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Wishlist

2011-08-28T20:04:00.001+08:00

The reason why I love writing diaries (last time) is that it always remind me what I have done and what I have not, and refreshed back all the memories which I have forgotten ages ago. It was really a fun thing to do, coz you'll go "aahhh...so I did that back in year 1998" or "So I had a fight with my then bff over some small matter" and so forth.

I took out my so-called DREAM book two nights ago, and I was kinda amazed while flipping through all my "dreams" which I have planned all the way back in 2010. Mixed feelings I'd say. Really remind me back again what I have not done and I have done. And guess what? 80% of the stuffs written in there are still in dream. Not yet accomplished. Sad huh?

2010 was the year that I've planned to Round The World (RTW). I have even planned from which place to stop at Europe, which cheap airline to take from Norway to Ibiza, which train to from London to Paris and so forth. It was really fun planning all these and it got me motivated for some time. But I forgot to flip through my book for ages that I have forgotten about it, till 2 nights ago. It definitely still on except that now, I'm including Australia and maybe New Zealand in my list. We'll see. At the end of the day, it still goes down to dollar and cent. But I really, really, really hope that I will be able to do that before everything gets to late.

I dunno why, but since 2010, I have already planned to get motorbike license and plan to buy a superbike. It was already in my list. I have totally forgotten about this and funny thing is that, I thought about it again about a month ago. So when will I get a motor license and start riding a superbike? *grin*

The third in my list since years ago, not 2010, is to make sure that my mom lives happily, and that I can provide more than now to her. Be it emotionally, physically or financially. One thing about my mom is that, she is a very independent woman. She can just get things done without depending on anyone, and things get done perfectly. I'm not lying! It's true. And she's a very tough woman. Handling all 3 kids (luckily all girls. Not naughty so it's not so bad lah hehehe....) mostly on her own. I mean, in terms of discipline part, she's the one handling it. My dad usually will rotan us at the "last" stage, if you know what I mean. hehehe....

Of course, the rest will be my career plans and also my fitness plans. The latest news about my fitness plan is that, I MIGHT wanna go and take Crossfit Cert Level 1 at Australia. (Taking advantage to see Oz at the same time :p) It's just a 2-day full course with tests and stuffs, and apparently, these are all it takes to be a Crossfit trainer. Ain't that a bit too easy? I'm not saying that the content of the test is easy but rather the duration. I dunno. I just need to do more research on that and these 2-days course cost around AUS1000. I wonder if that qualifies me to work at Oz? Yeah. I got plans to work in Australia as well. :)

So, wish me luck on my wishlist kay? :D Anyone wanna come backpacking with me are more than welcome!

Life as a Real Estate Agent - So it's not easy afterall

2011-08-04T12:38:00.000+08:00

Some of you should've known by now that I'm now a property agent a.k.a real estate negotiator. Before I joined in, I've asked few people about this industry and most of the responses were, "Oh, very good. Can really earn lotsa money!" This definitely boost my confidence and the more I talk to people, the more I am sure that I have chosen the right path.

Well, you definitely won't know it until you've done it on your own. Everything that I heard was just a surface of a much more complicated "issues". When I have decided to join the property industry, it was only then I realised that things are not as easy as it seems, especially on the financial part coz this is a pure commission-based income. It's like you are your own boss. Once you stop working, your income also stop working. Not a day goes by that I am not worried about my income. But on the hindsight, I am the type who loves flexible working hours (well, who doesn't eh?). Definitely, definitely, love flexi hours, with no stupid boss bossing me around while she doing manicure and shopping at Bangsar. This is the job for me, except that I need to work double hard in order to make sure that I am able to pay my bills and put food on my table.

During these 2 months, I noticed few things : First, I gotta be quick and fast to get listings, arrange appointments, get buyers and etc. I'll lose a deal if I am slow by just 1 second. Believe me, I have lost few deals just because of some "late" appointments due to timing from both buyers and owners. Second, follow-up must be really good. It actually makes the customers happy.

And all these, I thought it was all luck. I guess it's not. Just as Aizan said to me, "Luck comes when you work hard."

Strike me like a lightning. I will definitely keep that in mind whenever I am feeling a bit depress. Thanks babe! You always say the right thing at the right time. :)

Now I fully understand

2011-05-09T10:24:00.000+08:00

No wonder everywhere you go, you make enemies.

No wonder whatever you do, there's no blessing from God. In Malay, people say tidak ada berkat.

You cheated on people's money, somehow God will take it all back from you. It's just a matter of time. You may be happy now, but karma will get back at you. Believe me.

Not saying anything doesn't mean that I don't know shits.

You are just a worthless piece of shit. Anything went wrong, you hide. Anything went wrong, you push your responsiblity to other people, and let other people cover your ass. Might as well just let Mother Earth swallow you and your big ass.

God is watching. So am I.

Sick and Tired......

2011-04-20T11:14:00.002+08:00

.......Of things that happened lately around me. Lately people have been trying to, how do I put it, "be my producer and teach me how I should direct my life".

At the gym, some guys (mostly trainers) always say these kind of stuffs, which makes me blood boil.

"What are you doing today? Deadlift again? Squat again? Why you wanna just target on your glutes? Why not do other things?"

"How many reps you do? Huh? 5reps only? How many sets? 5? No. I think you should do at least 12 reps."

There was even one time that I bench pressed, and this young kid, feeling all smug and assuming he knows more than me, came over and said I should widen my arm grip and do 3 full range and 3 half range of bench press. I know how wide my grip should be, but tired of debating, cause if I debate, it'll be a whole chapter to talk about. Anyway, I did what he told me to, to prove him wrong. I know it's stupid, but like I said, I'm sick and tired of proving my points right.

Just as I expected, at my 4th reps, I couldn't lift anymore and the whole 30kg weights fell on my stomach. And guess what the kid was doing?

Standing there looking at me, wide-eyed!

Oh my god... if my body broke into two, I'm so gonna haunt him.

That's the gym part. Then another part is ..... MLM.

I have few friends, at least 3 of them, approached me for the same product. I have mentioned this before in my blog and I'm gonna mention it again here. It's TRA, from Nu-Skin. TRA is some kind of fat loss product where they will teach you how to eat correctly and lose weight.

They also have other product which is the anti-aging skincare product. I didn't go and listen to this but I think I had enough. From the way my friends talk about it, I already know that I won't like this product. I have already told them that there are enough reasons for me NOT to do this, no matter how much you try to convince me.

First, I am anti-fat-loss person. I don't believe that there's any SHORTCUT to fat loss. They claim that you can gain muscles and lose fat at the same time by consuming the TRA and also through diet, which they will teach you how to eat correctly.

They believe in marketing yourself before you market to other people. Which means, you gotta consume the TRA first to see results and experience it yourself. Which means, you gotta fork out RM4800 for the whole package which last for 3 months.

My first reaction was : I would rather pay a good personal trainer for RM4800 than to take this. Also, I challenge my friend that if she is able to convince my trainer friends to join and consume this product, then I'm in too. Otherwise, no talk.

Well, guess what? Still not seeing any trainers who join that. And she said that exercise is only 10%, the rest is all about food.

Yes. I agree on that, though not on the percentage, but then again, it's subjective. To me, diet is 70% and workout is 30%. Yes, by consuming TRA, u will lose weight and gain muscle. But believe me, I'm not seeing any muscles popping from the people who give so-called health talk, which I can easily spot in 6 out of 10 people at the gym. At the seminar, I'm not seeing any. I only see slim people with NO DEFINITIONS.

So this is what I told her. Every typical people wants to get slim and healthy, and they can. They just want to look good with no tummy bulging when wearing tight clothes. I won't say that it's wrong. Except that, she has approached the wrong person.

I'm NOT into slim. I'm into bodysculpting, strength AND good diet. I don't need no RM4800 product to teach me how to eat correctly. All these are supplements, which means it's not natural. I'd prefer natural food because I have seen how too much supplements have done to my other fitness friends. Not a pretty sight, I tell you.

They say that there are muscle gained. Come to gym with me and see if you can squat or deadlifts 50kg right there and then. If you can, I will join you.

So you see, there are so many good reasons against it, how do you expect me to sell these to other people when I myself do not believe in it?

I'm THAT bored

2011-03-16T23:17:00.000+08:00

I forgot how to enjoy myself anymore. If this is what we call "adult's life", then I hate to go through it.

Life was so much fun when we were younger, don't you agree? I know at least mine was.

The days when you don't give a fuck on problems around you...

Do you remember the last time you were laughing so much that happy tears were rolling down your cheeks?

Well I don't.

Kene buat dough dulu, dowh~~~

2011-02-26T21:10:00.015+08:00

The kecah-ness of Farina Cookie Monster, making Elmo Oreo-sicles. Everyone is pressuring her to finish it fast coz everyone is super hungry, esp her boyfriend.

Making the round shape using mould

Duan is very good in making round shape already

Everyone is helping her including me!

(Sibuk tolong tangkap gambar)

50% completed!

Helmi is doing double-boiling.

If you guys need any party planners or you are craving for brownies or popsicles, head over to Eventerior website.

All sorts of things in my mind

2011-02-26T20:21:00.004+08:00

I never like work-related people especially those who are "above" me, to call me during non-working hours. Ok. I may be in the sales line and I am supposed to pick up any calls at anytime of the day, but I have been always holding the principles of "balance of life" when it comes to, erm, my life.

I mean, I work from 9am to 6pm, a solid 9hrs, but some creature chose to call me right after work, to talk about some work. And this person is not my customers. It's somebody else. Work-related people.

Why ya? I also don't understand why. Of all the hours, this person chooses to call me AT NIGHT.

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Lately, and again, I have been surrounded by want-to-get-married people. Actually, women. Hehe....

Seriously, my mind is still not there yet, but who knows? Maybe out of stress and peer pressure, and out of nowhere, you'll see me getting hitched! muahahhahaa~~~~!!

No. I'm just joking.

What's on my mind?

2011-01-21T17:05:00.004+08:00

Do u think it's funny that some things just never and couldn't change, even after you haven't seen it for years?

And when it appears in front of you, you get excited hoping that it has changed to better cause, only to find out that it is the still same as it is, exactly the way you left it there?

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You know what I always imagine? I always imagine working at the gym. I dunno why I have that kind of thought. Could be the idea of wearing sneakers and gym attire, and the idea of able to work out without paying for the membership fee! Like, how cool is that huh? Hhhmm...

I wonder if trainers got scolded by customers?

No. I don't think so.

Coz trainers get to instruct their clients, who actually pay them, to do all sorts of exercises.

Trainers are "in control" of the whole situation, you get what I mean?

Unlike my situation, customers pay to me, they think they can scold me whenever they like, call me whenever they want and bla bla bla.

Well, you get the drill.

Hm... I really start to like this "becoming a trainer" idea. Am I too old to be a trainer? hehe... *wink*

Going through days.....

2011-01-13T17:42:00.000+08:00

Feeling more and more miserable ..... :'(

Anyone?

2011-01-13T16:21:00.001+08:00

I'm looking for part time job now. Anyone know any decent part time job? I don't want to sell ciggy or liqour or become promoters. Sell coffee can. Work at Starbucks can. hehe.....

But I'm serious. Anyone?

Typical Personal Trainer - why are they even hired at the first place?

2011-01-11T10:06:00.004+08:00

This post has obviously been written or discussed in many of the fitness blogs or websites years ago. But I would like to take part in blogging about this based on my recent observation.

1. I honestly find it rude for PTs to get distracted with things that are happening around them. The most common scenario that I saw is they are texting or taking calls during the training session with their clients. To me, even though a mere picking up the phone and said, "Hey, I'm training my client right now. I'll call you back." is still rude for me. Whenever I'm on discussion with my customers, I do not pick up my calls, even though it rang 100 times. First, I find it very distracting to talk half-way with customer A and pick up calls and talk with customer B. Second, it's just plain rude.

2. I can easily spot 4 clients out of 10 that are in the wrong forms during training. Not to say that I am the expert or anything, but that is all fitness is about. Form is the utmost important criteria in order to improve and to be able to lift heavier and heavier. And guess what? The PT was standing right next to them. Like helloo?? Aren't you like suppose to make sure that the form is correct? I can only watch in horror.

3. This is new. One PT, while training his client halfway, spotted a hot chick with hot butt. He went over to her to make some conversations. Obviously it was his first time saw the chick at the gym. While he was busy hitting on the girl, his client waited patiently for him. I honestly pity the client. Is this what we, as clients, should get from a trainer, after breaking the piggy bank and use up all the savings to pay for PTs?

Ggggrrr.....!!!!

2011-01-08T09:37:00.002+08:00

Lately I have been dealing with one stubborn bastard customer. Every morning sure got morning call. If I don't pick up (coz obviously I was still in the bathroom), he'll give me a love call again 1 hour after.

And an hour after.

It's been like since Monday. Today he called again at fucking 730am! I honestly cannot tell how my frustration is. I can feel my blood is boiling whenever I see his calls. Simply ask me to go his house and take picture of defects at 830pm. Like who is working till 830pm?? I'm not, for sure.

N : I'll be at home 830pm. You can come at that time.

Me : I'm sorry. I finish work at 6pm.

N :Well, it'll be good if you can come at 830 tonight.

Me : Sorry. I got appointment tonight.

N : You can take picture of the defects tonight and can immediately submit the complain tomorrow and can complete by this Saturday.

Me : Sorry sir. I told you I can't make it tonight.

That's practically how our conversations always be. He keeps on insisting me do what he wants, even though I have already told him I can't.

Don't even get me started on the company's procedure in submitting complains. Morning complain, expect people to come over and do touch up work on the exact same day. If this company is a small carpenter company, then no problem lar! But this is an ISO company, for God's sake!!!

AAARRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!Damn you old man!

I'm sorry. I really can't deal with these people. And apparently, 95% of all customers are like this. I think I better ditch service industry. I can't handle people and I definitely can't handle stress very well.

p.s. Plus coach said I cannot drink alcohol for 2-3 months!

Arrgghhh!!!

Andy's Hardcore Training

2011-01-05T16:08:00.006+08:00

It's more of a functional training, actually, but to make it sounds more hardcore, I name it Andy's Hardcore Training (well, obviously the trainer's name is Andy.. duuhh~~)

Anyway, I signed up at True Fitness last Sunday and I got 4 free PT sessions automatically. Knowing Andy for quite some time and have always love the way he trains, I asked him to torture me. Told him about my goal - getting leaned - and we started our first training on Jan 3.

First training was more on strength. Here's what I did (not in order) :-

Note : All weights increased gradually. I have bad memory. I can't remember the weights... hehehe...

Lat Pulldown x 15 reps, 3 sets

Seated Back Row x 15 reps, 3 sets

Deadlift x 15 reps, 3 sets

Dumbell Bench Press with legs up x 15 reps, 3 sets

Shoulder Press x 15 reps, 3 sets

Barbell Squat x 15 reps, 3 sets

Dumbell alternate lunges x 10 sets each side, 3 sets

Yeah. I think basically that's. I know there's 1 or 2 more workouts but I couldn't remember. Damn I'm old. :P

Anyway, I had training with him again last night and though it was rather tiring, I actually had fun doing these kind of exercises. It left me breathless, sweating non-stop but I can't believe that I'm actually loving it.

Note : Andy loves to torture me with variations of workout. I'll try to name the workouts as close as possible since they are, erm, special.

1a) DB squat press x 10 each sides, 3 sets

1b) 1 arm DB row in static hold incline push-up position x 10 each sides, 3 sets (5kg, 6kg, 7kg)

1c) Decline Crunch x 15 reps, 3 sets, gradually increase intensity by holding plates

1d) Explosive Decline Oblique Crunch x 10 each sides, 3 sets, gradually increase intensity by holding plates

2a) Push up and Touch Bar x 10 each sides, 3 sets

2b) DB Row with Burpees (minus push-up) x 10 repss, 3 sets

2c) Static T-Push up with DB (alternate) x 10 reps, 3 sets

3a) Leg raise crunch x 10 reps, 3 sets

3b) DB bench squat jump x 10 sets

Yeah. I think basically that's about it. Damn I was struggling with the second supersets. But honestly speaking, it's all in the mind. Coz I actually managed to do the workouts without stopping in my 2nd sets. (I stopped half way in my 1st sets. My trademark - I like to stop half way, when I trace a lil bit of tiredness hit me. In other words, I give up easily. Whoopss...)

You see, Andy kept on yelling to me, "When you train with me, you don't and cannot stop, especially at the last reps. Coz that shows how committed you are with your training. And you are not there yet, coz you give up too easily."

That's why I wanted to prove to him that I can do it without stopping. Amazing how brain works eh? Well, of coz he doesn't just yell at me. He complimented on my 2nd supersets performance. :D

Honestly, I wished I could capture that particular moment after I finished my 2nd supersets. I dropped to floor, laid down there and trying to get as much oxygen as I can, as if I have run 10k marathon. And my throat burnt! Feeling scratchy and all..... That bad you know!

I went home with really good sleep and no dreams at all. All the way till 8am the next day. Nice!!

Andy's going to open up his own gym soon, so wait for my review about his studio. *wink*

I must vent out, otherwise ....

2011-01-04T17:54:00.003+08:00

Sms conversation between the stubborn customer and me. I can't deal with him over the phone already. So I sms so that my words will be absorb into his tiny brain.

Note : All the gramatical error, spelling, structure sentence and spacing is exactly how my customer smsed me

Fussy customer (by sms) : How can your workman ~ ship for both kitchen & work top so unprofessionnal job not done and no body to follow up were are your responsibility ? ? ? do we onw any outstanding payment ? why & what happen ?

Me (by sms) : We are working on it. This is an ISO co. Not simply ask come today and we come. We hv to go thru d procedure submit your complain n arrange installer to go to ur house. Please be more understanding abt our procedure. Tq.

Fussy customer (by sms) : Refer to iso procedure there are customer satisfaction right now after jnstallation you have to do final inspection for your product and meet cu stomer requirement ! made clear your hand over stage alre ady over due ?

Me (by sms) : I'm sorry. I don't understand your english.

I can only pray and hope

2011-01-03T00:55:00.003+08:00

I remember every year end, I will sincerely wished for better career and merely a better financial status. I would say that I'm in a surviving border-line, but having the basic and important neccessities.

I owe everything to my mom actually. She's the one that makes all these works. The nice apartment, the superb-nice car, the endless supports that she gives me whenever I need it. Be it day or night.

I was at Micasa Apartment celebrating new year's eve. Nothing fancy. The hotel organized a countdown party and they provided cards and balloons for us to write down our wish, tied it to balloon and released it when the clock struck midnight.

So, guess what I have wished for?

Psst...people are not suppose to know what I wish for right?

Or else it won't come true?

But what the heck!

Here's to my career *toast!*

p.s. My current job is not doing so well, so I've decided (and forced myself)

to look for another more stable job. I am not 21 anymore and cannot

afford to waste anymore time searching for job. I should have stable income

right now and should established my career at this very moment. That is

why I really need this luck, desperately.

And here's my other new year's resolutions :-

1. I have officially joined True Fitness today. So I'm gonna work my ass off to get the lean physique in erm, 3 months time? Can? I think can, with professional help and proper diet.

2. (I know I've said it earlier) but I want better career and hope it'll be my last career. I'm sick of changing jobs now. If I happen to resign, it'll be the day that I start my own business already. No more working for people. Chheeeaa....

3. (yes, I know I've said this also) but I want better financial status so that I can bring my mom to travels and give her good life. This has always been my every year's resolution since I started working but I am just, not there yet.

Ok. I can't think of others right now. A bit distracted, with chatting with my sis and fb. hehe..

Anyway, career, finance and lean are my 3 main words for the year 2011.

Happy New Year everyone!!!

Call me The Confused Girl

2010-12-29T23:04:00.005+08:00

I have always been confused about all these fitness theories. Seriously. I gotta admit that I'm not as knowledgable as Aizan or Daily Muscle when it comes to all these stuffs. Yea. I know. Sad to admit that despite the fact that I've dived into the fitness world 3 years ago.

Well, going to gym and doing all those exercises don't make me a fitness expert. But believe me, I pick up stuffs and learn along the way. But still, I'm a confused girl.

For example, it was only that day that I googled about Compound Exercises, and http://www.bodybuilding.com/ came up with an article with samples of workouts from Day 1 to Day 5. It consists of something like this :-

Note : All workouts come in 4 sets with 15, 8, 8, 6 reps and rest 30-60 secs.

Monday

1. Incline Barbell Bench Press

2. Flat Barbell Bench Press

3. Dip

4. Barbell Pullover

Tuesday

1. Barbell Squats

2. Front Barbell Squats

3. Sumo Deadlift

4. Barbell Stiff-legged Deadlifts

Wednesday

Run or jump rope for 30 to 60 mins.

Thursday

1. Barbell Military Press

2. Barbell Upright Row

3. Barbell Clean and Press

Friday

1. Pull-up

2. Bent-Over Barbell Row

3. Barbell Deadlift

I had my Monday workout 2 days ago. I forgot how Barbell Pullover is like, so I smsed Aizan asking how to perform this workout on my way to the gym. She advised me not to do that. I kinda forgot the reason and I gotta ask you again. Why is it not a good workout again? Refresh my memory.

So there I was, went into a state of confusion. When I'm at that particular confused stage, I'll become like, totally lost and will not know what to do next. Should I just do the pullover? Or change it to other things? Aizan suggested assisted pull-up instead. So I took her advice and went on with my Monday workout.

Then, I saw my trainer and he was free that time. He offered me some guidance / free training / free spotting and asked me what I was gonna do. I told him proudly, Incline Barbell Bench Press.

He asked me where I got these workouts. I told him it was from bodybuilding.com. He said women is not advisable to do the Incline BB bench press. It's for building muscle. (what I want is to get lean and ripped. It has always been this goal.)

Oh no, not again? Another "mistakes"? And so, he modified my workouts and I did not follow the whole Monday workout.

And so, I'm in the confused state again. I didn't go to the gym yesterday and today (I got flu today, so I just stayed in).

Another thing that I'm confused about is this : running.

Few trainers told me that I must run to burn the extra fats. But then, in Jason Ferrugia's blog.. oh god... now you tell me how the heck am I not confused? Look at these :-

"Jogging for an hour is a complete waste of time. So is any form of cardio that forces you to the same repetitive movement over and over. When your muscles have to contract energy for 30, 45 or 60 mins, that energy has to come from somewhere. The body is stubborn and doesn't want to burn fat for energy so it eats up your muscles instead. This immediately kills your metabolism and it robs your body of strength and athleticism." - Chad Waterbury

"With that being said, I would still choose a good fast paced hour long walk on the beach over sitting on stationary bike while pounding away on some brutal intervals." - Jason Ferrugia.

Aiyyyaaa...... :S

Carb Cyling

2010-12-14T13:26:00.007+08:00

I had a chance to try out carb cyling with DM @ Noel 2 weeks ago. I first asked for some recommendation of nutrition recipe books which he has wrote in his BRS. I thought it's high time for me to take care of my diet since people always say that diet is 60% and work out is 40%.

So DM suggested to try out carb cyling, with him as well coz he said doing this diet alone is boring. hehhe... at least knowing that someone else is dieting with you, you won't (based on trust) cheat. Trust me, it works. It's all about being responsible.

So we went for groceries shopping together, teaching me what kind of vege to buy, meats and stuffs. Here's the key point :-

1. The diet sequence is like this : Mon, Tues - low-carb day, Wed - med-carb day, Thurs, Fri - low-carb day, Sat - high-carb day.

2. Choose only green vege. Not even vege with colours ie carrot, tomatoes. Nah-ah.

3. 1 piece of fruit only on med-carb day, which is the 3rd day. Other days will be low-carb day.

4. No rice, at all, only after workout. But during that week, I didn't even eat anything after workout. Usually shower then sleep immediately.

5. No sugary beverages, at all. Only water, green tea (no sugar) or black coffee.

6. No milk.

But the bad part is, I don't have that much energy to workout compare to other carbs day. Damn. So that particular week of diet, my workout sucks. Breathless all the time. Even DM asked me, "You stopped half-way just now is because of what? tired? breathless?" :P

Here's a short brief about carb cyling :-

In the most basic format, carb cycling is a planned alteration of carbohydrate intake in order to prevent fat loss plateau and maintain metabolism along with workout performance.

Carb cycling is considered an aggresive and high level nutrition strategy. But there are some people, such as physique athletes or folks who have been at the fat loss game for quite awhile, whose nutritional adherence is extremely high and may require a more meticulour nutritional approach to achieve more extreme levels of leanness.

Regardless of who uses it, carb cycling is designed for short-term use - it is not a long-term solution for body fat management or maintenance. In fact, if used for too long it may be downright unfavourable.

The diet is only 5 days and good thing is that, I can just alternate the diet (remember it's not for long term body fat management). It was fun and full of satisfaction especially when I know that I've succeeded in this (trust me, it wasn't easy). I remember having a flat tummy the whole week. In fact, my abs is more obvious than before, though I know it's not very impressive and I still got loooooonnnnnngggggg way to go, to achieve my target.

I remember waking up every morning to check out my abs, and it's the nicest sight I've ever seen (for me lar.. ok? heehe), so I walked out from my apartment, head high. :D

I think I'm gonna love this diet and will gonna try it on 1st week of New Year 2011. In fact, I've dropped 2kg in these 5-days diet. Impressive, ain't it?

And I'm loving it!

So anyone wanna do it with me next year?

Abs during carb-cyling week.

Ok kah? Ok lar... right? hehehe....

Another fat loss product in town

2010-12-01T10:11:00.004+08:00

I went to a short talk last night at Solaris Dutamas. My main intention was to find out about the business opportunity. Before I decided to give it (listen to the talk) a try (have been delaying my friends for weeks), my friend just briefly told me about the business opportunity and nothing much on the fat loss programme.

I only know that she tried the TRA (I forgot what TRA stands for) for 3 months and she claims that she keeps on losing weight. That's how the product works. She said, you'll take it for, say, 1 or 2 or 3 months, then you stop, but doesn't mean your bodyweight stops too. It'll continuously to lose weight till you have reached your ideal weight.

I'm like, how the hell does the product knows that you body has reached the ideal weight and that it'll automatically stop working? Doesn't really make sense right? But again, maybe I didn't ask much, coz honestly, I was not interested the moment they said this - "I don't need to exercise to get my 47kg weight, at all. See my before and after picture." (Which is true. I saw a fat woman with a 47kg same woman standing in front of me, but still not enough to convince me).

So after purchasing the items (image below) at a whooping RM4800, you get to attend classes 8 times, once a week, which consists of 2-eat-at-restaurant dinners and other lessons about how much you need ur carbs (a fist size), protein, vege and fruits.

This is the TRA pack. Reminds me of Herbalife, don't you think?

It immediately put me off when I saw the RM4800 appeared on the screen. So I asked, "Is it necessary to buy those products then only I can join the business opportunity?"

"Not necessary. It's free to be a member, but if you don't try, you don't have a story to tell to your networks. Coz you need to be the product of the product, only then you can convince people to buy this items."

Forget it. From that moment on, I couldn't wait to go home. And guess what? There was 1 guy gave testimonial about how TRA changes his life. He was an obese and his health is at stack. Said got high blood pressure and all. So he said he has tried all the fat loss product in town but to no avail. Finally, he did what other guys do - exercise. He signed up with a PT for a year and he managed to lose only 4 kgs in a year time. But when he took TRA, he lost 4kgs in 2 weeks time.

I knew that the upline will try to convince me with that testimonial. Somehow to tell me indirectly that exercise doesn't help you, TRA does. Oh god... I felt like slapping her.

Needless to say, I didn't join their business opportunity. Guess I'll have to continue searching again.

p.s. If this product is so good and claim can reduce visceral fats,

why didn't I see any 6-pack guy with bulging chest giving testimonial?

All I see was cekeding and typical thin people in there. Totally

against my "fitness philosophy".

How to Improve on Chin Ups

2010-11-22T09:51:00.002+08:00

by Jason Ferruggia

Today we are going to discuss how to improve on chin ups. Chin ups are one of the best overall muscle and strength building exercises around. The problem is that many beginners can't do a single rep and many intermediate trainees can not seem to progress on them no matter what they do. One very simple solution is to get a JumpStretch rubber band and loop it around the bar to assist you, as shown in the accompanying video. Start with a strong enough band that allows you to do 5 reps. Repeat this process with one or two more bands until you are strong enoug to do them on your own.

Since the video will explain it more clearly than words ever could, watch below to learn exactly how to improve on chin ups.

Nice!!

Mental note : Buy StretchBand.

I really think I gotta voice out my feelings otherwise...

2010-11-19T12:30:00.002+08:00

There is this, erm... 1 woman who gets on my nerves ever since I've met her. Call me judgmental or whatsoever, but my feelings (on first impressions) are almost 90% right.

I've only met her, probably like, less than 5 times, but I remember that I always avoid her because of her chatterbox attitude. She really like, cannot stop talking, with super fast speed of talking and with this annoying, soprano voice who thinks she's an American-babe-wannabe.

I'm not exaggerating. Seriously. Coz I'm not the only one who thinks that way. But why she's affecting me so much compare to other people is that, suddenly, out of nowhere, she claims that she's BFF to my used-to-be BFF.

I know. I know I'm not suppose to feel that way. Sharing is caring right? But I can't help having this feeling. I feel like, someone has snatch away the thing that I treasure most. Like, someone has invaded into my life and take away my BFF.

And the problem is, both of them click. They have the chemistry. They do things together. They sms each other everyday. They call each other everyday. They know each other's FB password. (My boyfriend doesn't even know my FB password) *rolled eyes* They even started their own company together! So that kinda pisses me off.

A 9-years friendship, suddenly spoiled by this woman, who just walked into her life for like, a year, and immediately be her *gak!* BFF. Suddenly, she appears in all the events that involve my used-to-be BFF ie birthdays, open house, etc.

Yes. I have a small heart. I don't share the things/people that I love, just like how I don't share my boyfriend with other woman, or I don't share my mom or dad or sis with other people.

To my used-to-be BFF, I'm sure you're happier with her. I wish you well in everything you do.

To *ugh* you, just spare me all the drama. A cupcake and a BFF konon. pptttuuiiiihhhh!!!

p.s. I've been avoiding her calls and not sms-ing her. At the moment,

I still can't accept that she has other BFF. Sorry.

3 updates

2010-11-13T00:14:00.004+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!

Love you... muax!!

13th November 2010

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY SIS....

(I know it's too late, esp for Celestine...hehehe)

Lui Lui : 5th November 2010

Celestine : 24th June 2010

And final update :

I don't need to work next Wednesday!! Yippiieee!!!!

Why am I not getting the vibes people?

2010-11-13T00:09:00.002+08:00

You guys love trance.

You guys adore Tiesto.

You guys been to Tiesto's party at Port Dickson in 2008.

Sooooo.... why aren't you guys not hyped up to go Zoukout next month?

There's Tiesto.

There's David Guetta.

Why oh why??

Aaaaarrrrggghhhhh!!!!!!

2010-11-05T14:20:00.002+08:00

I have to friggin' work today!!!

And tomorrow!!!!

And on 17th November!!!!

AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhh.... Only God knows how I feel now.

Ok. I'll stop. I've been whining since last night. And when every holiday comes.

It sucks me so much when friends at MSN msn-ed me and asked, "So hardworking ar?" or "At home ar?"

NO! I am at my bloody office, thank you very much for asking.

And the funny thing about this kind of job?

You gotta applied leave on holiday for holiday!

And no double or triple pay. Remind me again why I wanna come back here and work with them?

Enough said.

Updates!

2010-11-03T14:11:00.011+08:00

Hiya peepz!!

Sorry for being silent for so long. I hate not updating my blog too! But I'm back! awwww... I know you miss me.

Yea. I miss you too. ^.^v

You know, suddenly, I've got an inspiration to blog about something that I read from CLEO Nov Mag. But I don't have the mag with me right now, so I shall blog about it later on. It was a full 3-facebook-colour page on "20 Facebook personalities you would love to hate".

Honestly, when I read that article last night, I already have the exact person (friend) in my mind that fit each and every of the personalities which CLEO described. Funny how psychology works eh?

But anyway, here's the update of my life.

I just came back from a super, duper fun Bali trip with a group of crazy friends. And for the second time in this year, and also my second time to Bali, I came back with steamed-chicken-skin, rather than the roasted one. Why ar? You know? We spent the last day at beach for only friggin' 45 mins. Most of the time we chill at our villa, tour around and bla bla bla. When you see our villa, you'll know why we wanna spend more time there than the beach.

But then again, Kuta Beach is not a "leisure" beach, as in like, you can go snorkelling or whatnot. It is more for surfing and suntan-ing. I still personally prefer Thai's beach. Nicer. After snorkelling, you can just sit by the beach and suntan.

Voila!! Our super big villa. 4 rooms with a swimming pool.

Definitely will want to go back there again.

But guess what? I've finally worked up the courage to go and learn surfing. You see, I'm afraid of waves actually. But gatal, want to try. Plus, not very expensive also. It's around Rm30 for 2 hours lesson, with instructor of course + board.

But I have no regrets. And I wanna do it again. I only managed to "stand up" once. Other time, I was tumbling inside the waves, swallowing a whole gulp of air masin. Not funny. Luckily water didn't go into my nose, otherwise it'll be nasty.

Me as beginner. Paying full attention to his

~~well-developed shoulders~~ lessons

Embarked to my very first hands-on surfing,

with bip-bop-bip-bop heart

You see lar! Cannot stand up.

Most of the time, when I was in that position, in another seconds,

I was already doing sommersault inside the waves.

Now I know how my clothes feel when they are in the

washing machine

Haha. Instructor said peace.

He must be very annoyed with me for not listening

to his advise seriously. All because I was so afraid of the waves

so I don't dare to stand up.

Boyfriend knows that I love nice-body surfers.

So he took this for me. Haha!

Besides chilling and surfing, we had the most important event of the trip. A friend proposed to his girlfriend! But was inside the room.

Too bad we couldn't witnessed the whole situation. Maybe he was malu? hehehe...

Congrats to Mon and Pax!!! :)

So Bali asides. Other updates.

I'm still actively involve in DM's Transformation Camp. I haven't done any measurements in a long long time, so gonna do it soon and see how I progress.

So far, I've seen that I'm not that "bloated" and "bulky" when I've stopped taking protein and creatine. Usually, I took that right before the camp and I find that I've got more energy working out compare to none.

But in my 3rd month, friends said I look "round". I was rather pissed off coz I know that I was working my ass off sweating twice a week and this is what they can tell me??

So told Herny about my worries and she said maybe should try stop taking them. So I've stopped, and I notice that I've "shrink + lean" rather than "bulk + lean". Yet to weigh myself. We'll see later.

But starting this month, I'm gonna incorporate 2-days of weight training into my weekly workout, besides the 2-days camp. Also will see how it goes.

Yeah, this is what fitness all about. Gotta try and error to find out which work best for yourself.

Ok. Be back with the Cleo article thingy. :D

My feeling right now

2010-10-10T23:57:00.003+08:00

Brain cells is working at a very low speed. Doing autocad more of like tindakan refleks rather than drawing with purpose and use brain. I have been doing this work since early last week and I'm only at 50% completion. Sigghhh.. I really wonder when will this end. I swear to God that I won't want to take up any more freelance job in the near future unless :-

(a) I've got nothing else better to do

(b) I've extra time (like, really extra) to slot in stupid freelance work

I really wonder what does people mean by "hardworking" when it comes to earning extra income. I feel like I'm always surrounded with people who are more free than me. No offense here. I know there are people who works more and harder than me, but I've yet to see one. I mean, I always hear my friend saying that she goes to happy hour 4 times a week, massage, manage to get out from office early, but mind you, she excels in her work. This is what I call work smart.

Or maybe people are not as loud and drama queen as I am, and they never complain in their fb that they are tired with work, or stress with work, so I assume that they are doing well without having to earn extra income and to work overtime.

I mean, it's really difficult to juggle a demanding full-time work, a tight dateline freelance work, working out, and spend time with my boyfriend.

Luckily my bf doesn't demand me to cook, otherwise, I'll die. But in the near future how? As a woman, you gotta cook also no matter what right? Kids leh? Oh God, I am so not ready to go towards that stage yet. Seriously.

Mom suggests that I go to Abu Dhabi to work. There's an opening there. But as always, I don't feel the drive to go there and work. Lotsa excuses I give to myself. Sigh.

Gotta sleep. Next week gonna be another long week.

Guess what?

2010-09-18T11:05:00.005+08:00

We had tiger crawl push up last Thursday and bear crawl push up on Tuesday.

The extreme combo on Tuesday was run zig-zag to 6 cones (to an fro) then burpees long jump, then run zig-zag again then bear crawl push up. That workout was new. And by the end of these short but fast workout, coach DM can definitely see that we were so tired that he decided to "tone down" a bit on the next exercise. God bless his heart! :)

As for Thursday's workout, we had rather not-so-extreme exercises (not to brag, but that's how I felt. Maybe because both coaches were rushing to airport to Bangkok for Asia FIT Convention 2010, so maybe that's why they have mercy on us thus the workouts weren't as extreme as usual?) The most tricky workout was the tiger crawl push up. We have to do staggered push-up for each step forward (crawling). This is also new to us. But it was fun. I wonder when they'll come up with crab crawl dipping.

Just a matter of time, mark my words. :p

Herbalife. Ppfftttt!!

2010-09-08T13:33:00.005+08:00

2 guys went into our showroom few days back and asked if there is any RHB Bank at Sunway Mentari area.

(you know, it's really weird that he's not the first person who walks into our showroom and said they are looking for RHB bank..so weird right? Padahal our showroom showed a BIIGGGG SIGNATURE KITCHEN logo at our glass door)

He came in wearing a tag "Lose Weight Now, Ask Me How". *rolled eyes*

After asking about RHB, as a typical salesman, he tried to introduce us his stuff - HERBALIFE.

Guy : (looking at me and my other colleague) Thank you for the info. By the way, are you guys interested in losing weight or gaining weight? Perhaps you (looking at my rather chubby colleague)? I mean, no offense.

Me : You guys are from Herbalife right? (while rolling my eyes)

Guy : Yeah! (big eyed coz got people know about HL) How do you know?

Me : Your tag.

Guy : Yeap. So have you tried HL before?

Me : Sadly, yes. And I don't see any results and I was wasting a lot of money on that.

Guy : Do you have coach who monitor you and stuffs like that? Because I'm seeing results myself. I'm losing 7kgs in total and my friend here has lost 25kgs to date. (the friend like angguk kepala like orang gila)

Me : No and no. But then I know HL is not a good product because honestly speaking, there is no shortcut to being healthy. When you drink shake like that and replace 2 meals a day, any person in this world will lose weight. But you are not being healthy. You are losing all kinds of nutrients and yet, at the end of the day, you'll still have flabby arms. People call it skinny fat. I'm exercising myself and I've seen results in working out rather than spending extra amount of money on some shake that doesn't work. I can use that amount of money to sign up at the gym and still lose weight and getting lean, and most importantly, I'm healthier.

Guy : My wife is personal trainer. She isn't a HL believer also until my coach teaches her how to take HL and she's seeing results.

Me : (back in my mind : maybe your wife is not a qualified trainer? A good trainer will never believe in all these kind of slimming products) Oh well. Might works for her. Anyway, I'm not interested.

Plus, I don't wanna argue anymore. No point. I know how these people promote the product. But really. There's no shortcut to being healthy, only good diet and constant exercise.

Yes, you might be thin but you can still wave a flag under ur triceps if you don't buck up and start working out. Period.

It was one helluva workout!!

2010-09-01T11:31:00.004+08:00

Honestly, I dunno where or how to start. I was having so much fun yesterday at DM's 1Malaysia Workout despite the fact that I was gasping for air every seconds due to the rather extreme workouts.

Finally I got to meet, and I quote, blog-o-buddy Aizan at the camp. And I brought along another friend, Bart, for the trial as well. It was kinda funny seeing him out of breath and pale face and all. Funny in a sense that, DM sure makes us work hard!!

We had 2 competitions yesterday : the most push-ups for men and women in 1.5mins and last man standing, as in plank. In our case yesterday, it was last woman standing. Woohooo!!! Go woman!!!

A new comer, woman, very skinny, had the highest push-ups (on knees) which was 85. I did only 65. So embarassing knowing the fact that I have been in the camp for 2 months and already lost to this new camper. Geez! What a bummer!

Kevin had the highest push-ups in men's category, which was 59 (on toes, not on knees). Bravo bravo!

The most exciting part was the last man standing, which we have to do plank and stay for a long as we can. The winner gets 1 month free workout.

The longest plank was 5 minutes (4m52s to be exact) and it was by Lynn. I was really impressed with her, not only because of the 5 mins, but also because she can stays in a very excellent form for solid 5 mins!! How incredible is that? Not even shaking a bit I tell ya!

I promise myself that I'll beat her record and also Coach Herny's. Both of them have 5 mins plank record. And you know what? The last 2 person who did the plank was Lynn and another lady, whom I think is older than me. Correct me if I'm wrong, no offense here ok? But definitely can do almost 5 mins as well. She is just few seconds away from Lynn. That really amazed me. I mean, I can't be losing to this lady and I've got so much to catch up. I was only up for 1.5mins. My own personal record was only 1min tops. I know. Very bad.

But don't worry. I'll catch up. :D I W.I.L.L. D.E.F.I.N.I.T.E.L.Y catch up and break Lynn's record.

Seriously, that was fun. Can we do more of these contest, DM? I wanna test my endurance and stamina and I W.A.N.N.A. B.R.E.A.K whatever Lynn's record. (To me, so far, she's the fittest among all).

Seriously, I think I'm having depression right now

2010-08-30T13:50:00.003+08:00

I'm feeling a bit depress with the fact that I have to fucking work tomorrow, and also all other public holidays.

People who work in Selangor have longer holiday this week, since last Friday (Nuzul Quran : applicable on Selangor only) till tomorrow, which is obviously is the Merdeka Day.

Talked to boss that I want off tomorrow but she said no. We should be working and there is no holiday for us, who work in showroom.

It's expected when I took this offer, which is why, I thought it over and over and over and over again before I said yes. Really dunno what drive me that time to take up this offer.

I promise myself that I will not take up any showroom job anymore.

Ever and ever again.

You wanna transform? We can help you!

2010-08-25T16:01:00.007+08:00

Ever tried Tiger Crawl before?

How about Tiger Crunch?

Superb I tell you, but I gotta warn ya. Nothing's easy when it comes to DM Body Transformation Camp. :P

But I can assure you that you'll sweat like water tap. Probably something equivalent to when you do RPM in an hour's time. Or kickboxing (though I've never tried before but people said you'll burn 900 calories. Dunno true or not lah).

I kinda wonder what kind of Merdeka Theme workout that they've prepared for us. Marching plank crawl? Military push-up? eeee... I don't want to put ideas in their head. They can get pretty creative sometimes.

The free trial will be on 31st Aug 2010 (6:30p.m.), 2nd Sept 2010 (6:30p.m.) and 4th Sept 2010 (9:00a.m.) at Rimba Kiara Park. If you are curious about what we are doing, head over and join us next Tuesday!

Aizan, you'll come right? :D

One-leg squat was.... speechless

2010-08-22T17:25:00.005+08:00

We had our gila workout as usual last Thursday but there were 2 exercises which got my attention : 1-leg squat and Tabata.

These two test your leg strength and overall balance, especially 1-leg squat. According to Coach Herny, we actually need to focus on our core muscles when we press back up with single leg.

Going down was rather easy, but going back up was another story. At first, both coaches demonstrate the workout.

1. Raise your right leg and put two hands in fist form in front of you.

2. Try to squat down, still raising your leg in front, into sitting position where your hamstring and calf of the pressing leg is touching each other. (pic no. 3) This is the final position of the squat.

3. Focusing on your core muscles and maintaining the same position (hands and right leg in front), you will press back up without losing balance.

Add kettlebell or weights for more intensity

We were like "wwaahh..." and "oh my god" and *silent with mouth wide open* when Coach Herny did the full-squat. I know in my mind, I had already thought, "man! This is difficult."

Not yet do already complain. hehehe...

All of us started with either quarter or half squat, as a beginner. As I squat at my 3rd time, I was amazed that I can go lower than half, and eventually, somehow, I managed to squat till full position. No doubt I was struggling when I pressed back up and Coach Herny came over and said that I should focus on my core when I do that.

Nice!!

Not to brag or anything lah, but the other campers suddenly said, "Wahh...she can do full squat oh." hahaha......my nose was up the in air for a while la, but definitely need to brush up the skill. Even Coach DM said that he was impressed with what I can do, in FB!! nngeeee.....

And then came the Tabata.

"Tabata interval training is the single most effective type of high intensity interval training, it is also the most intense by far, and surprisingly, it is the shortest in duration. It only last for four minutes, but those four minutes produce remarkable effects. "
(http://www.intervaltraining.net/tabata.html)

We did 6 rounds of bodyweight squats (20 secs) + static hold squats (10 secs)!! I know they want us to achieve 8 rounds of it because we did 4 rounds of that Tabata just few weeks back. Never thought they can push us for 6 rounds eh?

Why don't you try it at home and let me know how it feels? :D

So many surprises!

2010-08-18T15:19:00.007+08:00

Workout in the rain? Check. lil bit only lar.

Bear crawl (again)? Check.

Crab crunches (har? new one ar?)? Check.

Grasshopper push-up? Check.

Spiderman climb? Check check.

Burpees? Check check check check!! hahaha....

You know, the thing with DM's camp is that, both he and Coach Herny always come up with really fresh, exciting and different types of workout for us.

I have to admit that I am always looking forward to Tuesday and Thursday to see what kind of ~~torturous~~ workout they have whipped for us. (Psst.. last time, my source of motivation to working out and going to the gym was to cuci mata with all the well-built, handsome trainers. Gone are the days where the gym is swarming with ripped, muscular trainers).

I was 30mins late yesterday so I've missed tiger crawl. Everyone was talking about it when I arrived. I was procastinating actually, to go or not to go, since it's already 7pm by the time I arrived Taman Tun. *sigh*

I went eventually and no doubt they were already halfway through the workout. Nevermind lah, I thought myself. As long as I get to sweat.

So I started with burpees, walking lunges, grasshopper push-up and etc etc which, by 730p.m., my shirt was soaked with sweats. Amazing isn't it? Endorphin does wonders to my mind. :)

There was one time during our workout, we had to do burpees. There are always options for us - from slow mo to the explosive type. It was already in the middle of workout and we had to do freakin' 20 burpees!

DM : Those who are fitter can do the push-up + jump burpees.

Me : *Silent. Breathing hard. Started by kneeling down, explode to push-up position, leg back to kneeling position, going up and jump. And repeated for 10 times. Already setengah mati.*

DM : Adeline, do push-up in your burpees.

Me : *shocked a bit. stopped for a while. then did the 11th burpees with push-up and jump*

Renae : (at the same time, beside me doing burpees) bbwaahahhahahahaha!!!!

DM : Renae, u also.

Me : Bwahahahaha!!! That's why lar. Laugh at people. Now kena already.

The other surprise about this camp is, and I just got to know from the FB wall, they will be having additional 3 more time on 3 different days starting in September.

At the moment, the schedule is 630-730pm every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at Rimba Kiara Park. Now, they are adding 645-745am every Monday, Wednesday and Friday!!

That's a yippie for me. No more rushing from Sunway to Taman Tun. No more jam from Sunway to Taman Tun at 6pm. I might actually opt for that. And I get to workout 3 times a week rather than twice a week now, since I have to work on Saturday.

So, what are you waiting for? *wink-wink*

2010 25 Best Summer Bodies

2010-08-14T15:41:00.003+08:00

*Depicted from www.menshealth.com

No. 3 Taylor Lautner :D (yippie!)

No. 10 Channing Tatum
How can you resist such a charming smile? I can't!

No. 21 Ryan Kwanten (from TruBlood Series)
Body is definitely ripped but why no. 21???
I think he should be in top 10.

No. 5 Jessica Biel
Seriously? I really dunno how they rate Women's Best Summer Bodies,
but I think she should get the first place.
I mean, look at her biceps and flat abs!!

No. 1 Brooklyn Decker
You tell me, which part of her that gets her to the top?
No 6 packs if you ask me.
Oh yeah. Probably the boobs.

Here's what I think

2010-08-14T14:56:00.003+08:00

1. Internet, especially Facebook, is a place for people to show off, including myself. But deep down, I like people who are actually not much of a loud speaker when it comes to tell tale about themselves. And I shall try to be like them. I mean, you'll get irritated also right when you see people constantly blowing their own trumpet? *rolling my eyes*

2. I'm not sure whether this behaviour is inherited by the family or due to high level of testosterone in their body, but I notice that some people who lift weights are very impatient, short-fused and bad-tempered. But some (people who lift weights), I notice, shows the opposite. They have higher tolerance to patience, most probably because they are very patient in achieving their fitness goals. I dunno. It's just a thought. What do you think?

"High levels of testosterone appear to promote good health in men, for example, lowering the risks of high blood pressure and heart attack. High testosterone levels also correlate with risky behavior, however, including increased aggressiveness and smoking, which may cancel out these health benefits." (www.medterms.com)

3. I believe a long lost friend of mine is still in his old-self attitude. I remember him telling me that he's trying to be a better person, but.. *sigh* still no sign of improving. The main reason I don't want to be his friend anymore is not because of money, but rather the attitude as a friend which I cannot accept. Let's just say that we don't even click as a normal friend and there's nothing that's worth saving the friendship. But I know he wouldn't think that way coz.....yeah, he still hasn't changed. Same ol same ol him.

DM's Camp WOD 120810

2010-08-13T13:24:00.006+08:00

Yesterday's workout was kinda extreme. As usual, we started with some series of warm-up which involves lotsa squats and jumps, which I really dislike, honestly speaking.

My legs are not really that strong (I assume) because whenever there are leg workouts I'll only need 1 minute to sweat, like I've been working out for 15-30mins. Does that happen to you? Well, not that I mind about sweating fast. Just curious.

Anyway, back to DM's camp, after feeling all the slight sores from side jump and squats, we moved to Station #1 (this is where the actual workout begun) where Coach Herny has prepared us 3 workouts : 15 Vertical Jump, 50 Prisoner Squats, 15 Close-Grip Push-Up.

Before we moved to Station #1, I remember DM said in our warm-up sets, "Keep going. After this no more squats." So when I was doing prisoner squats, my mind went back to what he said earlier. Was it squats he said, or lunges? hehehe....

Then on we jogged to Station #2 doing 50 forward lunges, 30/45secs of cross-body mountain climber, 50 back lunges and 30/45secs of spiderman climb. By this sets, I was already out of breath and at the back of my mind, I kept on saluting those Muslims who can actually did what I did W.I.T.H.O.U.T drinking any water. Memang salute ar! You know, by the end of the workout, I can feel my thigh is like bengkak-ing, if you know what I mean. Like, muscle-inflamed like that. The sweats no need to say lah. Dripping like tap water.

Again, we jogged to Station #3. Already kept on thinking when will this thing end. Luckily only 2 workouts which is 50 squats and 15 push-ups.

And finally, Station #4, we did 45secs of plank push-up and 100 jumping jacks. Crazy or not? Crazy kan?

You know, the earlier workout was 15 push-ups and bear crawl from 1 cone to the other. And there are 4 cones!!

Everyone always grunt whenever Coach DM or Coach Herny said that we'll be doing bear crawl or crab crawl. The workout itself is like upside-down with our butt so high up (which is not suppose to be) like, I quote, Mount KK. Our brain also become upside-down after the workout. hehehe...

It was really fun to see everyone working out together, some has higher spirit than others, some are getting fitter than the others, some are improving from "dunno how to sweat" to "sweat like air terjun". Renae, you feel it ya? *wink*

I wonder how everyone will be in their 6th month. Hmmm.....

More dates next Tuesday ya? And I want longan can?

p.s. I'll try to post some pics while we working out.
Gotta find some photographer here. Any volunteer?
Payment : a box of dates + watermelon :p

My new toy.. and no, it's not 5kg plates

2010-08-11T22:46:00.002+08:00

Oh yeah.

A Casio digital piano. Dad bought it for me during his visit last 2 weeks. Eeee...!!!

yeah...this is the softer side of me.

And it's white!! totally fit into my interior... ngek ngek ngek.....

and yes, I tolak ke tepi all my barbell to make way for this new babe.

Xclusive FitnesZ

2010-08-11T21:30:00.005+08:00

Yeap.

Went to check out Xclusive Fitnesz gym last Sunday. The first impression when I walked in was, "Wow....hardcore gym."

Why?

Coz :-

No air-con, which I like. (That's why I say it's hardcore coz it's unlike other typical commercial gym, very nicely decorated with mirror top, bottom, left and right and full-blast air-con with gays in the locker room)
Those plates I tell you, are besi. Now this is what I'd call truly angkat besi. No rubberized plate, no nothing. All pure metal.

The thing about this gym is that, it's a result-oriented gym, rather than hard-sell commercial gym where all these membership consultants are eyeing on your purse and your signatures.

At here, you'll be greeted by a young, energetic woman name Farah and a buff guy with american-english slang name M, which stands for Murad Zaidi - a nigger celup. hehe....

He told me that they are in the midst of "refurbishing" the gym. Basically, they'll be changing some of the machines which are quite old (the previous owner of this gym was Malik Noor), and will be bringing in some of the bootcamps stuff ie sandbags, friggin' B.I.G tyres, the whatyercallit rope and etc.

According to them, they are actually 2 months earlier to the actual launching date. That is why the gym looks "unfinished". But it was cool. You still can workout at the gym and get sweat.

Plus, they are limiting to only 200 members, reason is so that M can monitor each and everyone of their progress. Every member will have this card whereby M will be able to track his or her workout and work with the member from there.

So right now, they have this promotion where you can get the membership fee from as low as RM99 per month, which inclusive of the gym, dance class (not sure what they have at the mo), kick-boxing class, muay thai and bootcamp.

M said they'll have CrossFit but from the way I heard from him, doesn't sound like a CrossFit to me. Please, correct me if I'm wrong coz I'm not here to condemn anyone.

I asked him if he's gonna have WOD just like PushMore and he said no. But he got kettlebell. :) That's why I wanna wait and see what CrossFit is like over here at Xclusive Fitnesz, then only I'll decide whether or not to join.

By then, if I were too late for the RM99 promotion, I'll settle with RM126 per month, but still it's cheaper than combining Gym + CrossFit + Kick Boxing altogether.

And M did mention that Simran from Australia Military Bootcamp will be there as well, as trainer. Dunno what exactly the arrangement but... we'll see.

Oh. By the way, this gym is at Stadium Shah Alam.

Yeah. Far for me too.

Which is the second reason for me to think twice about joining.

Muay Thai area, if I'm not mistaken, and opposite it will be CrossFit area

Dancing class area

Kick Boxing area

Open-Air gym

Weight training area

Maybe you guys can check out M's website for more info : http://www.muradzaidi.com/ or find them in FB under Xclusive Fitnesz.

Yes!

2010-08-04T10:50:00.003+08:00

And so, according to my friend, this new gym at Shah Alam is a combination of weight training + crossfit. But crossfit will only "arrive" at their gym after puasa (fasting) month.

My friend's cousin is giving me a 3-days trial and might checking it out next week. And guess what? Their fee is only RM126 per month! That's for both CrossFit and Weight Training.

Like, dirt cheap ok?

Coz Pushmore's membership fee is RM150 per month and if I wanna do weight training at the gym, I'll have to fork out another RM150 per month, which totals up to RM300 per month. Not forgetting DM's camp which is another RM247. (yeah, Aizan. Talked to DM and he said it's too soon to judge anything in just 1 month. Gotta continue doing to see results if it works for me or not. So yeah, I'm back in the game again...heehe)

I might be, and I quote, a fitness junkie wannabe, and unless I'm a millionaire's daughter, I will just have to choose whatever works best for me. Can't have best of both worlds right? In this case, 3 worlds. hehe...

Something to enlighten you guys. This is a conversation between my high-heel-in-gym friend and the Shah Alam trainer.

Trainer : Which celebrity's body that you admire and would like to achieve? Jessica Alba?
Friend : No. Gisele Bunchen.
Trainer : (-_-") Typical woman.

My friend is only 5'2 tall. hehehhe......

Hey! I'm not mocking her ok? I myself am also only 5'2 but all IFBBs are around that height also. nnggeeeeee..........

sigh

2010-08-03T10:22:00.000+08:00

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I miss Pushmore a.k.a CrossFit

2010-08-01T18:23:00.006+08:00

Just bought Muscle & Fitness Hers mag and there was one article which wrote about a Fitness Olympic Champion Adela Garcia tries out CrossFit for the very first time.

Even her, as a champion, with all the bulging muscles,claim she was tired when she tried out WOD "Sick...Mean...Hateful".

It goes like this :-

Directions : Complete three five-minute rounds, performing each exercise for one minute as prescribed. Rest for 60 secs between rounds. Count your reps on each exercise and tally all three rounds to calculate your final score. See if you can beat Adela's score of 190.

Round 1 : Burpee, Box Jump, Wall Ball, Burpee, Wall Ball

Round 2 : Box Jump, Ball Slam, Burpee, Wall Ball, Ball Slam

Round 3 : Wall Ball, Burpee, Ball Slam, Box Jump, Burpee

Adela's Score Sheet

Round 1

Burpees : 25

Box Jumps : 11

Wall Ball : 8

Burpees : 14

Wall Ball : 10

Sub-Total : 68

Round 2

Box Jumps : 15

Ball Slam : 13

Burpees : 11

Wall Ball : 6

Ball Slam : 11

Sub-total : 56

Round 3

Wall Ball : 15

Burpees : 13

Ball Slam : 12

Box Jumps : 11

Burpees : 15

Sub-total : 66

TOTAL : 190

And you would think that she's like superb right?

WRONG!

Turn out, it was Becca Voigt, assistant instructor of CrossFit, who coach Adela, scored 268!!

Amazing isn't she?

Watch this vid (I dunno how to paste it here, but click on link and you'll see the video)

http://www.muscleandfitnesshers.com/adela_garcia_crossfit/videos/20/

All I wanna say is that, you may be carrying the heaviest weight but when it comes to CrossFit, it's another story.

So I'm thinking of combining both CrossFit and Weight Training into my workouts. One thing good about CrossFit is that, their WODs are intense and short, which I like. Save time for busy people like us. Some ladies I saw in CrossFit may not look like Adela Garcia, all lean and muscular, but they are mighty strong.

I promise myself that I would want to be able to do "FRAN" : Thruster and Pull-ups in x amount of time, as much reps as I can go, as time goes by. But I've stopped PushMore 3 months ago when I started my new job, due to the working hour and also the price.

I'll be checking out one new upcoming gym at Shah Alam this week. Dunno if it's another CrossFit Studio, since my friend, a newbie in gym, who practically falls under "wear-high-heel-to-gym" category (hehe..that's why I was surprised when she told she has joined there!) said it doesn't look like a typical commercial gym.

So, we'll see. :)

p.s. I've missed WOD073110 which consists of Thrusters, Pull-ups and Deadlift. Argh! (well, not that I'm a member or anything..hehehe)

It's a mistake!!

2010-07-31T09:46:00.003+08:00

Honestly, it was a B.I.G. mistakes of hiring a new staff who is a very good friend to the existing staff.

(a) The old staff is "influencing" the new staff in everyway, from going to toilet together-gether down gossipping inside the pantry together-gether

(b) New staff having lunch, old staff not feeling hungry yet, but since want to be together-gether, the new staff asks the old staff to just join her, lepaking. Being close friend and tired of working (which I doubt it), old staff join new staff for 1hr lunch. Then old staff take another 1hr of HER OWN lunch time.

Complain also no use. I'm feeling very demotivated day after day.

What's on my mind?

2010-07-28T14:07:00.006+08:00

Super boring at the office, right now, at this very moment.
I've officially confirmed a friend of mine who has the highest level of poyo-ness. Ask me to go for outing with her, and already so gan cheong setting dates, places and all, suddenly... ya. You know the ending lar, since she's like, poyo.
2 days without nescafe! aarrggghhh!!! Instructions from my beloved "trainer". To go on days without nescafe for 2 weeks. No wonder lah I feel like something's missing!
Today I wear like ah so. Time to update wardrobe!
Just got fucking stupid customer call-in and complain about our services. Stupid mother fucker! Spoil my day! Dah.. I want my nescafe! Pasal pompuan tua ni lar I'm adding in fats into my body. B****!!

Time for some colors!

2010-07-23T19:31:00.001+08:00

Hm.. this background matches both my stability ball and yoga mat... hehehe. What a coincidence!

2 updates!

2010-07-23T16:00:00.003+08:00

1. An addition to my humble home-gym equipment

TA DA~~~!!!!

6" barbell with 10kg plates on each sides

Haven't used it yet. This BB with this weight is good for dealifts. FC was out of stock when I asked for 5kg plates. Only got 1.25kg, 7.5kg and 10kg.

Definitely can't do thruster with these weights, yet. Still at the beginner's stage.

BB squats has been one of my favourite workout, but while waiting for DIY ideas to come in so that I can have a squat stand / squat rack, a Bulgarian Barbell squat or Barbell Lunges can be the another alternatives. Good for glutes and thigh muscles.

I'm still thinking of ways how to work on Inverted Rows with this BB. Usually, I'll need some stand to place the BB steadily to do this workout. It's good for my pull-ups. But in the meantime, I'll take Bata's advice to train for pull-ups : negative pull-ups and kipping pull-up.

2. Daily Muscle's Transformation Camp Workout 220710

We did the ke-ra-ziest workout yesterday. I can't even believe (till now) that I actually manage to do all these workouts without any water break. Of coz, we did it in a group, having other campers motivating each other. All I remember was huffing and puffing all the way.

This is what we did (not in order):-

50 reverse lunges

50 squats (we thought 15 squats. So happy already, till Coach Herny said, "Where got people do 15 squats?!" hahaha...)

20 Burpees

15 Jumps (we did Jumping Jacks)

20 Push Ups

60 Jumping Jacks

1 min plank (front)

20 secs side planks (each side)

45 secs run in place (high knees)

(On top of these, we did other workout before and after. I remember spiderman push-up and plank push-up after this)

We lost to White Team by few secs. Coach DM and Herny asked the White Team, what kind of punishment they wanna give us?

"1 min water break," they said. God bless their good heart! :)

And I challenge you to do this, NON-STOP.

But you know what? Though I was puffing and huffing and cursing during the workout, I always went home happy. I was in better mood, I wasn't that tired, and I feel like I've achieved what I want on that particular day. The best feeling in the whole wide world!

No, I'm not joking. I'm a sour-puss, if you don't know. hehehe....

This is the BEST fitness investment of my life so far. Worth every penny!

p.s. DM didn't pay me for promoting this. Everything is from the heart! *wink*

Tomorrow...I promise (myself)!

2010-07-17T09:47:00.005+08:00

Tomorrow... I'll go buy the damn barbell at Fitness Concept.

About time. At first, I was thinking of buying an Olympic 20kg barbell and squat stand from Pushmore. But guess what? These 2 items are enough to use up my whole month of salary!

Aiyaiyaiyai...no can do. So, I thought, I'll just buy the 6kg barbell, then load up on the plates. It comes to the same "concept of weight" right?

I mean, I'm doing 36kg barbell squat, so usually, I'll use the 20kg BB + 8kg plates (each sides). So right now, if I'm getting the 6kg BB, that means I need to have .....

30kg of plates = 10kg x 2 nos and 5kg x 2 nos.

In FC, this is their price on Rubberized Plate :

0.50kg : RM 5.10
1.25kg : RM 12.75
2.50kg : RM25.50
5kg : RM51.00
7.5kg : RM76.50
10.00kg : RM102.00

Oh man! At least RM306. Damn!

Ok. We'll see. Will keep you update!

p.s. I'm so gonna work on the thruster once I get the bb. nggeeeee.....

An interesting idea

2010-07-15T10:08:00.006+08:00

I've thought of one very interesting idea (at least to me) few days back.

I was thinking about motivation during workout and I always complain (to myself) that no friends who share the same "vision" with me when it comes to weight training. Probably I haven't found one, but in these 3 years of working-out, I've yet to come across with one.

I'm not talking about guys, coz obviously, guys are more into weight training compare to girls. And they have different vision compare to girls'. Correcto?

I mean, I don't want to be the one who gets in their way during training anyway. So better to find my own kind of girl who targetting on the same thing - muscle gain.

So suddenly, I've thought of a friend, Aizan (http://fitnessjunkiewannabe.blogspot.com/) who is basically, has really high metabolic rate, hence very difficult to gain weight, and definitely into muscle gain.

I need someone to help me with my pull-ups and definitely could use a little help on the motivation part, while she (might) needs a spotter for her barbell squat.

She said to work out the details, coz we both stay really far, and she's no longer a gym member, plus mine gonna expire soon in August 2010. So......

I guess it'll be fun! Don't you think?

Or anyone else wanna be my training partner? Feel free to join! :)

Sorry Friend

2010-07-08T09:34:00.005+08:00

Recently I have made whatever-name-under-the-sky friends lists in FB. My main point is to categorize friends and I get to choose whoever can see my wall. And also to protect my privacy over the internet.

I just dunno why, throughout the years as I grow up, there is always some petty little human who just....I dunno, hate me? Maybe I am really that a bitch. *shrug*

There is actually one person who likes to report to my mom about what I said about my status. It's not that I tell people about the darkest secrets or whatever. I still know what can be said and what can't be said over the internet. But the way that this person reporting to my mom, it's like she got nothing else better to do than going around backstabbing and gossipping about people.

Plus, I can honestly tell you that, whatever I said in my status, my mom knows it. Literally. She definitely knows what happened in my life and giving me the best-est advice as a mom can gives.

So if you see that you can no longer see my wall post, it means I've already blocked you from involving in my life. It's better that you mind your business anyway. Very sorry. And if you think that you wanna remove me from your friends' list, please go ahead. Then I'll know that you are not worth being my friend.

This is definitely my motto, how I survive in my life. I do not treat people badly unless people treats me that way. Period.

I've joined!!

2010-06-30T15:11:00.006+08:00

DM's Body Transformation Camp!!!

Eeeyeap...you heard it right. :)

If you were given a choice, which one will you choose?

(a) Signing up for Personal Training sessions at commercial gym which priced at RM100 per session (and believe me, you'll need at least 24-36 sessions in order to see results)?

(b) Slimming centre where you'll need to fork out at least few thousands to shed those pounds?

(c) DM's camp at RM297 for unlimited sessions in a month with him, with weekly coaching program and curi his fitness tips?

No prize for guessing right which I've chosen!

In case you are wondering what this is all about, head over to this website : http://www.dailymuscle.com/transformationcamp/ and read more about it. Definitely for people who want to lose weight and get lean, people like me!

Mind you, it's not the Australia Military-Inspired Bootcamp that goes Hooyah! and need you to wake up so super early in the morning type of bootcamp. It's totally different; first off, you don't need to wake up so early. The session starts at 6:30pm - 7:30pm at ... get this ... Taman Rimba Kiara park!

I dunno about you, but this place is near to my house. *widest grin* And I've actually discussed with my boss about starting work at 9am so that I can get off at 6pm and join DM's camp by 630pm. She agreed!

I can go on about this but I'll just leave to DM's website to explain all about this.

So friggin' excited!

Oh! In case you are wondering, you can sign up now so that you can start training next Tuesday 6 July 2010 with me! (chhheeeaaaa...)

p.s. DM can consider give me some commission for promoting his camp. *wink*

I get really cranky when...

2010-06-30T09:30:00.004+08:00

I got stucked in the jam. Really wasting a hell lot of my time. Never fail to make me wonder how will it be if I were at my hometown at 8pm. I'd have had my dinner 1.5 hours before, watching tv, lepaking with my friends and so forth. No stress.
People, whom I think should work harder than me, work less than me. (I'm not gonna elaborate further. Sensitive issue.)
People expect so much from me when the fact that I only have 2 hands with 1 brain.

I'm tired being me.

Will the real bitch E.L. please stand up?

2010-06-23T10:48:00.005+08:00

She is the most fucking perasan old hag in the world that I have ever seen. She got worse as time goes by. Still think so friggin highly of herself. Still always think she's always right.

I think she's blind.

I think she's bloody stupid too. People at her super old age should be able to read other people's body language easier than younger people. Some more in sales and marketing line, where you meet a lot of people and you can decipher their facial expression. Buat malu orang sales jer. Buat malu kaum jer.

Know why I said that?

On that day, I didn't want to acknowledge her existence when she walked past me, mainly because I hate her to guts!

But you know what she said to other people? The old pathetic bitch said that I felt guilty (for not looking at her) for what I've scolded her 2 years ago.

Ppppffftttttt!!!!

I wonder what kind of species in this world that can actually think of this kind reason just to make herself feel good? I really wonder.

She's beyond repair.

Can somebody just slap her for me? Thank you very much.

And I thank whoever that create blogs because I can actually tell the world about this super dense, narcisist, egoistic old woman.

And she can't attack me coz how the hell she knows I'm talking about her anyway?

Siapa makan cili, dia lah terasa pedas. nnngeeehhhhhh......

WOD 220610

2010-06-22T22:08:00.004+08:00

*writing with trembling fingers and body*
*so tired that I could fall asleep in just a sec*

Note : Follow Pushmore's WOD 220610
Note 2 : Did it at home. Finally bought a skipping rope

Warm Up
30 double unders

Real Stuff
Every minute, on every minute, for 20 minutes do :
7 Handstand Push Ups
7 Kettlebell Swings @ 32kg / 20kg

My record :
Results : 10 rounds of :
7 Push Ups (sub for HSPU)
7 Dumbell Swings @ 10kg (sub for KB)

*sleep*

I know it's been a while

2010-06-17T22:39:00.004+08:00

2 weeks of eat-whatever-I-want since my mom is here.
2 weeks of not-go-to-gym. :(

My life is a bit kelam-kabut lately, so that is why I didn't update my blog. I've got a lot to talk about, but believe me, I have an instinct that it's kinda dangerous to just spill everything here.

My new mid-year resolution (chea...got such thing meh?) will be going back to my workout routine of 3 days a week. Can't stand not seeing the definition on my abs anymore. bbwaahhhh!!!!! All my 2 years of training going down in the drain.

That is why I am waiting so super anxiously for Daily Muscle's Body Transformation Camp. Launch it already!! hehehe.....

About time

2010-06-13T11:18:00.001+08:00

That this blogspot comes up with new design.

Don't really have much time exploring the layout. So I'll just roughly cincai-ly choose whatever I think is nice at the mo.

so fast give up??!

2010-06-07T23:10:00.002+08:00

Almost.

The thing that I always hate about this job is that I always have to beg.

Internal customer, I have to beg to get my things done. I have to smile even when talking over the phone just to please them so that they'll get my things done. (In this job, I have to go through different department to get my things done. I don't really prefer this, unless people are really cooperative enough. I just dunno why the hell I went back to my old company, which I have left 2 years ago)

External customer, you kena maki hamun also you have put on a smile face in front of them. For me, I don't give a damn. Recently I dealt with a super biatch who has been repeating the same fucking sentences in front me ever since I met her a month ago : "I am an architect you know? Don't fool me. I've been in the industry for 20 years!" So? A D.I.P.L.O.M.A architect only. I got a degree which you don't know! Just go and see yourself in the mirror lah. Don't be such a brag!

I am an extremely impatient woman and this thing grows stronger and stronger in me day after day. That is why I always job hop. nggeeeeee
I know it's not good.
I don't like it either.

But I can't help it.

Let's see how long I can stand this.

Deep down, I knew I just shouldn't accept this offer at the very first place.

Work here one time is enough to expose myself to the ugly politics, favouritism, people with working attitude problem and bla bla bla.

Period.

Days at Bali

2010-05-31T18:28:00.011+08:00

2nd night @ Kudeta.

1st expensive and luxurious restaurant we went to which is facing the ocean.

3 beef burfer and 1 salmon salad, 4 drinks, costs us Rp1mil++ = RM380++.

Go one time enough.

3rd day afternoon at Kudeta Beach, after having my salmon salad.

The expensive lunch remember?

3rd night at Alila, Uluwatu.

The most nicest place I've ever been too.

I think this place won architecture awards. Everything is recycled.

2nd most expensive restaurant we went to. Also cost us more than Rp1mil for 4 person.

The other part of Alila.

Hanging lounge, facing the ocean.

Gave you insect repellent spray and body lotion, fan and

some appetizers. All FREE!

Bloody small portion of ayam kampung.

My bf's meal was even worse. Ordered lamb like the size of 2 pingpong balls.

Nicely designed toilet. It's practically "open".

You just lean forward to the water, and try peeping people peeing in the next cubicle.

You can't.

At one of the cantilevered and hanging lounge at Alila

4th day full-swing tour : 1st stop - Monkey Forest.

Macam siot jer the sleeping style.

Makan kutu, tidur kutu, hidup kutu!

I'm gonna repeat again.

It's the cut-throat Ubud Market (after we went to Monkey Forest)

Ubud

Next stop : Mount Batur. The Volcano.

Having buffet lunch there. Rp88k per person + 21% tax.

Drinks not included.

Breezy over there. And nice view.

Mount Batur

Next stop at night @ Jimbaran. Ordered Crab Package of Rp500 for 2pax.

Got 30% discount, and they calculated only 1 set of Crab Package,

but we ordered 2 sets of Crab Package.

Cool huh?

@ Jimbaran

Last day, swimming at the villa.

Leaving with super heavy luggage. 18kg!
Of course not all was my stuffs.
Some were my bf's. Like toiletries.

Went to this crappy spa after checking out.

The very last stop before heading to airport.

Bali for Dummies

2010-05-30T11:01:00.023+08:00

The more travelling I do, the more dos and donts I will learnt. Remember the blogpost about bad lucks are always upon us whenever we travel?

Read it here : http://dutchess1204.blogspot.com/2009/08/top-5-1-list-of-most-disastrous-road.html

Well. It's a road trip. And travelling by plane is considered a trip as well, no? Here goes.

Bali for Dummies

1. Always, always (and never assume) check and make sure that your passport is valid at least 6 months from your travel date. You'll never want to end up paying extra for the air ticket again, and going through the hassle renewing your passport during weekend.

In case you were wondering. Yea. My friend, Ridhwuan (the bald head guy), assuming that his passport still can be used for this trip. His passport expires in Sept 2010. 5 months only. I can still remember his face when the airline officer told him that his passport is not valid to travel.

So yeah. That's the bad luck that I'm talking about. We left him, including his girlfriend, to settle everything in KL and kept on telling him that he must come no matter what, and that we will be waiting for him to do our plans.

Sunday was his battling day (we left on Saturday afternoon), from waking up at 630am, going to immigration, waited for his passport for 2 hours, then went straight to LCCT to buy another tix to Bali. He arrived Bali on Sunday night.

Phew!! Crazy ain't it? I know. hahaha!

Don't let your gf travel alone because of an expired passport.

See how sad she looks?

The Passport-Expired-Face of The Year. hehe...

2. If you intend to have a luxurious holiday trip rather than an adventurous trip, by all means, go stay at villa that comes with swimming pool. Because when you've already splurged on the accommodation, you tend to cut down on other things ie rafting, surfing, swimming with dolphins etc.

So I didn't get to do rafting and surfing during my trip there. :( but deep down, I was scared of the waves. It wasn't high, but it was "fierce". It'll cost me approximately RM110 for a 2hrs lesson. Tempting to do it, but people over there are soooo aggresive. The minute you walk to the beach, everyone is squirming around you in no minute, asking you to buy this, but that.

And they actually sat with you, next to you, when you settle down for a quiet suntan, an kept on persuading you to buy. Like so annoying, really. Arrgghh!

3. If you wanna have a quiet day by the beach, suntanning, without perverts looking at you, go to Ku De Ta beach. Not Kuta ya, it's Ku De Ta. Another luxury restaurant, full of tourists, which is facing the beach.

I was surprised that the locals there are so much more pervert compare to locals at Thai. At least, the Thais look at you like you are one of the mat sallehs in bikinis that they've seen everyday. No big deal. Locals in Bali reminds me of those illegal immigrants from my hometown. See girls and they go, "Phewit" "Hello" and stuffs like that.

4. If you wanna look for cheap souveniers, don't buy at Ubud Market or Tanah Lot. Go to Geneva, a laid-back so-called mall, where they sell things cheap, even though you can't nego. At Ubud Market or Tanah Lot, they start their price super high. By the time you nego to half of the price, it's still expensive compare to Geneva, and you think that you're the best negotiator in the world after the purchase. But it's not.

For example, at Ubud, I was looking for slippers for my sisters and mom, and the lady started her price at Rp30k and the last price she gave me will be Rp25k, just because I bought 4 pairs. On our last day, we went to Geneva, and saw that the same slippers sold at Rp17k!! Without you having to negotiate!!

So, a lesson learnt. Next time must remember if I go there again.

This is the cut-throat Ubud Market

me with my super round face

p.s. I'll add more pics in my next post coz blogspot has really friggin complicated and non-user-friendly format. Add in new pics after typing my post will make all my sentences go haywire. What la! Do you guys experience the same thing? I've been editing this post for 3 effin' days now, just because of inserting pics after typing my post.

Bali comes in just at the right time

2010-05-19T12:58:00.002+08:00

I had 1 problem in my new company.

I can't say much in here coz I'm suspecting my colleagues and bosses know about my blog. But I just want to say that Bali comes in at the perfect time.

10 more sleeps!

2010-05-11T12:08:00.004+08:00

And I'll be heading to Bali. eeee!! Can't wait!

Bikini. Half check.

I've bought 3 already, but I think I'm gonna wear 2 coz it's the bandeau type. The other 1 is the triangle type. I don't want to end up with different tan line. So, this time, I'll be wearing the bandeau type. Very cheap only. I won't spend hundreds on a bikini. Crazy.

1 more bikini, which I've targetted at Forever21, which my friend will buy it for me today at Pavillion. Hopefully still have my size. *fingers crossed*

New slippers. Check. (And it's pink! So not me but nvm lah...)

Dress. Not yet.

Hm...so I guess I'm not quite ready yet. But then again. Everything will be just shorts, sleeveless top, some dresses and bikinis. I just can't wait to check out the villa that we are staying. It is definitely a splurge for the whole trip, so we'll just gonna tone down on other stuffs.

I thought I might wanna learn surfing over there, but looking at the price, I think I'll pass lah. Next time lah.

Check out the villa. Now you know what I mean by the splurge + can't wait.

The Club Villa @ Seminyak entrance

~~Cum~~ Comes with private pool

Imagining sun-tanning here. Heaven!

Da Room

Like go honeymoon pulak. hahaha......

Still adjusting

2010-04-29T17:25:00.004+08:00

I'm still adjusting my time right now, with my new working hour.

Johnathan from Pushmore already agreed to allow me to renew 1 more month instead of their standard package, which is 6 months.

Problem is, I still couldn't figure out when is the best time to go to Pushmore. Before work or after? Initially, the whole reason of me requesting for 1 month membership renewal was to try to do their WOD before work. See how my "energy" will be after working out.

But now.....waking up so early in the morning is like so impossible.

Ya. I know.

Nothing is impossible.

You see ar.

0730 - wake up & get ready to go Pushmore

0800 - reach Pushmore, warm-up, do WOD

0900 - MUST leave Pushmore no matter what to go back home, (15mins), and shower (20-30mins) (unless I shower at their place? Save time right?)

1000 - MUST reach office at Sunway

Apa macam? Kinda rushing right?

Unless.....

I wake up at 7am and reach Pushmore at 730, ngam-ngam they open.

I bet Lynn doesn't even have the WOD ready by 730. Right? *shrug*

If after work ....

1900 - Off work, back home, shower

1945 - Dinner

At least 1 hour of rest for me before workout

2100 - Go Pushmore and warm-up and WOD

2200 - Pushmore closes!!

aiyyyerrrrr.....pening pening......

Better I set up my own Pushmore at home lah! hahahha...no lah. Joking.

Nevermind.

I'll start training myself to wake up early.

Then we'll see from there.

New Record

2010-04-21T22:37:00.007+08:00

I can, amazingly, run for 11m30s non-stop, at a speed of 7.0km/h!

I never, never thought that I can do it in my whole life, coz :-

I always blame on my asthma for causing me my low and bad stamina.
My legs are weak. I always feel the burning sensation after running for 2 full mins.
I hate running. Yes. I really do. Don't ever mention marathon to me.

So, why I ran today?

Coz I think running is the fastest way to sweat (and burn fats) compare to cycling or doing the EFX, though the calorie-burning is just about the same. Do correct me if I'm wrong.

But really. I was so impressed with myself that I can actually ran for full 11mins and I know that I can actually run some more. But I just decided to stop. I think it's because of what I told my mind, like what kind of thoughts to put into my brain.

One voice said : Very tired. Cannot run anymore.

Second voice said : Let's see if I can run 1.6km non-stop (just like one of Pushmore's WOD). So don't stop.

One voice said again : Legs are burning. I can stop running la actually. I've ran more than what I usually did.

Second voice said again : Let's see if I can "burn off" the McDonald's McChicken that I had for lunch today (a treat from my boss actually. I can't say no right? Though I did say it, but she thought I was joking. So ended up buying McD for all of us)

So, I stopped at 1.45km for the time of approximately 13m30s (2 mins earlier was a brisk-walk warm-up). Pretty good eh?

My previous record was running at a speed of 9km/h for max of 5mins, but I usually stopped at the 3rd minute.

Whether my stamina has improved or what, I just want to thank 2 persons/groups :-

Pushmore, for sticking to their motto of Faster, Fitter and Stronger. I've definitely grown fitter, if not faster and stronger. :)
DM @ Daily Muscle for his FREE BRS. I try my best to follow his tips ie purposely go all the way to Body Basics @ Bangsar Shopping Complex to buy Melrose Fish Oil. I still fail at the protein intake part. hehehe......

I'll try to run again tomorrow. I really need to shed off those fats before Bali.

how much?

2010-04-21T16:57:00.004+08:00

I wonder how much calories I have burnt yesterday, standing, sweating, walking at site from 1:30pm till 8:00pm?

By the time I reached home, I was just too tired to do anything. So yesterday was my "couch potato" day. I just want to sit and relax after my dinner.

So tired.

On a "Break"

2010-04-19T22:20:00.003+08:00

Not going to Pushmore at the moment because :-

(1) My membership has expired last week

(2) No money to renew the membership

(3) Trying to adjust the time at Pushmore with my new job (yeah. You'll know me long enough that I'm a fan of job-hop..hehehhe)

My new job starts at 10am. I thought of going to Pushmore in the morning, but I notice that, everytime I went for their WOD in the evening, I ended up being so tired and just feel like hitting the sack. So, if I go there in the morning, I really wonder if I got enough energy to work till 7pm.

Going there after work is kinda out of my question. Thanks to the distance and traffic from work to home and vice versa. Plus, I feel like resting after a hard day's work. Plus, Pushmore closes at 10pm. A bit too early coz to me, it's either working out in the morning or a bit late at night.

I just feel like, if I work out in the morning, I will have plenty of time after work to do other stuffs ie freelance, socialising, movie etc. It's like, everytime after morning workout, I get this thinking that I'm "free" to do whatever I want and that I've "earned the hardwork" to have fun or relax and feels like I have the time of the world to do anything! It feels good actually. Really. Coz I've tried before.

Well....just gotta find out if I'm fit enough to go there in the morning. Soon. When I get my next pay cheque.

In the meantime, I'm just gonna jog till I shed some fats, nice enough to wear bikini at Bali this coming May. :)

Bruise for 6 months

2010-04-13T19:17:00.006+08:00

Played paintball last Sunday with friends. Well, actually know only 2 friends from that 21-ppl group. hehhe....

Maybe that is why this 1 guy bantai me so geng. Till the marshall said that my bruise is gonna take 6 months to recover.

No more sleeveless for me.

No more tube top for me.

Damn that guy.

We were playing the last game where you'll just shot till the bullets finished. Even though you got shot, you'll just stay on if you still have bullets. So I shot him first, few close-shots (hehe) and I aimed for other people to shoot.

I ran to this one balloon-thingy to hide but was totally "open" and viewable from his back. Which means, if he turns around, he'll see me and he can shoot me. But logic lah ok? He has already shot me after I shot him. Fair lah. Coz we wanna finish our bullets.

Then after a while, I thought I wanna ran to other balloon to hide, before he'll lost his sense and wanna shoot me again, but I couldn't, coz there was another guy hiding just in front of me.

Damn lah, I thought.

And just as I thought, when he ran out of people to shoot, he turned around and shot me at a very damn close distance. 3 shots, I remember. It was too painful, that at the 3rd shot, I raised my hand as a sign to ask him to stop shooting me.

Really kanasai, I tell you. Girl also you wanna hit so many times. Serves you right that I shot you so many as well. Wish you'll have bruises like me.

So I went home with 6 super painful bruises, with one particularly painful, on my right arm. Uuuggghhhh....!!

The round bullet shape is sooooo obvious.

This is on my 2nd day after the shot.

Another shot at left thigh

One more on my right waist

No more ~~sexy~~ sleeveless clothes for me :(

WOD 120410

2010-04-13T09:42:00.006+08:00

In 15 minutes, do as many rounds as possible of :-

10 Pull Ups @ Green Band
15 Push Ups
20 Squats
Results : 6 rounds

Me doing squat

No FB

2010-04-09T15:59:00.001+08:00

Today is my first day of No-FB-At-Office.

ZZZZZzzzzzzz............

WOD 070410

2010-04-08T09:29:00.004+08:00

Press 3-3-3 @ 20kg, 21kg, 22kg

Then,

"Helen"

Three rounds of time for :-

Run 400m

21 KB Swings @ 12kg

12 Pull Ups @ 1 Green + 1 Red Band

Results : 20m17s

*sigh* Now my shoulder is in pain. Legs are ok already. Could be from the KB swings. Damn it was heavy! There are really differences in between KB swings and DB swings. KB's effect is sooo much more. And the trainers over there love to push us to the max. I guess that's the whole point of PUSH-MORE!!

Me doing press @ 22kg

KB swing @ 12kg (This is the culprit to my shoulder-ache!)

Pushmore WOD 050410

2010-04-06T10:12:00.005+08:00

Yesterday's WOD was :

5 rounds of :-

30 Double Unders (I switched to Tuck Jump. Still need to brush-up Double Unders' skill. I think I'll finish 2 hrs by just mastering this skill....nggeeee)

20 Sit Ups

10 Pull Ups (I changed to 1 Green + 1 Red band now, but I think it's much easier to do pull-up than using the Orange band. I think the sequence from most support to the least support is Orange, Green then Red)

Results : Freakin' 34m24s (God, am I taking such a sweet time!) Honestly, I think I can do better. At least half of the time. I'm taking too much time at the Tuck Jump. Jump 10, then rest. Then jump another 10. See how many time I've wasted. Damn........

Some really fit guys came in during my 3rd round and they finished so much earlier than me!! With friggin' 10mins only!! Goodness.....they are sooooo damn fit I tell you. I think I was the worst last night.

Actually, I felt dizzy after the workout. Probably from the Tuck Jump. Plus, my last meal was lunch (I went there right after work around 6pm). Felt better after I went out and took some fresh air with 100-plus. Some sugar for me.

People kept on asking if I'm ok. I'm not begging for attention lah weyh, if that's what you think. hehehe......One guy even asked if yesterday was my 1st day. hahaaha....I'm that fit. Damn.

Now my legs are sore. Thought today wanna go, but tak larat. I even snoozed my alarm for God knows how many time this morning. Couldn't bring myself to wake up. *yaawwwnnnn*

Pushmore WOD 290310 and 310310

2010-04-02T14:38:00.005+08:00

I might as well keep a record on my workout at Pushmore.

29-March-2010

For time of :-
15 Push Jerks @ 20kg
30 Pull Ups (with the help of "Orange" resistance band. Otherwise I can't do it.)
10 Push Jerks
20 Pull Ups
5 Push Jerks
10 Pull Ups

Note : My hand is still not strong enough to do pull-ups. I keep on main tipu. My chin didn't go past the bar. hehhehe.... didn't know it didn't count, but when the trainer reminded me that my chin must past the bar, I was already at my last set. hehehehe...next time lah.

31-March-2010

Back Squat 5-5-5 @ 20kg, 30kg, 35kg

Then,

Run 1.6km @ 12m30s

I know. I'm very bad at running. hehehe..

And today's workout, 02-April-2010, is :

Deadlift 3-3-3

Then,

In 15 minutes, complete as many rounds as possible of :-
10 Handstand Push Ups
20 Walking Lunges

I wonder how am I gonna do handstand push ups. Guess I'll never know coz I won't be going to Pushmore today. Gotta go church since it's Good Friday today, then tonight, will be going for badminton.

I'll try to go at least 3 times to Pushmore next week. Always can't go there on Thursday night as I have other training to go. So, Mon and Tues will be workout day, then Wed will be rest day, then Friday another workout day.

We'll see how I progress from there next week. Which is also my final week to go there. If want to continue, have to top-up. Gakk!!!!

Another sigh

2010-04-01T22:44:00.001+08:00

I, again, officially hate my job.

I just can't seem to settle down with 1 job long enough. *sigh*
Tomorrow will be another long day.
ssiiiiggggghhh.............

Sick

2010-03-27T10:40:00.004+08:00

*sigh* been sick since 3 days ago.
And I feel so funny right now.
Dunno how to describe.
Sleepy? Tingling? Cold? Hmmm.....
Maybe because of the meds.

Running nose is worse than flu.
I keep on blowing my nose every 5 minutes that I can make a whole 10 bowls of wantan!
I know. Gross. hehehe.....

Just woke up but I still feel sleepy.
Why ar?

Where is my destiny?

2010-03-23T16:06:00.006+08:00

Seriously.

Where the hell is my destiny? This is really depressing. You know, all my life, I've met a lot of Sagitarrians and I can tell you that, 90% of them are these successful lots.

Like, really, super successful.

One guy I know is only 35 years old and he already owned a RM2.2mil bungalow lot, driving a Ferrari, plus other leisure cars like BMW X5, Alphard, Mercedez AMG and wife is driving a Mercedez B170.

One lady I know is only 25 years old and she's earning 5 digit wages right now, as I type.

Another guy is a director of a very established local company, driving a Lexus Harrier company car, owning another VW Touareg, and wife is driving Gold GTI. And of course staying in a bungalow right now.

So who is the balance-10% of the non-successful Sagitarrians?

Y.O.U.R.S. T.R.U.L.Y.

I'm like, in dying need of a guardian angel right now.

Or fairy.

Or lucky charm.

Or fortune teller.

Whatever.

Body aching after Pushmore

2010-03-08T12:02:00.008+08:00

So I went for a FOC trial workout at Pushmore last Saturday (finally!). Met with cute Jon (*wink) for intro and met the "kind" trainer, Lin, who was my trainer for the day.

She wasn't that strict and fierce and all lar. Very good in motivating me. Very petite but has muscular, tone thigh, which I really love. Would love to have some definition on my thigh as well.

I started with a series of warm-up exercise. She said it's a warm-up. To me, more of like a start-of-workout! Leaving me breathless was what I remember. Yea. I am really weak when it comes to stamina.

Warm-Up

1. Skipping (long time never skip. So embarassing! hahaha! I was too busy breathing that I forgot how to count. I think Lin asked me to skip 50 times. Enough to start to perspire and get my heart beat increasing)

2. (Bodyweight squat - Sit up - Push Up on toe - Figure-8 stretching (or something like that) - Leg stretching) x 3 sets

Honestly, do you really call these a warm-up?

Now come the serious stuffs (which maybe a piece of cake for u fitness guys out there. Sap sap sui lar...)

Lin said that I have to complete these exercises as much sets as possible within 10 minutes. So I thought, 10 mins = 3 sets. Ok lar. Mana tau~~~~~~

I actually didn't know what to expect when she told me to do that. I just thought of 3 sets. I dunno what is considered the "target sets" for 10 mins, and I didn't bother to ask coz I was too breathless at the warm up stage.

And so, I have to do [(Jumping Pull-Ups x 5 reps) + (Push Up on toe x 10 reps) + (Bodyweight squats x 15 reps)] = To finish off within 10 mins.

When I was at my 3rd sets, I thought, this isn't even 5 mins! I've got soooooo much to go! And I'm so breathless! And I wanna give up! All sorts of negativity threw into my mind at that very moment.

Lin said, "You've got 5 more minutes to go. Go go go, Adeline, go!"

Uuggghhhhh. Have to do lar kan? hehehe....

At my 4th sets, I couldn't do 10 push up anymore. My hands failed on me. Then Lin told me to split my push-up 4-3-3. All she needs is good form, she said. Ok fair enough. But I remember I asked her, "Can I do push-up on knee?" with all puppy-eyes and all. hehehe..

She said, "You've already done on toes. Just continue doing it. You can do it."

Damn.

Oh no. Never in my mind that I want to strangle her. I swear!

When I was at my 5th sets, I thought, this is the last sets, thank God! Sekali tengok, Lin said I've got 1 more min to go. Aiyyaa... and that's when she said, actually, we need you to achieve 6 sets. Wah. Now only you tell me?

Suddenly, all my energy came out of nowhere when she shouted, "Come on Adeline! You've got 30 more secs to do push up and squats! You can do it!! Last sets!"

I was sooooo pushing myself doing push-up and squats and finally.........

Right on time, with completion of 6 sets of crazy workout within 10 mins!!! Phew!

So damn proud of myself lar. Felt like I've broken the Olympic World record. hahahha!!!

But really.

A damn good workout.

Felt so good about myself.

They are having Open Day on March 13 & 27 at 930am, 1030am and 1130am. Check out their blog : http://pushmore.blogspot.com/ for more info.

Went back home for an hour sleep (too tired!) and I woke up the very next day with bodyache and sores all over my body, from my back to my butt to my hamstring and calves.

Now I walk kaki kangkang, esp when walking down the stairs. Haih.

Updates! (erm..more like an emo updates)

2010-03-07T22:07:00.009+08:00

Hm....3 weeks since I last updated my blog. So many stuffs to do since I came back from CNY holiday. It's so weird that, I always feel 24 hrs a day is more than enough when I am at hometown, but I always wish there were 48 hrs a day when I'm at KL.

1. I am not busy with work. Yea lucky me. But not lucky in terms of the financial part. Life's like that. No easy money.

2. I am always stress when I think about the M word. Yea. Money. Moolah. Malaysia Ringgit. Yea. You get the idea. There are like 8573910585743 stuffs in my mind lately and all is M-related problems. I might be doing 3 different jobs at the same time, but I feel like, I can't hold on any longer. First off, doing something that I don't like is like pulling me out of my bed at 3am in the morning. Doing things half-heartedly. So the results are also never satisfying. But somehow, I feel like I just have to stay on to see results. But how long do I have to stay? 1 month? 6 months? 1 year? 3 years? Do you think I can wait that long to see that I'm moving towards financial freedom, knowing that I'm almost reaching the big 3 age?

3. Quarter-life crisis is such a headache. I've lost my direction (and still am!) when I was 25 yrs old. I still can't find "me" along the way. It's like, so impossible to get that "Balance of Life". I only remember some of the elements in life where you need to find the balance among all. Too much of one thing will lead you losing another.

For example, one may be working really hard and spending all the nights and weekends at the office to earn money. At that point, he/she may be earning more than RM10k per month, but little did he/she knows that he/she has neglected friends and family along the way. At the end of the day, one may have all the money in the world, but end up being lonely.

If you are the friends-and-family type of person, you might not be the one who is willing to work hard for the money and at the end of the day, you are living only at an average life.

So, the question is, how to balance your life?

That, I also don't have the answer till now.

God!! Another show off!

2010-02-19T01:49:00.009+08:00

Really. Do you really wanna inform E.V.E.R.Y.O.N.E in the FB whenever you got cash bank into your account from your MLM or Networking or Pyramid or whatyermamacallit?

I know that it's part of your marketing technique to ask people to join under you. And you wannna thank God for all the rezeki that you've got. Believe me, once or twice bragging are ok, but definitely not everyday!

I really don't get it. These people are actually taking picture of THEIR RM50 MONEY, in like, 50pcs of it, and actually arranged them in a circle manner and post it in FB! I'm like, WTF??!! Are they like, inviting all the burglars to break into their house?? Korang ni kaya sangat lah tu eyk?

I never see rich people posting their oh-so-many-zeros statement account in the FB. They'll just show it off with their luxurious property, super nice cars and etc etc. Not through some bunch of RM50 notes and tag people. Goodness!!!!

Korang ni, kalau lah nak tunjuk kaya pun, not this way man! Ini namanye orang kaya-wannabe bodoh, tau tak?? Nak show off, biar berpadah-padah. Humble sikit. Jangan nak show off melebih-lebih!

Eeeeeeekkkkkk!!!!! Geram tul!!!!

Screw it! It's my blog and I have my right to say what I want. Saper yang terasa boleh blar. Tima kasih.

Random Thoughts

2010-02-15T15:37:00.005+08:00

Really. I really notice and observe that there are really, extremely, incredibly lotsa poyo people out there.

It could really be my problem since I'm quite a judgemental person compare to my boyfriend. (Ya, another bad side of me) But lately, I notice that other people talks bad about their friends too. It's like, in front, they are like so we-can-basically-talk-about-everything-and-anything-under-the-sky with the person, but behind - yup, you've guessed it - backstab like nobody's business. In Malay, it's called talam dua muka. Sometimes, I really wonder if they talk behind my back, since they can do that to their friends in front of me.

And I really loathe those people who loves to show-off. I mean, who doesn't? I understand that people loves flattery and sometimes, in order to gain that flattery, you might need to show-off a bit so that people will go "oooohhhh....you can do this. Amazing!!" or "wah....never knew that you're into this kind of out-of-ordinary interest" and etc etc. I mean, we do talk like that but there are times when you flatter people sincerely and other times will be merely out-of-politeness-I'm-nodding-my-head-as-a-sign-that-I'm-listening-but-actually-I'm-not.

Most of the time, I'd rolled my eyes whenever I see people who's showing-off their status in FB. Amazing, isn't it, that FB has brought us to a whole new level whereby you don't need to keep-in-touch with your friends but yet you still know what they are doing, including showing-off. I don't know about you, but I'll usually just keep quiet and not commenting anything. (Hm...maybe that's why there aren't any comments in some of my FB status...hehehe)

Well, this is just my thought. Blame it on myself for being so effin free on CNY. I've even logged on FB for like, few times in just half a day. What the hell am I doing at home on CNY when I should be lepaking with friends?

Easy. Coz there aren't any nice place to lepak at my small hometown.

B-O-R-E-D is the exact word, and H-O-T.

Hm...I feel like wasting some money, but unfortunately, there aren't any shopping malls for me to go at my small hometown.

Ah...how pathetic.

1 more item for 2010 resolution

2010-02-14T13:40:00.001+08:00

I won't target so high until I've tried FRAN and see how far I can go. I wonder how long it takes for these girls to do FRAN and still not out of breath. Amazing!!

Plus, I'm planning for some beach trips in April and end of the year. And since I'm kinda slow in my workout, I think it's high time for me to get someone to motivate me, again.

Pretty amazing if I can actually do this...seriously! I would love to be like the girl in black top and short pants. *wide grin* Such a solid abs. Man!

No Like Myself

2010-02-11T11:50:00.007+08:00

I really hate myself and my brain :-

For thinking so much whenever I'm free, especially at work. (whoops..kantoi)

When think too much, I tend to be ungrateful towards what God has planned for my life, even though I have everything. (not everything as in like an Audi, 3-storey-6000sf-bungalow, but I have a car that can still run and a humble place for shed)

When I am ungrateful, I tend to think of doing other stuffs (which I don't like but have high returns) but deep down, I know I have my undying love towards interior design, even to this day. But why don't pursue in interior design then, you must've asked? Because I am a very impatient person who likes to go for shortcut (duh!) and climb up the corporate ladder fast. Been leaving ID for 5 years now and to go back the path and get a freshie salary which is totally not enough to pay all the current bills (when you first started work, you don't have that much bills to pay), I just have to think twice. Passion or Money?

So when I think of doing other stuffs, without thinking any further (I'm a rather impulsive thinker), I'll make a call to that particular person who is working in the high-return-and-rewarding industry and tell them that I wanna join them. (So happen that the industry is actually always looking for new agressive blood)

And when I join them, add on with my hot-hot-chicken-shit attitude, usually it'll last me only few weeks, and I'll get all fickle-minded and become lazy and change my mind again. Which is kinda surprised me when I can actually join a commercial gym for 2 years (and actually make full use of it rather than just blindly pay for it and not going) and still going strong. Anyway, back to the story.

So now, I believe that particular person will want to strangle me for having this backing-out thoughts, because believe me, this is not the first time I join them and back-out and change and join them back again.

That's why I hate myself and my brain.

I'm so full of shit, ain't I?

Ya. Totally aware of it.

So, when one is impatient, it will lead to doing other not-interested-but-higher-pay job to achieve one target, and forgo other components of life which were once make her life complete.

Yup. Another bad elements of me : Negativity is my best friend.

Thank you for the technology!

2010-02-06T14:45:00.008+08:00

And now I can eat more again after :

1. Taking the test from www.scientificphysic.com/fitness/diet.html, which kinda proof everything, especially now that I know where I stand in terms of the body fat % and minimum calorie intake of 1714 per day. I can do that. 1714 calorie/day is not hard, provided I eat healthily, since my knowledge in diet really sucks, even after all these years. hehehe....

Measured on Feb 6, 2010, 1:00p.m.

Source : http://www.scientificphysic.com/fitness/diet.html

So, according to the chart from the website :

(a) My BMI is under Normal Weight category

Bata, I know you said don't count the BMI, so I'm not. The chart came up with the BMI, can't help it. hehe....

(b) Waist-to-Height ratio is Normal

(c) My percentage body fat falls under Fitness category,which automatically bring smiles to my face. See if I can go for the Athlete category, which is between 14-20%.

(d) Lean Body Mass : Not much being explained in the web, so I'm not sure where I stand in this. So, went to another website and said that my ideal Lean Body Mass will be 50kg, rather than now, 39.7kg. Hm...gotta gain another 10kg of muscles. How to do that huh? That'll be another story already.

So, all in all, I'm quite happy with the results, but most definitely need to watch my diet, coz people don't simply say "You are what you eat" for no apparent reason. :)

2. Talking to 2 trainers, to be exact, last night and one of them actually showed me an article he wrote about how to lose fat, rather than lose weight. (www.fitnutritions.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=10)

I know it sounds really funny, but somehow, when I weighed myself last night, I was not happy with my weight, coz I know how I look like if I someday reach 53kg, pure fats and without any growth of muscle mass. I know I wasn't suppose to look at the scale, but for the spur of the moment, I just somehow can't control my emotions. Some more been in the gym for 2 years! Ppfffttt! Shame on me!

Guess it grows on me, since people around me are so used to getting on the weighing scale to see what their weight are, rather than focusing on the body fat percentage instead.

I can't stop smiling. hehehe.......

Bring the food to momma~~!! (I promise I'll watch what I eat. Don't worry. *wink*)

GONG XI FA CHAI,
YOU CHINESE PEOPLE OUT THERE!

HAPPY HOLIDAY,

YOU NON-CHINESE PEOPLE OUT THERE!

My mini-home gym

2010-02-02T10:45:00.006+08:00

Ta-da~~~!!!!!!

Oh well...it was nothing much, but more than enough to have my workout done at home. *wide grin* It was really cool, you know, since I save up my time travel to gym, avoid all the starings, (not saying that I'm hot or whatsoever, but people tend to look at you if you are the only lady working out at the free weights area a.k.a male-dominated area), avoid from waiting to use any of the dumbells or barbells or empty area and now, I can do whatever workout which I think is quite embarassing to do it at public. hehehe.....

Really, really, totally cool and I think I have invested in a really good stuffs, if you ask me. Sorry Aizan, I know I've promised you to go buy the FID Bench together, but 1) my financial is quite limited, so I'll just go with whatever the cheapest in the market 2) I just can't delay my workout any further as my face is getting rounder and CNY is just around the corner.

Ya ya ya....excuses, I know, but, well....in the meantime, I'll just settle with these stuffs, which are really, really great.

Thanks to my cousin, Melvin, for buying the dumbells.

Thanks to my friends who bought the yoga mat for my birthday yeeeaarrrssss ago. (Never thought I'll use it after few years hiding in my closet).

And I'm targeting to buy a barbell with few weight plates, so that I can do some deadlifts or squats.

So I'm now at Turbulence Training (TT) for ABs for Advance Level. Craig has come up with 3 different types of workout, and I've tried 2 workouts and it really tests my core muscles. Can't wait to try Workout C tonight. :)

And one good thing about workout out at home is that, there is no air-con and I definitely sweat 50% more compare to at the fully-air-condition gym, which is really good.

Ok. I know I've mentioned the word "good" like 947351860347457 times. Hehe...let's just hope that this is not hot hot chicken shit ya.

Oh, by the way, I've bought the chin-up cum pull-up bar from Fitness Concept as well, which is priced at RM78. Really user-friendly and easy to install. Just hook on door frame and you are on the game!

So, I now can officially practice my chin-up or pull-up without feeling being criticise by those hulk-man at the gym, coz I still haven't perfected my chin-up, let alone pull-up. (Can do pull-up but a really lousy one) But I'll manage, I believe.

Way behind

2010-01-22T17:18:00.004+08:00

I'm so....totally......definitely......extremely behind my workout schedule.

Aaarrrrgggghhhhhh~~~~~!!!!!

Blame it on my new, typical 9-6 job.
No more morning gym.
Sit so much in the office till my butt got flat and stomach bulge. Aiyyeeerrr......

At least, last time when drank coffee, I still burn fats coz got workout.
Now...... *sigh*

Must go back to gym.

Must go back to gym.

Must go back to gym.

Must...

Must...

Must...

MUST

GO

BACK

TO

GYM!!!!

*aiyeerr...beh tahan already.....* o_O

Funny. My eyes are wet.

2010-01-13T20:09:00.003+08:00

It's really funny how I never fail to get all emotional whenever I watch Biggest Loser (Not Biggest Loser Asia, yet). I just dunno why.

Probably because when I see their determination in losing weight, how hard they've worked and reaped the reward at the end of the day, all these dramas just make me feel so touched.

Do you guys feel the way that I feel? So weird right? Getting all teary over some people that I dunno.

Hmm.....and another thing that I pick up from this show is that it actually gets me going and motivated to go to the gym. I've just watched another new season of Biggest Loser (not sure which season tho) and Jillian is back in the game with a new team - The Black Team! (It's not like I support her or whatever. Any female with really super toned body will definitely catch my attention. The new trainer, Kim, is quite hot too, with her curly, blond hair. Same goes to male too *wink*)

You should've seen how she trained those people at the dessert. Lifting up super big tyres, carrying sand bags, doing commando crawl and etc. This reminds me so much of the bootcamp that I joined 2 months ago. (which I didn't finish...whoopsie!) Those exercises that Jillian did on these people are like, 90% similar to what I had at the bootcamp.

I can and I know how they feel. But I wanna do Jillian's bootcamp workout!!!

Which leads me to another thought : I think I might want to check on PushMore (http://www.pushmore.com.my/). Anyone's with me?

NewYear.Birthday.Diva.Jualmahal.Pissed.

2010-01-06T12:33:00.011+08:00

Happy New Year peepz!!!

Wish all of you to have a great year ahead. Even though you had a bad start on 01012010, doesn't mean you'll be bad luck throughout the year. Just believe and it'll happen, believe me. *wink*

Today is also my dad's birthday, so ....

Happy Birthday Dad!!!

However, there are something else that rather pissed me off today. It's funny how people change through time. It is totally fine by me if people change to become a better person, rather than a worse person.

Honestly, you don't simply request or change the time and date of a particular party which you DON'T host. Simply because:-

You are N.O.T the only person that attend the party.
You are N.O.T the "Main Actor / Actress" of the party ie birthday boy/girl, being promoted etc.
You forgot that you have already have plans on that particular day, and yet, you were the one who suggested that date.

Who's worse - a very close friend who never return call even tho this person has promised, or a diva who has already suggested 2 dates for the party and yet can't make it?

Do people nowadays no longer remember at least the basic rule of being well-mannered and courteous?

*sigh* I rest my case.

2010 Wish List

2009-12-29T17:22:00.005+08:00

2010 IT Gadget Wish List

iPod Touch

Digital camera Panasonic Lumix DMC LX2

DSLR Nikon D3000

Yup. I'm that undecided. I dunno which camera to choose.

D3000 is for nice, vivid celebration-cum-holiday pictures.
Lumix DMC LX2 is for my site pic. I can't be carrying DSLR around in a dirty site, ain't I? Like so kiasu.

Hence, the undecided decision.

What do ya guys think?

2010 Travel Wish List

1. Bali, Indonesia
2. New Zealand

But you know what? I got a feeling that I won't be able to go to New Zealand. Maybe just Bali. Coz I'm kinda tight on cash starting new year, coz I've just changed job remember? So, everything must start from scratch.

You see, I'll be doing sales in this new company and it's a different industry from what I did this year, so I have to build-up my clientele once more. I doubt it that I'll get my commission within 1 year, or even 2 or 3. *sigh*

So, at the mo, I don't dare to dream that much.
Plus, remember the gadget wishlist?
It's not like I'm earning RM10k per month or whatever.

Ibiza will have to wait too.
But not too long when my skin is getting all saggy and wrinkly.

Long-term Wish List :)

Definitely on top of my wish list

2009 heart-to-heart talk

2009-12-22T16:12:00.004+08:00

At last year of today, I'd have already excitedly updating my blog about my birthday, christmas tree and new year's plan.

But it was different this year.

So totally different.

First, besides my fb wall flooded with birthday wishes and birthday smses, there wasn't any cake or present or birthday song on my birthday. Not even candle-blowing.

I mean, it's a tradition right? I'm not asking too much right?

Last year of Dec 4, I was celebrating my birthday at my bestie's house, Farina, with other friends; my boyfriend, Dura, Shafa, Ably, Rahman, Jaemy, Jamie, Sin Yin and Tze Tze. Being a superb party planner, my bestie used purple and pink as the theme.

I got L'Occitane's perfume, which still sit nicely on my dressing table till today.

I got cake, chicken wing, Dura's famous apple crumble.

I wonder what happened to them this year?

I mean, I was at Langkawi that week to watch LIMA.

Wasn't really my favourite. It was my boyfriend's.

Hell yeah! I A.M. complaining right now.

Not that I complained that my friends weren't there.

I'm complaining about something else, which still upsets me till now.

But past is past.

Ain't not gonna sulk about it.

It's purple and pink for my christmas theme this year.

Other than the balls, nothing much on the tree.

No presents underneath.

So yeah. It was really a blue christmas this year.

You know why I was in such a bad shape last month?

My career was in the downfall and I was forced to immediately find solutions, else I'll soon sitting by the roadside, begging for money.

Found another job, but I really have a hard time adapting to the new working environment.

You see. I'm the type of person who can't sit still, unless I'm occupied with loads of work.

And you know how it's like being new to the working environment, not knowing anyone.

The first 2 days was really bad.

I have to be the Oscar Best Actress Employee, pretending to read some stuffs, getting all hardworking and all coz I ain't got no laptop.

It was in the process.

Well, now I got it lah.

So wasn't that bad anyway.

Oh well. I guess I really can't complain much.

I just pray and hope that next year will be a better year for me.

Oh ya.

Ain't got any plan on new year. Anyone got plan?

p.s. When one is too stress, all the zits will pop out. Non-stop.

Too much to handle

2009-12-11T20:59:00.007+08:00

I don't think I can stand another minute staring at Taylor's sexy-ripped-muscular-hot bod, else I'll go sreaming inside my heart by just looking at his 8-pack washboard abs.

OMFG!

I know New Moon was rather boring (my boyfriend was practically in the "sleeping-sitting" position during the whole movie, so I know it's boring), but what kept me staring at the screen the whole 2-hours was, well, you know it, Jacob.

I just can't get enough of him!!!
Aaacccckkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!
I honestly dunno how I'll react if I see him in person.

I think I'll die standing.

He's just SOOOOOOOO perfect.
His face, his super-white, straight teeth, his lips, his .. ooohhh ... 8-pack abs....

Oh shit.

I think I'm gonna faint. Again.

What would you do......

2009-12-08T18:44:00.004+08:00

.....if a close friend of yours keep on rejecting your lepak invites?

It could only means 2 things.

She means it when she said that she's super effin' busy.
She is purposedly trying to avoid you.

I now really believe that I just don't have that "good-human-relationship" fate, if you know what I mean. It's like, everywhere I go, surely there are people who just don't get along with me and somehow, it'll affect my life. Most of the time, it'll be in the career sector.

If the relationship doesn't really affect my life, I will not give a damn about it. But if that person is whom I really care, then I'll get really, really disappointed and start having silly and sensitive thoughts.

It's really fine by me that you wanna spend every waking hours with your family, but really? 24/7 with them? No socialising with friends at all?

Sigh. I give up.

P.s. You know? With so many repeated histories
happened to me, I really feel like I should,
at least O.N.C.E., to believe in Lillian Too's fengshui.
Maybe put a frog or something
on my working table or whatever.

A word of advice - the best I've ever heard

2009-12-06T20:09:00.004+08:00

A very experience friend of mine told me this :

"Sometimes, life just doesn't go the way we've planned or the way we want it to be. So we will have to make decisions based on what is appropriate during that time and give ourself a time line, say 2 years. If you still couldn't get what you want in that 2 years time, you'll know that it's time to move on."

What a very T.R.U.E facts of life.

Moi like. Very much.

And I have already knew what I should do now. :)

Thank you, Kak Lina.

moi birthday!!!

2009-12-04T14:33:00.003+08:00

Happy Birthday to me,
Happy Birthday to me,
Happy Birthday to meeeeeeeee,
Happy Birthday to me.

No. I'm not pathetic.
I'll be at Langkawi tonight, what!

Belated Combo Celebration

2009-11-28T13:04:00.008+08:00

Nov 13, 2009

It was mom's birthday. The timing was just right, with her arriving KL on her exact birthday date, and my sis's convo on the very next day.

Actually, my mom and dad came to KL purposedly for my sis's convo. And so, we got busy buying all the making-cake utensils few days before, and showing off our skills in baking. hehe...

Sis (Lui Lui) baked 2 different types of cakes - steam chocolate cupcake and steam cheesecake. The cheesecake laku bah! And since we haven't bought oven, so we steamed our cakes instead.

Steam chocolate cupcake

Steam cheesecake

And don't think that I didn't contribute anything.

I've made my very-the-expert (ehemmm) berries trfile.

Ta-da!!!
Made by yours truly

Mom was surprised, of course, as always.

The best part about Mom is that she always appreciate what her kids do for her on special occassions. No matter what it is - from little gifts like earrings, brooches to big stuffs like, erm, bags? As long as you remember, that's what matters.

And I think, if we don't do anything for her, she wouldn't really mind, anyway.

But of course, we won't do that. :)

Happy Birthday Mom!!!

The whole family.

Which also means, food feast!

That's what we always do when we have gatherings.

Eat saja!

Nov 14, 2009

Lui Lui's convo at TAR College. Graduated with Adv Diploma in Accounting (I think! hehe...).

Mom and Dad got there earlier with her, since the college only allowed the graduates to bring 2 person to attend the ceremony.

Me and youngest sis, Celes, slept at home lah, apa lagi.

Got ready around 3, got lost for a bit, konon want to try out The Duke Highway, konon want to reach there earlier, but it was really a risky thing to do.

Knowing my dad isn't really a patient guy.

But luckily I knew some of the way when we reached Wangsa Maju, and we were just in time for the family-convo photo.

Waiting for our turn to take family photo

Sis getting ready for portrait

All the ladies! All like same age kan? (Chhhehhhhh)hehehehe.......

Dad, Celes and Mom

Next graduation ceremony will be Celes

And so, after a hot, tiring day, we went back, freshen up and head to Seoul Garden at One Utama for korean BBQ, as a celebration for Lui Lui.

See? I told you it's all about food when we gather. It'll got worst when the whole pack of families (mom's side) meet up during Chinese New Year or Christmas.

In our case, it'll be Christmas this year.

So definitely looking forward to going back.

With all the party plans line up. (We are still in the midst of planning some stuffs. God! It's Dec already!!! No time. No time!)

Mom wanted to taste the ice-cream.

Dad buat dunno saja.

Hehehe.....

It'll only be April when mom comes over. That also 1 week only, I think.

She said she'll stay longer in June, during the mid-term school holiday.

Cool!! Looking forward to it! :)

Oh no! Another douchebag!

2009-11-25T11:03:00.004+08:00

Never in my life, I've met such a dirtfuck bastard. This guy tops every of the other douchebags that I've met in my life.

He twists my words. Say, I've said "A", he'll say that he never hear me say "A".
He got no effin' balls to see me and listen to what I want to say. Coz he knows that he'll lost in the eyes of the law.
Never follow law and expect to get away with it, again and again.
He got no opinion of his own. He listens to his "dog". So I guess, if the dog barks "eat shit", he'll definitely go eat shit. *pity shrug*
He's very good in running away from facing the truth and responsibilites.

Adeline! When will you ever learn?

Next time, put on a mask when go out interacting with people.

Never show your true self.

Coz that's E.X.A.C.T.L.Y. how they treat you.

Challenges like this will not drown me, but only will make me a stronger person.

The start of Turbulence Training

2009-11-22T20:02:00.006+08:00

Today is my first lesson of Turbulence Training (TT). I am and will try to follow Craig Ballantyne's TT for fat loss workout till the end of his routine, which is about, 28 weeks. We'll see how I changed in 28 weeks time.

The rule is to get on the Introductory Level first, then only I can advance to Beginner Level, Intermediate Level and Original Level. It wasn't that bad since the workout was only 2 sets of each exercise. Not to brag or anything, but I think I managed well in these workouts.

Here are the routine for today :

Warm Up : To perform this circuit 2x's using a 2-0-1 tempo

(1) Prisoner squat - 10 reps

(2) PushUp / Kneeling Pushup - 10 reps

(3) Split squat - 10 reps

Workout A (recommended by Craig but I pushed myself to do 3 sets each, rather than 2)

(A1) Lying Hip Extension (2 x 8)

(A2) Plank (2 x 15secs) - I did 30 secs, just to challenge myself.

(B1) Bodyweight squat (2 x 10)

(B2) Bird dog (2 x 5)

(C1) Kneeling pushup (2 x 8) - I did pushup, 3 x 10.

(C2) Side plank (2 x 5 secs per side)

(D1) Band pull (2 x 15)

(D2) Ab curl-up (2 x 6) - I did 15 reps for this.

Interval (I did my interval with cycling)

(1) Warm up for 5 mins

(2) 1 min of hard-pace. Heart rate should be approximately 90% of my max heart rate.

Estimate max heart rate = 220 minus my age. In my case, it'll be 192.

(3) "Active rest" for 2 mins by exercising at slow pace; 60% of my max heart rate.

(4) Repeat for a total of 3 intervals.

(5) Finish with 5 mins of low-intensity cool down.

By the end of the workout, I wasn't that drained out compare to other exercises which I've tried before. Mainly because the workout is for beginner, but being an obedient girl (ehem....), I feel the need to follow exactly Craig's instructions in this, if I want to see results.

That includes the food as well! Oh God. I still need B.I.G help in that part, though I've already practised eating recommended, healthy food few days back. Believe me, it wasn't easy.

I thought I was eating healthily, but when I calculated my food intake, (visit http://www.fitday.com/ for free calorie-counting food intake calculation) I am actually a high-carbs person. This is the part where I still dunno where I have done wrong. I have already reduced my rice to quarter, as Rajan from http://www.fitnessmalaysiablog.blogspot.com/ said, size as my clenched fist, increasing my vegetables and fruit intake, and have spaghetti with tuna instead of rice for dinner.

Where have I done wrong? That, I still have to keep on observing on my food intake. I dunno about other people, but it's really time consuming to search for the food that I've taken, coz those food lists in http://www.fitday.com/ webpage are quite, erm, western-y, if you know what I meant.

Plus, I dunno know all the fishes and veges' names. If I eat ikan kampung, I don't think it'll appear in the "mat salleh" list. Susah lah like that. So instead, I create my custom food. I became nutritionist wannabe for a while, recording down all the nutrition facts into my food list. Most likely, I'll repeat my meals. So, it'll make things easier down the road. :)

p.s. Celes, I know I owe u other stories besides my fitness stories. hehehe....

sabar ya dik? hehehe.....

I'm so down I can almost see hell through my tears

2009-11-12T13:57:00.007+08:00

God has given me a very big test. To see if I'll survive. So far, I couldn't handle it quite well. I feel so hopeless and I dunno where I should go.

All I know is that I want to avoid people. I don't feel like seeing anybody. Even if I do, I have to put on a fake smile.

I just want to run away. That's the first thing appeared in my mind.

People always say, things happened for better reason. I really hope that God has better arrangement for me. I really do.

Geez. I think I can see hell already.

Cam-Whore-Dia

2009-10-30T18:26:00.040+08:00

Took me 3 friggin' days just to upload these pics.

No thanks to P1 WiMax for their tortoise internet speed. *applause*

And also the inefficiency of blogspot in uploading and arranging pics *double applause*

Plus the freshly-brewed-exhilirating-euphoric feeling of going for holiday has already basi-ed.

So please bear with me ya?

You know, the best thing about going holiday with friends is that, you get to know more about them. You feel like you are this one-inch closer to understanding them.
Which I've noticed why Aunty Carin loves to korek her luggage at the airport.
Be it at the departure or during arrival.

Aunty Carin opening up her luggage in Sept 2008, at Thailand Airport.

Krabi, to be exact.

Photographer : Lunatic Jaemy

Aunty Carin opening up her luggage (again) in Oct 2009, at KLIA Airport,

on the way to Cambodia.

Photographer : Monkey Helmi

Mental note : I wonder why I was always caught in the pic beside her,

watching her korek-ing her luggage.

Kudos to MAS's food-on-board. Still not losing their touch in the local food.

I think we had nasi briyani with shrimp and chicken. Taste yummy.

Too bad, I didn't ask for the white wine. It's F.R.E.E. ok?

But being an aviphobia, I was too busy focusing on teeny-weeny-shakes-on-plane rather than sipping the wine.

Nice view from top. Arriving the-flooded Cambodia.

Our first stop at Phnom Penh was Wat Phnom. The history sounds something like this :

Onedayaveryrichladyfound4Buddhaheadbytheriverandthoughtthatwasablessing. Soshedecidedtobuildatempletoplacethese4Buddhaheads.
Endofstory.

Nah. I won't want to bored you with the history unless it's super exciting lah.

Not that I can't remember. I can! My picture prooves it.

Noticed how I kerut dahi like that, like so attentive like that?

Helmi and Eugene were paying attention too!

You can definitely just read from their body language.

Super big grass ~~cock~~ clock at Wat Phnom

After the trip, we went back to the sleazy, lousy, smelly 3-star hotel. It's actually located in the middle of the town.

Dunno why, but I kept on searching for 7-11 coz I missed my usual morning-latte-in-can or afternoon-latte-in-can or evening-latte-in-can.

But to no avail!!!

I couldn't believe my eyes, that I couldn't even find one over there.

So disappointing.

Whenever I said, "How come no 7-11 one over here?"

Eugene always answered me, "Eh, Shanghai is China's capital city, also only got two 7-11 leh."

Then, is KL the mother of all capital cities then, since we have like 98514359019405 of 7-11?

Anyway, we managed to find local beer which basically cost us only USD0.60!!!

~~Apa lagi! Drink like no tomorrow lah.~~

Besides no 7-11, the traffic was really crazy beyond words over there.

To cut long story short, there is simply no rules.

You'll see people crossing in the middle of roundabout!!

Imagine if you do that in KL?

One thing that amazed me was that, some Harrier or big cars over there, do not have no plate. According to the tour guide, they are super rich to the extend that they want privacy and want nobody recognise their no plate.

Erm, is it any logic over here?

And it was only 2 months ago that the government decided to apply new rules : The driver must put on seat belt when drive.

HhhhaaaalllloooooOOOOOOOoooooo???

How I wish I stayed there.

So, the second day was a rather stressful tour. It was not the King's Palace that make me felt that way.
It was the Toul Sleng Museum and The Killing Field.
In 1975-1979, Cambodia had been taken over by this one guy name Pol Pot.

A rather demanding, cold-blooded leader of Khmer Rouge, whom had killed more than 3 million of innocent people during his time, which they called Pol Pot Regime.
We went to the school-turned-prison museum and saw lotsa proofs, torturing tools and the rooms where they kept the victims.

Thank God I'm not those people who can see ghost.

Otherwise, I'll pengsan already.

Though I couldn't see, let alone feel anything, but somehow, I just felt so...so...unhappy, when I listened to our tour guide, Mr. Nara, telling stories.

He was there during the Pol Pot regime, you know?

Got slashed at the back for just not turning up to work at the paddy field.

Got locked up in a dark room for few days.

Until one officer came in, interrogated him, only to find that his father used to be the officer's leader in the previous work.

The officer rescued him.

And he was freed.

But days later, the officer got killed.

Sad right? *sob-sob*

The stupa at Killing Field, storing about 8000 pieces of bones from the victims

And so we ended our night at a bar in Mekong River.

Looked quite like Patong Beach at Phuket, minus the rows-of-transvestite.

Lotsa guai lous over there.

But rather quiet.

Nobody played Pitbull songs!

Not even English songs.

Weird.

Strutted in style at Mekong River

We embarked our next journey to Siem Reap.

I kept on thinking, if Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia, looks really like a 3rd world country, without any 7-11 there, I hate to think how Phnom Penh will be like.

I don't even want to put on high expectation on the toilet at the hotel.

"Phnom Penh is more on the country side!" Eugene said.

My assumption was proven right when we arrived at the bus station. (Please scroll down)

I was so shocked to see the bus station in this condition.

All flooded. Muddy.

I shouted, "Sin Yin, faster take picture of this bloody bus station.

I wanna put it in my blog!"

Siem Reap was practically flooded due to the hurricane

which "attacked" Cambodia few days back, before we arrived.

The water was up to knee level!

Behind every cloud is a silver lining.

And definitely, definitely, don't judge a book by its cover.

Because.......

We were greeted with friendly hotel people and being served with fresh orange juice while waiting to check-in to our room.

We kept on ooh-ahh-ing like kampung people, and took at least 50 pictures at the hotel.

No lah. Exaggerating lah, but definitely a lot of pics we have here.

It's a friggin' 4-star man!!

Helmi was very happy, sipping Siem Reap's orange juice.

Eugene couldn't resist lying down at the gazebo at the lobby hotel.

Isn't it amazing? See what I meant.

I don't need to see the toilet anymore,

coz I know this hotel won't let me down. *wink*

We even got kiasu-ed inside the lift.

Like never see mirror on top of our head before.

That's why we took pics.

Wasting no more time, we got changed and headed to the pool.

Got kiasu a bit here also coz the previous hotel did not have any pool.

Eugene flexing his newly-developed muscles.

Helmi showing off his jumping skills.

Me obviously enjoying the water.

There's a price to pay for staying in such a beautiful room. Hehehe...

We have to climb a lot you know??

We have to climb up the steep staircase at Bakheng Hills,

in hope that we'll catch the sunset and see Angkor Wat from there.

But it was bloody raining that time,

so all we saw was just mist and clouds and raindrops.

But we were having good time coz despite its wetness,

it was really soothing weather to climb up a 45-mins hill.

So I don't really mind. :)

See the happy faces? hahaha.....

More climbing on 4th day at some temples

See how steep the stairs were?

You take my pic, I take yours?

After temple-treking, some more we have jumped you know?

Jumping at Angkor Wat's entrance

It required skills and accuracy to get this shot.

After few times also still failed, we gave up.

Plus, we were too embarassed to keep on asking the tour guide to take for us.

Jumped some more at some temples. Phew!

Then, Carin practicing her tongue-action with the stone-face.

Then we have to hide behind elephant trunk leh.

No wonder the hotel is superb lah.

Told you there's a price to pay.

Eugene and Helmi went to sunrise at Angkor Wat on the 4th day.

Angkor Wat view at dawn

Angkor Wat during sunrise

When the sun shone upon Angkor Wat, the building became gold colour.

Another amazing place at Siem Reap is the whatsisname temple, where gargantuan trees grow on the temple supporting the structure.

It is said that, if there were no trees, the whole temple will collapse.

Somehow, the trees just grew on the rocks, just like that, believe it or not.

Another weird place we went to was some road-side hawker stall that sells duck egg.

Duck fetus to be exact.

Me, Carin and Helmi didn't eat, obviously.

But Eugene, the tour guide and the driver actually love eating it!!!

Our tour guide in the middle.

Full of smile!

See?? See???

The whole duck fetus in it. I'm not joking!!

Fried cockcroaches and other stuffs are their, erm, keropok.

After the hard days work, we were given a treat.

F.R.E.E. Traditional Khmer Massage - complimentary gift by the agency.

So nice right?

Helmi immediately felt very light that he immediately can float!

We went to the night market on our very last night at Siem Reap.

We, at least me, still felt like I didn't shop much souveniers to bring back home.

The market is really cool, though all the stuffs sold there are "repeated".

To get the best deal, you will need to hone your negotiation skills.

And you'll be surprised at how much you can get at the end.

I totally had fun shopping there.

Aunty Carin so happy to get good deal, and

found some painting for Roger, if I'm not mistaken.

Besides souveniers and histories and memories, I've brougt back another thing!

Tanned!

But not so much lah.

Whole day walking under the sun around Angkor Wat and all the temples, soaking wet with sweats.

Carin kept on saying that my shoulders were burnt and wanted to take pic to show me, since I couldn't really turn my head and see it right?

But it was not as bad as in Krabi, or any other island trip, anyway.

So no biggie. :)

Random Thoughts

2009-10-23T20:17:00.003+08:00

1. Hate my hair so much - checked.

2. Still very tired and all drained-up - checked.

3. Hate waiting. So bloody waste of time - checked.

4. Hate my job - checked, checked.

5. People with no aim in life pisses me off (I know it's none of my business but so what?) - checked, checked.

6. No bloody $$$ to release stress (coz I notice you need $$ to release ie retail therapy, booze etc) - checked, checked, checked.

7. Hate KL road and the cars on it. Too loaded with them cars (Can I like go back to where I belong?) - checked, checked, checked, checked.

In the end, you are left with nobody with your problems.

Super drained out

2009-10-18T23:47:00.004+08:00

Man. It was the busiest week of my life! (Which is why I still haven't got any time to update my Cambodia trip here, though my fb was flooded with the pics, but uploading pics are so much easier than composing a post)

Back to 1 week earlier, my first job after Cambodia was to help out my sis with some poster design. Took half a day to do it and after few days, my sis told me that their posters a.k.a. moi design, have been selected. Greeaatttt!! Well, not that I've designed any super duper ~~powderful~~ powerful poster. Hehe...

Then came the freelance job, which was quite urgent. (Well, freelance job is ALWAYS urgent, if you ask me) I have to complete 30 pcs of A3-size drawings, in which there is at least 3 plans and elevations in it, by Thursday morning. Started on Monday though.

OMG.

And then the bootcamp. Woke up at wee hours in the morning, 430am to be exact, drove all the way to PJ Padang Astaka for my 1st session. I tell you, stopping gym for a month definitely wont do any good for your muscles, especially when you join another gruelling training without any pre-exercise.

I'm telling ya. My muscles still sore ever since I joined last Tuesday. I walked funny. Butt all jutting out. Not the sexy jut-out, but donald-duck-posture jut-out. So not sexy. Haiya.

So now you know why I'm like so drained-out.

So next week will be my R.E.S.T. W.E.E.K. *super wide grin*

p.s. I'm gonna stop bootcamp now due to health reasons. Too bad.

Attended only 2 sessions. I really wanna see how far I can go. *sigh*

Horoscope is wicked!

2009-10-09T15:35:00.002+08:00

Sagittarius Horoscope

Today

Adeline,

If you are worried about your future you cannot escape those concerns by booking a flight to Aruba on your credit cards. You may find much greater comfort right now by sitting down with a financial or spiritual advisor than sitting on a beach. Granted, the latter idea will have greater appeal.

How they know what's in my mind? Wicked!

I is back!

2009-10-09T09:53:00.006+08:00

The one very thing that I hate most when coming back after a holiday is that, I'm being transported back to reality.

It's funny that, on the very last day of the holiday till the minute I touchdown at KL airport, my mood will definitely be at the lowest point. Oh how I hate that feeling.

And to make it worse, the first sms that I got was from my boss, talking about some work. What a joy! But not this Cambodia holiday lah. Luckily I do not have any major projects on-going. One project was at the finishing stage already. So, this time, I thank my lucky star.

And so, I've just got back from Phnom Penh and Siem Reap and as usual, I'll upload some pics for you guys to enjoy. It was definitely a very interesting trip, minus the sweats, but sweating was good. Coz I get to loose some weight despite the fact that I ate a lot and drank a lot. I tell you. The liquor and cocktails and wine over there are like so friggin' cheap. The most expensive cocktail costs only USD4!! It's like, almost 50% from the normal, clubbing, cocktail price in KL!

That's why I love Cambodia, Siem Reap, most particularly. *wink*

P.s. come back for more pics and updates on my trip! :)

I ain't wanna do this no more

2009-09-28T09:56:00.003+08:00

I have to let them out from my chest, otherwise I'll be in mental hospital soon.

Coz I now officially hate my job.

To the max.

Pros (despite the hate-my-job thingy, there are surprisingly still some pros)

No punch card. You can just come in anytime of the day, or not even show up for 1 week without applying any leave at all. I'm not joking! Basically because my boss is hardly around. Comes in 2-3 hours in 2 weeks. Freedom, I tell you.
Another reason no need to apply leave even if I don't show up for a week is because I'm a sales designer. I run around. Meeting suppliers at site. Meeting client at site. Attending demanding complaints from clients at site. Fuck sub-con at site. Yeah. Site. Woot!
Can go yam cha anytime with anyone. Boss will never ask. No need to sign any record book, where you go and stuffs.

Cons

Site and more sites! Ain't a job for a lady, I tell ya.
Commissions somehow, I never get it. The rules is that I'll get my commission after client make full payment. Which is quite rare. Ya. Clients like to hold payment and use excuses like, you haven't finished the defects, so I ain't gonna pay you, unless you've finished everything. I dunno why we can't sue them since they've already signed the contract, about paying 100% upon completion of the project. These are under the defects category, which we have 1 year guaranteed on manufacturing defects. But they don't understand. They thought keeping the money will like.... I seriously dunno what the hell they are thinking. So that is why I didn't get any commission even after I've worked for 1.5 years now. I stay because of the freedom. That's all.
Commission-based salary comes with low basic.

I'm stuck! Arrgghhhh!!!!

Bootcamp for Koh Lipe

2009-09-25T09:32:00.003+08:00

*really, extremely, super wide grin*
Finally, I've taken up the step to sign myself up in a bootcamp.
I actually saw the advert in FB 2 months back.
The minute I saw their videos on the website, I was totally in it.

Somehow, I dragged.
Dunno why.
But again, 2 nights ago, CLEO featured 1 article about the bootcamp and again, my feelings came back.
Just as how excited I felt 2 months back when I first saw their ads.
The next day, I found myself signing up without thinking twice!

Oh boy! Can't I just wait!

Well.....the bootcamp intention is actually to have nicer bod for Koh Lipe in Nov. hehehe...
Trips to gym are kinda boring now.
Hence, the different approach to fitness. *wink*

Here's to Bootcamp!
Hooyah!

Hot and Cold

2009-09-20T20:57:00.005+08:00

In serious need of running away because of the long weekend.
Feel like so wasted, doing nothing.
Though it'll be kind to my bank account.

But right now, I really wanna do these stuffs.

Source : http://media.photobucket.com

Suntanning at Ibiza, particularly.

But you know me. Any beach will do.

Erm. Not Port Dickson though.

Source : http://image.google.com.my

Yeah. Looking at the seaside.

Wearing bikini.

Getting tan.

Source : http://www.errantsurftravel.co.uk/images/bali.jpg

Yes. I've always wanted to learn surfing.

The nearest and cheapest place that I could think of is Bali.

But why am I not heading there?

After all, I've been to most of islands in Thailand already.

No. Please. Not minta puji. Heh.

But believe me.

One day, I'll be there.

Surfing.

Source : http:///natxymusic.kit.net/artistas/d/dj_tiesto.jpg

It's been a while since I've put my dancing shoes on. :(

Source : http://www.altalodge.com/

Yup. Believe it or not.

And laugh all you want.

This is another hobby or skill that I'd like to experience.

At least before I'm too old to try it.

I really think that I should be a Spanish babe.

Or maybe French babe. (Don't roll your eyes!)

Sometimes, I think my life should be near the beach, at least.

And I should have the golden tan, rather than fair.

And I couldn't think of any better place than Ibiza.

Where all the party is.

And all the hunky, 6-packs, straight dudes are.

(I just don't understand why Malaysian guys prefer to have big belly than 6-packs. I really don't. And it actually makes all the limited 6-packs dudes like so damn perasan that they are effin' hot. Tsk tsk.)

Well....no harm dreaming right? *wink*

El Dutchess en mí

Wishlist

Life as a Real Estate Agent - So it's not easy afterall

Now I fully understand

Sick and Tired......

I'm THAT bored

Kene buat dough dulu, dowh~~~

All sorts of things in my mind

What's on my mind?

Going through days.....

Anyone?

Typical Personal Trainer - why are they even hired at the first place?

Ggggrrr.....!!!!

Andy's Hardcore Training

I must vent out, otherwise ....

I can only pray and hope

Call me The Confused Girl

Carb Cyling

Another fat loss product in town

How to Improve on Chin Ups

I really think I gotta voice out my feelings otherwise...

3 updates

Why am I not getting the vibes people?

Aaaaarrrrggghhhhh!!!!!!

Updates!

My feeling right now

Guess what?

Herbalife. Ppfftttt!!

It was one helluva workout!!

Seriously, I think I'm having depression right now

You wanna transform? We can help you!

One-leg squat was.... *speechless*

So many surprises!

2010 25 Best Summer Bodies

Here's what I think

DM's Camp WOD 120810

My new toy.. and no, it's not 5kg plates

Xclusive FitnesZ

Yes!

sigh

I miss Pushmore a.k.a CrossFit

It's a mistake!!

What's on my mind?

Time for some colors!

2 updates!

Tomorrow...I promise (myself)!

An interesting idea

Sorry Friend

I've joined!!

I get really cranky when...

Will the real bitch E.L. please stand up?

WOD 220610

I know it's been a while

About time

so fast give up??!

Days at Bali

Bali for Dummies

Bali comes in just at the right time

10 more sleeps!

Still adjusting

New Record

how much?

On a "Break"

Bruise for 6 months

WOD 120410

No FB

WOD 070410

Pushmore WOD 050410

Pushmore WOD 290310 and 310310

Another sigh

Sick

Where is my destiny?

Body aching after Pushmore

Updates! (erm..more like an emo updates)

God!! Another show off!

Random Thoughts

1 more item for 2010 resolution

No Like Myself

Thank you for the technology!

My mini-home gym

One-leg squat was.... speechless