Fav songs at the moment

Tracks spinning on my music jukebox lately have been................

Foo Fighters - Best of you

When this track comes up while driving, it makes me want to drive as fast as I can hoping to take off like an airplane.

Roger Sanchez - Turn on the music

Theory of a Deadman - Better Off

Mobile - Montreal Calling

These guys are the Canadian version of ther Killers

Jurassic 5 - Thin Line

James Blunt - Wiseman, and also Beautiful

Heard abouth this guy when I was Thailand. Was playing everywhere.

I love music. It makes me feel good or sad or mad or whatever. It can control people. It changes moods. I like songs that give me tingles. The hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck raisers.

What songs are you listening to.

18

I have recently just started to read a book called "Body, Mind and Sport" by John Douillard. It ties together yoga with breathing exercies along with some training workouts. It gives training tips throughout the book. I am only on page 18 but I feel so drawn into this book as I love sports and am trying to expand my mind through yoga. I enjoy going to the gym and doing a number of things to get the heart rate pumping. I have taken to the treadmills for my cardio workouts and have usually just hopped on and ran away. But lately I have been seeing another side to it. I have always been interested in running, in marathons, and triathalons, and have been running the past while thinking about starting to train for them(half-marathons, marathons, triathalons). I am interested to see how far I could go, see what my machine could handle and how it would perform. I think after finishing this book my outlook on training might change for the better.

Training Tip #1: The Acid Test
Try your normal workout while breathing through your nose. If you find it more difficult than usual and can't get enough oxyen, this indicates that you do not have maximum respiratory efficiency. You can reach your full respiratory potential when you learn how to draw on to it.

Training Tip #2: Count Your Steps
Go for a walk and count how many steps you can take per one full inhale and exhale through your nose. Keep trying to increase the number of steps per one complete breath. Anything over 18 steps indicates a good start toward total respiratory efficiency.

Counting steps...for the past while I have been counting my steps while I run. I have found it suprisingly difficult. Not the counting but more-so being able to pace 18 steps for each complete breath. I've found that in order to be able to do this properly, I've had to slow my running pace down now to effectively accomplish this skill. My breathing and heart rates are stable, I can complete 18 or more steps, and I feel great after my workouts. In the book they talk with a man who has incorporated this breathing procedure. He started off slowly, as I am, and after a period of 18 months of training has competed in marathons. It talks about his experiences starting off slowly to him being abe to run a comfortable 6 minute mile, which is incredible. One day....someday. We shall see. dun dun dun. 18.

Can't beat a good ol' tree pose

Today is Saturday, and somehow I am not hungover. Usually after my full week of punishing young Chinese children all I look for is a drink and a party. Lately I haven't been feeling that. Just not wanting to feel like a bag of shit on Saturdays I guess, but maybe it is something else.

Since I was around 14 years old I started weight training for hockey. I was a tall skinny fellow that needed to put on some beef. Biking, plyometrics, and painful lifting sessions instilled in my mind that this was the only way to get my BODY into shape. It did, but no matter how hard I worked, I just didn't feel like I was satisfied. So for the past decade, wow I said decade, I have been training for 10 years! I never realized that until I just typed decade, oh my...Anyways for the past DECADE I have been training specifically for hockey in the only way I knew how, to punish yourself.

When I first arrived in Taiwan up until about just over a month or so ago, Weather it be on the treadmill or lifting weights, I had still been trying to punish myself. At the gym where I go to (World Gym) they have all of these classes where you can do variety of things that fit your taste. Well I have a friend here, her name is Lisa, she introduced me to this one class, Yoga. I have been going to the yoga classes for the past month now and I feel refreshed after going to the gym, not beaten down. I have always heard about yoga before but I thought it was for girls or for hmmmm ummm feminine men.

I was wrong. It involves a lot of stretching and deep breathing to relax the body, all the meanwhie you are working your ass off. It is pretty tough at the moment even though we're really only doing beginner exercises. I am not even nearly as flexible as most of the other people in the classes but hopefully one day I will be. I have also been having this feeling of calmness over my BODY and MIND. Yoga not only exercises your body, but exercises your mind as well. So far I have been sold on it. I feel great inside and out. Oh except last week I went out on the friday on a binge, and on Saturday morning at 10 I had yoga. Well I felt like shit and was so unfocused during the session, that it almost wrecked my day. I was disapointed that I didn't have proper form and the proper mind set. Dave-o out.

It's been awhile........

Almost forgeot about this blog. Been trying to think of something to blog about. I realised that if I have to think of something then I am trying to hard, just go with it. So here I am trying to express myself through this fine art of technology beneath me. Anyways.....

Today I had a good buddy take off from Taiwan today. A quality individual. I am really happy that I came to Taiwan and met him. It was wierd today thinking that he was leaving. I mean I have grown accustomed to calling Taiwan my home, and realised today that it really isn't. Ryno left for "Nan Fei" as they call South Africa here today. I found myself sad today. I am not an over emotional person, nor do I really show my true feelings, I dunno why. But the fact that I was losing a buddy, no let me rephrase that, a good friend was leaving and it could mean that I never see him again, there thats better, made me feel sad. Going out with the group of boys that we have established here just won't be the same anymore without"rainbow". Myself and a group of buds conquered the full moon party of Ko Phangan a few mnths ago and it will be something I never forget. Well I actually can't because Trevor video taped the trip!! Sweet. Anyhoo good dude, had good times. As we parted our ways we both made an agreement that he and Andrew and I will definitely have to meet again either back in the motherland or on Nan Fei.

I wish that somehow I could transport this bubble of friends here back to Canada or wherever and replicate that attitude and way of life back home. Dream on! The lifestyle here( In Taichung) is unreal. When I think of living back home all I can think about is stress. It's a big competition to see who can buy the biggest house the nicest car and so on. Worrying about everything. Arrrrrrrrggggghhhhh! I dunno life here just seems to be pretty chill.

I have everything I need here. I got wheels, a HOME, small but all I really need complete with a cat, a computer, camera, and now a minature jukebox. I have all the possessions one needs.
This also brought me back to the reality that I will be leaving as well. I have been here 15 months now and cannot contemplate where the time has gone. I really don't know what to do. Some days I feel as if it ain't real, that I'm leaving, because life is good here, I like it. Why have to change again? My friends here are amazing people. People I want to have around all the time. I really ksut don't know how to prepare myself for the upcoming change. I don't want to leave but I need to get back and finish up my schooling. boo erns!!

Ok cheerio, derka alah, and a hoe jyea daaaaaaaaarvan, safe travels rainbow you will be missed by all!!

Derka Derka

Herrrrrrrro!! So.....ummmm. Ya. This is me. Simple. But picky. Procratinating. But optomistic. Figured I'd get into the whole blog thingy. Doing some of the brain using stuff and er typing complete or simple or even complex run-on sentences once in awhile. I'm usually not the "write things down to remember them later" type, but I figured that down the line I may forget a few of the small details. So here is the first of a few(hopefully more) entries into some of the things I cram into this cranium of mine. Still trying to figure out how this blog works with all the pictures and the adding of links and counters. One day. Oh yes one day I will be able to type and chew gum at the same time. Enjoy! or not.

booyah.