Archive for October 9th, 2008

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Oct

Esquiva

I work hard. I play hard. I work hard some more.
Why? So that I can have more moolah to play even harder lah! :D .
Now before you turn on your disapproving mode and go ‘tsk tsk tsk’ in your mind, hear (or rather, read) me out.

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Everybody plays. Deny it all you want but I know it’s true. It’s the way one plays that differs. Someone I know considers spending time and money on gardening stuff as playing. Some consider travelling as their way of turning on their play button. I have several play buttons of my own and one of it is getting my adrenaline fix at the gym.

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The thing is, I find the regular stuff folks do at the gym B-O-R-I-N-G. Running on treadmills, walk on the stepper, lifting free weights. The max I can last on those is 30 mins. Then, I lose interest. So the only thing that keeps me going back to the gym is …. the cardio classes! Yup. Thanks to Les Mills. I never have to worry about being bored while getting my adrenaline fix at the gym.

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My # 1 favourite cardio workout atm : BODYCOMBAT # 37

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Simply lurve, lurve, LURVE its Underworld/Blade Vampire theme! I mean, how cool is that, huh? And the music. OMG the music. We are sooo nuts over the music! Check out the tracklist below and I *DARE* you to tell me it’s not OFTFW (Out Of This F***ing World)!

  1. Summer of 69 (Mega-mania) / I Never Liked You (Rogue Traders)
  2. Beat It (Fall Out Boy feat. John Mayer)
  3. Baby I’ll Let You Know (Darryn Styles vs Hypasonic)
  4. We Will Survive (Warp Brothers)
  5. How Far We’ve Come (Matchbox Twenty)
    *Sweetheart goes mad in this track. It’s like his MOST MOST fav track*
  6. Stamp (Jeremy Healy & Amos)
  7. Let The Beat Control Your Body (2 Unlimited)
  8. Sea Of Love - Hixxy Remix (Frisco)
  9. Church (T-Pain feat. Teddy Verseti)
  10. Our Solemn Hour (Within Temptation)

If you are a cardio fan like us and have not tried out the latest BODYCOMBAT (BC) release, you are sooooo missing out on the *real* thing! Honestly. Go go go go check it out, ok? Even if your regular session at the gym is just the treadmill and machines, at least try it out ONCE. I promise you an experience of a lifetime. Reeeeally wan. *cross my heart & hope to die!*

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Go here to read about the personal review of the latest BC release by a Kiwi dude.

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My favourite tracks in the entire session -
Track # 4 : We Will Survive (Warp Brothers) &
Track # 6 : Stamp (Jeremy Healy & Amos)

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Why? Because they are the toughest! Lots of kicks, squats, lunges…..and man, I love the ESQUIVA. It’s Portugese for “ESCAPE” which is a Capoeira defending technique. The ESQUIVA move is choreographed into track # 6. Every time I do it, my legs felt like they were gonna drop off but each session always, always, ALWAYS left me yearning for more! Really.

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The total number of kicks for this release : 276!
That’s DUA RATUS TUJUH PULUH ENAM. NOH PAK CHEET CHAP LAK. LIANG BAI QI SHI LIU.
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To quote Phua Chu Kang, “Don’t pray pray!”

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We came, we saw & we KILLED SOME VAMPIRES!!!