I Survived Body Step 81 & Body Combat 45

Finally I finished off all the GX program launches (for myself) which I normally joined. Well, Body Attack would be an option actually. I heard that Body Step 81 is better than the previous release and well, I had to say I agree with it too. It was supposed to be Prudent's class but he is off oversea, so Brian took over for the month. Body Step 81 had more omph to it for me. Even the first track, the remix version of 3 from Britney can really warm your body up. Track 2 and 3 from the warm up isn't that much to shout about but it's still alright. This time around we start the first 4 tracks with the board placed straight rather than across. We have a recycle track from the Step Athletic track from Body Pump 74, She's  A Genius. So you can sing a long (like I did) for this track and kill yourself.

The Mixed Strength track, Under Pressure is really similar to One Night In Bangkok which explains why the instructors kept on playing that track weeks before the new release. The power peak track, No Sleep could be and I am sure is the hardest track of the whole release. I mean there's so much across the board with nut cracker and basket ball hop across the board. My legs are really tired at this time. But we have the Step Recovery track after this to recover from. The track isn't that tough but we do have some lunges and plenty of them too. The Party Step track isn't that interesting (for me) maybe cause my legs are a bit numb by now. But the last Peak track really bring me back to life with On A Mission by Southern Light. You can go wild with this track and sing along with the instructor. Overall, it's a nice release and I think I can bare with it for a week or two. 

Finally it's Body Combat 45 with Master T. I had to say that I like the body warm up for this release. The music is strong and really bringing your mood up. The first Combat track isn't that bad but I don't really remember how it goes. Because The Night is another recycle track from both RPM and BC and this time around it's for the first power training track. As usual, the combat track felt like the Power Training 3. The second combat track has a lot of lunges in it with an evasive sick kick coming in. For the Power Training 2 track, not my favorite of the whole release as it's just a long track with lots of repeating moves. For the third Combat track we have the new move of inner block and upper block move and combine that with the leg movement. Try going down and you can feel the pain. Muay Tai isn't that much impressive either with lots of knees but better than the previous release though. Finally the last Power Track with See The Light from Body Pump's back track. Damn this track is powerful. We have that powerful hook move which I like and plenty of punches, trust me.

I Survived RPM 48 (Challenge) & Body Pump 75

It's that time of month again. It's Les Mill's launching again for all their GX programs. I didn't managed to make it for the official launch last weekend. But I managed to joined my usual class tonight and here's whats new with the new release. Well from what I felt at least. So here goes for my unofficial run through of the new release. First class would be RPM Challenge by June. In this new release we have the usual run down of track 1 to 6 with an additional track 3 & 6 (previous release) and finally track 7 and cool down. The warm up seemed to be a no brainer similar to Tik Tok since the new release was also sang by Ke$ha, Your Love Is My Drug. I am not into details like previously as I don't really remember the chorey from my first trial. The first pace track wasn't that much of memorable compared to the previous releases to me. Luckily the first hill track was starting to get tough although nothing compared to True Believer or Summer Rain. 

Mixed Terrain track was a bit disappointing as it doesn't have that kind of feeling where you're really going up and down. Although we do have to do twice standing climb in the track. The Interval track by Spacegliderz brought us all back to the mountains and it's really good. We have a lot of up and down during this track. Speed work again similar to mixed terrain was a bit disappointing. Not that much omph~! Finally the last Mountain Climb track brought the house down. Like the title goes, It's Not Over, the climb isn't over until the fat lady sing. Plenty of standing climb with long intervals. Damn I am panting like a dog under the sun after this track. Satisfying. The Ride Home track by Train was my favorite. Singing half way and bid farewell as I need to rush for Brian's Body Pump class. 

Firstly I would like to say that BP75 rocks. The songs are strong and you can really sing a lot with it. Well singing along with the track really makes you forget bout the weights your carrying at least. Warm up we have the wide rows this time around. And plenty of biceps towards the end. Squat tracks wasn't that tough so it's recommended to add weight for track 2 all the way to 6. We sing along with Henry Blank's Whatcha Say. You have to follow the tempo this time around to really work those legs. Plenty of double bottom halves. Chest wasn't that tough, so you can increase your weight as you sing along with Pitbull's Shut It Down. There's a short push up at the end of the track. Back track is another sing along song originally by The Calling. Started with a slow dead rows before going up with some fast paced music. Another no brainer with 3 similar sets with single rows and 4 triple wide rows in between. 

Triceps would be the easiest for me for the whole release. Pink is back in the house with Bad Influence. 3 sets of triceps extension (if I remembered correctly) with 8 bottom halves triceps presses. Finishing off with some kickbacks towards the end. Nothing will kill you or come near to it in this track. So go crazy with the weights. Biceps too isn't that hard, since I am able to load up to my usual 6kgs tonight. It's really similar to Walk This Way. Plenty of bottom halves and singles all the way. Lunges this time around isn't that tough too, so increasing weights is an option. We have a lot of bottom halves squats (option with weights) towards the end. Shoulder track would be the hardest of all for me. We start with the bars and go crazy with the Mac Raise again with some really crazy long combos. Then we end with over head bars. One word, exhausted. Abs track wasn't that much of a challenge at this point as most of the muscles are all numb by now. haha~! Finally a great cool down by Adam Lambert's Whataya What From Me? What a great release. Gonna do it again tomorrow together with Body Step 81 & Body Combat 45.

A Bad Week

This week has been a  long tail of bad luck for me. Well that is what I felt at least. So lets see what happened this week in my life.

Work Place: 

It's been a long week with a lot of rushing and submission of a few projects. One project which covers 70% of my whole year project run into a bump. Everything seemed to go my way all the while but suddenly something happened and now I need to do some 'extra' work to 'iron' the issue out. It's gonna be a hectic week again tomorrow as a few projects is going on the same time. And I need to go out station the whole week for some exhibition and seminar. 

My House: 

I am checking up on the renovation work almost every day with the contractors and meeting up with them to update on the work done. Was informed that my porch is leaking and I need to lodge an official complain with the developer for the rectification work which might take weeks. Was there yesterday to settle some payment with one of the contractor and visited my house. Found out that my house was a mess and the current contractor didn't covered my floor with clothes as now the plasters are sticking on the floor and everything looked really messy. The contractor did assured me that it's alright but I am really annoyed to be honest. As I do not want any dispute coming out later on this. And he even covered up the porch with plaster even though he know bout the leak. WTF?!! What happened when the plaster fall down? Damn~!

My Car Park:

Woke up this morning and ready to go out when I saw my car being clamped?!!! WTF?!! As my car park was being parked by another car yesterday night, I had decided to park some where else and that some where else is someone else parking. So I walked up to the guard house and complaint bout the issue. They gave me excuses but I wasn't in the mood to listen and called for their head. The head went out for lunch and they didn't want to call him and I just waited for 45mins for him to come back. After some discussion, the head finally agreed to released my car without any penalty. Sig~! Came back from shopping and my lot is being park by another car again!! WTF~!! This is a never ending nightmare for me.

Maxis Account:

I found out that my name under Maxis had been blacklisted hence I can't change to other telco. So I went over to check what is this matter is all about. After waited for some time finally it's our turn and the guy told me that my outstanding balance dated back to 2007. WTF?!! It's for their broadband service. I never subscribed their broadband before, so how the hell did I owe them money?? And why wasn't I informed of this? It's been 2 freaking years?!!! So the guy asked me to go to another counter for details which we waited for 45 minutes. Fark!! The women told me to make a police report and come back to them with the report for them to tender to their forensic team to investigate. If they found no evidence of foul play, I still need to pay. WTF?!!! Maxis fark up my life again!!

This is just some of the big issue for me this week. Not going into some minor minor issue which I don't even have the energy to tell. Sigh~! Sorry for the winding post on a Sunday night, I know everyone are gonna read bout this on a Monday blue morning, but heck, at least after reading this, you may think that your life is better than this guy writing  this.

The Legend of The Fist : The Return of Chen Zhen

Donnie Yen is back this time as the legendary Chen Zhen. For those who is not familiar with this name, I am a bit disappointed, but anyhow, not everyone is a Kung Fu flick fan like I am. Anyway, Chen Zhen become famous after it was first played by the legendary Bruce Lee back in 1972. After that famous movie, many had remake the movie namely Jet Li and now Donnie Yen. The original movie tells of Chen Zhen who came back from Japan after his studies to his martial art school, Jing Wu. His master Huo Yuan Jia was killed in a duel with the Japanese due to some evil plot. Chen avenged his master's death by winning a duel with the same guy and he is sentenced to death. At the end of the movie, he jumped out from the door and later being shot by the Japs. This is where the new movie takes off. 

Chen didn't die at the end as he was being replaced by someone else. He fled to France as most of the Chinese had allied with the other countries to fight the German during the first World War. He survived together with some of his comrades and swear that they will fight against the Japanese who is their real enemy back in China. But he can't go back as Chen Zhen as everyone had already assumed he's dead. So he went back as his comrade who had died in the war. In Shanghai he befriend with the owner of Casablanca night club, Liu Yiutian (Anthony Wong). 

One of the best scene would be Chen donning an all black suit with a mask which resembles the Green Hornet's character played by the late Bruce Lee. That fighting scene was so damn good. Another scene would be the one at the end of the movie where Chen wore an all white shirt fighting 20 over Japanese soldiers in the dojo. Damn it was so intense. I am not sure it's the air cond or that scene was so tense that I was shivering. Not going to spoil the movie for you, so go watch it. So who is Donnie gonna play in the future as I think most of the people already been played by him or Jet Li by now. (Rating: 4.2 out of 5.0)

iPhone 4 in Malaysia ... FINALLY!!!

Finally the wait is over. Maxis is going to held a pre-launch at The Gardens Ballroom from 23rd Sept till 25th. There's even a midnight launch event at the same place from 12am till 4am. Yes, you heard me right. You can check out the dates and details from here for reservation. You can even start making booking online from the website. Similar to the 3G[S], there are also four (4) iValue plans. Starting from RM100, RM155, RM250 and RM375. Maxis had actually upgraded the data usage from 500MB to 1GB for the iValue 1 plan for instance. For details you can check out here.

Let's get down to the pricing of the phone:-

iPhone 4 16GB (RRP: RM2,290) 

iPhone 4 32GB (RRP: RM2,690)

So what happened if you are already tied to a contract similar to me. I am tied for 2 years and left around 9 months on my current contract. So I can opt to continue with a 12 months or 24 months contract and add that to my existing one. In the website they mentioned that for those who enrolled for their 24 months contract will be eligible for an extended 2 years warranty. No further info on that but just this. As other countries like Singapore and Hong Kong offers ACP (1 year) but we do not have that over here. Sadly~! So what are you waiting for? As the slogan goes, be amongst the first to own an iPhone 4.

Back To The House

After planing and going through the whole proposing process with my beloved, it's now time to go back to my house renovation. It was a full Sunday last weekend with meeting up with a couple of contractors to get some quotations on the house renovations. Me and my brother spent the whole day outside discussing and meeting with the contractors and the most important part would be the Feng Sui part. My appointment with Master Yeap today proves to be a good one. He called up and pushed the appointment 30 minutes earlier to 1030am. I am working today but luckily boss is on leave so I can wonder off early. 

Basically the Master didn't have much comment on the exterior but it's recommended to place more green outside the house. What do you know, my lucky color is White. And it's so happen that the whole house is white. Save a lot of painting cost here. Sofa position and TV had to be switched for better flow of 'chi' in the house. Which I do agreed after hearing his explanation. I need to place some Water element ornaments at some particular corner of the house and a Wood element painting in the house. So guys, you know what to get me. haha!! Mirror at the dinning hall is another added fortune for me too. 

Living room reflects the male while kitchen on the female of the house. Had to shift the back door to block the fortune from flowing out. This is very important. Making a partition to block direct view of the stove is another crucial thing. This is the only major thing for the whole house which he mentioned. At least I can place my stove facing the toilet without any major consequences. I do pick up a few pointers along the way when he explained to me earlier.   He even gave advice on our handphone's numbers as it reflects our luck and fortune. And it's damn accurate for both of us. Mine is a good number although the last four digits do spell a bad omen to Chinese. Babe's number was unfortunately not that good and is recommended to change it to another number which the Master will give to her. 

For the price that we're paying, I think it's quite worth it and the quality of the advice given are very good too. Like I mentioned earlier, he even bundle in the handphone number advice (FOC) which he normally charge RM200. Now I can finally start my renovation this coming Thursday as the Master had calculated which is the best date. hahahaa!! Yes, it's a Public Holiday, but I got something up my sleeves.

The Proposal (Part 6) - The Moment

Finally arriving on the final chapter (I hope), which is the actually dinner itself. As I mentioned earlier, I had gone through their menu and know what I wanted to order for both of us. As Eva said, this shows the sincerity and also ordering on behalf of the lady first is another tip I picked up for an added point. So we chatted while waiting for our 5 course meal to arrive. Yes, this is our first fine dinning together so we're a bit excited too.

While waiting for our first course to arrive, we talk bout normal updates on each others life since I don't want to get so heavy before the appetizer.

Babe was really happy with her Grilled Sea Scallop. 

I am enjoying my Black Mussel Saffron soup too.

The main course arrived, and I decided to get a picture together. Testing the quality of the lighting actually before the big event. There is a French couple sitting next to us puffing their fags, it's a bit disturbing for babe, but we can't do much bout it. Sigh~! 

Babe, really enjoyed her Rack of Lamb with goat's cheese crust. I think she can sense something is coming. 

As for me, I am enjoying my Mountain honey roasted duck breast. At this moment Mr.Wan is signaling if he should brought out the flowers. I gave him the signal to hold on. Right after the delicious dessert, I excused myself with an excuse to prepare the cupcakes. Oh, yeah,  it was babe's birthday that night. So she thought the cupcakes was for her birthday. Cleaver me~! Hitting two birds with one stone. Hehe~!

I placed the box of unopened cupcakes on the table and hold her hand while seriously looking into her sweet brown eyes. I asked her to moved in to my new house but she rejected as we're not official married or registered. She always said that I didn't even proposed to her so I don't have to think so far. So I asked what if I proposed NOW? She was taken aback. At that time, I signaled the guy and he brought in the bouquet of Ferrero Rocher and I go kneeling on the floor while opening the box. I asked her to read what's written on it. 

At this point she was a bit confused and excited at the same time. She was asking where is the ring. I told her I don't have money to get her one now. 

 Maybe she can take the one made from fondant in the box. She was a bit disappointed I think.

At this moment I asked her to look inside the Tiffany box next to the fondant ring in the box. 

When she popped open the box, there it is, the diamond ring. I believe I sensed some really touching memorable moment right there and then. 

Yes, I told her it's a REAL diamond ring. Yes, it's looked bigger than it seemed. I think I need to slap her back to reality when she saw the ring. haha~! 

Without further a do, I quickly slipped the ring into her finger. 

And not forgetting the Ferrero Rocher of course which she really really LOVE. I can see from her face there. 

So what's her answer? The picture says it all.

The face of a happy women~!

All the 'ang moh' in the restaurant clapped when she accepted my proposal. It was really meaningful and memorable moment for both of us. The proposal cupcakes, the bouquet of Ferrero Rocher, the perfect cut diamond, a beautiful dinner and the perfect moment for both of us. Thank you to all those who are involved in making this proposal a memorable one for both of us. Thanks a lot from the bottom of my heart. Without you, I am sure the night wouldn't be perfect as it is.

Flowers RM200, Diamond Ring RM5K, Dinner RM400 that smile on her face when she say YES, Priceless!!