day 273 – no power?? no problem

April 30, 2014 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #amazing, #ambience, #canamchampionship, #dedication, #demo, #experience, #finalrehearsal, #headlights, #humpday, #nothingwillstopus, #notimetowaste, #nowornever, #ovaldemo, #poweroutage, #practice, #preparation, #richmondoval, #tkd, #workhard | Leave a comment

it’s what we call dedication when we practiced through a power outage during our final rehearsal for richmond oval demo. it was hot, it was crowded, it was dark but with the help of a few headlights, we pulled it through a two hour rehearsal in darkness. it was quite a fun and amazing experience

day 272 – richmond city hall

April 29, 2014 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #architecturaldrawings, #governmentjobs, #granville, #impolite, #landscape, #overpaid, #richmond, #richmondcityhall, #rude, #tightdeadline | Leave a comment

paying richmond city hall a visit in a very rushed manner to submit some drawings and made it five minutes before deadline. first time stepping into a city hall, these government paid staff are so rude and impolite yet they get incredible salary and benefits for the job they do, not to forget their good working hours

day 271 – canadian bills

April 28, 2014 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #artifact, #bills, #canadiandollar, #collection, #inflation, #money, #paperbills, #plasticbills, #throughthedecades, #timeflies | Leave a comment

random interest in collecting full sets of canadian bills. how things have evolved through the decades from traditional paper to modern plastic. those one and two dollar bills no longer exist due to years of inflation. goods keep getting more expensive and standard of living continues to rise, yet the economy seems to be on decline

day 270 – strong urge

April 27, 2014 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #bepatient, #cautious, #commitments, #focus, #hardcourt, #holdoff, #nationals, #noaction, #nothingbutrest, #nowornever, #setmypriorities, #stayput, #summer, #sunnydays, #tennis, #tennisballs, #training, #urge | Leave a comment

mr sun is out, the weather is changing for the better, i want to be out on the hardcourt hitting my green balls. at the same time i know i have to hold off and set my priorities straight for much more pressing issues. no hardcourt, no other sports and minimal dodgeball until i return from nationals. i can’t afford to have any hiccups because i have already committed to compete. i can look forward to having a lot of playing time this summer after competition

day 269 – universal icons

April 26, 2014 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #article, #automatic, #graphics, #howitcametobe, #icon, #interpretation, #magazine, #powerful, #random, #signs, #technology, #throughthedecades, #universal, #worldwide, #worthathousandwords | Leave a comment

came across a pretty interesting article describing how our everyday icons are designed and how it came to be. these simple signs are universal it’s amazing how our brain registers it and automatically interprets it. something humans of a few generations ago wouldn’t have known or understoood

day 268 – spanking new

April 25, 2014 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #abouttime, #brandnew, #dojo, #feelsgood, #inwiththenew, #justintime, #legit, #nationalsbound, #nationalsstandard, #outwiththeold, #practice, #slippery, #taekwondomats, #timeforchange, #tkd, #training, #trainingmats, #upgrade | Leave a comment

it brings so much joy to see that we finally replaced the old green and yellow mats with these spanking new blue and red. depised the old mats that caused me to sprain both my knees on the same day the night before my most important competition thus far. installed just in time to let us practice on these mats and prepare for nationals. with this change, the school looks completely different and so much more legit in every way, i hope there will be more equipment replacements to follow

day 267 – nike frees

April 24, 2014 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #colours, #comfy, #expenses, #freeyourself, #gym, #honeycomb, #investments, #lookinggood, #loveatfirstsight, #mycollection, #newkicks, #nikefree5.0, #nikefreerun, #noexcuse, #purple, #shoes, #shopping, #shoptilidrop, #train, #unmatched, #workhard | Leave a comment

spending a fortune these days and this time i invested in another pair of nike frees that i have been eyeing since it first came out. the style and colour had me from the very beginning, i guess this is what you call love at first sight. utterly most comfortable shoes ever and will need to take extra good care of this pair. but as long as i work hard, it will be worth every penny

day 266 – training gloves

April 23, 2014 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #calluses, #geared, #gymlife, #gymrat, #humpday, #inthemaking, #necessity, #nike, #noexcuses, #nostoppingmenow, #nowornever, #onestepatatime, #progress, #readytotrain, #setmyownlimit, #setnewlimit, #shutupandsquat, #shutupandtrain, #squats, #train, #traininggloves, #turniton, #weightlift, #workhard | Leave a comment

waited so long for sportchek to restock these gloves and they are finally within my grasp. they feel a bit more snug than i’d like but i’ll break them in. if the style that i was eyeing was not sold out, i should have gotten gloves a while back to lessen my worries of calluses. i guess now there’s no reason or excuse to slack off with the lifting

day 265 – hoops at pub night

April 22, 2014 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #bball, #caloricalert, #cheatday, #fatty, #fishandchips, #food, #gametwo, #ginormous, #goodcompany, #gooddays, #goodeats, #hoops, #nba, #nbapostseason, #originaljoe, #playoffgame, #pub, #quesadilla, #sweetpotatofries, #torontoraptors, #wethenorth, #whitefood, #win | Leave a comment

catching a raptors playoff win while enjoying good eats and sharing quality moments with fellow hamberite. can’t stop staring at the amazingly ginormous original joe’s fish and chips. we obviously ordered way too much food for just the two of us and the worst is we both failed to take the leftover packed food on our way out. at least the raptors series all tied up heading to brooklyn

day 264 – keep at it

April 21, 2014 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #buildup, #busylife, #elliptical, #getstronger, #gymlife, #gymrat, #makingprogress, #necessity, #nodaysoff, #noexcuses, #nomorelaziness, #onestepatatime, #partoflife, #partofmylife, #routine, #squats, #train, #turniton, #weightlift, #workforit, #workhard | Leave a comment

keeping my routine and not skipping even when my schedule is completely overloaded head high. it’s important i don’t sacrifice my gym time because i learned to build up slowly and take the necessary steps that will eventually get me to where i want to be. must work for it since nothing comes overnight

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