Sekolah....sekolah....

End of 2013 school session. Wall FB penuh dengan gambar anak2 orang terima hadiah cemerlang. Result UPSR keluar, penuh juga post berkenaan result anak masing2. Banyak juga post nasihat2 supaya parents tak terlalu sedih kalau anak kurang cemerlang. Nasihat2 tentang betapa pentingnya untuk tidak merendahkan anak2, untuk tidak membandingkan anak2. Ada analisa kenapa ada anak2 kurang cemerlang, nasihat supaya parents tak kiasu dan tak kurang kritik tentang sistem pendidikan negara. 

I have 2 sons in primary school. They are among the good students, tidaklah the top of the class but excellent....terutama time rajin. Bila malas graf turun. My sons as I told most people, diorang skolah pondok. Nama jer lar private school tapi bukanlah seperti yang dibayang oleh makcik pakcik hamba kat kampung. Skolah kecik, facilities gitu2 jer, kelas pun sesak jugak tapi dah lama in business and dah hasilkan insan-insan hebat dalam akademik, akhlak dan sahsiah. Honestly, everytime pegi sekolah diorang hati rasa tenang, tengok muka guru2 rasa suka jer. Well, kadang2 ade jugak lar menda nak komplen tapi very little and forgivable. 

Seorang kenalan once told me, kalau hantar anak sekolah private macam ni jangan expect super excellent academic result. Betulkan target that we want our children to excel duniawi dan ukhrawi. Tapi biasa lar parents, before hantar anak2 masuk mana2 sekolah mesti nak tengok exam performance skolah tu ok ker tak? Salah ker camtu? Parents always want the best for their children. Ada this one person asked me, "kenapa doctor tak hantar sekolah biasa, tak percaya sistem kerajaan ker?". Takde kena mengena dengan sistem sebab sama jer pun but I have option to send my sons to a school with "controlled" environment. So far so good. Xde hajat nak tukarkan masuk skolah gomen bila darjah 6 nanti just to make sure he score 5A and ada peluang pg boarding school. Errrr...ada lagi ker UPSR nanti? or dah tukar nama?  

Ketua nasyid....

Next year I'm going to send another one to the same school. Alhamdulillah he passed the "entrance" exam. Risau jugak dia tak lepas dengan keadaan dia macam tu. (read: Coping with Widad) Cuma risau mampukah cikgu beri lebih perhatian pada dia, mampukah cikgu mencari jalan supaya dia boleh seiring dengan murid-murid lain. Is it necessary for me to provide a letter from his pediatrician or therapist? I talked to someone from JPM this morning and she said teachers are trained to recognize children with problem and they have ways and means to help the child. Well, tu cikgu skolah gomen. They're trained dalam bidang perguruan. Camana lar cikgu2 skolah ni yer. I hope mereka bersabarlah nanti nak menunggu Widad menulis each and every letter sebagaimana cikgu Tadika dia bersabar. Dan ummi dan ayahnya ni harap-harap bersabarlah kalau he cannot achieves what have the brothers achieved. Melihat dia habis sekolah Tadika dengan report card berderet2 A pun dah sangat2 bersyukur berbanding dengan apa yang dijangkakan lebih 6 tahun dulu. Huh....sebak....

"I have a bicycle. The color of my bicycle is red and blue."

A quest to a healthy me

I named my blog Stew Tulang for my passion to food and I intended to share that passion when I started this blog. My passion to food, cooking and baking caused me to grow bigger and bigger each day. My maximum weight was 89 kg and for a height of 1.55 m that was huge. 

Obesity runs in my family. My mother is huge, my aunties too. Mungkinkah disebabkan genetic atau they just love to eat sebab semua memang masak sedap and involved in food business. We somehow have quite a low metabolic  rate. My abah pernah pesan, jgn jd gemuk lagi, awak tu doktor. Hamba jenis manusia tak reti sgt makan dalam, takat those words tak jalan....

Relay for life 2011, size t-shirt XXL, jalan 1 pusingan pun penat

Mid last year my mom was referred to the surgeon for paraumbilical hernia and she was later send to another surgeon at other hospital who runs obesity clinic. I was there accompanying her for the 1st session and somehow it struck me. Berat satu hal....sakit satu hal....and the most important thing is....mana aci mak hamba sorang jek mengecik....hamba nak mengecik jugak. That was the initial spark of my motivation.

Around the same time, few members of Geng Mesin Jahit (GMJ) started a weight loss challenge. It started with H2O challenge. I was not really determined at that time tapi bila tengok few of them dah makin mengecil, perasaan jeles pun timbul. On 2nd January I started 10 days weight loss challenge bersama few GMjians. We started on Atkin's induction. Siapa menang dpt makan ikan bakar free kat Bellamy. I was really determined at that time and I won the challenge. Loss 4kg+ in 10 days and this time my aim is to be healthy sebab masa pegi teman my mom for follow up, the surgeon said "kurus bukan semata nak cantik tapi sebab nak sihat". Kalau nak cantik motivasi dia tak kuat sebab hamba gemuk ke kurus ker mmg dah perasan cantik (sila muntah hijau). Lebih sedar yang badan tak sihat dan tak fit masa ambil report card my son end of last year, kelas tingkat 4....mencungap panjat tangga. Enough is enough.....i must change my life. Mesti fit.

Last year my hubby mentioned about buying a bicycle but I din't allow him to.....takut jd tukun but this time around, terbakar juga dgn one of the GMJian who started to cycle, I encourage my hubby to buy a bicycle. 5 bicycles actually, 1 for each of us. My elders two dari tak reti naik basikal learn how to within a day sebab nak basikal baru. So that was it, 6th January 2013....my cycling activity started dan telah jatuh cinta sekali lagi. (I enjoyed cycling when I was in primary school and during my matric years). I promise myself to eat healthily and get fit so I can increase my cycling mileage.

Berkayuh di Kepala Batas

I started to join a fellow GMJian (Rozi Rahman) on weekend ride at Putrajaya then joining the Putrajaya Fun Ride. 1st time buat 22km during the fun ride jantung rasa nak pecah. Naik "busut" kecik pun kena turun dan tolak. A GMJian (Ida Sumie) and I were among the last cyclist to arrive.....sampai segan dengan marshall yg accompany us until the finishing line. But I was proud of myself sebab tak mengalah. That was Ida last ride for this year sebab she found herself pregnant soon after that (after 10 yrs of secondary infertility)....might be due to her weight loss and increased physical activities. 

Ride with GMJ

By end of May I weighed 76kg. I didn't take any weight loss product (Protein shake Jenama X pernah mengganggu sistem immuniti En.Suami and gave him nephrotic syndrome). I count calories with occasional cheat day. Minum air kosong, teh o n kopi o kosong jugak. I started to go to the gym twice a week on June to do some strength training. By Ramadhan I shed off few more kgs and inches but ruin it during Syawal. Dah nama pun raya.....makan versi hari raya lar....every week open house. 

Raya last year and this year.

On September I joined the 40km Ride for Syria. It was my 1st. By that time my fitness level was much better than my 1st 22km ride. With the folding bike I manage to finish the ride. Now that I own a road bike, 40km is not as hard. Dalam hati dah bersedia utk mencabar diri to go further. Mencari masa.......

Riding Mr. Jam, size t-shirt L

I want a healthy me.

* i recently met a lady in her 50s and she joined Century Ride....#malupadadirisendiri

OMG....dah setahun lebih!!!

My last post was about my convo...it was more than a year ago. Where am I? Apsal xde tulis apa2 kat blog ni? Tenggelam dalam kesibukan sebagai specialist....mengarut!! 1 year....come on. Let just do some analysis:
- habis exam sibuk kejar projek sarung bantal. Paperwork, fundraising,  organising event...etc.
- kejar buat report...xde lar banyak mana pun....
-internet line tak elok kat opis,  broadband lembab
-ehhh....mana nak ada masa writting and updating blog kat opis. Camna dulu blh buat?  Oh...dulu start time student....banyak masa kat rmh jek, Unifi pun laju....hehehehe...
-it was the Facebook lar....senang update kat FB jer....tp hamba ada FB dulu b4 blog.....

Oh, whatever. Nak tebas lalang n pokok2 renek, nak sapu lantai n buang sawang2 serta najis2 tikus, cicak dan lipas (or maybe kelawar). Bacakan rukyah n give positive energy to this site. I want to restart writting....although I might be the only reader. 1 year....ruginya...