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Thursday, 04 August 2011

  • Day 3 of Ramadan Fever: Oregon Trail


    Daaaay 3! W00t!  This sleep schedule is gonna get to me though, I worked out last night (I know, I know, I said I wouldn't but I had to!  I had to try my new shoes! oh oh! I didn't even tell you that I got new shoes! They're amazing cute kicks!  







    Awww yeaaaa





    Cross trainers!  I needed some, the running shoes ain't cutting it for my new work out)





    ..... Anyways.





    I worked out last night and by the time I showered and ate a post work out meal.. it was 1:30 am.  I would have to get up 2.5 hours to eat sehri.  Oy!  So then I napped and almost didn't wake up for sehri and ate a delicious meal! Yum!  Egg white omelette w ground beef, cheese, and celery and more stuff.  Basically a nutritious meal and a better one than my bowl of cereal yesterday.  And then I slept and dreamt that I was part of Oregon Trail with my family with Akshay Kumar... it was just strange... anyways...





    Yesterday's iftar was so good! Me and my sister Namira made a cute lil table for ourselves! Mhmm:







    Left from right:  Fruit salad (desi touch), italian light salad, and chicken pieces to put in the salad







    Typical desi iftar food.. mhm you know what I"m talking about.





    My plate.. makes me SO hungry right now!





    I made this myself ^_^ It was really really good





    Sorry if you're fasting and had to look at those delicious pictures and you're salivating all over yourself (Here's a napkin), but it's making me hungry too!





    But hey! Besides the fried desi food, isn't this a nice nutritious light iftar?  We both had a burger (Veggie for Nomz [Namira] and homemade sloppy joe burger) for dinner.  See?! You don't need to load up on the crazy heavy empty carbs and experience weight gain and food coma!  I also drank a ridiculous amount of water (I was very very dehydrated) which also prevents water weight gain.  





    Man.. I'm  hungry.  Less than two hours til I can eat some Noodles & Co!!  Or some shrimp and rice... ::drool::





    Okay I'm done!  If I had anything else to say, I forget. Oh yeah I did my hair all cute like this hair tutorial:










    I'd take a picture... but I'm at work and that'd be awkward to take a picture of myself... yeah.. so maybe another time, I plan on this doing this more often it's really cute!  Inspiration for ya'll. Eat healthy, pray on time, work hard whereever you are, and ... do hair? (?) .. I have no idea





    Toodles

Tuesday, 02 August 2011

  • Day 2 of Ramadan Fever: Lazy Haze


    Last night at work for breaking my first iftaar kind of .. sucked.  My sister Nazifa even stopped by so we could break iftaar together.. and it got so busy.  Like customer after customer after customer.  Hey, it's a business I get it, I'm being paid to do a service but I haven't eaten over 17 hours!  Can't I take at least 5 minutes to myself to eat? I'll pass out!  Then again, I wasn't very vocal so next time.. I'm totally be like "listen.. I need to eat or I'm going to pass out in the ice cream vat so please please handle the customers so I can eat and drink something!". Which shall be tomorrow... plus I can't take painkillers (it would break my fast) and I need painkillers if I'm going to scoop this ice cream cause I could barely put in my contacts this morning with my right wrist cause that angle hurt so bad!  I've been icing it all day, on and off of course, but I don't think it's doing anything...







    See that? That's my arm.  Those are bruises.  Yep all those.  Isn't it pretty? From WORK.





    Today.. was suppose to be relaxing since I have no work today (yay!) but I'm honestly pretty miserable.  Both me and my sister agree that we probably didn't eat enough this morning (a bowl of cereal at most) and we're both kinda getting the opposite of food coma... starvation coma?  Is that a technical term?  Well it is now!  I feel sort of tired, grumpy, sluggish.. you know what I'm talking about my fellow fasting friends.  Every day is a lesson!





    Oh hey, anyone wanna check out my mehendi that I did?













    Ta da!





    The mehendi is pretty faint, but it's cause I did this.. like last week.  But not bad right?? I think it's an improvement!  Here I come Eid mehendi!!! Chaand Raat who!?





    Anyways, not working out tonight!  I realized that trying to follow that intense work out schedule while fasting is probably a horrible body killing experience.  I might lose weight and fat.. cause I'm starving my body.  3x a week.. not more.  Today's definitely a rest day haha.  





    Two more hours! We can do this!  w00t!  





    Toodles.

Monday, 01 August 2011

  • Day 1 of Ramadan Fever: It Begins


    Hello hello everyone!! Ramadan Mubarak!  August 1, 2011 is the first day of Ramadan!  W00t! Can you tell I'm excited?  I'm pretty excited.  I dunno, I always imagined Ramadan kind of the equivalent holiday as Christmas, but cooler.  Cause we learn how not to be selfish, the value of having food and clean water, taking time to reevaluate ourselves, etc.  Sure, we should do this 365 days during the year.. but we don't.  Cause we're human, so we usually use Ramadan to be that reminder and hey! It's exciting when everyone is in on it!





    I always feel more family warm feeling too, I always love being with my family during this time.  Last year, if you may or may not recall, Ramadan for me personally sucked.  Big time.  Uber big time.  Why?  I was stuck in this stupid little dorm with no AC, a finicky little fridge that barely kept my food cold, no Muslim friends to surround myself with, and just awful-ness.  It was really bad, I was pretty much miserable the whole month.  But iA, this year will be 1000x better, especially since I'm not living in the dorms (thank God!) and I will have two Muslim roommates. What up.





    But honestly, I think Ramadan should be beyond just reflecting on your Muslim self.  It should be almost like a New Year where you make resolutions and you have the whole month to work on them instead of just a day of "Hm.. what's my New Years resolution?.. ::write down scribbles on December 31st"  It supposedly takes 21 days to make a habit and Ramadan is a month.. so basically you have a chance to ironify (not a word, I know) some good habits! 





    But what habits shall I do? you may ask.  Well, mere dost,  I think the solid praying 5x a day is a good one.  Especially on time, I'm pretty lazy about that.  Unfortunately for me, I'll be working at the ice cream parlour tonight =( so I'll be breaking my first iftar there.  Sadness.  Some things you can't prevent.  





    Another habit I think is good to start now is healthy eating.  Avoid the food coma most people get after iftar - eating a decent sized iftar, praying Maghrib, and then eating a huge meal and continuing to eat throughout the night.  That will only lead to inches to your waistline my friend.  I remember my freshman year of college, my sister and I would usually break iftar in the cafes.  Now the cafes were a fairly new concept to us at that time and with all the endless choices of food and ice cream, we went gung-ho!  Hello Freshman 15.  Tasted good at that time, but boy... not a good idea.  We're living together this summer and we've both decided to go the healthier route: Eat decent sized nutritious meals with lots of fruits and veggies and less of the heavy carbs. 







    Mmm... healthy greens! 





     Drink plenty of water both during Sehri and Iftaar to avoid dehydration (duh).  And take a multivitamin every Sehri to avoid malnutrition, loss of vitamin and minerals, and most importantly, to get some energy!




    Just take one!





    While you're eating healthy, you could very well start exercising!  I'm not talking about running 3 miles a day (which is what I did during my cross country days though), but heven just walking for half an hour after iftar and before taraweeh is good enough to get those muscles pumpin!  I'm currently on this exercise program (Girlier/funner version of p90x) that is pretty intense, so my plan is to work out after Maghrib but before my big dinner so I'll have fuel.  Personally, I might avoid strength training since I'm more focus on losing inches/toning up and not gaining serious muscle and that will probably be better for my body.  It'll help increase not only your physical fitness, but mental fitness too!  Exercise requires serious discipline.







    They got the right idea!





    You room, work space closet, whatever your possessions may be in,  keep it clean!  Cleanliness is a valued trait to have and to keep in the habit of it is beyond useful after Ramadan.







    Doesn't that image just put you to peace?





    These are just habits beyond the typical ones (read more Qur'an, read more hadith, do not backbite) instilled during Ramdan.  It's important to see that Ramadan can and should be a life changing experience and people shouldn't narrow their vision just to Islamic habits during Ramadan  and beyond cause your everyday life will always be there.  Every year, you should come out of Ramadan stronger in your faith and self.  








    =] I just love this time of year





    Toodles

Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Sunday, 19 September 2010

  • Ramblings (#6)


    Eid happened:

    Did it myself! Don't ask what the designs are, I'm not really sure.

    My skin is not perfect... good make up.



    2nd Eid Day

    I think that Dil Chahta Hai was the classic 3 Idiots before 3 Idiot came to be. Ironically, Aamir Khan led them both.

    True 3 Idiots!

    I bought my first cardi from Delia's! I know, I use to say they're for old ladies, but I look adorable in them and with hats. I also look good in hats. But not in skinny jeans. That's confidence ladies. But I love my cardi!! .. I want more! This bad. Money will be tight for a little while though.

    Caught up on school work.. sort of. Work, school, clubs, wow, what about actually homework? Reading is hard. Word is hard. Work is sort of hard because people don't get my jokes. I'M FUNNY PEOPLE! LAUGH!

    People are selective which is kind of confusing. Not liking people and yet making all the time in the world for them and yet making excuses to avoid people they 'supposedly' like. Wait, was that a semi rant/passive aggressive snide comment? Maybe.

    Things are pretty stressful until Monday. Two meetings and more. *sigh* Big sigh.

    Real blog soon? Um.. we'll see.

    Toodles