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Freitag, 31. August 2007

An Overwhelming Week

Last week I made myself sushis again. I just love fish, especially salmon. Since I am not a sushi master, I buy the fish at the Asia Shop in Dortmund. I like going there because they have lots of sortiments. At least they have everything I need to cook Asian dishes. The most important ingredient is chillie sauce ... ;)


In the last 2 weeks, I didn't go having lunch at the cafeteria. The menu is so boring. I'd rather cook by myself, if I know that I can cook it. Besides, I can spare the money for other things. In the next 2 weeks, I'll eat lunch at the cafeteria 2 times. It's funny considering that at the beginning I went there quite often. After a while, I realized that the menu was always the same. I mean, at home I eat almost the same all the time. I don't feel like doing the same as I pay more for the dishes at the cafeteria rather than self-made dishes. I know that I can't cook so well like hotel's chef, but it's not that bad either.


My sister surprised me by telling me that she and my mother wanted to visit me in 1 month. It was both a good and bad surprise at the same time. It was good because they would finally visit me here. The bad thing was that it was so spontaneous. Not only it was so spontaneous but so freaking. I needed time to digest the info. Planning a long-distance trip in a month is a thing I would never do considering the stress. You just need to prepare all the documents, to consider the waiting for getting the visa, etc. But I agreed to the plan. I suggested that she and my mother to visit some other countries for this visit. It was just impossible to visit so many countries in 17 days without high costs and huge stress. I mean, my sister is still young, she could still manage it. But, I don't want to stress out my mother. The purpose of having a trip is to enjoy the time and not to be chased by the time. So, they agree that we visit 3 countries, namely France, Belgium and Netherlands. For the rest of the days, we will travel to some cities in Germany.

Regarding work, I had some discussions with some colleagues. We had some differences regarding some formulas for scorecard projects. I got the impressions that the derivations of the our formulas are supposed to be kept as a "secret ingredient", although it's not so secretive at all. The thing is, if that person doesn't have any idea about scorecard development and intends to understand it from the report, he will fail. The major problem is the formulas in the report aren't consistent. However, I have mentioned the problems to the report's developer. She hasn't taken any action yet. So, it's not my problem anymore. The topic has been mentioned in the meetings as well, but it seems that it's not a problem at all. Besides, I'm not really involved in the project. It was only a coincidence that I tried to understand it by reading one of the reports.

In the past few days, I had my blood pressure checked again. As a result, it increased again significantly. Yesterday, I had it checked again and it was normal again. I got the conclusion that it was obvious since I had some stress during those days. On weekends, you can say I don't have stress at all, except if the neighbor below me increases the volume of his subwoofer so loud that it drives me wild.


Yesterday I had an appointment with my fitness trainer. He arranged a new training plan for me. This time I get more exercises using dumbbells. It was fun. I guess, it's kinda boring if you do the same exercises from time to time. Another trainer told me that I should get a new plan, optimally in 3-month-period. Let's see, if I manage to increase my muscle mass and lower my body fat. After the fun training, I went swimming since there are fewer people at the pool on weekends. During the week I'd rather go to the sauna after the training.

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