1st Guitar Song and 1st Month of Internship

My guitar teacher gave me a real hard song to play. 30 mins lesson is super short. I can't even go through the whole song. I learned how to hammer and read guitar tabs. It's quite hard to read because the font are so small. It's still not as hard as reading notes.

This week's song is 3 Doors Down - Landing in London. I never heard of this song before but it's ok. I have to youtube the song and how to play it. I think the teacher expect alot from me since I know how to play the piano. I requested James Blunt - High but my teacher didn't being that song.

I seriously feel so old there. When I enter the music school, it was all small children, like kindergarteners. I'm like the same age as my guitar teacher but he's obviously abit older. Damn, i feel old. It's so long ago since I was 18. I feel that I entered uni sooooooooo long ago. I used to be so young, 18 and now I'm 22.

I am so not ready for the working world. I am so determined to work in the music industry, which is teach piano. I have no hope in performing since I never memorize songs and I'm so not trained to perform. But I think I still need to work in office after grad because I don't want my degree to go to waste just like that. Plus I will get more exposure and better income. I plan to teach piano part time (if there is time!!!!)

I also want to open my own bikini business last time but now I don't really have the mood. If i start my own bikini business, I don't think i want to go retail. But in Malaysia, e-commerce is not so good and strong because people here still go retail. Malaysia is not even a big country. People from outside KL can just go KL to shop. It's not like damn far away.

I am seriously like so lost now. I seriously don't know what to work as after I grad. I know I'm like forced to get my Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) membership. But I'm ok if I don't take. If i want to take the membership, I have to work in audit firm and there is no time to even play the piano if I do audit. I will never work in tax because it's boring and sit in office whole day. I only intern in tax dept for 1 month and I hate it. It's boring and nothing to do. At least I'm paid to play games in office and do nothing.

At lease my office never block Facebook but they obviously block yahoo mail so that people can't send info out of the company. At least I still have a social life in office. At least I can still keep in touch with my friends who are still in uni. Plus, I can chat with my dear while in office. At least my dear is there to entertain me. Hehehe. My dear is soooo good to go online during working hours to chat with me. Muackssssssssssss dearrrrrrrrr

Internship and Guitar lessons

I know I haven't updated my blog recently because I was lazy. I was never busy except exam season. I went to Bangkok like 6 weeks ago and I didn't posted anything about it. I actually bought alottttt of clothes. They are so cheap and good quality, unlike those in Sg Wang. You can check out the Bangkok photos in my sis blog. She also has more updates. Hehe. I should discipline myself to blog more often.

I've started my internship on 1st March 2011 in Deloitte. The office is comfortable. I have nothing to do. I thought I only don't have anything to do on my 1st week but nooooooooo. I also thought as time goes by, I will have more work but nooooooo. I think I will have more work after a few months. My supervisor also said I might or will (can't remember) be transferred to another team. So far there's no news.

Since I have nothing to do in office besides reading the news, I started playing games. Thank god I can access yahoo games. Plus, facebook is not blocked. At least I still have social life while I intern.

Ever since I started interning, I haven't workout at all. I beat my own record, not working out for 3 whole months ever since I'm 19.

Since I am so free and no commitment in my job, I took guitar lessons near my house. There are alot of music centres near my office but I don't want to learn there because I have to bring my guitar to office (guitar cannot be kept in the car because of heat) and by the time I finish my guitar class, the traffic jam will start.

I started guitar class last week and I didn't learn much. The guitar teacher said I know quite some chords. It's really difficult to learn in youtube because there is no1 to comment on how you play. You wouldn't know if you play well or need improvement.

I even get to choose my own songs to learn, unlike piano class which is so formal. I also have to practice singing to sing along while playing guitar. OMG I'm so bad in singing. I used to practice singing like a year ago and I will become lazy to practice singing after I can sing well. So now I have motivation to sing and play guitar at the same time.

Opportunities

Lesson learnt from my friend Emma : If you miss an opportunity, next time try not to miss it again.
Then it struck me, I never miss any opportunities. I actually haven't find any opportunities yet because studying is such a huge obstacle for all my dreams.

My dreams are:
1. To go to USA
2. Become a flight attendant to travel and at the same time go to US
3. Work in music industry (piano teacher and if I'm super lucky, strike lottery kind of lucky, pianist)
4. Open my own bikini business. Will start as blogshop. This will come the soonest

Gastric Bypass Surgery

I was googling about gastric bypass surgery because I remember watching it on tv, they showed the animation where it bypass the stomach. They actually cut a small part of the stomach from your stomach and that small part will be your new stomach and the remaining of the stomach will be still there but does not have any food and is kept to release digestive juices.

The part where your stomach is connected to the small intestine, the part where the small intestine absorbs the most nutrients is cut off and sewn to the new stomach.

Now I understand it, the new stomach is damn small. Here's a video to make you understand better. I don't know if it's a lazy thing to do or not, like some people opt for gastric bypass instead of working out. I think gastric bypass is worse because you have to change your lifestyle forever.

There's another surgery where they call it stomach stapling where they cut a hole in the stomach to reduce in size. Just watch the video, hard to explain.

It's a life changing experience because they cannot eat much anymore and cannot eat many types of food. If they eat too much, they will throw up because the stomach is so small. They also have to take supplements because the intestine does not absorb as much nutrients anymore and this might cause problems associated with lack of nutrients.

I think gastric bypass is like a last resort if you cannot lose weight through working out and lifestyle change. Can workout be ineffective in losing weight? I always think that exercise and diet is the only non-surgical way to lose weight (don't count slimming centre, don't know what they do to u).

This is the video for gastric bypass surgery, it's not scary, its an animation:


I know that slimming center will give you a diet plan and a drink for you to drink so that you will not have appetite to eat the whole day. So dangerous and unhealthy. The slimming center will obviously work if they give a diet plan. How on earth can you actually lose weight with sauna and massage and stuff anyway. It will work if you keep on going to the slimming center and follow their diet but I bet most people will not maintain after the slimming centre.

I still think going to the gym is the best, not slimming center. I also hate their advertisment. I sometimes think it's not even the same person for before and after photo. It can be photoshop. The worst part is that they advertise "lose 31 inches around your body". Ya, lose 31 inches on my both arms, both forearms, bust, hips, butt, 3 parts of both thighs, calfs, waist, chest, neck, shoulder .......

Homemade Face masks

Now I'm so into homemade face masks. I just tried yogurt, honey and few drops of lemon juice face mask. I suggest 1 yogurt spoon of yogurt is enough for your whole face and like 2 drops of honey and no lemon. I used like 2 yogurt spoons of yogurt, 5 cents coin amount of honey and few drops of lemon. It's way tooooooo much, can use it for another like 5 times. The lemon dried up my skin but it lightens my skin. It didn't dry up that much. I also put it on my lips. My lips are quite soft after that.

Using homemade masks are much cheaper than those packet masks. I bought soooo many packet sheet mask and gel mask and haven't use them because I'm so into homemade masks now.

I know egg white mask with a little pearl powder of baby powder (powder to make the mask stick more to your face) is good in removing blackheads and white heads and in the same time, waxing your face, it dries up my skin alot. I think it's more suitable for teenagers.

Since natural face masks spoil easily and I always make too much because I don't know how to estimate, I keep it in the freezer but I haven't use those in the freezer yet. One tip I can give is that you don't need much ingredients to make natural face masks, a total of 1 teaspoon (1 tablespoon if your face is bigger) of face mask is enough for the face.

Home Face Masks

I was just googling about homemade face masks using natural ingredients. There was one that writes use parsley. Cut parsley into small pieces and add boiling water for 20-30 mins. Then use this 'tea' on your face. When Dori saw that, she said "hmm, parsley" then I said "we should try kangkung" and there goes my clay face mask. All cracked. I actually never use homemade face mask often. I only tried honey alone, not effective. Potato and honey is very good and potato alone is good.

My dad also said once that any vege and fruits we eat, we can put on face. I said no, we cannot put chilli. OMG, imagine that. I will so die of chilli burns. Do people put onion and garlic on their faces? Putting garlic face mask is really good in scaring off vampires and people. I think if you put garlic mask, your face will smell like garlic. 0_0 To eliminate smell, the best is to rub on stainless steel, like rub your hand on the sink or anything stainless steel to eliminate the smell. Imagine rubbing your face with a spoon? Haha

I also tried egg white mask few months ago and I am not seriously doing it again. My face got so damn dry. It must be because I'm old now. Teenager's skin are very strong, their skin can stand strong alcohol, strong cleanser, scrub..... I remember my skin when I was a teenager. Never before it became dry, flaky, irritated (my skin was never irritated before actually)

I also need a new toner. This Bio-Essence toner is so useless so I use it very often and alot to finish it up. The best is clearasil. It actually helps to reduce scars and cleanses the skin well. Dori said her aunts use rice water (water you get from washing rice) as toner. She said it makes their skin smooth. I read that in 1 website too.

Potato Honey Mask

I just tried a new face mask today which is potato and honey face mask. I used potato because last time I used it before. My sis saw it in the magazine and I used sliced potato on my face and it's so smooth after that (you can rub the potato on your skin 1st)

So what I did today was my usual facial routine.

1. Scrub or wash face (wash face if already scrub the previous day)

2. Steam face

3. Press out pimples

4. Scrub with sugar (not a good idea because must wait so long for swelling on face to reduce and it hurts. should scrub before pressing out pimple)

5. Put potato and honey mask for 30 mins and rinse off (pound 1 whole potato and use only the juice and mix it with honey and apply on plain sheet mask then onto face or directly on face, any how you like)

6. Tone and moisturize

The result,my skin is so smooth, clear and not dry after this. I feel it's much smoother than any other mask I've used. I used to like Amway deep cleansing mask (clay mask). The effect is almost the same as this potato honey mask but my skin is dryer and not so clean with the Amway mask.