As you may already know I have been to the gym for April and now is May, which is around more than a month or two now. I feel great going to the gym since I don’t have a chance to play Tennis much, I love Tennis even more but for the fact that my feet are not fully recovered yet, therefore I cannot go to the court for a drill. Therefore, going to the gym is one of the best and the only option for me for now.
In the afternoon, I pick up some stuff. One of the most important things I received today, was the eyeglasses string strap holder. I was thinking about replacing the eye frame a few days ago, but then today I decided to keep this glass because it still fit with the prescription. I have been using the glass for more than 2 years already and it’s definitely still good for me. Except that the frame is kind of loose. It loses so bad that when I just bow down (to pick up a weight for example), the eyeglasses just drop. By having this strap, I am no longer having the issue, the glasses stick to my eyes and never fall. What a great deal, I just saved a few hundred bucks by simply purchasing a 14-dollar item. By the way, it’s a pair of straps. Therefore I have a spare one for my other glasses as well (my other glasses are for sport and are also serving as a backup pair of glass, it’s not as good as this one like the weight is more and also it cannot dim under sunlight, the blue light filter is also not as good). The rest of the items are mostly for health purposes, like peanut butter powder, the body scale, ZMA (Zinc, Mg supplement), CLA (sunflower oil supplement), and Tart cherry extract (the anti-oxidant supplement). Yes, that’s pretty much it for this month’s shopping, I do spend huge for health though. This is at least what I can prioritize and take control of now.
(please don’t mind about the communism keycap, it’s just for decoration & fun, but if you’re disturbed by it, I am sorry, and f*ck off)
After that, I went to the gym and met Omar, a guy with a great smile, he looks fit and energetic, and he is definitely experienced in the fitness industry since he’s managed to make himself so lean. I like to have some chat so I decide to approach him to ask about his diet. Actually, in the beginning, I was kind of shy about speaking to a stranger, but since there was another guy who already chatted with him, I decided to join the group. I think the other guy’s name is Franciso, he’s hairy, a really big guy. These guys must have already been in the town for years, unlike me, I am the new guy so I definitely am not really familiar with everything yet. Although, for the fact that I already feel bored living here, since there is not much news to discover and explore. I may think about traveling a longer distance from my area to see something new. But you see, in Canada or any country on Earth, their cities are built similarly to one another. But for the fact that I have never been to Toronto. I might try one day, not sure when, but whenever the weather is good and I have a good plan to travel where and when. I mean I like to travel alone, I am fine with being alone, it’s just that I like to share things, and if I do need to share my stuff, I can definitely share it here, on my own blogging site, so it doesn’t matter where I go, I feel like I can do it, with confident. Anyways, back to the story in the gym. I talked with Omar, and he shared about his diet, it’s a keto-related diet, and I like this diet since I also lost a bunch of weight by applying the carnivore diet. He lost like 40 lbs (or 18kg) within 3 months. This is a huge deal since it takes huge discipline to eat just protein within 3 months and also lose an absurd weight of 6 kg per month. This was exactly what happened to me the same back when I was 103 kg in 2020. You know that, I pay huge respect to anyone who can lose that much weight in a short period, especially with the guy who actually looks already lean from the beginning, he’s not fat at all.
Earlier that day, I also met a new roommate, I mean housemate rather. She’s taking an Airbnb stay in the house that I am living in. The girl is the same age as my sister, and she’s in 2nd year of university in a different city (I can’t mention too much here since I try to protect people’s privacy at a certain level). Anyway, she’s a good-looking girl, energetic, and I believe she will do good in the future since I see that she is confident and smart. I mean anyone who arrived here is special at some point, they are away from home and they have to do everything on their own, you know, building a life themselves and get to know everything. I try to be friends with everyone that have goodwill though, it’s just that I have been an introvert for my whole life, people might think that I am a difficult guy and hard to deal with. But the fact that, despite looking cold from the outside, I am very warm inside, trust me, I don’t have many friends but if you’re a friend of mine, I will be loyal.
The thing I am also curious about is how people are so good at traveling. I mean most of the folks I meet here are traveling a lot, they are like going from town to town and taking hours of driving. I have to say that the Canadians in general love going around from city to city. Or am I just a guy who is lazy in traveling? Maybe everybody in this world loves traveling and they don’t mind spending hours in a vehicle to move to different places. I am curious about how other cities are different from Mississauga. But will see, I think I am the kind of guy who is too introverted and always stays at home instead of going around, am I wasting my youth? But I don’t really care though, I mean as long as I am doing good with whatever I am doing and if I feel OK then it’s OK. If there is something not good that affects my mood my health and my finances and stuff, I certainly will attempt to fix it.
It’s raining a lot today as well. It’s a typical spring day and everybody is getting wet going outside. The rain was definitely heavier than the previous rainy day I experienced. Or maybe today was the only day that I decided to bike outside. Besides the rain, the sky is kind of grey too, it’s not a pretty day today but it’s definitely one of the kinds of weather I am already familiar with. Hanoi in the early spring is also very grey and dark, in other words, it is as cloudy as it is here. The difference is that, in GTA the rain is less dense and the sky is much more blue. These are my observations of the weather and the sky for May 2024.
