today is the father's day and i'm going bk udal tonight for celebration. It was my idea, so i have to be there. Have to sacrifice a bit of the time for dear. Actually we're supposed to bring my dad out for dinner this week. Unfortunately, i made a mistake for the date. I thought it's on next sunday and no one correct me. They all think i'm right and they're wronged.
Tomorrow i'm going singapore. Yea!!!!! Can't wait for it but at the same time, a bit nervous. The last time i went to Singapore is like erm.. 14 years ago. Oh my god!!! Hope i won't create any scene there.
This week i've been busy looking after my niece and nephew. I get hungry very fast when i'm with them. My mom went to KK the other day while my sis's mom-in-law went to miri. So i was alone with the kids. Hehe, feel a bit accomplished when i can bring the two kids out for grocery shopping.
I must mention some of the things that had happened this week:
I finally brought myself to email two teacher/lecturer and got their replies. That really made my day. I always make sure i don't forget those people who have helped me through the years and it feels great that i can keep in touch with them. And i realized it's not that difficult to take the first step.
My grandpa came all the way to place just to give me pocket money for my singapore's trip. i know i don't have to worry much about money if i want to go for vacation. But i didn't expect i'd receive help from so many people. What a lovely world i'm living in.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Monday, June 09, 2008
Dumpling festival
this year, i helped my grandma and aunt with the making of dumplings. They're making it for sale so i can't practise much with the wrapping. Anyway, i learned how to put in the ingredients the proper way so my aunt can wrap it easily. I never knew that making dumplings is that laborious. i think one whole afternoon of dumpling making is equivalent to jogging on treadmill at speed erm.. 5 or 5.5 for 30 minutes. I'm estimating it based on the amount of my sweats :p
but i didn't eat a lot of the dumplings. Because last week i had problem of indigestion, maybe due to too much heavy food.
for any of you who are taking meal replacement as a weight-loss tool, you can try mixing the meal replacement with yoghurt drink plus banana. I saw this on a magazine. Haven't tried it out though but it sounds delicious to me. Compare to other fruits, banana has more calories but many magazines i've read claimed that it's good for weight loss, as it is an effective solution to treat fluid retention. I never really understand the way they explain it in chinese. But i guess it's got to do with the high potassium content in banana. Too much salt will lead to fluid retention. With the high potassium from banana, i assume it will balance out the high sodium ions in our body and as a result, osmosis of the potassium/sodium pump at the cell membrane will work in a way that excess fluid will be excreted by the cells and flush out from our body through urine and sweats.
am i right?? Apart from the potassium, banana also has lots of fibre, which can help with the bowel.
Last week i bought a banana choco chip blizzard from DQ, the cashier asked me if i want extra banana, i was glad that he asked because it didn't occur to me that i can ask for more banana. Later i found out that there's no extra banana. Either my extra 50 cents got cheated or like dear said, he ate all the extra banana :(
I'm craving for banana now.
In case any of you is interested to know, fluid retention can be avoided by reducing salt intake and doing more physical activity, like walking. Brisking walking also facilitate the lymph flow in our body, which can aid detoxification of our body (according to one of the books i read).
Last two weeks, i came across a website (here if you can read chinese) that listed out the time of detox for various organs in our body:
21:00 - 22:00 >> lymphatic system
23:00 - 1:00 >> liver, can only take place in deep sleep (that's why we're advised to sleep before 11)
1:00 - 3:00 >> gall (if i translate it correctly; it's inside the liver. For me, gall is important for slimming down because it produces emzyme that emulsify fats so fats can be digested easily)
3:00 - 5:00 >> lungs
5:00 - 7:00 >> large intestine (the author said it's the best time to go to toilet. yeah right, as if everyone can control his/her bowel :p)
7:00 - 8:00 >> small intestine absorbing nutrients, so it's the perfect time for breakfast (my opinion: provided your breakfast is a healthy one, not things like maggie, nasi lemak, etc)
You see, people, sleep is very important to us. When we sleep, we're resting but our body is not. It has to work hard to flush out toxins in our system. So, don't you think you should love your body more?? It really gets on my nerve whenever i come across people who don't take their health seriously.
Last week i was quite busy. A relative of mine got married so 10 people came from Labuan to attend the wedding. 8 of them stayed over at my place and i had to sleep in my mom's room. i brought my pillow with me so yeah, i managed to sleep well. The labuan people (that's what we call them) went back yesterday and today my parents had gone to labuan.
My house has become quiet suddenly and i'm alone most of the time. So i spent a lot of time thinking, thinking and thinking. I found out that i made a mistake in my final year of uni. I gave up lots of things, like japanese courses, attending su yee's wedding, aerobics, caring for people i love and many more. I keep telling myself those things can wait, it's my final year so i must study hard, put all my attention on my study. Then i realized today, because of my decision, i lost quite a lot of things.
I lost my figure (gained a few kilos and i'm still struggling to lose them now), my health (especially mental), my time with family and dear, and most importantly, i lost some of the best part in me. I can't remember since how long ago, i studied because i want to get good grades. But before, i study because i love it. No wonder i didn't enjoy much for the last sem. I was too busy with getting high marks and missed out lots of fun. and last week, it suddenly occured to me that i've been concentrating on myself so much that i can't remember when was the last time i lend a hand to another person without any purpose. My god! I've become the type of people that i despise before. I can't believe that i become ignorant to others' needs just to please myself.
Ok, it may not be as serious as i think (let's hope it's not) but i have to stop being that way. Good thing is, i've stopped! Well, i have to, because even me start to feel disgusted at myself sometimes. I'd made my own life miserable by pushing myself too hard in my study, especially this year. When i no longer think that i should be the best, should get A, everything becomes so simple and easy. Life becomes so much enjoyable. So, actually all the criticisms i gave to myself for one whole year is just because i over-pressurized myself.
How silly i am! But i'm not too bad i guess, because i am alert to it. So not a big problem. I'm beginning to appreciate my life all over again. Perhaps, this time i'll see things more clearly and find some of the things which i'd missed out for a long time ^_^
Hoo~ a long post. Proved that i'm really free now, don't have anything to do, except blogging :p
but i didn't eat a lot of the dumplings. Because last week i had problem of indigestion, maybe due to too much heavy food.
for any of you who are taking meal replacement as a weight-loss tool, you can try mixing the meal replacement with yoghurt drink plus banana. I saw this on a magazine. Haven't tried it out though but it sounds delicious to me. Compare to other fruits, banana has more calories but many magazines i've read claimed that it's good for weight loss, as it is an effective solution to treat fluid retention. I never really understand the way they explain it in chinese. But i guess it's got to do with the high potassium content in banana. Too much salt will lead to fluid retention. With the high potassium from banana, i assume it will balance out the high sodium ions in our body and as a result, osmosis of the potassium/sodium pump at the cell membrane will work in a way that excess fluid will be excreted by the cells and flush out from our body through urine and sweats.
am i right?? Apart from the potassium, banana also has lots of fibre, which can help with the bowel.
Last week i bought a banana choco chip blizzard from DQ, the cashier asked me if i want extra banana, i was glad that he asked because it didn't occur to me that i can ask for more banana. Later i found out that there's no extra banana. Either my extra 50 cents got cheated or like dear said, he ate all the extra banana :(
I'm craving for banana now.
In case any of you is interested to know, fluid retention can be avoided by reducing salt intake and doing more physical activity, like walking. Brisking walking also facilitate the lymph flow in our body, which can aid detoxification of our body (according to one of the books i read).
Last two weeks, i came across a website (here if you can read chinese) that listed out the time of detox for various organs in our body:
21:00 - 22:00 >> lymphatic system
23:00 - 1:00 >> liver, can only take place in deep sleep (that's why we're advised to sleep before 11)
1:00 - 3:00 >> gall (if i translate it correctly; it's inside the liver. For me, gall is important for slimming down because it produces emzyme that emulsify fats so fats can be digested easily)
3:00 - 5:00 >> lungs
5:00 - 7:00 >> large intestine (the author said it's the best time to go to toilet. yeah right, as if everyone can control his/her bowel :p)
7:00 - 8:00 >> small intestine absorbing nutrients, so it's the perfect time for breakfast (my opinion: provided your breakfast is a healthy one, not things like maggie, nasi lemak, etc)
You see, people, sleep is very important to us. When we sleep, we're resting but our body is not. It has to work hard to flush out toxins in our system. So, don't you think you should love your body more?? It really gets on my nerve whenever i come across people who don't take their health seriously.
Last week i was quite busy. A relative of mine got married so 10 people came from Labuan to attend the wedding. 8 of them stayed over at my place and i had to sleep in my mom's room. i brought my pillow with me so yeah, i managed to sleep well. The labuan people (that's what we call them) went back yesterday and today my parents had gone to labuan.
My house has become quiet suddenly and i'm alone most of the time. So i spent a lot of time thinking, thinking and thinking. I found out that i made a mistake in my final year of uni. I gave up lots of things, like japanese courses, attending su yee's wedding, aerobics, caring for people i love and many more. I keep telling myself those things can wait, it's my final year so i must study hard, put all my attention on my study. Then i realized today, because of my decision, i lost quite a lot of things.
I lost my figure (gained a few kilos and i'm still struggling to lose them now), my health (especially mental), my time with family and dear, and most importantly, i lost some of the best part in me. I can't remember since how long ago, i studied because i want to get good grades. But before, i study because i love it. No wonder i didn't enjoy much for the last sem. I was too busy with getting high marks and missed out lots of fun. and last week, it suddenly occured to me that i've been concentrating on myself so much that i can't remember when was the last time i lend a hand to another person without any purpose. My god! I've become the type of people that i despise before. I can't believe that i become ignorant to others' needs just to please myself.
Ok, it may not be as serious as i think (let's hope it's not) but i have to stop being that way. Good thing is, i've stopped! Well, i have to, because even me start to feel disgusted at myself sometimes. I'd made my own life miserable by pushing myself too hard in my study, especially this year. When i no longer think that i should be the best, should get A, everything becomes so simple and easy. Life becomes so much enjoyable. So, actually all the criticisms i gave to myself for one whole year is just because i over-pressurized myself.
How silly i am! But i'm not too bad i guess, because i am alert to it. So not a big problem. I'm beginning to appreciate my life all over again. Perhaps, this time i'll see things more clearly and find some of the things which i'd missed out for a long time ^_^
Hoo~ a long post. Proved that i'm really free now, don't have anything to do, except blogging :p
Sunday, June 01, 2008
holiday
yesterday i went to the job fair at ICC. Wow! it was crowded with people. With so many people around, i couldn't think of what questions to ask. Hmm.. something i need to overcome yeah.
But i still managed to ask few questions, got few flyers. Now i feel very grateful to UBD for wanting us to do major and minor at the same time. Because with my degree in biology, it's not easy to get a job in the private sectors. My minor chemistry has earned me more options, since chemistry seems like the science that is most preferred.
this week, i've been staying at home. Didn't go to any aerobic classes because need to look after my niece and nephew. I believe that at this stage, i'm not ready to be a mother yet. I don't have the patience.
for people like me, we believe that to have a family, to have kids, we need lots of money. Is that mean subconsciously, we're going to spoil our kids with all the good stuffs, making their life easy and smooth? Look at some people, they don't have lots of money and yet lead a happy life.
From what i see in my life, the more money you have, the more problems you'll come across. Unless, you're still the same person even though you've become richer. There are lots of people who have high salary every month and at the same time, have lots of debts to pay for. I hope i'll remain the same me next time, no matter how much i earn.
wow! in two weeks time, i'll be in singapore. can't wait for it. honestly, i feel bit frustrated when people give me some tasks during my trip. I have to bring cakes and keropok udang from brunei to singapore to pass to my cousin there, one of my cousins here asked me to buy a bottle of wine when i reach singapore as her gift to my mom's friend there, then one of my aunts told me to buy her camera battery and 'ba kua', my cousin there will ask me to bring her insurance fee back to brunei to her mom and another aunt of mine will ask her friend to pass me the medicine my aunt wants.
I'm not happy with all that. I know, all of them are simple tasks. But for me, i hardly go abroad. Finally i have a chance, all i want to do is relax and enjoy my trip. I only have 2 days there, strictly speaking. But with all those things i need to do, my mood of vacation is spoiled. If i don't have any tasks to do, i'd just have to go with the flow. But now, i have to plan my time, have to squeeze in time to meet my cousins and auntie there. I'd love to meet them but i was thinking, if i don't have the time, i can leave that out. Now, it becomes a must to meet them. and the thing is, i'm not going alone. haih.. hopefully i can find a way out so i can finish all the tasks and yet manage to enjoy myself there.
Maybe things aren't as bad as i think now. we'll see
I actually wish i had the gut to turn them down but, that's not good.
am i too.. erm.. selfish?
i'll try to find job related to my qualification. If i were to look for jobs that allow me to learn new things now, i have no idea which field i'd like to start with. It suddenly hits me that i chose biological science because i love to study biology at the first place. Sometimes looking back really helps me to make up my mind. Because i'll remember what was the primary reason behind and then i just have to keep to the track. No point making my life complicated by giving myself too many choices till i can't decide.
But i still managed to ask few questions, got few flyers. Now i feel very grateful to UBD for wanting us to do major and minor at the same time. Because with my degree in biology, it's not easy to get a job in the private sectors. My minor chemistry has earned me more options, since chemistry seems like the science that is most preferred.
this week, i've been staying at home. Didn't go to any aerobic classes because need to look after my niece and nephew. I believe that at this stage, i'm not ready to be a mother yet. I don't have the patience.
for people like me, we believe that to have a family, to have kids, we need lots of money. Is that mean subconsciously, we're going to spoil our kids with all the good stuffs, making their life easy and smooth? Look at some people, they don't have lots of money and yet lead a happy life.
From what i see in my life, the more money you have, the more problems you'll come across. Unless, you're still the same person even though you've become richer. There are lots of people who have high salary every month and at the same time, have lots of debts to pay for. I hope i'll remain the same me next time, no matter how much i earn.
wow! in two weeks time, i'll be in singapore. can't wait for it. honestly, i feel bit frustrated when people give me some tasks during my trip. I have to bring cakes and keropok udang from brunei to singapore to pass to my cousin there, one of my cousins here asked me to buy a bottle of wine when i reach singapore as her gift to my mom's friend there, then one of my aunts told me to buy her camera battery and 'ba kua', my cousin there will ask me to bring her insurance fee back to brunei to her mom and another aunt of mine will ask her friend to pass me the medicine my aunt wants.
I'm not happy with all that. I know, all of them are simple tasks. But for me, i hardly go abroad. Finally i have a chance, all i want to do is relax and enjoy my trip. I only have 2 days there, strictly speaking. But with all those things i need to do, my mood of vacation is spoiled. If i don't have any tasks to do, i'd just have to go with the flow. But now, i have to plan my time, have to squeeze in time to meet my cousins and auntie there. I'd love to meet them but i was thinking, if i don't have the time, i can leave that out. Now, it becomes a must to meet them. and the thing is, i'm not going alone. haih.. hopefully i can find a way out so i can finish all the tasks and yet manage to enjoy myself there.
Maybe things aren't as bad as i think now. we'll see
I actually wish i had the gut to turn them down but, that's not good.
am i too.. erm.. selfish?
i'll try to find job related to my qualification. If i were to look for jobs that allow me to learn new things now, i have no idea which field i'd like to start with. It suddenly hits me that i chose biological science because i love to study biology at the first place. Sometimes looking back really helps me to make up my mind. Because i'll remember what was the primary reason behind and then i just have to keep to the track. No point making my life complicated by giving myself too many choices till i can't decide.
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