On my bus ride home yesterday, i started to think and reflected on the day itself. I think at this point of time, my (probably) greatest priiority is to stay healthy and fit. It is by far what affects me the most.
Yesterday was a 'bad' day. Just to give some background, I overstretched myself on Sunday. I have underestimated Singapore or to be more specific, Orchard Road. I was out on Sunday since morning and i only got home at about 10pm. The whole day was filled up with different things. Church in the morning, lunch with Matt, Sue, and Sherlyn which followed up by some shopping. Knowing my own limit and bearing in mind my full schedule all the way till the night, I took the shopping easy and purposely went to Borders to sit down and charged myself. I needed that. It was already a lot of walking to start with.
I sat there in Borders until about time to go take a bus to my colleagues house. To my dismay, i could not seem to figure out Orchard Road. It is so confusing and I don't like it. All the underpass, one-way street, no-crossing here and all, i managed to get myself walking in circles for like a good 1 hour just to find the right bus stop!!!!!! Can you believe it? It was a fuming hot afternoon somemore.. oh man. I think this was where i over exhausted my walking quota. And inevitably, that means a 'bad' day to follow.
I have not had a 'bad' day in a while. I usually pace myself quite well. Thanks to Orchard Road and the bad system. I got so tired after that ok. And so, yesterday was 'bad'. Lack of sleep (cannot sleep tight due to the whole madness during the day), and painful hip. Usually a painful hip is already enough to turn my day upside down. To top it off, everything at work doesn't work. The internet was down, i had no access to my class, something went wrong with the computatinal algorithm in the online tool we use, students were complaining and restless.and ... painful hip.
I was so glad the day was ending and i could go home and rest and do nothing. I think at that point of time, nothing would excite me or get my interest. All my mind could think of it to get home and rest. I couldn't care less if the sky was falling down. I was focussed!! Talking about having a set mind and focussing on our goal... I think no one could beat me then. (Just to add on, I actually bought a new ipod on sunday but i went to bed straight after my shower, leaving that baby in the package. That again showed that my health is more important than the new toy.. hehe)
I think this really showed me and made me realised my own priority. I did not intentionally make myself set my health as priority (i did to a certain extent but not this), and that sort of came out so evidently through what happened yesterday. Without my health and fitness, i am found incapacitated. I can;t handle what come my way properly and in the way i normally would. I felt sooo handicapped and just can't focus my mind. Health is important to me. And it is very important to me.
How am i doing today? Much better. Thanks. I got my rest yesterday and the fact that today got no class further helped!! Haha.
And the Ipod is charging!! it is black in colour. 30G. it's a beau...
Posted by melanie at June 27, 2006 1:29 PM