project pia

1:07 PM

i just spent the last 5 days having all sorts of adventures with my friend from paris pia. we first met about 5 years ago when my family and i stayed over their place on a trip to paris. i loved her then and love her more now! she is skinny (haha i had to mention it first), beautiful and totally unaffected by it (which makes her so much more attractive-if such thing could be possible), easy going, smart, unshallow, uncomplicated and so much fun. she has this penny lane hippie vibe and has the uncanny ability to draw people around her. as my friend cybill said- we have seen girls as beautiful as her and even more so, but we've never seen someone draw people in as much as she does. i could go on and on about her but its the skinny part that i want to digress about :p pia is a testament that indeed french(she is half english and filipino technically but she grew up in france and is therefore french too!) women do not get fat. after closely observing her (and what she ate), and after a lot of questions, here are the things that i have gathered so far. I have decided to embark on this diet/change of lifestyle er eating habits or whatever you call it. I have baptised it PROJECT PIA and here are the rules:D

1. Eat one big meal a day (slowly) and take little snacks throughout the rest of the day.

2. Eat at least 5 vegetables and 2 fruits a day.

3. Tea is essential. Pia drinks at least 10 cups a day.

4.Never deprive oneself of treats or food that one loves, take smaller portions instead or better yet, split it with a friend!

5.Take in lots and lots of water (it makes you really really full!)

6.Less meat is better (I think she only eats chicken and fish)

7.Don't think about food so much. Mealtimes shouldn't really be set for certain hours but only when one is hungry.

8.Change the way one feels about eating out. Filipinos think of eatng out as a treat but the French kinda look down on eating out- they feel that the food is of lesser quality as they cannot be sure as to where it comes from. It is much better to eat in where you know EVERYTHING that goes into your food.


hmmmm i guess this is it. PROJECT PIA has officially begun today. I will post updates on how it turns out. I guess it's time for me to drink another cup of tea :p



Oh, for the curious, here are pictures of what Pia looks like, and some of our adventures together!come back soon pia! miss you already!!! bisou! xxx

Labels: diet, food, french, pia, reminder, talking to myself

sam

a reminder to myself

9:16 PM

Thinking of dog names has forced my mind into overdrive. And although I've come to be very happy with the names that we settled on for the puppies ( Hershey, Lucky and Cocoa Chanel), my now name-awakened mind is refusing to rest and has resorted to thinking of cute names- cute human names. Hold your horses- having babies is not part of the immediate plan-yet but i think there really is no harm in being all girl-scout and ready (Also I'm scared that hours of excruciating labor will leave me exhausted and just plain cranky and my kids will end up with totally forgettable names like..*^&%&..let's not mention any lest we offend any..hehe :p)! And so everyone who reads this shall be my witnesses..please please please in the event that i have children, please remind me that I've picked out these names already so they can be put to good use and this post as well as the amount of time spent thinking beforehand is also not put to waste :) Here goes my list (With proper heading of course)

Pretty names for kids in the event that i end up with J.
-Second names not completely thought of yet
-names ma be combined with each other to make up first and second name

Annika James
Aidan Skye
Jiro something or something Jiro (maybe Benjamin..Ben for my dad)
Jordan something or vice-versa
Sophia Anouk
Anoushka
Taylor
Annielle


I've forgotten the rest.:p I know. I know. This is a cuckoo post and has to stop. And so it stops now. :)


P.S. One more thing: If i get a gold lab puppy, I wanna name him kernel (because corn kernels are gold!) heheh or Tink because Tinkerbell has gold hair! :)

Labels: crazy princess, cuckoo, jason, kids, names, reminder

sam