Mailbox

Wow..just went from 400+ e-mails in my inbox to 14. Did some sorting and mapping

I just love Mail in OS X :0)

Neighbors...

...some of them can be really nice while some of them can be SO frustrating. Our neighbor just above us plays music almost constantly and the bass is terribly loud! I've knocked on his door a few times asking him to turn it down, as has my wife. First he agreed to no music after 10 p.m.

Fine, everything's well..so we thought.

He starts playing loudly during the day instead (which is a lot better than playing at 3 a.m. but still) so e.g. on Sundays you can hear his beats all day long if you wish..

I got tired of it today and went up to speak to him. Well, he was as kind and nice as he always is, and was very happy that I came to tell him it was too loud. He said no-one had lived beneath him for about 8 years so he'd grown accustomed to playing loud music and not really taking his neighbors into consideration (No-one else complains... funny...).

Anyway, he promised to lower the volume during the day as well.

As if!!

It's 1 a.m. and he's still at it! Yes, it's a bit less loud than previously, to his credit, but you really shouldn't play music in the middle of the night so your neighbors can here it.

So, the question remains, what am I doing up blogging? Well..keeping my wife company. She's working late with an important assignment.

Goodnight :0)

Weekends

It's strange what you do during weekends, really.

I'd imagine the ideal weekend to include resting, some outdoor activities (e.g. roller blading, bicycling, running, lying on the beach, volleyball etc.), cooking good food, reading a nice book and generally taking it easy. But what do you do..not that anyway (at least not to the extent you'd want, or with the mindset you'd like to have).

I'm reading a good book at the moment, called "A Passionate Life", which really summarizes what weekends (and other resting periods) should be like, or maybe why they are important and what attitude we should have regarding them. It says that you shouldn't really rest from work...it's all about working from rest. Which makes a lot of sense actually. And THAT'S what weekends should be all about, because I believe it's only by following that principle that we can really be productive in other areas of our lives in the long run. Be it then at work, at home, at soccer practice or in our studies. God's so smart!

But what do we do? We search for master's thesis subjects all weekend, or we work for an upcoming deadline, or we bring our job home since we didn't have time to finish it last week at work (where we're paid to do it).

I pray we get more time this summer to do nice things during the weekends.

We actually did go for some roller blading today :)

The first day

My first day of my sportier life began with a 15 minute jogging trip. I jogged extremely slowly, since I don't want to be totally beat up tomorrow.

I got 95 points out of 100 in a Corporate Finance exam in school. Weewh! :0)

Start practicing

Now that I have the time (school's out for the summer) I'd like to start doing some sports again. I've been thinking about volleyball once a week with some people I know, and then I've been thinking about taking up the weight lifting again. I've set an "ambitious" goal of gaining 5 kilos at the end of the summer (only to cheat on my eating during the fall for a couple of weeks and lose them again!).

NO, that's NOT going to happen. this time I'm going to plan it well. I've set up a training schedule that's not that heavy in the beginning, just to get the routine in, and then after about four weeks I'll start making it gradually heavier.

This is my practice journal.

Overheard at the Beach

Boy: Dad, who's more intelligent? The father or the son?
Dad: The father, of course.
Boy: Who invented the telescope?
Dad: Galileo Galilei.
Boy: Why didn't his father?

--Boracay, Philippines

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