Home Cafe It came as a pleasant surprise that I actually enjoyed frequenting cafes with nice ambience (who doesn't?) Then it struck me that I am confining myself to only the living area and kitchen most of the time. So, I narrowed down the possibilities of what cafes have to offer and what my apartment lacks. For starters, I did a home makeover by changing the curtains which were faded and torn and had them replaced with shearers instead. Then I built myself a mini forest at the balcony to obscure "Human Baboons" from peeping into my apartment. Next on the agenda was the dining area which had never been used since "the piece of shit's" demise.
Add a table cloth, some money plant on the table and threw in some nice floral scented aroma therapy. Nice indeed. Rearranging or refurbishing is easy, now I must make it a point to occupy those places as intended. So I made sure to have cooked dinner every night on the dining table and not in the living area. There is a place for everything, they say.
Bake a Cake Tried my hands on baking and not just any type of baking but flourless baking. You heard right. That should do it for my insatiable appetite for "Latte and cake" teatime moments. What better cake to bake other than Hazelnut, carrot, apples with chocolate chips in it. I am rather proud of what I have achieved so far.
Yoga Hell YES! Yoga @ 45. It is never too late to learn something new and I chose Yoga. Why? I was getting bored with the routine I put myself thru with Bob Harper's Blackfire and kettlebell is losing its motivation and I thought back about Dr Berg's advise on exercising. It seems if we put our body thru a lot of stresses , our body may not respond in the manner we would normally expect instead it will be counter productive to achieving our goals. So, that was the catalyst to how Yoga and Qi Gong came into the picture. By the way, I learnt Yoga from Utube and it was truly an eye opener. Yoga is not easy as it seems. In the course of learning something new, of course injuries are aplenty, some misses and some quite dramatic. (Crash...Blackout..chipped tooth and a dented flooring to remind me of my bruised Ego) Say what you like but I taught myself how to do a HEAD STAND and NO, it didn't cause the crash, if you are wondering. I think the hardest part was the Chatoorangas, the wheel is still a work in progress. Downward dog too initially created so much discomfort as the wrists weren't strong enough to withstand the body weight bearing down so intensely. Many times I caught myself holding my breath instead of breathing easy. It was quite a learning curve and I can safely say that I am much stronger now and far more enjoying the flow or rhythm of Yoga. My take on this learning curve is it truly works on your flexibility and areas that you never knew existed. Don't give up, if you are not able to do a certain move. Keep at it and it will come to you eventually.
Reading I can't seem to focus or I lose focus the minute I flipped the pages. I think it is probably because my mind has lost its focus and boredom is setting in...( I hope it is not depression) Books I read reminded me so much of the people I came in touch during the course of my work. Watching TV too isn't helping as I get a sense of losing hope when everything that stands for GOOD, JUSTICE and HOPE are just battered day by day. Countless deaths, political maneuvering, Trade wars and more lies, one after the other. The media too is so overly engrossed on what Trump did or did not do. So much effort goes into assembling panels of people who are supposedly "Experts in their respective field" just to analyze what is going on in the POTUS's mind. Who would have thought that Xenophobics live among us. I was naïve thinking that I could explain my way into some of their hearts and try to make sense of what makes a Chinese person Chinese. I have to say that I am more convinced now more than ever that there are many people who are just so complicit and ignorant about the world and the people around them. The cliché of learning the culture of people when travelling the world is often heard but I think it is exactly that, just a cliché.
Blogging That brings me to this. Strangely, I find it quite astonishing that I kind of enjoyed penning my thoughts in this blog. This is the first time in months that I found a new found purpose and amazingly I seem to be able to focus on what I want to say clearly. I will keep at it and see where this blogging takes me. Wish me luck!
