Munchkins were rearranging our family photo album yesterday and she found a picture of me and her at a kenduri from long ago. She showed the picture to me and said, "Look, you were even slimmer than that guy your friend". I looked and my jaws dropped to the floor. There in the picture I was wearing PPP rugby jersey, and beside me is another friend who looked in the picture twice my size then. Was I really that skinny back then?
We went to do our groceries at Carrefour last night and I picked up some almond and raisins for my snacking needs. We're supposed to go to pasar malam tonight for vegetables but Abg Matt called me this morning informing me that his father had passed away. I'm very sorry for him. I'll be going straight to KL after work to visit them. Munchkins couldn't come coz she have classes today morning and night.
* had roasted chicken between wholemeal bread for buka puasa last night.
* not fasting today but I'll skip meals anyway.. don't feel like eating anything today
* still looking for bench press bench. Bidded max of RM50 to the same guy from yesterday at lelong. Currently I'm the highest bidder @ RM11, but 7 days to go.
**** updated 11:45am ****
Artis : Sheila on 7
Lagu : Pria Terhebat
Hebat,pria terhebat
Itu yang kuharapkan ada padaku
Agar...agar diriku
Bisa melumpuhkan tingkah liarmu
Jangan...jangan siakan
Kehadiranku pada mimpimu
karna hanya lewat mimpi
Aku bisa menjamahmu
Juga memilikimu
Ajari aku tuk jadi pria terhebat
Mungkin terlalu lama
Aku tlah bersembunyi
Menatap matahari pun aku tak mampu
Udara malam pun terlalu menusuk langkahku
Di persembunyian aku menari...
Di persembunyian aku menyanyi...
pria terhebat...
Begitu banyak lagu tercipta untukmu
Hanya saja aku tak bisa
Mengungkapnya kepadamu
* yes I wanna be Pria Terhebat! :P
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Monday, September 27, 2004
some early arrangements
Yesterday I managed to booked massively bargain return tickets KLIA-Kuching-KLIA on AirAsia. A colleague here told me to book early to get the super bargain price for AirAsia tickets. 2 return tickets from KLIA Airport to Kuching airport for only RM39.90/person/way! so the total amount for air fares plus taxes is only RM235.96!
Yes we're going to Kuching, Sarawak! I'm doing some early arrangements for our first honeymoon next february!. It was either Kuching or Australia with the rest of the family. Kuching sounds better to me. Besides, I'm quite familiar with Kuching. The last time I was there was some 15 years ago, I as 12 years old. Things can't change that much rite?
Checked out the hotels and looks like I narrowed them down to either Crowne Plaza Riverside or Holiday Inn Kuching . Have not decided yet. But we're definately going to stay at the Bako National Park on the last night in Kuching!. I've emailed the park authorities to reserve a cabin there.
I'm really looking forward to this trip. Loooong time to February :)
* daily morning and night cardio sessions.
* fasting today and yesterday. Munchkins steamed a good half of a garoupa fish I bought 2 weeks ago.
* trying to buy this used bench press from a guy at lelong. He's not letting it go under RM350. That's RM300 more than I would like to spend :P
Yes we're going to Kuching, Sarawak! I'm doing some early arrangements for our first honeymoon next february!. It was either Kuching or Australia with the rest of the family. Kuching sounds better to me. Besides, I'm quite familiar with Kuching. The last time I was there was some 15 years ago, I as 12 years old. Things can't change that much rite?
Checked out the hotels and looks like I narrowed them down to either Crowne Plaza Riverside or Holiday Inn Kuching . Have not decided yet. But we're definately going to stay at the Bako National Park on the last night in Kuching!. I've emailed the park authorities to reserve a cabin there.
I'm really looking forward to this trip. Loooong time to February :)
* daily morning and night cardio sessions.
* fasting today and yesterday. Munchkins steamed a good half of a garoupa fish I bought 2 weeks ago.
* trying to buy this used bench press from a guy at lelong. He's not letting it go under RM350. That's RM300 more than I would like to spend :P
Sunday, September 26, 2004
helicopter ride!
Took off friday and went back to Kuantan. Munchkins needed the weekend to unwind. It took us only 2 hours on the new East Coast highway, one half hour short of the usual drive on the old trunk road. Not bad for RM19 toll.
Munchkins went for KMPH english night recital thingy. I stayed behind and workout. Yes I bought my dumbbell for the trip. :). On saturday we went to Terenganu for some shopping. I enjoyed the long drive via the coastal road to Kemaman. Bought the freshest keropok lekor. yummy.. I prefer the boiled one, not the fried ones.
Highlight of the weekend was definately the 10 minutes helicopter ride around Kuantan town. Me and munchkins could not resist the offer for a helicopter joyride. We took bunch of pictures. What an experience I say.. Now if only the pilot would let me have a go at the rudder stick :P
* tried my best to stick to my diet, but I'm so weak.
* love being energetic
* my pc acting up. Both at work and at home. Looks like time to reformat the old hag.
Munchkins went for KMPH english night recital thingy. I stayed behind and workout. Yes I bought my dumbbell for the trip. :). On saturday we went to Terenganu for some shopping. I enjoyed the long drive via the coastal road to Kemaman. Bought the freshest keropok lekor. yummy.. I prefer the boiled one, not the fried ones.
Highlight of the weekend was definately the 10 minutes helicopter ride around Kuantan town. Me and munchkins could not resist the offer for a helicopter joyride. We took bunch of pictures. What an experience I say.. Now if only the pilot would let me have a go at the rudder stick :P
* tried my best to stick to my diet, but I'm so weak.
* love being energetic
* my pc acting up. Both at work and at home. Looks like time to reformat the old hag.
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
old addiction
GASP! old addiction is back. Last night after coming back from our night out, I quickly changed and seconds later I was on my cardio machine. Then some weight training before I hit the shower. The shower kinda freshen me up again and I could not sleep. I spend 2 hours watching "The Amazing Race" on AXN until almost 2am (can't remember).
*Chip & Kim (the Married parents couple) won the million bucks. I'm just glad the super competative Collin & Kristie did not win. I guess I still wants good guys to win, pity it's not Brandon & whatshername..
Anyway right after the show and before bed I managed to pick up my dumbells and did a few sets. Then off to bed I went. Woke up this morning and did some cardio and few sets on the dumbells and off to work. In the office I realized that over less than 12 hours I have done 3 session of half hour cardio and more than 4 sessions of weight training with my dumbell.Why?
I realized that somehow the muscle pain I got from changing my flat tyre made me miss the sensation when my whole body aching. I miss the pain I guess. Now all I can think of is to go back and spend some love on my dumbells. Munchkins doesn't seem to mind at all. :P
* had sotong kangkung at uptown last night. Basicly boiled green vege, squid and hoisin sauce.
* fasting today, training my mind for the coming eid mubarak (fasting season).
* keyword of the day : carnie wilson
**** updated 4:03pm ****
* Apparently I am AppleDOS 3.1 according to bbspot. Still a work in progress.. hmm quite true I think..
*Chip & Kim (the Married parents couple) won the million bucks. I'm just glad the super competative Collin & Kristie did not win. I guess I still wants good guys to win, pity it's not Brandon & whatshername..
Anyway right after the show and before bed I managed to pick up my dumbells and did a few sets. Then off to bed I went. Woke up this morning and did some cardio and few sets on the dumbells and off to work. In the office I realized that over less than 12 hours I have done 3 session of half hour cardio and more than 4 sessions of weight training with my dumbell.Why?
I realized that somehow the muscle pain I got from changing my flat tyre made me miss the sensation when my whole body aching. I miss the pain I guess. Now all I can think of is to go back and spend some love on my dumbells. Munchkins doesn't seem to mind at all. :P
* had sotong kangkung at uptown last night. Basicly boiled green vege, squid and hoisin sauce.
* fasting today, training my mind for the coming eid mubarak (fasting season).
* keyword of the day : carnie wilson
**** updated 4:03pm ****
* Apparently I am AppleDOS 3.1 according to bbspot. Still a work in progress.. hmm quite true I think..
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
10 minutes record
Flat tyre yesterday.. had to rush to the office so I pumped in just enough air to get me to the office. Changed the tyres before I go back. 10 minutes! not a bad time ey? Hurt my back (probably muscle pain) while changing tyre. Must remember next time that it's not a race to beat personal time.
Munchkins was busy with her papers so she only managed to bake some fish for dinner. I stir fry some vege using as less oil I can. So for dinner I had small portion of rice, grilled cat fish and some stir-fried vege. I felt guilty so I spent half and hour on cardio and pump some iron before we go out to visit Ameenn in IIUM.
We're going back to kuantan on Friday. Can't wait to travel again.
* chic'n breasts again between 2 piece of Gardenia's new "Fit & Trim" bread. The bread cost 150% more than your normal white bread and 50% more than your wholemeal. I prefer wholemeal but I just want to see what's the new bread all about. Comment - OK tasting but still lack of fibre that I like about wholemeal bread.
* finally fixed blogger time stamp on posting issue.. well more of the issue of me not setting me timezone correctly. Hurrah for not reading the help / man pages.
Munchkins was busy with her papers so she only managed to bake some fish for dinner. I stir fry some vege using as less oil I can. So for dinner I had small portion of rice, grilled cat fish and some stir-fried vege. I felt guilty so I spent half and hour on cardio and pump some iron before we go out to visit Ameenn in IIUM.
We're going back to kuantan on Friday. Can't wait to travel again.
* chic'n breasts again between 2 piece of Gardenia's new "Fit & Trim" bread. The bread cost 150% more than your normal white bread and 50% more than your wholemeal. I prefer wholemeal but I just want to see what's the new bread all about. Comment - OK tasting but still lack of fibre that I like about wholemeal bread.
* finally fixed blogger time stamp on posting issue.. well more of the issue of me not setting me timezone correctly. Hurrah for not reading the help / man pages.
Monday, September 20, 2004
Eddie's Squid/ Calamari Salad
Ingredient
Squid/ Calamari baked, sliced to small strips
Some cabbage and Green & Red capsicum cut to small strips (salad/ coleslaw style)
Tomatoes diced
1 piece of wholemeal bread, toasted, diced to small 1cm bits
The toss sauce
Put some vinegar (1 -2 tblspoon) into a small bowl,
Balance the vinegar sourness with honey ( usually equal part of honey)
Crush red & green bird eyes chilies (normally used in thai/ malay cooking)
Mix the mixture of vinegar and honey with chilies give it a good stir
The Toss
Get a bowl and throw all the ingredient in.
Put in the toss sauce and toss well :)
Serve best freshly tossed or as sandwich stuffing :P
* had this for dinner, yummie
Squid/ Calamari baked, sliced to small strips
Some cabbage and Green & Red capsicum cut to small strips (salad/ coleslaw style)
Tomatoes diced
1 piece of wholemeal bread, toasted, diced to small 1cm bits
The toss sauce
Put some vinegar (1 -2 tblspoon) into a small bowl,
Balance the vinegar sourness with honey ( usually equal part of honey)
Crush red & green bird eyes chilies (normally used in thai/ malay cooking)
Mix the mixture of vinegar and honey with chilies give it a good stir
The Toss
Get a bowl and throw all the ingredient in.
Put in the toss sauce and toss well :)
Serve best freshly tossed or as sandwich stuffing :P
* had this for dinner, yummie
Sunday, September 19, 2004
manic monday, mostly
Sunday BBQ was great.. we had chicken, pot roast, and Zurbian (Yemeni rice dish). We really enjoyed ourself, watching tv and waiting for the chicken to cook. Munchkins said that the private BBQ was long overdued since we first moved in the house in June.
Wa sms'ed on sunday morning that he just got a BABY BOY! wow.. that's great! I told him that we will be visiting him and sand later that day but by the time we're ready to go, it was 7pm and we felt that it's too late to go visit anyway. I think I'll come visit on Monday lunch time.
Talk about babies, Munchkins told me that she had dream a couple of nights before about our little girl again. This was the second time she has dreamt of zoe.. God knows how much we want to have kids but I guess we'll have to wait until Munchkins done with her Masters.
Hmm.. I'm smiling ears to ears today, daydreaming about my little zoe...
* 5 small slice of baked chicken breasts between oven-toasted burger loaf with cabbage & tomatoes.. yummie..
Wa sms'ed on sunday morning that he just got a BABY BOY! wow.. that's great! I told him that we will be visiting him and sand later that day but by the time we're ready to go, it was 7pm and we felt that it's too late to go visit anyway. I think I'll come visit on Monday lunch time.
Talk about babies, Munchkins told me that she had dream a couple of nights before about our little girl again. This was the second time she has dreamt of zoe.. God knows how much we want to have kids but I guess we'll have to wait until Munchkins done with her Masters.
Hmm.. I'm smiling ears to ears today, daydreaming about my little zoe...
* 5 small slice of baked chicken breasts between oven-toasted burger loaf with cabbage & tomatoes.. yummie..
Thursday, September 16, 2004
lean meals
Last night I unpacked the oven from out of the box. I have been wanting to do so all week to bake my meals. Munchkins insisted that we do it on saturday but I just couldn't wait..
Baked my first meal.. lean chicken pieces with garlic and pepper.. yummiee... can't help myself to a small piece hot from the oven, and off to the fridge they go. This morning Munchkins nuked them for a few seconds and I sliced them up and put them in wholemeal/rye bread with some chopped cabbage..
One sandwich for breakfast and another one to bring to work.
I'm surfing the web for some lean low fat/ low carb meal recipes.. let me know if you have a link worth mentioning :)
**** update at 3:52pm ****
Had a piece of papaya, cold at the masjid for lunch.. sweet, refreshing.. best one I had in a long time..
Munchkins called earlier to tell me that she's going to Nilai with her dad. I asked her to bring some extra money inacse she found somethgin she like there. Hope she'll be back before 6 else I'm stuck here in the office.
We're planning to haev a private BBQ thingy just teh two of us this saturday before PGL (Puteri Gunung Ledang, the Movie) so I guess we're going to Tesco tonight for some chicken, etc. Sat is my free day, not so much because I wanna eat freely, but because me and munchkins needs it, to have a normal meal she/ we cooked together.
ET send her blog url via IM just now.. another daily must-read :)
Baked my first meal.. lean chicken pieces with garlic and pepper.. yummiee... can't help myself to a small piece hot from the oven, and off to the fridge they go. This morning Munchkins nuked them for a few seconds and I sliced them up and put them in wholemeal/rye bread with some chopped cabbage..
One sandwich for breakfast and another one to bring to work.
I'm surfing the web for some lean low fat/ low carb meal recipes.. let me know if you have a link worth mentioning :)
**** update at 3:52pm ****
Had a piece of papaya, cold at the masjid for lunch.. sweet, refreshing.. best one I had in a long time..
Munchkins called earlier to tell me that she's going to Nilai with her dad. I asked her to bring some extra money inacse she found somethgin she like there. Hope she'll be back before 6 else I'm stuck here in the office.
We're planning to haev a private BBQ thingy just teh two of us this saturday before PGL (Puteri Gunung Ledang, the Movie) so I guess we're going to Tesco tonight for some chicken, etc. Sat is my free day, not so much because I wanna eat freely, but because me and munchkins needs it, to have a normal meal she/ we cooked together.
ET send her blog url via IM just now.. another daily must-read :)
Tuesday, September 7, 2004
a picnic we will go
we're going on a picnic, yay!
too bad munchkins will have to miss it,
she's going to be busy with her projects, etc and the possibility
of a replacement class on sunday.
Farah and Abg Matt can't make it either, have their thing on sunday as well..
Alas, bunch of the gang will be there
and quite frankly I can't wait to be chef de' mission :)
too bad munchkins will have to miss it,
she's going to be busy with her projects, etc and the possibility
of a replacement class on sunday.
Farah and Abg Matt can't make it either, have their thing on sunday as well..
Alas, bunch of the gang will be there
and quite frankly I can't wait to be chef de' mission :)
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