Reason I should work out today

Its utmost crucial to establish right mentality and attitude towards exercise for weight loss. Why I focus on exercise instead of food ? Throughout my weight lose journey of 5 months, I realized the exercise workout has help me a lot in losing weight, instead of control the food intake. However, I do keep the right mindset on the food I consume as well. Throughout this process, it helps me feel great about what myself when seeing the weight loss naturally, and feel content when I could keep it doing as at today.

If compare with my previous experience, I felt struggle when I feel I should go exercise but my body don't really want to do it. What I do differently is I commit to myself that I will go to workout/ exercise no matter how I feel / how my body feel..I will keep going, and continue as part of my daily routine. 
Of course, by identify the reason why you want to exercise can keep you motivated. Identify the most important reason why you keep it going . 

For me, exercise can help me improve mental health - like combat depression and lift my mood. Everyday we're facing lots of challenges, problems and pressure along the way in our daily / work life. If we do not handle it carefully, it might turn out become stress for us. Thus,  exercise is a stress relief. Intense exercise increases the release of those chemicals (endorphins, adrenaline, serotonin and dopamine) in my body. Of course, exercise make you feel good or confident about yourself, weight loss, accelerate blood circulation, and so on. Identify one or two make the most impact to you, and hold unto it. There are 100 reasons you should work out today..
http://www.sparkpeople.com/blog/blog.asp?post=100_reasons_you_should_work_out_today

Make a list of places that you would like to go for exercise instead of stick to one place. This will make your weight loss journey excited, refresh, and fun. Why I say so? last night was raining after work, and in my mind has auto prompted out few places that I could go to continue my workout even its raining day. Finally, I go to botanical garden for the workout, and the view during raining day amazingly refresh. WoW~ the scene was beautiful, filled with tress, flowers, monkeys ... It really touched me when I've spotted the monkey's mummy or daddy carried the baby monkey travel from one place to another. Love never limited to human being, and God is Love whose every nature is Love. The living creation of God filled with love and passion. Yeah..Let's keep believing and keep going on this journey as part of my life.

Oh ~ How to make Kimchi at home

One of my most happy moment was I'm so enjoyed making my own Kimchi. This ingredient was shared by my most close friends ~ I called her Vil. She is a food lover, enjoyed cooking , and of course she was creative to share her modification Kimchi recipe with me. The recipe has putting lots of effort to produce the most nearer taste of Kimchi we used to eat at Daorae Korean BBQ Restaurants. 

I must said this was my third or forth times in making the Kimchi,and this time I was totally satisfied with the taste and outlook ( in term of coloring ) of Kimchi I made. :) :)

Well ~ it pretty simple for me to prepare the ingredient and I can easily got all i needed from hypermarket. The cost was so much cheaper compare to buy it! I was addicted to eat kimchi as side dishes in every daily meal. 

What you need : 

Ingredients

1 head napa cabbage

1 piece of green pear 

9-10 tablespoon of sea salt

Water (see Recipe Notes)

1 bulb of garlic (about 8-9 cloves)

1 teaspoon grated ginger 

2 teaspoon of curry powder

5 tablespoons of red pepper flakes 

3 tablespoons of fish sauce

4 scallions, trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces

Small bowl of small dried fish 

Instructions

1. Cut the cabbage. Cut the cabbage lengthwise into quarters and remove the cores. Cut each quarter crosswise into 2-inch-wide strips. 

2. Salt the cabbage. Place the cabbage and salt in a large bowl. Using your hands (gloves optional), massage the salt into the cabbage until it starts to soften a bit, then add water to cover the cabbage. Put a plate on top and weigh it down with something heavy, like a jar or can of beans. Let stand for 12 hours. 

3. Rinse and drain the cabbage. Rinse the cabbage under cold water 3 times and drain in a colander for 15-20 minutes. Rinse and dry the bowl you used for salting, and set it aside to use in step 5. 

4. Make the paste. Meanwhile, combine the garlic, ginger, sugar, and fish sauce paste(or 5 tablespoons water) in a small bowl and blend all the ingredients become liquid sauce.

5. Mix thoroughly. Using your hands, gently work the paste into the vegetables until they are thoroughly coated. The gloves are optional here but highly recommended to protect your hands from stings, stains, and smells!

6. Pack the kimchi into the jar. Pack the kimchi into the jar, pressing down on it until the brine rises to cover the vegetables.

7. Let it ferment. Let the jar stand at room temperature for at least 48 hours. If you prefer sour taste, you may leave it more than 48 hours.

8. Check it daily and refrigerate when ready. Check the kimchi once a day, pressing down on the vegetables with a clean finger or spoon to keep them submerged under the brine. (This also releases gases produced during fermentation.) Taste a little at this point, too! When the kimchi tastes ripe enough for your liking, transfer the jar to the refrigerator. 

9. You may eat it right away, and I really enjoy to eat as side dishes and make my favorite Kimchi soup. 

Hiking Trip to Celuk Tokun Hill | Bukit Mertajam | Penang

I had a marvelous & fantastic time hike to Celuk Tokun Hill along with Penang Adventure Club ( PAC). Cheruk To'kun is located in eastern of Bukit Mertajam (BM)Province situated in the mainland side of Penang state, northern part of Malaysia. 

Bukit Tokun or Tokun Hill or Cherok To’kun hill (however you want to call this place) is really great, vibrant, happening and has an incredibly beautiful view right at the wooden platform. 

Early in the morning, we're gathered at Butterworth railway station, and going to Tokun hill by bus. Our group has total of 22 person. Around 9am, PAC captain Mr Wong started briefing and registered the member for this trip. PAC has partnered with Tokun Hiking Group to facilitate us. 

It took around 1 hours and 30 minutes hiked to the top of the Tokun Hill. ( Pic with power station ). The starting hiking trail was easy walk way. After 20 minutes hike, we have our first pit stop. The rest house was served with hot coffee and tea. Sister and I just enjoyed the scene and fresh air in the jungle.

For the next 30 minutes, the BM facilitator started leading us using hiking trail with more steep hike step go up all the way, and go down again. On the 2nd Pit Stop, our shirt was practically wet, but we still looking forward to have similar tough trail to challenged. At the second pit stop - Called 3 stones which these 3 stone was lined up and might has stop the landslide. We took another 40 minutes to reach the top of the hill. 

About 11.30am, we finally has reached the top and the view was astonished when we can see the Mengkuang Dam and clouds from wooden platform. We were up on a really beautiful mountain view. Praise to the Lord for this beautiful creation. Oh God, You're God of creator !!!