Ms. Maliwan Somsuphangsri

I haven't been able to introduce Maliwan to some of you properly yet. So I'd like to take this opportunity to do so. I think it was about three years ago, when Mom, Cake, Pie and I were strolling down the aisles of the pet section of the notorious Jatujak, we spotted this adorable lil brown blob with a lil black snout, flopping around in its crate. If there was such a thing as love at first sight, that was probably it for me. We went up to the shop and asked the shopkeeper about this tiny baby pug.

To be honest, as much as we really wanted the puppy, our previous pet had kinda put us off the idea of having a pet for a while. That barking cat (Hippo) was possessed. I think among the weird pets we've had, Hippo was the weirdest. But that's another story all together.

But who could resist that tiny lil brown thing. So we decided the baby pug would be our next house pet. At least when she barked, we knew it would be coming from a dog. Earlier that day we had decided we were going for a movie at Central Plaza, a big mall near by. So we told the guy we'd come back to pick the puppy up.

When we came back to the shop after a few hours, that brown blob was jerking back and forth in the crate, trying to throw up. Apparently, she had been eating too much, non-stop..hehe. We made sure she wasn't dying and then took her home.

The baby pug, then, became Maliwan Somsuphangsri, or Mali for short. I remember Mali had this baby smell, which we thought was really cute. We got this wooden pen for her (a pet containment pen, Mali couldn't write), which worked out to give way too much space for her at the time, but everyone knows how fast puppies grow.

I remember an incident, where Mali got her head stuck in between the wooden columns of her pen, as she was squeaking for help.. HELPP HELLP EAKK EAAKK HELLPP!! At first I really didn't know what to do because if you could imagine, pugs already have bulging eyes, Mali's eyeballs were extra bulgy, and I knew if I was to pull her body hard enough, her eyes would have been rolling away on the floor. Anyways, after a few minutes we managed to kinda twist her around and her head popped back out, with her eyeballs still intact. The whole time she never stopped screaming.. eeeakkk eeeaakkk hheeellppp hellppppp!!! So if you look in the picture on the left, you can see we had put plastic sheets to prevent her from sticking her head through the gaps again.

Dad had been on a business trip overseas during Mali's first few days at home. I remember it was funny how when he came back from the trip, saw Mali on the floor and was wondering to himself what kind of creature we had brought home. Dad grew to love Mali like we all did.

Right this moment, she must be either sleeping or thinking to herself when Cake, Pie and I will be back to see her again. Soon, Mali. Soon....

Thirsty Mali

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Mali with her flowers