Ryan Is In The House

Well it’s that day again. The weekend has come and gone. Sunday is now upon me. Sunday late afternoon to be exact. It’ll be a monday tommorow and we all know that means up. Getting up early. That’s right, waking up earlier than usual. Now i’ve been getting up around 9.30am the previous 2 days, so it isn’t half as bad when i have to get up at 6am tommorow. I know some people who would party till the wee hours in the morning. Like 4 or 5am? Anyways they will be the ones always with the hardest time getting up on moday morning. And you wonder why people call it monday blues? Lol. Truth be told, i’ve suffered a little from monday blues due to sleeping too late over the weekends. The only exception might be on a friday night. I still have sat to recover from. By the time sunday comes my system is pretty much back in shape. Then there’s another thing they say about 11pm-1am being your body’s recovery period. That is supposedly the time period where your body rests and recovers. Nowadays i don’t suffer from monday blues, partially in thanks to my early night sleeps (around 11pm on average). If you are having monday blues a lot, check if you have been sleeping way too late over the weekends. Alright time to relax now and enjoy my shows and tea. After that it’s some more training and meditation. Then it’s a brand new spanking day tomorrow!

Today was a pretty productive day. Wake up around 930am in the morning and did some practice. Managed to squeeze some work in for about an hour and broke for lunch at 12. Lunch was pretty good and then took an hour rest. Practiced some more and relaxed for a couple of hours after that. One of our relatives came over for a short visit. Entertained them with some of my piano and singing skills (i’m getting better heh). Did some more work and then went for a jog around the neighbourhood. Today’s jog was pretty intense! I mixed up my routine somewhat and sprinted longer than usual. I covered the same distance with a slightly faster timing. But i was a little disappointed. Felt i could have done better. Whatever. Came back and cooled down. My heart was still beating pretty fast even after several minutes. Managed to get some more important work done and went for dinner. So here i am now resting on my computer again. All in a all a pretty fruitful day.
I noticed something while I was doing my stuff throughout the day. I would actually get a little restless when I was taking my breaks. I knew that my to-do list was not done yet.  I mean logically it was just a bunch of to-do stuff written down (or rather typed out on my computer). But psychologically it somehow focused my mind to want to finish up these to-dos. It’s like an itch that had to be stretched. I’ve come a long way in getting stuff done.  Been meaning to read up again on the getting stuff done book by david allen. I think it was the first real book that actually had a major impact on how I operate in my daily life. If you haven’t heard of the guy or read his book, I highly highly recommend it. It’s a fantastic read. Try to be patient with it as it can get wordy. If you want, you can break it up into sections and allocate small time periods daily for reading. Hmmm that’s the productive side of me talking again. Lol.

It’s one of days again. Well anyways today isn’t as bad as a few days back. Went through some pretty bad customer service from 2 different companies. I’m seeing  ap pattern here – deny customer request and keep vomiting the same reponse until customer wears out and gives up. So it’s basically your problem that you are having problems and too bad for you. Freaking pisses me off. I’ve resigned to the fate that nothing will be done for my billing and I’m going get screwed paying extra money just because their refund policy states so clearly. Once bitten twice shy. I’m going to make sure there is an unconditional money back gurantee for whatever services I’m taking up in the future. No more getting screwed by shady businesses online. So if you readers have not encountered a shoddy business customer service, consider yourselves lucky. Don’t go through what I went through. It was traumatic and I don’t wish it upon anyone. On the other hand, I’ve met some really good customer service online and they go out of their way to help. Hey I’m a pretty reasonable person you know. Now on other matters, been training more intensively lately. To get a high degree of performance and progress, I’ve got to work harder and longer than the average person. This means scarfice of my time and less time to enjoy whatever I want to enjoy. The only problem now is how am I going to squeeze in the extra time to consistently train for an extra hour? Something’s gotta give. I hope it’s not at the expense of my other just as important goals. Sigh….wish I could multiply myself and get things done ten times faster. Today’s a slow day, but it’s finally going to be over. Going to get some training in and then it’s down to my work. After that I can have a nice evening off and watch some videos on youtube. Hahaha. I know, I don’t watch tv, but guilty as charged – I love to watch funny vids online.

Oh bloody fuck. They say that there is no such thing as a perpetual good time. Well i have to agree on that. If there is sunshine some rain must rain. Man i’m getting really pissed right now. Not that i’m feeling lots of powerful emotions nowadays. I can control myself pretty good. But you know what? I just gotta complain. This fucking douchbag company charged me several hundred bucks for a yearly subscription without me knowing!!!! I have asked for a refund and they better do it quick. The company is not known to be customer service friendly from what i hear and i have a funny feeling they are not going to refund me my moolah. Ohh man am i livid right now. And you know what they say that once some bad shit happens to you, everything starts to look like one? Well that’s just how i feel. My patience and loving nature just went out the window i tell you. One of my employees was supposed to deliver her work but never did. The adacity! Ohhhh man what the fuck is this!? I’m sooooo angry. Why is the whole world consiring against me? I know, the intellectual side of me is saying calm down ryan there is nothing to be angry about, you can’t control things,blah blah blah. You know what? I could care less right now. I just want to vent my fustrations out in this post. They say it makes you feel better afterwards. It better! Hmpph! Well lunch is going to be a nice outing with my family. Some good food and we are having chinese dim sum! Oh yes! At least there is something to look forward to. And I’m still pretty productive these days. All these setbacks are to be expected I guess. Shit just happens yeah? But I should do something about all these. Should I be more careful in the future and make sure I cancel my subscription ahead of time? Hmmmm I don’t know maybe it was partially my fault too. But man I just hate the idea of losing a couple of hundred bucks which I could have saved! Fucking credit card deductions…

Finally, after a few years of hiatus i’m back! Oh man today i woke up earlier than usual (for a weekend that is). Usually i would wake up like ten or eleven and the morning passes by real quick. Before you know if the afternoon is here and the evening comes rolling in. Night falls and bam that’s the end of another day. As some of you may know, i like to get the most important things done early in the day. So today seems set to be especially productive as i work up like eight thirty. Got my breakfast out of the way and just worked on some of my personal projects. Man do i feel super productive! There’s a saying and i forgot where it come from – the most productive and successful people are those who wake up early. Another one is ” i have never seen a successful person wake up late”. Makes a lot of sense if you ask me. I mean, when you are up early in the morning while everyone is awake, it means by default you are already ahead of other people in terms of getting things done. There are also almost no distractions (unless you count birds chirping as distraction lol!) that can affect your work in the morning. Quiet, dead quiet and just pure bliss peace. I abosuletly friggin love it. Bang it out for a few hours and by the time it is noon time, you would have finish your essential tasks for the day. The afternoon and evening are then yours to enjoy! How cool is that? I don’t know why and maybe most people operate the other way round. They wake up late ( or in the afternoon), look around, surf the web, wonder what they should do next and by the time afternoon is over, nothing meaningful had been done. Oh well it’s night time, let’s just relax yah? Bang one day has passed and you have accomplished nothing. I guess i was a little like that in the past. But that is due to a total lack of goal planning and daily actions. But i digress. Maybe that should be for another post yeah? heheh. So here i am signing off, get productive and wake up early! (oh and eat healthy too- it helps with the energy).

I was just reading some articles and watching videos today on how that our brains are actually not one, but three. It goes on to explain that when we think we are in control of ourselves, we really are not. We may trick ourselves into beliving that we are rational,logical creatures who can control our own body and emotions. We can simply will it under our goals an directions. But apparently it is not the case. I mean let’s look at it from a practical point of view, when was the last time you said you should quit this bad habit and you actually followed through? Or even if you followed through you felt great about it and made permenant changes? Not the case right? We are actually much less in control of our mind,body and emotions then we care to admit. The article i was talking about was by some egghead scentists who discover that the 3 brains consists of our reptialian brain, the mammal brain and the cortex (or something like that) brain. So the reptitilan brain is responsibile for our instinct for sex,power and control. It is the fight or flight mechnism that we are so familiar with. Next comes the mammal brain. This is where all our emotions spring from – love, hate,jealously,etc. Very powerful chemicals go on in this portion of the brain and it dominates our prevailing thoughts and drives many of our actions and thoughts. Lastly the cortex brain is where we have our intelluetual thinking capacity. This is what sets us man apart from animals. The ability to conceptualize and create things. This was supposedly a new evolution in history of man and brought us to where we are. I find it interesting, that we us human beings have come so far in our history and yet we are still slaves to our much older brains – the reptilian and mammal part of us. When when it be the time that we evolve to become more in control of ourselves? I mean, look at the world we live in right now. War,famie,destruction,etc all still exists even after millena of advances. Hmmmm something to think about huh?

Alright guys this seems like a rather early morning. Damn I am getting up earlier and earlier each day. This is good. Don’t you know they say that early people are the most productive and successful people in the universe (ok maybe just the world). Yeah in any case it’s pretty hot right outside as I’m typing this. Was thinking of going for a run later. Hmmm should i? I’ve also missed my 1hr stretching routine last week. Maybe I’ll squeeze that in tomorrow. It’ll be better yeah. Also my diet seems to be at an impasse. Weigh in on the scale an hour again and I’ve lost a grand total of…..drumroll please…..0.1kg! Fantastic. Oh just great. Now I’m jumping up in the air and enjoying this great victory. 0.1kg are you kidding me!? Oh man…if this keeps up I don’t know what I should do next. Hmmmm actually you know what, I should fall back on my old routine that got me to lose 8kg in a few months. Yeah that was awesome. I just keep walking A LOT. Now the only problem is I don’t have the free time to do this. I’m working like 9-5 and still have to work on other projects at home. Where the hell do I get the time to do the exercise. And even that my diet is not exactly the greatest. Actually I think the diet portion is much more important then the exercise. I mean, and I know this from experience, you can exercise correctly and everything, but once you eat that hot chocolate fudge, that’s it. You’ve just ruined the day’s weight loss goal. I mean it seriously. Fortunately, I am not exactly big on eating fast foods, so that is not so bad. I just gotta stop eating so much.

Alright so today is another great day. Was pretty busy at work today as I am on leave tomorrow (it’s on a Friday). Lunch was pretty good and dinner was with some of my old friends from army. We met up at this nice little Japanese restaurant just across the street. Food was pretty good but prices are not cheap. They cost really expensive even for a premium Japanese food place. Speaking of which, I think I’m on a Japanese food eating craze lately. I’ll be having jap food again tomorrow with another friend. He is into these stuff as well and definitely going to eat my fill. Then on Saturday might have a change of appetite and have Mexican food instead. I’m thinking grilled chicken with plenty of fries. Ohh man my mouth just waters thinking of it. Can’t wait till tomorrow and the day after! On other matters, my weight loss goal seems to have stalled. I just can’t seem to lose extra pounds! Hmmm I guess age must be catching up on me. What can I do? Resign to fate? No way hozay, I’m going to keep the carioles burning! Guess I gotta eat less and exercise. It’s basic stuff really but I just can’t seem to stick to it. Yeah excuses I know. I just love food too much to give them up….for *gasp* green vegetables and plain water. Oh man. Life is tough.

Ok so today was busier than usual. Had a cup of nice coffee and got down to work. So why do i still work if people around me are saying it’s a deadend job with no future career prospects? Well, one of the main reasons i still stayed in this job is that it does not take up much of my time. Yeah the money isn’t the best and neither is the career path. But you can’t beat the flexible lunch hours and 8 hour schedule. The same can’t be said for other companies. I had a few friends with higher pay than me, but boy they worked much longer hours than i do. Me? I’m happy with the liberal amounts of free time i have after work-hours. No fuss no muss. Oh, and i don’t work on weekends. So some of you might be thinking – hey man that sounds like the prefect job! Yeah you are right on. You might even be asking yourself – hey man how do i land myself into this kind of job? Alright, you lazy ass bum, here are a few tips from yours truly. If you want this kind of job, first you must understand the long-term impact it will have on your future career. Don’t expect stellar resume chalk-up points for this if you are hopping over to a better job. Now that we have the warning out of the way, let’s look at how you can live the 40-hour work week (most people work much more than that, never mind the 4 hour work week). First, you should ask around your friends – preferably those that look lazy bum and free all the time. (they message you online very often while at work – hint hint). Casually ask them – hey man, what job are you currently in now? You seem pretty free? Now usually they will not deny this fact (they are proud of it actually). Next step – ask them if there are any openings in the company and if they could help you if you applied. Then both of you could be work buddies and slack all day long. Alright, that’s just one of the many tips i have for you. I’m feeling super lazy now and want to watch some vids on youtube now. So tada and hope it works out for you.

So another day has passed and i was wondering how long it will take. It’s been a pretty nice and slow day. Work wasn’t that bad and i was cruising through the day like a slow motion camera movie. In any case had a fantastic lunch at soup spoon. My female colleuge was fun to hang around with as usual. Well too bad she’s attached (and getting married if i understand correctly). Well too bad and that’s life for you. After the clock hit past five it was time to go home. Had a nice jog around the neighbourhood and boy it was a great workout! Now cooling down and typing out this post. Waiting for dinner to be ready and another day has passed. Nice day it is today! Well looking forward to this weeked. Some programs lined up and raring to hang out with friends. Have some nice dinner and movies plus drinks. Also a pleasure to eat and dine with friends. What in the world I’m I thinking for tomorrow? Haha your guess is as good as mine. I don’t think it’s going to be any different from yesterday. Great time as usual and I guess it will keep going on this way. Yeap that’s the way things go around here. Just another regular joe from your neighbourhood.