Drumming Lessons

For the longest time ever, mommy has been wanting to teach me how to drum but never got around to it. We only tried it whenever we are back in Penang with the bucket of fish food at grandpa's house.


Look how uninspiring the bucket is, it looks nothing like a drum. Thats why I never understood what she wanted.






During mommy & daddy's trip to Bali, they found a drum while wondering around Ubud Market (psstt... they ate so much of Ibu Oka's delicious lunch, they had to walk it off by shopping).

They said they had to bargain hard for the drum. The price went from 250,000 IDR to 50,000 IDR. Fair price?

I wish they would have save the trouble by getting me Ibu Oka's Babi Guling as a gift instead of the drum *sulk sulk*.

Now that they are back in Kuala Lumpur, our first drumming session consisted of mommy trying to keep the drum from tumbling over whenever I put my paws on it. We didn't get far during our first session as I would freak out and run away whenever the drum wobbled. When mommy finally figured out how to to hold the drum securely, I thought we were doing the elephant trick and would plant my front feet firmly on the drum and dance around with my back feet.

During our second session, mommy had the brilliant idea to wedged the drum in a bowl with my toys to keep it from falling over. Our drumming lesson were also done sitting on the floor to prevent me from dancing with my back legs.

Can shelties drum?

Tadaaa! Soli picture only. Video below.

U want me to sing too?

Now that the drum looks like A DRUM, our progress is much faster and I might be playing the tabla during mommy's yoga sadhanas. I am sure if they brought back babi guling and bebek from Bali, I would have mastered drumming in a session!

Chili the Sheltie Dog Tricks: Beep Beep

Mommy is such a 大头虾! She can't seem to remember the name of the trick she was teaching me back in Penang with Joyce.

Mommy: what was the name of that trick I was teaching you?
Chili: TREATS!!! Yummy!!! You wan me do this trick? You wan me do that trick? Or this wan? That wan? (does all her tricks)
Mommy: I think I named it circle. Or was it round? Reverse? Or was it goestan? Arhgggg... what was the name? I'm confused. If I'm confused, I might make you confused.



She forgets and always gets confused whenever she wants to train this trick. 

Apa nama itu???

So the trick has been renamed BEEP BEEP! Hope she can remember it now.

http://youtu.be/Vs2Ppv537LE

Sheltie Tricks: Backwards Circles

Since we've been back in Penang, its been raining most of the time and I've been stuck in the house. Mommy decided to teach me a new trick with her cousin Joyce as her camera-girl and training partner.

This is my first lesson learning how to walk backwards around mommy's legs and mommy is impressed that I would come this far in one lesson!

Mommy taught me how to walk backwards earlier. Initially, I didn't like this trick as it meant I would be walking away from the yummy treats mommy hides behind her back and I want to be near the treats err... mommy.  

Since mommy started throwing the treats to wherever I am standing instead of rewarding me in front of her, walking backwards has become one of my favorite trick. Flying treats, nom noms. Who doesn't like food flying your way.

Mommy hopes that I will be able to do this trick without her needing to stand near corners and obstacles to block my way in order for me to walk around her. 

As long as you keep em flying treats coming!

Oh by the way HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOYCE!!! Come and teach me more tricks again and be mah camera girl too. The last time I saw you was when I was sooo little.

Tricks: Cop-Cop

Wooopss I haven't been posting much lately as I've been a very busy busy busy bee at work. Actually I've also been pretty LAzeeee too.

Here is one of the tricks Chili learnt some time back but I never got around to posting it. Cop-cop seems to be her favorite trick these day.  She will always run in between my legs and try to stand on me feet whenever I have food in my hands.

Watch how she does her sheltie smile as she is doing the trick. Her smile is sooooo wide it reminds me of baby birds waiting for their mama bird to feed them.

See the similarities?

Anyhoooo... here is the video of Chili the Sheltie doing Cop-Cop. Her sheltie smile is so big you won't miss it!

It's been raining so much in Penang, was thinking of bringing Chili out on walks, but I guess we will just have to work on new tricks indoors.

Trick-Collage

Grandpa says create a video of all my tricks, but mommy says a trick collage will suffice for now.

Just some of my tricks.

Holiday!

Forget the scrubbing, forget the dusting mommy wants me to do. 

Chili wants to go on a holiday!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Vi0-Qi9Io&feature=youtu.be

Can I go now? Pweeeseee...

Chili Ain't No Cleaner

Since Chili is "working dog", she will need a job to keep her happy and occupied.  What better job than helping me clean the house! Chili will have a job to earn her keep:-D

The first two scrubbing sessions went well, till the spoilt little puppy decided to throw a tantrum and we ended up with this!

now you see it 

now you don't

Sigh............ I guess making a mess is much more fun than learning how to scrub:-(

Next up, dusting. Wonder if she is willing to learn how to dust?

How Do You Pack a Chili?

IN a Tupperware!!

Can you see my paws clearly? All FOUR of them:-) are inside.

Daddy says PLEASEEE wash them properly after use.

Mah Little Helper - Socks!

Instead of doing housework (that can wait) or playing with me, this is how mommy spent her weekend!

She made a video of me learning to take her socks off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrY_q4OJjQI

Sorry about the video, mommy was multi-tasking. Teaching me the new trick with one hand as well as filming it on her phone with her other hand. And she has finally figured out how to make videos on her laptop thanks to daddy.

For those of you who say mommy isn't wearing pants, she was wearing her Lulu Speeds which she has posted earlier. Any Lulu fans out there who get comments like this when wearing speed shorts?

Mommy is EVIL!

She MADE me do this!!

AND THIS!!

The worst part is she only gave me three (3), THREE miserly pieces of biscuits out of THIS!

She ain't mah favorite person right now.

Scratch Mah Back

Mommy thought it was a great idea to train me to be her  不求人. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t7fllSe6u4

She hopes one day I'll be able to do massages as well. Who knows...

Blankeyyyy

My cousin has been bugging me whether I've been teaching Chili any new tricks since it's been a long time since I has showed her any new trick of Chili's. It's not just her but my mom tooooooo.....

So I finally got around to it and here it is!! Not perfect yet as it's just her 2nd day. Will have to get more treats for training and a blankey her size.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnUXXqzv7ig&feature=youtu.be

Chili Learns to Pray

After the long hiatus, Chili is finally back! And she has learnt a new trick since July.
The yogic dog has learnt to PRAY!!!

Pwaayyy

I am Pwaayyingg....

Hey where's my food?? I've been praying for so long!!! Hello??

Yumss... home made cheese crakers

Tugging

Playing tug with mommy with mah new toy

Fetching Zebra so I can tug

Tricks

A few of the trick I can do! Mommy's training me to be a circus doggie (~.~)'''

Down

Cross

BANG!