Did Your Mum Ask You to Drink Water?

Drink Water. Drink More Water.

Whenever you left home, your mum will ask if you have brought your water bottle.

However, sometimes we are lazy, or sometimes we think that it's not 'cool' to carry a water bottle around (I look like a schoolkid with a water bottle).

This article I'm writing is not about carry water bottles around, or how to be 'cool' by carrying water bottles. It's not the bottle. It's the Water. Pure, Clean Water. (Not soft drinks/coffee/teas...)

Water is an incredible compound.

I never heard what's so wonderful about the water we drink, but I can tell you it really shock me after I learned how essential and powerful Water can improves our lives - just by drinking water.

When we are thirsty, we drink water. But do you know that by the time you felt thirsty, some of your cells have already died?

The human body is anywhere from 55% to 78% water depending on body size. And we need at least one to seven litres of water per day, depending on the temperature, humidity, activity and other factors.
Our body is made up close to 50 Trillion cells.

What is a trillion? It's 1000 billion, 1 million million, 1 billion thousand - 1,000,000,000,000.  Okay, you know what is 50 trillion.

We have so many cells in our body, and they need water to live, to grow. 

How often do you need to drink water?

You need to hydrate your body every 15 mins. Drink water every 15 mins.

Haha. I think I hear someone "Just drink every 15 mins will improve our lives? That's easy!"

True. It's really that easy.

But wait!

Did you see "every 15 mins?"

Ah! That may seem a challenge.

First, to do it, you need to have water with you every 15 mins. You can carry a water bottle with you whenever you go. Or you have a water cooler beside you whenever you go, or you can buy 1 bottle of water every 15 mins.

Second, you got to have the discipline to drink every 15 mins! I still remember in my school days, I can bring a bottle full of water out of home, and come home with the same water untouch. It's the past anyway :D

Constantly remind yourself to drink, before you felt thirsty.

I have developed this habit after I attended Anthony's Robbins' 4 day seminar last year, where he mentioned about the miraculous benefits of drinking water only.

What I did:
- Carry a bottle with me everywhere I go. In school, football games, shopping centers, seminars...etc
- Drink and Refill.
- If I run out of water, I will buy one, or get some from others :P

Benefits:
- Hardly fall sick
- No morning sighness
- Won't feel lethargic at the end of the day (I even feel more energitic at night!)
- Didn't doze off in lectures. Water keep me awake :D
- Less pimples growing!
- No Bad Breath (Lack of water causes it!)
- Less Constipation
- Lose weight!
- So far so good!

Wake up in the morning, drink lots of water to keep yourself hydrated, before you put starch (bread, rice, bee hoon, chicken pie...etc) into your mouth. Your 'sleepy' stomach is not ready to 'stir' the hard starch you put into it.

Before you start eating your meal, drink water first. Drinking water before you start eating, is to let your stomach get ready for digestion for any food that you eat later.

If you can, stay away from cold drinks. Especially if you are having an oily meal (Fish and Chips/Macdonalds,KFC,Popeyes...etc) don't take cold drinks. Cold drinks will cause oil to coagulate in our stomach. This would make it more difficult to break down. It will be stored in your body then!

When you feel that the more you sleep, the more tired you are, especially you have slept 14 hours and you are still tired. Go drink some water. You are probably dehydrated. 

Sighness. You wake up sneezing. Your nose is running like a tap. You stuff it with tissue papers, and you breathe with your mouth. Your tissue is drenched, and you are feeling uncomfortable. You feel dizzy and don't feel like doing anything. Go drink water. drink more water, and rest.

How to know if you are dehydrated?

Okay. Everybody knows this. Your mum would have probably taught you when you are young.

Look at your pee. Drink more water, when your pee is yellow. (it stinks too! haha!)

Keep your pee clear, by drinking more water :D

Alright! That's my little tip on Water!

Take a 10 day challenge to drink water every 15 min.

Share your results here with everybody!

Hong Kong Trip in December '09

I visited Hong Kong in December with Valerie :D

It's an amazing journey. I have a lot of pictures with me, and of course, there are videos too!

So I have decided to make a short clip about my Hong Kong trip!

Don't drool when you watch it!

:D





How's the video?

Would you like to make a guess then?

2010! New Year New Resolutions!!

It's finally 2010. It's been a decade since 2000.

In year 2000, I'm still at primary 6. Waiting to take my PSLE at the end of the year.

2010. I'm at university.

10 years has passed. For me, more than 20 years has passed in my life.

Time really flies, don't you think so?

If we look back at the past 10 years of our lives, what are the things you feel happy that you have done them?

What are those that you feel that you should not have not in your last 10 years?

or What are the things that you wanted to do for the past 10 years, but have not yet done them, till today? *Losing weight is the most common one. hehe

If we look forward, we can comfort ourselves and say that we have 10 more years to acheive all these 'yet-to-accomplished' goals.

However, most of these goals will still be 'yet-to-accomplished' goals in 10 years time, if nothing is done to achieve them.

Every New Year, 1/1/XXXX, we love to write down new year resolutions.

We love to share with others what's our resolutions for this coming year.

We love to tell others that ''We want to have a better life this year" , "We want to lose weight this year", "I want to get promoted this year"... etc

But many times, we forget our resolutions on the 2/1/XXXX, 2nd day of new year. In fact, some of us can't remember what are the goals we set, when we approach December of that year.

Some of my friends say that, "Why set new year resolutions when you can't even remember them at the end of the year?'

And when you can't even recall your goals, you are not going to achieve them too!

Hence, I would like to share some reasons why many people can't achieve the goals they have set at the beginning of the year...

1) Vague, UnClear Goals. Not Specific enough.

Like the above-mentioned goals. People like to lose weight. People like to get promoted. People like to earn more money. These goals are too Vague!

When your goals are vague, you will not do anything to do it! Clarity is Power. When you know Specifically what you want to get, you will know How to get it.

If you want to lose weight, to be more specifically, 20 kg in 6 months, then you know that how much exercise you need, and how much excess food to cut down daily.

If you want to be promoted, to be more specifically, position of manager, then you know the demands required by the company for you to be promoted.

If you want to earn more, for example in sales, to be more specifically, $1000/month, then you know the amount of effort you have to put in to generate leads, no. of appointments/day...etc

Solution: Be Specific.


2) Lack of Consistent Focus

Many people 'talk' about new year resolutions when asked. When they are not asked, they won't talk about it. In fact, people talk about new year resolutions only on new year's days!

Or many write their resolutions down, and put it aside, and discover them at the end of the year, when they did some housekeeping.

What they lack is consistent focus on their goals. They are not reminded of their goals daily, and hence, they are not taking actions daily to achieve that goal.

After writing down a goal of losing weight, 20kg in 6 months, they may be fired up to run 5km per day, for the 1st week. However, when they are caught up with other things in life, they lost the focus of their goal, and went back to their usual habits.

Solution: The key is to stay focused with your goals everyday, by writing it down in paper, and put it in visible everyday. Read them out everyday, every morning, to remind yourself of the goals.

3) Just an Interest, Not a Commitment.

Many of us give new year resolutions for 'fun', since it's a new year, and we hope for something nice, something sweet, something good.

We 'like' to lose more weight, we 'hope' to earn more money, we 'hope' to strengthened our relationships...

We 'like', We 'hope'... so, even if we didn't achieve them, we will find some excuses to justify these promises. "Ah, I have a different body from others, and losing weight is exceptionally hard for me. Anyway, nobody knows that I want to lose weight this year"

Solution: Make a public commitment. Tell everybody you know, you see everyday, and share it everywhere you can too. On Facebook, Twitter, your blog, forums...etc. By making a public announcement, you have put yourself on the line! And this makes you very hard not to achieve your goal. (You don't want to look like a NATO (No-Action-Talk-Only) person to your friends yea).


Alright. We have started 2010. Let make our goals as exciting as we can, and hopefully you can share your goals here with all the readers on my blog (making a public commitment!!).  We will cheer you on to achieve them!

*Of course, I will share my goals too in upcoming posts!