It ain't that difficult right?

Now firstly, diet is extremely important. Meaning to say no fast food, no processed food, no high carbo intake, no deep fried etc.

Strictly speaking, hams and luncheon meat are a no no cos they are processed food! And for your info fast food is as deadly or worse than smoking. Why? Cos of the reactions of the carbo when they are being deep fried. Well i don't exactly know the term but it can be cancerous, yes! (Eat more cucumbers or tomatoes or cranberries since they are anti-carcinogenic, which means lower chances of getting cancer)

And you cannot do without absolutely ZERO carbo too. It will result in some negative outcome for your body which again i am not sure of the term but just follow will do.

So what do i recommend if you wan to slim down and have a flat tummy? Easy, at least for my case.

First thing in the morning you SHOULD NOT skip breakfast! Eat some fruits that are not too acidic, for example, kiwi, grapes, apples etc before food. Then take a serving of oatmeal with raisins. When i say oatmeal i meant those rolled oatmeal that has got no taste at all. So you can choose to add some raisins or honey. Half boil egg as well. So some may say will it raise your cholesterol level? No. I eat it everyday and i am still alive and kicking and typing this out to you guys. Only deep fried eye will increase your cholesterol level!

Lunch probably you can eat almost anything but depends on your activity later in the day. If you don't plan to exercise then just take a normal meal. Do note that an average plate of economy rice with 2 veg and 1 meat will be about 700 KCal. Average male has a metabolism rate of 1500-1800 KCal per day and female bout 900 - 1100 KCal. So what is metabolism rate? It means the ability of your body to burn off those amount of calories even if you are sitting down on the chair 24hrs a day.

So what defines your metabolism rate? Well to put in bluntly, the more muscle mass you have the higher the metabolism rate. Meaning to say body builder will have a higher metabolism rate of say 1800-2000 KCal as compared to an obese male who probably will have a 1200-1300 KCal. So how to increase your metabolism rate? By exercising, doing static exercise like push up, sit up or head down to the gym and build up your core muscle. Higher the metabolism rate, lesser the chance of you getting overweight!

As for dinner, do not over eat. Fruits will be good but not eating fruits late in the night!

If you do want to lose weight, easy. Instead of running on a flat ground, try running slope. Instead of just purely running 4km or 5km, try running 10 sets of 400m or 10 sets or 500m or 4 sets of 1km. Its pretty much up to you. But when dealing with sets, you must run at a faster pace, say 1min 30s for 400m depending on your fitness level. And resting the amount of time u take to run and repeat the set again. This will in turn burn more fats and will still continue to burn after you stop exercising.

For me, i keep to strictly 3 meals a day, lower my carbo intake and running just 2.4km in the morning and at night and within 1 week i lose 3.5kg! Even though i am already skinny. By the way i'm only 61kg, 1.73m.

Its definitely not comprehensive enough but should you have any question do leave a comment =)

PS: Ada altho i dunno you but if you are reading this, stop eating deep fried food and more fruits should kick in. You should also have a healthy diet (doesnt mean skipping meal), healthy regime and enough rest. Bear in mind cancerous cells are already in our body just like a time bomb waiting to be activated. Hope it will help you a great deal =)

First and foremost i'm gonna share with you (if ever there exist a YOU reading this pls reply ya?) this story of mine.

For people who have doubts in yourself in whatever things that you feel like attempting or thought of attempting or when you are attempting, please get rid of that thought immediately. Why?

Here it goes....(pls just read it continously and don't pause for the first time, you'll know why)

I graduated with a PSLE score of 191 and some might see that PSLE score doesnt really reflect much about our intelligence or should i say ability to understand and comprehend. In fact when we are at a tender age of 3-4 years old (if my memory did not fail me), our brain are already starting to form and creating space for learning and understanding. In fact there are more neurons, which process and transmit information, in an infant's brain than adult's brain. But why is it that others can do better than the rest, which in this case let's just talk bout studies.

Initially i also do not understand why. Why do others score straight As and not me, despite the fact i studied so hard? For the sake of this argument, i draw conclusions from arguing with myself. Probably they eat super food like OMEGA 3 & 6 which contains brain food like DHA and EPA, or they know they art of studying, like mind mapping or speed reading, which seems so distant from me. And i came to realise that no one is stupid actually. I mean there are people who are born with lower IQ but still if they can draw or they have certain talent like pottery or singing, you cant say that they are stupid right unless you really strictly define stupidity as being able to score more As and perhaps to the extent of attaining a PhD?

Genius is someone who has done his homework. When i was in army, it dawn upon me that uni is my last stretch. Make or break. How to make sure i do well? How? I strongly believe that if i want it i can. I began searching for tools to help me improve my abilities in studying and understanding. The concept or theory or logic applies to almost everywhere. For example running, which i will share more in my next entry.

Thus i went to borders, library and look up on books on how to score in exams, besides cheating. I later found out that mindmap and speed reading, if apply appropriately correctly, yields impressive results. I shall not dwell too much into the contents of mindmap and speed reading. But these tools are readily available to us but are we using them? I even go to the extend of reading up on nutrition for the brain! Yes and from the first day of school my breakfast has never change. Cereal and oatmeal with raisins, half boil egg, wholemeal bread and fruits.

No doubt all those are minor little things that might help but still it boils down to consistency as well. That is why last min dun usually work. You must also understand how your brain functions. As a general rule of thumb, your brain filters automatically when you input something. So how much can be retain in your brain is dependent on how much you have train your brain for memory retention. For example, you have been reading up to this point but how much do you remember if you read it once and continously and never browse back or pause?

Do you still remember what is my PSLE score? Or how do i define genius? Or what is the food i had for breakfast? This goes to show how much your brain filter and retain in the brain.

So what am i driving at? Just purely reading will not help much. You need the aid of colours, pictures, or even animation to enchance your memory. And by reading it once, it probably stay in your memory for 30mins, twice and you got it inside for couple of hours. But if you keep doing the same thing over and over again, the short term memory will become long term and thus it will be in your sub conscious mind such that you do not need to strain your brain and the info will just come to you. Just like how u tie your shoe lace, how you brush your teeth etc. Get my point?

Also it depends on your belief and desire. Before i continue, i would like to ask you a question. If you are given 10 points, how would you separate it between Goals and Methods. Meaning to say it can be 10 - 0, 5 - 5, 8 -2 etc.

Well let me share with you. In fact, it should be 10 for goals and 0 for method. Why? For example, from your house you wanna go to orchard, you can either take a cab, train or bus or run or walk as long as you get to orchard, which is your goal. What i'm trying to say is that if you do not have a strong and clear desire on your goals, no matter what kind of method there is, you are bound to fail. Let me draw another analogy to you. If today you are studying but half heartedly, even though you have a Harvard Professor, or a MIT professor to guide you individually who can explain things in lay man terms to you, do you think you will do well? Do not forget if you are studying with a half hearted mentality.

There can be 101 methods available for you to help you get to where you want but ultimately if your goals are not clear and concise enough, no matter what methods that are readily available, you will not succeed. Get it?

So if a PSLE score of 191 and O level score of 13-15 can manage to score a Second Upper, you can do it too. (Please i not trying to brag about my 2nd upper. Its really no big deal serious. I am just purely sharing. There are tons of 1st class student out there)

Hope it helps. Please if ever anyone is reading, your comment is deeply appreciated =)

I'm too tired. Oh by the way, late night sleep affects your cognitive process or rather speed up process of aging in whatever place that can age, which in fact is all parts of our body!

Ok prob no one is reading my left-for-so-long-and-collecting-dust blog. But nonetheless i shall liven it up! Its quite impromtu actually.

After Tribob Tri, seriously speaking i haven been riding so there goes my cycling. And my bike rim is horrendously dented by jeremy who met with an accident in his first ride. Surprisingly my first accident came only 4 years after i first ride! Impressive isnt it?

So what have i been doing? Let's see.....

Training for Vertical Marathon. Well well i came in 8th for Swissotel Vertical Marathon. 73 Storeys. 9mins 47 secs. Good or bad? I really dunno. I was expecting to get top 3 but as i reach the 60th storey i know its fat hope. Then when i look back, ha, i did train but not enough definitely! And its 1 day before my materials exam!!! Which i got a B+ for it. Ha. LUCKY!

Studying. Not too bad! The thing is I scored pretty well for my tests but but but screwed it all up in exams except for 2 papers la. Altho luckily and fortunately i did manage to hit a 2nd Upper, but but but i know i can do better. Just need that little little bit more of effort and less that little little bit of carelessness!

That was last sem but now, guess what? Guess please guess......i got a hell 8 modules!!! Actually i wouldnt mind if its all maths and mechanics or physics related modules but pls for goodness sake not Electrical Circuit or some drawing shit.

But no matter how tough there's still people who do well. So if they can there's no reason why i cant? =) Yay!

In fact its a matter or how much you want it, how badly you want it and set your sights on it.

Ok i'm beginning to love fluid mechanics, Laplace Transform, And of course physics!

Let me briefly tell you my schedule. My classes start around 0930 and end around 1730 or 1830 the latest. By the time i reach home which takes me 1 hour, i will train for my vertical marathon which is coming up real soon in 3 weeks time!!! Eat, bathe, try to revise abit and try to really fall in deep sleep, which seems so difficult for me recently!

Kinda mundane huh.