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!

The Gymnasium.

It has been quite a time since I last post a blog. There are too many coursework and homework that had to be completed and handed at the moment, which is obviously far more important. 


Not to forget, there are a lot of tests going on for the next few weeks. At first, I didn’t know that the life as a university student was so hectic. Then, my lecturer said, what can you expect from a full-time student, other than studying all the time? Such a statement that made me ponders about.

Anyway, with that busy life of mine, I still had the chance to hit the gym three times a week, which is on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

I'm sexy and I know it~

Basically, this post is all about the place where I always hang out in the afternoon or evening, lifting some weights and have a nice relaxing steam bath. It is the Virgin Active Health Club in Holloway Road!

The gym!

Alright, where should I start?

Hmm...They have few good looking women at the counter!

Ok, that's a joke!

Generally, the gymnasium has a lot of facilities which I have never encounter before in Malaysia as I am here. The facilities such as cafe, male and female changing room, steam bath, sauna and computer stations with free Wi-Fi access are the club extras bits that made the gymnasium feel so complete to me.

Wide area of gym floor and a lot of equipment such as weights and machines made the gym less crowded and your workout can go on smoothly without any minor delays, even during the peak hours. Sometimes, it is quite crowded but not as crowded as the university club.

The main thing that I want to stress to you about is the steam bath facility. The steam bath room is a hot room where humidifying steam generator produces water vapours, creating a high humidity environment and large amounts of high temperature steam. Sounds good isn't it? I am not very sure about the benefit of steam bath but it does make me feel warm in this cold-weather country.

As to end my post, I would like to mention the quote who gave me motivation and spirit to go to gym when I am lazy to do so.

“Working out not just to make you look good, but to make others look bad.”

Not to forget, below are some pictures taken by me, furtively. Keep it low yeah~

The gym has become my new playground! When it will be yours?

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!