Post-Injury

Injured day: was so upset I barely ate didn't eat as much. Taking the stairs causes excruciating pain.
Recovery day 1: Slopes and stairs are the death of me.  Cannot squat without pain shooting up my knee.
Recovery day 2: Still climbing the stairs one step at a time. I feel like I have to display my knee brace to show people behind me I am walking slow because I am injured and not being a dick.

That was my attempt at a recovery journal and it only lasted 2 days. Mostly because there weren't any progress. Well, at least now I don't die every time I have to climb 2 flights of stairs.

I can't run, but I can swim.
The injury has brought back my passion for swimming and I'm so happy that I still have my swimming stamina albeit having not swim for ages (has it been a year?). But honestly, this injury came at the worst time.

1. I have a half marathon in less than 3 months
2. Netball next sem?!
3. IT'S BLOODY HELL WINTER. I enjoy swimming but not at bloody 15 degrees celcius?! & winter has also made me very slack with cold treatments (ice packs) for my knee. It is literally painful to apply cold treatment in winter. PLUS, winter means jeans everyday... how am I supposed to wear my knee guard?!

I miss my usual workouts... Now I just do 50 push ups and call it a day. Oh yeaaa see my upper body bulk in a few months.

I did some research and found out that my constant dislocation may be caused by my flat feet. Flat feet leads to knock-kneed leads to pull of thigh muscle is more lateral than usual. THE CURSE OF THE FLAT FEEL. I am considering getting kinesiology tape to use during my future netball games because my knee only seem to dislocate when I play group sports.

Photoshoot @ Brisbane Powerhouse

A lady from church needed some photography help with her bridal dress start up business so I told her I could do it. That day was coincidentally the day I dislocated my kneecap, but I went anyway because 1. I didn't want to break a promise, seemed urgent 2. I never shot a model before. With a camera. Not a gun. Duh.

When I arrived I realised there were a total of 5 photographers. Could've said no anyway, but oh well. The model was running late and we were loosing light at 6PM, but my trusty 30mm prime never let me down in low light conditions :)

Favourite photo, no post process at all :)

The brick wall at the powerhouse is a really good back drop texture to work with.

Good experience overall, I was glad I went despite my knee. My circle of friends are normally into photography as well so we prefer to be behind the camera instead so it was good to have a subject to take pictures of. Any volunteer models? Harhar.

Kneecap Dislocation #3

The moment it happened my brain immediately thought "NOT AGAAAAAAAINNNNNNNN". Wishlist: buy me multiple knee guards so I can wash the current one I have while having a spare wtf. I think the one I am wearing has mushed sun screen and sweat all over it. I should probably find a more suitable knee brace and wear it for the next few months...


MOVING ON!!!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! :) Thanks for your unconditional love for us! We don't say it often but we love you!!!

Dressed Up

So in an attempt to network with people from the engineering industry, my friends and I decided to go to the networking dinner organised by skirts (females in engineering). I think we were pretty excited about it because it's not everyday we get to dress up lol. My friend made a comment about how everybody in engineering is so sloppily dressed for uni while the other side of campus is always looking well-dressed. Well, we hole up in the lab most of the time anyway, ain't nobody gonna see how you dress!

Food was okay. I was sad that my piece of barramundi was smaller than everybody else's :(

My heels killed me that night, I've ended up getting really bad blisters and it even popped during the event. NEVER AGAIN. When my feet started hurting so bad the first thing that came into my mind was HOW AM I GOING TO RUN TOMORROW. We took the citycat to the event (hence involved quite a bit of walking in heels) but thank god my friend's sister sent us back or else I was seriously thinking of walking home barefoot. On the next day, it hurt every step I took :( but surprisingly it is painless when I run. The friction was so bad when I walk. CAN SOMEBODY MAKE DECENT HEELS FOR FEET MY SIZE??! Also, my left foot is half a size bigger than me right foot. That's a big fat plus -____-

Please excuse the amount of selfies in this post LOL. This is the second time I've dressed up since January (used my Naked palette twice now, oops!) soooo SELFIES ARE MANDATORY because I've put in so much effort hahahah. Well not really, for eyes I just spammed black and brown until it looked decent enough. I was surprised my eyeliner from 1-2 years ago haven't dried up yet.

GE13

These past few days Facebook has been very political-heavy, especially the updates coming from my friends back in Malaysia. Each time I read an update of controversies surrounding this upcoming election it just kills the Malaysian in me.

• BN flying in Bangladesh labours to vote for them in exchange for Malaysian citizenship
• and subsequently order the labours to take their own sweet time to vote so real citizens of Malaysia might not be able to vote by the end of the day
• decreasing voting stations so people get impatient and leave without voting

 I'm a few months shy of being 21 years old so I can't vote, but I hope those who are eligible to vote do practice their right to vote. I pray that whatever the outcome of this general election may be my friends and family will remain safe.