Seventeen Body Peace Treaty

This pledge was started by Seventeen magazine to raise awareness on body image issues facing everyone these days. It's been signed by heaps of celebrities and everyday people around the world. Saw this last year and thought that I could share it with everyone. I hope that it could be as eye opening to you as it did to me! :) It goes a lil like this:

\/ Remember that the sun will still rise tomorrow even if I had one too many slices of pizza or an extra scoop of ice cream tonight.
\/ Never blame my body for the bad day I'm having.
\/ Stop joining in when my friends compare and trash their own bodies.
\/ Never allow a dirty look from someone else to influence how I feel about my appearance.
\/ Quit judging a person solely by how his or her body looks — even if it seems harmless — because I'd never want anyone to do that to me.
\/ Notice all the amazing things my body is doing for me every moment I walk, talk, think, breathe...
\/ Quiet that negative little voice in my head when it starts to say mean things about my body that I'd never tolerate anyone else saying about me.
\/ Remind myself that what you see isn't always what you get on TV and in ads — it takes a lot of airbrushing, dieting, money, and work to look like that.
\/ Remember that even the girl who I'd swap bodies with in a minute has something about her looks that she hates.
\/ Respect my body by feeding it well, working up a sweat when it needs it, and knowing when to give it a break.
\/ Realize that the mirror can reflect only what's on the surface of me, not who I am inside.
\/ Know that I'm already beautiful just the way I am.

Check their facebook page here or..

You can straight away sign the pledge here! :)

Happy Father's Day 2010!

Dear:

a.k.a Papah

Just wanted to say: Happy Father's Day :)

Sorry that I'm not always as good

And obedient as you wanted me to.

And sorry that we're not very close.

But it's okay. Your still the best dad in

the whole world to me!

(And to yvonne and billy too i'm sure)

Thanks for taking care of us all these times.

Even though we never said it..

We're actually very thankful! :)

And I'll try to study hard to thank you

(actions means more than words after all)

God bless you Pah! :)

Love, Monica

Wonder if he'll ever read this,

Cos I probably wouldn't say it face to face.

Too shy. lol. lalala

Oh well, it's the thought that counts! :)

Blog = communication during msn deprivation?

Hello :)

I haven't been on msn much these days. Partly because my laptop literally dies if I use too much applications all at once (ilecture, fb, blog, files, etc). Also, I haven't gone out much at all cos of uni stuff and for being broke sigh...

So, I just realised that blogging is actually a good temporary way to connect with everyone! :) Getting to know whats been up in everyones lives and sharing whats happening in my life (even though its not much hehe).

It's not as time consuming as msn, and not as distracting as fb. It's also pretty fun! So, perfect. :)

Will probably blog heaps in the next few days

(except maybe during the days when I actually have exams :S)

To fellow writers in this lil blogging world:

Happy blogging! :)

PS: How gorgeous do these purple desserts look! (got nothing to do with the post but it looks nice lalala...)

Fridays = vic park (except last week)

So today was a good day. Got to study FULLY for a couple of hours in Curtin library. Saw a couple of pharmacy students in level 5/6. Then got picked up by Mr DumDum hehe..
We've decided that fridays = eating out after uni. Cos that would be the only time both of us are available during the week (sadly), especially during this exams week.

Last week we were gonna go Vic Park (close from Curtin so it's convenient). But SOMEHOW, SOMEONE thought that vic park = leederville. :P
So we arrived in leederville and i was like ermm.. why is it so far.... pretty sure this is not vic park... --
Oh well, at least we got to eat at Jus Burger :D :D
Instead of the student (budget *LOL*) area of Vic Park, we ended up eating at where the working (loaded) people eat out in Leederville..
Sigh.. Oh well.. it was def worth it! :D
I don't mind having that mistake... xD
Hope you all are having a good week as well :)
And study hard for everyone who's having mid sems!!

LIST TO DO IN MID SEM HOLIDAYS:
- gilmore girls marathon
- watch all unwatched movies
- bake the cookies
- do more juicing :D
- swimming
- catch up with those I haven't seen for agggessss
- ...(to be added later) ...


Gilmore Girls Cast

Big Girls Don't Cry

An old song that I used to love and just got reminded of it.. :)

Not saying that big girls shouldn't cry though.. because I for one cries a lot *LOL*

The singer, Fergie wrote it when she was trying to break out of the drugs and parties scene she was trapped in. She was telling herself to be a big girl and move on from things that was holding her life down. That would mean going to the rehab and break up the relationship she had with her boyfriend at the time, because he was heavily associated with drugs. It hurts, but she gotta still do it. And she became a succesful singer after that! Sounds so fairytale-like doesn't it?

This reminds us of our life sometimes. It really sucks to have to move on from things that we had found comfort and happiness in. We often hesitate from moving on even though we know that it's for the best. Cry as many litres as you like but move forward and keep a positive eye on it. I'm sure that the best is yet to come! :D

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein

Hope you like the song :)



the song meaning in detail

A blog that made me XD today

Can't explain what it's like so check it out urself xD

The dullest blog in the world

its (Y)!

got it from widi's blog :)

The :( of studying pharmacy

Becoming a pharmacist. It seems like a good idea! I get to help people, the job is not that tiring, all you need to lift are medicine boxes and popping the pills xD. The pay is okay. You learn heaps about health conditions and how to manage them (can be handy for yourself or ur family):D. And it seems like a relaxing job.

However, with these comes a great responsibility. Basically you're in charge of the medications you give out to people. If you made a mistake, best case scenario is that you get complained at, worst case scenario is that you may cause other people harm or even worse, it might kill them.

As I progress through the course, I get why they make it so hard. We might not necessarily use ALL the stuff that we learn in the course when working as, for example, a community pharmacist. However, the load of work you get in the course would teach you to commit a lot of things into memory, train you to think fast and accurately perform tasks.

Even though I'm quite appreciative of all that, I'm kinda struggling studying pharmacy here :S I failed a unit in first year.. Miraculously pass all my other units after that.. But I'm still struggling and working my ass off to pass all my units!
I haven't even mention the amount of social time I've cut off from my life T.T

The stuff are hard.. At least they're quite interesting. But then ~90% is about memorising stuff, which means that I have to regularly study them so that it sticks in my mind. The thing is, it's kinda hard to study.
I wonder how a lot of people, especially other pharmacy students can do it. They can just spend a full 5 hours or more of study, productively! Whereas me, only sometimes I can do that. Usually it'd be like 1 hour productive study, and then 4 hours break, 3 hours half study half daydreaming, and so on..

1 hour. productive. study.

Sigh..

Sometimes I wish I could study better.......

Anyway, GO STUDY MONICA!!

PS: the totoro sandwich is so cute!