by Jonny | Sep 18, 2012 | Travel
This morning I decided to go for a walk, as opposed to the running that I usually do. Instead of running inside the park (台中公園), I walked and I went sightseeing around the area where I live nearby. I took a few low quality pictures with my phone’s camera.
Here are the pictures:
Outside Taichung park (台中公園)
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Goat Statue in Taichung Park (台中公園)
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Just a random photo (台中公園)
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The famous house in the middle of the lake! (台中公園)
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These are horrible looking apartments just outside of Taichung Park. They really look awful with their windows covered with metal & with walls which haven’t been washed in decades. (台中公園)
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This is Taichung library, or at least it used to be. They moved to another location, so this building is currently not being used. (台中公園)
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A man exercising. I saw him hitting himself on the head repeatedly, quite a strange way to exercise. (台中公園)
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I found an extremely cheap gym in Taichung, well, if it’s true. According to the sign it says pay $4,000NT for one year. Which is around £83 or $136USD. If it’s true, I might just sign up!
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This is YiZhongJie (一中街), of course in the mornings the place is deserted, however as soon as the afternoon comes the place soon lights up and is literally crowded with people.
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- This is ZhongYouBaiHuo (中友百貨), a large shopping mall/centre nearby to where I live! I sometimes go there to purchase coffee, frappachinos etc from Starbucks.
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This is World Gym Taichung. This is a little more pricier than the previous gym I showed. However, it’s much more pricier for a reason. If memory serves me correct, it costs like $2,200NT per month on a 12 month contract. Month by month it’s like double that price. If I could afford it, I would, but frankly speaking I’d rather pay $4,000NT for an entire year for a less established place and yeah, the other place is not as attractive, but it’s a gym, not a house. Not sure what point I’m trying to make, but I try to avoid expensive places, lol.
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Oh, and here’s what I had for breakfast!
That’s all for now. I’ll try and take more interesting pictures next time, and I’ll be travelling to South Korea this month on the 29th, so hopefully I’ll get some interesting pictures up. I’ll also be uploading higher quality pictures of my trip in Seoul, Korea to my photography website, so be sure to check that out. 🙂
by Jonny | Sep 10, 2012 | Updates
I’m quite impressed how I have managed to increase the traffic on my political site I now have up and running. I’ve been running this blog for a couple years now. However, this new site has only been running since July of this year. (2012)
The site I’m taking about is a little hard to maintain as I’m personally writing all the new articles. Before, the site was using an autoblogging script, which sucked ass. So I disabled it and then started writing my own articles as I’m quite interested in US politics.
I managed to get it un-banned from the search engines, most notably Google and now there are SERP results for particular keywords coming in. I also created the logo, which I’m pretty happy about. 🙂
by Jonny | Sep 2, 2012 | Updates
I’m absolutely wrecked after a tough workout running around the local park, which is quite big in circumference.
At first it was a hot and sunny day and I was sweating like no other, I felt dirty and typically out of breath after running around the park twice. Then, out of nowhere, a big bang occurred and that was possibly a lighting strike, striking something or someone in Taichung somewhere. A few minutes later it was pouring down with rain, almost at the same rate sweat was exiting my body after the tough exercise I was doing; which I explained about before.
I feel as if I’m back. I managed to complete another 2 rounds around the park, which means I ran around the park 4 times. I usually run inside the park and can do 5 rounds and going all the way around is some distance more, so I’m quite happy with how I’m doing.
I’m still finding it terribly hard to get rid of my side fat or love handles as some would call them. They are possibly one of the most annoying mother****s to get rid off as you can’t spot reduce fat. I’d be happy with my body now, if it weren’t for those love handles and I wouldn’t change a thing. Perhaps becoming a little stronger would be nice, but I’d seriously be happy with the way my body is right now.
I’m nearly there though; exercising on a daily basis etc, so perhaps before I go to South Korea, I won’t have these annoying love handles. One could only hope.
by Jonny | Jun 25, 2012 | Updates
Quite obviously, I have not been able to exercise as much as I have wanted to, seeing as I had that tiny issue with my leg. It has been around a month since I had that operation and now I can walk properly and also run.
Last Friday, I started running again and I did swimming and running last weekend up until now.
It feels as if I have lost all my stamina as I can’t run as far without breathing heavily.
For example, I went to the racing track today and I could only run around the track for 15 minutes before feeling really tired. Perhaps, it is my work schedule along with the fact that I hadn’t exercised for 1 month straight. – I more or less became a coach potato, waiting for my leg to recover so I could go out and be active again.
I’m glad to say that I am now active. I’m still trying to regain the stamina that I built up, but I don’t want to push myself too far in-case something really bad does happen to my leg and it’ll be something I’ll regret as I grow up.
I haven’t got the six-pack yet, which I’m aiming for, but I think in a few months time it is very possible looking at my body now. I have done a lot of tone and fat-losing exercising and hopefully it will pay-off.
I just need to stay on track.
by Jonny | Jun 16, 2012 | Updates
In this day and age security is a concern as there are assholes out there who will do anything to find exploits on your site, no matter how small of a site you are running.
I recently came across an awesome website that details any issues with your site that you may have not noticed. Whether that be a javascript line prompting a java applet/download onto those who visit your website etc.
The website is called:
Sucuri
It successfully located some malware, such as the described one above, on my website. I was finding difficulty tracking it, and then finally solved the issue. Although, I still need to look for any back doors, otherwise if I can’t find any or if this issue prompts up again, I’ll likely have to do a full re-install of WordPress.
I just had to give a shout out to that website as it proved incredibly useful.
