Archive for February 7th, 2007

07
Feb

an experiment on discipline

hmmm…

i got to thinking… since this year kicked off, i realized that i’ve stopped doing what i purported to be the things i couldn’t let go.

morning taxi ride
yep, every day in the last three years of my life, i take a cab to get me to my destination. it’s only this year that i started acquainting myself with good old jeepneys. mein, counting the money that i could have saved from taxi fare is giving me the shivers:

no. of days/month   x    avg. daily taxi fare   = monthly taxi expense

          26                x              100                = 2,600

monthly taxi expense x 3 years [months] = total savings
          2,600                      36                = PhP 93,600

this is not counting the times that i take the taxi during evenings [which is also often]
*** wahhh, i could have used the money to travel to great places in the country or perhaps another asian country by now if i saved the taxi money… read vet: COULD HAVE

weekend movies
watching movies on weekends or sometimes weekdays is one of my favorite stress "relievers". however, this year i haven’t stepped inside the cinemas at all. if my memory serves me, the last flick i saw was zang ziyi’s the banquet.

time zone hoops
haha, i haven’t reloaded my timezone card for months now. the last time i visited 4th-level timezone was about that time when pirates 3 was shown. reason i remembered: i changed my boring green timezone card with a johnny depp pirates of the carribean edition card:)

dinner outs
well, as much as i love food…i’m trying to curb the penchant for fastfood. i’m temporarily saying goodbye to my favorite fastfood joints..flame it, cafe de france, mac joy, red ribbon, shakey’s, and burritos… temporary because who knows if i can successfully manage to stay away from these places… will definitely miss tacos and burritos, and the all-day breakfast of cafe de france… well, i’m trying to pick up from my last experiment; which is to see if it’d help my adenomyosis condition. i read from the book i bought, about using the nutrition approach to healing of endometriosis, the food serve in fastfoods are the types of foods that makes me symptomatic.

let’s just see how far i can go and how long i can sustain this little experiment…..