I can't remember

I really cannot remember why I didn't do any workout on Friday. I remembered from my previous post that i did a gym routine on Thursday before Dillah came over but I was sure that it was Thursday. But i really cannot remember why I didnt do anything on Friday. I dont think there was Frisbee that day, because the last time we played was last Tuesday. This is the reason why I need to be more conscientious in updating my posts.

So that was Friday. Saturday was also spent doing everything else but working out. I woke up early in the morning to go teach the last of my tuition kids till 11 before I met TF and her to go to Lifesaver's place. I must say that I am envious. Beautiful place and beautifully designed. A bit small but beautiful. I am more envious of his lifestyle. As TF would have said it, this must be a point in his life when he is most contented. The man is married to the love of his life, has a beautiful place, is doing his favourite things and gone for the most awesome and well documented honeymoon and is soon starting his job that handles what is touted to be the most exciting sporting event ever to happen to Singapore, the YOG 2010. So yes, I am envious. But not in the malicious kind. Its more of the I-am-happy-for-members kind that just pushes me to do better. Oh man, how far have I digressed. We spent quite a long time there, chatting about the education industry that i forgot all about us having to visit her aunt's place. So we headed off to Bedok where she spoke to her Aunt and I just sat there wondering how 11 people could fit in that 3 room flat for an entire hour. Oh not forgetting, stuffing myself in all the cookies, even though I had just eaten a pig-full at lifesaver's. At 6, we rushed off to Tampines Mall to watch Eagle Eye. I am not going to review the movie cos nobody is going to be that interested anyway. But it feels too I-Robotish. I just enjoyed Shia Leboef's ability to make funny remarks amidst a damn serious plot. we ended the day with dinner at Simpang. Don't ask. There was no where else to go.

Yesterday, it was Jalan Raya with the usual suspects. I woke up early to send my sister and squeeze in a 26 lap swim. It was supposed to be 30, but I was afraid i was going to be late so I cut it short. I didn't drive cos I was lazy and I thought if she had it, she could join us much earlier after she closes shop. So I sat in all my other friend's cars, which was certainly refreshing. I remembered just two to three years ago, how we struggled to plan transportation arrangments because there too few cars in the group. Now, I could even afford to leave it with Ana. How times have changed. Anyway, it was enjoyable but certainly tiring. the drawback was that it was yet another binge fest. I didnt stop eating because every house we went to served food. Sigh.

So I think I am back to square one. My colleague, asked me today if I had gained weight. I nonchalantly said yes. But for my colleague who sees me everyday to see a significant difference, it must be really bad. We had frisbee today and at about 530, I did the usual routine but I increased the weights. There is a lot of legs in my routine. Now I wonder if I am paying enough attention to my upper body. But I had a lot of trouble with the lunges. It was difficult to maintain balance and push myself back up to starting position. At the second set, I used a lighter weight. Overall gym was really hard today. I am still sweating from it. And its been more than two hours.

I wanted to end off with a 5 klik run when I reached home, but I figured that I would be overtraining, since we had frisbee earlier. The thing is I wonder if its enough. I wasn't feeling tired at all. Was it because I am not working hard enough during the game? There were countless of discs I could have tapped away and got too first, but it seems but I am just slow these days. But I really didn't feel tired, and I am always the one who wants to keep on playing. I wasn't throwing well or receiving well either today. My discs dont float long enough or straight enough for my team mates to catch it in time. I am also narrow minded when I have the disc. I always fail to look at the nearer option and keep thinking of a long and through throw. I need to bear this in mind tomorrow. And I must definitely run a lot more tomorrow. I must get faster.

Tomorrow will be endurance. I hope to run to Safra, swim 1.5 and run back to school. Hopefully I have the time or I am not swayed by my friends into doing anything else.

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Exam Jitters

Actually, its more the lack of it. I remembered back in the day when I was still in school, how nervous I would be as the start of any exam paper drew nearer. I would be frantically trying to cramp everything I had in my hands into my head in that short span of time. I would literally isolate myself so that I would not get distracted by everyone else. This usually happens because I was very ill prepared for that paper, and as always I expected myself to do very well with little effort.

But my students experience no such jitters. From my perspective, they looked like as though they had no exams that day and it was just any other day in school. They would be laughing and playing, or talking about everything else other than the formulae they have to memorize or the who-did-what-when questions I would have asked my friends before the paper.

Is it well preparedness or just simply bo chap. What;s worse is when they start to sleep 15 minutes into the paper. Maybe they are just too brilliant. They don't seem to take anything seriously, not even exams. I worry about what would happen when they face such situations in the future. Is this the kind of attitude that they would take on? I certainly hope not.

The last time I blogged was probably last Friday. Fortunately, I did do what I said I would do. I did my gym routine and went home to run the 6 kilometre route. But that was the end of my exercise last week. Saturday was spent with Ana and her sisters at their relatives place. Sunday, I had my open house. So I really didnt have time to exercise. I had time to mark though, which was good.

On Monday, the ESSS dragon hearters played Ultimate and after that I did my gym routine in double quick time because it was my dad's birthday and we were going sewnsens. Tuesday, we played Frisbee again but that was it. I aimed to do my gym routine on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, but yesterday, I fell ill. I had this terrible running nose and I could not stop sneezing, so after school all I wanted to do was to eat my chlorophendremine and sleep. By the time I woke up it was too late. This sucks but I hope to gym later today and run off all the bad stuff I ate for 5 days.

I am currently waiting for some Graduation Day rehearsal which I have to emcee. Hopefully that doesnt take long so that I can have an early gym session. Ill then try to slot in a run before Dillah and wife comes around 7ish.

Lets hope this works out.

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Post Hari Raya

Was pretty busy during the Hari Raya period. Actually am still in the Hari Raya period, but I am now just too sleepy in the office and there one to entertain me, simply because there is NO ONE left here. Everyone left when I came back from prayers. I could go home to but I no I am not going to get any work done at home. So here I am. I was marking incessantly when I started dozing off, so I decided, lets do something else. SO here I am.

Anyway, it was difficult to a strict diet regime these few days. On the first day of Raya, every where I went was just lontong, rendang, and ketupat. So that was that, but I was glad I didnt binge like I always do on the first day of Raya every other year. But I managed to get a few static sets done in the morning.

It was something like

1. 3 set x 20 push ups
2. 3 sets x 20 crunches
3. 3 sets x chin ups
4. 3 sets x 20 counts of 8 Jumping Jacks.

So i thought, chest abs and back done with a little but of cardio.

Yesterday, it was back to school, and bacl to eating in the day. But the canteen was closed and every Muslim shop found within the vicinity of my school, was closed, so I had to resort to BBq meltz meal at KFC. For dinner, it was back to rendang and ayam masak merah with rice, because my mother didnt want to waste the leftovers. But yesterday I had an Ultimate Frisbee training session with my colleagues for an hour and I did 8 x 100m sprints before finishing off with 3 sets of 15 leg raises.

I thought the canteen would be open today or the other shops would want to resume business, but I was painfully wronged and it was a 2 pc chicken meal for me at KFC again. I havent done any workouts today so in order to make myself better, will be going back to Monday's gym routine and finish off with a 5 kilk run.

Oh yes, running to school hasn't started. I think its not going to start anytime soon because I have to lug my bag to and from school because I have exam papers with me.

It should be abloe to kick off after the papers have been distributed on the 15th October.

Ill start my gym routine at 4 and then go home to run immediately

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