Joa Ying Return
Hello again from Joa Ying. I’m back to my blog now. I miss all of you who read my blog.
Four of us, Som Tum, Thong Pond, Thong Thai, and I are doing fine. I have many stories to share with you, but just don’t know which one to tell you first.
First of all the two sisters have been changed from two crabby cats to be more friendly cats now. Both of them gain extra weight too. Most of time I can find them at their basket or their food bowls. Once for a while three of us join a team to catch mice, just to show boss that how active we are. We’re not only expecting boss to impress us, but also the extra rewards is a must inside our food bowls too, please.
Now I have my new routine, ”the daily voice exercise” at 4:00 AM. Boss doesn’t happy about my voice exercise at all, but nothing can changes my mind, because I’m a Beagle. Beside this, I like to run around while exercise my voice. Keep healthy body is the most of my concern. Somtum starts acting like she lost her sheep dog life style by forget her barking, and sometimes she even forget who I am. So, sometimes Somtum and I had the big argument. I had to do this to help Somtum gets her memory back. Wow! that worked real good, but no one won. However, both of us got punishment from boss by loss our snack bones for a few days. That was O.K.
I still enjoy watching the nature. You know? Last summer I sneaked out to the top of the hill again. I went out all day long, so when I returned, boss had to change the new chain for me again since the old one couldn’t keep me stay home as she hope. I came home with some wood ticks for boss to pick them out from my body before they get big and round bodies with the ugly gray color. Boss wonder why in this world has to have wood ticks to suck dogs’ blood. Can we live without wood tick on earth? Well, I don’t know neither, boss.
Joa Ying On The Run
This morning Joa Ying, and I were outside together as our normal routine. Before boss came out to bring us back inside for our snacks, Joa Ying already left. She was headed toward to the hill, and she disappeared into the thick bushes. No one knows where she went.
Joa Ying had “gone with the wind” again, and boss had to look for her. I would like to tell boss that no jail, no lock, no chain can keeps Joa Ying from following her nose to wherever she want to go. I believe that if Joa Ying’s nose can leads her to the moon, or any planet in this universe, she willing to follow it. Joa Ying always forget about everything, when she follows her nose. That is the way of Beagle dogs. They have spirit of hunting, and can’t give up their Beagle’s pride. They do as their hearts call for, as same as Joa Ying who likes to take off as soon as she has a chance, even just one second.
Finally Joa Ying showed up at the top of the hill. When she saw boss was waiting for her, Joa Ying quickly ran down toward to boss as if she done nothing wrong at all. Her wagging tail looked like the small white flag to let boss knew that she was home again.
Boss told Joa Ying that if this happen again, boss will keep Joa Ying in the Dog Jail forever, and also Joa Ying will be on chain for 24 hours too.
“For your safety, from now on even in your dream, I will put you on chain too, Joa Ying.” Boss said.
“Congratulation the independent Beagle!” I whispered to Joa Ying while she quietly walked pass me to her jail .
Rainy Day
Rainy day takes away my sunshine days again.
When I was young, my neighbors’ children and I liked to go outside of house to run in the muddy ground. We jumped and ran to catch each other. We were laughed and shouted to each other just to see how much louder noise we could make, and to compare with thunder sound.
In the tropical climate, we have the heavy rains pour from the sky like water from the faucet, and the roar of thunder and lightening were small subject for us. We didn’t realize that was very dangerous situation. In that time we had no fear for anything, except ghosts, the darkness, and monsters in our imagination.
Our fun time was end as soon as our parents came out, and tried to catch and dragged each one of us went back inside house, and most of us got the big spanks from them. Spanking was normal punishment for all us at that time. No one turns their parents to polices nor goes to court to sue them like nowadays. We grew up with spanks and love from our parents. That was the best way we had learned about the right and the wrong.
I used to excited and happy on the rainy days, but not now. Every time I see rain drops, my tear drops start to run too, and my childhood’s memory comes back to haunt me. The homesick starts to bother my mind in the moment that the first rain drop falls from the sky, and all day long is the cloudy day.
I’m not sure how many people waste their time for this nonsense feeling. Who care if it going to be the rainy, or sunshine day? It isn’t important for the world to feel or to care for. It is just the feeling of unknown woman who is far away from her homeland. That’s all.
However, the rainy day takes away the safety places from the street people who have no home to go. Walking in the wet clothes with empty stomachs is the most challenged for them. Nobody can see their lonely tear drops, since the rain drops flow in the same time on their faces. I don’t know why I always think about these people in the rainy day.
Maybe the feeling of the homesick person and the homeless person is not much different from each other. Rainy day keeps remind me that “there is no place on earth is the same as your own home”.
P.S. Thank you for one of my friend who forwarded this picture to me on the rainy day. I can feel inside their hearts, the lonesome couple in the crowd.
Long Live Our Friendship.
All of us call him “Mr.Zoom”. He is the little greenish turtle, and he has joined as our member club since last year. He came from China Town in Chicago. Boss went there for vacation, and she brought him back home.
Most of time he spends time by himself in the small tank that boss gave him for his private room. We will see Mr.Zoom every morning when he has a small piece of fresh meat for his breakfast. Somtum, and the two sisters don’t care much about Mr.Zoom, but I do. I really like to watch him, and I try to put my nose close to him as much as I can. However, boss doesn’t like me to do that. She said the way I love to clean up food bowls for all of us, and then she thinks maybe I will clean up Mr.Zoom from his tank as a snack too. Oh! That’s really hurt my feeling. It is impossible, boss! I’m a gentle heart Beagle, and I have a lot of love and care for all creatures on earth.
Mr.Zoom is the most quite one in this house. I think he is lonesome because he has no friends, while I have Somtum and two sisters for my friends. Humm…..should I count two sisters for my friends or my enemies? Because most of time there is the endless war between us, and I never reach to their friendship side. Whatever I try to do, they always get upset with me, even when I wag my tail to say hello to boss. All of my actions never right in these dictatorial cats’ eyes!
I think I will try to make friend with Mr.Zoom, and someday we may gang up to fight back with those two cats. I believe that our friendship has no boundary, so the friendship between Mr.Zoom, the turtle and I, the gentle and kindness heart Beagle will be last forever. Do you think so?
Another Note From Somtum
I have been waiting for long time to write on my diary page because most of time Joa Ying, the Beagle, and the two sister cats want their stories to be post first.
All I know, the friendship between the Beagle, and two cats gets rough and tough everyday. Joa Ying has her own Beagle world, while the two sisters want to show off their superior since they were here first.
Yesterday while Joa Ying was sleeping, I saw Thong Thai, the white cat, punched on Joa Ying’s face three times with no reason, then that cat walked away and acted like nothing had happened. I sat close to Joa Ying, and when she woke up she thought that was my punch, and she gave me the stern warning right away. I had to explain to her what had happened, and I wasn’t the one who caused her problem. While she was listening my explanation, Joa Ying took that chance cleaned up my food and within a second the bowl was absolutely empty, so I turned to her with my serious warning too. Then we almost end up with another war, if boss didn’t stop us.
Two sisters and the Beagle like to play the war game when they out of boss’s sight. I don’t want to take side, so I’m in the neutral area as same as Switzerland kept in peace during the World War II. Once for a while I have to join the war to protect my food bowl from Joa Ying because she has very strong ambition to take over our food bowls in this house. Nobody can changes her mind yet.
This year boss let me have another part time job, to follow boss to the road side and boss will put the garbage can for the garbage truck to pick up every Thursday. I really enjoy my new job because I have a chance to run around, and boss knows that I never stand close to the road because I’m afraid of the big trucks on the road. I always be safe first.
Joa Ying wants to have this job too, but boss didn’t give her because whenever boss let her free from the chain, Joa Ying will follow her nose to different directions, and she forget everything at home then she will be gone all day long. Many times that Joa Ying came back with the small dead animals like the mole, or dry stick, and she wanted to put in her collection pile. However, boss told Joa Ying to leave her new treasures outside only. Boss concerns about Joa Ying’s safety, so she has to put chain on Joa Ying when all of us go work outside the house. I know Joa Ying doesn’t like that, but she has no choice.
Summer is not my favorable season because of my long hairs, and it is difficult for me to handle the heat from the sun. I have to dig the ground deep enough for my body to stay inside there to avoid the heat. Boss doesn’t like to see many holes around the backyard that I had dug, and she always put soil back to cover all holes. Boss said it looks like the moon’s surface.
Well, if so why doesn’t boss enjoy the moon scene on earth that I had worked very hard, instead of watching the full moon in the sky that is very far away from us?
The Serious Issue of Spring 2009
Spring is here!
Woo Pee!
I love to see more sunshine days in spring. Goodbye the crabby winter I hope you don’t come back soon, or you may forget to come back forever.
My sister, Thong Pond, and I have been reopened our service for 2009 on the first day of spring, March 20th. However, hunting mice is only our part time service because we still want to keep our permanent full time job, keeping warmth on the couch, and we can’t effort to lose this job.
That why we have to hold two jobs now. Boss said if we consider hunting mice is only our part time, she will consider the part time meal for us soon. We hate that message! Therefore, both of us have to be more active in front of boss in order to keep our full time meals. We can’t let boss cut off our benefit.
Boss tries to make that couch unavailable for us as much as she can. Now both of us have to find the new way to continue our full time nap. My sister can’t find the place that she likes more than the couch, so she always sit next to the couch as if she were watching for mice, but most of time her eyes close. I assume she starts to learn how to make the peace in her mind by practices the meditation. Her eyes close, her body relaxes, then she takes the deep breath in, and slowly take out, and about fifteen minutes her head will slowly bow to the coffee table before her body fully down to the floor for her long peaceful nap.
I have a better idea than my sister; by using the grocery bag that boss left it in the kitchen. I moved the bag to the living room, and kept it in my private corner. I got an idea from the TV. that I like to watch, so I used that brown bag for my sleeping bag. It was warm and comfortable enough for my full time job, sleeping, but it was kind of noisy when I moved my body inside.
Joa Ying, the Beagle, liked to play my bag while I was inside that bag, and once we had big argument because she try to put her miniature whale body inside that bag, and she found out that bag didn’t fit her. I screamed out loud for help, and gave her the biggest punch on her face and I tried to get out.
Finally the bag was tore a part, then boss came to stop our fight. Now I have to loose my sleeping bag forever. I wonder when that miniature whale Beagle will pay me back for the damage she had made.
This is very serious issue of spring 2009 that I ever had. 
GOOD FRIENDS
I have attention to post about this beautiful music “GOOD FRIEND” on my Beagle Blog since I received message from Pete Dowan, the song writer.
However, I had problem on download his music because I don’t have plug in. I tried by posted on my Yahoo Geocities; then linked to my blog, but it didn’t work the way I want to. Because when I turned on the music, I saw all of my music files show on the Media Player. So, I had to hold Dowan’s music file in my music folder for a while. Then I received message from Pete again about how to link his music to my blog. Now I end up as you see by posting the link for you to click, and listen to Dowan’s music at:
Some part of message, Pete Dowan introduced himself :
“ I am a medically disabled songwriter from St Catharines, Ontario, Canada, and have written many songs about many different subjects and in several different styles.”
So, if anyone interests to listen more Dowan’s music, and want to support his music projects please welcome to visit him at:
1. Pete Dowan
2. iTunes
I had learned from Dowan that he wrote this song for his four legs friend, “Scuttle” who is no longer on earth. That is the sad part, but in his song the forever friendship is still alive in his heart. I’m sure Dowan put a lot of time worked on his music.
In any kind of art work, artists always mix their hearts, feelings, and loves into their projects which can not limit by the dateline like the other jobs. Believe me that is not easy life as we push button on remote control , then the work done within a second as you see on TV.
It seems to me most of artists have the beginning with the difficult finances before their success, but the fire of inspiration and creation never burn out from their hearts. They happy in what they have, and they love what they do. In the artists’ world always shining with the beautiful creative ideas, which are ready to put into their work to decorate the real world.
Thank you very much Pete Dowan for sharing this music to my Beagle Blog.
(Lyrics & Music ©By Pete Dowan (SOCAN)
CHORUS:
GOOD FRIEND, EVERYBODY NEEDS A
GOOD FRIEND, LIFE IS FULL OF WEEDS
WITHOUT A REAL GOOD FRIEND.
GOOD FRIEND, EVERYBODY NEEDS A
GOOD FRIEND, LIFE IS FULL OF WEEDS
WITHOUT A REAL GOOD FRIEND.
3rd VERSE:
Time is all I have to spend on you.
You appreciate it when I do.
Make me feel I’m extra special too.
A good friend like you.
Time is all I have to spend on you.
You appreciate it when I do.
Make me feel I’m extra special too.
A good friend like you.
CHORUS:
GOOD FRIEND, EVERYBODY NEEDS A
GOOD FRIEND, LIFE IS FULL OF WEEDS
WITHOUT A REAL GOOD FRIEND.
BRIDGE:
So hard to find. With you around I can just take my time.
You’ll be my friend until the end. But I need the two-leggèd kind.
4th VERSE:
How I wish I had a friend like you
Something less would really never do
They have got a lot to live up to
A good friend like you.
CHORUS:
GOOD FRIEND, EVERYBODY NEEDS A
GOOD FRIEND, LIFE IS FULL OF WEEDS
WITHOUT A REAL GOOD FRIEND.. WITHOUT A REAL GOOD FRIEND
The Two Sisters’ Important Jobs
Our important two jobs (on the boring cold days) for my sister and I are sleeping on the warm couch, and checking on our food bowls whenever we wake up.
Boss likes to repeat to us that we have to do more jobs than that. Boss doesn’t understand how hard of our two jobs that we already have. You see, before we close eyes on that couch, it is too cold for two of us to sleep right away. We have to sit for a while until the couch start to warm, that mean we already lose our bodies’ energy to do that. Then during sleeping time, if one of us needs to go toilet, we need to have either one to stand by to keep the couch warm. Because if not, we have to start all over the first step again. We don’t want to waste time like that.
Another job is to check on our bowls as often as we can. This job needs to be done too. Because if we delay, Joa Ying, the Beagle, will takes this opportunity to clean our bowls right away. We used to give our serious warning many times that she is absolutely has no right to do that. However, Joa Ying has short memory on our message, but she has created herself the permanent memory for cleaning our bowl. That is very frustrating situation for us. The cold war between Joa Ying and two of us will never be end as long as that Beagle can’t improve her short memory problem. Therefore it is our duty to keep eyes on our property to be safe from Joa Ying is the most important too.
We don’t understand why boss want us to go look for mice all the time whenever she see both of us on the couch. We know that is our duty, but we just want to give all mice a winter break since we has been work on them all year long. Both of us need to have conference on this matter before we will reopen our service. Our schedule work needs to follow many procedures as the government job too.
However, boss doesn’t give up on us yet. She starts to pull both of us from the couch, and tells us go do something besides sleeping. My sister, Thong pond, likes to spring up to the top of the big clock, and she acts like she busy on looking for mice. When boss walks away Thong Pond will sneak back to the couch again to continue her long nap. For me? I act like I’m very busy finding mice in the kitchen for a while, then I go sit in the living room.
My favorite activity in the living room is watching animal movies.
Boss knows I like to watch the Wolves DVDs, so she always turns it on for me when she thinks I had finished my job. So this is my hobby, watching TV, as you people like to watch talk shows, or sport games.
Tight and more tighter
The economic belt has been tight many people’ waists nowadays, include me too. I try to live in the recycle world, reuse every thing as much as I can, but only the toilet paper that I promise myself I will never reuse it. I swear!
How can the whole world will survive in the tight economic? That is the biggest concerning for all of us. I try to focus on the positive side more than the negative, and be happy. If the happy heart can survive longer, why should I want to live shorter by have unhappy heart all the time? So, I answer to myself, “Just hang in there until the good economic days come back”. Keep smile, although the upper lip is now very dry and sticks on the front teeth, must keep on with that smiling.
One thing I have learned that the suffering is the best teacher and the best trainer for human to be a good fighter, and to survive longer too. If we look in the river, all fishes swim against the strong currents, only dead fishes float with no direction, and finally sink to the bottom of the river.
For me, living in the cheap way and dealing with the bad economic is not much scary. I have a lot of fun, and learn a lot of good things in “How to be cheap”.
When I go shopping, I like to spend time look around to compare the price, the quality of items that I want to buy. My motto has been change from “Get the best quality in the reasonable price” to be “Get the best quality and the cheapest price.” So, I’m not shy to stand next to the cleaning stuffs’ shelf to compare each dish detergent bottle to find out which one has more drops by the level line close to the cap ( If it is possible I would like to count all molecules in each bottle too). However, many items that I can’t open to compare the quality inside like tuna can, so I have to pick the can by the price, or on sale. It would be extra work for the store, if I open tuna can just to find out which can has the biggest chucks in there before I decide to buy it.
I hear the news talked about some airlines start the ideas to charge passengers the fee for using their toilets on the airplanes, so I’m thinking I should bring a bed pan to fly with me next time. I try to be tight on my expense, now some airlines even tight themselves more than I do. Don’t you see that?
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