Get The Pee Stain Off My Bed !!

Ever since getting a puppy of my own, life was kinda busy and pretty much a different learning curve. Many thinks that getting an animal is of no big deal, just like pet fish. NO ! That is NOT TRUE. Even getting a fish means lots of commitments! If that's in your mind all the while and you want to get a pet, throw the damn idea off that wee brain of yours then. 

Getting either pet, whichever that tickles your fancy, means devoting your time, love, money and everything to them, like you do to your dear family members, because, the moment you get a pet, you add in an extra family member. In my case, feedings and clean ups are mainly my chore. Playtime? Leave it to the man to do it. 

So, back to the topic, the lil' dog, being the sweetpie that she is, sleeps with us on the bed at night of course.

This is my lil' baby ! Coco ! But like a human kid that has gotten used to wear diapers, they do not know when to NOT PEE on the bed. Yes, my little baby pees on the bed on and off. Imagine the horror in my face when I saw it each time. Having to wash the sheets is one small matter. The biggest problem, the mattress. The stains and the odor ! They are the main killer. So what do I do? 

The God that I pray to. The answers that this God gave me is, nonetheless, awesome. Why? I got the one best solution to get the stains and odor out of my mattress. Since it worked on kids pee stains, I figured it should work on pets too and voila! It does! Details below is all credit to: Inspired Housewife Blog 

So here's what you need to get started:

You need a measuring cup, tablespoon, funnel, and spray bottle.

8 ounces/237 ml hydrogen peroxide 3% (this can be found in a brown bottle in the first aid aisle of most pharmacies or stores. It's sort of an antiseptic for washing wounds. Best place to find it in Malaysia is the pharmacies.)

3 tablespoons/45 grams of baking soda

1 drop of liquid hand dish washing soap

Mix all ingredients into the spray bottle, do not shake the bottle, and use within 20 minutes.  Do not attempt to store the leftover solution. because it will leak out of the bottle.  The mixture only works if you use it immediately, because the cleaning byproducts are active for only a short time period.  You should see the stain lift and disappear within 5-10 minutes.  Once the mattress dries, if a baking soda film remains, then simply wipe or vacuum it off.

Here's my before and after result. I'm seriously glad it worked for me. It's a cotton bed by the way. 

After the whole thing fully dried off, even the watermark is gone. This solution really works wonder. So, moms at home and pet owners, have no fear on putting your kids/pets on bed with you!! Takes time to train them to pee on proper designated place, even for kids. 

Self Study for Japanese 日本語ですよ！！

Since sometime ago, I've gone to some Japanese classes. Later on, it was just due to timing problem or that I'm giving excuses to myself that I've not gone to continue. Nowadays, I ended up having to study on my own. Believe me, this really is not easy at all. 

After few months or even a year, I've totally forgotten some of my Hiragana and most of the Katakana. Now I have to continuously write the same word over and over, test myself over and over again without looking at those damn charts. 

*Image source: textfugu.com

The Hiragana that I forgot the most is always the 'ne', 'nu' and 're'. I either mixed them up or just totally forgot, somehow. So not fun that I've got to write a lot of time for a single word just to remember the strokes and the word.

*Image source: textfugu.com

When it comes to Katakana, this is even worse. I remember up to the 'M's but I keep forgetting some here and there. Those that studies Japanese says this is easier to remember compared to Hiragana but somehow, for me, I remembers the Hira more than the Kata. Beats me why. 

I found a lot of sources where one can do self study for the basics, but of course, you'd need some guidance and reference here and there as you proceed. Sites like these helps me a lot for practice in remembering the words itself:

1. Japanese-Lesson - You can download lots of worksheets for practice writings from this site. Learning the words doesn't just end at Katakana as you have Kanji to learn as well. 
2. Meguro Language Centre - This site here gives you optional either self learn or even distance learning, where you can setup a schedule to learn with some native speakers via Skype, e-mails and so on. 
3. Textfugu - This one is mostly self learn site, but yes, definitely in a very disciplined and hard way.

Of course, if you'd want to test yourself and depends on what you want to do it for, you can always test yourself at the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) that is held sometime in the year depending on your level. For me, it'd be best for me to take up this test so that I can do freelance translations :D Of course, it's look nicer for my resume too, don't you think so?

For those that is interested in Japanese, just some heads up on how long you'd need to take up to learn from Hiragana to Kanji, just purely on words, not conversations or grammars. Even I still have a long way to go for this...

Total Hiragana in modern Japanese : 46 words

Total Katakana in modern Japanese : 46 words as well

Total Kanji : maybe bout 50,000 ? But oh relax, commonly used ones are about 2,500 words. Japanese Ministry of Education specified 1,945 Kanji as the jōyō kanji (Kanji letters in common use).

Here's an example of how Kanji is :

It's your typical Chinese words but with mixture of Hiragana inside. Kanji is used when the word is kinda long written in Hiragana. Also, some of the words may not be exactly the same, I'm not sure since I've not much of knowledge in Chinese words. This is how long a person would take to learn Kanji...

*Source from Japanese-lesson

I'm not gonna give up in my Japanese, that's one thing for sure despite it took me quite sometime to finish this up :P