Weekend Workout Adventure!

My legs feel like jello but I had a great day today. This morning started out with a trial workout (i love how you can try every fitness class in Singapore for free the first time!) at Croyez at Dempsey Hill. It is a power plate workout...where you basically stand on this vibrating machine while doing work out moves for intervals of less than a minute. But man, those one minute bursts were killer!! The excercises were so easy but the power plate made it sooooo difficult. The class was only 40 minutes...but it was one of the more intense workouts I've ever had. I probably would never take the class again because it made me a little nauseous and one class is $48!! Checkout this video!

Then X and Pa and I ate at the White Rabbit...this adorable restaurant at Dempsey thats in an adorable restored church...and to walk into the restaurant you walk in through the "rabbit hole". I love dempsey...it has such a great vibe...like you're in some western country again and its so relaxed.

Then as if the powerplate workout was not enough, Pa and I went to yin yang yoga class at Pure on Orchard. I think Pa will join with me and I am sooo excited to have a yoga buddy now! We are going to motivate each other to try to go after work at least 3 times a week. I was under the impression that yin yang was really relaxing and easy but the first 40 minutes were sooo intense especially since my legs were so tired. Then we got to relax the last 30 minutes...but i feel sooo proud of us for working out so much!

Then we watched the greatest movie! Despicable me!!! AAAAAAAAH i want a tiny yellow minion. Or actually a few so they can be friends. It was so much more funny than i thought it would be and soooo cute. You all need to go out and watch it, as soon as possible!! In the 2 wks I've known X we've watched 3 movies together! One a week...but this one was my favorite!

I am loving the weekends...until next time, xxoo!

photoshop

So i have this crazy newfound appreciation for photoshop! And it really makes me wonder what celebrities look like in person because photoshop makes you look sooooooo GOOD! I wish there was photoshop for real life. For work everyone had to take these professional pictures for the website...and they touched them up for you. Well I think they touched mine up a ton...but it is really cool to have a professional picture like this. I don't have the before picture because it would be so cool to show you all a comparison...but here's photoshopped me!

I think people will be really disappointed if they think i actually look that great all the time. I am soooo excited for the weekend and some relaxing time...xxoo!

Relaxing weekends!

Before when I worked at my old job I had this terrible anxiety that would never go away. I could barely ever fall asleep without taking allergy medicine...but I'm pretty sure that was in my mind that I had to. I also sometimes had this crazy feeling in my feet and hands when i was trying to fall asleep they would feel like I was losing circulation...even if i had been just laying in the same position on the couch without that happening. It was like ALL this anxiety combined made it so i could never sleep well. And from all that lack of sleep I needed at least a double shot in my latte to be functioning in the morning.

Whenever it was Friday, I was already dreading Monday...and spent the rest of the weekend dreading Monday. I never wanted to go out because I was so exhausted...somedays I would spend just watching tv ALL day (but I also love tv). Life wasn't terrible, I was complacent.

But ever since I got back, ie since I started my new job I have been sleeping so well...just like I used to. I have so much more energy that I don't even drink coffee any more. And its like I am living in this light that I wasn't before. I got so used to this less great version of life, that I forgot what it was like to be truly happy and fulfilled.

These past 2 weekends have been SOOO great. I don't dread Mondays anymore...and I am so happy hopefully life stays this great. Its a bit late, but I had a great weekend last week.

If first started with teasing my hair and making it 4th of July-y and it actually working!! This picture sucks, but don't you love the Flightless headband?! Adorable right?

Then I got to be super American by helping out at a 4th of July event in Singapore...where you could take pictures with these great cardboard cutouts such as...

and...

I also got to go to this amazing spa called Wayan Retreat. Its near Arab st...which is surprising and sooo cute. When you walk in its like a pool of water and you have to step across these flat bricks to get across...and walking to the treatment room it looks like this.

And we got this great deal that included a massage, a wrap, a scrub and a hair treatment. It was sooo amazing and relaxing and made my skin sooo smooth and my hair so soft. It was heaven..I only wish that it was that cheap always...not just for your first time.

Later, while still near Arab st. (who knew this area was so awesome!)  P took me to this great Turkish restaurant. It was super good and crowded, which means other people thought it was great as well. We shared hummus, falafels and this spinach and cheese deliciousness. I can't wait to again for the hummus!

The weekend of course included brunch at my favorite ps cafe with new friends and old. And a screening of Eclipse! Which I thought was sooo good because it was just like the book. I wish they could go back in time and remake the first one again...because that one was terrible. Anyways, last weekend was great and I can't wait until the next one, until next time!

Long update soon!

Soooo its been a while lovelies! I've had a crazy month, which started with quitting a job, a plane flight home, getting to volunteer at the amazing chrysalis event, a plane trip to hawaii, and a 23rd birthday! All in the first 6 days of the month! Now the month is nearly over and I have to say that it was one of the most amazing months of my life!

The only thing that was missing from this month was birthday cake/excitement. You know what I did on my birthday? Wait for hours at an airport, sit in an airplane for 4.5 hours, eat a lame "japanese" dinner, and then watch my friend study. Pretty lame right? That's when you know you're getting old...when birthdays blend into the rest of the days. Well this year was a fluke...I secretly thought my friend would have some fun plans planned...but I am the planner of the bunch so next time if I want something I will just have to do it myself. And next year's birthday will definitely be big FUN!

But I still had a great month...and now have been back in singapore for a week and you know what? I'm actually happy! And maybe because everyday at my last job was a mix of angst, terror and boredom, but wow I forgot normal, no intense anxiety life felt like. I am sooo relieved everyday when no one gets scolded...and I think my old job made me paranoid! I have this fear that someone is going judge everything I do, raid my computer history, and talk about me in some foreign language. But my new job is just so amazing. (Although I secretly wonder if I think its sooo super great or if its just a million times better than my old job.)

Anyways a longer update is coming soon! Once I find my camera cord! I know its in my giant suitcase somewhere...until next time, xxoo!

Sparkles and Bows!!

This week has been a rollercoaster...crazy ups and downs...intense emotions...and its only mid week! But today, everything has come in line soooo perfectly. Don't you just love when things work out better than you can imagine? I'm so happy that I can't believe I how much time I spent being anxious and stressed.

To start off the week, I thought that I had the possibility of moving home for good...and even went so far as to talk about the car my parents would get me for my eminent move home. Then, mid-discussion i found out that my long awaited employment pass was approved! I waited four weeks to see if Singapore would allow me to work somewhere else...a job that I will call my dream job (if only it were in America).

The next day I went to work and resigned...and to my surprise it wasn't as terrible as I thought it would be! I thought I would get yelled at and bullied, but to my surprise the person who terrified me the most durinng my tenure was actually understanding. And my ex-employers let me resign on the spot...its so strange to go into work one day and the next day you are no longer an employee...it all went down so fast.

byebye old...hello new beginnings!!

After work to celebrate I got FUN nails...because my new employer agreed to let me have 2.5 weeks off so that I could go home! So this is probably one of the last times in my life before I get too old for this to be appropriate to get some crazy nails. They are black with pink sparkles and bows! I adore them!

super sucky picture...but my camera is already packed!

Anyways...I'm leaving for the airport in a few hours...to go home! I'll be in AMERICA for 2 weeks and I can't even believe it. A mere 48 hours ago I was dreading going into work the next day...and in 25 hours I will be in beautiful California. The best part of this whole story...is that after not being able to find the cheap ticket to Hawaii I had seen earlier...I managed to snag a ticket to Honolulu from LA round trip for $390. So not only will I get spend some quality time at home I get to visit my bestie in Hawaii on my birthday! I am loving life sooooo much at the moment. There are no words to describe it. Next blog will be from the US! XXOO