Just did my annual health checkup. Can't run away from cold hard facts!

	2011	2012	2013
Weight (kg)	49.6	50.3	53.3 (!!!)
Body fat (%)	27.3	27.5	29.8 (!!!)
Blood Pressure	97/61	101/54	~120/80

While I still can squeeze into my pants and jeans for the most part (popping buttons are still a one-off thing), if I continue like this sooner or later I'll need to upgrade my dress size... for now I need lots of self discipline and CONTROL! CONTROL! CONTROL! Eat less. Eat A LOT less. Eat A LOT A LOT LESS. Soupy stuff shall be my best friend.

I think it's more of the food and snacking than anything else COZ I LOVE TO EAT and I've cultivated a very bad habit of snacking at work *weep*. Sorry food I need to break up with you now.

The exercising will continue. Shall sign up for Stanchart Marathon to motivate myself.

Check back again in half a year and I shall be a lean mean healthy machine!!! RARRRRRRR!!!

The Piano Guys - they don't just play the piano, there's a cellist too!





Heh their covers are all awesome and I'm going to watch them next Monday thanks to Paul who sneakily bought tickets! :D

MANY HUGGLES!:)))) Haha :D



Oh my cannot resist adding in this too!!! This is too cute! Bringing the cello for a buffet and it became a double bass when it came out LOLOL and then bringing the cello to exercise. And skydiving with a cello strapped to him? TOTAL WIN!!!

Not liking the thought of the $795 bag! Rarrrrr >:(

Dim Sum baking class yesterday!

 

Amigos hard at work making Portuguese egg tarts

Wah I didn't know that to make the flaky kind of crust, it actually involves a lot of layering of fat (margarine) and flour

 

Fresh out of the oven! The egg custard looks a bit puffy here but they sank after cooling down. There wasn't enough egg filling by the time it came to us :( so ours was only like 3/4 filled while the rest of the aunties filled theirs to the brim :x

 

Piping hot 流沙包 that just came out of the steamer! Haha for some reason the salted egg custard erupted while steaming :x

 

波箩包. OMG I was so frustrated trying to roll the pastry dough into a round shape, then creating the textured patterns, and then getting it OFF the baking sheet. Rarrrrrr that must have been the most difficult step of the day

 

 

What we got to take home! The fruits of our labour! Nom nom :)

The Portuguese egg tart and bo luo bao is really a little too tedious to do at home, but I think I can give the liu sha bao a try. Problem is, the salted egg custard was already pre-made for us hahaha so not sure if I can replicate it at home.

And there goes another busy weekend!

My belly has grown so big now that the button on my pants popped :(
(But my belly is now heaving a sigh of relief coz it feels more comfortable.)

And I was just 48.5kg half a year ago but now I'm like 53kg and continuously piling on the kilograms :(

Very sad leh. :( How to flatten bellies and slim waistlines?

Later I become like this again >>>

 

BAM. Wah jialat

This one is like 55kg or 56kg. Not too far off from current.

Die I can see similarities in my face now!!! Face is round like this --> (O^_^O)

Jialat jialat jialat jialat jialat. :(

Been watching some hamster videos recently. Haha I kinda miss having a hamster! They are too cute :)

Pity that when Hamster was around, I didn't take that many photos or videos of her... Here's one of the rare few videos I have.


1 whole min of Hamster running on her wheel... haha. A little dark huh.

2 whole minutes of Hamster scampering around LOL

It keeps raining in the mornings. Makes for very conducive sleep-ins.
Unfortunately it also means I'm always late for work. Very blatantly so. I just happily stroll in after 930am or later every day whether rain or shine. If I find another job I have no idea how I am going to adapt to the normal hours of working haha.

Speaking of which the job search has been very stagnant! Why nobody wants to hire me? :(

Sigh. OK on to happier things. Long weekend that just passed:

 

Baked egg tarts on Thurs. The egg custard didn't curdle like it did the last time so that's good! I originally wanted to bake a Lemon Drizzle Loaf from this video I saw. It looks so gooooooooooooooood! It's the way the shot the video I guess haha. But my mother asked for egg tarts so ok lor. Haha.

Then I went for Muay Thai and kicked some ass (I wish). Haha but it's a very tiring sport and I say that even as I do Boxercise regularly.

Staycation at Wanderlust Hotel on National Day! It's a boutique hotel so the rooms are quite quirky - each level has a different theme and we got the Pantone Room on the second floor. The room is entirely decked out in a single colour so there's a red room, a yellow room, a blue room, you get the gist. We got the green room and proceeded to look like Shrek coz of the green tinge hahaha.

 

It's a small room and these capsules are the toilet and shower, right in the middle of the room haha. The bed is just adjacent to the toilet!

 

The bed is good for huggling hurhurhurhur

 

Yup so that's the longish room

 

The French (? I think?) restaurant on the first floor called Cocotte where we also had our breakfast

 Being a boutique hotel, there wasn't any swimming pool or any other facilities, but they did have an open air jacuzzi on the second floor which was right next to our room.

To catch the fireworks from the parade that night, we walked from Bugis all the way to Promenade MRT station. Took us a good half an hour I think. Aaaaand we were then blocked by a tree when the fireworks came on. Bahh.

I did girly stuff on Saturday, met some Ichee folks for lunch, and on Sunday enjoyed an afternoon dip in the MBS infinity pool thanks to free passes hurhur.

 

And yup so that wraps up the long weekend. Weekends can never be long enough though. :(

Next break would be Nepal in Oct, and I'm not sure if that's a break or not coz I think I'll be trekking every day. OH NO I AM SO NOT PREPARED FOR NEPAL!!! Have not been training at all! Yikes!!!