(w-i-p)

lazy me to just Copy & Paste this for the time being, sans images/links etc. will update. I'm justifying it being post up today as per my weekly quota lol...bad font choice though working offline earlier today hm?

Timely update to put this on a log, indeed. Days past and tasks steamrolled (and even so, the Pending folder keeps piling up) 

It has been a great journey thus far in my current state of work.

Ain’t exactly an employment per se, yet not the highs of a shared business, of course every small start-up has their story.

Basically we work from home and we do a number of services and inter-connected value-added ones for the 3 (or 4) business entities we started, bar one.

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Working from home certainly has its perks. HOT likens that I think I am working at Google and I reckon that must be on my subconscious somehow in bringing Chance to work, (although it was only once, more on the why not here with this broken link) fixing our salads/sammiches, awesome working environment with the furkids, (Iago pushing the laptop or wired mouse) sitting on a yoga ball and exercise breaks, coffee breaks with some e-book adventure on rainy days cloudy minds, yeah I guess everyone gets the drift.

It is a great transition that it fulfills my number one (arguably, okay, maybe my favorite few) that is Learning New Things. These 3 months I’ve picked up a few decent skills and more to come. 

On days I found myself from researching to testing, from coding to click&drop-ing, from googling to reading, from reviewing to trolling, from writing to rendering in random order.

And so it came to this. In my mind’s eye (and an ever delayed resolution) I told myself that I should get back to weblogging; since I am sure we would inevitably get onto Content Marketing at some point so it is a good idea to exercise the chops. It always boils down to such process : ideas popped up, marinated by the folds of gray....mental note to do/write/type it out....dot dot dot and that’s it. Just a mental note stuck somewhere hidden or eating away among the folds of gray.

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I have a bit more time to catch up on my books these days, it is obviously a plus! With tonnes of work, comes a good reason to disconnect and get more breaks (well, coffee and reading breaks to be precise)

I know somehow I need to switch my eyes out to not stare at any screens; but I’m sure just reading monochromatic texts are a help somehow?

Although I may never be posting reviews on GoodReads.com(yes I will, someday, I mean I’ve made up my mind on which of my favorite to write about, someday) just yet, but I think I racked up a decent amount of novels/novellas this month. I’m currently on John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (dry thus far; I alternated more on Stephen King’s recent works I missed) and re-reading King’s Insomnia. I finished his Joyland, The Colorado Kid, the latest Revival, (yeah! But damn I feel bad for not contributing financially, more about this on another soon-to-exist link) A Good Marriage, Full Dark No Stars (yeah A Good Marriage was in it), 11/22/63 (oh-so-awesome time travel masterpiece, and yay/nay for the movie next year *fingers crossed) Cell (the other big miss from my lost years), R.Riordan’s finale book 5 of The Heroes of Olympus (oh well the 7+1 didn’t die happy ending fun times and meh) and his Kane Chronicles (eh? That was last month?)

7min Workout by UOVO and Me

Blogger on mobile doesn't really work eh? It just doesn't work for me, as I've lost count on how many times that I'd (try and) blog-on-the-go; it just got worse on the few occasions that I manage to put into action and blog on the Samsung Mega as it reverted to a non-data device.

Anyhow, I lost a whole good draft (which I thought I did it under WiFi) and yeah perhaps I was just exhausted from my little adventure.
I'll try to recount what was lost in between drafts.



The 7-Minute Workout App & Me

Yes.
I work-out.

Undisputed & (un)certifiably unfit for my age; I was somehow looking at means to look after my health (and actually heeding numerous advises) and hopefully avert what plagues me/ and at least last longer when I finally organize a b-ball session with the old schoolmates.
Aside from the ever present backache, I'll get my shoulder tightened up with the neck frozen in whichever way twice a year. Bad sleeping habits, unbalanced diet, absolutely zero exercise (holding/occasionally swinging a vibrating controller in front of the telly is as close as I get physically) are among my vices including imbibing and fagging my way through.
I've never really gotten the balls (and dough) to go for a med check-up, but hey, one is aware of how sorry their ass is without the need to consult a professional.
Of course, my usual acupuncturist/witch doctor already told me so every.single.time when I visit him with my contorted head.

Damn I still feel like these arms ain't mine, even hours after my work-out!

Anyhow, I'll bridge the missing link ~ I work from "home" these days and I kinda have a bit of time if I do make a slot: so I had the brillo idea last week to put the only pair of cross-training footwear (aged a good terrible 3 years, I think) to use and brought it over, (of course it took another 2 days in procrastinating of not bringing along a towel to shower thereafter before/ I should bring/load my iPhone with some tunes/ and nicking P's phone-armband-headphones etc) I finally manned-up and went for a jog at the small park behind.
I guess I was wise enough to limit myself to just 3 laps + a bit of stretching and shite; but hey I was pouring helter-skelter once I got back. Sore thighs throughout the weekend coupled with the bloody rain meant I did nada until, well today.
Still without a towel (and iTunes still trying to sell me music + no way I'd lug around the Mega through the park LOL) I decided today is the day I better be resuming or I'd never.

So, I suited up.
But somehow I had an epiphany to check an app or two out, just for the sake of an extended warm-up before I hit the streets.(ba dum tss)
I re-installed Nike+ Running from iCloud (yes, there wasn't any real data from the pre-wiped era; one of the many fitness apps that wasn't utilized then) and somehow I found this 7min WorkOut from UOVO
"Hmm, a 7 minute warm-up set sounds sweet!" or so I thought.

My ass

  

Start screen. Simplistic, I love it.

Nifty

Well, its 30 seconds rep of each with (a very faster than usual) a 10 seconds break all in all 7 minutes.
Seems easy enough eh?

The Easier First Half

 Not too bad, Jumping Jacks and Wall Sits.

Uh-Oh

Oh crap.
I have no idea what I got myself into. Prior to this I have absolute no idea most of the work-out terminology.
I thought planking was some sort of dance move or some hippie-esque pirate jabberish, damn I did the single-armed plank today and I pushed myself to actually do some push-ups.
(yes, I entered my cheat-codes like some throughout my entire school uniformed outfits in doing push-ups; of course I know I got some leniency with my stick thin wrists)

Cute, eh?

gawdddddddd

With bronchial running overdrive, arms a-blazing and jelly legs 7 minutes later, I was actually quite happy that I did a wee bit of my babysteps in getting on track. I could so hear an imaginary "Achievement Unlocked" chime when I was gasping for air, and getting motivated with this tomorrow.

Yesshh Masstahhh

I'm thinking of unlocking the premium features after my targeted 7 day try-out. As I am weblogging this, I ran a search on Google Play but alas it's only on iOS at the moment, though I found a whole lotta other 7 Minute apps instead.