Snow and windchill had no mercy for my dryness prone skin. Everyday I have to slab on tonnes of moisturizing cream to prevent itchiness and also pain due scratching. Not to mention the flaky look when I apply foundation.
I can’t afford premium moisturizing product like natura bisse or adovia but at least I do make my own moisturizing mask out of honey and lemon juice. Well, I’d say that it doesn’t work as perfectly as the above mentioned products but it left my skin smooth for a short while. 
Despite all that I still suffer from dry skin. Well, perhaps in the end I can just blame it on my genetics.
Beauty
Beauty
Ever since I started working, I barely have the time for all the things I used to do – craft, language lessons, and guitar practice etc. The
days was all about waking up in the morning, go to work, pick up child, be with family, go to bed and the cycle continues the next day.
I used to try out playing guitar (my Fender is still up the cupboard waiting for me) and dreaming of an electric guitar one day – a epiphone goth les paul studio electric guitar perhaps.
Then I tried crochet because I thought I can self teach myself how to crochet better than to self teach myself playing a guitar. I did it actually, and completed a few projects. But it takes a lot of patience and time too. So that too I had stopped but my love for it hasn’t died.
I’m just glad that at least I can still keep up with a little language self study here and there – while travelling to and from work, or during work breaks. That and meditation. So at the moment, I have my language study and my meditation to keep life balanced for myself. That I don’t breakdown in the end feeling like I didn’t do anything to improve myself.
Lifestyle
Lifestyle
When ever the word ‘meditation’ is used, the picture of a person sitting crossed legged, with eyes closed may come in mind. It is one of the many ways to meditate. Meditation is basically emptying the mind – therefore it can be done walking, sitting down, or even lying down flat on the back. Different people may find different styles fit them best. Some people would use a lit candle to help them focus, put the attention to the breathing, and recently I’ve come across on a forum that someone suggested holding on to something – a crystal or personalized coins etc – while meditating. Now, when it is said to empty ones mind, it is not that the brain will go completely blank, but more likely to not think actively. Let thoughts come and go but not ‘think’ or ‘ponder’ upon them.
I’ve been doing some meditating for sometime now, and I feel that I see problems differently. They are as difficult as before, but I learn to look at them calmly. It is as if suddenly it appears no point getting all worked up because that won’t help solve anything.
I’m still at the early stages of meditation. However I do hope to make it a permanent aspect in my daily life.
Therapy
Therapy
This is what I am currently reading : The magic power of your mind. I read this book a few years back. Well, started reading it at least but didn’t finish it. Now I am already half through and I think I will be able to finish it this time.
We all know or have some knowledge about how our minds can do wonders. But little understand and even less know how to utilise the minds to their full potential. Although I am quite content with my life currently, but I have to admit there are things that I would like to improve – mostly myself.Hence my hope to recondition the way I think, meditate more, enhance spiritually.
The past few days I’ve been trying to meditate more and more. Most of the time right before I go off to bed. I realize that for the past couple of days, I’ve stopped waking up in the middle of the night like I used to before. It’s not that I got myself a new memory foam mattress or anything like that, so I’m quite sure that my sleeping soundly through out the night may be attributed to the short meditations I do right before sleep. I cannot really confirm it, but I will continue to do what I’m doing.
Eat well, exercise more and calmer feelings, these are my new year’s resolution.
Interesting read, Lifestyle, Therapy
Interesting read, Lifestyle, Therapy
A bite here, a nibble there… Yes, just like many others, Christmas is the time to simply enjoy oneself without thinking of calories. But now that 
Christmas is over, it is time to shed those extra pounds gained.
Need to get these fat burning. For the past few days, I’ve only been eating light breakfast and lunch and skipping dinner. Well, eating biscuits with a cup of cocoa instead of the normal dinner. After feeling all stuffed up for first few days I think I’m feeling a little lighter now.
Perhaps it is also time to do window shopping before life gets back into the “work and back home, and start all over again the next day” routine. Burn away the calorie walking and looking for after Christmas sales. 
Got to look for some nice warm fleece jackets for spring.
Starting Monday next week, I’ll be bringing my pedometer along with me the entire day. 10,000 steps 5 days a week would definitely help me burn some calories.
Well, they say it would take from a couple to 3 months to get rid of festive weight gain – depending on the diet that you do that is – so I am not entirely worried about the weight staying for a long time. My new year hope and wish is that, I would reach 49 kg.
Personal
Personal
Another 2 more days to go till we say goodbye to 2011 for good. It’s the time of the year when some would ask what’s my New year resolution is. Well, for starters, there are those past years resolution to get over with. Anyway, I sure hope that 2012 would be a better year for us all. 2011 has been an eventful year globally and personally for myself.
My resolution is simple and had always been the same every year – Try to do better. So far I think I’m not doing to shabby. Though there is always room for much improvement.
Happy New Year!!
Personal
Personal
They say that winter starts officially on the 21st of December. Which is tomorrow. (Though I feel like it is winter already since 2 weeks ago. Since it started to get colder ) Now all we need is snow. What is winter without snow right? Winter without snow is like…. say… rainy season without rain. Furthermore, the only thing I like about winter is the fun activities you can do with snow. Sledding, skiing and snowboarding. Boy… do you burn calories with those kind of activities. The fun part is the going down hill, but the fat burning part is when you have to climb up hill to do it all over again.
I yet to try snowboarding and skiing though. But I will eventually one day. Just reading about one of those burton snowboards makes me feel like trying out the sport already. However, for this winter, I would like to try out ice skating first.
Lifestyle, Personal, Workout
Lifestyle, Personal, Workout
To me journaling isn’t just jotting down my thoughts and experience on paper, it is also a therapy. I am by nature a confiding soul. I need to tell someone or something how I feel, what I think, what I am going through. Thinking to myself, or talking to someone may not be enough as there are limits to what you can tell to someone, and talking to myself silently is not enough (further there’s a chance that I may verbalize my thoughts by accident and people might think I’m looney).
I had been journaling since in my early teens. Though unfortunately, I destroyed most of them (since I move houses too often to keep track and I don’t want people to read my diaries by accident). I started journaling early this year and had kept on doing so faithfully till now. I write down my irritations, my dreams and my hopes most of the time – like when I’m going to get that unknown rv financing that would allow us to travel around Europe in an RV perhaps. Or my dream of having my own daycare. etc.
It’s my shrink, my vision board, my counselor all in one.
Personal, Therapy
Personal, Therapy
Yup, as the title says, I twisted an ankle. Well, it happened a few weeks back actually, but to tell the truth I still feel the pain when I move my foot a certain way (which did not hurt before) or when I sit cross legged. I did do the R.I.C.E – Raise, Ice, Compress, and Elevate treatment, but I suppose it would take longer to heal fully.
However if it doesn’t heal in 3 weeks time (I’m giving it a bit more time), I think I may need to visit a doctor soon to find out why it isn’t healing.
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Two or three christmasses ago I got myself a pedometer. My first pedometer -which is an omron – that I used to track how many steps I make each day and a way to motivate myself to move more. I am still using it. Although not everyday but quite often. These days 10,000 steps a day is quite easy to attain.
The pedometer is still working but I am thinking of getting something that can be connected to a computer software and keep records directly onto the pc. Well, I told my husband that he can look at garden gifts and health gifts, for this Christmas, so maybe this is what I would get this year.
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Personal
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