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My 21st, my favourite birthday

Categorised as Personal & tagged with birthday, celebration, food, friends.

So I turned 21.

No party, no booze, no Facebook contact list-wide event invit­a­tions, just a couple of small lunches with my favourite people at my favourite res­taur­ants and a cake from my favourite cake shop. Read more…

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!

Taking another look at Asian food

Categorised as Miscellaneous & tagged with asian, food, health.

It must be this natural thing that’s been passed down the Asian gen­er­a­tions. While we (Asians) tend to be more con­ser­vat­ive in most other aspects, it seems to me that we, or at least my parents, totally love weird food.

I don’t mean the oily Chinese, Thai curry or spicy Malaysian you get in res­taur­ants. I mean taking a look at Asian food in Asian homes.

Although my parents don’t go as far as eating dogs and cats, fried worms and monkey brains that the Chinese have this weird liking for, they do have weird tastes. That is, mixing “all good things” together to form something nasty.

1. Straw­berry jam, meat, avocado and cheese… all in a sandwich. In minor cases, dad loves straw­berry jam plus Nutella and/or peanut butter.
2. Soy milk and… something. Just imagine something like… egg, or… juice. Juice? Yeah, sweetly home-made avocado or carrot or another one of those let’s-add-everything-together juice.
3. Cereal. This sounds normal, right? But um… cereal in boiled water, left to cool for twenty minutes because soggy cereal tastes better. And you know parents, they love the tasteless muesli kind of cereal. So you get it, tasteless, soggy mush.

All this, in the name of “health”. When I say they taste yuck, they say I have problems because they’re healthy things. When I say I prefer to eat these things sep­ar­ately, they emphasise that I really have mental problems because they don’t think there’s anything wrong with them.

If you’re Asian, do you or your parents eat such things? But please put up your hand if you also agree my parents eat weird stuff (they’re not food because they’re not edible for me).