Sweet Brownie

Just received an sms from Brownie. Was telling him that it has been a long time since we go "jalan jalan." He replied. and here's an excerpt of his sms"....we can go watch a show or go shopping. Anywhere also can cos I wanna spend time with you."


Hee ......Sweet brownie

Nostalgic moments

7pm
Very happy today cos my god bro and god sister came to have dinner with us. It had been a long time since we spoke so much nonsense together. The table was filled with laughter and joy. My brother, me, waw and elm.....the fantastic 4!!

8.51pm
Here I am sprawling on my bed and in front of the computer, feelings of nostalgia overwhelmed me. The good ole days, when waw and elm were still young and my mum was still looking after them, flashed like old cinema images in my mind. Waw- the sweet young cute toddler who takes forever to finish her food and Elm - the chubby, lovable and yellow mee mee boy. I miss those days when I get to play with them after school. Both of them never fail to cheer me up when I was down. 14 years ago........

Cabbages ain't garbage

I am not exactly a veggie lover. In fact, I don't eat vegetables that are white in colour, I eat only GREEN ones. So cauliflower and cabbages (greenish white is also out) are out. They are yucky and tasteless. I love only spinach, yes the veg that makes Popeye strong. However, what I saw on TV mobile today may hopefully erase my disdain for cabbages.

Cabbages are full of goodness. They can:

1) Cure ecezma - Mash some cabbage and apply it on affected areas.
2) Stimulate skin cells for a brighter skin
3) Prevent breast cancer
4) Aid weight loss (surprising when I keyed in cabbage in my search engine, the results I got are all on cabbage and diet)

*Disclaimer: Any views expressed here are solely of Porkie's and if you guys out there want to try, it is at your own risk.

"Pretties" in the Land of Smiles

My first contact with this noun, "Pretties" was 2 years ago when I first went to BKK's motorshow with Brownie and A. Who are the pretties? They are pretty Thai ladies who are on the higher end of the weighing scale. Instead of getting mega slim and attractive models to promote their brand of lorries, this company got the pretties to promote the heavy weights (pun intended)

Just now, I saw this documentary on the first dance troupe in Thailand made up of plump ladies. Some were pleasant looking, others less. As they were dancing away on the stage, the audience were covering their mouth and bending over with laughter. Was their performance that exhilarating or it was their jiggling fats? I think it was the latter.

Being in the same catergory as them, I suffered silently for many years. When I was in my teens, it was worse with my superthick lens. Now, my contacts are able to give me most of my confidence back. Body image is extremely important to the self esteem of an individual. When you look good, you feel good and you are confident. Like what Simone De Beauvoir said, "To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself." I don't score lowly on Rosenberg's self esteem scale because I believe that besides body image, there are many factors that contribute to self confidence. Hiak!

ALSO, there will be a day when people notice me because of my brains and not because I am hard to miss due to my size.

Thank God it's Friday

We often heard pple exclaiming,"Thank God, its Friday!" Why is Friday such a much awaited day? Is it because it is the end of our working week?

Human are such contradicting beings. We often wish that time will not pass so fast, so that we can do as many enjoyable things as we could and spend as much time as we can with our loved ones. However, don't you realise that for the most part of the week, we are wishing that time passes faster?!

I am fortunate that my life gets better as I age...From a hectic airforce officer, a sympathetic welfare officer, an Orchard road youth officer to a intellectual (I hope!) RA.....life's been really good to porkie and porkie is holding on to every minute and every second of her life dearly.

Live life to the fullest!

A memoir of senses

I went to a bookstore yesterday with Fly. As usual books never fail to excite me, more so when I saw my long awaited book, standing upright in the shelf, beckoning to me....."GRAB ME...porkie"

Read the first 2 chapters of the book last night. Great book. Talks about the correlations (correlations?!) between food and desires, how food can be used to stimulate your desires...and a very interesting piece of information to share...

Have you ever wonder why the symbol for female is a circle and a plus sign on top? O+ According to the book, in medieval times for modesty reasons, females were made to wear undergarments with an cross like opening on their wedding night!!

Porkie's ran out of inspiration for new entry

Work in progress......

Trials and Tribulations of Porkie's dieting - Day 2

Terrible - That's the only adjective that can be used to describe porkie.

Breakfast - Nil. Porkie woke up late, 9.15am and Porkie's tuition is at 10am

Lunch - 11.30am. Nasi Lemak, with ikan bilis, fried eggs and long beans. Yummy

Afternoon tea - 1pm. Ba Chang and 1 bowl of green bean soup

Dinner - 7.30pm. Went to S Sushi with Brownie.

Supper - 9.45pm. 2 small bowls of green bean soup.

And as Porkie's writing this blog, she is thinking of the ice cream inside the fridge. Butter Pecan ice cream from Ben and Jerry's....Delicious

*oink oink

Porkie's having fun blogging

Porkie has an idea, she is going to document her trials and tribulations of her dieting here in this blog......

Today marks the second day of porkie's detox plan....just finished drinking S.P...Porkie bought a nice notebook to record her progress.....Earlier in the evening, went over to mum's place to measure her weight and even used a measuring tape to measure the circumference of her arms, thighs, tummy and hip...Porkie's going to experiment...She will try the S.P together with the slimming gel and see if it works.....

"Stay tune to the Trials and Tribulations of Porkie's dieting.."

Brownie Brownie.... Where art thou?

It is close to gall bladder replenishing time and brownie is still not back from work. Porkie's very BORED!!

I've finished sweeping, mopping, washing the bed sheets and all possible housework and brownie is still working. May/June is Brownie's peak months; very busy with lots of shows. He works LATE every night, comes back at 10pm and after his supper/dinner and bathe, he is back at the study room working again.

*Porkie shaking her pig trotters and waiting for brownie

What a close shave

Phew !! What a close shave porkie had earlier. I forgot my user name...too many blogs and I am not exactly young.....

After trying numerous times and exhausting all the plausible user name in my pig's brain, I decided to call upon the help of ......the ever reliable "Forget your password" section. A few clicks and an email...I'VE GOT THE HINT TO MY USERNAME!!!!

Phew, what a close one that was.....I was so close to not fulfilling my resolution and not living up my promise to Fly....

;-)

Back again!!

This is so sad....every year, my new year resolution is to document my happenings in life in a nice perfumed notebook....and every year, I start the new year, full of hope.......full of hope and confident that I CAN DOCUMENT MY LIFE HAPPENINGS....but i always end up having just the first few pages filled up....sorry diary

AND since the lastest craze is blogging...i decide to change my diary writing into BLOGGING....alas...the result is still the same...for this year, I have started ...let me see....at least 5 blogs...and none survived beyond 10 entries....so sad...BUT porkie giving herself another chance and ....

May this blog be the one that porkie fulfils her resolution