Gym

I just realised that I haven't done a gym review in ages. Honestly I have even stop going to gym due to injury, work and now the baby. 

Yeah, I know it is all excuses. But I gotta start back again. Tomorrow! I vow to hit the gym again (that what I said few months ago). 

Btw... I am going to Celebrity Fitness these days, I will post up the reviews soon.

Baby

Why I have been quite for sometime? For the past 2 weeks, I have been busy with my newborn. Yes, I am a father now. My bundle of joy is here and she is so cute. She has kept me occupied the whole time.

Parenting is definately new to me, for the first week, we were very much alone to deal with her. Most of the time we were lost on what to do! Now with the in-law around, it is much easier. The poor girl has jaundice for the past 2 weeks as well and been under constant treatment.

She already has an email account and her own website. :) Yeah, her dad is a paranoid IT freak.

Green Cube is launching GCUBE - Online HRMS

After months of development, Green Cube is finally launching GCUBE. GCUBE is an online HRMS system based on SAAS model.

Right now we are offering 2 modules which is Personnel and Leave. Target companies are SME who are internet enabled. Now with this system, HR has less headache to worry by managing their staff information and leave better, and staff can check their leave balance and apply leave online anytime.

Now is a good time to sign up as we are in Beta stage. We are not charging anytime for those who participate in our beta testing. After the beta stage, it is still FREE for companies with 10 employees and below.

Check out www.gcube.com.my for more information. As per now, we have sign up few big names and some smaller one. The quota for beta is running out soon.

Readers, please forward this URL - www.gcube.com.my to anyone that you feel will benefit from it. Thank you.

Knee Injury Part II

On my cousin’s recommendation, I visited Dr. Suresh George of Sunway Medical Centre. Upon seeing my MRI result, he said there is no need for a ACL surgery. What a relief! Although there is a slight tear, but doesn’t justify an ACL surgery. Cool! I am glad to hear that.

Now I am on medicine and doing physiotherapy 2 twice a week. My physiotherapist is Ghazali, a sport medicine graduate from UITM. Used to work as a personal trainer in Celebrity Fitness.

So far, although the pain is there, but I can feel it’s getting better now. I haven’t visited the gym for the past few months. Work and injury is the culprit.

Jangan Menyusahkan Orang Lain

This picture was taken last Friday after performing the Friday prayers at Masjid Tengku Kelana in SS 6, just beside the MAS building. There was this inconsiderate person who parked his car on the curb of the road and blocked a bus from going through. You can’t really see in the photo here, but look at the distance from where I took the shot and the traffic stopped.

Imagine all the traffic clogged up behind? Especially after prayers. Tolong lah, kalau ye pun nak solat Jumaat, janganlah menyusahkan orang lain. Parking kereta betul betul. Jangan pikir diri sendiri sahaja. Datang awal ke masjid. Aku yang sakit lutut pun boleh parking jauh dan jalan semata-mata tak nak double parking, tak kan u tak leh buat? Some people… what’s the point of praying when you can’t even meet your social obligation?

Solat Orang Sakit

Didn’t know JAKIM had a PDF compilation of prayers for people who are sick and unable to pray the normal way.

In this PDF, JAKIM has describe in detail on how to take “wuduk” if you are injured, and type of prayers (solat) including sitting and lying down.

Ada di bincangkan secara perinci cara-cara mengambil air sembahyang, solat secara duduk atau baring. Bagus JAKIM!

Download it here - http://www.islam.gov.my/portal/tayammum.php

String of Bad Luck

Since this year, I had a string of bad luck. It’s amazing how I am still surviving through this.

• My HDD crashed. I don’t have a backup. All my personal stuff is in there. The cost of recovery – RM 4K. Forget it.
• I crashed my car at my condo at the first floor of the car park. I missed my brake and crash to the railing of the first floor. My car was hanging with the 2 front wheels at the edge of the condo. Luckily the concrete stopped my car from diving down. Cost of repair – RM 1.5K. Cost of repair to the condo – another RM 1K. Cost of live? Priceless…
• Saman – RM 30 - RM 100. Superb. I had no choice but to park outside as the LRT parking is full. Don’t this traffic police have other better thing to do than saman those sitting ducks? It’s not that I don’t want to pay parking, there is simply NO PARKING! One hand government say take public transport but another hand there is no parking? What the heck?
• My knee injury – this is the mother of all my bad luck. So far I have spend RM 4K on this. I am expecting to pay another RM 10-20K for the surgery. Superb! Can read more here.

It’s no doubt that I have been under tremendous stress lately due to my business. It’s been hell.

Being a new start-up, I have to juggle everything from the programming, management, finance, sales, accounts, HR, filing, banking and right up to delivery boy. My phone won’t stop ringing and my email won’t stop piling. I have no doubt this is all part and parcel of business, but working for 8 months straight without a break, took its toll on me. Surviving a near death experience was a wake up call for me.

I took a break recently to get away from all this. I left my mobile phone and laptop at home and ran to Malacca. Stayed in Holiday Inn. Nice place.

Unfortunately, it only helped a bit. One lesson I learn here is I am too dependant on technology. As a business owner, I don’t think we can escape from being part of the business. It’s like being the Borg.

Resistance is futile!

I just hope God can be a little forgiving and give me a break. Sorry God, I think I have to postpone my Umrah until I get well from my surgery.

Knee Injury

Its been sometime since I blogged. I have a very good reason. My knee was giving me a lot of pain and it got worst in the recent month. I decided to have it checked. 

I was referred to Apollo TTDI Medical Centre to a Datuk Dr. Selva. I was told to do a MRI after the first consultation. He suspected me of having a tear around my knee area. I did my MRI at Lourders Medical Centre in Jalan Ipoh. As feared, I have a Meniscus tear at the knee which requires me to do a ACL surgery. The doctor injected me with Synvisc to help with the pain, however I felt later on this was not necessary. I have this wobbly feeling now while walking. The cost of the injection was around RM 1.5K. I was charged a total of  RM 4K for the consultation. I am getting doubts about this treatment.

More or less, I have to do a surgery and my knee will not be the same anymore. I have to accept that fact. Now I am looking for a the best surgeon and physiotherapy centre. This is going to cost me a bomb, I hope my insurance can cover this. Guys, go easy in the gym. Injury sux and costly.

Tiger Wood had one of this surgery as well.

Tesco

Firstly, while I was trying to tweak the design for this blog, I somehow screwed it up. I am trying to find some time to fix it.

As usual, I do my shopping at Mydin. Yesterday, the road was quite jam than usual. When I finally reached Mydin, there were large number of Police vehicles and personnel. Then when I saw 2 UTK motorbikes, I knew there was some big shot in the Mall. Mydin was cordoned off.

Its amazing to see how much Police resources is used for  politicians, and they keep on complaining they don't have enough manpower. To me, they have poor resource allocation and management. Ever heard politician being shot in Msia before? Common man, even Dr. M walks around in the shopping complex with minimum security.

Guess who was in Mydin yesterday?

Well anyway, my wife decided to shop at Tesco instead since one my readers here suggest to do so. We went to Tesco Curve.

Generally, not all items are cheap. Selection of choice is sometimes limited. Aisles are not categorized in the same group. Aisle 1 -5 will be food and in the centre is clothing, toilteries and then follow by food again. I dunno, its weird to me.

Tesco has a lot of their own product brand. My friend swears by it. He just love to buy Tesco brand items. A good thing about Tesco is their trolley has baby seat and a partition. Good thinking. They also have a policy whereby they will open a counter for you if you have more than 2 trolleys in front of you at the payment counter.

But, I am still sticking to Mydin. Better choices and better pricing (although not always, price tends to fluctuate monthly). Although I wish MyDin could train their store helpers to be more HELPFUL!

The Launch of MuscleZone

I am launching a blog on fitness. It's called MuscleZone - http://musclezone.blogspot.com.

It's been there since Jan 2008, but I kept it idle. To meet my 2009 resolution, I am resuscitating the blog.

I have been writing about fitness for sometime in this blog, but it's time to have a dedicated blog on it. This will be a newbie centric blog and my crazy struggle in trying to achieve a life long dream of Greek-God-like physique minus the steroids.

 

Mike O'Hearn

I will be moving some fitness related articles from this blog to the MuscleZone.