Books
Books. I used to hate them. and shunned the very thought of reading them. when i was young, i can never finish a book myself. Because i was always so "full of sugar" and can't keep myself still. Impatient, active, curious little kid.
I brought the perception towards books up to sec. school, and publicly proclaim about my inferior reading abilities. Though i start to sink into the love of good literature, i can't prompt myself to read.
Until one day i got this quote from amateur bodybuilder Vince DelMonte "do you know how much information a book contains?". And it started it off man. Suddenly it sparked a thirst to read (mostly nonfiction though but not forgetting fiction :):):) ), to gain knowledge and to think till i use 100% of my brain. There is alot of knowledge waiting to be acquired!
So i do encourage everyone to read, for there is really so much information in a book. my goodness, a book is made up of paper. MANY pieces of paper containing LOADS of information! Great literature makes the information beautiful, emotional, boundless to the soul. Nonfiction makes the information practical, helpful, experiential. Whatever it is, there is an endless array of knowledge possible from books. Why not start reading?
Labels: awakening
poem from a chinese poet about a century ago
我等候你
我等候你。
我望着户外的昏黄
如同望着将来，
我的心震盲了我的听。
你怎还不来？ 希望
在每一秒钟上允许开花。
我守候着你的步履，
你的笑语，你的脸，
你的柔软的发丝，
守候着你的一切；
希望在每一秒钟上
枯死──你在哪里？
我要你，要得我心里生痛，
我要你火焰似的笑，
要你灵活的腰身，
你的发上眼角的飞星；
我陷落在迷醉的氛围中，
像一座岛，
在蟒绿的海涛间，不自主的在浮沉……
喔，我迫切的想望
你的来临，想望
那一朵神奇的优昙
开上时间的顶尖！
你为什么不来，忍心的！
你明知道，我知道你知道，
你这不来于我是致命的一击，
打死我生命中乍放的阳春，
教坚实如矿里的铁的黑暗，
压迫我的思想与呼吸；
打死可怜的希冀的嫩芽，
把我，囚犯似的，交付给
妒与愁苦，生的羞惭
与绝望的惨酷。
这也许是痴。竟许是痴。
我信我确然是痴；
但我不能转拨一支已然定向的舵，
万方的风息都不容许我犹豫──
我不能回头，运命驱策着我！
我也知道这多半是走向
毁灭的路，但
为了你，为了你，
我什么都甘愿；
这不仅我的热情，
我的仅有理性亦如此说。
痴！想磔碎一个生命的纤维
为要感动一个女人的心！
想博得的，能博得的，至多是
她的一滴泪，
她的一声漠然的冷笑；
但我也甘愿，即使
我粉身的消息传给
一块顽石，她把我看作
一只地穴里的鼠，一条虫，
我还是甘愿！
痴到了真，是无条件的，
上帝也无法调回一个
痴定了的心如同一个将军
有时调回已上死线的士兵。
枉然，一切都是枉然，
你的不来是不容否认的实在，
虽则我心里烧着泼旺的火，
饥渴着你的一切，
你的发，你的笑，你的手脚；
任何的痴想与祈祷
不能缩短一小寸
你我间的距离！
户外的昏黄已然
凝聚成夜的乌黑，
树枝上挂着冰雪，
鸟雀们典去了它们的啁啾，
沉默是这一致穿孝的宇宙。
钟上的针不断的比着
玄妙的手势，像是指点，
像是同情，像的嘲讽，
每一次到点的打动，我听来是
我自己的心的
活埋的丧钟。
Labels: Literary
update on fitness
Today was my first "high intensity" session after reading up on Mike Mentzer's articles, watching some vids from youtube and reading an e-book from him. To be honest, i haven't known the exact HIT (high intensity training) yet, but i'm eager to find out soon. Well what I need is to read up more books on HIT written by him and perhaps a DVD on HIT produced by his friends.
To sum up in one word: killer. I've never done sets that intense before, even as this time i did not have an assitant to help me on forced reps. I did supersetted several times, focused on static and negative motion for all my workouts. And it kills man.
Basically Mike Mentzer's HIT focuses on high intensity training to be done in a short period of time (20-45 mins), stimulating muscle growth and coupled with nutrition, to build muscle. It's a training method which sent "shockwaves through the bodybuilding world", by Mike Mentzer, inspired by Arther Jones. HIT focuses on placing maximum intensity, using supersets, forced reps, focussing on negative (releasing the weight), static (holding the weight at peak muscular contraction) which are neglected most of the time, and combines it in a technique to work a muscle so intensely that the particular muscle group will be worked to failure. Unlike many other styles of gyming, each muscle group is targetted with one or two sets, but done to maximum intensity, and not touched on until 7-14 days later. This allow time for muscle recovery, preventing muscular atrophy brought by overtraining.
Well, I worked on the middle back (back is my fav. body part), biceps and triceps today, workout completed in 30 minutes, inclusive of warmups is 40 mins. (that's half the time i normally spend in gym!) This is my chronology of sets:
1&2) Lat pulldowns x 2 set (2240 motion (which means, 2 counts of positive motion, 2 counts of static contraction, 4 counts of negative motion, and 0 count of muscle fully stretched))
3) Barbell rows x 1 set (2240), with no rest do 1 arm dumbell rows (2020)
4) Barbell rows x 1 set (2240), with no rest do barbell curls (2240), with no rest do hammer curls (2020)
5) Close grup lat pulldown half set (2240), with no rest do lie-on-the-bench triceps extensions (2240), with no rest do dips.
2 sets on lats, 2 sets on rhomboids, 1 set on biceps, 1 set on triceps.
By the first set I already feel so burnt by the intensity. Craving for more pain, I went on to do the rest of the session with higher intensity. By the third set, my body is worked so much that i can't control my muscles properly, by the 4th set, i can't feel my rhomboids contracting so i ended up decreasing weight from 130 to 90 pounds. And needless to say, at the end of the workout, because of the high intensity my muscle spasms increased slightly. After the workout, i packed up and left the gym, carring my laptop with me, and the moment i lifted it, I felt as if there was nothing in the laptop case!
But surely i can't call it high intensity yet because firstly my knowledge on HIT isn't complete, and as much as I know, i don't have a partner there to force reps for me, and that decreases the intensity. Thank God the gym is deserted, that i can groan in pain and stuff. I hope recovery will be good in sleep, and thank God again that my sleep is improving.
anyway, here's an update on my cutting regime:
mass: 56kg (cut 2kg),
Body Stats: 35-26.5-29
Diet: increase 2 serving of fruits a day, Decrease fat intake, decrease carb intake, increase meal frequency.
Ratios: i can't post anything now cos this is the 1st visit to the gym in 4 weeks!
oh, and i also felt my stomach fat decreasing. very convincing to the touch too. Maybe it's now that i do much more ab workout, but primarly i think it's cos of more exercise and proper diet.
Anyway, some more to go, and it's not complete. So that's all for the update.
Oh and i urge all non-beginner bodybuilders (those who do it more than 1 year).
Labels: christian-bboy
"starSTRUCK"
Celebrity-centered world.
Go onto msn, or any online discussion pages, endless treads on celebrities. On their latest fashion, boyfriends, quarrels, scandals, sex tapes. Honestly, do all these matter to you at all? How far do they change your life? Say, can you live a life from now without knowing about britney spears (yuck), paris hilton (eatmyshit)? It's doubtless celebs provide entertainment. But they do become models of our like, we follow the way they behave, they way they dress. bytheway, it's not uncommon to find INSTUCTIONAL videos on how to be a certain actress or actor.
Does their latest boyfriend affect your life substantially? Is their latest scandals so important that you must devote hours to find out? Does their latest fashion bother your life so much, that you're in a need for coolness? What great significance is their latest tapes, news, pictures, quarrels? Look at Paris Hilton and her sextapes. Its so common now. What has it done to your life? Probably you end up watching it or something i don't know i don't give a shit also. Look, again at the way she presents herself. A singer, actor, model, and her nice sexy dance at her birthday. It's disgusting to me. Not that i don't like singers, actors, models, just that it's as if she's hungry for attention. Honestly, do all these matter for you to be a stronger, better person? Do they matter so much to waste hours of your time on them? Watching E! entertainment channel n stuff, what had you known? Celebs are just people with abilities like any of us. Arguable that they are nothing if not spotted, but just like a famous you, or me. Look, even William Hung (which many ppl think can't be a celeb) IS a celeb. Celebs are therefore, just like you and me.
What's the latest gossip in town? The hottest guy in the mag? no, he's just across the road. What's the latest scandal? It's everywhere, within yourself, in your family, with your friends.
yes, see what matters first. Look at what you can do for your close friends who don't have a good life before you start indulging and gossiping about celebs whose lives you cannot impact.
Labels: christian-bboy
are girls all like that?
I can't believe it.
All of kyensai, except one, were screwed by girls (i mean hurt). 2 are dumped cos of a third party, one got a slut, one got 2 relationships ended in unexpectance and immense dissapointment. And 2 days ago on valentine's day, another got treated in a way he doesn't deserve. He never did deserve, never had, never will.
What are friends, or the closest of friends? The number of minutes they see each other, number of words said to each other, or the number of "friends" surrounding you that makes you special, wanted, heard? It resonates my past, and I can't conceive it happening on my dearest friend. A friend broken, one misunderstood, an undeserved victim. Is there not even trust in friendship? That one must choose to listen to parrots imitating, hyenas laughing, and birds' mocking? I have become extremely disappointed and overcome with shock and disbelief.
While one side of me was about to curse and judge and cut, my other half is to control me, that nothing is really too definite. To have your opinion unchanged after learning of this immoderate treatment is hard.
Labels: friends n loved ones
A great expanse
There are 3 men on a great expanse. All 3 identical, all 3 talented, all 3 visionary. They had the world to challenge, the world to take on, the world to conquer. And nothing's stopping them, just as it seems.
They were young and innocent, they held the world inside our hands, held many ideas, to change the world, to take the world, to impact the world. They see visions, dream dreams, and formulated the goodest plan. So much they had ahead of them, after all, haven't even lived a seventh of their lives. A life worth living, a road to die walking, an innocent mind.
One day, one arrived at an enigma, stood up and said "I will take on the world". He cajoled the other 2 to come, but they politely turned him down. So he bade farewell to the other 2, promising to send letters back reporting his journey, his encounters, his progress. He gets into his goodest gear, with the energizingest food, and lethalest weapons, set off.
Before he can do anything, he must cross the mountain. Brewed with determination, he scaled and climed and trekked. So hard that he brewed blisteres, and so cold that his feet was numb. After 10 days, he reached the peak. He is to descend from the mountain, but decided to take a break. Popped a champagne, the silhouette of the sun stares down to the world below. He's conquered it. He's cleared a extremely gargantuan obstacle. He's really exhausted. Wearly, he staggered down the mountain and caught some sleep. Before that, wrote back to his friends: "Dear Ben, I've scaled it today, and conquered it. It feels great! A great first accomplishment! Yes, not having some sleep, I've a long walk to the city."
He conquered an obstacle, it seems he's unbeatable. He feel everything ahead of him is all to finish, like a turn of your palm. He feels enriched, ecstatic, empowered.
Then, he ventured from the foot of the mountain, where his real journey begins. He tackled the maze of the temperates, overpowered the flows of the rivers, until he spotted a small town. "Civilization, finally" he thought. Stepped into this town, and found a place to stay for a short while, and this is when he finally lay down his gear and took a much needed breather. A few people heard of his legacy, an adventurer of the east, the conqueror of the great mountain, only few could. Not all believed the story though, because this man is unheard of. They tried to find him, follow him, imitate him. Not before a trice, they found him, fed him, and learnt from him. He stayed longer than he should, but he gained many friends. He lived with them, taught them, loved them. He was worshiped by them. Only one small group of friends, not everyone, but he doesn't need everyone. But the vision in him never died, he still had the world in his hands, but now he wants to take the world of friends.
One must be circumspect.Labels: Literary
look down from the building
FINALLY a complete chinese new year start! A great 1st 3 days man! in such a long long time. GOSH how i dreaded going back to where it all was. All really really superbad!
Man but it's good to look back as a REFLECTION (no wishful thinking people) not to get entangled in your mess again, never to commit the same mistakes again. Well, it makes you feel very very shitty, lost, hurt.
I hold a few memorials. and they are called MEMORIALS for the "memory" of it, to reflect and thank God. Isn't that cool?
Yes, step in for the new year. A Good Year.
Labels: christian-bboy
STOP SLACKING
it's time to get your body working man. the past 4 hour a week bboying isnt doing much good.
it's time to get your head working man. the past 2 hours a day procrastination isnt doing ANY good.
it's time to get your body resting man, the past super-pon-1st-hour-of-school isnt really good either.
STOP SLACKING.
nothing is good enough.
Labels: awakening
shiokgelaosaiomgwthithappened!
2 days ago had one of my awesomest nights spent. attending the switchfoot concert. It's always something special when you act in a way as if you're their biggest fan, checking every video of theirs, getting every record, every song released or unreleased, and having these songs speak to your life, and when you finally see them after yearning for so long, it's a greatest experience.Now i hear their songs with a different sound, see their words in a different light, for those guys who are my idol and example.I CANT BELIEVE THEY CAME TO SINGAPORE. it took some time to set in, butITS FREAKING AWESOME!!! the atmosphere is great, and switchfoot exceeded any expectations i had of them, through the roof!
ROCK ON SWITCHFOOT! LIVE THE LIFE! WE LOVE YOU!!!
Labels: :D:D
