We are on the second half of the year. It's time to set some goals for the remaining half of the year.
On top of my head, I have three major things I want to accomplish. If following the OKR's these would be my objectives.
Stronger and Leaner body.
Increased income.
Funnel money into goals: Home deposit, Japan trip.
Today is mother's day. We celebrated mother's day by having a long breakfast which extended into lunch. We had home cooked baked beans which I prepared the night before. This is the best baked beans I made so far. This is my third time to make the baked beans recipe and I think I nailed it this time. The stuff I did differently:
It's been a busy past few weeks since MIA left the building. There were changes to be made and part of that our whole family schedule. It affected all our schedule. Threw me off including my writing, among other things. I gave up my jogging in favour of doing kettlebell sessions at home. It is getting colder outside so I am shifting to indoor workouts.
TV.
I visited a friend's house recently, it occurred to me their TV's picture quality is superb. Well, atleast better than ours. You don't notice these things until you get exposed to someone else's telly. To be honest, I don't care about TVs really but when you see something better and you now know, you can't unsee it. Oh well, I am not planning to upgrade our tv anytime soon. Only when we finally have our own home, we'll upgrade to a better one. But for now, my kids are good. I am happy to be watching in our 32inch screen in the bedroom.
Garden bed
We have to garden beds setup during the start of Autumn. The weather was still hot then when we set it up. A
We woke up early for Nanay's flight back home. Then, it's just again. The five of us. It will be hectic once again in our household but we have done this before, and everything will be ok.
I worked from home today because we drove nanay to the airport -- dude skipped working today because the kids need support from the big change. It was productive for me in a sense because I did other tasks that needs doing @ work. When I'm in the office I am focused on doing programming tasks. When I'm at home I am more focused on communicating with the team.
I ran today because I don't want to pay $5 on Friday. Tomorrow I'll run again to complete my health goals for the week. Funny thing -- this week was not really eating healthy. I bought chocolate cake and a chocolate bar. A while ago I was eating chips. Not good.
Family
During the start of the week I lagged behind tutoring the kids. But I'll continue doing that on both writing and maths subjects. I love teaching maths over writing.
The piano. I'm doing piano lessons with the kids on Saturdays. I could practice the piano on the same days that I run.
Dates -- dates with the kids, dates with dude. Can't get enough of oil massages as for the kids and wife.
Today I woke up early to do my kettlebell exercises. I was hoping it was a kettlebell exercise but instead, I did 30 minutes of yoga. To me, yoga over 15 minutes is like eternity. So after doing 30 minutes, I had enough but there's still 30 minutes worth of yoga video I haven't finished.
After the Saturday routine, we went to our piano lessons. I have a bunch of homework to do and this time, I'll make sure I'll do them so I could play earlier. My target is to practice this week so our next lesson, will be more productive and much faster. I am playing on a grand piano. I love playing on a grand piano. Our practice piano is not even a piano -- its a plastic keyboard. This will be my next big project. I'll save up for a better keyboard. It'll be atleast a weighted keyboard with 88 keys. A proper piano for beginners. Once I get more serious at playing, I'd definitely get a grand piano -- just thinking about it makes me smile. There will be a grand piano sitting in our own house. It'll bring us jo
Man, the start of April is so busy. Busy but good. Working my way backwards here's the stuff I've done:
My 12kg kettlebell arrived at my doorstep. Now, I have three kettlebells an 8kg, 12kg, and a 16kg. I'll be using all of these in my Onnit kettlebell training program.
I started doing my first ever Kettlebell training session last night. I can't believe I was just using an 8kg and it is a bit of a challenge already. I used that weight so that I could finish the whole session. Picking a heavier bell would not allow me to finish.
Yesterday we went to the Melbourne flower and garden show. It was a very senior event to go to. There were awesome displays of flowers and gardens as one would expect in such a show. It was good until the cold rain poured. When we left the show, we had a nice excuse to warm up and eat some Shujinko black ramen. So good!
I can't believe it's the last day of March already. Today, we had our first ever piano lessons with a real piano teacher. It was an ok experience -- I wasn't able to enjoy it that much because my phone kept going off because of the pager duty alarms that set off during the races. The kids enjoyed themselves though.
I made my first ever ikebana (photo up the top). I got my kenzan cheap @ daiso, my materials from the backyard and from the neighbours plants. I got inspired to pi
I don't feel like writing today but I'm doing it anyway. Working my way backwards, one thing that stood out today was the incident in the parking lot. Tom -- our car was blemished by someone who was backing up. Good thing it wasn't big. I think the paint just rubbed off. No big dents or anything. I reckon it could be wiped away by using kerosene but then where do I get kerosene here in Australia? Wherelse? Bunnings warehouse!
I'm happy I accomplished a lot today @ work as compared to yesterday it felt like I was just spinning my wheels. Tomorrow I think it will be even more productive because I'll be working on new stuff once again. Rich is an awesome front end developer -- he just keeps on pumpin out code and features. Awesome indeed. I'm happy my review comments to our team's PR gets noticed as well. I really like the fact that our code got better with my insight. It was well received.
Now, I'm reading up on macros. A way to monitor what I eat and help me maintain a good balanced diet. I'm interested to m
