Thursday, September 28, 2006

Do I really listen to people?

I'm asian and my supposed first language is chinese. But because I spent alot of time overseas when i was young, i did not learn chinese. I am what you would call self-taught (i.e. not good) at chinese. However some of the characters are really meaningful. My friend just pointed one out to me! The "ting" character which means "listen".

Its very representitive of what "listening" really is. And I wonder to myself: "how much do i really listen when people are trying to communicate something to me".

There are several parts, the ear symbol on the left, the "10" symbol on the top right, the "eye" below it and then followed by a "1" and at the bottom right the symbol for "heart".

So listening means to listen with the ear, watch closely for all expression and body language as if i had 10 eyes, and focus on understanding what is being communicated with all my heart... uh...lets see thats often not what happens. Arent most fights/marriage/family/relationship/etc problems of misunderstanding?

Often we may get caught:
  1. Not listening/Pretending to listen
  2. Not noticing subtle signs (no 10 eyes)
  3. listening but distracted (not with 1 heart)
I am personally trying to listen with the full meaning that this chinese character when people talk to me. I have to say that I have gotten better but this kind of thing is a long process of practice till it becomes part of my character.

posted by Coach Jonathan Wong @ 9/28/2006 09:54:00 PM Comments: 0

Velocity diet day 21 - Pics

START 6 sep 2006

Ok i weigh 75-76kg lost aobut 6kg from my starting weight. These are the latest pics:) unpumped. I will take some 3 days from now ater eating a few carbs and we'll see what it looks like full! At the top is the start pic, on the Left is 5 days in, top and right are current pics. Lots of veins... but not that much abs considering the vein amount... ahha former fat boy syndrome?

Things I liked: feeling light, joints feel good (all that fishoil i think), feel quick, abs look nice hehe

Things I did not like: feeling hungry (worst only during the first week), cannot do as much sprinting and metabolic conditioning (walking is boring), got weaker (but may be CNS fatigue as much as anythign else as i did quite an intense block of training, we shall see after a couple of weeks)

posted by Coach Jonathan Wong @ 9/28/2006 12:56:00 AM Comments: 2