Wish List 2011: Jaguar XF

Now that I have my other wishes fulfilled – I’m now onto the next one…

I don’t drive to work – I take the train everyday and I’m very happy to be on it. You see – I get to read my book and more importantly NAP. However, I have been having this vision of myself driving a luxury car (a different brand I should I say) and parking it in the company parking lot at the basement of the building. Other times, I see myself being dropped off and picked up by my driver/chauffer (it’s always good to dream).

But for now, I like to drive my own car. I can take the Benz E-350, but I really want a new/different car now. I told PG that Bill (that’s the name of the benz) should be his and so I can get a new one.

To keep my dream complete I had to have a vision of the brand; and of course it should only be the best. And so I thought – a Jaguar. Jag’s iconic cat emblem gets me. I love it. Plainly because I love the CAT family. I mean, I ADORE the cat family. I just think they are the most beautiful creatures that God ever created. I do think they are very confident animals, know what they want, can be very elusive, can totally ignore you or intimidate you just by their mere presence, graceful and yet can be very forceful when they have to, intransigent, obstinate and obviously commanding… Such qualities I so adore in these creatures.

I suppose scanning the Australian Financial Review daily and glancing at the Jag print ad has this effect. I’m such an advertising junkie! I’ve been reading the print ads and admiring the  photo of the Jag XJ. However, doing much research on it I think that for practicality I’d go for the XF instead. Besides, XJ is massive and appeals more to the blokes – and I prefer a smaller Jag although I would not necessarily go for a sporty version. I will certainly schedule a test drive next month – or once I get a final confirmation from this new gig.

I’m posting here a few pics of my soon-to-be new baby – “here kitty, kitty”!

   

Healthy Moi

Okay. So now I decided to write about my journey to health and well-being as my family, friends and work colleagues now wonder what I have done to get to this. The most absurd comments by far? that  I have done a few cosmetic procedures, that I am doing some kind of a boot camp everyday, that I’m taking a secret potion – a very expensive one, that I’m not eating at all, or I’m bulimic. Although I must say I have thought of those at some point. But it is really ridiculous.

Quite frankly, even I am unsure which helped me on my way to better health. All I know is it was a holistic approach – in that I looked at it not just from a physical and physiological point of view but I went through a ‘healing’ process in my emotional and psychological state. This process has taken me about 6 months – I mean physically the results were apparent after 3 months but I find that I kept losing more weight every week. I must share though that my pre-paving in terms of thought/belief has been going on in the last 3 years and I believe that this was key. (To those of you who believe in the mind/body connection you will appreciate this. I am more than happy to share to you books/CDs/DVDs I have read and followed through if you want – just email me.)

But for the sake of keeping things simple I will share with you what I did in the first 3 months and that is I went through a DETOX program, which I devised according to my needs with help from a Naturopath who prescribed me treatment for my allergies.

• Colonics – I had 6 treatments done – so once every forthnight
• Gave up SUGAR – no lollies/candies, cakes and biscuits (although occasionally I will have a piece but limit it to 2 a week)
• Gave up BREAD – all kinds (but same as sugar I have a piece or 2 in a week)
• Gave up COFFEE – I now drink organic coffee

And that is all the main things that I introduced into my regime.

I NEVER exercise – and PG can attests to this. The only exercise I do is walk the dogs twice a week (during weekends) for an hour and 15 minutes each day.

P.S. There are other things that I do on a daily basis which has been part of my regime for a while now and I just kept doing that together with the above detox. I think those helped to but will share that in a different blog entry.

For now – love & peace to all!