Debuting my "Beast" cover on Mont Owl's Head

Spartan Race at Mont Owl's Head was much easier for me this year because it was not the Beast.  I already climbed it twice last year,  super than beast.  I knew how steep it was so no surprises for me!

The obstacles were enjoyable and I now know how to complete most of them without killing myself in the process.

Armed with all that prior knowledge,  I was able to be extra silly during my run this year.   I played songs I found funny very occasionally.   For example,  during one of my climb,  I saw a dandelion in full bloom which prompted me to pick it up and put on my parody of the song "Belle".  (I posted my parody song, "Beast", before.)  As the song came on I blew the dandelion like Belle in the movie Beauty and the Beast.  I proceeded to dance to the music as I climbed up the steep hill. 

The person running in front of me did not dare to look back.  He was probably wondering what was going on.   My lyrics included phrases like "move it, beast!", "hairy beast", etc.

Anyhow that's just a small glimpse of my long run.  5 hours at least in total between the sprint and super.

I hope people that ran at around the same time as me found me fun and not annoying.  Lol.

My entire leg got stuck in mud this year.   Luckily I was able to pull it out together with my shoe lol.

Siri Translate Dinner

Somebody: Siri Translate Dinner
Siri:  In what Language?
Somebody:  English
Siri:  Dinner.

Did somebody ask to eat Dinner with me during Spartan? Yes, my spectator/model who failed to wear the spectator pass I made for such person.

I digress.

Dinner is a meal to be eaten in the evening.  That's the simplest translation in English for me.  Dinner screams date for some people.

Siri, how to properly ask someone on a date while using the word dinner?

Siri: (what do you think?)

Siri, did you hear me?

Hellllloooo.....?????

Siri: "Do you want to have dinner with me?", "Wanna grab dinner with me?", "Let's go eat dinner with me.", "Dinner?", "Dinner.", "Dinner?!, Now???"

...

During dinner with Siri.

Siri: So, who asked that question.

Nobody.

Back

I'm back.   There's always I in my own team because I can't be on my own team if I am not in it.

Spartan Race Day Information

My advice after a just a little over a handful of Spartan Race

1.  Tie your shoes properly, make sure your time chip is securely tied to your shoes.
2.  Don't wear socks, seriously.
3.  Tie an unopened water bottle to your neck with a bandanna.  You can get a box of 24 for $1.88 CDN (on sale).  Drink the cup of water at the water points.  Only open the water bottle when necessary. (I had half a bottle of water left at the end of Spartan Beast last year).
4.  Walk as lightly as possible on mud.
5.  Make sure you don't lose your shoe with the time chip.  My shoe with time chip got stuck in mud last year and I had to pull it out.

Last but not least, don't run up the hill at the beginning especially when you can see that it is very steep.  Last year, a group sprinted off and I caught up to them (halfway up the hill) just walking soothingly.  I don't know what happened after I passed them.  

Everyone will be excited at the starting line.  There WILL always be at least one guy going "WOOO, YEAH" while jumping around like he is at a daytime rave or something.  Don't let that guy fool you, especially if he is your teammate, he may actually be the weakest link.  For all you know, he could be the mascot of the group!

Good luck!

No Posting Today

Dear my non-existing readers:

I am off to my first Spartan Race in Canada.  As I am a Spartan 2017 Canada Open Season Pass Holder, I am entitled to one Free Spectator Pass.  I am not sure if my spectator will be spectating but I made her a Spectator Pass.  I am not sure how the free spectator pass thing work yet but I am pretty sure I cannot get it online.

If you see a lady walking around with something like this. That's my mom :D!  Remember to say "Hi"!

P.S. There may be no posting this weekend.  Sorry, no live streaming.

My favourite ON provincial park

My favourite provincial park in Ontario is Killbear but this blog post is about my last camping trip in Killarney.

Whenever I take time off work to travel out of the city, I try to make the most of it.  I wake up early and sleep later than usual.   No sleeping in on my days off!

As my friends and other campers were still sleeping,  I began my hike of the day.   To make it more enjoyable,  I pretended that I was a merchant traveling back from a fruitful transaction (which means I have finished my delivery).  During my hike, I wiped myself with morning dews from leaves,  I picked myself natural walking canes from the ground,  I washed mud off my feet whenever I came across a body of water (I even saw lily pads, I think), I saw a cub and some other baby animals from really far distances.   I was fully packed,  I was ready for rain and I had food.  I also saw runners and group canoe voyageurs on my way.   Anyhow,  I completed my hike mid-afternoon and just went swimming near our campsite.

I also went hiking at night in the shortest route without a flashlight on my first night  which made the morning warm up drastically easier.

I didn't have a bike or a car so I walked everywhere.  I was a traveling non-selling non-soliciting merchant for a few days there last summer.  Let me know if you saw me!

While Killarney was fun,  I found Killbear more breathtaking but the last time I went to Killbear might have been a decade ago.

Anyhow,  to have an enjoyable stay at the provincial park ask the staff for information during registration/check-ins.  I asked about different hiking routes.  There are a lot of scheduled activities in the park as well so that's also an option.   Read the park's information guide which can be mistakenly identified as a park's newspaper and mark up the maps on it to your heart's desire (I lost my map during my hike, luckily I had another copy).  Otherwise just explore the park and use common sense (ie. if you don't know how to swim,  don't swim alone or to the deep end - swim at the designated beaches not motor boat areas).

Anyways,  I hope you have an enjoyable stay at whenever you are going this summer. 

My favourite game console

My favourite game console is Playstation because it's the one I'm most familiar with.   My top 3 games genres are probably, listed in order of preference,  platform, RPG and car games.   Just to be clear, top 3 favourite (aka fun to me) not top 3 good at.

A lot of Playstation One games are still a lot of fun.   Sometimes, I miss the game like graphics in the newer games.   I love the pretty graphics and all but some games are more fun and engaging with game like graphics, think Final Fantasy Tactics, Metal Slug, Bubble Dragon (?).

I used to think Playstation two had the most amazing graphics with Final Fantasy X and all but when I replayed FFX on the Playstation Three I realized the graphics cannot compare to the PS3 games.  Fatal Frame II was the greatest horror game I have ever experienced.   The character moved extremely slowly and it's hard to come across a point to save your progress and the music was so horrific.  I had to take a break from this game every 30 minutes because I was too scared or frustrated.  It's not nice to be lost in a haunted house or forest or village or whatever for 30 minutes and still not find a save point or be murdered by a ghost.   To make it worse,  I was playing alone in the basement.  In short,  my favourite PS2 game was Fatal Frame 2 - The Crimson Butterfly.

Playstation Three.  It's great.  I have a lot of unfinished games that's why I stopped buying.  I enjoy collecting trophies though but it's too hard.  I now play the dancing games on the PS3 by watching other people's Youtube playthrough.   My cell phone is a substitute of the playstation eye only when I feel like taping myself.  I'm pretty sure I'll get lots of dancing PS trophies if I have the PS move stuff to actually play the dancing game for real.

Anyhow, the photo montage is my PS3 dance set up.  Pretty awesome!

My favourite purchase of 2016

For the price of just shy of $150 CDN (taxes included), I netted myself two pair of shoes,  a bag to hold such shoes, a doggy toy, a bandana and a mini lesson on how to wear these shoes.

I wonder what I can get this year for exactly $150.00.  After all it is the 150th anniversary of you know what.  

If you have been following my blog, you would know that I'm injured.  My doctor told me to wear heels.  I hate heels but my feet does feel better when I wear heels.  I also like wearing flip flops but my most comfortable flip flop with heels is too loose so I pair my training five finger vibram with my flip flop with heels.  It's great!   It's correcting my stand and walking; on top of that,  great cushioning from my training five figure vibram.  I have illustrated this in my montage of photos.

The non-training one, which is the purple pair in my photo montage, it's my studio gym shoes for high intense cardio classes.  They are very helpful with gripping the ground and preventing my feet from becoming more coarse. 

Best of all, no socks!

The shoes are machine washable,  put them in the bag for extra protection.   You can roll up the shoes too.

The doggy toy, the green item, was destroyed a little by puppies with sharp teeth.   I use it to massage my back.

The yellow bandana, it's too beautiful,  I don't want to ruin it or worse,  lose it!  I love the product bag too!  It shows me how to wear the bandana in all sort of ways.

The Manitobah Mukluks was not part of any of my purchases in 2017 but are two of my favourite boots (in other words, not part of this purchase whatsoever).  I showed both pairs in this photo montage because one pair has vibram and the other does not.  They are the same size.  My dog took a bite out of the tan one,  luckily its not noticeable unless if you are the wearer, me.  I can actually fit the pink five finger vibram into my tan Manitobah Mukluks with the "original" sole.  I haven't tried shoveling snow on ice with the five finger vibram inside this past winter but am planning to try it next winter!  #mocmonday

The lady who helped me, let's call her my fairy god mother,  magically chose one of my favourite colour combination.  She then showed me how to use the shoes.  When I finally managed to get them on,  the fit was perfect and they felt super comfortable.  Nice and tug.  Although I was sitting at the booth of the fitness convention, I felt like Cinderella.  It's been a long time since someone spent the time to show me how to properly use a pair of shoes. 

If you are thinking about buying a pair of vibram five fingers, I would recommend buying the training one, which is the pink one, and the fully loaded one, which is the purple one, at the same time.   The training one is significantly easier to put on and you are suppose to wear them all the time.

Anyhow, her partner threw in the extras when I made the purchase!

Happy Victoria Day!  Not a mundane monday post.

Curry Balls

You can throw them but must catch with mouth!  Mouth watering good.  No grounding!

Fireworks 101

It is Victoria Day long weekend.  V for Victoria on Monday.   In Canada, there are only a few days where we can light fireworks freely, easily and openly.

If you are cheap like me,  just go to the official ones because the fireworks at the official celebrations will be way more spectacular than the ones you can buy or get your hands on.

If you just want to play and light some fireworks, sparklings are a great choice!    Lastly, please remember to shoot away from trees.  Find an open area.

Anyways, happy long weekend.   Great weather so far!

This concludes our 101 series.  Sunday is the beginning of a new week.

Leisure Cycling 101

When I was a child, I rode my bicycle at least once a week.  It's leisurely.  Once my friend and I saw our classmate during our leisurely bike ride, being distracted,  my friend rode into some bushes and my classmate got horned by a car.  There were four of us.  My friend and I rode on the pedestrian path while our classmate rode on the road.  There wasn't designated bike lanes in our areas back then.   It was really funny.

Leisure bike rides simply mean you are riding to relax.  There's no time limit or a certain speed you must travel at.  You just ride comfortably and at your own pace.  You could chat too.

I don't know when I stopped riding my bicycle but I did.  When I started riding again,  I wanted to ride with a purpose.  Anyhow,  I think I have better road sense and stamina but my biking skills are still crap. 

Currently, I ride alone but I like to think that I'm sorta tagging along with the cars,  trucks and whatnots that are passing me all the time.  As I ride alone,  I'm almost always alert unless I'm totally out of stamina (which is now very rare).  I'm alert because I don't want to injure someone.   My classmate got hit by a bicycle during her walk to elementary school and experienced back pain since than.

I want to ride with speed that's why I prefer riding on the road.  I might be a nuisance to drivers on the road but imagine riding on a bicycle route for the first time and seeing two toddlers walking around at the bottom of a hill of the bicycle path in a park area.  I have experienced that and immediately left that bicycle route and went back to the road.  It's really hard to have an enjoyable bike ride when you constantly have to watch out for others.  I'm sorry if you see me at the pedestrian paths sometimes,  I probably need a breather or am lost or something or maybe the road is too narrow for me.

I used to hate and am fearful of riding on the roads but I'm starting to enjoy it now.  (It's actually nicer to ride on the pedestrian path,  there's less friction, the surface is smoother).

One piece of advice,  don't ride on the road if you are just learning how to bike ride.

Learning to Read 101

Practice,  time and patience are all you need to learn to read.   Listening and being open to other people's advice on how they read may be helpful.

There are many types of reading: fiction, non-fiction, music and more.

I'm currently reading about Debussy, the book itself is only 64 pages yet I may never be able to comprehend the whole book or even finish it.  It's not that I don't want to.   It's hard.  

Currently,  I'm stuck on Clair de Lune.   I never dreamt of being a grand pianist but here I am playing a grand piano.

Performing Arts School 101

It's nice to study at a performing arts school,  even for a day.   If you are lucky, your dancing lesson might become a percussion lesson instead.

Obviously,  registered members have more perks like live musician for the duration of the lesson.

All jokes aside, I studied modern dance as a child and every single class we had a live piano player who also drummed for us :).  It was great!   The dancing studio was gigantic with no pillars blocking the room whatsoever.  We spinned and jumped and glided diagonally,  horizontally and vertically to our hearts desire.

If you are choosing summer camps,  recreational activities and etc for your child, choose carefully!!!!!  You cannot turn back time!

Online Relationships 101

Relationships are not limited to only romantic ones; however,  this posting is about romantic relationships formed online.

As a teenage pimply, somewhat hairy and chubby girl,  I had a handful of online boyfriends.   They were all not within traveling distance and I never thought I would ever meet any of them.   I also watched a lot of educational and entertainment videos and movies about the danger of meeting strangers.   I was not brave enough like some other peers who would buy a plane ticket and fly all the way to meet the "online boy friend".  Anyhow,  in case you are wondering,  I am married to one of them now,  just kidding.   Never met them offline.

It's funny to be part of a generation where communication became seemingly easier and faster with technology.  Some people are glued to their techbology,  checking to see if their "significant other" read their message.     Sometimes,  I accidentally open a message, opening does not equate to reading,  hello!!!!!

Sad to say, I actually looked forward to online gaming with my online boyfriend a lot.   We chatted a lot while gaming together.   Eventually, we parted because he graduated and had more important things to attend to.   I left that game soon after too, because school got significantly harder and the commute was also much longer.   No time,  no one to play with, and eventually I thought,  what's the point of collecting things in a virtual world when I can collect things in the real world.

When I was almost done with school, I tried online dating.   I'm pretty good at getting first dates and disappearing after or vice versa.   First dates are usually fun and the guy throws out a lot of compliments.   You know something is wrong when he wants to dutch everything.  If the guy wants to pay, just let him.   Your time is precious.  Just because he paid don't expect he wants more time with you,  maybe he has a whole slew of dates lined up and has a lot of dough to throw around.

Anyhow,  I'm done with dating.   Too much reading and deciphering.  The technology is only helpful in terms of helping me find the location that's about it.

Good luck checking out people's profile. 

Status update: Skeptical

Resorting 101

Going to a resort should not feel like work, if it does then it better be your place of employment.

Listen to the staff there if you want to have a good time,  especially on arrival.   Case in point, I would not have been able to go on an excursion during my first out of country resort if I didn't listen to the marine staff.

After checking in at the reception/registration area, listening to a brief introduction of all the things we could be doing at the resort and checking out our modest room, my friend and I were exploring the resort and came across the marine section and the staff said they are about to take a bunch of guests on an excursion and we should come along because after today no more excursion as a storm is coming.   We just landed and we were like ok.  We went and it was great.

After that,  no more water excursion for the entire week and we were only there for a week.

Anyhow,  I went swimming very close to the resort instead.  No swimming sign posted and all.  No worries, marine staff watching me because no boats outing.

It was great floating in the water and simply feeling the waves.   My own private natural swimming pool, all for me looool.  Seriously, no one went swimming or canoeing at all.  A few days later I also went canoeing,  still no boat outing allowed but swimming was allowed now.

Anyways just a friendly reminder that the long weekend is coming.  Remember to not go to work unless you are paid time and a half was it?

Happy mother's day

The longer you know your mother,  the harder it is to get a gift for her on mother's day.

The most thoughtful gift might be unappreciated so be prepared!

Happy mother's day!

Lamest pick up lines

If no one asks you out ever,  your chances of being asked out will not increase or decrease as you grow older unless you change or you have some very experienced people trying to help you out.  If those experienced people get desperate on your behalf, you are beyond help.  Let's fate decide.

Anyhow,  the lamest pick up line in the past was "Excuse me, do you know what time is it? ".  I have been asked this question many times,  I never wear a watch.  Now that everyone,  almost everyone, has a cell phone,  I don't think people use it anymore.

Another lame pick up line and this is only a guess.   I forgot the line but it was a rainy day and I was on my way to catch my train home.   A nice person offered to share an umbrella with me,  unfortunately no conversation during the walk to the underground pathway.  The line was so lame that I don't even remember.   All I remembered was the awkward silence and my awkward thank you and departure.

I probably heard some other lame pick up lines before lol and was too oblivious to realize it was a pick up line.  You see, lame pick up lines don't work if the recipient is totally oblivious.  

Walking never gets old

I have tried a lot of at home workout DVDs. My a lot is actually very modest compared to a lot of other people.  To beat me, you will have to have NEVER tried any at home workout DVDs or any TV workout exercise programs.  Video Games inspired by such programs do not count.

My favourite one is a DVD put together by maybe a bunch of fitness instructors.  It's basically a promotion for seven different ways to workout.  The first video was the most boring, as usual.  The first video is usually instructions so people usually fall asleep.  This DVD was different.  The first video was about how to walk.  I basically watched people walk for 30 minutes.  The instructor and instructor's assistant showed you different ways to walk, pace and etc.  It was shot it all sort of locations too.  I've been practicing the many walking techniques (I can remember) occasionally ever since.  My living room was not big enough for me to walk around with them for that 30 minutes so I couldn't practice while they were instructing.  Walking was Day One of the Seven Days Workout.  If you would like more information about this DVD please comment below.  The other days were pretty awesome too.

I also bought shake weight from the dollar store for $3.00.  It came with a DVD too.  I watched that too.  It was funny.  I couldn't find the male version of shake weight at the dollar store, only female version was available like 2 or 3 years ago.  Maybe it's all sold out now because Ellen Degeneres kept giving them out for free.

Back to walking.  Walking can be very boring but if you look at the walkway carefully, it's actually a very very long runway.  You can be Heidi Klum, Tyra Banks, Janice Dickinson as your prance down the pedestrian path.  Just stride or glide however you like.  Summer is coming, let's get off those treadmills and start walking outside.

Window Dreamers

This photo is dedicated to all day dreamers.  Hopefully the paths to your dreams are becoming clearer.

Engineering is not for you, if...

Yesterday, I wrote about why I am not a game programmer.  Today I'll explain why I never considered engineering as well.

For starters, engines do not excites me.   I am not interested in engines especially non-working ones.

After that,  I have failed miserably when trying to install an external cd-rw drive into my desktop computer.  By the end of my failed attempt, my fingers were bloody and the wire was broken.

On top of that I was shaking during my motherboard (?) midterm in my high school comp eng class.  Thinking back I wonder if I lost some transistors when I try to put whatever together.   It was a hard test for me.  I don't know how I got a decent grade in that class.

From the above,  it's quite clear that I cannot construct and that's one component of engineering.

Anyhow,  the perks of being an engineer includes jumping into paint for no reason whatsoever,  a cool leather jacket and being a know it all.  Yes, an engineering student saw me reading something once,  something very interesting to me.   The student said to me,  "Why read about it when you can make it yourself?".  I had no response but the answer was quite simple,  I'm reading about it because I can't make it myself so I want to live vicariously through reading.  Sheesh, can't a girl enjoy her book.

If I was a game programmer

With so much technologies,  we have created a lot of man-made problems for man to solve.   There are a lot of solvable problems or existing problems that are already solved but if you and your network do not know at least one solution,  the problem remains unsolvable.

If I was a game programmer,  you will get to play a really ugly game and you will always lose because my programming skills are limited so I have to work with a very simple algorithm.   I actually did programmed a game in high school for class from scratch.  Originally,  I wanted to do the snake eating apple game but it was too hard to lengthen a rectangle and have it turn and stuff.  So, my snake grew from a small circle to a big circle.  You never survive in my game,  the circle always blew up in the end because the circle always hits something it doesn't want to or it just gets too big.   There was always only one ending.   The circle blowing up.  

Anyhow,  I did well in that programming class but knew that I was not good enough when I saw another person's work.  A complete fish tank.   I don't know how that person's game worked but it was a very colourful fishful lively fish tank with waterplants like seaweed.   At the very least it can be a nice screen saver to look at but at some point it's too glittery, flashy and sparkly for someone like me.  Seriously though,  it was very impressive.

Years later, I saw people playing a game similar to mine on YouTube, with the same ugly design only it was multiplayer with colour option at the beginning (aka you can choose the colour of your circle).  The players were really enjoying the ugly game.

Anyways,  have fun and be safe with your mobile devices on your commute to whatever.  A vehicle is clearly mobile.

Vehicle powered by fruits

We love cars that's why there's an automobile industry.   We have people making cars,  making parts for the cars, designing the cars,  designing parts for the cars.  We also have people lending and borrowing money to make and use the cars and parts.   After that we have people doing repairs and so forth and so on.   I can ramble on and on but it's Monday and I don't want to trouble you with too much reading.   Tuesday is when everyone writes too much.

Today's post was inspired by the back to the future triology.  I know, it's now back to (insert year here).  As a child I waited forever for back to the future 4.  My first back to the future was the second half of back to the future 2 so you can see how confused I was when I watched back to the future.   Keep in mind my English was extremely poor and my reading of subtitles was not that much better.  I couldn't enjoy the triology to its fullest extent until I was an adult.  I lost count how many times I watched it.

I digress, spoiler alert.  In Back to the Future III, Doc had a choo-choo train powered by a device that looked like a juice machine.   Basically you put food you discarded like a banana peel or orange peel and like magic it will generate power for the vehicle.  I've been running with my dog a lot and my dog eats a lot of discarded food.  Therefore, a vehicle powered by fruit juice and the likes had been invented like many many years ago.   Like dog sledding, cow plowing, horse carriage.

It's a matter of speed preference and the number of mammals you can reasonably control in a group.

Happy and safe driving!

Bucket List Starter 101

Yesterday, I briefly mentioned bucket list.  If I have a child, meaning I am childless,  this is how I would create a bucket list for such child.

1.  Tell child to find an empty bucket.

2.  Ensure child provide you with an empty approved bucket.

3.  Distract child.
Sidenote: step 4 may not happen immediately

4.  Child asks for something.   Tell child to write it on a piece of paper.

5.  Ensure the writing on the piece of paper is the same as what the child asked for and is legible.

6.  Ask child to fetch for the bucket.

7.  If child is able to find the bucket then fold paper up and throw into bucket and proceed to step 8.  If child is unable to find the bucket then praise the child on the writing and ask the child to place it into the bucket when such child is able to find it and come back to you with the bucket with the paper and proceed to step 8.  If your child came back with another bucket and you don't know what to do,  please re-read this step.

8.  Now tell child something along the line of this is the first thing you asked for since you brought me the bucket.   For everything you want that I can't get for you immediately,  please jot it down and put it into the bucket and at some point in the future I'll draw from the bucket.

9.  Answer any questions the child may have at this point.   Feel free to start a question bucket at this point.

10.  Some point in time,  you and your child draw from the bucket together and it's close to empty again because whatever was inside was already completed.  The two of you drew together for quite a while until you find that piece of paper with the hard to fulfill thing written down.  If both of you cannot find the bucket.   Perhaps the two of you have too many unknown lists.

There you go.  101 on how to start a bucket list.

Unfulfilled Childhood Dreams

There are plenty of unfulfilled childhood dreams for many people.   Some people write them down in a "bucket list". 

Some childhood dreams are still fullfillable later in life while some are not but there are always equivalents.  Equivalents may not be the same and that's why there will always be some childhood dreams because we are dreaming mammals.

As a child I've always wanted to visit TVB studio and as a bonus be the audience of Super Sunday live!  That's one of my unfulfilled childhood dream.   Obviously the experience would be different now that I'm an adult.

Childhood dreams may not continue to be adulthood dreams.  Just to be clear...

PDL

Tuesday is hard for me to post because I don't keep up with technology and when I do think of something of interest I might not remember when Tuesday comes around.

Hopefully I won't publish too many late technology tuesdays.

PDA stands for public display of affection.  For example,  kissing passionately or being all touchy and feely in public. Basically any display of affection that can make people want to vomit.   Obviously there are exceptions but this is not a blog post about PDA.

PDL. What does it stand for?  I'm hoping no one said it already.  No research conducted again.   Sorry no citation.   PDL is public declaration of love.   For example,  stating I love someone or something in a public space.  I just want to briefly and very generally write about social media or social networks and PDL.  Think rambling or tangent talk.

Love.  Not romantic love. Just love.

I hardly ever do PDL and I find it embarrassing when people PDL me.  I don't know if that makes me less loving but sometimes I feel like I have to unfriend everyone on Facebook because I'm bombarded with PDLs.   Sometimes I go aww other times I'm like you and you again.

Then there's opposite of PDL.  I guess social media platforms are useful if you have a big network and are a social butterfly.  For someone like me,  I just got dragged into it because of various reasons and now I don't know if I even want it.  Secretly, I think I'll like it better if I have zero friends on it and just post whatever and don't like anything.

In summary,  I like Tuesdays.  I love being random :).  Remember anything with lol is a joke to me.

Physical differences influence decision making

I have given up on many hobbies due to stupid reasons that my parents do not comprehend.

One thing that I gave up at a young age was dancing.   Why? Because the dancing unitard was too sexy and a little boy (same age as me) once tickled my armpit.  I never liked wearing no sleeves top.  On top of that puberty, Armpit hair,  the horror!

My mother, being the non-hairy woman that she is,  never had to worry about armpit hair.

I was a wise girl and saw what shaving did to some of my friends so I wax!  No laser surgery required after years of waxing plus old skin removal at the same time.

I'm living proof that waxing works.   I don't even have to wax often now and it doesn't hurt much...

Another disgust flashback from yours truly!

It's sorta funny to see extremely hairy man wax for the first time.   Thank you reality tv!

Training for nothing in particular

A while back, I wrote about my plan to complete as many Spartan Race courses as possible since then I've been training almost everyday.  Okee,  my training buddy, has been faithfully following my wing it routine everyday.   She adds to my wing-it-ness.

We missed rainy day training today because we already spent 3 hours training in foggy/misty condition (before the rain started).  I even practiced my downhill mud slide and claw across a narrow bridge!

Hopefully, I won't get lost during Spartan because I have read on another blog before that a bunch of partcipants couldn't finish a beast course because they lost track of the route.  The guy even woke up at like 4am in the morning to get to the event at like 6 am or something. It was his day, it was his event... but... he went off course and a whole bunch of people followed him.

I am planning to soothingly finished all the courses and enjoy the sceneries.   The man made obstacles are about the same every year so to be completely honest I'm really there to see the surrounding areas.  The man made obstacles are fun though :)

I think if everyone knew what they were doing,  there would be less of a line up at the obstacles.   If I was going at the right speed,  my body might be warmed up when it gets to the obstacle.   Usually I wait so long that when it is finally my turn to do the obstacle, I have to warm up my body again.  Sometimes, I end up clamping one of my legs after barely completeling an obstacle.

Sometimes,  strangers offer to help me and I gracefully accept other times I reject and politely tell them that I want to try it by myself.  I never offer help because my help will not be helpful at all.  I'm helping by simply moving or getting out of their way.  I also help by lecturing my traveling companion when such companion is being rude and saying unnecessary things.  I also have to apologize on their sorry behalf.  Luckily, I'm running alone again this year.

Anyways,  I digress.  I'm really looking forward to Spartan Race this year.  I don't know how many locations I'll actually travel to but I'm ready whenever!

I digress again.   Originally, I just wanted to write that life is pretty mundane.   A good movie is a small glimpse of a colourful life, highlighting "special" moments,  happy or sad.

I've always enjoy training,  drills and practice.  Only you can see your own improvements.  If you are training incorrectly, you will know eventually.

Sweating is a great way to detox.  Currently, I choose to sweat by running with Okee every morning.   If we run into you and we stink, sorry :p!

Hoping that you will cross the finish line with a big smile.   "You'll know at the finish line!"

Yes, I always finish with a big smile!