Going on a howliday....

.... but only Ms.owner's going. *sobs*

She's going to Hong Kong for a howliday tomorrow and coming back on January 3rd. *barks* I'm gonna be celebrating 2008 with Papa and Mama and Chelsea instead.

Celine : Hiya guys, I'm going off to a holiday tomorrow, so I'm wishing all you guys a fantastic new year's celebration ya! I know I'm gonna have TONS of fun. See you guys next year!

Tang Yuan Festival

Happy Christmas too all my fellow blog friends who are celebrating Christmas!

Seems a bit weird of ms.owner to post an entry on the tang yuan festival during Christmas day but... oh well. Here goes :

We went to Mama's hometown last Saturday (22nd December) to celebrate Tang Yuan festival. We had a great time but some of ms.owner's relatives are not really comfortable with us, so Papa decided to make a move to Ko-Ko's house as soon as we're finished eating the tang yuan.

For those of you who don't know, Tang Yuan festival ( or Dong Zhi aka Winter Solstice festival, as it's known in some parts of the world ) signifies the arrival of winter. It's the perfect occasion for families to get together to celebrate the festival by having yummy-licious food and of course, tang yuan! Since there's no winters in Malaysia (and also in South-East Asia), this festival is more commonly known as Tang Yuan festival than Dong Zhi. festival :p

Tang yuan is made of sweet glutinous rice balls. The chinese people are good at using objects, occasions or food to signify good things - The word Yuan (meaning 'round') signifies completeness/wholeness, hence this why families get together to celebrate this festival.

Traditionally, Tang Yuans are without filling but in modern times, people tend to use fillings like red bean paste, grounded peanut or sesame paste served with hot ginger syrup. However, in our family we tend to use coconut mixed with brown sugar aka gula melaka as the filling. It's uuuuuuuuber yummy. When we bite into the tang yuan, the gula melaka will melt off a bit from the coconut and we can taste the yummy flavour of the gula melaka along with the hot ginger soup.

Below are the piccies of us waiting for mama and ms.owner to prepare the Tang Yuan.

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Kneading the dough.
Mix hwot water to the rice flour and knead it bit by bit.

Mama : Careful, don't add too much water
Ms.owner : It's too dry! *adds water*

Ms.owner ended up having to drive to the store to buy another packet of rice flour.

Reason : because the dough became too sticky coz it's there's too much water. Hehehe

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This is how the dough looks like after adding colour.

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The filling!! Yummy-licious shaved coconuts cooked with brown sugar aka gula melaka.
Mama boiled some water and then added the sugar in. When it gets thick, then Mama adds in the coconut.

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Preparing to fill the dough with the filling.

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The filling on the dough before being wrapped.

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Wrapping the dough and then uh... make it round. Heh!

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Smiley faced Tang Yuan!

Abby : Pssst, ms.owner 'punctured' a tang yuen when mama's not in the kitchen.
I saw her hide the mangled tang yuan in the rubbish basket. Heheheh....

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Smiley faced Tang Yuen!

While we were waiting for mama to prepare the tang yuan, ms.owner sneaked out of the kitchen and forced us to wear the horrendous reindeer horn. Chelsea's not too happy because she was happily sleeping away when ms.owner woke her up to make her wear the horn. *snorts*.

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Chelsea : I'm reaaaally not in the mood for this... Go away!

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Abby : Hehehe. Ya? I'm Abby the black nosed black dog!

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My first blog award~! (and shortest post)

Hehehe, I got my first blog award! Thankies to Shushu, Kero and Momo for their gift. I shall make ms.owner post more stuff in the future. Hehehe...

We'll be making another trip to Ko-Ko's place tomorrow and ms.owner say she's gonna make Chelsea wear the reindeer horns. Will update when there's more piccies or videos. :p

The boooutiful BTB award. Whoot~!

Dogzillas at play

Hello everybody!

As promised here is a video on how me and Chelsea play. It might look painful but we both have fun playing like that. Chelsea tends to fall down and kick at me with her paws and I like to grab her paws with my mouth. Heheheh

We don't play like that with the shih tzus, instead, what we do is open our mouth wide open and do the 'Jaws' expression at time. I usually lose to the shih tzus because three of them gang up on me and Chelsea. Besides, ms.owner don't want us to be overly rough with the small ones. :p

Here's the video of us playing. Woot!

Have yourself a merry little christmas...

Hi everyone!

Finally ms.owner had her PC fixed. She was going through PC withdrawal the whole of last week, even making me kinda sick with her whining.

This month's been a boring month coz there's no activity. It's been raining every single day.... Chelsea's not cooperatin with ms.owner because she's busy drooling over papa's treat. I'm a little better than Chelsea but the piccies that ms.owner took of me were too blur so we decided not to post it up. *bats eyelashes*

In the mean time, here's some piccies. Ms.owner will upload a video of me and Chelsea playing *wiggles eyebrows*. Will update once it's uploaded in YouTube. Hohoho! :

Jane-Jane and Jack-Jack staring out the window waiting for mama.

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Busy gawking at Mr.Cat as he try to stalk a squirrel.

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Piccy of me sleeping with legs open wide.
Ms.Owner so mean to take pics of in that pose. It's embarassing!

New Christmas banner~!

Woot! Ms.Owner came up with a new Christmas banner but she was ranting whole day about changing the blog's background colour. I think there's some loose nuts somewhere in her head.

Ish...

Ms.Owner : *slaps forehead* Blogger.com is driving me NUTS! I change one thing, the other get removed, I put it back and the previous changes made are gone instead even after I clicked Save. Ggrrrrrr

Well, let me tell you guys bout the banner - The two doggies inside the sleigh is... yeap you got it, supposed to be me and Chelsea. We used to sleep like that when we were puppies. Heh :p

Ms.owner added Santa Claws in the banner because her initial idea is to create a pic of us inside a house with a beautiful fireplace. She ended up making a mess out of it, so she changed to an outdoor look. (she's lazy I tell you...)

Anyway... Nothing much to update this weekend. Here's some piccies from my first JT with Prince and the rest :

Me and ms.owner. Dunno why she always like to lean on my back.
But then again... I like it also. Hehe

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Prince's pappy secret attack!
Took our piccies while I was looking at some yummy treats.

I've been ~ T.A.G.G.E.D ~

*barks and runs all over the house*

Ms.Owner spent almost 1hr+ updating my blog but the stupid IE restarted. Everything lost already. *growls* Ms.Owner say she'll write another detailed entry next time (T_T)

Ms.Owner : *coughs* I've been sick on and off ok...? I will update more frequently ok? Come come, let me sayang you all.

Chelsea : I should've show more temper when ms.owner skipped celebrating my barkday last month but I'm a gentle GR, so I won't mind that much... as long as you gimme more treats/food.

==== Tag Game ====
Prince and Shushu has tagged me! Woof!

Here's the rules of the tag:
1)List eight ( 8 ) random facts about yourself
2)Tag eight people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them )<-- I wonder who I'm going to tag since almost everyone that I know has been tagged. But nevermind, I play along lor. :p

Since I share this blog with Chelsea, I'll share 4 random facts each of myself and Chelsea!

Abby the Dogzilla's Random Facts:
1. Although I appear to be bullying Chelsea all the time, I in fact sayang her very much. She don't really mind if I rough-house with her.

Abby : Hey Chelsea, come play come play!
Chelsea : Yeee... ms.owner taking my pic! Have to act like a lady!




2. I like to change sleeping places at night. Sometimes sleep on ms.owner's bed, sometimes on papa and mama's bed!

3. I learn tricks very fast but I don't like to perform it in front of other people. Only my family knows about my tricks.

4. I look like very fierce but in fact, I'm very chicken one. I am afraid of lightning/thunder, fireworks and... Chelsea.


Chelsea the Fatty's Random Facts:

5. I might not look it but I'm the Alpha in the house. Hehehehe.

6. Love to steal underwears. My personal fav are bras as I like the dangling straps

7. I rarely get scolded because I'm uber good in making the 'pitiful dawg' look.

8. Sleeping Champ!