I finally decided that Les enfants do not deserve a spot on my blog tonight!

Gray contact lenses were an impulsive buy for me earlier today. The first time I ever put on coloured contact lenses. I regret to say that I think I like them better than my natural eye colour.

With my birthday coming up and the year ending I decided that it’s time to come in terms with some resolutions and see how close to reality they become.

1. No More ‘Diet’: because my body is not as bad as I make it out to be. I’m athletic and healthy, and it shows. My meals aren’t heavy, my milk is low fat and my sugar is not real sugar. I snack, but my snacks are healthy. The only things I could change is adding fruits and water. I stopped getting 2 litres of water every day a while ago, and that shows too.


2. Exercise: some weeks, I work out for over 60 minutes every single day. But when I get too busy for it I guilt trip myself into putting off more important things for exercise. There is just no point in doing that! It’s ok not to work out every day if there are time constraints! Two hours at the rink should kinda count as exercise, too, since I intend to do off-ice conditioning, too!


3. Spirals: I intend to have a 180 ° spiral in this following year. When Bookdood was helping me out with stretching yesterday, it was close to 180 but that was with holding on to something, and well – off ice. But with continuous stretching I’m sure it’s doable.


4. Spins: I plan to at least add backwards cross rolls to my spin.


5. Reading: At least one book per month. And finish the book Ai gave me! Yes, I’m still not done with it.


6. Spending limit: No one needs to know what it is, but the catch is not reaching it. It will include what I pay for lessons (excluding French).


7. Guilty Pleasures: If I can’t tell it to my close friends, then it’s gone!


8. Hair Length: Even though I keep saying I want to get a very short haircut, I do want to see how long it would get, or how long it would take for it to get as long as it was two years ago. I used to be able to sit on my hair! Sure, it was tough to maintain but there was a lot I could have done with it if it was in better shape. I guess the point here is that if I only trim it every few months, how long would it be in a year?


9. Craft Projects: I forgot how much I enjoyed doing things with my hands, so this year, I want to always have a project going on even if I don’t work on it every single day.


10. Reciting: Read the quran daily, after every prayer.

I recently got ahold of Cooking Mama 2 for the DS. It was a lot of fun, I spent most of last weekend playing it.

There are lots of new additions to the game. The cooking itself is more or less the same, but I think some of the recipe steps were combined (as much as I remember). And Mama’s voice from the Wii game returns! We also get to cook for people without instructions from Mama, and any failure in any of those steps results in a failed recipe. We also get to change the background setting, kitchen tools and Mama’s clothes/accessories. In about a weekend I had already transformed Cooking Mama into Princess Mama.

We had a little essay this morning and I guess I’ve been worried about it more than I thought I was. Had a bunch of short exhaustion induced dreams that told me a lot of things – some I probably already knew. I was dreaming about this test and that I would go in unprepared.

In the first dream, I was very sleepy and was falling asleep in my bed but then El Hazard came by and was showing me some books. I felt so shameless because here was a friend of mine talking to me and showing me interesting things, and what was I doing? Falling asleep! Then Bookdood came over and brought a book that sort of woke me up… or maybe it was El Hazard that brought it and Bookdood was just showing it to me. Anyway, I got up and started flipping through it saying, “I have this book!” but then I remembered that I gave it away.

It wasn’t a book I really had (I don’t even recall its name – but it looked like one of those picticionaries with sounds that I really loved as a child), but I guess giving away more than 60% of my book collection has affected me deeper than I thought it would. My favourite books as a child, and young adult. I don’t have that many books now, but at least I only have the ones I know I’ll still read. I hope my old books enlighten someone else’s path, as they did mine.

Maybe I’m not really strong. Maybe I appear like I’m strong and indifferent, but it takes me a long time to come to terms with certain events, sometimes years. There was this one thing that happened on my first year of college, and I have just come accept that it happened even though I thought I did.

I think I will go back to playing Persona 3! Meaning doing the New Game+ thing (or I dunno what it’s called here). I heard a bunch of things get carried over and that seems interesting. I want to see if I can max out all social links this time. A lot of my time was spent levelling so maybe it won’t be as bad this time. The only thing that’s holding me back is that I already started Odin Sphere sometime last week and didn’t have the time to play it since then (yet I’ve had plenty of time to play Cooking Mama 2 and Lifesigns).

Found pictures of my room on my phone. Weird picture quality!

If the following paragraph doesn’t make sense to you, then feel free to completely disregard it.

I don’t mind who visits my blog. Your visits flatter me, and I’m a person who is passionate about my writing, I want to be read. It flatters me that you want to read. But please do not go off making assumptions about what my posts could mean and think that I am slandering you, or anyone else – and then spread things based on your own assumptions. I will not put up with random people’s crap when it comes down to that.

I found some pictures that I took during our old riding lessons many months ago. My brother, the one pixeled out in the picture, was on his early riding lessons (like 2nd or 3rd) and he was so happy. The excitement practically showed on his face. I recall him doing really well. He didn’t understand how posting the trot should go early on, but he sat trots amazingly well for someone on his 2nd or 3rd lesson. Could you tell I miss horses and riding?

Today was such a weird day! I got all these concerned looks from people because of the bandage on my face. It’s just a bandage! And it’s just a cut (a result of being a klutz mostly). The only difference between this and other cuts and bruises (of which I have a countless amount) is that it’s on my face and people can see it. It must be the type of bandage I used, too. The waterproof ones look different than regular bandages, or at least the ones we have do, so I guess they make things seem more serious than they really are? Because the fuss everyone was making really made me feel bad. What’s under the bandages really is nothing at all.

My new facial therapist is so aweasome. Over the past year I’ve grown to hate facials because they are totally painful. When I say painful, I am not exaggerating. I fell off several horses, fell face first, knees first and you-name-it first ice skating and that was fine, I have knee and wrist problems that never really go away, I strikingly recall how my eyes felt when the effects of painkillers wore off after my surgery – and all that feels like absolutely nothing next to the pain I feel during facials. But my new facial therapist? I could have slept through the ‘painful’ parts of the facial, and you know what? I think I did!

On my way home, we were at a stop sign or a red light and I saw this very adorable scene. There was a man and a little girl who was probably about 1.5 or 2 years old. He was sitting on the grass holding up his phone like he was trying to take a picture of her, and she just stood there flashing a bright smile for the camera. It was probably a father/daughter thingy and it was so cute it made me smile. The two guys in the car next to mine were giving me weird looks though… they probably didn’t know what I was smiling at.

I put stickers on my camera after all.

Planned to miss ice skating practice today (since I didn’t renew my card yet anyway) because of a sore neck… but I think I just feel guilty because i haven’t been working out or stretching the past few days.

Gosh, the internet is really slow today.

Maybe I am kind of ‘growing up’ (note: the things that I will mention probably have nothing to do with growing up), but I am inspired to do all sorts of things that I would have never thought of doing five years ago.

To name one, I want a little garden to call my own. I want to plant strawberries, and roses, and jasmines. I want some lemon trees and beautifully trimmed grass. I want to be surrounding with green, and the fresh smell of life (cheesy I know, but this is what gardens smell to me – alive).

And the other, cooking! Well, not just cooking but baking too. Sure, I used to make some of my own meals in high school but it’s just not the same. I want to make macarons. I found this one recipe , but the other websites are timing out because the internet is so blah today!

I am thinking of making a gallery here, since I made a forum already (don’t go register just yet – I’m still figuring everything out!), and just to make uploading pictures just a little bit easier.