6th of December

This week was pretty amazing, both in a good and bad way. Earlier at the start, I returned to camp only to find that the bunk was flooded with toilet water (yes, smelly toilet water). Apparently what happened was that the piping on the same floor burst and the water flowed all the way to our bunk, flooding it. Many of our stuffs were soaked and smelt horrible, but luckily my stuff wasn't wet because I secured everything inside my locker.

By afternoon, all the water was pumped out by the contractors and we cleaned out the bunk so it is much cleaner and smelt better than before.

Headed to the gym today because I felt like I had to train and put in effort into bringing out the fitness side of me :D Took a super long train ride to Khatib and walked all the way to the stadium. I met with some of my platoon mates and we started using the equipment to carry out our workout regime. We spent around 2 hours in the gym, before heading to the main Khatib town to have lunch.

Today's workout was good as I felt that I put in my 100% effort into the regime, and I even added a few more extra sets of exercises. I've never added extra sets into the regime, so I felt really good after the entire workout as I know I beat my personal best record.

6 more days to my Taiwan trip, I can't wait for the day to arrive. Right now I've got 2 days of leave on the 8th and the 9th, and one last overnight shift on the 10th before a good 8 days overseas :)

Alright, time to sleep soon. I got to wake up early and head to camp at the ungodly hour :\

3rd of December

Some stupid noise somewhere in the neighborhood kept me awake almost all night, leaving me less than 2 hours of proper uninterrupted sleep. I think I probably fell asleep because my body is just too tired, probably the point where it simply just shut off by itself.

Woke up and headed to camp anyway, and buses took a long time to reach the bus stop which I was at. So I waited like a complete idiot for almost 30 minutes for 1 bus to come, and the morning traffic didn't help much either, probably one of my most unlucky mornings by far. With the new upcoming downtown line, hopefully I won't come across these unlucky mornings ever again.

My stiff neck still is a huge problem because it is not completely healed yet, in fact I felt the same as yesterday, the restricted feeling and not forgetting the massive pain when ever I look upwards. Sprayed some muscle relief but it didn't help much, and I even went for gym training in the afternoon as my commander wanted to train and was looking for some gym partners at the same time. Worked my ass off for the next hour, lifting my standard training set of weights and doing them in sets. Didn't managed to do the bench press as it was packed with people queuing up for it :\

Before leaving the recreation area, we found another commander sitting down and having a plate of mee goreng. I borrowed 2.5 bucks and got myself some salty fantastic fries and ate them while walking back to the base.

My online Korean course has finally arrived, and I wasted no time in completing the first 2 lessons with a lot of motivation and a huge smile on my face. I am one step closer in achieving one of my dreams - to master another language, and in this case this is my favorite language. Looks like I will have a lot more to do when I get back home from my next overnight shift, a day of motivated learning and fun! :)

Alright time for bed, another overnight shift to conquer tomorrow:)

2nd of December

Creating this post with a ultimate stiff neck that I just got about an hour ago while running. I know right? How the hell do one even get a stiff neck while running, like if gotten one while doing other stuffs is completely understandable, but while running? WTH man.

Anyway I managed to make full use of my day today, went out with my mum in the afternoon to get some winter heat-tech cloths because in my upcoming vacation to Taiwan, I will heading up the mountains for at least 2 days and it will be super cold up there. We firstly headed to People's Park Center and looked for some jackets and gloves because mum wanted to look for other winter equipment. After that we relocated to Lucky Chinatown and went into the Uniqlo shop. Found the heat-tech cloths, but I was unsure whether to get the grey small or black medium. 

The decision was made pretty quickly as the staff told us that there was no grey small so I just got the medium black. After buying all the equipment that we needed, I got myself a McDonald's meal because I was craving for it all day, a nice big Mac meal. Ate everything down before boarding the bus and heading home.

I was supposed to do some math today but I just ended up listening to music since dinner before heading out to exercise.

Today is the 2nd day of exercise after not exercising for 4 days since the Saturday gym session, did 100 push ups, ran a fast paced 2.4 km but only managing to crank out 25 sit ups before I yelping out in pain because of my ultra stiff neck that I got while running :\

Sigh, hopefully tomorrow my neck will be better as it is a training day in camp. Alright, I will be heading to bed soon, will create another post tomorrow! :)