Esther in birthday suit

Haha, you wish.

I mean, you don’t wanna see that. At all. >_>

Today’s Esther’s birthday and I was duly invited by the birthday girl herself yesterday night. People present in Pyramid today for her birthday, whether they left early or not: Esther, Suet, Jess, Sarah, Geok Leng, Edmund, Wai Chun, Heng, Jon, Kai Tzin, Andy, me.

Reached at almost 1pm with Jon by my car, seeked out Heng, then headed for cinema for Flightplan which starts at 1.10pm. Suet didn’t want to join cause she already know the story and is more kiam siap than me. >.>

Not a bad show, pretty interesting thriller where you are kept guessing whether the mother is really imaginating that her daughter’s lost or not, after the death of her husband. Neat. Probably the last movie I’m ever going to watch on the cinema till after SPM.

The roughly 90-minutes show ended, Andy joined us, and we headed to Manhattan Fish Market after some discussion, which is when Geok Leng, her bro, and Edmund came to our rather late lunch. Heng, Kai Tzin and Jess produced a thong and a g-string bought from Topshop in front of her before we began ordering lunch. Amusing.

King Salmon dish I ordered was excellent, garlic-laced rice was just delicious. So good. As I received my RM300 from Jess (Leo Gala badges), and since I was the only one holding such a large amount of cash, paid the bill of RM235.05.

Everyone paid save for Jon who will hutang; and it was probably the extreme temperature from the cinema that probably chilled my brain enough to stupidly not know how to count. Yeah, realised much later I lost about RM9 in taxes imposed, when I can probably use the money to buy some cheap vodka out of 7-Eleven. >_> Been taught and drilled since I was young to save money, so am probably considered kiam siap as well, although I did loosen up on the cash now. ;) Figured, should spend sometimes on unnecessary stuffs to fulfill one’s own pleasure and satisfaction.

Arcade, played table hockey against Suet (and semi-replaced by Heng). Was beaten quite badly (I blame it on my aching arm), at 2-4 or so, finally chased up till 4-6, Heng replaced and drew 6-6, Suet came in and I inadvertently lost. :( Luck, I say!

More random walking to attire shops and the like, Parkson, etc – Suet left after arcade, Jon left after we visited the music CD store. Finally hitched a bus, Kai Tzin dropped off at Summit, we stopped at Tanjung USJ 9 and went to Hong Kong Star Cafe for desserts/drinks. For the humongous price charged at RM5-6, they quite sucked. Esther’s mango dessert thingy was completely tasteless.

Pics should come soon from Jess’ blog.

Kai Tzin mentioned something earlier rather casually, that both Jon and I are rather thin and should eat more. I do eat a lot, and I simply won’t expand. Normally such comments wouldn’t affect me as I’ve been listening to the same thing for the past decade that one activates an automated response to the same question/comment. Not that I’m offended.

As usual, sometimes you can get answers from the Internet though in a very technical manner. I do acknowledge I have what they term as high metabolism rate, which basically means I’m burning off calories and stuff faster than what I consume, what more when I’m more active in sports.

Out of mostly curiosity to see if it actually works as advertised (and sick of being called thin, and other colourful synonyms), my parents purchased a can of Appeton Weight Gain for a month’s worth of usage. Apart from gaining several kilos (or maybe I was just imagining it), there wasn’t any notable difference. Considering the expensive price tag, I stopped.

At this stage I’m just blogging for your benefit/knowledge. Wikipedia mentioned something about a supplement we high-metabolism-ers (and other bodybuilders) could take – creatine, or its chemical name – methyl guanidine-acetic acid [NH₂-C(NH)-NCH₂(COOH)-CH₃]. Yeah, I hate Chemistry so I’m displaying to all of you how I absolutely do not understand what the compounds are. :)

In short, we get creatine from the process of producing energy in our body – the reduction of ATP (adenosine triphosphate) to ADP (adenosine diphosphate). Taken directly from a site:

Creatine is stored in the form of Creatine Phosphate in the body. When ATP loses one of it’s phosphates in the reaction to create energy, creatine donates its phosphate to regenerate ATP so that it can break apart again to provide the muscles with energy.

ATP -> ADP + P + Energy
CrP + ADP -> Cr + ATP

Seelah, if I have money to purchase creatine supplement (or parents willing), and I’m not lazy enough to start some high-carb diet and do some exercises (weight-lifting sounds daunting -__-), I’ll go on a become-fatter mission after SPM.

I guess I have really bad genes. *blames ancestors*