Bisdak Babbles

Just one of my countless delayed posts. Just like every visitor here in Singapore, I took Shaynna, my mother and my sister to the Merlion. As expected, it was hard finding and grabbing a spot where one could take an exclusive photo with both the huge and the little Merlion.

The bridge to the Merlion park is as crowded as ever that it was so hard to take a photo with the Marina Bay Sands as a background…

Shaynna had a blast and could not stop talking about the “lion na nagbugwak bugwak ug tubig” (not really sure how to put it in English, but literally, it means “the lion with water gushing forth from its mouth”).

These hawker centers (food courts) here in Singapore is flooded with Chinese cuisines. I terribly miss Japanese food and all those restaurants that serve pasta! Despite its close resemblance to Chinese food, I also terribly miss Filipino dishes. Yet, in our company’s big events like the last one we had last May, these dishes were served:

Yes, there’s dimsum and chicken.  Last year we had Chinese food. This year, the same. We had the annual dinner and dance at the Resorts World Sentosa, yet the organizers told us we can either have Chinese food or vegetarian! And as usual, I only got to appreciate those spicy baby squid and the shrimp.I hope they would seriously take our food suggestions.  Else, I’d rather have McDonald’s.

So far, I had done 5 workouts in two weeks. So far, so good. Then I got so busy, my monthly period came, and I missed a week of my new exercise regime. I was so excited to get back, did stretching and all, yet 15 minutes into the routine, I got so dizzy. Good thing I was close to a wall and leaned on it while I still had 50% of my consciousness. I completely lost my vision for a while and only about 10% of my hearing was left. I felt myself giving in to darkness. Thank God, I did not collapse. I’m really scared of going to the hospital. It took m 15 minutes to get better.

I have no idea what caused it because I made sure I have enough sleep and was not hungry. I was a little bit thirsty, but I experienced being more thirsty before and something like that did not happen. Perhaps I’m not really meant to do something rigid? Would trying out supplements like irvingia weight loss save me the trouble?

I really want to get fit but I don’t want something like that to happen again. It was really scary.

I received a flyer months ago about ITalkBB. It caught my attention because it was stated there that I only have to pay 14.99SGD a month for unlimited calls to the Philippines! I do admit I spend a lot for my long distance calls and I desperately wanted to cut it down. We do have internet connection at home but then it’s quite inconvenient for my family to use that overly slow Pentium III computer. Shaynna talks to me longer when on the phone. If we were to chat, she has to stay right in front of computer and she doesn’t like that.

Two weeks ago, I have finally decided to sign up. I was really lucky to do it recently because they are having a promo: no sign-up fee, free BB Box leasing, and free delivery of the BB Box to the Philippines! Without the promo, I would have paid 20SGD for signing up and 15SGD for delivery.

Last Saturday, my family received the BB Box, I played the role of a CSR guiding them how to set it up, and now, I no longer make long distance calls home! VoIP makes it possible for my home in the Philippines to have a Singapore number. Only S$0.019 is charged for calls from that phone to any number here in Singapore.

Because it is so convenient, Shaynna is the one making the calls now. Thank you, VoIP!

“Don’t frown, else new wrinkles will appear”.

It’s one of the most common things to say to make someone smile, or just to stop from frowning.
“That teacher is giving beautiful ladies a hard time because she never had a boyfriend”. No, this didn’t come from me. I often overhear it in my country, especially. I don’t want to be labeled as such so I avoid frowning as often as I can. I don’t want to be told that I’m getting older, thus cheerfulness is being sucked out of me.

Afterall, laughter is the best medicine and genuine smile is better than all wrinkle creams combined. Still, beauty creams are nice to have.

Smile, even if you don’t get a smile back…

Shaynna @ 7 months old

I have been using the best acne treatment that I have ever tried. But there are things that I could not avoid for a pimple to come out from time to time. First, can I say it’s in my blood? My parents also suffered from acne in their teens and my mother still has them at 55 years old. Second, the pre-menstrual period. Years ago, they appear on either side of my cheeks. Having “claimed” every cheek area, it is now terrorizing my chin and neck areas. Third, I have just started an exercise regime. Perhaps excessive sweating is causing them to now appear always. Fourth, I often eat chinese food, where most of them have shrimp (ground, sliced, small, or big ones). Shrimp triggers my acne breakouts. Ok, I can avoid eating shrimp but it is just one of my favorite seafood!

Is there an acne treatment that could help my acne disappear completely even if I sweat often and eat shrimp to my heart’s content? Now, that would be the best acne treatment ever!

I’ve been ranting about about worries of gaining more weight, yet lacking motivation to sweat it out. I often thought of going to fitness centers but the membership and the monthly fees are just too expensive for me. Plus, most of those fitness centres are far from my place.

I could not just depend on jogging because it won’t target all of the problem areas. Actually, I’ve stopped doing that since we moved. Then I received one of those flyers handed out at the train station. It’s from Fitness Werkz, not Fitness First. The gym is just for ladies and is close to my place. They have this 30-minute fitness programme and was currently having a promo. So I went their to avail the free trial. I really liked it and the routine is not boring so I signed up. Their sign-up fee is a lot cheaper than the famous ones. So, Lipovox and diet pills are still not in my options list.

I’m still in my second week. I do hope I could go on and get rid of my bulging tummy. *_*

I often see Gmarket banners in my Yahoo Mail pages. So I visit it often. Only a few gadgets are sold there, but it is flooded with clothes, bags, perfumes, and other accessories. The prizes are low too. Now, this presents me an option to try wholesale apparel for my Christmas gifts this year! After all, I do have dozens of relatives living close by. Kidding. I still don’t have the capacity to play Santa to everyone. Since it is still the Great Singapore Sale, they also have big discounts going on.

I’ve been eyeing this bag organizer because I badly needed one. Well, I guess ladies do need one as we change bags from time to time. Previously, it was sold at 10SGD or higher and shipping cost is not free unless you buy a certain number of items. When I visited that page again, it went down to 4SGD! The seller is just from Singapore, so I only had to pay 1SGD extra for shipping fee. Two work days later, I now have my organizer. Next time, maybe I’ll try buying some of those cute clothes from Korea for my little Shaynna.

I don’t really enjoy watching sports. Well, there was a time when I enjoyed it, when Michael Jordan was the best one in the NBA. Now, I’m ashamed to admit it but I no longer have any idea if Chicago Bulls is still there… seriously. Anyway, back to world cup. It’s particularly everywhere in Singapore! McDonalds and even some food courts like Kopitiam shows live coverage. So if you’re craving for McSpicy, you have no choice but eat it at home.

But the best place to watch world cup is in Resorts World Sentosa. Well, the decorations in the photo above say it all. Also, they have a bigger screen there. Plus they have this betting game going on: whoever guesses the scores of the game wins something. I’m not really sure how much it is but if my memory serves me right, it’s 20,000SGD worth of Casino chips? If Sentosa isn’t too far from my place, I would have gone there to verify this.

I love seafood, especially shrimp! However, we cannot eat shrimp at home because my mother is strongly allergic to it. Well, I am allergic to shrimp, too. It makes me feel itchy all over after a few hours of eating. When I moved to Singapore, I was really delighted because I find it cheaper even compared to the Philippines. So, on weekends, I often have shrimp. As a result, I have more severe acne breakouts that no beauty face cream could control. So, I decided to avoid shrimp as much as I can. Now, my acne is no longer as bad.