Hair Loss

It's amazing how 2 months ago, I was still boasting that I hardly had any hair fall daily and I could feel my hair growing thicker.

2 months on, I lost almost 1/3 of the thickness by dropping almost 100 strands daily, after 2 weeks that's 2000 strands! May not seem a lot compared to the 100000 we have, but it's kinda visible...

I could see my scalp very clearly now and it kinda scares me! So I did a little research and I realised it could be a combination of wrong diet + lack of sleep + too much alcohol.

So for the whole year, or at least monitor for 3 months, I'm going to do the following and observe for any good results in growing my hair back:

1. Cut down of caffeine and salt. I've been taking coffee daily and drinking those MSG soups in food centres
2. Exercise regularly. Not too difficult since I'm already am.
3. Sleep at least 8 hrs per day. Which means I have to KO by 10pm! Wow, this really left me with 1-2 hr of exercise only. 
4. Eat more protein. Woohoo, chicken salad anyone?
5. Do oil treatment on hair at least once a week
6. Avoid hair drying, combing wet hair or de-tangling unnecessary.
7. Trim hair at least once every 3 months

The vitamins and supplements neede for healthy and thick hair are insane!

1. Vitamin B-complex - 50 mg. of the major B-vitamins (including folate, biotin and inositol)
2. Vitamin B-6 - 50 mg. of vitamin B-6
3. Vitamin C with bioflavonoids - one to two grams daily
4. Vitamin E - 400 to 800 IU daily
5. Beta-Carotene - 10,000 to 15,000 IU of beta-carotene daily
6. One recommended daily dose of magnesium, sulfur, zinc
7. Silica (horsetail) - 300 mg. daily
8. Nettle - 250 mg. three times daily
9. Flaxseed oil -  one tbsp daily or one tablet
10. Beta-Carotene - 10,000 to 15,000 IU of beta-carotene daily

See updates 3 months later! Attached pictures for proof later... Even a messy parting, my scalp is shown super clear! I find the thickness of the parting too thick! It wasn't used to be this way!

Patience...

I did it! I'm full of crazy!

I completed my first ever full marathon at SCMS 2012 today! Never felt prouder of myself. I targeted myself to complete at 6 hrs... which turned out to be quite a feat! My cousin who runs marathons regularly and has a super fit bod finished at that time. As for me, I started walking at ard 25km... all the way, until the last 150m. :P

Still, it was an accomplishment and if there should be a next time, I should really start prepping 6 months ago. It is really not easy! This time round, I managed to run for the first 10km without stopping, I am so happy even though my pace was like 7.30 mins per km, not my usual timing. However, it's 42km, need to conserve energy!

Run faster also means I can avoid the afternoon sun. I was wearing sunglasses, so I thought It didn't feel that hot. Wrong! My body now covers in the the latest fashion: colour blocks. As I wore knee guard, that part is totally safe from the sun.

Still, my legs are not as bad as the GE run, where I walked super fast. I was strolling during the path at Gardens  By The Bay.

The 42km is rather boring too, as about 16km is at East Coast. And after East Coast, we were at construction site. Imagine the smell. Bleah.

For now, I shall stick to 21km first. Till the day I can complete it within 2 hrs! Hah!

Now my stomach is like a bottomless pit. Ate bananas, bread, had dinner where I actually had 2 servings of rice. Still not satisfied! ^_^

While hanging around at Northpoint

I met Cindy and Xueling consecutively in a time span of 15mins!

Cindy said... I really lost a lot of weight, coz now she can see my boobs -_-|||  Unlike previous time it was all lumped tgt... KNS... lol

Xueling's baby is super cute! Super attitude also, ha ha... XL, being the usual self, was telling me nonchalantly  "Today she bad mood leh!" while playing with her baby.. I immediately;y stepped back and checked if the baby cried... babies are cute till they cry you know!

Luckily baby just pout and frowned. She must be thinking this Jie Jie is odd, and a bit old... lol... XL told her baby to call me Jie Jie leh~~~ LOL

Interestingly, Cindy and Xl used to be primary school classmates wor... yet I'm closer to both of them when neither of them is to each other. Ha~~~

I'm a friendly person!

Bought a bag for Jamie and myself, can't resist coz the colour is too pretty! Even Jia commented "So nice! And it's so you!"

So I buy lor...  Now I just have to find opportunity to utilize it.

Great Eastern Women Run 2012

I started with the GE run last year at 5km.. who had expected that I'll be doing 21km this year? And it's my 3rd round so far... The other 2 were SCMS2011 and Sundown2012.

Each time my timing improves.. although Sundown would probably had the best timing if not for the 2 toilet breaks... still the rain came and it was wonderful to jog.

So this time round, I actually slinged a waist pouch over my shoulders. Kim said I looked very garang. During my first 5km, I was actually very fast, so when I ran past this les couple, the butch gave a very impressive thumbs up. According to Kim, she said I looked so tough from behind! ha~~~

After 5km, all went downhill.. I was so out of breathes... which I think I should get used to this by now, but now, I stopped running and started walk-jog, which was very bad for my legs. Coz after that I couldn't jog again, as leg cramps threatened to come out, so I just walked very fast.

In the end, I was within my 3.5 hrs timing, I clocked 3h 15mins (unofficial). Gotta check the timing 2 days later.

And I took my first booth photo! In the past, I nv managed to take it coz the queue was so long! Heng Kim wanted and I also want. We stood for about an hr or so before it's out turn. By then, we could only take a photo only, but Kim didn't want the hard copy so I took it. Anyway, BaiCapture was super efficient, I could download the photo by evening!

Happy run! More to come!

I was so funny....

I was searching something for something on my blog when I came across this post, laugh die me....

I think I'm somewhere between Just Fat and Plump!!! I like to gek my collar bones now, ha ha ha!

THIS BLOG IS DEAD!

And I'm here to revive it!

I'm starting my new job at CXXXX next Monday. Looking back at my past, I had changed 4 jobs in 4 years since graduation. Tsk.. really... But my HR friend topped me with her 6 jobs in 5 years, so, I'm not that bad, considering 2 of the jobs lasted 6 months, and the longest being 2.5 yrs.

Seriously, I wondered if I should have leave ST. I was having such a high salary, and now I'm back to fresh grad pay. Grrr...

But then, I was so depressed at my performance in ST, leaving for the best thing because I know I would be a drag to them, I can't have them always helped me.

I felt that this year I had all kinds of wishes came true, I remembered telling an JXX colleague when I left the company that I might want to do system engineer. Well, here I am, starting work as one this Monday.

When I left the last company, I told myself, I have to go back to being an engineer, but not software. Tadah, wish came true.

It was really ironic, as initially, I didn;t want the job at first, as they required a diploma grad. Thinking that the pay would be half of what I had, I just swayed into the interview with no stress. And I think I kinda aced the interview, personal record coz I wasn't nervous. I was being myself, being a little joker. When they asked if I could deal with stress, I answered: "Yeah, no issue, ST has good stress training. But you probably hear me screaming in the washroom."

Very me right?

Within an hour after the first interview on Monday, 3 Sep 2012, I received a call to get me down for second interview on Wed. Oh, I had 6 panels for the first interview plus a technical test.

I kinda BS my test, but the engineers seemed quite impressed, well, the power of smoking people! Ha ha! :P

I thought I would flung my 2nd interview, as I kinda imitated how the Japanese might talk with not so good English. Heck, the Jap Director was speaking like that, so I thought it didn't sit with him well, although the team lead was very amused and laughed, "Ya ya ya, you are like that!" Then proceed to taichi away the attention by telling the Director and HR manager that I did well for my technical test.

Phew....

So I was offered the job on Thursday, and I signed the contract on Friday, a very good start to September!

this blog is dying

ho ho.

no life, no job, no money. =(

the silliest thing i've done today

I missed kickboxing, so I made a last minute decision to attend FF AMK at 4.20pm. When I left house, it was already 3.55pm, so I took a taxi and spent $8 on the ride.

I reached 5 mins earlier, the class starts on the dot. After kicking for 15mins, I was out of breathe, and dizzy, so I went to bath.

Very -_-|||

In Mourning

I'm mourning for my right front tooth, coz it lost a leg yesterday while having steamboat.

We were using metal chopsticks, and someone, I bite too hard into it, and the edge dropped. 

Super sad, coz I had always been so proud of my 2 huge front teeth, and the perfect rows of teeth.

Now it just looked disfigured, super angry with myself for being so clumsy.

Had a bad start on Monday, bad ending on Sunday.

Argh!

Gay and Gay

Just made my very first few gay friends yesterday. Conclusion: They have better skin, they are better dancers and they are damn friendly!

We were at Taboo yesterday, I basically was a gate crasher coz I went in through my friend, July. At first, I had no idea they were all gay, I just thought they want to sabotage the birthday boy at a gay club. Then, July told me they were all gay, I was really surprised, coz I didn't catch the gay vibes, and really, they all so cute leh!
Maybe I didn't catch the gay vibes coz I didn't have gay friends. I do now. =)

Once in the club, I couldn't stop observing them. All those meat, see and touch. Ha ha. July told them it was my virgin trip to gay club, so all asked me how's my experience. Seriously, it was great! However, through their questions, I realized how insecure they could be. Birthday asked me whether do I felt weird being with them. I told him I do not. I didn't tell him just because they are label queer doesn't mean they are weirdos. In fact, they are so fun to be with! Another asked, if some of the guys were more effeminate than me, I had to agree with him, coz some of the guys can twist their waists better than I do. Well, my waist is hardly visible, maybe that's why.

And really, despite dancing at close distance, it doesn't make me uncomfortable, just ticklish. Ha ha ha. One kept raffling my hair and gyrate to my butt, which was because he was drunk and makes me a little not used to it. He even draw an imaginary line down from my cleavage to my naval. A very weird experience to let a man touch that way knowing he will not be turned on. Lol.

When we left the club, a couple was so nice to hold my and my friend's hands when we walked to Maxwell Food Centre. Really sweet and thoughtful guys.

I wonder,  if nice and cute guys were gay, what is the chance of us ladies finding a straight guy who is nice? All the straight guys I knew so far are either married and jerks.

I felt like it's been years...

I'm already starting to feel lethargic...

Frenzy Shopping!!!

Goodness... The month of February I splurge on beauty products, this month I splurge on shoes, what's for May???

Time to hide those credit cards!

Opps! MIA again

So much to blog, so little time as usual. The app on my Android isn't too friendly due to touchscreen... Hates touchscreen now... Waiting for Sony to come up with Xperia S Pro!!! Hee....

My panda eyes are getting darker each say... must really sleep early!!!

Ciao ciao!

Update on my work life soon!

URun 2012

Joined my first 10km today! Better to start small steps first, 21km last year was a shame, clocking at 4 hrs! Anyway, my aim for today was 1.5 hrs, and I did it! My finishing time was 1.28mins! Woohoo! If I jogged all the way, maybe even 1 hr 15mins!

After the 6km mark, I was sprinting for 1min, and then brisk walked for 4 mins... and I stopped at every hydration point... considering all these rests... 1.5 is not bad already right?!?

My next coming run is 21km, and I aim to complete in 3hrs!

I can do it!

Fitness First BodyFirst

So, I had completed the BodyFirst Program. It's been an amzing hell, felt that my body is all firmed up. Too bad I can't remember much about the exercise I did...

5 more days till my 10km, I am so unprepared!

I think i got picked by a les.

Attended a very atas Italian dinner last Thursday with my company. It was a treat by our new partner, a witty 65yo French guy. His wife is gorgeous!!!

So, it was my very first atas dinner, seriously. I used to watch in movies, where these atas ppl attended dinners, they would be served with wine while waiting and chit-chatting. Then we were served the meals course by course, with our wine kept refilling. The meals were fantastic! It was at No Menu, at Boon Tat Street. I had no idea how much it is, but it was an authentic Italian restaurant, run by an Italian family! They were so friendly, I was just browsing the books, and the chef mum came to me and started explaining to me!!!

Then I went to join my colleagues in the chit-chat, although I still felt a bit awkward.Once I started warm up,m everything felt good. I even greeted the wives of my colleagues like an ang moh, with kisses on the cheeks, LOL. Seriously, I enjoyed it.

The dinner ended at around 10.30, but we chatted until 1am. Boss asked if I want to continue with them, I stunned for a while, and said yes. Well, it was a good time to bond, and being my first outing with them, I don't want to miss. We had wanted to go club 83 but it was closing, so we went to a karaoke pub a few units beside. Boss didn't join us by then coz he was probably grounded by his wife. LOL

Anyway, the pub was called HQ Karaoke and Pub. At first glance, I thought there was a lot of females. Throughout the night, while waiting for our turns to sing, we discovered that all of them could sing, even the bartender! Damn good! So good that my colleagues and I were too paiseh to sing. I was the only chinese, so I understand what they sang, my colleagues, all non-chinese, were awed by those powerful vocals despite not understanding a single chinese word.

I secretly thought there were a lot of les... but I just thought they could be those arty-farty pple who doesn't work regular hours like us. Anyway, we had such fun time that my colleagues refused toleave after singing the last song, Partly because we waited for quite some time too, as it rotated between the tables with 2 songs, and we happened to be the last table. Being their tech support, they asked me to "troubleshoot" for them out of habit, and jokingly. Seeing how 为难 the bartender was, I told them there was nothing I could do since they already plugged out the system. Sometimes, these ang moh, really had warped thinking, They really think I simi ma en hiao!

After paying the bill, we headed out for the door. I apologized to the bartender (les) once more, and she gave me a squeeze on the shoulder, and told me that we should come back when free. Seriously, I don't know if that was a hint or something, but I just got all ticklish and siam, telling her it was itchy. You know how sensitive my shoulders can be. LOL. She's actually quite nice looking.

My colleague gave the cab driver fee when I boarded the taxi. So paiseh can... but the next day, I returned full amount to him coz I don't wanna feel like owed him something. He's spanish, so he was being gentlemen, but  factually, I'm just not used to being pampered by male colleagues this way. It is an Asian thing?

So I went google on this pub, and found out that it was opened by Irene Ang (Phua Chu Kang's wife Rosie). Oh... no wonder the crowd type was so concentrated...

I don't mind going back again, coz they are all so friendly!

BodyFirst part 2

So I had my second lesson of BodyFirst last Monday. True to his words, my instructor gave me a set of see-easy-but-tough workouts.

I started with push up, 15 times.

Followed by this set, when I hold dumbells close towards my chest, then with one leg on step board, and I gotta butt push outwards, and push my arms in front. Woah!!!~~~!!!

The ball twist looked simple, but it was so strenuous following up after 5 times. All I had to do was to grab a ball, from my left side, I lifted it up and turned to my right, with my knees bent. -_-||| Almost gave up.

Then I had to throw punches in cruch position, high~~~

As  if the dumbell push wasn't enough, I had to do dumbbell arm raise with one leg raise!!!!

Last set was like paddling during swimming, except that I was doing it with face up and my legs in 45 degrees. Definitely good for those who wanna trim their tummy!

The amazing thing was, I started my cardio (10 minutes threadmill) before 2 sets of the above. Then when I went for cycling, I did one last set, it was easier than the first two. I thought that it would be tougher since my body is tired, but no, coz after building up the muscles during the first 2 sets, the muscles was there to help me in my last set. Interesting!

Having my last lesson tomorrow, I still not sure if I wanna get my PT Zin to continue. Coz like he said, it's expensive to hire a personal trainer. Haiz...

See how...

super sianz evening

well, I asked LL what that guy thought of me... LL, being the straightforward LL I knew, just told me straight that he had no sparks with me.

I think he 看照片被电到，看本人被吓到！

I can't help thinking about this: if I were slimmer, and I would probably look prettier, would he say otherwise?

Nair mind, it's his loss!

However, can't help feeling sianz, coz that striked off one of my NY resolution: get a bf!

Fuck lo!

Gonna use the time that would be wasted on pak tor to take master degree, as least I will be happier, stressed but happy.

Gonna stalk more A&F cuties!

Exciting Day

I finally met that guy! We went on a 3some date to Korean BBQ with him and my buddy LL from NTU. He was LL's friends, and had saw my picture with LL, and he got LL for my contact. When LL told 有人被我电到，我是爽到～～～

Knowing that a guy was interested in me, I was super elated! So I aske LL to give him my FB. However, after fb chatting for almost 4 months, I almost lost interest already. So I whatsapp LL, and then she planned this outing for us. As he was a really close friend of her, I also knew a lot of things about LL. Turned out that it wasn't easy fot LL to arrange an outing as she always so busy, so she seldom planned outing coz she was always afraid that she can't make it last minute.

I really appreciated her effort, and she will be glad to know that her effort will not be wasted. =)

I really like his voice. =D.

I'm so gonna re-label my posts when I'm super free. So messy.

Update: Nothing is so gonna happen between us. 不来电!

OMG, I'm still at work!

Well, I didn't stay until so late. I went for gym class before coming back to office, some stuff need to wait before I can continue working.

It's my own fault really, I had put in the wrong backup tape, hence, the backup didn't start until I came to office in the morning. And since the recent backup is taking 12 hrs to complete, so here I am, waiting for it to finish and change tape.

I loved my gym class! 原来body strengthening is so fun de! And pushing your body to work so hard, I felt happy too!

Hmm.. a list of what I did today:

1) My PT went through my physical checklist, and my aim. I want to jog correctly for my 10km marathon. 90minutes to complete 10km is achievable!

Usually, for different distance, the training program is also different. I might be wrong thouugh, can't really remember the weeks for 10km and 21km.
5km - 5 weeks
10km - 8 weeks (?)
21km - 12 weeks (?)
42km - 20 weeks

Of course, the earlier the better! I'm late for my 10km...

2) Then we tried the threadmill to see how I jog. I'm jogging at around 6km/hr. My PT, Zin said my jogging method is quite ok, except that I need to lift up my knee more, so that I don't strain so much.

3) Here comes the best part, I need strength training. I laid down on the floor, with dumbells on both hands. My legs were raised 90 degrees with knees bend. There, I had to do 2 sets of 15 each of wide chest lift, straight arm lift and raise arm lift. YOu might not know what I'm talking, so I show you the pictures. (To be added)

4) Followed by squats, with the assistance of 2kg ball. Then I had to stand on one leg and lift the ball repeatedly.

5) I did 1 minute planking, almost died. Followed by crunches and leg lift 45 degrees. When I did the second planking, I had to lift one leg up, I died on the spot. ha ha.

That's all I did, but my legs are still shaking a bit lo... I just burned 600kcal.

Oh yah, for my weight, 1kg is 4500kcal. Time to stop popping bak hu rolls into my mouth. :P