simply one of my favorite dinners

Was at dinner with my ex-boss. I always like catching up with him, he had been my best mentor, now very good friend, very generous so always my dinner sponsor, good listener so I can tell him almost everything (in case he is reading, must throw in more compliments heh), he's a person who can give me many points of views and for me, getting a guy's point of view is very refreshing.

And I was actually surprised that he's also into Facebook-ing. Thought he wouldn't bother with such application. Haha... So I've just added him in Facebook and gave him my blog address. I wonder if he'd started (or had given up) reading my blog yet. So since the conversation topic was about blog, I was wondering out loud what nickname I should be giving him in here. I thought of either calling him J, or Triple A (TA).

I think TA would be more unique since a lot of people would fit into a nickname of "J". So, our favorite dinner topics would of course be catching up and comparing notes on ex-company stories, my work, his work, and my romance which currently is at the MFG Episode. You know what, one of TA's advice is to step back, away from MFG a little. Yeah, I don't want to start pressuring him, do I?

So many things to talk about when it comes to MFG, but perhaps doing food review here is less depressing:

Fresh bread with tomato salsa and balsamic vinegar.

Cream of clam chowder. SO delicious.

My main course. Smoked chicken, peas and cream. Okay, what's with my overly creamy menu. I love creamy stuff, but would always regret doing so, vow that I will never order such items in the future, but ended up ordering similar items.

Dinner completed with this ultimate chocolate dessert. I'm sure this would be what MFG would order if he was there. Three layer semi freddo - milk, white and dark. Simply yummy! MMS-ed MFG a picture of this then but no response. Spoke to MFG the next day and found out apparently he couldn't download MMS on his phone. Humph...

Stocking up butter?!

I was late for combat today! And KG already left gym, so didn't get to meet up with her, instead, I had Stan's company for class besides the regular Wookie. And of all days, today I brought a 2-piece top, on top of that, the inner piece is with 12 hooks and the top piece with 9 hooks, so I had spent more time changing. Humph...

Despite the fasting month, the class was actually very crowded, luckily I was able to squeeze in between Stan and Wookie, well, actually more of this other member. I hope I didn't mess up their spaces. I must have missed combat class for so long, some of the tracks were so unfamiliar to me.

Skipped pump to nurse my shoulder injury, and also since Carebear was not teaching. I came home quite early and mum immediately gave me a quiz. She told me Tesco is having offer price for butter, it's only at RM2.90 instead of the RM4.00 ish per piece. So she told me to guess how many pieces had she bought. My guess, just to exaggerate it a bit, was 10 pieces. Haha... and I was so wrong, you know how many she bought? 25 pieces!!! Geezzz... Okay people, you can order many many cakes okay, I have stocks. Haha... But I bet the butter will all be gone after my Raya baking.

New highlights

Okay, if you want to only reply to one particular person in Facebook, click ONLY the reply icon underneath that particular person's name, don't type in the readily available box, that's reply all.

Anyways, I had my haircut today complete with new highlights. I mean, I've got my highlights back again, the colour had been completely trimmed off after half a year of haircut. MC wanted a hairdo like mine and I thought our beloved hairdresser had done a good job. MC just needs to grow her hair (the back part) slightly longer and yes, we'll be like twins. Haha...

Just baked a lemon cheesecake for my aunty's birthday, Wednesday. I'm still waiting for my cheesecake to cool so that I can transfer it out from the oven (leaving in oven to cool first to avoid cake from sinking). I don't think I can wait till the cake is cool enough to be transferred into the fridge, maybe I'll just leave it overnight and put it into the fridge tomorrow. I only baked the cake at 9pm just now because I'd forgotten to buy lemon for this LEMON cheesecake hence I can't bake last night. Tsk, so forgetful! Or rather, distracted during shopping. Humph...

There were a few friends whom I've not met for a long long time. Today we (me and my official entourage, MC and BIL) met up with two of my ex-colleagues, from my previous previous job. We started off as hoteliers, my gal friend and me is not off to the corporate world with him remaining in the hotel industry. It's gal friend's birthday next week and I wanted to pass her the present.

I'm recently "converted", I think L'occitane makes good gifts.

Don't you just love their wrapping?

And since I've forgotten to take a picture during wrapping, can only give you a sneak peak.

Our hang out place today was at Old Town at Jalan Cheras, it's a stand alone outlet. I would love to have TeaRoom created along this way. Spoke to him about TeaRoom and he said it's going to be tough business unless I'm quite sure of the support I will be getting, instead of just relying on new market. He said I will never be able to survive with people like Starbucks, or Old Town, around. Sigh... Risk, risk, risk.

By the way, Carebear is not around and won't be teaching pump in TC tomorrow (neither would she the Monday that follows). So looks like I'm only gonna do combat - with KG! :)

Messaging Accident

I'm actually very phobia when it comes to texting the wrong person. Happened before, a massive disaster and so very drama. It's also quite dangerous when it comes to emails, I often didn't realize who might be on the recipient list when I click "reply to all". Or like recent incident on Facebook, I didn't realize that the message was between so many people, I've only clicked on "post message". Ok, luckily didn't say anything stupid.

Left shoulder still injured. Did yoga yesterday and I managed to do all the poses but I nearly crashed onto the floor towards the end when I was doing my jumping back (during sun salutation) because there was sudden pain on the shoulder. Got a bit of blue-black on one of my knees though, to prevent crashing on the floor face down. Knee is consider next best option. Imagine blue-black on my face!

Today besides going out to shop for cake baking ingredient (and I forgot a main ingredient), was mainly painting the house. I had planned to make a set of special mini mooncakes, but mum is still cleaning up downstairs, and she's now in the kitchen. So I'm banned. Humph... and I'm getting really sleepy, don't think I want to bake, nor make the mooncakes tonight.

I hope painting a big area of the living room wall was good enough workout for me today. My weights is going up again and I cannot afford to loose my hard-earn figure. No, I don't have super model figure, but I paid a lot of money for PT and it's going to be a waste of money if I revert back to previous weight.

Okay, I better sleep early.

Too hot

I just emailed this:

Sent:Thursday, 4 Sep, 2008 10: 48 PM
To: fohm_mml@fitnessfirst.com.my

Hi,

As little as I use the steam room, I actually realized that the steam room has malfunctioned for quite some time. As the pioneer among the Fitness First club, I strongly feel that MML should set a good example for having all facilities in good working condition.

Today I arrived at your club and had been informed and assured that the steam room had been fixed last week. Indeed the steam room was functioning but with a ridiculously high temperature. The temperature was so high that I would not be surprise if someone actually got burnt. If I hadn't have a face towel with me, I might not even be able to hold the handle to let myself out of the steam room.

Besides ensuring that your equipment and facilities are functional, please ensure that the safety standards are met as well to avoid compromising the members' safety. Using this case as a good example - Would anyone be able to tell what is the appropriate temperature for the steam room? And is there a way to measure that? That is, assuming that you do have personnel assigned to carry out routine checks. I trust that you will look into this matter without further delay.

TTB

And I got this notification:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed.
fohm_mml@fitnessfirst.com.my

Geezz...

FF membership/ subscription fee is not cheap and I seriously think that members deserve more than what we are getting now. Disagree if you want.

Have been very busy and tired from work lately so I was not able to make it to classes most of the time. Instead of missing the workout altogether, I've settled with using the cardio machines. Today I skipped pump, but mainly because of the "injured" shoulder. Argh... when age catches up, we need to be slightly mellow. Old people are more prone to injuries issit??

Just when I thought I would have a more relaxing gym session today by only doing 30 minutes of cardio followed by some "steam therapy". But, I got a little too much "warmth". Didn't help with remedying my mood.

In one of those moods

Do you sometimes feel like keeping yourself to yourself, don't want to bother about anyone or anything? Just feel like being quiet and do not have the mood to talk to anyone; Lazy to pamper anyone, don't feel like showing any concern and ready to switch to hibernate mode anytime now...

I told me so

How many times have I told myself NOT to stop pump for too long? Just when I was recovering (merely) from my first week back doing pump after skipping for two weeks, I missed class for one whole week again last week.

Today, MC and I went to a pump class at LM with our muscle aches from yesterday's combat. I was having serious shoulder ache and MC her triceps and biceps. I decided to cut down my back track weights so that my shoulder wouldn't hurt too much during clean and press. I was only using 6kgs and seriously, it was too light lah actually. Then suddenly when I was doing triceps push up, I felt serious pain on my left shoulder as though I've twisted my arms. I didn't manage to do much during shoulder track after that. There must be a reason why my left shoulder always hurt, or got hurt.

MC, on the other hand, did very well, has improved a lot. She started pump class about two months ago with using 1kg donut throughout the class, now she uses 2.5kg for warm up, 3.5 for squat, 2.5kg for chest, back track 4.5kg (yes, can change to 5kg already, but serious sis, your squat weights should be heavier), triceps 2.5kgs, biceps 2kgs, shoulder erm... 1kg. Not bad lah. And also can level up already next week. Keep it up!

Today after lunch, we drove passed LDP after One Utama and witness a very serious fire. A car was on fire and mind you, it was an expensive looking car, which I think looked pretty new too.

Looks like a Volvo.

Anyways, very tired after the pump class. I think the instructor who had fast the whole day, had more energy than us members who have been feasting ourselves the whole day. Not exactly, but you know what I mean. Great class lah, even MC had nothing to complain about, hehe... except for her muscle ache tomorrow!

On another page, I'm wondering how much should you pamper someone you like so so much, but whom you are not going out with. I know the best is to strike a balance, but how much on each side to balance it? If I show too much affection, he might just suffocate or feel that I'm too pushy (yeah, is that word again eh); But on the other hand, if I act cool (too cool) then there might as well be no feelings whatsoever, case close, something like that.

Okay, these aside, I seriously need more sleep.