Archive for March, 2010

Zumba® in Malaysia

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2 years ago
by Tany in , ,

I wanted to do a different topic blog post but I decided to blog about this one first since it’s already 4 am and I should be sleeping because I have class at 9 am.

Zumba®.
So what the heck is Zumba®?

The Zumba® program fuses hypnotic Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves to create a one-of-a-kind fitness program that will blow you away. Our goal is simple: We want you to want to work out, to love working out, to get hooked. Zumba® Fanatics achieve long-term benefits while experiencing an absolute blast in one exciting hour of calorie-burning, body-energizing, awe-inspiring movements meant to engage and captivate for life!

Okay, so since I’m a sucker for any fitness workout that involves fun dancing, I accidentally downloaded Zumba Live! one day and instantly fell in love. What’s best about it is that it involves latin dances, which has a lot of sexy hip movements.. and some african beats and somehow I love african beats. I have many, I do mean many workout DVD from hip hop to dirty dancing inspired workout to normal aerobics.. mostly anything with dance, I’d buy. However, nothing (except for my favorite hip hop DVD) that makes me so interested as Zumba. It’s so addicting.

Turns out there’s a set of DVD - Zumba 20 minutes basics, Zumba sculpt and tone, Zumba cardio party and Zumba Live! & flat abs.

In Malaysia, so far, I know only Celebrity Fitness has zumba class. Now I haven’t seen a zumba class in person, and based on a few minutes video I’ve seen on youtube (a class in Lot 10), it doesn’t have the charm that a zumba class should have. I think to get the real essence of zumba, you need latin music and LATIN DANCE. Sure there’s some hip hop and african beat moves in it, but the true zumba charm is the LATIN DANCES & MUSIC… like cumbia, raggaeton, salsa, merengue, etc. Without the latin dance and music, it loses the real fun factor of zumba and it becomes nothing but a normal aerobic dance. And that’s what I see in the video of a Malaysian zumba class.. any zumba class with English music is a turn off. Why not just stick to the original zumba music?? If you’re an instructor and a cheapskate, just fricken download it for your class. Why use English music? It’s NOT latin music and is a big turn off.

Zumba should be in Fitness First… I don’t know why Fitness First only have ‘serious’ type of classes.. none of which are the fun ones unlike Celebrity Fitness.. no hip hop, mtv dance, modern dance, not even pole dance … unfortunately I can’t afford 2 gym memberships so no dance workout classes for me ..heck I can’t even afford 1 gym T_T Well, I gotta start getting used to dancing again, I’m SOOOOOO out of shape right now it’s not even funny. I can’t even do 5 minutes of nonstop zumba.. it’s frustrating and depressing since I used to be a dancer and dancing hardcore dance for 5 hours nonstop was nothing to me before.. now I can’t even do 5 minutes nonstop workout without stopping for a breather. Pathetic.

JPOP

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2 years ago
by Tany in , , ,

I was browsing youtube yesterday. You know that shitmyx (our stupid slow poke internet ISP streamyx) has decided to throttle youtube??? Not only they throttle torrent before, now youtube? I mean come on, YOUTUBE? I didn’t even know that. I mean it was still okay in terms of loading time until couple of weeks ago youtube has become SO SLOW. Like a 1 minute video would take 5 minute to load. But yesterday I tweaked my setting and now the speed has improved a bit. There are a few sites that I can’t load now.. could it be.. they’ve blocked some sites?! Because I used to be able to load.. now it says server not found, but when I use a proxy, I could load it. FUCK SHITMYX. It has already a piece of shit, and they dare to be even more stinking piece of cow dung by implementing this? What the hell is ‘unlimited broadband’ supposed to mean then?

ANYWAYS.

I have not been into JPOP for a long time. Yesterday I stumbled upon Arashi’s new single, “Troublemaker”.. saw their interview and performance in music station and instantly fell in love with the song! It’s so friggin catchy and fun.. and it has fun dance routine too.. of course, Arashi members haven’t aged a bit. Damn Japanese. So I watched their PV (music video) and I so love it! It has cute stop motion animation at the beginning which is something I so wanna do if I have a chance to make a video.. ! I thought it’s very creative. It has cute stop motion throughout the video.. Ahh Nino.. so friggin cute. I love how he pushes Ohno a lot in this.. Ohmiya SK :D Here’s the PV.. it’s so cute!

Okay, almost 10 am now.. gonna finish my breakfast and go to the gym.. I have to meet my trainer at 11 am.. gotta use up my remaining 2 free training session before it expires >.< They never told me about the expiration! Oh yeah, have you heard maxoderm? I was reading something and saw this word and I thought, hey it sounds like a skin care product.. because most of skin care products have ‘derm’ in it.. so I read what it is, and it turns out to be a topical med for men so they can have harder and longer lasting erection.. haha. But if you look at the website and see user’s comments, they’re hilarious.

Pay Bills!

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2 years ago
by Tany in ,

A note to self: Please remember to pay the domain! If not the domains go kaput.

Just a last quick blog for tonight. You know how I’m always in depression.. well most of the time that is. I found this site that has treatments for depression. It’s mostly those basic ingredients/vitamins in dietary supplement so I guess no harm compared to prozac or any other controlled medicine like that which I’ve heard don’t even work. Some antidepressants can make you have weird behavior.. and in the case of Columbine school shooting, they blamed Eric being on antidepressant that made him have such rage to do cruel things.

Speaking of Columbine school shooting, wow next month marks their 11 years ‘anniversary’.. wow has it been that long? I even forgot that last year was a decade ‘milestone’. To think I was so fricken obsessed with the whole Columbine thing before.. I better not start talking about it because I’ll get obsessed again and I can’t afford being obsessed again with school shooting stuff, especially Columbine. I go weird.

Cramps

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2 years ago
by Tany in , , ,

Today I was supposed to help my friend with something but plan changed so I went out at 9.30 am and went to the gym instead. It was my first time going to the gym and actually doing something since I registered. Last time I was just have an hour session with my trainer because I have 3 free session with trainer so it was just getting to know me and my body & strength. It was a Sunday so since I went early, there weren’t so many people until it gets near in the afternoon. Well, not bad for first time. Even though I only managed to burn 300+ calories, I did bike for almost 20 km and walked 5 km or so on the treadmill. Unfortunately because I was too focused on my legs and not yet my upper body, I’m currently having the worst cramps ever on both of my knees area haha.

Anyways. I finally got half of my starter pack.

I was supposed to get the bag and face towel along with water bottle and headphone but they still don’t have any stock on the headphone and water bottle.. since before Chinese New Year. So the girl advised me to take the bag and face towel first before it runs out so I did. I actually need the bad because I have no bag to put my stuff in when I go to the gym.

By the way, today my face is peeling so badly at areas that wasn’t burned with the laser and I have no idea why. The burned skin has peeled off so not so much of embarrassment of having burnt skin but the peeling skin.. urgh! It was so bad. I wonder if it was a reaction towards any medication? Or my cetaphil? Couldn’t be.. cetaphil is soft on skin, even though it stings a few times when I first washed my face with it. Hm. Looking at this exposed skin care, there’s a product called Pronexin. It sounds extremely interesting, and sounds like a good acne medication but obviously it’s not available here.. but the question is, is it really as good as it says?

My leg cramps are annoying me to the extreme. So I’m going to do something else now to get my mind of it.

Communion Invitation

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2 years ago
by Tany in

I’m supposed to write about communion invitations, which is about this site that sells custom made communion invitations.. But since I’m a muslim so I really have no idea what to write except aren’t the invitations cute? lol. Well of course they have other invitations too such as parties, birthdays and more but since I don’t have that many friends, if I ever have the need to invite people to my party, SMS or calls will do lol Well except for my wedding of course, because that’s tradition o_O; The nicer the card, the better. Hehe.

I’ve written long blogs today.. wow. A big pat for myself on my back. This is what boredom will do to ya. I still have more blogs to write about and pictures to post.. my phone, this one campaign I went to, some other activities… let me take a breather first.

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