Gym Progress 32

Work HELL week. That should explain everything.

Mon (BP,SM): Stephanie,Steve
Fri (ASM): Bibi
Sat (ISM): Calvin
Sun(HL, SM, ASM, IHL): Suzette, Suzette, Bibi, Bibi

Gym Progress 31

Pretty much the usual stuff, except for the fact that Suzette went on a belly dancing class so she took a week off from her Sunday classes. Lok was good though, surprisingly enough.

And finally, I was glad to have gone to the PPL class on Sunday... it seems like it was the final class - and they're going to terminate it. That's quite unfair. I am very sentimental about that one, because it was the first class for Bibi that I regularly went to and learned her "style". Too bad they were going to get rid of it... oh well. Better celebrate and enjoy the last class then.

For some strange reason though, I've been mighty hungry and eating non stop this week... don't know what's gotten over me. I just know I'm still slightly sick though.

Mon (BP,SM): Francis,Steve
Tue (ISM): Bibi
Thu (HL,ASM): Bibi, Bibi
Fri (IHL, ASM): Bibi, Bibi
Sat (ISM, ISM): Calvin, Steve
Sun(SM, HL, ASM, IHL): Lok, Bibi, Bibi, Bibi

Gym Progress 30

Sick, sick, sick and still really sick from the holidays. Came back to Hong Kong and it was a Holiday Monday. Of course, I was still a bit sick, but being back in Hong Kong made me feel infinitely better then hanging about in China.

And as a reflection and a prime example of all stupid gym aerobics goers everywhere - me and my just 3 day elapsed episode from a surgery, Hiro and his almost 10 day hiatus after a appendix surgery, Stanley and his "I have made an appointment with the doctor, but I'm still going to teach ISM", Heather and her "I'm really sick and so I should do Hi-Lo to make myself better", I insisted on going to at least one class on Monday... which resulted in an ugly fight between me and my brother. I mean, of course he was concerned... I was happy for that. But like all the people I meet every weekend at the aerobics studio, I was also stubborn and don't want my condition to get in the way of what I did that made me enthusiastic. Needless to say, I did go, but I couldn't do the bodypump class afterwards anymore. I was ready to lie down into my grave.

At the same time, I dropped the souvenir gift to Hiro - which resulted in a quite strange and laughable conversation the next day about him thinking that the goat milk tablets were pet food. But, he did like the pet food though :P

Thursday I was bored, and want to leave office already. I did have a scheduled 5-6pm meeting, which valiantly clashed with the 18:40 class that I usually go to - But still made it in time.

Come Friday our work team was relocating to another location in Hong Kong. I'm not particularly crazy about it - you'd think I would be, considering the office would now me just 7 minutes away from my home - but because it would now be officially farther away from the gym branches that I rush to on normal Thursday and Fridays. Well, in any case, despite that, the office packed and finished early, and to my grief, afterwards, I didn't how to kill the time. It also didn't help that during the class itself, I constantly was being squished by 2 people for a double step session that night. Fine, I wasn't exactly perfect with the choreography either, but I wasn't the sore thumb entirely. But nevertheless, I felt bad about the whole thing.

Saturday I went to Whampoa, but Calvin seems wasted. He looked like someone who was going through a very big hangover, and a messy breakup, and kept on losing the beat. Eventually, Heather and I decided to head off to PPL to catch the next class at 14:40, which, when seen in the proper context, was absolutely preposterous because Calvin's class finishes at 14:30, we had only 10 minutes to get from one branch to the other. It had to do something with :

(1) leaving the class 5 minutes early,
(2) scrambling to change clothes (or not) without a shower,
(3) running frantically to catch a free taxi,
(4) having to explain exactly WHERE we should be dropped off (of course that was Heather, not me. I can barely carry a decent conversation in Cantonese)
(4) running straight into the gym without having to time in because the reception people were so slow,
(5) going straight to the class where everybody was already doing warm up for 3 minutes, and
(6) trying to squeeze in in an almost full room and ending up being 1 feet away from a pillar at the back end of the room with a 4x2 feet space
(7) but still enjoying it at the same time even up until at the end of the class.

And to end the week, I have a boredom Sunday... getting a bad craving to figure out the sense in doing what I've done for the past week and wonder why in the world I had to follow an instructor for choreography. I almost walked out at Bibi's ASM class - quite scary. Maybe some brain imbalance, perhaps?

Oh, and did I mention someone bought that adorable donkey doll I saw in Beijing that would frantically and crazily do a wild head banging left-to-right movement with its head, and a capital accentuated further donkey ears that would follow the head left to right? It was quite crazy... we should have the donkey do the aerobics class together up front with Bibi instead.

This is all in the life of an aerobics freak....

Mon (ISM): Bibi
Tue (ISM): Stanley
Thu (ASM): Bibi
Fri (IHL, HL, ASM): Bibi, Bibi, Bibi
Sat (BP, ISM, ISM): Eric, Calvin, Bibi
Sun(IHL, SM, HL, ASM): Suzette, Suzette, Bibi, Bibi

92 hours of sleep

As mentioned, I was sick from Wednesday to ... well to when I came back to Hong Kong and onwards. But Wednesday was the onset of my terrible experience. I had a innocent cough, which I smartly decided to drop by the doctor to get some meds before heading off to China on the same night on Wednesday immediately right after the Oracle training.

Fat chance and help THAT did.

I was dozing in and out of sleep.
I woke up in the morning, and I ate breakfast, and went back to bed.
I woke up at lunch, and I ate some lunch, and went back to bed.
I woke up in the evening, and I gulped down some soup for dinner, and went back to bed.
Repeat cycle for 4 days.

Well, there were a couple of days when I was delirious and freezing my bones off because the wind was quite cold in China, and there were barely any sun. My head was having a splitting headache when I moved by eyes from left to right to up and down, so I was limited to looking straight all the time. Not that I needed to make that much of an effort, since I was always in bed sleeping (and coughing really bad). I got to the point where I was hallucinating snow while I looked out of the courtyard trying to at least enjoy a bit of fresh air during some of my waking lapses.

It was really horrible. I kept on sleeping and sleeping, and the worse part about it was... I would EASILY fall asleep when I hit the bed. You'd think I'd be really wide awake after sleeping a whole day, but NooOOOOOooo... even 4 days doesn't cut it.

First time in my whole life I've slept for so long... I don't know if I should be happy or not.

Of course not... my lungs were practically burning everytime I spurt out a cough when sleeping. It was horrible. I could not wait to get back to Hong Kong where its warm and familiar.... first time I've deliriously thought of Hong Kong as "home"....

"gotta get home soon... really soon... go home.. go home...I'm dying..." *imagine Hong Kong*

Gym Progress 29

Week of training at Oracle. No work! *clap clap* But had to leave for China on Wednesday. Hence... lots of "None" indicated in this week's schedule. The trip to China would've been nice... if only I wasn't sick, sick, sick all the way through the whole vacation....

Mon (BP, SM): Francis, Steve
Tue (ISM): Stanley
Wed (N/A): None
Thu (N/A): None
Fri (N/A): None
Sat (N/A): None
Sun(N/A): None

Running log:
Fri(T):5km from town center to China home

Gym Progress 28

Normal, normal. Nothing much to say....

Mon (SM): Bibi
Tue (ISM): Stanley
Wed (ISM): Grace
Fri (IHL): Bibi
Sat (ISM,ISM): Calvin, Steve
Sun(SM, HL, ASM): Suzette, Bibi, Bibi

Running log:
Nil