Using Meluna for the first time.

Menstrual cup. Ladycup. Mooncup. That's what is more commonly known.

I heard about this product since a year or so. Thought it is quite a nice substitute for pads. But as it seems, it's not so common in here as in western countries.

Finally, someone posted something about hearing it for the first time in a group and said it was the best thing ever that happened and she had never looked back since. I thought wahh.. so good ah.. mustn't procrastinate any longer, I must go and get it. Asked around some more and someone told me I could get it at BV Tiny Tapir but it's much expensive compared to US.

So I delayed for another few more months, hoping someone could probably buy it back from the US for me.

But that never gonna happen and I do not know how much more money would be spent on pads, I should buy this cup sooner than later.

So I did. And what a time to start using the cup for the first time! It happened on the day we were to fly to Bali. But as I was determined to use it, I didn't care and I didn't even carry some pads for emergencies. What was I thinking!!!

I thought inserting the cup would be fine, since I'm so *ahem* used to .... NO! not anything else, for goodness sake! To my dismay, it's not so fine. I was still having a hard time to insert it in.

Though I didn't feel anything when it's inside, I was pretty conscious about it and THAT made me very uncomfortable.

Thank GOD for KLIA lounge, I managed to empty it in the shower room and had a nice hot shower as well. My first time using the lounge shower. haha.

I thought I would be safe for the rest of the time until at least we reach first stop in Bali, but I was so wrong. Horror among horrors, I found my panties stained while on the flight itself and I had to struggle to pull it out and empty it in the tiny toilet IN the airplane! I was so slapping myself that I should have at least put a pad or two in my bag so I don't need to worry about leaks and quit using the cup for the moment. But I really had no choice. I just had to continue with the cup. What an experience it was!

After 2 more days of inserting and pulling it out, I was getting a bit the hang of it eventually. The feeling of doing both the action is just indescribable. Sometimes, I freaked out finding for the tip of it to pull it out, scared stiff it would go in further and lost somewhere inside. And the moment when it's pulled out..oh my heavens, such a big satisfaction and relief. It's pretty much a love hate relationship with the cup.

Fortunate for me, by the day we were to go out to sea venture, I need not have to use it anymore.

Now let's see how I get along with it next month.

A review of a managing weight program.

One fine day, during an outing membeli-belah and on the way to the carpark with a full trolley load of groceries, I succumbed to the marketing strategy of those weight management program companies, lured by only RM18 to try a full trial of their program, plus some product samples, thrown in with a big towel to take on home too. Who would have given that a miss, right?

But as soon as I'd came home, I knew it was just a trick to get us, innocent, already almost-perfect-looking-body *cough cough* to be ridiculed and persuaded endlessly into forking a few thousand moolahs into their bank account. I kinda regretted it, and just wanted to have my 18 bucks back.

Anyway, they were very desperate, as after a week or so, they called me to ask for an appointment and well, what the heck, in the spirit of seeking bloggable material, I went ahead.

As expected, the kind and polite personnel who attended me, tried all ways to point out where my problem areas are and from a 10k package, woohoo~, I now have a buy1free1 which I only now need to pay 4k+, which I thought was pretty ridiculous. (4k+, I can get 2 NeverFools for you and me, right?!)

She then offered a membership of 500 bucks which is redeemable for ... damn! I wasn't even paying attention. Boy! The sales pressure was really so hard to endure, I almost wanted to just get out and tell them to forget it.

Anyway, the trial program was given as promised. I first had to take off all the clothes, and I mean, ALL, given only a flimsy G-string to cover up wherever you please. (I threw it away, of course!)

Then, I was shown to the steam room and sat there for about.. 15 mins? It was soooo boring. And the boredom, I found out, didn't just end there. After the steam room, I was applied a layer of cream/gel/wateva on the whole body, wrapped in a polysterene like a ketupat and covered with an ultra hot blanket, on an ultra hot bed for about 20 mins. God! It was so awful. I was tortured all over coupled with the boredom of lying down with absolutely nothing to do. But I told myself to hang in there.

After it was finally over, I was told to get showered, and led to yet another room. This time, I was measured from toe to shoulder, naked right in front of a mirror(except for the G-strings)! Jeez! It wasn't really fun. I don't like it at all, and I kept thinking the possibilities of a camera or some pairs of eyes behind the mirror.

I was told to lie down on the bed and was given a multiple "cute zappers" supposedly to "zap" all the cellulites away, I think. Ahh.. this one is the most bearable experience of all 3. While I was being "zapped" away, the supervisor came in and talked to me, asking me how I liked the session, if I was still interested to become their member blah blah blah.. I told them honestly that the boredom was really too hard to bear, I really missed all the "actions" and I preferred to go for yoga instead. I thought I heard some swearing under her breath as she walked away and said "Have a nice day"

Well... I'm so proud of myself! I didn't give in to buy their packages. I think I should reward myself with the bag I'm yearning for.