move his hand till he had to go to the clinic to get a tetanus shot. So now you know how bad the pain was. But end of the day it was all worth it ;)

Now that I have this tattoo with me.. eventhough it is still painful and its healing slowly.. I feel very close to Dudju and her puppies. I feel like they are all alive and they are protecting me. I feel good whenever I look at the tattoo as it really means the world to me.

Dudju girl you have not gone anywhere.. You are just here in my heart... protecting me always. I love you to the moon and back :')

My Temporary Goodbye

Hello people. Just a quick post here before i get my ass off to the airport. Ill be going to India, and its gonna be for a week. Just thought of dropping a very quick post here as I have not been on this blog for a long time now.

This is going to be a short trip , for both prayers and holiday purpose. Jus would like to let u all know that I am going to miss our Malaysian food and people.. and also I am going to miss my little rascal Noel. I hope my days in India would fly by fast so that I can come back to Noel as I know she is going to miss me too!

Take care beautiful readers! Bye now.

Noel

Hello readers! *At this very point you guys will be like, Oh yes Welcome back Yugga*

I know , I know it has been a while since I posted something on my blog. Again, I am sorry for being a cow. I was just busy with my normal routine. Now, it feels sooo good to be back on track!

I have been talking a little bit about my dogs, especially Noel. So here's a post to get to know Noel, the little rascal!

I got Noel on the 15th of December 2013, a week after Dudju passed away. No, she was not a replacement for Dudju as Dudju can never be replaced by ANY other dog. Dudju was just special in her own way. But I have to say this; Noel did help in the healing process, a lot.

So it was a random and sudden plan to give a call to this one pet shop and enquire about their golden retrievers. My brother and I went to the pet shop in Klang, and we played with these two puppies, they looked nice but they did not have a certificate and a microchip on them. After that we came across another advertisement on Mudah.com on golden retrievers as well. My brother and I took a drive to Subang to have a look at the puppies.

When I got into the shop, there were two beautiful puppies. A male and a female. Since we wanted a female, we carried the female puppy. She had that gloomy face and she was quiet. I started questioning the pet shop owner about this female puppy,and I spent some time running around with her around the pet shop to make sure she's active as I wanted a healthy and active puppy.

She was not moving much, so I put her back with her little brother and that's when I saw the puppies' true colour. She was biting and bullying the little brother. I had a small discussion with my brother and we decided to give her a home! :)

I got the shop guy to give this puppy a bath, and while she was having her shower my brother and I went around the shop looking for her food, her bowl and other stuff. I was so excited as this is my first puppy, and It has always been a dream to get a golden retriever, and imagine Your dream came true, how would you feel?

It was already late at night, around 9.30 pm.So, I quickly bought whatever needed, and signed the documents and got into the car with the puppy. All this was not planned and it happened all of a sudden, that's the best part of my story about how we purchased Noel. On the way my brother was advising me on how to take care of her, and he was saying that she might just be the best companion I have ever had, just like how he was with Dudju. I was just listening, and the puppy was sleeping on me, buried her head into my armpit. LOL.

Well, the question is : WHAT ATTRACTED ME TOWARDS NOEL?
As I was on the way to the pet shop, I was already losing my interest on getting a puppy because it was getting late and I thought I wouldn't be going back home with one. Even when we saw Noel, my brother was telling me how good her body frame is, the quality of the puppy and many other things. I did not see any of that. This may sound weird, but  the ONE and ONLY thing that attracted me was her EARS! Her fur around her ears was curly and it really shows that she's from a good blood line. I was so attracted to the ears and I wanted her so badly. Here's a picture of Noel taken before we purchased her:

I brought this puppy home and everyone loved her! I was thinking of naming her December but everyone complained that's like a super long name, so I was thinking so hard, squeezed my brain, googled up some nice names and I finally decided on NOEL, which means Christmas in French ;) *SEXAY* I have always wanted her name to be related to Christmas/ the month of December, and now we are all totally happy with the name.

Noel has been with us for 3 months plus already. When I brought her back, I knew my life would never be the same.I had my responsibilities, I started spending more time at home than before, NO more shopping for myself as all I can think of when I am out is NOEL so I'd buy her stuff . She'd act like an overtired child sometimes, she'd chew on things, especially furnitures. She had lots of puppy energy so she tends to run like a crazy puppy!It was all so beautiful to watch, as I can watch my baby growing up in a fun and a beautiful way. She is my daughter, literally. I treat her like my own child and many of my friends say that Noel looks exactly like me, U know how that
 feels like? Like Heaven! SO happy! Noel has a lot of my characteristics as well and I believe its the bond between he two of us, which brought us closer and eventually it looks like we both have almost the same traits. Which is GOOD.
 I feel that Noel keeps getting cuter every day. I can see that she has grown up a lot, fatter and more beautiful! We keep her inside the house, she likes brushing teeth with us at the sink, she loves sleeping under my bed, and sometimes under my brother's. She is quite a busybody kid as she wants to know everything, and the best part about Noel is that she is VERY friendly!! She loves meeting new people and also new dogs! I am glad that my child gets along pretty well with people. Her social skills is really good. * Like mom, like daughter*

Noel is 5 months old now, and she's growing up into a big beautiful girl. I continue caring for her till today and will do this until the end. She has played a huge part in my life, and she has totally changed my behaviour. She has shaped me to be a better person, many of you would be wondering how is that even possible. One of them is I used to wake up so late everyday. Ever since Noel entered my life, I wake up as early as 8 am, sometimes earlier as I need to feed her, spend time with her and talk to her. I feel these are the essential things a dog owner must have. We should always spend time with out pets, talk to them and love them as we may have many friends around us, but for them, we are the only friend they have and we are the world for them. Do not abandon your pets as that might lead to depression in them.

I love every bits of Noel, when she's naughty, quiet, loving , calm, name it! I will always be attached to her and never let her go in whatever situation I may be in. I have giving her the best I can and continue doing so as I want the best for her from every aspect of life. I want Noel to have a happy and fun life, and I don't mind pampering her at all!She is the most important thing in my life right now, I will never trade her for anything as what I have with her is something extremely special, she means a lot to me, and she means the world to me. Call me crazy or lame, but she's my true love and I will love her till the end of my life.

Noel, in her 5th month

The crazy duos!

That's all for today I guess dear awesome readers! I hope you guys have a wonderful week ahead, may God bless you and all the animals on this planet! Have a good day!

Love,

Yugga & Noel

The Month Of February

Hello lovely people. First of all, I have to apologize as I took a long time to update my blog. I did not have access to Internet and I have been really really busy with things, I know some of you have been telling me to update it, So sorry again and here's the post!

Generally, I have good feeling about the month of February.

Its a month of love people say, but to me I like February because it ends faster than any other month. ;)
Love should not be shown based on months I feel, it should be shown on a daily basis. I personally don't believe that February= Love. If we want to show love, we can do it everyday and we don't have to wait for that particular month for us to show love to our loved ones. This is just my opinion anyway and I totally respect people's opinion about the month of February and I really adore those who celebrate Valentines Day!

We have around 3 people celebrating their birthday in the month of February.
February 3rd is my cousin's birthday. Her name is Nivitha, she is a mixed of Punjabi and Indian and she is 13 years old. She is a smart girl and we both are more like sisters as she grew up with us.

February 20th is dad's birthday.He is 61 years old. He works as a Safety and Health Manager, and he travels a lot.

February 28th is My third brother's birthday. He is unpredictable, just like rottweilers. For a moment he will be okay, the next moment he might just get so angry for no reason. But generally, he is a nice person. He has helped me a lot and he is my buddy when it comes to dogs.I get advise from him about dogs and many other things relating to it.

I personally feel that I have been really busy this month. It is more like I have got something to do every weekend and I am quite not liking it. FYI readers, I am the type of a girl who likes spending time with my family and my dogs. Mostly my life revolves around them and I like that part of my life! Many would find me boring or lifeless, let people say what they want to say as they don't define you. YOU define your own self! :)

I am glad to be blessed with this kind of a family where I have got my dogs and family, and that explains my happiness. What I am planning to do is to stay home on weekends as much as I can, go out with friends once in a while ( I DO need my social life, Right?) and do my things right, then nothing can go wrong in that sense.

Now, have a fabulous week and let me know how you feel about the month of February or perhaps any other month tat YOU like! ;)

My Long Weekend

Hello my lovely readers!

I hope you guys have been in the pink of health and everything is going well so far!

Well, this is my long weekend but NO, I have not been sleeping well. Yes you read that right! I just ended my night shift, and I am on leave from Thursday up to Sunday. So in this post, I am going to write about my long weekend. Today is Friday, in this post I am going to write how I spent my Thursday and Friday.

THURSDAY- 06/02/2014

I woke up around 10.30 am in the morning after sleeping at 7 am the same morning after ended my night shift. It was a beautiful morning because I knew I was going to be on a long leave. Hahaha. I took my puppy, Noel for a walk, came back, showered, and had late breakfast as usual.  After breakfast, mom wanted to do some banking, so my cousin and I drove mom to the bank, went around seeing things and then we headed back home in the evening around 4.15 pm. I got back home, took a little bit of rest and at about 5.00 pm my brother came back from work. He was busy preparing food for the dogs. I was just bumming around until my boyfriend called to inform me that he'll be coming to visit me. Then I had something to do like making tea for the boyfriend and the rest of the family members.After he reached, we all had tea together and we had good chat over tea.

 After about 1 hour, I took mom to the town as she wanted to buy some things for the house. We left home around 7 pm plus and we bought a lot of things which made me happy especially food stuff. We had dinner outside peacefully with one of my aunties after a long time.  After dinner, we went back home.My mom bought tonnes of things as usual and my car was filled with things everywhere! I bought fruits for my puppy as I want her to be healthy and beautiful :D

I got home at about 11 pm and my boyfriend was still there at home with my brother. I spent some time talking to them all, fed my puppy some biscuits and milk, played with her, said goodbye to the boyfriend and I went to shower. Honestly I wanted to write my blog yesterday itself but I was just too tired to do so, and I went to bed around 2 am. I have to say this: I had a good sleep BUT not for long :/

FRIDAY- 07/02/2014

I started my Friday as early as 7 am :) Now this sounds good! I woke up early as I had to go to JPJ to renew my driving license ;). After JPJ I got back home to have my breakfast, got ready to go to Cyber as I needed to pass something to my brother. I got my best friend Katpagam to follow me to Cyberjaya and then we both planned to spend the day together.

I reached Cyber around 11 am, and then reached back my place at about 12 noon. Katpagam and I had our brunch in a new restaurant , and I have to say this: The food tasted HORRIBLE. After our horrible brunch, we both headed back home, picked my little Noel(You'll get to know that little rascal very soon) and we went to the vet as today was Noel's vaccination day! OUCH. Yes, that was painful for both mother(myself) and daughter(Noel)  :( Noel hugged met as she was so scared, probably she thought I was going to leave her there forever or maybe because it was a new place. I had no idea but we did it, and we sent Katpagam back home and we went back home happily.

Noel got back home, and she got everyone's attention. Mom fed her guava and she  ate happily. I fed her food, she was so full after a while, and went into my room to take her evening nap. Up to this very point, I am keeping her by my side. :) Cos I love her  and I want my baby to be safe :)

After that we did not go anywhere. My brothers were home so we were just having some discussions, spent time with the babies and joking around. Well, these two days were amazing as I was with my family even though I did not do anything great or travelled out of my place, but that's just totally satisfying, to be with the family and the babies!
I am now feeling so sleepy and tired as I have not been getting enough of sleep so I might be going to bed early tonight. I know this was just a normal post without anything interesting in it as I am just too tired but I am glad I posted something! :) Hope you guys had fun reading what I did yesterday and today, a definitely better post is on its way I am sure! Have a fabulous weekend my dear ones, be safe, be happy and love your weekend!

Dudju

Hello beautiful people! So this is going to be my first post for this blog, so I rather start it off with something really really beautiful! :)

DUDJU- Our most favorite Dog who lived as a baby in our hearts.It was a rottweiler. She passed away on the 6th of December 2013 due to some complications in her pregnancy. She has played an important role in all our lives, So let me talk about how much she meant to us, to me especially.

Dudju came into our lives in 2008. She was only 3 months old then. I was in Pre-U and Mom called to inform me about the latest addition to our family! I was so excited to see her. I got back home that weekend to  beautiful, furry, chubby Little Dudju. She was so cute but was so naughty jus like any other puppy!

This is how she looked like when my brother brought her back:

Baby Dudju

Cute isn’t it?

Dudju grew up with us, she was so pampered by everyone, especially my third brother. She grew up being so attached to him. Basically she belonged to him. For your information dear readers, Dudju’s original name was Helena, but my third brother has got this habit of giving baby/pet names to the puppies and Helena ended up being called Dudju/Goji/Moji/Gold. Hhaha funny right? Yeah that’s how things work here. Lol.

Dudju was a lovely girl. I don’t usually address her as a dog because we did not feel that way towards her at all, we treated her like our own baby sister! She grew up to be huge and strong, her baby-ness remained the same and she was cuter than before. She was such a warm girl, protective and Attention seeking! We loved every bit of Dudju.

Dudju had helped me a lot in going through tough days, especially when I first joined work. I was taking it hard as I had difficulties learning banking stuff during training, so whenever I was feeling sad I’d go to her, play with her and she’d show me some love. This is something even humans can’t give. The feeling is just soo good, the best part is dogs don’t talk and they can change your mood to be better in no time! Amazing isn’t it??

I was not so attached to her during my college/university days but she would never bark at me. She would just play with me and let me hug her and touch her. We got closer after University and I have taken lots of pictures with Dudju.

Dudju and I, taken last year :)

Family photo one day before Deepavali 2012*that's my third brother in the pic*

The Love of my life, my baby sister 

Dudju got pregnant somewhere around last year and she delivered 9 pretty puppies on the 26th of November 2013. 7 of her puppies died in her stomach, only 2 survived. Then, after a few days the other two puppies died. Dudju passed away a week after that. Honestly we have got no freaking idea why she died, she was only 5 years old. One day before she passed away, I went to visit her in the clinic and she was playing with me, being all active and loving as usual. That was the only thing that makes it hard for me to believe she’s gone, because she was just okay and happy when I visited her. It was very unexpected, It was a painful experience for the family especially for my third brother. We do miss her until this very second. Many of our family/ friends told us that she’s now in a better place, but to me, there’s no better place for her than our home. I cant believe she is gone and it’s just too much to digest it.

Even though Dudju has left all of us, she lives by our heart. We as a family had a hard time coming out of Dudju's sudden passing, we had each other's shoulder and that's how we supported each other and felt better as days pass by..It was not easy at all, especially for my third brother who was always there for her, and he basically watched her suffer the most, it was NEVER easy. We felt her presence, my brothers could smell her and the next second we realised that she's actually not there and that was terrible. She was an amazing girl, I loved her so much. She was a special one, such an adorable baby!

 I have to stress in this post that Dudju's passing had actually made me realize a lot of things. .That one incident made me aware of who my actual true friends are and who will actually be there for me when something really sad/ bad happens to me. I found the answer to these questions on the day she left us because I witnessed it myself all,those friends who told me stories about how much they love and care for me, did not even say any comforting words knowing the situation my family and I were in. I don't expect people to come and cry along with me but as a good friend we should know what we can do for a friend who is in a hard situation, I am sure that's not something difficult to do. 

End of the day I realised that The friends I communicate the least, are the REAL ones who will always stand by my side no matter what. In this case, I would like to say a million thanks to my Best & Real friend Katpagam for the amount of support she provided me with throughout the whole process which was extremely painful. Katpagam knows Dudju from the day we brought her and amongst all my friends, I would happily say that she knows Dudju the BEST! Dear readers, Katpagam was there from the very beautiful beginning(The day we brought Dudju) until the miserable ending(Dudju's passing). It was very helpful and kind of her to be there for me, supporting me emotionally even though she was not present physically, but I gotta say it helped me a lot in getting through the tough time I had after Dudju passed away, In fact even when she was sick itself. I have no words to express my gratitude towards Katpagam as I know how much her comforting and positive words have impacted me in good ways throughout the painful journey. I have to say she is such a wonderful person, and knowing her for the past 18 years has always been a pleasure and I am totally blessed to have a true friend as Katpagam. If you're reading this, I owe you big time man! I love you and Thanks a bazillion for being my best friend even though I have not been a good one to you. I appreciate every single thing you have done for me which has helped me a lot :) I LOVE YOU, GIRL! And to all my other friends who helped me through the mourning process, thanks a bunch, I really appreciate all your messages and phone calls, it really helped me a lot as well and I love you guys to bits :)  Coming back to the fake friend topic,Why would someone address you as a best friend when they don't mean it? We have got a bunch of psychos around. LOL. That was sad, but the good part is the learning point there. So anyway leave all those fake friends aside and lets continue.. 

Baby Dudju was my best buddy, we have done so much of crazy things together, and I have to say this: Hugging her is the best thing ever! That is like the best remedy for any sort of sadness/depression. Sometimes, the things she does OMG can just leave you laughing like a mad person. She loved competitions! It was more like a short distance DOG marathon and she would not be so happy if the other dogs overtook her while running! I can just smile thinking of all those good memories of my Dudju Girl! Apart from that, She has given us so much of love and she can NEVER EVER be replaced by any other dogs! You can put so many other big-sized chubby , huge rottweilers in front of me right now, I will still say Dudju is still the best of the best! She was just too special.Now that Dudju is gone, I believe that she’s a guardian angel whose always watching over us. She loved us as much as we loved her. I love you Dudju girl , I wish you were still around, but I think you have gone to be with your babies. I pray for you to be safe and sound in heaven with your little ones :) I love you :’)

P/S: I will be a getting a tattoo real soon which reminds me of Dudju:)

Here's a short poem for My Dudju Girl:

We thought of you today,

But that is nothing new.

We thought about you yesterday,

And days before that too.

We think of you in silence,

We often speak your name.

Now all we have is memories,

And your picture in a frame.

Your memory is our keepsake,

With which we'll never part.

God has you in his keeping,

We have you in our heart.

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal ~ Richard Puz~