New year is done, what's next?
Well well, it's been a week since I last put my foot step in the office. The holiday season has ended and it's time to reboot, get my ass up and kick start the "new year" all over again.
The first Sunday of lent is also starting from this week onwards, coincidentally clash with Chinese new year. As we all know Chinese celebrates their Chinese new year with crazy amount of good food flowing, practicing abstinence during this time is absolutely big challenge.
But it is also a good time to explain to people why do we abstain. Commemorating good Friday is an easy explanation for most part of the society. Whether they like it or not, this is how I remember my own religion. However, penance and self discipline is NOT an easy explanation, especially towards protestants. I don't expect them to understand it, but usually it's easier to tell a story of how I use this challenge to break a habit.
Despite of all that, there's things that I do not agree with the Catholics teaching in terms of practicing abstinence during lent, like the linguistics distinction of "Blood" and how fish becomes a loophole as a meat replacement during lent. Watch "Finding Nemo" and feel the "life" in that flesh.
Fun fact for this modern fish loophole, is from McDonald's. In 1962, a franchise owner in a heavily Catholic area of Cincinnati was losing so much money on Fridays that he invented a fish sandwich to stay in business. It was so successful that McDonald's added it to the national menu!
Anyway, fast forward to my usual workout routine. The Chinese new year hasn't been doing too much damage to my body, partly because lent started on the 2nd day of lunar new year. I have been behaving quite well, except that now I know the biggest challenge for myself is caffeine. I should dig deeper into my actual desire and addition, after my cigarettes exodus some 6 years ago.
I would like to add one more challenge to this lent season, to abstain from coffee. Caffeine is one part of the reason that's affecting my heart rate, especially the most reason episode of heartbeat irregularities. I've seen enough crazy deaths to the people surrounding me these few years, majority around my age, some are younger than me.
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STOPNext is to motivate oneself and hoping were making the best things this year💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
Exactly. Let's hope things can get better.
Breaking habits isn’t easy, especially ones tied to daily routines. Wishing you patience, strength and good health as you take on this challenge.
Thank you very much. The original challenge was supposed to be many years ago when I stopped smoking. The real challenge is, after the first challenge achieved 🤣 after stopped smoking, the eating become the killer now.
Chinese new year（还刷到了王嘉尔纠正咱们的春节一词）
鞋子底和鞋被迫分开了 😂
其實Lunar也沒有錯。越南人非中國人，他們也同樣在同一天共慶新年。還有部份印度人，韓國人，部份日本人也是。我覺得官方使用Lunar，是想得到更大部份百姓的“認同”而已。我沒小王的五官正，所以你看了就算哈。
嗷嗷明白了，原来如此，涨知识了，谢谢拉叔普及😊
鞋子底和鞋被迫分开了 😂
才穿了一年多，這些品質越來越劣了。
I had that happen to a shoe I was wearing but it was while I was jogging and the sole came off at the front. They were the most expensive athletic shoes I had ever bought as well. It tripped me though, I hope you managed to stay upright. we pay so much money for some glued on soles. Something isn't right.
We used to have addias from Vietnam factory before this decade. They usually last longer back then. However, nowadays we can only get from Indonesia factory. They look the same and feel the same, but somehow they don't last as long as those from Vietnam.