Open Day

On the 6/7/09 till the 12/7/09 was the orientation week for the gym that I have been going to all these while, to attract more members. There are so many activities going on like selling of health food...

cooking classes and marathon of exercise classes starting from 8am.

I did not missed any of the food that they are selling (healthy mah...). They also have gym wear,

dumb bell and many other equipment,

sneakers as well

and so on....

It was a huge success as I saw many new members having fun in the classes the gym conducted and it was packed to the brim. On the last day of the orientation week which falls on the 12/7, they conducted a 6 hours marathon aerobic. Sorry I didn't managed to snap any photo of that because I was too tired to wake up in time after the whole week of fun filled activities!

MJ

For the past whole week, everywhere I turned there are news flashing all over covering the demised of Michael Jackson. On tv, newspapers, internet... everywhere in fact. Deep inside, a little part of me felt so sad to coming to term with the fact that MJ is actually gone.

Like Elvis,

Bruce Lee,

and Teresa Teng,

all died at a very young age. Sometime I wonder... why are all these people unable to live a life the way normal people do. Imagine the life that they are going through, for example if MJ wants to go shopping the store have to be close to the public in order for him to shop peacefully, how sad.

I was following the special tribute, "Michael Jackson Memorial", aired over tv on both Tuesday and Wednesday. Somehow or rather I can't control myself from crying. I cried because l felt that he was a very lonely person with so much restriction in life and everything he does, he cannot show his love freely, cannot dine freely and he cannot just walk into a club to catch a beer or two anytime he wanted. How sad can this kind of life be? Maybe this is kind of a relief for him cause he is as free as a bird now, but then again... the world will be missing him and that include me too...

I am Home!

It is like I travelled in a space shuttle, so fast one week already since I first arrived in KL and I am back home again. The past whole week while I was in KL, it was fun and adventurous. Fun because we went shopping, eating, singing, visiting, meeting the new tenant & repairing the apartment. Adventurous because I drove around on my own. It was a great trip, especially for mother and daughter bonding, hahaha is this how they said it, spending qualities time together? Will be doing this more often in the near future.^_^

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I left KL this morning at about 10.30am and arrived back in Kluang at 1.15pm safe and sound. It was a smooth drive all the way. I didn't even stop to pee because Million Dollar was sleeping so soundly. If I stop, I might wake them.

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Sad to said this trip I didn't take much pics because I kept forgetting to put the camera into my hangbag. But, not to worry redbabe took some nice shot maybe she'll put in her blog.

Catching up the good old time

Since I arrived here last Saturday, l have been having a great time with my (Redbabe) doing many silly things which include repairing the toilet flushing system and many others. Since I have some time on my own today (cause it is a working day for my daughter), I visited my cousin who stays in Sg. Long. I drove all the way there on my own and I am so pleased with myself because this is the first time l drove around KL all by myself.

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Met up with my cousin, Theresa, and had a nice yummy simple lunch in her house. After that, we went out to do a little shopping at Leisure Mall. We really had a great time sharing stories about the good old days.

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Later that evening, I had dinner with my brother and his family. It was nice and and heart warming to have everybody sitting down chatting and laughing together. Getting together once in a while with family and cousins gave me such a nice feeling. Now that I know my way around, I might be coming to KL more often... hahaha... have a nice day.....!

Careless Me

I made a trip to Kuala Lumpur for the first time since my daughter wedding 1 year ago. It was a smooth and leisurely drive all the way to my brother's house without any hiccup. I am so happy and pleased with myself. At his house, we chit chatted and had durian for lunch. From there, my daughter led the way to her house. Only been there once and that was on her wedding day and therefore not too sure of the directions much.

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After rested and cathing up on the latest gossips for a while, of we went to this lovely vegetarian restaurant for dinner,. The food were absolutely yummy (took some pics with my phone but unfortunately... - you'll know why later). We decided to head down to MidValley for a walk and to look see look see after that. At MidValley, I bought a few stuff; 2 bottles of hair moose, a mug and saw this nice shop selling lovely bags. Since I needed a new one, we went in to check it out. It was really nice & affordable and I ended up with 2 instead.

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I left the shop really happy and contented. From there, we went for a drink at a cafe nearby and had ice lemon tea. We decided to head home after that. As we were driving out of the carpark, I couldn't find my phone anywhere. I tried very hard to recall where did I left it. We also made a call to the phone to check if it was accidentally dropped underneath the car seat. The phone did rang, but there weren't any ringings in the car. We quickly made a u-turn back to the shopping center and my daughter rushed up to both the cafe as well as the bags' shop to hopefully able to find my brand new phone of 2 months. Unfortunately, it is gone.

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My brand new phone is gone. I couldn't believe it that I am so careless because I am never categorize as one of those people who constantly lose their phones. I am so angry with myself. Imagine the trouble that I have to go through, from terminating the line to getting a new sim card and retrieving all the phone numbers of my family & friends... sigh... I must be getting old.

Half yearly medical check

I remembered the last time I visited my Cardiologist was in January 17, 1 day before mom passing on. So fast it has already been almost 6 months and I am due for my half yearly medical check up with Dr Sharoom once again. This time, I did a full check up complete with ECG, threadmill and a full blood test. After going thru all the hassle, I waited for the test report anxiously. Then I saw Dr Sharoom holding onto my report, grinning from ear to ear. The first thing he said to me was, "How did you do it? What did you ate??". Only later he told me that I passed my test with flying colours. The result were superb... hahaha... Honestly, it made my day. Exercise and eating well is my answer to him. I felt so good after patiently working hard to be healthy all these while. The feedback was really fantastic!

I have 2 of my girlfriends with me this trip, because 1 of them wanted to have her monogram done. We were so pleased with our medical results that we decided to pampered ourselves at the biggest mall in town.

We had so much fun. We ate, we shopped and laughed like crazy. "Thank you girls, l had a great time".

And finally, we left JB for home at about 8pm and reached Kluang at 9.30pm, totally washed out and tired. I had a great time.

Burning Calories

l believe anyone who goes to the gym want to burn fats and lead a healthy lifestyle. l am one of them. Those of you who follow my blog knows that l am a survival of a 4-seizures heart attack. Those days, I was skinny and weight only 50kg. So, who says skinny people don't get heart attack? But, l was a smoker then. I used to smoke about 20 sticks a day. So you see, SMOKING IS NOT GOOD, hee...hee... and l learned it through the hard way.

l have since quit smoking and started to live healthily. Living healthy have its' downside too. And the downside is, l have been putting on weight. From 50kg then, to 57kgs now. To be honest, l have never wore 'L' sizes before. And because of this, I was very stressed. Stressed because don't know what to wear or buy. Am always ending up buying clothes that are too small for me. It was so sad and depressing and am certainly not use to being 57kg. I tried all ways and means, even spending thousand of $$ on nutritious slimming product which only kept me slim for 3 months. Sometimes, ate only fruits and sad to say, the wrong kind and my weight keep going up. That's how I ended up going to a gym.

Though l have to sacrifice a few hours of my sleep by waking up earlier than usual, it is worth it. That's how I got addicted. My first priority was to burn calories and fats. So what l did was, l joined all the classes the gym conducted and made sure l ran on the threadmill for at least 20 minutes and the crosstrainer for 15 minutes everyday.

l burned about 370 calories daily and coupled with my healthy diet, l lost about 3kg in 3 weeks. That's pretty fast and l am very pleased with myself that l am discipline enough to keep to this routine - exercise & diet.

Well, losing weight is not good enough, because it only make me smaller and lighter, what about my waist line and my protruding tummy? There are still a lot of works need to be done. I am working very hard to get those fats around my waist to dissappear. It's really hard work.

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What a JOKE

I suppose to talk about the gym and weight losing, but, hai..i...i, everything went haywire for the past 2 wks, 1st the kitchen pipe burst, than TV kapus, fellow by the malfunctions of the glucose tester and my room air con is down, worse of all my pc is also down, can you believe it???? All at the same time fellow by 1 another, and all these is costing me a bomb, at the wrong time, I was like a mad dog running around getting the right people to repair it, lucky thing I can repair the pipe myself or else it will be worst in $$. When l spoke to my technician who repair my aircon and tv, he came out with a joke, saying..."your mom is just being playful, she might be the cause of all these" hahaha, what a joke......

Special DIET and determination

I have maintain a perfect weight of 50kgs for almost 15yrs, whenever it goes up, l'll bring it down and if is below 50kgs, l'll bring it up without problem. But things were not the same when l got older, l have been putting on weight since 2007 when l survive a heart attack and quit smoking with healthy diet. My weight shot up quite fast to almost 57kgs with the height of 5fts, I really look awful, l try all ways and means to lose weight spending thousands of dollar on nutritious food, it only goes down for awhile and it got back again. I was really stress just by looking at myself in the mirror and couldn't believed that's me with bulging tummy resting on my dressing table. So l join the gym and started work out, l feel good but my weight don't seem to go down, and l really don't like the way l looked, the more l stress the more l put on, even though l watch diet, it get worse recently after mom pass away, l don't know why, can you imagine how stress l was? So one day l told myself l must have the determination, excercises and coordinated with a special diet for myself, l have a very full b/fast that consist of, cereal, blacksesame with walnut, pure black sesame and flaxseed drink together with 2 slices of whole meal break with cheese. Lunch and dinner l'll cooked vegetable stew with carrot, potatoes, tomatoes and big onions l'll put in fish and sometime chicken breast meats. An apple for teatime, sound boring right? But....l kind of enjoy the soup of stew. On top of this l'll go to the gym everyday to burn about 300 to 400 calories a day, l lost 3kgs in 18days, even though it is 3kgs which is not alot but l did it and is a good start, the determination to stayed on that diet for 18days is great, off cause.... l cheated some days but l was really very careful, if l ate something extra, l double my workout the following day. l feel good and will stop when l reaches my target of 51kgs. will tellyou more about the gym in my next entry, at the meantime wish me luck.

mother's day surprise

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It was indeed a surprise. A delivery van stop in front of my house, the first thought that strike my mind was, "must have came to the wrong house", then the delivery lady came out with a bouquet of beautiful red daisy and a cake, l knew then it must be from my daughter because she couldn't make it this year on mother's day as she had 2 mothers to celebrate, her Mother-In-law, and me the Out-law staying way down south, so don't worry my Little Po Beep, "IS THE THOUGHTS THAT COUNT". The flower is really, really beautiful having carnation all the time is kind of bore, Daisy for a change is beautiful and the cake..... just look at the cake delicious isn't it, wonder how long will it take for me to finish it, smell great l think is "cuppocino", will eat it tomorrow and tell u more.

End of MOM's routh..

We did prayers for mom's "100days" and blessings of the tomb on the 25/04/09, and this is the last day of my "serving" her. During the past 100days her photo was put on a table serving as an alter........... in the centre of our sitting room and joss sticks have to be burned for 24hrs a day, and............ suddently everything is over now, that particular photo is kept and our life is back to normal, funny feeling though.., l actually miss her more than the pass 100days, like what my daughter redbabe said in her blog http://redbabecc.blogspot.com/, 'it felt strange', I said the same too. So from now on, Mom will live in my memories forever. To think of it, the invention of "Video Cam" is really marvalous, l can still hear mom's laughter and watch her smile, great isn't it?

Cloud, Sun and Sunset,

After passing the 'haunted mansion', we headed for the highway to go home. Then... out of the blue hubby said "why not we go to 'Batu Pahat' for dinner". " Sure" I said, (for those who don't know where 'Batu Pahat' is, well, it is about 45mins drive and Johor Baru is 2hrs drive away from our home. Both are in the opposite direction from Kluang (where I stay) . We travelled on the trunk road to Batu Pahat so the scenery was good. As we reached Batu Pahat, I insisted that we take the new route to Batu Pahat town. After lots of "disagreement" hubby agreed. But there was no new town. Just a stretch of new buildings and in a jiff hubby just drove through and we were suddenly on the way to 'Muar' which is about 1hr drive away from Batu Pahat. See... that's what I meant for a "RELAXING TRIP". As we'll heading for Muar the clouds were nice, the sun was so bright------ right infront of us, that made driving kind of glaring, but after a while we saw the beautiful sunset. l don't know why l felt so good looking at the clouds, sun and sunset, maybe because l work in the evening and hardly have a chance to actually look at the sunset or lift my head up to see the clouds, even if I lift up my head it will be "oh, its' a cloudy day" that's about all, but this trip, we "followed" the cloud, sun and sunset for about an hour, and this time it really gave me a chance to look and admire them. l felt good!!

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It was almost 7.30pm when we finally arrived at the outskirts of Muar.

We saw a row of pre-war shop houses...

soon "dissappearing" and being replaced by high and tall buildings. Not sure where we were heading so we just drove around, all the time looking for the only landmark we knew about Muar, that is the "Muar Bridge".

Didn't seem to see it, so after asking around, we finally saw the bridge and headed for food. Our lunch was just rojak at about 2pm, can you imagine how hungry we were? We saw a very crowded food court with many stalls selling a variety of food, from bread to seafood.

We ordered some food, the "otak otak"was really nice we even bought some home.

As for the 'chay keow teow', it is just so-so.

I would not recommend the satay.

We managed to finish most of the food we ordered.

After dinner, we leave Muar for home, Million and Dollar really tired and slept all the way back to home sweet home.

Very Relaxing Day Tour

My bussiness registration needed to be renewed in Johor Baru, so l planned a very relaxing trip for the day with my Million and Dollar, as usual both will sleep as soon as the car engin starts,(and of course hubby as the driver !). As we reached Johor Baru, we visited a 8Oyrs old relative(forgot to snap pics)and stayed for about half hour, then proceeded to get my renewal, to my surprise it only took about 15mins and was all done! So........we had plenty of time left, "what should we do next"......."to the beach" hubby said, "ok, must be a nice beach ok! ", and l remembered sometime ago l went for an interview in this very nice and clean beach front, so off we went hoping that we won't be lost.......well, we headed straight to the beach,and wow ! we could even see Singapore!

The two girls enjoyed themsleves sssssoooo much ! (see pics !) Windsurfing,fishing,eating icecream and "rojak", well mommy and daddy did..... we just watched both of them exploring ! We stayed for about 3 hours walking up along the beach with Million and Dollar and watched people fishing, oh yes, bird watching too, just looked at how 'bird brain' work, smart right? So we left much relaxed, never felt so good since the day that mom got sick, it was nice breathing in those sea breeze. Million and Dollar were so tired and doze off as soon as we got into the car. As we were starting to drive home l saw this big mansion, believe it or not, about 35yrs ago someone told is haunted,(want to try and see?)While on the way back to Kluang, hubby suggest that we go to Batu Pahat for dinner, so we drove on.........tell you more in my next entry, bye..... have a wonderful weekend, l did have a wonderful relaxing morning by the beach, it has been a long long time since l had this feeling.

picking up bits and pieces

Mom's room is still intact except her bed (which was removed and replaced with a borrowed hospital bed when she was sick), and now the hospital bed has been returned. I was trying to pack some of her clothes but only managed to do a few, just couldn't do it all at one go, but l did nicely pack her wheelchair, walker and backrest.

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Sitting there in her room looking around brought back alot of memories, this wardrobe was with her since she married my dad, and those days that was the only long mirror in our house so everytime after dressing up to go out, looking into this mirror is the final check, and this wardrobe come in much latter. The dressing table is where we put on our makeup because the mirror is big enough. This sewing machine is so much older, (l think is as old as me) mom used to sew for the whole family with the same kind of material using that sewing machine. Mom is fantastic, she has never been to a sewing school and yet she sew beautiful dresses for us, shirts for both my brothers and my dad.

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What about those things inside her drawer, where should l start? Mom is very sentimental she kept quite alot of family photos, each and every drawers contain photo albums. She love taking it out every now and then to look at them, wish my other silbling inherite some of her sentimental gene, haha. Mom love to look pretty at all times, she had alot of beautiful dresses, but now.... not much left because most of her dresses were put in her coffin. Those are the few dresses left in her wardrobe, l m so reluctant to give them away.