Cleanse Experience - Wild Rose Herbal DTox
March 12th, 2009 - March 23th, 2009
I am currently doing a detox program in assistance with trying to better my eating habits as well as losing some of the excess weight I have put on in the past few years. The experience has been interesting and very ‘rollercoaster’ like with ups and downs. Please see my day-to-day progress and feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
This diet consists of not eating any refined sugar, tropical fruits, melons, flour, breads, peanuts, cheese and any foods that contain active cultures or yeast (ie - yoghurt, soy sauce). The program also comes with a meal plan allowing to eat 20% protein and 80% starch and bulk forming foods (split into 3 columns). However, fish is allowed at anytime of the day at any amount.
Overall, truth be told, I don’t feel any different than before. I stuck to the diet and took the pills as per the instructions. I feel satisfied knowing that I’m almost done my cleanse and I definitely feel that I’ve succeeded without guilt. I also believe that most of the weight that I’ve lost is due to my excercise regime rather than the cleanse itself.
The really nice thing about this cleanse, though, is that you do think about what you eat and question every piece of food that gets shoved in your mouth. It also does contribute to a healthier lifestyle as after 12 days of no sugar nor carbs, at the end, I really didn’t miss it. Okay, that’s a straight out lie, I miss sugar! However, not as much as I used to. The program is pretty strict in terms of what you can and cannot eat.
This program also keeps you regular. It’s really bad the first few days but it definitely subsides down. Any laxative would have been the same really.
This cleanse is not for the faint of heart. ;-) Will I do it again? Absolutely not. I rather stick to a healthy choices and excercise to feel cleansed that take 12 pills and 60 drops per day.
Movie Review: The Watchmen (2009)
!! Warning: May contain spoilers !!
OVERALL: 4.5/10
Plot: 5/10
Cinematography: 4/10
Entertainment value: 4/10
Movie to wait for DVD: Yes
Rewatchability: Not a chance
Movie to purchase: Umm, I think you know my answer
Game Review: Street Fighter 4 (2009)
OVERALL: 9/10
Game Play: 10/10 (Both online/offline)
Graphics: 6/10
Sound: 8/10
Controls: 6/10
Value to own: Yes
Replayability: Yes, or at least until SF5 comes out. Read the rest of this entry »
Movie Review: Gran Torino (2009)
!! Warning: May contain spoilers !!
OVERALL: 6/10
Plot: 7/10
Cinematography: 4/10
Entertainment value: 7/10
Movie to wait for DVD: Yes
Rewatchability: There are lots of little details, but not back-to-back
Movie to purchase: Likely not
Movie Review: Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
!! WARNING: May contains spoilers !!
OVERALL: 9/10
Plot: 8/10
Cinematography: 9.5/10
Entertainment value: 9/10
Movie to wait for DVD: Should be watched first in the theatre.
Rewatchability: Yes, for the cinematography
Movie to purchase: Yes.
Movie Review: Push (2009)
!! WARNING: May contains spoilers !!
OVERALL: 7/10
Plot: 7/10
Cinematography: 7/10
Entertainment value: 7/10
Movie to wait for DVD: Should be watched first in the theatre.
Rewatchability: Yes, but only for the action.
Movie to purchase: Yes.
With the ‘comic-to-film’ fad constantly rising in popularity and television show ‘Heroes’ getting a lot of attention. Why not come out with a feature film that has a very similar aspect of the two I just mentioned. In Push, you have a movie with people with super human abilities and you have the government pursuing them, to turn them into super soldiers to help serve the military. Sounds pretty familiar doesn’t it? So what’s the difference between the movie and the stuff we’ve seen before? Well, they take the great ideas from the show/comic books with the attempt of making something original. Instead of not only having the ususal plot of having people with powers come togther and saving the world from total destruction. They have these people avoiding to be caught by the government and from being treated like lab rats/slaves for the benefits of war. Which I thought was pretty interesting way of doing this because it gives the film not only the usual sci-fi theme, but also adds a little thrill to help keep things going.
The plot of the movie is about a guy named Nick Grant, who is played by Chris Evans, about how his life has just been a total mess from running from the government after witnessing the death of his father when he was a boy. He then randomly meets a young girl named Cassie Holmes, who is played by Dakota Fanning, whom she requires help from saving her mother. Nick is considered to be a ’mover’ because of his telekinetic abilities and Cassie is considered to be a ‘watcher’ because of her abilities to see visions of the future. Nick at first wanted to be left alone but Cassie needs him because the future she sees requires Nick’s assistant to fight against the government and hopefully end the slavery of people, like them, who has special abilities. Meanwhile, you have Henry Carver a government agent, played by Djimon Hounsou, who is trying to track down another girl named Kira Hudson, played by Camilla Belle, who has just escaped from captivity by the US government along with the serum that she had stole. The movie takes place in Hong Kong and so obviously the story will then intertwines with the Hong Kong mobs looking for that serum as well. So the chase it on to see whoever finds the serum first. Find the serum and save the world.
Push is a pretty enjoyable sci-fi/thriller and sometimes tongue-in-cheek funny parts. Like critics say ‘It’s the first action movie of 2009′ which was a good because the last couple of action films that came out have been pretty bad. This is a must see for action fans and the story within the film makes the it more enjoyable to watch on the big screen.
Movie Review: The International (2009)
!! WARNING: May contains spoilers !!
OVERALL: 7.0/10
Plot: 7/10
Cinematography: 8/10
Entertainment value: 7.5/10
Movie to wait for DVD: Maybe
Rewatchability: It’ll take sometime in coming back to this one.
Movie to purchase: Not really.
Netbook: The revolution, the future
Fashion, form and fit. Everything the Apple Air was hoping to go for but ended up being much too expensive. We may not know what the future holds for us, but let’s face it, we know that technology is getting smaller, thiner, faster and more powerful. Each device has more packed into it and offers greater capacity and functionality. Just a few years ago, we wouldn’t even have understood what our lives would be like without an iPhone. Yet, today, so many people depend on it.
I recently purchased an HP 1035NR 10.2″ notebook. It fits nicely in my purse along with my other crap that floats around there (speaking of which, I need a new purse). Included in my purse is my Archos, Blackberry Curve, keys, wallet, USB key, Swiss Army knife, cheque book and writing pad. I would have never thought the day would have come where as part of my accessories, a full fledged computer could fit snuggly in my purse so that I could have SSH on a fully operational OS in the palm of my hands. The day has come, and I’m glad it did!
So what’s so exciting in this era of computing? The possibilities it holds for portable computing. These massive laptops that were once so popular amounst the “desktop replaces” will die off much like the dinosaurs as we get in tune with faster processors on smaller screens reproducing HD like quality. As well, with the technology of OLED (and it’s transparency) and thiness, we shall be seeing paper like foldable computers that will be a feather but have a full-sized keyboard. More than that will be it’s multi-touch capabilities. In fact, it’s so real, we’ve been promised that the ASUS Eee PC T91/T101 Multitouch Netbook will be out Q1 this year (April, May?).
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/eee-pc-t91-convertible-tablet-lives/
As well, with the promise of Windows 7 coming out by January 2010 (or even as EARLY as December 2009), we may be seeing these OS’s being sported on these new netbooks.
I’d love to see what Apple is coming out with to compete with these little Netbooks, maybe a 7″ iPhone? That would certainly interest me if there was some form of decent keyboard that could be an add-on. Or if Blackberry can get it’s act together and release a more intuitive and easier on the eyes device that could do a better job than the “click touch”, it’d certainly be another choice as well.
Regardless, I do think that we will be seeing a lot of different small and mobile devices with over 8 hours of battery life soon on the shelves. No one wants to carry a 8 lb computer around! Let’s keep it a 2lb and that’d be able to keep me happy!
Love to hear people’s thoughts on this.
Movie Review: Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)
!! WARNING: May contains spoilers !!
OVERALL: 7.5/10
Plot: 7/10
Cinematography: 6/10
Entertainment value: 8.5/10
Movie to wait for DVD: Maybe
Rewatchability: Yes, LOL kind of movie
Movie to purchase: Definitely a good addition to my comedy collection
