ingrid

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I just came home from a two hour facial. Ahhh....

I had just cleaned my desktop and windows computer. It was annoying to do, but finally I was only left with "My Computer," "Recycle Bin," and "Nightlife" on my desktop. What is "Nightlife?" It's the Sims 2 Nightlife expansion pack (which is crappy save for the cars), but since stupid Alcohol 52% needs it exactly where it is to run, I can't move it. I'm sure I could reconfigure everything, but I cannot be bothered.

My main point is that when I installed the new AIM program, it VOMITED out five more icons onto my beautifully empty desktop. Oh my god. Yes, I'm aware they are meant for deleting. But is that necessary? FIVE?

For my new work out plan, I'm doing a four split program which means I focus on something different everyday. Uh... today is my cardio day. I am so tired. I do not want to do it. And you know what's sad? A main reason is because I'm seeing "Harry Potter" at 3ish. I just don't want to be asleep for it. Not that I'm keen to catch every riveting moment, but I just don't want to travel and have it all be a waste.

I woke up with a bloody nose today. Lame. I'm proud to say though that yesterday I ate surprisingly healthy and low-fat! Save for the mountain of peanut butter I put on my apple slices and the blue corn chips I had in the morning... but sincerely, other than those two things, I was very good.

I literally have a small suitcase full of Batman comics now. I am... troubled.

Infernal Affairs, the movie that the Departed was adapted from? My father is friends with one of the two script writers. Ugh.

Walking around so much in Hong Kong has really made me lose weight. Unfortunately, I think I regained all that weight lost tonight when I had Peking duck. It wasn't even good Peking duck. It was basically fat strips. But the reason I kept eating was because I was the one who ordered/wanted Peking duck, and because I've been conditioned by my mother to finish all the food and not to waste things, despite the detrimental effects on my body. Plus, at the fireworks show (which commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Hong Kong handover from Britain to China), which was really cool and beautiful, I ate a million Cajun spice French fries, plus I drank my bellini a little too quickly, and so now I am awake and nauseous.

You know what kills me? Toronto doesn't sell Vitamin Water, yet Hong Kong does. Ugh. My mini fridge is full of vitamin water right now. I've noticed, lately all my LJ friends are making cute little picture posts. I am much too lazy for that.

In Hong Kong still. Tried to watch the Veronica Mars finale while Isaac, my younger cousin, attacked his mini guitar and screamed "Country Road." It sounds cute. But it is not because the instant we finished the show he was finished as well.

I really do like Mandy Moore. I think she's very pretty, and I love that she's not all boobless and anorexic like everyone is now. I swear, all the boobless people just got really angry and decided to change things. Oh well. P.S. Jessica Alba, who claims to be curvy, is not. She just has boobs. She is pretty (a little unremarkable as of late) but she is not curvy. Anyways, despite Adam's eyerolling, I like Mandy's new album. She collaborated with Rachael Yamagata and a bunch of other nice people. Her first video was a little boring though. Interesting, but there was nothing else to sort of ease the burden of seeing the camera zooming up the giant Mandy pyramid. Plus, the first single, "Extraordinary" is my least favorite song on the album. By far. Hopefully she'll be allowed to release a second song.

Even though I can't think of anywhere else to live in, other than Toronto, I vomit at the idea of living there. I guess everywhere is filled with ignorant assholes, but the thing about Toronto, is that I KNOW there are assholes there. I guess that's why I have a reputation of keeping people out unless I decide otherwise. And the thing about Toronto is that they just think about their clean little parks, and their little schools, and the "cultural" downtown. But they completely disregard so many other parts of it, like the east and west ends, which are full of problems, but that's not their Toronto. I know every place has their problems, but I cannot accept Toronto because my life can't be confined to 5 subway stops. Maybe because I just can't function in any place other than my own little world. I know a lot of people would disagree with me, about my thoughts, and I've given up explaining things a long time ago. People don't understand why I'm late, why I can be so cold one minute and so forgiving the next, why I smile easily at them when I'm thinking about my problems. I laugh and tease a lot of people, and act sarcastic with them, or very distant, and I don't write thoughtful livejournal entries, and so... then... who knows me? More songs know me than people.

So since I'm always eating Hong Kong... always eating pork and deep fried things and carbs carbs carbs, I have decided to start writing down what I'm eating again. Prepared to be appalled. I decided to start writing today because so far, it's a good start. I guess I'm gonna be in a world of pain when I go back home. Except I probably won't and I'll be so accustomed to eating all the time that I'll eat all the time at home and not walk anymore and get even grosser. At least here I'm walking daily.

I've started playing Inselkampf, even though I previously shunned Adam for playing it. I got envious of the big community so I caved, dammit.

Food entry:
1. One bowl of dragon fruit (cubed) with strawberries (quartered)
2. A few toffee cashew cookies
    that are delicious and super thin and caramel-y and omg
3. One 250mL tetrapak of taro flavored Vitasoy
4. Eight chocolate crush Pocky sticks
5. Sushi bar lunch
    -salmon, yellowtail, and tuna sashimi
    -one shrimp tempura piece with this delicious light japanese mayonnaise dressing
    -deep fried squid pieces [uh, about a million of them] with the same dressing
    -sea eel with rice 
    -one warship style sweet shrimp sushi
    -half a piece of deep fried salmon skin
    -green tea
6. Northern Chinese dinner
    -peking duck in wrappers, deep fried sweet and sour fish, vegetarian noodles, shrimp, etc...

With this new camera, I am officially unstoppable. I got it in black of course, it's a gift from my father for my birthday. Since my other camera can't be used due to a lost battery charger...

This camera came with a screen protector and some other random freebies... as well as Neutrogena Face Scrub for Men? I won't complain though. I am super excited. It's got a very classic look and a case! My old camera was definitely beat up like mad.

I finally used by livejournal rename token.

__maybebaby is now officially bearseatbeets.

What's with my short entries lately anyways? I apologize. I'm packing and leaving soon for Hong Kong. TWO MONTHS. That's like a whole summer. I'm still unpacking all my crap from residence, I haven't even begun to pack yet. Brutality.

Packing 1, Ingrid 0. Flawless victory for packing.

I made a Jim/Pam livejournal layout.

I ate a piece of KFC just now, leftovers. Ugh.

[edit: i did 30 minutes on the elliptical machine to make up for it. it so did not make up for it.]

So, I have four exams to cover, not much time in between to study. I never paid attention in class so I don't have knowledge to wing things on, and yet I keep watching the Office and screwing around online. Huh. I intrigue myself.

As for the food entries, I forget what I ate recently. But I've been progressing rather well with the no bad foods, that is until my mother made me jump over an offer of McDonald's, then New York Fries, and eventually some KFC with an ice cold beer... So I cracked, but alas. No beer, it turned out, we accidentally drove past the Beer Store, and I felt sick after the KFC. Then the next night I had some Lay's Salt and Vinegar chips. Yikes. I am currently starving.

( If you've read the book... find out your daemon! )

My first exam is tomorrow. I'm starting to feel ill about it. What I'm really worried about is... no, I'm just worried about them all. I've lost a few pounds though and don't feel as bloated lately. No way! Looking at my past food lists I think I've practiced quite a bit of self restraint. Even with that can of cream soup in my cupboard...

Yesterday's food entry:
1. One green apple
2. Two chicken breasts and one drumstick - Tandoori style with chili sauce
3. Green peas
4. Stir fried rice with egg
5. Strawberries and mango fruit salad
6. A few bites of coconut cream pie
7. Purple rice and pumpkin flavored soup ball desserts
8. Blue corn chips with Tostitos mild salsa

Today's food entry:
1. One over easy egg with half a slice of toast and chili sauce
2. Two green apples
3. Half a slice of coconut cream pie
4. Chinese dinner (noodles, deep fried crab claw, and veggies)

So I can't sleep even though I wanted to go to bed at like, 12:30AM. Maybe green tea before bed wasn't such a hot idea.

Yesterday's food entry:
1. One tandoori chicken drum stick
2. Fish
3. Spinach
4. Basmati Rice
5. Chicken broth
6. Apple juice
7. Ginger ale
8. Uh... wtf did I eat for lunch? Shit.

Today's food entry:
1. One mango
2. Pork and shrimp dumplings with hot sauce and soy sauce/rice vinegar dipping sauces
3. Romaine lettuce salad with green apple and mango with an olive oil balsamic dressing
4. Apple juice
5. One cup of ginger ale
6. Blue corn chips with Tostito's Mild Salsa
7. One mug of green tea with honey
8. One Chewy Chocolate Chip granola bar

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They tell you what all your choices mean and I thought it was pretty cool. Click here to read mine.

Two days ago - food entry:

1. Two packs of instant noodles
2. A Sour Apple/Grape Slushee
3. One chocolate chip cookie
4. Two steak burgers with ketchup, mayo and chili peppers
5. Salad

Yesterday's food entry:
1. Three breakfast burritos with scrambled egg, cheese, avocado and tomatoes with lime juice
2. Small salad with French Dressing
3. One everything bagel with lettuce and turkey
4. Potatoes with swiss meatballs and gravy
5. One small glass of diet coke
6. One mug of tap water
7. Half a Mr. 2 Big chocolate bar

Today's food entry:
1. Ginger ale
2. Tea
3. A few bites of congee
4. A bowl of instant noodles
5. A few bites of mango

Today's food entry:
1. A few sips of cold chamomile honey tea
2. Dim Sum from the Sky Dragon Restaurant
          -2 Shrimp Dumplings
          -1.5 Beef Balls with Worcester Sauce
          -1.5 Steamed Noodle Rolls with Shrimp
          -1.5 Pan Fried Pork Dumplings with red vinegar
          -Curry Baby Octopus
          -1.5 Steamed Pork Buns
          -sips of Coke and some tea
3. One rice pudding dessert from a Chinatown bakery
4. Half of a green jelly Thai dessert
5. A Slushee (Half Sour Green Apple/Half Fanta Grape)
6. Korean Dinner
            -One coke
            -One Coors Light
            -Half a Labatt Blue
            -Small serving of fries with ketchup
            -Three pieces of calamari
            -Half a hot dog sausage with mustard (no bun!)
            -A few pieces of fruit in some kind of soda
            -Bean curd with sauce
            -Half a grilled mackerel fish
            -Fish cake soup
            -A few pieces of red snapper sashimi
             -Half a portion of the tiniest omelette ever
             -Corn with cream and cheese on top

So, it is through this list of food that one discovers one's "strict diet" is not going as planned. Nor is one's exercise regime going as planned. But how can someone diet with exams coming? That's the one benefit if I had stayed at home instead of residence: a gym. But I want to enjoy freedom while it lasts.

I'm really getting lazy with these food entries, my beverage entries are really inaccurate. Plus I finished Justice League last night. I am sad.

Yesterday's food entry:

1. One cup typhoo tea
2. A few cups of Allen's low acid apple juice
3. One Granny Smith Apple
4. Holt Renfrew chocolates
5. Two cups of white rice
6. Coconut and panko covered porkchops with a red pepper/coconut/papaya sauce
^I made it! :D
7. Cucumber slices, carrot sticks and red pepper slices with sour cream/onion dip
8. Half a cantaloupe
9. One glass of chocolate milk
10. One turkey sandwich on whole wheat bread with lettuce and cheese and sour cream
11. One brownie

Today's food entry:
1. Half a cantaloupe
2. Egg tofu with soy sauce
3. One cup of green tea
4. Several cups of apple juice
5. Carrot sticks with sour cream/onion dip
6. Two bowls of home made pasta with a cream mushroom sauce and shrimp

Today's food entry:

1. One bowl of one minute oatmeal with condensed milk
2. One tiny bowl of instant noodles
I'm not just being modest here, it was literally the size of a sauce bowl, my mom gave me some of hers.
3. One grande green tea from Starbucks with honey
4. One Minute Maid Soda
5. A few glasses of water
6. A LOT OF MEAT from the Korean Grill House on Bloor + squid and shrimps
7. One Chocolate White Coconut Donut
8. One large peppermint tea from Tim Hortons
9. French fries from Future's Cafe
10. Half a cantaloupe (out of guilt from all the meat at dinner)
11. A few stolen Holt Renfrew chocolates (I provoked Ana into taking them from the cafe)

Day before yesterday:
-ended up finishing a whole liter of mango juice. I also shook it with the lid not screwed on properly and juice went flying. Why me?

Yesterday's food entry:

1. One rice pudding cup from Magic Moments
2. One cup of Typhoo Tea
3. Two mini bagels with whipped cream cheese and smoked salmon
4. Peking Duck Dinner at Grass Mountain Villa

Today's food entry:
1. Two rice pudding cups from Magic Moments
2. One Typhoo Tea with soy milk and brown sugar
3. One tea with lemon
4. One bowl of borscht
5. Lean Pork with Spaghetti and Tomato Sauce
6. Half a cantaloupe
7. Granny Smith Apple Slices and Cheddar Cheese
8. Two Beef Patties :(
9. Veggie and Duck dumplings with chili oil
10. Lotus Root Soup
11. One cup Apple Juice

Dear God, please don't let me procrastinate horribly for studying for my exams.