Along the bumpy road

Ppl has been asking me why I dont blog that frequent. Well the best that i can say is that I had no time, when actually that is not so true. I am never good at blogging and at the same time I had to admit that I'm lazy ... hehehehe.

3 years down the road and I'm changing workplace, again. The same company tho but different unit. Meaning still the same division. Am moving to Dataran Maybank soon, thats where my new office will be. What will I be doing? No idea as for now. Just wait and see.

This month has been a busy month for me. My sister is getting engaged on 26th and at the same time, with the merger exercise and playing golf, its been pretty hectic for me. Plus a friend of mine been creating problems that somehow manage to get me involved, that arsehole. Maybe I will blog about that later, but not now :)

Five months down the road

Its been quite a while ... well since I'm stuck in the office, I might as well blog. Dont you think so?

Been playing in a few tournaments for the past few months. The last one was last saturday, played in Maybank Unity tournament. The one before that was before Ramadhan, but I didnt play because I was sick. The first one was in Monterez where I manage to get the second placing for Medal B category.

Last saturday, teeing off at 8 a.m, I was in the 6th flight together with Bud, 20 and Kamal, 12. I registered at 19. The course was a long one but the fairway was quite big, so no worries. Managed to burst 1 hole in the first 9 and 1 in the second 9. Got a triple bogey and a double bogey, aint that bad I guess. At the end of the day I was playing 2 under. Was looking forward for the prize giving ceremony ... and I think you know why lah kan. Bad was playing quite good and Kamal, well he was the pace setter in the flight.

When they announced the winners in Medal B category, I was suprised because my name was'nt mentioned. I told myself, well too bad, guess there are other players who played better than me that day. Started to chat with Bud when suddenly I heard my name being announced. Damn, they cut my handicap again!!! And now am playing in Medal A category. Well, manage to get 5th place in that category. Not bad aye. Bud didnt win anything and so do Kamal. We did'nt win the team event even, damn.

Now that am playing 18/17, it means i got to train harder if I want to enter the grand final. We'll see how it goes I guess.

Cheers

Weight Down, Skin Firm

Considering that you don’t have an excessive amount of loose skin already, it is possible to lose weight and keep your skin firm in the process. The idea is to keep your body well hydrated day in and day out.

Never ever let yourself become dehydrated. Drink plenty of water throughout the day and never totally eliminate your carbohydrate intake. Most people who lose weight too fast by eliminating their carbohydrates end up with a lot of excess skin afterwards.

The whole idea is to lose the weight to get healthier and of course to look better with your clothes ON and with your clothes OFF. Here are some tips:

1) Follow a well rounded balanced diet. Such the response diet located at http://www.tbfinc.com/

2) Follow a full body exercise routine alternating with a split routine every 4 weeks. For example, full body routine 4 weeks, split routine 4 weeks, full body routine 4 weeks and so on.

3) Considering you don’t have stomach ulcers and you are not on blood thinners, you should also take one teaspoon of cold artic cod liver oil once per day with your evening meal.

4) Take 1000-1500mg of lecithin per day. Lecithin has been known to increase the elasticity of the skin.

5) Anything you can do to increase circulation will also help. Skin brushing techniques are very good. Do a search on Internet for skin brushing to get all the info you need. Deep massages are also good.

6) Most importantly if you are more than 75 pounds overweight, DO NOT try to lose weight too fast. The more you weigh the easier it will be to lose weight on this program so ease into it slowly so you only lose about 3 pounds per week. Doing this will prevent the sagging skin. If you lose weight to fast you will end up with loose skin 90% of the time.

7) Some people have done weekly body wraps with great success but it can get messy. You can do this as an option but its not really necessary. As an option you can also take a supplement called collagen.

One key to increasing the elasticity of your skin is to keep your body well hydrated. Yes drinking water will do this. The average person needs at least half an ounce of water per pound of body weight.

Possibly more depending on the type of exercise you do on a daily basis. The reason why so many people end up with loose skin after losing weight is because they go on low carbohydrate diets that will in turn dehydrate the body.

If you lose weight and are dehydrated in the process, you will see the scale weight go down but unfortunately most of the weight being lost is nothing more than water weight.

If you are losing 2-3 pounds per week, you are doing great. If you are losing 4-6 pounds you are pushing the limit. Any more than 6 pounds per week and you are sure to end up with loose skin after losing the weight because chances are you are restricting too many carbohydrates from your diet.

Cutting out refined flours, breads and sugar will yield the best results.

Also, instead of getting on the scale every week to measure your progress, go more by how your clothes are fitting.

Try on the tightest pair of pants they have and then follow the program for 4 weeks and then try them again.

After 4 weeks those tight fitting pants will be a thing of the past.

Follow all the above and you will see satisfactory results.

Those Kaplan decisions

Tuesday July 11 2006From Tri-Nations, Week 1

As Stuart Dickinson is to South Africans, so Jonathan Kaplan is to Australians - or so it seems. Let's have a look at the latest outburst following Australia's 32-12 defeat at the hands of the Wallabies in Christchurch on Saturday.

Some of what was said was nasty.

Rod Kafer is reported as saying: Kaplan was very poor and made two major mistakes within three minutes in the second half," Kafer said.

"The first was when he failed to spot a clear knock-on by (New Zealand's) Mils Muliaina only to call back the Wallabies later when Lote Tuqiri was on his way to the try-line. The pass to him was certainly not forward.

"One does not expect such mistakes from a four-year-old, let alone an international referee."

Bob Dwyer is reported as saying: "If he is a good referee, then I have never coached a rugby team in my life. He is a joke. Rocky Elsom's sin binning wasn't even an offence."

The list of charges against Kaplan is as follows:

1. Rocky Elsom did not deserve to be sin-binned. In fact he did not deserve to be penalised.

2. Joe Rokocoko played Stephen Larkham illegally.

3. Muliaina's knock-on was not blown.

4. The pass to Lote Tuqiri was not forward and Tuqiri would have scored.

5. The Wallabies were prevented form getting to the ball in the line-out which led to Keven Mealamu's try.

6. Richie McCaw obstructed which led to Mealamu's second try.

7. Advantage was wrongly played which led to Toeava's try.

That all tells you that the All Blacks did not score a single try and the Wallabies scored three. Ergo, the Wallabies won the match.

Seven is a good number. Ewan McKenzie also had seven complaints about Kaplan when the Waratahs lost to the Hurricanes. He was certainly wrong on six counts and the seventh - also to do with advantage - was debatable.

Let's have a look as this latest lot of Seven Deadly Sins.

Let's try to do it calmly as part of our law discussions. If we do not do it in that spirit we end up seeing what we want to see.

1. Rocky Elsom's yellow card.

We mentioned this in our stats part of this week's discussion. (For that click here.)

Kaplan penalised the Wallabies five times in the first half. Three of those penalties were against Elsom at the tackle.

a. 9 mins: Elsom tackles charging Carl Hayman. Hayman falls to ground with Elsom behind him. It is a tackle. Lying on the ground behind Hayman, Elsom picks up the ball and places it over Hayman's body onto his side. The referee has a perfect view of what Elsom did from less than a metre away. Elsom is penalised. It was the first penalty of the match.

Law 15.4 (c) The tackler must get up before playing the ball.

b. 24 mins: The All Blacks are attacking close. Elsom grabs Jerry Collins and brings him down. Collins falls to ground with Elsom on top of him. Elsom puts his hands down to grab the ball. Rodney So'oialo drives in on Elsom and so does Hayman. The referee penalises Elsom.

When Elsom is grabbing at the ball he is on his feet but not supported by them. His knees seem to be on Collins's body. It does also become a ruck, but then Collins may well be hanging on. The first infringement would be by Elsom for not being on his feet.

Law 15.6 (a) After a tackle all other players must be on their feet when they play the ball. Players are on their feet if no other part of their body is supported by the ground or players on the ground.

Elsom objects to be penalised and the referee speaks to George Gregan, the Wallaby captain, saying:"That's the second one from the same man. Don't let him contest my decision again."

c. 26 mins: After Daniel Carter had missed the kick at goal for what happened in b., the Wallabies dropped out, the All Blacks ran and Elsom tackled Byron Kelleher. Having tackled Kelleher, Elsom lay on Kelleher, actually moving his body to have a more smothering effect. There was nobody pinning him down, which suggests that he could have got away. The All Blacks started to exercise their boots, the referee penalised Elsom and flashed him a yellow card and Elsom went without demur.

Law 15.4 (a) When a player tackles an opponent and they both go to ground, the tackler must immediately release the tackled player.

(b) The player must immediately get up and move away from the tackled player and from the ball at once.

Both (a) and (b) carry a penalty kick as a penalty.

Bob Dwyer may well be wrong. The referee may very well have been right. The decision was certainly not a joke, nor a reason to be nasty. Imagine what would have happened if a referee had announced to the world that Dwyer's coaching was "a joke".

2. Aaron Mauger breaks and kicks a rolling ball down towards the Wallaby line. Stephen Larkham races back to the ball. Joe Rokocoko runs for the ball. Larkham gets their first and falls on the ball. Rokocoko goes onto his knees next to Larkham. They are both in motion towards the Wallaby line. Rokocoko puts his right arm on Larkham and gets to his feet to grab at the ball as Stirling Mortlock comes in to support Larkham and then Richie McCaw arrives and bashes into the scene. Others arrive and the ball eventually gets over the Wallaby line. (We shall deal with subsequent events elsewhere as they are not relevant here.)

Law 14.2 (b) Falling over a player on the ground with the ball. A player must not intentionally fall on or over a player with the ball who is lying on the ground.

Rokocoko did not fall on Larkham or over Larkham. Let's say that clearly: Rokocoko did not fall or dive on or over Stephen Larkham.

Nothing in the law says that Rokocoko is not allowed to play Larkham in other ways. Nothing says that he must allow Larkham to get up.

the player on the ground with the ball, i.e. Larkham, must do one of three things - get up with the ball or pass the ball or release the ball. Rokocoko's action did not prevent Larkham from passing or releasing the ball.

It seems that it would be tough to penalise Rokocoko - or in fact Larkham as the gathering of other players happened quickly.

3. The Wallabies are on the attack and up flat. Mark Gerrard comes from the right wing to take a pass from George Gregan from a tackle/ruck. The All Blacks are up flat and with his right foot Gerrard grubbers ahead. Mils Muliaina scampers back low and goes down to grab the bouncing ball which strikes his right shoulder and bounces forward.

The referee is running a line towards Muliaina and has a perfectly unobstructed view of what happens. He does not blow his whistle.

Law 12 A knock-on occurs when a player loses possession of the ball and it goes forward or when a player hits the ball forward with his hand or arm or when the ball hits the hand or the arm and goes forward, and the ball touches the ground or another player before the original player can catch it.

Shoulder is not hand or arm.

It was unusual but the referee is not entitled to blow his whistle because the unusual has happened.

If he had blown for a knock-on in this case he would have been wrong - even if he was a four-year-old

4. Let's look at two passes.

a. Latham gathers a drop-out, runs, chips, collects and passes to Mat Rogers on his right. Rogers scorches on a diagonal towards touch as Daniel Carter comes across to cut him off. As Carter approaches Rogers throws a pass inside to Lote Tuqiri who scores a great try.

Look carefully at the dash lines five metres in from touch. When Rogers passes he is just about at the end of a dash line. When Tuqiri catches the ball he is into the next dash line, i.e. about four metres ahead of the place where Rogers passed the ball.

b. The Wallabies are goring through phases on their right. Then George Gregan passes left to mark Gerrard in the flyhalf position. He passes a long pass to Stephen Larkham. Larkham passes to Lote Tuqiri who stretches flow to catch the ball which is ahead of him.

This is the pass which Kafer - and presumably some others - complained about.

There is a PHILIPS design where Larkham passes. A look at that would suggest that Tuqiri caught the ball from Larkham about two metres in front of the place where Larkham caught the ball.

The first was not blown as forward, the second was.

Error?

Not really.

Look at Rogers's hands. They clearly pass the ball backwards. The infringement is a forward pass, not a forward catch, and scientists will tell you about momentum and impetus in a case like this.

When Larkham passes his hands are not in a backward motion or even in a lateral motion. His hands go forward. That is why the pass was ruled forward.

It was clearly a right decision. If the four-year-old had not blown it he would have been criticised.

In that second pass a try was, by the way, only a remote possibility as Richie McCaw, Rico Gear, Tony Woodcock and Leon MacDonald were on hand to defend and there were some 25 metres to go with a touch-line not far away.

5. Chris Latham and Lote Tuqiri combine to tackle Rico Gear into touch near their left corner flag. This produces a line-out to Australia five metres from their line. They have one man, Greg Holmes, near the front of the line-out and three players - Guy Shepherdson, Dan Vickerman and Mark Chisholm - near the back. Vickerman and Chisholm swap places and hooker Tai McIsaac throws. Vickerman jumps and Jason Eaton of New Zealand jumps as well. Eaton puts out a hand towards Vickerman and makes contact with him. But the fact is that the ball goes well over Vickerman's head to the back where it strikes Shepherdson's hand and falls to ground where Keven Mealamu swoops on it and grabs it just in front of George Smith and scores a try.

It would have been pedantic indeed to have penalised Eaton. It was, as John Connolly acknowledged, a ball that was overthrown. There would be another overthrown ball that led to Mealamu's second try.

6. In this case, too, the wallabies had a line-out five metres from their own line. This time Nathan Sharpe, well supported and clearly unimpeded, goes up for the ball but it is thrown over his head. But this time Shepherdson catches the ball, but the situation is a wobbly one for the wallabies. They manage to scramble the ball back to Gregan who kicks from inside his goal area and clears the ball to about 15 metres from his goal-line on the All Blacks' left.

The All Blacks throw in, catch and make a maul. They drive the maul forward. Mealamu breaks off and drives. They pick and go till there is a heap of players near the Wallaby line with the All Blacks in charge. At the back is Richie McCaw with Mealamu standing behind him. McCaw gets the ball under his left arm and moves at a diagonal towards the touch-line. As he does so he slips the ball to Mealamu who takes it from his captain's grasp and forges straight ahead to score.

When McCaw had the ball, Mealamu was behind him, there for no obstruction. When Mealamu got the ball, McCaw was off to the side and Mealamu went straight ahead. It was just a form of scissors. Mealamu was open to be tackled. There was no obstruction.

7. Funnily enough this one was least debated.

The Wallabies make a penalty into a five-metre line-out on their right and start mauling. They go forward. The maul collapses and the referee puts his arm to show advantage for collapsing the maul. It would be a penalty to Australia.. The collapse is about three metres from the Wallaby line.

The wallabies get the ball back cleanly from the collapsed thing and go left to Larkham. he All Blacks defend and there is a tackle/ruck about ten metres from the All Blacks' line. Again the wallabies get the ball back cleanly and give it to Greg Holmes who charges. The referee calls: "Advantage over."

Again the Wallabies get the ball back and give it to Larkham. He shapes to kick to his left towards Tuqiri on the left wing. But Daniel Carter intervenes he charges down the kick and catches the ball. He passes to his right and the next thing Isaia Toeava is sauntering down the field for the try that gave the All Blacks a bonus point.

Almost certainly the referee got the advantage part wrong. He himself will tell you that he got it wrong. He called Advantage over too early and before there was a real advantage in terms of territory or the freedom to play with a real chance to score. He would tell you that it was not the standard way of playing advantage or what is commonly acceptable as a way of playing advantage. That is what he got wrong.

What happened after that was not his fault. Larkham's faulty kick was not his fault. The players knew that advantage was over and chose to play the way they did, but got it wrong.

Of the seven points of criticism of Kaplan that last one was the quietest - and the one that contained an error on his part! Referees often get more flak when they are right than when they are wrong!

Just as the South Africans are unfair in their attitude to Stuart Dickinson, so the Australians are unfair in their attitude to Jonathan Kaplan. And neither attitude is good for rugby or for refereeing - nor are the unconsidered statements of Rod Kafer and Bob Dwyer.

Kaplan passed the McKenzie test with 6/7. He probably passes this one with 6/7 as well. And his exam was written in the heat of battle.

It's a silly situation. But it's so hard to change perceptions. Australians who would claim to be unbiased will believe that Kaplan had a bad game. New Zealanders who would claim to be unbiased would believe that Kaplan had a good game.

All Blacks new haka

New Haka gets thumbs up from Wallabies

11/07/2006

NZPA

The Wallabies might be licking their wounds after a Bledisloe Cup beating but there's no trans-Tasman angst over the All Blacks' revived haka.

Kapa O Pango haka, complete with the throat-slitting gesture at the end, was revived with menacing effect before the All Blacks' 32-12 win in Christchurch last Saturday.

Wallabies hooker Jeremy Paul, born in Waikato and with Maori ancestry, was adamant the new haka should stay.

"It's great ... it's unique and something that's good for the game," Paul told reporters yesterday.

The haka made an unexpected return at Jade Stadium and its leader on Saturday, Rico Gear, said it would become a regular fixture for All Blacks tests, although still shared with the traditional Ka Mate haka.

Prompted by some "anecdotal" evidence that some New Zealanders opposed the new haka, the New Zealand Rugby Union conducted a review into its appropriateness.

It found 62 percent positive support for it, while only 37 percent of those polled wanted the throat-slitting gesture removed.

Paul admitted there was far more to worry about than the final gesture in the haka.

"I'm more scared of (All Blacks flanker) Jerry Collins' forearm than I am of that."

Paul said he discussed the haka with All Blacks captain Richie McCaw after the match on Saturday.

"You could see how pumped up they were after it and Richie said to me: `You boys were a long time taking your tracksuits off after it'.

"I said: `Yeah funny that, you boys were a little bit too pumped for us'."

Hehehe ... funny isnt it ...

I promise ...

I promise to give you the best of myself and to ask no more than you can give in return

I promise to accept you the way you are, I fell in love with you for the qualities, abilities and outlook on life that you have. I wont try to shape you into any different image

I promise to respect you as a person, as someone with your own interest, desires and needs and to realise that they are sometimes different from my own

I promise to share with you my time and close attention and to bring joy, strength and imagination to our relationship

I promise to keep myself open to you and to let you see through the window of my personal world into my innermost fears, feelings, secrets and dreams

I promise to grow along with you and to be willing to face change together in order to keep our relationship alive and exciting

Finally I promise to love you with all I have to give and with all I feel inside in the only way I know how "completely and forever"

Megan Cruz

When love dies ...

A pall of gloominess envelops the heart
the crucial pain strikes through with a sharp cut
yearning to be healed from the veins torn apart
tarnished and withered, it steals yours breath

For love dies not of a natural death
it dies from emotional wounds lashed, unhealed
unreturned love to the vulnerable heart with no shield
only time will help ease the sour and rinse the tears

Shedding of heavy feathers and soothe away fears
let the death of old love pass on peacefully
so that the new roots of love can grow tenderly
within the heart that once cherished love wholeheartedly

A recap ...

6th May 06

Woke up late since I went to bed a bit late. Was bz packing up my things for the trip. Or should I say was bz checking my clubs and cleaning them up for the trip .. hahahaha. I havent packed my clothes yet, damn. The flight was at 3 something pm and I need to be in klia at 1 pm.

Reached kl sentral second, hahahaha. Damn moey was faster than me but then Eja was sending him, ok lah tu kan. Hakim was next and Edi was the last one. All set to go dude.

Reached Jakarta at 6.30 pm Malaysian time. 5.30 pm Indonesian time. Taufik was waiting for us at the airport. Went straight to Kesuma Candra Apartment. Then we went out for coffee with Hanim and Ann.

7th May 06

First game in Indonesia. It was in Kedaton. A beginner course with tons of drainages at the side. Bloody hell. The first time I play using the new MP32. Dang, cant handle it. Played badly. Lost to everybody, even Hanim and Ann. Dang

We went out for dinner to a Sundanese restaurant. Wahlau, the food was superb. Took a few pics during dinner but was more concentrating on the foods .. hahahahaha.

8th May 06

Second game day. Played at Permata Sentul. Hakim got a very nice, cute and lovely caddie and Edi was jealous, hahahaha. My caddie was friendly, Edi's too. Moey's was friendly too. Moey's caddie was Angga, Hakim's Yanie, Edi's I cant remember and mine was Dewi.

Today is my birthday and I played badly until mom called and wished me happy bday. Love you mom. Love you with all my heart. After that I started to recover and hehehehe did better lor. But since I blew up the first 5 holes, didnt manage to recover enough to win lor. Had fun playing in Permata Sentul. Took a few pics there, with the caddies ofcourse, hahahahaha

9th May 06

Third game there. Played at Emeralda. A very nice place and very challenging. Its a walking course. Actually they asked if we want to walk or use buggy. We choose walk. Kedaton was a walking course, Permata Sentul we used buggy. Had fun playing in Emeralda and frankly I do feel like playing at this course again. But I need to wait till im very familiar with my new iron. Yer ler, baru beli seminggu beb. Tak biasa lagi kan.

The caddies were friendly and nice. Learnt a few words in Sunda and Jawa from them. The one that I shouldnt remember but somehow I cant forget is selingkoh. Selingkoh = Selingan Indah Keluarga Utoh. Bloody hell. Hahahahahaha.

Planned to go out to Bogor and meet up with Angga and Yanie but somehow Taufik got stuck in the traffic jammed. They call it macet here in indonesia. So got to call it off.

10th May 06

At long last, we played at the course that most people had been telling us about. Bogor Raya. Quite a disappointment actually. Its a long course but not as challenging as Emeralda. Frankly, all 4 of us prefer Emeralda than Bogor Raya but the caddies in Bogor Raya were mostly cute and beautiful. Tapi tu ajer ler. They are not as good as those caddies in Permata Sentul and Emeralda. Anyway my handicap dah kena potong jadi 22. Hampeh tul.

Took a few pics. Had a good time but not as enjoyable as Permata Sentul and Emeralda.

11th May 06

Today we played in Bukit Pelangi. Next to Gunung Geulis. The course is quite challenging. Tepi fairway, flower bed and if your ball gets out of the fairway, then you will be in deep shit. Somehow Moey manage to get a very bubbly caddie. Hakim was my buggy mate and we decided to just enjoy ourselves and play the game, regardless of our scores. We had great time, laughing, chasing after each other like kiddies and so on. I guess budak coleque memang tetap akan jadi budak coleque no matter whats the age.

Finished the game early somehow and Taufik picked us up early. Called up Angga and arranged for an outing. Yanie joined us up. On the way to Bogor, Rima, Moey's caddie in Bkt Pelangi honked us and wanted to join our outing. She brought one friend with her, Vitri.

Met up with Angga and Yanie and we all went out to Tanah Abang to buy some goodies as momento.We also went to a place where we bought some leather handbags cheaply. We went out for dinner at a place that I dont know the name but its in Bogor Kota Sejuta Angkut, hahahaha. Decided to scrap the game tomorrow and spend the day hanging out with the gals and buy more things as momentos.

Went back to jakarta using cab. Sang some songs while on the way back and the cabbie joined us singing, had great time.

12th May 06

Went to Dufan, Dunia Fantasy in Ancol. Tried teh ship ride and I almost puked. Bloody hell. After that I refused to take those scary rides anymore. Went for the rapid ride and I got soaked from head to toe, damn, while the rest was either basah2 sikit2 or almost tak basah langsung. Niama tul. It was a nice place to hang out. A lot of rides, Hakim went to almost all those scary rides with Angga and Yanie.

Went for bumper car ride and banged everybody in my path .... muahahahahaha. Oh before we went to Dufan, we went to Tanah Abang again to buy more goodies (clothes and god knows what else). A few incidents happened at Dufan but I cant say a word about it, kalau tak kena belasah ngan member ... muahahahaha. Had a wonderful time there.

13th May 06

Went to Bandung for a shopping trip. We took the Puncak way so that we can enjoy the scenery. It was lovely. No doubt about that. We drove along the road, passing some tea plantations and padi fields along the road. Lovely, just pure lovely.

Reached Bandung at about lunch time so we had our lunch first. Hakim drove the Kijang while we were in bandung, crazy bugger. They bought a lot of things while I bought a jeans and jacket for myself.

We went back to Jakarta at about 9 something pm. We were tired but we enjoyed ourselves. Started to pack things up for tomorrow's journey back to KL.

14th May 06

The last day in Jakarta. Went out to Tanah Abang again to buy some more things. The gals were mostly working so they didnt accompany us.

Went to the airport at 4 pm local time. Our flight was at 6 something. Edi took Airasia while the rest of us took KLM. A bit of sadness and a bit of happiness. Well, thats life.

Reached klia at about 9 something. Eja came to pick moey up since he was down with fever. Hakim and I, we took the ERL to Tasik Selatan then continue our journey back home using LRT.

Reached home at about 1 am, tired but satisfied. Had a great time in Indonesia and bought things for my family.

Well ..

Guess I will be frequenting this page from now on since I no longer have access to my 360 page. What happened shows that no matter how good you are in one thing, you will never be good enough for everything :). So this place will be the new place where i lay bare my mind, my heart and my soul. Cheers.