Archive for September, 2009

I am one of those many people who are not blessed with acne free, flawless skin. Believe me I know some people who have clear beautiful skin even without make up on. But unfortunately for people like me we depend on make up to make it bearable to go out in public without feeling conscious about how our skins look.

Until I find the best acne treatment and also moisturizer that will help me with my dry skin and at the same time not promote break-outs, I just have to cover up the blemishes, acne and skin discoloration with make up. Thanks to youtube now we can learn from people who really know how to do that perfectly well.

The video above is from scandalousbeauty on how to cover up your skin flaws with make up. I love her videos.

The last few weeks the entire family caught some sort of flu virus. Fortunately it wasn’t H1N1. But it was not pleasant at all when we were sick and still had to do all the housework on our own since everyone was sick.

Most people we know had flu in the past weeks. People at work, friends and neighbours. Even friends living in another country is complaining of flu.

Even though now everyone else at home seems to be feeling healthier but I am still coughing - gets worse in the nights - and my eyes are still slightly red. Even staring at the PC monitor is a little bit uncomfortable at the moment. Made me think that perhaps it is time for me to upgrade to an lcd monitor. I was told that an lcd monitor would be much friendlier to the eyes. Well, not to mention it looks a lot cooler too compared to an old fashioned monitor.

Anyhow, I’m quite sure I’d be a lot more myself in a few days time.  Just need to rest a little bit more.

There are various sort of fasting, but the type of fasting I’m talking about is the Islamic way of fasting. To abstain from eating and drinking from dawn to dusk for the entire month of Ramadhan, which we are in currently.

Many of my Muslim friends look at this event as a way not only to observe their religious obligations but as a way to lose weight as well. It is also an opportunity to allow our digestive system to relax a bit.

I believe that if one consume less calorie than one needs everyday, eventually one would lose weight when the body burns the fat instead, in replacement of the calories that we didnt’ consume, in order to get energy. But most of the time this sort of fasting would only backlash when people don’t control their eating when they break their fast at dusk every day. It is something like yo yo diet too.

So does fasting really help lose weight? Yes and no. It all depends on how the person eats when he or she break fast.

Personal note:

Although some people may say that I am in the normal healthy range of weight, I still would like to lose slightly more. Perhaps about 4 kgs or about 8 lbs more. However, even with all the fasting, the weight simply would not go down beyond a certain point. It is as if it has reached its limit. Not that I totally believe that, but it does seem that way. I am considering to try Alli - the only FDA approved diet pill at the moment. Reading alli review online, perhaps it wouldn’t hurt to try seems it is claimed to be safe.

Though I may seem to dislike my current weight, I am not totally ungrateful that I am indeed feeling healthy. That is more important that being slim isn’t it?

I’ve been doing some belly dancing routines for a couple of weeks now. So how has it been? A mixture of opinion about it. Hard, nice, interesting and beautiful. If you’ve asked yourself before, how to burn fat the fun way, belly-dancing can be for you. Though it does need some mental concentration so that one can achieve that smooth, liquidlike movements.

I’m not going to any classes, but just using some dvd that I got not to long ago. One of them is by Sadie, the beautiful dancer on the video above. She is an amazing teacher. However, last week I saw a belly dance studio not to far from my place. Will check it out and see what they offer.

My mother once had a minor accident while she was at work. Despite the bad condition of her foot at the time of claiming for her social security disability insurance, they denied her claim. Not knowing what else to do, we left the matter at that.

Sometimes it is necessary that, instead of filing the claims ourselves, we turn to experts for help. At the time of our claim, professionals like the consultants at Allsup corporation would have been a saviour. It is said that about 98% of the time, they would be able to successfully obtain the SSDI benefits for their clients. One good thing about hiring them is that, you will only pay them their fees if your claim is successful.

So either you are claiming for the first time or thinking about appealing, you may want to consult with them. What’s more, you can do a SSDI evaluation for free with no-obligations on their website at allsup.com.

The week hasn’t really ended and I already can’t wait for the weekend to arrive. The school semester just recently started and my younger daughter just entered kindergarten. It is a totally new routine for us. But at least she has been enjoying the kindergarten and meeting new faces.

Now it is time for me to start thinking seriously on what I shall do with all the extra time I have. Learn Japanese intensively, find more children to tutor, spend a little bit more time on getting myself feel better. I do feel slightly depressed at times, feeling pysically and emotionally weak. But I want to change all that soon - I’m even spending time to look around for health supplements, reading reviews about the best hgh supplements, antioxidants, exercise dvds etc. (Got myself a belly dancing fitness dvd. Zumba dancing dvd doesn’t look so bad neither now…) Looking forward to start a new routine for myself now.

Since the time we conceived the plan to move to the UK within a few years time, we’ve already checked out the living expenses and the costs of essential things that we may need there - like everyday living costs, housing costs, and even how much the cars cost there on average.

A particular car selling website I’d like to recommend, where I find rather comprehensive is buyyourcar.co.uk. It is a website that offers not only new cars, and used cars for sale, but also provide car leasing, contract hire and van leasing services as well. It is even a site where you should refer to when you want to sell a vehicle, or even obtain quotations for car loans and even car insurances.

It is interesting to see what the average car prices are in the UK  through the website. We’d definitely would refer again to the website when the real time for us to move comes.