May 21, 2007 (Mon)

yepey!
yes. you heard and read it right. i didn’t know how to ride a bike. i wasn’t exposed to bicycles. my family doesn’t own a bike and perhaps, i wasn’t that interested. a bike was merely a want, not a need.

well, here in Japan, a bike is considered every man’s feet, a need, not a want. young and adults alike have bicycles. and while i maybe capable of having one, i didn’t know how to ride on it. confessing to anyone (here in Japan) that i didn’t know how to, is such a shame. all of them were surprised and did think that i was just kidding. but, no, i wasn’t kidding.

i missed all those bike riding activities and i replaced bike rides with train rides and walks.

until i decided to finally try learning how to. to be honest, it’s hard. i wanted to learn it quick but i couldn’t. i tried moving around the park only to fail. watching young and adults riding on their bike made me feel so frustrated and somehow, i felt a bit discouraged and yeah, so ashamed.

kay was encouraging me and telling to ignore all those surprised faces of both adults and young watching me. she was coaching me how to do it in the way she did it when she was yet learning.

but i never did learn on my first day. i only earned bruises and body pains (esp my butt). but it’s worth another try. i concluded, learning japanese especially kanji is easier than learning how to bike.

i searched the internet for tips but the lists are those that i know. there was no secret revealed that i needed to know to learn quickly.

this morning, i was with another friend, keren. she’s an expert with bike riding and she swore i’d learn in just a single session. so, we went to the park again and she taught me the first few steps to learning how to do it. balancing was the first goal. i rotated the park for perhaps, almost an hour, just trying to balance. and then, i tried putting my legs on the pedal. alas! i did it! in two hours, i learned how to do it.

and i am damn so proud of myself. and i was wrong. learning japanese (kanji esp) is far more difficult than learning to ride the bike.

i think i am the only one in our family who knows how to ride a bike (except my dad). hehe.

i’ve learned that there are some things in life so simple for the majority but so complicated for me. i’ve learned that some things in life are only learned by actual activity and never by theory.

thanks to kay, keren and kagz!

Posted: May 25th, 2007 under Health, Passion, Serious Talk.
Comments: 4

NOPE. 

Well, after two days of not being able to make it, I gave up training myself and grabbed all sorts of medicines to help me out - yogurt, anti-consti pills, oolong tea, green powder, rosehip tea, eater’s digest tea. I just couldn’t live with it any longer.  So, I consumed all my Nihongo (money) to explain to the pharmacist what mondai (problem)  I was into. 

Well, anti-consti pills did help.  The rest, didn’t.

Posted: April 27th, 2007 under Health.
Comments: 1

intro: i wrote it somewhere once.  but for those who haven’t read, i made mention that i do have a digestion problem. it all started when i drank a slimming tea.  i used it for slimming purposes.  that’s it.  however, i noticed that when i skip drinking it, i can’t move bowels.  i just can’t.  my tummy would be so big if i don’t drink the tea.  i tried a lot of fruits/vegetables that people say will help me but to no avail. and so, i continued drinking the tea.  if my memory serves me right, i have been drinking the tea for 5 straight years. until i had to go back to japan last year, and my mom told me, i had to quit.  i tried not drinking the tea for a week but to my dismay i can’t move bowels, so i end up drinking another aid which is actually just like the tea but in tablet form.

i used to drink a 500mg-tablet a day and it used to work.  when i consumed all the tabs that i brought with me, i had my mom send me more.  she sent me 250mg ones, so i had to consume two tabs a day. until it stopped working. and so, i increased the dosage to three tabs (750mg) a day. 

that said, i consumed all the tabs sooner than expected. i consumed all the tabs just last night and although i asked for another meds from back home, it won’t arrive till may 5.

well, that means, i will not be drinking the medicine for like 11 days.  that means, i will be learning how else could i live without that medicine.  maybe this is enough time for me to finally break my dependency or, to really conclude that my dependency is unbreakable.

and this is otherwise saying that, it could either mean i’ll have a bulging tummy until that day or i’d be glad to finally annouce that i break the relationship i used to have with that medicine.

high-fiber diet.
no junk foods.
no peanuts.
no meat.
just fruits and vegetables.

i have to give this another try. this time, it’s stricker. this time, it’s more serious.

will i make it?  is it gonna be agony? or ecstacy?

Posted: April 25th, 2007 under Health, Serious Talk.
Comments: 4

Feb 14, 2007 (Wed) 

today started out just fine. well, my stomach was aching a bit when i woke up but that is just a bit.  i took my jacket and wore my shoes.  off i went jogging for 20 minutes.  stomach check. ops!  aching still.  but only a bit.  rush to work.  read and replied tons of emails to greet friends and loved ones happy vday. 

stomach check.  worse.  then came lunch time.  i didn’t have the appetite to eat what i put inside my lunch box and so i grabbed my po-chi biscuits (cheese flavor) and sip my cold coffee.  that’s it.  that’s lunch.

stomach check.  getting even worse.  dear friend was checking to see if we could go on a group dinner date as we agreed.  i kinda didn’t know what to answer.  dear daddy called up for business-related things.  and then, he asked how i was doing. told him my stomach’s aching but i still could handle.  perhaps, i will need to see the doctor the next day, i told him.  and so, we agreed.

stomach check 2:45 pm.  not getting any better still.  stomach already bulging.  i got to really see the doctor before i end up dragging myself again to get to my place.  and so, i told daddy.

at 3:00pm, i was out of the office again.  it was raining real hard but i didn’t care.  i rushed to see daddy.

“aren’t you pregnant?”  came daddy’s question.

funny.  really funny. 

off we went to see the doctor.  the doctor suspected of it as something caused by a virus.   i insisted it’s not for i knew the type of pain was something beyond that in comparison to the symptoms of that stomachache caused by the virus.  poor me.  the doctor just didn’t mind me.  he said i would need an x-ray of my tummy, which i think means, i need an ultrasound.  but he said it’s so expensive and that he would first want me to try out his wild guess.  darn.  and so, he issued a list of medicines.  we went to the drug store to purchase my meds and off i went to my pad while daddy went to his’.

at 4:30pm i am down on my bed. 

what a lonely valentine’s day!  (i wasn’t even able to distribute the chocolates we bought for the men in the office.)

Posted: February 17th, 2007 under Health, Serious Talk.
Comments: 1