Appassionato

My new and prettiful food journal blog

Categorised as Internet, Personal, Site-Related & tagged with blog, body, fitness, food, health.

Following my weight awareness pre­vi­ously, I have exper­i­enced periods of “Okay, I’m going to shed those fatty 10 pounds in 2 months” and “Fuck this isn’t even going to work”. During one of those periods of optimism, I started my food and fitness blog: Rilly Fit. I am making a daily record of:

• Food con­sump­tion.
• Exercise.
• Good fitness/dieting tips I come across.

I will also make body meas­ure­ments from time to time and record these. Many weight loss articles have recom­men­ded starting a food journal because the need to record every food that is consumed will make one feel guilty if they have consumed something. At the same time, I guess having recorded no or minimal exercise in a day will also make me feel guilty.

If anyone’s inter­ested in my progress or self-reminder tips or ideas for starting your own one, feel free to check it out! It’s my new source of pride. <3

I just got the bottom of my left foot burnt with liquid nitrogen today to kill a plantar wart, so cardio exercises are out of the picture for now. The new direction is dis­cov­er­ing more good eating and home exercise tips!

Loyalty is difficult when it’s ugly!

Categorised as Design, Site-Related & tagged with blog, Design, law, uni, wow.

I’m currently going through the busiest time of my semester so far:

1. 1500-word essay.
2. Legal Research assignment.
3. Moot (mock case trial).
4. 3000-word essay.

But, enough with the excuses, for I have still been spending some hours here and there on World of Warcraft for breaks. I’ve written a few draft blog posts, but never put in the effort to finish them for pub­lish­ing, because I don’t get that blogging mood often when I’m pub­lish­ing posts to a layout I feel is ugly.

I still like some concepts of this design: the colours, the organ­isa­tion of the footer, the comments link… but I feel funkiness may be what keeps me inter­ested in my own blog when I have to spend perhaps 10 hours each week on it, despite having des­per­ately wanted a min­im­al­istic design.

So here’s going into a new design brain­storm­ing stage again…

One blog post for the past year

Categorised as Design, Personal, Romance, School, Site-Related & tagged with gaming, Internet, maplestory, relationships, uni, wow.

In the last post, I said that the business card design was the first step in getting to this version 20 design. Guess what? I lied. I almost forgot that I had ever designed what I should now refer to as Appas­sionato Version 19.5. Indeed, this is the reason I once blamed Sheng Han for using a header back­ground image similar to mine:

Appas­sionato Version 19.5 (Click above image to see the live version)

All my guy friends thought this was the best design I’ve ever came up with, totally un-Rilla style, and it’s actually the first photo manip­u­la­tion I’ve done. Reasons why I didn’t go through with it:

• It looked perfect on my 1024 x 768 screen, but when I switched to a laptop with 1280 x 800 screen I realised that it was too small.
• The file size of all the images was too big for a blog.
• No one ever notices my favourite part of the design: the hanging wire aka “skip to footer” link.

Main crux of this blog post however: summary of the past year of my life.
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