Let me begin with the beginning of the li'l party we had here @ Thomson View. I missed it last year 'cos I needed to meet my mom's friend @ Orchard so this year, I said to myself I would love to check it out and saw all the fuss about it (The door prizes and everything) and in addition, we're allowed to bring our dogs along 'cos it's the year of dogs! Since Friday morning and night, me and my nanny were busy preparing Spanky's costume. It's really hard to find something cute and nice for big dogs comparing to small ones and you gotta know it when I talk about Spanky. I went to AMK in the afternoon, hoping to get him some cute li'l clothes or pants, the size of 5 year old kiddos. I failed to find something extra-ordinary, all I could find was those underwear with hello kitty pictures pasted on them (I am quite sure Spanky would mind!) or Chicken Little (gosh I dislike the cartoon so much!). Searching in vain, finally I found this basketball style pants in orange with number 23 on it and I thought it was perfect! So I bought that and went home and showed it to my nanny. She needed to do a bit of customization so that it allowed Spanky's tail to move freely and for him to pass urine without having to take the pants off. My nanny found a used piece of t-shirt (I think it was my mom's 'cos the color is pink and I saw the label was "Mastina" ---> one of my mom's fav brand) and we added some attributes to the t-shirt to make it more lively. We sewed this ribbons to make the wording "SPANKY" and some macho laces were sewed too. We were satisfied with the result :)

On Saturday morning, it was raining the whole day, we were a bit terrified that the event might be cancelled but thankfully as the clouds became darker, the rain stopped. At first, it was the Lion's dance performance. Loads of caucasian kids were wearing cheongsam and they had their faces painted! Cute :). It was continued with the dinner (ok I didn't manage to get the prawns and so on, only the fried rice and some fried chicken!), some games for kids and tada the dog competition. Spanky was the first to come forward. I bet my brother was a bit nervous 'cos when the host asked him questions, he was too dazed to answer them hehehe quite funny. Spanky performed very well. He sat, he slept, he gave both paws (left and right) and he did pai2 too! The second contestant was Strike Up, he's neighbour of ours. Very adorable dog with a fur that you can't resist to touch...afterwards, it was this dog, Furr I guess the name was....after we all finished showing off the dogs' skills, few min later, the judges made the final decision and Spanky won it! He claimed the title as "Dog of the year @ Thomson View" wohoooo...he received several bones and voucher of $40 (we're thinking of getting him a dog leash).

Me and my brother were chosen to join these 2 games...he was to peel the orange skin continuously and he won, whilst me doing the fashion show and competed for the best dressed. Well I didn't win but based on the crowds cheers, I came 2nd or 3rd perhaps, I am not that sure anyway :p

All in all, it was a good day :)