OHMAIGARRDD RESULTS!

Forgive me for I know this is a little overdue :)

So if you're reading this now, you already know what this blog and what the toblater's TBL is all about. Six lovely ladies, with the support of two iron women gunning for the title of the Biggest Loser over six months (or seven, was it?)

Every month between the inception to the finale saw a weigh-in session, and I saw the girls go to the extent of starving themselves for the critical few hours before stepping on the scale! Having known all of you for over ten years, I can't believe that you girls actually got yourselves into and through this, and for that alone, I reckon everybody deserves much kudos :D

And so... six (or seven months) passed and it all came down to the finale in Bali. The final weigh-in took place a few days before we left for the 5-days trip. Unfortunately, Meah, who was in Miri was unable to participate. 

Also unfortunately, everyone was occupied with it being the final weigh-in that no one took photos of the monumental moments, heh heh. I was the only one who knew the results of the final weigh-in, and of course, the winner!

The finale was held on our third night in Bali, at the Villa we stayed in Kerobokan. AJK Makanan (that's me, Meah, Esah, Senah & Kiah) cooked our own dinner of spaghetti, grilled chicken and baked potatoes, with creme caramel for desserts. The food was yummy (of course)! Everyone was all dolled up and dressed in pareo for the dinner, tucking in and abandoning all caution now that the results were final already :P

After dinner, we adjourned to the living room and started with the results announcement (Gayah, you were missed, mwah mwah!). Senah and Kiah kindly prepared Powerpoint slides before dinner, so all I had to do was announce the results. They did such great work so I'll let the slides tell the story:

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*drumroll please*

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Odah came up tops at the last weigh-in yo!

Everybody went silent when the last slide was shown. Hahahaha. So how about it, girls? Round 2???

Congratulations, girls & thanks for letting me sebok2. Enjoy the restriction-less diet now :)

00 days

So, there you have it.

The countdown timer has been doing its job diligently. In less than 24hours, on foreign soil is where we shall all be.

To the Toblaterians, good luck for the results! May the 7 months of hardwork finally pays off! To Gayah, we know your spirit will be partying with us in Bali (so don't feel too bad) and your physical being will be supporting us from 1990 kilometres away (by constantly checking the blog for updates) ;p.

Good luck to Mess too, who is on judging duty & safeguarding the results til the Finale night.

And to all our fans at home (& those at work) watchout for our updates/ live blogging from Bali yaawwwwww!

Weigh-in and Putrajaya Night Run

Firstly, congratulations to Team 1 for unofficially wining the 4th weigh-in. *clap*clap*.

We celebrated our win that by joining the Putrajaya Night Run that night. Our sifu (kiah) ran the half marathon and the rest of team + mess did the 7.7km race.

We were really hungry before the run and wanted to grab McD sebagai alas perut tetapi plan tergendala kerana kami tersesat ke Nilai on the way to Putrajaya (i personally think that it's a sign from God) and only reached there 15 minutes before the registration time. So, saya pun berlarilah (or berjalan) dgn perut yg sungguh lapar. The only thing that kept me going was the tought that there's a possibility that my thighs will be smaller after the race (which it did not). Nevertheless we had fun.

Would i join a 10km run after this?

Definitely not.

Journey So Far

2009 is over and the clock continues to tick.
24 weeks passed by silently with another 7 weeks left to go before Bali.
My fellow Toblaterians, have you been doing your homework?

Initial weigh-in: 080809

0-0

Weigh-in Session 2: 050909

Team on the left WINS!
1-0

 Weigh-in Session 3: 251009

Team on the Right WINS!! 
1-1

Weigh-in Session 4: 261209 

Team on the left WINS! 
2-1

Current tally is 2-1, with 3 more weigh-in sessions to go.

So ladies~
with 49 days left, do you

STILL GOT GAME?

May the 1st weigh-in of 2010 be a competitive one!

Team 2 Toblater in the media, AGAIN!!

Hello folks!
Somehow we did it, again!
It may not be in one of the country's top-selling newspapers
(like HM! which surprisingly has a wide range of loyal readers),
but to be on the sign-on page of the intranet in a Multinational Corporation,
it's still something to be proud joyful of, I think! ;D

 Enon, Meah & Senah, again!

 
This was during the Terry Fox Run on November 1st 2009. Our own camerawoman for the event is out of the country (Kiah, we miss you!), hence our pictures will only be uploaded once she's back from Nepal.
I'd love to tell the whole story, but without the pictures the story just wouldn't be complete.

So, let's all be patient and wait for Kiah to come back to us safely!

Team #2 Walks for World Pink

To show our support for breast cancer awareness (and as part of our strategy to lose the lbs), Team 2 joined the Walk for World Pink, one of the activities in the Estee Lauder Companies’ Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign Malaysia 2009.

The 3.8km walk, which aims to raise awareness of the importance of self-breast examination, was held on the 3rd of October at the KL Tower base. Here's a pictorial account of our day...

All excited for our first team activity (sans Gayah though)

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Walking to the base of the Tower, I had to give Me'ah an icy cold stare when she was about to queue for the shuttle van
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We were early (surprise surprise) as the organisers we're still setting-up
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I was bullied by my anak murid to send our things to the car...a 1+km run to and fro, in case anyone is wondering how far (literally & figuratively speaking) I manjakan those two
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Showing our support by painting our face with the pink ribbon
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Of course, I had to be the "exotic" one
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Ribbon of hope: The participants forming a ribbon before the walk. Team #2 is somewhere at the top of the formation
(Picture courtesy of Clove Two,The Star)
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This is how 'the human pink ribbon' looked like from the ground
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"There's Malaysia!": Just to prove we haven't forgotten all those hours of Geography lessons
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Menara KL to be illuminated in pink lights that night
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At the starting line: Waiting to be flagged off

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Err..err..1 km into the walk and they needed to be re-fuelled...
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...and didn't miss a photo op with Abg Polis' motorbike (to stretch the rest-time I'm sure)
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"We're almost there girls"
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Enon & Me'ah had time to indulge in a bit of retail therapy after the walk as evidenced by the 2 huge pink bags hugged tightly by the 2 defendants
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By the end of the night, our face were glowing/shining (pls cross where applicable) with pride

By partcipating, we got a very nice World Pink T-shirt and a door gift of Estee Lauder Companies’ products worth RM100.

And the best gift of all?

Team #2 was featured in a local daily. I will post it once Me'ah scans the picture.

Gotta get my nose back on the grindstone!!! And keep it there! Gotta!!!

O-dah's very first entry. Oh yes it is! Toblaters hv been pestering me to start writing, so here I am. (Just read Rokiah's entry and suddenly I feel the urge to write a little. She always gets my ass moving that girl)

Note: She rang me just now. Definitely wanna nag me about yesterday la tu (Will call u back Rock, I'm using my colleague's PC, she'll be back for it very soon)

Aha, my open house yesterday was ok. It drizzled a bit, for about 15minutes in the afternoon but that was it. Thank you for all who came. And ate.

I snapped some pictures, later lah I put up kalau rajin.

Plus yesterday was TBL's weigh-in session. Team 2 won...Hermmmppp, guess who was the biggest 'gainer'? HAHAHAHAHAHAA

Dunno what's happening but my love towards food is growing extensively huge, gigantic, jumbo, king-size, kingkong whatever u wanna call it. Ggggrrrrrrr.....I can stuff my face with foods 24/7, and u wanna know what's worse? ---> FOOD(SSS), they come to me!!

Seriously no kidding yo! This has to stop! Foods, stop flying your way to my doorstep!

I'll try and behave allright. We'll see how I progress, thank you! :)

On a completely different note, to all readers, I am , very serious at work laaahhhh Rokiah....(better write this since I can see potential of my pictures being pasted here now the blog's gone public).

But I am, yes, very comfortable to act all goofy with people closest to me ( i.e family and close friends). So don't worry, I'm professional ok :p

Oh, my friend is here. We're going out for supper.

"MAMAK!! TEH O LIMAU PANAS TANPA GULA SATU! "

O-dah, from the land far far away.

Post Session 3 - Update 1

So we had our 3rd weigh-in session at Odah's house just now. This time around, as the keeper of Miss J(udge) the weighing scale, I happily (Team 1 reads : painfully) announce that Team 2 is the winner for Session 3 - what more with only 2 determined girls left but with the same one and only super kiasu instructor! Congratulations girls! Keep it up and we shall see which Team will be the winner next month as it is now 1 : 1 to date.

However, as the Instructor for Team 1, let me clear the air that we have never pandang rendah to Team 2 for all your efforts done. However, the recent Walk With Pride (?) thingy that you girls went WITHOUT informing (or rather giving any hints, hehe) us, made Team 1 thinks that the TBL is indeed a serious business, especially when it comes to winning. Who would have thought that we were so serious into this when all of you were at my house sometime back in August. So be it. Team 1 takes it as a challenge and despite us not winning this time around, we will, as true sportsmen, never give up and continue to hold on to the saying "perseverance, persistance and determination". So, watch out! Hahaha (*shakes my head in disbelief after writing this paragraph*)

Enough about the Session 3 report, shall we?

I have never really introduced my Team in this blog. Some of you readers would have seen my Team based on the header picture in wordpress.com but really, are not you curious at all to know a little bit more of them? (read : if you are a single guy, the better it is!)

Candidate 1 : Odah

She is nothing near serious. I hope she is not like her trueself whenever she is with her patients. We have been running together in marathons for the past 1 1/2 years but workload has taken a toll on her lately and hence, we have not been seeing each other that much. Despite her mountainous workload, I hope she takes off some time to exercise and do not binge on too much carbs whenever she is stressed at work -she should at least be a bit more serious about her health in general. Otherwise, she cracks you up like no one's business and if she wins the TBL, she can be the next Malaysia's Top Model Search! Hahahaha, love ya Odah!

Candidate 2 : Temah

Temah and I stay near to each other. We ran, scuba dived, exchanged beauty secrets, etc regularly. She is the complete opposite of Odah - at least she is serious to a certain extent! Nevertheless, don't trust her much on her navigational skills as oh boy, you could end up in Port Klang for no reason (no, thank god she has not done that to me yet). She once told me that she loves eating (is there such a hobby?) but fret not Tems, you can still have your sweet cakes, muffins and cupcakes but you will have to promise me that you will make sure you balance them out with bouts of exercise. Otherwise, we should continue doing our Super Sakit Circuit every Saturday as we both love it (yes, to a certain extent!). You will get the hang of it real soon.

Candidate 3 : Esah

Esah and I go way back. We used to talk on the phone for hours on irrelevant things. She is not a fan of running but give her Kiara Hills anytime, she could beat you 2 rounds of it with a breeze. She is our ambasadress whenever we need our coffee, frappe, latte, etc at an infamous coffee-chain organisation. I am glad that I invited her for a walk/run session at Lake Gardens last Saturday. It was her first time there and hopefully there are more to come after this. She won the first individual TBL monthly title during Session 2 (now succeeded by Enon) and with such record, I hope she will fight back and never give up!

Well, as much as I would love to give out more info on Team 1, it has got to be filtered. As for me, there is no need for any introduction, please - instructor works behind the scene, yeah! I am currently in the midst of planning a workout regime (hahaha) for my Team asap. I hope they will not play truant when I am not around for 3 weeks in November.

Saya Rok(iah)!

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No More Superhuman Senses

You see, those who knew me would know how bad my sense of smell is. I would sneeze so very often, and my bestfriend would be a box of Kleenex. Since its costly to keep up, my nose has been trained well to accommodate toilet rolls and even the hard tissues that the Office provide in the pantry..Therefore, it was a strange almost alien-like feeling when I suddenly, during the past 2 months was able to smell MORE things than what I normally would. The masam-ness of Vill@ge P@rk's waiter's shirt and it's stinky kain lap meja was the most recent that I encounter.

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I was pregnant. And it was the most magical & surreal feeling ever.

And last night when I found out that it was over, despite preparing myself mentally over and over about it, there's nothing that the doc or the husband could say to stop my sobbing or even make me feel better. The husband knows me well enough. He didn't have to say much and just held my hands throughout and we just hugged for longest time once we were back home.

It was heartbreaking. My chest felt it would burst right open, I just can't quite describe. But now here I am. Still feeling pretty crappy, just... much much better .

Was supposed to go for check-up tomorrow with another doc. (Shoot! Which reminds me I should cancel it now!) So you bet I had a different plans altogether on how to break the news on Toblater - coupled with a cute cute sonogram of my 10 weeks foetus. (Right~~ before Beyonce & the weigh-in!!) I even wanted to knight MessAziz as an official Toblatorian to replace me! I probably still should, I am so far off, I can't catch up the the girls any more. Sorry Team 2!

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I saw fireworks on our way back last night. I've always loved fireworks. I take it that is God's way to let me know it's all going to be all right..and to just cheer me up a notch. That AND the fact that Benyonce's been cancelled.. hehe.  Would expect loose waterworks every now and then in the next few weeks. But don't feel so bad for me girls. I'm pretty much set to be positive. Ohhhmmmmmm!

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Now, Esah. Take me to Starbucks when I'm all better. (That's an order)

I haven't had coffee/tea in 2 months!

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Ikan Kotak

It's that time of the month where I will have to work late; sampai rumah dgn busuk tak mandi nya *yes, euuuwww* & terus zZZzzzz………. (nota sangat kecik: sometimes no dinner yo!) :P

Annnnd I realised that whenever I'm under stressed at work, I tend to look at this in my phone and sengih sorang2. Not once, tapi several times a day!

image: google

I blame this all to my recent dive trip to Tenggol. At an untouched, extremely gorgeous site called Moonraker the boxfish played hide and seek with me under water. I gerak left, it went right and vice versa. Hihi, comel OK. 

Demmit , I dah jadi like one of those boring divers who talked non stop about diving. HELPPP! *sambil inflate sausage*

Ermm, Sipadan in December anyone? Haha

Session 3 for the TBLs

Yes, it's one week away from today, my dear TBLs!

You can run, breeze walk, puasa  or starve yourselves as much as you like for the next one week (or better still, hoping for it to be cancelled! Teehehhe) but Session 3 is still on, y'all!

I will bring the Judge (the dreaded weighing scale-lah!) to Odah's house next week and Session 3 will be held there. As Odah is organising an open house that day, please do not forget to come and bring extra clothes for the....

BEYONCE "I AM" WORLD TOUR!!! *whilst humming to "Survivor" and "Single Ladies" in the background*

To Team 1 - All the best girls, you guys can do it again this time. Don't worry too much, eh? (dalam hati - kalau tak menang, sah kena drill dengan Instructor Team 1 lepas ni. Kiara Hills lepas ni memang kena lari non-stop la jawapya! Odah, INCLUDING YOU walaupun jauh di perkampungan orang asli! Hahaha!) 

 To be fair to Team 2 - All the best to you girls, too! I'm sure you guys can do it! You have a very dedicated Instructor, yo - who is quite strict to her anak-anak buah!

Saya Rok(iah)!

 

experience ala Viktor Navorski

Ppl say that you need to experience things at least once in your life. Which I did and though I did not regret it..but I won’t ever want to experience it again.

Becoming Tom Hanks character in "The Terminal" is something none of us want to.  Stranded at the airport..With no comfy mattress to sleep at night!!! Worse if it is during holiday period.

I've experienced that. I became Viktor Navorski..Tom Hanks character. Overnight at Kite Airline Airport..and spent 2 full days there..Waiting patiently in front of counter 18, row B Kite Airline Airport for my name miraculously to be call upon.  2 days of waiting, seating on the marble  floor with my pink & turquoise luggage close to me.

Why? Because I stupidly missed my flight back home!! My reason to that was, I miscalculated my timing. (I’ve never missed any of my flights since I was 13!!!) STUPID STUPID STUPID.  That was the only thing on my mind when I saw the AA counter with no staff (the check in counter already closed) I panicked..but trying so hard to be rational. Went to AA ticketing counter..too bad all flight back was fully booked and the only next available flight is on the eve of 1^st day raya..(my mum will kill me..or i think my lil sis will coz she will be the only maid available for raya – suddenly I feel a rush of happiness due to the circumstances..ahaha)

Anyway, my emotion kicks in after I suddenly realized I’ve never spent my raya away. This can’t be happening. I need to be back before the ritual pagi raya salam and eating.  So I decided to go to Kite Airline Airport to try my luck for Kite Airline.  Hmm..how laa to go to  pre="to ">KLIA from here..(pity my brain coz it was pressured)  Taxi seems to be the fastest mode of transportation to go to KLIA..so I took the budget taxi..so much for budget..from AA to Kite airline airport (i can throw batu okay)  costs me RM 42!!! What the heck?! Nway..at that point of time, i just cudnt care anymore..RM42 pun oklah..jalan saja. Had a chatty friendly conversation with the cab driver( I rarely do this), and he said, to go to Tune Hotel that located at the corner of the AA airport, cost ard RM38!!!! Aiyo..cekik darah laa.

Arrived at Kite airline airport, immediately bought 1 way tix (standby).  Double the price of my original 2 way tix okay..As I said to my sis, this is my most expensive raya ever!!  So, that was the background story of how I almost become the permanent resident of Kite Airline airport (2 days can’t justify for PR yet..aahahah)

Slept at one private corner of the airport (thank god for a kinda cushy bench), awaken every 1 hour afraid that I missed the 6am call (they counter 18 staff asked us to queue back at 6am). Finally fully up at 4am on Saturday morning, ate my sahur (4 pieces of Mcd nugget) with orange juice. Then quickly went to counter 18 since they asked us to go there at 6am. Then it hit me..first flight that morning will be at 10am!!! BlaD1h3LL!!! What a frustration!! 10am? Why on earth you asked me to come at 6am for then!!!!!

After waiting and more waiting, I am no longer patient.

After 2 days, I decided to make friends..saw a lady with her husband and 1 girl having a conversation. I went to them and joined the conversation. The lady( Al1A) and her husband decided to take different route to go back home and I decided to tag along. Not worth waiting, with no success. I am tired + hungry + serabut + melekit = messed!!  I x mandi for 2 days, what more can you say. We’ve decided to go back via Singapore..took Kite Airline, then first thing in the morning took Harimau Airways back to home.

[caption id="attachment_254" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Kite Airline to Singapore"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_255" align="aligncenter" width="320" caption="with the lady (Al1A) at Changi Airport"][/caption]

As life full of surprises, when we arrived at Singapore, the lady’s friend (a Singaporean) picked us up, and brought us back to his house. Imagine this (as it crossed my mind at that time), 2 days ago, i was supposed to be back at my cozy bedroom, eating my mum’s cooking..then abt 2 hours ago, I’ve made friend with the lady and her husband, and now, I’m at Singapore and relaxing on stranger’s day bed watching his plasma tv and eating ketupat and lontong during the morning of 1^st day raya. All happened in the span of 2 days..oklah..almost 3 days..ahaha.. but still. Amazing kan. Life is really full of suprises. He sent us to the budget airport at 430am (baik sungguh hati dia, pagi buta tuh..) Thank you so much to both him and his wife for their kindness, accommodating me, d stranger in their house..yelah..mana dia tahu if I am some weirdo ke ape ke.

[caption id="attachment_256" align="aligncenter" width="320" caption="My first raya food..thanks One family!"][/caption]

Finally...at budget airport, checked in, and resting at the waiting area. 1 hour and 15 minutes later, I was safely arrived at my familiar surroundings..sampai sudah ke Cat city.

[caption id="attachment_257" align="aligncenter" width="320" caption="the waiting area at Budget airportgreat airline..very punctual!! Will definitely board you again!!"][/caption]

Kiasuly (mentang2lah baru pegi Singapore), i walked out from the plane, to immigration counter, then took my luggage, and straight to my older sis, whom has been waiting for 2 days for me to come back home..of course lah after she hugged me, I kena scolded dolu...she said I’ve made her fall sick..hahahah. drama lah my family.

[caption id="attachment_259" align="aligncenter" width="320" caption="home sweet home"][/caption]

For the rest of my raya holiday, I kept on being reminded of : I missed my flight and celebrated my raya at Singapore dolu. My family decided to use the story as appetizer whenever ppl came to our house for beraya. It was a silent torture!!

Bluerghh!!!! Once is enough! Never again. Though it was a good experience, I’ve managed to skip all the prep for raya and my lil sis still hold a vengeance abt it, but thank you, once is more than enough.

Next year, I will make sure my flight is at night.

My 'serabut' cousin is finally married!

The Abdul Majid clan was super busy last week attending the first wedding in the family. It was my 'serabut' cousin's wedding and everyone would not want to miss it out. The  events went well and my Pak De and Mak De were elated to receive Azhar as their son-in-law and my 'serabut' cousin was exceptionally happy that she gets to bully Azhar even more now that they are married (yes, she is a big bully!)

Here are some of the pictures taken during the wedding by my partner-in-crime-cum-artistic-director-for-the-wedding, Ika: