A little update of Silu and Noppa - the case of dog run visits.

I'm training adding images here, and these are the ones a started with, so this will be a little update about Noppa and Silu.

This is a picture from the West Coast Park dog run. It is the biggest of the three existing dog runs in Singapore where you can keep your dog off leash. We've been there now two times with Noppa and Silu, and boy, do they like or what!

Because you can't take dogs to public transportation, and walking about 6 km in this heat and humidity just to get to the park is just too much, we have to take a taxi to get there. Not all of the drivers accept us on a ride, especially 'cos there's two (!) dogs, last time we waited almost half an hour for a ride.. Next time we're going do the I will call a cab in advance and hope some driver takes the opportunite to drive us there :). The fare isn't bad though, if it's not peak hour time, the ride is about S$6, so that's about 3 euros! Peak hour fare is +35% to the total amount. There is special pet taxis and spacier taxis here also, but they charge a lot more, easily S$20!

In the picture there's Silu wondering with our new dog friends, Rekku, a fox terrier, and Urho, a white shepherddog (is that the english name? eli valkoinen paimenkoira); the dogs of our new Finish friends. We met Rekku and Raisa (the owner) at the quarantine station, where Silu and Noppa spent the first 30 days in S'pore. Urho and Heli (the owner) we met through Raisa. As you can see, Urho is quite a giant dog, and for him it's especially hard to get a taxi ;).

It had been raining the previous night of our visit, so the dog run was very muddy. The dogs really needed some serious cleaning before entering the taxi!

I will write about the quarantine in the future, but to say it simply, it was much better than we expected and the dogs actually took it quite well! We have now two much calmer dogs here.

Noppa and Silu at home :)

Finally starting

We have moved to Singapore with Miika now two months ago. Before leaving, I was certain we would start a blog, writing about our experiences and displaying photos for our friends, but we never did, as I've always been very lazy in these things. I'm even very lazy to answer my e-mails, leaving them waiting for the near future, that gets postponed :) Oh well, maybe I learn someday to be more efficient with my time and my things to do, but hey, it's totally up to me what I want!

But let's get back to business.. Singapore so far has been great, some days more and some days less, but still great. We came here with focused mind to move abroad, to enjoy and learn this experience as best as we could. We don't have any plans about moving back to Finland, that day comes when it comes, but we don't want any tight plans to limit our options here. I don't say we will be here for good, we keep our minds open to anything. Floating, y'know. I hope this doesn't upset my parents or friends, I'm sure we will be visiting you and you will be visiting us, our doors are always open for our dear friend travelling the Far East and needing a place to stay or a guide for this wonderful city!

I'm not working at the moment so I have a lot of time in my hands. People keep asking me how I spend my days; I don't know, the time flies quite fast and I still manage to try out new things and see new places. I spend quite a lot of time at the computer now, but I've been actually enjoying it after being working quite alot during past few years. I've actually found a lot of new and interesting opportunities and information during the past few weeks. My focus for life is still a bit blurry - moving here from the safe environment with people and things I knew very well, from my safe haven, to a place with a lot of new things and really not owning almost nothing - it has been a bit of a struggle sometimes. But I think I'm starting to find my mind-set again, and those moments of almost unbearably missing my friends and my family, I think they are becoming much easier to handle (if you even have to handle them?) and to beare.

The enjoyment is starting to rise! This post has been mostly about the emotional rollercoaster especially I have been during our move and now I think we are truly settleing in. Future posts will be about the places we've visited and people we have met, and how are we and how are the dogs, so my friends and family will be posted about us. I'll still update my facebook statuses, and hopefully I will soon start to post some photos here too. We should really get a decent camera soon, the quality of the resent photos took with my phone aren't really that good!