Eat Right with Nina

note that the title is might be read to imply that i have a good appearance like someone who has been take a good care of the physical appearance so i can share a tip or two on the said subject. in which, NO.
i have all the flaws you can find a in lady.
pimples, excess fat, non-proportionate body measures, abnormal blood composition, sensitive skin condition, you name it.
thus in order to fight my own body, i've been trying to find the cure. if no cure, then at least to lessen the burden i've been experiencing.

i can hv the doctor prescribed to treat most of my skin condition for example. but there's no replacement for steroids just yet. so having years trying to get the best for myself, i think its about time to document some tips even it is way from being perfected.

water
contrary to the popular beliefs, i'm okay with not having 2L of liquid perday. (cheat trick: just find a good google to go with your personal preference =p)
sometimes more and sometimes much less.
i drink when i want. its a good practice to have plain water always ready within reach when u feel thirsty.
plain water is always the best choice to do the replenishment before, and after a good sweat. in my case, be it my day to day work in the island or my un-routine run around the blocks.
i always opted for plain fresh milk whenever my pocket permits. goat milk over cow milk at anytime, but of course since the former is more expensive than the latter, we don't do luxury every day do we?
now i feel like wanted to try to put lemon slices or lime or any other herbs for the taste since i hatttte plain water. but so far i only tried with honey and sometimes pinch i bit of salt into my tumbler.


fibre
eat as plentiful as we can. be it in the form of grain, veges, fruits or nut. and let them be in their most natural form as possible. unrefined, uncooked, blanched, unpeeled, unprocessed, with no additional unnecessary other added seasoning. its super good for your peristalsis process.

protein
just eat as you please. i bet not many can afford too eat too much of these on daily basis. its either you get full or your pocket emptied  themselves before you add another serving. so just any humanly 1 serving per meal should do it. but then again, always go for the unprocessed and cooked with the least seasoning possible. i always liked my meat lightly salted and sprinkle with some black peppers and perhaps a squeeze of lemon or two, and some soysauce. oh wait. i never had that. i dont cook, LOL.  take burgers, sausages, bratwursts, corned beef, canned or frozen food as only the very last resort. i mean, last resort. the very last resort would be bacon already.

i guess that should be all.
and vary your intake, dont just go staple with always rice with chicken and cabbage in every meal. vary. so you could get various benefit the foods has to offer.
but in my case, not all my favourite food is easily available. what do you expect you can get in a island? haha.
so its more of a food for survival we had there. i just pick ones with the least oil, or sugar. and pack as much food as i can from home.

and avoid anything processed. pass by the snacks and canned food in the fastest speed as you can. drive past any fastfood joints the fastest the speed limit would allow. if you must, that is. but what works better, grow some disgust towards these. even your body doesnt favour it. yes, after some times without, you will find those too salty, too oily, and your body will instantly have some unease reaction upon consuming unhealthy food.

and best of all, dont trust this if these info doenst appear to naturally acceptable for you. do more and more readings. do advise me on anything i could improve.
okay then, thank you for reading, darlings! :)

maaf..

aku stress.

sedih.

kecewa.

dengan aku sendiri.

i ran away from something towards the nothingness.

"will u run away?"

echoed.

sekarang aku rasa sangat tak best.

kawan kawan rapat dengan aku pun aku tak reti nak jaga hati.

like seriously aku sayang kot orang orang yang sayang aku. 

tapi sometimes aku couldn't help nak express rasa upset.

and many times, aku sangat cepat terasa.

especially dengan orang yang rapat dengan aku.

and that is the point things will start to get ugly.

and of all the times, aku selalu tak boleh be there bila kawan kawan aku perlukan aku.

sedih.., gila!

seriously sangat stress ok! i feel very bad bad. 

and the tense build up lepas tak dapat jumpa make up balik.

kalau dengan kawan kawan sendiri aku dah tak reti nak bagi komitmen, 

i dont know what value aku ada.

useless ok.

now aku rasa kawan kawan aku banyak kot either terasa dengan aku, marah, tak suka.

kawan kawan that matter that is.

and i dont know what to do.

now aku even more convinced, aku memang sebenarnya tak capable untuk menyayangi sesiapa.

"no i'm not running. i am falling. dont bother to catch. go get me a platform i will safely land onto" 

of finishing a book

now. what do i do now.

i've just finished a book.

and the ending was just very sweet and romantic. might i say, that was the best ending could have ever been written?

my heart is now overwhelmed with the awwss and ohhhs.

now go. get ur copy.

:)

of turning into the quarter life, insyaAllah

insyaAllah, semoga diberikan umur yang panjang.

looking back. where was i for the past 25 years?

i completed my gap year to my self satisfactory. i get to know wide range of people around the world and more importantly, they all inspire me in some way or another, however little.
well then, i got the job i wanted. it was not the best job anyone could dream of, but at least it did for me. and with the arrangement within the company, i got the trust from the upper management to let me handle the project all alone by myself. it was a yay for having the freedom. and another yay for the large set of responsibilities that lies within. and a mega yay for keeping my sanity in check. and having one of my 6 buildings undergone an inspection for handover with the authority just recently, i deserve a one-sixth final yeay! alhamdulillah.

my family is fine. but i have yet to get my mak n abah get a good well rest at home, without having to get to work anymore. or worrying about money. we children need to work harder for that.

abang is going to get married. its been a while since we last had any big family gathering for wedding. so this very one is much anticipated by us all. hello kakak! there'll be more ladies at home later on, hehe. but the kenduri will be sometimes later, mid 2013. or should we already get some preparation done?

my uncles n aunts are doing well. though my tuk n tokki is no longer around, we still get to celebrate raya together at kampung. in which the tradition was not practiced in like 5 yrs before.

my treasured friends doing just fine. although i have to admit, we are getting much on our own ways, and rarely our path crossed. i would love more meeting ups and catching ups but than we had. but i love u all very dearly. and seeing so many of them having the display pictures being their offspring/s instead of themselves, i am truely happy for that. my humble apology for not being able making my presence on most of your big days.

of love life, im still happily single. the word happy is loosely used here. but who would actually want to say otherwise, unless well, ones really is not happy. im a hopeless romantic if that's what a person want. so yeah, the dating game is really not for me. i cant be all sweety lovey dovey i guess.
i cant see my self dedicating my life to just one man, without any guarantee of what direction we are heading. nahh im not even sure about that.
when a person being too straight forward and act all confident, i feel like its not even real.
when a person being all unsure and not at all confident, that also doesn't sounds real to me.
so its true woman never actually know what they wanted.
its not like i afraid to fail it. im just afraid, when it really failed, i cant let u go.
i always believe in the love life after marriage. insyaAllah.

these being said, i guess i have to do better in days ahead. i really hope so. lets live more like a grown up!

chin up, and smile! :)

construction engineer essentials #1 - sunblock!

amboii. ini la title yang paling baik aku penah come out untuk blogpost aku.
*pat self on the back*

aku ada very bad skin condition. u name it. jerawat, extreme allergy reaction, eczema. sampai satu tahap aku macam ahh redha je. eczema contohnye, there's no cure found so far. sume skin problem aku ni macam takleh settle for good. die boleh appear all of sudden, heals by no apparent madications, heals on steroid, and recurring.

since my uni days, aku ada cuba satu sunblock ni.

With Aloe Extract to keep skin soft.

• For protection against UVA & UVB.


• Contains Aloe Extract to keep skin soft and supple.


• Clear Watery Liquid formulation is smooth and transparent on skin.


• Low irritation.


• Water-proof.


• Suitable for face & body.

i got this one at first dalam trial pack. murah la MYR6 macam tu. packaging biasa dia agak mahal MYR30 lebih kurang. 

ok la, non sticky, clear finish, kan.. until the trial packs is nowhere to be found, i cant afford to repurchase the actual sized product, and being the cheapskate me, i stopped using this. 

i mean, almost any other face finish pun ade spf content kot. i thought double shot la. foundation ke face powder ke biasa ade skali kan sunscreen macam ni. so xnecessary la kan.

then lepastu ada lagi.. 

lancome pulak. this one lepas pakai kan, terus rasa sesuatu tau dekat muka. its creamy in texture and rasa dia macam.. urm macam apa ek slight burning sensation gitu. tak lama sekejap je. finished look dia pun agak oily n putih sikit. but tak waterproof of sweatproof. so aku selalu berpeluh under the sun kan, boleh clerk of work tegur, bedak cair meleleh. padahal aku xpakai bedak kot. just sunscreen ni je. pergh malu gak la sikit sikit. tapi berkesan. sebab aku tak rasa pun kulit muka gelap or sunburnt teruk given my very harsh long hours under sun exposure macam tu kan

lepas lancome ni habis, agak ngam la dengan habis projek masa tu. so lepak HQ office, xrasa its necessary lagi nak beli baru. nak beli lancome rasa macam xlayak untuk cheapskate tegar macam aku. lol.

then jalan jalan pharmacy, terjumpa lagi sunblock murah

oke bukan lah murah pun, tp sebab pack dia kecik. MYR 6 or 7 macamtu. 

ini pun lebih kurang lancome tu jugak. ni aku beli masa baru start project baru. sekali wipe je peluh kat muka dengan handkerchief, habissss. kena reapply. tapi tangan aku dah kotor macam macam ni. buruh kasar la katakan. tp bau dia best. fresh je bau handkerchief aku biarpun hari menjelang petang. hah kau bahasa puitis pula. so in a way, aku pakai pakai, tak pakai tak pakai. cam takde rasa obligated sangat la.

then  bila project aku towards the end dah. and lagipun aku cam rajin je buat lawatan berkala ke pahrmacy berdekatan, aku pun terdetik nak beli sunblock baru. this time around aku ingat yang dulu aku pakai sunplay, langsung xsticky kan. so i got myself this

hah alang alang kan, SPF 130 terus!
and i super love it!
white powdery finish, not sticky at all, no strange sensation upon application, sweat proof, water proof, i like it at the first touch.
keberkesanan has yet to be tested sebab sekarang sun exposure aku not as much as before.
tapi aku still berpeluh dekat muka tapi bila wipe tu kan, pat pat gitu je. jangan terusss wipe atas ke bawah pusing pusing gosok pulak muka lagi. gentle je. tapi kadang kadang je pun aku gentle. kate kurang sikit berpeluh sekarang hehe.
tapi 1 thing for sure, aku xpakai bedak or jauh sekali mekap ape pegi keje sekarang. memang plain face bangun tido mandi, the tu je la muka aku sampai ke petang. malam kalau keluar baru mekap sket. kang expired mekap aku tp still taj luak membazir tau. haha.
so bile sunblock ni dah ada macam kesan pemutihan sikit, macam double the effect macam aku pakai bedak gak la. tapi aku rasa natural je kot. sehari dua lepas pakai, balik HQ office tak kena bebel lagi sebab dah hitam. sebaliknya mendapat shocked faces.
"kenapa?"
"nampak lain"
"nampak lain hor. kurus?"
"meiyo. ada putih sikit leyh"
"putih dan kurus isn't it?"
"ya lor putih. tapi kurus takda nampak"

hahha terus aku gelak evil. lepastu baru cakap thanks to my brand new sunblock. bagi i putih macam i pakai bedak sikit. lol.

dekat site pun dah berapa kali orang cakap aku makin putih. i take it as a compliment always sebab satu, projek aku dah nak siap pun, tak payah berpanas berhujan sangat lagi, so kulit pun dah boleh cerah balik. dua, sebab memang betul pun, nampak putih sikit. padahal sebenarnya tak sangat pun hahah.

sekian. selamat mencuba!