Hey, fam. Happy Ramadan to all the Muslims out there.
For those of you who don't know, I'm actually from Malaysia.
I was born and raised in Malaysia but I moved to the States almost 10 years ago now
and it is Ramadan.
So what that means is for 30 days, all the Muslims will be fasting during daylight.
That means no food, no water, no coffee, tea, no consumption of anything during daylight.
That is pretty insane and incredible at the same time.
So I want to try and test myself and challenge myself
to fast the same way of how my Muslim friends do it in Malaysia tomorrow.
Unfortunately, Rachel is not gonna be doing it because she's still breastfeeding
and she needs the energy for that, so she needs to consume food.
She's not gonna be doing it with me
but I'm gonna try to complete the whole day fasting
The biggest challenge that I'm worried about is I'm actually going to also be working out tomorrow
I don't know how that's going to play along with this fasting but I'll give it a shot
So I checked the fasting times in San Lorenzo which is the place that I live in right now
and so as you can see, sahur and iftar.. Sahur means sunrise. Iftar means when sun sets.
I'm allowed to eat right before sahur which is at 5.16 a.m
Probably gotta wake up around for 4.15 - 4.30 a.m. at latest to eat in the morning
and then I'll be able to start my fast and be able to break my fast again at 7.45 p.m.
That's a long time. I need to strategically do this. So yeah, I'm gonna head to bed right now.
I'll see you in the early morning
Good morning, guys. It is 4.20 a.m. in the morning right now as you can see.
Let's go and check and see how dark is it outside right now.
I'm usually not up at this hour but...
That is really really dark. Look at that.
It's also pretty cold out there.
I don't know how you guys do this
It was so hard to wake up at this hour let alone eat.
I don't have any appetite right now, whatsoever. Nothing.
I just.. Oh, man. It's so early
And another problem is I wish I had actually planned out my meal
because I just don't know what to eat right now
My friends say I should eat something carby and heavy
so that I have a lot of energy throughout the day
and also on Twitter you guys said I should eat dates, I think. Kurma? I don't have that
So let's see what I can find in the kitchen
I've decided to eat some homemade granolas
mainly because I have no mood to make or cook any food right now
I made these myself and they sound the most appetizing at this hour
Also i'm going to have some chocolate milk
and... ooh this is what I found and I'm excited about it
This is a very popular Malaysian snack otherwise also known as kuih
It's called seri muka.
I'm excited to have this. Probably have this little snack at the end
but I am going to eat as much as I can right now and go back to bed
Okay, it is 5.08 a.m. right now. So I just have a few more minutes.
I decided not to have the chocolate milk but instead I'm going to have a protein shake
I think this might keep me full a bit longer
Okay, pretty full right now which is great. Good night.
Good morning, Zae Zae. Good morning.
What are you doing?
I'm making oatmeal. You're making oatmeal? Yes. That's fun.
Mommy put milk in here. Mommy put milk in there? Hmm.
That's great. I think she's making oatmeal in a mug, huh?
Yeah, it's like baked oatmeal.
Baked oatmeal. Wow, do you like that? Uhm hmm. Uhm hmm?
Hey, what's up?
I'm feeling fine. I'm a little bit nervous
because I usually obviously have breakfast right now
and coffee and water and all that and I'm not gonna have it
But with working out, I'm just worried about the water part
because you know you get dehydrated when you run, do cardio and stuff.
I hope it's a good idea that I'm working out today
Maybe I shouldn't work out but I'm not going to skip a day.
That's just not me, so I hope it goes well
Okay, workout time but I just checked out and fortunately there's no weight work today
It's just mostly all cardio stuff which I think is going to be a bit easier with the fast
So let's see how it goes
Okay. So yes there's no weight work but this workout.. it is pretty intense. Check this out.
I'm not sure if you can see that but I've got to do all those things. That is insane. Oh my goodness.
Hi. This is just a warm-up, right?
That's just a warm-up. Yeah. Okay.
That's it. 27 minutes.
I think it's a bad idea because I'm craving water so badly right now
I'm done, Cecilia. You're done? Yeah
How long did it go? 27:27.
Nice! Good work, see.
Still resting from my workout
but one of the fun activity that I've been doing today is I got this new book for Zaden
It's called the 'My Preschool Workbook'.
Panda. Yeah, there is a panda over there.
And he's painting. He's painting. You're right.
So this workbook is so much fun because you get to draw and trace and do all those super fun things
I love it and the best part is he loving it too. So I guess...
And, and, and, and I did that. Yeah. Yeah.
So, I'm trying to like avoid watching TV and you guys told me on Twitter and on Instagram
avoid watching TV, avoid digital as much as you can, so that's what I'm trying to do
Someone had mentioned to try to read a book,
so I thought this is the next closest thing that I could do
like help my kids do some workbook and some fun activities
So maybe the time will pass faster
Plus, my good friend Shafiq told me that I should spend today doing good deeds
and so I'm gonna try to do as many good deeds as I can.
But I feel like... not to brag I think it's pretty natural to me
Yeah, just trying to love on my kid
The only thing that I may not be able to do is make food for my family today
I always do that but I don't know if I'm up to that
I'm already feeling really thirsty right now after the workout and also hungry
So it's going to be challenging to be able to actually cook food
So I might refrain from that but we'll see. We'll see.
Quick update, I just got my shower and I feel great right now. I feel fresh
but I am having some caffeine withdrawals.
You guys have followed the channel, you know I'm a huge coffee drinker.
I have two cups of coffee every day
I'm definitely having some withdrawals of caffeine right now but it's okay
I'm gonna try to fight it in. Get through it hopefully.
But the fam here is making food
and I'm putting spice on here. What are you putting on there?
Oh, you're putting smoky habanero spice. That's so great
Looks like you guys are surviving without me cooking for y'all. Barely. Having simple meals.
Simple. Simple? This is not simple. This is great. Looks good. Look at that. Whoa.
Put more Zae Zae. That stuff is really good. It's really good.
Okay, so the plan is for the rest of the day until I break my fast is just to chill, relax
and not try to do too much things
because I've already spent a lot of my energy on that workout
So I'm just gonna relax but I'm not gonna watch TV.
At least I'm gonna try to not watch TV. We'll see how that goes.
Maybe play with this guy you know
Okay, baby. What do you want to do?
I miss.. I miss eating with them.
What's Zae Zae saying? I'm eating avocado toast.
Are you eating avocado toast? Good. I'm happy for you, baby.
Mommy did great.
Daddy, you want to eat it?
Oh. Daddy's not eating, baby because daddy's fasting today
So it is almost 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Afternoon or evening? Evening. Okay, evening. Sorry.
And it's been just a very calm day at home
We haven't really done anything
and one thing I was not expecting to happen today was Logesh taking a nap
Like guys literally we have been married for almost seven years
and I think he's taken a nap like two or three times in our whole marriage.
I just don't nap but I'm just so tired today
Like no energy
and I have a really bad headache.
That's probably from the lack of caffeine. Yeah, maybe some water too. Oh, that too.
One thing I wasn't prepared for was cooking for all three meals because I am not a cook.
Oh, what are you gonna make for dinner?
and it makes me appreciate Logesh so much more
This is it. Is this done? It's as done as it's gonna be. Not bad. Not bad. Not bad. Not bad.
I'd eat that.
Would you? Yeah, why not? There's no meat in it
so I thought... Oh, yeah. You're right. There isn't any meat in there. There's no protein
Well, broccoli has protein. Yeah, very little
And cheese has protein. You're right
What do you think? How is it? It's good.
I think it has too much salt.
I followed the recipe but I should have put a little less salt in it.
But it's good
But it's good? Yeah. Good.
Okay, from now onwards mama's gonna be cooking for you, okay? No. Why not?
Keep it special. Once in a while.
Okay, I do have a genuine question for all you guys out there who are fasting right now.
How do you plan for dinner and breaking fast if you're not supposed to think about food?
Because I'm trying not to think about food but at the same time I do need to plan my breaking fast, right?
I just don't know how you do it
Let me know down in the comments below. I want to know how you do it
It is almost 6.45 p.m. which means that it's just a little over an hour before I can break my fast
or otherwise known as iftar.
The plan is I'm gonna go head out right now and pick up some Indian food
The closest thing that they have to banana leaf rice milk here in the States is something called Thali
and there is a restaurant about 30 minutes from where we live that sells that.
I think this munchkin over here is going to come with me. Zae Zae, are you coming with daddy?
I'm drawing something.
You're drawing something. Okay. Okay. I might convince him to come with me. We'll see
but okay I'm gonna head out, Rach. Bye. Bye. Have fun. Don't forget your wallet and your phone.
Yep, important stuff
We got food for iftar.
Oh, man. I've not been so excited for food in a long time.
Yeah, I'm excited for the food itself and I'm excited.... It's so yummy. It's so yummy
and I'm excited to eat as well
Okay, so first consumption of water.
You want to sit here with daddy? Hmm and try all that too.
You're gonna try all that? Okay. You gotta sit in your chair if you wanna try all that, okay?
It makes you really appreciate food even more in a weird way
Oh, what's this? What are those? Zae Zae, here you go.
Thank you lord for this food.
Thank you for providing as always.
Thank you for blessing us and thank you for our little family.
We love you. In your name, we pray. Amen.
Shake the little love around
It is the end of the day.
That was way more difficult than I thought it would be.
Honestly, I thought it would be much easier
but going through it the whole day, it was actually pretty difficult to be honest
I think my biggest struggle was not being able to drink water and coffee.
That's the two things I struggled the most. With the food, it was fine.
I think I can.. I could even keep doing like day two, day three and so on if it's just the food
but because of like the coffee and water aspect, I think that affected me the most
Up till right now, I still have a headache. Yeah. So that was rough.
You haven't felt well the whole day.
Your energy levels have been really low too. Yeah.
Like I just can't believe you took such a long nap when you never nap.
Yeah, I don't nap usually and I did.
I just can't believe how you guys do this for 30 days.
Kudos to you guys. That's awesome
and I feel like I definitely have a bit more appreciation for food
Much more than I did before. Not that I never did
You always have had a good appreciation. I already do but now more.
It gave me a good appreciation of how much you do with cooking.
Yeah, I can't remember the last time I made all three meals in a day
but yeah it was a great experience.
I would say challenge pass. You did. You did great.
Maybe next time I'll do more than one day. We'll see.
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