Red Meat and Chicken

Have you ever heard of a doctor, a nutritionist, or anyone saying that eating chicken breasts without the skin (grilled or BBQ'd) is unhealthy and raises cholesterol? I know i haven't. If it were a reality, or a myth, people would be talking about it no matter what (just like high protein damages the kidneys or whatever). Other than that new crap about grilled chicken being a carcinogen, i haven't heard anything else. I never cared about cholesterol amounts in food, and i never will. Personally, i don't think cholesterol you ingest from food affects your body's own cholesterol. it just raises the value in the blood stream as it's absorbed. Now, why is it that RED MEAT gets all the bad rap when it comes to cholesterol. i'm sure you've heard it all "too much beef isnt' good for you" ... "red meat raises your cholesterol" ... "red meat causes heart problems"... etc. I've done some research on this and... the cholesterol in the food itself isn't causing the problem (that's what i personally think). It's the saturated fat in the beef itself that causes the problems... don't get me wrong... i'm not saying beef is bad (i'm against this whole red meat is bad shit), but i'm saying that the content of fat in beef is much higher than any other meats (except for pork). So, let's compare it with chicken breasts (since chicken breasts are lean and known to be safe and healthy):

1- a serving of 100 grams of chicken breasts has 1.3 grams of fat in it, a serving of 100 grams of 90% lean beef has 10 grams of fat in it
2- a serving of 100 grams of chicken breasts has 23 grams of protein in it, whereas 90% lean beef would have 20 grams
3- a serving of 100 grams of chicken breasts has 58 MG OF CHOLESTEROL while a serving of 100 grams of 90% lean beef has 65 MG CHOLESTEROL
4- here's the real killer :) ... 1 egg yolk has... drum role please... 215 MG OF CHOLESTEROL!!!! that's about 350 grams worth of beef!!! people don't eat that much beef every day, but they sure eat an egg or 2 everyday during breakfast (if they have breakfast)...

There is, ofcourse, a correlation between the amount of red meat a person eats and his/her chances of getting heart disease and high cholesterol... but we've always been told that it's from the cholesterol... no... it's from the fat... an egg yolk has almost 4 times as much cholesterol as 100 grams of 90% lean beef, but it has 3 times less fat than 100 gr beef. and remember, when you eat a half pound burger, it's gonna be mostly 75% or 80% lean... if you don't include the oil they use to cook it, that's around 50-60 grams of saturated fat... if you include the oil, that's about 60-80 grams of saturated fat... and the cholesterol content is just about the same as an egg yolk in that case.

my point? all kinds of meat (and eggs) are good, just watch your f***ing saturated fat intake. and when i say watch your fat intake, that's what i mean. i don't mean eliminate it... you need fat just as much as anything else. just make sure you get most of it from unsaturated fat sources... fish oil and flax oil being your best bets.

Excerpts from the Diary of a Pissed Off Bodybuilder

6 weeks out

Yup… six weeks left… Actually, it’s 5 weeks and 5 days. Phil told me the new changes I’ll be “implementing” on my diet this week… And, well, I’ll just have to wait and see… uptil now, I haven’t lost an ounce, but my body composition is changing… DAILY!! The dude’s a freaking genius! You wanna see what he looked like back in 94? Here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uut4zYmCl64
Please pay no attention to his haircut… it was the 90’s

Movies

Last week, Mariam and I saw “The Departed”… kick ass movie. And last night, we saw “stay”, which was the dumbest movie I’ve ever seen in my entire life! What else did we watch… ummmm… the hills have eyes, texas chainsaw massacre, Bratz…. You don’t understand… it wasn’t for me!! I swear…. You see, my wife loves horror movies, but they scare the hell out of her… so, we watched bratz after the texas chainsaw massacre to calm her down… get it? … I’m waiting for Saw 3… should’ve been out yesterday
OH YEAH!!! We saw “thank you for smoking”… that was A REALLY GOOD movie… seriously, if you get the chance, watch it. (thanks Rashid)

Things I’d like to correct

As I said in a recent post, Phil taught me that there’s a lot of bullshit going on in bodybuilding today. Here are the things that probably contradict what I said before, but are the absolute truth. I apologize if I mislead anyone. Also, I’ve added some points that will probably help you to achieve your goals:

1- If you take bodybuilding too seriously (or anything else), get caught up in the small details and forget the basics, you’ll fail

2- You must eat fruits and vegetables in moderation. Not too much, and not too little. Know when to eat them and the right amounts to eat.

3- Your food doesn’t have to taste like ass. Learn how to cook, it’ll do you a world of good. (It’s been months since I had tuna, it’s all chicken now and it’s marvelous!)

4- EAT YOUR FIBER!!!!

5- You NEED to eat lots of fish oil and olive oil. And when I say lots, I mean as per your caloric needs of fat.

6- WRITE DOWN WHATEVER YOU EAT OR DRINK EVERY SINGLE DAY!!!! It takes one minute to do this. You wouldn’t believe how important this is to keep track of your caloric intake. If you do this, you’d know where you went wrong, and what you did right, and you can build on that

7- Too much cardio is plain bad for fatloss or muscle gain. Calculate how much you burn from cardio, and how much you burn from weight training every week, and adjust your calories accordingly.

8- Cheat meals will only hinder your progress. The whole calorie zigzag thing is bullshit. Cheat meals are only good to keep you from shooting yourself.

9- Do not… and I repeat… DO NOT START YOUR DIET WITH A LOW CALORIE INTAKE!!!

10- Take pictures of yourself every week, in the same environment (same lighting, same clothes, same stance, same everything). Because you’ll hardly notice the small changes that go on week after week unless you have a reference point.

11- Starting out your diet with a fat burner is the worst thing you can do.

12- High rep is bullshit. Keep it low. You built your muscles on low reps, and that’s how you’re gonna keep’em.

13- Liquid protein sources (whey, casein) are just as good, if not better, than solid protein sources. IF AND ONLY IF YOUR STOMACH CAN STAND IT!!! I remember last year, I was very busy one day and all I had to eat for the whole day was around 8 protein bars… It felt like acid was going through my intestines and I was this close to shooting myself from the pain. You have to know how much liquid protein you can tolerate first, then you switch sources. Don’t do it all at once.

14- The only three things you need to measure progress are a camera, a measuring tape, and a mirror. Scales and fat calipers will only offer false hope or depression.

15- When you eat out, be sure to pick the healthy choice meals. Usually, if I eat out with my wife, I get something from kudu or subway… grilled chicken and I take out what I want (mostly bread… and no I’m not on low carb… I just need to make sure that I take in a certain amount each meal), or I just order a subway grilled chicken sandwich and put some lettuce and mustard on it… I usually measure my food at home, so I know how much protein a chicken breast has, and I estimate the carbs from the bread. Other than that, I carry my fish oil with me. I did this a couple of times, although it fits my diet, I can’t do it anymore since I have to measure everything.

16- Warm up before you workout, stretch lightly between sets, stretch like crazy after you’re done with the muscle. I usually see people stretch before working out and they think that they’re warming up. It’s wrong, people. When you warm up with very light sets, you are getting more blood into that muscle, making it warmer, and making the ligaments and tendons more flexible. Stretching a cold ligament or tendon before making it warmer is pretty dangerous. Think of it as a piece of toffee candy. It’s as hard as a rock. But when you put it in your mouth and keep it warm for a while, it becomes soft and flexible.
17- Here’s what I don’t understand in people, especially when they’re trying to bulk up. If you can take your muscle to failure using 1 or 2 sets, why the hell are you doing 12-18 sets?

18- Here’s one I really f***ed up on… eat when you’re hungry. And don’t stuff yourself when you do. If the food is clean, and the ratios are good, you’d be hungry every 2-4 hours.

19- If you don’t feel “right”, then there’s something wrong. Always listen to your body.

20- There are many supplements that actually work. The trick is to keep everything constant, add that supplement for 2-3 weeks, and then see if there’s a difference. That’s why you have to write down what you eat, and how you train, and everything you do when you try something new.

21- Finally, TAKE YOUR F***ING TIME!!! My waistline got permanently screwed from all that “get big in 12 weeks” shit that I used to do when I got started. Taking in 4000 calories per day will only do you more harm than good if you only need 3000 calories to grow. Do you know how hard it is for you body to build even 1 lb. of muscle?

Staring

Why? Why the hell do people do that? Not any people, just the Saudis. I’m not paranoid, cuz I talked to a lot of people and they say that they have the same problem. You walk into a place… restaurant, coffee shop, store, whatever… most people there will even twist their chairs if they’re giving you their back and stare into your face! When I’m in Bahrain, it’s different (I usually go on Fridays, so I don’t see many Saudis there). When people stare, if it’s me, they just look at my biceps (because that’s probably the only body part I have that grows), and they never look me in the eyes or look at my face (cuz they’d probably puke). Some women stare at my wife because, well, she’s the most gorgeous woman in there and they’re jealous :P … still, every one minds their own business. but whenever I see someone staring at my face and looking dead at me, I know he’s Saudi. Some of them have the nerve to stare at my wife like I’m not there (you know, the dirty Saudi look), so I just stop and stare dead at their face like I’m gonna kill them and when they see me, they look down immediately. But why the f*** do Saudis do that? I mean… yil3an um illigafa!!! And you know that it’s not that nice stare where if your eyes meet they smile. No no no… it’s that gross, perverted stare. Why don’t they mind their own f***ing business? Ask me, how do I know that Saudis stare in a gross and perverted way with bad intentions? I’ll tell you. Because, when an Indian, Pakistani, of Pilipino guy stares at you and you stare back and smile, they smile and wave hello. But when you stare back at a Saudi guy and you smile they give you that look of “what the hell is this guy smiling for?”… I’ve tried it many times, and 90% of the time, this shit happens. Sometimes people smile back. But sadly, they’re just a minority.


The duck that’ll put you to sleep

Here’s a little trick I developed long ago. IT WORKED WITH EVERYONE WHO’S EVER TRIED IT!!! And it should work with you too. Now, since people just started going back to work or school or whatever, this might come in handy to make you sleep at night. It worked with some of my friends who know about it, it worked with my wife, it worked with the girl that called my friend at night and bugged him about not being able to sleep. Try it… here’s what you do:
Close your eyes and picture a lake, the lake isn’t filled with water, no no, it’s filled with wet cement. Swimming in that wet cement is a small duck (not baby duck, just small), the duck is swimming very slowly (duh! It’s wet cement) but here’s the catch, the duck has tomatoes for eyes. Now, picture this duck swimming for 5-10 minutes and I assure you, you’ll fall asleep.

HAPPY EID EVERYONE

I HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT VACATION

AND PLEASE

DRIVE SAFELY

Crap that most people don't know

i just saw the banner above my yahoomail inbox and it said "do you want to lower cholesterol? click here to find out how!" ... hey, it's ramadhan, it's the last day of work before eid, i'm bored to my nuts, and every minute seems like a lifetime... so i clicked this crap (although i knew what was behind that page would piss me off)... new stupid drug that lowers cholesterol... but wait, there's more... it doesn't work like other statins (lipitor and shit), it blocks the absorption of cholesterol and fats in the digestive tract!! oh my god!! yipppiiieeee!!! and guess what? in trial studies, where patients used it with a statin, it lowered their LDL even more!!! wow!!
Wake up!!!
what ever happened to eating healthy and taking a freakin' walk every once in a while? here's some info you don't know, and ofcourse, the pharmaceutical companies don't want to tell you:

1- you need to have a good cholesterol ratio to maintain hormonal functions in the body. somehow, everyone is so obsessed with cholesterol and they don't know what the hell it's there for.

2- plaque and CAD in the arteries takes years and years to pile up. a little drug isn't gonna clean all that mess up... you might have a favorable cholesterol ratio after using it, but the plaque is still there

3- this is the most important part... statins (lipitor and shit) reduce bad cholesterol (LDL), yes, BUT they destroy almost all the Co-enzyme Q10 your body needs to maintain healthy heart functionality. So, you are not decreasing your chances of having a heart attack while on this crap... hell, you could be increasing the chances... but when your heart stops, and you're about to die, you can say this "atleast i have a favorable cholesterol ratio..... "

cook at home and eat healthy foods, you'll save money
take a walk ... you'll save your health

Special thanks to jawad (aka. gugu ze ultimate) for the article

Sunday, 15 October 2006
Saudi passes cybercrime laws
by Dylan Bowman

The council responsible for enacting laws in Saudi Arabia has passed the Kingdom’s first legislation to address the rise in electronic crime.

The 120-member Shoura Council last week approved all 16 sections of the law, which deals with offences such as hacking, defamation and the spread of terrorism.The legislation, which was drawn up by the Kingdom’s Commission for Telecommunications and Information Technology, will become law once it is published in the government’s official gazette within the next 120 days.

Abdul Rahman Al-Yami, head of the Shoura’s Communications and Information Technology Committee, said the law was aimed at protecting individuals, companies and organisations from being defamed or harmed via the internet.The maximum punishment under the new legislation is a prison sentence of ten years and a fine of US$1.3million, which can be imposed on anyone found guilty of hacking into government networks to steal information related to national security or using the internet in support of terrorism.

Creating web sites that defame humanity, advocate drug use or that contain pornographic material can lead to sentences of up to five years in prison and/or a fine of US$1.3million.

The same punishment will also apply to anyone found guilty of creating web sites or programs that violate any of the Kingdom’s general laws, Islamic values or public ethics. Any person who gains unauthorised access to a public network or who installs viruses on that network will be subject to a fine of around US$800,000 and/or up to four years in prison.

Anyone found guilty of unauthorised possession of electronic documents will face three years in prison, and a sentence of one year in prison will be given to anyone convicted of gaining unauthorised access to electronic networks, hacking into web sites to change or damage their contents or using the internet for defamatory purposes.

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read the highlighted text in bold and italics... bil3arabi, etha moo 3ajibhum, they screw you. because that is most vague discription of a crime i've ever seen in my life!!!

Very Very Sad

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061015/ts_alt_afp/afplifestyleussociety

Don't get me wrong, i really don't care about this happening in america... who cares... we're in saudi... but if you open your eyes just a little bit, you'd see that the same thing is happening in saudi. Why is this happening? well, everyone has a theory about this issue. my theory is that people don't want to work hard at all to make a relationship work anymore! Well, if you think about it, they never did (i'm talking about the majority of the population, not the very few who make it work no matter what). If you notice, a couple of generations back, if the man doesn't like something, yelling, screaming, beating, and insulting is the way to make everyone quiet and listen to you. BUT women and children couldn't take it anymore and decided not to stand for it. don't get me wrong here, too. these are half of the cases. the other half are the woman turning into a nagging tramp that only cares about spending late nights with her friends and draining her husbands bank account while doing nothing at home... no taking care of the kids (there's the maid for that), no cooking (again, there's a maid for that), no cleaning (guess who does that)... bil 3arabi she doesn't do a damn thing. Her husband only takes it because he's a patient individual (in saudi, we don't call it patience... we call it weakness of character "9'i3f sha59ia"). But, again, most men aren't standing for that anymore. So, how do both parties solve it? No commitment relationships... if you don't like it, youcan say "f*** you" and it's all over without any trouble. No one wants to work hard to keep it together anymore!!! do you think love is just gonna happen somehow... especially in our culture? AND especially when we say "treat people like you want to be treated" BUT WE NEVER DO THAT!!! THAT INCLUDES YOUR LOVED ONE TOO YOU KNOW?
And another thing, this is directed to both men and women... please, don't put the image of "the perfect significant other" in your head... i mean, yeah, youcan have a general idea about compatibility... but stuff like

Men: i want the women to be a great cook, she cleans, she wants to have children and take care of them, she works, she shares expenses, i want her to be the perfect height, have a small waist, have big boobs, long hair, big thighs, these kinds of eyes, these kinds of lips, i want her mother in law not to be a bitch, i want her father in law to never butt in my business, i don't want her to be demanding... blah blah blah...

Women: I want the man to have a very expensive car, a big house which i get to design, i want him to get me a driver, a maid, a cook, a nanny for the kids, i want him to give me money without asking what i'm gonna spend it on, i want him to let me go out without asking me anything, i want him to pay for a vacation every time i want to travel, i don't want him to ever tell me to work, i don't want him to ever look at women or go out with his friends... blah blah blah

i'm not saying 100% of people are like this... i know a lot of people who are... well... as close to perfect as they can get... but from what i see, hear, and know, this is probably the majority... men want a mother/sex toy/other income/no responsibility. women want a bank account/"freedom" provider/no responsibility.

"So, what your saying is that you have to work extra hard to please the other person?" yes! because if you do that AND NOT EXPECT ANYTHING IN RETURN YOU WILL GET EVERYTHING IN RETURN!!! unless your significant other is an inhuman, cruel, cold hearted, dead, poor excuse of a person. Then you know it won't work.

I can go on and on and on about this issue... but my throat hurts and my fingers are fatigued:( ....

Update, and a nice little recipe

Well, as you know, i'm preparing for the eastern province championship that's gonna be on the 7th of December. So, I have about 7 weeks and 4 days to go. This time, i have some help (F***ING FINALLY!!). 2 weeks ago, i hired an IFBB pro to be my personal trainer (Phil). This guy is amazing! in 2 weeks, i've managed to lose some fat (really slowly) but also gain some muscle! Although Phil tells me that i have enough time to get ready, i seriously doubt that i do. Still, this year i'm gonna be much heavier than last year, and more defined. I don't expect 1st place, but 2nd place is not impossible inshallah.
Phil has opened my eyes to many things, and i remember the first thing he told me was "you must look at directions, and prepare to change roads. you have to be flexible and have an open mind"... All my life i've wanted a trainer who actually knew what he was doing, and phil definately knows what he's doing. Everyday i learn something new from this guy, and i've learned that bodybuilding is full of bullshit. and not to my surprise, medical and scientifical research only looks good on paper. in real life, it aint worth shit.
this years competition isn't my goal. my goal is next years eastern province, and the kingdom championship. Phil is going to train me all of next year. and by the way things are going, many people will be surprised :) ... last year of seriously bodybuilding ya'll, it's gonna be big!
This is the first time, as i've said, that i'm being trained by someone... this has made me realize one thing... personally, it's alot ... AND I MEAN ALOT EASIER to follow someone's instructions than it is coming up with your own shit and developing a game plan by yourself. what i don't get now is the many people i've trained. If you want something that bad, and you have the whole plan and what you have to do right infront of you on a piece of paper, why can't you do it? you don't even have to think!!! just do it!!! .... i can't understand that... seriously... "man, i wanna lose this weight... but i don't know how... it's hard... i don't know" ... here... do this... "oh... ok" ... next thing you know, they're at burger king, blaming you for not waving your magic wand and making the fat disappear....
I'm sorry, but i cannot reveal any information about my diet, training, or supplementation. I paid lots of money for all of that and it wouldn't be fair for phil, or myself, to just post all of that on the net. BUT!! i can share a delicious recipe i tried today that actually fit my "diet plan" for today.... homemade whole wheat pancakes... i swear... it's like cheating... enjoy ;)

ingredients:
150 grams (1.25 cups) whole wheat flour
1.5 cups of milk (i use super milk... you know... high protein, low fat)
1 egg
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon baking powder

Mixing
mix the liquid ingredients (oil, eggs, milk) in one bowl, and the others in another bowl... slowly add the solids mixture to the liquid mixture while stirring.

if the mix is too thick, use more milk. if it's too thin, add whole wheat flour.

preheat a pan and start cooking ;)

this mix makes about 5 pancakes, 8 inches in diameter... each pancake has:

protein = 8.5 grams (incomplete), carbs = 25 grams, fat = 7.5 grams

you can use maple syrup if it's permitted in your diet, but i'd prefer honey.

bil 3afya

Breaking News

Seriously, people, DO NOT EXERCISE IF YOU WANT TO HAVE KIDS!!! man... i was wrong all along... i shouldn't have taken care of my body and health... i've wasted 4 years of my life, and the lives of my future off springs... i wish i stayed fat or skinny and never worked out... after reading the latest research... science has proved me wrong.. :(

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men who exercise to exhaustion experience changes in their hormone levels and sperm counts, a new study shows.

While these changes aren't permanent, Dr. Diana Vaamonde of the University of Cordoba in Spain and colleagues note, the findings suggest that exercise could impair fertility in men with poor sperm counts and low hormone levels.

Women who exercise intensely frequently show obvious changes in hormonal patterns, Vaamonde and colleagues point out in the International Journal of Sports Medicine. For example, they may stop menstruating. But the effects of exercise on men's fertility are not so clear.

The researchers set out to investigate how recreational exercise might influence male reproductive factors by assigning 16 healthy young men to either pedal to exhaustion on a special exercise bike four times a week for two weeks, or to avoid intense physical activity.
The exercisers showed a drop in their sperm concentration, ejaculate volume, and the number of sperm per ejaculate, as well as other changes in sperm quality.

Their levels of two other hormones -- follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone -- fell, but remained within normal levels, while their testosterone levels rose.

Two to three days after the training ended, hormone levels and measures of sperm and semen quality and quality had returned to near-normal levels among the exercisers, the researchers found. However, recovery might not be so quick among older men, the investigators say, noting that the average age of the men in the current study was about 19.

Interactions among the brain, the pituitary gland and the testicles control fertility, the researchers point out, and exercise could have disrupted this system. Changes in the exercisers could also have been due to inflammation.

Future research should look at how exercise affects reproductive factors in men with low sperm counts and hormone levels, they conclude.

SOURCE: International Journal of Sports Medicine, September 2006.

I don't know about you... but from the text i've outlined in larger italic fonts surely proves that this research does not contradict itself... and it sure proves that boys that are still going through puberty have hormonal changes... but i'm absolutely positive that being fat, lazy, and having low selfesteam about it (like i should be, i'm trying my best to be that since all of those people are angels) gives you the fertility of a horny bull. and all proud, narcissistic, idiotic, and rude bodybuilders who slave away working out and eating healthy (sadly, like myself) have no chance in hell to be fertile. i'm currently searching for research that proves that weight lifting and dieting shrinks your penis, and makes you more of a woman... Also, i've stumbled upon a poll taken by 15 million hot women and guess what? the poll says that they'd much much much rather be with a fat jiggly obese (but fertile) slob.. umm.. i mean hunk of a man... than an ugly disgusting sterile ripped bodybuilder... i'll post those researches and polls as soon as can.

long live fat, and fertile people

Ok, here's the deal, i've noticed that it's ok to speak about anything and anyone on my blog except for fat people. for some reason, that offends people. I just wanted to remind everyone that this blog is about training, nutrition, and mostly bodybuilding. yes, there is the occassional "excerpts" and other s***. but i'm seriously starting to doubt that anyone wants to hear my opinion on those things and i should keep it to myself. I apologize if i offended anyone, and i will not speak my "personal opinion" on this blog anymore. i will only discuss what this blog has been meant for.

one last note before all of this takes effect, to all the people whom i've helped and wasted countless hours talking to on the phone, emailing, writting down diets, and going to the gym with ON MY PERSONAL TIME just to have them stab me in the back and tell everyone how much i don't make sense and "ma3indi salfa" and when they come back to me, they swear they didn't say that.... you can kiss my black hairy ass you bitches...

that is all

My View on A Bunch Of Crap

this is kind of like the "pissed off" section of my blog, but here i will discuss my view on things that i don't understand, don't make sense, and are just plane stupid. thank you. :P

My view on global politics:

WTF? ... i mean, seriously, it's like a huge kindergarten! and who made "monkey yeehaw boy" leader of the globe? if he doesn't like something it's somehow "a terrorist threat"? and then kimpossible here says "sclew you, i make me lealy lealy big bomb... I dor have anyting to roos!!" and he freaks everyone out! if monkey boy had a nuke, what would he say? "well hot diggity daaaamnn... we're gonna blow up bin ladin and protect america... yyeeeeehhaaaawww... ofcourse, since we don't know where the sombitch is ... we're just gonna randomly drop these bombs on oil producing countries..." and bucktooth brit will be there clapping and chanting "bravo old chap... bravo!!" and the rest of us will still be storming the grocery stores going "DON'T BUY PUCK CHEESE!!! THE DANISH DREW BAD PICTURES OF OUR PROPHET"... oh yeah... and "the enriched plutonium is going to be used for energy purposes".... come on... you have to come up with something better than that!

My view on the saudi economy:

screw that s***... i'm not gonna even start on this crap. to all those people who lost all their money and s***, i'd like to say... I TOLD YOU SO!!!!! it just didn't seem right for a stock to go from sr.10 to sr.302904982740 in 3 months... and guess what? it's happening again... and do people learn? f*** no... i still know people who are trying to get some loans to get back in the game... idiots... oh yeah... and the hottest rage these days is getting online and keeping your eyes wide open on the market and clicking "buy""sell""buy""sell" every time the idicator changes. and people freakin' brag about being smart by doing that... it's called ruining the economy... not building it... 1938, we discovered oil... about 70 years later, we have 3 shopping malls... UAE, had nothing in 1970... 30 years later, they're competing with tokyo... ask yourself why

My view on Ramadhan

You know, in ramadhan, no one works at the office, the whole unit just hangs out (hehehe i said unit) at one guys cubicle and we talk... so we were about 5 people in one cubicle and then the guys starting discussing how healthy fasting is... ofcourse, :) HAHAAAAA, i had to jump in... "waaaiiittt a minute!!! fasting for 2 days while drinking a lot of water and taking vitamins and liquid nutrients is healthy... but ramadhan fasting isn't, especially with the kind of food you people eat." keep in mind, 3 of the guys in the cubicle were morbidly obese (i'm talking 5'5 280 lbs) and the other 2 were extremely overweight... and they're talking about health... after that, i was labeled an infidel because they didn't hear what i said, this is what they heard "no one should fast during ramadhan, god is wrong. god only wants to kill us. i love america"
basically, i'm very modest with my food, yes i eat a lot, but i only eat til i'm half full. i eat 2800 calories over 4-5 meals. where most people eat (i'm serious here) 3000-4000 during breakfast alone.

My view on obesity

i don't care who you are, if you're obese, i'm gonna make fun of you. don't get me wrong here, i'm not being serious or trying to make obese people depressed. I just laugh my ass off when people make fun of me for what i did to my body... i guess they'll get the same kick i do. My wife understands my mentality now and she laughs with me :) ... whenever a really fat dude or girl walks by i just scream "HIDE THE CHEESEBURGERS!!! HE'S COMING!!!"... if you think i'm mean, think about what you'd say or think if you walk in to a mall and you see this guy wearing a tight bright yellow T-shirt, pink jeans, green glasses, has about 2 gallons of gel on his hair, and has sticker tattoos on his face? what would you do? you'd laugh and point, and take pictures of the dude on your phone to show it to all your friends... why'd you do that? because, it looks stupid and he did it to himself.
also, people always make fun of me becuase i'm cheap... tell me you bought a pair of jeans for more than sr.150 and i'll be all over your ass telling you how you could've bought the same thing for sr.70. and people make lots of fun of me for that and I LIKE IT WHEN THEY DO!!! because i take pride in my cheapness :)... and it kills my sister (she hates my guts because i'm just so freakin cheap)... now, if you don't take pride in being obese, you'd better shut the hell up when someone's making fun of you. because you sure as hell aren't doing anything about it. and please, don't blame it on the food, or you don't have time or whatever. my brother recently came back from australia and the dude got fat... i mean holy f*** fat! let me tell you something about my brother, he doesn't go out much... he's a lay back kind of guy... has nothing to do... no where to go... now, he calls me up and asks me for help cuz he's sick of all this weight he gained... so i told him what to do... he said no... i'm just gonna eat smaller portions, buy a stationary bike and ride it for an hour 5 times a week... i said ok... and he asked if he could lose the weight in less than 6 months... my brothers metabolism is much faster than mine... that's why i was so surprised to see him fat like that... well, in 4 weeks, he lost around 3 inches off his waist... yes, he's genetically blessed with a fast metabolism (he'll have a hard ass time putting on muscle if he wanted) but still, he was willing to do it FOR 6 MONTHS to get it off... unlike the fat asses at the gym who do cardio once a week on a treadmill going 1 mile per month and talking on the cell phone while doing it... and then they say "DON'T MAKE FUN OF FAT PEOPLE... god made us this way"... hey, god didn't do that to you... you did it to yourself and you don't even want to try to move you freakin' whale. just to let you know, and to freakin' brag, i take my wife to work, i drive an hour to work, i drive an hour back, i walk my dog, i play playstation with my wife, i workout, i do cardio, AND I DIET IN RAMADHAN and i still get more than 6 hours of sleep everyday... tell me you don't have time... tell me... so i can punch you in the nuts...

My view on good food

just a little story, and you can conclude whatever you like... i was having breakfast with my family yesterday (told them to make the chicken and i brought the rest of my food with me... bragging again) and my father looked at my plate and started laughing like he was mocking me and said "that looks like hospital food that they give sick people!! hahahaha" ... i just looked at his plate, looked at him and said "there's a reason they give SICK people this kind of food to get BETTER... the stuff on your plate... you'd never see them giving that to a sick person... you know why"... and for the first time, after an arguement about food... my father was quiet... in my mind i was like "HHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!! THAT'S RIGHT!!!THAT'S RIGHT OLD MAN!!! YOU GOT OWNED!!! ONE-NIL FOR BUSELMO!!! YEAH BUDDY!!!" ....

remember faisal? the trainer at the gym and the winner of the arabian championship? well, here he is