What, no meeting?

DEasy: It was another noon workout today. Rains just put a damper this past few days.

Too bad our Toastmasters Club meeting was postponed. I was about to wow them with my Icebreaker speech today. I've practiced it a couple of times with speech timer and it's within time limit. Guess I'll just continue practicing it for next week.

Noontime and Nostalgia

DEasy: Today's workout was at noon. I had to pickup some old tapes this morning. Watching the videos of all the Blenders performances and the HOM numbers (Finance and IT) was so nostalgic. Those were the days. Most if not all of my choreographed numbers are now on the electronic video. No more tape jamming problems, mold problems and tape deterioration problems. If I have time, I'll have snippets of these precious videos posted in some website. Don't know yet how to do it but it will happen.

I had fun in today's noontime workout. I was so fascinated watching my hand's shadow racing past the pool tile's below. Time went by like a breeze. It's been a long time since I had a noon workout.

Getting Warmer

DEasy: Pool water today's getting warmer. I hope this keeps up with the sun shining all week. We have so much wood to dry thanx to Emma's chopped mango tree. I'll be busy exercising (sawing and chopping wood) for some weekends to come.

On open turns, I need to stop splashing too much. Avoid raising the head too high and then dropping. I sink too much and it's difficult to recover with the rushing water. It's also better to exhale a final burst of air to clear the nose just before the breath-in.

During today's swim, I've thought of a new speech topic entitled "My Kawasaki Girl" and I've composed the outline already. Yesterday's short impromptu speech for Table Topics in Toastmasters went very well. I got good feedback from April and Roxy. I'm looking forward to my Icebreaker Speech next week.

New Roads!

DEasy: The market road extension was finished over the weekend! That corner is a source of bottlenecks coz the market road is so narrow and when there are big trucks, vans or jeepneys, vehicles from the opposing direction need to give way. At least that's good news. Thnx Mayor Dahlia Loyola! Now, if only something can be done at the corner leading to Timbao - like posting a traffic enforcer during rush hour?

JLo 3 Resort at Pansol in Laguna

DEasy: Pool's still cold today inspite of the all-day sunny day yesterday. With today's workout, I've thought of some nice ideas to incorporate in my future Toastmasters' speeches.

Yesterday we attended a birthday party for Nadine and Nicole at JLo 3 resort at Pansol. We left the house at 8:30am and fetched Susan.

Even Colder

DEasy: Rushed today's workout coz it's much too cold to linger in the pool. Brrrr. The sun was out though, so that helped a bit. I noticed that if I skipped pool for a long time, as in last week, I get some soreness on the chest esp where it connects to the shoulders. Massaging it feels good though.

Still Cold

TEPTE: Although the sun is attempting to show up, the water's still cold. One downside of not having swam for a few days is to load up on the eating. With the rains, it's just tempting to eat more. So today, I felt sluggish in the water.

Renz's dance at the family day yesterday went well. All that practice and preparations for the Bump-It dance number finally paid off. There's Mr. Pure Energy himself and the "Manoobers". This is the number prepared by Level 1 Daycare.

He was just warming up when they had to bodily take him off the stage to give way for the other numbers. There were song numbers, a poem and the Level 2 (with pompoms) number that followed. Level 3, the first number also did the Bump-It dance.

All that dancing, twisting, bumping and kicking left Mr. Pure Energy out of energy and hungry. Buti na lang maraming pansit thanx to Tita Gay and the food committee. There was also puto, menudo, lumpiang shanghai and rice.