thoughts escaping my mind
It’s here!
My order of Tom Bihn’s Small Cafe and vertical Soft Cell for my new second hand macbook. And it comes with a free sticker too!
Because my sister shipped it for me, I only had to pay US$8 for shipping. She sent it to me after repacking it out of the box into a envelope for US$14.65.
If I had opted for the huge shipping box that Tom Bihn would’ve sent it in, it would’ve cost me anywhere between US$45 and $55. So I owe my sister a treat.
So I over estimated the number of ribs my guests would eat, which means now, I have photos of the ribs that were featured at my most recent barbecue. This time however, they will be finished in the oven.
Along with the ribs, I made a tomato salad and pumpkin, all ingredients that I used for my barbecue to complete dinner this evening.
I remembered last night, as I was heading to bed, that I had some cream left from my adventures in pumpkin soup.
Yes, after much eating the past week and basically abandoning my second attempt of Week 6 of the Hundred Push Ups programme, I could not stop thinking about food.
Besides the cream, I had tomatoes and parsley left over from my Christmas Eve barbecue with a menu of:
Sorry, I have no photos of the barbecue, but I do have photos of the baked egg.
This post covers two of my meals. This evening’s and last’s.
Both, were designed after deciding on the soup we’d have.
Continue reading “Pumpkin Soup, Tomato Soup, Smoked Beef Sandwich”
Okay, so it looks like I’m starting Week 6 of the Hundred Push Ups programme has started at the end of the week rather than mid-week. Two full days of meetings from morning to night meant I was too exhausted to even think about being healthy and taking care of myself.
Repeating Weeks 4 & 5 means that this programme has already taken me 7 Weeks. But that’s okay. The point of this is to set out to get a bit more fit without giving up, even if it takes slightly longer to get there.
In Week 4, I repeated the same column and progressed to Week 5.
But when I repeated Week 5, I made it a little harder by moving to the second column which technically I wasn’t ready for when I attempted Week 5 the first time. The second column was a struggle at sections, but I managed to do about 10 more push ups at the end of Week 5’s exhaustion test.
Although I barely made it to the second column of Week 6. The second column required 51 – 60 push ups and I slipped in there with 51.
So here we go again, into uncharted territory…
The following photos appeared on The Straits Times Thursday 13th November 2008.
The photos from Reuters accompany two articles from Associated Press (AP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP), titled “First Step for Sichuan – jobs” and “Rebuilding a town brick by painful brick”, that took a whole page.
Continue reading “Sichuan Earthquake – Picking up the pieces”
My exhaustion test at the end of Week 5 was not good enough. I needed 45 to get me into Week 6, but I only managed 40.
The instructions say I need to repeat the week. But I think I will make it difficult for myself. Instead of just repeating same column in the week, I’m going to move to the middle column this time. By right I should be fitter.
So let’s see how it goes.