Thursday, December 10, 2009

I'm posting Multiple posts in a week. Maybe you guys should buy 4D. heh.

We normally feed Genie her dinner then take her downstairs for walkies, so tonight was no exception. Except her bladder must have been bursting because of all places, she pee-ed right outside the lift on the 6th floor.. Gaaah. Didn't even make it downstairs.

We went downstairs anyway, to buy OUR dinner. Human food.
Then guess what we did?

Went back home, filled half a tub of water.. walk back to the lift landing and rinsed her pee away. Mostly because her pee kinda stinks and there are one or two units near the lift landing - not very nice to smell pee everytime one leaves the house.

Now my point is this: if someone like me can bother to go to such lengths, why do some dog owners in the area can't even be bothered to pick up their dog's poo while walking them?

I am quite fed up to be walking the dog and having to pull her away from a pile of dog doo left behind by some irresponsible dog owner.
I mean, as a dog owner, one would be responsible for the mess left behind by your dog, no? I don't see how some people can't seem to understand that. Just pisses me off (and makes me wonder if my effort to do my part is worth it)

Wednesday, December 09, 2009

I was talking to Marcus over MSN about the End-of-Year Bonus, or lackthereof, when it really hit me.

It's 1/4 month, capped at $750.

Do you have any idea how sad that is?

Let's say your pay is $2500 per month. 1/4 month bonus means you'd only be getting $625. CPF it and your take home bonus = $500.

Now, lets assume you've made a booking for a one-night spa retreat at Batam before finding out about this sad truth. The spa retreat costs $410. Throw in the fact that you have a cousin's birthday coming up and you need to buy him a present.

I mean, that's it. Year end bonus depleted just like that.

*hides face* I can't believe I've spent my year end bonus even before I receive it.

You know, these bonuses used to pay for my ONE MONTH Dec holidays in Sydney when Melvin was still studying there. It's been reduced to a one night stay in Batam.

How sad is that?

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Gaah, feels like dying.

I took a 2-week break from gym and decided to get started again today.. Made the mistake of assuming I can pick up where I left off. Noooo. bad idea. Had to downgrade the weights by 1 or 2 notches and I couldn't even do 2.4km in 17minutes. Took me a whole of 18minutes and by the time my 30minute timer was up, I barely made the 4km mark.

I mean, before the break, I could finish that distance without all that gasping and wheezing.

Then it was thigh machine time before Melvin (My personal slave driver) made me use the crunch machine before finishing with squats.

I don't know. It sounds like alot, doesn't it? When I say Machines, it means I do 3 sets of 30.
Yet my progress for weight loss is so slow. It's been 4 months and the scale hasn't moved much.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I mean, it's not like I eat alot. Two/Three meals (sometimes I don't bother having dinner because I get back from gym at 9.30pm) and I allow myself a cookie a day for tea. A small 50 calorie cookie. I make it a point to estimate the calorie intake and somehow the whole input/output doesn't seem to add up.

Give up.