A Routine Life

During my first year of working, I always tell myself that no matter what happened, I should never stay back and work overtime till past 7pm. I wanted to set this guideline as early as possible in my career life, so that I would never become a workaholic. I want to work for a living, not the other way around.

However, it wasn’t easy to keep to that standard. I didn’t manage to go back on time most of time, but at least the OT wasn’t very often.

It’s a different case for this month though. Tasks keep on piling up, due date instantly keeps on being replaced with a new dateline for new tasks. I’ve been going back home quite late nowadays. From the 7pm time limit, it was pushed to 8pm, and then slowly pushed to 9pm.

The main issue of doing this is that it creates routine in your life. Before this, I would laugh off at the idea of leaving office at 9pm. But after repeatedly doing it, it started to become a norm in my life. 8pm doesn’t feel late to me anymore. In fact, it even felt like 8pm is too early to go back home. To be honest, I’m afraid with the way this is going. I don’t want to stayed back and work but I simply have no other choice if I were to meet the dateline.

I just hope that I’ll be able to quickly end this terrible life routine, before it gets even more serious.

 

18th (ACKU) and 19th Run (Standard Chartered)

18th Run (ACKU Charity Run 2016) July 31st 2016

Been looking forward for this run because it’s the first for this year. My target was to tried to finish the whole thing within an hour mark and I gave it everything I have but 8 months of not running did play some role in this. I ‘pancit’ several times for the last 4km and the next day after the run, i have powerful muscle pain on my legs. Hello Mr Pain, long time no feel.

19th Run (Standard Chartered Run 2016) August 7th 2016

My 4th run with my bestie. There’s another 1 more with her next week but she will be taking 5km while I’m going for 10km instead. First run that we will run separately. The route is pretty well planned, enjoyed passing by local landmark around KL. Especially love it when passed by the iconic KLCC, to see it in daylight glory.

When I first received the medal, I was a bit surprised with the size of the medal. With all the hype that this marathon received, I was expecting something larger. So I didn’t even bother to open the package until my friend opened hers and showed it to me. Underneath that wrapping, it’s actually a very nice medal with all that details on it. Sorry little medal! ><

Lesson learnt: To never judge a person too quickly, to always open that person up to see the details in them.

On the other unrelated-with-the-topic event, I was feeling good after doing all that running and I decided to shower my car with love by wiping it clean. I normally tried to do it once on every weekend but due to stuffs that keep coming up, I didn’t clean it for 3 weeks.

As I cleaned it with love, the car scratch my hand for neglecting it for so long. (It didn’t literally scratch me on it’s own, I got cut at the edge of the number plate but it felt that way. Number plate is the individual soul of a car and this soul cut me). The cut is about a thumb’s length and it wasn’t too deep and wasn’t too shallow either. It’s a point 5 in the 1-10 survey mark. You hurt me but I still love you (else I have to take public transport tomorrow and ain’t nobody got time for that).

Lesson learnt: You can always love someone but to love is to take risk of getting hurt.