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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!

My first offline online-Secret Santa

Categorised as Internet, Miscellaneous, Rants, Web-Related & tagged with celebration, christmas, gifts, snark.

Thanks to Emma and Snark, I just received my first ever gift from a Secret Santa organised online.

I felt so bad putting forward a massive “dislikes list”, but I often do receive a lot of Christmas gifts I have no idea what to do with…

• I have my own cup at home, I do not need a bigazil­lion mugs and glasses.
• I have an unro­mantic Asian family, we do not light candles, maybe wait until I’ve moved out.
• I do not use a camera made in the 1990s, nor do I print photos, so I have not needed photo frames or albums since I was 11.
• I already have a five years’ supply of body lotions from buying too much from girly stores.
• Unless it’s a 4+ set of kit­ch­en­ware, one-off cutlery pieces do not match the rest of what we have.
• Imprac­tical things.

Unfor­tu­nately I get a mountain load of them. (I know I’m such a whiner.)

I’m a very material person that do not appre­ci­ate what would usually be thought of as sweet things. I do not like handmade crafted gifts unless they were up to a pro­fes­sional standard, I do not like things I can’t use in everyday life. A gift voucher, though it looks flat and cheap, is sometimes the far better choice. A simple tip for getting gifts you’re not sure someone would def­in­itely like: ask for an exchange card.

For­tu­nately, my amazing 2010 Snark Secret Santa Ashley got me the cutest, prettiest notebooks!

Cute sta­tion­ery just can’t go wrong.

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…