Monday, January 19, 2009

16 random things

Tiada sapa yg meng'tag' aku, tp xkisahlah..nak buat jugak :p

16 random things

1) sangat suka membaca buku, skang ni more into buku2 motivation, self improvement. Juga chick lits yang sentiasa membuatkan aku berangan dan merasa masih ada lagi cinta yang indah dalam dunia :p

2) hobi sejak kecil, sangat sayang utk buang barang2. Selalu fikir yg baang2 tu maybe ada guna di masa depan. Dan sejak kecil juga, sgt dikenali d kalangan keluarga sebagai orang yg sgt pandai menjaga barang :p. I dunno, that's just me. Dan itu juga telah menyebabkan, bilik syaa sgt penuh dgn barang2..aduii..seksa nak mengemas

3) sangat menyukai pink, purple dan warna2 yg berada dlm kumpulan itu. Tahun lepas, merah pula mendapat tempat. Tahun ni xtau lg. Tapi sering berangan kalau kawin nnt, nak pelamin n baju pengantin kaler purple. Saje nk lawan ngan Along :p

4) Meminati channel Hallmark (one of my fav channel la). Kebanyakan ceritanya tentang keluarga, cita2. Sgt inspiring

5) Juga meminati Oprah, especially kalau time ada Dr.Oz. Sgt teruja

6) Lately ni, suka pada rancangan Friends. Mereka ttp mendapat perhatian!

7) Juga sgt suka menambah pengetahuan tentang health & fitness. Selalu berazam pada diri sendiri, utk exercise at leas 3 kali seminggu. Kdg2 tercapai, selalunya tidak.Sgt sukar. Bila bekerja, pukul 6 belum tentu kerja dh siap.. Huwaaaa

8) Disebabkan azam yg membara utk exercise, selalu menjadikan Taman Tasik Cyberjaya sebagai tpt jogging yg ideal (paling dkt ngan office). Dan setiap pagi memasang angan2 utk
bangun awal agar dpt ke office di awal pagi, serta mempunyai masa yg cukup utk jogging di petang hari. Selalunya tidak tercapai. Tapi aku xputus harapan. Masih terus berazam. I'm no quitter. Positif2

9) Memberikan reaksi yg berbeza pada org yg berbeza. Ade certain org tu, borak kejap je dh leh masuk. Ade jugak yg cover2 sopan santun. Ada j uga yg menjadikan diri aku super pendiam (kalau org tu sgt kecoh, maka aku pun selalunya diam la, depends). Ada juga yg mengenali aku sebagai kecoh. Ni hanya berlaku di kelompok kawan2 rapat saja :p bebas menjadi diri sendiri

10) Mata aku sgt sensitif. Senang je air mata keluar, walaupun utk berita gembira. Apakah...?

11) Sejak bekerja ni, aku sangat suka beli brg2 Body Shop. I dunno, sampai kawan2 panggil aku 'Duta Body Shop' kerana suka beli and promote :p. Skang ni, dh xtau ape nk beli dh kat sana. Mcm2 suda ada. Tapi masih belum mampu memiliki mana2 produk dr L'occitane dan sewaktu dgnnya

12) Meminati seni. Bukan terlalu fanatik, tapi sgt suka menonton tarian, teater. Bercita2 mahu menonton orkestra di Dewan Philharmonic dlm masa terdekat ni. Teater terakhir yg aku tonton adalah P.Ramlee the musical. Sgt menyentuh hati. Seminggu jugak aku sentiasa teringat teater tu. Mengenangkan susah payah P.Ramlee dlm industri ini. Paling terkesan bila saat dia bersama Saloma. Dan juga pabila dia parah bila ditinggalkan isteri2nya..sehinggalah dia bertemu Saloma

13) Tiba2 obses dgn kecantikan. Tiba2 register pakej utk facial. 1st trial, sgt sakit. Nampak sgt muka ni dh lama xwat facial :p malu i. Tapi layanan tiptop. Terpaksa relakan jela :p

14) kasut2 yg dibeli sumanya hampir sama je pattern. I mean, sandals. Entah, selesa mungkin

15) Teringin nak cuba main squash. Jom!!

16) Sukar buat pilihan. Kdg2 terfikir, nape la susah sgt nak wat pilihan, and kenapalah keputusan yg dibuat tu, memberi impak yg besar. Dan disebabkan itu, selalu buat keputusan yg silap. Arghhh!! Tensi

Tu jela. Random things yg mampu aku pk di malam hari yang hening tp panas ni :p

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Jason Mraz Live in Malaysia

Mark your Calenders!!

Following the release of his highly anticipated new album “We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.”, Marctensia, the concert organizer is pleased to announce that the multi-talented Grammy nominated singer-songwriter Jason Mraz will be touring Kuala Lumpur. Jason Mraz’s concert will kick off on the 4th of March 2009, Stadium Negara at 8:00p.m.

Ticket prices of the concert will be announced shortly and there will be an exclusive early-bird sale event that offers one-off special discount concert tickets for Jason Mraz Live in Malaysia 2009.

A vibrant live performer, Mraz has just wrapped a major North American tour. Now Jason Mraz will be touring South East Asia for the very first time starting off with a bang in your very own Kuala Lumpur. Accompanied by his critically acclaimed live band which includes percussionist Toca Rivera, Jason Mraz will be performing tracks from his latest album ‘We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things’ as well as hits from his previous albums namely ‘The Remedy’ and ‘You and I Both’.

Can you afford to miss this??

p/s: Oh my Jason Mraz.. I really love your songs :)

Source: link: http://ripsta.studios.my/blog/jason-mraz-live-in-malaysia


Updated news:

Venue: Stadium Negara

Ticket price: RM258, RM208, RM168, RM138, RM88, RM68

Online Booking open on 17 Jan 2009 (Sat)

Booking hotline: 603-7711 5000

Source: link : http://ripsta.studios.my/blog/jason-mraz-tours-kl-ticket-release

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Download your favourite anime & manga here!

Terasa ingin berkongsi link2 best untuk mendownload anime dan manga :)
Mesti ramai yang minat kan. Sekarang tgh aktif mendownload Naruto. Banyaknye nak kejar..isk isk

http://narutochaos.com/ - thsi site is specifically for Naruto

http://speedanime.de/
You can find:
-Naruto
-One Piece
-Bleach
-Hitman
-Gintama
-Soul Eater

and many more..

Wish me luck and happy downloading :p

Monday, January 12, 2009

Whats life all about...

something I found while bloghopping


Life isn't about keeping score...
It's not about how many friends you have.
Or how many people call you, or how accepted or unaccepted you are.
Not about if you have plans this weekend, or if you're alone.
It isn't about who you're dating, or who you used to date,
how many people you've dated, or if you haven't been with anyone at all.
It isn't about who your family is, or how much money they have.
Or what kind of car they drive.....

It's not about how beautiful or ugly you are.
Not about what clothes you wear, what shoes you have on,
or the kind of music you listen to....
It's not about if your hair is blonde, red, black, brown, or green.
Or if your skin is too light or too dark.

Its not about how good you are at "your" sport.
Not about what grades you get,
how smart you are, or how smart everyone else thinks you are.
Not the least about how smart “standardized tests” say you are.
It's not about representing your whole being on a piece of paper,
and seeing who will accept the “written you".

Life just ain’t about any of these.....

But life is about who you love and who you hurt.
It's about who you make happy or unhappy purposefully.
It's about keeping or betraying trust.
It's about friendship, used as sanctity, or as a weapon.
It's about what you say and mean, maybe hurtful, maybe heartening.
It's about what judgments you pass and why.
And who your judgments are spread to.

It's about who you've ignored with full control and intention.
It's about jealousy, fear, pain, ignorance, and revenge.
It's about carrying inner hate and love,
letting it grow and spreading it.

But most of all,
it's about using your life to touch or poison other people's hearts
in such a way that could never have occurred alone....
Only you choose the way these hearts are affected,
and those choices are what life is all about....


Taken from: link

Sunday, January 11, 2009

The Best Fat-Burning Advice


Get the Facts to Burn the Fat
-- By Dean Anderson, Fitness & Behavior Expert


Wouldn’t it be great if all the fat-burning secrets you see in magazine ads and TV infomercials actually worked? If sauna suits, cellulite-shrinking creams, herbal wraps, and pills designed to “boost metabolism and melt fat away” did what they claim to, obesity would be a thing of the past.

But they don’t work. And neither do any of those exercise gadgets that promise to reduce the fat in your fill-in-the-blank problem area (i.e. belly, hips or thighs). That’s just not how your body operates. You probably know by now that the only healthy way to lose fat (and keep it from finding you again) is to spend more energy on physical activity than you take in from food. That takes a combination of moderate calorie restriction and increased physical activity–a healthy lifestyle, not a crash weight loss program or other magic gimmick.

But what about some of the less outrageous claims and advice about fat burning that are floating around? Can you burn more fat by exercising early in the morning, or on an empty stomach? Does building up a lot of muscle really make you burn a lot more calories even when you’re sitting still, making strength training more important than cardio? Will you lose more fat if you exercise at a lower intensity for a longer time?

We’ll take a look at each of these claims, and see how they stack up against the evidence that is currently available. Then we’ll put all this information together into an effective fat-burning strategy that will really work for you.

Exercising Early in the Morning

Fat-burning claim: Exercising first thing in the morning will force your body to use fat as fuel. Proponents of this claim say that while you’re sleeping overnight, your body is in a state of fasting that uses up most of the carbohydrates (stored as glycogen) that you ate during the day. Therefore, working out in the morning burns fat because fat is the only fuel available.

Fat-burning fact: Not true! Your body stores glycogen in two places: in your liver and muscle cells. When you sleep, your body turns to glycogen in the liver to keep your brain, nervous system, and other essential operations going while you’re not eating. Therefore, the stored carbohydrates in your liver will become depleted overnight. But remember how your muscles also store carbohydrates in the form of glycogen? This muscle glycogen can only be used by those muscle cells. So, unless you run a 10K race in your sleep, your overnight "fast" will not noticeably affect on your muscle glycogen. This is a good thing, because you’d never make it through the first few minutes of your morning exercise routine if you didn't have any muscle glycogen.

Fat-burning tip: Exercise will burn fat stores at any time of day or night. There are several good reasons to exercise early in the morning, if you can manage it. You’ll get it done before other things have a chance to get in the way of your workout. And for many people, an a.m. fitness routine offers a psychological boost that can make the rest of the day much easier.

Exercising on an Empty Stomach

Fat-burning claim: Exercising on an empty stomach will burn fat as fuel. Perpetrators of this theory refer to the body's insulin response, which goes like this:
  • When you eat a meal or snack, your body releases insulin into your blood stream.
  • Insulin's role is to help carbohydrates (glucose) move from your blood stream into your cells, where it is used to make energy.
  • In the process, insulin partially inhibits the release of fat from fat cells, so that it can carry more glucose to your cells.
According to this theory, when you exercise before eating, the insulin response won’t happen; then the body's ability to burn fat as fuel won’t be inhibited; and you’ll end up burning more fat during your exercise.

Fat-burning fact: It's true that insulin inhibits release of fat from fat cells, but not true that exercising on an empty stomach makes you burn more fat overall. Anytime you are burning more fat during a workout, you are almost always burning fewer total calories, which basically defeats the purpose if your goals are weight loss and improved fitness. What really determines whether your body will turn to stored fat or carbohydrates (glucose) for fuel? The intensity and duration of your exercise. In a nutshell, you’ll burn more fat and more total calories when you exercise at high intensity levels. When you exercise at 70% to 90% of your max heart rate, your body can’t turn stored fat into fuel fast enough to meet the demands of your active muscles. But the more intense your exercise, the more total calories you'll burn during your workout and during the recovery phase afterward. When it comes to weight loss, total calorie expenditure is more important than where the calories are coming from (glucose or stored fat).

Fat-burning tip: Real fat-burning takes place during low-intensity, daily activities—not during exercise itself. The more calories (glycogen) you burn during exercise and recovery, the more your body will rely on fat stores to fuel the rest of your day. So instead of trying to figure out whether (or what) to eat before you exercise, choose whatever will help you put the most effort and time into your workout session. Everyone is different. Don't eat if it upsets your stomach to exercise soon afterward, but if you feel lightheaded or fatigued when exercising on an empty stomach, then you should eat a pre-workout snack or meal.

Exercising at Lower Intensity Levels for Longer Durations

Fat-burning claim: Exercising at lower intensity levels and for a longer duration burns more fat than moderate- to high-intensity exercise. People who subscribe to this theory use some of the same facts above regarding the source of fuel for various levels of exercise intensity. Further adding "credibility" to these claims, many cardio machines have "fat burning" workouts or programs, which have you exercising at lower heart rates.

Fat-burning fact: While it is a fact that low-intensity activities use more fat as fuel, this theory doesn’t hold up unless you can devote several hours every day to exercise. It’s important not to confuse percentage of fat burned with total amount of fat burned. Let's look at three examples of fuel usage, at three different intensity levels, and see which actually burns the most fat:
  • High-intensity exercise (about 70% max heart rate): 33% of the energy you use comes from fat and 66% comes from glucose. You're burning about 600 calories per hour (200 calories from fat).
  • Low-intensity exercise (about 50-60% max heart rate): Your ratio of fat to glucose usage is about 50-50. You're burning about 350 calories per hour (175 calories from fat).
  • Sitting still (resting heart rate): 66% of the energy you use comes from fat and 33% comes from glucose. You're burning about 90 calories per hour (60 calories from fat).
Fat-burning tip: Most of us can only manage about one hour of high-intensity exercise, but could handle several hours of low-intensity exercise like walking. Exercising at lower intensity levels for longer durations only burns more fat IF you have at least two hours to spend on that activity. However, low-intensity exercise also offers fewer general health benefits and won't help you improve your cardiovascular fitness level. If you’ve got two hours to spend on cardio your best bet is to get the best of both worlds by doing an hour each of higher and lower intensity exercise.

Making Strength Training More Important than Cardio

Fat-burning claim: You’ve heard it a million times—muscle burns more calories than fat, even while you’re sitting still. So when it comes to losing weight, strength training is more important than cardio.

Fat-burning fact: Part of this is true. A pound of muscle, at rest, burns about three times as many calories as a pound of fat, which by nature is pretty much always “at rest.” But whether or not strength training should be the only (or main) focus of your fitness program depends on what the numbers really say.

At rest, one pound of fat burns about two calories per day, while one pound of muscle burns about six calories. Simply having more muscle is not going to make that much of a difference all by itself. Building five pounds of extra muscle is only going to add about 30 calories per day to your resting metabolic rate, but while you are cutting calories to lose weight, it's very difficult (if not impossible) to add five pounds of muscle to your body.

Muscle does burn more calories at rest and at work. But losing weight always involves losing some muscle along the way. If you don't strength train, as much as 30% of the weight you lose could be muscle weight, which works out to about 15 pounds of muscle loss for your 50-pound weight loss. Losing 15 pounds muscle could cost an active person several hundred calories per day in lost calorie burning capacity since active muscles (as opposed to resting) burn 30 times more calories than fat. This is one of the big reasons why people who lose weight rapidly on crash diets (without exercise) almost always put that weight back on later. However, an effective strength training program can reduce that 30% muscle loss figure to 3-5%. That's much better for your fat burning goals and your metabolism.

Fat-burning tip: Even if you're short on time, you shouldn't give up the cardio and concentrate on strength training if you want to burn fat. You'll burn more fat by doing 30 minutes of cardio than you will in a whole day sitting around with five extra pounds of muscle. But don’t make the opposite mistake of thinking you don’t need strength training, either. Both are very important for fat burning and overall health.

Putting It All Together

When you put all this information together, the picture you see is very familiar. There aren’t any gimmicks or shortcuts. To burn fat, the variables are simple. You need to:
  • Be as active as possible
  • Exercise at a moderate (60% MHR) to high (>70% MHR) intensity level when doing cardio
  • Include strength training two to three times per week
  • Keep your total calorie intake below your total energy expenditure (without exceeding a 1,000 calorie deficit per day)
  • Provide your body with plenty of quality fuel from healthy foods
When planning and timing your meals along with your fitness program, find what works best for you in terms of providing the right fuel at the right times, using your Nutrition Tracker and Meal Plans as a guide. Your energy and performance levels will tell you whether you need to eat before exercise, whether you need more or fewer calories, and what ratio of fat, carbs, and protein is best for the demands of your lifestyle. Now that you have the facts, don't let another fat-burning theorist steer you wrong ever again!

Source: SparkPeople



Times Books warehouse sales 8 - 18 Jan 09

WOW!!! menariknyaaa... terasa saaaaangat gatal mahu pergi... mari kawan2..membeli buku

8 Jan: Member’s Preview Day
9 onwards: public
11am - 9pm

RM1 Daily Specials
Enjoy RM10 Voucher with purchases above RM300
3 Books for RM10
Constant Replenishments

Level 1,
Hartamas Shopping Centre,
Plaza Damas
Google Map - Hartamas Shopping Centre malaysia
+6017 375 4223


Source: PASIM

Thursday, January 8, 2009

A Dozen Ways to Get to Know Your Real Partner

The Signs Are All Around You

I found this article in Yahoo.com - link
Useful i think for us to know our partners better.


Here are the dozen indicators:
1. Protocol: First or Second? Whether it's walking through a door, ordering dinner, or taking a bite out of the freshly baked cookies you have made together, if your partner always have to go first this could indicate self- centeredness. Are you willing to always be the giver?
2. Politics: Liberal or Conservative? How your partner views what is right or wrong in a political sense tells you a lot about his deep inner beliefs about society, and ultimately, the way he will approach your relationship issues. Will his views cause a rift in your relationship?
3. Television: Sitcoms or News? If his tendency is to watch "escape" TV programs versus "newsy/event" oriented ones, you can learn a lot about one's intellect. Do you want a mate who can keep up with your every day interest in what is going on in the world or a person you can run away with to avoid the world we live in?
4. Money: Flash or Stash? If your partner throws money around while dating, he might well be reckless with your joint finances when you move in together. Do you want to hook up with a tightwad or splurger?
5. Stress: Freak or Peak? Under Pressure, does he go to pieces or rise to the top of his game? If the answer is the former, every minor incident in your relationship might become a crisis. Do you like a lot of drama?
6. Conversation: About You or Him? As you first get to know each other does he always talk about himself first or you? If he is usually the topic priority do not expect that to change. Can you subordinate yourself to the world revolving around him?
7. Pets: Warm or Aloof? Believe it or not, the way in which he treats animals will not be dissimilar to how he treats your children. How do you want him to treat your loved ones?
8. Communication: Listens or Ignores? If you have something you want to talk about and he tunes you out as a general rule, can you cope?
9. Strangers: Kind or Rude? How he treats those they do not know (waiters, grocery clerks) often reflects on how he will treat people in general, including you, shortly after the glow wears off.
10. Priorities: Family or Work? You can tell almost immediately where a person's preferences lie in terms of what comes first (a family member's illness or a business trip) by the choices he makes when faced with an "either/or" situation. Do you care if he leaves on the next plane to present the such-and-such report if you or the kids have pneumonia?
11. Appearance: Fat or Fit? How he regards his appearance screams loudly about his sense of self-esteem. Those who eat sensibly, workout reasonably, and who take pride in their appearance are the ones who have a great sense of self. Does he really have self-confidence or might it be a front?
12. Faith: Strong or Weak? If you want a peak at his soul, learn more about his spirituality, or lack of it. What a person believes deep down is often what shapes the way in which they conduct their day-to-day affairs. What is your mate's "words to live by?"