In Between

I only have one hour, so first thing first, blog. I'm also hoping to quickly look through and perfect a few slides before the end of the hour.

I've got this sore throat which had persisted for more than a week, and today I felt a bit feverish on and off.

So this afternoon on Skpe:

TTB: I will be visiting the doctor after work today
MFG: Go back early, take more rest and no gym today. Ok?
(Whoopss...)
TTB: Okay...
TTB: Today is after all Wednesday :p
MFG: :)

I'm off from gym on Wednesdays actually.

The later on MSN:

Carebear: Take care and no gym today ok?
TTB: Awwww...

Carebear you are SO sweet, thanks for being so caring as always, I'm so touched. :p

So, mum said go to sleep immediately after shower. But she always said it's not good to go to bed straight after shower, so she gave me an hour interval before bed time.

Are you having your speaker on? If so you are listening to a Chinese song MFG introduced to me the other day. Only remember to search for it on the web the last few days. Will be having it as the background music for a while. (Don't worry, won't be playing forever)

One thing about song lyrics, they seem to be describing all sorts of situations and feelings that are very true all the time. This song for instance makes be also believe that there are always relationships or feelings that are "in between".

It is said that only when two persons are apart, then only you find that there is this person who is in between habit and love. Just because you see each other everyday, you actually did not realize that you will miss the other person so much.

So, does it means that absence make the heart grow fonder?

Sometimes due to certain limitations and constraints we draw a line in between a relationship. We promise ourselves we will not go beyond friends. Can that be done all the time? I actually think that feeling grows on its own and it cannot be planned or dictated. So it is then possible that fondness grows over time and there might be crossing of lines unconsciously and unintentionally.

Perhaps then it is necessary to wait for the "right" time for a relationship to work? For two feelings to be mutual? I remember Anonymous commented to say that when this one day finally arrives where the time is supposed to be right, the chances are everything will no longer be important to us anymore. Well, it is possible I guess.

So then, must we wait till this day when two persons have to be apart in order to discover the true feelings towards each other?

Bad Cough

Coughing madly and it usually got worse during night time, especially when I want to go to sleep. Humph...

Was at LM last night with MC and BIL for workout. That was when MC told me there is this Peter C doing pump the next day. Great. Reconfirmed with FI this afternoon - just in case because his MSN message said "Holiday" hmm... Anyways, I told him I would be going to the class, hopefully. It's hard to say, the traffic from TTDI to Cheras is unpredictable. On top of that, my everyday job tasks at office are also quite unpredictable sometimes.

But hey! I made it.

It's great to be finally doing FI's class. Mostly familiar tracks, wait, actually all were familiar tracks. So familiar that I can even afford to "day dream" a bit. Which was not good, I missed a few of FI's timing and was doing slightly off beat movements during certain parts. Too bad I don't know track names, otherwise I could tell you what we did. But I think if I'm not mistaken, the chest track was called Push Up, that ended with push ups. Back track was the one with four clean and presses in a row (not helpful isn't it my information?). Triceps track was the one with kick-back (haha... which one?). Biceps, I know! Erm... actually I don't know, I thought that track might be called "Crazy".

Shoulder track was one of the old time favorites. One of FI's favorite instructions for shoulder tracks is the push up options - ladies on your knees, guys on your toes. Sometimes he might have the in between type of instruction. Tonight, he said ALL guys on your toes for push up, unless you are gay. Woow... Must put it this way meh FI?

MC did well for not giving up and persevere through the whole class, I'm so proud of you sis! It was actually a very tough class, what with FI actually pointing out anyone who cheated or gave up.

I was suppose to continue with writing my paper, but spent quite a long time talking to my "client" for my project. So blessed with getting a project - I need solution for my credit card bill!

And then I was told I need more sleep in order to recover from my illness. I need more time! Like maybe one extra day during the weekend or something like that.

Random Post

I am feeling a bit sick, I think it's the weather and infections from people around me. So, blame it to my "sickness" I'm actually lack of inspiration to write. It's actually quite difficult to write when one is lack of inspiration and the fact that nothing very interesting is happening doesn't help with the situation. I don't even have any baked item to share since I needed a break from baking to nurse my illness, so to speak.


Not done enough exercise has effectively piled up some fats on my waistline and pushed the reading of the scale to the greater number. Humph... And I think since I've watched more movies this weekend, I ate more junk food (which of course resulted in increase in weights lah).


MC and BIL managed to get tickets for The Dark Knights for Friday night. It was great! Batman is of course so macho and his "transportation's" were just WOW. There was this scene where we actually clapped because the stun he did on this bike (bike to put it mildly, I don't even know what is the correct description of his cool piece of erm... vehicle) were just SO COOL! And let me know what do you think of him crashing his Lamborghini. However, we were quite disagreeable with parents bringing young kids to this movie, as we've witnessed. The movie is quite dark and very disturbing. Perhaps we should say bravo to Heath Ledger's Joker for his great act in the character. You can really believe that your mind can be corrupted by him and will go insane if he starts to hypnotise you. It sends cold vibes through your spine. Do you suppose Joker really "killed" him? This was what they said: "Almost immediately after news of Ledger's death broke, many media outlets began speculating about a connection with insanity, chaos and darkness within the mind of The Joker and whatever personal demons may have ultimately contributed to the actor's demise, suggesting that Ledger never fully shook the character out of his head."


The next day, we went to watch Red Cliff (赤壁). Very beautiful and very good selection of casts. But if you are watching, be warned that this is only part one of the movie, there is not even an interval type of conclusion, it's just unfinished. Humph... now do we have to wait for one year or more for the second part?


Carebear is not teaching at TC tomorrow, I guess I will head to LM to workout with MC, she needs some "inspiration" and motivation, haha... Lets hope the gym is not too crowded so we can use some of the machines for weights train.

Just act cool...

Sometimes guys can be very cute when they act cool. They are worried sick deep down about what you are doing, but still try to appear cool and calm so that they will appear to be the most supportive person who have full confidence in you. And when I say act cool, I don't mean the very vain and full of themselves "Oh, I'm so cool" kind of acting cool; I mean the "I'm not worried and I totally trust that you can handle this" kind of acting cool (even though they know something might go wrong). Acting cool all because they don't want to alarm you or show doubts in your ability. Now, wouldn't you think that these guys are rather sweet?

Meanwhile, I so agree with acting cool even though the feelings are so strong - you don't want to drown other people with too much affection, because that's crossing the line. Act cool and don't show too much concern even though you are all hearts - you don't want to suffocate other people with too much attention, because it's not appropriate.

Just act cool...

Can I hug you too?

The other day OrangeMaple told me she didn't understand what I was reading. Okay... I was reading this series by Mary Balogh, a set of seven books all about the romance of the brothers and sisters in the Bedwyn family. I've only gone through the first quarter of my fourth book and got rather bored. The story lines were almost the same.

Then MC came to my "rescue" by giving me this new series of books by Shanna Swendson to read. She gave me three books and though I'm only on the first book, I cannot wait to finish them because it's really very interesting and magical, literally. The story is about magical people existing in "normal" people's world; it's about selling magic and so this "normal" girl has been recruited into this company called Magic, Spells and Illusions Inc, hmm... how cool! It's also very hilarious, check these out, it's from the first book called Enchanted Inc...

I wondered what he'd do if I kissed him on the cheek, but I was rusty on CPR, and I doubted it would be an appropriate way to interact with a coworker even if he didn't have a heart attack.

"we are a good bunch, though we have a few skeletons in our closets." I had a sick feeling she meant that literally. "And what workplace doesn't have a monster or two?" She probably meant that literally as well.

... he was still green, and his eyes were red. It was almost like the Incredible Hulk, but he didn't get bigger, just scalier and greener, and horns sprouted out of the sides of his head. I'd heard about having monster bosses. I'd had monster bosses. But this was ridiculous.

So, this is what I'm reading right now. After this would be another two books, the titles itself are enough to humour me "Once Upon Stillettos" and "Damsel Under Stress".

Today I'm back home early, suppose to work on my project but I'm still here blogging. Need to catch some sleep because I feel like a flu-attack soon. Meanwhile, had muscle ache from last night's pump class. Yes, it was tough as usual, but the muscle ache is mainly due to lack of "training". Only did one pump class last week, so no wonder I was struggling last night. I could feel the "oh, die!" voice at the back of my mind as soon as we started doing overhead presses during warm up. After maintaining my 10kg for the squat, I decided to reduce my chest track weight to 5kg, and geeezzz... luckily I did. It was the track that sung "I'm not dead, just floating", but I did feel dead.

Soon after I heard Carebear announcing 6 clean and presses in a set, I decided to cut weights for back track too, to 7kgs. Survived but felt like throwing up. California for triceps - you can imagine all the agonizing scream, can't you? Needless to say how I suffered during biceps. Forget about holding on to any weights for lunges, which was still one from new release. Shoulder track, new release - and someone requested for "Get your hands off my girl" for next week's shoulder track!! Horror! Yes Carebear, please do point out the person who had requested for that, so if I feel like throwing my plates after the track, I know which direction. Okay, I should be more sporting, after all, we are all there at the class to be tortured and we should be enjoying ourselves and enduring all the pain. But this particular song annoys me especially the part where the song goes "ha..ah, haa... ah" - that's when I felt like screaming. The worse part is this part where the song sounds like it had ended BUT continue with more torturing moves. Arghh...

You know... my worries of not being able to find my guinea pig a "babysitter" have been really nagging me. Poor thing. We are all going to be away for the Hong Kong trip. I know it's still long time till then, and I can almost hear some people saying, it's just a guinea pig. No no... if that's your baby, do you have the heart to leave her with some strangers? Feel like crying by just thinking about it. But, MFG, you will take care of her for me, won't you? Just keep her away in your guest room and she won't bother anyone. I promise she will be a good girl... and a very good company for the week. :)

Cake Decoration Level Up

Went for a one and a half hour swim this morning and headed to ICCA in Mont Kiara with MC for our lunch at Soulded Out, then the long looking forward fun candy moulding demonstration class. Got loads of great ideas there and all could be used to "level-up" my cake and cupcake decorations. So, watch out for the new cake designs.

Candy moulding is basically melting up candy melts or chocolates and pour them into the moulds with various designs. Some of the moulds comes in very detail designs, that's when we will do "paintings". With the coloured candy melts, I should be able to add cheerful colours onto the cupcakes, and best of all the chocolate cakes. I am also now able to make lollipops with candy melts.

Okay... the drawback is, MC and I thought the taste of the candy melts are rather awful. It's a bit too waxy I think that's how compound chocolates taste - Okay, wait, I think the ones we tasted are the block chocolates. We haven't tried the ones from the candy melts yet, will find out how the candy melts taste, we took back two of the lollipops.

Of course we can still use expensive chocolates but limited to the dark, milk and white chocolates only. Cannot do purple, yellow, green or orange coloured stuff.

These could pretty much give you a sneak preview of my future cake decorations...

Close to culture shock

Haven't been to Axis for combat for so long. Today I went because I so wanted to meet up and join a class with KG, haha... Now, the thing about not going to a particular place is that you tend to forget how to go about inside it. It's like going to a new country or new company for instance.

So what happened was, I arrived at Axis and parked at a familiar spot in the carpark. Proceeded to the lift with no problem but the confusion started when I had to choose the floor. I selected "2" but luckily there's this other gym member (though he was going to ground floor) who told me gym is at "C". Whoopss... At least I didn't get lost then.

No problem in the locker room. Only a bit taken back after the class when I was waiting for the a shower cubicle to be available. Since when we do not queue up for our turns? We just go stand randomly near to whichever cubicle and just use it even though it's not your turn? Geezz... Then it was at the hair dryer area, how come one person uses two hair dryers? There were two persons doing that when I tried to get hold of one to use. Humph...

The class timetable is not different and I was also a bit disorientated when I went into the studio, I think there had been some changes to the arrangement, or colour of the wall? Oh, new mats. Combat class was good though, I'm not crazy about the new release but it's one of the best releases and I'm quite fond of the tracks. Master C's class was the usual high standard but the crowd was a bit quiet compared to how I had remembered Axis' combaters. Someone missing?

Before the class started, we were trying our very best to get ourselves to a spot somehow near the stage, but clear of the holy-water reachable radius. Managed to "catch-up" with little bro while we sorted our standing positions out. Looking good little bro, though tired and wet.

Got myself more birthday wishes today. I quite like belated wishes and presents, it makes my birthday celebration seemed very extended. KG, thanks for the present, your presents never go wrong. And I love your personalized message.

Also had lunch with gal friend today, if you are reading this, thanks for lunch and the present. I'm glad you enjoyed my stories and yes, I know the final few posts were a bit sad. But what to do, life is life, and how happy we are is really fully depending on how we want to feel.

Finally, following up on my plan of getting my precious little pig her new cage - got one, and I'd to say they finally have a size that makes sense. The last time I surveyed, they were either too huge, or as small as the one I had. The one I got is just nice, though my pig is a bit "short" to do a graceful leap back into the cage, but she had managed, I'm so proud of her. I think tilting the cage slightly to facilitate her jumping would be a good idea. Piggy is happy overall. :)