ORDINARY SUPERHERO

I'm officially 39 today. Ingatkan nak surprise my Wife nak cuti duduk rumah aje hari ni. Hantar-ambik anak kat sekolah; and spend the rest of the day bermanja2an di rumah. I had it all planned out to take leave today and complete whatever works that I need to do in the office, arrange my meetings accordingly etc. etc. so that I could take one day off. Tiba2 pagi semalam dapat e-mail from client kata ada meeting kat MOF pagi ni. Adusss, and unfortunately, for this particular meeting I do not have the choice but to attend. We have sent the documents to the relevant persons at MOF for their perusal since third week of December 2007; finally agreed to meet us to discuss on the documents. And they chose to have the meeting TODAY. Habis....all my planning gone to the drain. :( Off to the meeting now. Nanti lambat pulak. Kalau rajin nanti I sambung posting after the meeting.

Just came back from visiting my doctor. My doctor had asked me to do blood test two weeks ago and this morning I was sitting in front him when he explained to me the results. Blood Pressure: OK White Blood Cell count: OK Cancer Test: OK (negative) Sugar Level: OK Other things/indicators that my doctor looked for and checked were OK. But.......... Cholesterol: not so OK. The reading was at 6.0 and I have been asked to exercise more before he start giving me prescription or refer me to a cardiologist. Exercise? Come on lah. I play futsal every Friday night, swimming every Saturday and Sunday evenings and more recently, I started mountain biking every Sunday morning. That would be sufficient I suppose. Emmm, may be I need to reduce my trip to that nasi padang restaurant. Kurangkan makanan berlemak . Easier said than done - eating healthily is more difficult than exercising........

I'm losing weight!!!. To some of us, that may be good news. But not for me. I think I am getting skinnier by the day. I have also become immune with my friends' remarks that I look so thin and they started asking me to eat more. Many times and every time I met my old friends or others whom I may have not met for sometime. For my age and height, I'm at the lowest end of the recommended BMI level. Bordering 'underweight' category. Eat more?

How nice.... Kerja 2 hari, cuti satu hari. Kerja 2 hari, cuti pulak dua hari. Best kan?

A 'merempit' session on Sunday morning left me with sore b**ts and cranking knees. Pardon my language, but yesterday was the first time I 'remp-it' my baby up to the hills of Melawati. I tell you, no pain no gain and I didn't regret it.

Kenapa masih ada orang yang tak berhati perut seperti ini? From Harian Metro, 19 Januari 2008: Penyamar dibelasah PETALING JAYA: Kehadiran dua lelaki misteri menyamar polis di rumah keluarga kanak-kanak hilang, Sharlinie Mohd Nashar, 5, di Taman Medan di sini, malam tadi mengundang padah apabila seorang daripada mereka dibelasah penduduk. Dalam kejadian kira-kira jam 9.45 malam itu, kedua-dua lelaki terbabit dikatakan menyamar sebagai pegawai polis dari Bukit Aman. Difahamkan, kedua-dua lelaki itu mengaku mereka bukan polis dan berbuat demikian sekadar suka-suka sambil memohon maaf. Kedua-dua lelaki berusia 20-an itu datang ke rumah bapa Sharlinie, Mohd Nashar Mat Husin, 32, dengan menaiki sebuah motosikal. Mereka memperkenalkan diri sebagai pegawai polis dari Bukit Aman. Katanya, suspek meminta gambar Sharlinie yang lebih besar dan jelas selain diberitahu pernah melihat kanak-kanak itu sebelum ini. Hariana Metro difahamkan, tidak lama kemudian kedua-dua suspek beredar dari rumah...

The General Election date has been fixed to be held on 17 March 2008 . I was sharing a table with someone at my favourite Padang Restaurant not far from my office. The place was packed with lunch hour crowd and I saw this gentleman wearing full suit and having something that looked like mee-soup alone. He was talking on the phone when I gestured whether I could share his table. In fact he was on the phone almost all the while when he was sitting there. Must be a busy man. So I just mind my own business having lunch with my colleague. It was towards the end of his meal he managed to put his phone down and greeted my colleague and I now sitting across the table. He introduced himself as someone who is attached to PM's department; and said now that the election would be coming very soon, he got calls from politicians all over the country asking for allocations for projects in their respective constituencies to be approved before the election. That was when he popped out the date. He ...