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! 

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!

I’m a night owl, hubby is the early bird. Not only that, these days his job requires him to stay back later not by choice but lets put it this way, if he doesn’t he may find himself without a job and us without any income.

Usually he tries to come home early and do his work at home but even then he’s too tired. Quite often he falls asleep immediately after dinner and wakes up in the wee hours to do some work.

As for me, I’m still in lala land of sleep when he wakes up to go to work. So that leaves us with no time to talk at all. Luckily we have sms. He used to have msn at the office but not anymore. That was useful. Boo Hoo Hoo.

Now in order to “talk” I have to resort to writing things down on a paper or email or whatever just so I won’t forget to tell him and sometimes he replies to me on paper too. Silly! But at least we get to “talk” that way.

The corporate world is so sad. Being employed means you have to work hard for long hours. Why can’t employers see that employees need to have a balanced life in order to function better at work? Why can’t they see that a time for rest, family and recreation increases productivity instead of the other way around?

What is an aura?

Many seizures start with a warning symptom known as an epileptic aura. The medical term “aura” should not be confused with the mystical aura that supposedly surrounds a living body, although both descriptions come from the Greek for “breeze” or “breath”.

In some circumstances the aura itself may be the entire extent of the epileptic episode, in others there is progression to a full-blown seizure, according to neurologist Dr Andrew Rose-Innes.

People experience widely varied auras. For some, the aura is emotional: a sudden feeling of anxiety, tension or fear. For others, it takes the form of a specific sensation that only they can feel, such as cooling or warming, a particular taste, or a sound (sometimes musical). In some cases the aura appears as a particular odour, often unpleasant, such as burning rubber.

The aura can also manifest in certain people as a feeling of déjà vu – where people or places appear strangely familiar; or its opposite, jamais vu – where people or situations that should be familiar, appear strange. Frequently, the aura is something that the person finds impossible to describe – simply a “funny feeling”.

The above excerpt is taken from Health24.com. Please read more here.

Well now I’m going to attempt to describe my aura but its not easy. I can only describe it as “that funny feeling”. That funny feeling to me is a feeling of primitive fear. I feel afraid (of what I don’t know. I just feel afraid) plus all the accompanying feeling that someone feels when they feel afraid. I feel cold. I feel fear deep inside of me. I feel my stomach feel funny and I feel that something is wrong with me. That is what I feel.

I remember my very first aura. It happened when I was in my late 20s or early 30s. I had been head hunted for an interview. The interview was supposed to be over drinks in the evening at a hotel. I was in the hotel toilet when I felt this strange feeling of fear. Perhaps its the stress which brought it on but I remember the feeling clearly. That was the first time.

Subsequently over the years, sometimes it goes away for several months and sometimes it returns with what seems to me like a vengeance. It’ll come every other day several times a day and when it does. I feel breathless like I’m out of breath and cannot breathe very well throughout the day. I feel all wound up like a wound up clock.

So far this feeling of fear has preceded my seizures. Many articles I read say that if one has this aura then the seizure may come over the next few minutes or hours. Thats tough! If I have this several times a day what am I supposed to do then. Lie down all day????!!!!

I am kedekut (a miser). I don’t watch pay TV like Astro (paid TV channel in Malaysia). I only watch free TV. However the reception in my area is bad so I can hardly watch any TV at all. Lol! But thats ok because I don’t have time for TV.

Anyway, in my quest to search for free TV, I found TV Links. I’m sharing this link with anyone who is interested to watch old TV episode reruns. It boasts an impressive alphabetical list of shows, movies, cartoons etc which you can watch for free online, episode by episode whenever you are free.

I’ve tried some of the links but a number of them don’t work. However, to my husband’s delight. The Star Trek ones work since he is a Star Trek fan. So to other Star Trek fans you can now watch your favourite episodes over and over again. There is a link to each and every episode for each season of the show.

To the others, if you try out some of the other links to the other shows, please tell me which ones work! Hehe.

As for news, I currently watch NTV7 on WorldIP.TV. This one’s for my overseas friends. If you want to watch local Malaysian news you can watch the Video on Demand or live news to catch up with whats happening back home. I like it because it allows me to watch when I am free. I love anything “On Demand” because I can’t stop whatever I’m doing to watch a news or program so its good if I can watch it afterwards.

At the moment WorldIP.TV is still free but I’m not sure when they’ll start charging. They were supposed to start charging a fee of RM10 per month starting from June but they have not done so yet. Once they start charging, Ms Miser here will probably stop watching because I don’t think the current programs offered there at the moment are attractive enough to make me part with my money.

I’ve got many many more free interactive or streaming TV and news links. Wait yah, when I’m not lazy I’ll post some of them here. Unfortunately the better ones are for US citizens only. Boo Hoo Hoo.

I like to write a wedding anniversary post each year just to remind myself of the things we do on that day because I’ve a bad memory. If I don’t write it down, I forget. Lol! This year I write it down in the form of a poem.

This year on our wedding anniversary
It was a day like any other day
The kids whined till we were both weary
And the vacumn broke down to our dismay

This year on our wedding anniversary
I said dear lets go for a grand buffet
I like to get dressed with my accessories
And eat all my daily stresses away

You said “lets go to that place we used to go”
I said “great lets give it a try”
But then the manager told us to go
“Kids are not allowed” he said then he waved goodbye

So we went to that place across the road
And ordered some food that the kids would love
We ate and ate till we wanted to explode
I’m happy so long as I’m not at the stove

There was a sale so we said lets go shopping
We bought the kids some toys and a new vacumn cleaner
This new vacumn cleaner will save us from more mopping
And the toys will improve the kids demeanor

Happy Anniversary dear you said do you like your gift
I’m happy with small things around the house you said
Thank you dear I said with a sniff
Though I would have liked that pretty neckless instead

Thank you dear for still being with me and keeping your vows
Thank you for being such a family man and always being around
Thank you for taking care of me, the kids and the house
Thank you for supporting me when I am unhappy and down

I don’t need flowers, wine and expensive presents
When I have such a wonderful man all year round
We don’t need to celebrate only when there are events
I’m really glad that in you I have found

Someone to be with till I am old and grey
Whom I know will comfort me for the rest of my life
I hope that our love for each other will stay
On our 6th wedding anniversary and as long as I’m your wife

Read more of my poems here.

I’m tired of posting serious stuff. So here’s something a little bit more light hearted for a change. 

Do you recall what role you played in your kindergarden concert during the good ole days? Hubby was telling me that he was a tree. Lol! I think he probably made a good tree. Hahaha. He had to wear this brown tree trunk….

I didn’t attend any kindergarden but I remember participating in concerts during my primary school days. I think I was in Standard One at the time. The teachers had brought in some cute little national costumes of different countries and made us try them on. I was supposed to be the little dancing Hawain girl but during practise the teachers said I was too stiff (I’m still stiff. Lol!) so they changed my costume to a little Arabian girl instead, complete with headgear and a scarve to cover my face. Hehe.

Then there was a time during school assembly when I went up to sing. Can you imagine a little girl of about 7 or 8 holding a crepe paper flower and belting out…..

“I realise the way your eyes deceived me, with tender looks that I mistook for love, so take away the flowers that you gave me and send the kind that you remind me of. Paper roses. Paper roses………..”

Hahaha. Cos that was what I sang then “Paper Roses” by Marie Osmond if you still remember her. If you don’t you must be young.

I don’t know why I didn’t feel afraid when I was young. Now if you ask me to go on stage and sing the same song, I would faint! Hahaha.

What about everyone else. Do you remember your performing days in school?