The 10 days challenge

Winter has never been my favourite seasons of the year. Series of unpredictable weather, strong winds and heavy rain will somehow ruined my exercise plan and force me to curl up in bed to avoid any outdoor activity. The famous line will be something like this: "it's too cold to exercise". Well, it's half true though; it's almost impossible to exercise during this month of the year unless you happen to be an athlete or some kind of a gym junkie.

After a few whinge and complain about the winter body issue, I started looking for solution to stay healthy and shift those extra meat here and there as a result of winter pig out with the girls last weekend.

So without wasting anymore time, I surf the net and found an article about an effective winter workout: The hot yoga or in other terms called The Bikram Yoga.

This yoga style is so unique and performed in a 40 degree room temperature. It has 26 postures that will improve your health by detoxing, removing all the toxic from your body through sweat. I was so tempted to give it a go. So this morning I signed up for a 10 days introductory class and went for my first morning class at 8 am. As predicted, the room was heated and it was very challenging to stay in a 40 degree temperature while doing yoga for 90 minutes long! but I manage to survived till the end of the class while a quarter of the people in the class passed out and one person actually throw up during the workout. It was so intensed!

By the end of the class, I feel so refreshed and happy. I feel like I have achieved something, and it was all positive feelings especially knowing that I sweat like a pig and yes the journey will continue for another 9 days! wish me luck....

xoxo

Eve

Ladies and the City

After months of waiting, finally “Sex and the City 2 “movie hit the cinema, and just like two years ago when the first movie came up, I watched it with Nat, S, and J. Only this time it’s J plus one, since J is now married. Nevertheless, it feels like the old time.

The plot took place two years after Carrie and Big tied the knot, and focused on their relationship after the “I do”. It is very refreshing to see the girls back in the big screen. Carrie, the ever so complex heroine, Miranda, the workaholic mother of one, Charlotte, the domestic goddess, and of course, daring Samantha who shows us that you could still look fabulous in your 50s.

What makes the plot more interesting is the reappearance of Aidan, Carrie’s ex boyfriend. Sex and the city’s fans (including myself) hold their breath as the two encountered in the middle of Abu Dhabi desert, and as Carrie struggles with her past and present relationship, Charlotte has to deal with her own fear of not being able to handle her kids, while Samantha got involved in a serious scandal that made the girls got banished from their dazzling Abu Dhabi’s suite.

Sex and the City 2 may not be as dramatic or as extravagant as the first movie, but Director Michael Patrick King certainly hasn’t lost his touch. With beautiful landscape, extraordinary fashion, and solid performance of our beloved Manhattan girls, watching this movie is like riding a magic carpet and entering the exotic world of Scheherazade and her tale of one thousand and one nights

xoxo
Carol