This is how usually my Saturday begins, rushing to the park to conduct a bootcamp. Every since I moved out and had bought Simba my life have been a a uphill run, somedays I'm on my foot from 6am till 1am just working, cleaning house, cooking,cleaning again and walking Simba when i have a tad of energy left else ill bring him down to play fetch to make sure my boy get his exercise after which i prepare for tomorrow, but I'm not complaining. 

Today at the car wash i watched men slogged away under the sun, their skin so dried up and tanned, they were bones basically,they had music plugged in probably to distract them from the rudimentary task, i wondered how much they earned such laborious work and if there was better way to do this without them getting skin cancer in time to come, i m sure sunblock was out of the question for these men. I know its a job and somebody has to do it but watching these men i couldn't help but appreciate life a little more. So if you think what your doing is hard or your life is tough and exercise is tiring and picking up skill is not needed i want you to think again and look around you for what life has bestowed upon you and appreciate it yet stay rooted and spread your branches, share your love and kindness in every way possible, throw in smile and even some thank - you.


Politness is a skill. It must be practiced, we are offered each day to be gracious, take the opportunity people.


Taken with the Canon Legria mini x which comes with a fisheyes lens and no photos were edited,

Mother's Day is just around the corner and being a women when I ask my mom what does she wants she says 'ANYTHING ' 
Argh 
Now you know how your Partner feels when you ask them what do they want to eat.

Honestly people there is no such thing as anything , they would definitely throw hints! last week I made my mom a friendship band and I said to her "here your mother's day gift" she said she doesn't want it and wants an ipad. Brutally honestly! well thats my mom. 

So I'm going to help you out and give you some ideas on what to get your mom for mothers day on a budget! Spoil your mom a little she gave her everything when you were little and eventhough my mom and I fight like a repetitive Korean drama series, I'm sure she love me just as much as I love her.

I Love the idea of gift card!
 Find out what you mother likes. Did she just start picking up exercise or enjoys shopping with her friends or sipping a cup of coffee, there is a gift card for all,  some gift card can also be purchased online !

STARBUCKS
ZARA
AMAZON
SPORTING GOODS
Just don't give her grocery voucher! come on the poor lady cooks all day the last thing she wants to see is a more broccoli and chicken breast that you make her buy.

Treat your mom to a haircut or a basic treatment for $100 or less depending on hair length and condition of her hair after a 20% discount From 8-11 of the month of May, just mention my name when you make an appointment Tel: 6835 9976 

This folks over at Black Hair Salon are the nicest hairstylist I've come across, they spend so much time on you and listen attentively to what you are asking for, they do deliver! my boyfriend is very fussy and he too loved his hair after getting a cut from Nicky! 

Purchase a set of LAMPE BERGE basic oil diffuser and 1 bottle of oil at $150 of your choice my favourite is by far Lavender, been using diffusers for years, not only does provide aromatherapy to your house but much more health benefit, click here to learn more.

If you do want to make a purchase quote my name to purchase it at $150 for the month of May only. 

For any orders or enquiries, please contact us through any of the following avenues:
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The Fitbit family are all mostly below $200 bucks, my mother have gotten into the rhythm of exercise and i would choose the Fitbit One for her which measures your complete daily activity including steps taken, distance travelled, calories burned and stairs climbed. Simply wear it in a pocket, bra or belt using its soft silicon clip for easy attachment. At night use the included wrist strap and it will track how long and how well you sleep, with online tools to illustrate your deep sleep and wakeful patterns. A gentle vibration will wake you when you need without a noisy alarm.

Sometimes travelling with a friend can make or break a long friendship,on trips i am usually the laziest,i walk the slowest,i take my time in everything i do and sometimes all i want to do is eat the entire street or lay on the bed watching foreign movie that i don't quite comprehend, this is all the boyfriend's fault, he and i could just go to another country and laze in bed and order room service, terrible much. I dislike the idea of rushing, if i did i wouldn't be on a holiday, but of course its good to have a flexible itinerary that you can fall upon to ensure you do make the trip memorable. 5 things i love about traveling with my bestfriend Wany!

1)Photo taking isn't as exhausting trust me you don't even have to ask for her to take a photo of you! we girls just enjoy taking photos or being in the photos. I usually travel with my boyfriend and he doesn't seem to get the way I want my photo to be taken and I made him take it over and over again to a point he was pissed with me but I wanted the Eiffel tower and my ice cream and my pistol squat in a frame, go figure.

2)Getting help from stranger , I mean imagine 2 girls with a map ,clueless,who wouldn't go the distance to help ?but to be careful though always ask people who are working within the vicinity like security guards or shop owners preferably female!

3)Sharing food is easier since you are so close to this person I'm sure you eat pretty similar, so more variety to try since you get to share. More Money for shopping.

4)Motivating one another to explore the area and getting lost can be an adventure especially in a foreign land and who knows you might find a gem, Wany(my last travel partner) love quirky coffee joints, owls prints and she takes amazing photos, check out her FLICKR.

5) Remembering why you are friends in the first place because no matter what happens, be it having fun,trying to ask for discount for everything even duty free items and running after a plane before the door closes you are still cursing and giggling away because you can't run for nuts anymore since my butt have grown into a Beyonce(click on it). 

Have a goodnight folks.
(photo credit- Wany's old school camera)

Up till today i have no idea what hairstyle suits me or colour even, I've had  blue hair, short hair, bangs all over, hair growing from everywhere and I've had a excessive layering disordered when i was young i visited the salon once a week and keep asking the auntie to layer my hair till there was not much left.

I get all the benefit of exercise on my face and how my skin glows after working out but unfortunately for my hair which i tie in up high or wear a braid always get damaged in the process, Like every girl i always wanted smooth and silky hair, the hair frames the face and it does make a lot of different.

Im slightly wiser now and prefer having longer hair, but the bad thing about long hair is,managing it. I need something free and easy to have it up for work and down when i head out! 

So I'm really really lucky thanks to have BLACK HAIR SALON(Facebook) sponsoring my hair and the people who were involve in this opportunity,you know who you are!

I trust most of my hairdresser until of course they ruin my hair, so Nicky asked me what i wanted i showed him of this girl with pink and purple highlight, i know i wanted to be cool but he suggest not because the colour is too bright and he recommended i go with brown and ash volumenizing highlight ( i just made that up) basically he put a lighter shade all over my head to create a bounce effect, not to many because anything more i'll look like an ah lian, so he went easy! and this the effect i got taken from a side with no filter!

i love the fact it look natural! always pick a colour that you don't need to colour your eye brows. i can't deal with being blonde and black eye brows.

So Nicky use some of the best product! i checked all of the review on Amazon and it have received nothing but compliment!

After doing my highlight first he then proceeded to colour my entire head! And for the first time i didn't feel any itch or scalp burn like previous hair colour ages ago, i get sun burnt on my scalp easily therefore it gets quite sensitive, even up to today my head feels fine with the colouring and treatment over at blackhair.

He advise me to do my treatment regularly and make me sit through another 20 min but it was worth it, my hair felt soft even after curling it with a hot iron!

Below are some of the product being used! The treatment smell so nice nothing like the typical hairdresser smell that you get, its semi floral and i can't help but smell my hair.

Tada! before-midway  and THE END process of my hair!
no idea what he did but i don't think i can blow dry until so nice. i need to bring Nicky home. :) 
i liked the way he cut my fringe even! i can't wait to see him next maybe i shall try purple highlights.

Nicky on the left and Raymond the owner of Black Hair Salon.

Here are more photo taken with my Canon and macbook  without any filter involved!
and the end product at the Salon, thank you BLACK HAIR SALON for your time and hospitality.

It seems like forever but I've only met Limaran since last year october or was it november its been less than 6 month but so many things have happened! 

So besides breakdancing, hanging out at starbucks and checking out cups and eyebrows as the photos says a lot about what we do when we meet! we are growing not side ways fortunately!
Yes its time to say goodbye to HAPAFITNESS but it does stop there watch out for our new website in the next 6 month for more action from the both of us!

With that we would like to reward you with our 10 days HIT( high intensity training) program! follow us on instagram to use the hashtag #hit10sg if you are going to join us in this workout! Only for 10 days! we will be posting videos and photos in our respective blogs (Limaran)

Feel free to drop us a comment on our instagram! but we do hope to get as many people doing this workout with us! Its okay if you do not want to start day 1 on the 5/5/2014 which is a Monday! just follow the exercises in order which ever day you choose to start! its just 10 days folks. Male and female could participate in this exercise! can't wait!!

CLICK ON OUR INSTAGRAM LINK AS FOLLOWS
JASMINE & LIMARAN

So we had the opportunity to go on air with POWER 98 and had the chance to see whats goes on behind the scene of a radio station! 

Believe it or not its located in CMPB building therefore the security level of the place was high. We were put behind a mic, honestly it was nerve wrecking and if you were to read of a paper it would sound unnatural therefore we were advice not to. 

We also got to meet JK once again who never fails to make us giggle with his witty comments. So here are some photos of the mini interview we had.

This is unlike your typical beauty pageant, i actually learn so much and have to make more effort in researching and learning so much more in technology which have open my mind to appreciate a little more.

i could never do this without Limaran of course! She have taught me a lot and constantly on a look out for me if i do need help, check out her website for all her beautiful photos.

Do tune over the next 3 sundays! the 11th,18th and 25 may between 5-9pm to listen to us over and over again who we are and our experience on #STUFFCOVERGIRL have been so far! 
also check out STUFF WEBSITE for all your latest gadgets updates.

I've been asked endless of time how to become a personal trainer. Believe it or not I was suppose to start my training for SIA as a stewardess but I always knew I was made for something greater.

So upon graduation in 2009 I was clueless of what I wanted to set my foot on and very much afraid of what the world had to offer. When I was in school I couldn’t wait to grow up into the “working world” but as soon as I was out of it, I swear I couldn’t afford University and I do not want to take my family’s money to pay for my school, so a diploma was all I could afford.

So I needed a full time job and I was tired of my part time night life that did my eye bags no justice, I work at Zouk for close to 3 years as a “front office department” layman’s term also known as a door bitch to get by school and life. I don’t have a dad and my mom don’t work so my elder brother was supporting me and he gave me all he could but of course being a teenager, I could eat a cow and still not feel full, and also all the expense of my vanity didn’t help either.

I send my resume, to 2 different gyms if I could remember and I didn’t even ask them if I could be a trainer I asked if I could intern for them and learn the ropes in time to come. The first gym that got back to me was Sky Fitness, then it was an “atas” gym all the trainers were highly qualified, I heard so much about them and of course I wanted to be the best, so when I went for an interview I didn’t get the job and the manager, I remembered him saying that I was not qualified even when I offered to work for free. A couple of days later Fitness First called me down for an interview and they open their doors to me!

So I jumped on the bandwagon and join Fitness First, everyone was professional at the start, working for a global gym with many outlets worldwide, there was of course an establish protocol that all trainers, be it new trainers or former trainers from different gym had to go through a 10 days course. You are basically taught “everything” fitness related within the 10 days and there are 2-3 tests I can’t recall. I was always hungry for knowledge and wanted to be topped in everything, doesn’t help with being competitive, I slept with the book, read it million of times, if I could blend it and drink it up I probably would and I top the class second, why its still in my head is because Alex my boyfriend was first he beat me by 1 point, I was bitter then!

So after passing this 10 days course you are assign to different gyms, I was assign to Fusionopolis as a full timer, means hanging out in the club more than needed. Obligations  full timers are required to do in a global gym or most gym are listed below.

1) Service call to client make sure they come down for their “trial session “ to close them for new sales.

2) Walk the floor and try to help or close more sales.

3) Oil machines.

4) On and off machine

5) Track report of the club for the department when the club closes.

6) Run all sort of errands for the club.

7) Do more stuff your not suppose to do.

8)Do stuff your boss is suppose to do not all maybe some, depends on how lucky you are. True story.

9) Bring in sales

10) Make sure you hit your sales target or be prepared to be reprimanded or not get any new trial session next month.

See its not a pretty job or influential job when you first start it, but since I was new at it I did everything that was told for 1 year and I got bored!

Why? It wasn’t challenging, I wasn’t learn anything new, my job was rudimentary, I didn’t like my working environment, I didn’t like the management so I quit!

So I went into fashion and sales for a while, worked for a Pilate gym, didn’t quite feel right. For me if I am not learning and growing, losing my competitive edge not having thirst for knowledge doing things without any passion then its time to move on.


Remember the first gym I wanted to join, Sky Fitness, I had an opportunity to work for them once again and it came knocking at my door at the right time! 

Joining Sky wasn’t an easy fit, being the only female instructor, I had to take direction from all these men and my former manager then bullied me called me names and toughen me up, taught me everything at the same time showed me the ugly side of the industry. I work hard every month, I clock in at least 10k -15k worth of sales every month on the bad month I would bring in 6k or so for the company clocking in 75-125 session or so per month, I was in fact on a roll all thanks to the same person who put me down he also raised me up and made sure I work smart, and so I did I took up all sort of course so I could be the best! I didn’t do any sales they just came to me. Maybe being the only female also helped then.  

2013 was when I couldn’t take it anymore, I was exhausted just finding numbers, making my clients renew in advance, making sure I sell more packages and making sure I gave the company more than what they are paying me. I became unhappy.

So once again I stop and now I am on my own, never been happier, being your own boss, I get to manage my own time, no “ sales talk” not getting reprimanded for not hitting “numbers”

What I am trying to say is, personal training is all about sales. Anyone can be a trainer for a global gym, and if you can sell yourself in your own “package” on a social media platform you can also be a successful personal trainer. At the end of the day its all about hitting numbers, and fitness first isn’t so bad, there is other gym whereby if you do not hit your numbers you are basically fired the next month. Do u ever ask yourself why is there new trainers in my gym always?

What happened to the old ones? Sorry folks they are being recycle, the industry only appreciate you if you put in numbers who cares if you have a Degree in kinesiology or a doctorate in sport science if you cant sell a package, you basically are a waste of time, they would rather get someone who looks buff and walk like they’re drive a bus, look intimidating, and able to close sales. 

I’ll talk about some of the good certification to get if you do want to work in the fitness industry in my next post but if you cant sale and if u cant talk to people and have no soft skills in trying to get people to trust you and have an attitude and always giving up then I suggest you pursue something else, but then again every job is a sales job, everyone have to sell be it fitness, cars, insurance, food or even ideas. 

So if you do want to be a trainer do join global gym they are willing to take anyone who is serious about being a trainer and yes they will help you but along the way you need to help yourself. Everyone got to start somewhere, suck it up and be humble and learn, it’s coming to 5 years and I am still learning everyday.

Ps: this is a very exposed post to people to know what the fitness industry is like, then some of you may be lucky and have a smooth journey in the industry I am sharing my experience from where I came from and I am proud to be where I am today.

A quick update what I’ve been up to, besides working endlessly that my mornings which I use to dedicate to my workout time is now packed with client, I should be thankful for having such a good start at a new club!

Limaran and I are in Singapore Stuff Magazine top 10, how fortunate are we to be able to participate in an event together, and no I am not even competing! If it weren’t for her I wouldn’t be in it! And if it wasn’t for her, we wouldn’t even have a website up and running, as much as you know it, im the talker and she’s the do-er and she keeps me grounded in making sure I do what I supposed to do, on my own, you would probably get a 50 word blog in about 5 years! So we pretty much balance out each other in a good way.

So what exactly is this competition about, finding a cover girl for the magazine of course! I’ve been in a couple of pageant, yes it is about popularity and votes and some brains too, but this competition aren’t like most I’ve participated! The organizers really look after us! Mostly Ian Paynton and make sure we look good in every photo taken, they actually treat us with so much love and respect.

Some of my previous pageant, they insisted that I was “fat” to them my muscular arm, broad shoulder, thick trunk was fat, I was suppose to look like stick and bones and eat nothing but air and sit in the sauna for 45 min 3x a week to “lose weight” the Stuff Covergirl gave us the opportunity to work with gadget and write whatever we wanted for their website, we were given the freedom of speech and maybe just some minor proof reading to keep us on track.

To me its never a competition, it’s a journey of learning more about myself and improving myself, and hey meeting new friends along the way, who cares about winning to me throwing myself in a challenge is like a exciting journey that not many people dare to take for the fear of being judge and losing.

You can choose to live your life with the joy of the front row or solemnness of the third row, the choice is yours J

Oh enough of long ass stories here are some photos throughout my journey. 

Recently i grab a burger from Macdonald and asks for an extra patty, they only cost 1 dollar extra right, for more protein maybe? who am i kidding. 

So i got curious and went to their website to check on the ingredient of their patties or any burger per say, what exactly is it made of, and found none no information from the mac donald website! well played Mac Donald, but i must say the website is so well organised if you didn't care about what your food is made of and your main concern is calories,  the math is already done for you! a very detailed break down but no ingredient listed just very briefly of what its made of.. so i ventured to the US website hmm they don't mention how what exactly is in the patties either! until you scroll further down, trust me i glance through all of it. 

In Singapore the patties are chicken/fish/beef while in the state its made out of pork/fish/chicken/beef.

To be honest even if you were to eat junk from the box and times when we dine out, we do not know exactly how our food is being prepared. i can't pronounce half of the stuff on the ingredient list maybe thats why in Singapore mac donald website they dare not post what's in their patties.. have you seen their egg lately, honestly it look like rubber but who am i to complain, its affordable quick and its fast food.

will i eat mac donald occasionally?
 maybe, maybe not,its too salty for me.As much as life is all about balance i prefer spoiling myself with better food than cheap fast food..
check out some example of the ingredient listed in the US webite below and some common burger mostly eaten by many and its calories break down! 


SAUSAGE & SCRAMBLED EGG MIX:
Ingredients: Pre-Cooked Egg Product (Whole Eggs, Nonfat Milk, Soybean Oil, Modified Food Starch, Salt, Black Pepper Flavor [Corn Starch, Spices, Mixed Triglycerides, Flavors, Silicon Dioxide, Gelatin, Carboxymethyl Cellulose, Sodium Benzoate, Citric Acid, Gum Acacia], Extractives of Black Pepper, Xanthan Gum, Citric Acid, Butter {Cream}, Lipolized Butter Oil, Flavors, Artificial Flavors]), Pre-Cooked Sausage Crumbles (Pork, Water, Salt, Dextrose, Spices, Corn Syrup Solids, Sugar, BHA, Propyl Gallate, Citric Acid [Added To Help Protect Flavor]), Vegetables (Tomatoes, Green Chiles, Onions, Calcium Chloride, Citric Acid).
CONTAINS: EGG, MILK.


SAUSAGE PATTY:
Ingredients: Pork, Water, Seasoning (Salt, Corn Syrup Solids, Spices, Dextrose, Sugar, Spice Extractives), Preservatives (BHA, Citric Acid and Propyl Gallate).


SCRAMBLED EGGS:
Ingredients: Pasteurized Whole Eggs with Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Citric Acid and Monosodium Phosphate (Added to Preserve Color), Nisin Preparation (Preservative). Prepared with Liquid Margarine: Liquid Soybean Oil and Hydrogenated Cottonseed and Soybean Oils, Water, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Salt, Soy Lecithin, Mono-and Diglycerides, Sodium Benzoate and Potassium Sorbate (Preservatives), Artificial Flavor, Citric Acid, Vitamin A Palmitate, Beta Carotene (Color).
CONTAINS: EGG, SOY LECITHIN.