Training 14 July

I have started reloading creatine again! Felt the effects today... and training feels good with it! Creatine is no myth! Creatine works wonders!

A damn good pecs workout, kena forced by R, someone i met from Safra gym (IBM manager, can pull strings...hehe) Was trained to the breaking point laaa... and I feel so stress training with them, but stress also good! I need someone to force me...

After the pecs workout, it was triceps... did loads of skull crushers alternated with dips - a deadly combo that helps to bulk. After that was weighted dips, triceps pulldown, dumbell triceps extensions... lots of them! grreeeat!

Preworkout nutrition: Peanut Butter Wholemeal bread + some leftover Banana Chocolate cake (opps! ) + one chicken breast

In-between workout nutrition: ON Strawberry protein shake with milk

Post workout nutrition: somemore chicken breast + Vitamin E + Flax Seed Oil + PAPAYA

time to sleep... no sleep no grow... no grow = waste the time and $$$ i spent in the gym! hohoho

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July 13 Sunday of Foodie Gymmie - Sunny

0700: bid farewell to my family who are leaving for a holiday. I cannot go anywhere else bcos of the stupid intern larh.

0730: Breakfast - Breakfast was horrible because my parents bought 6 bread from Cake History + My sister bought another, that is total equal to 9! I was "tasked" to finished 3 bread + A big box of cakes before they are spoilt! OMG! The 3 chosen bread are Cheese Raisin Bread, Sweet Potato Bread and Ham and Cheese Bread. I ate Cheese Raisin which was my favourite as the combi is lovely( is it cos of oil price or what??? how come significantly lesser cheese already!) next was ham and cheese, quite bland, so i added peanut butter to it! After the 2 breads, ate 1 slice of Gardenia Raisin bread and next was the cake! then I also ate some junks.... junkie me! Urgh.

Butter Cookies - one of the morning junks... anyway the dark blue tin one from Denmark is nicer than this!

Raisins - Popped a few...

Chocolate Banana Cake from Secret Recipe which I was tasked to finished! I cannot finish them lar.. still got leftovers..who wants?! lelong...

Gardenia Raisin Bread - Gardenia one is nicer than Sunshine's one FYI!

Tried 2 different brands of Peanut Butter on the Ham and Cheese bread to test the different. Skippy one is nicer.

ALL CARBS SO FAR!

0800: Feeling uneasy, I left for gym. Trained mostly my back and shoulders. Met Alfred and he asked me train him for back, I obliged. Met this young guy 17yrs old only, but body of actor vincent! Future commando-to-be. He wants to train biceps with me, I obliged. I nearly died under his hands! haha. Met Biaos, he was training under his PT, and he was doing front squats la...i hate that exercise la... feels like the whole world is on you!

HAD A WONDERFUL WORKOUT

1200: My Lunch: Protein Shake and Sandwich! Protein for post-workout recovery and bread to spike the insulin level after workout to reverse catabolism, and to make sure I have energy for later activities.

ON Whey Protein... one of the better tasting protein... Many people tried some sucky ones before, and now they have this lasting impression in them that all protein shake sucks... this is not true k!
anyway this is very ex now la... where got cheap lobang?!

I WAS SATISFIED WITH LUNCH. BUT TOO LITTLE PROTEIN

1300: Swimming @ Safra Yishun. Sunny, then cloudy, and then sunny... intermitent. swam 20laps. took 2 hours... cos i hiao(slang), want to tan abit and dun want to look like snow white JJ =| and the swim, I am really shaggggg... and hungry...

Safra Yishun Swimming Pool... nice hor...

NICE SWIM

1530: comtemplating if I should go to the stadium for a short run and do some abs exercise. But I was lazy, so i went home.

1600: Home, but not to rest, took out my mat and skipping rope. Skip and did crunches and some core exercises while watch Discovery Channel. It was showing Japan Tokyo Fire Department. Kind of interesting.

Skipping is a good cardio workout!

1630: Ate 3 Eggs + Milk + 4 Strips of Turkey Bacon

Turkey Bacon, better alternative to Pork Bacon, less fats!

1700: Proper Rest.

1800: Out

1900: NTUC Grocery Shopping. Being alone for the next few days... I need to stock up my food pile. lol. The housebrand tuna is on discount now!!! 2 cans for $2.65 only! + on top of that, there is another 5% off... my goodnessssss.... so cheap cheap cheap... having Singapore blood in me... I cannot resist... =\ Bought chicken breast too, for I love chicken breast, be it steamed, boiled, fried, deep fried, grilled, bbq..whatever... I still love it.

Who loves Tuna more than me??? lol

1 can of Wasabi Salmon Spread???

Leaning Tower of Tuna...

Tuna in water, in brine, in Penang curry, in Chilli and wasabi salmon!

Bought Tabasco Sauce for the Chicken Breast, else steamed chicken taste quite bland

2000: Being protein deficient for the whole day... I need a protein power-packed dinner! so I prepared my own protein dinner. woohoooo... here it is.

Chicken Breast and Pacific Dory - Marinated with salt and pepper, sprinkled with tabaso for some spiciness!

2100: Finished Blogging... and I am hungry again... Eat Papaya...

And this more or less sums up July 13 Sunday of Foodie Gymmie.
FYI: this is not the typical sunday of foodie gymmie and he usually doesn't buy so much tuna, and he does not eat chicken and dory every sunday! =)

Wild Olives @ Airport T-2 Staff Canteen

Changi Airport is not just all about popeyes! Wild Olives - very nice and cheap western food hidden in T2. Not at the usual restaurants you see at T2, but at its ulu, secluded staff canteen... Its a challenge to find this place! If not for my sister's recommendation, I will never know about its existence!

Met her for lunch as my mentor for my internship happened to ask me to drop by her company to supervise some stuffs... yeah... "supervise" with the inverted commas! hehe!! So we went for a looooong lunch since I was a free man for the whole day! purrrfect! =)

Grilled Catfish with Dili sauce, served with Herbs Potatoes and steamed veggies
@ $5.50

Can you see that the catfish is so big and thick? Its so soft and tasty? and its not too oily! Its damn nice can!? my goodness for the price that I am paying I cannot believe it! The herb potatoes (those black black thing that you see at the top left) are also damn nice lar... Usually western food sides are either fries, wedges, jacket potatoes or potato salad, but this one is very unique! Some food are unique but cmi(cannot make it), but this one cmi(can make it!). It has a very special herbal taste, and the potatoes are not mushy... very nice to munch! + got healthy steamed veggies to add some fibre and slow digesting carbs to your meal!

I love everything la... and nothing was left on the plate! slurpZ~

Black Pepper Chicken Pasta @ somewhere around $3

My sis was telling me how great it was... but I had a taste of it... and i give it..erm.. just a pass. Its a tat too oily... like "hokkien mee", and the black pepper is not pepperish enough, but taste kinda sweet instead. And I don't like over-cooked pasta... this is over-cooked! So much bad comments, but looking at the brighter side... they are generous with the chicken... and of cos... the black pepper sauce... and the oil!

Wild Olives is located @
Changi Airport
Terminal 2
Level 3M
Note:
Fried Food is served on odd days
Grilled Food on even days

HiPhone iClone - the reverse engineered

"HiPhone" - iClone

I am so impressed by the reverse engineering in China. Everything looks and feels the same! Except for the thickness as the real iPhone requires very high-end precison engineering. But nevertheless, this is good enough!Only at half the price at what Singtel is going to sell and able to play with it before its even launched! Even the camera is better than my HTC's, and it even has MP3 playback function!

BBQ food and Vitamin C

I came across this article, and believe it or not is up to you! But there are so little research done, as to what is the minimum qty that one needs to consume for it to be considered carcinogenic, what is the half life of the carcinogen? (if there's any) etc. But knowing more is better than knowing less... so here it goes...

extracted from Testosterone Nation July 09 2008

When you cook meat, fat drips off and hits the coals. The hot coals form a carcinogen known as benzopyrene, which floats up in smoke and embeds itself in your burger. Likewise, when the hot grill comes into contact with the meat, other carcinogens known as heterocyclic amines are formed.

To make things worse, if your host is grilling hot dogs or some other preserved meat, they're soaked in nitrates. Once nitrates are eaten, they combine with amines in the mouth and gut to form nitrosamines, which are yet another class of carcinogen.

Put them all together and you've got...well, bad news. Granted, the odds of developing esophageal or gut cancer from just a few servings of burnt meat are very low, but why take a chance, especially since it's summer and you'll no doubt be eating more charred meat than a hungry Neanderthal?

Soooo, when you know some charred meat is on the way, eat something high in Vitamin C before so much as touching your lips to a burger. Foods that are high in Vitamin C that might reasonably go with a barbecued food include red peppers and broccoli.

Barring that, pop a Vitamin C tab before you chow down.