Part 1 Almost Over

I've officially moved in with my in laws since yesterday night. Jeff is working 4 nights starting today. It's been busy like hell for the past few days. There was endless packing, dumping of rubbish & moving. I'm shagged out every day. The YT flat is finally empty except for the items that we didn't want & the buyer requested to save for them. Puggy has been sent to the boarder this morning. Completion is on 2nd April, coming Wed. Once that's over & done with, part 1 of moving out is over. Part 2 will be the completion of BP flat on 10th April & the moving in after the 24th April. Once we're settled in the new flat, the entire episode will end & hence start our "new" life.

I wonder what I can do over here. My MIL watches the TV whenever she's not busy with the household chores. So my only entertainment is the computer. Guess I'll be surfing net bah. But Jeff's computer drives me nuts coz it's a very old computer & almost dead. Maybe I can join her for certain shows. I'm definitely watching tomorrow's channel 8's 8pm variety show. I don't know what's that called in English but it's "Qiang Tan Da Xing Dong" in Chinese. I didn't watch from the beginning coz you know I don't watch TV. But I'm hooked after watching 1 episode (coz my mom was watching & I happened to be in the room). I've watched 2 episodes so far. Hope I don't forget!

The Last Stand

Nah, I'm just trying to be funny. Been away for a while thanks to our very "smart" Jeff. 1 min I was happily playing Maple & the next, I had my computer packed away with immediate effect. I've been computer-less for the past 1 week & I'm finally here at my in law's place coz I need the internet badly for termination of various services.

Went for a job interview today. It went quite well & the interviewer quite nice unlike my previous. But still, they're conducting more interviews & will let me know if I'm shortlisted in 1 to 2 weeks' time.

I've been busy with all the packings. We're moving the final few items & moving to my in law's place tomorrow. Which reminds me that I need to change the address for the season parking. The completion for this YT flat is on 2nd April & 10th April for the BP flat. Then we'll be going away on the 14th April to Taipei/HK & will be back on 20th April. The BP sellers are then handing over the house on the 24th April. If everything goes well, I'll be starting a new job on 1st May.

Ton Ton & Wang Wang are following my parents to my uncle's place while Puggy will be sent for boarding coz my aunt has forbidded Puggy at her place due to his hyper, noisy & destructive self. Sigh... what to do? You're putting up with someone else so you gotta follow their rules.

I'm Crazy

I must be! I've been pia-ing Maple like nobody's business. I got myself the 24 hrs 2x experience card during my last post. Know how many hours I clocked in? 18 hrs at least. Things did slow down significantly after that though. But still, I spent hours upon hours in front of my computer playing each day. So much so that I'm getting a lot of aches around my neck & shoulders. My wrists would hurt from the constant & prolonged pressure against the desk.

Well, but for the past 3 days I've played a lot less, due to the fact that I decided to re-watch my Buffy. I'm on the 2nd season at the moment. I only have 3 seasons anyway coz I didn't want to follow it anymore after Angel went away.

Oh, I think I put on weight. Well, what do I expect? Sitting around all day & doing nothing but eating. Guess I gotta watch what I eat & ignore the cravings. With me it's always an all or nothing diet. I just can't do in between. So, Glucerna, here I come. Give me some pressure please! But I'm making sushi for dinner tomorrow. The dogs will be getting that as well just for fun. Jeff is like so excited coz it's been very very long since I made sushi & he loves it. But then I guess it'll be alright if I take Glucerna for morning & noon. Besides, we're moving some of the stuff to our "warehouse". It'll be like a workout. Gosh, I'm not making much sense. I really must be mad.

Btw, I'm so unhappy. My items have yet to been shipped. Worse of all, my credit card bill came. I paid S$270+ for US $177+. But I was refunded S$244+. I haven't even gotten my items & I already lost $30+ for nothing. There's nothing I can do coz it's in US dollar & the exchange rate sucks. I just checked & my Charmed is gonna be shipped soon. But the book isn't gonna be shipped yet. That means I got to pay extra shipping fees for the book coz it's separate shipment. Why do I have to pay for somebody else's mistake?

Back To Maple

Stopped playing Maple for a year at least. There're lots of changes & lots of new towns. For some reason, Maple refused to launch on both our computers when it worked perfectly fine 1 year ago. We tried everything we could think of. Uninstalling & downloading the new client (many many times), asking a friend to send his whole Maple file over (coz he can play), going to my in law's place to copy the old version of Maple on that computer (but the version was too old to patch). We even downloaded it onto a brand new laptop Jeff bought for his family. Nothing worked.

Finally, I got so fed up that I told him to format my computer. It gave us some problems coz after that, he could connect to the internet. He took several days before he finally solved all the problems last night. So now I'm back to playing Maple. Hehe.

Wanted to start a new character under Bowman. But then I find it too much of a pity to give up on my Page who's going on to the 3rd job as a Knight in 4 levels. So I stuck to my Page & used the remaining Maple Cash on 2x experience. Now I'm at level 67. 3 more levels to go. Must jia you!

Hear It From The Doggies

Mommy & Daddy went out for a loooooong time yesterday afternoon. They didn't tell us where they were going nor when they were coming back. We waited & waited. Finally, they came home with big & bulky shopping bags. Hooray! Maybe there's something there for me. Alas! It was not meant to be.

This is a yogurt maker. But I don't see how I can eat it.

The box is pretty self explainatory. This definitely can't be eaten either.

A skin peeler cum vegetable slicer. Only useful if you're slicing vegetables into my mouth.

A bowl of soya yogurt mommy made. It has the consistancy of tofu & looks like cottage cheese when mashed up. She gave us a dessert spoonful each. Now I like the yogurt maker!

Fed in this order:

Puggy says: Slurp! *Gone in 5 seconds* Give me more! I want MORE!

Ton Ton says: Slurp! *Gone in 2 seconds* Yeah! I'm faster! I win! Watch me prance around! Watch me auto sit! Awww... aren't you going to give me more after all my efforts?

Wang Wang says: Sniffs... *Walks away* I don't quite like the smell. I don't think I'll like the taste either. *Gone 5 mins later* On 2nd thought, I'll give it a try. Hmm... isn't as bad as I thought it was.

Bad Experience at Pawtobello

Brought Ton Ton out yesterday to Pawtobello. My gosh! I drove for an hour straight before I could find the place. The GPS would fail to pick up the signal at the crucial turns or tells me to turn where there's no road to turn into or miscalculate the distance & asked me to turn but it's actually the next turn.

Anyway, I won't be going back to that place again. The attitude of the staff had tremendously deteoriated since my previous (which was also my 1st) visit there. Upon entering, I was greeted by this young lad who asked me if I had any reservation. He neither smiled nor greeted & the impression he gave me was as if he was going to throw me out if I didn't have any.

The staff were too busy standing around chit chatting for us to get their attention for orders. Lastly, as Jon & his friends arrived earlier, they told the staff to combine the charges in 1 bill. We arrived later & proceeded to order. As we have to leave earlier, we requested for payment. The cashier gave us a black face when we wanted to separate the bill. He said," We already asked you if you wanted to separate the bill when you came!". Jon even apologised to the cashier for the inconvenience but he didn't even respond! I mean, no matter how angry you are, when someone, especially a customer apologises, isn't it basic courtesy to reply "It's ok." or "No problem at all." or something?

Organic Popcorn

Got this for ourselves to make as popcorn. We've never tried any organic stuff before & this is reasonably priced so we got it. I made 1 handful of normal popcorn & 1 handful of organic ones. The main difference is the colour of the popcorn. The organic corn when popped is whiter while the normal one is more yellowish. The organic corn tends to leave lesser unpopped. I'll have around 5 of the organic corns & around 20 of the normal ones unpopped. The taste is pretty much the same. Although I didn't add anything to the popcorn, everyone just can't stop eating it despite it being really bland.

Do You Feel Motivated?

I'm happy with my progress. I weighed myself this morning & it's 65.1 kg. That's 1.1 kg in 5 days. Ton Ton was sleeping with me so I took his weight as well. He's now 6.9 kg. I'm sure Puggy lost weight as well coz he now has a waist. As for Jeff, from 86 kg a few months back, he's 79 kg today. Amazing huh? Losing weight isn't that boring coz I still eat. Like I mentioned, I had Kenny Rogers just the other day for dinner & I shared half a duck with a plate of braised pork & I had a plate of rice with my parents & Jeff last night. Hope this motivates those of you who are trying to lose weight!

Updating In Progress

I'm planning to do something that I really hate. I'm asking Jeff to format the computer. I don't know what is the problem that's preventing my Maple Story from launching. A friend said it's becoz of the free edition AVG that we have installed. But we could play it with the AVG before this problem started. Still, I uninstalled my AVG but the Maple still can't launch. I'm super fed up with it. My Maple cards are going to expire on 1st June & I have like 5 left. I definitely don't fancy spending money playing at those LAN game shops when I'm paying so much for my broadband. The only problem I fear is that despite the total loss of data, the program will still refuse to launch. I don't know what's causing the problem so I won't be backing up anything.

I made some progress on my weight. I weigh 65.6 kg today which is 0.1 kg down from yesterday's weight. It's a surprise coz I shared Kenny Rogers's Lucille for dinner yesterday. It comprises of half a chicken, half a slab of ribs, 3 sides & 2 corn muffins. We chose corn niblets, cheese pasta & steamed vegetables. :X

I've been waking up so early every morning to prepare sandwich for Jeff's breakfast. Each day without fail, I won't be able to fall back asleep no matter how sleepy & unwilling I was to get out of bed earlier on. So I always end up playing Luminous Arc or using the computer. Then I'll get hungry & have breakfast. By the time I'm hungry again in the late morning, I'm sleepy from waking up early & I go back to sleep till afternoon. Feels like I'm not accomplishing anything. Hai... I'm hard to please.

Updates at 12.50 pm

Phew... Shortly after posting the above, I went to play Luminous Arc. I got bored & did a bit of my cross stitch. After that, I went to continue sorting out my CDs, VCDs & DVDs. I feel like I'm so wasteful. There're many many CDs that I'm not planning to keep. I haven't even listened to them in ages. I haven't bought any new CDs in a very long time. My last purchase was Jewel's Goodbye Alice In Wonderland album I think almost a year back & I plan to keep it that way. What I spent definitely over $1000 buying is now trash. Although I'm bringing all these to Cash Converters to try & sell as many of them as possible, I doubt I can even get back $100. It really sucks.

Bored...

Been spending a lot of time playing Luminous Arc on DS coz I don't seem to have anything better to do when Jeff is at work. Other than that, I've been sleeping a lot. I sleep when I get hungry. :X But of course, there's a price for it. I always wake up with a heavy head that threatens to develop into a headache.

Wanted so very much to start on the herbal remedies but I have no materials at all. The replacement have yet to be shipped. I went to the library & came across "Dr Kidd's Guide to Herbal Dog Care". It isn't much but I guess it should do for now though I definitely won't start feeding to my dogs before I read the "Herbs for Pets" that I ordered. It really interests me how certain herbs & food can have such good qualities for well being. We can even consume it ourselves to benefit from it.

Interview Today

I went for 2 interviews today. Turned out that the 1st interview at Chai Chee wasn't exactly the real thing. Coz the people who get to decide who to employ is the HR at Tuas. I was sent to Tuas for another interview shortly after. The 2nd interview didn't go very well. But somehow, I felt relieved. The working condition isn't too good anyway. So in my mind, I already knew this isn't a job for me even as the HR personnel was giving me a description of the job scope. They asked me to think about it & that they'll do the same. I was at Chai Chee at 8 am & I didn't get back home till almost 1 pm.

Jeff then went to work at 1.30 pm & I was very sleepy so I took a long nap. I set the alarm for 2.30 pm but I slept till 5.45 pm instead! Gosh! I'm starting to do some packing & sorting out what are the items I want to keep. I've just started on my VCDs, DVDs & CDs. Tomorrow I'll be moving on to my books. I'll probably start sorting out my clothes later.

We booked a 6 days F&E holiday for mid April to Taipei & Hong Kong. It's our 1st vacation taking a plane together. Yeah! I just hope I don't come back weighing a few kgs more. :/

Weight Issue!

Hey, hey! I'm back! This post will be dedicated to weight management coz it's been very very long since I updated on this. Like I mentioned before, my weight's really stagnant. I know weight is very secretive to many people. But nvm lah, I shall post it so you guys can stress me into losing weight.

I've started weighing myself again after such a long time. Months in fact. For the past few days it's been 66.4 to 66.5 kg. This morning I weighed 66.2 kg. So not much of a difference lah. But my menses is here so it isn't really accurate since I always weigh 1 to 2 kg heavier during menses from the water retention.

Let me share my diet menu so all can benefit from it. You can also do some exchanges so it doesn't get too boring eating the same thing everyday.

1. Sandwich with lettuce, japanese cucumber, tomato, cheese & salmon spread (No choice lah, we bought 10 cans for $6 & have to finish it.)

2. Glucerna milk (It's actually used for giving extra calories or for tube feeding in the hospital specially for diabetic patients becoz of the lower GI [glycemic index]. I use it to replace a meal.)

I've been eating the sandwich for breakfast & lunch for the past week. I haven't been taking the Glucerna but I'll start soon. A dietician actually suggested to Jeff to take just 3 servings of Glucerna for fast weight loss. But as someone who has taken Cambridge Diet strictly for 5 days, I can tell you it's very difficult to maintain this diet. Coz you're constantly hungry & craving for food but all you can take is the meal replacement. I'm planning something different for tomorrow's dinner. I'll be making spring roll with rice paper. I've prepared Koo Chye (my fav!), bean sprouts, lettuce & minced meat as the filling.

I'm no angel lah. I'm very vain. So I'm ashamed to say that I'm trying to lose weight mostly becoz I want to look good. Of course there's the health issue too lah. Alrighty! I'm feeling hungry & hypo now. I better go sleep. I need to wake up at 5+ am to prepare breakfast for Jeff. It's corn on the cob for breakfast tomorrow! Yummy!