Archive for June, 2007

The yoga poses image above was sourced from Yoga Videos.net 

I would like to do or take up some Yoga because I read that it will help me in a lot of areas. However I have no time to go for classes and I am just totally baffled by the number of yoga poses and have no idea what each of them will do for me and which pose to do and whether I am doing the right thing.

I bought a Yoga for Beginners dvd but it looks too advanced for me! Hmm… and the title specifically mentioned “For Beginners.” Chey!Â

I look at the Yoga books available at the bookstores but they puzzle me too and besides I find tapes easier to follow then books. Its easier to have someone tell you what to do rather than to look at pictures, read and try to decipher them yourself.

I know that Yoga has been around for years but I’m sceptical about those who treat it like a fad or some latest exercise thingy to lose weight and tone up. It should be more than that shouldn’t it?

Errr….. can someone enlighten me please? Anyone?

I keep each and every one of the cards I’ve received for all of my birthday’s, on all the Valentine’s Days, Christmas Days etc. Each and every one of them.

Sadly, I’ve stopped receiving them. Now I only get digital cards which disappear Poof! into thin air after I’m through viewing them.

Are you sentimental too? Do you keep your old cards? If you do, you better hide the ones from old boyfriends/girlfriends before the spouse finds them. Hahaha.

My routine doctor appointment is approaching. I am anxious. I have 1001 questions for my doctor. I am afraid he will chase me out of his door before I am through with them!

One of the most important criterias a doctor should have (in my opinion) is people skills AND listening skills. I hate to see any doctor who treats me as just another patient and can’t wait to get me out of his door so he can see the next patient (after I’ve waited hours to see him). I’ve seen quite a few like that.

I know they’ve got lots of patients and they are pressed for time but at least try to listen and don’t make it so hard for the patient’s to ask a question.

There are also doctors who answer very defensively when you ask a question, as if you’re challenging them. Perhaps it is annoying to field questions for all knowing patients who ask you all sorts and manners of questions from what little they’ve learned from the internet but please understand that patients ask these questions out of ignorance and desire to learn and understand their own conditions and not to challenge you so you don’t have to act defensive.

Of course I’m speaking in general terms and not all doctors are like that but from my own experience of seeing some, quite a number actually have the kind of body language and curt and brief mannerism that makes me afraid to ask any questions. They don’t say it but I can see and feel what they’re thinking and they’re thinking…

NEXT!

So here I am, anxious and worried again, before my next doctor’s appointment. I hope it turns out ok. 

And the winner is…………

*drumroll*

Taddaaaa!

There is no question about it. Satellite Dishes win hands on. Why, just look around you and the answer is everywhere. Even the squatter homes have a satellite dish outside of their little wooden houses.

However, I steadfastly refuse to sign up for pay tv. I have no time to watch tv so why would I want to commit myself to a monthly fee for years? I will stick to my free tv, thank you very much. I have better use for my money, for now.

When the kids are older, maybe they’ll pester us for pay tv but for now they too don’t need to watch hours and hours of cartoons on tv. They have better things to do with their time.

When we asked the “tv man” to install a TV Antenna for us recently (because the reception at our place is really poor) he did try very hard to sell us a satellite dish instead. We didn’t succumb and now we are the proud owners of a brand new TV Antenna atop our roof, the newest among the whole row of houses. Hahaha. The rest looks terribly run down, one looks like it might even fall off anytime too. Scary! And all because no one cares for TV Antennas anymore. They only install one for their second TVs … sometimes. Sometimes even a second TV gets another satellite dish.

I have only one though Errr…. where do all these people earn so much money hah? (To be able to commit a monthly fee for entertainment expenses so freely?) I oso wan.

 

Old Ginger. Thats me! Most of those who has read my blog from two years ago knows how old I am. Its no big secret. But for those of you who don’t, I’m born in 1966. Go figure yourself. Haha.

I’ve passed Fourty and that makes me an old ginger! Now if only I knew all the things I know now in my 40s when I was in my 20s. Why, I would….

• play harder
• work harder
• save more (so that I have more money now in my 40s. Haha.)
• travel more
• live, love and laugh more
• etc etc etc

So now, I’m in my 20s stuck in a 40s body. Hahaha. I’m forever young. Age is just a number. The older I am (in body) the younger I become (in my mind). Lol!

My birthday’s in the month of June and like every other year, I have to buy my own birthday cake. That hubby of mine only knows how to buy chocolate cake. Even when I specified to him, I don’t want chocolate cake. I want something different that is green or orange, he still comes home with a chocolate cake (because he likes chocolate). Every since I’ve known him, I’ve been buying my own cakes for my own birthday. Its only in the past 2-3 years that he’s offered to buy for me but he gets it wrong! So I think I’ll stick to buying my own. Hahaha. That way, I can choose whatever I like.

I’ll take this opportunity to wish other Gemini’s a Happy Birthday. Happy Birthday to BKworm, Narrowband and Sesame. Thats all the Geminis I know. Anymore out there? Hands up please! And anymore out there who buy their own cakes? Hands up please!