Tab n DF n I met up at noon to eat lunch at Baguette. All of us chose the wheat bread which is kinda tough after toasting, will go for white next time.
We headed over via the Sky-Train, with the rest of the "WilderBeast" herds, all headed to the same direction. They had very tall barriers to herd u into a winding queue, towards the skytrain n back.
We reached the Siloso beach very glad that we had umbrella n sunblock on. I was worried abt my nose cos I was suffering a much milder outbreak dunno due to what I did last Thur... I used the umbrella already and was perplexed why still tio a much milder case of pimple-nose...
Luckily as of now, Mon evening, no sign of massive outbreak. Kept slapping on the Oxy acne cream, moisturizing n sunblock on it.
Anyway we were really glad we didn't just plan to be there from noon. By the time we were there, it was almost 2pm, but we still saw about 13 teams 'fly' their crafts. There were 38 teams in all.
Man the sun was scorching, flaming... And many were in their beach wear frolicking n prancing around like it's normal cool weather. If I was a plant, I would have wilted. The crafts we saw were funny cos of the jokes by the emcee, the Muttons. Got crab, goldfish, Nemo, Chicken, ERP gantry, durian, char siew pao steamer, anvil... Really a lot of variety. Very Singaporean theme. Laughed a lot from the jokes, really feel like out of country.
My toes were ironically the ones getting sunburnt, midway slapped on some sun block. Tab n I went to dip our hot feet into the waters. It was surprisingly cooling, but the walk through the beach meant sand n friction n discomfort... Until we washes the sand off.
Made another "WilderBeast" migration back to VivoCity n we grabbed a quick bite from the basement. The air-con restored our appetite n all of us indulged in fried food. They had the 鸡排, 炸翻薯. I had a fried chicken wing n nugget from Old Chang Kee. Their chicken wing is nice, esp drenched in tomato sauce, so reminiscent of my Pri school days.
Later headed to town to go to see a book fair of sorts. I was keen on dinner. We ate at Bugis Plus at the KungFu Paradise cafe. Their food is not bad n not overly expensive. Think my Stylo Kungfu Coffee kept me up a bit last night.
Walked around n saw this huge screen with live cyber match going on in one of the cybercafe. Cool, it's really been a long while since I did LAN gaming. That game was the same format as CounterStrike. Walked a bit to explore n got a ride back, so glad to have a bath to wash off the sweat, sun block.
But I woke up this morning very stoned, by the end of just today, so tired. Had a level event where I missed one lesson but had to be there for 2.75 hrs... Bad trade. Was camera woman, so walked around the venues to take pics, from the start until the end. Tired. Nothing else was done.
Tom is heavy heavy day... Hope to use my free periods to make something. Will try to take it easy...
Monday, October 29, 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
Hectic, tired, glad for the long weekend
The craziness n hectic work of the past 2-3 weeks caught up with me.
Energy levels are down, fell asleep after dinner only to wake up in the wee hours of the morning, then try to go back to sleep. Not well-rested in the mornings then.
Just by Monday itself, I was sooo tired mentally. It's the final day of 'jagar-ing' so it meant an end to the 9 torturous days of having to raise my voice, glare, stare, look at certain nosiy individuals to intimidate into silence that is so rare daily in the class due to weak mgt by the form teacher. Daily I am rolling my eyes...
Tue, a heavy day of lessons n I had my observation of sort. It was a mix of formal n informal at the same time. Many and I meant many colleagues, even those not of the same subject came in and sat thru the entire lesson. Students were intimidated by the sheer no of pple n pairs of eyes, were initially quiet. I didn't care abt the visitors. I had told them I will focus on them and they could do like-wise. They warmed up n relaxed enough to make jokes even, made me laugh. It did liven up the activity. Had CCA and had to rush for Krav Maga after so the post-conference was the following day.
Wed - Lessons plus another set of visitors to another class, this time the diff class became really quiet until called upon. But they were doing well before visitors came in. Got to talk to the visitors after the lesson, some sort of interview. Had CCA.
Then post-conference for the lesson yesterday... Sometimes I wonder while certain pointers like gp work, pair work suggestions are raised, other comments seem to be say for the sake, plus activity doesn't always need to be paired with writing. Plus in the time frame of 20-25mins, doing it for the first time in the series, I want to lead it, to be a teacher-directed form, instead of pair/gp, but those are relevant for future ones when they get the idea of it. Can see the certain 'mindsets' of colleagues who think in a very stereotypical manner abt how a language lesson should be carry out. But they noted the positive rapport between the interactions, that would encourage the love of the language.
(my earlier lesson set had gp work planned in it but tio cancelled so waste my effort in planning, hence the switch to a simpler one upon short notice) Needless to say after that concussed after dinner n woke up near 3.30am wide awake. Had to try to go back to sleep.
Thur - still heavy, my batteries were low. Plus CCA again, 3 consecutive days, plus OT these past few days. Too tired after work, just want to go home n hibernate. Ate, then read a book, watched anime n fell asleep until 1am... Now trying to go to sleep again.
Think R&R is in order. Rest n relax, then exercise then can go out. Need to clear the mind n too much 'dust' from the daily grind. Need to recharge n refresh my perspective that is greying from the dust accumulated.
Because just only scrapped past the 8th week of the 17 weeks term. I feel my machinery starting to malfunction from the hectic-ness (had an exam, 2 events, observation) and more lessons and one more exam and more level events happening. Need the boost to pull through.
Also need to recharge the spirit n the positivity, otherwise would just be stuck in a work-rout with dull senses.
Energy levels are down, fell asleep after dinner only to wake up in the wee hours of the morning, then try to go back to sleep. Not well-rested in the mornings then.
Just by Monday itself, I was sooo tired mentally. It's the final day of 'jagar-ing' so it meant an end to the 9 torturous days of having to raise my voice, glare, stare, look at certain nosiy individuals to intimidate into silence that is so rare daily in the class due to weak mgt by the form teacher. Daily I am rolling my eyes...
Tue, a heavy day of lessons n I had my observation of sort. It was a mix of formal n informal at the same time. Many and I meant many colleagues, even those not of the same subject came in and sat thru the entire lesson. Students were intimidated by the sheer no of pple n pairs of eyes, were initially quiet. I didn't care abt the visitors. I had told them I will focus on them and they could do like-wise. They warmed up n relaxed enough to make jokes even, made me laugh. It did liven up the activity. Had CCA and had to rush for Krav Maga after so the post-conference was the following day.
Wed - Lessons plus another set of visitors to another class, this time the diff class became really quiet until called upon. But they were doing well before visitors came in. Got to talk to the visitors after the lesson, some sort of interview. Had CCA.
Then post-conference for the lesson yesterday... Sometimes I wonder while certain pointers like gp work, pair work suggestions are raised, other comments seem to be say for the sake, plus activity doesn't always need to be paired with writing. Plus in the time frame of 20-25mins, doing it for the first time in the series, I want to lead it, to be a teacher-directed form, instead of pair/gp, but those are relevant for future ones when they get the idea of it. Can see the certain 'mindsets' of colleagues who think in a very stereotypical manner abt how a language lesson should be carry out. But they noted the positive rapport between the interactions, that would encourage the love of the language.
(my earlier lesson set had gp work planned in it but tio cancelled so waste my effort in planning, hence the switch to a simpler one upon short notice) Needless to say after that concussed after dinner n woke up near 3.30am wide awake. Had to try to go back to sleep.
Thur - still heavy, my batteries were low. Plus CCA again, 3 consecutive days, plus OT these past few days. Too tired after work, just want to go home n hibernate. Ate, then read a book, watched anime n fell asleep until 1am... Now trying to go to sleep again.
Think R&R is in order. Rest n relax, then exercise then can go out. Need to clear the mind n too much 'dust' from the daily grind. Need to recharge n refresh my perspective that is greying from the dust accumulated.
Because just only scrapped past the 8th week of the 17 weeks term. I feel my machinery starting to malfunction from the hectic-ness (had an exam, 2 events, observation) and more lessons and one more exam and more level events happening. Need the boost to pull through.
Also need to recharge the spirit n the positivity, otherwise would just be stuck in a work-rout with dull senses.
Monday, October 22, 2012
All crap cumulates until tomorrow
Well seems after several weeks, when my energy level dipped due to work, I kinda end up with blog posts about fatigue.
There is a basis for my recent bout of fatique. It's work. Lemme summarize n gazed it up to avoid recognition.
1) Observation that was abruptly cancelled and then i had to prepare another diff one.
2) Poor class discipline by form so it meant I had to scold, shout to discipline them when I had to jaguar for 45mins for 9 days... Daily. I rather teach 2hrs of lesson instead of doing that.
Both would end by tomorrow. I need to survive until then. Just get thru the crap plus a heavy day plus cca altogether n after that go for Krav Maga to vent out the negativity n accumulated frustrations.
Tonight wanna sleep on time n a night cap... But I've ran out of craft beers n ciders. Hmm see how...
There is a basis for my recent bout of fatique. It's work. Lemme summarize n gazed it up to avoid recognition.
1) Observation that was abruptly cancelled and then i had to prepare another diff one.
2) Poor class discipline by form so it meant I had to scold, shout to discipline them when I had to jaguar for 45mins for 9 days... Daily. I rather teach 2hrs of lesson instead of doing that.
Both would end by tomorrow. I need to survive until then. Just get thru the crap plus a heavy day plus cca altogether n after that go for Krav Maga to vent out the negativity n accumulated frustrations.
Tonight wanna sleep on time n a night cap... But I've ran out of craft beers n ciders. Hmm see how...
Friday, October 19, 2012
Awake at 2.30am...
Today is another work event whereby the different levels head out to an area to sketch n do painting. For the second year, I'm headed to the same venue.
So I went more prepared. In my exercise gear with knee & ankle guards plus sport shoes. My job as it turned out was to rotate every half-hourly among 3 designated spots. I still had some files n books to check which I packed into my backpack n brought along. Cleared all except one which I later cleared it at the workplace n returned to students.
I was glad in a way I didn't have to take pics, which meant I didn't have to climb all over Fort Canning with the slopes n hilly incline. I did that last year and ended the work day with a sore right knee. Today was better.
Though it was abruptly cut short by the rain which poured near lunchtime. I was under shelter then and just stayed and ate lunch more leisurely. It was kinda heavy so the students were gathered slowly n after an hour... Or it felt like an hour, we headed back. Not that I don't have some discipline issues n eye-ball rolling... Think this year I really rolled my eye-balls too much...
Didn't have to go up until near dismissal, so cleared the coming lesson observation of sort, the plans, ws n list of questions I would ask. Finished the last 2 parts, photocopied n submitted to the other 2 colleagues to do the rest. Already decided with them the timing n date. All done and headed home.
Super-shacked, after dinner zzzZ and woke up at 1.35am, had to drink Chinese meds, brush teeth, wash face etc. Now 2.41am and haven't gone back to sleep yet. Think I can but just not as restful.
Tomorrow I am looking forward to Indian food courtesy of my final Groupon. Haven't been looking at it at all. Got rid of that habit if daily checking. Still on it now n then but I am careful with the deals I buy, not so much impulse. More of dining deals, goods. No courses, most are not convenient.
So I went more prepared. In my exercise gear with knee & ankle guards plus sport shoes. My job as it turned out was to rotate every half-hourly among 3 designated spots. I still had some files n books to check which I packed into my backpack n brought along. Cleared all except one which I later cleared it at the workplace n returned to students.
I was glad in a way I didn't have to take pics, which meant I didn't have to climb all over Fort Canning with the slopes n hilly incline. I did that last year and ended the work day with a sore right knee. Today was better.
Though it was abruptly cut short by the rain which poured near lunchtime. I was under shelter then and just stayed and ate lunch more leisurely. It was kinda heavy so the students were gathered slowly n after an hour... Or it felt like an hour, we headed back. Not that I don't have some discipline issues n eye-ball rolling... Think this year I really rolled my eye-balls too much...
Didn't have to go up until near dismissal, so cleared the coming lesson observation of sort, the plans, ws n list of questions I would ask. Finished the last 2 parts, photocopied n submitted to the other 2 colleagues to do the rest. Already decided with them the timing n date. All done and headed home.
Super-shacked, after dinner zzzZ and woke up at 1.35am, had to drink Chinese meds, brush teeth, wash face etc. Now 2.41am and haven't gone back to sleep yet. Think I can but just not as restful.
Tomorrow I am looking forward to Indian food courtesy of my final Groupon. Haven't been looking at it at all. Got rid of that habit if daily checking. Still on it now n then but I am careful with the deals I buy, not so much impulse. More of dining deals, goods. No courses, most are not convenient.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Krav injuries & feeling kinda blue
My right cheekbone is still slightly sore. Thankfully nothing is broken. Through that incident, I learn never to carry the pad so high up. Pay a price for that lesson. Incidentally I've realized the bruise on my left shin didnt fade or heal... it still hurts after a week. I think I better massage both of them to clear them up before the next lesson, coming very soon, in a day or two.
Today kinda feeling the fatique. Like really feeling sian about stuff. I wonder if it was the after-effect of such a stressful week plus the irriation onTue. Maybe its due to so much on my plate, that after a nice chill-out on Friday (eating a delicious hotdog and drinking 2 great ciders), today I kinda dont want to do anything.
I didnt want to wake up at 7am but my body clock and the unrelentling sun shone and lit up the room. I really need those curtains that can effectively block out the bright sun rays. So I stayed in bed, look at I-phone and just surf a bit. But didnt feel up to anything. So far I've had 0 mc for this entire year thus far, (Jan - Oct) so its already a record of something. Not that I dont feel ill. On some days, the cough or stomach acted up or feel so weak but still persisted.
After breakfast and later on lunch, I drank the Chinese medicine and went to sleep in the afternoon. Felt better but just only managed 2hrs. Man, I want to sleep the whole day away. Got up and just ate dinner and did nothing and let time pass by.
Actually I need to get out to buy a couple of new three-quarters kakhi pants for work cos my current 2 are super old and worn and super-loose. If I dont belt up, it could slide down my hips. Also buy some nicer sleeveless-Ts or even Ts. Cos the only sleeveless I have are the worn ones I wear to sleep. Maybe spread out these purchases over the months due to reduced spending money from having to contribute extra money to dad... sian Maybe I defer these until the end of the month, see how much extra I have to go buy stuff. See how then.
Stock was on the way up then suddenly negative economic data and it went down some. More waiting and hoping to sell then. Last 2 weeks was too busy to even think about stocks.
Am now waiting for another half hour, after which it would be 2hrs since my dinner and I can go do a quick work-out with KettleBell. Think only if tomorrow I feel like it, then I'll try to shadow some Krav Maga moves. Dont feel up to doing both. Want a quick conditioning workout. 20mins maxed with enough intensity to tone the muscles. Hope to drive the blues away with a workout too. Adrenaline is a good destressant, I've heard.
Today kinda feeling the fatique. Like really feeling sian about stuff. I wonder if it was the after-effect of such a stressful week plus the irriation onTue. Maybe its due to so much on my plate, that after a nice chill-out on Friday (eating a delicious hotdog and drinking 2 great ciders), today I kinda dont want to do anything.
I didnt want to wake up at 7am but my body clock and the unrelentling sun shone and lit up the room. I really need those curtains that can effectively block out the bright sun rays. So I stayed in bed, look at I-phone and just surf a bit. But didnt feel up to anything. So far I've had 0 mc for this entire year thus far, (Jan - Oct) so its already a record of something. Not that I dont feel ill. On some days, the cough or stomach acted up or feel so weak but still persisted.
After breakfast and later on lunch, I drank the Chinese medicine and went to sleep in the afternoon. Felt better but just only managed 2hrs. Man, I want to sleep the whole day away. Got up and just ate dinner and did nothing and let time pass by.
Actually I need to get out to buy a couple of new three-quarters kakhi pants for work cos my current 2 are super old and worn and super-loose. If I dont belt up, it could slide down my hips. Also buy some nicer sleeveless-Ts or even Ts. Cos the only sleeveless I have are the worn ones I wear to sleep. Maybe spread out these purchases over the months due to reduced spending money from having to contribute extra money to dad... sian Maybe I defer these until the end of the month, see how much extra I have to go buy stuff. See how then.
Stock was on the way up then suddenly negative economic data and it went down some. More waiting and hoping to sell then. Last 2 weeks was too busy to even think about stocks.
Am now waiting for another half hour, after which it would be 2hrs since my dinner and I can go do a quick work-out with KettleBell. Think only if tomorrow I feel like it, then I'll try to shadow some Krav Maga moves. Dont feel up to doing both. Want a quick conditioning workout. 20mins maxed with enough intensity to tone the muscles. Hope to drive the blues away with a workout too. Adrenaline is a good destressant, I've heard.
Friday, October 05, 2012
Almost hitting ex-Uni weight - 1.7kg more
When I did my last weigh-in before my stomach acted up a bit, I had lost about 8kg from the 'Peak (pig) of my life' weight last Aug, 2011. Into the 14th month of the calorie-counting n food discipline.
Then appetite affected cos stomach was unwell n lost another kilo cos I ate soupy, watery easy to digest food that won't tax it much. Body fat down to 29.8%, from the height of 38%.
Even without this bout of stomach weakness (not caused by my calorie counting, but is my recurring problem, linked to my cough), the most obvious difference is the tummy n the pants.
Slowly over time, tummy flattened out. Now relatively much flatter but not anywhere near wash-board abs. Also my right knee hurts lesser even with extra stairs. Then the belt to buckle up my work pants. Normal was 4th hole. One period of time got to buckle 3rd hole cos tight n now reaching to the 5th hole easily. Also arms less flabby and more toned.
Some muscles are more obvious. T-shirts arm-holes are easy to fit through n my M-sized T shirts are comfortable to wear. Think if I can maintain this, I need new work pants (at least the three-quarters I wear which are super loose cos it was 1 size bigger) n maybe a new pair of jeans, not so loose.
Legs still not toned or built cos I don't do leg squats due to knee. I started doing a few squats to strengthen the weaker knee cos sometimes it aches after Krav Maga cos have to use knee to generate the power to push forward.
Overall I feel pretty good, except when my cough or the linked problem of the stomach acts up. Even yesterday's Krav Maga warm-up wasn't as taxing as before. Feel my body is lighter, am lighter on my feet.
Plus doing Krav Maga gives me a sense of the surrounding - through the scanning n peripheral vision training. Won't hard out to get myself in trouble, still beginner.
Then appetite affected cos stomach was unwell n lost another kilo cos I ate soupy, watery easy to digest food that won't tax it much. Body fat down to 29.8%, from the height of 38%.
Even without this bout of stomach weakness (not caused by my calorie counting, but is my recurring problem, linked to my cough), the most obvious difference is the tummy n the pants.
Slowly over time, tummy flattened out. Now relatively much flatter but not anywhere near wash-board abs. Also my right knee hurts lesser even with extra stairs. Then the belt to buckle up my work pants. Normal was 4th hole. One period of time got to buckle 3rd hole cos tight n now reaching to the 5th hole easily. Also arms less flabby and more toned.
Some muscles are more obvious. T-shirts arm-holes are easy to fit through n my M-sized T shirts are comfortable to wear. Think if I can maintain this, I need new work pants (at least the three-quarters I wear which are super loose cos it was 1 size bigger) n maybe a new pair of jeans, not so loose.
Legs still not toned or built cos I don't do leg squats due to knee. I started doing a few squats to strengthen the weaker knee cos sometimes it aches after Krav Maga cos have to use knee to generate the power to push forward.
Overall I feel pretty good, except when my cough or the linked problem of the stomach acts up. Even yesterday's Krav Maga warm-up wasn't as taxing as before. Feel my body is lighter, am lighter on my feet.
Plus doing Krav Maga gives me a sense of the surrounding - through the scanning n peripheral vision training. Won't hard out to get myself in trouble, still beginner.
Thursday, October 04, 2012
Sitting with my kungfu tea...
Now am seated in my favorite 满家乐 sipping on a hot kungfu tea, waiting for Krav Maga to start.
Couldn't make it for Mon/Tue cos I wasn't well. But I rested and felt fine enough to go. Tried asking if Tab wanted to go on other days eg Fri, Sat but she declined. I decided to go on my own on Thur because I don't have cca cos of impending exam, next week is exam (Wed) I need to see how its like. Maybe next week is Mon or Tue.
Krav Maga has become something like one of my regular work-outs of sort cos it usually leaves me with aches for 4 days. There's just enough time to recover before it's next week already and another round resumes. So I hope to maintain a certain discipline about it. Make it a regular feature. It adds colour n a sense of excitement to my routined life.
Plus from experience, this thing called 'muscle memory' should be kept up by regular, constant practice. So a regular practice helps. Mentally can keep thinking about the moves to internalize it.
I also don't want to break the 7-day exercise cycle. It's really hard to restart once it's broken. It's actually easier to make one do it, just to get it over n done with instead of procrastinating. The effort to restart is exponentially higher. I speak from the experience of forming an exercise routine numerous times. This is more so as I have to pack my things in the morning, change a bag, set off from work intent to head down and just do it. Even that is a routine to form.
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Mentally I was tired. But I arrived early abt 6pm. Stoned on bus n train, then stone with milk tea, while waiting for it to start, also power-rested.
Today's class is really amusing n fun. A lot of groin jokes. I was told I had messaged early enough, and they turned away a few with package. Package got priority, given msg at the same time. Saw familiar faces, new faces. 16 pple, a big group.
Man the warm-up is still a killer plus now touch head, shoulder, knee n toes defense practice. My first time doing. Too many things to fend off la...
Learnt about groin kick n groin kick defense. We practiced the drills with a guard to practice both L & R leg groin kick. Quite fun with one holding the guard, the other kicking.
Then we moved to one side doing groin kick, other do groin defense wearing shin guards. Ouch!!! When the contact is made, since used the shin to deflect, pain. Think tom going to bruise. Then do a variation for groin defense plus follow through.
It's quite effective and nice to use the legs for a change. At least for me, the aches can now move to lower body instead of always is my shoulders, arms n back. The good thing is I am getting really toned coupled from the weight loss. Becoming leaner n fitter n stronger. Quite refreshing. Will suffer the aftermath tomorrow. I will try to keep up with it weekly.
Couldn't make it for Mon/Tue cos I wasn't well. But I rested and felt fine enough to go. Tried asking if Tab wanted to go on other days eg Fri, Sat but she declined. I decided to go on my own on Thur because I don't have cca cos of impending exam, next week is exam (Wed) I need to see how its like. Maybe next week is Mon or Tue.
Krav Maga has become something like one of my regular work-outs of sort cos it usually leaves me with aches for 4 days. There's just enough time to recover before it's next week already and another round resumes. So I hope to maintain a certain discipline about it. Make it a regular feature. It adds colour n a sense of excitement to my routined life.
Plus from experience, this thing called 'muscle memory' should be kept up by regular, constant practice. So a regular practice helps. Mentally can keep thinking about the moves to internalize it.
I also don't want to break the 7-day exercise cycle. It's really hard to restart once it's broken. It's actually easier to make one do it, just to get it over n done with instead of procrastinating. The effort to restart is exponentially higher. I speak from the experience of forming an exercise routine numerous times. This is more so as I have to pack my things in the morning, change a bag, set off from work intent to head down and just do it. Even that is a routine to form.
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Mentally I was tired. But I arrived early abt 6pm. Stoned on bus n train, then stone with milk tea, while waiting for it to start, also power-rested.
Today's class is really amusing n fun. A lot of groin jokes. I was told I had messaged early enough, and they turned away a few with package. Package got priority, given msg at the same time. Saw familiar faces, new faces. 16 pple, a big group.
Man the warm-up is still a killer plus now touch head, shoulder, knee n toes defense practice. My first time doing. Too many things to fend off la...
Learnt about groin kick n groin kick defense. We practiced the drills with a guard to practice both L & R leg groin kick. Quite fun with one holding the guard, the other kicking.
Then we moved to one side doing groin kick, other do groin defense wearing shin guards. Ouch!!! When the contact is made, since used the shin to deflect, pain. Think tom going to bruise. Then do a variation for groin defense plus follow through.
It's quite effective and nice to use the legs for a change. At least for me, the aches can now move to lower body instead of always is my shoulders, arms n back. The good thing is I am getting really toned coupled from the weight loss. Becoming leaner n fitter n stronger. Quite refreshing. Will suffer the aftermath tomorrow. I will try to keep up with it weekly.
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Cough like crazy
I think the haze is causing my cough to act up. Ironically by 4-5pm, it clears up or if I can stay in an air-con place longer, I don't cough as bad. Ironic.
Plus stomach acting up also, don't have appetite for solid hard food. Been eating porridge n drinking fresh fruit juice. Appetite quite weak.
Rested more yesterday, feeling better. Will try to go for Krav Maga tom, though tom is relatively heavy, no cca cos of impending exam. So try to clear what I can. Tom wear contact lens for Krav Maga in case they do more head-locks or chokes. Don't want to destroy my glasses from all the actions.
Dozing off, hope to be well to carry out all the planned stuff
Plus stomach acting up also, don't have appetite for solid hard food. Been eating porridge n drinking fresh fruit juice. Appetite quite weak.
Rested more yesterday, feeling better. Will try to go for Krav Maga tom, though tom is relatively heavy, no cca cos of impending exam. So try to clear what I can. Tom wear contact lens for Krav Maga in case they do more head-locks or chokes. Don't want to destroy my glasses from all the actions.
Dozing off, hope to be well to carry out all the planned stuff
Monday, October 01, 2012
Almost constant muscle-aches
Well thanks to my goon-do idea to go for Krav Maga the night before the work event. So little wonders I was tired the next day. Again with the delayed effect of the aches (usually it intensifies the following day) so I had some stiffness at most.
Then on the day of the event, I had 3 roles... Wtf? But bobian, just do. So had to carry keyboard, then 4 chairs, then those dividers used in banks for pple to queue, 3. I carried one in each hand, later went back for the last one. Walao, early in the morning already like having a workout. Little wonder why the following day, Fri, I was kinda sore, especially the shoulders...
So that day at the event, I was both camera-woman n later on once the event started, one of the video-grapher... Wah like whole event got things to do one, no break. I couldn't enjoy the event cos I was filming... Man mentally n physically tired after all that.
Then guess what, that after-event party, where I only offered my 5 bottles of spirit, dunno how I ended up being the bartender??? So they set up a drinks station and I was there using my measuring jig to mix Gin-tonic, tequila sprite, Lamb brother, tequila sunrise, screwdriver and the refills of non-alcoholic requests like pure juice, coke, sprite, tea etc, with slices if lemon or lime squeezed in...
Man I was glad I recognize the fact that I would be digging my own grave if I decided to bring the cocktail mixer. Cos the next day was kinda heavy for me. That's why only the jig. I had thought that they would mix themselves. I didn't remember agreeing to be the bartender. But in the schemes of all things plus mistranslation n misunderstanding, that's how things went.
Actually I prefer to just mix the drinks as the bartender. Can avoid all the small talk. Nothing much to talk about, don't feel like answering bo liao qns. So I sat at the make-shift 'counter' and serve what colleagues wanted. Some ask for recommendation but most I could do was the Lamb Brothers until the pineapple juice ran out. Later it was Tequila Sprite with lemon or lime squeezed in. The stronger drinkers went for Whisky on the rocks or Gin tonic with lime or lemon. A couple of colleagues who are around longer came over to chat a short while. These I didn't mind
but the fatigue did pile up... I made 4 cocktails for myself n ate little of the food. But I drank mainly tequila which clears up after the initial high unlike the rest where u get drunker n drunker. So after 3hrs of it, I was really zombified. Reached home n lights out.
Next day had to drag myself to work. Lessons was hard cos students couldn't focus due to fatigue. I tried very hard not to let fatigue show but it came out through some mistakes... Well we all had a good laugh about it. Man, after slogging through that, had to go to recee that Fort Canning for over an hour. I was ready to white-flag. Power rested 5 mins waiting, slept on the cab ride n drank a Rootbeer to power on.
I wanted to head out but nobody was free, so I went to eat the nice fish soup in PS foodcourt. Took bus home n knocked out.
Sat felt extremely tired though I headed out still, for lunch n dinner, spent some hours at Quet's house. That massage chair help soothe the muscle-aches... But reached home zonked.
Sunday I actually did a workout with conditioning plus KettleBell n shadowed 3 of the recent lessons. Still could practice the guitar, read a storybook n listened to the radio. Later tired n stayed indoors.
Today woke up like battery half full... Coughing quite badly that left me feeling drained... again some muscles sore... Super long day n I felt light-headed. Decided if I really cannot, won't go for Krav Maga. At most I'll do a workout when I feel better. Feels like immunity issue, haven't mc at all since the start of the year. Rather rest to go a longer distance.
Will try to take it easy though it's a heavy heavy day.
Then on the day of the event, I had 3 roles... Wtf? But bobian, just do. So had to carry keyboard, then 4 chairs, then those dividers used in banks for pple to queue, 3. I carried one in each hand, later went back for the last one. Walao, early in the morning already like having a workout. Little wonder why the following day, Fri, I was kinda sore, especially the shoulders...
So that day at the event, I was both camera-woman n later on once the event started, one of the video-grapher... Wah like whole event got things to do one, no break. I couldn't enjoy the event cos I was filming... Man mentally n physically tired after all that.
Then guess what, that after-event party, where I only offered my 5 bottles of spirit, dunno how I ended up being the bartender??? So they set up a drinks station and I was there using my measuring jig to mix Gin-tonic, tequila sprite, Lamb brother, tequila sunrise, screwdriver and the refills of non-alcoholic requests like pure juice, coke, sprite, tea etc, with slices if lemon or lime squeezed in...
Man I was glad I recognize the fact that I would be digging my own grave if I decided to bring the cocktail mixer. Cos the next day was kinda heavy for me. That's why only the jig. I had thought that they would mix themselves. I didn't remember agreeing to be the bartender. But in the schemes of all things plus mistranslation n misunderstanding, that's how things went.
Actually I prefer to just mix the drinks as the bartender. Can avoid all the small talk. Nothing much to talk about, don't feel like answering bo liao qns. So I sat at the make-shift 'counter' and serve what colleagues wanted. Some ask for recommendation but most I could do was the Lamb Brothers until the pineapple juice ran out. Later it was Tequila Sprite with lemon or lime squeezed in. The stronger drinkers went for Whisky on the rocks or Gin tonic with lime or lemon. A couple of colleagues who are around longer came over to chat a short while. These I didn't mind
but the fatigue did pile up... I made 4 cocktails for myself n ate little of the food. But I drank mainly tequila which clears up after the initial high unlike the rest where u get drunker n drunker. So after 3hrs of it, I was really zombified. Reached home n lights out.
Next day had to drag myself to work. Lessons was hard cos students couldn't focus due to fatigue. I tried very hard not to let fatigue show but it came out through some mistakes... Well we all had a good laugh about it. Man, after slogging through that, had to go to recee that Fort Canning for over an hour. I was ready to white-flag. Power rested 5 mins waiting, slept on the cab ride n drank a Rootbeer to power on.
I wanted to head out but nobody was free, so I went to eat the nice fish soup in PS foodcourt. Took bus home n knocked out.
Sat felt extremely tired though I headed out still, for lunch n dinner, spent some hours at Quet's house. That massage chair help soothe the muscle-aches... But reached home zonked.
Sunday I actually did a workout with conditioning plus KettleBell n shadowed 3 of the recent lessons. Still could practice the guitar, read a storybook n listened to the radio. Later tired n stayed indoors.
Today woke up like battery half full... Coughing quite badly that left me feeling drained... again some muscles sore... Super long day n I felt light-headed. Decided if I really cannot, won't go for Krav Maga. At most I'll do a workout when I feel better. Feels like immunity issue, haven't mc at all since the start of the year. Rather rest to go a longer distance.
Will try to take it easy though it's a heavy heavy day.
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