I am in the process of cleaning up my mobile phone by deleting old text messages and backing up images that I captured, mostly of my dogs, Snoopy and Dino, over the past few years.

Reading my old text messages, a lot of them were sent and received when I was caring for Snoopy when he was bedridden brought back a lot of pain. My friend told me to delete everything with just a click but I just had to torture myself by going through each message.

Here is a photo of a dog that I took 2.5 years ago that I chanced upon in front of a pet shop in Ipoh when Dino was still alive. I frequented this pet shop for Dino’s feed. Snoopy was on a different diet.

Looking at this photo amuses me. I still do love dogs but can’t help but remember all the bad experiences that I had with my dogs. I try to only keep the good times in my memory but it doesn’t always work.

How weird that I am speaking Hokkien when I’m Cantonese. Well, I got G-smacked yesterday, what can I say? I know that I won’t get any sympathy since I at least had an extra couple of months so the pity party was over before I joined. Still, I feel depressed, cannot meh?

It had been an exhilarating sixteen long months, and I am very thankful for the opportunity. Still, I had hoped that it will go on a little longer.

A friend asked me that since I know that this will be the outcome, why do I still feel sad. Don’t tell me that if you know that someone close to you is going to die, for example, and when the person dies, you won’t feel anything at all? Being prepared for an eventuality does not equal to being able to handle the situation well when it finally comes. At least that is not the case for me.

I spent the past week working my butt off, to the point of neglecting everything and I was euphoric when I finally finished my backlog of work but at the end of it, this has to come to kill my mood.

Oh well, as the saying goes, life goes on. Now, please excuse me while I go hide in a corner to lick my wounds.

Last year week, I was at my regular veterinary clinic to buy food for Snoopy. Snoopy is a high maintenance dog and his food can only be found at veterinary clinics because it’s prescription diet. BAH, it’s darn expensive but I still love him anyway.

I love to keep fishes but I hate the task of cleaning the aquarium up. I wonder why other people’s aquariums are so clean while mine was so dirty and stinky and I had to wash it at least once a week. What am I not doing right? I even had a black creepy sea creature that supposedly eats moss but all it did was get stuck onto the inside wall of the aquarium and not do its job right.

Now I have gotten rid of my aquarium since I could hardly spare the time to maintain it so what I do is just admire the aquariums of others!

That day, when I was there, I only had my Nokia E61i with me so I took the chance to shoot these photos while waiting to be served.

I would not say that I am disappointed with the quality of the photos since I have come to NOT expect anything from the camera of my mobile device. All I can say is that these photos are only good enough for web publishing but there’s still room for improvement. The full resolution shots are awful! Somebody, please tell me it is USER problem! The camera CAN’T be THAT bad?? Or am I expecting too much?