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New Year's Resolution

weekly update #24 (128)

Just a day over.

#1 more regular Al-Quran reciting

With the same pace, I was just done with Surah Taha and now moving onto Surah Anbiya'. Ouch, just once. Ooh, just another one as well. And another one. Ouch, no dice. Shoot, where does the dice go? No, seriously! Where is it? Did I really lost it? Maybe it was just pure laziness? Definitely that. Yeah... This is my last chance. I guess this year is an off year for me. There's a second half of the year still left, right? I will get to it... eventually. Eventually... Eventually... Eventually...

#2 weekly adequate exercises

With the combination of the shutdown and the start of Ramadhan, I need to make the best use of this predicament, and I did for the past couple of days of light exercises. Whether I can keep it up is still up in the air...

With my sleeping patterns back to normal (i.e. sleeping actually at night), now I could jog in the eve of the morning around the neighborhood for a short mile. It's been three straight days now and I want to see if it will keep on going... And I couldn't keep it up with intermittent rest days throughout the week, but I think it's for the best with the morning jogs and weight reps filling up the rest of the days. Man, I miss the feeling of being drenched in sweat! Not keeping up with last week's schedule but I am going down in weights, so that's nice, even if only 0.3.kg. The scale brought down just at the end of the end of Ramadhan but I think it was well worth all the fasting, based on my own hunch. My first time playing basketball again with the others, and I thought my knees were okay, until the night came that is. All those rest still won't work! Actually went into the sea with my basketball buddies just yesterday for a change of pace. My knees hurt for a moment but then I just enjoyed the water with them for over an hour and a half. That was fun! Trying to play every day again but my knee started acting up again... If basketball isn't good for my knees, what about jogging? It's good so far... Having the Mi Band really encourage me to be much more active than before, especially to reach that daily step counts. I couldn't do 8,000 steps just yet so and six has been the next best thing. With now ten days streak under my belt with the combination of basketball and light jog, my muscles felt much more strained than before but the knees didn't buckled as much as before. The key is to keep to your own pace and not exert yourself too far above your daily threshold.

#3 more regularized Funko POP designs

From twenty to eighteen and now back up to twenty two... and now twenty three!!! Ooh, almost there... twenty five is quite the achievement for me. Okay, now I'm done! THIRTY, BABY!!! I want to stop but I guess I can't... even four less is so much already. From twenty six to to twenty six. I'm just happy being able to take a breather once in awhile. Well, I'm back to it, baby! Ooh, thirty again. Nice! How about that... THIRTY SIX!!! WOO!!! Thirty is good enough. Two less but I'm just happy I got out four pieces daily consistently. I guess twenty eight is the magic number for now... The turnaround is a little faster this time around because I didn't keep much sketches back-catalog as before. With all the trouble I had to endure between Ramadhan and Syawal, twenty is good considering. Less is more... right? I just don't want to rush anymore... Getting better and that's enough for me! I guess it's an off week for me. From eight to fifteen. Trying to bounce back! Off, a bit off but still good nonetheless!

#4 pray full for the whole year

I actually done a whole week's worth. Hooray! Another full week into the docket! Okay! Another one, woo! Thrice now! I finally stumbled a bit but I'm proud of myself so let's get right back up! Not perfect but definitely improving! I think it was perfect last week, so that's good! Here's to another week! And another! Ooh... stumbled yet again for the last couple of days, but hopefully I will be better next! Ooff, again off the cliff... Slowly climbing back up... Finally a full week without incident! Actually prayed during the allocated time these times around... well, Subuh would always alluded me throughout my current irregular sleeping pattern.

#5 giving back to the community

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#6 going out of my comfort zone

From five to six to seven to.. eleven! That was unprecedented... and now it was down to eight but that's okay. I might need to resort to actually colour some of them in soon... now it's only three?! Ouch! Wait, is it only one? That can't be! Okay, okay. It is five, two better than before. Another two added to the tally! Wow, another two! Okay, slowed down a little with seven but with three coloured included, I'm happy as a clam! One less but half-half is still good in my book! WOW! Thirteen, baby! Heck yeah! That's my personal best! Only five but my mother overshadowed everything else. Another five but under another different set of circumstances. One less but I hope I will bounce back after this. Nope, just one! Well, none at all... how about that! And again! And again...

I hope with my attempt to keep myself accountable, this would motivate you to do same!

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Well, that's all folks! Thank you for your time and please do come back for my future posts! :-)