divertion
luckily, these past few days, in my unofficial "recovery" phase, i've got some activities which help me keep my mind, at least for some hours in a day, off the recent heartbreak. these include:
1. playing badminton - for some months now, i've been playing with this guy (straight and not a karirable creature) whom i knew thru a badminton ygroup at a court near our place. courtesy of him i was able to learn some basic techniques and develop my smashing skills. i still can be classified as an average player but he says i've already improved. playing has also become my weekly exercise since i've stopped going to the gym.
2. reading a book - an feu student whom i've exchanged bj's with twice lent me a copy of the da vinci code last week. i've yet to reach the middle part of the novel, but hands-down, the plot's a winner.
3. attending class - my twice-a-week (tues-wed, 5:30-8pm) mandarin class at the dfa's foreign service institute. as i've said in my other blog, learning the language is pretty confusing at first, but it's cool getting the sounds and the tones correctly. the whole program actually covers six semesters for two years, with the first running until april.
of course, the memories are still quite fresh, once in a while especially when something or someone makes you remember stuff associated with the person or with the things you used to do, it all starts to haunt you back. the most effective way to speed up this phase after all, i guess, is finding someone who can make me smile again. hopefully, the story never gets to have a similar ending.
1. playing badminton - for some months now, i've been playing with this guy (straight and not a karirable creature) whom i knew thru a badminton ygroup at a court near our place. courtesy of him i was able to learn some basic techniques and develop my smashing skills. i still can be classified as an average player but he says i've already improved. playing has also become my weekly exercise since i've stopped going to the gym.
2. reading a book - an feu student whom i've exchanged bj's with twice lent me a copy of the da vinci code last week. i've yet to reach the middle part of the novel, but hands-down, the plot's a winner.
3. attending class - my twice-a-week (tues-wed, 5:30-8pm) mandarin class at the dfa's foreign service institute. as i've said in my other blog, learning the language is pretty confusing at first, but it's cool getting the sounds and the tones correctly. the whole program actually covers six semesters for two years, with the first running until april.
of course, the memories are still quite fresh, once in a while especially when something or someone makes you remember stuff associated with the person or with the things you used to do, it all starts to haunt you back. the most effective way to speed up this phase after all, i guess, is finding someone who can make me smile again. hopefully, the story never gets to have a similar ending.