SLEEP DEPRIVATION CAUSES WEIGHT GAIN!

Could lack of sleep causes you to gain weight? Yes and why?

This is because you will automatically go for comfort food when you are restless.

Diagram 1: example of comfort food

Think about it: If you are feeling sleepy at work, you may be tempted to reach for a cup of coffee (or even several cups) and a doughnut for a quick shot of energy. Later you may skip the gym and went to a fast food restaurant just to settle your dinner as you have no time to cook. When you finally find yourself back in your bed, you are too wound up to sleep.

It is a vicious cycle, and eventually this sleep deprivation can sabotage your waistline and your health.

When you have sleep deprivation and are running on low energy, you automatically go for a bag of potato chips or other comfort foods.

The immediate result? You may be able to fight off sleepiness. The ultimate result? Unwanted pounds as poor food choices coupled with lack of exercise set the stage for obesity and further sleep loss.

How to know whether are you suffering from sleep deprivation? The symptoms are such as feeling tired or drowsy at any time during the day or being able to fall asleep within 5 minutes of lying down in the evening.

If you did not get to rest well at night, the organ in the body will not get to activate the recovery process. Therefore, the toxins in the body will not be secreted but only accumulated in the body. You will eventually gain weight especially when you consume the comfort food which consists of high amount of sugar, because those sugar will deposit in the adipose tissue and consequently causes your body weight to increase.

Furthermore, lack of sleeps will make you feel restless. When you are fatigue, you will generally move slower. You will also feel unmotivated at most of the time. Therefore, it affects your work performance. This may lead you to stress.

By eating comfort food or sugary food, it will not help you to release stress. Studies show that eating sweet food no longer can make a person happy. Sugar can't de-stress anymore but cause distress.

It’s not so much that if you sleep, you will lose weight, but if you are sleep-deprived, meaning that you are not getting enough minutes of sleep or good quality sleep, your metabolism will drop and not function properly.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) suggests that most average adults need about 7 to 9 hours of sleep each night. Exactly how lack of sleep affects our ability to lose weight has a lot to do with our nightly hormones.  Two hormones that are key in this process are ghrelin and leptin (Refer to the diagram 2 below).

 

Diagram 2

Ghrelin increases, appetite increases.

Leptin increases, appetite decreases

Ghrelin

A hunger-stimulating hormone that appears to be a stimulant for appetite and feeding. Ghrelin is the ‘go’ hormone that tells you when to eat, and when you are sleep-deprived, you have more ghrelin.

Leptin

A protein produced by fatty tissue which is believed to regulate fat storage in the body. Leptin is the hormone that tells you to stop eating, and when you are sleep deprived, you have less leptin.

How to control these hormones? By eating solid proteins, such as lean meats and nuts in your meals, you stay satisfied longer. Eat simple sugars, and you will be spiking ghrelin. Experts recommend you to keep an emergency stash of safe foods such as vegetable juice, a handful of nuts, cut-up fruit and vegetables so that you can keep the hunger at bay.

In conclusion, poor quality of sleep may result in weight gaining. It could also leads to high blood pressure, diabetes and eventually increase the chances of having a stroke or heart attack. Prevention is better than cure. Get enough sleep to prevent unnecessary health issues.

 

Couldn't rest well at night due to the fast pace of life in the city? Read this! http://dailyburn.com/life/lifestyle/cant-sleep-tips/

What will my Life Be If Without Zumba?

I just realised that I have been teaching Zumba for one year now. Well, Zumba of course made me feel better, look better and of course eat better as I get to spend my own money, so generally I can eat what I want.
 
Actually Zumba take the most time out of me, I usually will take a long time to choreograph and memorise the steps as I did not have any experience on it. But still anyone without any background can take up this fitness dance. As William Hung from American idol said "I am not a professional singer." Still, he is so famous today. Sometimes people will tend to think a lot stepping out, this causes delay and procrastination which lead to lacking of courage to take the first step. Well, after I took Zumba license, it has totally change my life.

Today when I think of it, I feel funny! To me, No Zumba means No Money! Haha, cliché answer? Lol! I love music and dance so much, so probably I will be ending up in clubbing culture. Can't imagine that! Well,, I started Zumba in gym, so I would say If no Zumba, I won't be addicted to go to gym everyday. I go to Celebrity Fitness gym and my friends told me that it is a famous place that have many Gays. Hmm...It is so true, out of 10 guys who I know in this place are all gays. Nevertheless, I never have prejudice on LBGT. I would say it's my privilege and honour to get to knowthem. Hmm..sounds fishy! But at least they treasure me and treat me better than real man out there.

I still remember when I was small in primary school, most of the boys dislike to talk or be friend with me because I am fat and ugly. Even if someone is good to me, their purpose will be to know my best friend who is actually one of the prettiest girl in school. This actually caused me to have phobia interacting with male since then.  In secondary school, I was transferred to a Malay school where they love separating genders: different gender cannot sit together, cannot use the same staircase, cannot exercise together, cannot eat together. Eventually, phobia got worst.

Why I joined gym? I want to lost weight.
Why Celebrity Fitness? My best friend signed up.
Expensive, Why signed up? The salesperson is good looking and persuasive. (LOL, now I don't think he is)

Yeap, first impression is very important. Especially when comes to interpersonal communication,  grooming is important so to build a stable primacy effect.

To me, gays are generally nice people (or are those people that I met are good?!) They will take care of me when we go out, they are polite, good looking, they will even cook and bake for me!!! Wow, how I wish they are straight! I really wonder how to bend them back....LOL!

Ever since I know gays, I began to talk to them and I feel very comfortable when with them as I know I will be very safe since they have no interest in girls. But thanks to them, I no longer have phobia talking to a male.

I have a friend who always say " God is fair!"

Quite true also, gays are literally near to perfect! The only thing is they prefer same gender.
As a true friend, I just hope they can find their owe happiness and get a compatible partner. They are just like anyone else, a human who need loves and cares. Lol, actually everyone deserves that!

A Student's Dilemma

     I wonder, should I go class? Every time when I wake up in the morning for 8am class, I will count how many time did I skipped the class. But yes, I hardly skip classes, my attendances are nearly full. This is because I feel guilty if I skip it. On the other hand, there is also a realistic reason which is I must go because I already pay for the tuition fee. So I must not waste money, I must earn the knowledge. Logic! I pay to gain knowledge and the ultimate goal is to obtain the certificate.

     Many students don't really care because they can self-study at home, but I can't since I don't have the determination and discipline. Most of my friends thought I'm a hardworking and smart student because my face say so. LOL! What do you mean by " see your face also know your result sure very good one." Haha, are you saying I'm a nerd? But I don't wear spectacle.

     That's right! Everyone always has a perception. They always have pre-judgemental without understanding or seek for clarification before they judge. Even my Academic advisor also said, by looking at us, she knew that we are good students. Well, we are good students indeed, we are obedient and respectful. We do our homework, we care for the grades because we care our face.

     The main obstacles now is our own. Own self , self-centred are the main enemy. I want to save face, I feel guilty if skip class, I pay for the tuition fee that is why I go to class to acquire knowledge, I did not wear specs so I'm not nerd, I work hard and obedient because I want to achieve good grades. So many "I"........I once heard the story, why Christian symbol is a "I" symbol with a horizontal line in middle? That is because, Jesus want his followers not to be self-centred, therefore, he cross the " I" and it became "+" sign now.

     Only if I was not that self-centred and emphasized so much on face-saving, not being so stubborn, I will probably now graduated in UM at this age. Human shall never regret on losing things that they aren't supposed to have, so I'm still considered lucky that I'm here to study at UTAR after two years of working life. At least I can still come back to study, we never know how much others' want to go back to study life but they can't as they have too many dilemma in life.

A Rotten Samaritan

     A rotten Samaritan is a direct translation from Chinese words which its meaning is someone who being over helpful until he or she forgets about themselves. They are always afraid of troubling people and therefore, they will do everything by themselves. They will hardly ask help from others. But if others asked for help, he or she will still help regardless how busy are they, they will hide their feeling no matter sad or angry. You may call them stupid, but still they happily exist in this society.

     If there are no such people, no rotten Samaritan, the world may simply go crazy. Because these are the people who always absorb and accept the rubbish that people throw. Listen and console others when they are sad, help when others almost give up, to motivate when someone is deeply in desperation. The Samaritan always help others. But where do they go when they are in need?? to another Samaritan? No...as they always afraid to share their problems with others, they will not want others to hear their sad story because to them sharing negative thought is a bad karma.

     Therefore, what they can do is just slowly find a way or a place to release their tension and stress. Find a dark corner and cry. These people are strong, they will get recover by themselves fast. There will be 2 sides on every human being as usual: the angel and the devil. In these rotten Samaritan, the angel will always win, because karma will protects these people. It will not let this amazing people live in despair.

     Just like a clown, even though it is his job to cheer people up, but he is not necessarily need to be that cheerful, he just need to wear that persona when he works as a clown. When the working hours end, he takes off the persona and live like a normal human being. No matter how sad he is on that day, the power of recovery lies within, he will find that way to get rid of negative emotion.

     Inside my mind, there is always an innocent and cheerful me, but the pressure of society somehow force it to stay inside peacefully, until I go for a holiday....I release~~~~~~Weeee~~~

    

MH370 confirmed crashed.

     The whole world is sad when we received confirmation of news of MH370 crashed into the southern Indian Ocean. In the so many days of searching, they always reply reporters' question by saying that no confirmation and no proves found and therefore they could not reveal much information out.

     However, what has make Najib to confirm the plane crashed and all passengers and crews are dead when they only received the data from the satellite without even finding a single body? They seriously confirmed? Or is just they are tired of searching it after 17 days.

     Because of this tragedy, most people are sad but at the same time, most country are laughing at the ways Malaysia government handle this issue. One of the great example will be the Raja Bomoh ceremony in KLIA where he predicts the flight is safe by just looking through some fruits like coconut. When the whole world is tension and worried about people's lives, why at the first place they appear and grab the attention? or maybe their appearance are just trying to chill the situation.

     After 17 days, did our government get tired of searching and therefore simply conclude the plane crashed and then end the rescue mission? Maybe our resources are not enough?

     As last time there is one same encounter of France flight went missing as well, however, they only managed to find it after 2 years. I really wonder will the searching force continue the mission or just call it off.

     Sometimes I prefer to believe the Raja Bomoh, at least we can still keep a hope that the flight is safe and will be back soon. By believing so, at least we are keeping our mind positive and sending good signal to the universe in order to bring back our MH370. Amitabha~

been years~~

     It's has been 6 years that i'm a vegetarian. Every time when people asked do I actually miss eating meat, I hesitated and answered "No". Well, I can only answer No not because i'm not attracted by meat but rather if I answered Yes, I will feel extremely guilty. Somehow by saying No actually keep me resist from eating meat as well.

     However, after so long of being a vegetarian, I did not actually lost weight but rather keep gaining weight. Last week, I consulted a Chinese sensei. On the first second I sat in front of her, she started to point out most of my sickness without me telling her how I feel. She suggested me to drink beef soup so I can have enough iron in my body as I have Anaemia. But my problem is I'm a vegetarian. The moment she heard I said the word vegetarian, she started to scold me why I did not take good care of my body. She warns me if I keep continue with this diet, I will have many illness coming soon.

     After a day, I started to think and would like to give it a try on meat just to see any changes on my health. Therefore, I went to McD and ordered a box of nuggets. I don't know why I couldn't taste anything on it. The nuggets were tasteless for me. Is my taste bud still okay?

     How if my taste bud is just tired of being tasting meat? Just like now human sometimes tired of their job. Could we actually just escape from it? Could the body cell just go apoptosis because it is tired of working? sometimes we are just used to hide ourselves from problems, we do not want to face it, we tell our brain that we are totally fine. The brain will then signal our nerve and release hormone to the body to calm ourselves down. Is this a process of self-cheating? I would said yes, once a human constantly treat own self that way, It will affect the body system tremendously, the hormone imbalance will show on the face when the pimples pop up usually. However, to the most serious part, a person may burst into depression.

     Everyone usually likes to say, just release it out, tell somebody your problem, go for holiday...so easy meh.....I still think talk to myself is better, even though it may sound creepy, but I  think this is the not bad thing to do. Today I learned the topic "how to increase self-esteem" in Interpersonal communication class, the first thing is we must attack the self-destructive belief, we must start to believe in ourselves that we are actually good, responsible of our own, we have to believe that we are special. The main key is to be positive. Let just try.

    

Be appreciated to our public transportation~

     Everyday when I take bus, I will get to see many different types of behaviour walking down the streets. To me, public transport is my one and only transportation mode and it is very important for me not to miss the right timing to get into the bus. Therefore, every time when I see a bus, I will run as fast as I could to reach and get board. However, there are always people who don't really show how much they need the bus, instead, they would blame the bus not to wait for them.

     Every time before the day I go out, I will plan the next day outing as in what time shall I get ready to out so that I will be on time and be punctual to reach my destination. To reach my Uni, I will need to allocate two hours at least. If I am lucky, I just need one and a half hour to reach to Uni. Many do not understand why I need such a long time as I need to inter-transit for three times, some will even ask why I look so tired, or some will say I am lucky as I do not have to stuck in a jam and wasting time to find parking. Actually we as public transportation users, do have our own problem as well. When the bus did not follow the original route, we will need to stop further and walk back to our destination. When the bus came late, we will be affected as well as we do not know exactly what time the bus will reach. When the bus is full of passengers, the bus driver may not even stop and pick you up regardless how long have you been waiting. When we were stuck in the bus, and the bus is stuck in the jam, to those standing passengers, we may have to stand for hours before we get home. Everyone has their own problem, so we must be considerate to everyone.

     However, I do appreciate our public transport even though their service might not be consistently good. But still, some other country might not providing public transportation to its own citizens. Therefore, I think everyone should show some appreciation or at least show some simple and basic manner when taking public transportation. Sometimes I feel so sorry to those driver when I see passengers make fun of them. If you want to take stop the bus, please raise your hand and stop the bus but not just stand at the bus stop and expect it to stop for you. When the bus stops for you, please walk faster to get into the bus, do not let everyone in the bus to wait for you. You may not know your few seconds of slow walk may caused others late for interview or to meet boss. When you want to take bus, please be alert on bus that pass by. Don't blame the bus if you are the one not paying attention. When you want to get down at the next bus stop, press the bell once, don't make the driver angry by keep pressing the bell. Before you enter the LRT, please let the passengers to come out before you go in. If you see someone in need to be seated, please stand out and let them sit. Don't pretend that you can't see or you are sleeping.

     I do believe in karma, if you want others to treat you well, you must treat others well too. As this universe understand what signal you have sent out and it will return the same to you. I have started to thank the bus driver every time when I get down from the bus. I respect bus drivers, public transporter because if they do not exist, I will not be able to go to my Uni and get education.

     Thanks to the existence of public transport.

     Pray for MH370, wish everyone well.

Jam for what??? I don't get it???

     Have you ever stuck in a jam for no reason? Not that there is accident, roadblock or malfunctioned traffic light. LOL, sounds like Malaysia's traffic very horrible. Yes, it is!! (Opps, I still love Malaysia! Yes, I believe I do la~)

     There have been a few times I stuck in a jam for around 30 minutes then suddenly the traffic turn super smooth in the middle of the road. If you said there is an accident occur on the opposite direction road, I will understand the reason of congestion as Malaysians do have very high curiosity and love to observe what is happening around. I will also believe if I happened to see police blocking the road to be bottleneck for spot check or maybe the traffic light broken down and people busy showing "KIASU" attitude to prove who is a better driver on the road.

     All the above mentioned reasons are absolutely normal in Malaysia, but I really don't understand how can the congestion happen in the middle of highway and suddenly turn smooth when at one point of the road. Is there any invisible shield forcing the drivers to drive slowly? or so coincidentally everyone is so sleepy so they drive super slow until the seconds that they get bored of driving slow then only they step on the accelerator?

     Anyhow, I feel that if you are on the road, please be considerate to others and drive properly. Give proper signal (LOL, especially to the male drivers, don't always think female drivers sucks la~some drive very pro also, I'm one of the example. Hahahahaah!), don't drink and drive, don't so busy body look around but focus in front and hold steering properly.  Life is important, cherish it!

A Contradicting Society

     "What?! The ATM machine is unable to withdraw money after i queue up for so long?"

     

     "Why don't the person in front let us know so that the people behind no need to waste time waiting and queuing."

     "Hmm, cannot withdraw money? True or not, let me try."

     "Why the person don't trust me when I tell him the ATM is out of service?"
    
     "If I know that he won't trust me, why waste my energy to tell him the ATM cannot be used."

     "If the person trust me, he will be able to save his time from queuing up lo."

     "Sigh, I will still tell them the machine is not working even though they don't trust me, at least I still do a good did."

     "No no no, I spent so much time queuing up for nothing, so others must experience the same with me then only fair."

     "Selfish fella, don't tell me the machine is not working!"

     Those inner voices can come from an individual, a society or even a community. "Sharing is caring" is the statement that I always heard since I was young. We learn to share good things among each other so that everyone can be happy. However, the society now is no longer so bright anymore. Because most people are getting more realistic and competitive among each other. They said if you are considered as commit suicide if you let your enemy win. This theory leads to the selfishness of a person. Well, I would said this is a KIASU act. By just standing at the ATM area in a shopping mall, I was able to identify so many different expressions from those people's face. (LOL, or maybe I'm the one who thinks too much.)

     However, most people are easily scared naturally. They will be motivated to do good did after they did a sin or negative acts. But if you are so afraid of he consequences of bad acts, why don't you just remained as a good person? Don't be so contradicting la....think before you act!

It used to be my ambition.

     It's my first time to fly! My shout out since finally I'm able to travel by air bus on yesterday when I travelled to Langkawi Island for a short working trip. I was so afraid and yet super excited when the flight started to accelerate on the track before it was able to fly up high into the sky. When we were small and young in primary school time, there is always a column in the report card that required us to put down our ambition. I do remember that pilot was one of my choice. It was still fresh in my memory that my list of ambitions had included doctor, lawyer, hair stylist, fashion designer, teacher, accountant, and many more which all are unrelated to what I'm doing right now.

    Writing all those ambitions without thinking what field were all that in, how good is our result need to be, probably only happened during that age. The time when all of us have no commitment and problem to think in life. To be a pilot, doctor or lawyer, the pre-requisite is to score an excellent result in studies. Only people who excel in studies are able to pursue their education in such lines. However, I am not a very bright student in school, I never get number one in class, I never get straight A's, I'm never a teacher's pet, so I'm actually quite brave and daring to have such courage to write down those ambitions in my list. Of course, this only happened when we were young and innocent.

     Now in life, what matters most isn't what job you are doing, what position or designation that you carried in your company, but the question is are you able to make a living on your own, be responsible on your own and capable to take care of your parents and family.  If my result is not good, what alternatives do I have? Well, there are actually plenty of choices in this world, as long as you are willing to put in efforts you will find your way to the successful route. As long as I do not cheat and earn the money with honesty, I am considered as a successful person. A doctor is a job, a lawyer is a job, everything is a job. Career, job and roles all meant the same, because it brings you reward when you work hard. So just be hardworking, diligent, responsible and honest.

     Currently I'm studying Degree in Corporate Communication, I will be working in a corporate world which is very challenging after I graduate. This degree allows me to be Public Affair Officer, Public Relations Practitioner and etc. Although the designations title may sounds not as grand as doctor, pilot and lawyer, but it can be the rice bowl that can protect and support my family and I. Even though I did not managed to be what I used to want, but I am in the correct, right and bright path still, as long as I work hard (LOL, should work smart!) and be determine, I believed that I will be able to lead a prosperous life.

Guess What? Guess The Emoji~



 

    LOL, cuter than angry birds at least! Guess The Emoji - considered the latest game in Facebook, Android and even in Apple Strore! It basically tests our logic and reasoning skills to solve simple (and sometimes hard!) Emoji Puzzles! We'll be presented with a screen displaying some emojis and to guess what is it that these emoticons are describing like how it shown in the picture below:

 

(Guess the emoji, 2014)

 

     I got to know this game when my friends started to ask me for answers in Whatsapp to see whether I can help them to solve the problem or not. But after a few times of answering for them, I felt this game is actually quite cute, creative and amazing as I never thought all these emoticon can actually formed a game. For instance, one of the question displayed three emojiticons: a boy face, a thunder lightning sign and a spectacles. I will seriously never thought of Harry Potter if my friend never gave me that answer.

 

    Others who didn't play the game said we were very funny because we are considered cheating when we asked others for answers. Then another interesting friend replied and said it's not cheat, it's TEAMWORK!! LOL! However, I wonder do people know that Mr Google has all the answer with him? Just ask him LAH!!! Simple~ then you can solve the game without asking for friends' help, and your friends will thought why you so smart!! As this is what I did (HAHA, super KIASU!), when there is any hard question that I could not solve, I will immediately search through Google. Till then I realised I learned nothing if I keep spoon fed by Google to play this game. Therefore, I have decided to stop the game and will only play if I'm super free or maybe I shall continue with my candy crush? At least I need to analyse the moves and predict the results all by myself. Hmm....no no no!! As a student, I shall spend time asking Mr Google on my assignment. Sigh, why Google don't have all my assignments' answers~ LOL, sounds so wrong!

 

 

Photo reference:

(2014). Guess the emoji [Print Photo]. Retrieved from https://lh4.ggpht.com/zkoaRdM-8Gg3iCUByKMVKsuVola911yrvWBdUXStlgoR4TQzMSycPjKFj_K9yY-2TQw=h900 

Gallop, gallop and gallop~~ The Horse year!!!

     Here comes my year again  after 23 years of celebrating Chinese New Year- The Horse year! Every year, I will travel back to Malacca which is my dad's hometown for reunion and enjoy the moment of get together. However, there will be this funny and amazing competition among our two beloved neighbours. They never failed to amaze us every year with the great and awesome fireworks show at midnight which they will light up the beautiful sky when the clock strike 12 a.m. after the new year eve day. They usually have this battle for around 10 minutes to show case who have the more beautiful and longest fireworks ever. (Hehe, it's not actually the real competition but just what I imagine as a battle where I act as a "host" to do the talking on who strikes better.) Usually most of my family members agree that the right side neighbour did a better job!

     However, every year when they ignite the fireworks, something will flash into my mind: Why would they spend so much money on these when it doesn't really brings any benefits to the people besides that putting up a good show for people around to enjoy and feel the moment. But what I really feel is if they really want to perform a good did for the community, they can actually donate those amount to the needy people such as old folks home or orphanages rather than spend on that few hundred boxes of fireworks. By contributing these amount to the needy people, at least people will really get benefits from the money. For example, the orphans can get to buy new clothes, re-furnish their shelter and happily celebrate Chinese New Year. As burning those fireworks into the sky only left people with a few minutes happiness but not something that is practical or meaningful. Even though I do enjoyed watching this fireworks show but I think if the money is used wisely, it will definitely make a New Year more meaningful.
    
Well, here come my New Year wishes:
1. My family and I be blessed with good health and happiness.
2. Always be safe and be protected by Buddha.
3. Money roll roll come!
4. Get slim and fit!
5. Get into the F**ing Dean's list!!

Huat ar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Frozen~

     Frozen is about a girl named Anna who has a sister named Elsa, the queen who has the power to control ice. However, the story the proceed because Elsa does not know how to control her powers on ice. Therefore, she always hide in her room so that she can prevent herself from hurting anyone with her ice. Her sister Anna wants to build a snowman with Elsa because she is her only playmate. Unfortunately, the parents died and Elsa still remained in her room and Anna tried hard to get her sister out of her room. I personally like this song a lot when it was played in the scene as the transition from Anna's voice can clearly indicated that Elsa had spent a very long time locking herself in the room.

                                             (Disney, Do you wanna build a snowman)

     This is actually one of the best movies I ever watched so far, many had given this movie an excellent review and feedbacks. Indeed, it is a Disney production. They are always dedicated to produce better story for everyone to enjoy and those movies have the ability to strengthen people mind and soul such as we can perceive better family values after watching it.

     However, I am impressed how Elsa managed to lock herself up in room for years. She has no television, mobile phone or internet access. How does she managed to kill time? She is not allowed to play with her ice power and must learn how to conceal and suppress it. Well, this is only cartoon. If for me, I would have probably die of boredom. In reality, people nowadays are too spoilt and overwhelmed by gadget until they could not live without it. When people are carried away by the gadget's apps and games, they will act such like frozen in that time. Time flies fast when we concentrate in certain games and with the great motivation to finish the game without realising the precious time will never come back to us.
    
     Let our beautiful memories froze in a time where we truly utilize the time meaningfully so we can live life with no regrets.


Video reference:
Disney. (Producer). (2014, 01 08). Do you wanna build a snowman [Web Video]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azOmSXgKfus

Chocolate is not always divine!

     Wow! There is actually M&M's with peanut butter in it! This was my first thought when I first saw it in The Cocoa Tree outlet. I never really like M&M's because it is always a super expensive chocolate. I personally like Nips brand better as it's much cheaper. I guess I am a "cheapo" person! However, this time I have decided to try it but not because it is on sales rather is the aunty beside me who kept hard-selling it by praising how good it tastes and showing that passionate face. She was not the storekeeper but just an ordinary chocolate lover who wanted to share the chocolate passion. Of course I did not buy on the spot because it was bloody expensive which is RM 36 per packet! They do not have a smaller packet to sell! How do you expect me to spend RM36 just for a trial??? But yes, I bought it! I must be crazy? No!!! I am still very smart, I bought it in Cold Storage when I saw they have a smaller packet where it is only cost RM3.49! Fine, I must taste it with an open heart since I had bought it. Challenge accepted!

The first bite and the question in mind appeared: Where the hell is the peanut butter?
The second bite, purposely bite it half to see the content inside: I see peanut butter!
The third try, trying to melt the M&M's by using the tongue and the temperature in my mouth: Okay, I tasted peanut butter, but it was not too strong, not so buttery and was a little bit dry for me.
The fourth try: Not really my cup of chocolate. Let's share with others and gather their opinions!

     Until now, I still see my friends buying one after another. Seriously, M&M's should pay me for promoting their product to my friends since I offered them a free trial. LOL!

     Well, I still like chocolate, but maybe not M&M's. Chocolate will only be divine if it's paired with better quality peanut butter or maybe other ingredients. So we must learn  how to choose a proper ingredient if baking cakes or even find a better classmate when comes to assignments so that we are able to create sparks in our works. Perhaps this can help in getting higher mark in coursework! LOL!

The virgin post ~

     I was quite surprised when we were asked to write blogs on weekly basis as part of the assignment in UTAR. This is because I had never had a habit of recording my own feeling in any written form. I guess our lecturer understood there is still people like me who never blogged in this 21st century, he then randomly gave us few topics as a direction for us to kick start. However, I was still quite clueless, I would say that the first title that he gave really challenged me as I hardly read. Yes! The topic is to write about a book!
   
     Well, the first book that came into my mind is "Never Trust A Doctor Who Never Study About Nutrition". The title was very tricky that its able to pull my attention to purchase and read it within 3 days. People always say never judge a book by its cover, but actually that is what usually happens when people are buying books. The main reason I purchased it was because I doubted the title.

     Everyone will automatically looks for a doctor when they are ill, not mentioning people who usually self-prescribed. So how can you ask people not to trust a doctor? Should they ask the doctor "Had you studied about nutrition?" before they get consultation? Doctors are capable of treating patients and I always salute doctors as they are seriously brilliant and very determine person.

     However, this book does has its own points because exceptions do happen. When some patients with chronic diseases consulted some doctors, they were left with disappointed advice saying that they will be no chance for recovery. For instance, a doctor uses the scientific way to cure patient by giving drugs to kill the cancerous cells, however, usually in such chemotherapy, patients will not be able to survive as the side effects of those drugs are too powerful that it weakens the immune system until the patient may touch the heaven's door earlier that they supposed to be. Therefore the doctor will rather gives up in treating because they will not want to hurt the patient anymore when they can predict the consequences.

    This is why this book exists because there are plenty of examples mentioning how patients whom seriously ill are able to recover after they tried on the nutritional way. The power of how natural food such as grape seed essence can actually heal our body are truly miraculous, not only it strengthens the immune system, it also activates our natural antibodies to fight with the cancerous cells and thus allows the patient to recover. But the only thing that the patient need to have faith with themselves. To trust that they are strong enough to pass through this journey, to allow the body to fight in a period of time, to be able to hold on with nutrition so that it can switches on the battling mode in the body to protect themselves.

     Just like sometimes in life, we just can't keep depend on others unless it is needed. For instance. We do not always need to use drugs to fight with the virus or bacteria, but by using natural resources, we are able to fight enemies with just our own antibodies. The only thing is we have to be determine enough to withstand the obstacles. So just be strong and have faith in ourselves as we never know what we are capable of doing things.