Gym 19

NEWS : There is no badminton tournament on the 2nd May 2010. As there will be a Taekwondo tournament going on in the hall. Sorry guys. I know you can't wait for me to defeat all of you, especially a Mr. Nat Chan (who is Mr.P?). Hopefully, we can play the next fortnight 16th May 2010.

Day 03 Breastroke swim : 300m (100m continuous lap for first 100m; the remaining 200m could only manage 50m)

Still in rehab mode for biceps and triceps. Using 5kg dumbbells. Not worth mentioning reps and sets.

Day 02 Breaststroke swim : 225m (50m continuous laps)

Day 01 Breaststroke swim : 150m (50m continuous laps)

So if I were to plot my stamina progress on a excel spreadsheet 'cos that's what I love to do. I would get a graph the would shoot upwards to the sky exponentially. Oh yea. That's what I love to see.

Tuesday night, appointment with Vanessa, who is starting an exercise programme for my chicken legs.

Met a new friend, Paul. Who tells me he can run but no more than 10km. He taught me how to breath in a long distance run, "In, In, Out, Out, Out". That is breath in 2 breathes and breathe out 3 in a stride. Now I need to verify this, as I don't usually take advice from strangers. Well he technically is a stranger since I just met him. He said 4km runs are easy-peasy. He can do one in 20 minutes. ooooh. The tip he said is to go all flat out. ooooh. I must verify this again. I haven't turned to my most reliable source, YouTube. Thanks to Youtube, I can swim, ping pong, badminton and even colour my gundam. YouTube educates as well.

One thing about swimming is it tires me out to the max. Come home and zzz. This must mean its working. So 300m down and 700m more to go. Hopefully, I can do some weight training tonight.

Foodview 1.0 Curry House CoCo ICHIBANYA, Thailand

Curry House CoCo ICHIBANYA. A japanese restaurant franchise with branches in Thailand, Korea, China, Taiwan and in Hawaii. From the name of the restaurant, you can gather it specialises in japanese curries. Reminds me of japanese comic, Addicted to curry. A terrible story line and shallow characters. Quickly gave up this title.

This place is popular. People queuing and waiting for tables.

Dishes that have been frozen in time and on display. A variety of accompaniment can be had with your curry. I always wondered how the food are preserved in these displays

Prices start from 150THB which is roughly AUD5.

You pay for what you get. Look at the meat portion. So tiny. This isnt even a proper kid-size serving, its more along the lines of foetus-size portion. If only foetuses can eat curry...

The design of the restaurant is very nice. I wasnt brave enought to take pictures of the place cos people were looking at me taking pics of my food.

The menu's design is pretty snazzy.

There is a section for fish, chicken, pork, vegetarian, etc.

Porklets and mild curry. There are three hotness of curry. I opted for the mildest. However, correct me if I am wrong but I reckon japanese curries aren't meant to be hot and spicy.

Fish cutlets. I was crying (re: small meat portion) when this dish was served.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

So I didnt finish my rice. Too much rice and the curry was bland. I was upset, but one might say 'tis was only AUD5', but for AUD4, I can get a full yummy McDonald's breakfast value meal back in Melbourne. Shameful. There was nothing special about the pork nor the fish. Disappointed big time.

Taste : 0 out of 5 stars

Value : 0 out of 5 stars

Blog 1.2 An MSN conversation

Only just recently, I have been getting spam messages on my MSN messenger. Usually its the usual, "Hi, I'm horny... Wanna see my naked?!? Click here http://....". But tonight, I got one that started with "Hey there" and it went like this....

*****************************START OF CONVERSATION*****************************

Never give out your password or credit card number in an instant message conversation.

akizzykxhenley@hotmail.com says:

Hey there

jaystin says:

hi

akizzykxhenley@hotmail.com says:

hey

jaystin says:

ni hao [I can't read nor write and can't even speak Chinese but this is my feeble attempt at doing so - Ni hao roughly means How are you?]

akizzykxhenley@hotmail.com says:

i'm 21/f your a male right?

jaystin says:

ni sze sui? [Who are you?]

akizzykxhenley@hotmail.com says:

nice, I just got off work and finally got some time to relax which site did i msg you from again?

jaystin says:

ni chiang si mo? [What are you saying?]

akizzykxhenley@hotmail.com says:

I am a little busy right now, trying to upload some new pics, here tell me what you think , don't be mean! http://www.icamforfree.com/k62z

jaystin says:

http://gundamhotel.blogspot.com

akizzykxhenley@hotmail.com says:

hey, I know a way we can chat and have a better time.. do you cam at all?

jaystin says:

wa ai pangsai [I want to take a poop]

akizzykxhenley@hotmail.com says:

Well i don't do yahoo cam or any other cam because i have been recorded before... But i do know one site you can watch me on cam, that assures me no one records...

jaystin says:

prap pap [the sound excrement makes when its excreting]

akizzykxhenley@hotmail.com says:

I mean... Do you want to see me on my cam?

jaystin says:

excuse me la, I using msn version 4.7

jaystin says:

please tell me what do you think I can see?

akizzykxhenley@hotmail.com says:

Ok go to http://www.icamforfree.com/ktw6 and click on "JOIN FOR FREE" blue button at the top of the page to join up for FREE.

jaystin says:

http://gundamhotel.blogspot.com

*****************************END OF CONVERSATION*******************************

I knew this 'conversation' will never end, so I ended it there and BLOCKED this jabroni!

In other news, Nat Chan is back from his Barcelona FC training. Unfortunately, he picked up a knee injury will got him kicked out from a promising future at a footballer. Anyways, more importantly is that he has FOODVIEWS! Yes, a first for this review site, a guest foodviewer. And its food from Barcelona. So exciting. Also Nat Chan came back with gifts too. Tight shirts for me and everyone's favourite rival, Mr.P. Unfortunately, Mr.P looked better in his tight shirt.

Grrr, I will training ten times harder for the Spirit of Maribyrnong 4km fun run. I need to start mapping the Maribyrnong river and see a nice section for our run. Maybe Ms.Netball will know since its her home turf. Also it has been agreed that their will be a prize!. Currently the prize fund is at AUD1.00.

In other news, I did laundry for the first time in XXX months. I forgot that a red shirt thrown in with the whites. I now have 3 pink shirts, a shirt that grew from medium to extra large and a several pink towels.

Lastly happy belated birthday to Nat Chan who turns 22 this year and Good luck to Suzuki for her exam.

Gym 18

Day 02 of training for the Spirit of Maribyrnong 4km fun run.

Starting from square one. Feels so embarrassing starting with light weights, but I rather lose face then re-injure my arm. But my strength is coming back. I aim to swim twice a week and add a run once a week to improve stamina.

Spoke to gym instructor and discuss about planning a programme specific for a marathon including lunges, squat jumps. Very excited. Hope she plans it next week.

So far competitors are

Seeded 1 Ms. Netball (The Italian scallion)

Seeded 2 Mr. P

Unseeded Jaystin Unicorn (Me)

Day 02 Breaststroke swim : 225m (50m continuous laps)

Improved compared to day 01 swim(150m, 50m continuous laps)

Biceps curl(Comment: My prayers have been answered and my arm is healed but taking it slow)

Set 1 5kg 10 reps

Set 2 5kg 10 reps

Set 3 5kg 10 reps

Set 4 10kg 5 reps

Triceps pull down(Comment: I realise my injury resulted from not balancing biceps and triceps. So working it now)

Set 1 10kg 10 reps

Set 2 10kg 10 reps

Set 3 15kg 10 reps

Set 4 15kg 10 reps

Shoulders

Dumbell press.

Set 1 10kg 10 reps

Set 2 10kg 10 reps

Dumbbell front raises.

Set 1 2.5kg 10 reps

Set 2 2.5kg 10 reps

Set 3 2.5kg 10 reps

Dumbbell side raises.

Set 1 2.5kg 10 reps

Set 2 2.5kg 10 reps

Set 3 2.5kg 10 reps

Dumbbell bent over lateral raises.

Set 1 2.5kg 10 reps

Set 2 2.5kg 10 reps

Set 3 2.5kg 10 reps

I feel like I got a chance to win this race. MUAHAHAHAHAHHA

Blog 1.1 Candy's Hot Pot Night with Wii

Hot pot night with Wii! This momentous occasion was hosted by master chef Candy. A big shout out to her and her assistant chefs, Suzuki and Legend.

"Nyam nyam!"

View from the other side. Hand courtesy of Legend.

Yummy all the goodness boiling inside.

Fishball (two varieties) and fried bean curd.

Bean curd and crabsticks

Veggies. Yuck.

Custom Candy special Malaysian edition Dumplings. (The subject of my foodview)

Mushrooms (two varieties)

All good hot pots must be cooked in "ying and yang" fashion. Balance of spicy tom yam soup and chicken soup.

Vermicelli noodles.

NOTE: The following pictures may be distressful to some. You have been advised to stop reading from this point onwards.

This doggie is called dogmeat. Candy bought this dog at the dogmarket cheap for the following reason..

DOG MEAT! Tasted like beef.

Egg noodles and Candy's custom limited edition dumplings

Cat meat was eaten on that night as well.

These dumplings were store bought.

This would be my second time playing Wii. My favourite games were the Mario Tennis and Rabbid party (I think these rabbids are the same characters from the game, Crash Bandicoot)?

For the record I defeated Mr.P in Tennis. Winning feels so good especially when its against an eternal rival.

Trying to figure out what's he's scooping out from the hot pot.

After shots of food after being cooked from hot pot

More shots of my food. I realise I take my pictures of food than people. Guess I am more of a foodple-person than people-person.

The selection of food was great. The beer selection by Mr.P and Mr. D was great. And big shout out to Mr.D for bringing his Wii games.

Big shout out for Maria for teaching me how to resize multiple photos in one go. -_-"

Taste : 5 ouf of 5 stars

Overall : 5 out of 5 stars

In other sporting news, I will start training for the annual Maribyrnong 4km fun run. The number 1 seed, the Italian Scallion, Ms. Netball will be defending her title! Mr.P might be in this event most probably to take revenge for losing to me. Start swimming first up to build up stamina!

In other local news, Mr. Chan is coming back from Barcelona FC, and I still have not started my DSi case mod. Yup its been sitting on my shelf ever since Mr. Chan entrusted it to me. I will start case mod! ... next weekmonthyear?

Ooooh does this also mean I will lose my no.1 badminton ranking? Stay tuned for same badminton channel and same badminton time.

Review 0.9 Kimi ni Todoke (From me to you) Anime

I haven't been watching anime for the longest while. Very picky with anime considering my declining interest in the subject and the little time I can spend on watching anime or reading manga. So my rule of thumb if I do want to waste time then I must only watch exceptional quality anime. If It can contain and maintain my interest, it will get my nod of approval .

Honey and clover was a big disappointment. Great first episode but failed in the 2nd or 3rd episode. Fruits basket is my benchmark for all animes. Shed a tear or two, I did. So stumbled over this 2009 title, Kimi ni Todoke (From me to you). The lead character, Kuronuma Sawako is very similar to Honda Tohru of Fruits Baskets

I have watch 10 episodes out of 25 episodes and all the episodes are well written and never dulled. I must admit that even Fruits basket let me down here and there, but its still great! The plot is simple, a lonely high school girl gets helped by the popular guy and she slowly comes out of her shell and begins to fall in love with the guy.

Read and seen these stories so many times, but the author delivers this to the reader in a refreshing way. (I assume and expect that) Boy and girl will get together gradually but you know, I didn't mind waiting to know until the end because of how the story is approached and the characters are not the usual suspects that I have have become accustomed to.

The animation and drawings are great, very dynamic and no cutting corners, the company that produce this anime is one to watch for. The soundtrack including the opening theme song, of the same title performed by Tomofumi Tanizawa is a great choice. I like this style of music, very similar to Shikao Suga. I simply must compare the anime to the manga, but for now I give this anime

Story : 5 out of 5 stars

Animation : 5 out of 5 stars

Comic 0.1 Spider

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