Vague Reveries

The haze is clouding my view, my mind and my chance to jog around the park! It is also indeed not good for our health, especially to me with my allergic history to dust particles. It’s scorching hot to be spending a lot of time outdoor nowadays, so I hope it would not be too bad during the City Run this coming Sunday. Yes, I’m planning on joining the KK City Run too for a start. So please haze, haze, go away…

One of my futsal team mates, our no.1 goalie, would not be joining any of our futsal games this week. Her car was bumped into by another car which was having brake failure. I guess that other party got his or her auto insurance quotes beforehand, as obviously the other party would have to pay for the damage. Another great friend has also finally sent in her car for repair earlier today, for the very same reason too, bumped at the rear at a traffic jam. Even when we are careful, it is usually another party that gets us into trouble. Even though the damages are borned either by the insurance or the person who did the bumping, but still it gets the innocents into such inconvenience of having no transport for sometime, not to mention all the trouble that one needs to go through to get the insurance claim settled. But at least, no physical injury to these two friends of mine

Anyway, it is definitely a busy time at work, but nothing out of the ordinary. At least not just yet I’m waiting for a change in my life soon, and I hope it is for the better. Money, money, come, come! I hope, this year would be a fruitful year for me and my plans. I am not getting any younger, so financial stability is what I seek the most at the moment for me to be able to enjoy my “old days” life later.

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I always have problem making decision when it comes to shopping for a particular item. So I was in dilemma again over which running shoes to buy. Since last Friday was a public holiday, I spent the whole afternoon hunting for the running shoes with good cushioning support, gearing up for the upcoming 10K BIM 2010 . Getting a good pair of shoes is important at this stage as I’m trying to minimise the impact on my injured knee while running, but at the same time I did not want to splurge too much on a pair of shoes. Initially, I got my eyes on the following pair of shoes:

Photo extracted from http://nikerunning.nike.com/

But since the price tag shows that it costs RM399, I got very reluctant to get it even though it felt so comfortable when I tried it on. So I did not buy any shoes on that Friday, went home to sleep on it instead. I wanted the shoes real bad, since it can be paired with the iPod sport kit or Nike+ Sport band which can track the running pace, distance, time and calories burned. Awesome, but pricey. Maybe I could get myself a pulse oximeter instead to monitor my pulse for that price, which is actually recommended by the doctors I went to due to my high blood pressure condition.

Finally got my pair of shoes early Saturday evening. Did not take long to ponder upon which shoes, which always be the case when I got tired of trying to make a “tough” decision LOL! Half an hour was all that I needed to decide upon which shoes to buy.

Got myself an Adidas Litestrike Eva shoes

I’ve always been a fan of Adidas merchandise, so with the price tag showing much cheaper than the Nike Lunarglide that I had my eyes on, I might as well get myself a pair of shoes of my favourite sport brand to add to my collection

The shoes and the pouch to keep my mobile phones and car key when I go for my run

With more than half of price difference between the two shoes, I got myself a pouch too with the extra money from my initial budget.  A free pair of socks was thrown into the deal too. Nice! Now, with the hundreds invested on a good pair of running shoes, I’ll just have to make sure that I use them regularly. Motivation, motivation.

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A colleague/a good friend traded in her old Kancil car and is getting her new Myvi soon, auto geared. Probably later today. I have been moaning since end of last year about how driving my manual-geared car, with the growing, massive jam here in Kota Kinabalu, is giving its toll to my knee due to the stepping on the clutch repetitively. I was planning to get a new auto-geared car this year, but due to some unforeseen circumstances, seems like I’ll have to put that plan on hold. I have been browsing through at carinsurancelist.com to see how things are done outside Malaysia, and wonders if we have such service here in this country. I just long to improve my lifestyle at the moment. All I have the moment is patience.

For the moment, I just can hope and pray that whatever that is holding all my plans now will eases itself out of my life. Dear Life, just be a little kinder to me this year. I’ve fell, scraped my knees and palms many times, but I still manage to get up so far. I’ve always been a fighter, but someday, maybe … just maybe… I may not have the strength to face life this way again without losing myself, my sanity, in the process.

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This morning, I just filled in the online form and submitted the darn thing! LOL! I just don’t want it to be another thing that I have to ponder upon for sometime, giving me another headache among the other things that I have to think about. So here goes:

The page says, “Registration Successful!”

Yes, I signed up for the 10K Borneo International Marathon 2010! As the above message shows, I am just waiting for the organiser to get in touch with me to confirm my participation. To the organiser, I would say that online form could do with a few improvement next time. For instance, that registration date, why do we need to select the date? Just auto-capture the current date-lah! Simple programming.  You can google it up too if you don’t know the coding, teehee!

Now, I have to concentrate on getting fitness level up, getting in shape. Another reason for me to workout and have that toned body I’ve been talking about Taking Fastin would  boost the weight lost process, but without the right exercise, my body may be flabby at some areas and hell no if I want that to happen! When I look around my circle of friends, seems like many of us are struggling with the ideal body weight, and most comes up with the resolution to lose a certain kilos for this year. So to all you friends out there who wants to lose weight, why not join the BIM 2010? Another excuse for you to buy a new pair of running shoes, and of course, motivates yourself to go for that jog that you’ve been putting off all these while. Let’s achieve our ideal weights this year! Yeah!

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I am one of the people who was facing weight & health problems, so I know how hard it is to maintain the ideal weight for a better health condition. Somehow I managed to bring down my weight to an acceptable level, through exercise and ditching the oily food. I do not deprive myself from any food that I enjoy eating, I just don’t take them in excessive portions. I do not skip meals for skipping meals just put your body system will perceive it as being in starvation mode, so your body will store more fat instead of losing more.

A colleague of mine keep on doing this, skipping meals, even though I told her many times that it just doesn’t work that way. If one need to lose weight, let it be the healthy way. I mean, c’mon, I am here in front of her, a walking proof that it can be done the healthy way. Nevertheless, she keep on insisting that it’s because I do regular vigorous exercise, but she doesn’t hence she needs to skip meals. I promised her that I will buy her a bottle of perfume, of her choice, if she loses at least 5kg by this May. That’s what friends are for, we motivates each other. I guess I’ll just have to remind her to check http://www.weightlossnutrition.org/ in order to help her to lose weight, the right way!

As for myself, I still have to shed another 5kg to get my ideal weight and tone up certain areas so that I’ll look fit Easier said than done though. But I am working towards it. Hellooo to a healthier, fit and beautiful me! LOL!  

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