Confessions of a City Slicker

My little girl took quite a bashing yesterday.

Was going home for lunch when I found out.  Oh, my poor baby.  What a cruel thing to befall thee!

Took the rest of the day off to get her fixed up.  She spent nearly 3 hours in surgery.  Then I took her for a pampering session to make her look pretty again, only to have it rain.

It’s OK, Darling.  Mommy will take you for another pampering session soon.  Who ever did this to you is a mean bastard.

In retrospect, I guess it’s a good thing I found out when I did.  If it had been in the evening and with the rain, I’d be screwed!

My little girl took quite a bashing yesterday.

Was going home for lunch when I found out.  Oh, my poor baby.  What a cruel thing to befall thee!

Took the rest of the day off to get her fixed up.  She spent nearly 3 hours in surgery.  Then I took her for a pampering session to make her look pretty again, only to have it rain.

It’s OK, Darling.  Mommy will take you for another pampering session soon.  Who ever did this to you is a mean bastard.

In retrospect, I guess it’s a good thing I found out when I did.  If it had been in the evening and with the rain, I’d be screwed!

OK, I’ve been goofing off my diet this last week, snacking in between when I shouldn’t.  I’ve suddenly developed a craving for chicken flavored Twisties.

There are also the left over CNY cookies that Mom is asking to finish ASAP so that they don’t get mouldy.  Then a cousin visiting from KL brought along some really delicious bak kua that took only 2 days to finish between Dad and I.

So it’s no wonder that all the numbers went up in my latest body scan.

That’s it then, this week, I must step up my effort to go to the gym more often.  After all, just 1 Body Pump class managed to escalate my muscle mass.  Adding a full week at the gym might just give my numbers the surge that they need.

Looks like the extra effort at Body Pump last week paid off.  Today’s scan showed that I have converted 9 gms of body fat into muscles.  I Rock!

Since Day 1 I have lost 5 cm off my waist.

I need to burn an additional 52 cals per hour to reach the ideal metabolic rate, but the increase in muscles is helping in that.  This shows that I must try to at least squeeze in 1 Body Pump to my schedule a week in order to continue building the muscle mass.

Best results so far…

Come end of next month, most of our gang will be out of that shit hole.  Of course, the stooges in charge happen to think that we will never survive outside in the big bad world.

Well, I’ve got news for you.  We will, and WE HAVE.

So go on, continue to view your little universe through your rose tinted glasses.  It’s gonna implode soon, but don’t listen to me.  You obviously think that that sorry excuse for a company will soldier on, huh?  OK, have it your way.  We’ll not be around to hear you pathetic losers drown with your sinking ship.

That smelly, salted fish had told me before that it’s not easy to find a job these days so we’d better appreciate it while we still have one and abide by his rediculous rules & regulations.

Little did he know that when he gave me that little lecture I already had a job waiting for me.  I was just waiting to get an official offer letter before throwing in my resignation.  I’ll bet the humble pie he had to eat when I submitted my resignation was hard to swallow.

Oh well, Milady, Datin CB must have said something to him.  At that time, I still confess everything to her, not knowing the snake that was hiding behind that smile.

It’s very hard for HIM to find another job, I agree with that.  After all, no one wants to hire someone who already has one foot in a retirement home and the other in his grave.

Also, I’d like to see him trying to survive outside Tan See’s umbrella.  I very much doubt he can get another job without mentioning Tan See’s name as a reference, any more than he can survive working in the big bad world without Godfather’s protection.

On the other hand, I don’t have a five-year plan of where I will be in my career five years down the road or shit like that.  I don’t expect to hold certain positions when I hop to another job or have certain amount of salary.  It all depends on how happy I am there, that’s what’s important.

As the Cantonese saying goes, "Dong kar um tar, tar sai kar", which means if you don’t want to work for the house in the North, then work for the house in the South.

Working life is like that.  I mean, look at me.  I’m pretty happy where I am now and I’m getting access to all these opportunities that I wouldn’t have if I had stayed to rot in that shit hole.

Another thing I really believe in, "Love your job, but don’t fall in love with your company because you’ll never know when your company will stop loving you."

Having this open ticket has given me the flexibility to survive thus far.

And if they think that they want to claim from outgoing staff for any instances of "non hand over of job properly" or "sabotage", well, I very much doubt that’s gonna happen.  The company is not going to be around that long for them to do anything.

Anyway, we don’t need to do anything unhonorable to throw a spanner in their works.  The stooges running the company are doing a damn fine job at it themselves.

So Dear Cousin finally developed the photos taken during the family dinner recently.  Here’s the infamous 40-year old virgin.

If you think that he looks uncomfortably constipated here, he’s not.  This is the same mug that shows up in every shot with every other member of the family

So how?  My cousin hensem boh?

The gym rearranged its schedule of classes months ago and I haven’t had the chance to join a Body Pump class since.

So since Froggy bailed on me to go watch our band tonight, I decided to take this opportunity to build some muscle.  Muscles are important to burn more calories and increase our metabolism.

Of course, after such a long hiatus, I know I should just take it easy and start off light.  But did I listen to the voice of reason?  No, I maintained the weight I was lifting before I stopped going to the classes.

Needless to say that it was not easy.  After the second track my legs were trembling.  By the time we got to triceps, my arms too were shaking.

End of the class during the cool down, as I was lying down on the floor, I wondered why I was feeling such a strong vibration.  Then I realized that the floor wasn’t vibrating, it was my entire body that was trembling so hard, it felt like vibrations from the floor.

I’m gonna ache so bad tomorrow, that’s for sure.  But if Monday’s BMI scan shows an increase in muscle mass, it’s worth it.

The gym rearranged its schedule of classes months ago and I haven’t had the chance to join a Body Pump class since.

So since Froggy bailed on me to go watch our band tonight, I decided to take this opportunity to build some muscle.  Muscles are important to burn more calories and increase our metabolism.

Of course, after such a long hiatus, I know I should just take it easy and start off light.  But did I listen to the voice of reason?  No, I maintained the weight I was lifting before I stopped going to the classes.

Needless to say that it was not easy.  After the second track my legs were trembling.  By the time we got to triceps, my arms too were shaking.

End of the class during the cool down, as I was lying down on the floor, I wondered why I was feeling such a strong vibration.  Then I realized that the floor wasn’t vibrating, it was my entire body that was trembling so hard, it felt like vibrations from the floor.

I’m gonna ache so bad tomorrow, that’s for sure.  But if Monday’s BMI scan shows an increase in muscle mass, it’s worth it.

This description fits Milady to a T.

When we first met, we were best friends.  You said so yourself, we may disagree and quarrel over petty things but at the end of the day we still go shopping together hand in hand.

I admired you for your strength, and you are a strong woman who knows how to bend with the wind.  Perhaps I should have seen this as cunning on your part.

Everything changed when HE came along.  What you see in him, the rest of us will never comprehend.  You are the only who sees any good in him.

To the rest of us, he is nothing but one of those vile, ugly, pathetic Orcs created by the Dark Lord Sauron in the LOTR trilogy.

Believe me, when this ship goes down, he won’t go down with it.  He won’t let the women and children go first either.  Nope, 100% he’ll be the first one on the life boat out of there and leave the rest of the crew to their fates.

Milady, has this pathetic Orc managed to cover your eyes with his shit?  Has his empty promises blinded you to what is plainly obvious?  Believe me, even if he would like to keep his promises, Orcs don’t have the authority to make any.  Their sole purpose of existence is to serve the Dark Lord.

Perhaps Milady is only guilty by association, but it is an association that raises considerable questions about your loyalty.  The Orc cannot be trusted and the fact that you take his side on everything is not helping your case.

This ship is sinking, no matter how hard they try to salvage it.  The rest of us have the good sense to jump ship early on.  I suggest you do the same thing and leave the Orc to stew in his own shit.

It’s where he belongs.

Today’s results finally showed the change that I have been waiting to see - 3 cm reduction from my waist.  Hurray!

So far my figures have been quite good.  I have been converting fat into muscle mass, therefore there are no significant changes in weight.  Once I start to build more muscles, the weight will start to fall away.

This is why it’s so important to get a body scan rather than rely on the conventional weighing scale.  Most of us will freak out at an increase in weight when in fact, we could be losing fat and gaining muscle mass.

I should seriously consider getting one of those body scan machines at home.

I also signed up as a distributor today.  Don’t worry, folks.  I won’t promote to you every chance I get.  I’m not one of those Amway people who act like a dog that has just sunk its teeth into a bone.

Since I do plan to take up the program for the long term, it only makes sense to join up and take advantage of the discounts that distributors get.

But I would highly recommend the program to people who are serious about losing weight and still get the necessary nutritions that they need.