REST IN PEACE CHERIE...24/9/2006 - 4/6/2015 

Cherie passed away on 4th June 2015 (Thursday).. 

Lots of people were really concerned about why so sudden when she looked so cheerful and healthy all the time.. 

So I shall blog her last journey that she been through with us.. 

As you can see, Cherie looked really healthy and she was such a sweet and tolerant dog, we didnt know she was sick till later stage of her illness..

We realized that she stopped eating for days, she had become really skinny.. That was about mid-may when all of this happened..

We thought she was really bored so we took Cherie and Cookie out for a walk one day..

She couldnt walk far at all, only after like 5 minutes of walk.. She just can't move at all, she wouldnt budge.. We didnt know what happened, so we just carried her and hoping that she will walk for awhile till we reached the nearest park..

That happened to be her shortest walk of all times and her last walk with us..

Next day I was really worried so I urged mum to bring her to the vet.. She said that we should observe first and see how it goes.. And I agreed.. Because seriously she seldom fall sick, so we thought we should observe her more..

We found out that she was panting away and couldnt eat at all.. So Mum decided to bring her to the vet 2 days later..

I was at work and mum updated me with what the vet has to say..

She was diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) and she had fluids in her lungs.. That explains why she find it difficult to eat and breathe..

The vet couldnt tell us how long she will live but gave us options to treat her..

We all agreed to bring her home and gave her home care and medications to drain out the fluids from her lungs, which was our main priority at that moment.. Because CHF is incurable..

When we heard the news, we were so worried and sad because she was not a sick dog at all.. She seldom visit the vet.. Like less than 5 times in her 8 years plus of living..

Anyways, we didnt give up on her, we tried our best to be there for her as much as possible and gave her our attention..

We cooked her favorite meals, forced her to eat her medications and when we went back for the second appointment with the vet.. (which was like 1 week later)

The vet said that she looked better and plus she was eating well and slept well.. So the vet said her conditions improved by a lot..

We thought she was getting better, esp the part where the fluids were drained out from her lungs.. So we just need to concentrate to give her medicines on time to control her CHF.

She even started to play with Cookie, chasing him around the house...

Little did we know, that will be her last happy moment in her life..

I noticed she was getting breathless again during 2nd June which was 2 days before she passed away.. But I realized she was eating and drinking.. So I thought she was just feeling a bit uncomfortable..

Then I just asked my mum to observe her more and see how it goes..

I know she didnt sleep well (or didnt sleep at all) on the 3rd June.. Because she asked me to let her our of the room when I was going to bed..

When I woke up, she was already awake.. Which was pretty unusual for my dogs, because both of them slept till late and only wakes up when the sun rises.. Its really unusual to see her in my room not sleeping at 6.30 am in the morning..

I patted her head and looked at her.. And I had this strong feeling.. maybe I shouldnt go to work today, i should stay at home and look after her..

But I still went ahead to do my daily morning routine.. When I was doing my makeup, she was standing near at my wardrobe door, which was so obvious that she was asking for attention.. She just stood there, was in my way but I didnt chase her away, I just let her be..

While I was doing my makeup.. I just looked at her and she didnt move at all..

Even before I went out of the room, I even looked at her longer.. Was feeling so uneasy.. And I didnt know, that will be the last time I looked at her..

Mum supposed to be working on that day in the morning but she skipped work and headed home because she had the same feelings as I did ( But without each other knowing)

She called me and told me that she will bring her to the vet which was my most nervous time of that day.. But when I didnt receive her call during the afternoon, I thought everything was fine..

Till she sent me a video of Cherie panting vigorously away..Even informed me that her tongue was slowly turning to purple color. From there, I just knew, she can't hold on any longer.. 

 After about 5 - 10 minutes later, my mum called and she was crying so badly, told me Cherie was vomiting blood.. What's worse was when I asked her what happened she hung up the call on me..

The second time I called back, she was crying away and blabbering about something which I couldnt understand at all.. And hung up my call again.. 

I just took an urgent leave and went straight home which my colleague was nice enough to send me home.. Before I left my work place, I got the final call from mum.. 

Cherie had passed on.. 

I was shocked.. But I dont have tears at all. Because I just couldnt cry in front of my colleagues.. So I just held it in.. Or maybe I just couldnt accept the fact that she just leave us that fast..

I dont know.. 

When I reached home.. I couldnt help and my tears started to flow automatically.. 

Seeing her lying there motionless.. I just couldnt express how I felt at that moment.. All I knew was I felt painful.. My heart aches so much.. 

Mum and Dad helped her to look as neat as possible.. 

Mum was crying for two days straight.. Non-stop. My Sister came back home shortly after I told her the news when I was on my way home.. 

We were all grieving.. Cherie was the first dog we had lost.. So we couldnt help but cry so much for the past few days.. 

Even when I am typing this post is making me cry.. 

We decided to keep her at home for a day before we cremate her the next day.

Her last shot before cremation. 

That was a long day when we sent her off.. We were all so tired and was mourning for her.. 

My grieve finally kicked in when we reached home.. I couldnt do anything at all.. I was crying so hard (which I tried to hide) , I was thinking bout her all day.. I was lying on the bed doing nothing.. 

But I was feeling better after all that crying.. 

Mum made a place for her.. I am so proud that I managed to catch that picture of her and mum was happy about it.. 

Cookie is still dealing with his grieve.. Till this day he will practically go to this spot everyday and whine.. He NEVER go to that spot before.. So we believe Cherie is really home with us.. 

Hopefully I can make more time out for Cookie.. Its such a pity that Cherie cant live till Cookie's 10th year old Birthday.. Which is 10th June. 

Till now we are still mourning for her.. I know time will heal, I know she will stay in our hearts forever.. 

I miss her so much, seeing her running around the house playing fetch with me, miss her scent, miss giving her belly rubs, miss disturbing her while she sleeps when she cant do anything about it.. lol.. I just miss her so much.. 

We love you Cherie, Thank you for being such a nice, understanding, sweet, kind girl and for these 8 years plus of love from you~ 

May you rest in peace and play to your heart content at the Rainbow bridge with other dogs.. =) 

MAJOR HANGOVER AND MORE UPDATES!

I just realized how much I have neglected this blog of mine and only update it when I have overseas trip. I will try to blog as much as possible. 

The thing is I am too busy with my work life that I totally forget bout MY LIFE. 

I will try to get my shit together and hopefully change for the better~ 

Recently Cherie has been ill. When we came back from our Tokyo trip, parents said that she had been "coughing" . I didnt take much notice till my Dad mentioned that she is not eating.. 

That's when I knew something was wrong.. 

Because I had to work, so I asked mum to bring her to the vet. Which they checked that she is having Congestive Heart Disease and there is water in her lungs. 

That one week plus was really stressful for us, because she is not eating well and with water in her lungs, we were afraid that she might pass away anytime. 

We couldn't afford to let her be hospitalized and we prefer to take care of her ourselves at home. 

So we chose home care for her.. 

I even took unpaid leave to take care of her during that period which I am glad I did. 

Turns out that she is doing quite well after one week plus of medications and home cooked food. 

She is able to sleep and eat well. 

Congestive Heart Disease is a incurable illness, so there is nothing we can do but to let her feel comfortable whatever she is doing.. 

Most importantly is that the water in her lungs is being drained out. 

Now she is on long term medications and hopefully she will stay with us for a longer time. Most importantly she is not suffering much. 

Moving on~ 

Before the new year starts, I decided to buy something to reward myself for being hard working last year! (Self-praise, yea, thick skin. ) 

And of course having a hard time saving up money.. I managed to buy ... PSVITA Game console!! Woohoo~!!! 

And ITS PINK IN COLOR!! =D 

Also managed to get Note 4 in pink !! Oh yeah~! (Because my contract is eligible to do re-contract with 100 bucks voucher~ ) 

The latest game that I bought last week I think~! 

This is the second game of SAO since I have completed the first SAO game. 

And also bought some games online as well! LOVE PLAYING my PSVITA! 

So I was back from Tokyo for one month now and seriously, I am still having a MAJOR HANGOVER of Tokyo! 

I miss Tokyo so much that I keep thinking of it ALL DAY , EVERYDAY! 

Keeps me motivated to work and desperately wanting to go again next year!  Most of the times I would check out Tokyo vlogs on Youtube, it feels like I am back in Tokyo once again~! 

I should snap out of it and focus on saving money to go again next year! =) 

Oh yes, remember my Duffy virus? yeah.. Its getting worse.. 

Been buying clothes for him, EXPENSIVE clothes.. I didnt think I would be this obsess with him!

Brought him to work because wanted to show my friends and was gonna buy clothes for him on that day~ 

New clothes for him that I bought at Build a Bear.. 

THIS !!! Hakama for him! I was searching HIGH AND LOW for this outfit for him.. 

And its flown from Osaka all the way to Singapore! Of course the price is quite high.. Plus shipping and everything its about S$ 90 ..

 Just this one outfit for him and its so special since he is from Disneysea Tokyo, I think its worth the price~ I decided to name him Kazuto! =) 

Wanted to name him Toushiro since my all time fav male anime character is Hitsugaya Toushiro from Bleach BUT someone said it sounded scary.. 

So I named him after my second all time fav male anime character~ Kazuto!! Which is Kirigaya Kazuto from SAO! And I love the meaning of his name~ So I present to you my Duffy named Shinohara Kazuto! =) 

I am sorry for being so fucking random and childish but I dont really care! Wahahaha! I am so poisoned by Duffy virus! Oh gosh! 

Still waiting one outfit for him~ I shall reveal it soon once its here! hehe~

One last picture to show how much I MISS TOKYO!! 

Gotta work hard so I can get to go again next year! =D 

I will try to blog as much as I can~ Till next time! 

LAST DAY OF TOKYO TRIP !! 

The last day of our trip and we were really sad that the wonderful time has finally come to an end. 

We woke up kinda late and had our last breakfast in Shibuya, we chose to eat at Mee's Pancake again because we LOVE the pancakes that they have~!!  

They only opened at 11.30am so we just took our time and it started drizzling once again that day. Reminds me the day when we first arrived Shibuya.. 

It was sooo good~ Fluffy and big omelette with two pieces of soft and fluffy pancakes~ 

I would love to go back again for their food~ 

After our brunch, we went back to our apartment and started to pack up and just chill in the apartment, because somewhat I know that we WILL be using LOTS of energy later just to get to the Airport.

I was right.. 

We were suppose to reach the airport approximately 7pm and I told sis that we should go out earlier than expected because my friend advised me that we should be at the airport 3 hours earlier, also I was kinda worry that we might need more time.. 

Just from our apartment to JR station already took us SO MUCH ENERGY! 

Because WE HAD SO MUCH to take with us, one big luggage, one HUGE hand carry bag , one small hand carry bag AND my head porter backpack, which was only for one person! My sister had the same amount of stuff as me.. So imagine how much we had to take with us..LOL!! 

It was heavy, it was raining and it was so crowded.. 

So it was kind of a hassle.. (thats what we get for not staying in a hotel i guess.. =X ) 

Finally we reached the JR station, I just went ahead to get our Narita express open tickets back to the airport.. Now I know, we should have get the tickets earlier because they have certain timing back to airport.. Imagine we had to take a later timing, we will reach the airport later than expected..

We were lucky enough to get the next train which we just had to wait for like 15 to 20 mins.. It took us a while to the platform and which car to board.. Its kinda complicated, but luckily we managed to figure it out.. 

Yes.. I took Duffy (Kazuto) up to the plane with me! JUDGE ME ALL U WANT~! 

We waited for like 1 hour plus just to do the check in, I was STARVING!!! Because I only had like one meal in the early afternoon.. And I had to wait for that long, so I was really pissed off .. I had no idea why we couldnt check in early so we can enjoy shopping for their duty free shops.. 

By the time we checked in, we just rushed to look for food!! 

LAST RAMEN of our trip! Which it didnt taste as good as I expected it to be.. But oh wells~ I like the soup!

We went to shop for our Shirokoibito and Tokyo bananas ~ Which is like A MUST to get!! 

Finally we boarded the plane and we were lucky to get window seats (for 2 pax only) ~ So that we can sit and sleep comfortably~ Sis slept most of the time.. 

I didnt expect myself to stay up the whole way!! I watched like 2 movies (about 5 hours) and was half awake and half asleep for the next 2 hours.. 

Which I was already SO EXHAUSTED.. 

When we reached KLIA (KL Airport) , I thought we could find a place to sit and sleep. Maybe outside the boarding gate? Which was weird enough that the security guards won't let us get through that particular section, and his attitude sucks to the max. We wandered around for almost 1 hour, feeling thirsty and hungry..

Their restaurants which stated 24 hours.. WE CANT GET ANY FOOD! Only drinks?! 

MY GOODNESS! 

Its either they are NOT SELLING or the staff was sleeping away.. SERIOUSLY?! 

I didnt expect that coming.. 

Finally we were sooo pissed and tired.. We just find a spot (With no one else there), which was some seats outside their skytrain. I know how tired my sis was.. So I just told her to sleep while I keep watch our stuff.. I can't sleep anyways, I was way too tired to close my eyes.. IF you know what I mean, I rather wait till I get home and sleep all the way.. 

Seriously, I WILL TRY MY SUPER BEST NOT TO TRANSIT AT THIS AIRPORT EVER.. AGAIN. 

This was how we were like, luckily they still have Wi-Fi.. So I just stayed up watching anime...

When time was up, we just board the plane and back to Singapore~

Luckily we luggage and bags reached Singapore safely too~ =) 

We hurried home and first thing we did when we reached home was to eat.. SO HUNGRY! 

And we unpacked a little bit, esp gifts for parents and some snacks.. In the end, our room looks SO MESSY!! =X 

While sis was unpacking, I just went to sleep unknowingly, I only wanted to nap for like 2 hours, in the end, I just went deadly asleep for nearly 6 hours! =X 

Its been a week since we are back and we MISSED TOKYO SOOO MUCH.. I even miss the crowd which is so weird.. =X  Because I seriously HATE CROWDED places.. 

I miss the food, the weather, the place, the language.. EVERYTHING! 

I love how we managed to go there after almost one year of our busy schedules that we even seldom talk to each other.. I love spending these quality time with my sister~ 

We so wanna go back once again~ Hopefully we can go Osaka too for the next time round which is my dream place to go too~ Because it's Teppei's hometown~ I have always wanted to see what is it like in Osaka~ 

And one thing I got from Tokyo is.. DUFFY VIRUS!! I AM DEEPLY POISONED!! 

HAHA~  Lame much~ But I dont care~ 

Anyways~ Hopefully this year I can work hard as well and travel to Japan once again soon! =)

Gambarimasu!! 

TOKYO TRIP !! 19TH APRIL ! DAY 7 ~! 

Yay!! DISNEYSEA!! Finally~ Another dream came true! A place where I wanna be when I was a kid~! 

A place where all children's dream come from~ Well, almost all children~ At least for me! 

We woke up later than expected, wanted to reach Disneysea at 10am but in the end we reached at about 11am and had our brunch by 11.30am.. By the time we got to go in is already about 12 plus going 1pm? 

So excited!! =D 

The tickets we bought at JTB at ION! So we dont have to queue up for the tickets~ 

The disney train!! 

We had our brunch before heading off to Disneysea! 

The train station !! So cute! Because it was Easter a while back ~ 

The train was surprisingly quiet for a weekend to Disneyland or Disneysea.. =X 

So cute with the Mickey handrail~ Aww~ 

The Disney themed hotel! One day! Just one day! I would like to stay there just to experience.. 

The amount of cars are kinda shocking, this is not all yet.. Just how crowded Disneyland and Disneysea can be.. I can't even imagine.. T.T 

Excited~!! 

And finally we reached Disneysea! 

Sis just had to buy this headband before entering Disneysea! I didnt get one though because I wasn't really into these stuff~ hehe~ 

This hat is really cute and special though but we didnt get this.. just to take picture~

The entrance of Disneysea! 

Let the fun begins!! 

It started to rain when we enter Disneysea.. It was kinda annoying but luckily it started drizzling after a while.. We started to walk around and look for rides to take~ 

Gotta love all these buildings~ So pretty! With fresh flowers as decorations~ 

Enjoying the view from there~ =D 

We didnt know these canons actually can make sound and have smoke coming out from it when you pull it.. So cool~ 

We were kinda tired.. Though we havent really start any rides yet.. 

We had some coffee, beer and Turkey leg which it was famous that we need to give it a try~ 

I expected the turkey leg to be cold and difficult to chew by the looks of it.. But instead it was warm and really yummy! Initially I didnt want to order the beer but I saw that almost every single table has a cup of beer.. I knew i just had to try.. 

It was really refreshing and nice~ Though we only drank like 1/2 of it.. 

I used to drink a lot, but since I cut down alcohol, I dont think I can drink as much as I used to.. So we just drank half of it and just that's it.. lol~ 

Yumms~ After our little break, we continued our adventure~

We took some rides which seemed scary but in the end, it wasn't scary as it expected to be..

The longest queue we had to queue was about 100 minutes I think.. My friend who went before said they needed to waited for like 200 minutes thats why they didnt get to enjoy some rides.. 

Guess we were kinda lucky, the trick to keep ourselves awake and not bored was to watch movie.. I downloaded some movies on my phone, so we watched it while waiting for our turn~ 

And so we reached Mermaid Lagoon~ 

When we saw the castle, I was like.. omg! We reached Atlantica ! The castle and home of Ariel's ~ 

I was soooo excited to check it out!! =D 

Just so you know, my favorite mythological creature was Mermaids!! 

I find them so mysteriously awesome! And till now we are still debating whether Mermaids are real~ 

I choose to believe that they exist! =) 

And so Ariel is my favorite character since very young, I still remember I even read the Little Mermaid's storybook while I was in Kindergarten, I was already so mesmerized ~ 

So till this day Ariel is still my favorite character of all Disney movies! =D 

I finally get to meet you Ariel~ 

This picture was so nicely taken but just that one man was just standing there posing away.. He wasn't getting his picture taken, I had no idea just WHY did he has to stand there.. T.T Photo bombing away to the max! 

Flounder, Sebastian and Ariel~! 

All hail to King Triton! =) 

The inside of Mermaid Lagoon! 

I didn't know there is actually a live show of the little mermaid at the time, so we missed the show, what a pity.. Oh wells..

I only know there is a show going on till I came back from Tokyo.. =( 

Basically all the rides in Mermaid lagoon are for children.. So we didn't queue up to any of those rides.. we nearly did.. But gave up in the end! LOL! 

The lights and decorations are so pretty ~!! 

After that we went to shop at their gift shop ! 

And I decided to get a Duffy coin pouch.. (That's where I got my duffy virus from...)

Before flying to Tokyo, I had no idea what Duffy was till I heard from Wan Chin.. She did mention to me that she just want a Duffy key chain.. So I took note of it.. 

And literally.. Everywhere we go, we would see everyone.. EVERYONE (According to my eye sight) got a Duffy bear.. Be it small or big, key chains or the plushie itself.. I was like.. Wait a minute.. Is it THAT popular?? 

Then I remembered.. I heard from Wan Chin that ONLY DISNEYLAND sells Duffy..

That POLLUTES MY HEAD.. ( Continue this Duffy virus later at the end of this post.. )

But I didnt get it at the time.. Once I bought the pouch, we continued our adventure and didnt care much..

Me and my cute pouch posing away~ =) So cute right?! I meant the pouch~ =X 

We queued for this ride and it took so long.. Before the ride I was so nervous.. Sis likes all these roller coasters while I dont really enjoy them.

Because I had a trauma when I was young.. So I am kinda scared of Roller coasters now, but every now and then my sister will try to convince me and always put her best most pitiful face to me.. So I had no choice but to accompany her.. 

This ride has 360 degree tracks.. I was really nervous at the time..

But when it was time to ride.. It was nothing at all.. I mean sis was disappointed because the waiting time took really long and the ride was nothing exciting.. So yea.. 

Then we came upon Indiana jones ride.. We just went in on impulse.. Like seriously, we didnt wanna go in at first, afraid that it might another disappointing ride. 

In the end, we had SO MUCH FUN! This ride was so fun! Kinda scary for me, but still exciting and fun~! Please go try it when you Disneysea Tokyo~! 

My sister LOVES this kind of structures! so cool!! 

We were a bit hungry so we got this hot dog bread~ YUMMS!! =D 

I was looking for my mickey churros but in the end I couldn't find it.. sad.. 

We didnt take the train cox it was really crowded..

But we took this kinda lame ride on the water.. It looks kinda pretty~ So we might as well ride them right? heh~ 

Wish we came earlier to check this place out~ It was so beautiful!! A place where my sister wants to live! LOL~ Really love all those houses , it was so pretty!! 

By the time we checked this ship out, we were really tired and had sore feet.. I couldn't walk an inch further. So we took a lil break.. Like for 10 minutes.. Gosh, my legs.. I could hear them SCREAMING AT ME! 

We even checked their LIVE Show too! We didnt take pictures but videos.. It was kinda funny to hear Mickey speak Japanese though.. keke.. 

Oh yea, we cant even see the fireworks!! Which I kinda look forward to!! They said due to the weather, they can't have the firework show.. Well, no choice then.. But to look at another angle, we managed to avoid the crowd.. 

After the show, I asked where can we find The Tower of Terror.. Which we had no idea what was it about.. 

The name sounded scary and I thought it was just a huge haunted house/maze for us to explore or something.. 

So without knowing anything at all.. We queued up..

After the ride! WE WERE LITERALLY LAUGHING AWAY!! 

That ride totally took us by surprise! 

It was SOOO FUN! And that was the last ride of the trip so it made a great impact and fun for us till the end! I dont think I need to explain what this ride was about right?

Because before we went to Tokyo, I didnt do any research on either Disneyland or Disneysea because I wanted to be surprise.. So I guess other people too right? Dont wanna get any spoiler ~ 

It was HELL A FUN! =D 

Toy story Mania, This is the only part we didnt get to explore, by the time we reached this place, it was already like 9.40pm.. So we had to go and find the gift shops ASAP instead.. 

But the lights were really pretty~ =) 

We felt so sad when we had to leave.. Because we had so much fun and we gotta go home the next day.. So we just stood there for like 5 minutes to take it all in before leaving.. 

Thank you Disneysea for the amazing experience and fun to make my dream come true! 

After our Disneysea, we were starving.. So we headed to Sushi Zanmai once again for one last meal of authentic sushi..

It was really tiring and sleepy but we just had to.. If not we figured that we will regret it.. 
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Continue with my Duffy virus.. 

After I got my coin pouch, I got even more aware about just how many people carrying that bear around everywhere they go!! ITS POLLUTING MY HEAD ENTIRELY! 

I told my sis.. 

I JUST HAD TO GO GET THAT FREAKING BEAR!! 

At first we thought only mermaid lagoon sells them, so we went back to get my bear.. 

After getting the bear.. We happened to see other shops selling duffy bear's outfits etc.. Sis initially only wanted the keychain.. IN THE END~ 

I started to persuade her to get one too.. I MEAN COME ON! ITS TOO CUTE TO RESIST!!! 

AND ONLY DISNEYLAND SELLS THEM! Its totally one of a kind right? RIGHT?!?! 

After some serious consideration... SHE GOT ONE TOO~~!! Wahahahaha!!! 

We even got outfits for them!! 

I even got one for Wan Chin too.. Come on, since I am here and how much I love Duffy, I couldn't just bear to get her a key chain OR a coin pouch, so I just got one for her too~ Even gave her duffy a neck tie~ 
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TADAH!!! The one of the left side is mine~ The one in Sailor outfit is sis' ~ 

I totally have the Duffy virus.. I MEAN.. Seriously, even now, I can't get my hands off him! I just had to hug him whenever I am using my laptop, be it surfing the net or watching movies.. I never keep my hands off him.. 

I seriously didn't expect myself to get poisoned by him! The only plushie I had was only Tarepanda (which is already extinct) So I was really surprised how much I love this bear..

My family and friends were kinda shocked too.. =X 

But I don't need anymore of it's stuff~ PERIOD.. Now I have the plushie, I just to get more OUTFITS for him!! SO CUTE !! =D 

I am one Happy person ~!! 

When I was really young, I've always wanted a Teddy bear of my own.. But I just couldn't find THE ONE SPECIAL BEAR! 

Now I GOT IT! Plus I can get outfits for him! Makes it even harder to resist! 

People! Please be careful if you are visiting Tokyo, if you want to get the bear, Only Disneysea has them~ And and.. I wish you good luck with the Duffy Virus! =)