And The Niceness Still Goes On / Gym Progress 2009.01

Today isn't bad either. Not what I expected, but still, I'm ok.

Sentimentality could be very depressing. I planned to watch a movie today, but missed my ride by a few seconds - and had to wait for 20 more minutes for the next one. So much for wasted huffing and puffing. Nevertheless, I got to the cinema just in time. It was quite a movie - called Departures. Its the best foreign language movie for this year's Oscar Awards.

HAhaha.. and then I made a lot of detours after that. Sentimental ones, remembering I used to pass by CWB on the way to Central on Sundays.... ok, but that's beside the fact.

I made detours - Unplanned, and some related to stupidity and forgetfulness. I was originally planning to get to a weights class today, but since I had time, I bought a book, picked up 4 books from the library, tried to catch the ferry ... which I did, and then when I arrived, realized that I dont have my house keys, so I went back to Hong Kong island and back to the office to pick up the extra set of keys.... and then realized I had the keys all along.

To make things short, I lugged 6 books all around Hong Kong for nothing, and as a result, missed the weights class. Drat.

But now I had extra time in my hands - which got busy cooking for a good lunch, pruning my plant nursery, reading my books, doing laundry, and finally cooking up the mung bean dish, and with a flash of last minute insight, ended up also with chicken and vegetable soup, freshly cooked.

So I sit here at night, ... still sentimental, but contented. Breathing's bearable, it seems. And its not quite the fault of the world I've been having bad days, weeks and months. Maybe its just myself.

Wed(SM): Jason
Fri (ASM): Bibi
Sat (SM): Calvin

Testing testing

Trying our blogging from iPhone. <E>
let's see how this works if I enter sentences longer than 1 line.

I want to figure out how blogger will handle some basic formatting
with this

new interface. Too bad I can't bold and italicize fonts at the moment.

Huh, very reminicient of my very first post.

Testing testing one two three!

Sent from my iPhone

A Nice Saturday

Its been sometime since I've had quite a relaxing weekend. Long nights, stressful days, pressure, responsibilities have been coming on week by week. I guess I've run out of time when I can just schedule what I needed to do, and actually do it. Instead, I've just been chasing backlogs.

Saturday didn't come out exactly how I planned it to be; I wanted to head to the office to finish some work, and spend the rest of the day in the gym. But I had a long early morning session just trying to upload pictures and videos, I ended up sleeping at 5am and woke up at 11am.

Nevertheless, I was able to head off to the gym (which sweated my @$$ off, this being comparatively better to the previous weeks, where I didn't break a sweat. After wards, I hopped off to Hong Kong island to visit my family, got to complete my office work, with just about enough time to get some mung beans in the nearby market (there IS a dish I love... I used to go to my university's cafeteria every Friday just so I can have it). Finally, I arrived just home in time to prepare for Earthhour 2009, March 28, 2009 20:30 local time.

The weather was foggy the whole day, and slightly drizzling. But eventually I decided to see what the city has to offer for the event. I headed off to TST pier with my camera.. I didn't quite get as much as I'd like (I AM an amateur with just a normal DC camera, after all) but I was a great walk. I've missed being out for so long.

I've been so tired lately.

But not today. With only 5 hours of sleep (and as well as less than 5 hours everyday for the past week) I trodded along the pier. It was nice to feel the wind against my face. These days I felt like my features have been corroded by a tired disposition, and a perpetual I'm-almost-depressed-dying-and-down-by-the-dumps mask. I've been having terrible headaches, and sore, tired eyes. Its not a sunny sight to see.

Yes, but not today.

Sentimental, yet still calm and slightly jubilant, I walked ahead.

Maybe its because I had a plan for myself for the rest of the weekend. Maybe its just the cool wind and the salty sea air. Maybe its because of all the people trying to enjoy a shot of the dark Hong Kong skyline. Maybe it was the thought of seeing so many people supporting Earth hour, or maybe its because I know I did my part, closed all the lights at home, and actively went out to find out what I can do not to expend energy. Maybe it was because I had a good sweat out earlier today. Maybe its because I spent time with my family.

Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.

In some ways, things didn't go exactly as I planned, but... still, things still came out alright.

Maybe its actually ok to just breathe.

This hiatus ends now

The world's gone through a financial breakdown, Lehman already a goner, governments running around trying to save companies, bankers losing their jobs, Heath Ledger's been given a post humous award, drug companies in Hong Kong getting the round up from the Health department, and I'm back.

I've been pretty much running amok, too. Major preparations, house cleaning, nursery planting, frantic work catching, to name a few. A friend has left for his hometown a few days ago, ending a 3 year partnership that has had its very high UPs, and a couple of downs - He will be sorely missed.

Health seems to be a steady decline, with sore knees, crackling backs, muscle tight neck and shoulders, extremely itchy eyes, and skull splitting headaches that come and go. Fat content is getting to an all time high, and its a good time as ever to get back to how things were, before all of this started.

First goal of this hiatus ending post: a half marathon run by mid March next year. I've delayed this goal long enough, its high time the record be set straight.

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