red, white and gay (as in happy)

as promised the pictures from the national day parade preview a week ago. i have to say that my picture does not do the firework justice. it was just so overwhelming that most of the time i was looking at it instead of taking pictures. it was my first time and i was a bit jakun.

its been one of those lazy sundays. went to see a doctor about my knee on friday. an x-ray revealed that there was no bone damage. he gave me an ointment to apply on my knee for a week, afterwhich if the pain persists i might have to go to the hospital to get more sophisticated scans. i also had my cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar and bmi meassured. the first three were perfectly normal, while my bmi was 29.1, putting me in the very overweight category. in march, pre-exercise and pre-din, i would have been closer to 40, meaning morbidly obese.being "overweight" never sounded so good, and i'll take it for now.

i have to say tho that my knee still hurts. bugger. i'm hoping that one morning i wake up and magically my knee is back to normal. i'm quite sore in my arms and shoulders today after a session with din yesterday. i'm glad that i don't have to do lunges for the time being but din has been working the same muscle groups over and over so as to cause maximum tissue atrophy... or maximum pain in other words. close to the end of our session i could hardly extend my arms due to sheer pain, but din had a smirk on his face and kept making me do bicep curls. the man's a sadomasichist, and i say that with a great amount adoration (in case he's reading of course).

ate realtively healthy today. which was difficult cos my mum made fried rice and lamb curry. i restrained myself with the former and had the latter sans the gravy. self-control, rather than deprivation, seems to be the way to go.