Category Archives: Health

Eye Surgery

Was reading the newspaper the other day when I got introduced to the photorefractive keratectomy (PRK).
Government uses it and its cheaper than LASIK…

I wonder hows life like without glasses… I’m as blind as a bat without glasses/contact lens. 1050 on each side.
Don’t even know if im still suitable for the corrective surgery 😀

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Food for thought (literally)

Came upon the article “Food for thought that’ll serve dieters well” the other day, and they came up with a comic version of it soon after.

Did  you know that

“.. in an unusual study which demonstrates that merely thinking about food, without actually seeing, touching, smelling, tasting it, can help sate hunger through a process called habituation”

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Running Barefoot

Minimalist shoes, heard of it?
Thats actually another name for shoes such as Vibram FiveFingers and Terra Plana’s Vivo Barefoot.

came upon it while I was reading the newspaper article – Just like running barefoot by Jeanette Wang.
With all the technology about customizing shoes according to pressure scans, who would have known that running “close” to barefoot is actually a solution?

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@Rochorbeancurd

Took a series of photo on Rochor Beancurd way back in August as I was in constant conversation with @rochorbeancurd.
I felt he’s someone worth following, cos he doesn’t hard sell his product on tweet, but instead retweet nice quotes and at times share words from his own experiences.
Doing a plug for him. 🙂

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dont eat b4 u sleep

I didnt sleep well at all last night………………………………………
Bcos I ate before I slept………………………………

It was almost 11pm when I got on bed.
10mins into lying down my stomach grumble…

and losing fats means I must ensure that my body knows it will be fed whenever it is hungry.
So I told myself. Oki… “Woman, you need to get up and feed yourself.”

In case you didnt know why.
Besides binge-ing due to hunger, another way of becoming fat is by starving oneself.
Bcos the body recognizes that it will not be fed hence it will quickly convert food into fats as a ‘self defense’
so no, cannot let that happen, so must eat whenever hungry.

So I got up went out to buy Bao.

I had 2 small baos…

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