4 day Marathon
I havent been receiving a lot of flak for lack of activity on my blog, cos like everyone else I have been busy with my final year examination and furthermore, I suppose some of my friends have been busy admiring the pictures of my blog that they appreciate the fact that you don’t have to scroll down too much to see these pictures.
Anyway as I was saying, exams are underway, and I just ended a 4 day marathon that started on Wednesday with TS1101E in the morning. By marathon I meant finishing a 4 day period of exams with one paper each day, which meant that I had no break in between any papers, and the moment I finished one, I had to start studying for the other. Thursday was my Asean Economies paper, which instead of being a paper to test one’s knowledge of the economic dimensions of the countries in South East Asia, ended up becoming a test of who was able to copy and write the most in a span of 2 hours. It was an open book exam and I thought the lecturer posed questions that was too similar to the tutorial ones. Well I hope the hand and wrist workout that day would pay off come results day. It was the same thing for The Malay Studies module on Friday on Malay Ideologies on Development, but that was a small class, and the questions were more analytical, so it needed more than just regurgitation. Finally the final stretch came in the form of a paper testing ones knowledge of Singapore’s history. It might sound easy but this was tricky for me because, me being the “smart one” somehow realized that “ hey I can choose a pass fail option for this paper” and so I did thinking that it would help me improve my cap since I had one less paper to put in effort for. Little did I know that to get a satisfactory grade, you needed to get above C+ for it. What made me panicked harder was that, a lot of my friends received unsatisfactory grades for some of their modules, and they had to repeat it this semester. I don’t have another semester, so I was really worried. The moment I finished my Friday paper, I went straight to the library and dug into my books. I stayed up all night in school and finished studying in time for a short 11/2 hour nap before my paper at 9. I thought I did fine, but you can never tell when it comes to exams like these. For all I know, I might even have to stay on another semester just to repeat one module. In this case, its better to get a D and affect your cap, than to see the word Unsatisfactory on my result slip, and foil all my post graduation plans. It looks like ill be worried till results day.
So that summed up my 4 day marathon which ended on Saturday at 11am. I felt a little liberated after that but I didn’t know what to do. The only rest I took in these 4 days were my runs, my trip to the gyms and the pool, a regime which I had to skip on Friday though, cos I thought graduating was greater priority than looking good. So on Saturday evening after I went home to sleep, and visit an ill cousin at the hospital, I finally got to do my 10 kilometer run, something I have bee telling myself to do for a long time but haven’t really got down to it. I don’t really know if its 10 kilometers cos I haven’t measured it and I don’t own a runners watch like vyniker that cam measure distances and speed. However the runs I usually do around my neighborhood that is, usually takes about 30 to 35 minutes, and this one I took just above an hour, so I named them simply as the 5 kilo one and the 10 kilo run respectively. I am aiming to do more runs nowadays cos I have been losing the weight and getting toned but somehow the flab at the midsection is not going away. So maybe its time to step up on the runs. I need to go to the gym more as well, cos somehow all this while I have only managed to be there thrice and at the most 4 times a week, and I feel its not enough. That is because I usually spend between 30 to 45 minutes in the gym, due to the limited time I have on my hands. But I used to think that It was more of the intesnsity than the amount of time I spend there, I usually use the school gym since its free and its most accessible since I spend a lot of my time in school. The school gym is not a very good gym cos it does not have a bench press, and the even if there is a bench press, its located at another place in the recreation centre, and now due to the exams, that room is closed. Anyway, my usual regime is to do
an upper body work out like the shoulder or the chest followed by an arm, back or an abs workout in between so there is less time spent resting. The results are quite obvious but it doesn’t stay on for very long. Maybe I am just not going to the gym enough.
As for my swim, I usually do 30 laps after my gym session, but that would mean I only swim when I go the gym, so maybe I am not doing enough of swimming as well. Last week I managed to exercise every day except Saturday, but this week I skipped Tuesday and Friday, and I only went to the gym and pool on Wednesday and Thursday. Monday I did my 5 kilo run and 3 sets of 10 chin ups, Saturday I did the 10 kilo one, with 3 sets of chin ups and crunches and yesterday I did the same thing only with a damn lousy 5 kilo run. I don’t know why, but I felt a pain in my chest area in the first 10 mins which was why I decided to slow it down. I have to step it up this week and in the subsequent weeks, since come Thursday exams will be over and holidays will be here. I haven’t been that disciplined when it comes to food as well, I eat bread for breakfast everyday, and although I plan to just eat chicken or tuna I would succumb to my hunger by telling myself that I need the carbohydrate to supplement my energy loss from working out. On top of that, my dinner would be damn late cos I stay up late in school to study and I get really hungry and eat very late at Fong Seng.
Today is Monday so I hope by blogging about it, I would be more conscious and stringent about my get fit regime but it didn’t really get a good start. Me and angelsoul planned to run two rounds at bedok reservoir and I remembered telling him that the first person to wake up was to call the other. But this morning my phone rang at 10(and that wasn’t him), and I heaved a great sigh at how ill disciplined I am.
I am in the school library now, which will close at 430 and I reached here at 130. I haven been doing much for my Money and Banking paper for the last two days, so I have to get started on it. Ill swim at 6 later and then visit the gym in Clementi cos the school gym is closed on public holidays. Then maybe ill go for a run. But then. I wont be spending enough time in my books cos I need to return my cousin’s car tonight. Oh yes my car’s not doing too well these days. Well we’ll see happens. Ill blog about it tomorrow. I hope.
Oh yes Vyniker, me and angelsoul watched Divergence yesterday, and I must say I hope your taste in women is not as bad as your taste in movies, because Divergence sucks, big time. I never though Aaron Kwok and Ekin Cheng would ever do a bad movie, but this movie really proved me wrong. It must be some stupid director trying to do some really intense psychological thriller but ended up making everyone confused instead. No offense.
Matan Out
Anyway as I was saying, exams are underway, and I just ended a 4 day marathon that started on Wednesday with TS1101E in the morning. By marathon I meant finishing a 4 day period of exams with one paper each day, which meant that I had no break in between any papers, and the moment I finished one, I had to start studying for the other. Thursday was my Asean Economies paper, which instead of being a paper to test one’s knowledge of the economic dimensions of the countries in South East Asia, ended up becoming a test of who was able to copy and write the most in a span of 2 hours. It was an open book exam and I thought the lecturer posed questions that was too similar to the tutorial ones. Well I hope the hand and wrist workout that day would pay off come results day. It was the same thing for The Malay Studies module on Friday on Malay Ideologies on Development, but that was a small class, and the questions were more analytical, so it needed more than just regurgitation. Finally the final stretch came in the form of a paper testing ones knowledge of Singapore’s history. It might sound easy but this was tricky for me because, me being the “smart one” somehow realized that “ hey I can choose a pass fail option for this paper” and so I did thinking that it would help me improve my cap since I had one less paper to put in effort for. Little did I know that to get a satisfactory grade, you needed to get above C+ for it. What made me panicked harder was that, a lot of my friends received unsatisfactory grades for some of their modules, and they had to repeat it this semester. I don’t have another semester, so I was really worried. The moment I finished my Friday paper, I went straight to the library and dug into my books. I stayed up all night in school and finished studying in time for a short 11/2 hour nap before my paper at 9. I thought I did fine, but you can never tell when it comes to exams like these. For all I know, I might even have to stay on another semester just to repeat one module. In this case, its better to get a D and affect your cap, than to see the word Unsatisfactory on my result slip, and foil all my post graduation plans. It looks like ill be worried till results day.
So that summed up my 4 day marathon which ended on Saturday at 11am. I felt a little liberated after that but I didn’t know what to do. The only rest I took in these 4 days were my runs, my trip to the gyms and the pool, a regime which I had to skip on Friday though, cos I thought graduating was greater priority than looking good. So on Saturday evening after I went home to sleep, and visit an ill cousin at the hospital, I finally got to do my 10 kilometer run, something I have bee telling myself to do for a long time but haven’t really got down to it. I don’t really know if its 10 kilometers cos I haven’t measured it and I don’t own a runners watch like vyniker that cam measure distances and speed. However the runs I usually do around my neighborhood that is, usually takes about 30 to 35 minutes, and this one I took just above an hour, so I named them simply as the 5 kilo one and the 10 kilo run respectively. I am aiming to do more runs nowadays cos I have been losing the weight and getting toned but somehow the flab at the midsection is not going away. So maybe its time to step up on the runs. I need to go to the gym more as well, cos somehow all this while I have only managed to be there thrice and at the most 4 times a week, and I feel its not enough. That is because I usually spend between 30 to 45 minutes in the gym, due to the limited time I have on my hands. But I used to think that It was more of the intesnsity than the amount of time I spend there, I usually use the school gym since its free and its most accessible since I spend a lot of my time in school. The school gym is not a very good gym cos it does not have a bench press, and the even if there is a bench press, its located at another place in the recreation centre, and now due to the exams, that room is closed. Anyway, my usual regime is to do
an upper body work out like the shoulder or the chest followed by an arm, back or an abs workout in between so there is less time spent resting. The results are quite obvious but it doesn’t stay on for very long. Maybe I am just not going to the gym enough.
As for my swim, I usually do 30 laps after my gym session, but that would mean I only swim when I go the gym, so maybe I am not doing enough of swimming as well. Last week I managed to exercise every day except Saturday, but this week I skipped Tuesday and Friday, and I only went to the gym and pool on Wednesday and Thursday. Monday I did my 5 kilo run and 3 sets of 10 chin ups, Saturday I did the 10 kilo one, with 3 sets of chin ups and crunches and yesterday I did the same thing only with a damn lousy 5 kilo run. I don’t know why, but I felt a pain in my chest area in the first 10 mins which was why I decided to slow it down. I have to step it up this week and in the subsequent weeks, since come Thursday exams will be over and holidays will be here. I haven’t been that disciplined when it comes to food as well, I eat bread for breakfast everyday, and although I plan to just eat chicken or tuna I would succumb to my hunger by telling myself that I need the carbohydrate to supplement my energy loss from working out. On top of that, my dinner would be damn late cos I stay up late in school to study and I get really hungry and eat very late at Fong Seng.
Today is Monday so I hope by blogging about it, I would be more conscious and stringent about my get fit regime but it didn’t really get a good start. Me and angelsoul planned to run two rounds at bedok reservoir and I remembered telling him that the first person to wake up was to call the other. But this morning my phone rang at 10(and that wasn’t him), and I heaved a great sigh at how ill disciplined I am.
I am in the school library now, which will close at 430 and I reached here at 130. I haven been doing much for my Money and Banking paper for the last two days, so I have to get started on it. Ill swim at 6 later and then visit the gym in Clementi cos the school gym is closed on public holidays. Then maybe ill go for a run. But then. I wont be spending enough time in my books cos I need to return my cousin’s car tonight. Oh yes my car’s not doing too well these days. Well we’ll see happens. Ill blog about it tomorrow. I hope.
Oh yes Vyniker, me and angelsoul watched Divergence yesterday, and I must say I hope your taste in women is not as bad as your taste in movies, because Divergence sucks, big time. I never though Aaron Kwok and Ekin Cheng would ever do a bad movie, but this movie really proved me wrong. It must be some stupid director trying to do some really intense psychological thriller but ended up making everyone confused instead. No offense.
Matan Out
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