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If you are thinking of losing weight by joining a gym, here is some good news for you. True Fitness is having a crazy promotion through MyStyle that will be ending on the 30th April 2009. I only got to know about this accidentally while doing some random search on health, exercise and gym.

Currently, I am paying RM160 not including 5% government tax per month. So, this latest promotion came as quite a big shock to me. Here goes.

Only RM88 for a 2 months Membership, not including 5% government tax. The normal price would be RM798, as stated in the MyStyle website.

True Fitness promotion details

A) Promotion #1
To enjoy a 2 months membership for only RM88:
SMS ‘my111 truefitness‘ to 33365.

B) Promotion #2
To enjoy a free 14 day membership & a 1 week Bikram Hot Yoga passes:
SMS ‘my365 truefitness‘ to 33365.

Now, the terms & conditions part and some bad news. Firstly, the dateline is 30th April. That means another 4 days left before this promotion expires. Secondly, you must be a first time visitor to be entitled for anyone of these promotions.
UPDATE: This promotion has been extended to further notice due to overwhelming response.

I will try to get my girlfriend to sign up for this promotion. Since she’s been complaining about her weight lately and it would be nice to have someone accompany me working out for the next two months until my 12 months contract expires.

Check this out for more info: True Fitness on MyStyle
Hat tip: Forever 28

If there was a law persecuting blog owners of “blog negligence”, I would have been thrown into jail and/or fined.

Two weeks ago, I went to the PC Fair at KLCC to get myself some tech gadgets — RAMs, external hard disks (one for myself and another for my brother) and a mouse. The RAMs were for office use. The external hard disk is because I can no longer tolerate the lack of space of my existing drive and constantly repeating these 6 steps to increase hard disk space. Lastly, the scroll wheel on my mouse stopped functioning just days before the event.

Add that all up and I had a perfect excuse to go for the event. After my girlfriend found out that I have been to the PC Fair and back without even mentioning it to her, she asked me jokingly if I was there to check out the booth babes.

Now, this is a trap question. Whatever answer I give can and would be used against me. If I answered “No, I was not there to check out the PC Fair booth babes”, she would never believe me. If I answered “Yes”, well…

I ended up choosing to act stupid and answered, “What booth babes? I was there to get some tech gadgets and did not see any of them. Must have been the economy.” Of course, that was not a correct answer. Just do a quick image search on Google for the term PC Fair and you will see more pretty (judgmental) booth girls than tech gadgets.

What would you have answered?

After 14-emotion-packed days filled with excitement, hope, expectation, anger, disappointment and whatnot, the day to pick up the keys to my first set of wheels has arrived. I wonder if this is how PMS would have felt like. I really do not know.

If this situation were to prolong, there may not be any hair left on my head. The stress from my work and the “fight” to get that number plate is becoming too much a burden for me. The line separating sanity and insanity seems almost nonexistent. I was afraid I might not even make it through.

Thankfully, I did.

15-01-2009 will be the last day I walk. Ok, that sounded really wrong.

From now onwards, any real walking and exercise will be done on the treadmill at the True Fitness gym. I have been skipping gym a lot recently. If I allow myself to procrastinate any further, I can kiss my ass goodbye. Like literally.

It doesn’t matter what some politicians are saying, the people are feeling the impact of the economy slowdown nowadays. From what I hear, things will be much worse come next year.

I am feeling the impact of the economy slowdown too. So much that I have to resort to stealing. I stole RM8 from some foreign workers today. Yup, you read that correctly. RM8. They say if you want to steal, steal big. I guess I am not such a good listener.

I know stealing is wrong. I did not want to steal either but I was left with no other choices. The prices of food and other necessities have raised so much in the past months.

They said the global oil price was high that is why they had to raise the price of petrol. It was a 78 cents raise, mind you. Then, they raised the electricity tariffs claiming that petrol was needed to generate electricity. Either that or I read wrongly.

Now that the global oil price has dropped so much — even much less than one year ago — all these people could do is to tell you they will stop subsidizing the petrol. I am fine with that but these people are taking us as if we are a bunch of idiots.

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If you Google for Why Do We Dream?, you’ll get a long list of results. Many questioned why we dream. Is there any effect to someone’s body when that person dreams? Is there any side effect when someone dreams?

According to this article on top dream theories, some researches suggest that dreams have no purpose at all. On the other hand, some believe that dreaming is essential to the mental, emotional and physical well-being of a person.

Some even believe that dreams have a meaning to it. All you need is just a guide to interpret dreams. A quick search brought me to this online guide to dream interpretation website. I say that it is quite a good read if you are interested or curious about dreams.

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One thing I find fascinating about dreams is the ability or inability for us to control it. Most of the time, I am just a passenger in my dream and don’t even know I was dreaming. However, there were a few occasions where I knew I was dreaming and was able to somewhat control it. They call it lucid dream.

I was not able to fully control the progress of my dream on the very first try though. In fact, I never did manage to have total control, only partial. The first couple of times, I woke up immediately after I realized that I was dreaming. After a few more “practices”, I was able to play “director” in my own dream. It felt pretty cool I must say.

Some dreams can be so intense and real to the point that I wake up feeling confused. At times, the negative feeling caused by a dream can lasts for hours before it ends.

Have you ever experienced anything like that in the past? Have you ever wondered if it is possible that two (or more) people “meet” in a dream?