finals.term1.2008

The mindfuck begins...

Why I Do It...

A couple of weeks back, I hit a plateau on strength gains and body fat levels. I guess it's just normal as I've been training with the OVT program. So I took the liberty to change it and adapt into a new HST program. My plan would be to cycle the HST and OVT one after another. For a complete period of 10 weeks each. Hopefully that'll be able to break my plateau and I start gaining lean muscle.

I also took the liberty to really watch what I eat lately. Cutting out on saturated fats, alcohol and soda. Just had a couple of beers last night after a long while but they'll be accounted for through my weekly caloric expenditure. And once again, NO, I don't diet! I just watch what I put into my mouth. I still believe in the fact that we are what we eat. Eat shit, you'll be shit. Another thing that motivates me to eat well is the fact that there are plenty of people around me dying of high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes and all obesity related diseases. I just don't think I wanna pass on that way... A little early to think about it. But most of this diseases don't just develop on the spot right away. They're the product of the early years of life and they take years of being dormant before they show up at your doorsteps uninvited.

Anyway, been down with fever and flu for two days. Kinda affected my training but it should be catching up soon. After reviewing my work, I've got quite a lot of deadlines to complete. The few major ones would be the upcoming gig in Labuan followed by emceeing Mr. Novice Miri (do check it out!) a day later. Followed by my assignments and first final term paper on the 26th. Got lots to juggle. Not forgetting training, magic, and lab reports to submit in between. Somehow I'll pull through (as usual).

Till then...

Of facebook and whiners...

precious fingers she knows how to hold the poison,

lick it deep and for no particular reason,

Midterm's gonna happen tomoro. I never thought I'd say this but I do miss exams. The stress building up inside my head trying to burst through every nerve endings in the great gray matter. Probably it's great cos I get to release the tension during training.

Learnt one thing about myself today and I have this thing with guy whiners. Unless a dude's homosexually inclined, there's no reason to whine and be a bitch about the surroundings and get all emo and stupid. Having these people around at the wrong time is never the greatest thing in the world. Then again, it's not worth the trouble to give six fucks about them. They just never die off do they?

Facebook! Found many peeps from high school (and beyond!) through that little community networking tool. It's great to see what happened to them peeps after so long! Seeing all of them in there and never being able to find them in Friendster before, I'm giving Facebook two thumbs up for that!

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Meal Log
Protein shake (200 cal)
Centrum multivit
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Beehoon and chicken (600 cal)
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Protein shake (200 cal)
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Broccolli (300 cal)
6 egg whites & 1 yolk (180 cal)
Watermelon (100 cal)
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Total: 1580 calories

*grit*

Came home from campus to realize that my jaws were hurting...

All the time I was gritting my teeth while I studied for my midterms...

It feels better now but not much was accomplished from the studying...

Just found out that I have visitors from other parts of the world.

Awesome...

World, please wish me luck for the midterms.

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Meal Log
Protein shake (200 cal)
Centrum multivit
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Milk (100 cal)
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Veal & Broccolli (800 cal)
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Protein shake (200 cal)
Bun (300 cal)
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Chocolate bar (200 cal)
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Salmon (250 cal)
Milk (100 cal)
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Total: 2150 calories
*overapproximation

werk werk...

Your defenses were on high

Your walls built deep inside

Yeah I'm a selfish bastard

But at least I'm not alone

Life's been hectic lately. I guess this is how it's supposed to be. Being in the final year and all. The units I'm taking aren't many but the workload is pure madness! Gotta juggle many projects and assignments. A good thing that happened is that I take pride in actually feeling responsible to start my work and do it. It's probably about time I took things seriously (after a couple of years!). Just can't afford to waste any more time studyin undergrad.

My intentions never change

What I wanted stays the same

And I know what I should do

it's time to set myself on fire

Training has been great so far, apart from the fact that leg training is slower than ever. Bel told me that my legs were losing plenty of mass and that scares me. Need to up the training for mass. I think I've hit a plateau of strength gains. My strength has been stagnant and it needs to be pushed. Next week a cheat week and super heavy weights to stimulate hypertrophy? We'll see about it. The gym's my breather and I got plenty of it today with super intense training. Lately training has been intense I'm guessing thanks to the plenty of stress studies and workloads that has been thrown to me. Gonna include a daily meal log from next post onwards.

Of sweat and bones...

Since HST will not work for me (time and equipments constraint!), I have changed the program into one of my own. But understanding that there might be some essence of which the program I created might not be effective, I decided to scout around for another program. One that I might be able to adopt and adapt into. And I came across the Optimized Volume Training. Have started incorporating it into my training since last week. It's intense yet simple. No words can describe the excitement...

Check out the Optimized Volume Training here!

Attended a presentation of the Final Year Projects done by the Mechanical seniors last Tuesday. Attended the presentation and definitely caught a glimpse of what's in store for me next year! I'll be doing a project based on the heat generated from the drills in bone drilling. Taking it because I have experienced first hand bone drilling during the ACL repair two years back. I think it's really interesting though.

Been trying to clean the room again! There's so much shit lying around I'm at the point of giving up!

Updates:

- Waiting for Ms Mok's confirmation on the Kuching gig.

- Gig in K.K. on the 1st of March for Jacky Chin's Engagement.

- Most probably the big show at Marriott (end of the year) is cancelled.

- My body fat percentage so far = 22%

Halloween Party 2007

Checked out the Halloween party at Imperial Mall last week. It was a buffet dinner cum bodybuilding event. It was a great inspiration for me as well as a drooling session for Bel... Exams are coming up so I'm leaving this blog to breathe on its on for this moment. For those sitting for the upcoming finals, all the best! Will be back when I'm free enough. Meanwhile, adopting the Hypertrophy-Specific Training program in a few days time. Updates will be entered into my training journal...

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To-do list no. 1

Been uber busy with Wormwood Studios. Some stuff are going really well while the others are just screwing up. Nevertheless, learnt to accept these moments as part of the job. Nothing will ever go perfectly smooth but the key is to learn from mistakes and to persevere...

So the busy moments kinda prevent me from updating my blog but who cares? This is my personal journal and I just happen to be one of them lazybugs who can't be bothered to keep a written diary. I just love the fact that I can post it somewhere on a machine so I can read it over later and I don't really care if the people who happen to stumble upon this site of mine would give a damn about what I do or write...

To-do list:
- Get emceeing details for the Curtin Open Day (this Sunday).
- Work on Curtin Grand Ball 2007 deco and preparations.
- Study for Automatic Control mid term exam.
- Officially launch Wormwood Studios and the website.
- Workout four times a week at least.
- Clean the house. Every part of it.
- Re-arrange my room.
- Feed tarantulas.
- Wash cars.
- Take out the trash.


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Ash and aces...

Studies have started again and there will be a lot of catching up to do. Once again, gotta reschedule my workouts. I have been doing a lot of workout planning but have been skipping a lot of workouts and I owe it all to the busy schedule. I have a good feeling that I'll be able to start working out again by this week if all goes well. Sis came back for her holidays and she'll be here for a week. Gotta make it a point to spend some quality time with her. Its rare that she gets to come back and I have yet to formally introduce her to Bel anyway. Anyway, my parents will be going to Europe for a one month vacation after my sister goes back to studying and I'll have the entire house to myself! Definitely something to look forward to...

Just got back from shopping with Bel. I bought 480 sheet set of foolscap paper only to find that it does not fit my file. The paper has two pussies. The file has three dicks. No matter what position I try, they just... won't... fit... Now because I am a gentleman and Bel's granny is around... I can't swear out loud. FUCK.

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Met Ashley (Bel's niece) yesterday. She's a cute kid and Bel said she'd be scared of me. Not a chance in hell! She looked fearless and she had the most sarcastic laugh I've ever heard from a kid! Almost evil! She was playing a pretty laggy game on Bel's computer and her head was too small for the headphone so I had to place my hands on top of her head so the headphones could reach her ears. Aunt Angela found out I was a performing magician and kinda asked if I would like to perform for a combined nursery day. We're talking about toddlers here... Still giving it a thought...

Bel got us tickets to an upcoming concert. It aint no Woodstock but I'm not complaining. It kinda makes up for the Rainforest World Music Fest that I missed in mid-July. To tell you the truth, I'm actually looking forward to this concert. It's a violin & piano concert by two reknowned instrumentalist. Geoffrey Pratley happens to be a famous accompanist on the piano in Britain and Yap Ling is well known in the local music industry. I have this thing for classical music and instrumentals. It happened back in '96 when I was studying for my UPSR. Attended a study seminar and they said Baroque music was good for studying. I ended up stuck on the music instead of my studies. Got me hooked ever since...

Four Aces... What are the odds???

Moving back into blogspot...

The functions on blogspot has kinda differed compared to a year ago. There are quite a number of big improvements. Good ones. I've been jumping around to find the right place to setup my kinda permanent blog. From Friendster, to an uber personalized one, to Blogspot, Vox, and now back to Blogspot again. I think I stayed the longest on Vox. It was a great place but too many things kinda crowded the whole blog I guess. It was more like a community there. People were great and I had a fair share of stories posted there as well. Anyway, most of my peeps used Blogspot and it was much easier for comments from the masses as well. Maybe that's the main reason I'm moving back here...

Anyway, been studying for a supplementary exam that's gonna happen 13 hours from now. Fatigue hits the brain from all angles and directions. Resitting for an exam is the last thing I need right now and yet I long for a vacation in my holiday. Booked for a performance in Labuan on Saturday. I have yet to brush up on magic and my performance. I'm really positive that I'll eventually manage to retrain my brain to performance mode. The pressure to perform provides me with a calming effect. It's kinda like orgasm. The nervousness before a performance wells up and when its actually time to perform, everything suddenly calms down and I just wish the whole day never ends. Euphoric...

Exhausted from squeezing the juices of the grey matter, I shall update once I return from Labuan...

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