Canon Speedlite 580EX II

Picture worth a thousand words.

My dad called me while he was at Klang Parade today afternoon, confirming the model of the Speedlite with me. I finally got my hands on it. All thanks to my dad.

Now all I need is to brush up my skills. =))


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Personal Feedback on BSN N.O Xplode

I'm posting this entry immediately coming back from Fitness First IOI Mall.
I purchased my first tub of N.O Xplode back in August and I was so excited about it. But until today, I've used only 7 servings(broken into 3 workouts). And I doubt I'll be touching it anymore after today.

According to dailymuscle, N.O Xplode works perfectly for him. But it works the other way round for me.

I consumed it on an empty stomach as instructed by the label and my workout for today was Rippetoe Workout A. I did not feel the 'kick' as many users claimed to give them. Infact, I feel really weak and did not have the strength to perform my workout well. My hands were shaking(similar effect of working out on an empty stomach) as I lifted the barbell off the bench press. A workout without RPM is not a complete workout for me. I proceeded to the cycling studio.

After completing my workout, I was overcome by a feeling of nausea. I immediately rushed into the locker room, fill up my shaker with Cytosport MuscleMilk, gulped it down, sat down and calm myself. 5 minutes later, I felt better.

I'm not sure why is my body reacting so negatively towards N.O Xplode. But end of the day, I'll give it up because my previous workouts with it did not go well either(same effect as today). I'm better well off taking 2 slices of wholemeal bread with peanut butter and a cup of coffee 1 hour before my workout.

Marriage Rings

They say there are three rings in a marriage:. - The engagement ring, - The wedding ring, and suffering.

Random Thoughts Of The Week

Being a coach at the gym;

On Tuesday morning, I made 2 students vomited by running 3 rounds around the college's Olympic-sized swimming pool. I was leading the students in the run and they tried to keep up with my pace.

2 days later, I threatened a small size girl that If she could not lift 30pounds on the shoulder press machine, she'll fail. She cried. The reason I treated her like that because she was playing around during warm up session, and I got sibeh tulan with that kind of attitude. But of course, I joked with her and she start smiling again. But I hope it was a sincere smile.

I hope they hold no grudges towards me.


Being a student at class;

Having Miss Aggy to be our tutor is real darn fun. She plays game with us during tutorial classes instead of giving tutorial questions. And often it will spark out arguments among classmates on who's idea on tackling certain situation is the best.

It just amuses me to see how people intellectualizes a subject or issue, according to their level of understanding.

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at Ding Martial Art Gymnasium

I have been training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu(BJJ) for a month now. And it's really an enjoyable martial art where I get a full body workout every training session. BJJ isn't easy as what it seems to be. Before I started to train BJJ, I thought it was easy stuffs to pull submissions and all through watching BJJ videos. However, now I know I'm wrong. There are lot of details to take note off in every step or move we make. 1 SMALL mistake and you're gone! Either being dominated or submitted by your opponent.

Interesting enough, BJJ is known as the Chess Of Martial Art. Each technique pulled doesn't end there, it always has something to counter against, provided you have the foundation and know your stuffs.

If you are interested to learn more about BJJ, drop by to Ding Martial Art Gymnasium, Kelana Jaya. They are charging pretty fair price too.

Registration Fee: RM50
Annual Membership Fee: RM30
Adult (2x per week) 3 months: RM400
Adult (1x per week) 3 months: RM240
Adult (2x per week) 1 month: RM160
Student (2x per week) 3 months: RM350
Student (1x per week) 3 months: RM200
Student (2x per week) 1 month: RM140
Coupon (prepaid system) 8 lessons: RM180
Single Lesson Drop-In: RM30

One of our regular training session. Quico, our instructor demonstrating a new move.

Family Photo, missing a few though.

Private Institutions That Offers Undergraduate Psychology Course - International Medical University

In my two previous post on Private Institutions That Offers Undergraduate Psychology Course and Private Institutions That Offers Undergraduate Psychology Course via ADP, I managed to list down quite a number of Institutions.

Recently International Medical University (IMU) introduced to the public about their new degree programmes which includes Psychology. Sounds interesting to me, and I was more than happy to know IMU will be offering Psychology by July 2008.

I was impressed with their programme structure arrangement, teaching-learning-approaches and features after checking IMU Psychology programme syllabus via their website.

But after clicking on IMU Psychology programme's fee structure, I got to think twice about it. It cost RM12,000 per semester and a total of RM76,000 for a 3 years IMU Bachelor of Science (Hons) Psychology programme.

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Course Preview - 5th Semester ( Changes made )

I started my new semester last week, where I got involved in an accident on the first day of my new semester itself. We only had lecture on the first week, whereas tutorial and practical starts from second week onwards. There are 5 subjects this semester;

Interpersonal Communication Skills
I was quite surprised to see the lecturer and tutor who is teaching us this subject. She taught us before in our very first semester of our course, and that was like 1 year and 14 weeks ago(roughly) ? She was teaching us Introduction to Information Technology practical classes back then. Judging from her first tutorial class, it's going to be interesting to have her teaching. Discussion without a one sided answer and learning from each other style.

Another lecturer walked into our lecture hall today. She introduced herself as Miss Kik, a lecturer who usually teaches Advertising courses. She told us that there is changes in the course programme, no idea what exactly the changes were, but she just follow orders from the college to lecture us. 1st lecture with her, and my name was already been called by her to answer question. A question on Johari Window and I gave the wrong asnwer. Anyway, she has a very interesting way of conducting her lectures and without using a mic to get her student's attention.

2 hours later, in our tutorial class of the same subject, a pretty tutor walked in to our tutorial venue. She introduced herself as Miss Cheng, a TAR College graduate in Advanced Diploma in Media Studies, attended LJMU's Summer Semester Programme for her Degree and got her MA in International Journalism from Liverpool John Moores University last year.

Group Dynamics
Teaches us how to conduct group counselling. We'll have to work in pair with a classmate, and get at least 5 people who are willing to help us to help them. Taught by our head of school, Dr Chai. Previous year, our seniors seeked our help to help them to conduct their group counselling experiment. But my group's session ended up as a yam cha session with our seniors.

Counselling Methods & Techniques II
Continuation from Counselling Methods & Techniques I from semester 3. I enjoyed the practical classes in CM&T I, and I'll continue enjoying this one I guess? Lectures and Practical conducted by Miss Eva Li, while tutorial by Aggy Hooi, another lecturer/tutor whom I enjoy her class a lot. She was my class's tutor for Introduction to Psychology in our first semester. She's someone who challenges her students to think out of the box and not to rely too much on textbook.

Ethical and Legal Aspects of Counselling
I won't comment much on this subject. All I can say is I'm praying hard there is improvement in this subject's lecturer teaching style. Senior citizen Mr Kuan Ah Kan is the name of this subject's lecturer.

Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Taught by Miss Aggy Hooi. Need more I say about her?
I'm glad that she is teaching us. According to our senior, their batch got a part-time lecturer who isn't very good in teaching and made the subject very boring.


Sometimes, a dry subject can be fun if being taught by the correct person.

Although there are 5 subjects this semester, but I'll be sitting for 7 papers in total for finals.
I haven't pass two subjects from 4th semester ( notice that I did not say I fail, I said I haven't pass! ), Basic Management Principles and Family Counselling. Rumours are saying that 1/3 of the course ( around 40 students? ) did not pass Family Counselling and majority of them are pointing fingers at the lecturer. But for me, I'll take full responsibility for my own actions.

I've been hired by the college to coach at Co-curricular Gym-Workout Programme again this semester. I wasn't hired last semester because the Sports Coordinator of Gym-Workout Programme was on maternity leave and a guy took over and hired an all girls team of student assistant.