by Jonny | Oct 19, 2011 | Fitness
Even though I said in my 2 recent posts I was eating food at Burger King (Twice in a row) I am somehow losing weight even though I’m not going to the gym anymore. When I did go to the gym I was doing some very intensive exercises such as running (At a very fast pace for around 20 minutes) then I would switch to my abs and my arms then do another 20 minutes of running. – Or I would do that in different order of personal preference.
But now I’m usually just sitting down and studying. Though I will admit I walk usually throughout the day so that does help quite a bit. My abs are becoming more defined and I’m getting comments with people saying I’m looking a lot slimmer. Although I am not fat I am trying to build up some muscle right now. I guess the intensive running isn’t helping me do that, rather I am likely losing a bit of muscle on the side. Today I played football with a few friends. But before I played, I ran around the running track twelve times at a nice pace. (Faster than most people were running) Then of course I played football for around 2 hours so that is really going to burn some calories. (I will also admit I didn’t eat too much today)
But I have come a long, long way. I have lost quite a bit of weight and I will likely reach my target weight (This is my second target weight) easily this month. I’m taking up swimming now considering my body looks much more toned (So I won’t be so ashamed showing it to others) and I can see the six-pack coming! (i.e. I can see the outlines haha) But I really need to tan up the rest of my body considering my face is tanned, but my body is white haha, so there is a vast colour difference.
As for the Chinese, it is coming along, but I believe I will have to retake the same level of Chinese I am currently taking. I have a language partner tomorrow who is going to help me; hopefully. However I feel kind of ashamed having to re-take the same classes again at that level. I mean I have studied quite a bit, perhaps only or mostly on the characters (Which in itself is a challenge). The only comfort I have is that there are others I know who also face similar issues. I mean I know a person who has been studying Chinese for 5 years and she is only one level above me. I would definitely progress beyond that. I also know a Korean guy who stayed on the same level as mine 3 times (He retook the same level 3 times). – So that definitely comforts me, thinking that I am not the only one in that situation. But I have a feeling that all my classmates will pass onto the level 2. It will make it kind of weird seeing them. I guess I am afraid of people looking down me to be honest, that is my one fear and my problem. (It deters me in wanting to learn Chinese as I don’t want to be so vocal about something I am unsure of)
But hey, not all things are bad. In time I will conquer this language. I just hope it won’t be such a long time for me to get it or get the so-called “click” I have been hearing about when learning this language.
by Jonny | Sep 10, 2011 | Travel
Today I went with my cousin and her boyfriend to a pretty nice BBQ! It was pretty nice. I guess I learned more Chinese, since everyone at the BBQ couldn’t speak a word of English. Although there was an old man there who had a electronic dictionary. Which translates English to Chinese and vice versa. I was in fact teaching them how to say words since their pronunciation was wrong. They also helped me with some Chinese words and helped me with my pronunciation.
I feel that living with my cousin and her boyfriend (Gary) will excel my speaking ability. I still need to practice the writing, which I consider to be the easier task, since I can do that all on my own, considering you purely just have to copy characters and memorize them. Although I am still a little confused with the grammar, but it doesn’t look at that hard. I believe English grammar is much more complicated, so once I gather more of an understanding of the language I will understand the grammar side of things.
Gym/health update
Haven’t talked to anyone but a gym instructor and the two people I am living with; my cousin and her boyfriend. I worked hard today in gym. I pushed myself on the weight lifting equipment. Hopefully I will be able to see a few more results from my working at the gym.
However I have put on 1 kg. I believe that is like 1 kg of muscle, since I have been working out a lot. Or if it is fat, then I haven’t seen anywhere on my body where there has been added fat. All I have seen is growth in my arm muscles and the toning of my breasts; they are both becoming rather large and more muscular.
I still I haven’t got the 6 pack that I am aiming to get. But in due time, I believe I can easily get there. I just need to do more muscle building exercises. I also still do need to lose a bit more weight. I am thinking in the region of around 3 or 4 kg and my body will look great. Though I am focusing on muscle building first, since I have heard if you try to lose weight, but also gain muscle, there are technical problems with that. I have already lost in around 3 and a-half months of training 10 kg. I think that is quite a significant amount of weight to lose.
Tomorrow I will go to the gym and do more weight training and also running. I’ve read that running helps loosen up your muscles, so when you do weight train, you won’t stretch any muscles or hurt yourself. I really want to go swimming, it seems more logical considering everyday the weather is around 30ºC. – Though I just don’t like the look of my body right now or don’t have the guts to show it publicly to people. I mean I don’t mind others in the shower room looking at my body, but in the open in public, it just seems more challenging.
Whatever the case, my exercise regime is going well. I don’t go everyday, like I used to, but I have definitely seen the effects of my weight loss. – I like much better and have had comments such as “have you lost weight?” these types of comments are very encouraging. However I’d rather people saying, “You look a lot stronger than before!” though I understand why someone wouldn’t say that, where the weight loss remark is sort of a general remark!
Since moving in with my cousin, I feel a sense of more freedom and being on my own in this world now. I always have them as back up, if things go wrong, so I am pretty content with the way things are at the moment. Though I always hate thinking about the future. I will eventually need to find a job and finding a job in Taiwan that doesn’t involve English teaching will be hard. I would like to do something more enjoyable and something more permanent.
by personal | Jul 5, 2011 | Updates
I have been very committed to my exercising and not only am I purely just running around tracks and parks, I am also going to the gym lifting 80 lb weights on my legs and for my arms too. Granted I didn't do much weight lifting today, mostly I did a lot of running and cardio exercise. Some on the running machine and a lot of exercise on the bicycle machine. (I around 13 miles on the bicycle machine)
Then I proceeded to do some exercise with the weight lifting contraption. 80 lb was kind of heavy, but I need to train more at that type of weight to hopefully be able to lift that easy soon enough.
I will be focusing tomorrow mostly on my arms and I might do some proper weight lifting with dung-bells and bar-bells for about as long as I can stand it. But hopefully I will be able to build up some muscle as well as lose weight. I am also thinking of taking up swimming, but I need to bring my body up to standard, plus my body is not tanned while my arms and face are well-tanned lol, so it looks a bit funny when I take my shirt off. I guess I need to run with my shirt off or something. 😛
by personal | Jun 18, 2011 | Updates
I made some new friends who contacted me through e-mail when I posted an ad on Tealit.com. 🙂 I got quite a few people contacting me who wanted to either just be friends or to help me learn Chinese. I urgently need help with Chinese. Plus these guys know other people I can made friends with, who I can chill with and just be friends with. The guy I did make friends with took me with his friend to a Japanese restaurant. The food was really nice, except for the the Sashimi and Wusabi. I don’t like spice and it wasn’t just the spice or whatever the taste that was in those raw fish.
The food was great and they were nice people to talk to. They taught me how to say rice, which is said as “fun”. 😛 That will be quite easy to remember. To also say pork meat, you say it as “jewpie”. Haha.
It was fun and hopefully if or when I move onto the campus, I will be able to chill out with him and his friends, since my current “friends” at this university aren’t that active or aren’t that exciting. I don’t know but they don’t ask me if I want to go out or do stuff, so hopefully I’ve found friend who is actively wanting a good friend. (If that makes sense)
I had good fun with them. I have never been on a bike (Motor-bike or Scooter) so this was my first time and I was scared sh*tless. Every turn he made I would scream in fear of falling off or whenever he sped up, it frightened me a little. Okay, if you asked him, he would probably say I was screaming like a little girl. I kind of was, but hey it was my first time and those types of vehicles you need to get used to before you can like it. Or to put it another way, it felt like a roller coaster, it was fun but scary. But after a while you don’t mind it anymore and you overcome that fear.
It was great fun and a good excuse to go out rather than sit in-doors all day.
On another great note, I am also running around the park now, as opposed to the running track. The park is around 4 times the size of the running track, so I am hoping to do well. I could only do 4 runs around the park, where with the running track I can continuously go on running around 17 times without stopping. But the park is more of a challenge, it is much larger and the ground is harder. I’m hoping by the end of next week that I will be able to continuously run around 10 times without stopping. It is a stretch and I would say that is around 15 miles running in total.
I am hoping to do that everyday. It should increase my fitness level and tone myself up quite a bit. I am also going to be taking up swimming as I want a nice looking body when I visit Kenting, Taiwan. – Which has beaches that look absolutely fantastic and beautiful with (lots of girls) lots of nice blue water and I am also hoping to take up surfing! 🙂
by personal | Jun 6, 2011 | Updates
Ok. This is a very odd and perhaps funny story.
So I was doing my daily exercise and I stopped to rest after continually running around this running track in my local park. I had a drink of nice freezing cold water in the 31 degree heat and then I saw this guy coming up to me, who looked young, but he was starring directly at me.
Now I don’t believe in god, but if there is something out there, is this your idea of a sick freaking joke? 😀
Ok, so I’m cool with the guy. He asks me where I’m from. I look foreign, so I thought, maybe he is just being nice or looking for a friend. But then he starts touching my hand and calling me handsome. Then he starts touching my head and my knee.
I say to him that I’m not gay but I don’t have a problem with gays and he persistent on touching me. I was flattered even though he was a dude, that he called me handsome. I don’t get that much and lets just say it was nice. (Would have been cooler though if it was a super-hot girl doing this though)
Ok, I tell him all this and ask him a few questions, then things just get weird. He keeps trying to touch me, but as I’m not violent and since he had no hostile intentions I didn’t hurt him. So I just moved away. Then I said I had to leave. He then FOLLOWS ME, and I ask him where he lives, he points at a direction and I say I live in the opposite direction. Then I say “bye” just to get rid of him.
Don’t get me wrong, I have no problem with gay people, but when you start touching me and I’m expressing that I’m not fucking liking it. You back the fuck off. So I said earlier that it was getting weird. He was asking if he could touch my body or under my t-shirt. I said no, I am not gay and then left it at that, but he kept asking and I gave the same answer. Then he said “do you want to play a game?”. I said what game is it you want to play? Then this guy pointed at his doo daaa which was the point where I was totally freaked out. Once I saw him go, I went back to do some more running. Luckily I shook him off, but fuck me that was the creepiest encounter I have ever had in my life. 😀
Hopefully I won’t ever meet this guy again. I felt like I was being molested by a man. I was close to getting angry, but I let myself be peaceful since the park is peaceful. But if I see him again and he touches me I will first tell him to fuck off and if he doesn’t I will either run away or beat him until he gets the point. Again I have no problem with gay people, just stay the hell away from me if you are going to touch me. Now if it was a girl that would have been another story… if she was hot well then… who knows what could have happened LOL!
