Bunny Interludes Six

First Month

24th Session


Twenty Four Things I have learned so far while going to the gym:


1. Carbonated Drinks - Particularly Softdrinks are very bad for the health.

2. One cannot smoke an hour before working out, and four hours after. I heard someone says that your lungs are very much vulnerable after doing heavy cardio.

3. For those whose aim is to reduce weight, one must at least do an hour's cardio during the entire session.

4. Gatorade is good, but when your on a tight budget, a bottle of mineral water and a sachet of extra joss would do.

5. Cramps are normal - especially during the early sessions of the training.

6. Abs are prepared in the kitchen, XP says. He is true. That's why I'm planning to wage a direct war against my tummy because no matter what I do, it doesn't develop at all.

7. It takes around 2 weeks before improvements begin to appear. Give it another 2 weeks and with extreme discipline, significant changes are already visible.

8. Looking at fit and gym-toned men would inspire you to work out more.

9. One would never survive an hour's cardio without club music playing on his player.

10. Never create your own work-out program. It's the trainor's job to make one for you.

11. It is best to start lifting light weights. Soon, you would realize that you are already eating bars and plates of steel as your muscles grow stronger.

12. Gym, is always a great opening topic when conversing with buff and hot guys.

13. Working out must always be reinforced by diet.

14. Eating at fastfoods is bad for diet.

15. Working out releases some weird bodily chemicals that makes one feeling blissfully happy afterwards.

16. One tends to be hornier after working out.

17. For a typical homosexual, looks and body is everything.

18. When one starts to improve his body, expect that he would go all the way doing a complete body reconstruction just to please his vanity.

19. One tends to be more flexible, no matter how stocky or semi chubby he is when he works out.

20. Always find a reason why continue working out.

21. When one begins to burn out, a good way to be motivated again is to remember all the rejections he have recieved previously.

22. Girls are sucker for cardio machines.

23. Straight guys tends to use the stationary bike rather than the elliptical machine.

24. The key to success in working out is discipline and routine. Everything depends on it.

And I Remembered The Rain

"For whatever that triggers it, I suddenly missed your deepness, tranquility and breathtaking insights. I miss our college days."

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A classmate once called me romantic, not because of the way I treated my dates but because of how I percieved the world with my own eyes. I am melancholic, I would rather engage in a somber and insightful conversation with someone rather than talk non-sense until kingdom come. Until recently, I was a sucker for poetry. Words have always moved me. And in my searching and confusion before, it was those poems that made me sane. For the longest time I was looking for a poet who's artistic side never crossed the borders of temperament, I never found one. For the longest time looking, I resolved myself to settle in my own world, engaging in my own discourse for I believed, nobody would ever find me.

During my photography class back in college, my classmates would always wonder why I would wait for sunset to appear before taking photos. I always claimed that I'm waiting for the shadows to play - because shadows always had a dramatic effect on photos. But never did I told them that I took photos on sunsets because it was merely poetic.

Hearing the rain fall on the roof while hugging someone beloved, or a pillow if no beloved is around; lying on a grass or pavement while looking at the sky exploding with stars. Feeling the cold sweet wind coming from the east on a moonless night; smelling the scent of the seawater coming from Manila Bay on a balmy afternoon day; watching a full moon set in the sea; Walking under the rain, pretending it was nothing; Watching sunrise on top of a bridge, since those times, I was an insomniac. Reading someone's poem loudly alone in my room. Listening to light alternative music with piano accompanyment, or in some moody nights, just playing chill-out until it lulls me to some transcendic state where all I can think of is perfection in silence.

All these trippings point to a personality, one can never find in a lot of people. Indeed, there will always be a side of me that would carry this trait, no matter how successful I have blended with others. They may say it is my eccentricity, for me it is my bliss... something that would forever makes me unique.

And remembering all these thoughts summed up after a long and wonderful conversation I had with an acquaintance over a can of diet coke last night... before going to BED,

I've realized that I could exchange a night of sex or clubbing over a night of insightful conversation. I could spend a night sentying with someone one on one over a beer, over a group gathering where I usually end up in one corner - feeling alienated.

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Moved and dazed at how he read my thoughts exactly the way I wanted it to be, it suddenly dawned to me that I missed talking to someone who had made me believe that in this lifetime, it is perfectly possible to be in harmony with someone without even talking.

This evening, I discovered her blog.