I don’t feel like eating these days. I lost interest in eating especially while I’m into something I won’t even bother to look at the food.

It’s not that I’m dieting or anything. I never have in mind to diet and I don’t need to as I’m genetically structured as a tiny-thin homo sepian. Just that, these days I’m having very bad eating habit. When I eat, I eat alot and when I don’t, I don’t touch a thing.

Am I sick? No, I’m just fine. Physically I’m all set. May be I’m mentally sick.

The most common element surrounding ALL Eating Disorders is the inherent presence of a low self esteem.

OUCH! It hurts yet so true. What kind of “low self-esteem”, I’m yet to discover.

I’m 5’2″ with 46kg. It’s been a few years my height and weight never go over that limit. I guess it’s normal that I stop growing in height but the weight is limitless so should fluctuate from time to time.

According to some standard weight vs height charts, I got to have around 52kg for my height. So I’m surely under weight. I do some checking and found out these common types of eating disorders and their symptoms.

Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia nervosa is an extremely dangerous, life-threatening eating disorder in which a person intentionally deprives themselves of food and can literally starve to death in an attempt to be what they consider “thin.”

Binge-Eating
Out-of-control episodes of consuming abnormally large amounts of food. People with this disorder eat whether they are hungry or not and continue eating well past being uncomfortably full.

Compulsive Eating Disorder
Compulsive eaters feel incapable of controlling how much or how often they eat. They may feel unable to stop eating, eat very fast, eat when they’re not hungry, eat when they’re only alone, or eat nearly non-stop throughout the day.

Bulimia Nervosa
Consuming large amounts of food in a very short period of time, and immediately “purge,” ridding their bodies of the just-eaten food by self-inducing vomiting, taking enemas, or abusing laxatives or other medications.

Obesity
obesity leads to chronic and often life-threatening eating disorders such as bulimia nervosa or anorexia nervosa.

Via:Eating-Disorder

Out of those, the most relevant one would be … Anorexic? My sister teases me everyday that I’m anorexia cos’ I’m too thin compare to her (her so-called “Growing Child”, rather a little PIG!). No, I don’t think I’m Anorexia. Anorexics are those who starve themselves and dying to do anything to be thin. I’m definitely NOT anorexia, cos’ I don’t like being thin and I never starve myself.

I prefer soup and gravy these days than solid food. I’m sick of meat, it sticks in my teeth. I hate milk, I don’t like cereal, I have a problem with butter, margarine, I dislike wheat and I’m scare of fruits. I guess my thinness is cos of deficiency in protein, vitamins, fibers, carbohydrates, etc in my diet. Haha I’ll die of malnutrition very soon.

Nah…My guess is, I’m just having mid-20s crisis such as stress, worries, laziness, family problems, life hardships, parenting, kids, too much day dreaming, etc, which push me to have eating disorder.

So, any of you have any irregular eating patterns or any solution to solve my eating habit, do share with me too.

It’s all because of Ma Moe and her ideas.
I’ll try my best to follow along. I’ll write Burmese and English or mix verses every week.
I’m no poet nor I a writer, so bear with me.

Dying Inspirations

Other day Ma Moe said,
For me to write a poem every night,
I said, “Oh ma, how can I!”,
“For I, not know a poem”.
She said “May you Do or Die”,
“Cos’ I can glare from a thousand miles”.

I begged and dragged and made a bribe,
To write a poem every forth-night.
We settled with our scores,
To have it on weekly chores,

So I scratch and scrub and start to track,
To see how my smart arse progress.
Then my bro came and said,
Are you crazy, what a crap,
That doesn’t make a single sense.

I said, “What you! Don’t be a slime,”
“Give yourself a simple try, to make it a better rhyme.”
But I know he doesn’t care,
He thinks poems are dull as squares.

So here on Mayvelous I shall scream,
To regain my dying inspirations.
And I stare, glare, flair and share the rhythm,
With a little tag for Sarnil and Jason.

Tagging You: Criers, 99Sanay, CMS, N3, Sarnil, Jason

No nah nah not me! Ma Moe started it!!!

Photo blogging on actions of last week sunday game: 3rd September 06 at Yet Sen Secondary School.

A friendly game between various badminton clubs from Suva and Lautoka organised by Lautoka Chinese Business Group.

Yet Sen Courts are where we held most of our Badminton Games and is a place where everyone loves to hang out either to play Badminton, Table Tennis or Basket Ball.

Ladies Doubles

Mom and Sally gave a hard time to all ladies double pairs and they won the final against Lautoka. My mom having a bad kneel and Sally with sore wrists, their games were so fun to watch.

Lunch time break

Peace from Jessy and Mom. Aung taking a rest for his next mix-doubles and single games.

Mens Doubles : Aung + Jack

Aung and Jack played final Men Single with 3 sets. Aung had a very hard time with Jack and in the last game he tried so hard to get 21 all. Then 22 twice, 23 twice and the last point is scored by Jack to be a Men Single Winner. Aung was satisfied with Men Single Runner up. That was the best and longest game of all. Everyone enjoyed it and applauded so loud in the end. They team up to play Mens Doubles and they won the final, no doubt about that.

Mix Doubles : Aung + Mom

Aung and Mom played Mix and won Mix Doubles against the gangs from Lautoka – Wong + Nail. Sisters team by Beryl and Jessy lost to Lautoka gals in semi-final.

Beryl and the kids helped out the score keeping and empiring the games.

And ofcos the best shot of the day goes to:

Hal hal hal hal hal
I got so tired watching and fell sick afterward. I think too much taking photos and didn’t had my lunch well. Was so hungry the whole day and came back home so late. It’s not easy being a photographer haha.

tap…tap..tap..(May Typing)
(Whack!*%)
May: Arrrggghhh!!
What did I do?? Hey!
(Go over to aung’s desk)
(Takes revange)
WHAT DID I DO!!!
WHAT DID I DO??
Aung: Your sister told me to.
May: What? PIG!
(Whack back Aung’s Head)
(Stamp back to own desk mattering…)

Zatlite:
Win: go hit masu
Aung: ok
wait where?
where should i hit her?
Win: anywhere
Aung: ok
Win: oh oh
Aung: ok i hit her head
Win: no u don’t have to
Aung: too late
Win: well
too bad

May: PIGSSSSSS!!!

P.S: I’ve added a new category “Brothers and Sisters”, which will consists of conversations, mishaps and all stupid sorts between me and my siblings. It’s gonna be very personal so you may skip or ignore as you wish.
Ta tar.

We apologise for the title but the following article does NOT contain profanity.

Being an IT degree holder with no other accomplishments common these days such as A+, N+, MCP, MCSD, MCSE, etc, I place an obscene amount of value and pride on my single degree.

To me, a degree from CQU Fiji International Campus is comparable to a qualification from one of the Ivy League colleges in the US. This is because IMNSHO, CQU is the best institution available in the Fiji Islands.

My degree is my dearest procession. It is my bragging rights to other less fortunate and less gifted than me. It is a thing to put on display as an awe-inspiring object for the uneducated. Why do you think we get the option at graduation to get the certificate in gold plate or sliver, or carved into wood? If not to flaunt it?

I care very much about issues that would belittle my esteemed degree.

I can’t take any comment that puts a degree from CQU, its students or the institution itself in a bad light – especially those of slander from other universities’ graduates on the quality of my university’s degree, its education or the work of its alumni.

Lately, I have been hearing comments from some of my friends still studying in CQU that programming courses are becoming easier year after year. Every one or two year, ‘the powers that be’ take out a few topics of study from the course COIT11134. Fundamental subjects I studied back in my days have been moved to a higher level course. The assignments are so easy any of my mates from my year can do them in 10 mins flat after a night of binge drinking.

I am a programmer by profession. I can’t take this kind of rumours, if it is true, who’d respect a programmer that came out of my university?

So, I took it upon myself to investigate. I went to the course website, got the course profile. Alas! it is true. Half of what I learnt in this unit is deemed too advanced by ‘the powers that be’ and is now banished from the curriculum.

I wasn’t done yet, I wanted to check the assignments too. Oh? They have been locked for access by students only? Are we so ashamed of the pitiful excuses for an assignment that we have to hide it from prying eyes? That can’t stop me, nothing can stop a be-raved man, they’ve gone and destroyed my prized possession, my precious degree by cheapening its value with watered down versions of fundamental courses.

I’ve got contacts in uni who can get me the assignment details so I got one of them to email me the damning documents. And my choice of words was correct, they are indeed damning documents they have condemned the students doing this particular assignment to finish their degrees with half the essential knowledge if ever they were to choose programming as their careers.

The problem is not just with the course itself but with the course coordinators too. I have a choice excerpt from this term’s assignment materials which shows exactly what the designer of the course think of the intellect of potential students, and the amount of effort that he wants put into the course by them.

KISS
Keep It Simple, Stupid (KISS). Don’t try to do anything fancy. There is no need. You won’t get any extra marks for complex implementation. Trying to complex solutions will only slow down your solution. Limit yourself to the material covered in Programming A and the first 5 weeks of Programming B.

I whole heartedly disagree with the above. I believe it is a stupid attempt to try and get more people to pass the subject by making the subject easier. Instead of thinking up such childish acronyms, lecturers and course coordinators should be spending their time actually teaching the less gifted students.

“Keep It Simple, Stupid”? Is it the ‘in thing’ now to insult students for no reason?

How about ‘Don’t try to do anything fancy.’? Are the submitted assignments so complicated that they are ‘out of the grasp’ of the university’s unending list of part-time tutors? This kind of attitude in teaching inhibits learning and creativity. If students didn’t think of doing any thing fancy, where will we get the polish and the flair? How do we discover new techniques? Where do we get our next Newtons, Edison or Einstein or even Bill Gates for that matter?

One word CQU, you are going about this the wrong way. Making courses easier to pass and pulling more students through your programs may be better for business, but it is not doing anyone any good in the long run.

Please don’t devalue my degree. It is my pay cheque. It is my rice pot. It is something my parents used the last of their retirement funds on. Keep the courses reasonable, teach the students well and let me and other alumni keep whatever good reputation we made for ourselves and for the university through hard work and dedication in our field of study and work. For all of us’ sake!

For my beloved university and respected colleagues.
Zatlite

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Zatlite: i want some sausage rolls
May: no dont waste $

Zatlite: I WANT SOME SAUSAGE ROLLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May: I’m gonna blog about that

Zatlite: i dont care i want sausage roll
i want it i want it i want it
May: Drop dead n die

Win: phothar said to buy him sausage rolls
May: i said no
almost lunch time here

Aung: ma su wont buy me sausage rolls
Win: why
Aung: go ask her to buy me some
Win: its round 1 there
lunch time htere
Aung: its 12 here
Win: mom made u lunch
Aung: i dont care i want sausage rols
i’m bored i want to eat
Win: so eat ur lunch
u should have brought some snacks from home if u hungry
Aung: i want to eat sausage roll not lunch
Win: mom makes good food, n i miss it. u lucky she makes food for u
or else u’d be eating sandwich everyday
Aung: useless sisters no one will buy me sausage rolls
no i wont i’ll eat sausage rolls everyday
Win: whatever
u want me to order u sausage roll through internet?
Aung: i want fries with that

May: stupid.
Zatlite: useless sisters no one will buy me sausage rolls

May: put this on the table.
Win: $1 MaSu(my home nick)

May: What! You little…put this on the table!
Win:You want something done, you know you gotta pay for it.
(I have to pay $5 if I want her to do the dishes, $2 to put my laundry together with hers while she washing them, etc)

May: Aung mar!(Burmese complaint/argumentative word) I bought you KFC just this evening and it costs 8 bucks.
Win: You didn’t buy me EXCLUSIVELY, you eat that too.

May: EXCLUSIVELY!! Hey whatever, it still over $1. You eat more so it covers this $1 already.
Win: But you’re the big sister, you are to buy me things.

May: Awwwwwww so I’m to buy things for you cos’ me the big sister and you won’t do anything free for me cos’ you’re younger?
You, little, smarth mouth, stupid, useless, cheating, nyit sote, lu lal kya ma, good for nothing, gal!
Just PUT THIS ON THE TABLE!!
Win: Blar blar blar blar… (making faces, closing her ear)

May: MayGyi (Mom!!), you daughter getting smart with me. (Yell)
Mom: “Win Win, twar nyit ma nay nal, lote pay lite, narr nyi tal” (quit cheating, do it, it’s noisy).

May: There, put this on the table now. (with winning tone)
Win: hooont! (and she throw them on the table)

# Case Closed. #

Moral of the story:
Being an elder is a great thing, if you know who to ask for help.
The beauty of having authority over youngers is satisfying, if you got $$ and know the art of how to use them.