so this week has been a rather power packed one. this month actually was awesome. Where should I start.
Last weekend there was Youth Conference! Combined Beijing Shanghai District Conference was rather awesome. Met some cool people.
Like Marissa Cox. Her dad is the Branch President of the Beijing Branch and he used to live in Singapore because his dad used to be a mission president in the 1970s. Then theres Jonathan a Venezuelan dude who bunked with me. Spoke very little english. Off to serve his mission in less than a month. Awesome testimony.
Then found that SIngapore person living in Shanghai. lol. Kimberly. small world no?

THen there was the Acoustic at Andes gig on tuesday. great experience, great turnout. sang the songs i wanted to~made the jokes i wanted to. album would be burned soon i think. i guess. i hope.

To round of the awesomeness, took part in the All China Gaelic and Rugby Championship on saturday. I was the youngest player. lol. got into the semi-finals tho so that was good. In one game this dude was super mad at me coz he claimed i tackled him to rough. but pleaseee. he was like 2 heads taller than me can...but good run. had a great run with my team.

well...parents are going a little cranky. i'll update more tomorrow!

(:
to my good-ol'-buddy-as-good-as-a-sister of a friend

it was nice calling you today
even for that few minutez
yes it was very much the random
and yes i got cut off (gotta top up card again)

have a greaaaaat week back at school
(:

Some random cool stuff~(Part 2)

This is the equivalent of Kandace's temporary post. Minus the cool picture. and Minus the intellectual banter. haha

Something cool learned today in church again. It wasn't the nails that kept Christ on the cross. It was His pure love for us. In Heaven, God asked for someone to be our Savior. Christ got chosen. He was to suffer for our sins and did so in the garden of Gethsemane. But in the end, He also suffered for all our ailments, illnesses, sadness, heartaches, pains...EVEN THOUGH that wasn't part of the contract that he agreed to in Heaven. He decided to suffer it for us. So that instead of just redeeming us. He can now put His arms around us. And say to us. Be of good cheer. I have suffered even as thee. Be of good cheer. It soon shall pass.

Doctrine and Covenants 122:8 "The Son of Man hath descended below them all. Art thou greater than he?"

I used to be confused over this scripture. If He is below all, how can He be greater than us. Received this thought halfway through class today. Because He descended below all things, because He experienced everything. He knows how to help us rise above out daily difficulties. There is now no human problem beyond his capability to solve.

In army terms, Christ went beyond his call of duty. He is a true example of servant leadership.
This is just a thought for this Easter Season. (:

coming up~
Ancient China and the Gospel
Significance of the Passover: Its symbols. The meanings. All from an ex-Jew turned LDS.
Significance of the plagues: Why were frogs sent. Was it random...
Fitness nutrition post

Some random cool stuff~(Part 1)

Take a look at the Old Testament. You will see that there is Lord and LORD. whats the difference? LORD refers to Jehovah. Lord refers to Elohim or Heavenly Father. Cool? So now when you read Genesis and the creation, use this new info. I suggest looking at Isiah 6 too. You can see the 2 kinds of Lord there. That explains why some churches think the Father and the Son are one.
Just a little tidbit of info. There will be one more such tidbit~then the fitness tip for this week. I've gotta blog bout my time back in Singapore too. Will get to it soon (:

Extend your life span with these...

I am proud of my nation. Proud of the sports team that we have. And so when I read of the slackness in the National Team. I got mad. Overslept? Smoking in the locker room at half-time? Really mad. Put aside professionalism. I don't care if you don't have that. You are wearing my county's color. So please. Live up to it.
This is the picture of the jetty at Survivor Island Sabah. I loved to sit out on the hammock out on the jetty. It was so relaxing.

What you do has a great impact on who you are. But often times, people make choices out of ignorance. Out of a lack of information. They make choices for all the wrong reasons. Today I'm going to list out some choices and how they can influence your life. These tips can not only help you to loose weight, but be healthy overall, increasing your life span as a result.!

1) Becoming a vegetarian = I have great admiration for vegetarians. How they manage to abstain from meat I have no idea. (But yet again people wonder how I can abstain from coffee & alcohol etc. so may it isn't much of a surprise.) Being a vegan can help reduce your risk of having heart diseases. However, it does not mean you will become slimmer. On the contrary, many vegans tend to put on more weight (An interesting phenomenon, I'll be searching on why this is the case). Here is the thing I want to highlight. Being a vegan can increase your life span by about 1.5 years. Keep this number in mind as we compare other choices and how many years they increase your life span by.

2) Having a normal Body Mass Index (BMI) = Having a normal height to weight ratio would mean that you are keeping your fats under control! So you don't have to worry that you are fat. Achieve this? Add about 2 years to your life!

3) Having and following an exercise program = HAVE and FOLLOW an exercise program. Again~find something that you like to do. Remember. If you want to lose weight, each session must be 30mins long with your HR over 65%.
If you want to be healthy~15minutes, 3 times a week, at least 65% of your HR. Daily, you must walk AT LEAST 10,000 steps. This is the minimum requirement to BE healthy. Really. Minimum. So walk that extra step to the bus stop. Park a little farther from the entrance of the grocery store. Do this, and add 2.5 years to your life.

4) Eating Nuts = I honestly think this is fascinating. There are bad fats, and there are good fats. Nuts are packed with good fats that can stimulate brain activity among other things! Incorporate nuts into your diet. Eat nuts 5 times or more a week and you reduce your chance of getting a heart disease by about 60%. It is found that people who eat nuts tend to become thinner. Eat nuts regularly? Add 2.5 years to your life! AMAZING ain't it? But what then are the best nuts to eat. Research says that almonds are. Almonds are high in protein and heart friendly (: Try getting those natural ones. If you must, roast them. They taste good that way. Make sure your almonds have a low salt content. Why? Read on to find out.

5) Have a normal blood pressure = Maintain a normal blood pressure and add approximately 4 years to your life! How do you do that? Cut back on those salts. Want chips? Get it lightly salted. Cook with less salt. Once you consume salt your blood pressure takes a HUGE jump each time. A high blood pressure means that your heart has to, and is working harder than what it should and that is bad.

6) Do not smoke = Just to keep things even, I'm writing a number 6. If you are not a smoker, you add AT LEAST 2.5 years to your health. Hurray for us Mormons. heh

So it is interesting to note how being a vegan apparently has the least impact on your life. But so lets sum it up. 4 things (I'm not gonna add in being a vegan), and that would add on approx. 13.5years to your life. I hardly need to tell you that 13.5 years is a heck of a long time more that you will be breathing. So start changing your life today. Hope you follow these tips. And as a suggestion, start small. The easiest thing is to ADD things onto your diet so up that nuts intake as a start (: small steps! cheers!
In the next few sections I'll be jumping even deeper, giving more suggestions on nutrition.

p.s. A bodybuilding section is gonna be coming up soon!

Phobias

So I'm doing a seminar on anxiety disorders and phobia is one of 'em. So I went to search for videos of phobias and this is just HILARIOUS. give it a watch!

you are what you eat...(broken my PR for push-ups and chin-ups)

I think this picture is epic. This is taken in Sabah, Malaysia. It is on an island where they filmed the very first Survivor series. So there is this mud volcano that we visited and the teacher threw out a dare. Who dares to submerge them-self fully in the mud. And so. hah. yar the picture speaks for itself.

So I am rather confused. Psychology ain't helping. I'm supposed to be able to read minds and behaviors but I can't read that person's. I learnt about how to analyze dreams but I REFUSE to accept what my dreams are telling me.

As I said, I will blog a little about weight loss via watching one's diet. I'll go one step further and talk about healthy eating as a whole.
So I think we know by now that the thing that girls do~not eating lunch or wtvr~they call that dieting, I call that starvation~that is really unhealthy and doesnt really do much to help you lose weight. To be healthy, and to lose weight, small, regular balanced meals are the best. Why?

Say you ate dinner, but skipped breakfast the next morning. Do that a few more times and this is what would happen. Your body recognizes that it would not get food in the morning. Thus after dinner, the body automatically moves into "starvation mode". What happens then is that your dinner would not be digested entirely. Instead, the body stores the food as fats so that it can be used the next day when you skip breakfast. So REGULAR MEALS important. This ensures a regular and constant metabolism that will effectively digest the food so that you get enough energy, and the food does not get stored as fats.

So thats a little about healthy eating, much more will be coming up. Tips on HOW to eat, WHAT to eat, and the BENEFITS that you would enjoy.