Mr. Farang’s mumbo jumbo corner

Taking another baby steps into recovering myself.

The highlights of my workouts during the week are :

( + ) sign means 10 ~ 20 second rest.

( i ) box jump @ 8 ~ 10inches above knee height x 12+12+12 reps (1st set), 15+15 (2nd set), 18 + 18(3rd set).

( ii ) DB Incline Press 50lbers x 20+18+15(completed at a go) 1st set , 60lbers x 18 + 13+3 (2nd set), 70lbers x 18 + 14 (3rd set).

( iii ) DB Shoulder presses 60lbers x 12 +6, 70lbers x 6

http://malaysiakini.com/news/79677

In any election, there are winners and losers. Any failure has its factors. The link above listed out some of the concerns.

The well known reasons are already voiced by many Malaysians. The continuous fuel price increases, more inflatory basic necessities prices, escalating crime rates, racial preferential policies, corruption, just to name a few.

The government also failed to adopt new alternative media, Internet, to promote its campaign and failed to see Internet is a serious business.  They failed to see that Malaysians are switching to Internet to read more concrete information. More internet blogs are spreading information regarding governmental projects failure & bailouts, political scandals, etc. The failure to see internet is a serious for communicating information raise a question mark over a government, who refuses change.

Just like a successful company, the board of directors and its key leutienants will need to be review its performance, unlearn & relearn,  innovate new ways for business, constant renewal of its product & services; to survive its progress into the future years. Progress is a word that does not guarantee success without doing what is necessary to leap into the future.

There are many small townships in Malaysia where the government had failed to live upto its promises. The promises to provide job growth, wealth distribution, economic opportunities for all races, failure to promote the mouth tongue languages & schools for each ethnic race (Chinese, Indians & Malays), crime rate has risen tremendously over the decades, corruption is so widespread you can pay off cops for almost anything . The list can go on forever.

Remember Mr.Farang didn’t have a very good childhood.

There is no way to blame its current leader. To paralyze a political party, an organization; it must have taken many years & mistakes.  To paralyze a country filled with rich resources, it takes decades of favorism & cronyism.

Act now!!!

It seems to be the country leaders have yet to listen and act properly.

http://malaysiakini.com/news/79724

Rumours of government tempting the opposition members with money to jump ship to win more seats (to win one of 13 states in the countries).  Rumours cannot surface without some kind of act. Rumours cannot be quashed unless the government decided to end all these rumours. 

Act now!!!

A political tsunami as many called it in Malaysia.

Malaysians voted for change. 

For years, many have suffered and survived through marginalizations.

Now, the people stand up and voice the loudest noise yet.  This should serve a very good opportunity for the opposition to perform. If they deliver results for the next 4 years, people will like to stick with the new opposition coalition (PKR-DAP-PAS).

With these in questions (some of them were problems unsolved for decades), people decided anything but the Barison Nasional.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barisan_Nasional

For years, some the underlying problems unresolved :

( i ) Unequal education opportunity inwhich university entries are based on race rather than educational results,

( ii ) with entry into university denied for many, many ventured out of the country to study aboard in countries i.e. USA, UK, Australia being the famous educational destinations;

( iii ) that makes part of the nation’s money flow out of the country besides other reasons i.e. economical deficits. 

( iv ) A country should embrace the world standards i.e. as simple as embracing English language. We cannot enforce our national language with trading partners, there is no way it is going to happen.  English is the way to communicate with the world. Without promotion and embracing English language in schools, the human resource of this country is poorer than neighboring country. No doubt about that.

( v ) Crippled with the judisciary scandal, government-business scandals; people decided a change is needed.

( vi ) Living standards have increased tremendously with oil price affecting our people daily basis. As an oil exporting country, we increase our oil price for few times in the last 4 years.

( vii ) With Malaysia economical growth by 6+%, this has not transformed into job growth for the people. This inevitably caused people to switch votes.

These are only small list of reasons for the ruling coalition’s failure in the election.

Here are the results in 2008 Malaysia Election results :

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/79575

http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/sub/news/story/0,4574,270634,00.html

Sweet Victory!!!

Truly indeed!

Since injury, I tried & took my time to repair myself and gain my strength back. Here are some of my current stats.

Incline Barbell Press hitting 175lbs now….another 50lbs would be my PR.

Vertical Hack Squat hitting 360lbs …. another 90lbs would be my PR.

Technogym Seated hitting 75UOM (maximum 95UOM)….

Cybex Eagle Chest Press hitting 190lbs…..been gain strength slowly but steadily.

Skullcrusher hitting 85lbs …… I usually hit high volume for this. I’m hitting my PR already.

Wide grip lats pulldown hitting 77UOM……hopefully, I can hit 97UOM my PR again.

Cable Straight arm pulldown hitting 24.5UOM…..I hope to hit my PR 28UOM.

Hitting better strengths is not my objective for self repair. But if it comes with my training, that’s a good point. I will continue to strive for better body definition.