It has been a while! Suddenly, I feel I miss blogging. And taking photos, editing them and shamelessly displaying them online *lol* But time hasn’t been on my side. I guess, when it comes to assignments, they just don’t stop coming - don’t read me wrong, I love that, so I’m not complaining ;) But just wish I had more time to do things I enjoy doing - like a hobby. Sometimes I forget that word exists! Baking used to be a hobby, but guess what. I haven’t baked a single dessert item since late last year! What was that last recipe I made? Laksa cookies? Or the molten choc cake. Who knows. I think I got burnt out from the humongous batch we baked in Sept last year that I’ve sworn off baking.

A sure reason why I don’t bake cookies anymore is, if I bake it, I gotta eat it. And you know when it comes to cookies, you cannot stop at one. So why even go there, right. Not that I never will bake cookies ever again, at least, not until I have reached my ultimate goal. Which seems to take for evah!!!

If you haven’t been reading my “health and fitness” blog [more like my blog of struggling to lose that last 6 lbs], or my twitter, I’ve been complaining about having this strong crave for buffalo wings for the past week. Actually, this past week has been extremely challenging - I was constantly hungry, famished every two hours and I kept thinking about food. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, it drives me up the wall.

Finally after a week of great mental suffering, I made the wings. And boy were they GOOOOOOD!!!! :D These were broiled, served with [low fat] homemade blue cheese dip, with sides of carrot sticks, baked sweet potato wedges and some mesclun salad for a balanced meal.

After I got my wings [six of them, including the fattening juicy skin *evil grin*], I have not thought much about them, thankfully. Nor do I think much about food. And I’m not as famished! :) Except when I’m looking at this photo, I hate myself sometimes :P So the lesson here is, when a strong craving hits, the best way to deal with it is not to deprive myself. It’s best to eat it, before it eats me. And I make sure it’s REALLY good and hits the spot, otherwise, it’s almost useless and the whole torturous cycle repeats.

I’m actually hating this time of the month. You ladies know it better. I just learnt how to make hummus and… you can’t just eat that alone, can you. So I’ve been having these 100+ cals snacks some days when I need something crispy and salty [baked chips is the answer] with a dip. I hope the week passes by quickly. I’m getting tired of attending to these cravings.

BTW, I thought of doing a review of the Malay horror movie Jangan Tegur, but simply can’t find the time. Quick review: See it! It’s REALLLY good with minimal usual-malay-corniness :) Lots of scary moments, simple storyline with a slight lack of originality [just think Supernatural + Ghost Whisperer + Medium + Exorcist], but you’ll love it. It’s probably one of the best horror Malay movies of the year.

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First it was Ghost Hunters. Then it was Paranormal State. Here comes my latest obsession: UFO Hunters *lol* . The first season is currently playing on the History Channel [Thursdays 10pm].

I’m not big on watching stuff off YouTube due to the long download waits and the horrible output quality, but I’ve come to a point where I CANNOT wait another minute for the next episode, that I just gotta get my fix off the internet *heheee*! Yea, their shows are that compelling. At least, they are to me.


a screenshot of Larry King Live’s interview with the UFO Hunters
on the Stephenville, Texas mass sightings.
Note the footer. Jokingly I think, either the object was on the way to pick up n
abduct the fella [which they should've done before 2001] or
the fella is an alien in a human suit and was on a mission to totally destroy Earth. *lol*

So yea, the entire universe knows my interest and curiosity on the supernatural and unexplainable stuff. I know, I know… a lot of people probably think I’m koo-koo. Heheee! Thankfully, my mom and Geraldo don’t think so. They can discuss about anything under the sun, so that’s wonderful, tho I do wish my mom thinks outside the box sometimes and doesn’t tie everything to one specific religion… I think this universe is unimaginably huge, it would be too foolish to think we’re the only beings out there.

There was a particular episode I saw which talked a little bit about the Betty and Barney Hill abduction in the 60s. Their abduction case became so popular and controversial that a book and a made-for-TV movie [The UFO Incident] were made based on the true events. I got interested and looked up more info. How interesting that after the abduction, there was a psychic conversation between the human and alien on the question ‘where did you come from’. The alien showed the human a 3D star map. After some analysis, people now speculate they came from or around the Zeta Reticuli stars.

So I had a discussion with Geraldo, who interestingly enough, says he remembers seeing The UFO Incident when he was a kid. I mention how cool it would be if I could see it. He’s so sweet, he knows I’m going thru a strange wave right now, that he went out of his way to find a DVD of that old movie for me! I’m soooo thrilled and can’t wait for the DVD to get here :) .


Unbelievable Fruity Object.
If you couldn’t tell, it’s half a grapefruit heeeheeee.

My curiosity on UFOs started way back when my mom brought tabloids homes - no internet back then and our local news were not open to report about UFO sightings ;) At some point, I went into the depths of finding some sort of answer in the Quran. There’s a script that says something to the effect that beyond the seven skies, there are other lifeforms. Now it makes me think that the reference ’seven skies’ is actually seven light years. Who knows… just a speculation. The closest star is about 4 light years away. The closest star that is similar to our sun, Tau Ceti, is 12 light years away. I dunno what star is in between that, but the aliens who abducted Betty Hill showed her the star map of Zeta Reticuli, which is much further away, about 120 light years maybe. And seeing how different UFOs have different shapes and colors, I believe they don’t all come from the same stars.

I guess like many others, we all have the same questions: What are they doing here, why are they here and are we safe. What do they look like, what do their planets look like and what do they eat. Well, I suppose, I’m the only one who wants to know what they eat :P Unless you’re a good friend of an alien, then there’s a possibility your questions will be answered. But as curious as we are about them, I’m sure they feel the same way about us.

I only wished there were more sightings in this area, and publicized when sighted. I suppose, as they say, the hotspots are always close to military installations… ours here are not hot enough apparently.

So the sightings are on-going, the investigations continue and I shall keep on watching their show. The older guy on the show can be a little scary and a small fraction of their stories a bit far-fetched, but knowing they are not plumbers by profession [like the Ghost counterparts], rather, they are PhD holders [tho not all of them are up there], I trust they’re not bs’g around and so I shall continue to keep an open mind.

Life is full of mystery. So is this universe. Never know what’s out there.

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Topics and interests, not people :)

Just want to share my progress at my other site : http://yespecan.mp — click on Mini Blog on the black bar to get to the blog.

It’s all about my weight-loss attempt, workouts, calorie counting frustrations… you get the idea :) No obligation, coz I know not everyone’s into this fitness-n-eat-healthy subject ;) which is why I’ve moved that topic to a new location.  Also, mostly just daily simple text so I don’t have to stress myself with ‘what pix to upload with this blog post’, etc etc. There’s no comments function, so if you have a question to ask, you know where to find me.

In other news, I have a 2-week breather. Yay! Which means, I have time to take pix, answer unanswered emails, catch up on sleep and everything else.

Enjoy the weekend!!! :)

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Now tell me, who doesn’t want a free meal!

So one morning, I skipped breakfast just to meet my mom at Thomson Plaza, hoping to have a nice brunch at Swensen’s and take advantage of their 1-for-1 Lunch deal [buy one main course and get another for free].

I ordered soup of the day, Salmon Pesto and my mom ordered ribeye steak [or one of those steaks]. The waitress came back to say, “You need to order another side dish or you’ll have to pay for both main courses.”

At that point, I was soooo hungry, everything seemed foggy. I told her to cancel the soup. It just didn’t make sense that I had to pay MORE to get a free plate of food.

About 10 minutes later, she came with my salmon dish.

That’s two thin slices of salmon and toothpicks as my sides. Two minutes later, my mom’s steak arrived.

Pathetic!!!!!!!! You can count the number carrots, broccoli, potatoes on the plates! Hidden under the salmon was a microscopic scoop of whipped potato.  I was too hungry, I figured, it wasn’t going to be worth fussing over a “free” meal.

We then had dessert. My mom ordered Hazelnut-something-something. The cup of sundae came with lotsa air pockets! *sigh* I just couldn’t believe it… Fortunately, my frozen yogurt was pretty packed to the brim. But I did walk out $45 less and a very hungry and crabby person.

I felt soooo cheated. Unbelievably cheated that I’m still not over it yet.

Last weekend, my relatives and I went back to the same outlet to celebrate my cousin’s birthday. I was hoping to load up that nite but made a mistake of ordering a main course once again. Note that this was on a Saturday evening - 1for1 deal is only for lunch on weekdays. Everyone’s plates were full, except mine.

What, did they think they’re a French restaurant?? Or wait, just coz I’m ‘watching what I’m eating’, they had to spite me??

Just because the economy is bad and they want to attract more patrons, they didn’t need to sacrifice on volume! Anyway, how expensive are vegetables!! If they can’t give me an extra ounce of fish, they could at least have given me more veges! Idiotos!

PS: First two pix were taken with my camphone… but that’s no reason why the meals were unsatisfactory.