The hot weather recently has caused my skin to crack, creating snake like pattern-patches around my shins and arms. Even my scalp felt itchy and would shed dandruff each time I turn my head a little harder, causing me much embarassment especially around my colleagues. It was so dry and itchy that I couldn't concentrate working in the the office. Every minute or two I would start scratching, hoping that no one would notice. I would be so distracted that I end up going to Google for some natural solutions in desperation.

After much Googling, I finally decided to purchase a bottle of jojoba oil, sweet almond oil and castor oil each to try since most forums seem to suggest those oils are quite useful for dry skin. Then I bought an empty bottle with dropper and transferred 20 parts of jojoba oil to 5 parts of sweet almond oil. To create a more pleasant smell, I then added 10 drops of Lavender oil and 8 drops of Pink Grapefruit oil to the mixture of carrier oils.

Then I used the dropper to slowly apply the oil on my scalp and massage at the same time to make sure the oil is evenly distributed on the root. As for my hair end, I rub a little bit of castor oil in since its very cheap and the cost-savvy me wants to save the more expensive jojoba and almond oil for my skin instead. After that, I use a towel to wrap my hair up like a turban and proceeded to apply other parts of my body with the remaining oil. After that I went to bed and I must say the experience was very relaxing. I dozed off the minute I hopped into bed which I suspect must be the work of the Lavender oil that I used.

The next morning, I have to say I'm very impressed with the result that I saw. Shiny lustrous hair and visibly moisturized skin! As I step out of my bathroom, I can still smell the lingering Lavender scent and it was so soothing I can't help but launch into poem-writing mode. I sent my boyfriend a poem through sms and he immediately called me up, probably wondering what went wrong with me since I never send him anything so early in the morning. Haha..It was worth every penny I spent buying the products and best of all, I didn't have any urge to scratch at all for the whole of today!

Tried the spelling bee contest on MSN Encarta and got the
score below..Quite fun I should say :)

Could You Win the National Spelling Bee?
Nice work!
You got 9/10 correct.

Good Score? Challenge a Friend!
1 Correct!
The correct answer:
B intelligible
Your answer:
B intelligible

2 Correct!
The correct answer:
C sacrilegious
Your answer:
C sacrilegious

3 Correct!
The correct answer:
A psychiatry
Your answer:
A psychiatry

4 Incorrect
The correct answer:
D insouciant
Your answer:
B insouscient

5 Correct!
The correct answer:
A eczema
Your answer:
A eczema

6 Correct!
The correct answer:
C croissant
Your answer:
C croissant

7 Correct!
The correct answer:
D deification
Your answer:
D deification

8 Correct!
The correct answer:
C sarcophagus
Your answer:
C sarcophagus

9 Correct!
The correct answer:
D psoriasis
Your answer:
D psoriasis

10 Correct!
The correct answer:
B antipyretic
Your answer:
B antipyretic

The weather is getting impossibly hot lately. Walking to the car takes a lot of strength and courage because every time I leave the shade my skin burns and I sweat non-stop. I usually don't carry an umbrella with me or put on spf lotion so I worry the sun might give me skin cancer when I get older or that I might just simply melt like a vampire.

I wonder where the trees have gone; many years back I can still remember driving was a pleasure because there were huge trees lined along the roads and I don't recall the weather to be anywhere near this scorching hot. I guess man really did mess up a lot with mother nature and now we all have to slowly pay for it (except for dermatologists, they probably are making big bucks). There were yellow patches of grass on every corner of my garden, the flowers wilted, the leaves all dried and crunched up making the whole scene a miserable sight.

No wonder more and more people get sick these days. Maybe humans will go to extinction in the future not because of some gigantic asteroid hitting earth or some super flu strain immune to all medicines that will kill us. Maybe humans will just one day disappear from earth because it gets too hot that the moment we walk out to the sun we might just evaporate from the heat and vanish into thin air. Seriously, come to think of it, when I look at the weather now I think its becoming more of a reality than an overactive imagination.

Last Saturday when I went home, I saw mom talking frantically over the phone, pacing
to and fro the kitchen area. I was curious so I eavesdropped a little and realised my
mom was talking to my uncle, telling how the dog he gave us, a Jack Russell breed by
the way, actually saved her life.

It happened when my mom went on her normal routine of cleaning dog crap in the cage where she needs to wash it with water and brush, so having the dog in the cage makes the job impossible. While she goes about cleaning, she opened the cage to let the dog out, opens the tap to let the water run and starts brushing when she heard a weird noise not so far away from her. She turned to the direction of the noise and was horrified to see a snake dangling from the dog's mouth flinging from left to right and right to left, and in the process beating the dog's own body thus creating the *piak piak piak* noise my mom heard. My mom panicked and jumped up and down, shouting to the dog to get back to the cage because she was afraid the dog might be bitten as there were blood all over the dog's body. The dog didn't give up and continued shaking the snake so hard till it became a bones, skin and internal organs mess. Finally the dog stopped and went to my mom and she quickly put the dog back into the cage. She then used a metal pick to put the snake's body (did I mention a cobra?) into a plastic bag for disposal and quickly took the dog for a bath once she was done with it.

She then checked on the dog to see if there is any snake bites. Luckily she couldn't find any and the dog seemed to be normal except for looking a bit tired than usual. After this incident, my mom said she won't be complaining about spending so much on dog food and getting only dog crap in return from the dogs anymore because she now knows how important these dogs meant to her, especially this very very special dog, Toto!

Recently a bunch of bored colleagues were talking about ways to kill time in the office and one thing led to another, a link was sent to me and I ended up clicking on it and completed the test.

Here is my result below, with my score and a link to the site if you are interested to take the test or are simply just as bored as I am, with ample time to waste in the office. There are 20 questions to answer and no time limit, so just read through the questions thoroughly before answering them. Good luck to those who wants to try o~


Free-IQTest.net - Free IQ Test

Anything to do with organic, sweet smelling, miracle cures or healthy diets and exercises has been a long term obsession of mine for donkey years. Throughout the years my passion for these things never ceased, in fact it grew stronger, to the point where I spend days browsing online sites just to check out the latest fad on how to make our life a little greener. I remember writing about aromatherapy as a means to relief stress and fatigue in my English SPM examination way back in year 2001! Haha! Back in those days, I didn't have the money nor the information that I have today to do my research about essential oils, organic health food and exercises, and organic health stores was harder to find than a needle in a haystack, literally!

However, as time goes by, and also as Hollywood celebrities begin to embrace healthier n more natural approach to attaining beauty and health, people became more aware too. So to my delight, shops selling organic food, essential oils/spa products and fitness centers began popping up like mushrooms everywhere around Penang this few years and although I can't say we are spoilt for choices, we certainly have more to choose compared to 5 years ago.

Anyway, talk about essential oils, I happen to chance upon this shop called Nature's Gift located at Tg. Tokong, the same stretch as Island Plaza, and what a lovely find I tell you! The service was good and the body shampoo even better..haha...bought it home and mom instantly commented outside my bathroom that the whole house smells so good (geranium scent) when I was bathing. She immediately took a small bottle and demanded that I give her some...a practice I call "House Tax" where a certain percentage of the things(including food) that I buy will eventually go to her :P
I was so impressed or more like in love with their products that I am planning to get their shampoos n conditioner as well. Guess Mom will have to prepare more empty bottles to collect her "Tax" soon!

Have you ever felt like you didn't sleep at all when you had 8 full hours of sleep? I did and still feel that way till this very day. Whenever people look at me, they always ask me if I didn't sleep the night before because I look really tired and haggard. I have always thought that if you go to bed for 8 hours, your body and mind will definitely get adequate rest. Turns out I was more wrong than right. You see, our body might get 8 hours of rest but our mind might not necessarily get that same amount. In order for us to get real rest, we need to be in the right mood at the right place and at the right time.

Everyday, I wake up from dreams in the morning, right till the moment I open my eyes. After that I will have to welcome a splitting headache which seems to come to me without fail daily. That is what I go through for the past 10 years, day after day. Yet to find a solution to this. Tried aromatheraphy..worked for 3 nites at most. Tried working out till i feel sore all over...worked for awhile. Tried watching movie till my eyes can't open anymore...worked to give me an even bigger headache the next day!

Today I woke up as usual, brushed my teeth, bathed, drank some water and looked into the mirror for the hundreth time till I'm satistied before going out of the house and get to work. While I drove to work I kept stealing glances of myself in the mirror, picking out some stray hair (my hair is quite messy), adjusting my sunglasses and cursing the driver at the back for driving so near my car. Then when I reached the office, I walked to the cafeteria, took my breakfast and then went to the toilet and looked into the mirror again.

Mirrors have always fascinated me because you see what you get. Whenever I need to stop dreaming that I'll marry a handsome prince with tonnes of cash, I look into the mirror. Whenever I had a bad day and cried my eyes out, I look into the mirror. The mirror will tell me that no prince will fall in love with a face like that. Reality check. The mirror will also tell me that no matter what happens, no matter how sad it is, I should be glad that I am still alive and that things will be alright after awhile, just like how my swollen eyes would have gone back to normal after a few days of crying. Mirrors give us the opportunity to look at ourselves the way others would see us, at least on the outside.

I looked into the mirror again just now. I just got retrenched. For awhile I didn't know how to react nor who to turn to, so I turned to myself. I went to the toilet and looked into the mirror. I saw a pair of sad looking eyes looking back at me. I saw anger, frustration and confusion. But somehow, I saw hope too.

While having tea break in the office a few days back, my colleagues and I talked about looking at girls and 'appreciating' their beauty. One of them asked a male colleague if he looks at the girl he has a crush on long enough to tell her breast size in case he needed to buy her undergarments. He immediately replied, saying he is a gentlemen who will never look at girls in such a horny manner. He kept defending his views that girls are to be respected and not objects for men's mere sexual gratification, which I agreed to that point. But he continued with a barrage of answers, implying that we are not normal, like we are some souless scumbag or something. We were stunned by his reaction because it was just a simple yes/no question. Instead we were given a long lecture by Mr.Holy on how to respect women (by the way, I am a girl) and were made to feel ashamed of our stupid question.

Things went out of hand and finally we couldn't take it any longer..so we asked, "so Mr.Holy have you ever watched porn?". Mr.Holy was speechless for awhile, fighting over his conscience on whether to lie or not to lie to keep his holy image (we knew cause its obvious from his facial expression that he did watch porn). In a fit of anger and embarassment, he said he did watch but he still respects women because the porn he watched isn't the normal kind of porn..so we all assumed he only watch gay porn and went....HAHAAHA....and were making remarks like "so you are not as holy as you potrayed yourself to be eh?"

Then another colleague asked if he ever do self-stimulation (rhymes with master bed :P ) and surprisingly, Mr.Holy replied without thinking that he asks people to do it for him. My jaw almost dropped hearing that because its just unbelievable, how can any man who just condemned us for being morally corrupt (for asking if he knows some girl's boob size), have someone perform..erm..stimulation on him when he doesn't even have a girlfriend?



So after that, I went home and thought real hard about it. Finally I came up with an equation as below:
Premise 1: Holy don't look at boobs because Holy respects girls.
Premise 2: Holy watches gay porn.
Premise 3: Holy asks people to stimulate him but doesn't have a girlfriend.

Inference 1 : Premise 2+3 -->This implies that Holy watches gay porn and doesn't have a girlfriend.
Inference 2: Premise 1+3 -->This implies that Holy wouldn't let a girl stimulate him because he respects girls.

Conclusion: Holy can only be gay.

That wasn't that hard to figure out after all...haha...I'm a genius!!

Somehow after the 1st post, I don't know how to write another one...I kept staring at the screen wondering how to fill the words in. I mean some people blog about food, travel, fashion and even random stuffs they encounter in their lives. Some made their blog their not-so-secret diary and some even used their blog as an avenue to earn money. As for me, I think I'd rather go for random stuffs because I don't think limiting yourself to a certain type of blog is healthy for creativity **act like very creative**. Haha...but then, still don't know what to write..wtf might as well just talk about the weather. The weather is really good today, kinda windy and cloudy but still a bit sunny, I mean the kind that won't make you too tan if you go sunbathing but still you can feel the warmth on your skin kinda sunny..and the wind is breezy, nothing like a typhoon that can blow the whole house away, but it did blow some sand into my eyes :( Oh ya..I almost forgot to mention the cloud is shaped like a giant cotton candy but the colour is white, not pink...

I'm starting to think my post is kinda lame..thank god no one is reading!

Yabadabadooo!
Finally the procrastinator is doing something in this blog...its been years since I got this blog, like probably a million years ago and I never post a single thing at all :P Whenever I thought about writing a blog that devil inside of my head will tell me "Hey, you are not an articulate person so nobody will understand what you wanna say. Do something else. Like go fly kite or go eat eat eat and put on weight!". So finally when year 2009 came I suddenly realised I needed to get more control of my life and do something about it, like losing weight and stop listening to naughty devil's ill advises, so I got myself together and wrote this post!!! Yippee...I made it...its a milestone...its legen (wait for it) dary !!