the turning

Inspired by the 29-day fitness challenge, I finally convinced myself to go back to the gym after a month of falling out. I tried the elliptical two days ago and it wasn't bad, I just hope I can make it a habit.

Random conversation at elevator:

Guy with dog: So, working on New Year's resolution, trying to keep fit and healthy?
Me: Yeah, let's see how long it lasts
GWD: Well good luck, have fun

The fitness room was crowded when I got there; bike, treadmill and free weights area were all occupied, good thing nobody was using the elliptical so I didn't have an excuse to procrastinate. It's either the dduk-gook I had last night or I'm just tired but I felt it was harder to complete 30 minutes this time around compared to two days ago, I felt so heavy. Anyway, I'm hoping it will get easier everyday, I should catch up on my Physio exercises, my back is acting up, talk about aging =) blame it on the cold weather, that's what they always say, right? ^^

I read somewhere that Twitter changed its question from "what are you doing?" to "what's happening?" to encourage more posts about what's up with the world. So in an effort to make my personal online diary a bit more timely, I'm going to add the local news section at the bottom of each post. Should be fun especially when I'm traveling, that would urge me to watch the news and know what's actually going on in the city I'm in.

Today I have nine articles to write and the words are stuck. so I decided to just clean my fridge and finish the solitary tub of ice cream in my freezer, then I popped some corn and watched as the kernels jumped in excitement (first time I tried making popcorn from stove, wow! look at em go pop! pop! pop!). Finally, after being bloated and canceling out my entire workout, I settled back to finish my task. I now have a rekindled respect for writers, I realized that programming is actually way easier than writing, except when you're debugging someone else's code, but then that's like proofreading and copy editing too, such a pain.

So I went on to TED, to find some inspirational talks on how to create nothing out of something. I hope it's not necessary to have temporal lobe seizures before I can be creative. I found this Chinese proverb from Amy Tan's talk on creativity really interesting: Saving a fish from drowning, but in the process the fish dies.. Get yourself in somebody else's business and you'll be stuck.. As I was listening to the Global National's 2009: In Review (and I'm also listening to another TED talk at the same time; Steve Jobs' "how to live before you die", it says find something you love and do it, and live each day as if it were your last because one day you might be right), I browsed through an article saying "Unfriend" became Oxford's word of the year for 2009, hmm *light bulb*, it just showed how social media websites became a big hit last year. I wonder what will strike out in 2010.  

Wow! Imagine, that's actually 500 words I've typed in so far, now if only I used that for my article I would have finished 1/9. Oh well, time to start punching the keys... Right brain, work now!

P.S. I like this feature on Everyday Heroes, I first heard of Justin Hines from a tv commercial song two years ago, I got his whole album but I didn't know he had Larsen Syndrome. Ben Verboom's Cycle to Help is also very encouraging, that reminded me to finish my inner healing essay so I could one day lead an IH ministry as well, oh yeah but more words to string... There is one common theme here, it's about people who didn't let whatever bad things that happened in their lives, may it be a disability or a sad experience, to bring them down. Instead they've used it as a challenge to continue doing what they are passionate about and help other people in the same situation. That should be enough inspiration to start writing..

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local news:
- memorial for four Canadian soldiers and one journalist whot got killed from roadside bombing in Afghanistan.
- fire at Vancouver Island
- new laws banning texting while driving and smoking inside a vehicle when a child is present

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reflecting on: Luke 15:7

I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.

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listening to: "Entertaining Angels" by Newsboys