Sometimes I Need to be Stricter

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Another Change

Frankly it was difficult for me to make a decision to cut my hair that I kept for 4-5 months. It wasn't easy until I came to a stage where 50-cent coin decided for me.

Wau bulan means CUT the hair,

Tepak Sirih means KEEP it!

I threw the coin, it flew up and I let it touch the ground freely. It showed wau bulan. That's it. It's time for another bodily change.

There you go... New hairstyle and you know what... I love it!

You say?

The Change III

Now it has come to the end of third month of my change of dietary intake. I started not taking rice on 21st of May, and today 20th of August. Now the scale shows 80 kg, indicating that I’ve lost at least 10 kg of my weight before I actually started the diet.

Along this period, many have recognized the change in my body shape. And nothing I can respond but to say thanks to them. I personally love my physical appearance more now. But this is not the end of it. I need to constantly do what I’m doing now, which is to avoid rice from my meals. I tell you, it’s not too hard to do this. Seriously! You just need a little sacrifice and patience and there you go – you lost your weight!

However, there are some problems I encountered with the lost of 10 kg. One of them is certainly my trousers! They have been loose for me to wear, not to say “too loose” because I can still put them on, but they reach the ground requiring me to fold the bottom of the trousers. Besides that I need to find new belt since the ones I have don’t fit my new waist line. About my shirts, XLs still do, but now Ls fit me more (and yet showing my fit body shape har har har). When will appear the six packs?! Owh day dreaming. Much more to do than just avoiding rice – work out!

10 kg in 3 months I think isn’t that drastic, but my girlfriend (ya I admit I’m in a relationship) said it is. I asked my friend taking dietetic course, he said it’s ok. Ah! Whatever! As long as I’m happy with the result I got with my little sacrifice and patience, who cares? Next coming month will be a month in which Muslims fast for 30 days followed by Hari Raya. I’m looking forward to making a surprise to my relatives, and my parents even! They haven’t seen me for more than a month. You know what I mean right? Har har har...

I still don’t know when I will actually start eating rice again although it’s available anywhere I go. I still don’t have the appetite to eat rice, I mean nasi putih. Nasi goreng – we’ll see some day ok? I’m afraid if I start taking rice into my meal, my appetite cannot be controlled anymore. So it’s better not to take it yet. Not now.

Hectic!

Ok, I know I haven’t updated this blog since last week. Seeing the title for this entry, I believe you can guess what I mean. Right?

In previous entry on visit to Pulau Tioman I mentioned few things that I want to describe more, but I think I want to take it back. There are things that we have to keep for ourselves, some that we have to tell verbally and some that we can descriptively mention here. So I categorize the stories in Pulau Tioman as the second one. Can uh? Just remind me, whenever we meet if you want to know ah? I learnt many things from the visit and the experiences gone through there. FYI, I've got an email asking me to tell more about the bad things about Pulau Tioman along my visit. So... dare to do the same? :D

I can’t really put things nicely to describe my previous days since they were full of colors! The caption following these pictures describes briefly everything!

During the Open Day of IIUM Kuantan, Waheeda was there for a concert. She was amazing in almost everything!

I suddenly being posted as committee who controlled the minus one for Waheeda although I actually had nothing to do with the concert except as an audience! Can you imagine how lucky I was? Then I demanded something special from Waheeda. Hehe...

Hafiz Hamidun (ex-UNICian) was there also. Being a typical Zaki, I was on-stage to get free album from him after few conversations live in front of audience. Hehe... Selamat duit aku.. Now I'm thinking of giving comments on his album but later la... Got more urgent things to do.

Representing UIA in Internship Challenge. This is where we were accommodated. Location; Jalan Cheras.

These are my teammates during the challenge and Kak Haiza, our lecturer who accompanied us in the challenge. No one believes Kak Haiza is actually a lecturer. Ok, let's guess. Which one is Kak Haiza?

Kak Haiza belanja us @ Shakey's Pizza One Utama. What I love most about this pizza restaurant is its bread underneath the topping. So gebu~

AND WE WON THE COMPETITION!
We won RM3000, trophies and certificates plus a 3-day 2-night package in Awana Hotel.

They invited Tok Pa as the launcher for their programme but i couldn't believe function like this still have those small cliche problems which to me were NOT suppose to happen. Fortunately Tok Pa was not able to be present that day.

During the prize giving ceremony - faces of champions

Trip to Pulau Tioman (Pictures Only)

Pictures are not chronologically arranged.
Before going to snorkeling.

Repairing my phone which accidentally splashed out with sea water. Argh! Rosak telefon aku!

6 crazy friends.

Feeding the hungry fish with breads.

Keda - a japanese boy who can speak Malay, English, Mandarin and of course Japanese languages so fluently. We met this lovely and talkative boy in the boat to Mersing.

It's highly adivised that you don't use Seagull's Express service to transport you to Pulau Tioman. Why? I'll tell you later.

Dinner.

Playing with fire. No, i mean the people, not me.

Before being burnt by the sun. Haha..

Bajet comel la weh! LOL

Time to be creative!

Subhanallah... Pulau Tioman is just another beautiful creation of Allah.

The fish.

See whose butt is the nicest? LOL

Fahmi demanded from me to put many of his pictures here in this blog. There you go Fahmi!

Let's count how many people in here. There's something interesting about this number of people.

Ya right~

Hm~

Being Busy

It’s been a while I haven’t updated this blog. To be frank, it took me quite minutes to finish an entry in English. As I’m not that good in this language, so that’s why I am pretty slow when it came to writing in English. Back to the point, that’s why I didn’t update this blog because I have got to spend at least 30 minutes to write but unfortunately I didn’t have it as my time was spent for many other urgent matters.

It’s already the fourth week of the semester and therefore study is getting busier yet tougher. Assignments, lab reports, discussions, co-curricular activities – all those consumed my time that put me away from the side of my blogging world. Besides, the weekend also has been filled with tiring but delightful and enjoyable activities. Up to now, all my following weekends have been set with least tentative activities. Let me list them down:

3-5 August – A special RM70 package holiday to Pulau Tioman
11-14 August – Jobmarket programme held somewhere in Klang Valley
18-19 August – Expected to be filled with angklung training at UIA Gombak
25-26 August – Expected to be filled with angklung training at UIA Gombak
1-2 August – Expected to be filled with angklung training at UIA Gombak
6-10 August – Going to Bandung for the festival (these are weekdays though)

Ok, what can I do now is to pray to God for my days will go on smoothly and I hope those activities will not affect my academic running. Thus I have to be really unbiased between the two of academic and non-academic fulfillments. Ameeen..

Went to Cherating, Pulau Balok, and Club Med in one day. Basically and personally, they weren't as nice as what people describe.

Hm~

I've cut my hair. Ok, better word - "trim", not cut.

Visiting Jay's House

I used to reading stories about one inviting his friends to his hometown during fruit season when I was a child. But I had never actually experienced what I read, until last weekend.

It was Jay’s house, situated at Jengka, Pahang where Awi, Safwan, Zubir and I spent the 3-day-2-night. What we did was nothing but eating, sleeping, going out and sleeping again. Haha... maybe the cold environment of the remote village induced us to sleep more than required.

But hours before we departed from Jay’s house back to Kuantan, we spent some time at Jay’s backyard to look for fruits like mangos teen, rambutan, durian and buah salak for friends there in the campus. Not much we got, but the experience of going through bushes and small trail really made me feel like home. It felt like I am no one but budak kampong who has trees and mosquitoes as his best friends. Haha... but time has passed that separates me from such things. I used to following nenek to the backyard during my childhood till that I accidentally chopped my own right leg with a sharp parang, leaving a big scar.

Ok. That’s all about that. I think the trip should be more fun if friends from Gombak could join, but since they had something else to do, so... :(

Apart from that, I’ve been invited by Angklung Club to join them for the performance in Bandung next early September. I’ve confirmed my participation, so do Awi and Safwan thus I’m looking forward for that. So now I have to arrange my schedule carefully because we might need to go to Gombak frequently for trainings every weekend. The distance between Kuantan and Gombak is already a problem, but what makes it worse is my academic schedule. I have class every 2 weeks on Saturday starting from this weekend, 28th of July. So Angklung Club, please take note ya?

Sometimes I question how can I actually get so scenic picture just by using my phone...

Going to the hutan.

See how Jay dressed to hutan. And see how long my hair has been.. Haha.. I'll keep it till the Pak Guard sound me LOL.

Yummy durians..

Introspection - My Album

Get the original copy from the shop nearest to you...

Featuring Songs:

1. Present but Invisible (featuring Mooloot)
2. The Loss (in memory of Adipose Tissue)
3. Cycle of Life
4. I'm Handsome, So What?!
5. Fooll Sabturday
6. Disabled Lip
7. Semalam Bermimpi ke Bandung
8. Poco-poco Terajana 2007 (featuring Angklung Club IIUM)

...and few hidden tracks.

;p

The Change II

Zaki! What happened to you?!

Ape yang ko buat ni Zaki? Ko dah kurus.

Ape yang berlaku ni? Kenapa tiba-tiba berubah?

Zaki! Ko dah kurus! Akak kesian dengan ko~

Those are some reactions I got from people during this first week in Kuantan after the 3-month break. This is also the eighth week of the change of dietary intake I did since 21st May this year. But people don’t get me wrong. I don’t avoid carbohydrates (or also simply called carbs). It’s just that I avoid rice from my daily meals. So to say that I’m doing Atkin’s diet or what so ever, is also totally wrong. Even the word ‘avoid’ doesn’t perfectly suit what actually happens in me. I don’t have the appetite to eat nasi putih anymore but I do have it for nasi goreng kampong, my favorite menu. Plus, if I take nasi putih I tend to eat more and more and that actually is the cause for extra bumper around my waist. Huhu...

I love it when people ask me “till when that you want not eating rice?” I’ll reply, “till it’s 3 months.”

Then they’ll ask further, “after that, what would you do? Eat rice like usual?” And I’ll reply “We’ll see.”

Considering the Ramadhan is around the corner which is going to be in the middle of September so I’m thinking of continuing the diet till then.

One reason that I forgot to mention previously for the change of dietary intake is for the health’s sake. It’s almost true to say the gene of diabetes is in me taking into account both of my parents are diabetics and so are my late grandparents. Thus, as prevention is better than cure, where am I wrong with this change of lifestyle?

Ok people. I’m open to suggestions and comments. Let’s be supportive! Hohoyeah!

The New Semester Starts Rocking!~

I started the second semester here in this new campus in Kuantan with mixed reactions. I felt so happy because I can see my friends, lecturers and most importantly I can gain more knowledge here. But it’s also sad when I have to leave my parents and the rest of my family members there in kampong, living their live without me (again). Sob sob...

What I love most above this first week of the semester is that we can start the lectures from the very first day! (although I was absent from it. hehe…) I don’t know the schedule has been pasted on the office bulletin board, so I just took things for granted and assumed no lecture in the first day. But when the lecturer sent a message to a friend of mine that morning, only then we knew it’s time to get started – lectures and study! This proved the kulliyyah has been ready to serve the students despite the difficulties we faced last academic year when we moved to this new campus. Clap clap clap...

This semester I’m taking 4 core courses which are Pathology, Biostatistics, Immunology and Pharmacology that count for 13 credit hours. Another 3 credit hours are for the subject named Management for Non-EMS student and one credited co-curricular subject, Volleyball I. Summing them up, there are 16.5 credit hours to be completed this semester. Wish me all the best for the coming 4 months ya?

Apart from that, although the classes have started, but we still have many empty slots to be filled with activities especially in the evening. Last Monday, we went out for shopping and most memorably, we went to bicycle shop! Huhu... Yes, Safwan bought a retro-looked bicycle after being instructed by his mother to buy one so that it can be used to go to classes. The next day, we went to the nearest lake next to the campus for eye-and body-exercising. Hehe... and being typical Odah members, snapping pictures was unavoidable. Enjoy the pictures! :-)

During accompanying Safwan buying the bicycle.

Safwan was "rambang mata" when choosing the best bicycle that suits him.

Riding bicycle is not allowed in the park, but who cares? We don't hit people! Huhu~

As if stepping on the hill, but not so la~

Let's guess how tall is this tree?

We found these kids hanging their bodies soooo effortlessly. We were amazed!

Tak nak kalah! But I succeed from end to end i tell you! This prove how light I've been. ;p

This kid is sooo cute. Anak sapa la ni~

Besides the flexible upper, I also have flexible waist.

See... I can do lower level than that. That's why I always win in Limbo Rock! Owh yes, don't forget my height.

This is faqar's retro-looked Kodok car. Comel la!

Safwan and his bike. Also comel!

No comment. I've seen this picture before this but when seeing it by my eyes, I now believe this shop's name is not a lie!