Resolution #3: The Health & Fitness Renewal

Resolution #3

Get MOVIN' sista!

Why start in 2011?

As the final hours of 2010 bring us closer to the beginning of 2011, I'm going to do what I put off doing since the start of coming up with the whole 'Resolutions 2011' series for the blog - make a resolution to get fit, healthy and drop the lbs this year. 

But instead of just doing it the same way every year, I'm not going to just type 'Lose Weight'. I'm going to come up with fitness goals that I want to be able to measure and achieve throughout the year.


1. Improve on my timing of the mile. We all know that running is key to major weight loss, especially interval training, but I'm not going to just say that I will run more this year. A sure sign that I am improving in my fitness will be my ability to run the mile faster and more efficiently as the year progresses. Expect a page to track my progress on the blog!

2. Swim more! Swimming is great activity, especially for asthmatics like me, but my overall goal with swimming isn't to just swim more - it's to swim better! I hope to be able to learn to dive sometime in the future and possibly learn to surf! (But maybe only when I have amazing ab strength!!)


3. Keep active throughout the year! Probably the most important of all my fitness goals. Whether it is going to the gym, walking around, or just staying home and blasting through Jillian Michael's 30-Day Shred, the key to losing more weight is to keep moving about.


4. What would a fitness resolution be without a nutrition goal? Well, for this year, I'd like to eat less SUGAR and eat WELL-PORTIONED meals! 3 meals a day, 2 snacks a day and STAY HYDRATED with loads and loads of water! 


Here's to a happy and healthy new year!!


Peace lovies!


Til the next post!

Resolution #2: Financial Savvy is Sexy

Resolution #2 

Become Financially Savvy

Why start in 2011? 


1. I started working for the first time in my life in September of 2010. Since then I've had 3 paychecks and have done God knows what with them. 

2. I'm a financial retard. And I'm ashamed to say that most women, especially of my age who are not working in the banking and financial sector, are in the same boat. I don't understand money. And because I don't understand money, I don't do anything with my money besides SPEND IT. And we all know how bad that really is for an economy that isn't even out of recession.


3. I just got my first credit card. I'd like to make sure that I don't get into debt and be one of those people who end up with amazing shoes and no mattress. (Yes, people do sell their mattresses to get money to buy shoes. True Story.)


4. I'd like to share what I learn along the way with everyone. But that is pretty much the goal of this entire blog. 


Enough reasons for ya? XD


Peace lovies.


Til the next post!

Resolution #1 Learn Arabic

Alright everyone! With less than a week left in 2010, it's time to start thinking about 2011 and my NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS! I had previously written that I would do a series of posts this upcoming year so that I can track the progress of my resolutions much like how I am tracking my weight loss endeavors. So here it is, first post of the series and FIRST RESOLUTION. 

Resolution #1

Learn Arabic

Why start in 2011?

I have always, always, always wanted to learn Arabic. It is the language that connects me to the roots of my religion (despite the difference in archaic Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic). To me, it feels as though, learning Arabic would be a spiritual undertaking as well as an academic one. Not to mention that I'll be better equipped to travel to places in the Middle-East.


Every vacation since the start of university in 2006, I always wrote "Learn Arabic" on my holiday to do list. Needless to say, I never got round to even starting to learn Arabic. 


Well. Procrastinate no more!!

I just signed myself up for an Introduction to Arabic class at Al-Marqaz, a place in Singapore that teaches Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Classes are $200 for the 8-week Introduction course and subsequent classes at $300 for 12 weeks. They even offer certification courses in MSA that are based on the EU's CEFR for Languages (of which I am currently A2 certified in French). I know it's a financial commitment to learn a language but I am going to dedicate myself to this. 


I can't wait to report on the progress of this resolution!


Peace lovies.

Til the next post!

Highlarious: Antoine Dodson

It's meant to be serious, but it's just so funny it makes me giggle.

Movies: Black Swan

A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet, BLACK SWAN stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a featured dancer who finds herself locked in a web of competitive intrigue with a new rival at the company (Mila Kunis). A Fox Searchlight Pictures release by visionary director Darren Aronofsky (THE WRESTLER), BLACK SWAN takes a thrilling and at times terrifying journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.

Singapore Release Date: 17 Feb 2011

I have no clue why we have to wait til FEBRUARY to watch this here in Singapore. I might try finding it online. It looks amazeballs! How can we wait til FEBRUARY?!?! Injustice!