1st year anniversary - Uno

Time sure has flied by. Uno (or he-who-responds-more-to-the-name "Doogie") has been in our family for a year already. He has grown from a skinny and, I quote my sister, "ugly-looking" dog with a slight skin disease, who entered our lives on 27th January 2007, to the heavy, fluffy, lazy and mischievous Doogie he is today. I can assure you he is much loved and manja-ed by us at home, though he can get tricked easily when someone says, "Who has come back?" Heh heh. He has moved from sleeping in the behind kitchen, where he whined non-stop from 4 a.m., to sleeping in my room and on my bed - the opportunity he got when my Mum was out of town (thanks Dad). But of course there are the occasional scoldings when he gets too naughty - don't be fooled by the adorable look. His toys include, used plastic bottles (even my Rubbermaid drinking bottle was not spared), the inside of kitchen-towel-rolls and anything that he hears dropping onto the floor.

A comparison:

27th January 2007



27th January 2008



Pictures throughout the year:

Nursery Rhymes & Grimm's Tales

Now playing: George Winston - Reflection
via FoxyTunes

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Just the other day, my brother and I were trying to recall nursery rhymes that we learnt when we were in kindergarten. Listening to some of them were really funny, probably because we never gave much thought of what the words meant when we were younger. This particular one cracked my brother up:

Three Blind Mice

Three blind mice, three blind mice,
See how they run, see how they run!
They all ran after the farmer's wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife.
Did ever you see such a thing in your life,
As three blind mice?

My brother was actually trying to recall another one on a mouse but he started with three blind mice and I continued it because he couldn't remember the verses. The one he had in mind was:

Hickory Dickory Dock

Hickory, dickory, dock,
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down,
Hickory, dickory, dock.

That was fun, trying to recall nursery rhymes.

Nursery rhymes also remind me of this television series my siblings and I used to watch when we were really young. I know it's based on the Grimm's tales but cannot recall the name of the programme. I remmeber watching Rapunzel, Hansel & Gretel, and Jack and the Beanstalk. The narrator/host was a lady, whose name I do not know. I wish to watch it again (my brother says I'm experiencing my second childhood) but couldn't find it anywhere. Anybody knows the name of the programme, and where I can find it?