Photo by Anna, edited by Sherrie

“I’m making dashing black coz I’m feeling meet joe black”

This morning, I suited up and folded my sleeves and unbuttoned my heart.

When you get up, you won.

Listening to: Taken By Trees – Sweet Child O’ Mine (Guns N’ Roses cover)

She’s got a smile that it seems to me
Reminds me of childhood memories
Where everything was as fresh as the bright blue sky
Now and then when I see her face
She takes me away to that special place
And if I stared too long
I’d probably break down and cry

I feel relaxed. Right now, sitting in the living with the A/C on (it has been terribly hot and humid the last couple of weeks), very quiet – other than the sounds of the passing cars up the hill between short time intervals. It reminds me that I still live in the city and it happens to be Sunday. 

The past few days,  I have initiated my mornings with some time in the park. I like it there. very much. It’s quiet and serene in the morning. The landscape before me swings in motion as I jog through the rounds. I like people watching, because it feeds me a perspective of humanity.

Young families with their new born being introduced to nature. Their natural extended family also tags along for a sense of belonging and time spent together. Then you have the regular tai-chi uncles and aunties who will focus themselves around large trees, the tall bamboo has been a popular choice, maybe that’s where the energy source is. I’ll always remember the humility story about the bamboo. A tall strong bamboo that defines strength also has its head bowed down signifying a mutual sense of respect. And in both, I call them integrity. 

Those walks/jogs around the park helps me focus, to think and gather my thoughts. Rearrange perhaps (that word spoke to me at church today – rearrange). I enjoyed a time of taking in the fresh air, watching the big leaves fall from the tall trees on to the ground not before doing their elegant swirl carry lightly by the invisible breeze. Reminded me, that’s there is always a time for everything.

I am comforted that my eyes get to watch God in motion rather than starting my day, with chunky fillers that are pre-determined by the course of human action. Yes, such is life. The long drawn hours, the heavy loaded and burdened commitments. I feel you.

I guess that’s why I chose to do my morning runs and walk. It helps me feel me. I need some form of sense that I am not alone. The park became the true example of that. If the park is the playground of life, then there are those who try to runout the playground, they chase and go fast maybe to accomplish and search for the gold. Some liberate in the slow swinging and take it all in each step of the way. I have seen who come in groups and laugh their way together. Others take a small standing spot overlooking the huge pond, perhaps looking for answer through the mirror image of the water. They have all in some way, taken  a step for their own living. 

And for me, I am a bit of everything. Right now, I just enjoy breaking a sweat in the morning while gathering thoughts through people watching.

I feel rearranged. 

edit:: I have a confession, I ran twice. Because I commited the sin of gluttony. The banana leaf rice meal for lunch proves to be a show stopper, I became simply so sluggish after the meal. After some laze & craze as I call it – some reading and a light nap, I headed to the park again but with an accessory, a stopwatch. Yea, I meant serious business. Stopwatch on one hand and nothing much to lose on the other. I wanted to time myself and also put a sense of time in the things I do. I completed 5 rounds on the flat ground which is about 1km each in about 30 minutes. If I continue to train, I might be able to do this 10km run in an hour. It was a different run compared to the morning, I felt like I was running for myself. I took the support and encouragement from other runners who I see sprung forth that gave me a booster. Then, there some nice female shadows that always invite your curiosity which naturally narrows the gap, of your distance to completion I mean

But it was good. The run, I tell you. It was good, running for myself.

I don’t really know what to think anymore. Yet, I know this does make some sense. I need to sit down.

I’d rather be the chair at this point in time.

Sherrie in her element

Wan Tan Mee at Koon Kee, Petaling Street

Framing of diagonal lines of a building

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”It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop” – Wisdom of Confucius

As I am nearly done with the WOD, probably the last 10 ever so painful reps or perhaps the last round. I lost my body, and my relationship with every other muscle linked to my soul. They hate me. very much. They curse at me for the pain I trudge them through. Oh you want body beautiful ey? Go hammer yourself, don’t drag us in! I wish I could reason out the pain strain but I could not think of anything and before I knew it, the music played One Republic’s, “Apologize”

It’s too late to aplogize…it’s too late!  (the chorus repeat itself)

A smacking grin enlightens my face with a fine line of a side smile. It’s too late to aplogize as my muscles responds to the pain and in my effort, I push through the last bits of the WOD and there you have it once again, I am on the floor dead as hell”

With the heavy packed corporate schedule ahead, I resign not to my job, but to fitness that crossfit has now become a staple workout that increases my endurance and performance for life.

Crossfit is defined as constantly varied functional movements at high intensity.

= [constantly varied] + [functional movments] + [high intensity]

= it is also fun! but tough work.

A further discussion led to the rule of 23/1 in which in reality, you only workout for an hour of the day, it’s what you do for the rest of the 23 hours that counts. Your diet, sleeping pattern and rest is crucial to the overall game. That was an important lesson. Hence a new diet regime has ensued. It’s giving me more perspective on what it means to indulge or otherwise.

R.E.D = rest.exercise.diet

Everyone should try crossfit or visit Pushmore. I have people asking me and mostly I share from my near death experience (I kid), but a touch of crossfit will give you new life I say. I can see how crossfit applies to my life and also in lessons of spirituality.

And in terms of spirits, there’s an excellent team going on there. Dedicated, focus and plenty of enthusiasm to boot!

Kudos to these guys, for pushing me to new heights. An informative guide to technique and skills training. As you know, I always love learning and enjoy the process, as the saying goes – In the middle of every diffculty lies an OPPORTUNITY.

Through this experience I picked up two key lessons that is best exemplify in the below quotes:

”Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm” – Winston Churchill.

Those are big words in a phrase, and takes a lot out of person especially their character for such a life charter. Call is positive thinking or rainbows of hope, such times require such motivation. But I take this to heart and remember in every adventure, opportunity and other life offers, require this of me so I don’t get holed up.

”If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my axe” – Abraham Lincoln

I picked this up from Triangle crossfit blog through Cris’s Xfit links and that was an excellent capture of what it meant to improve skills and technique. I quote further what Clay says, “This applies brilliantly to us.  Get your form and technique right, and not only will your WOD times go down, but you’ll be more efficient and will feel better doing them”The idea of doing things right versus doing the right things is most pronouned in this definition. I evaluate my actions and form as well, as I think this through. 

What’s most enjoyable of this entire crosfit process is that there are materials to read and get educated on and further understanding why certain things are done the they are. Now, it’s just living up to them while managing your other priorities in life.

“I ain’t going to carry the burdens on my shoulder no more, I am going to pull myself up and out in life and whatever that comes along with it. Hai-yakk!!”

:: this week is turning out to be heavy one and I am already behind certain tasks and there’s more coming at me. Furthermore, I feel my body breaking down with the lack of rest. I have not been sleeping well for the past few nights. I hope I don’t lose my momentum.

Sunday arvo photo outing at Central Market and its surroundings. Thx Sherrie for the shot Excellent stuff.

I just downloaded PIcasa and will attempt some edits and hopefully post up some worthy shots. 

But for now, lights out!

We’re worlds apart yet we have the same blood. Even your bloodshot eyes marks you as a man. Did you see the crack in mine?

Am I becoming …

That was some dinner  we had last night. I can’t say more appropriately than merely this, “food for thought”.

I am going to become.

And to think, this is just the begninning.
Please, may I have a moleskin?

Tendinitis is inflammation or irritation of a tendon — any one of the thick fibrous cords that attach muscles to bones. The condition, which causes pain and tenderness just outside a joint, can occur in any of your body’s tendons. Tendinitis is common around your shoulders, elbows, wrists and heels.

If tendinitis is severe and leads to the rupture of a tendon, you may need surgical repair. But many times, rest and medications to reduce the pain and inflammation of tendinitis may be the only treatments you need. You can also take preventive measures to reduce your chance of developing tendinitis
(source: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/tendinitis/DS00153)

 I woke up at 5:49 this morning due to the three reasons:

1. screaming young guys on the streets shouting at the top of their lungs in the wee hours of the morning (I remember those days!). I was on the 17th floor!
2. I was worried about my clothes in the dryer. I had a bit going on with my washing machine that night (another entry on that later)
3. I could barely get some good sleep, tossing and turning because of the acute pain growing from the inflammation of my tendon. I suffer from supraspinatus tendinitis.

I’m going to focus on No 3 because it’s the most crucial point right now. It always, always, always right after my badminton game. There’s just too much impact on my shoulders and I really paid the price. I hadn’t take my drugs for a long while now, but I’m back on it. I have to rest my shoulder and spend more time strengthening the shoulders through Pushmore.

Seriously, it’s pretty severe. Discomfort is to say the least.

Right now, I just popped a pill. It’s call Arcoxia 120gm.

Oh, hello. We meet again.

Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.
Stop listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.
Many a man claims to have unfailing love, but a faithful man who can find?
The righteous man leads a blameless life; blessed are his children after him.
Do not sleep or you will grow poor, stay awake and you will have food to spare.
A man’s steps are directed by the LORD, how then can anyone understand his own way?
The lamp of the LORD searches the spirit of a man, it searches out his inmost being.
All a man’s ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart.
To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Excerpts taken from the book of Proverbs, The Bible.

In all honesty, I find myself reading up on literature from the different world of business, management, health and others. I find myself looking for resources, perhaps, to equip myself and to prepare myself for (?)

(?) – that’s right I’m not sure, I’m just preparing.

Dangerously, it can shatter your world when your belief system is shaken from months of research and relying on such information. I have been reading, watching, searching, exploring everything that I can get my hands on. It’s quite a fascinating journey because there is just so much to discover.

And then, when I come back to the word of God, and read His literature, surprisingly, some of the answers I’m looking are are very much painted through His texts which leaves me wondering, once again, “God, how do you know?”

The matters of my heart, the burning questions. He is a teacher that moves my heart silently and unknowingly. He takes me through this gear shifting of thought process which I find sometimes too slow for my liking but absolutely necessary.

I am humbled. Do you ever feel that way?

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