My Last Entry - Maybe

This could be my last entry, well maybe. I dont know whether I'll have the drive to post anymore. Anyway, today the movers came in packed all my stuff. The apartment looked more spacious now. Ofcourse it looks spacious because all the sofas are gone because I decided to buy them after all. Stupid reason for buying if you asked me. I have an empty cargo, and feel really guilty about not filling it so thats the only reason for buying the sofas. Yes yes and yes its stupid.

Anyway, the good thing about using my employers shipping allowance is that I just have to sit back and let them do all the packing. All I have to do is to separate between air freight and sea freight. So especially for those who expect something when I land in the airport, I am sorry because I'll only be carrying an empty luggage. After all I'll be flying via LA and Hong Kong, so I need to leave some space in case I got tempted. If I manage to exercise some self restraint then, I'll be left with an empty bag! Funny thing, even my work shirt I only keep 1, so I have to re-use the one I am wearing today for tomorrow. Sshhhhhh.

One last thing! I got it 30" waist. But I wont tell you the secret of my success. Oh well, if you must know, I took I deep breath when I measure my waist. Mmmmmmm.

What else is there, for those who really are into eating healthy, Fat is not all bad BUT beware of the TransFat, its the toughest to get rid of! And they are found aplenty in the french fries, fast food fried chicken and stuff....go figure.

In closing, the Six Week is over but I must confess although I learn alot about healthy eating, my flabby abs still leaves a lot to be desired. One thing good that came out all of this though is that atleast now I know that I have an Ideal Body in terms of body fat ofcourse. And for that syukur alhamdulillah.

IF ALL ELSE FAIL, have fun with your goals. Achieving your goals should be a treat, not a chore, but also realize they will not happen by themselves. You must be fully committed to achieving what it is you want in life, IT IS GREAT TO BELIEVE AND TO BE INSPIRED AND MOTIVATED by your goals, but it will not happen for you unless you ACT upon your goals and take a positive step every single day.

Treat your goals with respect and give them your full EAT - Energy, Attention, Time. They will bring you the rewards and success you desire. To your success. [These are not my words - taken from a book by Charles M. Marcus]

10 Ways To Achieving Goals

I was chatting with my sister last night on the prospect of opening a Shop. The thing is we've been dreaming of opening one. And I told her that I have enough of this dreaming and we must make a move to make it a reality. This could be my Goal within the next year or two. On that note, this morning I uncover the following statment on Goals by a certain Jim Rohn:

"If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you, if you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build, end up building us". It goes on to saying "Remember the smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions". I think this will be my new mantra going forward. We really must act on our intention, even if it is just the tinniest of action towards the goal.

As the title suggest, there are 10 Ways To Achieving Goals, but I wont go to them yet in this post. I found out people tend to lose focus/interest reading a long article.

Anyway, my immediate goal ofcourse it to lose 5% Body Fat. Now that I have the guidelines of achieving my goal, I might be able to ACT on it....

Oh well, as my skeptical little sis often says, Easier Said Than Done. But now I think I have an answer to that PERSISTANCE and COMMITMENT, if at first you dont succeed try and try again.

A Banana Cream Pie

Now that I know I have an ideal body, with just 16.8% body fat (yea rite), I cant stop myself from eating all those sinful food. I am suppose to reduce 5% body fat to get to lean but then only last nite,after I measure myself I ate 4 pieces of lamb chops, ofcourse I remove a big chunk of the fat layers, mmm but it was not as good. Oh well, but then I keep on thinking, 30 minutes on the treadmill only burn like 300 calories! That gives me motivation not to take more. Anyway, this morning I have such cravings for cakes. So down I went, and bought a Banana Cream Pie. Wow its really yummy. So my dear sister, next time you dont have to make Apple Cream Pie, the banana version is just as delicous and its much easier to get bananas!

Anyway, time for lunch! Salad ofcourse....

How To Get From Ideal To Lean

Sssssssssssh, this is a subject that one doesnt like to speak out loud. So I am going to whisper. At long last I no longer wants to be in denial. So I bought the Accu-Measure Fitness 2000, its a Personal Body Fat Tester. I just need to find out for sure how much is my body fat percentage. The manual asked me to pinch a flab on my stomach, yes yes and yes I have to admit that after all the diet I still have flabby abs, then use the clipper to measure the thickness of the flab. Anyway, mine reads 12mm, and for my age range it means my body fat is 16.8%. So what does it mean? Is it good or bad? The figure falls under column IDEAL! Hooray, I have an ideal body fat! But then my mission is to be catagorised as LEAN. So how do I go from Ideal to Lean? It seems I have to reduce my body fat by 5%! Small figure eh? Yea rite, only at this very moment I am thawing my frozen lamb chop because I've been craving for it. Aaaaaaaaaaah worst come to worst I still have an ideal body fat. Thats a good thing right?

What A Funny World We Live In

For all the technologies that the IT brings with it, I think, as of this moment, I am more impressed with the WWW - world wide web. After all, it makes communciation so much cheaper. I still remember when I was studying in the UK how expensive it was to get in touch back home. I think it was like GBP10 for 6 minutes or so speaking time. But now, from the States, it only cost like US$5 for 60 minutes. How time change! I am sorry, I am digressing. Bad example. I should have used Skype, Yahoo Massenger, MSN Massenger as my examples on how communication gets cheaper and cheaper. On top of that with webcam, you can also watch what the other parties are doing on real time.

I think the title of my blog is more to do with how current my information now is with the creation of blogspot and blogdrive. I feel so much closer to home that I am able to know the going ons on the other side of the world. What a funny world we live in, I know more the goings on back home reading those blogs then when I was actually at home. Well maybe more is a wrong term. Relatively more then.

Oh well.

R is for Romance - Its Another Love Story

66 another love stories to be exact. Anyway, today being Sunday, I am looking forward to shop, after all, I only have a few weekends left before I go back. But the weather is not cooperating with my plan. Its been snowing since last nite, and its so much nicer to stay at home. I was suppose to go to the gym last nite, apart of being my gym nite I also had a heavy dinner last nite. Alas, it was not meant to be. I was tired and lazy and a certain someone is nagging for me to chat instead. In any case, this morning at 6.30am! I went down to the gym to make up for lost time. The reason I was up was because The Australian Grand Slam Tennis was on live....for those who follow tennis, Safin won! After the fruitful gym session, I fell asleep only to wake up at noon. And the snow is still falling. So I decided to go out to the nearby shop just to get out of the apartment and I seem to recall there is going to be a Second Hand Book Sale towards the end of January. I was right, and the beauty is Sunday is half price day. So books that were sold for $2 each on Saturday are only $1 each, similarly books priced at 50 cents are 25 cents each. Well this blog is specifically dedicated to my two beloved sisters back home. Yes you heard it right, I end up bringing home a box full of romance novels - 66 to be exact, in the freezing snow! Maybe 20 or so of them are (wait a minute let me check) Harlequin Series - these are the ones that are priced at 25 cents each. I hope you guys read this, cause you owe me a big dinner once I get home!

Come to think of it I wonder if this is a good idea, since time they spent reading will be time spent accumulating FAT. Oh well, I am sure they know how to scheduled their reading time, NOT!

After sending the books home I went out again to take some pictures. If they are good will ask one of them to post in their blog again. The scenary was really breathtaking, what prompt me to go out to the park again was because a saw a group of whitish birds (pigeons maybe) flying low over the park. Maybe some was feeding them nuts.

No Excuses _ Part II

Beat the Road Blocks
"I Have No Time"
Combine things you do anyway--work, breathe--with athletics. Set up business meetings during which you walk or jog; play tennis with your date; take a spin class to find dates; or take your family hiking, suggests Charles Stuart Platkin, M.P.H., author of The Automatic Diet.

"I Need My Sleep"
Pat Croce manages to stick with his workouts, and this father of two has been busy hosting his syndicated TV show, Pat Croce: Moving In, and opening a pirate museum in Key West, Florida. "Like me, you have to schedule fitness," he says. On the first of each month, Croce reviews his schedule with his secretary and then his wife, and breaks it down into weeks. Every Sunday, he goes over the coming week, making sure there are gyms at hotels where he'll be staying.

"I'm Bored With My Workout"
"Throw it in reverse," says Gunnar Peterson, C.S.C.S., author of G-Force. If you always do lat pulldowns with an overhand grip, switch to underhand. Do a reverse-grip bench press, reverse-grip curls, reverse-grip triceps pushdowns. Do front squats, rear lunges, and dumbbell lateral raises with your palms up. Count backward, too. "It's like a blastoff," says Peterson: "5, 4, 3, 2, 1, done."

"I Never See Results"
Maybe you're not looking in the right places. Measure your waist, your heart rate, and your weight. Write them down. Then measure again after a week or two, says Croce. Celebrate even the smallest sign of progress. Muscles appear as fat melts.

"I Have No Energy"
Eat. You need the fuel. "An active guy needs up to 1,000 calories more than an inactive guy," says Gay Riley, R.D.

"I'm Bored Again"
Organize your workout differently for 1 to 2 weeks, says Peterson. Let's say you're usually a push-pull guy--you do chinups and leg curls one workout, bench presses and squats another. Try working antagonistic, or opposing, muscle groups, such as your back and chest. You can also change to an upper/lower split routine in which you alternate upper-body workouts with lower-body ones. Or try a total-body workout a few times a week.

Lets Throw Conscience To The Wind

What the heck! My friend was kind enough to bring me shopping today. Honestly, I am not in the mood to shop. So as always given the opportunity I bought more shoes. Well, I am planning to lead an active lifestyle once I go back so I need shoes to match, for hiking and training ofcourse! What on earth were you thinking....

Well, now that I've started shopping I just cant help myself, so I decided to buy the three (yes THREE) tier cake stand, its squarish. Since I dont know how many takers will be there, I bought 4. Oh well, then onto the furniture shops, where I found this lovely round mirrors that usually costs thousands back home. So I asked my friend if it fits the car, I'll get them. It turns out it was too big for the car. So I said, ok then lets go. As luck (fate) would have it, my friend saw a sign in the shop that says express delivery available. So I have to obligingly asked how much it cost to deliver. The sales person said $50 regardless of how many I bought. Hmmm, in the end I decided to buy two. Then my friend (yes I am blaming him) encouraged me to buy a leather sofa that was on sale........Oh well, lets throw conscience to the wind, after all I have plenty of cargo space in so, "reluctantly" I have to buy the sofa. Maybe somebody back home will buy it from.....I'll just have to see.

Its a good thing that I am able to refrain myself from buying carpets and rugs....and there are alot of three tiers cake stand available including those made of stoneware or was it ceramic. Oh well, enough shopping for a day. Thank goodness it started snowing tonite, so I wont be tempted to shop tomorrow.