This will be a list of things that I will be setting for myself to do within the remaining months in the year. It will just be random things that I was to complete in no specific orders.

This post is follow up post to the last one. One of my friend read the post and text me saying "It sounded like you want to suicide"...I was like NOOOO WAY. I love life too much to even think about ending my life. And with my friends around, there is no way that I would want to miss all this FUN. That post reflects the true feeling about my life because of career wise, but I ain't planning to ending it. I'll let that come naturally LOL. So in this post, I will be talking about something that is happy in my life right now.

It has been two year since Tony and I finished P90X. But these past two year we have been more focus on improving in badminton and kind of slacked off on working out. We have tried many time to start P90X again, but it tends to fall apart within the first week. Each time one of us will be like slacking and then both stops X(. We even went to YMCA, but it was just really lay back work out. We went for swimming the most. It feels so damn good after working out to just float in the water.

Here is the happy thing, we are finally back on P90X. This time we got more friends joining us as well. Lets give an hand for Matt, Kelly, Sarah and the occasionally Hoey. These are my work out buddy now, of course Tony as well, cause we are using his basement. It has already been a month since we started P90X. Even though we don't do everyday of the videos (Not everyone has the time to la.), so we mostly focus on the ones that gives the best result. Some of us are trying to lose weights, some are trying to get tone and ripped, and there is someone for size. We usually do three days of the P90X, Monday is Chest and Back; Wednesday is Shoulder Bi - Tri, and Thursday for Yoga. Results has been showing for me, after 1 month of time I feel like I have gone back to the form when I finished my first round of P90X. This feeling is good. But Kelly would still call me a TWIG...sad. But this is a good drive for me to get buff. Errr...not buff but more ripped. So a ripped Twig, I am fine with that. And training the body is an excellent way to improve in badminton =D.

The most proud is that I am glade that my friends didn't give up on the work out. I know that only working three days of a 7 day video is not that much, but it is A LOT for someone people, even for me. One is that I am proud of Matt being able to give me a challenge into pushing me further along and I will be setting a bar for him to break. Second is that the girls has been improving since the first day, results might not be that clear right now, but as long as we keep up, it will be good. As for Tony and Hoey, their main goal would be to lost weight, they will be able to if we keep up.

Come on guys and girls, lets put our all into the following two months and be in the best shape of our life.
LOL =P

Lately I been feeling pressure that Life is becoming too short. Things from reality has finally caught up to me. Almost turning 25, it feels that I might have to finally face my life. As of now, there isn't much in my life to be proud of. The only thing that I am happy about is that I am enjoy my current life style. Being able to hang out with friends, playing badminton, and not really have to worry that much about life yet. 

Hehehehe, almost forgot that I have this blog. It has been two years that I haven't posted anything new. But lately, for some odd reason I wanted to start again. Maybe it was due to a talk at a dinner with friends about diaries and blog that we used to write. Or maybe its just to kill off some of the times that I have.

So much have change in these two years. Two things that remained the same are my friends, and my love for badminton. Well, for badminton it has increased dramatically. Some of my friends calls me a badminton freak XD. Love the name because badminton has become an important part of my life. Through these two years, I have researched and studied badminton videos including actual games and coaching videos. The new skills and techniques that I have attained has allow me to move onto a higher level in badminton. Looking back at the level two years ago, I started laughing at myself. I can take the old me with 10% of my current. The time in two years can change someone so much. Anyway, back to badminton. Speed, power, technique has increased 10 fold. These improvement didn't come easy though. Without a coach its really hard to improve. Looking back at the stages that I went through, I realized that every time after playing in a tournament, I will improve some.


I still remembering the first time I went to the badminton tournament at UTSC. There was both men's doubles and men's singles. I enter both. For doubles, I was team with the new friend call John. His level is pretty much the same as me during 2010. But as for the result, sigh...bad endings lol. Got knocked out in two straight matches. But from that tournament, I got the hang and the timing of jump smashing. I guess losing is can be a good thing. 

There were couple more tournaments, but those aren't worth mentioning. But from each tournament that I have been in, I have realize more of my weak points. With that in mind, I started researching badminton and practising more and also playing WAY more.

Another turning point was when I joined one of my friend in his training session with a badminton coach. I have seem that coach's training before, I thought they would be a piece of cake. But once I tried that night, it was tough. Just doing one kinda of drill was killing me. Within the first 15 minute, I was drenched in my own sweat. And one thing, never do badminton training right after eating, BAD BAD idea. Almost threw up after the training session. This was the turning point because from that training, I have learned the proper way of moving around the courts, Foot work. Started practising more, training my legs to be stronger and faster. The very next time that I played badminton, I can move around the courts with ease, being faster makes SO much difference in badminton. Before then, I was pretty good at reading the game and the flow of the shots already, but I would always react late and be late to the shots cause of improper foot work.


Right now its time to learn the advance skills like a back hand SMASH LOL. Anyway, its pretty late. More updates coming la. 

I have forgot when I started to get sick, just know that it was sometime last week. If i remember correctly the beginning of the week nice a warm, and then rains and even snow came too. I think that it was the transition of being cold to warm to cold that made me sick.

Symptoms:
95% Coughing
2.5% Cold
2.5% Fever
Unknown % Headache

For the past week I haven't gotten a single night of good sleep. I would only say about 3-4 hours of closed eyes. The coughing would be keeping me up all throughout the night. I remember one night i went to be at 11 pm, and planned to get up at 6 am to finish up an assignment that was due at 10 am. So I went to bed and thought I could get some sleep, but I was so wrong. Every 15 minutes to 30 minutes I would feel the urge to cough, and not just once, but it would be 3-4 times. That went on for the entire time that I was in my bed. And I can even counting the hours going by each time the urge to cough came. 12am, 1am, 2am, 3am, 4am, 5am... And then 5:54 am that's when I got up because I set my cellphone and alarm clock to go off at 6 am. So I got up and stopped them. So went into the bathroom and washed up and headed down stair to finish the assignment. And I was surprise to see that my brother is still sitting at his computer... This type of sleep went on for couple days.

Those couple day I didn't take much medicine because I thought it would go away soon enough. I think I started to take medicine on Sunday.
What I took:
Cold Medicine: 3 times a day, 2-3 tablets each time
Cough Medicine: 3 times a day, 4-6 tablets each time
Honey Pei Pa Koa (The Chinese Buckley's): This one tastes good and work ok

The cough medicine really surprised me at first. It was a brand new bottle to begin with, 3 times a day, 4-6 tablets each time. 3 x 6 = 18. Here is the funny thing, the bottle only contains 30 tablets... So that means it wouldn't last 2 days if I ate 6 each time. So I only took 4 each time. And they are not just those tiny ones, they are those gel cap ones.

Since Sunday I have been sleeping in the living room. This is because that my mother said my coughing are keeping her up at night and that she is getting headache because lacking in sleep. So I slept in my living room for the past three days. But I found out that 1) I cough less, maybe because the medicine are working, 2) I fall asleep much easier on the couch. Even though my brother and my dad would be in the living room, one watching TV and one on his computer, but I can still fall asleep. WEIRD

So it has been 1 week and 2 days. Felling much better, cold gone, little bit of headache still around. The coughing is almost clearing up. Just 1 or 2 more days and I should be back to 100%. Lets hope the weather stays above 15 from now on.

Weird how this blog is about me being sick after I haven't written for so long. Well to answer my own question, it because there is nothing new or exciting happening in my life right now. I wish something would new would suddenly show up, whatever it is at least there would be something to do.

School... Haven't been to that place for about two weeks. I am still handing in my assignments, I just don't feel like going to class. Spending 2-4 hours on the TTC just to listen to the prof talk Power Point is so pointless especially when there isn't even an exam for that class.

Well, w/e.

"Are you happy with your current life?"

I would say that I am happy with my life, but there are couple things that can be better.

As of now, I am in the last semester of my program. But I won't be graduating this year because I am still missing two credits and also the stupid COOPS that I was suppose to do a year ago. But I don't care because I plan to get the COOPS done during this summer (Hopefully I can get a job or two) while taking two classes. This is like my best option as of now. Since I won't be able to get enough hours even if I get a job now. And that is the reason I didn't want to take two more courses this semester (Don't want 7 courses...) But everything with school is fine.

Outside of school. Weekdays would be either at school or at home. Both is pretty boring. Out of the 7 day of the week, I am only looking forward to two of them, Tuesday and Saturday. On Tuesday night, I would be out play badminton with Tony (As of now), more and welcome to come. Hopefully its and even number of people. That is the best because it is kinda weird to have like 5 or 7 people because one would be left out, or that there would be a 1 on 2 match. I don't mind a 1 on 2 match, but when there are like 5 people playing 2 on 2, then 1 would have to sit out. Unless we have enough court space to have a 1 on 1 and a 1 on 2. Then that is fine.

Saturday is my favourite day of the week. This is the day that I can expect to have more fun and just relax.
Things that can and could happen on a Saturday:



Badminton
Swimming
Hanging out with friends
Gaming with friends (DOTA)
Dinner with friends
Karaoke in the afternoon and or at night
Attend an over night birthday party or party

As you all have know, I had one of the best days every two weeks ago. Which it was funtastic. (Hm...is this really a word that I use. Think I heard Tony saying this before)

I think I might have just listed all the things I like doing. Hm...seems like I don't like doing many things.

Ways that My life could be better

Getting a job
Moving out of my parents' house
Getting a Girlfriend
Try other sports
Entering badminton tournaments
Eat more delicious food

At the beginning of last semester, I have notice a change in myself. My will to go to school has be significant low. Actually my will to do anything has becoming lower compare to before.

I do blame this on last summer when I had almost 6 month of free times on my hand. And that was because i failed to find a summer job. In that 6 month, I have done nothing besides going to YMCA, hang out with friends, and that's pretty much it. It was fun when that happened because at that time there was no care for anything else, its like back when you were kids. Everyday just have fun, even at school.

Also I have been more and more procrastinating ever since high school. Well, I do procrastinating in high school as well. But now its more I would think. For assignments I usually leave them to the night before its due to finish it. Sometimes working for the entire night too. I do the same thing for projects too, I know its with other people and all, but I am usually the one to put it together, so doesn't change a thing for me. Now that I think about it, I only study at the night before an exam, or even worst at the morning before the exam. This is a habit that I have adopted since coming to school at George Brown. My first program (Hotel Management), the courses were extremely easy compare to what ACCI gives out. A funny thing I still remember from my first year was the math class that I had. In high school, I find math to be a bitch and hated it, but math related course were my strongest when I am in George Brown. O yeah the funny thing, the text book the math class were print outs, total about 100 pages. When I got it I started to flip through it. It was very easy. Every week in that math class, while the prof were teaching the chapters and while other were listening, I would be completing the exercise in the so call text book. I think I finished the entire text book in less then 3 day worth of class time.

Back in ACCI, I was an average student getting 70s. While in George Brown I am the top student getting 80s and 90s. With that, I have come to a conclusion that I don't have to tried very hard to get a decent grade. And with that in mind, that is probably the reason for becoming even more procrastinating. Also most of the so call assignment I can probably finish in a day or two.

After that first program, I continued onto a degree program. The courses in the program are a bit harder then the previous one, prof marks a a bit harder. But I am still in cruising mode, and still getting by pretty good. Now in my last semester, I just plan to get through it and be done with it. 

A day like what I had today comes maybe once a year. For the entire day, each and every activities that I did are my favourites, or that I enjoy doing the most out of all.

There were couple stops for today.

Early in the morning...hm does 11 am count early. Well whatever, badminton was what I did for the first stop at 11. Played for two hours, had lunch with my friends, then head home and get ready for the next place.

Part two of this funtastic day was spent at Karaoke. We were there from 4 pm to around 7:30. Yeah, might be a little weird to sing K in the after noon. But it work out fine, it was WAY WAY WAY CHEAPER then at the usual time. Well, I would say its kinda weird because there wasn't any alcohol involve. But later on it was fine. This might be a first for me, sing a duet with a girl. That is because usually we get Jacky Leung to sing the female voice, which he does a really great job at it for some reason...:D. Sang couple of my favourite song from of course the AMAZING JAY CHOU. Also the duet with the girls was pretty good. I sang 珊瑚海 with one girl, and then 梁山伯与茱丽 with another. Both are now my all time loved duet songs.

Third stop were to enjoy a great Korean feast with my friends. Filled up with food. At first we were thinking of going back to continue the SING K MADNESS, but then we notice that it was Saturday today, so the cost for round two would be expensive. So we decide to go home.

Last stop of the night was tiring and refreshing at the same time, weird eh, that two opposite thing can happen in the same place. Two other friends and I went to work out, yep yep lifting some weights building some muscle. The other two need to lose weights. Then after an exhausting work out, we jump into the pool for a refreshing dip. We swam for like 15 minutes then we talked after while just laying back and relaxing in the water. After that we jumped into the jacuzzi to finish off the night.

The entire day has been enjoyable. Got to meet some new people, rock the world at Karaoke, dinner and then swimming. I wish everyday were like this. No school, no worries of money and what not. I really don't mind spending everyday like this. Hm...actually I might mind it, cause I will probably die in a week. Just looking at two hours of badminton, exhausting work outs and swimming, yup probably dead within a week or two. But I do wish that today can happen more through out the year.

Hm...speaking of 2010. What event or parties are there install for me...
Feb - Friend's sister's BDAY
April - Friend's Bday party
Summer - ...Usually I don't do much in the summer
My BDay - well I don't really celebrate my own Bday, not that I don't like it, I just see it as a normal day. If things happens on that day, then I'll enjoy it.
Christmas - Wow...already at Christmas. Christmas week parties (I hope so)

There might be more, but here are just the ones that are most likely to happen for the coming year.

AHHHHHHHH. Thinking that tomorrow will be back to the usual is making me sdsasdas :( can't even type SAD. HOW SAD AM I...

Everything seems to have gone back to normal.

Spent about 4 hours waiting in line at school just to straighten out my registration issues. There was two stops, first was to see the coordinator of my program which took about 1.5 hour to 2 hours. Got her permission to go register, so off to the second line. The second line was even worst. I see that there were two staff working to correct people's time table or other issues. 1 of them keep walking off to who knows where, comes back site for about 2 minutes, and walks off again. This line took like forever to get to me. As of now, I been standing for about 3-4 hours. So when its finally my turn, the lady there took off on a snack break (OMG). Finally after another half hour, she comes back. And I handed her my form and she completes in less then a minute...WTF they should have let me go first.

Remember the racket that I ordered online couple weeks back. Well the bad news is that the string lasted 1 and a half day and it broke. Reasons being that racket was made for front court, with a high tension on the strings for better control. But you know me, I play everywhere on the court, mostly on the back court. And because of that the high tensioned string snapped on the second day of ACTUALLY using it. The good news is that I have brought it to Sport Chek to get it restrung. I hope this time, the frame is fine.

Well, I just got home and haven't ate anything yet, so I'll end it off here. GOT TO GET SOMETHING TO EAT!!!

So, as most of you have began your new semester, I am still sitting at home doing virtually nothing until the 11th. Today I went on the the George Brown site and was about to look at my time table for my new semester. Given that I registered for the coming semester during November. But when I was looking for my time table today, it wasn't there. So I went to the registration section and BOOM. I got booted out of the section that I registered for. So that is why there is no time table.

So I tried to register again, but then when I confirmed the section that I have choose, they give me a message saying "Sorry, the section that you have choose is full, please select another section..." Then I back page to the section selection, there was only one and it is the one that says to be full...So what now, I can't register, all sections are full.

WHAT A WONDERFUL THING TO START THE NEW YEAR!!!