Archive for January, 2010

Spring Clean!

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Finally, I have enough desire and strength to do the much-needed spring cleaning to my room. I have always wanted to tidy up my many drawers as it was pretty messy and clogged up with a lot of useless and old stuffs that I have accumulated over the years.

Knowing that I would be at home on my own for the whole day, I kicked off the spring clean project and went through every single of the drawers! A good 20 drawers! Yeah!

It took me about 5 hours to clean them, cleaned my room, ceiling, table & floors. Finally, a clean room but with a bad body ache! I felt so good to lie down on my bed again, and I can’t even muster enough strength for a quick check of term life insurance rates online.

But now, I am feeling much better! A clean room, with some stuffs set aside for charity. :)

 

I M Sorry

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Have you done something bad that you didn’t realise? For example throwing something precious of someone you love without knowing it?

Well I did. It makes me so guilty although it was a pure accident. I didn’t expect it to happen and I didn’t even know about what I did until it was way too late. It’s like a Black Friday. =)

I felt so guilty after that and I couldn’t bear to tell her about it as I fear it would make her even sadder. Oh, what am I to do? 

The ugly PORES~

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

I hate pores on my face as it always appear on both side of my cheek. How do I control it? Why does it grow bigger?

Here are some answers for pores fact!

-        Anything that clogs up your pores extends its natural diameter thereby making it appear larger than life. Yucks!

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To make pores return to its natural size, deep cleansing and reducing sebum production is a must.

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Wherever there is a hair, there will be a pore. This is where the sebaceous gland empties its sebum.

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When dead skin cells, oils and bacteria choke the follicle opening, it expands the pore diameter.

-        As good as squeaky clean pores may feel, exfoliating too much can exacerbate oil production, making skin more prone to breakouts~  

Online

Monday, January 25th, 2010

I helped my brother to pay the road tax through the online services of MyEG; which was wonderfully efficient and easy! I found out about the service a couple of years ago when his road tax was about to expire and he didn’t have time to renew it as he was too busy.
A friend advised me to try their service which was pretty convenient. The payment is either through online banking or credit card. They would post the road tax to you within a day to you; of course you’ll have to bear the postage charges! Apart from renewing road tax, you can also get an insurance quote from the website.

Isn’t online technology makes life easier?! 

Live Life

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

One of my friend just love to whine. Every time I meet her, she will complains to me about her life; the thing she lacks of and things that could get better in her life. She just view her life in a negative way and never seem to be happy, no matter whatever is happening to her. I am tired of getting her to see things in a more positive way. Sometimes we cannot stop things from happening the way it is but at least we can see it from different way. We should live our life fully and strive for the best rather than to worry about everything. Let the life insurance take care of the worst, right? Anyway, do enjoy life to the fullest!

Basic Skincare~

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

I always have nice and clear skin. It’s not exactly excellent but at least I do not have major skin problems. Only sometimes I’ll have some pimples at certain times of the months or when I eat too much heaty stuffs. 

That is probably why I am lazy to take good care of it till recently. I noticed that there are many tiny pimples popping up around my forehead, at between of my eyes! And now I realised how important is the basic 3 steps for skincare which is cleansing, toning (which I always skip) and moisturising.  

Here is what I found : 

Cleansing include cleaning your skin with creams, milk, lotions, foams, oils, gels and liquids. Using cotton pads dipped in these items is an affordable way.

Exfoliation includes cleaning with a scrub like synthetic puff or natural sponge.

Toning includes dipping cotton pads in astringents or applying fresh cucumbers with cup of yogurt and cleaning your face. Also you can apply tablespoon of honey and lemon juice and rub it in outward and upward strokes for excellent results.

The last stage of skin care includes well moisturizing the skin to bring a healthy glow to it. Apply moisturizer especially to dry areas to notice the change in few days.

Check Up

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Recently I have been feeling a little tired lately. I am not sure if I have too little rest or maybe not-quality sleep or is my cholesterol on the rise again! it is time to do medical checkup but as usual, I am procrastinating it. I just had my second Hepatitis A jab yesterday and too bad it is not covered under the NC health insurance.

I know the medical check up is covered by my company but I need to find out how I can do the claim first. Perhaps before Chinese new year?

Loop

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Have u experienced sleeping with your mind working? I mean you are practically thinking and couldn’t stop thinking even when you are sleeping. I felt that it’s happening to me sometimes. Before I slept, probably I did some thinking and it wouldn’t go away! My mind is looping on what I thought of when I was sleeping and I didn’t have a peaceful sleep.

For example, if I read colon cleanse reviews before I slept. Until I wake up in the morning, it is still in my head. For crying out loud! I tried to shut it, but nothing I could do to keep it away. I really hate it.  

Maybe I should really take chamomile tea or sleeping pill. Or do not think/read anything heavy before hitting the sack!

Quickie

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Today we have a very quick lunch at only 30 minutes; including the walking time, ordering, waiting, eating and walked back to the office! We even got a pack of nutrisystem trial packs that were distributed outside office building. That was pretty efficient lunch time and we were back to office so quickly.

Or course not our lunch time is time-effective as we sometimes went beyond an hour especially if the restaurant serves very slowly or when we lost track of time for a quick shopping!

Warm Seat?

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Growing up, my father always advised me not to sit immediately when someone got up from a seat. It is bad to sit on the warmed-up-seat as it could cause hemorrhoid! I don’t know if that is true as I don’t see how it is possible to cause it at the first place. I have been wondering it for lon!

Nevertheless, not wanting to get it my own I have not challenge the advise! It does sound a little too freaky and painful, not even with a good hemorrhoid relief on hand!