Green for a healthy diet

I love...

Iceberg lettuce

One cup of iceberg lettuce:
* 8 calories
* 0.5 gram protein
* 0.7 gram fiber
* 10 mg calcium
* 78 mg potassium
* 1.5 mg vitamin C
* 16 mcg folate
* 13.3 mcg of vitamin K
* 164 mcg beta carotene
* 152 mcg of lutein + zeaxanthin

However after reading this...

One cup of romaine lettuce has:
* 8 calories
* 0.58 gram protein
* 1 gram fiber
* 16 mg calcium
* 116 mg potassium
* 11.3 mg vitamin C
* 64 mcg folate
* 48.2 mcg vitamin K
* 1637 mcg beta carotene
* 1087 mcg of lutein + zeaxanthin.

(Source: Iceberg and Romaine Lettuce Nutrition)

So, I'll certainly switch to...

Romaine lettuce

Here, it's hard to get a package of pre-washed lettuce. I need a salad spinner...

I hate waiting

10:40am

Sudah 1 jam 40 minit menunggu. Tak tau lah bila akan dipanggil. I guess sebab tu lah tekanan darah tinggi. Belum apa2 lagi dah stressed. Memang dah jangka pasti akan menunggu lama sampai naik sengal montot yang memang dah sengal ni. Expected but still torturing. Got to find a way to kill time for next visits.

1. Beli netbook so boleh main internet sepuasnya ketika menunggu. Guna cellphone tak best. Skrin kecik.
2. Baca novel yang menarik malam sebelum visit. Esoknya boleh sambung baca ketika menunggu.
3. Membaca paper/artikel berkaitan kerja. Dah pergi masa kerja kenelah manfaatkan waktu menunggu. But this activity certainly is boring, macam menunggu juga.
4. Main sodoku atau cari perkataan tersembunyi atau install new game dalam cellphone. Secara ringkasnya, main game.
5. Do what I'm doing rite now. Drafting an entry for my blog using my cellphone. Tapi kalau lama2 sangat abis pulak bateri.

Ok hampir 15 minit sudah berlalu. Yes, I'm still here waiting. Tau tak, masa mula2 nervous. Menunggu giliran pun nervous, ntahapahapantah. Tapi la ni dah lama sangat, takde perasaan dah.

7:18pm

Next visit will be next 3 weeks. I guess I'll practice all the above except number 1. It's irrational to buy a netbook just because I feel bored waiting, isn't it? In addition, there's no 8" netbook available in the market yet :P.

Alhamdulillah

Syukur di atas limpah rahmat-Nya.

Verily, His Command, when He intends a thing, is only that He says to it, "Be!" - and it is!
(Qur'an 36:82)

A lesson from a movie

Just finished watching 'Bride Wars'.

Not the 1st time though I watched the movie. However, the 1st time I watched it on internet where the picture & sound qualities were bad. So, tak enjoy sangat. But, it's a chick flick movie anyway. Kualiti teruk pun masih senang nak faham.

To my surprised, the song (my song as JD said) 'Dream' by Priscilla Ahn is one of the soundtrack.

The song was played when both of them were about to walk down the aisle. Tak perasan pulak masa tengok dulu. I was introduced to the song when I watched 'Grey's~Anatomy' actually. Even though just a bit was played in one of the episodes of the TV series, I felt in love instantly with the song. Luckily we have internet. So just googled around to identify the title & singer of the song.

Ok, actually I wanna talk about the movie, not the soundtrack. It's about two best friends become rivals. They don't just fight, but they sabotage each other in quite cruel ways. To make the story short, at the end they apologize to each other. Somehow the fight has opened their eyes. I don't recall exactly what did Liv (Hudson) say, but she said something about being awake, that she used to be in control. Now, she realizes that it's ok to let go her feeling or something like that. The fight has awaken her.

Yawn. I feel sleepy already. So, the moral of the story is best friends fight, forgive & last forever. I guess that's the different between best friends & just friends.

Just updating...

Yay, it's Friday! Very cliche kan.

Alrite for the sake of keeping this blog updated, let's talk about yesterday or whatever...

- Had a seminar on the morning. The organizer was very unrealistic. Ada ke hanya 20 minit untuk satu pembentangan termasuk sesi Q&A. Nasib baik ada pembentang yang tak hadir. Kalau tak, 1:30pm baru tamat kot.

- Mas ajak gi Wong Solo during the lunch break. Seperti biasa, menu favorite - set ayam penyet with es buah.

- Untuk kali kedua, tersalah pakai kasut. Lain sebelah. Keluar kereta, jalan menuju ke dewan rasa tak balance. Baru perasan salah pakai kasut. Masa keluar rumah tak perasan sebab dari pintu rumah ke kereta cuma beberapa langkah. The 1st time, siap dah berjalan-jalan dalam shopping complex. Masa mencuba kasut di bahagian kasut baru perasan. Sedangkan very obvious, sebelah coklat, sebelah hitam. Tapi balance, tu yang tak perasan sepanjang berjalan.

- Malam tadi menonton 'Hantu Kak~Limah Balik Rumah'. Baca review, ramai yang kata best. Tapi, aku tengok tak best. Tak lawak sangat. Bagi aku, 'Zombie Kg~Pisang' lagi lawak. Ni yang buat aku malas nak keluar duit tengok wayang, beli DVD or langgan Astro First untuk tengok cerita melayu. Baik tunggu raya. Malam ni JD ajak tengok 'Ngangkung' pulak. Baru teringat, malam ni pukul 10:00pm nak tengok sambungan 'Deathrace' kat Max channel. Minggu lepas tengok tak abis.

- Seperti biasa, pukul 10:50pm menonton 'Criminal~Minds' kat Fox channel. Boleh rasa terharu pulak tengok ending malam tadi. Beberapa hari yang lalu, 'Criminal~Minds' ada kes kat Eugene, Oregon. Teringat training kat US dulu.

- Sedar-sedar dah pukul 1am. Terus off laptop & tidur.

Ok, tu je kot.

Updates!

Sekadar gambar hiasan.

Tempoh hari aku lunch di sebuah kafe kecil berwarna putih. The ambiance of the cafe was nice with English touch. However, based on the quality & the quantity of the meal, I'd say the price was ridiculously expensive. Tambahan pula, pilihan untuk makan tengahari/malam adalah terhad. Tidak sesuai untuk pelanggan yang kelaparan yang inginkan hidangan yang enak & menyenyangkan. Setakat lepak, minum air & makan kek lebih sesuai.

 

Malam tadi ke pawagam menonton 'The~Green~Hornet'. Nice movie, a very entertaining one. Biasalah, cerita superhero mesti tak logik. Even if they could suddenly fly, it'd make sense to me. But, a high-end computerized car equipped with a fax machine can't transfer data via USB to internet just doesn't make sense to me. So, I didn't buy the chasing act at the end of the story. But as I said earlier, it's still an entertaining movie.