生活杂记
I know I need a longer run.
During my first half marathon, the Illuminations Half in San Antonio, Texas, I hated myself during the first 7 miles, and really enjoyed the last 6 miles, and by the time I finished, I’d love to run more, so I signed up a marathon the same night after I got back to hotel.
It’s the Derby Festival Marathon on April 30th, 2016. Wish me luck!
Ever since I got my Essure permanent sterilization, I started blogging about it at 24andchildfree.wordpress.com. I will still blog from time to time at both here and my new blog on different topics. Thank you :)
I completed 100 classes on ClassPass and reduced my body fat percentage to from 15.4% to 14.9% :)
UPDATE
Jess from ClassPass has contacted me and made my account unlimited, and I was able to book my 31st class in my current billing cycle!
It is because ClassPass automatically sets a 30 class limit when we joined, but if we reach out to them, they can always increase it.
Original Post:
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I tried to register a class the other day and ClassPass didn’t let me, instead, it showed me this:
“You have already reserved 30 classes, the maximum number allowed for you ClassPass each cycle”.
I wish that instead of saying “unlimited”, ClassPass could just tell me it’s 30 classes per billing cycle.
I just found out that machines are the most racists — on Friday night I bought a novel in Spanish on Amazon, then ever since, I started receiving marketing emails from Amazon in Spanish and a lot of them, suggests: “if you like El Alquimista, you might also want to check out books about GED preparation!”
Someone should change those recommendation engine metrics, because not everyone who reads in Spanish is a high school drop out!
My resolution for 2015: continue doing whatever I’ve started in 2014, and do better. These include:
1. Study Spanish
2. Pole dancing
3. Pure Barre
4. Yoga
5. Aerial Yoga
6. Make Android apps
7. Make WordPress themes
8. Read books, listen to audio books during my commute
The Movie “The Interview” reminded me of my own trip to North Korea several years ago.
The day we went to the DMZ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Demilitarized_Zone) I wore a T-shirt with Garfield on it. We had a tour inside one of the conference rooms on the border, and then our translator started asking me about my T-shirt. He pointed to Garfield and asked me what is that, and I told him the cat on my T-shirt named Garfield, from a comic book, he hates Monday and loves lasagna and donuts. Then he asked if Garfield is Chinese, I said, no he’s American but the comics were translated into Chinese a long time ago, I grew up with them, and in short, I love Garfield. He then asked if other Chinese kids also like Garfield, I said I can’t speak for every Chinese kid, but my friends also love Garfield. In the end, he told me he was so surprised that China had became so “Americanized”, where even the children had started reading negatively influential American comics (like Garfield hates Monday and loves food, that’s not good for a society). And I was really sad because now I knew kids grew up in NK didn’t even know about Garfield, they are missing so much fun in their childhood :(
Some of the pictures I took in North Korea: https://shengkaidehua.com/2011/09/19/north-korea/
My Chinese name 赵婧仪(zhao jing yi) means elegant noble woman. It’s really feminine, and it embodies the expectations of who my parents intended me to be. So instead, I decided to adopt a masculine English name, so as shatter those expectations and reinvent myself.
When I was in the 5th grade, our English teacher asked the entire class to choose our English names. I listed my choices as follows:
1. Harry
2. Daniel
3. Lester
Harry Potter was really popular back then, when I was growing up, and was probably the most desired English name.
My 2nd choice was Daniel. When I was in the 5th grade, I was not only interested in the character “Harry Potter”, but also the actor that played him, Daniel Radcliffe. I had hopes of someday marrying him, but first I had to meet him, and thought that naming myself Daniel would be a good first step. I imagined the scenario playing out to be a chance encounter, I’d be sitting/standing next to him in some public place, and people would recognize him and call out his name, “Daniel!”. I’d respond to that, pretend to be surprised, and then casually mention to him, “oh, your name is Daniel too, nice to meet you, I’m Daniel…”
I forgot why I chose Lester as my 3rd choice.
My first choice was quickly taken by another girl, so I went with my second choice, and I became Daniel.
Last time I got paid, I decided to put $200 into my investment account.
Since then, I wake up every morning to check my investment account before getting out of bed — just to see if I’ve already become a billionaire, and can retire and book the next flight to Barbados to enjoy the rest of my life lying on a beach near the sea.
It didn’t happen today, still just $200 in my account.
Gotta get ready for work now.
Pinterest’s algorithm sucks, I’m on the explore page, it suggests me “Peacock Feather Tattoos” (I’ve searched that), “Lush Cosmetics” (I’ve pinned these), “Raccoon” (I love raccoons), and “Jesus Christ” (what?! I’ve been an atheist all my life, this has nothing to do with me)…
So I complained to a friend about it, and he said, “well, Pinterest knows your are going to hell, so it tries to save you by suggesting Jesus Christ :P
Me:…
Blooming Flowers 