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Pilates & Yoga

To my surprise abs and hips don’t hurt as much as I’ve expected after my very first pilates class last night. Man the workout was tough though! I mean, I’ve been doing yoga regularly for a while now and is beginning to feel the difference as my body is getting stronger; there’s no better feeling than to know you can complete every pose that you previously thought was impossible.

Anyway back to Pilates. I’ve attended chi-Pilates classes before and it’s a dynamic workout on body movement. In Pilates, I learnt that breathing and concentration is very important in order to stay balanced and to make each pose possible; it is quite different than yoga. Pilates focuses on abs, hips and back and apparently after a long period of practice you’ll get a flat stomach and a dancer-like bodyline!  ( now who doesn’t want that right?)

Moderation and persistence is key to any workout.

My Sister’s Keeper

I just finished reading the book “My Sister’s Keeper” late last night which totally bawled my eyes out. I’m not really good at doing reviews but this is one book I would recommend anyone to read; it’s fictional but it really makes you ponder upon the important things in life and values on family ties. How, in practice, we see morals more important than ethics and how love transcends law. I won’t spill too much here but in general, the story is about a sixteen year old girl suffering from a rare type of leukemia and her younger sister was genetically formed to be a perfect match for any donations she needed to help fight the disease.

Now I am really looking forward to watch the movie as I heard the movie ending is different from the book.

http://www.jodipicoult.com/my-sisters-keeper.html

Bin’s Birthday

I went back to Ipoh during end of October for my bestfriend’s birthday. She's a 4 months preggar who has just recently surpassed her rather challenging first trimester, so the girls in hometown and I decided to bring her out for a nice dinner on her big day.

Nothing too fanciful and yet cozy enough for a fun girly night out together. We had dinner at this recommended restaurant called Citrus Cafe followed by karaoke sesh. ( both places were my first visit)

We were just drinking "ribenas" while Michelle was only allowed sky juice. :)

And oh check out the sumptous meal we had!

Happy birthday, Bin! xoxo

Terry Fox Run 2009

Today is my third year taking part in the annual Terry Fox Charity Run. It was a very humid and hot Sunday.

I like their shirt design for this year

before the race started

Deepavali

Last Thursday was the company Raya and Divali open house for all employees at Celcom. Being in a multi-racial country, our company will throw big parties for major festivals (along with the public holiday) to promote the notion of One Malaysia.   

Sand Art at the lobby

Photo moment with our CEO, Dato’ Sri Shazali Ramli

Me and Mr. Blackberry

Team Group Photo

Weekend means

 a refreshing 6km run in the morning. The after rain breeze was rather cooling.

being pampered by eldest brother on happy food

Chocolate and Green Tea ice-cream at Gelatissimo

pigged out at Plus One Shabu Shabu, Imbi KL for Tim’s birthday celebration

Sunset

Drove past this amazing sunset on my way from work yesterday

 

Grafitti Art

John Heng and Beng Loon asked me if I was interested in graffiti shooting about two months ago. I thought, graffiti is an art right? LoL So I tagged Winnie along on a beautiful Saturday and we did some shooting somewhere in KL Central Market.

 

Some arty farty shots...

Bridesmaid Dress in Distress

The worst bridesmaid nightmare is when you couldn’t get the darn dress right and knowing you’d be wearing that dress walking down the aisle before the bridal couple, where the entire stadium of spectators will be looking at you looking silly before anyone else, is quite daunting.

I had a very similar issue at my best friend, Bin’s wedding where the bridesmaid dress turned out to be a complete disaster and we had to get something off the rack at the very last minute. The panicky feeling and stress is definitely something I wouldn’t want to go through again.

And yet.

I just cannot believe history is repeating itself again!

My other bestfriend, Claire is going to get married in two weeks I'm honored to be the maid of honour.

Few months ago, Claire has engaged a wedding planner to bring me to handmade our bridesmaid dress by an acclaimed tailor. We have opted for the design below, it’s a little unconventional, not too bridesmaidee looking and yet it’s trendy enough for us to wear again in the future.

However, much to our dismay the dress has turned out to be like this instead, a very far cry from the picture above!

Dress 1

Claire and Justin were very disappointed with the dress and they decided to scrap this and look for something else. But since they are residing in London and Cynthia (my other bridesmaid) in Melbourne, I’ll have to do the research and homework for the second dress.