Agency Seminar 17 Jul 05

Here’re some fotos I took at the agency seminar. Enjoy!

Sympathique-my first love

Sympathique

Ma chambre a la forme d'une cage

Le soleil passe son bras par la fenêtre

Les chasseurs à ma porte

Comme les p'tits soldats

Qui veulent me prendre

Je ne veux pas travailler

Je ne veux pas déjeuner

Je veux seulement l'oublier

Et puis je fume

Déjà j'ai connu le parfum de l'amour

Un million de roses n'embaumerait pas autant

Maintenant une seule fleur dans mes entourages

Me rend malade
Je ne veux pas travailler

Je ne veux pas déjeuner

Je veux seulement l'oublier

Et puis je fume

Je ne suis pas fière de ça

Vie qui veut me tuer

C'est magnifique être sympathique

Mais je ne le connais jamais
Je ne veux pas travailler

Non

Je ne veux pas déjeuner

Je veux seulement l'oublier

Et puis je fume

Je ne suis pas fière de ça

Vie qui veut me tuer

C'est magnifique être sympathique

Mais je ne le connais jamais
Je ne veux pas travailler

Non

Je ne veux pas déjeuner

Je veux seulement l'oublier

Et puis je fume

Cabaret

Frankly I'm a typical 27 yr old Chinese girl staying in Singapore so I have no idea when cabaret is.

That is till I discovered Modern Cabaret on AccuRadio. The music was smoothly delivered & perfect for listening to at work. Which is what I do everyday now. It was unlike anything I know. And I don't pretend to know a lot. I only know Jazz is smooth & I enjoy that too.

The first song I fell in love with was Sympathique by Karen Akers. Sad to say, I can't get her CD from HMV. They simply don't carry her. I used to take French in sec skool so the line " Je ne veux pas déjeuner" really struck a chord in mi.

Will try to get her works & one day, I'll watch her live.

Next, I fell in love with Shakespeare Lied & My husband's first wife. The wit & humour in the songs are contagious. Hearing these songs never fails to bring a smile to my face & light up my day. One more singer to add on my list of "must watch" performances.

Sad to say, I can't find the lyrics to Shakespeare Lied & My Husband's first wife. If anyone can find them, please email mi. bonbon78@yahoo.com Thanks lots!

Everyone is alone

Haf u ever felt alone in a public place before? i was at bedok, outside changi cinema last nite & suddenly had a urge to cry. i sat on the parapet opposite wat used to be the open air carpark & my tears just flowed. i felt good afterwards, like i haf unloaded some of the emotional stress within. it wasn't even sobbing, my tears just flowed freely. it was dark & nobody walked tat way. when i turned around, i could see mac donalds brightly lit & i felt really distant from the rest of the world, where normality reigns. normal ppl dun cry in public, rite?? ; )

I had tis thought. no matter how many frens & family members u haf, u are still by urself all the time. i changed the greeting message on my handphone to "nobody loves u more than urself". Do love urself & follow ur heart. u onli live once.

where i was once fearful & held back due to reservations before, i endeavour to act as my heart dictates. my father is very ill & i wana take care of him. i'm on half day's leave tdy. gotta get back by 1.45pm...running late now. came hm to pack my things for moving back to my mom's place & update my blog. no broadband at pasir ris but i'll still update my blog during lunch. got some fotos from the agency seminar & yest's meet up wif ann to upload. where's my fire wire when i need it?

feels like i'm walking out, mayb i really am. but i felt empowered & quite relieved once i decided on tis course of action last nite. i can b close to my kids again & i'll get to see my parents everyday. everything that i do or plan should centre around myself & the ppl i love. i need to clear the clutter in my life & move on to the things tat matter & will make mi happy.

had a brief chat wif blinkymummy...thanz for "listening" to mi. will find more victims to unload my emotional buggage onto....haha

Health at Every Size

just got tis tip from RealAge. thought it's quite interesting so here it is.

Healthy living beats skinny living hands down. How true!

In a recent study, obese women who focused on being healthy, regardless of their size, achieved greater long-lasting health benefits than women who focused on dieting.

When you change your eating and exercise habits, make improving your health your primary goal, and take the focus off the bathroom scale. See the word exercise, tink i should start moving my butt off the chair & be more active...HQ, our cycling at East Coast happening soon?

Diary of Phyto Club Member - Week 3

after stuffing myself silly over the wkend & losing my momentum last wk, i was determined to phyto tis wk & make more progress. well, mon & tue's pretty much wasted, will focus on the rest of the wk.

18 Jul Mon
Breakfast-Phyto
Snack-1 piece of Tiger biscuit
Lunch-Yong Tau Foo soup with bee hoon
Dinner-Vanilla Milkshake, shared a Club sandwich & Caesar salad with chicken with Karen
weighed myself discreetly later that night, 49kg++! wah lauz! looks like i need to pay a price for being a glutton

19 Jul Tue
Lunch-3 oranges
Snack-Phyto
Dinner-veg, fish, half a slice of luncheon meat

20 Jul Wed
Lunch-Phyto
Dinner-veg, chicken , fish

21 Jul Thurs
Breakfast-2 Tiger biscuits
Lunch-Phyto, dunpling soup
Dinner-veg, fish & chicken. 2 bowls of soup ( watercress & yong tau foo ), 2 fishballs & 1 other piece of yong tau foo.

22 Jul Fri
Morning-1 butter cupcake...yummy
Lunch-Potluck with new colleagues, fried brown rice, chicken casserole, claypot rice, pecan pie, fruit jelly, apple aloe vera juice, cheesy nachos, mee siam, fried bee hoon
WOW! I ate so much I don't think i listed everything here. Lotsa carbo from bee hoon, claypot rice & brown rice...can faint ah! tink i better not go for my review tdy! somemore nbr phyto at all tdy! alamak!

Too busy to blog!

i'm bushed & i haven even started on my new entries. i haf so many things i made mental notes to blog abt.

anyway, juz wana tell u guys tat from the very shallow & crude ah beng wannabe rockson's site, i linked to blinkymummy whose blog is great. i've added a link to her, do check out her site

her candidness & frankness struck mi as rare & helps set a good example for new bloggers like mi.

i have always kept a journal but i haven got over how much & what to blog abt when the knowledge is so public. of course, i can make the entries private. but den wat's the point of blogging? i'm using tis as an outlet to let off steam & juz write abt anything & everything tat comes to mind.

ok, really gotta go to bed now. ah yeow has been sleeping for the past 3 hours. he'll wake up real early tomolo & want breakfast. better let mi catch up on my beauty sleep.

More backdated fotos-Genting Jun 05 & IndoChine

okie, finally decided to download tis just found fotos.

Fri Jul 15 05 lunchtime
alamak, where's the foto? u muz be asking...well i got so overcome with fatigue tat i decided to call it a day before i uploaded the foto : P

sorry folks, i promise to do it tonite. it's fri so i'll do it after my staff forum & dinner date wif Wenzhong ( hoo's him? hehe, keep everyone in suspense, first! see if i can get a foto for the blog tonite, forgot my camera though )

Sun Jul 17 05, 2.53am
ok, so i didn't log on last nite & get the fotos uploaded. but better late than nbr rite?

Genting














IndoChine

I cut my hair

by the way, i noe this is really no big deal but considering tat i may not mit up wif all my frenz so quickly, juz wana let everyone noe i cut my hair, last fri.

abit shorter than b4 but i like it now.

haf taken some pics of myself but can't find my fire wire, will upload tomolo.

Diary of Phyto Club Member - Week 2

I ate too much over wkend, my tummy seems to have "come out" again.
Tink i realli need to be "kwai kwai" & follow Max's advice : P

11 Jul Mon
Lunch-Phyto, 1 cup of Teh-O
Dinner-Phyto, 1 dinner roll, appetizer, Pan Roasted Sole Fish, 1 glass of white

12 Jul Tue
Lunch-Phyto, 1 apple
Dinner-Phyto

13 Jul Wed
Breakfast-1 piece of Tiger biscuit
Lunch-Phyto
Dinner-6 roasted chestnuts, half a fried fish, some vegs, 1 spoonful of porridge

14 Jul Thurs
Breakfast-Phyto
Lunch-Phyto, some raisins & 1 pumpkin seed
Teabreak-more raisins, 1 Tiger biscuit
Dinner-1 beer, Nachos with cheese dip, coke

15 Jul Fri
Breakfast-Phyto
Lunch-Phyto
Dinner-refreshments after my Staff Forum at Swissotel ( 1 piece of cheese, 5 thai fish cakes-not the fried kind, few forkfuls of thai mango salad, coke ), 1 camomile tea, caesar salad with chicken-Cafe Cartel
*************Did my review at night, 47.9kg now, lost a total of 3 kgs now! so far! so good!****************

16 Jul Sat
Lunch-Dim Sum at Red Star, yummy!
Dinner-nuggets, 1 bowl of hor fun with soy sauce pork...my fav!

17 Jul Sun
Breakfast-Half a Mac Donalds big breakfast, orange juice
Lunch-Caesar salad with chicken-Cafe Cartel again, glutton time at Lau Pa Sat with clams, satays, ketupat, fish ball soup, sotong, popian, stringray, coke
*********************************End of Week 2*********************************

Diary of Phyto Club Member - Week 1

Ok folks, i'm going to track the progress of my entire weight mgmt program online.

Start of Program : 50.9kg

4 Jul Mon
Breakfast-Phyto
Lunch-Phyto
Dinner-Phyto, few stalks of spinach, 1 sip of Justea
Supper-Phyto

5 Jul Tue
Breakfast-Phyto
Lunch-Phyto, 1 fishball
Dinner-Phyto, 1 fork of seaweed, few stalks of fried kangkong with sambal ( went to Siam Kitchen at Parkway Parade )
Supper-Phyto

6 Jul Wed
Breakfast-Phyto
Lunch-Phyto, 1 bite of oatmeal raisin cookie
Dinner-Phyto, salad greens with herb vinaigrette, 3 pieces of salmon sashimi with wasabi & no soy sauce, 2 slices of stewed winter melon, 3 small portions of cooked salmon, 1 Ritz cheesecake
*************Weighed myself after dinner at Ritz Carlton, 49.4 kg. I've lost 1.5kg in 3 days! YEA! YEA!*************

7 Jul Thurs
Breakfast-Phyto
Lunch-Phyto
Dinner-Phyto, 1 potato wedge, 1 onion ring with sauce, 2 bites of drilled dory with sauce
*************Weighed myself after dinner at Club Ola, 49.00 kg. I've lost 1.9kg!*************

8 Jul Fri
Breakfast-Phyto
Lunch-Phyto
Tea Break-3 bites of oatmeal raisin cookie, 2 pieces of meiji plain crackers
Dinner-Phyto, 1 can of pokka veg & fruits drink, a few strands of Fried Hong Kong mee
*************Did my review before dinner. 48.5kg, I've lost 2.4kg!*************

9 Jul Sat
Breakfast-Phyto
Lunch-Phyto
Dinner-Phyto
Supper-half bowl of pork ball & lean meat soup, 1 sip of red

10 Jul Sun
Lunch-Phyto, 2 short stalks of spinach
Dinner-half plate of Thai fried rice, 1 bite of Thai fish cake, half glass of Thai iced tea
Supper-3 toasted mushrooms
Went to Thanying Express for dinner. Was sharing the Thai fried rice with Yeow Yeow. After he had about one-third portion of the rice, he kept asking mi if i will be able to finish the rest of the rice since I'm on diet. He was trying very hard to eat as much as he can to support my diet. So sweet of him.
******************************************End of Week 1******************************************

Thoughts of a Phyto-Club member

hihi, i'm so excited abt the program tat i'm keeping track of everything i eat tis wk in this little notebook i carry in my bag. afterall, it took mi a long time to finally decide to do something abt the weight tat i put on 5 yrs back.

if anyone u noe is putting off weight mgmt, let mi tell u tat it's always better to start earlier than later. and the task is not as daunting as well.

from my experience, i managed to lose the weight i put on 1½ yrs back for my second child.
i hardly exercise ( should be never, except for the 12 sessions of yoga classes ) and i eat a extremely full lunch ( if i dun take rice, my stomach is growling by 5pm ).
but simply by cutting down on the amount of carbo ( rice ) of my dinner by half, my weight was going down steadily.

it wasn't quick but it was slow & steady and i was quite happy to have lost 14 kg within 1 yr. i was 64kg post maternity leave & ballooned to size "XL" for my bottoms. now at least i am somewhere between size "M" and "L".

then i hit my "plateau". my weight stopped going down & i was back to my weight 3 yrs back before i had my 2nd child. thankfully my weight didn't go up again even though i wasn't watching my diet as consciously. some nights, i even ate nasi lemak as supper.

i wish i had put in more effort to bring down my weight 5 yrs ago then i won't haf such a hard time but life is not abt regrets. tat's y i have made up my mind to work hard & achieve my desired size.

weight control is a life long process & it's not just about beauty. as we age, we really need to watch what we eat & if we can bring ourselves to do it, EXERCISE! i guess it's abt doing everything in moderation. i'm still going to enjoy my chilli crab & pork knuckles but i'm NOT going to stuff myself everyday.

of course as a bonus, nobody will complain abt looking good & tat will boost your self confidence as well.

Phyto Club Official Announcement

Hi fellow Phyto Club members,
I HAVE STARTED!! now i am officially a Phyto Club member too!
finally made up my mind to shed off the pounds i put on 5 yrs ago. i went to Max on saturday evening for my measurements to be taken & told him i've bought everything & am mentally prepared to start the program now.

i dun care abt ideal weight. i haf only 1 aim, to put on my favourite jeans tat's size 27. YESH! i was tat size 5 yrs ago.

wat prompted my decision to start?
1. the fotos taken on my bird day which shows my disgusting arms
2. the numerous pairs of new pants tat i splurge on in the past but has been waiting for my mum to do the alterations ( for the length ).
she just passed me a pair she altered. she couldn't believe how fat i am when i told her i can't wear size 27 anymore! ARGH!

Heev Productions

Forgot to mention last nite abt meeting up with francis' old friend Clifton. It's been more than a couple of yrs since we last met.

He's got his own video & photography business now. Do check out his site, folks...u may come across some familiar names...haha...tat's all i'll say.

http://www.heevproduction.com

Quotable Quotes from the books i'm reading at the moment

Hey all, just started reading these 2 wonderful books. Why 2 books concurrently, u may ask. Well, becoz i'm a gemini so i can't stand the idea of finishing 1 book before the other.

anyway, i'm reading unlimited power before bed & reallionaire in the day...den i'll go on to awake the giant within ( by anthony robbins too )....got it at the same time as reallionaire but thot i should finish unlimited power before i embark on this.

Unlimited Power by Anthony Robbins
i like this quote so here it is

To laugh often & much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Wald Emerson

Reallionaire by Farrah Gray
"The essential lessons that took me from public assistance to a millionaire by the age of 14"

WOW! i mean just the thought of an under-privileged individual being able to overcome all odds against him & to have attained financial success by the age of 14 is truely AMAZING!!