Moving out

I argue with my dad more and more often, since I'm back home and start working, and even more since he lost his mother lately.

Our relationship use to be confined to the classic stereotype of father-teenage daughter conflict. There, I use to be the fervent teenage daughter who has existed in every story since the beginning of time. And my dad, fitting the character of authoritarian master of the house, labels me as simply another rebellious young person. He has always been well-disposed for a talk and we've always reached an agreement.

Today, things are getting the other way around. I'm the adult and my dad is acting like a child! But he's still treating me the way he use to do few years ago and I can't handle it ! I just can't handle to quarrel with my parents anymore.

One night last week, before I turned the lights off to go to bed, he jumped in and started my computer as if I weren’t there. He was pumping on the keyboard and didn’t even have a look on my way. I was shocked and upset. I felt my dad had violated the privacy of my room. Is he concidering that it’s all his house and as I’m not paying any rent, I don’t have any privacy in here ? Or is he so used to me away that he sometimes forget that I’m back ? Wasn’t it my parents who were crying asking me back ???

I tried to make it work out, but I can't bear it anymore. I'm tired to argue for nothing each time, I'm sick of giving account for my behaviour, I need some peaceful place to settle in.. A place that will be mine and where I can feel comfortable.. That’s why, I’m finally moving out of my parents house (not too early though) But on my age, there will be no come back.. Hope I'll be chilling cosy in my place by the beginning of March :-)

The Gym

I’ve been thinking about it for quite some time.. I knew I need to get my butt to the gym and start working out. I knew I’ve gotten myself out of shape and an hour or so in the gym tow or three days a week sure wouldn't hurt.

Then, I've finally done so! I went down to the local fitness club and asked about the weekly program. I even went to the sport’s mart and got myself some new exercise outfits. My first course was a disaster.. But I came back the next day and I don’t regret it, I just can’t stop bodybuilding!

For the last six months, I’ve been going to the gym at an average of four days a week and I absolutely love it. I definitely feel good about it. I can see my biceps slowly coming into place. My leg muscles started showing up as well, my knees growing hollow. My chest is looking better too. I have a lot more confidence now, if not a little big headed because it seems that I’m sexy now. More smiles, more guys looking my way.

After an entire day sitting in the office, instead of going back home alone and eating some junk food in front of a movie, I do enjoy meeting my new friends in the gym, working out for around three hours, having that hot shower and get to bed for a long night sleep.

Su Doku

I was lost in the middle of nowhere, my first night in that tiny grimy backpackers on Pitt Street in Sydney .. There, came into my life the utterly addictive number-placing puzzle called : Su Doku.

In Japan , they don't do many crosswords, they make Su Doku instead. The name is Japanese, roughly translating as 'Number Place'. Should be added a health warning: it is seriously addictive !

Since the first puzzle appeared into my life, thousands were devoured in buses, beaches and camping places, planes and airports, waiting rooms, etc. Today, there is always an incomplete game on my desk for a few minutes break at work. I either start or end my day by tackling this 'crossword without words'.

Unlike crossword, you don't need to speak any particular language to get sucked into a Su Duko puzzle. Indeed, technically speaking, you don't even need to know how to count. You simply have to fit every digit from 1 to 9, in any order into each row (left to right), each column (top to bottom) and each box (of nine squares).

I have introduced the Su Doku to some friends. Few have complained that some puzzles were just unsolvable, only to see the solutions at the end of the book, while others have been equally disgruntled to have solved them in minutes. A colleague kept missing her stop because apparently, she couldn't resist making them on her daily bus journey! I can feel she hates me for that now..

So, why don't you also give it a try ?
Remember, you don't need to be a mathematical genius to solve these puzzles; it is simply a matter of logic!

Welcome on board

Hi folks!

I've catched the virus few months ago and this eve, I finally made the step toward creating "my own blog"

Very pleased to join the blogosphere..