heheh.
went for a "trial session" at London Weight Management yesterday after wrk.... my colleague Shamini convinced me to tag along with her....
And since the so called 1st time trial session costed $10, i thought there was no harm in going....
The place was in Bugis BHG (why the hell do they hv a slimming centre inside a clothes department store).
I thought at first that I would be paying $10 for just a consultancy.... where the person will advice Shamini and I abt our weight management and then discuss with Shamini what kind of slimming packages she can buy.
Turned out the consultancy part wasn't even half of it. They gave a free trial of their "Lavender Scrub" which, the consultant said, was for kg loss.
Firstly, we were brought to a room and told to take off ALL our clothes (yikes, not what i expected) and put on a pair of paper underwear and a robe
Then we were brought to take our weight (mine was 64kg... yay for losing arnd 4kg since the last time i weighed).
The skinny flat-chested china girl said: ur ideal weight is 48.6kg ...
Pui Pui!!!
Like real sia.... a 1.62m tall girl weighing 48.6kg? Not if she WANTS to hv boobs and an ass!!!
Does she take me for an idiot? I know my BMI and my ideal weight is somewhere around 52kg~~
If i weigh 48.6kg... I'd probably become an A-cup... and my hip bones would be sticking out in sharp angles (gee, thx alot for the big bones, mum)
Just trust it to the money-eating ppl to tell u how much u shld weigh....
Anyways, she then brought us to a steam bath... where we had to sit inside for 5-15 min to "open up our pores" so that the scrub would be effective.
Felt like a chinese dim-sum in a steaming basket... shrimp dumpling... siew mai... lor mai kai... xiao-long-bao.... steamed-egg... LOLS. (Shamini: gee thx, jac. now i feel like an egg.)
After the steam bath we were brought into a room individually and told to take off our robes (small towel covering only!!! AAAAARGH)
then the poor consultant came to measure me... lets just say that when i warned her i was ticklish it was an understatement.... she even complained to Shamini after measuring me that i was VERY VERY JUMPY
Next came the scrub.... naturally i nearly shrieked when the girl tried to rub me >_<>
My ass started feeling the burning... then after that my whole body was so hot that i started to sweat.... according to the girl, the fat was being broken down into water and then it would start being sweated out.....
I literally felt the sweat dripping off my body in tiny rivulets.... horror of horrors.... so that's what its like being baked slowly but surely.
Just as I was sure I was gonna die, the girl came in and "unwrapped" me....
After sitting there for 5 minutes, was finally ushered into the bath to wash off the scrub... which was so itchy i rinsed with soap 3 times...
Then we were served a disgusting protein shake which the girl insisted i had to finish... and it gave me a stomachache after that.
The girl gave Shamini a summary of the packages they had... which were EXPENSIVE. for 5 of their (torturing) steam bath, lavender scrub and whatever-wrap, they charge like... $1.5k...
Thankfully the consultant didn't waste time trying to preach her slaes routine to me... I guess she realised that i would much rather run 20 miles a wk than go let ppl rub me while i'm 90% naked.... LOLs...
and she probably didnt want to touch me again after all my touchiness either.
How the hell could women bear spending $1500 for 5 sessions of weekly torturing (steaming, wrapping, baking, getting measured, drinking disgusting sloshy protein shake) instead of exercising? I will NEVER figure it out.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox
The 6th book of the Artemis Fowl series was just released...
Went to Popular to buy the book and the auntie said they were temporarily sold out. O_O made me think wow.
So i downloaded a copy of the book that some kind soul scanned and put online.
BIG DISAPPOINTMENT
As the storyline progressed, I kept thinking WTF. If not for the fact that I read an excerpt on the official Artemis Fowl website earlier and saw that part in the book, I might have thought I was getting totally SUCKERED by someone who wrote a fake version and posted it online.
Firstly, the storyline hardly progressed at all. I understand that there was a big leap in plot since Arty disappeared for 3 yrs while in Limbo, and that during that time he got a new pair of twin siblings, but not only has the humour almost disappeared and Arty has mellowed so much that he just isn't the exciting criminal mastermind anymore.....
BUT come'on! Butler NOT going with him into his newest adventure???? That's really too much. Not to mention the fact that I was going all-out with the idea that Arty's finally met a GIRL who's every bit as genius as him. And not to mention Minerva likes him too.
And what happens? Holly Short the 100+ yr old elf who's supposed to be good buddies with him goes all teenager after time-travelling and kisses him. YUCKS! YUCKS YUCKS YUCKS YUCKS! A century old elf and a 14 yr old boy? I think not!
Not to mention that this time around the story jumps into the adventure all too quickly. I just don't see the plot unfolding. First Arty's mother gets sick and they immediately jump into the past to find her antidote. What happened to using your brain and thinking of a solution first?
Every book has a miraculous Artemis Fowl come-back. Arty's trump-card was just simply TOO BORING. Not to mention... HELLO? ANOTHER SAME-OLD VILLAIN????? Isn't Opal Koboi coming back waaaaaay too many times?
1st book villain: Artemis himself! yay!
2nd book villain: Opal Koboi (and Artemis Senior's kidnappers)
3rd book villain: Jon Spiro
4th book villain: Opal Koboi (escaped from prison)
5th book villain: Demons from Limbo!
6th book villain: Opal Koboi (time-travelling to crush Artemis again)
It's getting abit boring, Eoin Colfer. Admit it. Not to mention that she gets away YET AGAIN at the end of the 6th book. Yikes. Do the readers hv to read abt Koboi's megalomania some more?
Went to Popular to buy the book and the auntie said they were temporarily sold out. O_O made me think wow.
So i downloaded a copy of the book that some kind soul scanned and put online.
BIG DISAPPOINTMENT
As the storyline progressed, I kept thinking WTF. If not for the fact that I read an excerpt on the official Artemis Fowl website earlier and saw that part in the book, I might have thought I was getting totally SUCKERED by someone who wrote a fake version and posted it online.
Firstly, the storyline hardly progressed at all. I understand that there was a big leap in plot since Arty disappeared for 3 yrs while in Limbo, and that during that time he got a new pair of twin siblings, but not only has the humour almost disappeared and Arty has mellowed so much that he just isn't the exciting criminal mastermind anymore.....
BUT come'on! Butler NOT going with him into his newest adventure???? That's really too much. Not to mention the fact that I was going all-out with the idea that Arty's finally met a GIRL who's every bit as genius as him. And not to mention Minerva likes him too.
And what happens? Holly Short the 100+ yr old elf who's supposed to be good buddies with him goes all teenager after time-travelling and kisses him. YUCKS! YUCKS YUCKS YUCKS YUCKS! A century old elf and a 14 yr old boy? I think not!
Not to mention that this time around the story jumps into the adventure all too quickly. I just don't see the plot unfolding. First Arty's mother gets sick and they immediately jump into the past to find her antidote. What happened to using your brain and thinking of a solution first?
Every book has a miraculous Artemis Fowl come-back. Arty's trump-card was just simply TOO BORING. Not to mention... HELLO? ANOTHER SAME-OLD VILLAIN????? Isn't Opal Koboi coming back waaaaaay too many times?
1st book villain: Artemis himself! yay!
2nd book villain: Opal Koboi (and Artemis Senior's kidnappers)
3rd book villain: Jon Spiro
4th book villain: Opal Koboi (escaped from prison)
5th book villain: Demons from Limbo!
6th book villain: Opal Koboi (time-travelling to crush Artemis again)
It's getting abit boring, Eoin Colfer. Admit it. Not to mention that she gets away YET AGAIN at the end of the 6th book. Yikes. Do the readers hv to read abt Koboi's megalomania some more?
Friday, August 1, 2008
Worklife...
is surprisingly not as boring as I expected... Mostly because of my boss i suppose. haha.
To describe my boss Anne, all you need is one word, yet if you wanna describe the things she does, there is a seemingly endless list.
Since she is on leave todae (and the other colleagues aren't giving me much work) i have the time to collate my seemingly endless list i suppose...
The one word is... Chatty. lols.
She is talkative, loves her dog alot (is it juz me or is it the lonely old spinster type of women who love their dog like they would love a man or a child), and she is PERVERTED!
She talks abt which guys' asses are smooth, how she hates attending gala dinners coz the designers are all gay, and changes the topics abruptly from eating lunch to farting....
And it gets worse... haha...
and for someone who used to work big-time in mediacorp she doesnt know what R21 is...
I guess in the mind of a pervy woman, ratings do not exist.
The male colleagues (yes, all the other colleagues in my corner of the department are males. the rest are at the other side of our office) are starting to warn her not to be a bad influence on me (20 yr old cannot teach R21 lar!!!)
But of course, after awhile she goes right back and starts again... lol.
Life has become abit monotonous... work work work... take bus (1 hr) bath eat sleep.... work work work...
then abit of shopping ... bought a dark brown tube dress at the This Fashion at Peninsula Plaza, just outside Funan Mall... $15 yay
then went for window shopping during lunch break with Shamini (indian colleague) at clark quay central... saw alot of nice dresses, but most were EXPENSIVE =(
~~~
The teaser trailer for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince has been released! i pity the company that's in charge of the official release for the trailer.... the trailer appeared on msn.com 1 hr b4 the official release time~~
Hvn't watched the trailer yet... cant watch it on my company's com...
The news has also been out: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be split into 2 movies!!! It will be released late 2009 and early 2010!!! Finally they realise that their movies need more time~~~
Here's the trailer:
To describe my boss Anne, all you need is one word, yet if you wanna describe the things she does, there is a seemingly endless list.
Since she is on leave todae (and the other colleagues aren't giving me much work) i have the time to collate my seemingly endless list i suppose...
The one word is... Chatty. lols.
She is talkative, loves her dog alot (is it juz me or is it the lonely old spinster type of women who love their dog like they would love a man or a child), and she is PERVERTED!
She talks abt which guys' asses are smooth, how she hates attending gala dinners coz the designers are all gay, and changes the topics abruptly from eating lunch to farting....
And it gets worse... haha...
and for someone who used to work big-time in mediacorp she doesnt know what R21 is...
I guess in the mind of a pervy woman, ratings do not exist.
The male colleagues (yes, all the other colleagues in my corner of the department are males. the rest are at the other side of our office) are starting to warn her not to be a bad influence on me (20 yr old cannot teach R21 lar!!!)
But of course, after awhile she goes right back and starts again... lol.
Life has become abit monotonous... work work work... take bus (1 hr) bath eat sleep.... work work work...
then abit of shopping ... bought a dark brown tube dress at the This Fashion at Peninsula Plaza, just outside Funan Mall... $15 yay
then went for window shopping during lunch break with Shamini (indian colleague) at clark quay central... saw alot of nice dresses, but most were EXPENSIVE =(
~~~
The teaser trailer for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince has been released! i pity the company that's in charge of the official release for the trailer.... the trailer appeared on msn.com 1 hr b4 the official release time~~
Hvn't watched the trailer yet... cant watch it on my company's com...
The news has also been out: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be split into 2 movies!!! It will be released late 2009 and early 2010!!! Finally they realise that their movies need more time~~~
Here's the trailer:
not exactly as gd as i would've hoped.... a teaser's supposed to be exciting! For one thing, Dumbledore wasn't exactly as intense as I hoped he would be (i hv a natural bias against him since the first actor of Dumbledore died) and of course Harry,who's staying in the movies just for the sake of staying.... leaves alot to be desired. As for the young Marvolo, perhaps it's a little too early to judge him yet.
Sigh....
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