Introducing my workout partner.....

Philips SA1115/97 MP3 Player. Nothing fancy like Ipod (sigh) but it does the job. Been wanting a MP3 player for a longest time I remembered, but only I afford to get one. This one is quite reasonable, 1 GB storage, with FM tuner and recorder, bought it at Cerrefour for RM139.

It really help me to isolate from my surrounding in the gym and focus more on my workout when you ears are plugged with music. And I notice I can work out longer and did not realise time flies as I enjoy the music.

It really helps, if you are planning to work out, I really recommend to do it while your MP3 is blasting with Metallica.

I am back........

Me at the gym...

I am back! Big time... in the GYM that is.
Been going very consistently to the one in Cyberjaya and FF Subang Jaya. FF is better off course, but I need the Cyberjaya GYM as well, for emergencies.

I have lost about 1 kg so far. But I have to make sure that I am loosing fat, and not the muscle mass. Need really to take care of my food intake, have to make sure my protein intake is sufficient and cut don on Carbs.

Hard to get healthy stuff at the stalls, so I am packing my own food now, tuna or smoked chicken sandwich (whole grain bread) Melampau tak?

Anyway my target is reduce my love handle in one month, then after that I will be thinking about bulking up again. For now , I am emphasizing on cardio and off course not neglecting weight training as well.

A gal from GNC just called me, saying that since I am a GNC member, I am getting birthday discount for month of May for 35% !!! And my protein shake has just conveniently ran out yesterday, perfect timing or what!

Somehow, when I have been working out constantly, I feel great, energy level is up and I don't have the mood swing that sometime I have. Its a good thing I found that working out is enjoyable. Thanks God for that!

GYM review time!... again

Well, not exactly a gym, it is the Cyberjaya Community Centre. I think the centre was opened few months back. Ironically, for a Community Centre located right in the MSC, this centre has no website, I couldn't find anything about this in the web.
As my post yesterday, I went to the gym there during lunch and again today. So it is pretty obvious that I am satisfied with it.
The gym is just a moderate room, with about 5 all in weight machines, few treadmills and few (very few) dumbbells and barbells. Overall it a decent gym.

Lunch time crowd there was non-existence. I was the only one there! I had the gym all for my self. The good thing about this is I can switch off the air cond, as I hate a really ice cold gym. I had a great workout!

There is hot shower and locker provided.

So overall I am satisfied satisfied satisfied....

Maybe I should keep this discovery all to myself, or else the place will be so crowded during lunch or on other thoughts, are there anyone out there insane enough to waste their lunch out for a workout?

Smeagol hates that fat Hobbit!

I am so fat now. I must do something about my weight. It has been really difficult lately to hit gym with my current shift. But something need to be done.
I checked out the Cyberjaya Community Centre. Quite good facility there and they have a reasonable gym there, RM5/entry, quite cheap huh!
Planning to go during lunch, starting today.

I need to blog this or else I will drag myself to that gym.

Wish me luck!!!


At least this will give me a peace of mind from work/politics during lunch time!

Been there before.........

I hate this, I have been at this moment before, it is like deja vu 'all over again'.
I am here just to do my work, get my salary and go home and live a life. Nothing else.
I don't come to office to socialize, to gossips nor it is my hobby! I come here to make a living, to make ends meet, I have a goal, it is for money, it is simple as that.

I really don't want to be involved in the dirty world of office politics, it sounds impossible, to avoid it, I agree. Most likely I will be labeled as 'unfriendly' or 'tukang kipas' or whatever other label. But I really don't give a damn. I am tired, tired of being a victim, I just can't take this anymore.

Thats it, I really going to ignore my surroundings now. Playing dumb. Come to office, work and go home. Simple as that

I have a life ok!

Spending all your money money.....

Extra expenses this month:

• car insurance
• road tax
• Security service payment ( for 3 months, one shot !!!)
• Family vacation, everybody had to chip in
  
• Driving license expired, have to renew ( I am illegal driver now)

The only silver lining is that (bright blinding silver lining that is) this month would be my last car payment! Yahooooo.....................

Tribute to Aathi.

Every village has one, there is no village without it, a village idiot. In my case, and to the people of Chamang, Bentong, it would be Aathi.

Everyone knows her, a thin small Indian lady, she is famous, everyone knows her name, a very well known household name in Chamang. Kids make fun of her when she walks by, and she is half mental but not a total nut case. She is married, with one son, her husband is working as guard/mandor somewhere.

I remember making fun of her when I was young, she comes to my father's shop for groceries (where we provide 555 book credit card service). She use to beg my dad to give hutang to buy sirih and pinang and while she is in shop, I use to shoot her with kacang hijau in a straw and she complaints to my mum about this all the time. I buat dunne jer.

And when grew up a bit she complained to my mum that I am trying to hit on her (mengorat) ha ha what a joke. My mum just laughed it away.

After sometime, her son grew up and left the family, leaving her and her hubby alone, she worked with my mum as maid for a while, the she stopped (or fired, don't know which one).

She alway very energetic, no one would have believed she is in her fifties. She always seen walking hastily in Chamang, where she goes and what she does, no one knew. She like to collect flowering plant all over Chamang to be planted in her house.

Recently I had a news that he she passes away in Bentong hospital. She had cancer. I felt sad. Sad thinking of her life. Only after she passed away, I was thinking why was I so mean to her? Why I treated her badly? Why did I just followed the trend and made fun of the village idiot? Would it been too hard for me to treat her a bit better? This really got me thinking.

Now that Chamang has lost one, I am hoping that I would treat the next in line for the village idiot with little more respect.

Empty.............

It has been a while since I have updated. I just seems to lose all my passion to blog. Maybe my life is becoming more boring (more than its already been I mean), or I have become boring, or I have become lazy.

(after 10 min pause)

See! I can't come up with anything to blog! My mind is empty! I have become a zombie.

(another 5 min)

Still thinking.........

Nope, nada.... nothing coming up.......

So...

No blog entry for today..... thanks for your patient!

bye!

Dentist from hell!

Whenever I go to do my fillings, she will say, I will put on a temporary filling first, and after the we will 'monitor' how your teeth feels, than you come back here to do a permanent fillings. And this temporary fillings will cost about RM40. It will last one week the most, after that I need to go to see her again for permanent fillings. And that will easily cost me RM50, so to do one cavity fillings, I am spending around RM100 with this dentist! What a blood sucking leech!

And at the most recent visit, she told me, if the amalgam keeps on coming off, we might need to do a 'crowning' for both of your teeth and each crown will cost RM600!!!

That's it, I had enough, never ever I will return to this evil witch doctor, after getting my yet another temporary fillings, I left that damn clinic for good.

When to a dentist in Shah Alam. She was really nice, explain to me what the problem with my teeth, saying that the amalgam might not hold it, because my tooth (or whatever left of it) can support it (only 3 walls of my tooth left)

I was really pleased with the result. It really look neat, and it doesn't even looked like it has been filled. And she was using all the modern equipment unlike the ancient tools used in that witch doctors clinic.

Well, anyone who is interested in dental work (unless you or you wife is a dentist and has free dental treatment for life) drop by at hmmmmm should I advertise?

Save the cheerleader !!!

I slept at about 4 am last night, I thought I had the self control, but I have failed, try as I might to overcome the temptation, I have fallen to the dark side. My wife will be furious, she would be angry!!! But what can I do? I am just a man, with normal need and urges every guys has. I am ashamed of myself.
You see, I am a huge fan of HEROES. And I am well aware that I told that busy woman, that I will watch it old fashion way (on tv), and I am not going to watch the the whole downloaded episode in one go. But when my colleague in office dangled in front of me the DVD of the whole series up to Episode 18, I was just couldn't restrain myself from grabbing the DVD from him and making a copy.
And last nite, I told myself, ok just let watch one Episode and go to bed after that, but one after one episode, I just couldn't stop! They just end every episode at the most suspend part! Somehow I manage to force myself to stop at 4am at episode12. Woke up next morning at 11am, thank God it was my off day. Watched couple of episode, then it was time for Fri prayer, My keimanan really tested , but I managed to go to mosque, came back and sit in front of the laptop till episode 18. Now that I have watched episode 18, I am going crazy and my life will never be the same again (what an exaggeration !!!). I have become a fanatic.
My wife is worried whenever I talked about the cheerleader.

Please someone out there, we have world to save (or New York city more precisely) Who is with me?

Ada Apa Pada Nama?

Aku setuju sangat dengan Majlis Fatwa Negeri Perlis, orang yang masuk Islam tak wajib menukar nama, dan yang paling best tak payah berbin atau berbintikan Abdullah. Memang dari dulu aku pelik, kenapa kene berbinkan Abdullah (macam anak luar nikah). Kekadang kat Malaysia ni ntah apa2 rule yang kita follow, sampai kalau selidik balik, kita pun tak tau tok guru kat kampung mana yang keluarkan fatwa ni. Kalau kat negara lain, India misalnya tak payah nak tukar-tukar nama ni. Kalau kat negara China, orang Islam dibenarkan jugak simpan nama asal mereka. Asalkan makna nama tu baik walaupun dalam bahasa apa pun, kita boleh simpan nama tu. Tapi kalau nama tu nama dewa-dewa agama lain atau seangkatan dengannya wajible kita tukar.

Aku harap majlis agama negeri-negeri lain pun akan ikut majlis Fatwa negeri Perlis ni.

Harap Majlis Fatwa Negeri Perlis kaji kes kat bawah ni dan buat perubahan agar Pejabat Agama lebih "Saudara Baru Friendly". Bak Kata Panjang (I quote from his email) "layan orang yg nak masuk Islam macam nak masuk jel, yang taunya, kejenya nak mengendap orang beromen. itu sampai bergaduh² dengan mufti. nak jugak² mengendap......" He he he

p/s: Aku selalu terfikir, kalau le aku dilahirkan dalam keluarga kafir dulu, akan terbukakah hati aku untuk masuk Islam, ataupun aku ni hanya Islam sebab dilahirkan dalam keluarga Islam. Aku bersyukur dilahirkan dalam keluarha Islam, Amin.

Layanan buruk pejabat agama terhadap saudara baru didedah

Salmiyah Harun Wed | Feb 14, 07 | 09:50:37 AM

KUALA LUMPUR, 14 feb (Hrkh) - Malaysia merupakan negara yang paling susah untuk orang bukan Islam memeluk Islam biarpun ia diiktiraf sebagai negara Islam, demikian dakwa seorang pendakwah bebas Muhd Fitri Abdullah. Beliau berasal dari keluarga berketurunan India, merupakan bekas penganut Hindu mendedahkan, sikap sesetengah pegawai jabatan agama negeri tidak menunjukkan akhlak yang baik. Berdasarkan pengalamannya, beliau pernah ke pejabat agama untuk memeluk Islam, tetapi dilayan secara kasar oleh pegawai yang bertugas. Bagaimanapun beliau enggan menamakan jabatan agama negeri berkenaan. Justeru, kesan daripada layanan pegawai tersebut beliau telah menangguhkan niat untuk memeluk Islam selama setahun. "Ada bawa gambar passport empat keping! Ada bawa dua orang saksi!," ulang beliau memetik kata-kata yang pernah dikeluarkan oleh pegawai berkenaan semasa ke jabatan agama suatu ketika dahulu. Beliau memeluk Islam sejak 13 tahun lalu, membidas sikap pegawai terbabit yang kasar seolah-olah tidak mahu mengislamkan beliau. "Jika ini sikap pegawai kita, macam mana nak tarik orang bukan Islam untuk memeluk Islam, malah sikap ini juga secara tidak langsung menghalang niat suci kita," katanya ketika menyampaikan tazkirah bulanan di Unit Editorial Harakah hari ini. Beliau mencadangkan agar kaedah pengislaman untuk bakal saudara baru diadakan di masjid melalui imam dan disaksikan oleh orang ramai sebagaimana yang pernah dialaminya. "Kalau buat di pejabat agama tidak ada apa-apa, kalau di masjid suasana ukhwah Islam itu wujud dengan sokongan daripada jemaah, dan dengan cara ini orang berkenaan akan sentiasa ingat,"katanya. Menceritakan pengalamannya, Muhd Fitri juga kesal, walaupun ketika beliau mula menunjukkan minat untuk memeluk Islam, tidak ada orang Melayu yang sedia berdakwah kepada beliau dan keluarganya. Katanya, beliau dan keluarga pernah tinggal di kawasan majoritinya orang Melayu tetapi mereka tidak pernah datang untuk berdakwah kepada mereka. Sehubungan itu katanya, umat Islam melakukan usaha berterusan untuk mendekati golongan bukan Islam, menarik mereka untuk menerima Islam sesuai dengan sabda Rasulullah s.a.w yang menggesa umatnya menyampaikan (dakwah) walaupun dengan satu ayat. - mr

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Jangan Risau lagi! Nah... ni dia SELSUN BLUE!!! Memang berkesan, aku dah pakai dekat sebulan dah ni, memang hilang masalah kelemumur aku! Dalam minggu pertama dah boleh nampak perubahan dah, minggu kedua memang dah hilang terus! Pakai seminggu dua kali jer. Harga pun berpatutan.

Brad Pitt pun pakai brand ni! Tak percaya, tengok balik citer Ocean 12, memang Character Brad Pitt pakai brand ni. Sedangkan Brad Pitt pun pakai Selsun Blue, apatah lagi kita, Average Joe? Kita kene ikut langkah Brad Pitt jugak, so mungkin kita jugak akan dapat Angelina Jolie! he he.

p/s: Terima Kasih pada rakan-rakan bloggers yang rekomenkan brand ni. (from this entry)

Waiting for a point where I will exhale........

I really envy those who can really enjoy their live. I mean having real fun, where everyday is a last. They are happy at work, happy at home, there are happy anywhere they are. No matter what, they will have good time.
I am a worrier. I can't feel happiness, it is genetic, it is kinda disorder, I have looked in the web, it is a medical condition that prevent people from ever feel happiness, some kinda psychological disorder. I am admitting it now. I am not a happy person, despite all my effort to appear happy and joyful, I really can't grasp that concept.
I tried to find root cause for this, but I am unable to pinpoint any. I thought it might be financial, career, family or health, but I can't be sure. If i have one thing than it is another, nope I have no idea what going on.
But, when I see happy people, I feel happy for them, at least there can feel it, so I am happy for them. I tried to imagine how is their life all about.
I think I need professional help.

Hebat sangat ke dapat makan malam dengan Anuar Zain tu?

Since January, I am working from Fri-Mon, from 1000-2100 (hopefully until February only). On weekends, I will be just working from home, and sometimes, even on Fri or Mon, I will be working from home if I don't feel going to office. The hall is my office, I'll be watching TV for 10 hours while working (or working while watching TV). I'm kinda become a couch potato and I have become very fond of watching TV lately for some reason*.

Below are my discoveries about my TV watching habits.

1. I can watch "Friends" for hundredth thousand time and I still wouldn't get bored and would still find it funny.
2. Heroes is excellent!
3. I hate watching that "Raja Lawak" advertisements.
4. They repeat the Nana Tanjung theme song so often, that I find myself singing it unconsciously.
5. I subscribed to the movie package and sometimes I thing they show absolutey rubbish, especially in the evening.
6. At certain hour (especially from 2-5pm) there is absolutely nothing to watch!.
7. I really hate it when, we are nicely surfing the channel and suddenly you accidentally hit the "Box Office" Channel (which I don't subscribe) and you need to wait for the damn thing to load before you can hit other channel.
8. I really don't see anything interesting in the "Table for Three", but my wife seem addicted to it.
9. When they going to show the new season of "Lost"?
10. I think I had enough of that "Makan malam bersama Anuar Zain" thingy, it is really getting to my nerves.
11. Ever since Astro migrated to Measat 3, I am unable to get certain channel, called Astro, and the very blur help desk said "Everything seems fine, I think the problem is at you end sir, we can send a technician over, that will cost RM50". Bull Shit isnt it? I told him why the hell i should pay, you upgraded your satellite, and now I need to pay RM 50?!!!
12. I find British comedy on Channel 26 is absolutely boring but somehow I still watch it.
13. I really don't like watching Amazing Race or Fear Factor that much.
14. I find it that I really like to watch those really slow and boring movies compared to action packed ones.
15. I can watch Charlie's Angels for millionth time and still get excited about it.
16. Unheard of before B-Class movies sometime can be interesting in a strange ways.

Interesting Conversation

Scene 0:
Monologue.
Me: Argghhh sh@t!!! F#@K, Gosh, WTF!!!! Gosh, that's alot of blood!
After few minutes...
Me: Why the damn blood not stopping. Sh@t!!! Arghhh .....


Scene 1:
Doctor: How did this happened?
Me: I was preparing some sandwich....
Doctor: Sandwich? And you manage to get a deep cut like this?
Me: Uh uh...
Doctor: Trying to surprise your wife with your cooking?
Me: No la......
Doctor: Try to move you thumb.
Me: (moving my thumb)
Doctor: Good, no ligament cut than....
Me: Oh....
Doctor: This is really bad. We need you stitch you up bro!
Me: ???!!!!

Scene 2:
Me: Tak sangka bende simple macam ni pun kene jahit kan.
Nurse: Tu la pasal, but kalau tak jahit, bleeding tak leh stop ni.
Me: Oh ye ke.

Scene 3:
Me: Dear, I was cutting the frozen burger meat and.....
Wife: Enough said, you are banned from kitchen for eternity!
Me: Nooooooooooooooooooooo............ (in dramatic tone)


Moral of the story:
1. Alway defrost anything before trying to cut it.
2. Use small knife, not parang to cut small stuffs.
3. Don't bother justifying something stupid you done or said.

End Result?
Five stitches in my left thumb. Nuff said.

A story about hope.................. and dissappointment.

When we have hope build up so high in our heart, we prayed to God, Please God, grant me this one wish, my heart has weaken and I cant take any disappointments any more. If I failed this, my life will fall apart and will not be function anymore. This is the last and final drop of strength left in me. I can't take any more heart break. I just can't. We almost believe that, that's it! We will definitely unable to recover back after the hope faded. We almost believe this limitation we impose on ourselves. And yet.......

When we were faced with the bitter taste of disappointment. We somehow manage to suck it up, and continue on, despite all the negativity we build up in our mind before. This is a story of human survival. This is the trait that makes us move on with our life. Most of the time, we underestimate our own inner strength. When we think we had enough of life, and life really kick you back, we still able to face it. We are stronger than what actually we think.

Just because we lost our hope once (or too many times) does it mean we giving up hope..on hope? Nope, hope is a good thing, it keeps us go on, live every single day of our live with a assurance that, someday, what we hope will be achieved.......

Lets count the blessings

Life is good when...

1. When you searching for the remote, it is just within reach.
2. You come back from home, tired from work, you switch on the TV, and your favorite show is showing.
3. Your alarm set off, you wake early to get ready to work, only to find out its your off day, and you continue your sleep.
4. Your are really hungry, you open the fridge, and your favorite dish is there waiting for you.
5. You put on a pants, slip your hand inside the pocket and found RM50 note inside.

Resolutions

My 2007 Resolutions.

1. Be a father soon.
2. Pay off all my credit card debt.
3. Be more charitable, at lease once a month I want to donate something to orphanage (this will be easier once resolution no. 2 is fulfilled)
4. Fat percentage below 10% (hmmmm mimpi ler)
5. Give money to parents (again depend on number 2)
6. Go vacation somewhere REALLY nice.
7. Finally put that MIRROR wall at the dining area.
8. Be a nice guy.
9. Do something to the car, it is so boring now.
10. Go to mosque for Maghrib and Isyak prayer.

Tu jer.

Wife Birthday again.

I let her to believe to the last minute I didn't buy her anything, but I did went out during lunch time today to get her something. I left the office at 130 pm, hoping to come back within an hour.

Went to IOI Mall, no parking at all! After spending about 15 min circling the parking lot, I left.
I decided to go to Subang Parade. Subang Parade and Puchong IOI is NOT near ok! Reached Subang Parade at 230. Went to Parkson, since I knew exactly what to get, I rushed to the perfume counter. Surveyed few, I am not fussy, as long as reasonable and smells nice, I am all ok. The Christian Dior Elizabeth Arden salesgirl seems friendly and helpful. So I decided to buy there.

Bought the perfume, get it wrapped and left.
Reached office at 330 pm, my lunch hour stretched to 2 hours, thanks God it was Sunday. Nothing major was waiting for me.

I let her to believe I bought her nothing, I said, next week la I belanja you makan. She was disappointed. She cut caked with her niece Saffiyah (who shared the same birthday) in he mum's house.

Went back home, she was whining...

She: What kinda husband you are? Tak romatic langsung!, Since got married you never got me anything! Always flowers and choc, no real give, perfume ke handbag ker
Me: Ha ha , you married a wrong guy perhaps.
She: I think so too!

Then finally I handed her the gift when she was least expecting it! She was overjoyed, She keep on saying she was so glad, until the next day in office, I keep on receiving emails from her saying that she liked the gift so much!

2006 Revisited.

Let see what my was I up to last year (based on my blog entries).

There are many things important that happened to me that I didn't blog about, in a fear that I will jinx it.
But overall, I guess last year went pretty well. I felt I am kinda grown up (not only grown older).
Is there any regret? Unsettled score? Things that needed closure that I just ignored, loose ends that need knot? I can't think of any at the moment, surely there must be a lot, but the fact that I can't think of any immediately implies that, it is not important as well.

January.
Finished renovation of the new house.
Moved in new house.

February.
Settle down in new house
Decorate new house.
Start cooking in new house.
Installed Astro.
(So basically settling down.)
Start taking komuter to work, which was off course was not a pleasant!

March
Went to Malacca.
A new hope began.

April
Financial disaster, too many unexpected expenses.
Broken specs, made a new one.

May
Was a quite boring and uneventful month (apart from my birthday)

June
Got new job offer ( still indecisive)

July
Promoted
and resigned (weird huh!)

August
Joined new company
Set up garden in my house.
CT Nurhaliza Got married (related to mu life huh?)

September
Wife changed job
I become OBSESSED with politics
I have officially become left winged

October
Puasa and raya in new house.

November
My 1st Kara-ok ever!

December
Gathering with college friends
Change car stereo.