It's all about the Weather, Wordpress functions and Blogging!

Is anybody home? :)

Is anybody home? Can you tell that this is an antique, super old skool kind of door handle? Only weirdos like let's say an 'interior designer' will snap such pictures.

I haven't updated anything on this blog for the longest time and I guess I shall need a bit of  'standard' blogging to get things started. Let's talk about the weather shall we!

The weather right now in Malaysia is super, super hot! The temperature is around the standard 31 - 33 C but the humidity level is most of the time high which is around 70++ %. That's crazily humid and stuffy air and it is definitely a good time to have the indoor AC ON like all time.

If you've been keeping up with the world's news, we all know that it is suppose to be Spring time already by now which isn't really happening. Instead, it's a snowy Spring time and I guess we have to wait out for a couple more weeks for Spring to finally really come.

So what else is new???

I've just realized there is a 'Distraction Free Writing Mode' in Wordpress! Haha. As you can guess, I've only just started using it for this post. I knew I've seen the square with four arrows icon since forever and I've only started to be inquisitive about it only today. Great! I'm hoping to churn out some more 'exciting' blog posts to keep going at this blog writing thingy. It's been fun writing some posts and keep on getting comments even years after posting them up. For all you readers and commenters, I thank you for reading and exchanging thoughts along the way!

For more posts to come. Until then, toodles!

In The Spirit Of Giving : Let's Support The Islamic Relief Organization

Oh my! I just checked the Archives link and I've realized I didn't write anything for July. Woops...time surely flies...

I don't really have much to write about at the moment...maybe I do...like a lot of it, it's just that putting them all down seemed a bit of an effort. ;)

Anyways, since this month is the holy month of Ramadhan and it is one of the best time for us to give as much as we could to charity, I have a little request for everyone who is reading this post (if you don't mind) to take a little bit of your time to watch this short video (7:30 minutes) by the Islamic Relief Worldwide organization.

About Islamic Relief Worldwide

Islamic Relief raises funds and awareness to help poor communities around. This youtube channel is a way of increasing awareness and understanding about our work and the people we are dedicated to helping. Support us by promoting us on your social networks, or by donating online at our website. For more info see www.islamic-relief.com
*taken verbatim from Islamic Relief Worldwide YouTube Channel

Hence, for anyone who is always or have been looking for ways to give to those who are in need, do grab on this chance to do just that by visiting the Islamic Relief links above.

Alternatively, for people residing in Malaysia, you can do your bits by supporting the Ramadan Relief fund by visiting this link here: Islamic Relief Malaysia - Make A Donation!  or you can visit their FB page for more info of the works they are currently doing : https://www.facebook.com/IslamicReliefMalaysia

" 8. And they feed for the love of God, the indigent (poor), the orphan and the captive, 9.(Saying), "We feed you for the sake of God alone : no reward do we desire from you, nor thanks. 10. We only fear a Day of distressful Wrath from the side of our Lord." - Al Quran, Surah 76 - Al Insan (verse 8-10)

10 Things You Need to Know about Mount Bromo, East Java, Indonesia | Mt.Bromo, Jawa Timur

10 Things You Need to Know about Mount Bromo, East Java, Indonesia are :

[caption id="attachment_2859" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Mountain on the left with a bit of smoke at the top is Mt. Bromo. Picture is captured from Mount. Penanjakan."][/caption]

1. To tell you the truth, none of us knew about Mount Bromo until we were told about it while going for our maiden hiking expedition at Mount Kinabalu, Sabah. A fellow hiker, Akmar introduced to us to this absolutely beautiful and picturesque view of a volcanic mountain called Bromo or Mount Bromo straight out from her iPhone. We wow-ed over Mt.Bromo right at that instance and we told ourselves, we really need to go there and we finally made it there after 2 years which was on April 30th, 2012.

2. To get to Mount Bromo, you need to fly into Surabaya, East Java (Jawa Timur), Indonesia and take a couple of hours of car ride to Probolinggo province ( I think) and then exchange into a jeep to get you higher up the rough road condition up the mountain. When I say "rough road condition", brace yourself for a super bumpy, almost roller coaster-like jeep ride. It was awful and if you needed to pee, forget about it. You will almost certainly pee in your pants with all those crazy bumps and bounces.

3. Akmar did mentioned that you can hike Mount Bromo by going on a horse ride and that's exactly what we did. It cost us about IDR 90,000 (approx. MYR30 or USD10) for both ways going up and down the volcanic mountain. I can't remember the exact duration we were on the back of the horse but it felt really long maybe about 15 minutes one way. Since it was our first time riding a horse, it was the most awesome thing anyone could have ever done in their life. At that moment, it wasn't really about the fact that we were literally hiking an active volcanic mountain, but we were more excited with the whole idea of going horse back riding.

[caption id="attachment_2861" align="aligncenter" width="1600" caption="Mt Bromo horses with their guides and the jeeps"][/caption]

The horse riding episode is certainly something one should look forward to doing at Mt. Bromo and no worries for first timers, the horse is guided with his owner and just make sure you sit up straight, go along with the rhythm of the horse, hold on the rope tight and simply enjoy the ride and view!

4. Make sure before you get on the horse ride or if you can't care for horse adventure and splurging money are not in your agenda, just be sure to clear your bladder before you begin your hike. There is a toilet right at the parking area with a typical standard fee of Indonesian toilet run - IDR2000. Bring your own TP or wet wipes if washing with water isn't your thing and the toilet is in okay standard.

5. The weather at Mount Bromo is just nice but it can be very dusty to go all the way up the mountain. It only get worse when you will be hiking right next to people on horses because there is only one track to go up and down. Your best choice of clothing is to wear a long sleeve shirt and pants, sunglasses ( to keep the dust out of your eyes) and a bandana ( to function as a mask) or get yourself a proper mask to cover your nose. Do not be surprised when you blow your nose right after this hike, you'll be seeing black dusty ashes coming out from your nose. So do make sure, you remember to clean up the nose right after. Haha.

[caption id="attachment_2863" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Mount Bromo and it's very much alive smokey crater."][/caption]

6. The horse ride will only take you to about 3/4 of the way up. The rest of the way, you will need to take the dusty ashen stairs which was fairly okay, not difficult to climb. You will have the view of the Bromo Crater right at the top and be careful right up there. There is no divider to protect you from falling down into the crater so don't get all too excited with the camera works and do watch your steps.

7. I would say, all around 360 degrees view from the top of Mount Bromo was absolutely amazing. The place is totally barren and almost desert-looking with grey ashes covering pretty much everything.

[caption id="attachment_2862" align="aligncenter" width="540" caption="Mt. Bromo view from the top facing away from the crater. If you look closely on the front of the picture, you'll see the trail of people climbing the stairs."][/caption]

*picture by Miss M

8. You can avoid the stairs when you are descending down from the mountain by going all adventurous, trailing down the mountain and kick more dusts all over you just like this guy in the picture below :

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Mt Bromo"][/caption]

* It's no doubt risky and whatever you do, safety first!

9. You will be bombarded with the many local folks who will come up to your face with bunch of Bromo tshirts for sale. You can however, choose to say no and walk away as quickly as possible or ended up buying a bunch of tees which will be way too small for your size. The last I checked, L size is equivalent to the standard S size. So make sure you check the size out first before buying.

10. Despite the cost for the horse ride was just IDR 90K, I'm pretty sure you will want to give the guides an extra tip for all their hard work or probably just something extra for the horses too. Their job is really tough and going through that kind of working condition everyday, climbing up and down the mountain multiple times a day while breathing black volcanic ashes day in and out is really one heck of a job to do.

[caption id="attachment_2860" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Mt Bromo"][/caption]

All in all, if you are looking for a chance of a lifetime to experience stepping foot on one of the most beautiful and scenic volcanic mountain ( in my rating that is), Mount Bromo located just a couple of hours away from Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia is the place you certainly need to go.

*Note: Surabaya is just a couple of hours away from Bali. I personally think adding Bali as your next travel destination after visiting Surabaya by travelling via land using train, ferry and van is totally going to be one heck of a road trip and you should seriously consider doing just that.

Techy Rants for YaszAmzah.com - Theme change and plugins issues

Let's get techy shall we. I've been facing a bit of an issue with this site but it's nothing I can't fix. I'm pretty positive about that. Here are the things that have been coming up lately :

-I don't like my blog theme anymore.

- I have been having issues with the plugins and I have still yet to fix some minor error because of it. One small attempt to update a plugin, wrecked the whole admin page out. I couldn't get into the admin page, had to rename files, disable stuffs, rename again and then out of the blue, some things decided to duplicate itself and thus more digging into the functions and not some much success there. Probably I just need to install/enable the deleted plugin again and see what is going on there. It's all about trial and error now. Which I like and enjoy doing but of course it's so time consuming.

- I have realized that my years of studying different programming languages was worth the time and effort. After all these years, I can still understand codes and no doubt that PHP is one of the easiest language to learn.

Programming is fun and exciting. I should do it more and I couldn't help feeling a bit 'smart' just from tweaking  a few lines or two although most of it was just commenting out some lines I didn't want. Haha. But most importantly, I feel that I do understand most of the codes and it's functions. Understanding them was as easy as reading a novel and for that I'm amazed of myself.

- I need a new wordpress theme. What is the latest and nicest one out there now?

Okay enough tech rants for the day. I wonder who will read all these. Anyways, suggestions for the theme are most welcome. Thanks!

 

 

Come Around Sundown Album by Kings of Leon - The Review

This album "Come Around Sundown" by Kings of Leon is simply the best. I know this is a bit of a super late review because it actually took me that long to finally fall in love with this album. After countless times of repeats on this album, I have to say that I really actually fall for the easy listening and laid back tunes. And simply listening to the strums of the guitars got me day dreaming about the day that I can actually play the guitar for real. I've been saying to myself that I need to go for lessons but that is yet to happen. I'm hoping to have a super good looking guitar teacher to get me started with the lessons. :)

Anyways, some of my favourite songs from Come Around Sundown are :

- The Immortals

- Pony Up & Birthday - these two songs I believe complements each other because "Birthday " sounds like a continuation of "Pony Up"

- Mi Amigo

and last but not least : Radioactive

If the only song that you ever listen from Kings of Leon is "Use Somebody" :

httpv://youtu.be/gnhXHvRoUd0

I think it's about time you should start listening to their Come Around Sundown album. I'm not technically a super big fan of Kings of Leon and no, I have no idea of their latest singles or albums if there's any. One thing I know for sure, Come Around Sundown is definitely worth the listen. A double thumbs up from me!

Happy New Year 2012, Everybody! - A Celebration of North Indian cuisines with the BBQ

Happy New Year 2012 Everybody!

I know I'm like four days late to do this shout out but it's better late than never. How was your New Year celebration? I hope it was great enough to keep you going and pumping with excitements throughout this year!

My celebration was fantastic. It was fantastic because we being a true Malaysian celebrated the coming of the new year with a simple yet delicious home cooked dinner at home. We had some tandoori chickens on the BBQ, chicken tikka masala, raita, papadoms, rice, some fried vegs, and 'siakap bakar' ( grilled Barramundi, I think that's what it's called in English) and cold Root Beers with ice creams for desserts.

So all in all, we had an outdoor dinner right on the front yard with the main theme of North Indian dishes. Of course we had to have the BBQ  for the boys to start playing with fire and that's just more than enough excuse to have the tandoori chickens too. Initially we wanted to buy some Roti Naan (Naan Breads) from the nearest Mamak shop to compliment the tandoori but thankfully we were all out of hands and if we did get some Naan breads, I think we would have an awfully stuffed tummy hours before the countdown of the new year begins.

I had a splendid pigging out session with my family during New Year's Eve and I think we badly needed that little time to have everybody finally sitting together at the same time and have a good meal to kick start the New Year.

So here goes the pictures.  Some really decent ones that I'm really willing to share with the general public. Haha.

[caption id="attachment_2614" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="A bowl full of heavily gravy-ed Chicken Tikka Masala, Papadom and some diced cucumber to make the raita"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2615" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="All in a plate - rice, chicken tikka, papadom and raita minus the fish and tandoori"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2616" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="Tandoori chicken on bbq - very Malaysian style lah!"][/caption]

 

Finally, let's have a wonderful, happy, healthy, wealthy, lots of travel and more adventures for this year 2012! Happy New Year 2012 Everybody :)

 

Quote of The Day : If You Hesitate or Doubt on Something, Don't Go For It

I'm going to make this one short and this quote should be able to help you to make a decision on what is your best next action to take when you are stuck in a crossroad.

Quote of The Day is : If You Hesitate or Doubt on Something, Don't Go For It!

When you have to make a choice and if ever you start to hesitate even on one small thing, you SHOULD SKIP it, PICK another and yeah, get on with the next best thing. Hesitate = doubt = your subconscious mind telling you, " Don't do it baby!" :)

I Got One Hand In My Pocket | Alanis Morissette

This song seems like THE perfect song tonight. Let's listen to this :

Hand In My Pocket by Alanis Morissette

http://youtu.be/LQ8D5Ihe4hg

Hand In My Pocket Lyrics:

I'm broke but I'm happy
I'm poor but I'm kind
I'm short but I'm healthy, yeah
I'm high but I'm grounded
I'm sane but I'm overwhelmed
I'm lost but I'm hopeful baby
What it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be fine fine fine
'cause I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is giving a high five
I feel drunk but I'm sober
I'm young and I'm underpaid
I'm tired but I'm working, yeah
I care but I'm restless
I'm here but I'm really gone
I'm wrong and I'm sorry baby

What it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be quite alright
'cause I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is flicking a cigarette
And what it all comes down to
Is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet
'cause I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is giving the peace sign
I'm free but I'm focused
I'm green but I'm wise
I'm hard but I'm friendly baby
I'm sad but I'm laughing
I'm brave but I'm chickenshit
I'm sick but I'm pretty baby

And what it all boils down to
Is that no one's really got it figured out just yet
'cause I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is playing the piano
And what it all comes down to my friends
Is that everything's just fine fine fine
'cause I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is hailing a taxi cab

What is the simplest yet memorable thing you can gift to anyone?

I have a simple question to ask. The question is "What is the simplest yet memorable thing you can gift to anyone? "

My humble yet simple answer for that question is this :

The simplest yet memorable thing you can ever gift to anyone is to sincerely  from the bottom of your heart, to say something really awesome and nice to a person because that is one of the best qualities that you can see deep through inside them. Also, sometimes that is exactly what they needed to know about how awesome they really are deep inside.

Always look at people for what they really are as a person deep inside their heart and don't look at people for what they appear to be or look like on the outside. Every single one of us is born beautiful and it is a matter of really seeing and looking deep into a person to figure out their special 'gift' that has always been with them.

Hence, next time around if you really want to gift something memorable to a person, look deep inside them and tell them exactly how 'beautiful' they truly really are deep inside their hearts.

 

Quote of The Day : People Can Give Up On You, But Never Ever Give Up On Yourself

Quote of The Day : “People can give up on you, but never ever give up on yourself.”

Life can be tough and hard on you when the people you admire or look up the most tend to give up hope on you. You lost hope and you feel down, upset with just about everything. This happens a lot of time in life where people can and will give up on you but never ever in any circumstances for you to decide to give up on yourself. People can fail on you but if you decided to fail or give up on yourself, you will never get anywhere.

Therefore, this is a quick tip on how you can handle situations like this so that you can always rely and give hope to yourself. In return for all  those words that people tell you that "you can't and it is impossible for you” , what you can do is to take those words, I know it is hurtful and hard to swallow as a motivation for you to keep on going. Those words which at most times are pure negativity can be YOUR FUEL for you to achieve bigger things in life and to prove them wrong.Take those words as a challenge and keep on working to make things work for you and not for them.

Hence, never give up on yourself when others seem to give up and fail on you. Be resilient and keep on going.

I have personally seen success on myself whenever people have doubted on me and even probably lost hope on me. I also have a lot of successful friends who are now high achievers because we have been given up on and time and again we have proved them wrong. If right now, you think you want to throw out the towel and give up because others are giving up hope on you, I hope you are reading this now and I want you to not give in just yet.

Dig deeper, work harder, make vital changes, make mistakes and learn, keep on hoping and going and never ever give up on YOURSELF. Let's make things work people and all the best in the things that you are working for!

 

 

Quote Of The Day : Setting Priorities In Your Relationship

I have decided to finally start with a Quote Of The Day, once a week at this blog. So yeah, let's get this started.

Quote Of The Day : Setting Priorities in Your Relationship

"If you spend too long holding on to the one who treats you like an option, you will miss finding someone who treats you like a priority." - Unknown.

I suppose this quote speaks true to its meaning when it boils down to any relationship that you are currently dealing with. It could be  a relationship between you and another person, between you and your commitment to yourself, relationship between you and your family, relationship between you and your belief or God, relationship between you and other living things in this world and pretty much any kind of relationship that we possibly could be dealing with at the present time.

In any relationship, the best way to make things work for you or for both parties is to simply prioritize on what matter the most and never ever take things as granted or taking things as an option. Therefore, for matters to work,  do set your priorities on them ( it could be in a form of executing plans, attending to issues, making important things come first and etc.) and constantly value the relationship at hand. I believe prioritizing is a way of putting a high level of commitment, trust and work on things. Set your priorities, know what are your priorities and make that relationship work!

My New Favourite Radio Station : Radio Mozart

Radio Mozart is incredibly awesome and it is presently, my  new favourite radio station to listen to.  I can't believe that I haven't listen to them a long time ago. You can listen to them via Media Player, iTunes, Facebook or go directly to their link. I feel that their music are more soothing than any pop or rock songs. You simply can't go wrong with true classical music and Mozart is definitely one of the best music to listen to.

For more of Radio Mozart , click here

or simply listen below!

I guess I am perfectly normal ...

I've realized one big thing in this blog, I don't allow myself to spill out my personal thoughts and probably once in a blue moon, I should do just that. Something that I think I'm going to do just about now. Sometimes I do feel like I'm totally focusing on solely writing about travels and the outdoors and probably I don't connect much to you readers. But then again, do I need to feel connected with you guys? Haha. Anyways, anyhow, I'm feeling perfectly happy for the past couple of days which I blame totally on hormones and nothing less. And of course, I'm blessed and thankful for all these lingering in the air 'happy hormones'. :)

Also, I guess I am perfectly normal to sometimes feel this way, the way I am insanely loving this song by Colbie Caillat called I Do. When I say I love it, I do spin the song on repeat for the gazillion times until probably for the next few days I'll just get over it and start listening to other tunes. No matter what, in between switching to songs like this to my usual trance/dance music, I will always ended up sticking by to Colbie because somehow or rather, her lyrics seems true to what I may feel during the moment. So yeah, this is me getting down and personal ya'll! :)

Colbie Caillat - I Do!

http://youtu.be/E0oyglKjbFQ

7 Things That I Secretly Really Always Wanted To Do But...

7 things that I secretly really always wanted to do BUT ... you know there is always a BUT to not doing things! Haha.

I want to get straight to the point because I'm a straight forward kind of person. I figured that people may want to know just a little bit more about me other than my crazy, insane admiration and love towards the adventure and anything with a kick of adrenaline. Therefore, just in case you are wondering what I have always secretly really wanted to do but by far have never gotten around to doing them yet, let's find out about them here in my 7 Things I Secretly Always Wanted To Do :

1. I secretly wish that I can go to Bali and learn up yoga for a couple of days from any reputable yogi. I love the fact that I can move every single muscles of my body while I'm practicing my yoga and boy, don't I feel good when I realized that with a little practice I can actually tone those muscles and feel good about my body in overall.

2. I secretly wish to go to Thailand to learn from the cooking school on how to make a really kick-ass Tom Yum Kung! Haha. I love to eat and no doubt, I love to cook as well and there is something about Thai cuisines that always tastes simply delicious.

3. I secretly would like to have my very own plant nursery selling all kinds of plants for landscaping, herbs plants and maybe even flowers. I think I have been gifted with green fingers so in some way, I believe I may have a hidden talent in gardening.

4. I secretly always dream to have a little, cozy coffee shop with freshly brewed coffee from one of those expensive coffee machine like the ones in Starbucks complete with a little hang out corner where people can sit, relax and read their favourite books or mags or simple chill with good company in my coffee shop.

5. I wanted to have a cabin home with only 2 rooms (master bedroom and my home office) and an outdoor kitchen. My cabin home will be nestled in the middle of a vast land complete with my own herbs/vegetables garden, probably some chickens for my organic, daily fresh eggs and on occasionally chicken meat. I might wanna have some goats too but who knows. Also, I want to be totally self-sufficient and independent so I'll have my own solar panels for electricity, I will compost all my waste and reuse the end product of the compost as a fertilizer for my veg garden and install a water pump from the underground to have my own water system for my home. Wouldn't it be cool to be totally self-sufficient and at the same time living a sustainable lifestyle?

Oh this one is actually a no secret because I've written about this one on my previous post about my utterly nutty fascination over container homes.

6. I would like to just invite my close friends over to my place and cook out really awesome, hearty food for them and everyone will be happy with the food and the company and if ya'll want to sleep over, you are more than welcome to do so.

7. I wanted to be a multilingual and so far I can speak (besides fluently speaking in Malay and English) a bit of Tamil, Mandarin, Hokkien, German, Dutch and French. It was just a huge mix of a little bit of this and that which isn't going to help much at all if anyone is really going to make a full-fledged conversation with me on any of those languages.

Oh now that I'm telling the world about it, they are no secrets anymore aren't they? :)

Do you have a list of secrets that you really always wanted to do and haven't done them yet? I'm pretty sure you have a list of secrets and if you don't mind do share them with me!

I'm Into Champagne Supernova Today - Nay, It's Not That Champagne!

I went on a random selection on my music playlist and I just felt like having a bit of a good time reminiscing on good old tunes from Oasis. Champagne Supernova is my choice for this evening. It never gets old no matter how many time you play the song or should I just say, Oasis simple never gets old!

I'm just into Champagne Supernova by Oasis today and it is simply awesome especially when it gets down to this part of the song - oh well the beginning of the song are these lines anyway ...

How many special people change?
How many lives are living strange?
Where were you while we were getting high?

It doesn't mean anything in particular towards me but yeah, I still think those are a bunch of good questions to ponder on sometimes. Anyways, enjoy the video - Champagne Supernova by Oasis!


http://youtu.be/-cJauX_q6wI

I'm Back and The Great Kiwi Road Trip Was Awesome Peeps!

Oh my gosh, I haven't been updating this blog for quite sometime now. Kinda losing the feel to write but no, that shouldn't be an excuse. I am going to write a whole load of exciting posts in here back again. Also, I should take the time to reply on those comments I've been getting on certain posts and also on those emails I'd received while I was on an awesome 24 days Great Kiwi Road Trip last month.

Just doing a shout out post here telling you people that I AM DEFINITELY BACK and I can't wait to churn out some really awesome posts for you lovelies.

Until more posts to come, do check out this space soon. :)

My Favourite Quote For Today - " To Love Unconditionally"

I live by with great quotes almost everyday because they set a deep, meaningful and strong definitions of life in general. They are also my constant, everyday motivational boost in order for me to work and make the most of each day. As for today, my favourite quote will be this - " To Love Unconditionally".

To Love Unconditionally is about understanding that you are connected to every person, plant and animal on this planet and we are to treat them all with unconditional love, kindness and respect.

Think about this quote for a minute and make an effort "To Love Unconditionally" because we all simply deserve it.

Fun things you should do during lights out or what we call it as Earth Hour!

A couple of  fun things you should do during lights out or what we seemed to be calling it as Earth Hour these days where it is a day, celebrated world wide, where you are suppose to turn off the lights and other unnecessary electrical appliances for a good one hour. If you are looking to have fun during this precious Earth hour, here are the fun things that you can do :

1. If you are with friends and family, pick up a guitar and play tunes you like and sing aloud with the group. If you have a piano, you guys can literally start a jamming session and it will be more fun if someone can bring along the drum sets, bass guitars, etc.

2. When I was a kid and that was back in the early 90's, there were many occasions of a total blackout for hours in Malaysia. Yes, lights out was a norm back then. So we kids always entertain ourselves under the 'dark hours' playing those shadow games, trying to make birds or any objects with our hands and started a role play. If you are an adult, it is still fun to play these hand shadow games because you can play around with some kinky 18SX shadow games with your partner and friends. Haha. Excellent idea right?

3. Make love. No need for further explanation on this one. :)

4. Get out of the house and start star gazing and look up at the sky. Check out if you can spot a plane, bats, the different signs of the dotted stars you can make out, provided there is a clear sky and no overcast.

5. I don't know lighting up lanterns and candles are a good idea because you are still burning little fumes out of those right? And we are talking about Earth Hour and aren't you suppose to pollute less of the Earth during this time? Hmm.. So instead, why don't you  try doing something crazy like have dinner in the dark. No candles, zero light. Pure darkness and see if you can really experience and savour those good tasting dish you have whipped up. It's about really tasting your food by the bite and enjoy them to bits.

6. You can start a pillow fight and play chase or truth or dare games. Aha, the truth or dare game sounds really interesting and fun. You never know what you are going to end up doing in the dark. :)

That's pretty much it on a couple of  fun things you can and should do during lights out - Earth Hour. If you are planning to celebrate Earth Hour like the rest of other people ( I know I'm not right now ...haha , it's 20 minutes in the Earth Hour in Malaysian now), what and how will you be doing  or celebrating during that 1 hour of darkness?

What actually makes me happy?

Out of the blue, I have this question popping out from my head. What actually makes me happy? I don't have to really think hard for this question because I am always happy and thankful for just about everything. Just in case you are curious to what makes me happy, let's check out the list below shall we. Hehe.

These list of things actually makes me happy, like really easily happy :

1. Being able to wake up in the morning and be thankful that I made it for yet another day in this life.

2. Breathing really fresh morning air and listening to little birds chirping noisily as they get ready for another day of living.

3. Random strangers giving me a big smile as I catch their eyes.

4. That little 'Thank you' and a smile.

5. The smell of the soil, plants, the greenery and the ocean.

6. Little babies and kids. They just know how to have fun everyday.

7. Listening to really good, happy, upbeat musics.

8. When random people come up and say really awesome things about you and they really mean it. I will be in awe and greatful.

9. When I unconsciously inspire others and being able to share the positivity around with random people.

10. I just need to force an ear to ear smile just to make myself feel better and most importantly happy.

So there you go, my little list of things that never fail to make me happy. It is a wonder that the little things that we always take for granted are the ones that can change the world for you. If today you are in deep sorrow and you are looking for just a bit of happiness, don't go searching far for it. Happiness comes easily  if you take the time now and learn to look  and appreciate at the little things in life. Alrighty, a big SMILE to everyone and Stay happy ya'll!

 

 

Why Do I Need to Stay Fit & Healthy now?

Funny that at this age we are now at, we needed to be reminded to stay fit and healthy. Choosing to stay fit and healthy have become more of a choice rather than a necessity to keep life going. Probably we are too caught up with the daily work grind that makes us  neglect and also allow our health to take the backseat which in my opinion is a recipe for a health disaster for your life.

You may want to sit back and ask yourself now, why do I need to stay fit and healthy? I am asking this question to myself too and here are my 5 reasons to why I need to stay fit and healthy now and I mean it right now, today :

1. I realize that I'm getting older everyday, although it doesn't really shows out on the surface. Haha. The many hidden strands of graying hair are my constant reminder that I can't turn back the clock and stay young forever. I don't know how far of a health risk that (graying hair) shall impose to me. However, I just hope it is more of a hereditary thing. The realization that I ain't going to get any younger by the seconds is more than enough reason for me to continue taking care after my overall fitness and health. I want to be able to be healthy to do so many other things life have in store for me.

2. At * cough, 27 going 28 later this year (gosh, am I really that old?) and of course I'm still seeing myself in the future as married with a kid or two and only God knows when that is coming yeah, so it is absolutely vital for me to stay super healthy, eating good healthy food, exercising constantly in the sole hope that I can lower down my biological age to the range of mid 20's as I go through my close to 30 technical age. The whole point here, I just want to be able to have kids at a later age (30ish) provided that my biological age at that time says I'm still in my 20ish. Hahaha.

3. I need to stay fit and healthy always and forever because I want to be able to travel the world and explore life as I grow older. I want to be able to travel constantly because guess what, we are born as explorers. So let's explore to discover, so that you'll learn and grow.

4. Okay, I have to admit this... I have always been a health freak! Haha. I grew up playing too much sports and I just can't help it but learning about keeping up with the healthy diet regime and exercising routine because that is how we should lead an ideal, balance lifestyle.

5. By staying fit and healthy, I am a happier, positive, cheerful and a successful person. I want to be able to bring out all the good, healthy energy from me and vibrate the good vibes to other people because that will hopefully make life a better place to live in. It is wonderful on how powerful our human body is. Learning to stay healthy and fit makes you want discover more of what potentials your body have and what it can really do and all that can be achieved easily by fixing the basis and in my case, to stay fit and healthy.

So there you go, the 5 ultimate reasons to why I need to stay fit and healthy now.

Do you think you need to stay fit and healthy as well? What do you think?