Pain Is Your Friend & Tagged!

My whole body is aching badly, but with a pain that I welcome. And no I'm not some sort of a masochist who inflict his own bodily injuries. You see, I have quite an embarrassingly low threshold for pain which are the stabbing, jabbing sort, the cramping, gnawing feeling of ulcers or dysmenorrhoea, etc. What I don't particularly mind is the soreness of muscles from an extreme sport or exercise. I guess the feeling gives one a confirmation of hard work and thus a sense of fulfilment and achievement. Anyway, that is what I am having now.

This weekend I went back to the gym, after a week of being preoccupied with other things that my routine work out has to be temporarily disrupted and halted. Normally getting back to that routine should be a piece of cake, no dramas. But that day, call it smugness, a sudden bizaare invasion of sanity, or pure foolishness for the sake of nothing at all, I put myself into a contest with a guy in the gym who was doing the same exercise as I was. He is one whom you'd describe as a "grunter," for every lift he makes there will be a corresponding "aarrrrrgggghhh" matched with a feigned pained expression that is so tempting to put a fist on. Okay okay... heavy-weight lifters do that, I will accept that they need to summon out the strength and thus the sound and twisted facial muscles are valid, natural reactions to the release of their chakra (bwahahaha! yes too much ninja watch). However... man... I tell you this guy is far from a heavy-weight nor would I call him a try-hard wannabe. All he does is grunt for all the world to hear while keeping a check on whether he is getting any attention from the girls or not. I know because he kept on glancing around. And oh sure he got my attention alright, how can't I when he is right beside me and hilariously lifting the same weight as I was! I'm not trying to be a pain in the ass nor a smart-aleck, but phuullleeeze don't make me laugh by putting that big a show for some puny weights when you're bigger than me. So to make a point, for succeeding tracks I decided to put on weights that are a tad bit more than his; and true enough he fumbled a bit when I did. Tsk tsk tsk. A said that it's mean and that I shouldn't be naughty like that. Ok, guilty as charged... but I couldn't help making fun of the situation. I reasoned out that I need to increase my threshold anyway, and seeing the guy's reaction is just, well... secondary *or the other way around.*

My punishment for being bad: weekend soreness. Hayyyayyyayyy. I'm ready to be reprimanded by those who reckon that I've caused emotional trauma to the poor dude. Geez, such exagg! Tee-hee-hee!

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Now, this is long overdue... and I'm glad I am finally able to complete it. From a tag by one of my favourite people, Char:

Three names you go by:
1. Jovs
2. Jovy
3. Joffeeffee

Three screen names you have had:
1. tulipipay
2. andromeda
3. big bad wolf

Three physical things you like about yourself:
1. shoulders
2. back
3. abs

Three physical things you don't like about yourself:
1. imperfect thighs
2. big feet
3. buffy hair when not managed well

Three things that scare you:
1. suspicious looking men in suspicious-looking cars
2. cockroaches
3. to trip and fall flat on my face - and yep that has happened... resulting in a fractured... not nose, but rib.

Three of your everyday essentials:
1. 3-step skin care regimen
2. coffee/tea
3. a hug

Three of your favorite musical artists:
1. Norah Jones
2. ABBA
3. The Corrs

Three of your favorite songs:
1. Come Away With Me
2. Don't Need The Sun To Shine (Gabrielle)
3. Anyone At All (Carole King)

Three things you want in a relationship:
1. commitment
2. honesty and faithfulness
3. laughter

Three truths in no particular order:
1. What goes around comes around
2. You are not invincible
3. Death and taxes

Three lies in no particular order:
1. "Our products are non-comedogenic and you won't react to them" as EVERY cosmetics specialist claims
2. Size XS in many clothing labels
3. Instant coffee that's as good as brewed coffee

Three physical things of the opposite sex that appeals you:
1. broad shoulders
2. lips
3. height

Three of your favorite hobbies:
1. reading
2. baking and cooking (ohmigoodness, how domesticated!)
3. shopping (be it grocery-shopping or the other type of shopping...)

Three things you want to do really badly now:
1. go kick boxing
2. move the christmas holidays earlier and make it last three times longer
3. hire a mid-size plane, make a round to pick up all my friends from around the globe, and hie off somewhere for a week-long party.

Three careers you're considering/you've considered:
1. Medicine
2. Media & Broadcasting
3. Marketing

Three places you want to go on vacation:
1. France
2. Brazil
3. Turkey

Three kids' names you like:
1. Arianne
2. Gabriel
3. Enzo

Three things you want to do before you die, from the top of my head...
1. To have my own horse... and maybe some sheep... =)
2. To design and build our own dream house
3. To have travelled most parts of the world

Three ways that you're stereotypically a boy:
1. Can change a flat tire without any qualms
2. Gets a Pass in Home Economics sewing, gets an Excellent in Circuits.
3. Can be a real sloth and watch animation the whole day

Three ways that you're stereotypically a girl:
1. Likes shoes & can run with stilettos
2. Not afraid of eyelash curlers and hair dryers
3. Epilators and wax are good friends

Three celeb crushes:
1. Richard Gere
2. Brendan Fraser in his younger years
3. Jacky Cheung (hahahahaha, childhoold crush!)

Three people I'm tagging:
1. Arls
2. Bugsy
3. Gigi