Nike Tech Pack Poncho

This week was a rather stressful and eventful for me. My supervisor basically told me in a very nice way that i should get my act together and start focusing on my thesis, as she went into details on how i should plan my day to write and i went into depression mode. I was overwhelmed as it is with the first step that after meeting my supervisor, i wanted to just go home and sleep. Is that what depress people do? sleep? But i didn't, i was a sport and went to meet up with my classmate. I felt much better that my fellow classmates were also struggling with their first step, but the feeling still lingered.

To make myself feel better, i went for a little (and expensive) retail therapy. I have been wanting to get the Nike Tech Pack sweater since it came out last year October but just held back because winter was over, KL is freaking hot and i don't need another sweater.

I wanted this beautiful cape sweater. I regret not buying it. I went into Nike in the city and voila~ the Tech Pack line had a new 2014 collection. Again, i was contemplating to get one. I love everything about the line, but it was still not practical for me to get because...i have too many jumpers, sweaters, coats and jackets for my last winter in Perth.  

As i was walking out, i noticed the sales girl was holding on to a different sweater, i asked her if i could see it, it was a poncho and it was love at first sight. ok, it was love at second sight. SB had sent me a picture of the poncho when he was in Jakarta but i brushed it off because it was too expensive and again i didn't need any more warm gears.

But seeing it in person and it touching it and being able to actually try it on. I fell in love. I wanted it and it was the last piece in my size!!!!!!!! 

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I succumbed and got it. I can't wait for the weather to cool down so i can wear it out! Sorry for the bad picture, no effort went into making the picture pretty, i was too excited and (really) guilty for spending money i don't have. i feel good and that's all that matters. 

You can never win

One of the main reasons why i stopped blogging consistently is the whole privacy issue. When i first signed up for Facebook, i was determined to upload as many photos/ablums as i could and get as many tagged photos as possible. ahh young and stupid. I was lucky nothing happened to me personally, but after witnessing stolen identity, strangers using my friend's pictures and posed as their own and things along that line. i got scared and limited my picture uploads to only 'mobile uploads' from my then-popular Blackberry (So lame).

I took my privacy to another level when i started studying Internet Communication learning more things about social media and the Internet. It got to the point where FTS i dont know how to do deal with Facebook ever-changing privacy settings that i kept my tagged photos to myself, deleted all unnecessary albums (lol, party pictures = delete, drunk pictures = delete) and my new life on Facebook started in 2013. i decided to stop sharing my life. I dont post my relationships and my family, except my niece because she is too cute. That is a struggle i am trying to overcome - stop oversharing my niece's photos for her future digital footprint, she is toooooo cute to just keep to ourselves!!!!! So now, what i share on social medias especially Facebook has a reason. When i post a picture up could because there is a particular person i want to see the picture, update friends on Facebook about my life or vain reasons; i think i look pretty (i see nothing wrong with sharing a pretty picture of me, ahahhah :P).

Why i am talking about privacy is...recently i thought of deactivating my Facebook (this has something to do with me getting 100 likes on an Instagram photo, this deserves another post). As it is, i am controlling what i share on Facebook yet still feel so exposed. I cant deactivate it because Facebook is the only platform of communication that keeps me updated with people's life at home, my futsal group, my netball group, my housing village and all things important. You can never win.

Updates on Kay's life

Super happy that i am getting some traffic to this little blog. i told myself that this year, i would blog twice a week. well, that didnt happen!

Updates on Kay's life:

#1
i started crossfit. This by far has been the most consistent fitness thing i have done in my whole life. I LOVE IT! I was one of those girls who thought weights will bulk you up and just stick to cardio to lose weight. in fact, i now want muscles. i want those sexy tricep arms. i started putting on weight on the scale but losing weight physically and it was messing with my mind. i decided to STOP weighing myself, ever. Muscles, lets build you up.

My deadlifts are 60kg (that is my body weight)
My push press/clean and jerks are 35kg

                                             This was when i graduated from beginners classes to the prime classes

I still cant do a pull up and double unders. i bought a skipping rope to practise but i keep whipping myself that i stopped altogether. it hurts! i will continue soon enough. i cant wait to go back and do crossfit again. I thought of starting crossfit here, it takes too much effort to get to the gym and its really expensive here in Perth. So the only thing i am doing right now is bringing my fitness level up. i joined the Le Mils classes at the Curtin gym (Bodypump, FTW). Once you have fitness, everything else becomes easier. 

Which brings to the second update,

#2
I started yoga. i realised i was getting stiff from crossfit and i am the least flexible person. it takes so much effort for me to touch my toes and by the time i can actually touch my toes, i am sweating buckets. i make sure i do some stretching in the morning when i wake up and do yoga twice a week.




#3
I am on my last semester of ever-studying-again (i hope). Mixed feelings like crazy, i have a love/hate relationship with Perth and the idea that i will be leaving here for good in less than 5 months scares me a little and the thought of moving back to KL and not have a reason to come back to Perth scares me more.

#4
one word: NETFLIX

I wanted to get Apple Tv and small screen to put in my room = $$$$$ but then, my Canadian housemate helped me set up netflix on my laptop for 8usd a month (Rm24). HOW FREAKING AWESOME IS UNLIMITED ACCESS TO ANY TV SERIES/MOVIES/DOCUMENTARIES. i have been watching documentaries about Titanic, Rome, Pompeii, Leonardo Da Vinci, Hitler, Sharks, Killer Whales, Ghost Adventures, Crime stories and so many more. Sit with me and ask me to tell you about Titanic, i can tell you how Titanic sank. If you ask nicely, i can help you set up Netflix on your computer :D.

That is all, until next time.

my first globe

So right after i wrote the entry below, i went straight to the shops to look for my globe/world map! okay, my initial plan was to shop for clothes but that didnt happen when i walked in Typo just to "see" if they had globes aaaannndd they did. They had a small one, perfect for a desktop and a medium sized one like picture above. 

This was an impluse buy, i felt i like needed to have a globe and it didnt matter which map it had. I dont particularly like the map on my globe, i think its a map of cargo ships. I am going to wait on my next globe, not going to force it. 

Home Offce

I have this vision of myself when i get back from Perth for good, i work, i travel, i settle down and move into my beautiful house, where i will get an office to myself! (note future husband) I am one of those who needs her alone time and can only do work in TOTAL silence. No music. No sound. Total silence. Sounds/music distract me from thinking. I see myself spending alot of time in this room. So i went on pinterest and did a whole board for my future home office. 

White room with loads of lights

I want a white room with loads of sun light, natural lighting and wooden themed cupboards. I find white and brown very soothing. 

I want a huge world map on my wall. What not many people know about me is that i like geography and knowing where countries are at. It became a natural thing for me to love maps and globes. Sometimes during my late i-cant-sleep nights, i would look on Ebay and Amazon for globes, but none are what i am looking for. i can buy the normal blue globe, but i dont want to force it. i want to wait for the right globe for me to fall in love with and go, yes! you are worth the wait! Dramatic, i know. to be honest, i dont know why i dont have a world map yet... maybe i should go get one later.

I think it is very important that companies, offices or any work spaces invest in a good chair for their employees. You will be sitting on that chair the whole day and in the long run, something is going to hurt, either your ass, back, neck, knees and etc. I NEED my chair to be BIG, comfortable and PLUSH swivel chair. One where i can push back and stretch my legs on my table, 60%