17.1.12

Road to 200

Road to 200lb is probably not like Robert Frost's road less traveled. Many people may have traveled this road. I have chosen that road to 200. I am so far on 183lb. I only weighed 115lbs in 2001 before my mission. I think when i came from my mission 2003 i weighed about 155lbs. 40lb gain in about 2 year period. In Hawaii my weight changed from 155 to 165lb. In salt lake when i was single 165 to 175lb. My weight stayed around 175 for about 2 - 3 years. Finally i decided to take road 200 and now I am 183lbs. I need 17 more lbs to be on road 200lb. I am calculating maybe 2 more years to reach that goal. I am focusing on adding muscle weight not fat. If I had the resources I have now when i was young I would have been 200lb easy when i am 19. Of course at 200lb weight I am expecting better bench press results. Currently I am doing 275lb 5 rep, 225 10 rep.
    I also am planning on doing my own cooking YouTube show thing.  I never thought what I thought was necessity can turn into a skill. Apparently some people do not know how to make dough and noodles, something I learnt at age 10. I already made how to make plov Uzbek food video, need to be compiled and put it on YouTube.

Steamed

Greetings All,
Well, nothing too exciting this past week although we went overboard with steaming dumplings. We had our Sri Lankan neighbors over to make dumplings and we made so much and have the oven temperature so high that all the water evaporated and burnt a hole in our steamer. It was aluminum and smelled really bad. We ended up spending part of our MLK vacation day at Ocean Mart, a Asian market, looking for a new steamer. This time we got one that is made of stainless steel and looks better than the last. I am happy about the new steamer.

Life has been the usually otherwise: work, studying for certifications, gym, and getting excited for our Philippines, Thailand, and Cambodia vacation.  Munkhtur is studying for his Certified Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI) and I have been studying for the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM). Keeps us busy.

The doodles are well. I think Dex has a fatty tumor on his back… Not sure, but he seems fine otherwise. Koob is as skinny as ever.

Well, this week is Whitney’s Bday so Whit, Michelle, and I are planning to get together on Saturday and celebrate. Should be fun.

Until next time, bye bye.

9.1.12

Here comes 2012: The Mayan calendar end and new beginning

Happy New Year!!! We had a wonderful year in 2011 in Murray. I got new position at work, still working on the work title something with IT. Ashley got her MBA from WGU within only one year. I still have 2 more semesters left after my current one. Our boys have gotten big. We had wonderful summer trip to Mongolia and Korea. This upcoming new year we will visit our parents in the Philippines. Since we are making it all the way down there in southeast Asia for the first time, we decided to go visit Thailand and Angkor wat of kingdom of Cambodia. This will be our highlights next year.


This year we got around to making Christmas cards. See them below. :)


We had to photoshop the cats in because they weren't very cooperative as you can imagine.

We had a good Christmas and spent New Years downtown watching fireworks with friends.


17.10.11

Yet Another Canada Trip

I recently visited Calgary on my company paid trip for training for 5 days. There was about 14 people in our training group 4 from slc office and the remaining from texas, houston, toronto and miami. We had factory tour and ice training. It was nice to be able to put face on some of my workers there. There were various activities, cookbook company had a chef that taught us how to cook. I made some new friends from our company. Upon my arrival in slc, i was greeted by bunch of people at home for welcome home party. We stayed up until 3am playing various games and socializing etc. The next day ash and I went out to see captain america at dollar theater and cooked yumy pork sweet potato crock pot dinner. We are looking into our next travel plan to visit several countries in southeast asia.