燕窝的真面目

最近心血来潮想买燕窝来补补身子，养养容貌。妈妈说外面买有品牌的太贵，没品牌的很多假货，建议我直接想产燕的老板买那些还没有挑毛的燕窝，一来可以保证纯正无假，二来可以省下一点点钱多买一点，我想想也有道理就让妈妈去找某某阿姨帮我买了十块燕窝试试。

买了回来我还觉得挺高兴的，三两百块钱就可以买到那么多，那么真。兴高采烈的让妈妈赶紧去煮，怎知道妈妈说“还没有把鸟毛挑出来，怎么煮啊？你去滚一壶烧水再说吧。”啊，好没劲啊，人家兴致勃勃的准备要吃燕窝，还要去煮水？！？！水开了以后，妈妈说“把开水到进去，等水摊凉了以后就可以开始把毛调出来。”

唉，还要再等，人家心急死了。。好不容易等到水凉了以后，妈妈拿了一个小碗把燕窝放进水里，又一个小碗把开水到了进去，最后拿了一个拔鸡毛的夹子给我“好了，开始挑吧”我坐在厨房的天窗地下，细心的把一条一条的鸟毛找出来，小心翼翼的挑起来，力度一大就会扯烂整片燕窝，非常费心机。

半个小时以后，本来的兴致已经演变成烦躁，怎么搞的，就小小一片燕窝，毛怎么那么多，那么细，手快软，眼快花，碗里的毛还是源源不绝的浮现，什么时候才能拔完呢？店里卖的燕窝都是一大块一大块完美无暇的，肯本不可能嘛。这么多毛要取出来，哪还有毫无暇疵的？加工！肯定是加工！可能一半是燕窝，一半是粉丝。

看着这些乌漆妈黑的燕窝心里怎么越想越郁闷，为什么大家要花那么多前去吃这些脏兮兮的口水。有时候想到吃别人口水都很想吐，何况这个吃的是动物的口水，更是恶心。以前我跟朋友去参观过别人养燕的燕屋，一个接一个的燕窝就粘在简陋的板屋，看起来真的一点胃口都没有。而且就那么一点燕子的口水就卖的那么贵真的是没有道理啊。以前说的是因为燕子的窝都建在高高的山岩，采燕属于是高难度高风险动作，所以价钱才会卖的这么贵，现在连楼梯都不用都可以才到的燕窝还需要卖的那么贵吗？

又半个小时以后，我已经对燕窝又无尽的怨恨。好不容易挑了又挑，挑了又再挑。真的是自己花钱买难受啊。我不得不放弃，让佣人去收拾惨局。她又另外花了半个小时才算把大部分的鸟毛给挑出来，注意喔，是“大部分”，因为后来我在吃的时候还隐隐约约的看到一条毛！
妈妈用燕窝煮泡参，她说这样吃法比较补喔。我一口一口的吃下这QQ嫩嫩的燕窝，就这样小小一碗，我就生吞了几十块钱。感觉挺无聊的。。

上次准备燕窝的时候太匆忙没有拍到照片，下回再把照片补充和大家分享啊。。

备注： 传说中国第一个吃燕窝的人是明朝航海家郑和。郑和的远洋船队在海上遇到了大风暴，停泊在马来群岛一个荒岛处，食物紧缺。无意中发现荒在断石峭壁上的燕窝，于是命令部属采摘，洗净后用清水炖煮，用以充饥。数日后，船员各个脸色红润，中气颇足。于是船队回国时带一些供奉给皇帝。

How Bill Gates cured her PMS

Today I am going to talk about PMS (again ar!??!??!). Yes, again. Is is the never ending battle between me and the hormone, it was last year same time I wrote about PMS and until now I have found no solutions to it. And today I’m going to share with you a success story how this woman LJ who overcome her PMS problem with Bill Gate’s help. You mean Bill Gates is now venturing into woman’s health business? Continue to read and you will find out later.

LJ hates the word hormones, it is the magic spell that cast a decent understanding woman into a unreasonable fierceful monster, every month, wihout fail. Imagine a full quarter of our productive years was trapped in this PMS jail, say we have menses from the age of 13 to 53, over the aspan of this 40 years, the PMS takes up 25% of the time, which is 9.2 years, 110 months, 480 weeks, 3360 days, 80640 hours in our life, and what? You tell me there is nothing we can do about it??

So LJ used this “Entourage”, Microsoft's information-management program for Mac users, to send monthly reminder to the husband and herself one week before her PMS at every 28 cycle. If I ever set this program for myself, the message surely turn out like this “WARNING! HAZARDOUS & DESTRUCTIVE MONSTER IS COMING IN 7 DAYS TIME”. LJ thought this would solve all the problems as the husband understand it is the hormones that is starting the culprit behind the monthly fight.

For me I really think PMS is a magnifying glass in my life, but this maginifying glass is defected as it can only ENLARGE INDEFINITELY the small little invisible flaws and mistakes and keep it pop up in front of of eyes every 0.000023 seconds, so we see nothing but the ugliest side of human mankind, the husband or boyfriend in particular. So back to the story, LJ thought if the husband have get to know the PMS in advance, he would have be more alert and guess what man just can’t be bothered about this female hormones stuff. LJ gets even more frustrated when the fight still go on month after month.

Until one day she realized that it was not the husband responsibility to indulge her. She expects the husband to be more tolerant during that time of the month, to be more patient during that time of the time. But wait, whose problem is the PMS now? The wife or the husband? She shifted her mindset to deal with the problem face to face. Instead of expecting the husband to work on it when he sees the reminder, she chose to work on herself seeing the reminder, she chose to deal with the hysteric, unreasonable, moody and depressed self every month.

She prepared herself for a potentially tense week when she received the reminder, she has the awareness in her subconscious to start the battle. She knows this is just going to be temporary, the normal loveable self wil be back just a few days and all things will be beautiful again. So she grab a chocolate bar, tell the husband “I’m PMSing”. Cool huh?

Do you know your feet type?

I’ve experience some pain at the ball of the feet sometimes last year, at first I thought it is because I’ve wearing high heels to work most of the days, then slowly I realized even when I wear flat to go shopping or what, the pain is still there, just one particular spot on the ball of the right foot.

As I was wondering what is wrong with my feet, I came across this shop in Marina Square “Ergo Lab”, they sell ORTHOTICS AND BIOMECHANICAL INSOLES with ultimate support and comfort. Erm.. not a bad idea huh, so I went in to the shop out of curiosity.

The sales assistant offer the do a foot scan in order to know my feet better before she recommend the suitable insoles for me, so I stand on the machine which looks exactly like a scale, after a few seconds an image appear on the computer screen as below:

According to the sales assistant, I have high arch feet from what we see in the scan image. We clearly see the “footprint” on top, on bottom, but in the middle KOSONG! That means the entire weight/pressure of the body is placed on the front and back of the feet only, no wonder the ball of the foot keep on having pain after some walking.

You see, normaly human feet should look like this, that’s how we learnt to draw the footprint also right? In this case, the weight/ pressure of the body can be distributed evenly on the feet, so the feet are biomechanically efficient and can use any you want to.

For my feet type they called it HIGH ARCH, as thoug there is a high arch between the forefeet and the heel. The band connecting the forefoot and the heel is very thin or non-existant in my case. Hence the feet are not very effective as a shock absorber since the arch doesn't collapse enough to absorb it.

So they recommended me to buy this insole especially formulated to cater for people with high arch, it has this protuded portion in the middle of the insole to make good for the “vacuum arch”, so that the feet will have enough surface to absord the shock as we walk.

It cost me about SGD 49, and to be true it does help when you put this insole in the shoe, you literally feel the insole like some labour working hard to lift up that part of the feet. But most of the time, after you insert in the insole, the shoe become tighter and the discomfort at the ball of the foot has been transformed or transferred to the little toes as the shoe become too small for them.

Overall, I still give it a yes, because the pain in the toe is nothting compare to the pain in the ball of the foot. Lol.. If you are interested to know your feet type, you can do this simple experiment at home:

我的第一张saman

礼拜天回家的路上，我一贯如常的在马路上奔驰（不要鄙视我的SLK，ok！！），在康乐花园的高速公路上看到长长的车龙， 心想“不是吧，礼拜天都会堵车？肯定是发生意外了”。我无所谓，继续在炎热的天气在车内下享受冷气，哼哼歌曲。

过了200米左右，看到原来又有交通警察在拦车，所谓的检查车辆，还不是他们最擅长的诡计索取贿赂，也不叫是什么诡计了，肯本就是公认的事实。我无所谓，反正我又没有犯法，也没有违规，很快交通就会顺畅无阻，很快就会回到家了。

怎么知道？！怎么知道交警竟然把我拦着，让我把车驶到边上。我还很冷静的，关掉收音机，打开窗口。 “Selamat Tengahari， Cik” 警察很快的就来到我车旁，“Sila tunjuk lesen memandu, Cik”现在的公务员都很客户，很有礼貌，也很有耐性， 当然啦， 前马上要到手，心里还不是哈哈大笑吗！

接下来发生的对话，大家应该也有经验，不用我长篇大论的。“Cik sudah melepasi had laju sehingga 93km, had laju di sini 80km sahaja” 我假装无知的问说“Yakah？Di mana？”警察叔叔，很巧妙的每个警察叔叔都顶着大大的肚腩，留着黑黑的胡须，好像一个饼摸做出来似的。 接下来他问“Boleh saman？”，我心里在想如果我说Tak Boleh的话难道你对说“Ok， cik boleh jalan sekarang。”

我偏偏不想给这些烂警察机会minum teh，我冷冷的说“Boleh”，一点哀求的成分也没有，根本是死性难改的那种态度回答他。他拿起本子，正经八百的拿起手里的笔开始装模作样的。我也没有兴趣去管他怎么写，心里在想什么时候有时间去还就算了。谁知道他一个转身。。怎么啦？怎么啦？到底怎么了嘛？他说“Kali ini bagi amaran， lain kali jaga sikit ya”

我愣了一下？怎么啦？这个月的saman quota 满了吗？还是警察叔叔自己心里有鬼？我想，应该不是有鬼，是有神！还有谁能够把相差几秒就发出来的传票收回去？是全能的神吧。

我的健康指数

这两个月来最常听到别人对我说的问候语就是“你最近瘦了哦？”或者“你在减肥吗？”或者是“你是有病啊？怎么瘦成这样？”一开始的时候我会怀疑这些人是不是有病啊？我明明没有瘦却说到我好像瘦的像排骨一样？Tzeh还淘气的说我已经瘦得像来自非洲的牛了。。 直到有一天我心血来潮在衣橱里拿出一见已经n年没有穿过的牛仔裤一试，哇！！！竟然可以拉上拉链，而且还挺舒服的。 这件牛仔裤是我几年前最瘦的那一阵子买的，超级紧身，穿了没多久就穿不下去了。这时候我无法在欺骗制自己，原来我真的瘦了，惨了。。

我知道你们看到这里可能会很想揍我，可是我年底就要结婚了，正当每个新娘都在努力减肥的时候我竟然under weight， 这可是天大的耻辱啊。。前两个星期去拍婚纱照的时候看着镜子竟然看到一根KAYU，好像哭喔。。有一件晚装也正因如此穿的不堪入目，难看死了！人家说当模特儿要有衣架子的身材，我的身材也是衣架子：只看到衣服，看不到架子。。

伤心欲绝的时候，我上网搜查“如何增肥”， 结果给我找到胡杏儿拍肥田喜事的增肥菜单。 她除了每天吃6餐，中间还不断的喂自己是雪糕，巧克力和鲜奶。其他人看到可能会羡慕死。我看到却想吐死。我本来除了三顿正餐就不吃零食，也不喜欢巧克力，薯片，雪糕，汽水等垃圾食物，要我这么个吃法，我看我会更瘦――不断的呕吐！

上周Tzeh妈妈和姐姐去Herbalife和营养食品减肥的时候把我也拉了过去增肥。这个牌子的食品很神奇，如果你要减肥的话，在吃饭之前喝一大杯如果你要增肥的话，要吃饭之后喝一大杯就可以。我很难相信，也找不到什么理由去相信。之前有听朋友试过也不见的有什么效果，只听说钱还真花了不少。

在喝饮料之前，店主先帮我做一个健康指数的测试，我站在一个像量体重的机器上，手拿着一根长型的拄子往前申，不到几秒钟，报告就逐个逐个显示出来：

体重 ： 43.3kg
体内脂肪 ： 20.1%
内脏脂肪 ： 1
基础代谢率 ： 1043
体内年龄 ： 18
骨重 ： 28.8kg
BMI ： 17.6

还可以嘛？我最瘦的时候才43kg，比现在还少 0.3 kg。体内脂肪好像是在标准的以下一个“slim category”，也及格啊。内脏脂肪，那个阿姨说正常人的内脏脂肪指数是4，我的只有1，不太好，因为如何内脏完全没有脂肪的话，身体器官很容易产生摩擦，容易造成损害。哈？那我该怎么办？网上也找不到任何内脏脂肪的文章，那位高人可以指导一下吗？Anyway，我的BMI明确显示我是UNDER WEIGHT， 一点点啦，可以啦。。

妈妈知道这个消息后已经把我每天早餐的分量DOUBLE给我，我也努力每天晚上喝完一杯MILO才睡觉，午餐前吃饼干，晚餐前吃饼干，我相信在不久的将来我一定可以增加1kg， 太少？ 好了好了，2kg，ok？45kg看起来就像正常人啦，嘻嘻。。