Best way to Jog

  Hey again. As most of you know the government is organizing a nationwide run this saturday. It will be held at all government schools if I am not mistaken. It is not a cross country as that has done in the beginning of the year. It is a run to commemorate the governments new inishative which is 1 Sukan, 1 Murid, 1 Malaysia which means 1 Sport, 1 Student, 1 Malaysia or something like that. I am not going to go any deeper into that topic. I will however tell you that today marks my 300th KM since October in jogging. I am not going to write about that either. 

  What I am going to write about is the best way to jog. This is based on my experience and it might be wrong but hopefully it wont. Let us start. 

  Firstly, I recommend you jog accompanied with music. It makes you forget about the pain and keeps you in a steady pace. Today I had to run without my iPod since it was out of juice. I can tell you one thing, the running gets really boring. How many times do I need to hear my feet stepping onto the pavement. I could not keep in pace and was lacking a certain energy boost. 

  Secondly, make sure you are wearing clothes that are comfortable. I wear a normal cotton shirt but it is all wet by the end of the run. The dry fit shirts which absorb your sweat are known to be very good. I like wearing sports shorts and can't stand the feeling of track pants. What you wear is all up to you but make sure you have a good pair of shoes. They don't have to be expensive but just good.

  NEVER start running fast in the beginning of your run. It is a death sentence especially if you are planning to jog the whole distance. Start nice and slow and get into an appropriate pace. Try to end a jog at the same speed you started it at.

  Now if you just started jogging, don't try to jog the whole way. I have done research and for a beginner, its best to jog for 1 minute and walk at a fast pace for 5. As you improve jog more and walk less. Always start with doing a run you know you can finnish. Don't go straight for the marathon. 

  When you run, try to keep your feet as close as possible. According to my doctor, you use less energy if your feet are closer. It really works. You run faster using the same amount of energy if you practiced this habit. 

  ALWAYS stretch before and after your run. Honestly I rarely stretch after my runs but before is a must. If you don't you will experience major pains during you run. So much that you will have to stop. It is like a never ending cramp. I have noticed (and so has a few of my friends) that if I take orange juice before jogging I will have severe pains during the jog. That could just be me but I would still recommend to avoid the drink well before going for a run. 

  I have given almost everything I know about how to jog. I really had nothing to post and looked at my shirt which was soaking wet from my run. I thus decided to write about jogging. Until next time, bye.

Wii U

  Hello again. Since I rarely post, I decided to do two post in one day since I am free. Yesterday Nintendo announced the Wii U at the E3 Expo. The Wii U is the next generation Wii. In Nintendo's presentation they mainly focused on the new remote that comes with the new Wii U. I don't know why they did not pay much attention to the system itself.

  Now the new system is powered by a IBM Power®-based multi-core microprocessor. I have no idea what that is. What I am sure of that it will support Full HD gaming. Am I happy. No, I am MORE THEN HAPPY!! That is very good news. People speculate that the picture will be on par or just a little lower then the X-BOX 360. Thats enough for me. To provide this HD gaming experience, Nintendo have decided to use HD DVD's which are currently used for the X-BOX 360 if I am not mistaken. That is all I, and most people know about the system thanks to Nintendo's lack of explaining it. I am now forced to write about the controller as Nintendo threw a whole book about it at us. 

 
  The controller looks like a Tablet except that it comes with two toggles, a control pad and the X,Y,A and B buttons. It also has two sets of L and R buttons. Not to mention the mic, camera and 6.2 inch touch screen. It is all there to create a new gaming experience. With this new controller, you don't need the TV on to play your games as you can just play it on the controller. But don't think it can also work as a portable device. It has to be in a certain range to work with the Wii U.

  With this new controller, there are several ways to play your games. One ways is like how I stated above by playing your games on the controller itself. Another way is by using the TV on the screen and the controller just gives you extra information like a map of your game. This is to make your gaming experience more smooth and simpler. The third way you can play a game is by using the controller and tv which will interact between each other. For example, you can play a game of tag. The person who uses the new controller is the one being chased and has more information on his screen. The other four players using the normal wii mote use the TV screen to chase player 1. It all looks very fun.


  Nintendo have not released any information regarding the date it will come out or the price it will be selling at. All they told us is that it is coming out next year. I guess we will all have to wait but one thing is for sure. I want it!

X-Men: First Class

  Well, I have no idea what to blog about today. I did my new car, my video games and I think I have done enough posts about what I do during the holiday. I just saw X-Men: First class so I guess I will give a review on that movie.

  Let us start with discussing the other X-men movies first. I just watched X-Men 1 for the 4th or 5th time a few months ago so I can still remember a bit about it. That movie, to me at least, was mainly based around wolverine. I must say I really love his character. In the beginning he is a bad ***, cares about his own life and really does not know what is happening around him. What do you expect from a guy who can't remember his past and can never die. As the movie goes on he changes into a person who actually has feelings. Anyways, X-men 1 was very good if you ask me.

  I can't really remember X-men 2 to be honest. People say it was very good so I will just agree with them. I do on the other hand remember X-men 3. The difference I can really notice between X-men 1 and 3 is that 3 has taken a darker side and they had more money to blow. In this movie the worried American government and its people wanted the mutants out! (in a way). The government was trying to force the mutants into becoming humans by using some medicine and all. Anyways, all I remember is that there was a big fight scene and the X-Men won. To me, X-Men 3 was good but not as good as the first.

  Now if you can all remember, a few years ago X-Men Origins: Wolverine came out. Obviously it was based around Wolverine and his sad little life. In this movie he discovers his past and well kills people, BAD people. To me it was an okay movie. I can barely remember it but it was not the worst. Others thought otherwise. Whatever it is, it could not have been that good because they did not put the word "Origins" in their new movie because they did not want to associate it with the Wolverine movie even though the new movie does tell the story of the origins of X-Men.

  Now to X-Men first class. Its about how Professor Xavier (I will call him Prof. X) and Magneto came to be. Obviously they were not called those names until the end of the movie but lets just keep things simple. The main story begins when this CIA agent (Name erased from my memory) comes across Shaw (the bad guy) without being noticed. Shaw is the guy who killed Magnetos mom so Magneto has been looking for him his whole life to do one thing, kill him. Anyways, this CIA agent sees Shaw and his team do their "magic" and reports it to the government. And what is the government doing.

  Well they are busy with the cold war. If you don't know what the cold war is, google it cause it is very interesting. The CIA being wonderful just ignores the agent until she finds Prof. X and Mystique (Prof.X step sister you could say) to prove them wrong. Now Prof X and Magneto take on a mission to find mutants throughout the planet to recruit them! In a good way. (Prof X and Magneto meet each other when Magneto tries to kill Shaw but is stopped by Prof X.) So now they are going around looking for mutants and they develop a very good relationship. So good that I felt bad that they were going to become enemies.

  I am not going to explain much about the mutants they found. All I am going to tell you is that they put them all in a secret CIA base where they were kept safe. So they thought. One day Shaw and his gang decide to have a trip to the base to bring those mutants to the bad side but not before killing like a billion guards. That was awesome. In the end only one mutant followed Shaw and one dyed trying to save them all. 

  The US government on the other hand has put nuclear warheads in Turkey. This makes the Russians worried and they plan to put their warheads in Cuba. All of this is being orchestrated by Shaw as he wants all the humans dead. Bad, bad Shaw. The Americans warned the Russians that if they come to Cuba  they will take it as an act of war against the United States of America. Who else can save they day if not the X-men!!

  Once reaching Cuba, the X-men can only look as the tentions run high between the Russians and the Americans. In the last minute the Russian government orders their ship carrying the nuclear warheads to stand down and it is received by the Russian Armada but not the one ship they want to stop, the ship carrying the nuclear warheads. This is because Shaw wanted to make sure everything followed as planed so he killed the crew and sent one of his men to guide it. 

  The X-Men have no choice but to destroy the ship. After destroying it, Magneto uses his powers to bring up a submarine under the sea in which Shaw is present. The sub was to heavy and they all crashed onto the beach. Magneto goes into the submarine, which is now on the beach, to kill Shaw. Long story cut short he killed him but in doing this he turned to the dark side. As he steps out of the submarine he has a fight with Prof X. NO!! Suddenly the Russians and Americans are working together. They find that the mutants are a threat and decide to bombard the beach with their weapons. They did not know of magnetos power. All the missiles that were shoot to the beach were turn backwards by him and directed to the fleet. Prof X had no choice but to punch him. In the end, the fleet was speared but Prof X became crippled because of the fight he had with Magneto. They both took their separate ways and the movie ended. 

  I must say, it was an awesome movie. Well written and the cast fit the characters perfectly. The only thing that I had a problem with was that the CGI looked to fake so the big action scene did not seam real. If you had to go out and watch a movie today, I will tell you this, if Super 8 is full, watch First Class.