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 Friday

Friday is nice. i feel like, personally, i'm most productive on friday and i dont mean work wise .. i see and do more on friday. it's the

last working day of the week and that sort of contributed to the feel good factor.

6:30 am: Up for Subuh prayer and tempo run
probably the best way to start your day. running opposite from people rushing to work. You sort of feel that you are somewhat temporarily off

grid. even tho later ...eventually, you'd too have to rush to work.

the other thing is that .. the transition between night and day (dawn) is just so beautiful. .... things i look forward to.


7:15 am: breakfast and school
what can i say. being married is one of the best decision a triathlete can make ... cuz..who'd prepare breakfast? wife sort of understand the

nutrition need so that sort of helps ...

fina and hadzim would be up by then and its just great having them around in the morning .. they're morning people and hence usually in a

good mood ... wife and hadzim off to work/pre-school ...

7:45 am: shower and off to work
usually i check the sports news .. check out the latest score etc ... shower, wave goodbye to fina and off to work ... the half hour drive is

when i strategize what to do later in the day ..the usual .. what to say during practice .. lunch .. what i'm gonna do at the pool later that day ..

8:30 am: work
after countless curses to road users .. i usually got to work on time.. by on time .. i mean on time .. on average .. i think i arrived

around 8:29 most of the time .. i've also clocked 8:30:55 which is still on time ... buzzer beater ..

12:00 PM
time flies when you're working hard or when you;re having fun .. which ever i choose,..  .. usually go out and have myself the nasi

arab at uniten and friday prayers.. awesome combo ...

5:30 PM
one of the first to clock out .. off to the pool for some laps ... will usually see the same faces ... kind of a constant visual

cue that i'm not the only one (stupid/crazy enough) to be doing this ..

7:15PM
would stop by petronas precint 9 to get some gatorade and use the ATM facility ... and then off to presint 11 .. during the drive .. i'd usually listen to BFM -life's a pitch which is kinda funny and entertaining ...

8 PM
after magrib prayer .. i'd take in some food .. the sup UK is good .. the greasy nasik goreng is even better.. i opted for the soup .. the

less of two evil i guess ... then i'd catch up with some news (facebook/ig actually) or watch the news on the tv (TV3 is news?) provided there .. watch people going about their business .. watching families having dinner ...which usually followed by me calling wife and asking how's everything at home .. to sort of dillute the guilt

8:45 PM
isyak prayer and the usual warm up for basketball practice  .. usually i'm the first one ..i'd put on Love Me Butch - Barricade and start warming up ... by the time i finish most of the guys are there and we start around 9:30pm

shooting before everyone arrive

1 AM
practice over and i'd drive home and just sponge everything the guys said during practice .. and looking forward to the real game to see how effective we did ..also during the ride back i'd tune in to BFM where they air songs from local indie bands  ..9/10 the songs i hear were not much better than what my (now dead) band used to play .. copycats are the main theme .. but some are pretty good ...it's nice to be having these songs as ambient during the whole reflecting process ..

2AM
At home .. everyone's asleep .. usually got some food on the table prepared by wife .. (again ... being a married triathlete is awesome) .. watch TV .. usually some NCAA or NBA .. or movies before shower .. and bed..


The thing is , when you commit to doing something ... which meant being away from your family  ..not only you got to enjoy every minute

spent, but you also got to make them count ...and be thankful to be given the opportunity to do them..

knowing that .. i think i;ve spent those time the best i could ...effort wise and time wise...doesn't matter whether those things are considered small ..to me they're just as important as work/life ..

 if not..

it will just be like another day out   ..........with out ever having that lasting impact ... to have them embedded in you to reflect later in life.... if that's the case ... i'm too old for that and might as well spend those time with my loved ones ..

too easy for me