drink Water - correct Timing

received this from a friend and wanna keep it:

Correct timing to take water, will maximize its effectiveness to the human body:

• 2 glasses of water after waking up - Helps activate internal organs
• 1 glass of water 30 minutes before meal - Help digestion
• 1 glass of water before taking a bath - Helps lower blood pressure
• 1 glass of water before sleep - To avoid stroke or heart attack

healthy lifestyle

1. Exercise (raise HB +30% for 30mins at least 3x a wk)
2. Lower stress
3. Eat healthy diet (follow food pyramid)
4. Sleep at least 7 hours a day (though am sure too much is also not healthy)
5. Regular sex (safe, healthy, normal, and with a consenting partner)

...am sure there are more to the healthy living mantra... like do yoga, meditation, qigong etc... am starting with these 5 first :)

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papa is bored... with the fact that we have not gone out for any holidays this yr besides Krabi and revisit to Vientiane. funny thing is mama is feeling exactly the opposite. just contented to stay home and at most, cuti2 malaysia :) the krabi and vientiane trips were also after much pestering from papa, both times mama lugged along the laptop though mama did enjoy the trips also...

just now papa whined again... haizz.. didnt go anywhere hor this yr. should be going somewhere this long wkend... poor papa. mama is beginning to feel like a wet blanket for him. to be honest, if mama wanna go somewhere to "let my hair down" ... somewhere to dive would be it! like similan or even maldives or... whatever. bali. then again that wouldn't be what papa likes (he doesn't enjoy diving as much as mama does)...

so okok... we'll go hiking tomorrow morning (...if no rain :p)

sugar Rush today... man.. wssup?

woke up today normal and all... then a little after lunch started craving to eat something (after lunch!). managed to hold on until around 4pm (cheated by diverting attn towards a hair trim heh heh.. which btw am fully satisfied and papa's been teasing endlessly about mama looking like a fifth former.. yuk... wink wink* :p ). after which mama just let go and started with a cup of sweet corns (there is this stall in SP utara behind the pink yawata mall that sells amazingly delicious sweet corns) then moved on to 2 large pcs of yummmieee oh-kuih (yam kuih).

took a break (or rather forced to since in the car driving back home).

soon as got home... couldn't wait to finish putting things away.. the normal stuffs and showered and back out for dinner. plan was to go catch the follow-up Twilight at Gurney with a Gelatissimo treat but mama was so darn hungry (really craving until mama felt almost like biting papa already!) so we changed to the nearer QMall. Abandoned the long queue at GSC at a glance and trotted promptly to Kim Gary donwstairs for dinner (almost fainting by then). Cleared off 2 sets of egg sandwiches in mama's record-breaking 3 mins. But then somehow the fu-yong rice was not up to taste and only finished half. Told papa had to go get Haagan-Dazs for dessert (since no Gelatissimo there)... so rushed for the banana split (btw found out here is about rm7 more expensive than in Krabi) AND a scoop of strawberry-cheese...

finally done. am so bloated now, still after 3hrs hahaha... never mind, at last am satisfied :)

timeout in planning2

so we made it up to Cameron (again!!) last wkend :) It was a spontaneous trip. We piled into 2 cars and plan was swaying between makan2 in Ipoh and night safari in Taiping... or overnight in Ipoh... and then when we got to Fri night, ah ma and mama just said... weather was not too bad so why not! and up we went to the cupboards and packed in 6 jackets and 2 cardigans and as many neck scarfs (for Min yee-yee) into 2 handcarries and wha-la... the next day we were all ready to head on to the Highlands if we wanted. The weather was indeed not bad up there. Drizzle most times but the type that we cud do without umbrellas. And it was marvelously cooling, 16-19C range. as usual spent some time in the morning at the Sg Palas tea plantation, beautiful with the mist and all... and the tea leaves were all so green and polished from the drizzle that it made the rolling hilly plantation looked so like comfy green sponges. what an eye-balm!

this long wkend will stay home.. there is someone special's birthday :p

one Itch gone...

hee hee... finally did what I itched very very very much to do some mths back: Happy Safari Mobile is now home and safely tugged in together with the other toys :)

no Regrets

while reading in Gurney Dome past Sat night (whiling time away waiting for The Fourth Kind movie), mama came upon this that mama absolutely has to share! It's an adaptation from Mark Twain and it goes something like this:

In twenty years time, we will think about the things we did not do rather than the things we did.

Mama's philosophy of life is along similar (but far shorter) lines. No regrets!

timeout in planning...

while keeping in mind of our consultation report datelines (tick tock tick tock...), mama & papa are debating what to do during the next long weekend (27-29 Nov)... there is a trip to cameron a wkend before with ah ma & kong kong & seku-kong+fam & si-ee-po+teow kong so we are tempted to follow the original plan to spend time together up there. if like this then most likely mama & papa will stay home during the long wkend as really need to jump start the reports! and not forgetting liz's birthday is on 28 Nov (twice mama missed the time to go present hunting this wkend urgh!!) ... hmm...

midnight hello...

it's 8 mins past sun midnight.. meaning less than 8hrs to go to work but mama can't help but feel the need to pen something down here. it's been ages since mama last came in. mama really misses this haven. it's mama's special communion place with baby, a place mama set up to connect with baby in total honesty, and in peace.

lots have been happening. foremost is mama's job which has gone 5x more hectic. well it's a good busi-ness (it'd be great if mama could also stretch time by 5x too!). but same time there has been lots of quality time spent with family members. couple wkends back reserved time with Nin-Ee with hubby Peter who came visiting from Melb and to celebrate their wedding dinner with us.

mama and papa also ensure we both had time together to unwind after busy wkdays (where sometimes we hardly exhanged 3 tots a day!) - our most fav (and easiest) timeout activity would be going to the movies (the surrogates, pandorum, the time traveller's wife, the fourth kind... and looking forwards to..whatelse.. 2012!!). and as much as possible keeping in touch with keh pa/ma + liz + helen (which fortunately yesterday managed to meet up for dinner at Pg Times Sq Swenson - and feeling just how amazingly time flies for babies! liz looks so much taller, matured and much much more cohesive of her environment.. and she's learned to wave bye bye too with her patented unique sly smile of hers :P)..

and of course baby... no time past without mama & papa always thinking about you. Ting-kuku is expecting a baby very very soon. So while shopping for new baby, mama cudnt help but also got us a Baby Bjorn Spirit baby-carrier. black&white :) and the best part is mama is now a member of MotherCare so shopping for baby and baby's friends are definitely much more exciting now haha! then keh ma intro someone special to mama & papa some wks back and we are listening to some of his advises to speed things up a bit. hopefully it works :)

mama & papa always think of you.. we miss you a lot, and looking forward to seeing you sooooooon! smooooch*