Kiehl's Patchouli and Rose Mist

Hi friends,

I am still suffering from vertigo and it makes me so tired. In order to cheer me up, I went for my usual remedy. Buying something for me….

This is Kiehl’s aromatic mist – Patchouli and Fresh Rose.

When I saw the blend, I thought it is very unusual for fragrance. Patchouli ‘s another name is Asian Parsley. Who on earth thought about using parsley for fragrance and combine it with rose?

The idea amused me, hence the purchase.

My verdict?

Well………………my nose is blocked and I cannot smell anything right now.

Oh dear. My dear ladies and gentlemen, I am rubbish! 

How much do you spend on grocery? - Breakfast & Lunch

Hi friends,

Despite this ill health, I have not lost appetite yet and somebody said that it is not Juno’s blog without breakfast and lunch. Here we go ladies and gentlemen. My breakfast and lunch.

I am reviewing my weekly spend and noticed that I spent £100 on grocery and petrol yesterday. I am still living on £50 budget per week for foods and household stuff such as loo paper and washing powder but I must admit, it is getting difficult to keep, especially in these days.

I live on my own. That is not the best thing when it comes to cost performance, but as you see, I normally do not waste much.  

When I said that, my good friend AML teased me that I paid £7 for soy sauce. Come on darling, I need it!!  I have to say, it is bargain for an organic soy sauce and it is special low sodium one.

“OK, I will live on beans on toast then.”

“Oh yeah?  You mean, a tin of Duchy’s organic beans from Waitrose?”

….HOW CHARMING!!

Duchy do not do beans, doncha know? :-p

Highly recommended - Honey Citron Tea

Hi friends,

This is what I found in Coventry yesterday.

Honey Citron Tea.

Available from the Korean Grocery Shop in Coventry Cannon Park Shopping Centre where big Tesco is.

It will be definitely my winter warmer for the upcoming freezing weeks. Keep Warm…

It has to be an early morning in winter

Hi my gorgeous darlings,

Many thanks from the bottom of my heart to those who texted me after reading yesterday’s post on my messed-up balancing organ.

No worries, my dear ladies and gentlemen. I have every intention not to give up until I hit my 70^th birthday. After that, God knows.

What a beautiful day we had yesterday! Hope you made most of it.

As a token of my thanks, I would like to send the serene air to you. These photos were taken at dawn, my favourite time of the day. It was totally divine.

According to the most famous and sophisticated courtesan in the 10^th century of Japan, "it has to be an early morning in winter.”

Indeed, what a magical moment. 

La Campanella by Nobu Tsujii

Hi friends,

If you missed last year’s Proms, here we go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbAoeZZvntk

Nobuyuki Tsujii from Japan. This boy’s performance always gives me goose bumps.

La Campanella is the nickname for the third of Franz Liszt’s six Grandes Etudes de Paganini. My old favourite and possibly the most difficult piece of all Liszt’s music.

As well as Liszt, his Beethoven is unbelievable, needless to mention Rachmaninov.

For a person who gave up piano lessons after few years of struggle, this boy is simply a miracle. 

2014 Create Your Amazing Year Workbook

Hi friends,

How has your new year been? I have been enjoying myself working on this book.

This is what my friend gave me for Christmas and it is really good fun to fill in. It is like a homework book for a school kid. The inside of the book looks like this.

It starts with the review of 2013, and then, move into 2014. Each page, there are questions and boxes you have to fill in….

Consider your word of the year. What currently DOESN’T feel like in your life? What activities, times of the day, relationships, habits, emotions don’t resonate with it?

What would bring more of that quality into your life?

Brainstorm all your actionables for making your word happen.

Describe your dreamiest day that you would love to happen this year.

Books I would like to read

Places I would like to visit

There are plenty of questions like this and the book encourages you to visualise them and same questions appear few times in different ways. I thought this is very good from a psychological point of view. If you would like to make your dreams come true, it is always best to visualise it and imagine how you would feel when it is achieved. It is a good old trick being used in coaching and mentoring. Lots of athletes adopt this technique to achieve their goals, too.

It is always good to see what my heart really desires, where I want to go and what I want to reach. Without clearly realising them, it is impossible to achieve. If you have something you would like to create or achieve something, I highly recommend anyone to write them down with honest words. They are only for yourself. There is no need to feel embarrassed or create a grand façade for them.

Right, I finished my workbook now. Let’s see what will happen to my new year.

You know what? I have very good feeling about it….

Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo

Hi friends,

Hope you all had a good break. Sorry that I have been so unsociable in these days.

As well as the exam coming up in a couple of weeks, I have been suffering from .

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo

OMG, I even don’t know how to pronounce these words properly.  It started on 2^nd January and my doctor said it would take a couple of months to fix it.

It is not life threatening or anything but just so uncomfortable. Basically, my balancing organ was messed up and because of that, I get intense dizziness every time my head moves, especially when I get up.

This is the drug I was prescribed but to be honest, it won’t improve the condition at all. 

They make me really drowsy. My dizziness becomes less intense simply because my senses become dull. That is all these tablets do. How annoying…

Only good thing happened so far is, someone I adore called me after he heard my ill health in the early morning on Thursday. My goodness, that man still has got such sexy chuckles.

Oh well, let’s see how it goes.