iWantChange Project: Day Nine

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!