The Day I Can Start Reading Books Whilst In This Pose, maybe?

Dear Diary,

I beheld the pain..












TYI in Studio BEHOLD, BE Yoga
Picture thanks to Huey Yoong





I believed I can be..












Lila's class in Studio BEHOLD, BE Yoga
Picture thanks to Huey Yoong





And I became it.












Azmi's class in Studio BEHOLD, BE Yoga
Picture thanks to Huey Yoong





Never imagined I could do this in the nearest time
or even in this lifetime,





















Sri Dharma Mittra in Sayanasana (Couch Pose)





So when I did last Sunday,
I couldn't be happier.

Praises to Highest above
for the strength in this body
and the confidence that I can be the best I can BE.

The Day These Make My Day

Dear Diary,

I haven't thanked KL Yoga enough for this amazing interview write-up
(I first found out they featured me here and never felt more touched)


























and Azmin from Damansara Perdana for this wicked photo!



























UPDATE:













As per Monday morning (July 6, 2009),
Be Yoga's Facebook Fan Page earned its' www.facebook.com/beyoga!

Thank you all Be Yoga Fans!



From the tip of my spine,
with all the love there is in KL and Damansara Perdana combined,
THANK YOU!

The Day BE (Goes) Blogging!

Dear Invited Bloggers,

Thank you for BEING at beyoga earlier.
It was a great honour to have touched your spines.


























A special shoutout to Huai Bin of SixthSeal fame
who has already posted up a post on his yoga pose ;)





















It was his very first yoga class, believe it.




Do look out for more yoga poses and stunts from your favourite Malaysian bloggers next week onwards.


May we all now BE shielded and protected
with the best we BELIEVE our immune system can be.

The Day Let's BE at Facebook!

Dear All,

BE YOGA is now on Facebook!

























BE YOGA is a state-of-the-art yoga sanctuary
located at Ground Floor of Metropolitan Square, Damansara Perdana, PJ
founded by Yoga Ambassador for adidas Malaysia - Ninie Ahmad
and Asia's most renowned Ashtangi - Azmi Samdjaga.

Offering almost 50 yoga and Pilates classes weekly including
Hot Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Kids Yoga complete with wi-fi, restroom and lounge facilities,
BE YOGA is the place to be for potential and existing yoga practitioners
to begin or resume their yoga practice with Malaysia's best yoga teachers
in industrial-minimalist ambience and eco-friendly environment.

BE YOGA opens every weekday 7.00am to 9.30pm
and 9.00am to 4.30pm on weekends.

___________________________________________________


Simply be a fan of BE YOGA Facebook Page
and automatically be eligible for these promotions:

PROMO 1
Get RM80-OFF One Week Unlimited Classes
(Unlimited admission to almost 50 yoga and pilates classes. Pay only RM8, full price: RM88)

OR

PROMO 2
Get RM88-OFF One Month Unlimited Classes
(Unlimited admission to almost 200 yoga and pilates classes. Pay only RM200, full price: RM288)

Terms & Conditions:
1. One must register themselves as a fan before registering at BE YOGA
2. One person is entitled for each promo ONCE only
3. Fans who are already members are still eligible for next-signup / to renew package while promo lasts
4. For first 1000 fans only


Call 03-7728 6182 or 03-7729 6182 or 016-669 6182
for further info and to book your classes now!

The Day Be Goes FM!

Dear Diary,

After my last radio interview about 15 years ago
(I was 12 and it was for RTM Radio Satu's Kak Yong Dan Adik-Adik, SERIOUSLY!),
my next live radio interview will be TOMORROW and it will be with my favourite radio station
for the past couple of months - Bfm at frequency 89.9!

Remember WOW fm, the best radio station IMHO Malaysia ever had
(I am yoga- and rock-biased so anything that plays rock and does yoga is cool!)
that sadly vanished about the same time TONE magazine disappeared?

After WOW fm, I hardly tuned to radio stations anymore since I don't fancy shiny MTV acts like Lady Gaga, Maroon 5, Jordin Sparks, David Archuleta, One Republic and the likes - until Supertall introduced me to Bfm.

So imagine my excitement
when they called me for a live interview and
get this,

Ninie to talk about Be Yoga at Bfm!


What a delight and beyond coolness, I'd say!

Ifffffffffffff you'd be interested to listen to my interview,
you can tune-in and listen to Bfm tune in to 89.9fm at 10am tomorrow (Friday, June 5 2009)
or click Friday, June 5, 10am - "When NOT To Start A Yoga Business"
as you'd still be able to listen to the interview online anytime after 11am tomorrow!

Speaking of June 5th, I hope you all do know that it will be World Environment Day.





















"The papers, plastic and aluminium cans we throw away everyday actually do go SOMEWHERE."

















Click at this picture to know what else you should throw in here


































































Be Yoga IS reducing and recycling.
Are you?

The Day You Forgot You Own A Blog

Dear Diary,

For the past few weeks (or months?) of not blogging,
I have been really productive actually.

A quadriple updates before I make myself errrr, go productive :) again,

Update #1:
I have actually found and bought my dream couch from
Barang-Barang, Ikano for beyoga's entrance waiting area!




































And this one is for beyoga's lounge area.
Well, I actually meant to show-off my fantasy-'tangga'-came-alive.





















Update No #2:
beyoga was officially open to public on May 1^st, 2009, alhamdulillah.
We officiated and celebrated our beginning by commerating a simple blessing ceremony
attended by our (Azmi, Supertall and my) parents and close friends.













When new yoga mats / Yogitoes used as praying mats















That's Supertall and Supershort.















That's Supertall's mom and Supertall's girlfriend



(Suit yourself to believing that gambar-gambar di atas adalah majlis pertunangan / pernikahan ye?)


Update No #3:
Now that construction / renovation is 100% complete,
we are adding more and more 'elements' to our little place
such as this piece of stainless steel of Azmi and I.



















I likey!
If you don't likey, can always pijak Azmi's buns
or my twos that greet you on the entrance now.





Update No #4:
I dyed my hair jet-black and straigtened it, like three months ago
(oh, not blog-update worthy. Not blog-update worthy :P) at first,
to confide myself in being more 'garang' since I have staffs and a manager working for me now.




















In another saying, I get to always ask one of them to taking pictures of me
beside my bunting with (no surprise) picture of me, everyday now :)



But recently, it is not new for me that people go saying,
"Wah, so nice aaa that picture on Be Yoga buntings! How much you guys bought it for?"
and "No lah, that can't be you. I have seen that girl before. Somewhere here oso" TO MY FACE, ok!

Professional photographers and lighting can make one look like a million ringgit OK.


Update No #5:
Our young Henry Golding who was on the cover of Malaysia's CLEO 50 Eligible Bachelors issue (April 2009)
actually and quite literally, BAGGED HOME THE TITLE!


























Those who have asked Anna and myself, how does it feel being housemates
with Malaysia's Most Eligible Bachelor 2009, will get this answer,
"He is still our messy and most of the time, smelly Henry. We keep tonnes of his secrets
and not to mention, errrr... dirty laundry zipped?"





















Anna-Rina's handy marker work on CLEO April cover.




Last but not least, if you are a fan of Henry Golding,
he is a constant and almost permanent furniture of beyoga now.

Do try our classes and you might just be lucky to get to twist and flex
beside Malaysia's Most Eligible Bachelor!

The Day BE Is 97% Ready!

Dear Diary,

And lucky for me it looks even better in the day!

















































































Kalau kesian dekat Ninie dan Supertall yang hampir setiap hari sama ada tidur / bangun tidur pukul 5 pagi,
boleh saja bagi studio-warming gifts / sponsor barang-barang berikut berupa
- 42" LCD TV
- two 20" iMac-s
- two sets of 3 + 2 + 1 sofa in lime / IKEA korndal green
- two rectangular coffee tables in walnut / glass / walnut + glass
- bunga-bungaan (can I request for strictly white / green flowers or plants?)
- Twister board game
- turntable Scrabble

Kami didahului dengan ucapan jutaan terima kasih (dan mungkin juga akan dibalas dengan setahun Unlimited membership)!

Segala hadiah boleh dihantar ke
W-102 & W-103, Ground Floor, Metropolitan Square,
Jalan PJU 8/1, Damansara Perdana, 47820, Petaling Jaya.


Since it doesn't hurt to dream or sometimes,
ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE, kan?
:)

The Day This Is How Pay-Off Feels Like

Dear Diary,

Here I am, in my very own office at 5 in the morning.
Not feeling tired. No longer feeling sleepy.
Having this view.





















And never felt this proud of myself.

The Day It Doesn't Take A Design / Graphic / Mass Comm Degree to BE Creative

Dear Diary,












When strong and 'dengan konfidennya' accusations like one of this pops out,

Xylena said...

Dear Ninie,
All these while I always wondered how you could be so smart in coming up with the concept of 'BeYoga' especially in all the clever taglines and copywriting when you are not a marketing nor an advertising person.

Tonight, and watching the latest episode of Ugly Betty on 8TV (right now, 7 April 2009), I realised that you have copied the concept of 'Be(something)' from this series of Betty presenting her 'BeMagazine' idea! ohmygod... how could you think that people, Malaysians, especially, would not notice this?

What have you got to say about this? Or I am very sure that you will not publish my comment.

10:04 PM, April 07, 2009

I have nothing else to say except:

• I have never watched ANY episode of Ugly Betty my entire life
  

• and that Be Yoga concept, tagline and brand development were planned and put to papers in design back in October 2008 lagi. Not today or on 7 April 2009. Aiyooo. So wild lah your imagination, creative sungguh (macam I ;D)!
  

I'd like to take that 'clever taglines and copywriting when you are not a marketing nor an advertising person' as a compliment though ;)

I might not have a marketing degree nor with with ad firms
but haven't I been self-taglining / copywriting everything here for the past five years
and published two yoga magazines on my own?


P.S. Bebudak STF yang selalu menyaksikan atau dapat 'surat cinta @ message' daripada Ninie mesti baca entri ni sambil ketawa dan berkata, "You tak tau ke, Ninie dari sekolah lagi memang kaki tulis slogan / buat design / conteng dinding (?) camgini?".

Oh yes, you should've seen my Folio Kemahiran Hidup / Geografi for PMR, babe!

The Day Do Judge A Yoga Studio By It's Website

Dear Diary,

I hope it is not too much to say that this



has got to be one of the coolest websites I have ever been to.

Our IMHO supercool website makes me all the more nervous to the opening of Be.
The studio betttttttttter look just as cool (if not as minimalist) as the website!


P.S. We highly encourage online booking to reduce the usage of paper (and your phone bill).
Booking your yoga classes with Be Yoga Online is almost like reserving your movie seats
only that with http://beyoga.my, it is way easier!

So don't forget to start booking your space for our FOC Karma Yoga class this Sunday!

(You don't have to be a member to be with Be Yoga for Karma Yoga classes every Sunday 9.30 - 10.30am
as Karma Yoga class is donation based. Proceeds from any purchase or donation that day will be forwarded
to a needy foundation or centre for health research that have been pre-chosen for that particular week)

The Day It Doesn't Get More Unbelievable Than This!

Dear All,

Go ahead and compare Be Yoga's price package with your gyms or yoga centres
but I am saying go ahead too if you wish to compare the quality of our classes and our teachers.

As you can see, the *Early-Bird price for 12-months UNLIMITED membership at Be Yoga
is almost RM500 off the normal 12-months price (*if you sign-up before 15 APRIL 2009).

However,
if you drop by our sales booth TODAY anytime from 1noon to 6pm,
our Early-Bird price for 12-months UNLIMITED membership is selling for RM100 for the first 100 customers only!




TODAY ONLY.




RM100 for UNLIMITED access to
8 yoga classes a day
= 50 yoga classes a week
= 200 yoga classes a month
= 2400 yoga classes a year
including Hot Yoga and Pilates classes
conducted by Malaysia's best yoga teachers
at Damansara Perdana's most visible building?


FOR REAL?

Heh, you wish sayangku.
You wish.


























April 1st and Ninie can be quite if not really cruel sometimes.
Kan?

The Day 'I don't wanna be anything other than what I've been trying to BE lately..'

Dear Diary,

I guess one of the biggest perks of starting and running your own business is:
getting to put any title you wish on your namecard.




















Wait, make that two big perks.
Jawatan dan G A J I sesuka hati :)

The Day 'lights will guide you home, and ignite your soul, and I will try to FIX YOU..'

Dear Earth,

For you.
The least we could do.






















































































































































..we dedicated our 75 minutes of Ashtanga Led practice 8.30 to 9.45pm last night, for you.
The least we could do to fix the cruelty we had done to you.


















The MOST I could do was,
to make them promise me that WE WILL ALL TRY TO
- switch off our lights whenever we can still see
- walk instead of driving to places we can
- cut down if not eliminate meat-eating to survive and to continue our lives when we can eat more green
- take care of our earth as much as we take care of our body
immediately after our Candlelight Yoga earlier.

An hour a year is NOT enough to extend our lives living in this planet.


While I am at it, do you know that:

- Energy consumed for A PIECE of meat, lamb or pork to arrive to your plate is enough to lit 100 watt lightbulb for three weeks?
- A kilogram of meat contributes 36.4 kilogram of CO2 and emission of C02 from A COW for a year is equal to energy consumed to move your car for 70,000 km?
- Livestock farming generates more greenhouse gas emission worldwide than all cars, lorries, trains, boats and planes added together?
- If you don't eat meat JUST FOR A SINGLE MEAL in a day, you save 7.6 times more and faster than your house's energy consumption in one year?

(facts from documentary film 'Meat The Truth')


Even if you can't / don't see the importance of doing it for your health,
do it for the environment. Please.


Special thanks to Anna-Rina for the pictures and
heartiest gratitude to all of you who have chosen to 'switch off' and to 'be-down-to-earth'
with BE during Earth Hour 2009.

Can't wait to see more of you for Karma Yoga in less than six hours.
Proceeds from any purchase of earth-coloured Yogitoes and donation tomorrow
will be forwarded to Malaysian Nature Society (MNS).

The Day It's The Least We Could Do

Dear All,

























Azmi, Supertall and I plan to celebrate and support Earth Hour 2009
by practicing Ashtanga Led / Mysore surrounded with love, candlelight and water
to bow to the earth that grounds Be Yoga.
And us all.

If you have no better plan tonight,
DO JOIN US.

Date: Saturday, 28th March 2009
Time: 8.30 - 9.45pm (kindly arrive at least 15 minutes before time to respect others and their time)
Venue: Level P (business centre swimming pool), Metropolitan Square, Damansara Perdana. NO ACCESS CARD NEEDED.
Fee: FOC

Yoga mats and belts will be provided.

Book your spot now by signing-up for Candlelight Yoga tonight ('book here')
to share an hour with us to be 'down-to-earth'.


If you can't join us,
the least you can do is to
- turn off your lights AND all means of electricity at least for an hour tonight
- reduce usage of plastic bags, air-conditioning, fuel guzzler, aerosol spray and meat starting from TODAY

No matter how healthy we try to be,
we can't live that long and this happy in a severely damaged and tired planet.

The Day 'in a bullet-proof vest with the windows all closed, I'll be doing my best I'll see you soon..'

Dear Diary,

Someone posted this comment for one of my previous entries;

Anonymous said...

Dear Ninie,

I saw the Karma Yoga info on your website, and I had an epiphany : what am I giving out, what vibes am I letting out? You get what you give. The concept makes me think about my life in a different perspective. Thank you.

2:57 AM, March 17, 2009

For those who do not know what is and what does Karma Yoga mean to us at Be Yoga,
if clicked at it will read:

'Karma means action or deed. This is the yoga of action. The practice aims for the seeds in the result in action. The practice is held every Sunday morning for free even to non-members. It is a way of our teachers to give back to the community from what we have gained from them. Proceeds from any purchase or donation will be forwarded to a needy foundation or centre for health research that have been pre-chosen for that particular day.


Lately, I wake up everyday and have been living my life with this motivation,

"We go forward by going back,
go up by going down, go out by going in
and get by giving out."

I firmly believe, we all get something more by giving out
and I practice, to always treat others exactly how I wish to be served.

I'd like to think all our 'Karma Yoga' classes that started yesterday have been just that.





Thank you all of you that have booked your classes online.
To those who came for the first day, I hope you had great sessions
with two amazing teachers we all are so lucky to have at Be Yoga (and in Malaysia)!

I believe there's still room for most of our Trial Classes
(my 'Begin' class tomorrow has been fully booked! Thank you!)
so if only you open your heart to begin or resume your yoga experience with us,
I am in to give all I know, everything I have.

Book your FREE trial class(es) here
and stay tuned to The Yoga Instructor Diaries for the announcement of our Packages Price and
for updates on the best concert with the best band in the world I attended last night at Singapore Indoor Stadium :)

Have a blessed Tuesday all
and yes, I'll see you soon.

The Day It Felt Surreal

Dear Diary,

I have always wanted to be able to do this




















beside this.


























By the way, that 'Be hot' is for the Hot Yoga classes offered at Be Yoga.
Thank you.