Hey guys! During these holidays, I can honestly say that I haven't gotten skinnier and probably gained quite a bit of weight too. It's mainly because I've been lazy and when I don't go out with friends, I'm at home, on the computer, watching tv shows or just going on tumblr. Which is so unhealthy but hey, at least I enjoyed it. haha It's great being lazy and knowing that I won't be having any big responsibilities for the next two months. Buuuut now I'm starting to regret it. Well not really regret, but I'm going to start changing my lifestyle to hopefully result in having a healthy lifestyle! :D

Firstly, I'm cheap and would rather attempt to get fit by spending a minimal amount of money. So I'm doing blogilates. At the moment, I'm following the Blogilates beginners 2.0 calendar. I'm only up to day 4 but 4 days is almost a week so I'm almost there. Almost done with the 4 weeks.. kinda. I'm not 100% sure that I'll get skinny from doing this beginners calendar but working out for like an hour a day makes me feel more energized and it just makes me happy with myself for committing to this.

For those of you who's doing or have done the new beginners calendar, then tell me if you guys did the head stand one from day 4! I found it impossible because I wasn't able to let my legs go up haha. I can do handstands and cartwheels but head stands are much more different. My legs and body and mind just wouldn't let me lift my legs to get onto the wall so I attempted it a few times but gave up. However, I did do some hand stands to make up for it because I used to be able to do cartwheels and handstands really well (when I was young and not scared about breaking a bone) and I can still do them but I haven't done them in a while (not including today) because I don't live on a property with a nice field to do cartwheels and handstands on. And doing it in the house is just scary. Like scared that I'll get unbalanced and hit something. Hopefully I'll be able to do a headstand (with the help of a wall at least) sometime in the near future but for now, I'll just work on hand stands to strengthen my arms and get used to being upside down.

Oh! And remember that failed attempt at those banana pancakes? Here is a photo for that..
How disgusting does that look! haha I think I know where I went wrong though. I'm pretty sure that I set the temperature for the pan too high so the egg was burnt while the insides didn't have enough time to cook properly. I'm going to try it again though! I will not give up in making these pancakes haha! I just have to try again. The batter seemed right, just that the temperature of the pan was too hot.

Speaking of foods, I've set to change my diet. I'm going to cut down on junk food and eat mostly healthy foods. Currently, the only junk food I'm eating is those Mamee noodles. I'm sure fellow Asians know what I'm talking about. Those delicious snack noodles. I don't think that they're as bad as chips and since the Mamee noodles are fairly small for each individual packet, it's like not as guilty as eating half a packet of chips all at once.

This isn't really a new years resolution but it'd be good to have a healthy lifestyle to make myself happier and of course, healthier.


Love,
Elaine

Hey guys! A few days ago, I was craving something sweet but I didn't want to make a mess in the kitchen and use up too many ingredients so I thought about blogilates super simple pancake recipe. I read the reviews and the majority of the people said that it came out fine and was delish! However, there were two or three people that commented saying that they faced some difficulties of the pancake turning out more like an omelette than a pancake. But since the recipe only requires two eggs and one banana, I decided to attempt it. It turned out such a fail for me! I think it was mainly because I made the heat too high so the outside was getting brown/burnt while the insides are still kind of wet and uncooked. I still ate some just to see how it tasted as some people were saying that the smell and taste of their pancake was disgusting. But it tastes pretty good, because of the natural sweetness from the banana.

Even though this first attempt was such a fail, I'm going to try again and I'll let you guys know how it goes on instagram.


Love,
Elaine

Hey guys! So time for part 2 of my Hong Kong trip! The next two days were calm, with nothing too special going on.

It was my 18th birthday but it felt sort of surreal to actually be 18 now! Buuut, I had a great day and ended it on a pretty high note too! We bought a mango cake which was delish! I could eat that cake all day err' day. Like seriously, I would fly to Hong Kong just to eat more mango cakes. ;)
 Just a casual selfie of me eating lychee flavoured ice cream. It actually tastes really nice! I always get sucked into these kind of ice cream flavours. Like green tea and sakura flavoured ice cream too.
 The day after my brithday, we went for a little walk around Yuen Long because my aunt, uncle and cousin were still fast asleep. It was around 10am but they're used to waking up late and dad and I were still used to NZ time I guess! And we're just natural early birds haha. Speaking of birds.. ;) (what a great little jump from one thing to another) We were in Yuen Long park and saw this huge aviary which is made for the public so we decided to go in and check it out. It's like 7 (or more) stories high! There were quite a few birds in there and the aviary looked really nice. The birds are given a really beautiful area. I didn't know what to expect but it was better than what I expected haha!
 The view from the top was amazing.

I've decided to just do short little posts for each couple of days unless there was something really interesting during those days haha. Next diary post will be about Victoria Peak, Madam Tussauds wax museum and a japanese buffet.

Love,
Elaine