Guitar & Piano!

In one's leisure time, a person may regularly do an activity for her/his pleasure, a hobby.

Why you should have a hobby?

A hobby helps a person to restores the balance and harmony that maybe missing from his/her life. Hobby acts as an outlet from your daily activities. For example, during leisure time, students may choose to do other things besides studying and revising. Students may choose to go for a shopping, play games or maybe write a blog. These activities help to reduce the stress levels arose from the continuous work done by the students which was in this case, studying.

A hobby also developed a healthy body and mind. Hobbies such as playing football or working out at the gym make your blood pumping and adrenaline flowing. Besides that, a hobby can also uncover and nurture talents you didn't even know you had. Perhaps, you could be the next famous football player.

Hold on! Why on earth am I explaining the benefits of having a hobby? =,='

Back to my main objective of writing this post,

The purpose of me writing this post, today, was to share to all of you about one of my hobbies which were playing musical instruments such as guitar and piano. 

Playing guitar was not very easy to me. I learnt playing guitar from my friends and it was more like a shortcut. He taught me   how to pick and strum guitar, some simple chords and a few other things that were totally basics! Off you go, playing the guitar on your very own.

:)

Without owning a guitar, my practices become more difficult and not frequent because I have to borrow the guitar from someone else. Such difficulty made my learning slower and if I am not mistaken, I can only play a few easy songs such as Situasi, The Only Exception and Will Be a Dream, for about one year of learning. To be honest, I can only play a few full songs and one of it was "The Only Exception" by Paramore.

Besides guitar, I also knew how to play piano. Ermm... Maybe not I guess. This is because I can only play happy birthday song and a song by Muse, which was only the intro part that is about 15-20 seconds long. Not very impressive, I said. But, if I play the intro part of that song, you might think that I am good piano player who can play piano very well, which I was not. The song was Resistance by Muse. Very nice song, indeed.

Maybe in the near future, I will do my own cover for these songs. Before that, I should get a guitar for myself and keep on practising before I could record my own cover. Hopefully, this dream of recording my own cover could be achieved.

Will write more about my other hobbies in the next post.

Lets rock!

Bantal Busuk!

I have been warned by my mom that, the following was private and confidential information to share. Perhaps, my friends will make fun of me with such information.


For me, this is interesting yet embarrassing information to share.


So, enjoy it while you can!

Bantal Busuk or Smelly Pillow (direct translation) is a pillow which gave comfort and act as a valuable companion that holds thousands of secrets of its owner. 


It is called Bantal Busuk due to its unpleasant odour to others. But, to its owner, the odour is rather sweet-scent like roses. Based on my experience, Bantal Busuk produced such odour because it was exposed to saliva of its owner when s/he was asleep. From here we can say that, the odour was relatively normal to its owner as it was his/her saliva smell. Whereas, it was such an unpleasant odour for others and in a way, it can be best described as smelling someone else saliva?! Yucks~

My Bantal Busuk~

If I not mistaken, my Bantal Busuk came into my life since I was three years old. It was actually originated from one of the small pillow that came along from the purchase of couches. I have no idea of how that small pillow became my Bantal Busuk. My Bantal Busuk case has been replaced so many times as soon as its colours turned darker, in such way that it looked so disgusting to others. As you can see, the recent case was the picture of Barney with orange-colour background. Before this, it was in green-colour background with some pictures of Tom and Jerry.


So childish isn't it? Not my fault.


For your information, my mom was the one who chose those cute looking cartoons and sewed it on top of my old case. She always sewed it when I am not around. When I came back, my Bantal Busuk was already sewed with new case. Thus, I can't do anything about it. I love you mom!


My Bantal Busuk holds thousands of secrets as it is always with me during the hard and easy time. I used to punch it on its tummy as a means to reduce some of my stress and even used it to higher my bed pillow, so that I won't hurt my neck the next morning I woke up.


Normally, I used it as a hugging pillow and sometimes I smelled it as to avoid unwanted odour. For example, when my mom sprayed some mosquito repellent in my room which the smell weren't very pleasant, I quickly took my Bantal Busuk (if it is within reach) and smell it with such passion. 


Moreover, I even smelled my Bantal Busuk while playing games! 

What will happen to my Bantal Busuk when I am married?


There were lots of answers playing in my mind at the moment. One of it would be that, the fate of my Bantal Busuk depends on my future wife decision, to be dispose or not. Besides that, I would like to remember my past experience with my Bantal Busuk by taking off its case, which holds thousands of memories in it. I might also consider placing it in a frame and decorating my future bedroom with it (if my future wife insists of disposing my valuable Bantal Busuk).


Just to mention, my Bantal Busuk was here, with me, in London. How wonderful! :)


Do get one Bantal Busuk for you now! While stocks last! 


Off to bed with my Bantal Busuk!

Ice Skating~

A fortnight ago, my friends and I went to Queens Ice Rink, London, for ice skating activities. It was my second time as I have once before skated in Sunway Pyramid Ice, Malaysia, and it was an unforgettable experience that left scars deep down in my heart. 


At first I was reluctant to go for ice skating because of my past experience with it, which I will explain more later on. To be honest, my past experience was not the major factor I was reluctant to go for skating, but, it was merely because I was playing online game at that moment and I was lazy to go out on a cloudy Sunday morning! I am sure most of us spent their Sunday morning by sleeping under a warm cozy duvet with their heater turned on, right? Maybe not. Forget about it.

Back to the story, after being persuaded by one of my friend who agreed to pay for the entrance fee and rent for the skate, I have finally agreed and followed all of them to the ice skating place. His determination and kindness have somehow melted my heart and I was affected by it. Such a wonderful friend to have and hopefully, I could repay your kindness in the future. InsyaAllah. Thank you brother!

A friend in need is a friend indeed~

The ice rink has state of the art colour change lighting with special effect light shows. There were so many people skating including children below the age of seven, which I found very rare to see if it were to be in Malaysia. These children used a 'penguin' which act as a balance aid and reduces the risk of falling. No wonder they were very good at skating when they were at my age, as they learnt how to skate since they were young! 

Cute Penguins!

In contrast, I started skating at the age of nineteen, and it was an unforgettable and embarrassing experience. As it was my first time skating, the amount of falling was so much that it was countless. It was so tragic that I fall for seven times, repeatedly. As soon as I stood up, I fall again. Not even a step, I fall again. I kept falling after falling. Even my jeans became wet due to so many falls.

It seems to be true for a newbie who are new to skating, doesn't it? Yes, it is true. However, I couldn't accept the fact that I can't even skate while others can. Such feeling demotivated me and I felt that I should never do this kind of sport ever again. One time is enough. But, that is not the truly type of person I am. I couldn't give up easily without trying very hard and I hate it when I lost to someone.

Such experiences hunted me when I am going to skate for the second time, here in London. There was one thought that came to my mind that afternoon, which was to rent a 'penguin' which the children used as their balance aid. By doing so, I would not fall down and embarrassed my self again, like last time. However, dignity and ego swept those thoughts away. With brave and confidence, I skate all the way through the crowded people on the ice rink. Unfortunately, without any knowledge on skating, I fall and wet my pants. History repeats itself. 

I saw my friends have a wonderful time together and had so much fun skating. Deep in my heart, I want to have a perfect life like them. From that moment onwards, I knew that I should learn how to skate if I don't want to be a loser who wet his pants again. I stood up and continue to skate. 


After a few hours of learning how to skate from my friends, I have finally mastered the basics to skating. Moreover, I have managed to even lift one of my legs while skating. I was so happy and proud. Finally, I could skate like other people! Yay! :)

One leg yeah~ :)

Life has thought me to never give up. Keep on trying and you will achieve what you have worked for. I know it was hard. But, when you were used to it, it felt easier.

“The past should be left in the past, otherwise it can destroy your future. Live life for what tomorrow has to offer, not for what yesterday has taken away.” 

Skate and fall with style~

Cooking?

When you are hungry, you will search the entire fridge, looking for a food to eat. For a person who doesn't know how to cook, s/he may ask someone else to cook for him. But, if there is none, you might need to go to the restaurant to eat. Soon, you got bored eating the same type of food again and again. Besides that, you also found it very costly to eat outside food and some of the food were unhealthy if it were to consume regularly. Since then, you realised that you should learn how to cook!

This situation occurred to me during my stay in London. It was relatively difficult to find Halal food here, especially in the area with minority Muslim people. At first, I just kept on buying fast food such as pizza and fried chicken as it were quite affordable, taste delicious and most importantly, Halal. But then, I have noticed that, the food served was sometimes a little bit too oily and I have considerably grow some fat in my tummy which make it harder for me to achieve my dream of having a nice sexy body. From that point onwards, I have tried to reduce my consumption on fast food and began to learn how to cook a proper  healthy meal.

Chef Bukh~

In London, I have learnt some of the techniques and skills to cook and even developed some cooking styles. Credits to my housemates and friends, I can now cook alone without any help from others and until today, I have managed to cook several famous known meals such as Ayam Masak Merah, Caramel, Egg Banjo with cheese, Mixed of Veggies and Eggs and some others delicious meals.

Cooking was very fun! It was a bit tiring for a newbie as it consumed a lot of time for you to prepare the ingredients and then cook it. For the first time, alone, it took me about an hour plus to cook a four-person meals in the small kitchen in my flat. Although, one of the meal was almost a failure due to the potatoes which were not fully cooked, I was proud that I can cook quite well for a newbie and the most important part was that the meals were edible to a living human being. 


Such experience encouraged me to practice my cooking skills by cooking more and more meals and hopefully one day, when I am back in Malaysia, I could simply cook a nice delicious meals for my beloved family and perhaps, for my friends too. I am particularly looking forward to learn other cooking techniques and skills as to enhance the taste of my cuisine. For those who still don't know how to cook, please spare some of your time to learn how to cook as it may soon be very beneficial and rewarding.

Caramel pudding :D

Lets heat it up!

I workout!

As promised in the last post, today I am going to tell you guys more about myself. I workout! Yeah! I went to the gym to have a nice strong and sexy body. The end results still yet to come.

How and why I started to workout? I started to workout since I was in Kolej Tuanku Ja'afar (KTJ), when my roommate, a "Cina" guy, with his nice toned body and all of his sweaty tools, working out alone in our room has influenced me to follow such path of life. (Not to be racist or what, I just want to include some sense of humour and no offends yeah~).


His sexy body and such motivation to lift all the heavy weights has influenced and even dragged me to this workout exercise and I am all set to go to become a person with a sexy body like that. He became my personal trainer and we followed several videos in the YouTube. I still remembered the first video we followed which was "My 16 Weeks to Six Packs Abs challenge". Click here! Unfortunately, we only did the first 14 weeks and could not finished another 2 weeks as recommended in the video. Not because it was too hard or strict but, it is merely because we have big and significant examinations to attend for that May/June 2010, which is far more important than to get a nice sexy body. 

My trainer~

These workout activities were quite heavy and tiring but, what I found from accomplishing these kind of activities were far outweigh the problems. I found workout very interesting in a way that it helps to develop a strong healthy body and mind and at the same time it help us to possess some of the good qualities such as discipline. For example, the discipline to follow the strict diet rules and to follow the intense yet heavy workout activities were one of the daily activities gone through by an ordinary bodybuilder. These qualities are very useful to our daily life. 


I was very thankful to God that I have met this type of person who have bring a significant change to my entire life, which was the changes of me from a skinny and weak type of person to a more buff and strong person. Believe me, I was so skinny that even the wind in London can blow me off back to Malaysia. Oppps, too much exaggeration. 

Here, in London, I met some other buff guys from Malaysia who helped me continue working out in this non-sweating country. It was way too cold outside and I prefer staying in the house, playing online game under a warm cozy duvet, rather than playing sports outside. This cold weather somehow demotivate me. For your information, friend or partner play an important role during a working out session. They may assist you when you ran out of energy or you just cant lift the heavy weights alone! They even motivate you when you are lazy to follow the recommended routine and diet. They are more or less the same as your personal trainer. Yes! Working out also developed a strong friendship relationship.


In London, these friends of mine have managed to influence me to take some of the supplement which help me to gain some weight and energy. They said, I should gain some weight because a bigger body would have more potential to develop bigger muscles and for a skinny type of person like me, it is indeed true. I was told the same thing back then in KTJ, however the price of such supplement for me at that time was a little bit too expensive. I was on benefit by the price of the supplement here, in London, although it was quite expensive yet affordable as compare to the price of the supplement in Malaysia. Hopefully, the end results are much more promising than the price of the supplement I bought today. The supplement which arrived in my door step today was the reason of me writing and posting this blog.

I think that's all for now. Thank you to everyone who helped me to achieve my goal of having a nice sexy body. Highly appreciated it. Hopefully, one day, I will get the body shape I have dreamed about. One day~

Sexy body, here I come!