Red Alert

My health has been deteriorating since I stopped my weekly swim 4 months ago. The first obvious consequence is weight gain. I'm 4 kgs heavier, building up fats instead of muscles and I can no longer fit in size 8, sometimes 10. I look FAT instead of fit.

The worst part of it - I am not feeling well. I get migraines easily, body aches and couldn't focus on the things that I do. But I experienced something that really scares me this week and I am still going through it. I have been having headache every day. YES, EVERY SINGLE DAY. For the first few days, I thought I was too tired and didn't pay much attention to it. It was until the fourth day, I realized something is really wrong.

I went for massage, to Tui na and even Guasa therapy. All told me that I've sprained my shoulder muscles. I thought so too and I am still hoping they are right. The fact is I am not feeling any better after the treatments. The pain didn't subside, it still come back especially in the evening near 4pm+. 

I take this as the RED alert and I need to do something about it (I still want to get married, succeed in my career and take care of my parents!!!). Exercises and control my diet - starting from now onwards. I went for a 20 mins jog and did another 15 mins stairs running today, gonna cut down my carbo consumption and of course sleep early.  

Life is short.

I know I posted this before but I guess this pic acts as a good reminder (actually it's because I can't find other post-related picture to post :p)

From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health.  ~Catalan Proverb

Itchy throat

I don't mean to abandon my blog, it's just that when you have more than 5 sites to update & maintain @ the same time, your personal blog seems to be the less important XD.

Well, my life has been pretty busy. I am normally stuck at work during week days, hence I appreciate my weekends a lot - to spend time with family, alpha boy and friends. & if I am lucky, perhaps some time for myself. I do miss those times where I just laze at home, doing nothing. It seems so far away now but I am not complaining :) That's a decision I've made so I gotta stick with it. 

I've been gaining weight and I am afraid to step on the bathroom scale. Alpha boy is complaining a lot, saying that I eat too much and lacking of exercise which...is TRUE! SIGH. But I managed to jog a good 40-mins over the weekend okay, I did try :p 

Just a short update for now COZ as mentioned in the title, my throat is feeling a lil weird now, a symptom that I am going to be sick. So, bed time :) 

Where there's a will, there's a way. Taken at Cameron Highlands, 17-08-2011 by alpha boy.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison

Another entry in July 2011

I have been busy. Work has taken up almost all my time except weekends.

Hopefully I will be able to blog properly soon.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished.  If you're alive, it isn't.  ~Richard Bach

Listening to...

I thought of J when I was listening to this song for the first time. Her story and her pain. The one that you thought you could spend the rest of your life with, left you. He/she is already moving on with his/her life without you. Yet, you are still stuck at the same old place hanging on to the past.

But, no matter how excruciating the pain is, your wound will heal. I wish the best for you, my dear friend.




Love this! Especially this part of the lyrics "What there is to complain about?". Everyday we complain about the small little things in our life and we don't realize we complain so much that we forget how to appreciate.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. ~  Frederick Keonig

Facebook Comments: Good feedback to customer?

Updated: Just found another Facebook comment from the same restaurant owner. Scroll down to find out more. Seriously, I think it's quite rude. What say you?

Asking a customer not to come to your restaurant? Complaining about your customers on your Facebook page?

Someone commented about this particular restaurant on one of the group coupon's site. Out of curiosity I visited their FB page. Tell me what do you think?

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.~ Friedrich Nietzsche

So...

I lost the mojo to blog.

I was reading my old blog a while ago and was surprised to find that I can blog about so many things and write so much craps last time. I actually enjoyed reading my old blog entries as if I was reading someone else's life but in fact it was mine.

Did something in me change? 

At this phase of my life, most of my peers have settled down with a high pay job, a family, a house, a car/cars and travel once or twice a year. I am no where on par with them. Most of the time, I will tell myself to be happy and appreciate what I have now instead of worrying about the future. But the fact is I really dislike uncertainties but it seems like not everything is under my control...

At this moment, I just want to move on with my life. I really hope things will turn out fine and I refuse to stuck at where I am now.

Random photo of the day:

Sunset @ Mekong River, Vientiane, Jan 2011.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable:  the damages of time and injustices of men.  ~Nicolas Chamfort

Random Photo: Dog Bolster/Bolster Dog

According to MG => This dog is so fat it looks like a bolster with legs and ears. Photo taken in Taiwan, 2010. There were other dogs in the restaurant (could be caused by consuming too much leftover food) inclined to the same shape but not as serious YET :O!

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.  ~Henry David Thoreau