DON'T STOP! BELIEVIN'! GOTTA HOLD ON TO THIS FEELIN'!

I am in loveeee....

With GLEE!!!

STAR WORLD just started airing the first season in Malaysia last week - so I guess we're super behind but I don't care because its fantabulous. I mean seriously, its caustic and witty and the cast can really, really sing.

Basically here's the premise: Dreamy high school teacher wants to revisit the heyday of his high school career - because lets face it his life, complete with batshit crazy wife kind of sucks - by forming a Glee Club (showchoir)with these misfits. There's Rachel, who is also batshit crazy - completely redeemed by the fact that she sings like an angel, Mercedes - black chick, Tina - Asian chick, Artie - wheelchair bound dude, Kurt - very effiminate sounding small dude and Finn - quarterback/singer/stupidest boy ever. There's also a whole bunch of awesome side characters, Sue - the evil cheerleading coach, Quinn the sexual but celibate cheerleader who is also Finn's girlfriend, the aforementioned batshit crazy wife who used to be prom queen and is now just sad and materalistic and Emma the OCD counselor who is not so secretly in love with Will.

It's good because it's very sharp in the way that it kind of deals with everyday problems and makes them laughable and yet makes us understand that these are things anyone can go through. The best part about it (aside from the singing) is how funny it is, which it is. Basically everyone is this caricature but its fantastic because its like the way you imagine how terrible and awesome high school is - in your head.

And the singing - WOW -its just glorious.

I mean check this video out, it was their first big song on the pilot - SONG ON PILOT I can't embed the bloody thing because for some reason they're like crazy protective over the content...

And this one which I just saw yesterday in the second episode:

This one I can embed - ha-ha!

Anyways as you can probably tell I'm in love with the teacher, Will aka Matthew Morrison. He can sing AND he can dance. Plus he's got smiley eyes and a thick crop of curly hair you just want to get your hands into. Yup I'm long gone.

On resolutions… and my FAT ASS

So, one of my resolutions this year is to lose 12 pounds. I’m going to have to amend that to losing 5 kilos, which is approximately 11 pounds. Not because I’m trying to back out of ANYTHING. No, it’s because the only bloody scale we have in my house weighs me in kgs. So – in the spirit of full disclosure, I now weigh 57kgs. Doesn’t sound like a lot, no? Well I’m 4’11” so seriously, it’s a lot on me.

How did I get to this stage? Well I think that basically sheer laziness and a complete disregard of what I consume has gotten me to this stage. I am by no means obese but I am definitely overweight. That and all of my clothes are UNCOMFORTABLY tight and it’s getting to the point where my once loose comfy clothes are fitting on me. It’s really not a good feeling.

So the last time I felt really good, I was around 52kgs. I’m not a huge fan of weighing myself and just weighing scales in general because I think that it can get really unhealthy and obsessive. But since I no longer feel healthy I need a gauge to really tell whether I am losing anything.

What is my big grand plan to do this? Basically:
1. Eat healthy – and I mean less oily food, little or no sugar (white sugar, brown sugar, corn syrup, etc.) in my diet – dessert once a week.
2. Exercise – severely restricted because of my slip disc, I’m starting with walking now, every morning at 16 minutes, I hope to build that up to 30, then once I’m well enough my Dad has promised to spring for an elliptical.
3. Incorporate weights into my workout.
4. No carbs after 6pm.

Now I don’t know if this is going to work, or whether it’s going to take a very long time simply because the amount of exercise I can handle right now isn’t that strenuous but I’ve got to start somewhere.

So – operation get off my fat ass – to reduce my fat ass is underway.

How will I stay motivated? I got this great idea from Fit Sugar this health and fitness blog, who were asking whether you should reward yourself for losing weight. They got the idea from one of the community member’s blogs, Losing Emily. Now Emily has decided that if she loses 20 pounds, she can then go out and buy an item of make-up. This works in two ways, one is definitely motivates her to lose the weight and secondly, it means she will pretty much have to control her spending habits.

I think this is an awesomely amazing idea for me, mostly because I have recently become make-up obsessed. I read beauty blogs all the freakin’ time. I read The Beauty Look Book, Make Me Blush, Lilly Chantilly, Rouge Deluxe, etc, etc. Mostly because last month I gave myself an almost RM1000 gift of make-up. I bought everything from lipgloss to mascara, to blusher and foundation. The brands? Bobbi Brown, Estee Lauder, Lancome, Paul & Joe – so you know it didn’t come cheap. Since then I’ve been planning the things I’m going to buy and if I do actually act on these impulses I could be broke in about a month. So I’ve decided if I lose weight – I can buy make-up.

Of course, unlike Emily, I’m not going to try losing 20 pounds at a go. She is a little – read LOT – larger and has a ways to go. I’m thinking more like, lose 2kgs > buy one item of make-up. I even know what I’m going to buy once I lose the first 2kgs– Bobbi Brown’s blusher in Nectar. I have Almond but I need a pink once so that I can do more sweet blushing type make up looks. Sounds like Greek to you – I’ll stop.

But this is basically the plan. So far it’s been a week and a half. I’m doing good. Cheated a bit over the weekend in terms of desserts. But I know that now that I’ve set this goal of buying make-up I’m going to be a helluva lot more focused and driven.

Happy New Year!! My god it's alrady been a freakin' year...

I can't believe an entire year has past since all of the resolutions I made last year. So much has happened it's insane. I worked for half a year at a public relations firm, joined my new job right after in August at the college and figured out a bit more about myself and yet I'm still not completely sure what I want out of life. So - in order to sort of sort out myself a bit more I thought I'd take a look at last year's resolutions and put down my new ones for this year.

So starting with last year, they were:

1. Do yoga, or at least the breathing bit, everyday to prevent me from losing my mind. Yeah no that didn't happen and now can't because I have a slip disc. It's ok since I hate yoga anyway.

2. Submit a story for the The MPH - Alliance Bank National Short Story Prize 2008, due by the end of March 2009. Nope. Didn't happen. I'll do it next year- promise!

3. Do at least one voice over recording audition. I can't! It's in my job contract that I can't.

4. Save RM I-can't-say-on-the-internet by the end of the year. A few thousand short.

5. Smile, even when I don't feel like it. I do this everyday.

6. Understand that the grass isn't greener on the other side. Made good progress on this.

7. Don't judge and don't be self righteous, people are people and I am as fallible as the next person. I'm still pretty self-righteous. Because I am right.

8. Dance like a madwoman. Can't do that so much anymore... but will make it there.

9. Sing out loud. Check.

So for this year I've decided I'm going to keep it short simple and achievable.

1. Figure out what I want to do in life (in relation to my career) and do it.

2. Lose 12 lbs because these love handles are not going anywhere by positive thinking.

3. Make some progress in the manfriend department.

See? Simple.