My Birthday Party '09

In a blink of an eye, last weekend was my THIRD birthday celebration in Sydney. First was all ALONE, second was with close buddies in Sydney and this year was with my dear Audrey for lunchie and dinner with our awesome neighbours

me hubby, Su, Michelle (Su's wifey) and Aruni (Su's sis)

This is present I got for myself. Yes, I'm a practical gal who does not dig blink-blinks. My MD calls me a "rare" woman for not having a liking for the "stone" which suppose to be every girl's (and sistas ?) best friend.


Also celebrating her BIG day, just a couple of weeks before mine, was darling Michelle D. This girl's smile can give any toothpaste company a run for their run :) That nite was a special nite, we were also having a farewell party for Dung & Kieren. Dung is leaving Sydney, heading back to Paris where she grew up for a very long holiday with her love ones.

Audrey, Dung, Michelle, Kieren & hubby

My First Personal Training

Since arriving here, I was a constant battle with my size. I've gain as much as not one but TWO pants size bigger. Why... why... good Gawd, why not at the desired places... why I have to gain at those undesired areas ? I needed HELP DESPERATELY ! So brought me-self to gym and sign up for PT sessions.

OH MI GAWD !!! The sessions is BLARDI expensive !!! Looks like I have to go on penny pinch spree... sigh... first on the list that went out the window is my everyday cuppa from a cafe down the road from my office. Mind you, I would normally have a X LARGE LATTE.... hehehe... Now, I need to tah-pao (take-away) from home. Trying to fully ultilise my last year's birthday pressie.

In the first couple of seesions, I feel like I've been playing with BALLS most of the time. And I've never played with so much balls for sometime... since leaving HIGH SCHOOL ! Yea... I was playing basketball, netball, handball... various balls... oops... hehehe... Back to the PT sessions, I was using alot of FitBalls, BOSU & medicine balls. After a month, I told the trainer that I have enough of balls, let's move to the hard-core WEIGHTS! Trainer designed my sessions with balls as I did mention during the initial Q&A that I'm a baby or "virgin" top weight training... HIAKS! Body Pump is NOT considered, I was merely there to enjoy the music. : D

One of the seesion, I need to do the travelling lunges... ohmigawd... that was my least favourite (to put it lightly) workout.

I have a target achieve now, I need to look good and FIT INTO MY BLARDI WEDDING DRESS by July !!!! Yea, I'm holding another wedding banquet in Toronto this time, AFTER 2 years signing the dotted line... LOL...

My First Get Rich Seminar

I would've never guessed that I'll attending such seminar. Hubby dragged me out from my MOST FAVOURITE day of the week where I can do back-to-back classes.... I do enjoy my Sundays very much...

Conclusion, seminar was pretty interesting, funny & motivational seminar. Thankfully the seminar was F.O.C. and I had no expectation or low expectation of I would get out of this. A rather odd comic from yesterday's (it's a 3 days seminar, only went for Sunday) talk was a bloke from back home ! And sitting next to us was 2 Malaysian mates. Funny what, after reading this, are Malaysian so highly motivated on getting rich ? Me guess, it's a Chinese thing. Only thing on their mind is "ka-ching" $ $ $ $ $...

I find it rather odd that the seminar is free (well, some people did fork out $500 for the 3 days). Every topic that was raised during the seminar was a marketing gimmick for their products. Those people who paid for it may feel cheated... Whatever it is, anyone who attended should exercise some caution on the "strategies" that they advise...