Welcome! A Tribute...

Hello! Welcome to my Public Blog! =) Yesh...That means i have a private blog...so it will...err...remain private. HAHAHA...

I was chatting with some of my cellgrp (from here on known as 'cell'/ 'cg' --doesn't mean prison cell k...) and realised that quite a number of us have blogs..private ones especially! Hahaha...but i promised to come up with a public blog for the main purpose of chronicling my Kiwi trip...but who knows what may spring forth then on...=P

Presently my blog name is Doggie Walk, and address is pawprints...all linking it to my love for doggies and to the fact i'm penning down where the dog has walked. hahaha...OK ok ...some people are going, what about the 'toadie' persona?...well..think about it...'toadieprints' just sounds way too weird...hee...

So yes..i'm the doggie...and i go for walkie. =P

I dedicate this blog to Iako ( pronounced 'Ya - koh'), my first dog whom i still love because i still cry happy tears when i think about her. She was my furry pal in my growing years. From primay school kiddy school bag to ...secondary school celebrity idol chasing to...tiring and hard junior college years...to missing me when i'm away in NTU hostel for 5 years..being a loving companion in my prejob days...and watching me start a permanent job for the first time. =)



Here's her photo.

This is about 2 nights before she went to heaven. =) you may wonder why i didnt' choose a better shot of her at a better time...but u see her here...fast asleep? you know... for the few months she suffered she never whimpered or whined ...she lived with the lost of blood daily...and the smell of constant dettol. Struggled to continue her routine to go updstairs to my room to sleep on her own initiative every night even though her legs were stiff and weak...and many times in these attempts...she fell down the stairs in a dazed heap...=)

So here she is...my persevering Iako. The swell you see on her right part is the cancerous growth that grew and bled in her mouth. The tissue you see in the forefront is what i had to keep nearby to clean up the drool and blood occassionally as she slept.


This photo of her was when i carried her outside that night, it was a nice cool night with a moon...so that she could get some fresh air. She had reached a point when it was hard for her to walk and she had chosen to stay indoors.


I'm glad i spent time of her last two nights with her taking photos, singing to her, playing with her ears and listening to her laboured breathing. I kept telling her it's ok if she had to go..don't hold on if it's for me...if tomorrow i woke up and she would be gone.. i would be ok...she had been a great dog.. i will always remember her.


=) she' now sitting on my cupboard, next to my perfume and watches..haha...yup, i cremated her...so her remains are in a jar...ok, i gotta go make dinner... I'll end here...

Iako Low

Sept 1989 - 23 April 2005


Iako, I love you!