Sunday, June 04, 2006

Weekend Zen Warrior

This has been a really busy weekend. Starting Friday night, where C and I out of the goodness of our hearts (and the evil intention to be the first to bond with Nicole's new pet), helped Nicole pick up her new 'son' from the Changi Airfreight Center. Truly, without our help she would have been lost, trying to find her way to and around the macham ulu place. Her shiba inu, named Tiger (aka "tai-ker" in chinese, aka taiwan-hokkien for "lame") has arrived at last, after more than 6 months of waiting and searching. Honestly, Tiger is really cute. And wah, very zen-like. Very calm. He just sat in his crate calmly like a zen master in meditation. He neither yelped or bark nor moved around. He just sat and watched us. Tiger was REALLY smelly, having probably sat on wet papers infused with his own pee on the long flight. But nevermind, C and I cuddled him anyway, while Nicole whined, "You're so cute!! EuuuWWW!! YOU STINK!!". Poor fella is probably getting his 3rd bath since landing in Singapore as we speak. Nicole has this fetish for sanitizing things. That's a separate story for another time.

Back to Tiger - he calmly sat in C's lap while we drove from Changi back to Nic's home. Just sat there patiently. Until I started singing. Maybe he didn't enjoy it so much. Err, maybe it disrupted his peaceful state of mind. Suddenly he climbed over to me , scrambling to the window in what is possibly a cry for "GET ME OUTTA HERE!" or an apparent bid to take a flying leap to the outside world to escape my yodling. Ummm. Hmmm.

Ashtanga weekend on Sat and Sun, starting with led classes at Pure, and Dena Wiseman's workshop immediately after. Part 2 of her workshop this morning. This really calls for some serious stamina as we went thru the full Primary Series. My 2nd, in my entire yoga lifetime. I was doing pretty well until the last couple of poses where I've never learnt them, but wah, there it's just quite interesting to watch the other students who can, do it. Trying to pluck up some courage to attend Mattew's mysore classes while he's here. Since it's free, musn't loogi mah.World renowned teacher leh. Dena is a fantastic teacher, not what you'd expect in an ashtanga teacher. Her teaching is very precise and infused with a lot of iyengar-like precisions. The class loved it. Would hope she comes back again. Today is one of the few times I'm completely exhausted after yoga. But it's so good. Om shanti. Oh yeah, and Om Moo.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I must confirm thatt he dog was sleeping really peacefully on my lap when YOU started singing!!then it went bezerk and tried as a noble Japanese would to Hari-kiri itself by jumping out the window of a moving car! al this at 4mths of age.. clever boy!...but what an introduction to a new country!.. being stuck in a pee filled crate for 6-8hrs, sitting on a tarmac, having these 2 women (bitches says the doggie) grab him and then instead of hugs what happens???!! he gets clobbered by hundreds of J & J WET WIPES!!! the poor dog got rubbed down from his head to his toes and parts unmentionable in between!!.. the indignity!!.. then stunned, he is declared at the customs as only worth $300.. an obvious attempt to evade GST!!!... i GIVE YOU $300, and you get ME a shiba inu from australia... wah lau, our government isn't that dumb... er.. since we did get through.. maybe they ARE!! hee hee...

Anyway, Nicole and W are gonna be on dog molestation charges by the SPCA... and a poor little doggie will be scarred for life.. although smelling like a baby's bottom....sigh. its a dog's life..

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