Josephine Chow

A friend of mine said that I would become a vegetable one day because of the amount of fruit & veg I consume in a day.

It’s not meant to be a crash dieting or anything like that but purely for health value due to my IBS. I have to avoid spicy and fatty food, food with high salt and sugar contain. Drink less alcohol and caffeine and carbonated drinks, increase fruit, veg and fibre intake and cut out refined carbonhydrate, I should only eat wholegrain/wholemeal bread, pasta and cereals. And this is what I munching on on a typical working day:

morning: 2 pieces of toast with 2 cups of tea

mid-morning: cup of green tea with a piece of fruit

lunch: salad, piece of fruit and cup of fruit tea

mid-afternoon: tea with a piece of fruit and handful of mixed nuts

before gym: banana and a pot of yogurt (my energy food)

dinner: salad and a glass of orange juice

This is one of my salad lunch, it varies from sweetcorn & tuna, ham, egg, pasta, potato, fish etc etc and my favorite is tuna steak. Sometimes I think I am over-doing the avocado abit though!

I do consider myself of being quite disciplined but occasionally, I do crave for crisps, diet coke or biscuits and I am a sucker for chocolate, ice-cream and wine (why can’t they categorise these as healthy food?)

My evil work colleagues have just put me through a test, they’ve left a box of Jaffa cakes on my desk, but apparently, I have failed as I didn’t touch it. Feeling proud of myself now

I think I deserved a drink tomorrow night! Slug & Lettuce here I come!

Was wondering why there are so many police patrolling the station this morning, then I realised it’s Thursday today! What has the bomber got install for us today?!

It’s another miserable day today here in London, cold, dark and wet. Are we going to have a summer this year at all?

My head still hurt, still tired and life still sucks!

Contemporary philosopher ArKae quotes ‘life sucks but you just have to suck harder so life doesn’t seem so bad’ (er, whatever that means)

Would like to dedicate some space for my two great friends!

Andrew widely known as Biff. I doubt many people actually realised he has a ‘name’

Back in March 2000, I met Biff in a pub in Holborn after work on a Friday afternoon. There were loads of people but he happened to sat at my table and we did our ‘business card swapping’ I remembered I was having hard time not to laugh at ‘Cho Hung Bank’ printed in bold on his card!

I didn’t get to know him until early 2003 which is a real shame but since then we’ve became close friends, he would be the one I turn to when I need advise, a good listener who I can trust and rely on (except for keeping secrets). He’s my drinking buddy, my sidekick and my evil twin! We had some real good fun in our time.

Beside of being a good mate, he’s also a very intelligent guy, loved by all his dear friends and would not let you forget the 237 horse power of his.

Mike Funny enough, I met Mike through Biff on his birthday..

A truly special person who enjoys life and loves to have fun. Sensible, smart, confident, attractive, caring, a very popular guy and a great cook! Can be a bit of a ‘philosopher’ and Mr Organised at times but I never felt the slightest tinge of boredom or exasperation whilst am with him.

he’s always there for me despite my constant complaints about everything and endless mood swings

(you mean the world to me!)

p.s you can find link to Mike & Biff’s blog from my ‘friends’ list

10.00am

It’s quite hard to believe it’s happening so soon after the last attack two weeks ago. Although the bombers have failed their mission this time round and there’s only one minor injury, but they have done well to cause panic and chaos to public transport commuter.

It’s quite nerve-racking being on the train this morning actually, but then what can you do about it? the explosions are all random and god knows when or where the next would be? I guess we just try to live a normal life and try not to worry about it…. we can’t give in to the terrorists.

9.24am

Was thinking last night about my blog style. One said a blog should be more profound to reflects your intelligence and knowledge. I don’t mind opinionated and inspirational talk but I have seen many long-winded newspaper report style blog writings. What’s the point? If I want to know the ‘news’ I will read the paper myself thank you very much.

I have no intention to go the political, or argumentative route. My blog is about me and everything that happened in my world.  Personal, diary style light-hearted writings to share my ‘life’ with my close friends and family. and I love my photo album!

If you don’t like it..tough!

I’m feeling absolutely dreadful today, wasn’t going to make an entry at all I do not want my bad mood to reflects on my journal. But according to ‘men are from Mars, women are from Venus’, us women need to talk in order to get better so I decided to get things out of my chest…

Being an independent woman like myself, or at least I want to believe I am, it’s hard to comprehend why I am having real difficulty sleeping without my man on my side. Last night, once again, I was lying in bed trying to get some rest, it has only taken 5 hours of tossing and turning, eventually I have fell asleep at 4am (last I check the clock was 3.30am). But then the bloody alarm goes off, it’s 7 already! it cannot be right! ARRGG!!

Don’t take me wrong I have no issue with Mike out and about socializing, but I can’t tell you how annoyed I am. It really isn’t funny anymore…

Anyway, I have no choice but to get up for work, don’t forget I have already pulled a sickie on Monday

Another irritating thing is the minor ear problem I have at the moment. My right ear just keep popping, which block and unblock itself every now and then, and I can’t hear very well neither. hahaha to be honest though, the ’selective hearing’ works wonder at my work place!

ok ranting done, do I feel any better? the answer is NO. I just want to crawl back into bed

I have been going to the gym for two years now, I have always been a ‘causal’ gym go-er simply because I’m not over-weight, there’s no need to lose any weight just thought it’s a cool thing to be a club member

But recently, I have bought a little black dress for Bruce & Jo’s wedding party in September. It’s very tight and I’m having real difficulty doing up the zip, oh dear!!

Therefore I really do need to work harder and here’s my plan:

Monday - spinning for an hour

Tuesday - Yoga one hour forty minutes

Wednesday - more spinning for an hour

Thursday - body pump for an hour

Friday, Saturday and Sunday - rest

For you info - spinning is cycling like crazy on stationary bike, it burns away 1000 plus calories each session (as Mike has put it ‘making me sick just watching it’) and body pump is simply weight training using bar and plates, which makes my body aches for day or two afterwards.

Not doing too badly so far, I’m determined to get into my little black dress!

The 6th Harry Potter’s released Satursday 16th. Both children and adults were queuing outside book store at mid-night to get their hands on the latest Harry Potter. Some even finished the whole book by the next day! The whole world has gone crazy!

I must admit I do like Harry Potter too.
Once I had a debate with someone about how an adult justify reading a children’s book. For me, it is no different to other fantasy fictions.
The Harry Potter series have sold over 270 milion copies and have been translated into over 25 different languages, it cannot be all that bad can it? I’m not ashame of reading it.

I do wonder though… it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s input from editors or some sort, the latter seems far more ‘intricate’ compare with the first two books, not to mention it gets scarier every time.

Well, I have just started mine but I’m such a slow reader so I guess it’s going to take a while…. sure I will give you my verdict, if you are inetrested
P.S thank you Mike for my Harry Potter book, you are so sweet!

14th July 2005 16.59

One week after the bombing attacks in London, there’s 2 minutes silence to remember the victims

We were all out on the street at noon today to pay our tribute, whole of the capital fall completely slient

during those two minutes I was thinking we would be forever silent if we were to do this for every tragic events happened all over the world. How about all those kids who were killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq yesterday?