Pendekar Bujang Lapok

well, i felt like a pendekar bujang lapok just now... while doing squats, my boxers made a loud ripping noise.. 

anyway, i started reading The Perks of being a Wallflower. i didn't expect myself to really enjoy it to be honest. i'm halfway through already. i guess i always enjoy stories from a person's perspective. i like to know what goes on in the narrator's mind when they do things. i really don't mind story wise whether it ends happily or not. it's a good story if i can somehow "understand" why the main character does the thing he/she do and what compels him/her to do so.

stories that i enjoy are 500 days of summer (movie), warm bodies (movie), hunger games trilogy (audiobook, it was told fully from katniss' perspective)

one thing i learn, i'm not the kind that will tell my children stories of what i did when i was young. my dad doesnt tell me the things he did when he was younger either. it kinda shapes the experiences i seek now. i just don't go for the things that can be turned into stories for other people. i just do things to experience them for myself.

Lepak

Went to the bank to unblock my AlumNUS debit card, after which went to the bike shop to pay installment and also changed the air filter (finally, after 21 months).

Met up with the NUS Silat people, got to know some of the juniors and we ate at Tong Seng for lunch. They're closing soon in October.

Afterwards we sat at J Co and lepak a bit. Talked about what is "romantic"?. Lol.

Separated afterwards and continued lepaking with the girls who had madrasah later at Bedok Point, Starbucks.

Stressful Workday

IKEA part Deux

Look at the ridiculous things I bought at IKEA! Mum told me to buy new pillow, so I buy lor. After that my budget burst. Lol, but it's probably the thing that I really need. I also bought ten boxes to help declutter.

Ate the 50 cents ice cream!

And these dust-bins reminds me of the ones that they use in wrestling.

IKEA

Went to IKEA after work. The musollah is so nice, clean and peaceful. Very good place to pray. Ate dinner after that. Should have gotten the 10pc meatballs instead. I succumbed to my hunger and ordered the pasta with (5) meatballs. It did came with a free lingonberry drink though.

Getting this $1.20 box was my intention. Wanted 20 pcs of this to help with de-cluttering my room. However, they sell it in the form of flat cardboxes. How do I bring it home? I rode a bike there too after work. I'm going there again to get it, most probably with a car.

Monday's

Listened to Get Organized, The Clear & SIMPLE™ Way audiobook and it made me want to go to IKEA to buy those cheap boxes ($1.20) to sort the clutter in my room. At home, the nieces kept bugging me to download the latest episode of running man so I downloaded it and watched it together. Didn't go to Ikea. 

Although I stopped using weights before this and wanted to do pure callisthenics, it's just not convenient enough for me. I've to go down and cross the street to use the pull-up bar at the fitness park. I started using weights again for a month I think. I reckon I'll be even more skinnier if I didn't use weights.

I weighed myself after working out and the scale says I'm 55.1kg with 13.8% body fat. BMI is 19.9 (my height is 166cm). At least my waist hasn't become bonchet yet.

Unproductive Day

Tought today's going to be a lepak and unproductive day. Lied down till noon, played hours of DC Universe Online just to try it and slept again in the afternoon. Wanted to watch The Ultimate Fighter on dailymotion but somehow it got stuck after 10 mins.

So I ended up finishing the Michael Linenberger's Master Your Workday Now and proceeded to download the following audiobooks I hope that I can listen to at work.

And then I proceeded to run after Maghrib. Refuelled my bike and pump the tyres just before that. I was really out of breath after each zombie chase (sprints). Not so fit after all.

After that, I actually fix the headlight of my bike.

So I thought today was gonna be my lepak and unproductive day. I was wrong.

Blood Donation

As a sign of appreciation that my body can produce blood without putting in so much effort. And they provided snacks after donation. I was hungry. Hahaha. If I'm healthy in December, I'll probably donate again and make it 3x this year alone insyaaLlah.

Seafood

I find the octopus and the fish on the stick very cute. Ate a lot of sea eel bbq too. Didn't eat the crabs because too lazy to peel (even though there was a scissors for it). Some place at Marina Bay Sands.

McDonald's Beef Samurai Burger ft Seaweed Shaker Fries

My tongue's not sensitive enough to differentiate whether a food is delicious or not. Reason why I went to eat at McDonald's is only because I found out that the Samurai Burger has returned along with the Seaweed Shaker fries.

I confess, I bought it only because it "just came out" and want to have that cheap thrill of being the first people to eat it. Haha.

A7 Paper

If anyone wants A7 papers for whatever reason.. I have tons of them.

I cut up papers (mostly A3 sized, some are up to A0) that are printed on one side so that I can use them again.

Mice!

I use two mice!

One is for my left hand, the other is for my right. I've been using my left hand to move the mouse at work, even flipped the buttons around. Few years back, my wrist started to hurt using mouse. Suspect it is the carpal tunnel something. Funny thing is, even left-handed people don't use the mouse with their left hand, let along switching the button the other way around.

At home, I put two mouse (or mice) with one with the correct setting (for my right hand) and the other one is for my left with the buttons flipped. Reason for the extra mouse? So I won't forget how to use the mouse with my right hand and follow the conventional way.

Wonders if there' anyone else who uses mouse with their left hand.