Personality Test from a Freudian Psychoanalytic Approach. Try it! (:

This test follows Freudian Psychoanalytic Approach. 10 questions that is designed to help explain your personality. According to Freud, it works. According to me~well you'll see.
Answer these questions. Don't peek at the end...Post it if you like~but you might want to keep it to yourself. Why? Your personality should be first understood by you yourself FIRST. Plus, well...you'll see why else. So here goes


1) You are walking in the woods. Who are you walking with?
2) You continue walking and you meet an animal. What animal is it?
3) Is there any interaction between you and the animal?
4) Keep walking. You reach a clearing in the woods. You see a house. Your dream house. Describe its size?
5) Is there a fence around it?
6) You walk into the house. Go through the corridor to the dining room. Describe your dining room?
7) Walk across the dining room and exit your house via the back door. You see a cup on the floor in the backyard. What is the cup made up off?
8) What do you do with the cup?
9) You walk on further and see a body of water behind the backyard of your house. What body of water is this?
10) You want to get across this body of water. How do you do so?
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What do your answers say about your personality? These are general answers. If you wish more more specific interpretations, feel free to ask (:
1) The person/people you are walking with are the most important to you currently right now in your life
2) The size of the animal represents the challenges you are currently facing.
3) How you interact with the animal represents how you deal with problems. Eg. If you chase the animal away, it means you tend to face your challenges head-on and eliminate them.
4) The size of the house represents your general ambition.
5) If there is no fence, it generally means you are a more open person.
6) If there is no food, people or roses in your dining room, you are most likely an unhappy person now.
7) The cup represents the people mentioned in Qn 1 and the durability of the cup represents how strong your relationship with them is/will be. Eg. if it is made of say metal (if you imagined/ever saw a metal cup. heh), its real strong. [I find this one to be nonsense really but oh well, thats what Freud said...and he is dead so i can't ask him]
8) What you do with the cup represents what you do with this relationship. Eg. If you pick up the cup and place it carefully by the side, you treasure this relationship and would go all out to preserve it.
9) haha. the size of the body of water represents your sexual libido. [Again I find this to be nonsense...almost everybody dreams of a house by the sea...but Freud claims that unconsciously, that is what we want. the funny thing is that we can't really refute this because we can't really study/measure the unconscious...]
10) how wet you become in the process of crossing the body of water again represents about the same thing as number 9. Eg. If you get soaked then apparently ahem is all you think about. [Again, i don't really agree]

but oh well, hopefully you might have discovered a truth you ignored before~? This is Popular Psychology.

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Anyong! THis is a picture of my schoolmates and I at Marina bay. Somewhere near the Merlion. heh. My teacher is at the top of the pyramid. A tiny funny korean (thus the anyong!) who was bred in America. And as you can see, shes a great person. Shes wearing pink! hahaha. (self-praise lots)

Depressing the life of a modern day kid. Did a little survey in fitness class today. Split the class into 4 groups. Those who sleep at 10pm, 11pm, 12pm, and later than 12pm. Then asked them to regroup according to what time they wake up and how many hours of sleep they get. Adults require around 8 hours of sleep and teens require about 10hours. Guess how many met that requirement...I sound like an old nag but sleep is really important. If you doubt me, and if you know Brother Peterson, I suggest you ask him to tell you his first hand experience about how important sleep is.

Anyway! I am really happy with how my blog is turning out. No more melancholic posts. No more complaining bout this or that. No more muttering about how much I have going on in my life. heh.

Anyway, just to keep things straight, this isn't a pure fitness blog. it is STILL a random blog of mine. Fitness posts will come as and when I feel like it~heh. I mean as and when I receive any inspiration.
Right now I am doing a little section of weight loosing techniques. Touched a little on what exercise must be done~Will give some training plans possibly some time on. What would come on next however would be a section on what you consume, aka your diet. What and how much should you eat if you want to lose weight.

Oh yes, same goes to the philosophical posts and the psychology posts that's coming up. They will be given as and when inspiration comes.

In the mean time, my thoughts go out to y'all. Stay fit, stay happy (: smile more often and you will become happier. Its not just some myth, its part of what we psychologists call "Facial Feedback Theory". According to this theory, your brain interprets feedback from movement of your facial muscles as different emotions. For example, you see a dark shadow in the corner of your room at night. You react by raising your eyebrows and widening your eyes. Your brain then interprets these facial expressions as those associated with fear, and you then feel fear. So likewise, when we smile, our brain interprets the facial expression as those associated with happiness and thus we will become happier! (: so smile!

Yumm yumm CNY...

This is the picture of the campfire in Sabah during class trips. was kinda hot. heh.

so after toying around with various blogskins and messing it up multiple times, I am back to a custom template. BORING! But at least it works. heh.
Went back to Singapore last week and met up with quite a few friends. that was superb. haha. havent seen them all in AGES. haha.
Now CNY is over, I'm back in China, we are all fed to the brim with goodies, time to get the body workin it off. heheh. My next few posts will be targeted specifically at weight lost. Well, briefly at least...I'll target weight lost via exercise first before talking about weight lost via your diet in future posts (:

So I have introduced one workout, push-ups. And honestly, again I stress, it is an awesome exercise. Works a lot of different muscles, gives you a strength and yet a cardiovascular workout, and easy to do anywhere. But this exercise is more of a toning exercise. Won't burn much fat. Why?
When you do push-ups, its a form of resistance exercise (weights etc). Any resistance exercise would naturally work the heart as must pump more blood to those muscles thus increasing the heart-rate. However the burning of fat requires something more.

First condition: The heart must be working at at least 60% of your Resting Heart Rate. Again as a recap, your RHR is number of beats that your heart is Beating Per Minute immediately once you wake up.
Second condition:Your heart must be working at this 60% for at least 30minutes. Any less than that, you are just sweating and not burning fat.

So unless you do push-ups for 30mins, it isn't going to help you burn much fat. An important exercise? YES! But not going to burn much fat.
So does that mean you have to jog/run for 30min to burn fat? Well, just running for that long can be rather dull maybe. So find something that you like to do! Play soccer, uh Ultimate frisbee! Dodgeball! haha. I love that game. Or just go for a cycle at the park. Find something fun but yet challenging for you.
Now there's some magic involved. You don't have to exercise 30min EVERY SINGLE DAY to burn calories. Say today is Monday and you play badminton for 45 minutes and you burned uh 800 calories during that time. The magic is that for the next 24 hours, you will continue burning another 800 calories! Thus from a 45 minutes workout, you burn 1600 calories in all!
Your effort carries forward. A teeeny bit of science now. When you exercise, your metabolism is sped up. It will continue working at that increased rate for the next 24hrs and thus you continue to burn calories. If you continue working out every alternate day, your metabolism would work consistently at that higher rate. If you don't however, your metabolism slows down and you will need to re-crank it up again. It is harder to re-crank it up than to maintain. Therefore, consistency is the best! So find that activity that you wanna do (:

Makes sense? If no, leave a tag or comment and I will get to it.
Don't lie to yourself. haha. laugh

The first 15min workout

Simplicity is the best. And that is exactly what we will do. We'll start off simple because really, the simpler the exercise the better. So what is on the menu? Push-ups. Simple, but effective. Push-ups works a whole range of muscles. Your biceps and triceps (thats your arms), your chest (thats your uh chest...hah), your back muscles, your whole abdominal (stomach area and sides) and your hamstrings. One workout, and more than 6 major muscles worked. Not a bad deal no? And honestly your work out would probably take less than 15mins. Lets run through the workout step-by-step.

1) Stretch
The first thing we need to do is warm up our muscles by stretching. 1 MAIN stretch we have to do.
Place your hand on a wall, straighten your arm, and push forward. This stretches your chest. Hold the position for 10x3 seconds and do for both arms.

2) The workout: Push-ups

As I said, this workout is easy but works a lot of muscles. So the basic push-up we all know.

Body straight, go down till your arms have bent at least 90 degrees. Now HOLD at the down position for 1 second, then come back up.
How many should you do?
For beginners:
Do 3 sets of push-ups. For each set, do till exhaustion (do it until you cant do anymore!) Now for the first set you might be able to do 13~the second set 7~and the third set just 2. Its perfectly fine. As you do this exercise daily, you will find that this number will increase.
For more advanced groups:
Set a target of how many push-ups you want to do per day. 100-300 push-ups is a good number to work with. Now split this number up into challenging but yet manageable sets. I currently do 20 per set.
Now if you are not able to do a regular push-up~or if you are on your 18th set of 20 push-ups but you are hurtingggg~Go into the knee position and continue on. DO NOT STOP EVEN IF IT HURTS.

When you are doing a knee push-up, you are still lifting about 50% of your body weight! It feels alot easier, but you are still getting an awesome workout (yes contrary to popular belief, it aint a sissy push-up). So if you are totally blown out on your last set, just go to this position. You are overloading your muscles (this is a good thing) and you are still getting a good workout.
For those who are not able to do a single regular push-up, do this knee variation. Instead, go down to the count of 10, and come up to the count of 10. Again, do 3 sets till exhaustion.
3) Do the same stretches as a cool down
your muscles only grow if they are stretched after they are worked! this is of vital importance.

Remember the key to anything is consistency. Keep up with this everyday and you will see spectacular results after awhile.
And so cheers! This is your first 15min (or less) workout.