Here I am, today, cashing in on a two-year-old offer. Now, you obviously don’t know what I’m talking about so here’s a summary to put everything into context. In February 2011, Piers and I had been online friends for two years when, one day, I announced to all my online friends that I...
Last night, I was reading and surfing on my iPad way past bedtime (one of my many evil vices) while Piers was sleeping. An hour later, I turned to my side to swap my iPad for my Kindle. The movement caused Piers to wake up. He started talking. “What’s this that we’re on?” he said. Now...
Why can I never get a straight answer from a man? We’re planning a trip to Guernsey (an island) dead early tomorrow morning, so I need to know what time we have to leave so I can set my alarm. Me: What time do we have to leave home? Piers: No earlier than an hour before the time we ha...
I have been feeling particularly ugly for a year or so now, what with my stupid hair being stupid and my skin feeling saggy because I’ve had to stop taking collagen supplements since moving to the UK (because they don’t have Meiji and Fancl here). (Disclaimer: I don’t know that collag...
It’s been half a year since, and I’m still in two minds about it. Some days I love it and some days I hate it and wish I had my old hair back. But then I would remember that there were also days I equally hated my old hair, and that the wisest course of action would be to retreat into...
Why can I never get a straight answer from a man? We’re planning a trip to Guernsey (an island) dead early tomorrow morning, so I need to know what time we have to leave so I can set my alarm. Me: What time do we have to leave home? Piers: No earlier than an hour before the time we ha...
The first thing I noticed about the Kindle was that, when you first open up a new book, it invariably starts you off at the first chapter of the book. It skips the cover, the copyright information, acknowledgements, quotations, dedications, maps, genealogy tables, author’s notes, etc,...
How to lose your appetite fast Posted by Sheylara No Comments » A couple of months ago, I started experiencing a loss of appetite and it has been really disconcerting. If you have been following my blog over the years, you might have concluded that I was an irredeemable glutton, such ...
Just a quick update now cos I’ve been busy and I’m leaving England for Singapore tomorrow! Actually, that’s all I need to say but since I’m already here, I suppose I could say a few more things. It’s Valentine’s Day today. I’ve never really been partial to the commercialism of the who...
It seems like Piers really appreciates the smoothness of my skin, seeing as he tries to compliment it every so often. I happen to disagree with his assessment of my epidermic qualities but that is not the point of this story. Piers, in fact, has once again one upped himself in the com...
I wasn’t going to blog today, the reason being that I bought an Xbox arcade game last night and subsequently planned to be very busy for the rest of the week. But then I reconsidered. Gaming is a poor reason for not blogging, I thought. I cannot let my readers down, my poor deluded mi...
I have a bad nails story also. For starters, I asked for gel nails and have since discovered (I should have done more research first) I got acrylics. The nail ‘tech’ (I use the term loosely) used a dremel tool to rough up my nails and ground through them near the cuticle. I told her i...
I’ve been thinking of getting back into running. My Nikes and Adidas fell apart a couple of years ago and I haven’t run since then. I have been putting off getting new ones because there are so many other things I need to spend money on in England, such as warm clothing and… even warm...
I had great plans for the summer. And that was to complete every last one of my waist-high homework assignments (see last paragraphs in link). Not quite the party of the century but it was a great and noble plan because the amount of homework we have in my course is of epic god-level ...
I used to hate jazz when I was much younger. I mean really hate. Jazz offended me because I thought music shouldn’t hurt the ears like that, with its weird cacophony of sounds. I did appreciate some jazz, but only those that incorporated more mainstream melodic vocals. I liked listeni...
I hadn’t intended to blog about the annual Bournemouth Beer Festival at all because I had agreed to go to it in a moment of distraction (while I was busy writing an essay or something). Beer isn’t my thing. In fact, drinking isn’t my thing. I don’t mean just alcohol. I mean the act of...
I was eating hot cross buns for breakfast today, so I sang the hot cross bun song to Piers, who was eating toast and bacon. “Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns! One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns!” I sang. He stopped eating his toast and bacon and gaped at me. “What on earth is that...
It’s been about three weeks since I recovered from chicken pox and I’m still catching up on school work while new ones keep pouring in relentlessly. Last week, one of our lecturers assigned us yet another essay to our utmost horror, which we made sure to express very visibly on our fa...
Piers pointed out to me today something funny that he saw on his Facebook feed. There were my status updates where I stressing about my essay, griping about not having much time left to finish it. And then, on the same page, it also showed that I was watching Prison Break on Netflix. ...
Yes, the unbelievable has happened. I have contracted chicken pox. To get it at this stage of my life! Even Piers is laughing at me saying I’m so cute-obsessed that even the diseases I get have to be cute. What rubbish? There is nothing cute about chicken pox, I told him, for it is th...
I was wrong about the pace of study at the Montessori College being comfortable. It very soon turned uncomfortable and then — avalanche! I have been feeling snowed under for the last couple of weeks but I’m hoping to get used to the pace soon. I’m enjoying it, though. At the moment, f...
