Sep

27

Let’s belly dance, shake it, baby~!

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Today, I determined to make it a better day. Since I have enough sleep and my dark eyes circles are giving me a break and I’ve been depressed enough yesterday to last for the whole week. Nah, only at work. Probably hormonal changes that explains the breakout on my face. Whatever.  

Gee.. and I have something to be excited about.. for the next three months.. or perhaps the excitement will only last for the next three weeks! I’ve joined the BELLY DANCE class at my company! Hmm.. I mean my company opens a Belly Dance class for the employees (limited seats) and hire a sexy, hilarious, teacher from Iran. Yeah, she’s really from Iran. Cool huh?  

 

Belly dance is a cultural dance from Egypt, Turkey and Iran that concentrated on hip and chest movements. Through belly dance, a woman is aware of her hip, chest and stomach muscles and how to work them

Yesterday was the first class and Nanccy (the Iran teacher) brought her non-english-speaking-mother along to the class and she sat at the corner for the whole period. And this poor old lady was fasting (puasa) and had to wait till the class was over around 7.40pm to be able to break fast.   

Back to the Belly Dancing. Normally the belly dance class costs you RM30 per class but since our company is paying BUT they want to ensure commitment from our side, we hafta pay RM30 for a month. Well, not too bad rite? The class is from every Wednesday, 6.30pm to 7.30pm at our big meeting/training room. But the sucks part is we have to arrange the many tables to the side before class and arrange back nicely after class. I am no big fan of moving heavy stuffs.  

In the first class yesterday, Nanccy taught us the movement of the legs/feet, more to like steps. And we went 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4~ After that, we were taught the movement of hands, the shoulder as well as arms. Next we combined both movements of the hand and legs together. All basic steps with background music. Ahhh.. fun~  

We are giving the option to buy a belly dance scarf to tied on the waist, and it has tiny litlte dingling stuffs that will produce sound as you move. The one Nancy is selling, which she got from GREECE, costed RM220 per piece!!! *whistle* But it was pretty neat & lovely. Optionally we can also get at Chinatown at RM50 or so a piece. Or perhaps go without it and felt less like a dancer~   

And the class? It was rather interesting. Am looking forward for the next class already~ ^.^

By the way, Nanncy and her mum was in yesterday's The Star paper and check it out here. It is about her background, how she got into teaching, her current classes & stuffs~

 This is Nanncy~ I like her already~ ^.^

Sep

10

I am not a Plastic Bag

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Have you heard of it? I believe many do, even me, the so unfashionable gal who couldn’t care much about the latest fads. I just can’t be bothered much unless I really the hottest trend and it looks good on me. And most importantly it is comfortable!

 Back to ‘I am not a plastic bag’. It is actually just a bag, an environmentally friendly bag that was designed by Anya Hindmarch. Guess what! It was sold out so quickly in UK, US and many places, a few hours after it was released! Such a hot item!
                                            

I remembered in July when it was being sold in KLCC at price RM55, my colleagues were so excited and went to queue up, even took annual leave as it was 10am in the morning.  But too bad, the queue was too long, they didn’t get the bag!

 And now, you can find the bag literally everywhere in Sg Wang as well as online shopping… but ooppss.. fake one =D  The price? It is selling between RM20 to RM88 depending on the quality. Note that it can be more expensive than the original one!

But then again, it would be good if people do start using their own shopping bags than using normal plastic bag.


                                                                                       

                                                      

Some scary facts to be digested :
- We use on average 167 plastic bags a year, per person! Do your math..
- Only one in every 200 bags is recycled!
- Plastics can take up to 400 years to break down in a landfill!

If it could create some awareness for our environment, the bag would be a good cause, a good start. Another way is to reduce the plastic bags that were offered when we are purchasing stuffs at supermarket or shops. Put it in your own bag or use an existing plastic bag that you own. Reduce plastic spoons/fork if possible. Recycled.
 

After all, it is our mother earth, one and only one. =)