Hello there,
I just come back from dinner and i already free this night. I think now is the good time for me to write a blog of what i feel today since i had nothing to do afterwards. So we come back into the day that mostly people dislike much, Monday. It always be a question for me even there's an answer justify that nothing constructive happen on Monday, either it would be low motivation, not just feel like working and so on.
There is a certain research to study how people spirit decreases dramatically in Monday than any other day. One strong point shows that it is because of the transition between weekend, which people can not escape from the vibe, since two days of is not enough. Not enough? yes it is since the vibe begin to happen on Saturday and reaching to its top at night. Some people have a different tolerance with this transition. One who can transition quickly from the working state to holiday state, he could forget all the stuff that can make him stress and just embrace the day, this type of person considered as lucky and one who always have working state type of thinking, even during holiday this type of person always think of what he should do for office. Weekend considered as a counterproductive for this type of people because once he switch to the holiday state, he would likely completely out from any productive activities.
So which one are you in this type of people? Well, any of them has their own plus and minus point, it is depend on how long the duration of leave is. Those who can transition quickly than others has an edge in short breaks type of day off; weekend, public holiday that last not more than 3 days, commotion break during bad weather. This type of person really can enjoy any kind of short holiday while if it is given a long period of holiday such as sick leave, long holiday that a week or more than it will be bored as hell since his vibe already depleting on the day two or three. Once the guy has lost its vibe, he will suffer from not doing anything, demanding that he need to get a work to make it balance with his life.
I think that's enough for the intermezzo. Let me begin with what i did today. I woke up a bit late today, i just feel that i am quite lazy for Monday. I skipped my cold bath and proceed to go straight to work. In the office nothing interesting happened, just my coworker giving the data of an old school game, R Online for me to try playing together. I just installed the game and give a try, the server is considered as low rate which is nice for me to develop my character and i will play this game in consideration, around one or two hours enough to kill my boredom. The server just started three days ago giving much opportunity for new player to fill the position without much gap, you know what the gap between those who have been playing for three years and freshman in term of game knowledge, possession, relation with player, and access.
I found it interesting to study a community grow in a game. You will meet with different kind of people, some are kind and willing to help you without having any intention, they just like to help newbies which is good and some are really off personality, the one that always create a mayhem, individual trolling, deceiving talk like he is the one who own the game while in reality you will met this type of people much silent. The one that i like to study is the personality of people are unique and trust me, you will never see this type of people walking around in your place. Internet giving much freedom for an individual to express their feeling, without guilt of having discovered by a person you know. This is an opportunity for some type of people to show their feeling, sometimes explicitly in the internet.
Many people believe that the genre of game has affect towards gamer behavior. I call this not true since i had tried many games from different genre and i can tell you that i still could find that rotten people even in the teen friendly game, which is a dance game. Trollers just always be like trollers and it exist in any type of genre, first person shooter, massive multiplayer, role playing game, music based, survival, tactics anywhere you will always see this kind of person and i will not discuss what type of the people appeared while you playing a game since many articles has made it with scientifically proven and costing much time and effort for the report.
I finished all my works at 2, just three hours more to finish the day and hope there is no data comes again so i just focused with my own checklist last night. Three days ago i remembered to check the ticket price from my city to the Land of God island, i using local ticket scanner website and it appears that the round trip costing around 100 CAD with flexible time schedule. Since i stay here, time for commotion considered as the important part for decision making of buying flight ticket. The gate would be close before 1 hour of departure and unknown duration of time taking from my place to the airport as sometimes a reason you can not believe it might appear here for example traffic on highway during peak hour or trailer truck got collapsed so it blocks one or two ways, sudden traffic in downtown caused by police stopping driver for driver's eligibility, car accident happen sometimes or traffic caused by some ignorant people, usually motorbikes by driving against the traffic or cutting way. We are trained to anticipate this kind of situation and sometimes even we could stuck on the road that usually takes half hour to two hours.
I need to confirm with my yoga group while we still have a time to decide who is coming and more importantly when we will book the flight, hotel and so on before making an itinerary plan. It is utterly nonsense if we create a itinerary before the flight has booked right?. I will discuss this plan in weekend since some of us could not show up during yoga training on weekdays, you know some of us already become a parent and it is always on the top priority.
Finish with the flight information, i curious to know how much people make for a living as a yoga teacher in Canada especially in GTA (Greater Toronto Area). According to this site, which is updated on September 2015, a yoga instructor earns 25 CAD in average per hour, given 12.5 CAD as the lowest percentile and 54 CA as the highest percentile. This is sad as i expected more from this job, even the country i reside pays better, 20 CAD for teaching in local gym and 50 to 100 CAD for private class per hour. One useless information here, that experience affects salaries, i know that. This profession completely dominated by female as 81% representative is given scale of 4:1 roughly of a yoga teacher resides in Canada. I could not find the specific data in GTA since this count generally over Canada, so the salaries might be higher up in metropolitan cities such as Vancouver or Ontario. The best career perks is you could do it freelance and flexible working hour and the major downturn of this career is since you are not registered under company or unless you were under contract with local gym or sport industries, there is no any benefit offered (healthcare, bonus, overtime). It means if you want to be serious in this business, then you need to develop yourself, get your own customer and market yourself through contacts by contacts, or befriend with every sport manager.
Well, my parents were calling for dinner and everything need to be there, it is our culture to strengthen our bonds with dinner together. I will show up again after it if i still have a mood to write since i planned to discuss more about my next working plan. However it always depend on my mood. So sorry if i need to leave soon and hope i could have the spirit to write again (yeah survive on how i could write this up five days straight). See you.
Hello,
As i was planned yesterday that i had a wedding ceremony in the morning that is located quite far from home and just for justification that it is not a wedding but an engagement and it require some of close relatives to come up and attend the meeting. Since it is weekend, my plan went loose as i expected, some of them even aborted.
Remember that i supposed to be the one who pick my sister up to church? well, my parents went to the church earlier and took all the keys so leaving us with no key. We had no option but call them to deliver it since we got locked inside. My dad rushed in the middle of preaching, just to deliver the key and decided to pick her up to church so my duty is gone, i had nothing to do until 9 am and i continue to sleep.
Woken up by my mom to prepare, i rushed to bath and do all morning chores. Our destination today is a chinese restaurant, Central located in the heart of Tajarka. We reach to the destination ten minutes late and hoping that we are not the last member to show and finding out that we are the second family group to come to the room, while the first family group is the groom first younger sister. We handshake with them and talk about light issue, have you ever been to our hometown since we live in the capital while their hometown is separated from ours 600 kilometers. I went to their place before when i was nine years old and that's what all i remember, it happens when we want to go to the next to their place to have a holiday so we pay a visit in that city for one night in my dad's friend house. The unexpected thing is my dad's friend whose offer us a night on his place is a close friend with the groom. I know there is a possibility of that since his town is not too big, so neighbor relation is fairly close.
They asked me much thing of my information and i know every people that i met always assume that i still sit at school. I consider myself that i look much younger than my real age and that issue is not a big deal for me. Impression not just comes in appearance, but also in your way of speaking, thoughts, the selection of topics, the exposure, and the intonation. We had no serious talk here since this is our first meet, and we just shy to talk to each other.
One by one, family member from us and them come up, the bride and groom come at last. The opening ceremony is start from the groom to the bride father, proposing to marry his daughter. I assumed that the groom is extremely nervous or he just quiet. It was his big day so no wonder that he could feel that. The ceremony continue when he put a necklace on bride's neck and some forced-romantic posture to the cameraman for documentation. The next one is family member from us and then from them and all together to form a group picture. Since 90% of the attendant is mostly married, the photo session feel cold, bold and not much expressive. I wondering if they taking this seriously or professionally.
After all, we got to pray before buffet. The pray was lead by bride's dad since groom's dad is tired. We pray in Catholic and after Amen and cross to the trinity, we began to eat. The food start with the crab meat and egg soup, and it would be better if i put them in order:
Starter: Crab meat and egg soup
continued with Shrimp fruit salad
Here comes the carbs: Seafood XO fried rice
Sea cucumber in brown sauce, i think it's oyster but smell like BBQ sauce
Braised beef in Tin basket with broccoli
Fried mayonnaise shrimp
Steamed lazy fish in Hongkong style
Fried dove with garlic and pepper sauce
Ended with: Fruit platters
I am not a food blogger and had a small interest in describing food so i just plainly write them all. The food dominated with seafood as you can see and for you that don't know what kind of food is this and where do i can find this kind of food you could begin a research in Chinese minority, Hakka cuisine offer you a wide variety of Chinese food that is signatured with sweet from the soy and the usage of wine in some food.
I ate all of them except the bird since i had eaten much in the breakfast and the interval between it is quite short, approximately 2 and half hours so my stomach capacity is filled already. We had a good talk with relative and i am glad to watch groom's dad and bride's dad sang along Chinese old music. Seems that we had start and develop another strong bond between two families. There are other men from another family member that market his product that could deflect the radioactive frequency by putting a cone "that look more likely like the one that we saw in roller blade training" in four directions equilateral, and challenge us if he could bring us down or not before using this product. I will do a research on this and post to this blog later.
Finally we are about to close the ceremony, giving a nice handshake and some of them sharing their contact to each other, hoping that later on we could make a business together. All bride member, us, were supposed to take one box that is filled with cookies and candies as for our culture that this is a ritual for groom before marry the bride. During old time, the groom need to complete the procedure which consist of six steps in different day and moment before he could marry the bride but nowadays, all of them could be done in one day. The main reason of this is the scarcity of time between the family member and also the groom, since it is not easy to unite us together, some of us even come from different city just to attend this ceremony.
Going back home, we took a small break by grab a coconut and continued to home. I continued to sleep, i know this is my bad but i have zero intention today to study IELTS, and planned to do it tomorrow after work. I really want to write a blog but since me and my sister share a room, and she said that she need a long rest so i had no option but sleep too.
In the evening, i went to the church and the topic is nothing interesting for me but i had a good quality time during pray, i asked for direction that He will show me up through holy spirit in a person, which is a psychologist in 24th or 27th of February depend on the meeting since before i already consult a psychologist about my true calling and they need half month to process and giving the best option for me. I am hoping for the best outcome and will bring my parents, so we could talk about this and decide what is the best for me. So guys please wish me a best luck this week.
My mind a bit blown during worship session since i am completely not focused with what people are singing or praising, i was busy with myself talking to God. I feel that church is the best place for me to find myself, to plan, and to get you closer to God. It just a good feeling to spend the best two hours here and hoping for the next week my mood will good enough to bring me back to church. I also found a flaw that in the greatest gift for human being that is given by God, "free will" enable us to choose the live we want but responsibly back to our main purpose by giving Him praise and worship. This gap could be used by the bad and effectively useful to attract a person which is always confused with the direction and not confident to decide what to do in live, no purpose of life kind of people may easily fall into this trap. I am not expert in this and this just my kind of absent thinking so forgive me if there is any mistakes with my thoughts.
By the way, if i got accepted in that trading company, i would be tell my current boss to resign and giving him to prepare my position to someone else, and i could have much free time preparing my IELTS and skill. I also planned to take a small work at church later on to keep my management skill sharpen and build a relation there. Hope there is a job that fits me, even it is small as scripting or accounting, i could help them. I can at least serve God with my talent and keeping my skill from fading away.
I think this is the time to finish my journal today since i had to find a video for my uncle which requesting me to find a basic yoga sequence for him so after this i will find that video. I am so grateful that i still keep writing consistently and today is the day four, another achievement that i could do consistent and hope for tomorrow i have a good mood to write. See you guys.
Hello, i got a nice sunshine background today.
Well it is hard to believe that i could make it on day 3, which is hard for me but it doesn't matter since i had passed it today. So everything went as i planned, that i did straight those four hacks that i had made yesterday. I confess that i did a little cheating, which i swapped cold water since i can't take it directly right after get up with hot water then i rinse with cold water so i think this is also count, that make it easier for me to be prepared. Another solution just come up during the first process so tomorrow and the next other day i could use this trick to make it easier deal with cold water.
So as i prepared my breakfast, i take a quick look with my phone since i asked my friend yesterday to remind me to go before six. I saw four miss calls left from someone i know, meet my friend, Bert (not his original name for privacy reason) did all those miss calls in just five minutes. Glad to know him that could remind what is more important for me, even his traits is stoic and intransigent.
I made a quick preparation for myself, with the new task that just popped to my head, the one that i already planned to do it three days ago, which is shaving. My face skin is quite sensitive and need warm water to moist the beard area while i had no option but using cold water so my shaving today is a bit unpleasant. Another quick breakfast, two slices of pizza which is just come out from the griller, and dress up.
I rushed to the meeting point and glad to hear that i am not the last person who comes up, well at least second last sounds better than last. High five my guys and one of them just bought a new phone, which featuring auto timer that you just need to spread your hand on the camera and fist it, the count down will start in five second and snap it. Other guy including me was surprised with the feature and throw a jokes on it. We waited for the last guy to come and today is her birthday.
Her car comes at 6:30 and seems she had a problem with parking, that she went to the wrong side of road so she a bit confused where to park but this is not a big deal since she is professional enough to park and after all guys meet already, we went to destination which is around 15 kilometers from our place and we only had thirty minutes to go. We planned to taking highway even it is still morning and on weekend but highway is more efficient and less hassle of traffic light or other commotion.
6:40 and we almost reach to destination, thanks to our skilled friend and we encounter small discussion, where is the best exit since the place is in between two exits and one said based on her knowledge that the further one is a better option since the road just went straight to the destination so we followed her opinion since nobody gave decisive opinion. We exit on Illsdune and she said that i don't think this is the right road so we just make a u-turn and went to the highway once again, to the other exit that we just discussed.
The time shows 6:50 but nobody is in hurry since we are the guest and made a lot of jokes in this car. So finally we reached to the gate, that is close with the destination, after we paid some tickets since this place is a privately owned beach, and we reached to the destination at exact 7 and guess what, the weather seems not in prime, some participants said that i feel that it is going to rain soon so we switched to another place, that is still located inside in this beach. One of the committee decide to move to indoor building and we found a location in the outside of unused building and have a yoga practice there. We waited some guys around 10 minutes since everybody is not there and we have a small talk. A girl notice me that she saw me on wanderlust and told that i am skillful however I just deny it and also praised her. I am not really remembered her, i know that i ever saw her face in other local gym but i am not precisely sure that she is that one so i just give a little smile.
Our yoga topic for today is hip opener, the activation of Svadhistana as a second chakra to have a better intimacy, sensuality and emotion since this chakra is for sex. The teacher also said that this chakra is useful for fertility and connection with human being. We began with meditation in vajrasana, when you tuck your knee to the front and heel to the top so our sitting bone sit on the heel and the mudra, or hand gesture forming Jal-Vardhak or Varun mudra, when you connect your little finger with thumb and meditate for five minutes.
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After we open our eyes up, we start with sun salutation and this version is different with others since there is modification in it and we did it ten times, vinyasa flow, rapid tempo. Rapid you said? Yes since one movement one short breath so the transition between sequence is fast. This is as i remembered for the sequence.
Urdhva Hastasana
Utthanasana
Step right or left leg back to form and Anjayenasana modified with backbend extension
Step front leg back to Adho Mukha Svahanasana (down dog)
Bring the shoulder forward to Palakasana (plank pose)
Bend the elbow to Chaturanga Dandasana
Raise the chest up to Cobra or Upward dog
Back to down dog
Step right or left leg forward to Ardha Utthanasana
Bring both arms up to ceiling for Urdhva Hastasana and close it each other
Bring your arms in front of the chest in Anjali Mudra, repeat.
There is next sequence which is familiar with the first one but i could not remember everything and there is not much different with the first one, just the addition of Bakasana or crane pose right after Ardha Utthanasana, we bend our leg to form Malasana and proceed to Bakasana.
The third pose is tree pose with the modification of it, Padangusthasana with the hip open to the side, twist and so on. Sorry i could not remember everything since i am not recorded it right after exercise so most of it already forgotten.
After it, we clean and take a group pictures of us with the teacher, all group, our group and some cute picture with all group performing standing pose next to each other. The time shows 9 am and the good thing is one in our group had prepared the breakfast, she cooks great in almost every snacks and today she brought handmade sandwiches which made of chicken and spice, dipped in a (looks like cheese) but sour and i asked her the specific name for it three times and now i can't remember what is the name.
After snacks, we proceed to take another class in local gym at 11, and time to say goodbye with some guys since some of us is not in the same gym with us. We make it on time to next class and we already tired from the first class, so this second class considered tiring for us. Some of us fall many times and sweating more than usual. The coincidence is the second class focused on hip muscles group while we already exercise this muscles much before.
The torture begin to end when we finish our class with headstand with twist in straddle legs, takes much energy upon us. Then as usual, we had a small lunch by our member, who know housewives are so talented to cook lunch, fried noodles and brownies satisfies our tummy to the max.
After class we play a bit with acroyoga and one of use suggested to had a dessert that near with gym, a Japanese food with the 50% promotion on selected food and all desserts. We had a really nice quality talk here, we even talk around unique profession across the world for example: certified wine tester, coffee tester, bed tester, spice tester and so on and since i was very tired for today, i just take a small time to nap there, i really don't care where i am (restaurant) since i was exhausted but i don't want to come back, i had nothing to do there.
So now i went back two hours ago, grab a porridge and egg cake. Remembered that i need to study IELTS and not motivated, i prefer to write so do i. I will take IELTS reading after this and went to bed since tomorrow i had a relative wedding blessing in the morning which require me to wake up earlier and also skipped my church last week so i should attend tomorrow. So i commit myself to write what i should do tomorrow and there is the list:
Keep the four hacks on!
Attending blessing ceremony (should be there at 10, so i will start going on 9)
A time gap between 6 and 9 while i need to take my sister to her church around that time and it's still morning so i might sleep again or study IELTS
Attending church in the afternoon or evening
Fixing friends bracelet by adding lava stone in the middle of tiger eyes
Checking the price of ticket to Land of the God island on 20 of June
And the others let it flow. My to-do list will expand as i walk around in 1 hour or chat with friends.
That's long enough to write and i feel better after writing. Hope i could do this again tomorrow and keep doing it consistently.
