Wherever you are, whatever you do

My sleeping pattern became out of whack just before the clock moved forward, so now it's even worse than before. For no reason I don't seem to be able to sleep before 5am recently.

Today storme and I went to our monthly cake meet with a bunch of friends. It's just something we do to make sure we don't only see each other at conventions or other events where everyone's too busy to chat. Also, we've become so reliant on Facebook these days it's too easy to think we're up to date with what's happening in our friends' lives when all we've seen are vignetted pictures of their dinners and posts about how much they all supposedly like cocks. XD;

Anyway, before we left home I was deciding on what to wear, and out of curiosity tried on a pair of shorts I bought from the motherland, size L, that had always been too small for me. They now fit!

This brings me to the topic of my diet. I'm a UK size 8/10, a pretty good size and weight for my height. Apparently I'm still too large for Chinese size L but Chinese women are typically shorter than me so hey. But anyway, I've been on a diet that's teaching my body to burn fat instead of carbohydrates for energy. At first it might seem like there is no reason for me to diet/lose weight, but there are really two.

One, and this is the shallow one, is that there's a cosplay I want to do this year that requires me to become a skinny boy.

Two, I've had a bad back since 2001 and it's only been getting worse. There had been times when I strained it and I wasn't able to walk or stand properly for days. Most recently, I did it in bending down to pick up something. I hadn't even touched anything yet and I wasn't bending very far down, but my back just went. The doctor told me before that to pick up anything at all, I should always use my knees because when you bend from your waist, the back muscles are supporting the weight of all your upper body, not just the thing you're picking up. But of course I forget about that, especially when all I wanted to do was pick up an empty plastic bag. >_>

But if I lose some weight, even if it's just a kilo or two, that's less weight my back has to carry.

So my diet involves eating a lot of vegetables and a lot of meat. Fat is also fine, because my body's learned to burn that for energy now. Loads of meat for muscle-building protein. I discovered that protein powder + instant coffee granules + water/almond milk + ice in a blender = pretty damn tasty drink. But there's practically no sugar or carbohydrates in my diet at the moment, so while I'm (hopefully) gaining muscle, I'm also losing body fat. This is a good thing.

Since the start of my diet I'm now about 4kg lighter. That's far easier on my back and when I exercise I shouldn't be tired as quickly because I'm not having to carry as much. I think I can't get much lighter than this (and I wouldn't look good if I do), in fact exercising will build muscles so that my weight would go up again. But that'd be /quality/ weight. Muscles on my back will hopefully get stronger so I won't break so easily.

But yes, the cake meet tonight broke my diet because of the scones. Ah well, I can get back into it.

On the writing front, I'm 43 chapters (!) into the TLR/RoF crossover and the end is in sight. I'll be very sad when it's all over. :( There is currently a dilemma because I don't want to split up a couple, but Storme said I'm not allowed "another OT3" because "there's already an OT3 in this fic" which... is and isn't correct. But one of them really can't choose, the other, because of personality and past events, would not force anyone to choose, and the third person, well, he has many very correct reasons for doing nothing about it as well. MAYBE NONE OF YOU DESERVE EACH OTHER, MON DIEU.

Storme and I have booked flights to go to HK at the end of May, where there will be Glay concert and lots and lots of tasty food. It's quite hard for me to imagine what sorts of things a tourist would want to see/experience in HK, but we're slowly compiling a list. Still, it's going to be pretty freeform I'm sure. We just aren't the kind of travellers who must have a fixed route with a fixed list of things to do, it's too constricting.

I think I'll go back to trying to find a way out for the OT3 now...

Left Book Fair at midnight (yes, our annual Book Fair is open until midnight) and bumped into Dexter and Anselm. Gonna try to meet up with them tomorrow either for dinner or for drinks.

Talking with them made me realise I'm not so weird after all. You know, some people actually aren't seeing anyone and have no life plans as to when they're going to get married and have kids etc etc. People like me. And they know that where I live isn't actually as far as it sounds. Freddy and Y2, on the other hand, are Kowlooners who thought that one needs to take a BOAT to get to my place. Bloody Kowlooners.

Meeting up with lina_lau on Sunday. Y2 on Monday. Plus a second appointment with the Chinese doctor and the dentist.

Aya registration approved!

This cat looks like Torgal when he is not impressed.

He said he only made a few sketches and the animator did the rest, which I don't actually care about. It's the lyrics that's absolutely genius.

Also, my sister bought his third book and I read some of it today. Bugs & The City had me laughing my lungs out.

(I don't expect anybody to understand this.)

It began with this picture:


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Shirota photobook. The Arena 37C Special with PureBoys (Yagami, please, TOO MUCH LIP GLOSS. TOO MUCH FOUNDATION. PLEASE REMOVE HALF OF YOUR MAKEUP, YOU LOOK LIKE A BAD TRANSVESTITE). And their CD+DVD, and oh the new Cool-Up that has Shirota on the cover.

Yes, I went to MongKok this afternoon. \(:D)/

(In the interview in Arena, Yagami said he dreamt of riding on a dinosaur the night before. XD)

Got the refund for the missing Yagami Ren DVD and stood around chatting with shop lady for an hour or so. Got her to order Genki's re-print photobook for me. Got the cutest little kitty!Lelouch mascot. Met a girl who buying everything Atobe related in the shop. XD We were going through the cards and I'd say "hey, here's an Atobe one" and she'd say "oh, I found a Yukimura/Sanada/Higa one here~"

(Yukimura/Sanada/Higa... that looked like some very scary yaoi combination >_>)

Tried to buy an ADSL modem that'll let me plug my wireless router into, but it turns out the shops don't sell those modems here anymore, because they're given out for free by all the broadband companies here when you sign up, and some comapanies even use some other more advanced modem things now. =_= HK moves on far too fast. They said I should try the shops at Shum Shui Po, but I don't have the time.

Finished the first volume of Taoka Kazuo's autobiography. (The books are really very small) He isn't going to win a literary prize, but the actual content is quite fascinating. Too bad it's from so long ago, a lot of things, including the whole motivation behind "yakuza", have changed since then. But I bet there are still things I can use...

Oh hai. I'm home. :D It's the first time in about 3 years that all 5 family members are together, and we also have 2 friends here helping out with stuff. Plus 2 cats. It's a bit crazy here atm.

Had haircut. My hair has been blown-dried dead straight, it's really weird. XD;

Flight was good, apart from some electrical problem which delayed the takeoff for an hour. I was wrong thinking that Oasis (budget airline to HK) only gives light snack. There were two hot meals, just like any other airline. And the service was good. I think I'll be using them again.

Hmmm, I think I'll be getting myself a big LCD monitor. The ones here are about half the price of UK's........

And here are some pics of the Ten Thousand Buddashs Monastery in Shatin, Hong Kong. We went there after going up the hill to burn incense and stuff for my grandparents, nearby. Which meant going up the hill there, going half way down and then walking that hellish staircase to the monastery. I'm still surprise I hadn't died. Apart from loads of buddah statues, we also saw a lot of monkeys. XD

As for the pic with WTFFFF written on it, well, it's to do with the teaching on the sign, which translates to "Happiness may not mean happiness, misery shall always be misery"... which is not what it is word for word, but still...