It Came And Went.... in a Jiffy....

Firstly, Gong Xi Fa Cai. I am hokkien lah. So its not Kung Hei FaTT Choy .... for me.

About a week ago, I was so excited to have a week off work, and had only needed to take 3 days off. Unfortunately, I don't know what I did with my time and now I am already in my 3rd day of my extra leave. I hardly went out. Most of the time its at home binging on food esp cookies. I only went out on Wed to meet up with some friends from secondary school. Most of them had up and left this good old country. And i think the conversation went along the line, when would my turn be. Of course, i am not able to reveal my secret which only very few people know as I don't want to hear the drones of "what a waste" , "... you should have". To me its bygone. There are days which I do think about it but its becoming more and more minimal. I believe its the age factor that has lead me to be more appreciative of things I have now. It may not be a lot but its sure much more than some other more unfortunate people out there.

Hmm.. recalling back, I would say that I have been watching my dwnload series of Ugly Betty Season 3. Which is so awesome. Yeah I was once like here, with braces and all.. probably still ike her in the fashion sense.

Also, I would say this year's ang pow loot is much less than last year but then again times are bad. At least people are still giving.

The only so called bizzare thing that happened was, my dad had food poisoning and was very stubborn not to see the dr. Even with the tummy problems, he whacked all the sambal sotong, curry, acar, etc which my mom made. On the second day, in the morning, I saw him taking some medication, and obviously I asked him, still having "lau sai" ( translation - diareahea). I was shocked to hear the words from his mouth. He said " Someone trying to poison me, better purge till i die" Hmm.. very uncalled for statement. But seeing he is under stress from his condition, I just said , its not a good thing to say during CNY.

Other than that, its been great just hibernating.. doing nothing.. and praying for a better week next week when I head back to work. I have loads to do at the office but as per my philosophy on work, I shall not switch on my laptop when at home.... :D Then again u know I have to bring down my Hypertension - High BP status which hasn't improve at all.

Auntie Hair Style

If you don't already know by now, I permed my hair about 1 month ago. To be precise, on 24th of Dec 2008. Well, its quite a change esp after having not permed my hair for like 5-6 years. Due to hair health reasons. So i don't know why, I decided for the change.

The same person who saw me when i went back to work on 5th of Jan, has been spreading about my new hair do to everyone, even as far as my colleagues in SG.

Sad thing is, so insincere was her comments, she told them my hair style was nice better than before.

But yesterday she said her hair dresser could have done a better job. So i asked her to elaborate. And she said that... my perm is like auntie and its such auntie hair style and with one look she knows its done by a woman and not a man. And could an auntie too that did my hair. I said yes its and auntie so.? I said after all its just body perm. How wrong can a body perm be.

I guess some people are just pure big bad mouths. Anyways.... it will grow out. I just have to live with this auntie hair style for awhile.

I made it - day 2 of 2009

Yahooo... i did make it today for my 2nd work out of the YEAR 2009. I almost bailed out.
I did the same which is 30 min on cross trainer and 20 min on the thread mill.

I always go for the cross trainer first as its always in demand. Also I have been going off slightly earlier when I go to the gym since i do come in early anyways.

What i felt today is that is that the thread mill seems to work better. As I walked on the pre-program workout, uphill , etc. I could feel my stomach kind of like being worked out. I din feel that on the cross trainer.

Hopefully I will be able to sustain.

Congrats MG for making day 2 :D hehehe

Losing Weight is hard to do

Losing weight is definitely hard to do. Yesterday was my first day back to gym, I did 20 min on the threadmill and 30 min on the cross trainer. Felt like nothing at that time. But today my knee started to hurt. I have a history of knee pain. I used to sprint in secondary school and after I finished school all these problem with my knee started to surface.

Tomorrow I am planning to go to the gym. Hopefully I make it. Its so easy just to say no and give in to laziness. :D

I feel really fat and bloated. But one thing tho' I just can't stop eating either.

Recently i read about the special K diet... I give it after CNY before I embark on it.

Wish me luck.

MAMA MIA

As per the above photo, I went to watch MAMA MIA yesterday and paid a good money for it too. As you would notice, we sat at the Grand Circle, which was pretty good seat. We managed to get the tickets after they actually decided to have additional show. If you look closely, you would see that (where the STAR logo is), its stated that the show was to run until 1st Jan 2009. Due to overwhelming response, a few additional shows were added.

We had a surprise that day, not only seated two rows below us more towards the middle of the hall, sat our PM - Pak Lah. Some people were so blur, they didn't even know that was that PM; my friends included. They sat very weirdly, all the men on one side and the ladies on the other. It was a pleasant surprise rite? further to day, I have to say they were only like 5 mins late, e.g 3:05pm which is by the standards of dignitires is already very very good. :D

After all the hoo haa of PM - Pak Lah- whispering.... came the actual annoucement welcoming PM and some other folks, not that i can remember their name :D

Read more here
But not sure why they wort last nite, when it wasn't really the nite show we watched, it was the matinee show.

And Surprise Surprise, this boom thru the sound system " Kindly Stand for the National Anthem". Not sure if they played it for all the shows or just this one coz the PM was there. But really tho' this is a real added bonus :D

How as the show? Errr It was a OK. Kinda slow on some scenes. The bests ones for me were the last performance and the ancore... where the full blown dance was performed and so lively and the music was excellent.

p/s this was the london production , hence in the beginning some of the actors' accent were so strong, I didn't get jack shit... hehehe.