I am aware that there are a lot of people who have life tougher than me. I am aware that there are some people whose plights are so horrible that you wonder what’s wrong with this world. However, there are things wrong with my life right now, and I would like to pen them down, not because I am unappreciative that God/Allah/Insert-Higher-Power has given me, rather that I have been given the chance to do good, but yet have done nothing much for the past 27 years of my life. This shall be a checkpoint of sort for myself.
Health
I have been blessed with a healthy body, but over the years, I have neglected it. Not only have I ate a lot of junk food, I have also stopped exercising. I was never a fit child to began with, but over the years, I have managed to attain the minimum fitness standards required by schools’ NAFA test as well as Army’s IPPT. In my prime, I was hitting Sliver awards for my IPPT, and taking part in runs 10km and above.
As it stands now, I am a shadow of my former self. Due to the lack of exercise, my “free” six packs have been absorbed by this large lump of fat. While it’s acceptable to many of my peers to have a huge belly, it disgusts me that I am slowly becoming one of them. Sure, some fat guys look cute. I think I look cute, but hell, I rather not look cute and be healthy. Sometimes I wonder if it is karma because I used to laugh at fat people. Sometimes I see plump people, I wonder to myself why don’t they exercise more, until I realized; I am slowly joining their ranks. This part of me hates myself for me, and I resolve to be better than that.
I also have dark eyes circles which in turn makes me look extremely weak. Combining that with my lack of exercise makes me look pale. The dark eye circles are mostly attributed to the fact that sometimes I am unable to sleep, and hence will surf the web on my Iphone, and before I know it, these eye bags started coming out. Aside from that I have fallen sick for 4 times over the last 6 weeks. How I managed that is beyond me.
Also, because I am just that tiny little bit vain, I want to be more tanned. I have enough of this 白斩鸡 look.
What I will do
1. Exercise at least 3 times a week. Meaning that at least 2 weekdays and 1 weekend at least. And something which might help me along the way, by booking IPT for the 5th Nov 2011, I will at least be assured that I will go exercise. That should serve as another reminder that I would need to exercise. Honestly, I would like to aim for a sliver and not just a pass. Reviewing my current fitness condition, I would say, silver might be tougher for me, but if you are going to aim, might as well try for something higher. (Gold on the other hand is somewhat too unrealistic.)
2. Getting tanned, that would have to come with more exercise. I wouldn’t purposely go soak in sunlight, might very well get cancer before I get tanned. How I aim to achieve that is through swimming. I used to swim at least 2 times a week, but have slacked off. I recall that I had asked Tecko and Louis, and they are agreeable to have an exercise regime for Saturday morning, which however stopped when I went Taiwan/In-camp/fallen ill. The plan is to get the guys together and make it a weekly affair. Not only it helps us bond, it also allows us to keep fit.
3. Eye circles, that I can’t really help that much. Try to sleep more I guess. If that doesn’t help, maybe I will consider doing masks.
4. The Chinese have a saying, 祸从口出, meaning that trouble comes out from the mouth. The inverse is also true; you are what you eat. I know that I can be rather picky sometimes, and don’t eat much meat in general except for chicken. I dislike lamb and can’t eat beef. I should really start eating more pork. Not only that will help to beef me up ( how clever of me), it also keeps me from the cold.
Relationship with Girlfriend
This is a tricky and lengthy one, I shall postpone it for a later date.
Relationship with family
Happy to say there is nothing that is bothering me. I think my relationship with my family is good for now, and I hope it will carry on for a long time to come.
Work
A large of our lives is dedicated to work, but few find that work they want to do. Same for me. I thought I made a splendid move from Client Data to Trade Support. The move itself is great, but it seems that I just cannot get the hang of things. I tried to study, and not only am I unable to understand still, the interest in motivation isn’t there. You can even say that I hate my job. Yes, I heard the news; my old department basically has been entirely outsourced to India, while I managed to get away. Congrats to me, but doesn’t change the fact that I hate my job.
I shall look into it again really soon. For now, I shall work hard at my current job and look for something else really soon.
My sidelines
Sad to say that I have fallen behind with 2 things, and I have no one to blame but myself.
• Investing – yes I have been reading up, but that’s that all I have been doing. Need to have some action.
• Online Business – That deal thing with DG seems to be quickly falling through. And both of us seem to have lost interest. Is there something which we are not doing right? I really need to investigate this further
What I will do
• I will ring up DG soon to talk to him, meet him soon also.
• Investing is troublesome because of my work, which results in compliance restrictions on what I can invest in, while in the employment of my current company. Not to say that I will put it on hold, but I need to find something that I want to put my money into. For starters, I think a tidy sum of 4000sgd is my upper limit. Also, that compliance thing, I would want to look more into it.
Charity
I have always wanted to do charity, but I don’t know where to start. Sure, I can sign up for events, go to a home weekly, but I want to do something more than that. As such, I must profess that I have to put this on hold for a moment, while I sort out my life.
Running out of time, going to post this first and come back to it sometime this week. Hopefully procrastination will not get the better of me this time.
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