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RW’s Daily Kick in the Bum

Wednesday, 10 March 2010 | 11:43 pm

I don’t train to beat another runner. We are out there together, competing with the marathon, and I train to run the marathon as fast as I can. – Juma Ikangaa, Marathon runner from Tanzania

As the title states, I get kicks in the bum (daily) via Runner’s World’s motivational emails and the one above is the most poignant for me.

There are people out there that believe that unless you’re finishing in the top percentile of your age group (or even top of everyone) in a marathon, finishing a marathon and calling yourself a marathoner doesn’t really count. Crazy huh? I don’t even want to get too much into it, else I’d rant on and on and I’d be needing my beauty rest soon. ;)

But I digress… I don’t train for a marathon so that I can beat the Jane Doe in my age group (I mean, it’d be nice, though). I train to beat my previous time or that one particular finish that sucked the most. I mean, that’s what “Personal Best / Record” means, right?

Ugh, hang on. I lost my train of thought. I guess what I’m trying to say (i.e., reassure myself) is that I won’t be racing LA as fast as I can because I haven’t been training much! >_<  In fact, I’m using LA as my training run… (a very expensive, yet hopefully fun and scenic, training run.) I’ll be there to enjoy it with my big sis, who will be doing it as her 2nd marathon evar and my other big sis, who will most likely be waiting for us at the finish line, as usual, since we eat her dust every time we run anyway.

So there, LA is there to prepare me for the San Diego Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon.

Good night. LOL.

p.s.,
This is such a classic brain fart. I’m so proud of myself (but not really). ^_^

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ThinkGeek’s WoAH. Brisket Sarnie.

Tuesday, 09 March 2010 | 05:14 pm

I was pleasantly surprised to find out this morning (upon checking the Tweets on my feed [or issit feeds on my tweets?]) that my fav geeky store, ThinkGeek received my submission for the “Wall of Awesome Happiness.” Yesh, I am a geek and not only did I enter that “contest” (btw, dunno if I get the schwag yet), but I also handmade my entry:

It took me about 3 hours to complete (using Sharpie pens and pencils) and then mail off the pieces above, each card with its own stamp! :) I actually won’t be bothered if I don’t win — just knowing that something I created made it through the Post (and that they “got” what the pieces are for) was reward enough.. But really, I wanna win the goodies!

In other news, it’s not the weekend yet and I’ve fallen off my healthy eating bandwagon again. >_< See the deliciousness of my Big Mista Brisket sandwich below.

Had it for lunch after my blotched 3 mile run at the park. :) Ahhhh.

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Quads sore. Ajax, JS, PHP to be continued.

Monday, 08 March 2010 | 09:03 am

I’m still sore; meaning, my quadriceps are screaming for stretching and all that jazz to free it from its bonds of tightness  (or something like that). I used The Stick today and rolled it over my aching muscles. I think the last time I used it was, er, I can’t even remember the last time I used it! >_< Gonna do some P90X stretching today, too.

In other news, I really need (as in, FOR REAL this time) to learn Ajax, JavaScript and PHP. I’ve been talking (mostly to myself and sometimes, with actual people) about learning these technologies but I haven’t really gotten too far. The closest I got to starting was creating a “Hello World” page in PHP and something similar in JavaScript ages ago. Fast forward to today and I really haven’t anything to show for it! I can train for long distance races for weeks-on-end but I can’t train my mind to write (Java)scripts!

As 43things.com keeps nagging me about the 8 silly things I want to do (#2, #3 and #7 in particular are to learn JavaScript, learn SQL, and learn PHP respectively), all I do when I receive the reminder emails is to delete them :( But NOT today! I am finally going to use this book which Amanda hath given me and will put “Sams Teach Yourself Ajax, JavaScript and PHP” to good use (amongst the other “Sams Teach Yourself” books I have been bequeathed several Christmases ago)!

And rather than just do silly scripts (e.g., Hello World) that will never see the light of day, I am working towards having a fully functional website by, er, let’s give myself um… UGH. I can’t even decide on the deadline. >_<

What’s a realistic deadline to learn 3 “technologies” from the ground up? 30 days? 60 days? 6 months? 1 year? LOL. HALP.

BRB whilst I figure out the deadline. >_<

Alrighty. Soz about that. With the help of some cool peeps, I am giving myself THIRTY days (30) to learn the basics of Ajax, JavaScript and PHP. After that milestone, I will give myself another two months to learn the even more complex functions/technologies within said applications whilst working towards the Bearuu Project. Then, giving myself another two months to really be really comfortable working with it. I’m hoping by the sixth month, I would have a fully-functional website where I have incorporated what I have learned and then some. It’s a lofty goal, but I either crash and burn or succeed (mostly leaning towards the latter!)

I wish I can dedicate 24-hours-a-day to learning, but alas, life (i.e., and the stuff that you need to do in order to keep living) continues. I am pledging to dedicate at least three to four hours daily* of what I’d normally do for recreational activities (i.e., telly, social networking, scanning the forums, MW2 on PS3, etc.) into learning. That being said, good-bye DVR of the shows, I’ll limit reading/sending tweets and the # of forums I visit, will put my campaign on MW2 on hold until I can produce something worthy of what a web programmer can probably churn out in ten minutes. >_<

Wish me luck! ^_^

*perhaps more (but not less!), depending on my other project timetables

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Weekend (food) recap.

Sunday, 07 March 2010 | 07:52 pm

The weekend isn’t over and I feel like– nay, am compelled to share my fall from nutritional grace once more >_< It’s the third week in a row and I just really can’t help myself sometimes. Ack. So here we go — it’s actually getting better (sorta) but definitely still needs a LOT of discipline to kick the unhealthy eating habit.

Friday
Brekkers: tea
Lunch: “Takumi” meal from Sushi Boy
Snack: Whole wheat bread (yay!) with Nutella (aw…)
Supper: Minestrone soup, garden salad and half a serving of Vince’s Spaghetti (first time @ Vince’s of Torrance and it was pretty good!)

Saturday
Brekkers: 2 packets of oatmeal with brown sugar and dehydrated strawberries (which reminds me, I need to buy more strawberries), cup of black coffee (Dunkin’ Donuts Hazelnut — deeelish!)
Lunch: Mushroom burger (that’s mushrooms onnatopp of a burger!) with FRIES (AHHHH! See below)
Supper: The remaining portion of my spaghetti, this time, with meatballs

Sunday
Brekkers: Honey Nut Cheerios (YAY!) and a cup of tea
Snack: BBQ chicken quesadilla (home made!) and salsa (store-bought)
Snack 2: Popcorn with movie theatre “butter”
Snack 3: Nachos >_<
Snack 4: Chicken tenders and fries + some rootbeer (ahhhh!)
Supper: TBD (most likely Cheerios again) The remaining portion of my mushroom burger and fries

I can’t seem to shake off the deep fried food craving >_< It’s funny though, cos I didn’t realise I eat this much fried food (during the weekend, anyway) until starting these food recaps! LOL. Anyway, I’m hoping to really stick to a relatively nutritious diet this week and next weekend.

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Earth Hour 2010!

Wednesday, 03 March 2010 | 09:04 pm

Last year, I participated in my very first “Earth Hour“. Basically, on a particular day in March (this year, it’s on the 27th), on a particular hour (starts at 8:30PM your time), you switch off ALL the lights in your home (or business)… for an hour. Simple enough, yeah?

I wasn’t in complete darkness last year, though. I was surfing the web on my mobile >_< LOL. I did turn off my computer and unplugged my laptops and of course, the lights were turned off. But yeah, for an hour in the dark, it was kinda weird… No telly, no computer, and no FaceBook for an hour — I remember it felt like I was in the Dark Ages. I even switched off the lights in my fish tank. I don’t think my fishies appreciated that, though.  ;)

Anyway, message me if you’re going to do Earth Hour this year!

If you haven’t guessed, Earth Hour is a movement that began 3 years ago to raise environmental awareness and on climate change. ^_^

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How to tie your shoelace

Monday, 01 March 2010 | 10:41 pm

LOL I thought I was imagining what I was reading when I opened the latest email from Runner’s World, but nope. The link was about how to tie your shoe properly! Man… and all this time I was doing it incorrectly! Although I have no use for this article anymore (I use Yankz! hehehehe), it’s still useful to learn the proper way to tie your shoelaces. Poor bunny ears method. :(

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Weekend (food) Recap!

Monday, 01 March 2010 | 02:09 pm

Okie, so I mentioned before that I don’t normally do recaps of what I ate, but felt compelled to do so since I fell of the healthy eating bandwagon once again. It wasn’t as bad as last weekend, though but still! Ugh.

Friday
Had sashimi for lunch and though I should’ve stopped there, I quelled my deep-fried-food craving with an order of sweet shrimp (Amaebi) which, of course, is served with two battered and deep-fried shrimp heads. Ahhh oh so good. Supper was fairly healthy with my custom-tuna spinach wrap! I’ll try to write the recipe sometime. It’s SUPER easy to do and very much fulfilling. ^_^

Saturday
Location: Mammoth! The place we stayed at had free (continental) brekkers but since we woke up late, we were only able to grab some plain bagels (I had a toasted one with cream cheese.) Lunch ended up sharing a LARGE serving of chilli-cheese fries with sis, and half a Nathans hotdog (sans the bun). Oh-so-bad-but-so-good!

I have to add that we didn’t finish this entire basket (had about a quarter of it, though!) and packed up the rest for snacking later. ;) So as if that weren’t too much, we went straight to Roberto’s for our après-boarding margarita (had two, eek!) and a hefty serving of Carne Asada (again, I wasn’t able to finish my food so we brought it back to the room.)

I would later regret (about 5 hours later! LOL) having two margaritas when the delicious one above (a Pomarita: pomegranate, Patron, triple sec) was more than enough!

Sunday
Having expunged the night before what I ate the night before (soz TMI! lol), I woke up super hungry and had the rest of my carne asada and chilli-cheese fries for brekkers. I should add (as if it helps) that I only had like, half of the remaining serving — which is still a LOT but only a quarter of the portion of the total basket. After another session of snowboarding, and on our way home, we stopped by our fav Chinese restaurant in Bishop where we enjoyed some spicy salt & pepper ribs, fried rice and two bowls of egg drop soup. Ahhhh. I didn’t even bother ordering any veggies! >_<

So there, when we finally got home, I just felt like having some Honey Nut Cheerios for supper before passing out. I’ll have the remaining ribs left-over from yesterday for lunch and then am getting back on the healthy food bandwagon tonight: grilled chicken breast over brown rice with a side of blanched asparagus. ^_^

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4 hours X-train?

Saturday, 27 February 2010 | 07:45 pm

Does 4-hours worth of snowboarding count as cross-training?

I think I’ve practically undone that with some carne asada and two margaritas. Ugh. Why do I always over-do m physical activity with overblown meals! Actually, let me add a quarter plate of chilli cheese fries (and half of a chilli dog), as well. >_<

Still, I can definitely feel the burn in my quads and I’m sorta counting today as a workout day (albeit won’t note about it on my Daily Mile record).

In other news, a 8.8 magnitude quake hit Chile earlier today. I never thought that I’d hear about an 8.8 Richter scale earthquake in my lifetime. Sad and rather frightening at the same time. If I were the conspiracy type (and sometimes, I am), I’d say it’s nearing the end of the world (with Haiti and then this…), *sigh* it could also just mean that Mother Earth is rebelling against us. WTH am I talking about?! Iono. Something for you to ponder this evening, I suppose.  +_+

A hui huo!

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