Little Frolick

The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. - Henry Miller.

cut offs and numbers and what-not

did my bit for the public forum today. it was held at the HDB hub in Lorong 6 - such a pretty and grand building! huge as! lovely auditorium too. good sound system and wonderful chairs. most of the people attending the talk were of BMI < 25 i am certain, which kinda defeated the purpose of the whole talk. i guess there were some chubby ones and i did see a few large waistlines. anyway, after the whole affair was over i was surrounded by members of the public with questions they had about losing weight. one of them was this really thin lady who was asking me really strange questions about losing weight... she really didn't need to lose any weight i don't think!

i still think a lot of this fascination and preoccupation with weight loss is terribly unhealthy. one lady, in her late 50s, told me that she's been working out 4 times a week, swimming, body sculpt and yoga - next her instructor is going to teach her how to work out with a medicine ball (!!). well, she was worried because the clinic told her that she was overweight cos her BMI was 25. and that she needed to lose more weight. poor lady. we told her that she was fine, and probably it was mostly her muscles making her heavy; not that she was fat and overweight.

that's the deal with cut-offs, and the whole idea of normality. science LOVES to categorise everything in order to understand things - but hey, we humans are here to use science as a tool and not be victims of our tools.

well, that was fun though; i think if i ever get asked to talk at a public forum again about exercise and weight loss i'm gonna put my trainers on and bring a theraball, bands and some dumbells down too.

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our workgroup is off to pig out at Ellenborough Cafe tomorrow - yippee! nothing like a good buffet to rewards ourselves for months of hard work; noses to the grind and all. i think my working relationship with one of the girls in my group is sour beyond repair and if you ask me, i don't really care. as long as we don't kill each other in the hospital it should be fine.

the ward sisters have also invited me to someone's birthday celebrations this coming week. groovy. i love being invited to social events! just gotta find a way to squeeze my work, my projects, inviting that wonderful overseas guest down in december, moving to my new place, helping my friend to move and other things into this month... my head is spinning!

at the same time i'm hoping to find a way to get headway to moving overseas - i know it's far away cos i'm still serving my bond; but it's always nice to imagine myself in a place that's less humid and people don't say 'la' at the end of every sentence. also, perhaps i'd like to forget the smell of char kway teow and other oily foods...

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posted by: crysalis at 22:18 | link | comments |

yawn

i don't have to vote. 

small surprise.

i don't think i'll ever get to vote.

little wonder.

 

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posted by: crysalis at 00:23 | link | comments |

FINALLY!!!

i FINALLY found an apartment that wants me - and that i want too. after a whole year of searching and meeting all sorts of weird agents and flat owners and condo owners and weird tenants and seeing yucky sluice lined places i'm going to be moving into a little flat on Dover Road in May. and i am happy. but i'm going to be sooo broke after paying rent month after month. we'll see how it pans out; one can't have everything can they?!

 

posted by: crysalis at 23:55 | link | comments |

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