My Random Daily Life

Disaster. Complete disaster. Could not meet own calorie intake target of 1200 kcal per day. But then again, the goal is deemed unattainable when there is social event involved in life. Probably should not be too hard on self.

Meal eaten during the day:-

- 1 bag of Korean almond waffle (Singlong brand)

- 1 bowl of apple and pear pork ribs soup and 3/4 bowl of pumpkin rice (quite proud of my resistance toward initial choice of salted egg yolk-related dish)

- 1 glass of sour plum drink (free treat from Lonn-chan which kinda led to ultimate failure to keep calories at 1200)

- 1 piece of Rum & Raisin Meiji chocolate (need better healthier snack)

- 1 piece of banana chocolate rice crispy snack (seriously need better healthier snack)

- 1 bowl of spicy grilled chicken with black rice (can't help it, sleep in starvation on a TGIF night seems cruel, even to self)

- Few pieces of Fritos (cause Omo Omo Don is quite stingy with the chicken, I ended up eating my rice with uhh, chips)

But then again, not sure if social event can be entirely accused as the cause of gulping the whole bowl of spicy grilled chicken black rice from Omo Omo Don (which took me like ages to wait because this restaurant at Star Vista is apparently so popular as hang out venue on Friday night).

Human tend to look for the mighty, the powerful, the wise whenever they are faced with a challenge. It is so easy to think that we can't do it when we feel we don't have enough capability to handle the challenge. But, that's not what God thinks. There are 4 stories in the Bible where God use what the world considers weak, foolish and even useless to do extraordinary things. 

(1) Moses' rod

Moses performed a lot of miracles (including splitting the Red Sea for the Israelites to cross) with a simple rod. And with the same rod, he confounded the might of Pharaoh.

(2) The little boy's five loaves and two fish

With this little boy's humble lunch, Jesus fed 5,000 men (plus women and children which number is not even counted), and his disciples gathered 12 baskets full of leftovers. This is one heck of a buffet. 

(3) The jawbone of an ass

Samson slew a thousand Philistines, who were the enemies of God's people with a mere jawbone. The movie 300 does not seem so extraordinary anymore compared to God's works in Samson. 

(4) Five stones and a sling

David, the shepherd boy, brought down Goliath with five stones and a sling. Mind you, Goliath is a giant and the mightiest Philistine champion during those days. 

"But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty."

~ 1 Corinthians 1:27

I decided to write this post after I heard the same comment again and again from my married friends. Oh right, for your information, I am still single so yeah, this sound like an advice from the married friends. Both of them saying that I should do whatever I want (including chasing my dream) right now before I get married. I don't know why but I can't help but feeling something is not really right about this. But, I guess the reasons of why these lovely married people decide to give up or postpone chasing their dream are not really different from my reason as a single person:

1. Monetary constraint

There are simply more important things to pay in our life at the moment. Mortgage is the biggest killer I suppose. And while my friend really wants to pursue her passion in theatre, from her hubby's point of view, he may feel very insecure if his wife pursuing this passion (which of course, comes with money spent, ka-ching) instead of earning extra money. The hubby hasn't asked her to share the burden of the mortgage yet, so I guess he's just trying to a safety net for both of them (in case he's being let off, etc). Sad, but money is kinda a bitch here. 

2. Time constraint

If our dream must be learnt not by doing 9 - 6 job, that means we have to allocate extra time to learn it. But what if we have children to take care of once we reach our home everyday? This will cut your me-time considerably and hence, pose a time constraint for you to learn the necessary skill to chase your dream. 

3. Energy constraint

You simply don't feel that you have enough strength to do what you dream about maybe 10 years ago. This may be applicable when your dream involves some physical activity like fitness instructor. 

Despite the constraints, I don't think dreams should say stagnant nor that they will die down easily. But, I guess it will be hard to keep the passion hot if the person who stay beside you all the time (i.e. your life partner) discourage you every time you talk about it. Maybe I should really do what I want to do now while I don't really have any constraint or find someone who will support my dream, no matter how silly they may sound. =P

Good morning! I know that soon it will be noon but now it's still 11AM so I can still say good morning. So, what have you done so far? I will enjoy the rest of these few hours (at least until church volunteering time) to replenish my energy which is totally drained yesterday.

1. Blame in on the personality

I guess this is where extrovert-introvert character plays out. Some people may have a different tolerance level toward socialising and networking. For instance those who have more extrovert genes in their trait would relatively last longer socialising because they don't get drained from talking to people. In fact, some of them even got energised talking to different people. Whereby, those who lean toward the introvert characteristic would behave the other way around as they tend to get energised from spending time along with their thoughts and interests.

2. Different level of experience

Socialising is after all, a skill for survival. If you are born in a family which is not very social (e.g. not very interested to come to neighbour's kids birthday party or big family social gathering), you will be more likely to have a lower level of experience in socialising.  This experience does not have to cater to a socialising in general. The people who you will socialise with matters too. For example, someone may have no problem hanging out with their close buddies but get fatigues really quickly at a hectic office party as they are not as used to the latter.

3. Anxiety in social situations

Being nervous is physically and mentally draining too just by itself. People who force themselves to be in situations where their anxiety appears, will obviously get pretty much drained after the whole affair. It's like being forced out of your comfort zone. I don't mean that it's bad literally. I mean we are human which is social creature, by nature, so it's good to face our fear once in a while, I guess? I would probably do this to myself once every quarter. 4x a year is more than enough for my tolerance level. XD