Snowy @ 1 Year 7 Months

You give the dog a toy...

The dog really wants the toy...


So she tries to grab it from you...


But gets caught instead...


Taken from the Snowy Dairies. All rights reserved.

RE: I Love Potatoes

Oh! Received a comment on my "I Love Potatoes" post.


Missmowie said:

"You hit it on the dot. I was sitting in a garden when it struck me why I have been having so many problems with my life. Why I am having difficulty finding my own voice, passion, true self.And it dawned on me - asian culture instills fear. We are raised to fear authority, to give up any right to think, believe, be. Our parents dictate what we eat, wear, do, who we hang out with. Then, when we grow up we're thrown into a world and people wonder why we're so f'ed up. I get it now. I will not let my culture bring me down!"


Thanks for your comment, Missmowie. It's always comforting to know that someone else out there isn't drawn into our myopic culture's web of deceit.

I am blessed to have parents that are rather westernised compared to most of their peers.

But not everyone is so lucky. I would say that the majority of older Singaporeans continue to embrace Asian values, which if i could sum it all up, is to basically talk less and obey more. And because they embrace Asian values, they raise their children in accordance to these values.

Their children may be caned at home or in school for disobedience but the reason behind the caning may never be brought to light.

Asking questions with regards to why a certain rule is in place, for example, may also be deemed as an act of defiance rather than an act of curiosity or plain ignorance.

Career paths may even be chosen for them even before they decide one for themselves. Any career "out of the ordinary" is vehemently opposed. The usual lame reasons like "I know what's better for you" and "You will not survive doing this in Singapore" are given so as to oppress their children into submission.

Eventually, their children end up obeying just for the sake of obeying, and not obeying for the sake of knowing what's right, and doing what's right.

I dread to wonder how I would be like now had I been brought up in a typical, conservative Chinese family.

Just look at our so-called labour unions. More passive than they are active, I'd say. We live in a society where many workers are so subservient to authority, they'd walk away with a "$3 an hour pay check" saying thank you very much, not realizing how much they've been underpaid.

Why are we so afraid and continue to be submissive even in situations when we are injustly treated? Well we won't have to look far really, just consider what the Asian culture has done to make us the people-machines we are.

To others the Asian culture may be their ideal culture. For people like the both of us it will forever be a third world culture. A low class culture worth forgetting. And forsaking.

I couldn't be more blunt.

I Despise Taliban Dogs

The Taliban dogs are at it again.

Kidnapping over twenty South Korean hostages so they can demand the release of eight Taliban dogs who are currently held captive in Afghan jails.

But what has South Koreans got to do with the Afghan government deciding to imprison Taliban dogs? If the Taliban fighters had the "balls", and it is very apparent at this stage that they have got none, they would have broken into the Afghan jails to rescue their fellow dogs instead of threatening to kill innocent South Korean hostages if the Afghan government does not release eight equally insane dogs.

These cowardly acts, that is, to murder innocent people to achieve one's disgraceful aims, reminds me of what the communists used to do in Malaya and Singapore in the post-World War Two era.

You see, the equation is very simple. Such extremist groups are the root of the problem. If you don't get rid of the root problem, you are always going to live in fear. Tighten security as much as you wish, but until the day these dogs are entirely eradicated no one can guarantee another extremists-initiated attack will not take place.

I hope this episode sparks off a desire among the South Korean people, the South Korean government to want to actively join the war against terrorism. And when I say "war against terrorism", I don't mean merely defending against and preventing acts of terrorism like what most countries are doing now. I do mean going down there physically to kill those towel wrapping numbskulls.

Which reminds me actually. That many comrades of these Taliban numbskulls have already been killed in clashes with the US military forces. Oh, and then these Taliban numbskulls whine at how the US military forces attacked, killed, torched and disposed of their fellow dogs.

It's funny how they should be whining about the killings of their fellow dogs. Don't they do the same to many innocent civilians day in, day out? From a military perspective, I actually liked how some US military personnel torched the bodies of those Taliban dogs. I mean, when your enemy wrap towels around their heads like that, wouldn't fire be part of your military strategy?

So before anyone tries to pull the "oh if we do that then we are no better than the Talibans" bullshit on me, let me remind you that you won't exactly be patting a Taliban numbskull on his back for a job well done if he murdered one of your loved ones in a similarly inhumane fashion.

I completely agree with the father of one of the South Korean victims, when he described the Taliban dogs as being "worse than animals". And because they are worse than animals, I totally endorse the beating, torturing, disembowelling and slaughtering of the Taliban rebels in a manner that befits entities worse off than animals.

Better still, set their towels alight.