Rediscovering Myself

2011 Resolution: Revealing My Progress to Public For The First Time

Please blink your eyes once before reading this post.

WAH! It was 6 months ago since we celebrated 2011 New Year eve. This is too fast.

(eye-blink for the dramatic effect)

It’s already mid-2011, I guess it’s the best time to review the progress of my resolution.

(This post is text-heavy)

Reach 85kg (RE: sweat shirt project). 6 months left, hope I can stick to plan rest of the year. Lost 5kg so far.

Added in April: Practise Slow-Carb diet in 4 hour body and Occam’s Protocol. Sticking with Tim’s advice “do higher intensity work out, spend most time resting your muscles”. I only spend 4 hours in gym per month.

Earn a certificate. Haven’t decide what certificate to get, I would love to own another certification before end of the year.

Learn to sing (take vocal class) Late 2010, I spend a lot of time hanging out with friends at pubs – learning to sing better (to impress the chicks) is naturally in my list.

Play x3 complete guitar songs. 6 months left – plenty of time to practise. I have higher priority tasks on hand for now.

$100 daily passive income. I’ve only progressed few percent. And this is my MAIN focus in 2011. 6 months left – hope to see more progress in this.

Invest in commodities. Done.

Create positive cash flow. 1-2 months time, providing 2 online services to aids my cash flow. Bank is running low, uh oh. Gotta do something. Hustle, bitch!

Provide solution: simple, easy. This is mantra that I apply to my online ventures and business solution – a powerful sentence that I learn from Rework, an excellent startup book by Jason Fried.

300 newsletter sign up for blog. Done (and exceeded)

Create x 4 products and launch it. Pre-launched 2 products, will do a major launch before starting 2 more. So far is staying on track within my projected plan.

Build mega email lists. AHhhhh I need credit card to pull this off. No credit card, no talk.

Offline business x 1. This one ah.. secret. (haven’t done anything yet so it’s better to call it a secret)

Adsense sites x 5 (each earning at least $10 per day). I own 15 of these sites, worked on these during spare time.

Use timer. “I’m finishing this task in 30 minutes” Knowing you only have limited amount of time, you’ll finish the work faster.

“Shit! 24 hours left until submission, it’s impossible to finish 2,000 words assignment!”

24 hours later, I passed up the paper.

Start small;. gain momentum. When it comes to running, I’m have a lot excuses not to do it.

My solution, “tie my shoelace now and run for 5 minutes”… and I will usually run more than that.

I learn this from: 20 motivational hack from zenhabits

Ship one thing, everyday. No fancy, only essential. Perfectionism often gets in the way – my personality is “this is not good enough, I am not ready yet”.

Just ship it and correct it later.

Learn from this book: Poke the Box by Seth Godin

Focus. Focus on things that matters, ignore the rests. It’s fulfilling when you can complete a task in hand.

Learn to say “no”. Saying no is a skill. You need to decline other’s in a way that doesn’t offend others. Sometimes it’s hard to turn down other’s good intention, I am learning.

What a long winded post.

These are my resolution for 2011 and I am sharing it with you guys so I can make myself more accountable.

How’s your resolution progressing? It’s not too late to pick up your resolution again if you thought about quitting.

Let’s hustle for the rest of 2011.

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How to Lose 9kg in 30 Days

I am doing a 30 days challenge, and I am announcing in my blog before I start.

Why am I doing this?

I am inspired by Tim Ferris “Slow Carb Diet Program”, one of the chapter in his book, The 4 Hour Body, where he claims he lost 9kg (20 pounds) in 30 days – without doing sports. All he did was stick to a strict diet, but he can enjoy whatever food he want on Saturday (cheat day), be it pizza, beer or pasta.

If I can complete this challenge, you can too.

Since all the festive seasons are finally over, I have no excuses to say “I can eat whatever I want lah, once a year only mah“. This will be a strict diet, and I am announcing this in my blog to hold myself accountable.

If I didn’t stick to this plan¹, I will give away my gym membership at Core Fitness (10 month subscription – more details on this in later post).

Ante up, fat boy.

These are the rules I’ll implement into my diet program:

Rule #1: Avoid “white” carbohydrates

No rice and bread and cereal and potatoes and pastas and fried food with breading – anything that’s carbohydrate. I can only consume these food within 30 minutes of doing resistance training.

Rule #2: Repeat the same meal over and over again



Yes, that’ll bored me to death. But as long as it brings result, I am up for the challenge.

In the book, Tim sticks to 3 main groups of food.

1) Proteins – egg whites, chicken breast or thigh, beef, fish, pork.

2) Legumes – black beans, pinto beans, red beans and soybeans.

3) Vegetables – spinach, broccoli, peas, green beans, spinach, mix vegetables.

Eat as much as you like of the above food, but keep it simple.

Rule #3: Don’t drink calories

Drink massive quantities of water. Do not drink milk, soft drinks, fruit juice. Wine is fine, but limit.

Rule #4: Don’t eat fruit

Reason behind this is because fruits are mainly fructose, simply known as sugar. You can eat as much as you like during Saturday.

Rule #5: Take one day off per week

Tim refer Saturday as Dieters Gone Wild (DGW) day. I am allowed to eat whatever I want on Saturdays – ice cream, biscuits, fruits, beers, pizza, anything!

The reason behind this is, quote from book “dramatically spiking caloric intake in this way once per week increases fat-loss by ensuring that your metabolic rate [...] doesn’t downshift from extended caloric restriction.”

Eating pure crap can make me lose weight :) how’s that?

I do not have weighing scale at home, so I am measuring my progress with measuring tape. Tim also advices measuring tape is the best approach since gauging my weigh base on weighing scale is not accurate if i’m gaining muscle weight.

This is my current measurement:

Chest: 41 inches
Stomach: 42 inches
Hip (largest circumference of the ass): 43 inches
Jeans size: 38

Weight: 100.6kg (weigh in at clinic on 15th Feb 2011)

Am I doing any sport in this 30 days challenge?
Yes. Moderately. Possibly 1-2 badminton and 1-2 gym weekly, will include frequencies in final report.

I will not proceed this challenge in under these unforeseen circumstances:
1) Falling sick – I want to finish this challenge with a healthy body, not spoil it.
2) … if I can come up with other excuses soon :P

So that’s it! The challenge starts NOW.

On the 30th day, I will be posting my result in this blog, which includes before and after photos. Yes, I am revealing my sexy body.

If you want to see how I failed miserably (or receive the free CORE Fitness membership), sign up my RSS or join my newsletter to receive immediate update.

¹ — If I stick to the plan, but didn’t lose 9kg.. I still win hahahahhaha.

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The Bulu On My Face [Why I Am Keeping The Bulu]


This is my best buddy, YSLo. We are the biggest guy within our circle of friends, and yes—we give the best hugs. The best thing is, our hugs are free (only first 3 minutes lah) :D When you need a hug, you know who to look for.

Anyway, this post is not about promoting our hugs. It’s about the bulu on my face.

Yes. I am referring to my janggut.

You see, I’ve been shaving my janggut since my hormone activated many years back then (means my bulu started growing lah), and managed to remain “clean-shaved” from the start.

I once grew my janggut during university studies, but my girlfriend give me the what the huack dead-glance all the time. She prefers I shave my face clean-clean, like baby ass.

I cannot put my face close to hers if I have janggut, she says very geli. So I shaved it off.

It was 4 years ago since I keep my janggut (and different girlfriend liao ok)

Today, Ah Bing 重出江湖.

Shit man, the more I look at myself—the deeper I fall in love with myself.

What the huack hahahahahha. Don’t curi curi wash my photo and put in your wallet ah! Hahaha.

So, what inspires me to grow janggut?

My cousins – they grow janggut like me (same grandfather mah). One have been growing for awhile, and relatives question me.

“Ah Bing! why you don’t have janggut wan?”

“Got loh, mine grows like Osama bin Laden one leh”

“I don’t believe you!”

(2 weeks later)

“Nahhhhh.. I didn’t shave 2 weeks, and my janggut is longer than your ketiak bulu liao!!”

Cousin: WOHHHHHHH *impressed*

“I am going to keep it” I announced :P

Elder relatives: HARRRRRRRR

I had to keep my janggut—for one sole reason. I look much better, and I attract more girls. HEHEHEHE :P

“Bing, can you rub your janggut on my face? /shy” a girl ask.

“Sure, I’ll try to do it gently…”

/fantasy

This phenomenon look remained for a month, until I get bored with my look. And also I get few critics from elderly, they say I cannot keep my janggut that long because my parent haven’t pass away *touch wood*

Haha, but on a serious note la. Keeping janggut really attracts some attention one *perasan*

So I decided to do something different. I started playing with different types of janggut “designs”, I did every design with normal blade shaver.

Yes, believe it or not.. a 7 years old shaver. I must have mad skillz man. call me Mr. Fantastic!!

Whenever I have a lousy design, and accidentally over-shaved… I start from scratch—I shave every single bulu on my face, and restart. I’d say probably takes me 3-4 days to regrow my janggut.

For the time being, I am keep this style. No complaints from relatives, and I love the fact that no rice stick on my janggut anymore. Hahaha.

Ouh. I am so sexy.

:D what a vain post.

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Why I Am Quitting Facebook (13 Reasons to Quit Facebook)

This is not my first attempt on quitting Facebook.

Three months ago, I gave myself a 30-days challenge—the challenge is to stop login Facebook for a month. And I succeed quitting Facebook without hiccups or withdrawal symptoms. I was surprised.

Then, I join back Facebook to catch up all the updates and upload all the pending photos (I am usually the cameraman, you see—so I am responsible for sharing the photos).

And now, I return to my old habit again. I usually type “fa…” in the browser and it automatically points to “http://www.facebook.com”. Spend a few minutes korek for updates, see anyone upload new photos, poke here poke there. No new updates? close browser.

(10 minutes later)

Open browser, type “fa…” and points to “http://www.facebook.com”. Rinse and repeat.

This is so pointless.

And this time, I decide to quit Facebook permanently. And here are my reasons why.

Social circle is not really expanding
I have almost 800 friends on my contact list. But I am not keeping in touch with all of them. I am only keeping in touch with 10-20 friends. The rest are inactive.

My contact list is still expanding, however the real social circle remains the same. Do you send them personal messages? I bet you did not even contact 10% of your list.

If are you looking for someone, you’ll find a way to reach them.

Privacy issues
Read more on Gizmodo. You’ll know how much information you’re exposing, and why Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg is Dr. Evil.

Distractions
Internet is full of distractions, and I do not need another source to diverse my attention.

Life goes on with/without Facebook
My life won’t turn upside down if I quit Facebook. I might get to know more real friends by socializing. Where is the good old yam cha session?

Can you meet new friends in Facebook? no you don’t. Get out and get to know more friends.

Catching up on useless updates
I login Facebook to check status updates every hour or two. I am often disappointed with no new notification. I am wasting time.

Private photo album sucks!
Photo albums become less interesting when all the hot chicks know how to use use privacy settings. Most tags are boutique stores and products. Business people finally caught up ha…

Quizzes
This annoying application still pops up from time to time.

Excessive updates
I do not need to know what you had for lunch or who backstabbed you. It’s none of my business.

“Zzzzz… I am so tired”

Stop Facebook and go take a rest lah. Sometimes these people really get on my nerves. Only share something if you think it’s useful for others.

Too many people, too much information…
… and most of those information are useless

Everyone you hated and who hated you in high school suddenly wants to be friends
Do you have anyone that you hated who is in your friend list now?

You have enough friends in real life
How many friends do you meet up every week? Or even say, monthly?
In my circle of friends, I usually meet up only 10-15 friends every month, unless there’s huge gathering or similar event.

Everyone you hate now wants to be friends
Ha!

Less is more
Now I have more time to focus on things that matters.

Bonus: Starcraft 2
Yes I am quitting Facebook to allocate more time on Starcraft 2. Hahahahhaha.

Here’s a novel idea for keeping in touch with friends
Pick up your phone and make real contact with one old friend now :)

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Seek Danger

Stop.

Stop listening to everybody around you.

Stop following aimlessly.

Stop making excuses.

Start going after what you want.

Make decisions.

Don’t apologize for those decisions.

Some decisions you make will be wrong.

You will fail.

Some decisions you make will be spot on.

You will succeed.

Some decisions you make will just be.

That’s OK too.

You know what you want. Your friends and family know what they want for you.

There is a monumental difference between the two.

It’s the difference between being happy and just being.

You can’t please everybody.

Don’t try.

Most people won’t agree with you.

Good.

Agreement is safe.

Acceptance is safe.

Doing what you’ve been doing is safe.

Seek danger.

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