Confession: Woke Up Engaged

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Funniest thing I've read in a long time. I actually find it oddly romantic...

"Long, hard night of drinking and cavorting. Met a great looking girl. Don't remember much of the night after our third bar stop. Woke up the next morning with her in my bed wearing an engagement ring.

Panic, inner strife, more panic, questioning myself... This went on for three months as she gleefully made our wedding plans. By the fourth month I had - in fact - fallen completely in love with her. Got married a month later. Have been married for seven years and now have two beautiful children.

I recently told her for the first time about those first few months together, not remembering proposing, not sure what to do. She laughed and told me that she knew the whole time. That I never proposed, and that a friend gave her the ring that night we went out to play a little joke on me after I passed out drunk. She liked me, I played into her joke so well that she just kept it going and by the fourth month together, she too fell in love with me.

Go figure..."

and She is Back!..

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Remember my post about Janet's extra weight a few months back???

Well, apparently it was for a movie role that was then cancelled (Mariah Carey took over) and she has now slimed down. Check it out here.

I dunno about you guys, but if I had to put on all that weight and then be told I would have to go through hell to lose it then I am pretty sure we would have a body on our hands. A dead one that is. With it's neck wringed. Well!

Don't these celebs who are putting on weight and taking it off like a change of clothes worry about getting sagging skin??

Be my Jassim!!

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KUWAITI MODEL AHMED ZABEDY WON 'WORLD'S MOST HANDSOME MAN' AWARD.



Hmmm.....I wanna say all that stuff about way to go! and good thing coming out of soceity restrictions and breaking the mold etc etc.....


But all I can say is.....

DAMN BOY, YOU SO FINE!!!

Seriously.......YUM.

(for the guys bashing him, seriously now, how about some support?? and a 'realistic' look in the mirror - a full length one)

Bikini Bod Bonanza - FACTS & FIGURES

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Did you know that to burn 1Kg of fat, you need to burn off 7,700 calories?

That's right, 7,700 calories, this is not a typo or something I made up.

FACT: 1KG of fat = 7,700 calories

FACT: Average female calorie needs per day = Approx. 2000 calories

FACT: To lose 1KG of fat per week, average female must reduce calorie intake to 1000 calories a day.

FACT: Alternatively, average female may reduce calorie intake to 1500 and add exercise worth 500 calories.

FACT: Running for 1.5 hours = 500 calories.

FACT: 500 calories = 1 snickers bar = 1 small burger = 5 bananas = 3-4 KDD drinks.

To find out how many calories your body needs to maintain its current weight, check this calorie calculator. Now based on that, subtract 1000 calories a day and you will have your daily allowance.

Bikini Bod Bonanza!!

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A couple of weeks ago, I decided I wanna be slim and toned (if it killed me). For me to do that, I would have to lose around 8 kilos. To lose weight in a healthy way, it should be limited to 1 kilo of weight loss per week. Which, if things go according to plan, mean I should reach my target weight within 2 months. Of course I doubt I will but, I am going to try my best.

My plan:

1) Reduce calorie intake: This includes having a salad with protein for lunch, and some fruit and vergtables, maybe some protien for dinner. I will have a few nuts when hungry. So altogether this should be around 1000 calories. (I will be talking more about calorie intake and burning in a later post)

2) Increase cardiovascular excercise: I started joining classes with a lot of sweating and pain involved as opposed to my usual workout routine. Also added swimming.

3) Supplements: I have been taking a multi-vitamin to make sure I am not missing out on any vital body needs. I also just started drinking herbal tea to help the digestive system.

So as I said, I have been on the plan 2 weeks, however I have only lost 1.5KGs. So I am 0.5KGs behind schedule.

So whoever wants to lose weight with me let me know. I will be adding info on weight loss and fitness during the coming days. Mostly to motivate me and help me remember the enormous amounts of info I found to help lose weight ( I know Judy Abbott, did something similar earlier then stopped) If you want to know anything in particular just ask. But if you are going for it, the first thing you need to do, is imagine what you want to look like, and be DETERMINED! No half-assed attempts.

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Gemini Babe

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As you all should.....I mean may, know by now, it was recently my birthday and I am now 22 years old. (As I was last year and the year to come) :P I think that age suits me :D

- For my birthday weekend. I had a nice dinner with cute colored eyed mama's boy who shares the same birthday as me. Post about him may come soon :P

- I also received a gift which I for the life of me do not understand. I mean seriously, why bother? Whoever said its the thought that counts should have thought harder! Dumbass!

Anyways....my real 22 birthday was one of the best I ever had. This one, which I thought was gonna be the most blah, managed to top that!

-You see, I was thrown a surprise party by my friends :)

So what you may say? Ahh to me it was a big deal. I have never really have been part of a 'group' since high school, but for the last year, I have been hanging out with an eclectic group of people who are not exactly from the same background as me, yet who I have grown to love and enjoy immensely.

So basically what happened was, we were having our usual weekend beach hang out at one of the resorts. When suddenly, out comes a cake with 'Happy Birthday Miya' on it, sparklers a sparkling, gifts agiving, and lots of people showed up with birthday wishes, some who I had only recently met. I was truly flattered!

Of course I had cake smeared all over me, ( some licked off too, I am still quite offended by that actually, not cool at all) which I didnt mind at all! LOL!! Everyone had some cake, which tasted YUMMY!

What made it even better was that while looking around, I noticed that practically everyone at the beach, which were mostly regulars and thus know me in passing, looked very happy for me. Everyone was smiling and happy, which made me even happier.

Another thing which made me so happy, is that while the gifts I received were simple, they were all so ME! It really showed that these people who I have only been hanging with for a year tuly care and know me well. I feel very blessed. Even the waiter ended up giving me a token gift too, and the workers were all hugs and kisses.
and yes secretly, I have always wanted a surprise party, and have been jealous of the stories. I mean how flattering is it to have people who love you enough to go through all that trouble? Just to make you happy.

Thing is, when I thanked them, they thought they had not done enough, were a little embarrased even, they will never know just how much it meant to me.

Of course there was music and dancing too :P Mostly by me, but then again I have no shame when it comes to dancing :)

Did I say 'me' enough times in this post already?....No?? ....Ok...

Happy (belated) Birthday to MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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PS. Please note I started wrote this last week and just managed to edit and post it :P

I was attacked....

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He came towards me. Fast, determined and in seconds I was lying down helpless on the hard gravel. Let me tell you what happened..

I had just finished with the gym. Walking to my mom's car which I had borrowed for the day, I was lost in my own thoughts. I had just promised 2 sets of people that I would pass by and already I was near my curfew time of 9:30! How the hell would I make it in time? It was already 8 pm. Oh well, I thought to myself, I hope my mum is out with some friends, maybe she won't notice if ......

"Excuse me!" I heard him say. At that point I was a few meters away from my car, which was parked behind some bushes. My heavy gym bags (yes plural) weighing me down,I turned to see who had addressed me.
Oh it was just another African American dude, probably had his eye on me in the gym and wants to buddy buddy, I thought to myself. Those guys were always so friendly and would strike up a conversation out of the blue. I didn't recognize him though, I looked at his face, into his eyes, and I saw it. A look of frenzy. I knew I was in trouble.

This all took a split second, and within a few more, I would be on the ground.

He caught the look of fear in my own eyes, and came towards me. Fast. His trainers crushing the gravel and his thug-like baggy jeans making that whoosh whoosh noise as he walked faster. He looked like he was holding a knife, but he wasn't.

I wanted to run and jump into my car, but I stood there frozen. I didn't think I would have time, and besides how would I run with my bags anyway. I debated in my mind while mesmerized by his absent face coming closer and closer to mine. And just like that he reached me and threw me to the floor.

I looked up at my tormentor's angry muscular face shouting at me. He pushed and shoved me with his feet, madly exclaiming how I should have obeyed his orders. When I tried to talk, he told me to 'shut the fuck up!' Then he brought his foot up, about to kick my face in and time froze as I thought to myself,

'See Miya, this is why you should have taken self defense class. What can you do now Miya? What can you do? You always thought you could take care of yourself, or at least use psychology but where is that now? Even your mace is tucked away safely in your drawer at home. And here you are, on the ground with a madman about to crush your face and you don't even know if he wants to rape you, torture you, or just steal some money'

I quickly brought one hand up to my face to protect it, 'Don't hurt me' I pleaded. He stopped his foot hanging mid-air. Then, I blurted out, 'What's your name?'

He got angry, thinking I was trying to get his name to tell the police. He took his shoe off for some reason and again his foot was aimed at my face. I was going down and braced myself for the pain. For the crunching noise and excrutiating agony of my nose breaking and my face caving in. I had to stay awake and alert though, I had to, if I wanted to survive the night.

That was when I woke up and realized it was all just a bad dream. Allahuma Ij3alaho Khayr. Yes, I woke up and wrote this. Why? Because I realize that in that situation, I would act exactly how I did in my dream. Which is not a good thing. We girls and guys too, need to arm ourselves with information and techniques to use when faced with such a situation.

It really could happen to anyone.