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When everything seems crawling around you, what you deem need is a break. Break from this normal routine. Doing something that will bring you up, motivating and thought-provoking. How i wish to be a child for the weekend, so that i can do some foolish things. Playing with figurines instead of staring at the unemotional computer screen. Building a sand castle which at the end, i’ll be the one who gonna destroyed it too. Walking in the rain with a certainty that i’ll be caught with flu.

Oh, how i miss my childhood time. Meantime, it’s close to 3.30pm. Time to pack my stuff & head back to the ‘thunderous-silent’ mansion.

Days earlier, when i was in gym, i was slapped with a disturbed reality. Never that i’ve ever imagined that the weight scale will tip to its century mark (almost), with me on top of it. I watched the scale’s window it while the digit speed up to the left with a horrendous feeling. Gosh, this is what  happened when taking ‘pleasure’ to the extreme. The attitude of ‘see-food-and-eat-it-all’ had overwhelmed me, yet again.

So i decided to do something on me. I have to shed this excesses fast, safe & simple. Poking on my gray-matter that night i resolved to embrace into new type of exercise which i hardly did before. I embraced to WALK!

When the sun rises on the very next morning, once i’m done with my solat, i geared myself up with my 3/4 track suit,  NB shoe, a bottle of drinking water, Timex HRM watch and not forgetten my trusted-cool-reliable IPOD. When i head out from the front door,  i can suddenly felt the heat surge wanting to tear my skin apart. It’s hot! Exorbitantly hot. The temperature is ranging 34-37C, with humidity level at 9-12%. And it just half past 5 in the morning. While thinking about the repercussion of not having a good health condition, i braved myself getting out, start doing what i planned earlier.
Its my bad when the first 10 minutes, i’ve tore away my plan. Instead of walking, i opt for jogging. The feeling is great, endorphine kicking up almost instantly. The wind blows slowly, penetrating my skin & i can fell almost immediately that my skin’s moisture vaporized to the thin air. While gasping myself for a sufficient supply of air, at that time too, my throat turns dry as dry as the sand dune up north of this city. My heartbeat running at 173 BPM. Its not a good sign. So i grabbed my drink, sip it a little bit to cool myself off. On the 11 minutes, my fibularis longus giving up on me. So i had to walk. This is the earlier plan anway. So i walk for the next 25 minutes till i reach home. 35 minutes of jogging & walking, covered not more than 3.5km. Nothing beat that for time being. Then i head to the office, with adrenaline up-surge and feeling fresh.

That afternoon, my friends & i head to Malaz Restaurant, just next to the Al-Faisaliah Tower to….pigging out. The food is cheap. We had plenty of North Indian food. To our amazement, they had ‘Teh Tarik’ too and renamed it to ‘pull tea’. Hah, whatever. I don’t fancy it anyway.

Another ‘sin’ committed. The mutton masala taking a toll on me. I fell like i’m in the hot oven.

Time to start walking again…

to be continue….

I really can’t understand the craze on sudoku. I saw it everyday in most of the newpaper column back home. What i can see it as a lame-block with some numbers wait to be fill-up in order to complete the challenge. Nothing fancy. A 9×9 block and set of numbers. That’s it.

Well, things changed.

When i first visit an old friend of mine blog, i saw one link on his homepage point to sudoku site. And i’m starting to thinking, “there goes another person infected by sudoku virus”. Thinking back, there must be a reason about the frenzy. Knowing this chap since secondary school, he is not so easy influent him. So i decided to give a try….on online sudoku. Well, simply put. I’m infected too!

It hard to put it down when you are in the midst of solving the puzzle. It look simple, but u need an ‘eagle’ to see things in different way. Fixing, amending the location of each number makes it much more fun. I’m really hook up to the challenge. No joke. The way it was presented make my grey-matter kicked up to a full-gear.

To date, i managed to solve 2 sudokus. Don’t blame me. Go and lodge a complaint to the ISP of this country. They are the culprit. I can’t play in the office. Don’t ask why.

With this newfounded craze, beside hooking myself up to all the books i have, sudoku will be my ultimate time-killer.

If and only if i can find an online version of it. Thanks but no thanks. I just not into the offline/on-paper sudoku. This version just kill my interest.

The second ever puzzle that i have solved! Haha.

Now, go get ur dose on sudoku here

Again, the time has arrived again. I’ll be leaving to Riyadh at 0200 tonight on Emirates. This will be a hell of a journey. Tonite i’ll be heading to Dubai on a Boeing 777. The flight will be expected to land at 0445 localtime. Then, the interesting part begin. I have to wait 14 hours, yes, 14 hours before departing to Riyadh. What the hell i’m gonna do during that period. Well, i bought plenty of books to kill my time. 14 hours to spare, utilizing around 4 hours of that for reading is a good choice.

On 19 July, at around 1905 localtime, i’ll arrived in Riyadh. Time for my counterpart to do me a favour. This time, let him do the picking up task.

Starts July 19, at 1906 (GMT +3), my longest period of 2 months will begin. And my junior will be 2 months older without his/her dad around…:|

This is how i departed with my hard-earn money couple of hours ago:

1) Icon – Steve Jobs… – RM 47.80 (20% disc)
2) Ideaspotting -  RM 57.73 (25% disc)

3) Freakonomics – RM 32.95

4) Confession of An Economic Hitman – RM 45.50 (20% disc)

5) Assassination of Robert Maxwell – RM 52.90

6) Kingdom in Crisis – RM 55.22

7) Einstein Never Used Flash Card – RM 56.08

Emergenetics – RM 63.98 (20% disc)

9) Advanced Images (magazine) – RM 8.00

10) Hypertune – RM 9.90

* price is before discount

The Damage???

RM 384.17 !!!!

This is the price i need to pay in preparing myself to live in a country where book selection is limited and the price is outrageously expensive. Did i mention that life is totally different over there?
Did u mention about going diving? The cost is for 2 days 1 night trip with 3 dives cost me RM1700. That doesn’t count with the flight ticket & such.

I would rather dive in the swimming pool then, hahaha

-kimi-