Archive for November, 2009
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
Michelle Obama’s arms have probably gotten more coverage than her husband’s policy decisions.
Apparently women have been asking their personal trainers how to get their arms like Mrs Obama’s pretty much like some wanted the Rachel, Victoria Beckham or even Farrah Fawcett haircut over the years.
According to Women’s Health it isn’t as easy as a hair cut though. And I can testify to that fact.
Michelle Obama has a full body workout – doing cardio, weight training and a whole host of other training to look as gorgeous as she does.
From her photos you can tell that she doesn’t have much body fat anywhere – much less her arms.
I found this workout for arms on Women’s Health – although it doesn’t only target arms.
Personally I do yoga exercise most days (around 6 days a week), weight training with 2kg dumb bells, walk most week days for 30 minutes as well as pilates (or other strength training about 3 times a week). Plus when I get the courage again, I will add road running to that list in the next few weeks.
Even though I don’t look anything like Mrs Obama, I absolutely love training and feel lifeless and drab when I don’t.
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
I just have to say that I love listening to Gareth Cliff and the 5fm breakfast team in the morning.
Every morning when I get up for my yoga workout, I put the radio on. (Yoga purists, I only do yoga as part of a stretching exercise, not a spiritual practice.)
In no time I find myself laughing…in the middle of a pose! Half of the time I just collapse laughing.
Between 6.00am and 8.00am it’s a party in my home.
Love the music, love the chat!
I just had to say that.
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
So now the word ‘unfriend’ has received celebrity status by being named tech-savvy word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary.
That damn word!
Having been unfriended recently for apparently no reason, I feel a bit better knowing I’m not the only one on the planet to be unfriended on Facebook.
(It felt so at the time!)
I must admit to being a bit of an obsessor – most bloggers probably are - so spent more time than necessary trying to figure what I did to offend her enough to unfriend me.
I still don’t know…and I don’t know what to say when I meet her family who lives in the same complex as I do. Do I ask how is so-and-so?
And if I don’t am I offending her family?
Grrrrr this damn Facebook!
Mind you, yesterday I felt like unfriending my very own sister on Facebook when she took it upon herself to update her status with family news, that should have been related first hand.
I was so angry, I came within a few clicks of unfriending Facebook itself from my cellphone.
But sanity prevailed as this busybody did NOT want to be miss anything.
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Vodacom won most of the cellular networks’ advertising campaigns recently with the Single ladies advert and the Elton and Jan ones.
But from out of seemingly nowhere Mtn have come up with the Ayoba Yoba series of adverts on radio and tv.
They’re catchy and very noticeable and people are using the phrase on Facebook and in conversation.
I even asked my Xhosa speaking colleague what the phrase Ayoba Yoba means. He did a little dance and said there is no direct translation…
But it’s a joyful partying spirit he said.
Suddenly Vodacom’s adverts are looking blah.
Even their giving away a million rand a week – or whatever they’re doing – just doesn’t seem very exciting. Except to that 1 person winning.
Plus as a Vodacom customer they are just getting on my nerves with their repeat sms ads.
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
By now the entire planet is probably aware that the queen of talk, Oprah Winfrey, will end her show on 9 September 2011.
The implications in highly competitive US markets are said to be far reaching.
But that doesn’t even take into account what the next two years is going to do to us Oprah Show viewers, regular and otherwise!
Just imagine it…
Two years of goodbyes from actors, self-help gurus, murderers, victims of every imaginable atrocity, make-over artists, home decorators…
Two years of final of everythings.
Retrospectives of good, bad and ugly hair years, ugly crying moments…fat and lean years…
Will we be able to handle it?
Worst of all will we South Africans once again have to be subjected to Noelene of 3 Talk at 5.30pm
weekdays?
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