Bokken at it again.

I need to get back to training.

It's been a few days since i realized i need to get back in shape, and by that i don't mean running in East Ham Central Park, but lifting weights and dieting. Today, for example, i have steamed broccoli florets (from Iceland, £1 a bag, two meals out of each bag) and plain boiled rice.

I guess the point of diet is mostly psychological, not trying to make your food tasty yet light, but to actually do without the taste aspect - otherwise, you are always craving for more.

So back to my crash diet, plain carbohydrates, zero fat, zero sugars, steamed vegetables, minute amounts of calories (except for rice), and mad static exercise. Coffee, taurine if you will (man that stuff is sooo harmful to health), creatine to power up during exercise, sleep on empty stomach, no breakfast, etc.. brutal.

One thing i learned during my last diet - besides the fact that i was right on everything i thought i knew - is that my body should consume, and spend, at least five-thousand calories a day to be on the healthy side, not feeling hungry and miserable but also being fit, but as you can immagine, that is truly impossible; you see, it's assumed in that statement that you get there by doing something fun, and since i'm not wrestling or swimming anymore, i have no way to get that much sport in my life. Also - i should mention - i have no money to even buy, 5K calories of good food.


I wish this blog was so much more .. than just whining. I'm listening to BBC news, now, open in iPlayer in another tab in Chrome, and they are talking about the purchase of the Typhoon (the "Eurofighter"), and of course i have something to say about that as well - as i have opinions, strong ones to boot, on just about everything i see, read about, and hear - but have no energy to write about all of it.. two things then i think i should do.

1) I'm not really enamored with blogging, but it's not bad - just an activity, nice but not really that productive.
I'm absolutely sure that better results would come if i stuck with one subject instead of making it a random whine blog, as people who chance upon it might keep coming back to it if they find stuff that they find useful;
However the reason i never did something like that, is because i have always found some better website than anything i could do, no matter what the subject.
For example, HERE is a brilliant website (all free, of course) that deals with - amongst other things - audio, and this guy is not only a qualified technician (or scientist, should i say, for it is science he deals with, even though we assume "scientist" means "researcher"), but he obviously has some real hands-on experience, amking him quite the authority on the subject. This i have seen in all subjects that i have any knowledge of, or that i enjoy and/or find myself good at, and should anyone need information on the subject, i would address them to that website or the other - one thing i would *not* do, is try to water down the web by setting up a not-quite-as-good website just to get attention, or "traffic". Example n.2 : my Advisor at Ingeus is a person very active in business, as in he "owns dating websites" and "sells ebooks" and "wrote a book about DJ'ing", and kudos to him, but.. his websites are crappy, and they are more of a ripoff than anything; eBooks are something you should give away, not sell, and finally he isn't really the authority on DJ'ing, so .. honesty, and being concerned with the wellbeing of my fellow men prevents me from trying to push my inferior products when better stuff/info is out there, expecially when the better stuff is free.
Sure, i know a thing or two about audio, but i'm far from the biggest guru on the web - and the same goes for all the people who post on YouTube their great efforts and pass themselves as kings of their trade when they are in fact buffoons who know jack shit. like THIS GUY - he thinks he's the shit, but i'v seen him do things downright abysmal - some even dangerous, and not only i don't think he is great, i feel he should be punished in some way for what he does.
If there is one thing i do well, it's .. well, that's hard to explain. But writing it down n a comprehensible form is even harder, and it's not something i could sell anyway. So, this blog will either get shut down or it will be reformatted to fulfill one of two purposes - make me look good in the face of possible employers, say, an audio blog, mostly filled with lies, or purpose two, to draw some traffic, strictly one subject, even if i don;t know shit about it - and if someone dies trying to follow my diet, fuck them.

2) Why not take a picture of my big fat belly and post it, then a new picture every day, and - since i know i can easily lose 60 pounds - make it into another wonder story.
Have just finished reading Bad Science, by Ben Goldacre, and .. i lost my train of thought. Bollocks.
Last books i read - in the last two months - Ubik, Bad Science, Franny and Zoey (salinger), Great Gatsby .. again, The Virgin and The Gipsy (dh lawrence), a Science Fiction Omnibus, The Siege of Nanking (history of the boxer rebellion .. tedious to say the least), a really bad book by Iain M. Banks (yep, The Business was great, but this one ... meh), and am still trying to read the Ulysses - but i will probably give up, since i'm still on chapter two.
So, maybe i will just get back into training and make a big fuss of it, forget all my principles, try to score some femaley attention, and make money i don;t deserve. And might just be better for it. Who knows.

uncertain future, here is london, 2011, BokkenUK.