Old Skool Fever

Always been a hip hop fan but this new hip hop instructor gives new groove to my hip hop class. He brings back the Old Skool...and boooyyyy...I love the old skool!!!And I'm totally in love with his classes. I feel my life is back! I can't wait Tuesday, eventhough it's far from my work but it's all worth it.
I'm wondering if I'm too old for the hip hop thing?

I Condemn The Terorists and The Bombings

Yes, I condemn the terrorists and the bombings which happened Friday ( 17/7/09) last week. Not just the casualties but the daily life. With these bombings, the malls increase their security level and they don't use metal detector anymore but the old fashioned way checking the inside of the bag one by one. Which is ( for me ) a privacy assault. Why? because I often carry gym bag, and inside it are my private belongings. Can you imagine a male digging out my bag? Where's my privacy.
Another thing is there was rumor of bomb threat and caused the classes are cancelled.

I hate you terrorists, you make other's people life more difficult and don't make religion as justification to your evil actions!

My Guilty Pleasures

Hey even top athletes or world record holders have their own guilty pleasures, right ? Since I'm a food lover, live in country filled with spices and great eating buddies. No surprise I have my own guilty pleasures, here they are in random order :

Nasi Padang ( Padang Rice )
Hmmm..a perfect lunch, this bento type with Padang style. Padang is another name for West Sumatera where its food rich with coconut milk and the green chilli.

Chilli Crab
I'm a cancer with crab symbol, means I love crabs and including chilli crab. Very delicious. BTW, when it comes to crab, I'm very selfish..so no sharing please!


Keripik Paru
These chips made from cow's lungs ( yikes sounds gross ) very delicious snacks and rich with saturated fat hehehehehe...

Rujak Buah

Indonesian style fruit salad with peanut and brown sugar dressing. I often crave for this during my PMS. Perhaps because of the sour , hot and sweet taste.

Sate Kambing ( Lamb Satay )

My family love this dish. This dish is very dangerous for those who have high cholesterol. Sweet taste of soy sauce combined with peanut sauce and completed with sticky rice and pickles.

Es Podeng ( Ice Podeng )

Indonesian dessert, great to wrap up the meal. Near my school there's this es podeng seller who sells his ice at 8am!!!! Best for hot weather like Jakarta.

There are more on the list such as french fries with melted cheese on top and others that I can't list here. Because it would be very llloooonnnnggg.....

Hot Yoga Anyone?

Last Wednesday, I was on top of my plateau and dead bored playing with those weights. Then went to yoga studio to check the timetable. Hmm..hot yoga is on at 6 o'clock, I just gave it a go. I never been a yoga person, although I've tried some yoga classes but seems there's no fire flickering between me and yoga. But hey when hitting a plateau it's time to spice up the exercise.

Hot yoga is which the temperature set to 42 degrees celcius and it's just another name for Bikram Yoga. The challenge I felt : my patience!! Why? Since the movements are slow and the room temperature is heat up you might feel fed up with it and just want to give up. It was like in sauna and doing yoga for 1 hour! The sensation was great though.

The tips and caution :
1. Drink a lot of water to keep you away from dehydration.
2. It's wise not to consume any meal two hours before
3. If you're expecting, this is not a yoga for you because it raises the core body temperature
4. Make sure you smell good :P

Hmmm....

Hmmm..yeaahh...my diet seems falling apart. Overeating is clinging over me. I can't resist the food around and this holiday I have more eating buddies. I'm too scared to look the scale. I'm still going to the gym 3 times a week. But it looks thats not enough. I'm overeating!!

Tonight, I'm determined to start my diet by cutting the carbs but ummm..how can I resist this kung pao chicked with fried rice ??Hmm..start tomorrow perhaps?

Holiday Workout : Swimming Time!

One day after my birthday, let's say it was a good day. There are many wishes and spent the day with the one I love.
During the holiday, my days filled with...swimmingggg!!! Yeah, I love swimming. It's my first love of exercise. Luckily I have the access to the best swimming pool in town. The only side effect is dry skin but thank God there's lotion. So nothing to worry about, put on the bathing suit and jump on the water !!

Holiday..Holiday...

Wow..it's been ages since my lost post. But now it's holiday so I hope I have moret time to write my blog. Okay, it's quite disappointing because I can't get my summer body back. Well, I haven't been working out and watching my diet.

Holiday plan? Not much, well actually I have no plan for holiday. Just going to the gym and eat?

Well,I'll see.........!!!

Fighting Temptations

Giving myself a pat in the back. For 3 days in a row I manage to drag myself going to the gym. My body still feels heavy just to get there. But once I get there, I defeated all temptations. Like today for example. I was tempted to have sushi. But told myself I have to be focus and focus. Guess what..30 minutes run on treadmill, 1 hour lower body exercise and 15 minutes fat burn using ecliptical machine.

Well, even my situation no is filled with boredom. There was a bit of luck yesterday. I met my ex trainer. He was free and gave free 1 hour session. Wooohooo...I was lucky.

Plan for tomorrow? Body combat, upper body exercise and of course another 30 minutes run.
Go Alia..must stay in shape..don't let the boredom and sorrow get to you.

( Not So ) Suddenly Slimmer

Yeah, I think I'm putting on weight. I do know why though. It's the boredom. When I'm bored I turn to food, not healthy one but high carbs one. Well according to research carbs makes us more relax.

The effect of course not good. Putting more weight and stuffs. Tried going to the gym today but didn't make sadness away. I felt happy when I was doing the training..it's blank again. Empty and lonely.

The boredom of course the same routine and less dancing classes. T_T

Glad I Decided Went To The Gym

How good I feel after working out. I was faced with two choices in the morning, going to have my nails done or exercise. And I'm soooo...glad with my decision. Started with run on treadmill for 15 minutes then total body weight training, and wrapped up with BODY COMBAT! YAY!

Oh yeah speaking of Body Combat, the regular instructor was substituted with a rookie, still young but he looks okay. So I gave it a go...turned he's pretty good, had good sweat. I think he'd be great instructor someday. He's got the patience, his instructions were clear, he knows how to keep all the members motivated. So good for him.

Next, is my sister. Quite harsh with her today. I'm completely clueless with her. She's very obesed!
For years, I've been telling her to be more active. Even the doctors she met, told her to lose some weight. But she DIDN'T EVEN LISTEN! She finally joined in the same gym with me..but she has thousands of excuses not to exercise and now she discard the membership. Now she come up with new excuse : being pregnant! Hey I've seen lots of people pregnant but still active.

I have no idea what to do with my obesed sister. She's 5 years younger than me, but her body already looks she's been give birth for 10 times.

Is There Anyone Beside Him?

Seems that my world evolve just around him. Try to be out from the "orbit" like going to the gym
( very lazy these days ), occupy myself with friends and family, watching funny movies, eat and so much more...but yet he's still in my mind.

Having crush in the gym didn't help, because I saw him bought a ring in a jewelery shop.

Grrr...I hate this actually.

To My Mum

That's me on her lap

GOD made a wonderful mother,
A mother who never grows old
He made her smile of the sunshine,
And He molded her heart of pure gold
In her eyes He placed bright shining stars,
In her cheeks, fair roses you see
God made a wonderful mother,
And He gave that dear mother to me.

~Pat O'Reilly~

Though you are not here with us, you're still in our heart. Love you always....

Shoulder Exercise : Arnold Press

Spice up your shoulder exercise with arnold press. This is my most favorite shoulder exercise using dumbbells. It gives wide range of motion as you lower the dumbbells well down in front giving that maximum stretch other shoulder exercises lack.

Here's how you do it :

1. Stand up right with dumbbells on each side. Position your dumbbells to your shoulder with palms facing you.


2. Similar to dumbbell press, in this exercise is the dumbbells are twisted so that the palms face forward at the top of the movement.

To finish the step, simply lower your dumbbells like the first position. Enjoy the workout!

Gym Sunday Supreme : Boy I Had A Blast

It's Sunday and it's time to for gym! Today, I'm taking my 6 years old niece with me because every Sunday there's Kids Dance which she can join while I'm doing my Body Combat. Well, not just my niece I'm taking but my sister and my baby nephew Justin ( of course they are not joining any classes, just strolling around the mall while waiting for us).

I had a great time with them. Enjoyed my niece companion, we had a great meal at Burger King ( bad for meeee...!!!! ). Today it's just awesome. So thankful I've got them.

Happy smileys after workout

Before the workout

My Sunday gym stuffs ( pinky..winky )

Out From Plateau : Back In Da Gym..Yayyyy!!!

Yeap..this chick is back in the gym! She found her groove back to hit the gym and do the exercise routine. Well, mostly just do the classes. But that's an improvement compare to previous weeks right? Thanks to the new instructors who just came and thanks to my Latin Salsa guru who's been totally amusing during his classes. And another trigger is I felt my body "so heavy".

This week itself, managed to go to the gym for 3 times. And will be going again for Supreme Sunday Gym ( just my term to get me motivated ).

Here are the things I did to get out from this plateau :

• Download happy songs ( mostly R&B ) to accompany me during weight training
  
• Download new exercises and dance videos from YouTube
• Bring gym bag everyday
• Uploading new motivations within myself.
  

Going Back To The Gym

It's 5.35AM, about to go to work. My pink Nike gym bag already stuffed with all the gym stuffs hopefully after work, I'll be still motivated to go. Exercise planning ? Just total body workout with weight and little bit of cardio.

Hope to out from this plateau soon...

Still Finding Exit Plan From The Plateau

Okay, it's been 3 weeks I'm trying to get out from this plateau and finding motivation to go to the gym. So far I have only managed 2 times a week with low intensity. Often I get sleepy while doing exercises, unless I do latin salsa class.

My friends say that I have to change the routine because I've been in the gym for years and years. Perhaps they are right.

But ummm...I walk almost everyday for 10 minutes..does it count? And not to forget I do house chores too. Then again..my diet seems very disorganized these days. I hope next week is better.

Getting Out From Plateau Part 2

With extra dose of fat burner, finally managed to do 1 hour weight training and 2 classes ( Hip Hop and Body Combat ). My abs still looks flabby.

At home,I had another exercise : house chores!!!!!!!

I'm so dead tired, still heaps of laundry to be ironed..but oh what the heck...I'm going to bed.

Next schedule to hit the gym is on Wednesday..gosh I hope I still have the energy left.

Getting Out From Plateau : Fighting Over My Laziness

I'm trying to go back to the gym again. Last Wednesday, I forced myself to go to Celebrity Fitness FX. Still lazy to do weight training, so I only joined Latin Salsa class. On Friday, no matter how lazy I was, dragging myself to go the same place. That time it was better, at least I did 1 hour weight training and followed by spinning class.

Now this Sunday ( which is tomorrow ), I have prepared everything for 2 classes: Dancing Queen and Body Combat. Before will do weight training. Let's see if I can do it.

I'm Hitting Plateau!!!!!!!

This is bad...really bad..I'm hitting a plateau. My motivation to go to gym just evaporated,vanished in thin air. Gym seems not a best place for me now. I want to complain..I'm bored with exercise. I need something different. One whole week without gym still didn't make me miss the gym.

I do try to look whats the problem though and what I figured out are work; I get up at 4.30AM to avoid traffic, spend too much time on the road. Takes about 1hour 45 minutes from home to work. I have no maid, I lack of sleep, dancing classes have been reduced and no cute guys in the gym *sob*...last time I had a crush in the gym few days later I saw him bought a ring..noooo....*another sob*

Please help me recover from hitting this plateau!