I feel an immense need to get something off my chest before kicking off today's episode of iWantChange. ( - and no I am not talking about all the gunge which surely build up in my lungs after all these years of being a smoker. Yip I am a chainsmoker, I was destined to smoke – European birth certificates come with a carton of smokes) But I will address my obsession with nicotine in a separate edition of iWantChange. What has been really stifling me is that TIME MANAGEMENT IS F&%KING HARD WORK!
Update on: iWantChange Number One: Time Management
My massive failure to quit watching information-poor media, like drunken speeches of Mariah Carey and Tyra Bank's show, and concentrate on more productive activities for the sake of CHANGE made me wanting to blame the Internet. Lets face it, we all love 'wasting' our time in digging in lives of others. You wouldn't be reading this blog, otherwise, right? But staring at the screen of my pitch black laptop I realised “Its not you, its me”.
A lack of discipline is in my blood - literally. Looking at my mum's attendance of English language lessons, for example. Of course she tells you that she goes to see her tutor every Monday. Everyone thinks oh how cool, she is studying a foreign language at her age - that's the sort of mum she is.. What she forgets to mention is that her tutor is her close friend and that they spent about 10 minutes with English grammar and then open a bottle of wine and go on discussing life. In Czech!
Plan of action to combat laziness number 3 488 748:
“Think of the gains you make by being more disciplined, not what you are giving up”
Meantime without my own realisation, I have started – successfully – work on another area I sensed needed my attention.
IwantChange Number Three: Alcohol Consumption – One bottle of wine a week.
I love New Zealand's wine and it did not take me long to become competitive in Kiwis' national sport activity – the binge drinking :-) Working in hospitality is so bad for drinking. You have worked all day, smiling at people, have a little chit-chat about their lives and mine, almost pre-recorded, replies to customers “Where is your accent from?” daily routines and you sit down atthe end of the shift feeling exhausted. But hey, there is all this free wine. Sorry but I have to dispel a common myth about workers in customer-care industry: The only reason that a waiter is nice to you is that he wants you to leave a fat tip. So I drank quite a bit – nowhere close to my kiwi colleagues but still a bit.
Nevertheless I realised today that I have not been drinking for the last ten days. And no its not one of the after-holiday detox because unlike all of you getting wasted of the Xmas holiday, I was working a lot....and drinking after work a lot...haha
So hey I am doing okayish ;-)
Update on: IwantChange Number Two: Matrix dilemma: Unplug me
I said I felt like I am constantly escaping reality, if there is such a thing, by being always plugged to my iPod.
Well I did few days with 'limited' iPod use. I learnt that the name of the lady working at the deli section is “Chung”, or that's how I think you spell it, and she is from Philippines and apparently I have a beautiful smile. My flatmate reckons that she is an illegal immigrant and her friendliness is a part of a well planned scheme to marry me to stay in the country. Poor woman she doesn't realise that I couldn't get her residency even if I wanted to:-)
So that's quite a success too, right?
Stay tuned!
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
iWantChange Project, Day Three
Gadgetry and technology is fantastic. They offer endless possibilities for entertainment, make our lives 'easier' in the household, provided that assembly of a new grass mower does not turn into hours of swearing, and generally go hand in hand with progress of civilization. And that's what we all want, right?!?!
I got little bit obsessed with my iPod in the last few years. Putting my headphones on before the house door shut closed in the morning and not taking them off until the moment I walk back in.
It helps me to 'escape' from what is going on around me – at work, on the city streets, while jogging, while riding my scooter (oops!), in supermarkets...constantly escaping. Escaping from reality.
The immediate effect of having the beats of trance enchanting your senses is that you can hear nothing. That includes cars on the street – countless the occasions I was almost hit by car while crossing the road. The fact that I crashed into a car while riding my motor bike a year ago should have probably stopped me from plugging those mini white speakers into my ears. Well, it did not.
IwantChange Number Two: Matrix dilemma: Unplug me
Technology-free time
As much as I am techno-generation it is undeniable that rather than making us – humans – grow together it only makes us to grow apart. ( - no I am not talking about my neighbor who wont say hello to me because of my loud parties ) We spend all this time 'plugged' to the machines communicating or trying our very best not-to-be-talked-to. What happened to face-to-face communication? We shop online, we seek information online, we search perfect partners online. We even having a sex txt sessions.
I figured that I will have more interactions with people when I partially unplug myself.
Ipod only for walks and jogging, uninstalling msn...I might bump into the love of my life next time I do my grocery shopping.
Imagine all the possibilities.
Update on:
iWantChange Number One: Time Management
I am doing okay I think. Started writing down a daily 'to-do' list. I must have read this advise in one of the many self-help motivational books I never finished reading. haha
I did manage to avoid FB for almost two days. But I have rediscovered txt messaging. Two hours of 'hw u doin' and 'whats up,man' and trance-music fix. And you do need to read international news, right? Someone help me! iWantChange!!
Stay tuned!
I got little bit obsessed with my iPod in the last few years. Putting my headphones on before the house door shut closed in the morning and not taking them off until the moment I walk back in.
It helps me to 'escape' from what is going on around me – at work, on the city streets, while jogging, while riding my scooter (oops!), in supermarkets...constantly escaping. Escaping from reality.
The immediate effect of having the beats of trance enchanting your senses is that you can hear nothing. That includes cars on the street – countless the occasions I was almost hit by car while crossing the road. The fact that I crashed into a car while riding my motor bike a year ago should have probably stopped me from plugging those mini white speakers into my ears. Well, it did not.
IwantChange Number Two: Matrix dilemma: Unplug me
Technology-free time
As much as I am techno-generation it is undeniable that rather than making us – humans – grow together it only makes us to grow apart. ( - no I am not talking about my neighbor who wont say hello to me because of my loud parties ) We spend all this time 'plugged' to the machines communicating or trying our very best not-to-be-talked-to. What happened to face-to-face communication? We shop online, we seek information online, we search perfect partners online. We even having a sex txt sessions.
I figured that I will have more interactions with people when I partially unplug myself.
Ipod only for walks and jogging, uninstalling msn...I might bump into the love of my life next time I do my grocery shopping.
Imagine all the possibilities.
Update on:
iWantChange Number One: Time Management
I am doing okay I think. Started writing down a daily 'to-do' list. I must have read this advise in one of the many self-help motivational books I never finished reading. haha
I did manage to avoid FB for almost two days. But I have rediscovered txt messaging. Two hours of 'hw u doin' and 'whats up,man' and trance-music fix. And you do need to read international news, right? Someone help me! iWantChange!!
Stay tuned!
Sunday, January 3, 2010
iWantChange Project Day One
iWantChange Project
Million unfulfilled promises and countless hours spent 'fantasizing' about the better me equals to lot of energy down the drain. Yip, I am a talker. A big talker in fact but it never quite gets to 'doing'. I was trying to find a way to sugar-coat my life as I am used to in front of strangers I've just met at parties but since there is no wine raging through my blood system I have nowhere to run and admit that iWantChange.
My life is nowhere close to being disastrous. Yet, I am nowhere near to reaching my potentials and as cliché as it sounds 'unleash myself'. So here I come 2010. I am going to make a solid achievable goals for 2010 during the next few days. As one of the main problems in my life I recognize is my poor time-management skills, together with procrastination, aimless net surfing...etc Hence...
iWantChange Number One: Time Management
Have you ever noticed that you want to 'just-check-your-email' and hour and half later you catch yourself reading about the poor Paris Hilton's house being burglared?
Tomorrow is a Facebook-free day. No email checking, no nzherald.co.nz and def no Kendra Wilkinson.
I am getting out of my bed before 8am and focus on work.
Stay tuned!
Million unfulfilled promises and countless hours spent 'fantasizing' about the better me equals to lot of energy down the drain. Yip, I am a talker. A big talker in fact but it never quite gets to 'doing'. I was trying to find a way to sugar-coat my life as I am used to in front of strangers I've just met at parties but since there is no wine raging through my blood system I have nowhere to run and admit that iWantChange.
My life is nowhere close to being disastrous. Yet, I am nowhere near to reaching my potentials and as cliché as it sounds 'unleash myself'. So here I come 2010. I am going to make a solid achievable goals for 2010 during the next few days. As one of the main problems in my life I recognize is my poor time-management skills, together with procrastination, aimless net surfing...etc Hence...
iWantChange Number One: Time Management
Have you ever noticed that you want to 'just-check-your-email' and hour and half later you catch yourself reading about the poor Paris Hilton's house being burglared?
Tomorrow is a Facebook-free day. No email checking, no nzherald.co.nz and def no Kendra Wilkinson.
I am getting out of my bed before 8am and focus on work.
Stay tuned!
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