It's amazing how much I think about about smoking. I think about it when I take a dump, I think about it when I am full, I think about it when I am bored, I think about it when I step outdoor, I think about it when I need to reward myself, when I am pissed off with someone, I think about it when I smell and see it. I think about it loads. In every circumstance and whenever my brain needs a filler moving from one thing to another.

Then reality hits, I no longer smoke. Hello everyone, I am Natalie and I am a smoker who has chosen to quit for the good reasons in the world; reasons I think I know and reasons I constantly need reminding.

It has been four days since I have been clean and I ever more determined to win this battle against my arch-nemesis - Mr. Philip Morris.

Hope you had a lovely weekend.

Happy Birthday again Haye and thank you for inviting me to your party. It proved to myself that I could party without smoking. It's a first in many years. Here's to your halfway to retirement!!!

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My dream is to help people live better. I am not being self-righteous nor that I think I am Nelson Mandela material - a man so great and selfless. Over the past two years, I have changed my lifestyle - I exercise 6 times a week, I stopped eating snacks, I only eat square meals and I don't drink. I have lost tons of weight and I have even most recently started my course in personal training.


I have one last vice which I am calling it quits - smoking! I have been smoking for 12 years, it started off innocently as a social smoker and because I was quite the party girl back then; it was part of the deal. When you smoke, you form social groups - you know all your gossips from the group and in many ways it was an exclusive pact. Most of my friends are smokers.


I threw out all my cigarettes today because one cannot be preaching about health and on the other hand have such disgusting habit. Who am I kidding? I have become ashamed of the fact that I smoke and it's time to call it quits.


So as of today, I do not smoke anymore and I will no longer choke when I run my marathons. So when I say I want to help people achieve their optimum health, it STARTS with ME!!!



I have a friend whose mum is a total one-woman show. I mean it. While her real age is not revealed to us, I am guessing it to be around 60-65. I absolutely respect women who go through the painstaking ordeal of making themself look and feel like a million bucks but my friend's mum is so far extreme, I dread to think how she looks like in the morning.

She parties with us, she tries to talk to us like she is one of the girls and how do you begin to describe her sense of style? The skirts are super short and the tops are super low - so short they sometimes make you go red because if it is your mum, you will tell her that sagging tits are not appropriate for public display. Did I even tell you that all the botox she has done has made it hard for her face to register emotions? Whether she is happy or sad, her face pretty much looks the same.

I feel sorry for her and all of us because in the proliferation of La Mer and all the miracle skin products that are deemed to be the elixir of youth, getting old is a fucking bitch! No one talks about aging in good light anymore. Everyone wants to be young. Every woman wants to look like a sweet young thing.

I checked the latest statistics for global life expectancy. A woman in HK is expected to live till 84 years of age while the men - 79 years. That's a lot of years being dependent on La Mer ain't it? I love the fact that I am older, I am embracing it because when you get older, you do get wiser and when I was young, I remember looking up to my Aunt Lucy because she had so much charisma and commanded so much presence.

What is it with all of us? When we were young, we can't wait to be the at the legal age of drinking or gambling and now we lie about our age? We can't have it all can we?

Little that I know, my years of not paying attention in Biology class has come back to bite me in a big way. When I signed up to do my course in personal training, I didn't know that I was actually signing up to rediscover the anatomy of the human body. Terms like enhancing neuromuscular efficiency, saggital plane movements, transverse plane movements are really killing me. I don't think I have come across my trainers telling me; sure you need to work on your neuromuscular efficiency in order to achieve stability endurance. Blah... vomit!!!

Once a week, I trade my happy hour drinks for a three hour mental - draining, coma- inducing class along with some of the fittest looking people I have ever seen. The men have such big biceps, I think they can do push ups with one hand and carry me with the other while the women are, I have to admit pretty fine looking.. I feel like a blob next to them..

While I am not crazy about medical terms, I admit I am so lucky to be able to do something I have always wanted to do.

All my course materials. That text book is thicker than The bible, I am telling you

See what I mean? Biology.. Here is an introduction of your freaking skeletal system

And also, Rudi and I have started social dance, we had our first class last Sunday. It was tragic, he has two left foot and I have two right foot. In a way, that's why we are meant for each other.
And if any of you want to improve your health, I am looking for guinea pigs. No guarantees if I tear or break anything okie?