Mom’s birthday was good, we just stayed home and hung around the house but it was fun. I baked two cakes that day, a vanilla chiffon cake and a banana cake. Actually had a bit of each, strange for me since I usually detest junk food but I just couldn’t resist home baking! The banana cake was the one we actually put candles on, since Mom and I had dug into the chiffon cake the moment it came out of the oven.
Went out with Willie earlier today. I just had to drop by my favourite reptile store for a little while and was pleasantly surprised by the fact that the shop workers now recognise me. Some random pics from the top of a double decker bus on the way home:
Willie was pretty tired and fell asleep so I had nothing else to do. He did wake up for a short while though just to disturb me.
I think I’ll start making better use of my PDA and use it to jot down any random or interesting thoughts I have throughout the day. I always think of issues or ideas that I want to write about here, but they slip away by the time I get to the comp.
I often wonder and discuss with close friends and family how many girls in Hong Kong suffer from eating disorders. I’m pretty convinced that there are plenty, people just don’t like to talk about it and as a result there’s a major lacking in awareness and support. Not long ago I noticed a girl walk into a public restroom, proceed to expel her dinner into a toilet bowl, give her face a wash (she had turned bright red) then walk out and wander off with her boyfriend. No one else seemed to care, and I guess it was none of my business, it was just hard not to notice when I was in the same room.
Beauty standards here piss me off. It’s ridiculous how far people take the whole “thin is in” concept. I’ve had my fair share of ladies approach me on the street to try and suck me into weight loss programs. Let’s of course remember that according to my BMI I’m all ready considered underweight. And products like these are just bollocks.
Moving on, what does everyone consider to be their biggest web design flaw(s)? I think mine are definitely unintelligent order of elements (in the source code my menu comes before my content) and lack of white space (10px of space around the main text is a bit sad). I guess both are easily correctable, I’m just too lazy to recode all the themes again. Perhaps in future themes I shall try and fix them.
Aww, you and Willie look so adorable together!I get upset myself when I see how many people are trying to get ‘thin’ when they’re already plenty skinny! What’s wrong with being your natural size? I thought we had advanced enough in this time and age to celebrate some diversity.My biggest web design flaws…hmm…perhaps not being able to think up completely original ideas and lack of graphical talent (lol).
I hate those fake lose-weight-in-ten-week promotional things!
You are your bf are too adorable hehe And yeah, here being skinny is in too.. everyone talks about weight and they’re already sticks.. *eye roll* aiiiyh..
Ooo, I love making cakes! GReat site! x
right! those things are dangerous My dad has a patient who’s experiencing random convulsion from taking weight loss pills.
Well my grandpa owned 5 adult sonoran desert tortoises so once their babies were born around mid september he would usually sneak me one each year. I know how frustrating it is to hear people saying their tortoises just died, They can live up to 100-150 years. Dude, My GRANDCHILDREN will have mine by the time they pass away, If even.
Wow I cant believe people are trying to get YOU into losing weight. Thats just crazy!
Its wrong what the media has us believe about beauty & thinness. As long as everyone is happy wit theirselves and confident, why should there be a problem? Who’s to say what weight is beautiful? Agh, its just wrong.
awwwww… that pic of you guys is too cute! happy belated birthday to your mom… lol… i think my biggest web design flaw is being way too obssessively picky… lol. i’m a nerd about clean code and site organization. but i think i’m also never satisfied with what i have up. i think i need to get myself to a layout i can be satisfied with for a while and put my creative efforts into content (ie. more art, writing, etc).and i don’t think you lack white space at all. i love all of your layouts. i think each one is unique and perfect.
hey babe. sorry i haven’t been commenting for ages! Eating disorders are a really common problem everywhere. It’s really sad. I mean, if you’re extreamly over weight, I do think you should try to lose a few pounds, but society has the whole world convinced that being practically hollow is a good thing.
Aww, you and Willie look cute together heheWell, I haven’t heard anyone at my school go on about being too fat. In fact, everyone tells me I’m so skinny and I’ve heard one gilr go on about how she wants to put on a bit more weight~! (She’s not overweight or skinny I actually think her weight is perfect for her age) My biggest webdesign flaw would be that I’m just tooo lazy to actually MAKE some content for visitors to use in my website… And also being soo picky about everything!!
Lovey dovey!!! Ah…and I want to eat that vanilla chiffon cake Hehe!
my web design flaws: I tend to mix different kind of codes. Like, I don’t always stick to HTML 4.0 Transitional. I mix it with a little XHTML. Yup, I have to fix that
Look what you made me do – you made me want to bake something yummy then eat it. I’m trying to stay off junk food since I never eat anything healthy anymore. Hmph. Good thing we haven’t got anything though right? That’s nice that you made your mom a cake I had to bake my own birthday cake last year lol. Sad. I don’t buy into those lose-weight-quick schemes. How healthy can they be if it’s only healthy to lose a pound, or a partial pound per week and they promise to make you lose around 20 in 2 or some other impossible number? I don’t trust them. And it’s so sad about people with eating disorders. It’s sad how people feel they aren’t “thin” enough for people to like them when to the people who aren’t jerks and people who are genuinely nice and caring don’t care what you look like. I’m just glad I’ve figured that out without having to learn the hard way. Although, like anyone, I still care about how I look. Sometimes too much, but you won’t catch me starving (or gagging) myself. My biggest web design flaw would have to be my lack of ideas. If I could come up with something really original I’m sure it’d look fabulous. Or at least okay. I can never think of anything new so I always just find images, edit them a little and then pluck them down and add places for navigation and be done with it. Another thing would have to be my coding as well. I wish I knew more about php, as all I know is basically includes which isn’t much at all. And even my HTML tends to be messy. I could fix that of course, but I’m too lazy as well. Sorry for this being so long lol
Hummm… I would say my flaw is everything! Yeah… I never really like what I create and if I ever do, not for long. I also don’t understand the skinny thing. It’s not as bad here but I can imagine how its over there. People tend to look on the outside more than the inside. So sad…
I don’t have the problem of gaining weight, moreso losing it and not being able to regain it …I don’t understand why people are not happy with their bodies, although I am one to talk …Diet pillls are so not the way unless under doc supervision … Yourself and willie are too cute …
My web design flaws… lately it’s just that I’m very uninspired to do a new layout or anything.Anyway, I came here to take a look, from sweetcharade.com’s plug.
Awww you guys look really sweet together And yeah, I am immensely frustrated and angered by the beauty standards here too. Thin, fair skin, long hair (i donno if these apply there also, but yeah…). Psscht people who go by these standards and force themselves to fit into these standards should be shot, not that trying to fit in isn’t a big enough tortire already, but still. MMkay I’m all heated now :
Wow! You know how to bake? That’s amazing! For me, the only thing I know how to bake is choco cake — in the toilet. Haha. Anyway, that’s a really sweet photo of you and Willie!
That’s a very cute picture of you and Willie!I’m dissapointed with the girls in HK too…I guess maybe they lack the self-esteem that normal girls have and they start having eating disorders? Or maybe they just don’t recognize the problem because they’re not informed. It is pretty disturbing to see a girl expel her dinner without hiding…it’s like she’s not even ashamed that she’s doing it. And I hate it when people on the street try to suck you in to buy their weight-loss products! No wonder so many girls have eating disorders! I guess my biggest flaw in web design is writing the code wrong. I get a whole bunch of errors that I need to fix.
Hm the weight issues in hong kong sound just as bad as they are here in the united states. I get sick everytime I eat but I have acid reflux + an ulcer that i can’t take medication for that causes that. I know and see a lot of anorexicbolemic people around here as well and I think it’s sad. I can’t help but pity them. The only thing I can say is to support them the best you can, wheather you know them or not a simple “hey you’re beautiful” goes a long way. i think everyone is beautiful in their own way and that we should celebrate who and what we are each and every day. As for the webdesign flaw.. lol i have a lot of those as you saw the other day *laughs* which I’m very grateful you helped btw. I guess I’d say frames. I can’t seem to make a decent layout without an iframe and even then they aren’t living up to what i COULD be doing. I’d love to make a layout similar to your themes (in setup, not design) but I just cannot make it work. one of these days I’ll get it right. Thanks again Becca *hugs* Tell your mom happy birthday for me!
Thats horrible about the eating thing! I personally love food and don’t see how people can’t eat I hear that people who are already skinny don’t see themselfs as that, they see themselfs as fat when they arent so they just stop eating, my sister is like that Glad your mom’s party was fun. Yum cakes hehe
What IS it with these weight loss plans? I don’t get it. Doesn’t anyone think that maybe just eating sensibly and getting the right amount of exercise MIGHT help with weight loss? You CAN’T tell me that diet and exercise won’t make someone look better. If nothing else, you gain MUSCLE! (sp?) Anyway, I got here through Quirkiness.net. Your site is nice! Loving the layout. Nice and easy to navigate.. Jesse
Eek, I really don’t see how someone can get their dinner back up…bit hard isn’ it? Lol, my biggest web design flaws…I tend to have a 1 px line separating my layout from the background color…since my layouts are for 1024×768 but still fit in 800×600, the line is very noticable and though I like it, the reviewers don’t..and that i randomly use XHTML with HTML….:S
I think Asian countries in particular place more emphasis on being thin. For example, if you’re overweight in North America, some people might refer to you as ‘curvy’ or ‘big boned’. Whereas in Asia the person would just be called fat. I think being overweight is bad, but it’s also sad how people delude themselves into thinking they’re overweight when they’re not. It’s no good being fat, but it’s not any better to be stick thin!