Saturday, May 29, 2010

Japan is so ahead of us (Americans)

In technology, fashion, art... I mean... just look at their protest signs!



Japanese citizens protests against their prime minister over the relocation of U.S. marine base.

I was reading blogs and came across an article in the economists.com site and the first thing that caught my eye wasn't the reason for the article but the creative and decadent protest signs made by Japaneses civilians. Then thinking to myslef, if us Americans made more protest signs like these, maybe we would all see things the same way. Maybe we should have more marketing and art experts to help make protest sings to get the message across more thoroghly. Because honestly, I have no idea about what is going on between the marine bases but their sings make me want to side with them already! Go ahead and remove the U.S. base!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

People are like Wine



Here are the beautiful twins and can you believe that they are already 10 months old?!?? I can hardly believe it myself because they feel like they have been with me my entire adulthood. I have to admit that I do love them so so so much and that I do feel like I look a lot better. I have to make this brief. Also, I have lost 4.8lbs in the last month! I have kept to my strict Slimfast diet and exercise 30 minutes a day at least three times a week. My last official recorded weight in was on Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 162.4lbs, which isn't even the biggest I weight. I think at the beginning of the year I was bouncing back and forth between 166 and 169lbs. WOW! Right! Well, TODAY, my darlings I am at 157.6lbs! You know, working out and eating right does pay off, I mean if it isn't the fact that I am going to look bomb as hell, well, its the fact that I feel a lot healthier and have more energy. Since, I have been dieting and exercising, I have woke up earlier thus giving me longer days to do what I gotta get done and I feel better and more productive. I mean, I never thought that I would ever lose my weight. At the beginning of this year, I was reading my old blogs and I was like, "WTFudge? This was a year ago!?!? How can I be so careless about myself that I would let my desire sit on a rock for a fucking year???" I had to really sit and evaluate myself at that point. I mean, I cannot believe that I really let myself go and for this long? I mean, you just get to a point where you are like, "I'm done. I am really sick and tired of this and I want to get back to the life that I use to live and be happy and free and not ashamed of how I look and how certain clothes look on me and being too damn tired to finish my errands and that people are judging me when I eat and that 'those chicks over there are hot, but I'm not'" No! I want to be those hot chicks. I want to be 'not here' is where I want to be. When I use to watch Shanti's videos (aka AntiShay on youtube) I use to tell myself, "Wow, that girl is very strong. I wonder how she got to her goal?" I mean, she has a whole website inundated with ways to lose weight "the healty way" and her raw foods diet and her financial advising and how she is debt free at age 23 and bla bla bla and I'm like, "How?... Oh well. That is just her scenario. I can never get myself to do that." Well, I got to that POINT.

The point where you felt like you have hit rock bottom and that you are sick and tired of living this way. I have heard so many people say that, "You will get sick and tired of it and change." Well, I never believed it. But now I do. And now I am changing becasue this is a state that I don't want to be in- be stuck in. I mean if you have ever felt like you have wanted to change something but can't find the will power to do so, well my friend I can't say much about that besides that I don't think anyone can really change until they hit rock bottom. Until you experience the worst effects of what you have been doing for the past few years actually HIT you (affect you). Then you will never ever want to turn back around and change. Why change if things are still okay? Righhhht??

Well, I guess you gotta hit rock bottom "because if you are really at the bottom then there is no where to go but up" right? Well... on the scale you are going to go down. LOL. But generalizing this quote, you don't really have much choice but to go back up. Right? Well, I felt it. I felt that. The feeling that I began to hate who I have become and that feeling has pushed me to change. I really really hate my unhealthy weight and its toll on my lifestyle. Well, I gotta go.

QOTD: "People are like wine. They perform better under a little bit of pressure. Not too much- just a little."

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Vegas and Fat


I hate going out to public places. I have out grown all of my sexy clothes and it is really hard to find a cute plus size black dress. I should have went into Torrid and checked it out but I feel like if I go in there, its like admitting defeat. I refuse to accept the fact that I am over weight and I WILL lose weight. I was going through my old posts and realized that its been a year and I am still around the same weight. Here are my statz as of today: 164.7 lbs, 36-39-40.. Godd damn.... lol. I'm back on the slimfast diet and doing low intensity work outs 3 times a week so we will see where that takes us...

Went to Vegas with Wifey Lindsey this weekend and had a blast. It was my first time going to TAO night club in the Venetian. Now, I can't wait to go to XS.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Weight Loss

I am doing it. Well I'm going to blog about it. Weight-in #1.

Stats:21 yrs old, 166lbs, 5'3"
Sexy goal weight: 130lbs
Goal weight per week: 3lbs

My exercise plan for this week:
-Super Walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes everyday at 3.4 speed.
-Go to cycling class 3 times a week.
-Walk for 10 minutes after every meal.

My diet plan:
-BDA diet. Drink an 8 oz of water BEFORE, DURING, and AFTER every meal to help suppress your appetite.
-Try to eat 4 small meals.
-No white rice- if I must... then its brown rice. :(
-Count calories
-Eat a fruit every morning.
-Eat a salad for lunch everyday.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

My IQ is 118!


Word Warrior

Your IQ Score is: 118

You are equipped with a verbal arsenal that enables you to understand complex issues and communicate on a particularly high level. These talents make you a Word Warrior.

Whether or not you recognize it, your vocabulary is your strongest suit—use it whenever you can. Since your command of words is so great, you are also a terrific communicator — able to articulate big ideas to just about anyone. Your wordsmithing prowess will also help in artistic and creative pursuits. The power of words translates to fresh ideas off paper too. Since you have so many words at your disposal, you are in a unique position to describe things in an original way, as well as see the future in your mind's eye. In short, your strengths allow you to be a visionary — able to extrapolate and come up with a multitude of fresh ideas. And you are in good company — bask in the brilliance of Word Warriors who have walked before you. William Shakespeare let loose the power of his pen. His ability to articulate the most subtle nuances of human nature and to create colorful characters are why his stories still have a major impact — even 400 years after he first wrote them. Whether you put pen to paper or use your understanding of the words around you to come up with creative approaches to problems, your potential as a Word Warrior is terrific.

http://www.testq.com/education/quizzes

IQ is how much you CAN learn not how much you know.

Lewis Terman (1916) developed the original notion of IQ and proposed this scale for classifying IQ scores:

Over 140 - Genius or near genius
120 - 140 - Very superior intelligence
110 - 119 - Superior intelligence
90 - 109 - Normal or average intelligence
80 - 89 - Dullness
70 - 79 - Borderline deficiency
Under 70 - Definite feeble-mindedness

3 Months Post-Op



It has already been 3 months. Actually 15 weeks; 16 more days until my twins 3 month birthday. I am seriously considering having a 1 year birthday for the gals. lol. I know it sounds dumb, but women have been heard to do it. Yeah, like a small gathering with the girlfriends and a few drinks to celebrate my body. The only thing is... I am not completely happy with it. Yeah the tits look good but damn... not the rest of it. LOL. Wtf! I mean, I know I look good and all, but its only in the face, only in the face. :) Well, the ideal measurements are supposedly: whatever your bust line is, then your waist line should be ideally 10 inches less than your bust. Your hips should be 2 inches more than your bust line. So in my scenario, I would be 36-26-38, ideally, that is. So I'm a 36D cup! Yaya. Check. Ummm.. as for the waist line... that one needs the most improvement, its a good old three nine. My hips are 40, which is not bad for me because I actually prefer to be "thick" with hips but my thighs need a hellava lot of work. They are probably 26 inches LOL. I want to say the circumference of each individual leg is 26 inches, which is not what you want.

So I'm in Summer school, taking an accounting course and most importantly, a Fitness & Wellness class. Okay, if you are broke like I am and don't want to pay $30 every month for a membership at some stupid gym you probably will only go to the first 2 weeks you get your membership, not to mention the agreement or contracting fee that those fuckers make their commission off of, then do like me and go to your community college and enroll in a fitness class there! So my class is a short 6 week summer course so its pretty congested. The class is Mondays through Thursdays for one hour each day! The course is only one unit which will cost you roughly $26! You even get a free trainer, you can call him teacher or instructor. Wait! That's not all! The course is even transferable! If you are working on your degree or transfer, this will help bring up your GPA, it is definitely an easy A. So not only are you motivated to work out already, but to incite you, they are going to give you a chance to bring that grade point up!

Okay enough of trying to sell the community colleges. I am taking Fitness & Wellness. We have about one week left and I have got to say, I have learned a lot of little exercises that I can do at home. Like lunges with a hip rotation, simple elbow flex, side crunches, power push-ups, shoulder flex on the ball. Dumbells are a must haves. I think I might go to TJ Max and pick up some for myself. I started with 5lbs, now I'm on 10lbs! Do you believe it? Also, once a week, we do this thing called a "fun run." You know when you drive by a school and it's like 100 degrees outside, but your in your car with the a/c on and you see a bunch of kids running around the school and your thinking in your head, "these kids are crazy!" Well for one day every week for the last four weeks, you saw me there. It wasn't as bad as it looks. The first time we did it, I stopped after a few meters and was already breathing like I had emphysema. But going on the third week, I want to say I ran at least half a mile without stopping and I was so proud of myself! Well actually I jogged, but the important part is that I kept my heart rate up and I didn't stop. Two days ago, a girl in my class made it point to tell me that she can tell I lost weight from the first day of class... a tear drop almost fell out of my eyes as I haven't weighed myself since the first day because the instructor forbade it. He didn't want us to get discouraged if we weren't seeing progress yet. Which I can see the point in that, so I didn't defy him and I stayed away from the scale. So my first weight in was 164lbs, 5'3'', BMI 29 (considered obese, very dangerous). :( I hope that I lost some weight.

I love my boobs! Faith and Hope! You can see that they are already shaping really nicely. <33333333

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Planning a trip to Cambodia?


So my mom has been nagging me about looking up some good deals for a cruise for the family but I guess I have been lagging. This morning I got a call from Ma and she asked me, "Do you want to go to Cambodia?" I was like, "Hek YEAH!!!" My mom and dad are planning to vacate before the summer ends and bringing Nyle and I along, the only problem is that we haven't even applied for our passports yet. So, if we can pick up those passports by end of August it's a go! My mom even offered to pay for my ticket and asked me if I wanted to get a Cambodian wedding out there since its so cheap! LOL I'm sure she was joking but when I told my honey, he was stoked! He even called his mom and told her... yeah they all think it's a joke but we really really want to do it! Wow, imagine that; our 3 day Khmer wedding in the heart of Phnom Pehn. :) If you don't know Khmer weddings are huge and the entire city gets involved. The great thing about it it that I have so many family members from my dad's side and it will cost us roughly $2000 for the entire 3 day ceremony. Well, I don't want to get my hopes up, I still have to check on these damn passports and my financial situation but honestly, I don't mind eating Ramen noodles 3 times, for the next 2 months to save up for this trip. The last time I visited the Kingdom of Cambodia, I was only 12 years old. I know this time, it will be more memorable, as I am older and more knowledgeable and have a camera. lol. Well, we'll see... I may finally get my authentic Cambodian wedding!