MMMiii!

I’ll start with Day 1 even if the first day was actually on the 13th and we got back in KL in the evening of the 16th. Technically this would be Day 3.

We slept late in the evening of what was supposed to be yesterday, so we got up late. Past 11am. After Scott took a shower, he realized that he was out of clean clothes, so we decided to go to our friend’s salon and use the washer and drier there. My friend owns the salon, and Mondays are her days off. The salon is closed on Mondays, so when we went there, there wasn’t anyone there.

We popped in the clothes in the washer and went out to eat lunch at DucKing. We had the 4-combo meal which consisted of Roasted Duck, Barbecued Fatty pork, deep fried sliced pork belly, and my favorite that time–CHILI JELLYFISH! For our rice, we had fried rice with some kind of sauce under it and a fried egg on top. It was a good lunch, then because they were starting to clean and the smell of Lysol was bothering our friend already, we went back to the Salon.

While waiting for the clothes, Terin, the friend we’re staying with, started playing with Scott’s (long) hair, she found out that it was cut unevenly. Terin, being a hairdresser, itched to fix it. So she trimmed here and there, and after some time of wrinkling her nose and throwing Scott’s hair around, she finally voiced her complaints about his hair.

So she decided to do a treatment on it. She rebonded his hair. Malaysian hair rebonding is so good! Not like the generally crappy rebonded hair in the Philippines that I see. His hair looked so naturally straight and not sticking out like a broom.

The laundry was about done after the 2nd step of the process and so we were just waiting for the dryer to finish completing its job. Terin couldn’t sit still though. She was pacing around in her office furniture until she couldn’t take it and said she wanted to put highlights on my hair. I ended up having to choose, and I chose red. After mixing the dye, and inspected my hair, she said she will need to trim it a bit to show off the dye better.

Her trim became a session of hairstyling! And basic study of hairstyle and face shapes. She fixed it so my hair looked a bit slimmer instead of rounder.

The laundry finished drying just about after Scott getting his hair dried and the treatment completed. We went to eat dinner somewhere and had curry fish cake (which was really fish), chili frog, homemade tofu salad, and shrimp and some kind of beans…. IT was all good.

What I’ve noticed about Singapore Food and Malaysian food…. i don’t know which one anymore is indonesian, malay, singaporean, whatever…. they’re too … mixed. lol.

So that’s how my first Day in KL went. I would never exchange this day with a day of sightseeing.

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Today I started clearing out one of the storage cabinets on top of the clothes cabinets. It’s mostly papers and readings from my university days. I read through some of the readings and some of my old reflection papers. It amazes me to think… I really wrote this? I feel like at one point I had been amazing too.

While clearing things though I saw this barber’s scissors (I think that’s what they’re called) that looks like a comb and scissors combined so that it can do layering and what not. SO. I played with my hair a bit. A snip snip here, a snip snip there, snip here snip there snip snip everywhere!

That’s what’s fun with short hair… for me anyway. Since I had it made short, I feel like there’s nothing to lose anymore. If I mess it up, I can just have it cut even shorter. But before with long hair, I liked it long and I shall keep it long.

One other nice thing about cleaning is I don’t have to worry about hair loss prevention… I mean… when I had long hair, my hair kept on falling. I seldom comb my hair so maybe that’s one factor… but now I don’t need to worry about my hair being all over the place. Now, if ever there’s a long strand of hair in various places, I could blame my long-haired cousin.

And lastly, with short hair, it’s almost just fine for it to be messy. You can always blame it to style! But if your hair is long, you can look like Sadako if you’re not careful.

Oh yes, this was supposed to be about cleaning, right? …

I did clean a bit. I really did.

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I’ve always worn my hair long. Except when I was a kid, of course, and that one time when I was 10 years old, my hair has always been long. There were times when it had gone past my waist, or even past my butt (but that got a bit uncomfortable so I had it trimmed). The shortest I would have it would be past the shoulders.

A couple of days ago I woke up around 3am, and thought to myself… “Ah~ I think I want to have my hair cut short.”

I would have done it. I know of a hair parlor open 24/7 near my place. I could have walked there if I wanted to. But since this was a big decision, I figured I’d think it over.

Eight hours later, I still wanted to do it.

And the result?

Hairchop.

The stylist couldn’t make it how I was wanting it mainly because of my hair itself. They (the stylist and his assistant) tried. Over and over again. We all gave up in the end. I wanted to have a fringe that “flew” up at the side, and my split to be somewhere more to the side. It wouldn’t happen. My hair will need more time to get used to the new split or I’ll have to use hairstyle-holding products, which wasn’t an option for me (too lazy).

I’m still pretty satisfied with it. I told the guy to donate my hair to charity.

Now with the new hairstyle, what’s left is to diet (ugh!) and maybe one day fantastic clothes, maybe even designer clothes like Elie Tahari’s would fit me nicely. I just need a little more motivation for this diet thing. *sigh*

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I was chatting with my friend from Japan and she mentioned that she found one of the guys working at the convenience store near her place really cute. She said she wanted to try looking him in the eye but she really couldn’t. Then she mentioned about Valentine’s Day approaching. In Japan, Valentine’s Day is mainly big on girls giving chocolates to guys. I suggested giving that guy some chocolate. She’s worried that he’ll see her eye wrinkles and get scared. *lol*

Maybe I should have just sent her wrinkle-removers. I sent her earrings and she just received them yesterday.

Same as what I have. I bought 2 sets. She just received them yesterday. Hopefully she could find a chance to wear it. I’ll be really happy if one day I watch a video of her somewhere and see her wearing the earrings I sent.

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I was sitting back as I was reading this magazine that featured Mikee Cojuanco and suddenly I remembered watching some of her movies. She had this pretty smile and a sunny disposition. I decided to look her up and noticed that she was also an equestrian that represented the country a few times.

My brother saw me looking her up and he casually told me that she was hot in full equestrian gear. With the helmet, breeches and her little horse-whip. i raised my eyebrow at him and continued my little research about that person that was I was currently interested in. He just laughed and and went straight to the fridge.

Come to think of it, those kind of pants were sexy to look at to begin with as they seem to be streamlined to produce the least amount of drag. It looked comfortable too. Maybe I’ll fit in to one someday or they make something in my size. Whichever comes first.

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Here’s something readers won’t probably expect from me.

It’s a … ME!

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Wearing eyeglasses. I know I don’t look awesome, but I’m bored enough. Lori now wears eyeglasses occasionally too. Sarah and Sara have been wearing glasses before as well but they use contacts more often now, it seems. At least whenever I see them.

So now, all the amigas wear glasses! muahahaha!

I started wearing glasses when I was 8 and I wore them religiously for 2 years before I stopped. Now I seldom wear them, only when I feel that my eyes are really tired and everything is blurry.

I hope no one got scared. O.o

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I’ve been shopping for clothes lately, and I get so exhausted at the end of the day that I just want to rest. I’ve also been looking at toys and some jewelry. I’ve bought some toys, but I’m refraining from buying jewelry coz that’s already beyond my budget. Yu will kill me though because he told me that I do buy little things that are within my budget, but I buy a LOT of little things that when you add them all up, it’s like I bought a big thing.

My schedule changed at work again, 8pm to 5am, so rest assured, malls won’t be open when I get home from work, so I won’t be malling a lot any time soon. That will probably make me spend less.

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Lately, I’ve been checking out ukay-ukays (if I’m out during daylight) for handbags.

Yes, the girly handbags. I want to buy at least one. My sense of fashion is awful and the price really has to match. So until now, I still haven’t been able to buy one for myself.

And then Sarah sent me the invite for Handbag Planet’s launch on October 15 for free handbags. They’re going to be giving away 24 handbags in 24 hours on that day–absolutely free. No shipping and handling. It doesn’t even mention anything if you need to be in a certain country to avail of it. Wouldn’t it be nice to have one of these trendy bags for free?

I would! I really wish I would win. I saw one bag that I really liked and even if I don’t win it, if the price is right, I might seriously consider getting it. Or I’ll be looking all over the discount stores for something like it.

Sign up anyways! Won’t lose anything, might gain something!

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Corvettes are Sexy. Don’t you agree?

But Corvettes will never have a place in this country. Well… maybe in showrooms, or really mad rich filthy filthy rich car collectors. I want a corvette though. Although I’m not sure if I’ll ever be able to afford one with my meager salary, but dreaming is free, right?

I’ll probably be dressing up my corvette or keep customizing it. I’ll be adding stuff like fancy stylish wheels or housing for the headlights. I’ll decorate it with stuff like wings maybe, like Ayu’s backpack… somehow.

Inside, I’ll make sure it’s got nice floormats with matching seatcovers and matching steering wheel cover and … well… and an uber cool dashboard–matching as well. I’ll probably end up having a set and I’ll go broke just prettifying my car.

To top it all that, I don’t drive at all.

I’ll have to live in the States for it to have meaning (or reality) and since http://www.corvetteguys.com ships out their parts for free this July, I’ll probably buy from that site.

Well, to sum it all up, my pet corvette will be like my baby Taba who is high maintenance because I buy all sorts of stuff for it without it giving me anything in return. Except maybe an empty pocket and a headache.

P.S. He (Taba) chewed on the other ear of my Sennheiser earphones (that he mangled a couple of days ago).

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Who ever said that being on Night Shift is healthy?
Who ever said that being on a different shift every month or every two weeks is healthy?
I don’t think anyone would.

Being on a shifting schedule is unhealthy, yes, but what kind of unhealthiness? Especially if you’re on Night Shift, and your schedule only changes with an 8-hour difference, but still basically at night?

While waiting for UnionBank to open this morning at Starbucks, I was so bored that I read the papers (Yes, OMG! I can read!). I just found out that the country is having a food shortage and that the Ifugao Rice Terraces was selected as a UN treasure or something and that they’re kind of renegotiating our country boundaries for the Kalayaan Group/Spratly Islands, and some other stuff. Well, the only one I really read on was the Ifugao Rice Terraces.

What caught my eye was an article about how being on Night Shift can cause sleep deprivation (no, really?) and the health problems that come with it. What really piqued my interest in the article was how people had a higher risk of obesity when they’re on Night Shift. Because you get more hungry often when you’re on Night Shift and something to do about your metabolism and body clock and what not. I do notice that always, after my shift, I’m so hungry. Like I’m starving. So I grab something to eat sometimes on the way home, and when I arrive home, I’m going to eat again because Mama cooked breakfast to me (I know I could say ‘no,’ but who the hell can say ‘no’ to Filipino breakfast?).

Double breakfast.

I also think feel that I’m getting a tad heavier. *sigh* *starts blaming getting fatter on Night Shift*

But anyways, there were tips on coping with Shift Work.

Coping with shift work

Sleep experts suggest various ways to cope with unusual work and sleep schedules.

• Regular hours: Keep the same sleep schedule on days off from work.
  • No really? It’s past five pm, going on sick six and I’m still awake. Although… I really should be waking up at this time on normal work days. I time myself. I try to sleep by 10am, not later than 11am. I wake up at 4pm, not later than 5pm. That’s on normal days, but today is my day off…
• Strategic napping: Studies show naps of 20 minutes to two hours — either just before a shift or during a shift — can improve alertness and performance at work.
  • Strategy? Like whenever I’m Sleeping at Work? I’m really trying to avoid that now. What I do is if I get done early with bath and dinner, I sleep until 5:30pm or 5:45pm.
• Bright light: Exposure to bright lights during the first half of a shift may help fight fatigue later in the shift.
  • I’m not really sure about this. It’s always usually bright there, so I don’t really know the difference if I started in a dark place or bright one.
• Light restriction: Avoiding bright lights in the morning (such as by wearing sunglasses on the way home and sleeping in a very dark room) can help night-shift workers sleep better during the day.
  • I think my mother noticed that I’m still really having a hard time sleeping in the day even after she put curtains on my windows to kind of reduce the sunlight so I could sleep, so she put on thicker
    curtains. I really love my mother. Now it’s dark … ish…. here, but it’s really a LOT of improvement. I just got hooked up on J-Drama what’s why I’m still awake, not because of the light.
  • I have these neat cheapo shades that I use a lot these days. I bought 2 expensive ones but they weren’t dark enough. One was P200 and the other one was P250. This uber neat shades was just P55. One can usually find the best buy in cheapo places like Dakki or Daisan or whatever you call it, or Uncle Ben’s Store… Ugh, I can’t remember. But it’s UBL sunglasses and I got it in a Japan Home+Dakki+Daisan(?) Store.
    
• Melatonin: Supplements can promote daytime sleep when taken an hour or two before bedtime.
  • Haven’t tried. Probably will not try.
• Modafinil: This medication, brand name Provigil, was approved in 2004 for the treatment of shift-related sleep disorder. Taken just before a shift, it can enhance alertness at night, studies have shown.
  • Haven’t tried. Probably will not try.
• Caffeine: Caffeine has been shown to counteract drops in performance levels at night.
  • I love coffee. Except that coffee hates me. I have hyper-acidity and coffee gives me diarrhea as well. But sometimes, I do feel the need, and sometimes it doesn’t really wake me up, but it’s good anyway.

Sources: Dr. Diane Boivin; American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
c/o Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times

Stolen from … Darn I forgot. I’m not even sure if it’s Manila Times. -_-;; But thank you, one of the local news papers. I do remember the page. It’s on E4.

The ones in italics are just my side comments. Don’t pay too much attention to them.

Anyway, my first thought of this was, “This should be shown to all Call Center Agents. This should be circulated so that we can all stay healthy.” A lot of my teammates have fallen ill and may resign because of health issues. It’s really sad.

So… to all you call center agents out there who are on shifting schedules or always on night shift, make sure that you get enough sleep.

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