Tulis blog dalam Bahasa Malaysia

Sudah lama dah saya teringin nak blog dalam Bahasa Malaysia. Why not kan? After all saya kan orang Malaysia bukan orang luar. Disebabkan bertahun asyik blog in English, sampai orang ingat saya orang luar. Banyak kali dah orang salah sangka! Believe it or not! Haha! Sudah dikhabarkan yang saya ni orang Malaysia tapi masih ada yang fikir saya orang luar. I give up! LOL!

So! Harap-harap lepas ni kalau ada yang melawat blog saya ni, akan sedar yang saya ni orang Malaysia. Kedah born ok! A Malaysian dan sampai bila-bila pun Malaysian! Tak boleh bayangkan jadi rakyat negara lain sebab saya sayangkan Malaysia no matter what people say about negara tercinta ku ini! Ada jer kawan-kawan yang sanggup jer tukar kerakyatan demi gaji lebih dan kehidupan yang disangkanya jauh lebih mewah dan baik berbanding kalau dia tinggal di Malaysia. Oh well....apa nak buat kan? Tapi kalau ramai yang tukar kerakyatan, rugilah orang Malaysia. Ramai graduan berbakat pergi ke luar, tak dapat berbakti untuk rakyat sendiri. Rakyat negara lain yang untung.

Ramai juga yang tertanya-tanya, kenapa selama ni saya blog in English?? Ada yang ingat I do it because I can't write in Malay. Oh God! Please laaaa....takkan laaa tak reti...tolonglahhh! :P Of course ada sebabnya saya blog in English. One of the reasons is because saya nak improve English saya. Kalau selalu menulis dalam bahasa tu, maka semakin lama semakin mahir kita berbahasa Inggeris. Itulah yang saya harapkan. Semakin lancar, semakin banyak vocabulary, semakin confident menggunakannya setiap hari.

Sebenarnya, bahasa ni...kalau kita tak selalu menggunakannya, semakin kita lupakannya. Itu yang saya takutkan. Takut sangat kalau saya lupa. Dah la pandai dua bahasa jer....kalau lupa satu, tinggal satu saja lagi. Rugi!! Penat-penat belajar sejak tadika sampai form 5, pastu sambung pula sampai ke universiti pastu lupa habis....oh no no no....no way! Tak boleh ok! Kena selalu praktis...walaupun orang kutuk Bahasa Inggeris saya tak bagus, ada saya kisah? Saya teruskan saja. Cuba untuk improve setiap hari. 

Satu lagi sebab ialah kerana followers saya ramai dari negara luar jadi susah mereka nak faham apa yang saya tulis kalau saya tulis dalam bahasa Malaysia. Memang boleh jer translate tapi menyusahkan mereka la. Bayangkanlah, dekat Facebook pun mereka ni complain kalau status update saya ditulis dalam bahasa Malaysia, inikan pula kalau blog panjang-panjang, lagilah mereka ni complain. So, nak senang cerita dan untuk mengelakkan masalah, maka saya tulislah dalam bahasa Inggeris. Dan saya tak tak menyesal pun buat macam tu kerana ianya memudahkan followers saya membaca content saya di blog. If they are happy, I'm happy too! At  the end of the day, kita haruslah kenal readers kita ni macam mana....and give them what they want. Betul tak? :D

I love green tea!

I've started to drink green tea again lately because I wanted to decrease the amount of my daily coffee intake. So far I am loving the taste and how it makes me feel afterwards. There's something about the after effects of green tea that helps me control my urges of taking sweet drinks.

It's so different compared to drinking coffee. If I were to drink a cup of coffee, I would surely want to drink it again later in the day. But with green tea, once is enough to keep me feeling content and no longer crave for sweet drinks afterwards. So if I felt thirsty, I would just drink plain water. Strange.

Strange as it may be to me, I kinda like it. Because this means I get to control my sugar intake as well. 

It's been said that green tea aids in losing weight. Hope that's true because I really need to lose some weight that's been lingering too long at my waist. Some say it helps in digestion too. It relieves nausea, constipation and diarrhea. That's great news!

Update on my celery juice journey

Over the years I think I have gone in and out of a good healthy diet hundreds of times. Everyday telling myself that I should eat healthy but I end up eating something that might potentially kill me in the end  anyways. I just don't know what else to do that will motivate me everyday to eat well. I just don't have that self control. Not then....not now. Still working on that.

I think the longest I've been SO FREAKING  disciplined about something was when I was doing that celery juice detox. I was at it for about 8-9 months straight. I was so positively sure I was able to do it for 3 years...LOL! So much for the positive thought. I don't know what happened. I woke up one day and I find myself not being able to do it anymore. I just lost it. I didn't get the thrill looking at celery. WEIRD! I see people doing it everyday on Instagram and getting great results and yet I still couldn't bring myself to continue. I went to the market to buy celery but I end up cooking it instead. Gosh....what on earth happened to me. I wonder if other's are experiencing the same thing.

Part of it I think is also because of the effect of the detox from celery juice that demotivated me. The eczema flared up like crazy at times. I just felt awful. It was a strange experience because some part of me had  a positive effect and some other part just went to crazy and was in pain all the time. It was driving me crazy as well.

I know I should take care of my health, but the fact is that, it's just a lot of work. I just don't have the time, nor the energy for it. I guess that's one of the reasons why I stopped juicing the celery. It was so exhausting for me to manage it everyday. Making smoothies was a lot easier. So at least I was still making smoothies. 

Talk about smoothies. I kept it simple nowadays. Since cucumber is also an alternative they say to detox, similar to celery, so I made sure that cucumber is always available at home. Same goes with apples. I found out that I can't eat anymore fruits that are sour. Seems that it will make the eczema worse than before. So I had to stop taking a variety of fruits because of that. Making smoothies will be simpler and cheaper for sure, LOL! I used to make smoothies with blueberries and pitaya....now I don't consume them anymore. No matter how delicious they are, no more will they be available at home. The price is pretty high as well. It's crazy! How on earth are we supposed to be eating all the super detox food when the price is too high. Go figure.

Thinking back on what I've done over the past few months, I realised what I was doing wrong. I thought I could get away with it but that was the reason for the failure. Although I drank celery juice  everyday back then, I wasn't 100% following the rules. For instance in my case, there are a lot of food or drinks that I should avoid taking. But since I have no self control, I took them anyways thinking that it won't be so bad since I'm taking celery juice everyday. 

SO! What I'm trying to do now is to focus on avoiding the things that are making me sick first before focusing too much on taking  the celery juice. I don't want to stress myself out anymore.