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Name: Elaine
Location: Christmas Island
Gender: Female
Interests: Watching TV, stoning, sleeping
Expertise: Art of Stoning. I like staring into space, sometimes my mind is blank, sometimes it's got a gazillion thoughts running tru it.. you'll never guess which is it cause my face is expressionless, thus, the beauty of the art of stoning.
Occupation: Student
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ICQ:  9634277
Member Since:
3/8/2003
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| When I went home in December, my parents were raving about the latest natural health product - pysllium husk. Not only does it help you go, it helps lower your cholesterol too!! Now being the in-house pessimist, I thought to myself "what kind of nonsense did they get caught up in this time?!!" But of course, being the in-house "scientist", I decided to give this product a try, since it's there and a little extra fiber in my diet couldn't do any harm.
To my utter surprise, this stuff does work!! I'm not too sure about the cholesterol part, but it really does help you poop (okay so i'm not a lady and i say poop)! For someone who does not have a regular bowel movement, ever since taking a spoon full each morning, all irregularities have been regularized (is this a word??). As a wise person once said, "A poop a day makes a happy person", I sure am over the hills these days. No I'm just kidding, I don't think anybody said that, but I can just imagine people with constipation being very unhappy.
This is the psyllium husk I take:
You can get it off amazon for $5.25 (Hooray for amazon!!!!!). I think it cost a buck load more in Malaysia (no mom I'm not carting back any for you..). Make sure you take it with a cup full of liquid (I recommend milk or juice, not water). I'm not sure about the heart health claim on the bottle, but for one it absorbs fluids and expands in your stomach, so you're less hungry and eat less .. haha.. diet trick!!!
Happy pooping
Elaine
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| We recently bought ourselves an xbox 360. I thought that it would be really awesome! The husband and I went game shopping when the console arrived. I made the mistake of purchasing the wrong game (yea yea.. how was I suppose to know that games compatible with the xbox was different from games compatible with the xbox 360??). Another one arrived in the mail that was for a PS3 console even though it specifically said online that it was for the xbox 360 (yes we could return the product FOC). Anyway after much a do we finally got ourselves the right games and started playing...
The first few days were interesting. We got ourselves a sega racing game that was rather fun (we could race each other!!!!!! how fun is that??). And then being from THAT generation, we bought ourselves street fighter (we could fight each other!!!! how fun is that???). Well.. all the fun lasted for about 2 weeks, and then we got bored.
Our Xbox now lies untouched below the coffee table. The husband occasionally asked if we should totally get a xbox 360 live gold membership subscription whenever he sees that it is on discount. To which I reply.. we don't even use our xbox!!!!!!!!!!!!... why should we be getting membership? tsk..
i wonder if this is part of growing up? stuff like that just don't really hold our attention anymore. or perhaps it was just that when we were younger, our parents wouldn't let us play with our consoles all the time.. so we just want the untouchable! And now when we can do whatever we want.. meeh.. it just doesn't seem so attractive anymore? then again maybe its because games nowadays are so hard (seriously.. I can't beat the big boss in street fighter no matter how many times I try and that annoys the crazies out of me..). And those game controllers.. they are just so NOT ergonomic!!! My hand aches from just trying to press all those million buttons (what happened to the simple 4 buttons that used to be??!!). Watatatata..
oh.. haha.. just recalled how my brother used to play with his imaginary game controller when it was not his turn, he'd mimic the actual player exactly. Addict! haha.. lol..
Or maybe it's just the company.. lol. We need a better crowd to enjoy the xbox. Whatever the reason is.. nobody's playing with it (husband if you're reading is we should totally play with our xbox!!!!!). Our only consolation is that the console doubles as a DVD player (and we have the starwars trilogy in DVD that we watch from time to time!! woohoo..), so at least it is being "used" in some sense.
Elaine
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| Note the question mark at the end of the title. That's to say that the following is just my quack opinion on how to get better skin.
I noticed that in the past few years, my skin condition has gotten considerably better. Yes I do still get the occasional pimple here and there, but overall, these unwanted "events" have decreased significantly. You can attribute it to the awesome weather we have here, or the fact that I am growing older and moving away from my pubescence, but I think my quack skin care regiment has a lot to do with it.
When I first came to the states, I noticed that a lot of the acne skin care products out there had one thing in common --> benzoyl peroxide, or as many of us know it back home, "OXY". So I thought to myself.. instead of buying expensive products, why don't I just mix benzoyl with my usual moisturizer? So I bought Neutrogena On the Spot that contains 2.5% Benzoyl Peroxide.
Every night after moisturizing, I place a few dots of benzoyl around my face and blend it into the moisturizer (before the moisturizer dries up). After which , I go back and add a little bit more benzoyl to zits that are present on my face. An important thing to note is that benzoyl peroxide can be rather "drying". That's why I use neutrogena which only contains 2.5% of it (I think most other products have 5 to 10%). Additionally, I use it together with my daily moisturizer to prevent my skin from drying out!
Anyway, after months of testing, I think that my skin is actually getting better. Zit breakouts are a lot less that a few years ago. Hooray! =)
Elaine
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| The husband and I went to Niagara Falls over the weekend to celebrate our one year anniversary. The falls were magnificent! But the little town of Niagara was pretty dead.. with many shops left vacant and dusty. Rather depressing! We spent a few hours starring at the falls. Then at the rapids leading up to the falls. Apparently on a danger rating of 1-5, the American Rapids was rated at level 6. Meaning even if the falls were not at the end of the rapids, you can't do white water rafting in them. There were certain parts of the rapids that was not fenced up.. meaning somebody could just get really close and accidentally fall in. We actually did see a few foolish individuals who ventured close by to have a better look at the rapids. Sigh.. why don't people value their life a little bit more??
During the nights, they light up the falls by shining these really bright lights onto them. The beautiful white rushing waters accentuated by a black backdrop made the falls look even more beautiful. They tried to make things interesting by shining different colored lights instead. Red, blue, yellow, purple.. and then all colors at once to make the falls rainbow colored. I thought the colored lights just adulterated the beauty of the falls. Why add color to something that stands out perfect? People were crowding around us to see the lights (we happen to arrive an hour early to "park" ourselves on the observation tower and have a superb view). We got bored of the ugly colors and decided to head to the park and wait for the fireworks.. much to the excitement of the couple behind us. Their gamble to stand behind us paid off! As they didn't want anybody else to grab the spots that we were vacating, they created this barrier with their hands around us (say.. how on earth were we suppose to get out like that?!!).
By the way, did you know that at Niagara, everybody is either Chinese or Indian? Okay.. I may be exaggerating a little, but seriously.. Niagara racial makeup accurately reflects the current world population. I guess due to the dead town status, hardly anybody there is a local. Everybody is a tourist. We take turns to post and take photographs, vacating the "ideal spot" so that other people can take photos without having our faces in them. Every other eatery in Niagara sells Indian food. So much so that you'd think they should have all perfected the food they sell due to the competition. Sadly, that is not the case. Especially shops surrounding the falls that couldn't be bothered about their food quality. Exorbitant prices for lousy food. Thank God for Yelp! that gives reviews by normal people of the restaurants available in the area. We walked a few blocks out to a tiny Indian restaurant called Maharaja that had all day long Indian buffet with good reviews. Business was however surprisingly slow.. I guess that's because of their location. It's sad that this restaurant that's located only 10 minutes away from the falls isn't doing as well as the lousy ones around the falls.
Next to the Maharaja was a "museum" called the daredevils museum. It was more like a shop. At a little corner of the shop, they placed a few items some crazees used to go over the Niagara falls. People labeled them as daredevils.. I think the term crazees would be more suitable. People basically build barrels that were insulated with all sorts of cushions so that they could survive the trip down the falls. Hoping of course that their great feat would make them famous (and wealthy). Of course, they disregard the safety of people who have to go fish their barrel out of the waters after that. Most of them were given a huge fine for their misdemeanor. Tsk. One guy went over the falls in a jet ski. He died. Sigh! Again.. why don't people value their lives just a little bit more??
Photo from daredevil website.
Well.. that about concludes our trip. Oh yes.. Fireworks over the niagara at night was awesome. They set off fireworks every Friday and Sunday during summer. How nice! Thank you Canada!! I have to visit that country one day.
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| Hooray!! My phone has stayed alive for more than 2 years... and I must add that due to my highly protective attitude towards it, it still looks almost as new as when I first got it.. if you don't know, I added a plastic covering on the screen to keep it from scratching. On top of that I keep in in a sock when I carry it around so that its body doesn't get scratched as well. :P haha.. yes, a habit that has been ridiculed by too many. Ahh.. who cares?! nyeh!
Anyway, I'm saying this because all my other phones haven't had such luck. My very first phone was a Nokia 8210 (cause my brother didn't want to buy me the 8250 at that time as it was too expensive..). Barely two years later, my brother decided to upgrade his phone to one of those pretty colored display ones that were just being released. And so that's when I "inherited" his 8250. I don't really recall what happened to the 8210.. i think the display kinda gave way after a while. Anyway, barely a few weeks into using the 8250, I dropped in into the toilet!!!! Luckily nobody peed or pooped before that. When the phone dried up (after I washed it with copious amounts of water), it actually switched back on and functioned.. but it was never quite the same again. It wasn't long before its screen went blank and I had to search for a new phone. And it was around this time that brother decided that the new motorola phone he just acquired wasn't good enough (it really was kinda bad! Plus he was in the UK and the phone didn't work properly), so he upgraded his phone to a nokia 6600. So guess what happened to his motorola?!! Yes.. once again, I "inherited" the phone.
Crummy motorola
Now this crummy motorola E365 actually lasted for quite a while. But seriously.. it was a really horrible phone. Nevertheless.. the ever frugal me (self praise.. :P) used it for over 2 years until I went on student exchange to the UK. Uh oh.. problem arises --> the phone doesn't work in UK! So what happens next?! If you're smart.. you can probably already guess.. I "inherited" the Nokia 6600 from brother!!! Nokia 6600 was a pretty awesome fat phone. Sadly, six months after being in my possession, an evil evil evil man snatched it away from me. I was back in Malaysia when this random dude on a motorcycle rode pass and snatched it away (Say no to illegal imigrants!!). And that's when I had to revert back to old crummy motorola.. boohoo..
Fat Nokia that was cruelly taken away
Pretty pretty samsung!!
A few months after that.. brother decided that he wanted to bless his sisters since he was earning a lot of money (Goo brother!!!). So he bought each of us a new phone. This time round.. I actually selected the phone I wanted, it was the samsung D-900. So slick and pretty (I'm inclined towards sliding phones.. go figure..). Though the phone was really pretty, there actually was a connection problem between the sliding screen and the keypad. After a while, the screen just went blank! It truly was a sad day for mankind when that happened..
Shine shine shine!!!!!!
And so, after going through too many phones... we finally arrive at my current phone. The LG SHINE!!!!!!!!! This was the very first phone I bought for myself (I only paid 20 dollars for it but still...) It's a slide phone with a metallic red coating. The picture above doesn't do it much justice.. it really is pretty.. and it's mine!! MINE!!!! Alright I just got a little carried away there. I'm really not that attached to it. :P Haha.. but I'm just really proud that this is the first functional phone that has managed to stay alive for such a long time. No dropping into toilet bowls.. no evil man snatching.. no screen blanking.. plus it's still in mint condition! Hooray!! *happy dance"
Elaine
* If brother ever reads this blog, he'll probably beg to differ and say that I "grabbed" the phones instead. To which I'll say it's really better than having them lie around and get obsolete with time. | | |
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