So I was saying how I was going to start hitting the gym again come September once I finished fasting, well I got overexcited and started last Monday instead. First day back at the gym is always the worse, I did a relatively light workout, and am as sore as that time I got into a fight with Kung Fu Panda (true story). But really, it's been 4 days and I'm still sore. Last night I was back at the gym again and had a great workout then played basketball after. And by played I mean moved around lethargically on the court looking for an oxygen tank so I wouldn't pass out. Luckily (for all you) I survived. I'm going to blame my subpar performance on fasting but we all really know that it's because I'm so out of shape. But since I like blaming anything but myself, fasting it is. No food throughout the day really depletes your energy levels (like when Superman meets with kryptonite).
I read in the news that 0 people were charged in the Vancouver riots over here after the Stanley Cup loss, but hundreds have already been charged in the UK. UK win, Canada fail. Some people are saying the penalties are too harsh, I say good job on the UK for telling these 'rioters' they won't stand for the crap they just pulled.
Cool British word alert: When you're 'gutted' it means you're really upset. Not the same as gutting a fish as we say here, although the fish is probably feeling 'gutted' in both Canadian & British English I would imagine. British family member said she was gutted....I had some horrific images in my head until I figured out what she meant.
I want the new blackberry bold 9900. If you're going to ask me why my answer is because its shiny and new. And that's enough justification for me to scrap my old blackberry in favour of the new one. If you're a guy, you get it (unless you're an iQueer, yea I said it), if you're a girl, you probably have one(in reality about 200) too many purses so stop judging me.
Going to a charity barbeque tomorrow to benefit the victims in Somalia. It was organized by a good friend of mine so props to her. It should be a great event and will hopefully raise a lot of money for the cause. See I'm doing my part, I'll be there supporting it (while eating delicious bbq of course), yes I will donate, and I also donated some prizes for the raffle. This is not me 'gloating' about what I did because many have done SO MUCH more, but its just a gentle reminder to do whatever you can to help.
That's it for now.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
Perfect
I wake up this morning, and the clock says 10:01, I close my eyes for a second, then it hits me, I start work at 10. Uh oh. I jump out frantically changing into my clothes and get out the door. Call my manager tell her I slept in and I’ll be late. I’m in a frustrated mood since being late is never a good thing but then I’m waiting at a light and a senior sitting in the passenger seat of his car while his wife drives rolls down the window and says to me (after I turn my music down),
Senior (with a minor accent not sure from where, he looked white…err…Caucasian): “Did you modify your car”
Me: “Yea I lowered it and put new wheels on it.”
Senior (With the ok hand gesture out the window): “It’s just perfect. Beautiful.”
Me (with a smile of course): “Thank you sir, appreciated.”
And then we both went our separate ways. This stood out to me for 2 reasons. One, the fact that the gentlemen was not ‘intimidated’ by my loud sorta gangsta rap playing is nice because it shows that not everybody out there stereotypes, and two because, well, it was a compliment. And complementing me on my car is like complementing me on having a beautiful wife. It also turned my frustration into a nice little smile. Thanks old man you made my day!
Onto some serious matters, let’s talk about the drought in Africa. What have you done? I’ve done nothing I’ll admit it. They say that the worst of the drought may not even be over yet. To all my paki (I’m Pakistani I can say ‘paki’ just like black people can say n….) friends out there, remember the flood in Pakistan and how we all went Captain Planet and tried to do everything we could to save the world, well our Paki world. Africa is our world too, let’s get on it, let’s ‘save the world.’ We are all one, we are all united. I see pictures online of children looking malnourished and I turn away. I’m sure you do the same. This is real, when that ad to help out comes on TV let’s look at those images for a minute no matter how hard it might be, because maybe then it will hit us, down to our very core, that we NEED to help these people. I’m fasting because of Ramadan and I’m extremely thirsty and I had some water 6 hours ago, I took a shower that probably lasted way too long, and I let the tap run while I was brushing my teeth (actually I didn’t do this last part but it makes it more dramatic), we need to understand that they don’t have all these luxuries that we take for granted over here. Those of us who are fasting should understand how hard it is without food and water. And those who aren’t fasting just understand that when you’re taking a sip of cold water only to empty the last half of the glass in the sink, there is someone out there that needs it, and it is a life or death situation for them. So do what you can, skip McDonalds, skip Affy’s (local people know), and give that money to an organization that’s trying to help those people. And stare at those pictures of those unfortunate children, let it hit you, let it bring you to tears, don’t try and be macho, try and be caring, and then do something about it.
We are all one. Peace.
Senior (with a minor accent not sure from where, he looked white…err…Caucasian): “Did you modify your car”
Me: “Yea I lowered it and put new wheels on it.”
Senior (With the ok hand gesture out the window): “It’s just perfect. Beautiful.”
Me (with a smile of course): “Thank you sir, appreciated.”
And then we both went our separate ways. This stood out to me for 2 reasons. One, the fact that the gentlemen was not ‘intimidated’ by my loud sorta gangsta rap playing is nice because it shows that not everybody out there stereotypes, and two because, well, it was a compliment. And complementing me on my car is like complementing me on having a beautiful wife. It also turned my frustration into a nice little smile. Thanks old man you made my day!
Onto some serious matters, let’s talk about the drought in Africa. What have you done? I’ve done nothing I’ll admit it. They say that the worst of the drought may not even be over yet. To all my paki (I’m Pakistani I can say ‘paki’ just like black people can say n….) friends out there, remember the flood in Pakistan and how we all went Captain Planet and tried to do everything we could to save the world, well our Paki world. Africa is our world too, let’s get on it, let’s ‘save the world.’ We are all one, we are all united. I see pictures online of children looking malnourished and I turn away. I’m sure you do the same. This is real, when that ad to help out comes on TV let’s look at those images for a minute no matter how hard it might be, because maybe then it will hit us, down to our very core, that we NEED to help these people. I’m fasting because of Ramadan and I’m extremely thirsty and I had some water 6 hours ago, I took a shower that probably lasted way too long, and I let the tap run while I was brushing my teeth (actually I didn’t do this last part but it makes it more dramatic), we need to understand that they don’t have all these luxuries that we take for granted over here. Those of us who are fasting should understand how hard it is without food and water. And those who aren’t fasting just understand that when you’re taking a sip of cold water only to empty the last half of the glass in the sink, there is someone out there that needs it, and it is a life or death situation for them. So do what you can, skip McDonalds, skip Affy’s (local people know), and give that money to an organization that’s trying to help those people. And stare at those pictures of those unfortunate children, let it hit you, let it bring you to tears, don’t try and be macho, try and be caring, and then do something about it.
We are all one. Peace.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Imminator
Oh Pushups how I missed you....
Pushups were always my achilles heel. My whole life I've sucked at them. I was lucky if I could muster 7 straight pushups even when I was a scrawny little kid weighing the equivalent of a bag of basmati rice. It makes no sense because I use to be such a light weight. I do have long Dalsim (Street Fighter reference) style arms and apparently its harder for people with long arms but heck my arms aren't that flipping long. Maybe I just was that weak. Anyways when I started going to the gym I made it a point to finish off every workout with as many pushups as I could do. At my peak I got to doing 50 straight pushups and for me that's impressive (am I easily impressed?). I felt so good about it too but since I've been out of the gym for a few months because of my ankle injury (partial excuse, also lazy) I have to start all over. I'm fasting so I can't go to the gym yet, but I did 20 pushups at home last night as a start and although it was way more difficult then it should have been, it felt good to be back at it and I WILL get back to 50.
I'm all gung ho (what does gung ho even mean?) to get back into the gym and I got a whole plan ready to go post Ramadan (look at the last post if you don't know what that is you ignorant fool). I have a workout plan and a diet plan and since I'm single its going to be my only focus. It's time to focus on me (stop whining its not selfish I won't forget all of you). I don't care to have a social life I just want to be in the gym. I will also be starting a diet plan at the same time which will have me eating the right amount of calories, proteins, carbs and fats for my body type. I have to eat 3,000 calories a day which is a lot of food even for a foodaholic like myself but I now eat for fuel not for pleasure (after this month where we eat nothing but deep friend goodness of course). I am a machine. I am Imminator. (yea the name doesn't have the desired effect I was hoping for, suggestions?)
OVOxo (Drake's concert here in Toronto) was really good. It wasn't as good as last year there were way more surprise guests last year but it was still a good time with good people. Although I'm not sure if I can still claim to have never been high in my life since there were so many people smoking weed there I must have gotten high off the fumes (children I kid, getting high is stupid and I obviously did not, it was rather annoying having to be in the vicinity of it). Also all of Toronto's hottest girls must have been there (I use 'hottest' strategically, because most all were 'hot' scantily clad skanks who I have no respect for and are nothing but eye candy, the beautiful respectable wifey material girls were far and few).
I've also recently achieved one of my life long goals. I must say it is one of my proudest achievements. I finally, after so long, so many years, so many sleepless nights, different approaches, different styles, different strategies, I have finally defeated the natural comb-over that my parents graced me with ever since I was a kid. Why they did this to me I have no idea. Maybe they didn't love me who knows. But it's gone now. Feel free to congratulate me on this.
Until Next time..
Pushups were always my achilles heel. My whole life I've sucked at them. I was lucky if I could muster 7 straight pushups even when I was a scrawny little kid weighing the equivalent of a bag of basmati rice. It makes no sense because I use to be such a light weight. I do have long Dalsim (Street Fighter reference) style arms and apparently its harder for people with long arms but heck my arms aren't that flipping long. Maybe I just was that weak. Anyways when I started going to the gym I made it a point to finish off every workout with as many pushups as I could do. At my peak I got to doing 50 straight pushups and for me that's impressive (am I easily impressed?). I felt so good about it too but since I've been out of the gym for a few months because of my ankle injury (partial excuse, also lazy) I have to start all over. I'm fasting so I can't go to the gym yet, but I did 20 pushups at home last night as a start and although it was way more difficult then it should have been, it felt good to be back at it and I WILL get back to 50.
I'm all gung ho (what does gung ho even mean?) to get back into the gym and I got a whole plan ready to go post Ramadan (look at the last post if you don't know what that is you ignorant fool). I have a workout plan and a diet plan and since I'm single its going to be my only focus. It's time to focus on me (stop whining its not selfish I won't forget all of you). I don't care to have a social life I just want to be in the gym. I will also be starting a diet plan at the same time which will have me eating the right amount of calories, proteins, carbs and fats for my body type. I have to eat 3,000 calories a day which is a lot of food even for a foodaholic like myself but I now eat for fuel not for pleasure (after this month where we eat nothing but deep friend goodness of course). I am a machine. I am Imminator. (yea the name doesn't have the desired effect I was hoping for, suggestions?)
OVOxo (Drake's concert here in Toronto) was really good. It wasn't as good as last year there were way more surprise guests last year but it was still a good time with good people. Although I'm not sure if I can still claim to have never been high in my life since there were so many people smoking weed there I must have gotten high off the fumes (children I kid, getting high is stupid and I obviously did not, it was rather annoying having to be in the vicinity of it). Also all of Toronto's hottest girls must have been there (I use 'hottest' strategically, because most all were 'hot' scantily clad skanks who I have no respect for and are nothing but eye candy, the beautiful respectable wifey material girls were far and few).
I've also recently achieved one of my life long goals. I must say it is one of my proudest achievements. I finally, after so long, so many years, so many sleepless nights, different approaches, different styles, different strategies, I have finally defeated the natural comb-over that my parents graced me with ever since I was a kid. Why they did this to me I have no idea. Maybe they didn't love me who knows. But it's gone now. Feel free to congratulate me on this.
Until Next time..
Monday, August 1, 2011
Cheat Code
Ramadan Mubarak to everyone. I see everybody's facebook status' and its such a beautiful thing to see so many people focused on this blessed month and focused on trying to get the most out of it iA. I don't have anything beyond what others have already said so I will say the same here, that let's take advantage of this blessed month as best we can and reap the true benefits of it.
For those who don't know or for my non muslim friends, this month is a cheat code for good deeds, every good deed gets multiplied and God's mercy is at its highest. The gates of hell are closed during this month and the gates of heaven open. Many many people will (iA) be forgiven this month for their sins, sins they've committed in the open, in secret, small sins and major sins. We as muslims are never to doubt God's infinite mercy, and this is part of his mercy to give us a month like this where we can really gain from, where we can 'catch up' (so to speak) on our good deeds, where we can refocus our efforts on our religion (this is a very quick and dirty explanation, go do some googling people).
We also fast during this month. From sunrise to sunset each day. We don't eat or drink during that time, and we try to stay away from temptations. Fasting is something God loves for us to do, maybe because it shows our commitment to him, or the sacrifices we're willing to make I'm not too sure. I was at the mosque and the Imam (akin to a priest I guess, religious leader of sorts) was saying how God multiplies all your good deeds for you during this month, but asks that you fast, and the fast is the one thing that is solely for him. So it is definitely something of great value and great importance.
Lastly since this is a month of forgiveness, I believe it is important that we forgive each other for all these little things we hate on each other for so that we can focus on seeking forgiveness from God. Lets try and mend all the broken relationships with friends and family. With that being said there are a lot of things that I'm sure I've done knowingly or unknowingly to people that I should be apologizing for and seeking forgiveness for and if I were to ask all of you separately I'd be 82 by the time I'd be done so I say it in this blog that anything I may have done to you, whether I meant to or not, whether it was a big deal or not, whether you did something to me first or not; if I hurt you or upset you in anyway, if I wronged you in any way, I am sorry and I ask that you please forgive me because I am not perfect, and chances are I'll screw up again, but I'd like to humble myself in front of you all and in front of God, and ask that you forgive me for my shortcommings. This goes out to all my friends past and present, my family from all over, my acquaintances, my coworkers and anybody else I've been fortunate enough to meet in my life. And don't ask me to forgive you for anything, its already been done.
May Allah allow all of us to truly reap the benefits of this month. Ameen
For those who don't know or for my non muslim friends, this month is a cheat code for good deeds, every good deed gets multiplied and God's mercy is at its highest. The gates of hell are closed during this month and the gates of heaven open. Many many people will (iA) be forgiven this month for their sins, sins they've committed in the open, in secret, small sins and major sins. We as muslims are never to doubt God's infinite mercy, and this is part of his mercy to give us a month like this where we can really gain from, where we can 'catch up' (so to speak) on our good deeds, where we can refocus our efforts on our religion (this is a very quick and dirty explanation, go do some googling people).
We also fast during this month. From sunrise to sunset each day. We don't eat or drink during that time, and we try to stay away from temptations. Fasting is something God loves for us to do, maybe because it shows our commitment to him, or the sacrifices we're willing to make I'm not too sure. I was at the mosque and the Imam (akin to a priest I guess, religious leader of sorts) was saying how God multiplies all your good deeds for you during this month, but asks that you fast, and the fast is the one thing that is solely for him. So it is definitely something of great value and great importance.
Lastly since this is a month of forgiveness, I believe it is important that we forgive each other for all these little things we hate on each other for so that we can focus on seeking forgiveness from God. Lets try and mend all the broken relationships with friends and family. With that being said there are a lot of things that I'm sure I've done knowingly or unknowingly to people that I should be apologizing for and seeking forgiveness for and if I were to ask all of you separately I'd be 82 by the time I'd be done so I say it in this blog that anything I may have done to you, whether I meant to or not, whether it was a big deal or not, whether you did something to me first or not; if I hurt you or upset you in anyway, if I wronged you in any way, I am sorry and I ask that you please forgive me because I am not perfect, and chances are I'll screw up again, but I'd like to humble myself in front of you all and in front of God, and ask that you forgive me for my shortcommings. This goes out to all my friends past and present, my family from all over, my acquaintances, my coworkers and anybody else I've been fortunate enough to meet in my life. And don't ask me to forgive you for anything, its already been done.
May Allah allow all of us to truly reap the benefits of this month. Ameen
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