Yes, one of the thousands that must must have to have the Wii Fit – the revolutionary at-home personal trainer. I preordered this nearly three weeks ago, and it was delivered on launch date of 25th April. And it was well worth it!!!

It first measures your BMI, which puts me at overweight– no suprises there, especially since I entered the wrong height measurement. Then it measures your balance , which gave me my Wii Fit age at 44. Hah. However, I do think that it tends to measure younger users and give them an older age, whilst older users will be assigned a younger age. All about motivation me says. The younger ones will be determined to lower their Wiiage whilst the older ones are so happy about being a younger wiiage than they actually are and thus continue playing

And its games -nothing like Bubble Bobble or even Grand Thef Auto. This was just out of the world! Over the weekend I had jogged on the spot with the Wiimote (the controller) in my pockets, headed footballs, ski jumped, dressed up as a penguin and chased after fishes, did pushups and many others. What was excellent about this Wiifit is the Yoga section, which measures if your weight is evenly distributed between your feet and how much you are shaking when you are doing a pose. This is nearly impossible to judge with traditional classes or even one to one yoga training. Wiifit takes out the doubt that you might be doing it wrong by measuring your centre of gravity and shakiness of your leg supporting your upper body.

I also found out that I rocked in hulahooping! Excellent for straining the thigh muscles, it was absolutely exhausting! Step aerobics was one of my plus points as well, fairly similar with dance dance revolution. Just trying to do more cardio stuff at the moment due to my Mii ( avatar on Wii) currently resembling a rotund barrel – it automatically shrinks your Mii if you’re underweight and vice versa.

This was bacon doing step aerobics

I might dissapear in the next week or so, but will definately take more pics! Been to busy excercising myself and had no time to take pixs. Very happy with my progress so far, seeing that I am horrible with sticking to gym, Wiifit will actually scold me if I was not consistent with my excercises! It says good morning to you, asks you if you’ve had your lunch and tells you to stay off the afternoon snack. Now, have you seen a friendlier personal trainer?

The trailer is available from YouTube here

All those who are on their playstation 3 yearn for a day like this!!

Having worked in the energy industry, I am always wary of the tree-hugging greenies who insist on exhorbitant flights taxes, renewable energy for all and no packaging for any food. And of course, all for a very cheap price. I do not believe in extremism (unless the word chocolate is in there somewhere) yet I always think that one should do as much as they can. There is no point staying under your shell and never leaving your country of residence due to CO2 emmissions – what sort of ignorant children will you breed then? And as an acciddental migrant, the fact that my instant noodles were flown across the world or my salted duck eggs sailed seas to get to me is really irrelevant to my inevitable homesickness.

But it definately does not mean that I am just out there with my light-saber preparing to slaughter the world. And unlike many people I know of who is all talk about saving the world but no action, I am in the progress of changing my habits whenever I can.

Today is Earth Day. What have YOU done for your planet?

I have:

Converted most of my lightbulbs to energy saving sort
Walk around the house turning lights off that bacon had left in his blazing trail
Lowered my heating to 16 degrees
Restrict heating to 3 hours at night and 2 hours in the morning.
Iron really quickly (thus the burn!)
Try extra hard to remember to use my own bags for grocery shopping
Do not use separate plastic bags designed for grouping loose fruits & vegs.
Request for no bags for items small enough to fit into my handbag (creams, hairbands ect)
Try extra hard to recycle, even though it means glass bottles collecting dust in my kitchen before my next trip to the bottle bank
Recycle magazines, plastic containers & newspapers

Happy earth day!

Probably my own fault for accidentally scratching it

Sorry for my encore performance of no updates. Have been crazy at work – but what’s driving me even crazier is the fact that my parents have confirmed their trip here.

No, my parents are not the pain in the ass. It’s the fact that they are bringing 10 other people with them. Yes, TEN. Sepuluh. Dix. And ALL staying at my place. This is taking mi casa su casa a little too far! I also have to basically plan their whole trip, from trips to Edinburgh to trips to London and airport pickups and car rentals. Also pre-pay for all their trips first on my credit card and have them pay me back when they get here. Thank goodness for 0% on purchases credit card . I am seriously considering charging a commission for all this hard work .Failing which, I would settle for the transportation of my collection of shotglasses. They even wanted to go to Paris at which I drew the line. As the only person speaking any French whatsoever, I am not losing anyone in Paris – finding them would be absolutely horrendous. Glad my dad’s done more travelling than them, so I’m sending them off to Amsterdam for two days with my dad in charge.

Nearly confirmed now, should get everything sorted out by end of next week. I am so glad for this weekend, I really do need a rest from work.

And oh, I have at last applied for a L license. Yes…omg again. I did it in California and I am doing it again. I gotta go through the whole 9 yards of doing my theory exams and passing my driving exams. I really can’t be bothered, so I will be doing the exams in automatic transmission / stick shift. No point doing it in stick shift anyway, which is what all driving licenses in Malaysia is issued on. I don’t understand people that drives manual transmission, as city driving of stop-start traffic jams surely calls for an automatic car??? We were stopped at a traffic light the other day when some old fart in a manual car in front of us nearly crashed into us as he was in the wrong transmission and reversed at least 10 feet before I started honking the horn like crazy. Automatic transmission should be made compulsory!

Again the efficiency here impresses me to no end. I sent off my passport and application on Monday. It takes about 3 weeks to process the license and for them to send me a probationary drivers’ license. I was thinking that I will probably be without my passport for three weeks, but I received it back today in the post, with a note that they are still processing my probationary license. Excellent! There is still red tape here, but I have no doubt that if I were to post my passport off in Pos Laju, that would be the last I see of it – ever.

Anyway – haven’t started yet as I just received my book from Alicia this week (thanks!) but will definately slot it in for May – and the practical test in June.

and this is the reason why. A perfect pick-shaped 3rd degree burn

The last time this happened, I ironed my stomach.

Sorry for the general blurriness of the pix – taken inside my warm car on a cold cold afternoon at the traffic lights

Spotted on a Reliant Robin, or what I call a trimotor. A three-wheeled car anyone? Better than a kancil anytime!

I wonder whether it will tip over if you have a very very large passanger?