FIT is the new SKINNY

the desire of wanting to be toned and fit has led me into eating clean...

but eating clean isn't as scary or hard to follow as the myth...

it can be quite fun, if you make an effort into varying your meals

black berries and pomegranate: perfect antioxidant and yummy delicious

cherries tomato,beef wrapped asparagus, cherry tomatoes, salad and strawberry yogurt

this is a super simple one and cheap to make: potato, chicken fillet, dragon fruit and broccoli 

super raw combination: fresh orange juice with no added sugar, broccoli, cherry tomatoes and plum

meals preparation for lazy girl like me =P 

potato, broccoli and rosemary scented chicken fillet..

soya bean, egg, broccoli and  oyster sauce mushroom plus chicken fillet...

lovely watermelon, mixed berries and nuts with milk

lovely honeydew, raw almonds, energy bar and hot chocolate

my first parfait making ever =)

mixed berries natural yogurt with nuts, dried berries, avacado (wonder why did I put it in. LOL), pomegranate, dragon fruit and strawberries 

milk with dragon fruit ice cubes, grilled avacado and chicken breast slices, mashed avacado with honey

turkey wrap *wink* 

my first time cooking salmon 

I wish to make more nice looking and yummy food in the future =D

you can follow me in instagram for more food pictures ---> @shuyingisme

ciao! 

I am a FEB-ulous baby~

Happy Birthday to Shu Ying!

yeap,it's 11th Feb again today and it's my own birthday!

each year I try to make it a special day and this year my birthday just got more excited because this year is the first time my boyfie celebrates with me, after we have been together for 3 years, finally he is not in US during my big day...

few destinations and plans have been suggested to me for my Bday celebration... eg. Sepang Gold Coast, Malacca's A Farmosa etc...

but somehow I want it to be in Universal Studio Singapore~

while waiting for him to settle the autopass thingy....just feel that this angle and lighting is nice =D

and there I am with boyfie

we are musical fans....just loving it

a quick snap

and I like the way he holds my hand sometimes, and I realised he is so loving

i asked him what does he sees in this picture i snapped 

he said 执子之手 与子偕老 <3>

and there comes my Bday cake with the flavor of my favourite fruit: raspberries

and where am I?

here I am =D don't wanna be late for my own birthday~

Cheers, stay fabulous and aim for a better bday next year!

ciao~

no more slacking off !!

every now and then we often heard people saying they have been wasting the previous year and as they enter into a whole new year, they make new in and are eager to achieve them...

well, thank God I achieved the majority of my 2013 resolutions except for one where i am supposed to stay happy all the time, I guess it is impossible for one to be cheerfully happy 24/7.....there are matters in life that trouble us sometimes...

but it's alright....it's the effort of trying to stay happy that counts!

alright,so, what's your new year resolutions? 

let's not waste this year! 

in this 2014, I wish I....

(1) workout a lot and achieve that perfect lean and toned body (something new as compared to last 2013's resolutions)

and this is my starting point:

my 02.01.2014 abs

I have achieved my resolution no.6 in my 2013's resolutions where my weight has gone down from 52kg in December 2012 to now 47kg in January 2014 without me having to starve myself, I guess I was just too stressed in my workplace....

(2) second top resolution will of course be, Travel to more countries!!! 

oh well, who doesn't love travelling...but i wish i can tan myself on perfect sandy beaches, with a glass of martini on my left hand.....awwww

like this...

(3) spend more time with family and friends and my beloved one =P

simply because time waits for no one...don't wanna be late in expressing how I feel towards them...

(4) Earn more $$$$$

I've no choice, some of my resolutions need cash for them to be dreams come true.LOL

(5) be a Disney-minded person because fairy tales often ends in happily ever after~ except for Pocahontas I guess, she didn't get to be with her love in Pocahontas 1 and she 'one leg steps 2 boats' in Pocahontas 2...

=='' not all Disney stories ends well after all....LOL

(6) last but not least, embrace my Shopaholic genes ^-^

you know what it means, it simply means buying stuffs and taking them home and buying stuffs and taking them home and the cycle repeats... infinity....that's is why I said I need to earn well. =P

last advice to myself in the 2014?

if you don't like something, change it. if you can't change it, change your attitude. don't complain 

wink,

Shu Ying

he is the best thing that has ever been mine ;)

I remember I was sleeping on his bed for 3 days before I even knew him. He was away with friends for winter break and I couldn't check in to my own apartment on the first day of new year... He was a friend to my friend...

I remember the first time I saw him, he was on his way out to Walmart with his friend. Just a glimpse. Not a word.

I remember the second time I saw him, I need to use the washroom, I open the door and found something was blocking it from inside, thinking 'Must be some shampoo bottles or whatsoever' and I pushed harder...only to find he peeped half of his head out from the back of the door asking 'What are you trying to do?'...I got a huge shock, blushed and ran away...He must have thought that I was a pervert who stalked on him...

months passed...homework and classes get heavier...tests and pop quizzes....hectic...

I decided to take a day off to the mall for some shopping to chill myself...with a girl friend...

and we shopped and shopped, totally forgetting the time...nothing big deal, we just missed all the buses back to our university...

and it is 'not very far' , approximately 30 minutes away....if you drive....

of course, we called for help...trying all the numbers we have in our cellphone...

and one answered...

no,it wasn't him. it was another friend. but that friend was asking him to pick us up. and he did.

and it began that night.

Sunday's night: he added me on the facebook. We chatted till morning arrived.

Monday: We went to Walmart to buy drinking water. Stopped by McD to get supper.

Tuesday: I suffered a heartburn and napped on the couch in his living room. He sent me back that night. Again, we chatted on the facebook.

Wednesday: We went out for his dinner at TGIF. He requested to stop by on a roof top, parked his car and admiring the night sky...while I was shivering in cold.

Thursday: Spring Festival Day. We spent whole day apart with our different gang of friends.He was with his friends and I was with mine...and that night, there was a little drinking party in his apartment...I headed into his room found him watching movie alone in it instead of enjoying with the crowd outside...and I stayed there, watching it with him....

so far, me and him, 4 days had passed.... sounds simple...but trust me, they're not...tonnes and tonnes of emotions were involved. chemistry was built...

and he asked me to be his, that night....

wondered why I struggled and considered...but I nodded, in the end...

some people said we won't last...as we were thousands and thousands miles away 3 weeks after we were together....

but this month, we are celebrating our second year anniversary...

i know it is not a big figure, just 2 years...but it's okay...

because it is 2 years and still counting...

He is the best thing, that has ever been mine...

cheers,
Shu Ying

*two person who are truly in love will make everything impossible possible* winks

2013 New Year Resolutions!

It's a new year again,2013, and this is a special year to me.

Why? Because I have finally graduated from my degree and now I'm a mature working lady with stable income....

Finally I can support and feed myself...it's not as scary and hard as I previously thought it would be...

honestly, when I was about to graduate, I was undergoing some mild kind of depressions...

What if my income is not enough for me?

What if I need to starve and see negative balance in my bank account?

What if I gonna to travel for hours and stuck in horrific traffic jam like other working adults?

WHAT IF I REMAINED UNEMPLOYED FOR MONTHS? OR YEARS?

but it seems like I am still the blur blur lucky girl...

after a month plus of job searching, I was being employed, by a company of my choice, where my working place is only 3 to 5 minutes walking distance from my home....(sounds so good to wake up at 7.30 am when my working hour starts at 8.30 am). LOL!

Most importantly, my salary is somehow enough support me and my shopaholic nature....HAHAHAH!

and therefore, I hope to foresee a happy year ahead for 2013...but a life without goals isn't interesting at all...

there comes the importance of having new year resolutions!

okay.....

(1) I wanna travel to at least one foreign country in every year,be it only to Singapore or to Europe.

Actually I wish to go to Tibet, Mongolia, Turkey,etc...Not sure if next life do exist, I could be just live once.

(2) Be a happy go lucky person who smiles every single day, even when trouble comes in double.

(3) Be a better person to people around me, family and friends. 

(4) Collect more shoes, bags, accessories and clothes. I'm a girl who suffer from shopaholic disorders. Forgive me.

Does 30 pairs of shoes sounds a lot? Hang on, I'm almost there!

(5) Save more money in my account. Like a squirrel keeping nuts for the winter. 

You won't know when you need a huge amount of money for emergency purposes.

If I have some amount of money in my account, I can even be an Ah-Long (loan shark)...that would be my part time job then~

(6) Reduce my weight and maintain it....

The weighing machine shows a higher reading nowadays but everyone said I look just the same.

People and weighing machine can lie, but one thing never lied..my short jeans pants...

The fact that I cannot zip and button my short jeans anymore even though I just bought them less than half a year ago, sends an alarming warning to me.

Beware or Be sorry...

(7) Keep thinking of new resolutions. LOL

Guess that's all I can think of for now....

Hope everyone can have a great year ahead! Let's celebrate 2013! Don't remind me of my aging... =(

Cheers,

Shu Ying

stop and stare

Every glance is killing meTime to make one last appealFor the life I lead

Stop and stareI think I’m moving but I go nowhereYeah, I know that everyone gets scaredBut I’ve become what I can’t be, oh
Stop and stare,You start to wonder why you're here not thereAnd you'd give anything to get what's fairBut fair ain't what you really needOh, can you see what I see?

all this while, I'm not exactly sure if I was living in the mist or do I know exactly what I want in my life....

I started to feel, that this life isn't the one I'm pursuing for..something is lacking...definitely

but what's it?

And I have yet to find it out myself....

Remember to stop and stare...and look back,if you have to....

price and worth

price and worth of every single thing means differently to everyone....
something which is cheap and worthless to others may be very precious in your eyes...

for example, some people may collect a Hello Kitty toy worth $1000 as it is a limited edition...for someone who doesn't like toy/ Hello Kitty will get a shock looking at the price thinking that no one will ever get it, but at the same time, there could buyers who are willing to even pay $2000 for that so-called $1000 thingy...

a girl rushing for an important job interview may  buy a coat worth double than its usual price, but if it makes her looks confident in the interview and helps her to secure the dream job, it definitely worth it..isn't it?

sometimes, you may feel that a handmade birthday wish card is more precious than a channel bag...while at the same time,some people will prefer that channel bag rather than the card...(different preferences in terms of price and worth for everyone)

it doesn't apply to just material things...actions could apply the 'price and worth' theory too...

some people who have above average outer look went for cosmetic surgeries to look even better...
but they have to pay expensive surgery fees, bear the risk of failed surgery and the pain experienced by the physical body...

others start judging and commenting on it...

they may not understand the reasons behind it...does it worth all that? some people asked...

but most of the time, if the person thinks it's worth it, who are us to even question the price and worth of her/his decision?

an old lady who has retired from her job and supposed to enjoy her life, yet sometimes she chose to contribute the rest of the years taking care of her grandchildren although they are naughty, her children are willing to hire another baby sitter and she is weak due to old age..

sometimes, she just find it worthy to spend her time with the little ones...though she will have backache chasing after those little hybrid of angels (who are also devils)...

people sometimes could be stubborn, as they do not listen to others who advised it is not worthy for that price of a thing or an action

little that 'others' know, it is because they have a scale in their heart, who finds the things they buy or do, worthy of the price they have to pay...

sometimes, you know it is worthy, it carved a smile on your lips...

cheers,
Shu Ying

sometimes I love to pretend to be tomato.makeup

my eyes make up looks simple

but it wasn't...

not unless you are pro in make up..

here are what I did to my face..

1. apply UV block lotion SPF 30

2. facial make up base

3. foundation SPF 30

4. eye primer

5. eye brow coffee color pencil

6. bottom eye concealer

7.dark purple eye shadow

8.dark brown eye shadow 

9. black color pencil eye liner

10. black color liquid eye liner

11. eye lashes curler

12. black color mascara

13. fake eye lashes only at the outer corner of my eyes

14. second round of liquid eye liner

15. blusher

16. bronzer

and all these should be done within ..

urm...

10 minutes maximum..

steps I skipped: facial foundation power, bottom lashes, lipstick, highligher, etc

and I have fun last night enjoying Vietnamese food in my girl friend's birthday dinner with the girls ^^

and the next girls night out, I will be trying Tiffany's eye makeup in Twinkle's mtv...

and if you are wondering who is Tiffany and how awesome is her eye makeup

check this out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmM04_OgajU

me love red,

shuying

Realization

Theory = you know everything but nothing works

Practice = everything works but no one knows why

 Therefore, in life, we should combine both the theory and practice together

 and draw a conclusion...

nothing works and no one knows why!

Sometimes, in love and in life, we tend to take things for granted....just like what we can observe in a football match...

in the match,

everyone is chasing after the ball....

but one when got it, he kicks it...

although others are still chasing after it,

the person who got it, refuse to give others and continue to kick it...

life goes on,

shu ying

me.red.love

snapshots after makeup and before heading out to my housemate, Maggie's birthday...

 the front view of me smiling...

 looking to the left...

 this is really just random...

and here comes my part : FROWN

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and we checked in Dave's Bistro Grill Bar

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 sneaking into the background of the picture....and that was TIGER beer by the way

 not so sure of what drink is this....I was pouring my healthy DETOX tea in the background of the picture

 forever awkward look when people snap my picture...

 and they asked me to be relax and natural

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awkward,again...

we were tempted to try their popular dish on the menu...

but it costs RM80 for a quarter of a roasted piglet...

expensive...

plus..

my friends told me I will have nasty body odour if I consume pork,mutton,beef, etc...

not sure if it is proven true

but I do not wanna smell bad..

lastly, the 'yam' look pic of mine...

 'yam' is perverted in one of the dialect of Chinese language...

yeah, indeed,I couldn't agree more to them I looked 'yam' in this pic...

love,

Shu Ying

high school.puppy love

puppy love is defined as ' The love between a young couple (in their teens I assumed) within a few weeks of getting together (never really lasted into marriages, but some puppy love lasted for years...) Not really true love, more blind affection - immature, young love. Tyically occurs before one person becomes a bitch' 

that definition wasn't from me

I googled,yeah and it's from Urban dictionary...

seems like the world does not have a good impression towards 'puppy love'..

however, I came to think about it differently...

I feel puppy love is a stage/experience of life where we should not miss out...

have you noticed,people in their teens, involving in love or so-called puppy love, the people around them would tell them that they are wasting their time, why? because this love isn't going to last and eventually you are going to get hurt! 

but, in my opinion, this is a stage where you are the most innocent and naive and true to love, as you don't judge much of the consequences and just follow how your heart feels...

as you grow up into your twenties and later in life, love isn't gonna be as simple as the puppy love in your teens anymore...but you still get to choose someone you truly love and wanna to spend the life with..

though you need to consider a lot...whether this love is going somewhere, I meant, marriages...

even sadly in thirties, where it's the time you should be 'married' and still not found the right one, I noticed people started getting desperate and just merely finding partners for the sake of marriages...

well, I just thought, some people missed the 'experience of being in simple and naive love' just because they never dated back in their teens...

never get a chance of to be really silly in love, willing to do anything and get hurt...

brief me,if I'm wrong about it...

truce,

shuying

abandoned house photoshoot

it was supposed to be on the main road in town,

where every now and then, cars passing by,

I got so freaked out,

couldn't be feeling more awkward...

giving up, they found it almost impossible to persuade me to just stand in the middle of the road and snap pictures..

decided to change the scene..

to abandoned houses...

and I found my last picture of the collection is quite interesting...

after all, it was my first time to pose and let others take my picture...

I hope I will do better in the next one..

which is next month..

time to hit the sack,

shu ying

Reflection

Look at me

You may think you see

Who I really am

But you'll never know me

Every day

It's as if I play a part

Now I see

If I wear a mask

I can fool the world

But I cannot fool my heart

Who is that girl I see

Staring straight back at me?

When will my reflection show

Who I am inside?

I am now

In a world where I

Have to hide my heart

And what I believe in

But somehow

I will show the world

What's inside my heart

And be loved for who I am

over the years, I learn more and more about myself

who I really am

and here are the compiled facts

feedback from people around me

and myself

which I myself find them true

1. I am a self-centered person (which means I do place myself first above everyone else)

2. I don't really care what happens around me

3. I care about how others look at me, how they judge me and their impression of me

4. I have low self confidence in some aspects

5. I don't check out guys, but I check out girls a lot, however, it doesn't make me a lesbian

6. I have no sense of direction

7. When I cry, my eyes resemble a little fountain

8. I take jokes too seriously, I take serious matter jokingly

9. I have little self control when it comes to shopping

10. When I am mad, I don't stay and fight, I walk away

there is no right or wrong when it comes to personality,

everyone is just different

in this world, each person will have people who love them

and also people who hates them

life's fair

and if anyone hates me for who I am,

I will tell myself

'I have a normal life'

cheers,

Shuying

sometimes, the feelings just ain't right

ever realized that sometimes, everything seems to go the wrong way?

no matter how hard you've tried...you just feel life is pushing you too much?

and that you are asking too much from yourself?

wanting to do all the best in almost all the the aspects?

when you feel you're on the verge of breaking down?

I am,now in this condition, feeling stuck at my assignments, tests a

nd reports...

physically totally exhausted...

but I do not know how to pull myself into one piece once again..

maybe I do,tomorrow, when I woke up from my sleep...

sometimes, things just don't feel okay...

somehow, they will be okay in the end

just remember to convince yourself...

like how I do now...

love,

shu ying

-I'll spread my wings and learn how to fly-

Papa, can you hear me sing?

this is a movie produced in 1983, although it's a kinda old movie, although I was born so much later compared to the movie, I would like to say, this is the one of the best movies I have ever watched in my life.

It is a movie demonstrating how great a father's love can be, to his beloved daughter....i swear each time I watched,ever since i was 4 or 5 years old until recently, I watch the whole movie again part by part in youtube, i cried from part 1/9 to part 9/9 and it haunted me for 2 days, each time I flashback about the movie, my heart feels kinda sour...

here is the link to this movie, and I found english subtitles for those who don't understand Taiwanese's mandarin...

< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLsviPbCdzM >

here is the short summary of the movie...

the main character, the father, is a deaf man who collects and sells old alcohol bottles, making enough living to barely feed himself and his wife...one fine morning, he passes by a thrash bin and he found a young baby crying in the thrash, her biological mother has abandoned her but named her 'Ah Mei'..

that man brought her home, not knowing that his wife will be upset about this matter.To her, their life has been considered poor enough to feed both of them and now,he brought back another child, someone else's child, and she knows it is not cheap to feed a child. Ah Mei's crying and the hard life they lead where the father needs to feed 3 persons with the little money he makes, the man's wife decided to leave him....

the man wanted to make her stay,but as the child cries, he turned back, he chose the child instead of his wife...his wife left him..and him,a man who cannot speak a word, decided to dedicate his life to raise her up and to love her whole-heartedly...unconditional love,i should say...

the child finally grow up...and she saved a German Shepherd who is injured..named it 'Lai Fu'...an obedient and loyal dog, a girl and her father, together this family was built...

years and years passed...the girl finally grew up into a fine lady, she got a job in a lounge bar where she works as a singer in that bar....little did she noticed, a young man, Shi Jun Mai, noticed her, he is a song composer and lyrics writer, he spotted her and thinks she is of rare talent...

they then got closer, he writes and composes songs for her to sing in the lounge bar, little did they realised, it changes her life completely when her rare talent in singing was spotted by the production company (I am not so sure what do people call those companies who sign artists)..

Ah Mei signed contract with the company, to be a singer, with the conditions where she needs to change her name to Sun Jui Chi and she needs to cheat about her family background to make her fans thinks that she comes from a wealthy and well-educated family....

in her celebration party after her successful concert in Taiwan, her father attended it without invitation because he misses her so much since she does not goes home for months now, she was forced by her manager not to admit that the old man in his rags is her father, and her father loves her so much that he showed to the media with his sign language that he is not her father but a fraud...and he left the party

life is even more unbearable when his dog, Lai Fu, died when trying to save him from a reckless motorcycle rider....

on the other hand, she then got famous real fast and moved to a bigger condominium prepared by the company,

and her distant with her boyfriend, Shi Jun Mai, who always be there with her, grows, he feels she has changed into someone he no longer know, no longer the innocent girl he met singing in the bar...he then left her...

she had her tour concert in Asia...at the same time, her father's health is getting worse...

Shi Jun Mai went to visit her father,and he wrote a soulful song for her,hoping that she would sing it in her Taiwan concert after her Asia tour..the song was about her father and her...

when she came back to Taiwan after her Asia tour,her manager stopped her from meeting her father of her tight schedule and upcoming concert..

that night, her father watches her concert through the television's screen, suddenly...his heart grows ill and he was immediately admitted to hospital...

unable to speak or move, his eyes showed that he is missing Ah Mei badly....his friend who sent him to hospital, rushed to the concert and had Ah Mei rushing to hospital to see him for one last chance...

unfortunately, she couldn't make it...he stopped breathing before he could see her...

the movie ended with Ah Mei singing the song Shi Jun Mai wrote for her, in the concert, dedicated to her father....

* I am too lazy to bother to either write in past tense or present tense anymore *

as long as anyone who reads this understand...

cheers,

Shuying

the many faces of me

tonnes of assignments, lab reports, lecture classes and my part

time work

tight schedule all the time

and when I am looking almost a zombie...

WHAT? formal presentation on this coming Saturday???

what the ______!!! (fill in the blank)

HAHAHAHAH

but in this hectic lifestyle, I still like to snap my own portrait pictures...

why?

no particular reasons, I just like to take pictures of myself

...

to see the changes in my hairstyle?

to see how I actually age over the years?

for fun? I personally like to edit pictures

that is what I can do in when I am tired of typing my reports but I have to continue to sit in front of my laptop?

so,these are few pictures I snapped...the many faces of me...

first picture, the Queen of Pride look:

hell yeah, my totally-excited look?

Oh no,trying-to-be-cute look.... =='''

the night is cool~~

EMOness spreading around me....

today-gonna-be-a good-day look!

grumpy look?

Arrogant look:

A smile a day, keep all troubles away =D

'dream, hope and love' look with my favourite quote of all time,

so, which look is the best for me?

gonna go,

till the next post,

with love,

Shuying