'Cos some things are history
POSTED ON: Monday, November 29, 2010 @ 10:00 PM | 0 comments
I was browsing through my old friend's album in Facebook and she just turned 20. Wow, my friend just turned 20 and I was clueless as ever. I know time passes fast and neither I have observed I am actually in my 3rd year in college but I just feel bad, I feel like I've lost and missed too many events with them. I am not even updated with their life anymore.
I was never the type of person who would do something to drive my High school friends away, I was always there for them. My goodness, my first year in college was full of them. Late drunken nights at Beach House, messed up days at GP & Sherwood, if I am not there, I'm probably having a date with a High school friend or two. But now you can find me anywhere, just not with them. I mean, hello, what exactly had happened? Was it I who drove away? Or our roads just don't meet anymore?
Maybe it's true, that in life, you can't really stay in two places without ever pushing the other one away. I've always closed myself to finding true friends in college, I always think that the term doesn't fit anyone. And if there'll be people who knew me, they would always be from High school. But what if I was wrong? What if the only problem was, I wasn't even opening my eyes to see if some people are really worth it here? What if the problem is I've fixed my views, thinking that these people won't ever leave me, but turns out they already do? I don't think I am still wrong if I want to keep other people in my life now, rather than those who never really valued our friendship. Because maybe, just maybe, it's time to move forward and forget those people who never really mattered, who never even bothered to still remind you of who you used to be. Maybe it's goodbye for some, but I am keeping a few who I could never possibly live without. Slip away 'til you want, I won't chase you anymore. I'm tired of insisting to keep you all in my life, maybe it's time to finally make room for some who actually did something to make my life bearable. There is nothing more I hate to say than, goodbye.
Google has never been so helpful
POSTED ON: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 @ 8:30 PM | 0 comments
This is nothing much, I just like to share the things I found out in Google while searching for some motivators and diet tips a while ago.
12 Ways to Get Motivated to Lose Weight
- Keep on saying "So that..." Ask yourself frequently why do you want to lose weight and after you come up with a reason just keep on saying "so that". For example, "I want to lose weight to look better so that..." The more times you say it, the more motivated you would become to lose weight.
- Play the "If I do" and "If I don't" game. Take two sheets of paper and on the top of your first sheet of paper write, "These are all the GOOD things that would start happening to me tomorrow, next week, next month or 2, 3, 5 years from now if I do take action to lose weight." And on the other paper write, "These are all the BAD things that would start happening to me tomorrow, next week, next month or 2, 3, 5 years from now if I do not take action to lose weight." For example, you can write something like, "I'll be proud of myself for losing weight" or "In 2-5 months, people will start telling me how better I look" on the good things and "I'll be depressed again for not trying to lose weight" or "Other people will call me fat behind my back" on the bad things. Every time you feel like giving up on losing weight or dreams of looking good naked, just take 10 minutes from your time to read it and voila, you'll be energized to continue your journey again.
- Make a bet with yourself. You can make a bet with yourself or other people you know to guarantee that you will lose weight and good look naked. For example, tell your friend you will give him/her 500 bucks if you don't lose 10lbs in a month. The more extreme the bet is or the more you have to lose, the greater chance you will actually reach your weight loss goal.
- Make excuses to win and don't make excuses to lose. Stop making lame excuses to lose weight like you don't have time or you can't workout because you get sweaty. It's easy to make excuses to lose and be a loser because a loser is someone who doesn't even try but it's also easy to make excuses to win and be a winner because a winner's someone who gets of their ass and gives at least 1%. If you don't have time, make time. Stop watching too much TV for a while or get off the internet and whatever it is that takes you away from losing your weight and looking good naked. Use the time to lose those extra fats.
- Let nothing stop you from losing weight. Write down everything that is stopping you from reaching your weight loss goal and then beside it, make a plan to eliminate the problem. For example, you do not have a time to lose weight, the plan beside that would be spending 30 minutes away from the television to render your time in exercise. Don't ever falsely believe that your genetics are keeping you from losing weight. Write down what is stopping you and stop it before it makes you even fatter. Because, apparently, the only reason why you shouldn't lose weight is because you don't really want to lose weight.
- Set deadlines and then reward yourself. For instance, your big weight loss goal is to lose 100lbs in 10 months, you can set 10 deadlines making it 10lbs per month. If you actually lose the expected amount for each month, or even bigger than it, reward yourself by buying a new dress or going out to a movie. But make sure you will not reward yourself by sabotaging your weight loss plan or eating stuff that's going to put weight back on. Remember that the greater the reward you have planned for yourself, the higher motivation you'll have to be able to lose weight.
- Set deadlines and punish yourself. If you don't meet your deadlines you have to punish yourself. Say you missed to lose 10lbs by losing only 9lbs, punish yourself by not watching TV for a week or by not going shopping for a month. Along with the reward and the punishment, you can be sure you'll stay highly motivated to lose weight or whatever else you set your mind into.
- Post a picture everywhere. Post a picture of what you want to look like after you lose weight, everywhere you can. So if you were skinny in High school, post your old high school pictures everywhere. If you have always had a weight problem then...
- Get a magazine and cut the person you want to be. You could either cut the same exact thing or you might want to put your face on top of the body figure so the images of you losing weight would be clearer every single time you look at it. Show it to somebody else and if they give you the look that you can't do it, therefore you have another motivation to prove them all wrong. Post pictures everywhere and put a note under it, saying, "I will get a sexy body just like this cover model and when I do, I will laugh in the surprised faces of all the people who said I could never look like this."
- Hang out with skinny people. There's a saying that goes like, "If you hang out with 9 broke people, you'll prolly end up being the 10th broke person but if you hang out with 9 rich people, you'll probably end up being the 10th rich person" and the same goes true for losing weight. Hang out with skinny people and you'll pick up their habits for staying slim. You don't have to dump all of your overweight friends, you just shouldn't let their bad habits influence you.
- Talk to your future self. Imagine how you'll look good in the next 1-6 months with all the good things that will happen to you, and every time you feel like cheating on your diet, not working out, or just giving up, stop and ask your future self what she did to look good naked and they will they you all the things that made them successful in the end. If that doesn't work, imagine yourself out on a date with that man or woman you always wanted to be with and ask them those same questions and if that still doesn't work, go back to #1 and #2 and imagine any other favorable situation where your future self can help you give 100% Never-Give-Up-Until-You-Look-Good attitude.
- Remember the CBA's. Conceive yourself losing weight. Believe you can lose weight. And Achieve the goal of losing weight. If you believe you can, you can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. So believe and make sure you will never stop trying to succeed. After all, nothing is possible when you keep on trying.
Goodnight, world.
Source: http://www.nowloss.com/ I actually edited some of the things before actually putting it here so I'm in the middle of plagiarism and writing my own. My apologies.
Labels: 12 ways to motivate yourself to lose weight, diet, looking good naked, weight problems
Keeping my hopes up
POSTED ON: @ 2:18 AM | 0 comments
One thing funnier than me being totally attached (and by saying totally, it means sleeping in the morning just to finish episodes and make sure I don't get lag behind my own set-up timeline) to Gossip Girl right now is that I've grown afraid of Math than I could ever imagine. I mean, not that I am afraid of the subject itself but I'm afraid that the professor who flunked me on my first try in college had finally found another opportunity to fail me again. I mean, how could I not fail her class? Doesn't provide lecture hours, well she does, but it bothers me that the way she does it does not completely match with the quiz she gives me --or maybe us.
The last two meetings I had, she only gave a review on sets, real numbers and properties of what the hell I do not even know. The next thing I knew, I was there in that room, sleeping with my pen on the other hand -unfortunately giving up on her quiz. I'm sure I knew it back when I was in 8th or 9th grade but who cares? Something bad about me is that I don't really remember the things I don't think would be doing any good for me in the future. What does x and y have to do in my life? Or why would I care about the complexities of determining which is rational or irrational or non-real? What the fuck. Okay I kind of want to take back my word about x and y because they kind of help me with solving and finding missing puzzle pieces but the irrational, non-real and rational numbers? Seriously. The only thing I have to keep in mind about the word rational is reason. Nothing about Math at all.
I was really considering the fact of dropping it a while ago. Didn't attend class of course because I'm afraid she'd give the result of the first quiz and I will be sitting there feeling frustrated. Why is fate doing this to me? Doesn't it want to see me graduate on time? Because, apparently, with all the delays that I'm having it's not good. Encountering my previous professor and her awful teaching skills is absolutely 100% bad news. And I don't know if I can still do this, you know, sitting in class and pretending to listen when all she talks about are the things I don't understand because she just won't let me. Okay maybe I have a share on this too. So maybe I have to keep on trying.
So what if the professor teaching me Math doesn't like me at all? Or so what if I don't like her too? I have to get through Math this semester. I can't let it take it's toll on me. She's not worth it. It's not worth it, I have to stick to my goal. I have to graduate on time. I'll find someone to teach me. After all, I have friends who are good at it. At least. I'll just have to hang on for a few more months. I can do this.
Aim for the gold.
Hello, hurricane
POSTED ON: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 @ 9:41 PM | 0 comments
I don't get why you don't usually be the person you want to be in life. Isn't it that God has some sort of a mind-reading skill? Why won't He just let every person fall where they should be? I mean, of course I don't have the right to question God and everything that He does but there are just some things about Him that I cannot really understand.
I grew up believing that God exists and made people because He cares for us. My age increased and so are the things I know, unfortunately the existence of God doesn't seem to amaze me anymore now. I mean, come on. Luck came to me a few times in this life, and sometimes I wonder if it's really God giving it to me or just pure coincidence. I mean, if God knew Adam and Eve would eat that fruit which would eventually cause chaos in the human race, then why did He still let them eat that in the first place? If He really wanted everyone to be happy and continue living the perfect life without all these sins raging everywhere, why did He let them do it? See, I don't understand things like that. And the more I become knowledgeable about everything that God wants and stuff like that, the more I question about the Supreme Being who made my existence possible after all. So, what do you say? Is there really someone who cares for us all?
Where do you start?
POSTED ON: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 @ 10:16 PM | 0 comments
When you finally realize you're beginning to care more than usual for someone who didn't mean anything at all to you before. When unexpectedly, that person became your favorite star from all the stars who happen to cross your sky. When you find yourself slowly wishing to spend every weekend available, every other day, every hour you could possible have together. When you're actually willing to be stupid in risking your heart for the sake of love --that one word you've always avoided. And when you've decided your ready to say those three words that scares you the most, again. Where do you start? How do you begin accepting that you've finally put yourself into some dangerous act of human kind again? Loving someone is not as easy as counting one two three. I've always believed it takes the best of people, leaving them alone and crappy in the end.
Will there be changes on the way I believe now? Will this risk finally be worth it? I'm not scared of being happy anymore. How can you do that when you've actually loved the way the person makes you happy? When you've actually loved the way that person talks or the way that person walks? Mostly everything about that person actually, especially the things you never thought you'd ever learn to love.
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'Cos some things are history
POSTED ON: Monday, November 29, 2010 @ 10:00 PM | 0 comments
I was browsing through my old friend's album in Facebook and she just turned 20. Wow, my friend just turned 20 and I was clueless as ever. I know time passes fast and neither I have observed I am actually in my 3rd year in college but I just feel bad, I feel like I've lost and missed too many events with them. I am not even updated with their life anymore.
I was never the type of person who would do something to drive my High school friends away, I was always there for them. My goodness, my first year in college was full of them. Late drunken nights at Beach House, messed up days at GP & Sherwood, if I am not there, I'm probably having a date with a High school friend or two. But now you can find me anywhere, just not with them. I mean, hello, what exactly had happened? Was it I who drove away? Or our roads just don't meet anymore?
Maybe it's true, that in life, you can't really stay in two places without ever pushing the other one away. I've always closed myself to finding true friends in college, I always think that the term doesn't fit anyone. And if there'll be people who knew me, they would always be from High school. But what if I was wrong? What if the only problem was, I wasn't even opening my eyes to see if some people are really worth it here? What if the problem is I've fixed my views, thinking that these people won't ever leave me, but turns out they already do? I don't think I am still wrong if I want to keep other people in my life now, rather than those who never really valued our friendship. Because maybe, just maybe, it's time to move forward and forget those people who never really mattered, who never even bothered to still remind you of who you used to be. Maybe it's goodbye for some, but I am keeping a few who I could never possibly live without. Slip away 'til you want, I won't chase you anymore. I'm tired of insisting to keep you all in my life, maybe it's time to finally make room for some who actually did something to make my life bearable. There is nothing more I hate to say than, goodbye.
Google has never been so helpful
POSTED ON: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 @ 8:30 PM | 0 comments
This is nothing much, I just like to share the things I found out in Google while searching for some motivators and diet tips a while ago.
12 Ways to Get Motivated to Lose Weight
- Keep on saying "So that..." Ask yourself frequently why do you want to lose weight and after you come up with a reason just keep on saying "so that". For example, "I want to lose weight to look better so that..." The more times you say it, the more motivated you would become to lose weight.
- Play the "If I do" and "If I don't" game. Take two sheets of paper and on the top of your first sheet of paper write, "These are all the GOOD things that would start happening to me tomorrow, next week, next month or 2, 3, 5 years from now if I do take action to lose weight." And on the other paper write, "These are all the BAD things that would start happening to me tomorrow, next week, next month or 2, 3, 5 years from now if I do not take action to lose weight." For example, you can write something like, "I'll be proud of myself for losing weight" or "In 2-5 months, people will start telling me how better I look" on the good things and "I'll be depressed again for not trying to lose weight" or "Other people will call me fat behind my back" on the bad things. Every time you feel like giving up on losing weight or dreams of looking good naked, just take 10 minutes from your time to read it and voila, you'll be energized to continue your journey again.
- Make a bet with yourself. You can make a bet with yourself or other people you know to guarantee that you will lose weight and good look naked. For example, tell your friend you will give him/her 500 bucks if you don't lose 10lbs in a month. The more extreme the bet is or the more you have to lose, the greater chance you will actually reach your weight loss goal.
- Make excuses to win and don't make excuses to lose. Stop making lame excuses to lose weight like you don't have time or you can't workout because you get sweaty. It's easy to make excuses to lose and be a loser because a loser is someone who doesn't even try but it's also easy to make excuses to win and be a winner because a winner's someone who gets of their ass and gives at least 1%. If you don't have time, make time. Stop watching too much TV for a while or get off the internet and whatever it is that takes you away from losing your weight and looking good naked. Use the time to lose those extra fats.
- Let nothing stop you from losing weight. Write down everything that is stopping you from reaching your weight loss goal and then beside it, make a plan to eliminate the problem. For example, you do not have a time to lose weight, the plan beside that would be spending 30 minutes away from the television to render your time in exercise. Don't ever falsely believe that your genetics are keeping you from losing weight. Write down what is stopping you and stop it before it makes you even fatter. Because, apparently, the only reason why you shouldn't lose weight is because you don't really want to lose weight.
- Set deadlines and then reward yourself. For instance, your big weight loss goal is to lose 100lbs in 10 months, you can set 10 deadlines making it 10lbs per month. If you actually lose the expected amount for each month, or even bigger than it, reward yourself by buying a new dress or going out to a movie. But make sure you will not reward yourself by sabotaging your weight loss plan or eating stuff that's going to put weight back on. Remember that the greater the reward you have planned for yourself, the higher motivation you'll have to be able to lose weight.
- Set deadlines and punish yourself. If you don't meet your deadlines you have to punish yourself. Say you missed to lose 10lbs by losing only 9lbs, punish yourself by not watching TV for a week or by not going shopping for a month. Along with the reward and the punishment, you can be sure you'll stay highly motivated to lose weight or whatever else you set your mind into.
- Post a picture everywhere. Post a picture of what you want to look like after you lose weight, everywhere you can. So if you were skinny in High school, post your old high school pictures everywhere. If you have always had a weight problem then...
- Get a magazine and cut the person you want to be. You could either cut the same exact thing or you might want to put your face on top of the body figure so the images of you losing weight would be clearer every single time you look at it. Show it to somebody else and if they give you the look that you can't do it, therefore you have another motivation to prove them all wrong. Post pictures everywhere and put a note under it, saying, "I will get a sexy body just like this cover model and when I do, I will laugh in the surprised faces of all the people who said I could never look like this."
- Hang out with skinny people. There's a saying that goes like, "If you hang out with 9 broke people, you'll prolly end up being the 10th broke person but if you hang out with 9 rich people, you'll probably end up being the 10th rich person" and the same goes true for losing weight. Hang out with skinny people and you'll pick up their habits for staying slim. You don't have to dump all of your overweight friends, you just shouldn't let their bad habits influence you.
- Talk to your future self. Imagine how you'll look good in the next 1-6 months with all the good things that will happen to you, and every time you feel like cheating on your diet, not working out, or just giving up, stop and ask your future self what she did to look good naked and they will they you all the things that made them successful in the end. If that doesn't work, imagine yourself out on a date with that man or woman you always wanted to be with and ask them those same questions and if that still doesn't work, go back to #1 and #2 and imagine any other favorable situation where your future self can help you give 100% Never-Give-Up-Until-You-Look-Good attitude.
- Remember the CBA's. Conceive yourself losing weight. Believe you can lose weight. And Achieve the goal of losing weight. If you believe you can, you can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. So believe and make sure you will never stop trying to succeed. After all, nothing is possible when you keep on trying.
Goodnight, world.
Source: http://www.nowloss.com/ I actually edited some of the things before actually putting it here so I'm in the middle of plagiarism and writing my own. My apologies.
Labels: 12 ways to motivate yourself to lose weight, diet, looking good naked, weight problems
Keeping my hopes up
POSTED ON: @ 2:18 AM | 0 comments
One thing funnier than me being totally attached (and by saying totally, it means sleeping in the morning just to finish episodes and make sure I don't get lag behind my own set-up timeline) to Gossip Girl right now is that I've grown afraid of Math than I could ever imagine. I mean, not that I am afraid of the subject itself but I'm afraid that the professor who flunked me on my first try in college had finally found another opportunity to fail me again. I mean, how could I not fail her class? Doesn't provide lecture hours, well she does, but it bothers me that the way she does it does not completely match with the quiz she gives me --or maybe us.
The last two meetings I had, she only gave a review on sets, real numbers and properties of what the hell I do not even know. The next thing I knew, I was there in that room, sleeping with my pen on the other hand -unfortunately giving up on her quiz. I'm sure I knew it back when I was in 8th or 9th grade but who cares? Something bad about me is that I don't really remember the things I don't think would be doing any good for me in the future. What does x and y have to do in my life? Or why would I care about the complexities of determining which is rational or irrational or non-real? What the fuck. Okay I kind of want to take back my word about x and y because they kind of help me with solving and finding missing puzzle pieces but the irrational, non-real and rational numbers? Seriously. The only thing I have to keep in mind about the word rational is reason. Nothing about Math at all.
I was really considering the fact of dropping it a while ago. Didn't attend class of course because I'm afraid she'd give the result of the first quiz and I will be sitting there feeling frustrated. Why is fate doing this to me? Doesn't it want to see me graduate on time? Because, apparently, with all the delays that I'm having it's not good. Encountering my previous professor and her awful teaching skills is absolutely 100% bad news. And I don't know if I can still do this, you know, sitting in class and pretending to listen when all she talks about are the things I don't understand because she just won't let me. Okay maybe I have a share on this too. So maybe I have to keep on trying.
So what if the professor teaching me Math doesn't like me at all? Or so what if I don't like her too? I have to get through Math this semester. I can't let it take it's toll on me. She's not worth it. It's not worth it, I have to stick to my goal. I have to graduate on time. I'll find someone to teach me. After all, I have friends who are good at it. At least. I'll just have to hang on for a few more months. I can do this.
Aim for the gold.
Hello, hurricane
POSTED ON: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 @ 9:41 PM | 0 comments
I don't get why you don't usually be the person you want to be in life. Isn't it that God has some sort of a mind-reading skill? Why won't He just let every person fall where they should be? I mean, of course I don't have the right to question God and everything that He does but there are just some things about Him that I cannot really understand.
I grew up believing that God exists and made people because He cares for us. My age increased and so are the things I know, unfortunately the existence of God doesn't seem to amaze me anymore now. I mean, come on. Luck came to me a few times in this life, and sometimes I wonder if it's really God giving it to me or just pure coincidence. I mean, if God knew Adam and Eve would eat that fruit which would eventually cause chaos in the human race, then why did He still let them eat that in the first place? If He really wanted everyone to be happy and continue living the perfect life without all these sins raging everywhere, why did He let them do it? See, I don't understand things like that. And the more I become knowledgeable about everything that God wants and stuff like that, the more I question about the Supreme Being who made my existence possible after all. So, what do you say? Is there really someone who cares for us all?
Where do you start?
POSTED ON: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 @ 10:16 PM | 0 comments
When you finally realize you're beginning to care more than usual for someone who didn't mean anything at all to you before. When unexpectedly, that person became your favorite star from all the stars who happen to cross your sky. When you find yourself slowly wishing to spend every weekend available, every other day, every hour you could possible have together. When you're actually willing to be stupid in risking your heart for the sake of love --that one word you've always avoided. And when you've decided your ready to say those three words that scares you the most, again. Where do you start? How do you begin accepting that you've finally put yourself into some dangerous act of human kind again? Loving someone is not as easy as counting one two three. I've always believed it takes the best of people, leaving them alone and crappy in the end.
Will there be changes on the way I believe now? Will this risk finally be worth it? I'm not scared of being happy anymore. How can you do that when you've actually loved the way the person makes you happy? When you've actually loved the way that person talks or the way that person walks? Mostly everything about that person actually, especially the things you never thought you'd ever learn to love.
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