Food for thought


Today I went to Pets Villa as volunteer to help out, together with adam,bk,cl and val. Compared to the first previous visit, the voluntary work today was pretty tougher this time. Besides scooping food into the dogs' bowls and feeding them, I had to help picked up pretty much poos and mop the urine there. Omg. My mum will sure be jealous of the dogs there because I didn't help her do housechores at home and did those stuff there! HAHAHA xD Oops time to do smth as a daughter le.. Anws, I was also being "challenged" by auntie say hoe to take up a mounting task, that was, to clean up dog cages! =O Although it appeared to be quite scary at first because of some "exciting" dogs, but I overcame it pretty well and I am quite proud of myself!:D Haha.

It was also the first time I teared at Pets Villa and quite some times since I last teared.. This is the reason why I teared so much today: As usual to what I did during the first time of my visit, I helped to clean the small office room there by picking up poos and leftover food, mopping the floor and refilling the water for the dogs to drink. When I was mopping the floor, there was a pretty big dog sitting and lying like a boss under one of the office table. This reminded of the scenario when I saw many dogs sleeping and relaxing like a boss after their lunch in another room. So, I was a little xiong to that dog and asked it to make way for me to mop the floor. But the scenario when the dog stood up and walked away made me tear. The dog was actually three-legged and I really felt quite bad after I saw it sia. So while I mopped the other part of the room and pouring the dirty water away, tears welled up my eyes and starting to fall:X After I finished mopping and that that dog went back to that place, I started to sayang it and cried. I am pretty sure that it has some feeling because it seemed to react to it when I started to cry:X  When I sayang it, it rubbed its eyes against my hands for quite a few times. That very moment.. was specially unforgettable :')

 Although the voluntary work at Pets Villa today was pretty challenging, I will continue to persist and shower the dog with care and love (although I did have some struggles with the little devil inside me to cut down the voluntary session). But I believe that I can hold on to my will to help these dogs. Such social work, though seems tough but it's certainly rewarding and make me learn something from it (:

When otw home from the movie, I had an unexpected good chat with Nicholas. It was pretty comfortable talking to him and his words did trigger some thoughts in me. Our friendship, up one level le! :D Hahaha.

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