Here’s more photos of mika’s date!
I love the photo of them playing even tho it’s blur! Gives movement ‘effects’!
XOXO
Jessica
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Mika & her Blind Date Part II
Posted in Mika, My love for Animals, tagged Mika, vivo on April 12, 2010| 5 Comments »
Mika And Her Blind Date!
Posted in Mika, My love for Animals, tagged Mika, vivo on April 11, 2010| 8 Comments »
Hello!!!
Mika went on a blind date 2 weeks back to meet handsome Vivo! It was a rainy day so plans changed from having a romantic date at Marina Barrage to a nature meet up at the Botanic Gardens.
Mika: “I’m so excited meeting my second male Shiba. Will he be my potential mate? I wonder what he will be like? I hope he’s a looker and has good character! Hmm… But I can’t seem so eager when I see him. I must play the game and be slightly aloof! Great! That’s my plan.”
So when Vivo first arrived – he was late for his first date. (minus points, but I shall forgive him since it’s raining) Mika was very shy and took some time to warm up to him. But when she finally warmed up, they played ferociously and it was totally adorable! Chasing each other around and play fighting. Vivo is really big sized and Mika looks soooo tiny beside him! But Mika is more feisty then Vivo even though there’s a big difference in size!
Vivo and Mika had great chemistry and she’s looking forward to meeting up with him again! What a great start!
Here’s some photos of their blind date! I’ll post up more when I get others from another camera.
XOXO
Jessica
Cherry Blossoms in Singapore
Posted in My love for Animals on April 8, 2010| 4 Comments »
Was at Pasir Ris Farmway the other day buying food for Mika and I spotted these beautiful flowers growing on these big plants!
A myriad of pink in this small plot of land which reminds me of cherry blossoms in japan. Although I’ve never seen cherry blossoms in japan before, I did see d actual trees in Las Vegas in the Bellagio.
If only we can see more pretty flowers blooming all over Singapore!
XOXO
Jessica
Ants Infestation
Posted in My love for Animals on March 31, 2010| 8 Comments »
Arghh…. My house has been ants/pests free for 2 years n now suddenly there’s ants invading my territory! First, there’s 1 or 2, a few hours later there’s a whole colony of them! Sprayed, stomped, traced the source, sprayed some more n I thought “settled!” but NO! A few days later they’re back with a vengence from a different location. Grrr…
I must get rid of them before they decide to be permanent residents! Now everyday when I get home, I get so paranoid n start checking everywhere for my lil “nemesis” before I settle down. I will persevere n hopefully they will give up soon n target a different territory!
Disturbed by ants,
Jessica
Help Those Poor Koalas!
Posted in My love for Animals on March 25, 2010| 1 Comment »
Hello!
I received this in my email and instead of forwarding it on to friends I decided to post it up on my blog because it’s totally cute and also, very sad that shy animals like Koalas have to resort to this just for survival.
Stop GLOBAL WARMING!
I hope these cute pics will brighten up your day and also remind you that our planet is suffering.
XOXO
Jessica
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Mika turns TWO!
Posted in Mika, My love for Animals, tagged Mika on March 23, 2010| 8 Comments »
Happy Birthday Mika!
Precious little silly doggie turned 2 in February. Had a TINY celebration for her inviting her 2 favourite playmates – Alvin & Su over to spend this Happy Puppy Day!
We initially wanted to bring her to a pet cafe to celebrate but it wasn’t opened that day. So, I scoured the internet for a yummy doggie cake recipe and whippped up a doggie cake for Mika.
It’s made out of carrots, honey, oil, peanut butter and flour, topped with cottage cheese icing (Mika’s favourite) and peanut butter decorations. And boy did she enjoy the cake! It was a real treat for her!
As U can see, Mika is salivating just looking at her cake!
Do Check out Mika’s new PAGE “Mika” on my blog!
Signing off for now, “woof”
XOXO
Jessica
Diving in Maldives
Posted in Diving, My love for Animals on January 7, 2010| 1 Comment »
Hello everyone!
I just got back from a diving trip to Maldives!
It’s the best diving trip I’ve ever had so far! We got to dive with Whale Sharks (a very rare opportunity – it’s usually snorkeling), Manta Rays, Grey Reef Sharks, White Tip reef Sharks, plenty of Moray eels, big schools of Jacks, Tuna and plenty of colourful tropical fish! Not forgetting the beautiful underwater corals. I’ve always been fascinated with Marine life and all animals life and diving gives me an avenue to experience what I usually only get to see on animal Planet/Discovery Channel.
There was this one particular dive where the divers waited quietly and patiently at this cleaning area (at this point I didn’t know), and when I settled down on the sea bed edge, and looked up, I saw a BIG Grey Reef Shark 2-3 arm lengths away from where I am opening its mouth! The 1st thought that came to my mind was “Wow! I get to see it feed!”, then when I saw how the body was tilted and the mouth was gaping open, I knew it wasn’t the usual feeding body language. Then I realised it was getting its teeth cleaned by these tiny lil’ fish swimming in and out of its mouth!then, another 5-6 sharks started to get used to us and circled around where we were to get themselves cleaned. I was like “Wooowww! This is Animal Planet in my FACE!” I was so happy and thrilled by this whole entire experience – it was like a dream come true!
Then came the dive with the Whale Shark! It is at least 10m long and swam so gently and slowly in the shallow waters feeding on plankton. I dove right beside it from the tail to the mouth and when I reached the mouth, it opened its jaws so big to suck in the plankton! I caught all of that close up of it’s palette on my camera! I could gush on and on about my this dive trip, but let’s let my pictures do the talking! I took most of the pictures and borrowed some from the other divers! 🙂
Enjoy!
XOXO
Jessica
Giant Pufferfish
Dog Toothed Tuna
Honeycomb Moray Eel (I love this pic!)
Blue Stripped Fusillia
Napoleon Wrasse
This is one of my favourite pictures I took!
Marble Ray – This is one of the largest Rays I’ve seen underwater (about 2m in diameter)
White Tip reef Shark hiding under rocks
Spotted Porcupine Fish
Manta Ray swimming straight at me!
It came so close that my camera couldn’t frame it entirely!
Whale shark!
Hawksbill Turtle – I followed this fella for some distance to get some nice shots!
Puppy Mills
Posted in -NEWS!-, Community Work, My love for Animals on September 9, 2009| 10 Comments »
This picture was taken from this website: http://dead-cockroach.xanga.com/691798365/the-puppy-mill-link-exchange-project/
And it really saddens me how some people with no love for animals simply see this purely as a business transaction. Literally it is a factory to churn out puppies for sale. The BIG difference is that this factory is producing living things that have feelings and emotion. Unlike an ipod or a car coming out of a factory.
That is why I advocate to a lot of people not to support purchasing puppies from puppy farms in Pasir Ris or commercialised pet shops as most of these places are merely profit driven and get their puppies from puppy mills like these. Plenty of times these puppies are not well treated or bred and a lot of them are inbred leading to genetical defects. Those are the ones that U will never see as they are killed off. Many dog owners don’t know this horrible side of commercial pet shops.
Even puppies on display in brightly lit pet shops in shopping centres of puppy farms are not kept the proper way. Cages often have grills as the base so that their pee & poop will just seep down to keep the cage cleaner. However, these grills are not good for the formation of puppies paws & legs, and problems resulting from this will only show much later in the puppies life. Hence, sometimes paying a slightly higher price to get from a more reliable pet shop or home breeder is the bettter option. As those are the people who truly love animals and will treat them like their own “child” until they’re sold (hopefully to responsible pet owers). The place where I got Mika is one such shop. I was impressed how they mother all their puppies and keep them in a seperate room not displying them outside for the puplic to see. The shop will only take out a puppy to show you only when U are a serious buyer. This shop also takes care of unwanted dogs & cats and the resident pets in the shop look like they were rescued. The proof of a true animal lover.
I hope that this can help change minds of people and make the lives of other living things a better one other than us humans.
Be an animal lover like me!
XOXO
Jessica
Random Photos of Mika!
Posted in Mika, My love for Animals, tagged Mika on July 14, 2009| 12 Comments »
Mika’s been with me for about a year now and she’s 17months old! She still behaves like a puppy, just stronger & bigger! I was looking back at her photos when she first came home with me and she was soooo cute & small!
She’s a big girl now!
Time flies huh?
XOXO
Jessica
Diving in Tioman
Posted in Diving, My love for Animals, Sports, Travel on July 4, 2009| 17 Comments »
Hello!
I recently took the plunge and learnt how to dive! Finished up my open water in Tioman and continued on to dive there for 2 more days – it was great fun! I’ve always wanted to be close to nature and marine life, this is something that captivated me since I was a kid watching Discovery Channel programs on TV12. Now with cable TV, I’ve progressed to Animal Planet, Dicovery Channel, Nat Geo Wild, History Channel etc. My facination with the world and it’s inhabitants and outer space always kept me wondering how all these things came about and adapted through time. (I’m a true Science student!) I guess if Singapore has Veterinary Studies as a degree I would’ve aimed to graduate in that field. But knowing that it is only available overseas and it will be a financial burden to my parents I never really toyed with that idea. Guess diving is a good alternative for me now!
I saw plenty of interesting life forms underwater like Nudibranch, weird looking sea cucumbers, broadclub cuttlefish (which are really big! about 50cm!), hawksbill turtle, black tip reef shark, pufferfish etc. Previously, I satisfied my curiousity for marine creatures through aquariums, but now I’m able to be “inside” a natural aquarium! And we have a whole ocean to explore it. I can’t wait to dive in other places but for now enjoy what I took underwater.
XOXO
Jessica
Pufferfish
Porcupine Fish
Green Sea Turtle
Sea Fan
Diving Thru a Cave
Looking for Fish!
Coral Fish
Cuttlefish
Flip Flops
Relaxing after diving
Dive Centre at Paya Beach Resort, Tioman
Our dive instructor – Funny. She’s a Japanese lady but she can speak Japanese, English, Cantonese, Malay very fluently! Simply amazing! I was shocked when she picked up her handphone and conversed in Cantonese throughout!
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