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Long Holiday
Friday, 18 December 2020 19:16I'm in for a long long holiday, though I really doubt it. It's Friday, I'm supposed to be off, but the Boss has already given some last minute request and I had to run around the whole morning. Decided to take a break with a baked apple whatever whatever cold brew at Starbucks. Nothing special. Didn't taste of apples, baked or not.
The long holiday continues up to Tuesday, with Wednesday a work day, and then Thursday and Friday off again.
Sunday (20-Dec) is the Macau SAR establishment day, so it's a public holiday. But since it falls on a Sunday, we get a compensation holiday on the next working day. Monday (21-Dec) is the Winter Solstice, which is a holiday as well, and a big one in Chinese culture. So the compensation holiday will fall on Tuesday (22-Dec). Wednesday is a working day (but I'll just go into the office to pick up something then call it a day, coz my Boss OWES ME THAT for all the extra work I've been doing on my off days), then Thursday and Friday, of course, Christmas Even and Christmas Day, are holidays.
Macau is right next to Hong Kong but it's interesting to see the difference in public holidays. In Macau it's 24 and 25 December, and in Hong Kong it's 25 and 26 December. Also, Macau has a number of Roman Catholic holidays (Portuguese influence), so we had 8-Dec off as well (Feast of Immaculate Conception).
Frankie had to get his rabies shot today, so I rushed to the Municipal Kennel to get it done. Finally, I managed to shoot a photo of the mini pet cemetery there.
It's a super tiny plot of land, and I don't know if they are accepting new burials or not. I don't think so, most of those headstones are like from the 1990s. But it's bittersweet. One of the headstones showed the dog was only 2 years old, and the owner loved it enough to get a proper grave. There are headstones in English, Portuguese, and Chinese. It's sad but in a way sweet too, in that these pets had owners that loved them so much to put memorials for them.
While we were there, I saw a lady (somewhat crazy-looking) come in with a baby wagon with a dog. I recognized the dog as one that had a post written about it on Facebook. An association was trying to raise money for it because it's got some foreign object obstruction (I hear it's a chicken bone maybe). The woman was crazy, super rude, and a whole I'm holier-than-thou attitude. Another lady was trying to liaise with her telling her to let an association help the dog.
It's a whole convoluted story, where the association was simply raising money for her, but not directly assisting. The woman had also been running around Macau, to different vets to ask about surgery fees, claiming she can't afford the exorbitant amount of money for the surgery to remove the foreign object.
I don't know the exact inner details. Perhaps people are now bashing that association for not pushing to take the dog away to help it, or what. All I know is, soon after I left, I saw an update on Facebook that the woman has finally relinquished the dog and the association took it to a vet, and was going to put it to surgery.
I went for my manicure, and when I was done, another update said that the dog had passed away.
Poor dog, apparently it had that foreign object for 4 days before they took the dog for surgery. It probably couldn't stand the anesthetic and passed.
On to more cheerful topics, I had a manicure again. But I was so forgetful. The lady asked me if I wanted to do a red, and I thought "Why not, it's Christmas!" And after she did it, as I look at it now... it looks like the same red I did 2 months ago. Oops. But hey, I got red nails for Christmas!
The long holiday continues up to Tuesday, with Wednesday a work day, and then Thursday and Friday off again.
Sunday (20-Dec) is the Macau SAR establishment day, so it's a public holiday. But since it falls on a Sunday, we get a compensation holiday on the next working day. Monday (21-Dec) is the Winter Solstice, which is a holiday as well, and a big one in Chinese culture. So the compensation holiday will fall on Tuesday (22-Dec). Wednesday is a working day (but I'll just go into the office to pick up something then call it a day, coz my Boss OWES ME THAT for all the extra work I've been doing on my off days), then Thursday and Friday, of course, Christmas Even and Christmas Day, are holidays.
Macau is right next to Hong Kong but it's interesting to see the difference in public holidays. In Macau it's 24 and 25 December, and in Hong Kong it's 25 and 26 December. Also, Macau has a number of Roman Catholic holidays (Portuguese influence), so we had 8-Dec off as well (Feast of Immaculate Conception).
Frankie had to get his rabies shot today, so I rushed to the Municipal Kennel to get it done. Finally, I managed to shoot a photo of the mini pet cemetery there.
It's a super tiny plot of land, and I don't know if they are accepting new burials or not. I don't think so, most of those headstones are like from the 1990s. But it's bittersweet. One of the headstones showed the dog was only 2 years old, and the owner loved it enough to get a proper grave. There are headstones in English, Portuguese, and Chinese. It's sad but in a way sweet too, in that these pets had owners that loved them so much to put memorials for them.
While we were there, I saw a lady (somewhat crazy-looking) come in with a baby wagon with a dog. I recognized the dog as one that had a post written about it on Facebook. An association was trying to raise money for it because it's got some foreign object obstruction (I hear it's a chicken bone maybe). The woman was crazy, super rude, and a whole I'm holier-than-thou attitude. Another lady was trying to liaise with her telling her to let an association help the dog.
It's a whole convoluted story, where the association was simply raising money for her, but not directly assisting. The woman had also been running around Macau, to different vets to ask about surgery fees, claiming she can't afford the exorbitant amount of money for the surgery to remove the foreign object.
I don't know the exact inner details. Perhaps people are now bashing that association for not pushing to take the dog away to help it, or what. All I know is, soon after I left, I saw an update on Facebook that the woman has finally relinquished the dog and the association took it to a vet, and was going to put it to surgery.
I went for my manicure, and when I was done, another update said that the dog had passed away.
Poor dog, apparently it had that foreign object for 4 days before they took the dog for surgery. It probably couldn't stand the anesthetic and passed.
On to more cheerful topics, I had a manicure again. But I was so forgetful. The lady asked me if I wanted to do a red, and I thought "Why not, it's Christmas!" And after she did it, as I look at it now... it looks like the same red I did 2 months ago. Oops. But hey, I got red nails for Christmas!
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