November, Movember

Hello Fluffies,
I thought I was gonna post a lengthy post on my workouts for the past few weeks. An update is seriously long overdue. But I didn't feel like bombarding you with lists of lengthy workouts so I'm gonna show you my favourite workouts for the past weeks, followed by, my past few weeks in pictures :)

800 Calorie No Equipment Total Body HIIT Workout

Even though this was a 800 calorie workout, it felt alot more like a 500 calorie workout albeit tiring. More doable than the usual HIIT routines with promised burn, still a good burn nonetheless! It felt like a limbo by the second round though.

Plyo Plank Challenge | 500 calorie Burn HIIT Home Workout

This one was good. It felt like a total body workout with all that plyometrics and planking. Plyometrics simply means jumping and planking, well its planking haha. It worked alot of my arms, core and legs.

6 Min to a Sexy Booty!

Cassey came up with a series of new videos recently and this booty workout was great. 6 mins and it gets your butt sore. It always served as a cold reminder that my booty still has alot more work to do.

40 Min Cardio HIIT Workout + Butt, Thighs, Abs: Ultimate Workout for Belly Fat Loss, No Equipment

This one wasn't too bad. As always, Fitness Blender's workouts are usually very doable, no crazy stunts that require extreme balancing. 

30 Minute Intermediate Full Body Workout

A change from the usual HIIT routine. Pilates for the lazy days :)

Between assignments, I make healthier lunches and I bake. I try my best to go as gluten free as possible because well, it is a diet that works for me. Sucky because I love my sweets and pastries but its okay as there are always alternatives :)

Tell me you are not impressed with my gluten free bread???? hehe OK, theres definitely room for improvement tho because it tasted quite strongly of baking powder :/

 Just recently, my boyfriend and I went on an impromptu trip to JB because we had time to spare. What an adventure hahaha I had so much awesome food from daylight to sunset. I had a great time exploring the street food. We even had time to catch a Big Hero 6! But the movie theater snacks was shitty. There was no popcorn smell at all so that was kinda of a bummer to me because movies should smell like popcorn to me :/

We had curry chee cheong fun but unfortunately the pictures are with my boyfriend, but i assure you, it was really dang good. We made it a point to have authentic chinese-malaysian food outside of the typical shopping malls because we wanted to have a more local experience.

Dinner time in one of the bustling back alleys

My man of a thousand expressions

ME. Duh.

If you're like me, you love the oysters in your Oyster omelette to be BIG, JUICY and FRESH, sans the starchy tapioca flour that you tend to get from the usual hawkers, THIS ONE IS FOR YOU. 

My darling ordered fish for us hehe, my favourite fish ^^ Meowww

As November is ending soon for us, I leave you with the final picture depicting my latest happening endeavour. Hui Qi's suprise 21st Birthday Party! I'm glad it was a success and felt really happy that she got a celebration. Everyone deserves a smashing 21st and don't you just love birthdays!? There's always cake!

Oh and my favourite pic/gif for the month :3

Fitness log and my OBSESSION with Christine Salus

Hi Fluffiesss, Its been 2 weeks?? 

The days flew by so quickly, halloween came and went, its November now! Mugging period is coming and I'm totally dreading it. For now, I'm just gonna bask in the few happenings in my life, juggle school and work at the same time. Quickly after my last post, I fell sick. It started off as a sore throat which soon manifested into a full on fever. I couldn't do much but I felt really really restless so I did an easy workout to loosen my limbs. Oh, I recently got my mom to start exercising with me! It's not the most fun thing in the world to be exercising with your mother but it sure as hell is funny trying to help her figure out how to keep her form! Perhaps I can try to get some pictures next time....Anyways, here's what I had to start my workout week with. An easy beginner's pilates workout. Really really manageable, even for someone who was done with a cold. 

BEST BEGINNERS PILATES WORKOUT - Slimmer, Stronger Body with this 45 min fitness routine

Extreme Total Body Fat Burning Workout | Level 3- BeFit in 30 Extreme

I supplemented my regular pilates workouts as usual with some additional cardio routines just so to up my metabolism. As soon as I felt fine, this was the first workout that I attempted. 

Power Yoga with Bryan Jones - 1 Hour

I can't exactly remember why I chosed to do a power yoga sequence in place of a cardio routine but it will most likely be because I needed a bloody good stretch and didn't feel like stomping on my floor at 11pm KD. Anyway, I don't recommend anyone with zero background in Yoga to do this because well, it is very likely that you may lose your balance and fall face first on the ground.

Extreme apologies in advance. 

Brace yourself...

Christine Salus HIIT workouts swarming in

So.. I think I've developed an obsession with Christine Salus' HIIT workouts. Let me just say... Her 20min HIITs kills me more than my usual full hour and more workouts. Yup. I've begin substituting her HIITs for Blogilates' cardio workouts because they are much more effective for me at the moment. There are so many workouts out there that tell you 'BRUTAL', 'KILLER', 'EPIC' etc but her workouts are probably all of them combined into one. 

Brutal Bodyweight HIIT | Burn 300 calories in 21 min

Fat Blasting HIIT workout - Sweat, Strengthen & Tone! (Time challenge II)

On my first attempt, I managed to complete this in like.... 30 plus mins I think? I paused the video several times because I was just so tired. My second try was better. I came in at about 25mins. 

How to Increase Your Metabolism - Brutal 30 min HIIT workout

700 Calorie Burn HIIT Home Workout

After all that working out, its time for some regular human activities. I visited a quaint coffee place called 'The Provision Shop' in Duxton area. It is such a lovely place I can't wait to be back again just to soak up the atmosphere.

 I must say tho.. The food was pretty average :/ Not the best cafe food that I've had.

A little walk through the charming old streets of Singapore. If I ever have to leave Singapore, this would be one of the things I would miss most.

In the spirit of Halloween, my friends and I went on a TRIPLE DATE to USS for Halloween Horror Nights! The queueing was insane for the last attraction but it was well worth the wait. I was extremely exhausted by the time we reached the last attraction but I was probably the one that screamed the loudest and even scratched my boyfriend at some point. The Lab, was so well done and I just couldn't handle the size of the aliens towering over me. All I wanted to do was run. 

Along the streets of 'New York', ghouls, gargoyles, zombies roam. I didn't manage to take alot of photos but the set was really really well done. 

And I took some time to come up with my first ever halloween baked goodie for my friends and I: 

Paleo witch fingers!

And as for the weekend after Halloween, I kick started it with a gym session at Energyone with my classmates. 

Our workout session routine (Weight recorded is for my sets):

1. Running on treadmill: 1.2km
2. Lateral arm pulls: 4 sets of 12 reps, 18 to 25kg progressively
3. Tricep push ups on some arm machine: 4 sets of 12 reps, 22 kg support I think? 
4. Regular Squats: 4 sets of 8 reps, 20kg barbell with 15 to 20kg progressively each side
5. Sumo Squats: 4 sets of 8 reps, 20kg barbell with 15 to 20kg progressively each side
6. Walking Lunges: 4 sets, 20kg barbell with 10kg weight
7. Quad extensions: 4 sets of 8 reps, 25kg
8. Hamstring extensions: 4 sets of 8 reps, 25kg

I did an additional round of arm workout because I wanted to work my upper body a little more and build more strength.

I think we couldn't be any crazier by going for a round of creepy mind boggling fun at the Escape room after our workout. We did the resident evil's challenge and it was hard! We weren't allowed to bring in anything, not even our phones, a pen or paper so there was no way for us to cheat. But hey, someone in our group managed to cheat after all. LOL thief in the making.

And finally, the day I've been waiting all week for..
Pak Tor day with my boyfriend! We went to creamier and had our favourite waffles (Altho they didn't taste as good as usual) and ice cream!!! Ice cream days are probably my favourite days lol..

While waitingggggg and waittingggggggggggggg

It came! After almost 30mins of waiting. We probably finished it within like... 15mins or less lol

That marked the end of October. Is it just me or the excitement in the air.. Can you smell Christmas like I do already? 

Happy November guys.. Approximately 2 more months to the 2015. 2 more months to fulfil whatever your goals this year :)