by personal | Sep 6, 2011 | Fitness
For the past couple of days my weight has sat a steady 86kgs; however, today before I exercised in the gym I weighed myself and I now weigh 85kgs.
I feel I’;ve come a long way
I originally weighed 110kgs and possibly more if I had not taken action against the way I was living and eating. I now regularly exercise, go out and generally I am more concerned about my fitness and health more than ever. Even though I have been eating a lot lately my metabolic rate has increased which means I can eat a lot more without having to suffer the consequences of gaining overall weight.
But I am still not happy with the way my body looks. Although I have slimmed down and put on some muscle, I also want to lose a lot more fat. Or around 3 kg worth of fat. Or perhaps when I start to look good I will slow things down a little. Since I am going to the gym near enough everyday and work out 1 hour if not more in the gym; this is primarily how I’ve lost weight.
On another topic…
I applied very recently to be Taiwanese. With this comes the obligation that as a Taiwanese person, I have to do 12 months of military conscription. Although my Chinese sucks, it is still possible for a foreigner with bad Chinese language skills to do the conscription, or so I have heard. I still think it would be the worst idea ever to place a gun in the hands of someone who has no idea what army instructors are saying.
Considering I have to join the Taiwanese military somewhere this year and quite possibly this month, fitness is my main concern as well as learning Chinese. [Although learning Chinese is much more of a concern for me for obvious reasons; considering I live in a country where that is the main language] However, I just hope there are lots of people in the military who know how to speak good English. In fact, I was thinking of doing language exchange with a couple people in the military. Firstly, to help improve my Chinese and secondly to possibly make some really good friends.
by Jonny | Sep 4, 2011 | Travel
Taken at Sun Moon Lake around 3 months ago on a normal hot and sunny day in Taiwan. Sometimes I moan at the weather for being too hot. But the beauty that is apparent when the sun gleams upon the plants and the general area makes the environment glow. Everything also becomes more green as there is a good mixture of heavy rain and heavy sunshine!
Nice, heh?
by Jonny | Sep 3, 2011 | Updates
(Short answer: I don’t know) In 10 years time I will be 30 years old. That kind of scares me, as 10 years sure is a long time, but I want to know what I will amount to by that time. It kind of scares me that I will be in the same situation as I am now and that I haven’t progressed forward. If possible I would like to be married before at least 30 years old.
I would love to have kids however would only have kids if I was in the right position to have kids. For example I had a decent and secure job and had my own place that I was living in. Of course there are other factors as to whether or not I would have the time, in my opinion that would be required to take care of a child.
I would bring my child up in the best possible way, learning from my mistakes and ensuring he/she doesn’t make any big mistakes. (Such as studying hard for a bright future) I think that if I could successfully raise a child (So that my child would understand common decency) I would be satisfied with my life. But the first step is getting into that position.
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by personal | Jul 17, 2011 | Updates
I am taking a deep dive into the friendship ring today by going out with a girl who saw my ad on a website called Tealit to do some language exchange and to hopefully make friends with her.
I have talked extensively over Facebook with her and I asked her if she would like to go grab a coffee. But I kind of made her choose the place and since she has a car she is picking me up. (I am very romantic :P) As you can tell.
I will bring my camera with me just to see where she takes me and hopefully it will be somewhere nice. The main purpose is for her to teach me a little Chinese and to test me for a test I have coming up on Monday. (I also have another language exchange person teaching me on Monday too) So hopefully I can learn this Chinese stuff fast. I already know bopomofo quite well. It was just the pronouncing of words and the 4 tones that I suffer with. So hopefully she can help me with that.
I am kind of scared or apprehensive as I have never done anything like this before, so I don’t know how it will go! I hope she likes my humour and I hope she can actually understand me. Hahaa! I talked to her on the phone and she kind of couldn’t understand me too well, but I think her level of English is quite good. My Chinese is poor — so it is good she can speak somewhat decent English and she types quite well too! 🙂
Just a random picture I took, when I went to this famous place called "Sun Moon Lake" in Taiwan!
by personal | Jun 22, 2011 | Opinion
I made a post yesterday talking about how I didn’t get the interview that I suspected I would get. I just came back from a long, long road (Metaphorically) and it seemed that there were a few bumps and a few nervous tendencies but one thing that was apparent was the amount of doubt that I had about myself.
I feel this “interview” went okay. I don’t think it was a serious interview as it was done in front of the bosses wife who wants me to have a job at this place. If she doesn’t like the person who was interviewing me, then there could possibly be consequences for him. So I feel under different circumstances, I doubt I would have been able to attain a job at this place.
I tried hinting that I liked typing, so if they needed any manuals typed for their products or whatever I could do that. But the boss literally said “they will find something for you to do here”. So I really don’t have a clue what type of job this is. All I know is that the job title could be “assistant engineer”. I will admit that I did not come across as nervous. I felt I was quite confident. I may have not talked much, but I said things in a very “tidy” way. Or I said things in a smart manner if that makes sense.
The atmosphere looked great I guess at this office place. It was quite an office though. So this is some serious business, not just some small family business. But it looked good. The boss said the only problem was transportation to and from this office. He has never used a bus, since he is some rich guy who can afford a brand new Mercedez, but he was nice and said that someone would be able to take me home after work.
Hopefully this turns at good. But like most things in my life that usually is never the case.
I had a quite different day today, it was unusual for me. I took the bosses son out for just a kick-around of football (Or soccer) and that was quite good for me and my exercising regime. I also did around 1 hour and 30 minutes of constant rowing around this park. That was pretty decent exercise right there. I had fun with the son, I made sure he got wet along with myself when the water fountain erupted. You could tell he had fun which was good. But I’m not sure, if I don’t like this job, I won’t do it, simple as that. Hopefully the pay is decent. I think I would move closer to my University and perhaps buy a bike if at-all possible for me.
But I won’t be too hopeful about this job, if I am too optimistic and too pretentious about this job then it will suck when it turns out that it isn’t what I expected or feel like doing.
Hopefully this will be a new chapter in my life, who knows?
