Sep/093
Moving on
Hey, everyone. Sadly, I don’t think I am going to be needing my WordPress blog anymore. I’ll keep it open, but I’m thinking of redirecting my domain name to my new abode. Yes, I have joined the Tumblr bandwagon, and I’m not ashamed. LOL.
So, for updates (and more random bits than personal ones), click here.
You can also update your links. :)
Aug/092
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Piccoult
It took me a while to read this book, after many recommendations from one of my cousins. I don’t know where to find the time to read these days, so it took me a while to finish reading this one. Unlike P.S.: I Love You by Cecilia Ahern, I actually love this book. Here’s my favourite passage from the book, and hopefully I won’t get in trouble for publishing this one. :S
Here’s my question: What age are you when you’re in Heaven? I mean, if it’s Heaven, you should be at your beauty-queen best, and I doubt that all the people who die of old age are wandering around toothless and bald. It opens up a whole additional realm of questions, too. If you hang yourself, do you walk around all gross and blue, with your tongue spitting out of your mouth? If you are killed in a war, do you spend eternity minus the leg that got blown up by a mine?
I figure that maybe you get a choice. You fill out the application form that asks you if you want a star view or a cloud view, if you like chicken or fish or manna for dinner, what age you’d like to be seen as by everyone else. Like me, for example, I might pick seventeen, in the hopes I grow boobs by then, and even if I’m a pruny centegenarian by the time I die, in Heaven I’d be young and pretty.
Once at a dinner party I heard my father say that even though he was old old old, in his heart he was twenty-one. So maybe there is a place in your life you wear out like a rut, or even better, like the soft spot on the couch. And no matter what else happens to you, you come back to that.
The problem, I suppose, is that everyone’s different. What happens in Heaven when all these people are trying to find each other after so many years spent apart? Say that you die and start looking around for your husband, who died five years ago. What if you’re picturing him at seventy, but he hit his groove and sixteen and is wandering around suave as can be?
Or what if you’re Kate, and you die at sixteen, but in Heaven you choose to look thirty-five, an age you never got to be here on Earth. How would anyone be able to find you?
It is a very good read. You can buy a copy of Jodi Piccoult’s My Sister’s Keeper here. ;)
Aug/091
My life according to John Mayer
I haven’t done this in a long time, and I haven’t come across a good meme in a while, so here’s one that I liked.
Using only song names from one artist, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on if you want. You can’t use the band I used. Try not to repeat a song title. It’s a lot harder than you think! Repost as "My Life According to (band name!)"
Pick your artist: John Mayer
Are you a Male or Female?
Daughters.
Describe yourself.
Only Heart.
How do you feel?
Something’s Missing.
Describe where you currently live.
Great Indoors.
If you could go anywhere, where would you go?
Back To You.
Your favorite form of transportation:
Wheel.
Your best friend is:
The Heart of Life.
Your favorite color is:
Neon.
What’s the weather like?
Quiet.
Favorite time of day:
Untitled.
If your life was a TV show, what would it be called?
Gravity.
What is life to you?
Love Song For No One.
Your relationship:
Comfortable.
Your fear:
Dreaming With A Broken Heart.
What is the best advice you have to give?
Belief.
If you could change your name, you would change it to:
Victoria.
How you would like to die?
Slow Dancing In A Burning Room.
Your soul’s present condition:
Bigger Than My Body.
Your motto:
Free Fallin’.
Jul/090
Don’t you twitterstand?
I’ve spent most of my online time on TweetDeck, and the rest of my time checking my Twitter account on my phone. Every time TweetDeck notifies me of an updated Twitter from my following, I drop whatever I’m doing (like typing out this blog entry) and click on the TweetDeck window. My life revolves around Twitter now, it’s so scary.
I even stopped signing into MSN Messenger because I get tired of making small talk. Thankfully, the boyfriend always comes online with GoogleTalk, so the application is spared from being uninstalled, and not many people who likes to make small talk are on GoogleTalk.
There are many amusing things to be found on Twitter. Like a sister of a friend of mine, tweeted this;
just remembered about a weird dream I had on how I wanted to order from @sasbrownies but was fully booked and apparently @my7thlife made brownies too..only less sugar. haha! totally random!
That just cracked me up. It shows just how much I’ve been in people’s faces about living the healthy life, doesn’t it? LOL.
Back to my Twitter addiction, I nearly decided to close down MY7THLIFE.NET because I found no great use for it anymore. However, I found myself re-assessing the situation, and I should just let my blog stay up. Who knows, maybe blogging will interest me again. Maybe typing out long sentences, exceeding 140 characters, will spark my passion (or whatever was there) for blogging again.
Who knows?
Jul/090
So.. What’s up?
It’s been a while since I last posted, hasn’t it? Why? I’ve been on Twitter most of the time. Micro-blogging doesn’t really need proper sentences, and that’s cool. I miss updating my blog, though..
So what has happened? Not much. Life is pretty much the same, though my jeans are a bit loose, and I’m not looking forward to spend more money on clothes. I’ve spent a lot of my money on Threadless t-shirts, though. They’re very comfortable and cool for Brunei’s hot weather.
I’m settling in nicely with my new lifestyle, though I wish other aspects of my life would change. I guess I’m just going to have to wait for a few more months, and bear with it.
Anyway, I’ve shared this on Twitter and Facebook, but I’d just like to share this video, uploaded originally by someone I know from my aerobics classes. It’s sort of cool to see it on video.
Oh, and a follow-up from my last post, if you are planning on losing weight, don’t just eat a balanced diet. You will need to exercise! Everyday! If you want to maintain a healthy lifestyle, exercise at least 30 minutes per day. If you want to maintain a healthy lifestyle and lose weight, exercise at least 45 minutes per day. Remember, this is everyday. There is no use if you spend your three hours in the gym, but it’s only for a day in the week. You have to use up the calories you consume, so don’t forget your exercise! :)
My progress has been slightly slower than before, as I have only lost 3kgs after I’ve left KBS. But I have until September to reach my short-term target weight, which is another 3kgs. Here’s to hoping that I’ll make it!
Until next time! (For mini updates, follow me on Twitter!)
Jun/0914
What I did
I am a very happy bunny today. I really am. At first I was nervous: today was my appointment with my KBS doctor. I was really nervous about what the weighing scale was going to say, and what my blood results from two weeks ago were going to show.
I was thinking that if I postponed breakfast until after I was done with the appointment, I would be lighter. Not much, but it will be something. I ended up having my usual breakfast, Honeycombs cereal, washed down with a mug of tea. Left the house, and ended up being 15 minutes early to my 8AM appointment.
Before the doctor came in, I had to weigh myself. My weight is still undisclosed to people I’m not close to, but I lost 7kgs in the span of 10 weeks. If I remember correctly, in the paper, for the quick-fix, slimming things that cost a bomb, will let you lose about the same amount in those 10 weeks. Luckily for me, I didn’t get to pay a thing, and I feel lots better having to have lost the weight naturally.
I’m not posting this just to gloat or brag about what I have achieved, but I am really happy about it, that is why I shared. Like, if I ever become a millionaire one day, I will share it, because I’d be happy about it. And in this instance, I am. :P
Anyway, I’ve been asked what my secret was. Here’s my secret: There is none. If you want to give it a try, I’ll share a thing or two with you.
Jun/092
New Moon trailer
Personally hated this book out of the four, but the movie looks promising!
I might even convert to Team Jacob! LOL.
Jun/093
A new me
As The Program draws nearer to a close this weekend, I am feeling rather sad. I have gone a long way from when I first started, even though it was just ten weeks ago.
Before, I wasn’t very much aware of calories, exercise intensity, food categories, and food proportions! Even though you might laugh at me for that, but if you joined The Program, you would be surprised. The food pyramid they jammed into our heads when we were younger? That should be the guideline you follow forever.
Most of those who joined The Program were either referred to by their doctors, or they needed to lose weight because if they don’t, they won’t get their bonuses this year, or they wanted a better, healthier lifestyle. I had to be honest with myself, my peers, and the MOH officers there: I joined because I wanted to lose weight and look good. Plus, having your doctors drone on and on about your BMI and how fat you are are getting a bit too much. Got too boring, really.
But as I go through the program, I was in for more than just losing weight. I was in for a lifestyle change. A major shift in the food area, which was a bit difficult because, trust me when I say, I love my food. However, after a few lectures, you start to find out how many teaspoons per day should you have your food in oil, you kind of learn fast. And after all that was taught, we practiced it, and not only did I lose weight, I felt really good about myself. I rarely get headaches, which I often get after work, and I just feel like I am living right.
All this goes down to our dietitian, psychologist, and ‘trainer’. Hahaha.
The dietitian, Nura, has been very good. She doesn’t take your excuses, no sir. There is no reason for you to skip your three main meals of the day, and no reason for your lack of calcium intake. There is no such thing as, “Inda pandai minum susu.” And with her plan, she’s got the food diary going on, which enables you to monitor what you’ve been eating! Personally, this is great practice, because you will realize just how much you have consumed for the day.
Mun, the psychologist, has been great as well, teaching us to focus, now that we have achieved full awareness of living healthy, and to maintain that lifestyle. She taught us how to stop listening to other people’s taunts, like, “Eh, jangantah dulu exercise atu. Makan tahhh. Enjoy!” Which is great, because mentality is the key to maintain this lifestyle. She also taught us that we have to have belief in ourselves in order to be successful.
Bryan is also very good to us, prodding us slowly with his workout plan, which is, to start slow. If you are not fit, don’t push yourself. Go slow at first, then if you can do better, go to the next stage, then the next. I didn’t have much problem in this area, but with The Program’s exercise regime, I have a newfound favourite pastime: Hiking! :D (Even though I don’t get excited when it rains. :P )
The rest of the officers at the Health Promotion Center has also been very, very supportive. I will miss them loads when Saturday comes and goes, even though we are still welcomed to use their gym and swimming pool. The latter, in which, I have found great fun! ;)
If you are interested in a healthier lifestyle for yourself, find out at the Ministry of Health’s KBS at the Health Promotion Center, over at Commonwealth Drive, nearby the Ministry of Finance. The gray building with the colourful squares. Those who have a lower BMI than 30 might not be able to join, though. But I think you can work something out with them at KBS.
The Program is KBS, by the by, and it stands for Klinik Badan Sihat. :)
May/090
Come one, come all!
Wardrobes Inc. is having a Mayhem Clearance Sale at their store from the 20th to the 26th of May only!
They’re offering 10 to 20% off of their accessories, and even their new arrivals are 10% off! The best bit, the others are shedding 40 to 50% off their original price! Bargain!
Drop by their offline store now!
