When you are on a low-calorie diet:
Rule #1: Eat your meals on time. Don’t skip meals.
Rule #2: Eat plenty of vegetables and lean protein, minimise your carbs, and avoid processed foods.
Rule #3: Drink plenty of water in between meals.
Rule #4: If you MUST snack, have healthy snacks on hand — fresh fruits, dried dates, raisins, toasted nuts.
Rule #5: If a supplier gives you 4 boxes of chocolate, give 1 box to your assistant and 1 box to the driver, but keep the box of plain milk chocolates for the kids (knowing how they hate nuts in their chocolate) and keep the box of chocolate-coated macadamia nuts to share with your mom.
Rule #6: If you find yourself with a splitting headache at 6.04pm due to low blood sugar level because your last meal was lunch at 12.38pm, you are allowed to open the box of macadamia nuts. But you can only have ONE piece.
Rule #7: If, after having one piece, your headache still hasn’t gone away, and you are trapped in a massive traffic jam on the highway due to a heavy downpour, you are allowed to eat just one more piece of the macadamia nut only. Set aside the milk chocolate coating for the kids later.
Rule #8: If you find that macadamia nuts taste rather plain without the milk chocolate coating (kinda like how strawberries just don’t taste as good as they do when dipped in chocolate), you are allowed just one more macadamia nut with HALF of the chocolate coating for flavour.
Rule #9: Once you realise that you may just have exceeded your caloric requirement for the day before even having had your dinner, then make a date with the treadmill tonight even if today’s supposed to be a rest day.
Rule #10: Write a self-deprecating blog post to make yourself feel better and to keep your hands mind off the chocolates. And try to remember what Dr. Pat said about getting rid of the extra inches the hard way instead of looking for quick weight loss solutions.
Ahh….Why are the best things in life fattening? :(
I got tag from Tikki (who, incidentally turns 19 today — Happy Birthday, Tikki!), which I couldn’t help but do because it’s so much fun and so darn simple.
The rules are:
a) answer the question below, do a Google Image search with your answer, take a picture from the 1st page of results, do it with minimal words of explanation; and
b) tag 5 people to do the same once you’ve finished answering every question.
Here goes… (Sorry if this takes a while to load. I couldn’t get WordPress to align the pics and text properly unless I used large images.)
1. The age you’ll be on your next birthday:
Hrmm… am I really that old ‘on paper’? As far as I know, I’ll always be 22 years old :D
2. Place you want to travel to:
I want to travel around the world!
Next on my list: South Africa and South America! So that I can say I’ve been to all the continents in the world hehe.
3. Your favourite place:
Home sweet home.
I’ve been to 60 81 cities in 19 countries but there’s just no place like home.
4. Your favourite food:
Chocolates!
‘Nuff said ;)
5. Your favourite pet:
Siamese cat.
This pic reminds me so much of my favourite pet. She died of old age and remained faithful to me to the very end. She’s buried in our garden.
6. Favorite color combination:
Black & white
Easy to match, goes with anything, just change the look with accessories.
It’s that time of the year again when AirAsia plays Santa Claus (even though it’s nowhere near Christmas yet) and gives away 1,000,000 free seats on all of its flights to and from Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru, Kuching and Kota Kinabalu.
However, you must book between now and 31st August 2008 for travel between 1st April 2009 and 31st July 2009.
The airfare is free but you must still pay for taxes and other surcharges. For instance, a KL-Bangkok-KL ticket would only cost RM295, out of which RM25 goes to Malaysian airport tax, RM75 goes to outbound fuel surcharge, RM22.50 for outbound administration fee, RM75 goes to Thai airport tax, RM22.50 is allotted for inbound administration fee and RM75 for the inbound fuel surcharge.
The cheapest normal AirAsia fare for that route is RM595, which means savings of RM300 per person. Is that a great deal or what?!Other samplings: KL-Bali-KL for RM260. KL-Krabi-KL for RM263. KL-Phuket-KL for RM294.
So forget about those Halloween invitations for a while and hurry over to AirAsia.com now!
Psst…the best time to log on is between 3 am and 7 am. And plan to travel on weekdays, eg departing on Tuesday, come back on Thursday, because the free tickets are usually for weekday flights.
The official results (keputusan rasmi) are out. Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim won by an overwhelming 15,671 votes (undi) in the Permatang Pauh election yesterday.
Here’s a screen shot from Berita Harian’s site on the results (click the screen shot below to see a bigger image):
Out of 58,459 registered voters, 81.01% or 40,528 went to the polls. About 1.1% of the ballots (447 votes) were spoilt.
Malays made up the majority of the registered voters (87.7%), followed by the Chinese (26.3%), the Indians 5.7% and others (0.3%).
The special election was held after Permatang Pauh Parliament Representative Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail gave up her post in order to pave the way for her husband to contest in the said polls.
Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim declared that this “was a victory of the people who want change in this country”. He added that this is a sign that the rakyat (the people/constituents), not just in Permatang Pauh but also the rest of the country, want the Malaysian government to make some changes in order to give priority to the rakyat, especially in the economic sector. (Rough translation of Berita Harian’s new story soon after the official results were announced.)
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see how the rest of the story unfolds. Abangan ang susunod na kabanata! (Watch out for the next episode!)
Initially, I resisted signing up for Facebook because I felt I wouldn’t have the time for it. But I ended up signing up anyway because I wanted to contact my former English teacher in Ateneo and she was somehow in Facebook and couldn’t be found anywhere else on the Web.
I was sure glad I signed up because I managed to hook up with a lot of old friends from Ateneo de Manila — batchmates, my seniors, and my juniors alike.
Oh, and I also had a lot of fun tinkering with Trip Advisor’s Travel Map.
All you need to do is click on cities that you’ve already visited from TripAdvisor’s default list. TripAdvisor will then pin those places in the world map. At some point, I found that the list of cities took some time to load, hence I decided to click on certain areas of the world map instead and just zoomed in to refresh my memory on which cities I’ve already visited. Most of them are on the map (such as Puebla, Mexico and Zaandam, The Netherlands) but some aren’t (such as smaller towns in the Philippines).
After I was done, I was blown away by the results — so far, I’ve been to 60 81 cities in 19 countries! True, most of my trips were work-related, mostly two- or three-day trips crammed with meetings, lunch meetings and dinner meetings. But then again, some trips were family holidays, thanks to some irresistible travel deals, usually involving AirAsia. (What can I say? They’re pretty generous with free ticket giveaways!) But in the end, whether it was for business or pleasure, I have been to those places. And I feel so blessed. Even if it means renewing my passport every 2 years or so at exhorbitant prices in the Philippine Embassy in KL. Yes, Virginia, they charge a ridiculous amount — in Malaysian Ringgit, no less! — for making a new passport, easily 3 times as much as what you’d pay if you did in the Philippines. But I digress…
Click here if you want to waste a good hour or so making your own travel map. Have fun! :)
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