3 months ago I flew from a big city Hong Kong where I can hardly see the sky without skyscrapers and no horizon. A day after, I arrived to the medieval town on the cliffs, with no buildings taller than 5th floor.
I am very lucky and blessed.
My 92 days in Llanes- Visual Diary
3 months ago I flew from a big city Hong Kong where I can hardly see the sky without skyscrapers and no horizon. A day after, I arrived to the medieval town on the cliffs, with no buildings taller than 5th floor.
€0 to bring you back to Medivial in Oviedo
Oviedo, where located in north west Spain. A capital city in Asturias, where there's the heart of culture and religion in its region.
Yes, follow me it costs you nothing to have a rich historical & cultural experience in Oviedo. What you need is just a pair of good shoes for a long days walk and a foot massage after.
Gigi Hadid
If you ask who is my recently favourite model, the answer is her. Not Cara Delevingne anymore. But Miranda Kerr is my all time favourite :D
5 things a Newbie should know
This is a post especially for a fresh blogger who (Maybe lets say counting by followers…) is a newbie and has less than 200 followers. As I was just not too new but old yet. These are my tips for confused newbies, I hope it helps as I think its good to give something back.
'I know... I've been telling myself at the end of the day this is just a number…’, but I'm so happy to accomplish something I worked hard to get. I know compared to numbers of bloggers who get maybe a thousands followers a day, it makes me seem very small, but if you Imagine 200 people in front of you, it is retry impressive to be happy for already.
21 days to being a better Yogi
At the end of every month and every year, I like to review what I did and what I want to achieve next, and hopefully, I break my bad habits. I am very into that kind of self revolution plan, but planning and achieving are totally different to each other. I am not good at achieving, not at all.
However seriously I plan, I have no confidence to actually do it, until one day, for the very first time I finally achieved what I want to do successfully, my confidence started come back.
(The talking:)
It was my exercise revolution a few years ago, I joined the 21 day fitness challenge from The Yoga Journal , it was free and easy! The 21-day program offers guided yoga video practices; nutrition tips and recipes; learn about yogic lifestyle. I purposely fell into this like a religion. I transformed my mind to do yoga like a routine as natural as eating a meal--- You don't stop your meal because you feed yourself every day. And so, I did yoga for half and hour a day, six days a week for 21 days no matter what. I was very surprised how a good habit can start in such a simple way.
(The actually-doing:)
At the beginning, I felt exhausted, my body just doesn't move smoothly. My knees were tense especially when I did the Down-ward-facing-dog, for the Sun Salutations, I moved like a robot, I was acting so stupid that I missed lots of poses, they were too fast for me (Or I was too slow?). 'Is it too hard for me to do tomorrow?' I thought to myself.
After a fews days, the miracle unfolded. I could actually notice my body move faster and although I could not do more advanced poses, I could do the simpler ones correctly; and work muscles correctly. I started to understand more of what those yoga theories mean. Something like "Your body learns every time you do the practice"; "Take it easy, do not push yourself too hard, just do however you can reach for that moment"; "When the time come, you will notice it."
After 15days, halfway though the challenge, I found myself finally moving as smoothly as the girl on the video. Even though I still could not reach my toes, I learnt not to push it too hard because I believe I can do it one day. I sweated loads during the practice, my breathing was getting heavier by doing so much core work, but I felt energised and very satisfied. I felt so happy from the inside out.
After 21 days, of course I felt so happy and satisfied that I completed the challenge. As committed to do yoga 21 days in a row, and actually did it. I got my confidence back and was excited for any new challenge.
I found my favourite sport <3 YOGA!
Which is really one of the most effective, healthy ways to exercise your mind and body from the inside out (I learnt so much from it that I think I need to write a new post about how good yoga is.).
(Bad news)
Unfortunately The Yoga Journal closed the link for the 21 days challenge, you cannot do exactly what I did.
(Good news)
But If you want to start your 21 days challenge, why don't you make your own challenge? The Yoga Journal still get loads of video practises and deeper study of each pose.
If some of them seem too advanced for you, I found so many great videos and yoga instructions below, they offer different kinds of plans and suggestions for you to follow. You may not find the challenge I did exactly, but I think you can mix and match to make your very own timetable.
Just remember the principle rules of the challenge: Make sure you do it for about 30 minutes (Not too long that it will make you scared of them), about 5-6 days a week (Allow you to take a rest once or twice a week), then make it last for 21 days (21 is a magic number for growing a new habit). I am sure you will still achieve the same result like me!
http://www.yogajournal.com
http://www.yogadownload.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIJwWYOfsCfz6PjxbONYXSg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD0nBMLdq_KbIK9u-mzpNkA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiP6wD_tYlYLYh3agzbByWQ
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFPSkWiFp-7WRuf6DGAhymw
Time flies. It's the end of April
When I saw it, I realised I'm already half way through this journey in Spain. I don't want the time to go so quickly. I can't wait to see England, but I love the small house for just the two of us.
(This is a photo post)
Korres
The first week I arrived here, instantly I can feel the weather difference between this Spanish town--- Llanes where will be my home for 3 months and the south east Asian city--- Hong Kong, where I came from a few days ago.
It was March during nearly the end of winter in Spain, 10 degrees is kind of freezing for me who gets used to feeling cold in 20 degrees back home. Also, I felt the skin is going dry and the tightness around my eyes made it a bit hard to wink, because here is colder, and drier too!
Some people don't like the humidity make your skin sweat and oily, but my skin is the opposite, dry weather make it looks old and is scary for me. Thats the reason why my body lotion finished in such a short time.
One day I found the brand Korres in town, its beautiful design caught me at first sight.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
I am going to post the picture I draw for people I like every week (Like a promise with myself), the first week is her--- Charlotte Gainsbourg.
The daughter of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg. You might say, the genes from two huge stars, she couldn't be too bad. Really? So many so-called second generations who are spending their whole life to grab the limelight to get the attention they think is their birthright.
Can you name some of them? Or you disagree about what I said? I would like to know what you think.
Spring Summer 2015-03
Happy weekend!
I received my portable scanner, its so exciting! Can't wait to create more pictures by hand and with computer which I am still new at.
Ipanema, Flip Flops on Holiday
Spring is clearly here in Spain! But the spanish weather is spoiling me, I can now start to look for my swimwear, sun-glasses and FLIP FLOPS!
This SS15 I am going to buy a good quality flip flop!
A day in Gijón
Wooo, I realised I have been disappearing for quite a while, I hope my followers and readers are still following me ;0!
It was a long Easter holiday for me (Actually it was holiday for my other half...). Llanes is where I am living in at the moment, located in North of Spain------ Asturias. So as I am here in this land, why not travel a bit?
This is my first travelling post here, I also have a blog just about travelling, but I have not updated for awhile for a lot of reasons...
Spring Summer 2015-02
Top: New Look
Bottom: Sisley
Her hand on her belly because I was in pain while drawing it.
Neck top is coming back this season, come with subtle see-through details is in trend. See though in nowadays emphasise the subtleness with it hints of sexy elegance, if you are dressed too exposed, you are out.
Shoes: Jimmy Choo
Black Killer heels can't be wrong ;)
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PS: I am waiting for my scanner delivery! Hopefully I can put up my hand drawings soon as I am still a beginner at drawing using a computer.
Why grey!???
Does anybody know why those images turned to very instead of white after I uploaded it on blogspot? I feel so frustrated about it!
I am going to move my site to
Art of enduring a period
How does your period affect you monthly? I am not any kind of professional related to periods, but I keep a very good relationship with mine. I do not want it to leave sometimes LOL.
Never have a very long conversation with girls from other country about menses. But let me introduce a bit about it in Hong Kong, we called period "Aunt" or "M" for monthly. Sometimes we say "My aunt's come to visit me.", so people will get it. Also, we are not really comfortable to say it out loud like how I talk about it in public at all.
And the super big difference between most of the Western countries------ Almost all the Asian girls use a sanitary pad, not a tampon. I cannot speak for every one, but most of the Asian females I know, about 70% of them do not know how to use tampons, some of them don't even want to talk about them. The other 30%, use that occasionally like when swimming, on a boat trip and other rare occasions. It is very uncomfortable for us to use and strange. (Well, I got loads for free one day, so why not use it, but it's still difficult to use it. )
Here, Larry David teach a girl how to use tampons:
For me, period brings me good times:
-Best excuse for not doing any exercise
I found it extra hard to do exercise during my period, even fainted once in the gym because I felt 'out of blood'. According to a lot of studies from nutritionists, books I read and information from the internet, it is easier to get injured. Also, women lose more calcium and the metabolic rate lowers during menses. So it means our body cannot burn fat well anyway, why not take a rest during the most disturbing day and keep going again after menses?
The point I try to make is the good news here, the first seven days after menses, our hormone obstruction decrease, metabolic rate is the highest as well as digestion. Means if you work hard on exercise, absorb more nutrition from healthy diet, it will totally reflected on our body sooner then normally. (Of course good digestion means digesting all the fats from junk food easier too! So quit them during this golden time) It is a gift for women, make the most of it!
Should a woman actually take a 4-6 day break from workouts every month, when on her period?
Yes, let work hard on the other 21 days (Will talk more about that 21 days next time.)
-Eat anything I want
My favourite is crisps, I eat loads during my period. It is just not the time for losing weight. As the metabolic rate is the lowest, let's eat, and make a promise to yourself to quit all bad food during the first seven days after menses.
-Be angry and moody, and my boyfriend cannot be too angry to me
Just rest, rest and rest.
Again, I cannot speak for all the bodies of girls and women, but make the most of the menstruation. It's my life style, it actually saves me from gaining too much fat and feeling ill. For the weight loss plan of menstruation, I would like to talk more next time.
Let's enjoy this holiday of undisciplined tongues and bodies!
How do you deal with your menses? Does it affect you in a bad way? Or you have something good to share too? I really want to hear your stories :)
Two years worth of luggage
If you were/ are a backpacker, As little as possible is what we knew for packing a luggage. For girl who love fashion, it is a big struggle between be a hippy or a hipster.
Girl in pink
This picture is inspired from one of the photo I found on Tumblr, unfortunately I forgot the original link, if anyone have the familiar photo or you are the model, please let me know.
