My Keller
When I was 8 years old, my father got a labrador retriever for me. I remember how, as a family, we sat in silence in my parent's room in our house at Pasir Panjang, as we thought of a meaningful name for our new dog. We wanted to make sure that our dog would have a nice name, something that special and unique. Then somebody suggested Keller, inspired by Helen Keller. Labradors were well-known as guide dogs and since we were getting a labrador, we finally decided on the name "Keller". By the time Keller officially arrived in my house, he was already quite big, although you could still consider him a puppy. The one and only time I carried him into the house, it was on someone's(I think mine) birthday. He was only a few months old and yet I was already struggling to keep him in my arms. It was not because he was wriggling about. Instead I remember him to be rather still, actually. Keller just looked around in slight bewilderment as I brought him out of the backyard into ...