Farah Shazwin

When most of us are grateful and happy to welcome Ramadhan this coming weekend, 18 Malaysian students (including my younger brother) who are currently studying  in IOWA University, US are being tested by Allah just before the Ramadhan. Their South Meadow Apartments on South 5th Street, Ames city, Iowa, US  was burned and destroyed in a fire which began in the early Sunday morning (US time), July 15 2012. Alhamdulillah most of these students are back in Malaysia for summer holidays including my brother and some of them are on tour in US. Only few of them are spending their summer over there. My younger brother managed to talk to his housemate,    Shafiq Mahadi who were there during the incident   on Sunday night (Malaysian time) and Alhamdulillah he is safe with the other 3 Malaysian students. No one was injured. But they are traumatized with everything that just happened in a split second. As for my brother, he was glad that he was back in Mal...

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Alhamdulillah, one of my new year's resolutions which is to complete THREE marathons this year  has been fulfilled. I am so happy and proud to have completed these three running events. I have proved to myself, my family and friends that NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE -  because i'm possible :) My first and second running events was 10km Brooks Marathon and 7km TM Fan Run respectively. My THIRD m was on 24th June 2012, 10km run Standard Chartered Kuala Lumpur Marathon 2012.    It was a very pleasant run for me and i did enjoy myself.  In the beginning, i doubt that i will be able to complete this SCKL 10km run. WHY?? Because  I haven't done any preparation for it. Luckily I ran for 7km TM Fan Run just a week before the SCKLM i.e. on Sunday, 17 June 2012. So that's the only "preparation" that i did before the SCKL marathon. Of course i did ensure i take a balance diet a week before the run. I was supposed to rest and eat and rest more the day before...

I am pretty sure that most of us are aware about UEFA European Football Championship 2012 or commonly known as Euro 2012 which is held in this month hosted by Poland and Ukraine. There is only one more match left tomorrow morning before the final match. Of course,I will watch tomorrow's match between Germany and Italy. Who will go to final between this two??? will it be Germany since the team is very consistent throughtout the tournament? Or Will it be Italy, based on historical record whereby Germany always lost to Italy? Will see. I'm not supporting either Germany or Italy though. My favourite team is Spain!!!!!!! And yes, they are marching to the Final match. I' m so happy they did it once again. I really hope that they will win this tournament so that they will be the first team to have won 3 trophys in a row: euro2008, world cup 2010 and euro 2012. Pleaassseeeeeee :) go casillas, go torres, go alonso, go silva. So sad that David villa is not in the team due to ...

I bought myself a new sport shoes last Monday @ The Gardens for my next running event; SCKL2012 which will be held this coming Sunday, 24 June. It's not a norm for me to buy new shoes for every running event but this time i have to because my existing shoes was quite old and no longer can be used (tapak dah haus dan tertanggal). Plus i got RM120 Brooks voucher during my participation in TM Fan Run 2012. Rugi kalau i x guna voucher tu kan.  Presenting my new sport shoes: PureCodence by Brooks. Very comfortable and very light. Suitable for running :) I LOIKKEE IT SO MUCH..yeay!! Let's RUN HAPPILY :)

Waking up as early as 5.45am this morning to get ready for Team Malaysia Fan Run  2012 is not something that i would normally do on a Sunday morning. Normally i will  wake up for my Subuh prayers and then continue my sleep. But today, it  is an  exceptional for me. I believe that today's run  is something special  that makes it  worthwhile to sacrifice my Sunday morning  beauty sleep.  In support of the Malaysian Contingent which consist of 28 athletes who will be  competing in the London Olympics next month, I decided to be part of the 10,000 runners participating in the half-day event. The beauty of this  event is  that it only have two categories; 7km and 3 km run which  makes  it perfect  for everyone in Malaysia to participate despite  gender,  age and fitness  level. As for myself, i have chosen to  participate in  7km run category :)  RM40 that inclu...

Sempena Hari Penderma Darah Sedunia semalam, 14 June 2012, Carigali Hess dengan kerjasama Petronita, KSRP dan HSE telah pun mengadakan kempen menderma darah called "Twin Towers Blood Donation Drive" bertermpat di  Multipurpose Hall, Twin Towers Fitness Center,  8:30am to 4:30pm. I have never ever donate blood before. I am scared of the needle and i cant stand the smell of blood. I have few incidents last  year and few years back, whereby i nearly faint when the nurse took a sample of my blood for blood testing. So memang agak hopeless for me to donate blood. I kagum dengan those yang selalu donate blood. Because it is a  precious gift that costs nothing but can save a life. But yesterday, i challenged myself to join blood donation and i put aside my fear when i have decided. I am so glad to have few friends came with me (Cuan, KN and K Pijan) However, hajat tidak kesampaian. When we arrived at TTFC, the organiser told us that the program is limit...