China's National Day

Buffy wrote:

Hello everyone! It's been a while since I have written. Ma ma has been busy with her career decision and hasn't been logging on for me to write at all in the past month or so. Not that she hasn't taken me out for walkies! In fact, she takes me out for walkies almost every morning during the week. The weekends have been generally sunny so we have been going out for longer walkies on Saturdays and Sundays.

Take last weekend for example - because of China's National Day, we had a long weekend and I got to see Ma ma at home 3 days in a row! On Saturday, I refused to walk up the stairs so Ma ma took me up to Braemar Hill via the long way round (up Tin Hau Temple Road, then Braemar Hill Road) and it was a very tiring walk. I threw a tantrum on the way back (after my toast breakfast at Cafe R&B), and refused to walk downhill. Ma ma didn't give in though. She threatened to leave me there so I followed her downhill reluctantly. When we go down to Lotus Temple, I ran down the stairs at 10 miles per hour and sped into the park. Ma ma lost sight of me altogether, and was quite embarassed when a stranger (see-lai) walked by and said: "Oh you must be the owner of that dog! Thank god, I thought the dog was lost". Ma ma replied and said "Yes thanks. That dog isn't lost, she ran into the park - that's where she's headed...."

Of course, Ma ma found me loitering in the park, sniffing around, and trying to dodge her stern face when she finally caught up with me.

Oh did I mention that I also scared the hell out of Ma ma over the weekend when I ran UP the stairs at 10miles per hour and ran into the middle of the road to say 'hello' to another dog? I normally behave well and wait for Ma ma at the top of the stairs. Even though Ma ma's legs are long, I beat her up the stairs ever time! When I got to the top of the stairs, I saw a dog on the opposite side of the road. The dog walked half-way (i.e., to the middle of the road) so I thought I should be courteous and meet him half-way. Ma ma was of course furious (but scared!) when she saw me greeting another dog in the middle of the road. She mumbled (fairly loudly) to the other owner that he should have had more sense than to let his dog wander to the middle of the road.... Which is true too, cos I certainly wouldn't have walked into the middle of the road if this other dog hadn't been allowed over in the first place. Though having said that, I think that was probably the last time which Ma ma will let me off leash to walk up those stairs again.