i-RUN

I went to i-RUN launch!! Almost forgotten i signed up for the run until 5pm. & I ran 3km ..
Posted some pics. After a week so, let me see how discipline i am..

Sunday: GYM
Monday: YOGA
Tuesday: GYM
Wednesday: BREAK
Thursday: i-RUN launch, 3km fun run

... hmm.. so far so good... I lost 2Kg.. more to go... hoo ray!

New Work Place

Finally i think i got myself settled at this place.

Must thank god who answered to my prayers and got me a very good job with very good bosses and team... I begin to love my work and I can feel hmm.. this is a place for me.
BTW, I will be going to school soon.. taking a degree in IT & Communication.

Increase to Reduce Weight

One fine day I realized perhaps I am not a very disciplined person. Thus I set a goal for myself to achieve. The reason is simple, in order to achieve my goal, I must be discipline.

Goal: To lose 5Kg within a month |
Date Start: 21 June 2007

While trying to achieve my goal, I do some research and found something to share:-

Ways To Lose Weight

1. Reduce on Carbo Intake
2. Increase Metabolism Rate

How to Increase Metabolism Rate?

1. Build Muscle Mass Strength training builds lean muscle tissue, which burns more calories at work or at rest, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The more lean muscle you have, the faster your metabolism will be. How do you start strength training? Try some push-ups, or a few squats or lunges. Use 5 lb. free weights to perform simple biceps curls or triceps pulls. Do these exercises three to four times per week, and you'll soon see a boost in your metabolism as well as an improvement in your physique.
   
2. Do Not Skip Meals or Drastically Reduce Your Caloric Intake If your body senses that food is in short supply, it will slow your metabolism to conserve energy. Over time, the result is that when you do eat (even if you consume the same foods as always) your body will be slower to use the calories as fuel, thus creating a backlog of unwanted pounds. A good strategy is to cut your caloric intake by no more than 500 calories per day and never less than 1200 calories total each day. Once you determine your goal for calorie consumption, divide those calories into 6 different small meals/snacks through out the day.
   
3. Increase the Amount of Protein in your Diet
   Most researchers agree that protein helps to stabilize the secretion of insulin into your blood stream, a process that can affect metabolism. The average person would benefit from protein intake at a minimum of 70 grams or higher each day.
   
4. Aerobic Workout 3 Days a Week
   Even though exercise doesn't affect your RMR, the extra calories you burn could add up to an additional 1-2 pounds of weight loss per month.
   
5. Increase Movement in Daily Lifestyle
   The more you move, the more you burn! You can actually make a significant addition to the number of calories you burn each day by relatively minor changes in lifestyle. This can be as simple as taking the stairs instead of the elevator; park a distance from the mall or office; window-shop with your best friend rather than sit over coffee; walk the dog instead of just let him out; do a little gardening or clean house while you talk on the phone. Making these types of changes for just 20 minutes of your day will cause you to burn an additional 100 calories per day or an additional pound per month. Making more of these changes can help you burn as much as an additional 1,000 calories per day!
   
6. Go For an Evening Walk
   Although exercising any time is good for you, evening activity may be particularly beneficial. Many people's metabolism slows down toward the end of the day. Thirty minutes of aerobic activity before dinner increases your metabolic rate and may keep it elevated for another two or three hours. What that means for you: those dinner calories have less of a chance to take up permanent residence on your hips!
   
7. Get Adequate Sleep
   As funny as it sounds, sleep deprivation may make you fat and not just because you're susceptible to cases of the late-night munchies. According to researchers at the University of Chicago, women who got less than four hours of sleep per night had a slower metabolism than those who slept for a full eight hours.

Above information extracted from http://www.korr.com/solutions/metabolic_boost7.htm

More links about reducing metabolism rate:-

http://www.doctorjackson.org/health/metabolism.htm
http://www.dietitian.com/metabolism.html

Will I Achieve my Goal? We will know on 21 July :p

Dealing With Problematic People

I failed myself again. I admit it's my mistake to lose my cool, but i really lost control. I told myself, this blog would be my memories, I would only want to remember things that are good. But this time I am going to make an exception. Just for once, b'cos i thot this would be a good learning experience and i should remember this as well.

People who happened to read this blog, to you believe that there is really double-headed snake, backstapper, people who in-order to protect themselves, will just push you down the drain, people who will go all ways to bring you down.

I was once a person who trust people easily, i believed that no matter how, the person is overall good in nature, environment caused them to react this way. But what happened lately and what i experienced in the past, woke me up. I shall not be so naive and trust people so easily. The more i trust, the more prone to getting hurt. Thus, I told myself, I should change in order to protect myself too. But i hope i am not changing to worse.

Received the following email from A slice of life and felt it's good to share, if i can achieve that, i think i will be a better person. and I will be working towards that. other than that, my doctor told me, " we are working so hard for the company, stressing ourselves, what is the purpose? In the end, by the time we are old, we have to leave the company....so we should enjoy and live a happy life!"
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Dealing With Problematic People
We have to bear the responsibility for most of the problems we face in life, but it'd be foolish to believe that other people are not the occasional causes of them.
Take for example the driver who cuts unexpectedly into your lane. Or a petulant child who just won't listen to reason. What about the colleague who seems to have a bone to pick with you even though you've given him no reason to do so?
We can't please everyone and certainly there will be people who will dislike you for inscrutable reasons. Or people who want to get under your skin just because they can. So what can we do about these people?
First of all, remember that if someone is getting on your nerves, chances are that they do want to upset you or simply don't care how you feel. So anger is not an option. Why punish yourself for someone else's carelessness or malice?
So if that person is not putting you or anyone else in danger, learn to laugh at the situation. Maybe even joke with him about it. If that person's intent was to make you angry, he would've failed, and if his expectation was that you would react aggressively, he would be surprised. He might even become your ally because he admires your attitude.
Second, most so-called "problematic" people are just yearning for attention, or crying out for help. This is their way of paying back the world for how they think the world is making them feel. If you react negatively, you are giving them what they want.
So, surprise them. Speak gently to them. Listen to them. Even give them small favours. You have nothing to lose, and you may have defused a human time-bomb in the process.
In dealing with problematic people, it's important not to perceive them in the conventional way - that they are disruptive elements that should be attacked or removed. This is the common reaction they get and exactly the kind of attention they want.
Instead of focusing on their negative behaviour, look for the things they do well. Maybe the guy who makes jokes about you also tends to work late at the office, paying attention to the finer details. Buy him supper! Talk to him about his work, his late-night work habits, his interests. People like talking about the things they're proud of. He'll start opening up. He'll stop seeing you as a thorn in his side.
Certainly your job is not making friends out of enemies, but if you could, why not? It'll make life a whole lot easier.
You can't control how others behave, but you can control how you react to them.
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