I’m feeling quite restless. I know I should take a shower. Which I will in a moment.
But I’m bored! No one to talk to. My parents are hogging the TV so playing the Xbox is out of the question. I don’t feel like reading Eragon tonight. I don’t feel like surfing the Internet tonight. Sigh. Sigh. Sigh.
I could do my expenses spreadsheet. Nah, lazy. I’ll do it tomorrow.
Crap. Back to square one. I’m bored!
I’m at it again. I haven’t been keeping track of my expenses and I have not a clue where my money is going. I used to be able to keep track of my expenses and now I will have to do some book keeping again. Nothing complex, just the task of recording my daily expenses classified into their corresponding categories in a spreadsheet.
I finally stopped procrastinating and joined a gym last Saturday. I got a pretty good deal for the 1 year membership, I paid for 9 months and got 3 months free.
After years of not exercising, I have been growing horizontally and I’m feeling very unfit. It’s time to get back into gear. My first session was today and there was a Personal Trainer (3 free sessions with the package) to get me started. The first thing he did was to take my body measurements. My current fat index is so alarming! At my age, my index of 21% is considered obese. Mr PT said that if I can bring it down to 14% it’ll be good, 10% it’ll be great. This is now my personal target and motivation to go to the gym. I plan to go at least twice a week. Feeling ambitious, I told myself that I must go to the gym this coming Thursday at 6:30am in the morning. Wish me luck!
After taking my body measurements, Mr PT showed me how to use the various gym equipment and also demonstrated to me how to do proper body stretching after each type of workout. I admit that during the entire time I was being coached I was very clumsy and self-conscious but I suppose that that will go away with more time spent in the gym.
After the session with Mr PT, I decided to use the bicycle for 15 more minutes before heading home for dinner.
On the way home I felt good, even though it was just a brief workout.
All in all, I think I burnt off about 150 calories. Sigh. Not even a worth a burger.
I just started reading Christopher Paolini’s Eragon. So far so good! It’s quite easy to read and I love a good epic fantasy story!
Of late I noticed Phoebe (my pet shih-tzu) always waiting at the bottom of the stairs looking at me with a very forlorn expression. I think I may have been neglecting her. Poor girl. I better play with her more!
Our favourite game would be hide and seek - I’d always hide and stalk her around corners. I’d intentionally poke my head out slowly so she sees me and in response she’ll be in alert mode, perched low, sort of like a cat. I would then call out her name slowly and she will start whimpering. Now it’s just a matter of the waiting game to see who will make the first charge. Normally she would and I would have to run to find another hiding spot. This will then be repeated till one of us gets tired, normally me.
Sounds silly, but she really enjoys it!
Traffic today was absolutely horrible.
On the way to work there was just so many cars on the road. Even the usual stretches of road that were not supposed to have high volumes of traffic were packed.
On the way home from work, every meter of road I travelled from my office to my home was just a long, agonizing crawl. It took me 1.5 hours just to get home.
I just don’t understand it. Thing is, I leave my home at a rather constant time and it’s just amazing to discover that the traffic condition is never the same everyday.
I caught the latest movie from the Bond franchise: Casino Royale (technically, this chapter in the series has been redone twice) and I gotta tell you, it was a blast!
Daniel Craig has proved himself to be worthy to assume the role of James Bond, 007 licensed to kill. He’s got a very roguish charm to him and more convincing as a no-nonsense British Secret Intelligence spy. The movie opens with how Bond kills for the first time and that leads on to a truly well choreographed free-running sequence in Madagascar where Bond had to chase this suspected terrorist to extract information from him.
The movie then went on to luxurious locations, Nassau, Montenegro and Venice. The story is focused throughout the movie except towards the end where it got a little draggy and was a total switch of themes. There is humour peppered in the movie. There were very witty sarcastic lines and certain scenes that make you snicker (the torture scene).
Unfortunately, my memory isn’t so well these days and I cannot describe the movie in detail. 
But do take my word for it, even if you’re not a fan of Daniel Craig, give it a go. It’s really entertaining!
I’ve been accompanying baby to her yoga class. It’s as far as the entrance of the gym. Heh. Normally to kill time, I will head over to The Coffee Bean for brunch. They have breakfast sets that come with a cup of the brew of the day (free refills until 3:00pm!).
Today I had the egg sandwich that was pretty darn good. The bread was nice and soft, the eggs just well cooked and the turkey and ham delicious. I love the simple salad that comes as a side: lettuce, dried cranberries and toasted almond slices. In my opinion, I think the food (or maybe just the sandwiches) at The Coffee Bean is pretty good compared to San Francisco Coffee’s.
I normally laze on the armchair after eating and read my book while sipping coffee. This is what my table look like today.
See? Doesn’t the sandwich look delicious?
After helping baby with her groceries, I drove back to Plaza Armada to attend DL’s wedding banquet. As usual, my other ex-colleagues were all late. Dinner was supposed to be at 7:00pm sharp, but it started at 8:20pm. Good thing I had the curry mee earlier after the massage session otherwise I’d be so hungry and that would only make me grumpy.
My bro, RS, SM, AM, MY, RNG, AB, J and W were seated in my table. There was another table for ex-colleagues too. I mingled around, asking how everyone was – the usual when I came to LT, he had a small beard growing! I couldn’t resist but asked him why the beard. To which he replied “I made a wish during the Deeparaya holidays that I will not shave off my beard until I’ve met 100 girls”. I only smiled, pat him on his shoulder and replied, “Well, all the best to you.” Talk about strange.
The dishes came quickly one after another and the variety is the what you’d expect from the usual wedding dinner. The usual 4 seasons, the soup, the fish, the prawn, the meat dish, the vegetarian dish, the rice and finally dessert. During the soup course, we were served a different type of soup from the menu. I will not go into the detail of the difference between what we were served and what we were supposed to have been served only that what we got wasn’t as good as what we were supposed to have. MY, being the feisty one asked for the manageress about this descrepancy. The manageress did not apologize and instead made some very sarcastic remarks that really pissed MY off. Thankfully nothing serious happened and we resumed dinner.
The food wasn’t too bad. I had a nice time catching up with my ex-colleagues again. The whole night was just goofing about and not taking anything seriouslly at all. I think during the dinner, the worse bit is that our table was situated underneath the speakers connected to the karaoke system. For the entire evening, so many aunties and uncles were not shy to share their singing talent with the rest of us. No thanks really, it’s not that I don’t appreciate old Chinese songs, it’s just that you ladies and gents sing off key, and were just mutilating the songs. There was this one particular auntie that was doing fine until she hit a high note that almost made my choke on my vegetables.
After dinner I said my goodbyes and went back to KL seeking baby’s company.
