29 June 2016
My old hard drives are dead. I had bought a device for turning internal hard drives into external hard drives, something I can just plug a hard drive into and it reads it, but no luck. They're dead, so some of the things are gone forever now, including my Nevis bungy video that I seem to have neglected to back up on cloud.
It is over.
But it just gives me another reason to do the Nevis again the next time I visit Queenstown, New Zealand. This time, both the bungy and the swing.
Ordered fourteen one-litre packets of skimmed milk so that Van and I can try to lose weight like that. This will work in tandem with the milk replacement shakes that prevents us from feeling hungry but can only be taken once a day.
The RT sessions are great and they even have MMA or other interesting stuff on every Thursday, and although I've not lost any weight, the feeling I get whenever I climb any stairs gives me a rough gauge of how fit I actually am, and I'm fitter now. Still not as fit as when I stopped my weight loss regime, due to the 15 minutes and 5 second timing of my recent 2.4km run in comparison with the 14 minutes and 35 seconds timing over a year ago, but my fitness is improving for sure.
14,000 Asia Miles are expiring next year and I still haven't got a trip worth spending on with miles on CX. The thing about this airline is that although it's trying to be a premium airline, it's rather expensive and Qatar is far better in quality while roughly in the same price range. This makes it hard for me to choose CX when QR is also available, and QR is available in most major routes from Singapore.
04 July 2015
Went to JB yesterday and bought a Lonely Planet guide on Africa and another on Russia.
Hopefully Africa will be possible in 2018, while Russia is quite probably in around August 2017.
Uganda, Morocco, Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana are some of the countries I have my eyes on right now, especially the first three.
My desk has been tidied up last week and once my dresser has been removed, my room will be able to accommodate either one more desk or a longer desk to replace my current one. Progress!
7 July 2016
Just another day. Ate a lot yesterday and today so worked out hard during RT. Hopefully it helps. Just downed a meal replacement for tonight so maybe things will be better tomorrow, ie my weight goes down from 99kg.
99kg is scary.
20 July 2016
Down to below 96kg. I was 95.2kg yesterday morning, and should be below 96.5kg today. Skipped a week of RT and spent most of my days sitting around, so that should have led to at least half a kg of weight loss, if not a whole kg. Ate half a kg of beef plus some other stuff last night after the exercise session in which I tried to push myself again (the effort shows when it's practically raining where I stand), so that should help me build some muscle mass for the future.
My logic is simple - eat more in the beginning, when I have less muscle mass, especially proteins. Having more muscle mass is like getting a bigger engine, and a bigger engine means more fuel can be burnt in the same amount of time. It's worked before I skipped the week of RT, since I ate mostly rolled oats with some sugar for a couple of days without losing my fitness level for a week.
Maintaining that is the biggest problem of all.
The results are there, so hopefully the motivation will come with it. When I go below 95kg, it shall be a good day :D
21 July 2016
Having lost two other pants, the only long pants I have left that fits me is my darker Denizen jeans. So yesterday I sucked it up and bought another pair of pants from good old Jshoppers, plus another two that are one size smaller, for the near future when I can fit into those.
I love their Katsurugi stretch chinos because they're pretty stretchy, the material feels comfy and the cutting is great for the price. My 5-6 old ones are still in my wardrobe, kept in the hope that I will eventually get back to my 2013 waistline of 36".
One of the smaller ones is actually a pair of their jeans, which I kinda expect to be of similar quality due their similar prices. I didn't actually planned to get it but the addition of its price will get me free shipping, which really means that this third pair only costs me about S$20, so why not? Good chinos are hard to find, and very rarely at this price. The current trend of disposable fashion is not my thing, and it irks me.
I had recently succumbed to it and bought several pairs of shoes and a pair of pants at really low prices (S$30-65 for pants, S$17 for the pants) and they all sucked so bad. First, I started getting blisters when I've never gotten blisters before, not even in the army. Second, the pants' cutting is so bad, my balls get jammed back into my crotch and I have to stretch my shoulders back to get my hands into the tiny front pockets.
Never again. Expensive is fine if they're worth it! I will never be cheap again! I'm so sorry!
Reminds me of that one Robert Graham shirt that I own. It's a total party shirt and I'm still wearing it once in a while after at least 3 years. My only awesome shirt meant to be tucked out.
Anyway, 96.1kg after breakfast, so it's still holding. I expect to go below 96kg again tomorrow, after the RT session today, since tonight's dinner is going to be rolled oats and some skimmed milk. I have a feeling half a kg of beef is overkill, so milk will provide enough proteins.
