Mr Bo Chup

yesterday i went to dabing's house to learn swimming toghter.
for weeks he has been asking me to teach him freestyle (frontcrawl). come on man my freestyle suck also.
So I suggested that we follow the techniques used in the total immersion video - freestyle made easy. lol.

thought i read the book triathlon swimming from total immersion too, i nv really follow thru all the drills suggested.
so yesterday we did it together in a buddy system.
We watch lesson 1, took down notes on a piece of paper and went down to the pool to do all the drills. then did the same for lesson 2.
we rounded up the 2 sessions by completing a few laps of under water freestyle as suggested in the video. i must say i am damn impressed with the total immersion. already i can feel myself gliding through the water effortlessly.
so on the next session we are going to finish it by completing lesson 3 and improving on our kicking.
hopefully after that i can swim like a fish instead of powering through the water.
oh yeah special thanks to terence's maid for preparing a portion of dinner for me too.
yip joined us afer we finished lesson 1. He refused to go into the water despite much persuasion from us. so he was in his own world the whole time, watching huang jing lu on his itouch.

this is me trying to pour some protein & gatorade powder into a mineral water bottle using a paper funnel. yip is still watching huang jing lu.
mac and yongbin have decided to join our regeime after hearing good things about it.

5:37 PM

there're so many things to update that i dunno where to start
i guess i will start off with my ECR. anybody got the same timetable as me

after i dismal year 2 campaign, i think i need to buck up in year 3.
i've decided to take something that i like - isorg (info systems and organisations). and more quantitative subjects like CF (corporate finance), msm (management science methods) and mgt econs.
Considering my timetable is already so jialat, and having 2 saturday classes, i hope i dun have to dabao any year 2 subjects to make things worse.

work is ok, but the pay sucks. I'm doing this yellow pages internship for 10 weeks and the ~~pay~~ allowance is quite pathetic. $550/mth is less than my ns allowance. But it's ok cos i learned quite a bit of things, including training tips from gym guru jeremy. The gym there sucks imo, the heaviest dumbbell is 10kg, it doesn't even have a barbell there. I have to use the multi station and i'm not really a fan of gym machines.

i've decided to make a bit of adjustment in my life during this holiday period starting with sleeping habits. No more late nights and i will sleep at least 8 hrs a day if time permits. no point deprieving myself from sleep. i need to be fully recharged when school terms reopens.
I've also made a vow to spend half an hour to 1 hour a day reading, be it reading on the bus or reading before sleep. According to gym guru jeremy, he said he started reading, and within 3 months he finished reading the book, and he learnt more than he've picked up working 3-4 years. I can't agree more especially from my experience of reading some fitness books. My next book shall be 'excel workbook for dummies'.

though i know how to use the basics of excel, i want to know how to type in the codes and stuffs. i guess it would be good to know and add to my repertoire of skills in my resume. After which i will read some finance books.

1:45 PM

After my reservist which amazingly fixed my long-term screwd up bio clock, i've made a decision to sleep at 12 everyday.
this means missing all the euro matches. Then 1 day, i was ill-disciplined i decided to watch the holland vs italy match and i wasn't dissappointed. In fact i am damn impressed with holland and germany.
i'm going to watch all the quarter final matches that's coming up and all the subsequent semis and finals. Afterall international tournaments are once in 2 years!

11:56 AM

today i played soccer with my platoon. and i was the organiser.
no joke man. at first it was 1pm, then ong requested to change to 10am. in the end the court was unavailable until 11am and we had to book 11am. because of these i had to sms everyone thrice. wtf. oh yah ong didn't turn up in the end! haha
lots of ppl flew aeroplane, and luckily we still have 12 ppl for a 6v6 game.
and worst thing is that no one has a ball. Luckily mingjie was driving and he gave me a lift to hougang mall sportslink to buy a ball and then to the field.
btw the main purpose of this is to describe 2 fantastic goals i scored today. ok 3, if my own goal is included.
first i score a terrible own goal. eugene passed the ball to me from a goal kick and i passed it back becos there was someone behind me. and the ball went in! :|

I can't really remember the 1st (non-own) goal today because the goals were coming in quick succession.
if i'm not wrong someone i got the ball and i smack the ball sweetly with the top of my boots and the ball flew in.
then the 2nd goal was a podolski. i remember i dispossessed someone from half court and i dribbled up at speed. bandicoot was on my left asking for the ball and menghui was on my right bringing a defender with him. i thought for a moment to pass to bandicoot but then suddenly everything opened up for me and i was invited to shoot. I let the ball rolled across my body from left to right and then i cut through the ball with my boots and unleashed a bullet into the bottom corner. yanhui the gk had no chance.

any comments?! hahahaha
the 2nd goal kept replaying in my mind after the match. damn shiok. makes the whole match worthwhile.
i love soccer!

12:21 AM

for the whole of the past week, i've been spending time shopping and shopping for stupid office attire.
next week i will be starting this stupid internship at yellow pages doing marketing. Of course i am not like lim where his internship is a matter of life and death to him. I'm taking it much lighter. Still i have to be decently dressed in office wear.
Special special thanks go out to bin, mac and yip for accompanying a shopping noob.
As u know i very paiseh to ask any sale assitant, so i do everything myself. this include tearing out the whole packaging and trying out the shirts myself. DIY shopping.
I think i realise the power of retail theraphy. when u get all those good deals, the feeling is undescribable.

to date i've bought 5 shirts, 2 pants and a pair of leather shoes in the last week. think this will do for this internship. before i even get my first internship allowance, i've already spent probably around $300.

Reservist only paid me $113 for 5 day's work, swimming job only paid me $100 for 2 lessons last month. I think i've exceeded my budget :/

3:30 AM

I'm so happy with the passion run goodie bag.
Today i used the fitness first 1 day membership as well as crocodile 30% discount voucher. song ah!

My off peak membership for clubfit has expired, and i am quite reluctant to spend $2.50 for a 45 mins workout at hougang gym. So we decided to go for this 1 day special membership into fitness first.
of course we were prepared for any psycho-ing (to join as member) that would come our way. Surprisingly, there was none. i dunno if they had miss out on us, or they think we have no spending power. either way no one disturbed us and it was a great workout.

Actually there is no big deal about this mega gym. I only use the free weights area, and there isn't a power rack there! the only thing good about it is the changing room.

oh yeah this is my new hairstyle. my hair kena chopped off in reservist last week la. more about reservist in the next post.

Later we went to do some shopping at crocodile. i thought crocodile was a very ah pek brand, but not true la. there are some nice shirts and we found quite a few bargains using the 30% discount voucher.

Totally got my money worth for the passion run. for only $18 there are is a very nice singlet, so many discount vouchers, free flow 100 plus and of course a fantastic run :D
going to use the saucony 30% off voucher to buy a pair of running tights

12:20 AM

when i tell ppl that i'm working on a blog, everybody's reaction is WTF? another blog?
Sorry for all the confusion.
i will be sticking to 2 blogs only.
1. 1 idiot
2. iron willed
of course 2swanskiss will still be updated for leisure/rubbish postings. ok that's 3.

hope u all like my new umbrella template. Spent quite a few hours doing it from scratch. the theme is 'otherside', inspired by a 2000 song by red hot chilli peppers. found the umbrella photo on flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lynhana/416152814/ 1 cool photo with a text box is the way to go for blogs nowadays.

12:13 AM

hello all. welcome to my new blog. brand new, with new posts.
please give me sometime to come out with a brand new template. Meanwhile i will use this doraemon template. lol
'the spirit of yesterday' (old blog) will be left the way it is.

10:57 AM