Hub's birthday went by without a glitch. ;p~
We went to watch MI3 by utilising the free movie tix given by my company for my b'day. It's a good movie but I don't understand the twist.. *scratch head* Bleah~~
But it doesn't matter coz I loike Tom Cruise~~. He's 40 and yet he still look so good. Hehehe.
And he kinda remind me of someone I know in Starhub.
Let's move on to other things..
My current weight is now 55kg. I can now do 2 sets of 50 push-ups and 2 sets of 20 crunches.. (now I know why it's called 'crunches', because your face crunched up in a funny way as you try to endure this torturous form of exercise..).
As for my arms, hub recommended me to continue me bench-pressing 5kg till I can feel the pain on both of my arms. I still remember the day I said 'Huh? So little?' when he placed 2.5kg on each side of the bar. He laughed and said that he wanted me to tone my muscles instead of making me bulky. And then when I was on the 2nd set, ah kau~~ I felt as if my arms have turned to jelly. It was as if the 5kg suddenly became 50kg! There was a time that I cried out in pain and nearly dropped the weight onto my OWN FACE! Yikes!!
Lucky hub was there to rescue me..
Tu lah, anggek sangat kan? Padan muka aku.. Hehehe.. ;p~
Oh yeah~~ I defeated Azlan in a short race from the lift to our house, which is a good 50m distance and he lost.. Hahaha.. I am surprised at the short spurt of energy that I have and I didn't even lie on the floor gasping for air when I reached the door.
MIL didn't know of course.. I am sure she will 'geleng her kepala' seeing how her DIL is behaving like a kid. LoL!
Ok.. One more thing to update here..
We went to Kampung Chai Chee Restaurant last Saturday. Busu treated all of us for dinner since she sold her old house and will be moving to a new one in Sembawang. All of hub's relatives were there. Service was good. They even gave away a few stalks of fresh flowers to the mothers in our group since it was a day before Mother's Day. I personally recommend you guys to buy the Black Pepper Crab. Syiook babe~ Bila tengah makan, telinga goyang2.. Tak ingat dunia when you eat it.. Hehe..
I received funny looks when I gave the Shark Fin Soup a pass. They thought that I don't like to eat fish. Hah! WRONG!
Here's a random fact about me --> I don't eat Shark Fin Soup~
I don't eat it because I've seen how many sharks have died unnecessarily & cruelly to provide us with that dish. As far as I am concerned, the bowl that contains that dish looks like it's filled with blood. Anyway, it's bloody unhealthy to eat it. It's laced with mercury, which do not have any benefit to one's health at all!!! Well... other than making men sterile. So guys, if you are planning not to have anymore kids, go on and indulge yourself in this dish. Muahahahaha..
Here's a few links regarding the mercury level in case you all don't believe me.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/31/world/main517011.shtml
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/archive/2003/01/20/urbananimal.DTL
http://www.jamiebaldwin.co.uk/bbc%20nature/BBC%20-%20Nature%20News%20-%20Shark%20fin%20mercury%20claims%20damage%20restaura.htm
I particularly like the way this Malaysian author wrote this article.. http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2006/1/29/lifefocus/13243353&sec=lifefocus
Here's a few excerpt from that same article which I find to be quote-worthy:
'To make the soup, the fins are cooked for hours until the cartilage separates into needles. Shark fin soup is basically boiled cartilage! The fins have little real nutritional value. They may have texture, but don’t offer much taste. It’s the broth – made of pork, chicken and mushrooms or whatever – that gives taste.
So the fins cost a bomb, have no taste and offer no health benefits. Plus, there’s a terrible ecological toll – we are eating sharks to extinction!'
So the fins cost a bomb, have no taste and offer no health benefits. Plus, there’s a terrible ecological toll – we are eating sharks to extinction!'
'The claims that shark fin soup is an energy tonic or increases potency have no scientific basis.
In fact, the reverse may be true. Long-term shark fin consumption could even cause sterility in men because of mercury contamination.
Mercury, used industrially for making plastics and batteries, pollutes many rivers and seas. Many species of fish are affected but mercury content is much higher in sharks. At the top of the food chain, sharks ingest all toxic material consumed by smaller fish. A Thai government survey found seven of 10 shark fin samples to be contaminated.
For this reason, the United States Environmental Protection Agency has advised pregnant women not to eat shark meat. Britain’s Food Standards Authority has also warned against serving it to children.
Mercury, by the way, is known to affect the nervous system. It was once used in the process of making hats, but drove hat makers mad – thus, the phrase “mad as a hatter”.'
In fact, the reverse may be true. Long-term shark fin consumption could even cause sterility in men because of mercury contamination.
Mercury, used industrially for making plastics and batteries, pollutes many rivers and seas. Many species of fish are affected but mercury content is much higher in sharks. At the top of the food chain, sharks ingest all toxic material consumed by smaller fish. A Thai government survey found seven of 10 shark fin samples to be contaminated.
For this reason, the United States Environmental Protection Agency has advised pregnant women not to eat shark meat. Britain’s Food Standards Authority has also warned against serving it to children.
Mercury, by the way, is known to affect the nervous system. It was once used in the process of making hats, but drove hat makers mad – thus, the phrase “mad as a hatter”.'
'But the real tragedy in shark fin soup is the way in which the fins are procured. Typically, fishermen cut the fins off and throw the sharks back into the water, because the meat has little value. As sharks need fins to swim and must move to get oxygen, the mutilated sharks then bleed to death or drown. Divers have discovered huge shark graveyards.'
'Every year, some 100 million sharks are killed, says conservation group Wild Aid. Hong Kong alone imported the fins of 28 million sharks in 1999.'
'Unlike many other fish, sharks reproduce slowly. They take years to reach sexual maturity – 30 years for the sand bank shark. Some sharks only produce two young in a breeding cycle. Depleted shark populations take a long time to recover, if they can recover at all.
Sharks have been around for the past 400 million years. They are the predators at the top of the ocean’s food chain. If they were to become extinct, it is not known how this would affect the ocean’s ecology in the long term. Now tell me, is that bowlful of prestige really worth this?'
Sharks have been around for the past 400 million years. They are the predators at the top of the ocean’s food chain. If they were to become extinct, it is not known how this would affect the ocean’s ecology in the long term. Now tell me, is that bowlful of prestige really worth this?'
Don't try to tempt me by saying how delicious it is.. because I KNOW! I've eaten it before when I was young, stupid and uninformed. Shark fins itself are tasteless but it was transformed into a delicious dish when the rest of the ingredients are added in. Duh~~
If I've offended you with the above paragraph, I apologise. It's just that I am very passionate about animals. I hate to see them caught by fishermen, have their fins cut off and thrown back into the sea to DIE just so that human beings get to eat a small part of their body. It's such a waste. Will talk more about my passion in one of my future postings.. I sure do hope that what I've written above might change your opinion on eating that dish.
And also I hope that you will remember what I've wrote in here the next time you are about to dig in into a bowl of boiled shark fin soup.
Ok ok.. back to the dinner outing..
And as usual, his aunts were asking me if i dah ada. They didn't know what happened to me last week actually coz I didn't really tell anyone about it except for a few people. So I just replied "InsyaAllah. Belom ada rezeki lah. Doa2 kan lah eh?" To which they replied "InsyaAllah" and proceeded to look like they pity me. Grr...
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