The end of this chapter

•Tuesday, September 8, 2009 • 1 Comment

After being active for 2 years and 9 months since its inception in December 2006, theseepicpagesofmylife.wordpress.com will cease operation on the 8th September of 2009, and this will be its last entry.

Thinking back on how this blog started really brought back lots of memories, both sweet and bitter. Well, mostly bitter.

As all of you, readers of this blog, know, the author was an emo-bomb, depressed ranter of life where he had a hate for many things. Some, without being too close a friend to him, knows him well enough on his personality, behavior, blogging style or even his choice of words, just by reading his entries.

Through all these years, the author has always sought refuge in this blog for emotional relief. His life, he thought, was the worst life to live through because he had a rough start. He thought, that because the road to take at many junctures of his life was chosen by others and not by himself, has led him to a state of self-worthlessness, a life filled with self-ignorance and hatred of a journey to perdition.

Deep, don’t you, his respected readers, think so?

The author thinks so too.

But the author is glad to tell each and everyone of his readers that ‘that, was all but the past’.

The year 2009 has marked a fabulous start for the author, and he is happy and well to live every moment of his life because of all the positive changes that’s turning his life to anew. Although up and down his life goes, he was no longer the depressed writer everybody knew, and that’s evident enough in his recent entries, dating back to January 2009.  He doesn’t know why, or even how this had happened, but he views it as a miracle – the biggest yet most significant turning point in his life.

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To all my readers, thank you, you, you and YOU! First, for spending time to read my nonsensical, blatant entries from time to time and secondly, for putting up with my emotional fumes.

If at any time in the past I have offended you with my entries and comments, I sincerely apologize. Do know that I have not a single intention to tick you off whatsoever.

Well, this is it.

This is the end of this chapter…

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And of course a start to a new one!

Visit my new blog at http://redefining-boundaries.blogspot.com where you can follow my writeups on health, fitness and nutrition mainly but do take note that I’m still a newbie in this aspect. Unlike theseepicpagesofmylife, this blog is made known to the public. I hope you’ll enjoy my new blog! 😉

Posted in The End

Weight loss misconceptions

•Sunday, August 30, 2009 • Leave a Comment

I just read an article by DailyMuscle of dailymuscle.com regarding weight loss and it seems that the issue is a popular misconception. In the link below, you will find that:

1.) Weight loss products are NOT your meal replacement supplements.  They are a scam and they are costly. Well, mostly, anyway.

2.) Dieting will give you the yo-yo effect when it ends.

3.) Starving yourself will not cut it if you want to lose weight. Eating right and exercising right, will.

4.) If you do not have any fat reserves to be burnt, the next thing your body burns are your muscles and then you’ll start to lose muscle mass and then more so in weight. (not a good way to lose weight)

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http://www.dailymuscle.com/2009/03/10/exercising-vs-quick-fixes-where-do-we-draw-the-line/#comments

Don’t forget to read the comments as well. Hope you’ll find it useful.

😉

Posted in Fitness and health

An episode of stress

•Tuesday, August 11, 2009 • Leave a Comment

And a 14-week long one at that. This week is only the 11th, and I’ve been oppressed since week 1.

The work load this semester has the weight of the world. With 5 subjects and an FYP, I’ve been bombarded with tasks WEEKLY AND ALMOST DAILY and this will last till the end of the study period. I feel like I’m living a no-life that only has a void for stress! Oh by the way, my course is an Honours Degree…a 3 year one at that.

I’ve forgotten how many late nighters I’ve pulled off & how many sleepless nights I went through. Just recently, I’ve foregone my sleep during the weekends for a research-based assignment which I believe is of Masters level. Each student is required to work out 5k of words, eg. 2 students = 10k words; minimum, if done individually = 7.5k words, and it involves using mathematical/logical/statistical methods to tabulate our findings in a qualitative approach AND THEN compare and contrast the latter findings (after applying maths formula) with the results of the Standish Report!

First off, we do not have much time to research on this god-forsaken research paper. Secondly, we have and will only learn ONE friggin’  maths subject which we had taken during our year 1 semester 1 of study which was like 2 years ago? And our understanding regarding maths is so damned limited and shallow that we know nuts about formulas despite researching about them SO HOW THE HELL DO YOU EXPECT US TO DO A DECENT RESEARCH PAPER, LET ALONE AN AVERAGE ONE!!??!

These days I’ve been asking myself just WHEN IS IT GOING TO END!

I’ve gone insane and I’m losing it.

Posted in Rant.rant.rant.likewtf

This life

•Saturday, July 4, 2009 • 3 Comments

In the past, I had a rigid mindset that potrays how much of a failure I am and that I can never do anything right. The feeling of out-of-reach has given my life an all-time low confidence and I was so attached to all forms of negativity because they felt so wanting. My life back then felt like a long, stagnant road to perdition. The weight of my words were heavy and they implied much.

I guess the failure to understand things with rationale had a huge setback in my life. Alot of things were understood through feelings, which when I think of it now makes me think of how much stupidity I once possessed. My failure to understand things was prominently due the the fact that I didn’t want to try out things to experience it myself. Through word of mouth, I’d set a bias mindset and swear to never attempt to do or try something. As such, plenty of effort went to waste, plenty of chances flew by and plenty of actions not taken.

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I do understand now that…

In this life, everyone is equal. When there’s life, an equilibrium exists for all. Everyone win some & lose some. There is no ultimate winner, nor will there be an absolute loser. But like the genetic code embeded in each and everyone of us earthlings, we are unique. We are so unique that we have our own quirks and personalities that no two person can be the same in this world. We are so unique that our personalities cannot be easily changed due to the surrounding factors in our lives. Nonetheless, our attitude and behaviour can be changed if we want to. And that much is indeed true.

In this life, the most important thing is how we live our lives, be our very ownselves and not anyone else, regardless of what should and shouldn’t be, regardless of what has happened in the past, how you grew up to be the person you are today and how much complaints you make in a lifetime. Everything in life is just too damned ironic to complain about because life is a paradox itself.

In this life, I now believe that like everyone else, I, too can evolve. Well, I know I have and I will continue to. If I give my best in something that I’m best at, there’s bound to be an outcome and I’ll get what I want. It can’t go wrong.

In this life, I’ve witnessed fulfillment when one achieves and shares success with others rather than achieving it alone.

In this life..

Well, all I can say is that I’m happy to be in this life 🙂

Posted in Lessons Learnt in Life, Undefeated

Toilet business gone wrong

•Tuesday, June 23, 2009 • 1 Comment

Regardless of sex, I believe we’ve all seen how people go about doing their toilet business. Well, not during the process but witnessing the aftermath/post-apocolypto scenes in a cubicle. And there you were thinking “these guys/girls just don’t know where the toilet bowl is.” The civilisation of mankind is very much questionable, isn’t it?

Today, I just witnessed the most bizarre thing I’ve ever come across in my entire life of toilet visits. Upon entry to the Gents, I almost stepped on feces, smeared across the toilet floor, leaving a broken trail-like effect.

All I can say is…

He doesn’t know where the cubicle is.

Posted in Random

Malaysian Police?

•Tuesday, May 19, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Just read the news article entitled “Welcome to ‘sex orgy’ island” from thestar.com.my. Apparently, a pair of couple had organised a ‘wild night party’ of drugs, booze and sex in Pulau Perhentian themed ‘Come bare under the moonlight’ (lolol XD) and the party was raided by police.

This, is what wonderwoman1 from thestar’s Citizen Blog section has to say about the incident.

And just how true is that? X’D

Posted in Random

Angels and Demons

•Sunday, May 17, 2009 • Leave a Comment

After 4 months of industrial training and an additional 8 days of data entry work consecutively just right after the end of my internship, I’ve finally found my love and I’m Finally Free!

Okay, so I have not been blogging as actively as before. Okay, so recently my posts are short crappy entries.

Oh wells. I’m looking forward to blogging again. Got tons to blog about even as far back from March. Scenes from March…

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Let’s head back to the main topic…ANGELS AND FUCKING DEMONS!

Before I start…

***SPOILERS AHEAD. DO NOT PROCEED IF YOU’VE NOT WATCHED THE MOVIE. DO NOT PROCEED EVEN IF YOU’VE READ THE BOOK BUT HAVE NOT WATCHED THE MOVIE. (but come back again to read this entry after you’ve watched the movie la. Kthxbai)***

(***UPDATE:*** After looking up the summary in Wikipedia, I just found out there were some deviations between the movie and the book. Nevertheless, the content of this entry will be BASED ON MY FIRST IMPRESSION about the film. The bottom-line is that if you’ve not read the book, you’d have good things to say about A&D. If you’ve read the book but have forgotten a big part of it, only to recall the scenes one by one as you watch the movie, then you’d probably be a liiiittle disspointed but still praise the movie just like me. If you’ve read the book the day before you watch the film, then you might be seriously dissapointed.)

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A&D is without a doubt one of the best movies I’ve watched in the first half of this year.

Before I give credit to the movie producers, the genius behind A&D, Dan Brown, should be creditted for his brilliant piece of work. Throughout the first half of the movie, I had goosebumps everytime a scene played. Because the scenes played out on the screen, though not all, are exactly how I pictured them to be when I read the book. From the scenes of conclave within the Sistine Chapel, to the killings of the Cardinal preferittis, to Carmelengo shouted ‘Illuninatus!’ at the Swiss Guard captain after he branded himself with a symbol of a pair of keys, to the scene where Carmelengo played hero in saving Vatican from the brink of destruction and lastly, not forgetting the impression Robert Langdon had when he saw a Papal Swiss Guard in his uniform lololol. Good imagination? Maybe. But if it wasn’t for Dan Brown’s vivid explanations, those scenes wouldn’t have played out so well in my mind. Kudos to the genius!

I personally feel that the movie progressed a little too fast especially when Robert Langdon unsolved a mystery and then moved too quickly to his next clue. There were some missing scenes too like how Robert should’ve took a tour around CERN and how investigations were supposed to take place in Leonardo Vetra’s private quarter in CERN.  But well, it is understandable that the producers of the film has budget and time contraints. Despite of that, the main events in A&D were well played out in the film and it certainly did not dissapoint…except for one.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but in book the Carmelengo did not kill the late Pope solely because the Pope approved of the anti-matter technology and that he was also a believer in science, but also due to the fact that the Carmelengo knew that the late Pope fathered a child, which was the Carmenlengo which he claimed it was a sin. What he didn’t know was that he was actually given life through in-vitro fertilization and there was no bodily contact between the late Pope and his lover. And after knowing the truth, he immolated himself in front of the public and not within the confines of the Sistine Chapel.

That, was one big missing chunk of the story. I can’t say that I wasn’t dissapointed.

To rate the film, I’d have given it a full 10/10.

But due to the absence of the truth about the Carmelengo and the late Pope in the movie’s plot, I’d give it a 9/10.

And because Vittoria did not bed Robert (remember ‘Have you ever slept with a yoga instructor?’) at the end of the movie like how it was written in the book, I’ll give it an 8/10.

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ps. If I were to restructure this entry based on my second impression, I’d only give it a mere 5/10, sadly.

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