Articles Tagged ‘futility’
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Fitness and other ludicrous fantasies
Saturday, May 10, 2008 2:57 PM
Staying healthy?
I’m trying to get back to some semblance of fitness.
My little guy is a bit young for organized sports, although the older son did play basketball and football in school.
Myself, the occasional hike and a light workout.
We have a rowing cycle and some dumbbells. amazingly enough, they do get used.
We were in the mountains last weekend.The area is called Pandaan. It’s about two hours away from Surabaya. We were quite close to Tretes.The mountains are stunning.
A few references were made to “Gurus in the mist.”
Not the lamest of puns that day.
Still sporting a nasty bruise. A sudden rain hit and I went sliding off the side of the mountain and bounced off a couple of trees. I think the local foliage came off worse than me.
One of the guides said I flew about 6 meters.
How’s that for eco-terrorism?
Don’t like those trees?
Launch the chubby Canuck at them.
Ended up with a nasty gash along my side, some interesting colour for a couple of weeks, and a pulled muscle. Thank(insert deity/role model/superstition here) for traditional massage.
I’ve added a healthy diet to my exercise and am showing some signs of progress.
Although it may seem sacrilegious(even to a non-betting man) I have slowed my consumption of beer to weekends only. So far 5 kilos have departed for parts unknown. I suspect they’re lurking and may pounce once this current hysteria for health leaves me.
All the best,Wayne,Emily and Wyatt
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Friday, March 16th, 2007
Oooops
This is supposed to be a travel blog, and I haven’t traveled anywhere for some time.
Last year we returned to Indonesia. I made two trips to China. I stayed in Hong Kong,Wenzhou,Xian and Zhuhai. What have I done for you lately?
Nothing.
My excuse? I’m working. I work five days a week, usually not six. I have a family here and we just don’t get away that often.
That’s not to say that we don’t occasionally enjoy life. We get out to the pub. We go to the mall. We watch movies in the cinema, or on DVD. Add to that I’m as physically active as any other 45 year-old couch potato.
Hope your life is as much fun as mine.
All the best,Wayne
Posted in Family, fitness, futility, Indonesia, Java, Life outside of work, Living the dream, overseas living, Surabaya, tefl, tesol, Tesol certification, Travel, tropics, vacation | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
I'm afraid it looks grim for our hero ... the blender's on puree
I have a lead on a job here,but it's a fairly tenuous one. What the hey ... most of my life is tenuous
By chance I ran into ...
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Saturday, October 1st, 2005
Pandas and pedicabs
Pandas and pedicabs
We visited Chengdu last week
A holiday before the holiday
I took a few days so I could spend time with my wife and son and visit a friend
Steve, who taught with me in Jinzhou and Changsha, is ...
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Monday, April 18th, 2005
We talked about what was possible,doable and useful.
Should I fly to Canada?
Mom had died.
I had suspected as much after the first cryptic email. Or, to be more precise, I had an inkling of this after the first email and the ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
The day dawns inappropriately bright. Snow covers the ground and the way is icy.
We arrive at the church
I had not seen my mom in five years and this was not the way I'd wanted to see her again
She lay there ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
I'm back in Canada
Unfortunately it's to attend a funeral
On Friday night I checked my email and had a couple of cryptic messages ... call home/urgent and words to that effect
So I dug through my phone list and called home
Mom has ...
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2005
Seems no matter how often you work with people they can't resist the urge to revert to type. The parable of the scorpion and the frog comes to mind ... (and you have to look for that yourself)
Last week was ...
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Monday, February 28th, 2005
I still think of the old days occasionally. There were, thankfully, more good times than bad times. I realize that's almost an
Edie Brickell song.
The Old Days There have been a few changes ...
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Saturday, February 26th, 2005
After the Winter Course 2005
We'd just finished winter course and had some travel arranged ... we took off for Hainan. Hainan is in the south of China. Actually a tropical island. ... [Continue reading this entry] Posted in About Me, Alumni, At the office, Bali, Before the PRC, Certification, Changsha, China, customer service, ESL, Family, fitness, futility, gap-year, Hainan, Hunan, Indonesia, Java, Life outside of work, Living the dream, overseas living, tefl, tesol, Tesol certification, Top Ten list, Travel, tropics, vacation | 14 Comments »
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