I don't know if it really works, or I'm right or wrong to do so.

But the fact is, I'm loving this veggie soup that I learnt from Japanese magazines.

In Japan, those girls who wants to lose weight will eat this. It's easy to cook and prepare and the ingredients are readily available.

You'll need:

- Cabbage
- Celery
- Tomato
- Green Peppers
- Onion
- Chicken stock cube x 1

All you need to do is just to chop all the veggies, add water and cook till boil, then add the chicken stock cube in and simmer until the veggies soften.

Eating all these veggies really makes me feels like I'm going through a mild detox in my body.

And the best part is that I can vary the soup easily by adding/changing some of the veggies, adding some curry powder or chicken slices. And since Joeness is a fan of soups of cos he'll love to drink this with me everyday (with some variations to the soup everyday of cos).

Anyone wants to give this a try? 

♥
A.C.

So now that I can't deny I am nothing but near overweight, I have to admit defeat and give in to the golden phase: diet & exercise.

Joeness feels that I should at least aim to lose at least 10 or more, but I personally would be satisfied if I am able to lose 8kg for good. 

And I'm talking about 8kg in 3 months. 

Here's 2 *ahemz* unacceptable fat picture of me. I just weigh myself and today (I'm suspecting due to the time of the month) I am a 66kg (145 pounds).

I really can't decide which of these 2 is worst. Both looks just as fat to me and I am gonna prove it to Joeness this time that I'm serious about my weight and my health.

I shall do a weigh-in again next week and every week. 

If Haruna Ai can do it, I believe i can too? (Erm... She's merely 3cm shorter than me... So by using her as a benchmark I believe that's the best and closest to how much I can achieve?)

Wish me-self luck on my weight loss journey! I shall up date this journey of mine here as often as I can. *winkz* 

♥
A.C.

I used to be someone who love my country a lot.

Even though we're just a tiny red dot in the big big world, Singapore is a well developed and pretty country...until the recent nonsense of us, the native citizens being forced to change our lifestyle and habits to suit those new immigrants. I feel not only disgusted and damn ashamed of having such lousy....**** who only cares what the foreigners are thinking, instead of how we the citizens are suffering.

I am NOT proud to be a Singaporean honestly (unless those foreigners stopped flooding our lands and that foreigner neighbor of mine stop their habits of hanging their undies at their doorstep which is facing my house?)

Just in case you're one innocent party who's not living in Singapore and don't understand a single thing of what I'm rambling about above, read this (case 1) and this to find out why I (or I should say most of us true-blue Singaporeans) hate the foreigners.

Okie, that aside. *swallows a chill pill*

ta-da~!

These photos are taken on our National Day eve before I was going out to meet Feli for dinner and a long chat.

As usual, I can't leave home bare face because... I am going to town. 

So just a light makeup of golden eyes paired with an orange-red lip.

I also did an OOTD video for this before I head out to meet Feli.

Looked super tired recently. Must be the lack of exercise! Time to buck up, AC!

I shall post a "Before" photo next Monday and my weight as a kick-start. Probably with that I would be more than forced to be motivated enough to work out and slim down. 

♥
A.C.

Now that API seems to be gone forever mobile blogging is like a history to me.

And that really makes me wanna blog less. Afterall, it's just so much easier for me to type using my phone than my keyboard.

Not to mention the uploading of photos too. 

I'll still try to blog, this I promise. Since I've already foolishly got lifetime premium for Xanga and honestly, even after I tried so many other blogging platforms I'm still most comfortable with Xanga. *damn*

I'lll probably just have my fingers crossed that we can have the app for xanga to be up soon. 

In the meantime I shall concentrate on my weight loss then. Intensive gym (which means 5 days of gym workouts) starts next Monday and I already started working out this week. Gonna go for a swim tomorrow again~! I hope I'm not gonna get too tan. I don't really want to be tan even though I love to swim. I might do a 1 month before and after post on my weight loss journey, since I didn't manage to do that the last time I seriously slim down years back. 

♥
A.C.

I really can't help but to sigh each time I see the numbers on the weighing scale.

Even though it's not increasing (theoretically) but it's not dropping.

And that's not a good thing. It's already August!!!

3 more months and it's November, the continuous days of busy busy busy to come.

And so today I went for a swim. It's been ages since I went for a swim because, I'm becoming a vampire. (Awake at night, sleeps in the day, and avoid the sun because I don't want to get tan.)

I told myself that I must swim at least 20 laps and in the end I did 26.  Kinda glad that even after not exercising regularly nowadays I could still complete 20 laps in the pool.

Oh, and I received a very bad call today with a saddening news.

Now I feel as though I'm really really stuck. Why can't money just drop from the sky to me? And why everything is so fucking require money?? Sucks to the core when you have bills piling up to pay and yet your salary is never enough to cover all these. Maybe I should migrate with Joeness to places that have lower living standards. We probably won't have to slog our lives just to make ends meet. 

For those who have a dollar to spare, my paypal donate button is there ----->

It sucks when you're not well off and you have so many commitments. 

♥
A.C.

I haven't done any vlog for a long time... Time to do some serious vlogging~!

Seriously, I guess not many adults will collect care bear plush toys like I do. 

Pictures of my new love!!!

Thanks to Joeness who burnt a hole in his pocket to get me these... 

♥
A.C.

So I seek @roadlesstaken 's advice and emailed the Xanga team to find out what's happening with regards to why my iBlogger is not working. 

From what I know, iBlogger enables us to blog on Xanga via API. And hence, I emailed and ask if the API for Xanga is down.

And Eugenia was kind enough to give me a reply...

Direct quote from Eugenia's email reply:

"Hi Autumn,

Unfortunately we've had to suspend support for that API due to inordinate usage by spammers. We do not yet have a timeframe for re-enabling support for that API, but we are actively developing our own smartphone app, which we hope to have available soon.

Thanks for your patience,

Eugenia at xanga.com"

WTF

I can't help but to sulk at this email for an hour. Spammers? For god's sake.

So you mean, my dear people of the Xanga team, that to you dealing with the spammers is more important than dealing with the increasing number of cyber bullies who are using Xanga as a platform to bully the other fellow xangarians in the community?

Just because you want to deal with the spammers, you made loyal xanga supporters like me disappointed by disabling xanga API. Do you know how many loyal xangarians you had upset with this action?

And smartphone app? How much longer you need us to wait?

If I didn't remember wrongly way back in February I have seen somewhere that somebody already mentioned about using an iPhone xanga app and he's loving it. Until now 6 months had passed and still no news about it. That really makes me wonder how much longer I have to wait.

I am so disappoint with Xanga for disabling API and its reason.

♥
A.C.

I don't know why of all times iBlogger decided to stop being available in the itune app store now and no thanks to that, I can't mobile blog on my xanga anymore. 

And apparently there's no xanga app for iphones at the moment and there isn't any other apps that I know of which supports Xanga blogging.

And the worst of all? Xanga mobile don't work on my iphone AT ALL. I tried several times but it still doesn't work. I only got a blank screen each time after it loads. Am I the only cursed one who don't have the privilege to use Xanga mobile? 

I love blogging. But due to work, I blogged less for the past 1 year. Now, I wanna blog more. Then all these happens. Thanks.

This is a sign that I should leave Xanga? Xanga has always been my home. Then where can I go? Tumblr? WordPress? Blogspot?

*SOBS*

♥
A.C.

I already say K(h)arma do exist! Why nobody wanna believe the meanie? 

♥
A.C.

I heart my BBF. (Seriously)

He's one friend who never fails to stand by my side when I'm down, listens to all my whines and ramblings and not to forget, treats me dinner every month. *LOL*

It all started last year because he found a job that pays him well while me on the other hand, opts for a change in the career industry and got myself a pay cut.

And so he started treating me dinners once a while and it becomes a habit since.  (Anyways, I occasionally will treat him during those days when he's studying and I'm working. So yups, no biggie isn't it?)

We went to Sun with Moon Japanese Dining & Cafe in November last year and well, food porn time!

My black pig fried rice...

His cha soba...

Some other dishes meant for sharing. =)

And I can't forgo desserts because that's the way to kill stress!

In december, we went to Jones the Grocer at Mandarin Gallery hotel because Feli recommended that the food there is fantastic.

I can't exactly remember what tea I've ordered. In my memory, I only remember that it's a red-colored tea. 

My duck meat pasta. Not that fantastic like what Feli told me though... 

BBF's steak. Not my kinda food. LOLs...

I have more food updates and I'm still consolidating all those photos, it's gonna take me some time since there's just soooo many! But anyways, I'll post them up slowly bit by bit. 

♥
A.C.