Unravelling U(mair)

11th November 2011

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Week 3 - Task 2: Vitality

So the third week was all about vitality, and we had to begin with giving a defenition for it. so how does ths sound:

Vitality: is having an abundance of physical and mental energy to use in a manner that will help oneself to grow as a person to achieve a better lifestyle.

Well normally that would be merather easily, i mean when i volunteered as a steward at the MCM expo on 30th October, even the organising staff were astonished by my levels of energy. But that week in particular was an off week (shall i put it) for myself.

The reason? simple enough, Sleep, or rather a lack of sleep, not eating regularly (due to falling slightly ill) and then looking after my nieces and nephew aged between 9 months and 4 years old. However you’re probably thinking how the heck did i have an abundance of energy when i was stewarding at the expo, well the answer is once again simple. Sleep. yes that’s right sleep was the deciding factor in all of this.

I was able to get about 7 hours sleep (even though i needed something close to 12) helped me to re-energise myself after getting as little as 4 hours of sleep some nights. It’s ridiculous, but hey I kept pushing through, and i’m still alive.

But enough about that, as our Task was to do with something about Vitality, the wonderful people over at Spark & Mettle provided us with a short video about breathing to watch, on how we could improve our vitality. The link to watch is just below…

http://anmolmehta.com/blog/2007/07/31/powerful-4-part-deep-breathing-exercise-for-vitality-free-online-yoga-pranayama-book-ch-3/

and though it is a yoga breathing technique and i know it works, as my mum used to do this as well. for me it really didn’t do too much. I mean i did about 7 years of martial arts classes, and still like to dabble in martial arts every now and then, and if there was one thing that i had learnt from there, it was to control my breathing, and how to take long deep breaths, to fill my lungs entirely.

But i’d say if there was one thing to further increase my vitality, it would have to be jogging a bit more, as i’ve realised i’m completely out of shape, and to be able to maintain high energy levels I’m going to have to get in to better shape.

And here’s an example of somebody with vitality, my sister and her kids. as she gave birth to her fourth beautiful child on Halloween, and i’m telling you, if there are anybody in the world that have a lot of vitality i’d say it’s children and pregnant women. i give it to them to be able to go through that ordeal and want to go through it again. i mean you’d never hear a guy to be asked to be kicked in the balls again. So yeah.

That’s vitality for ya

11th November 2011

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Week 3, Task 1: Test Thy Mettle

Firstly I’d like to start off by apologising for being a bit over 2 weeks late with this post, things have been crazy at home.

but to begin with our first task was to do this ridiculously childish quizz (no offense, but it really was), to see what our level of mettle/grit/resilliance (whatever you’d like to call it) was.

So after answering these 12 childish questions, (i keep referring to them as childish, as some of the questions that were given were specifically meant for a child). the result that i was given….

and in hind-sight i’m not surprised by the result…

was…

yes, i’m trying to build as much suspense as possible, as that’s what i feel like doing…

but back to my point…

my result was…

My resiliance level is: High!

though i wasn’t suprised by that, the description did slightly annoy me slightly (i guess is the word) by saying are you Simon Cowell? As it really brought down the integrity of the description in my opinon.

But the description given was…

Are you Simon Cowell? No? You’re clearly someone very focussed on your goals. You’ve got a very high “grit score” and that means you can sacrifice short-term stuff and work towards your dreams without being distracted. A high grit-score can be a better indicator of future success than high IQ. Just one thing: remember to have some fun along the way, because developing strong positive relationships is also important when times get tough.

and for those of you that would like to have a go at it here’s the link for you:

www.playsuperme.com/quizzes/quiz-mettle-detector/

24th October 2011

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The (impossible) Riddle

It’s this time again, Spark & Mettle have set myself (and others) another task. and this time it’s to answer a riddle. Now being the type that likes being challenged by riddles, i immediately had a massive grin, thinking “Bring it!”

So here’s the riddle for you guys to ponder on, by the way, we only had 20 minutes to get to an answer:

Three gods A, B, and C are called, in no particular order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. Your task is to determine the identities of A, B, and C by asking three yes-no questions; each question must be put to exactly one god. The gods understand English, but will answer all questions in their own language, in which the words for yes and no are da and ja, in some order. You do not know which word means which.

Now upon reading this riddle, i instantly thought of a similar riddle, which goes along the lines of, 2 people, one always lies, the other tells the truth, you can only ask 2 questions (ie one to each) and you are to find out which one is which. So going through with the logic that all I had to do, was attain the correct question to ask each of them. The answer would then fall in to my lap quite instantaneously, i set about trying to figure out the question needed.

At first i was only asking the question which goes along the lines of (At A) if you were B would he say you always lie? and so on. but i soon realised there would be too many different permutations to figure out the contradiction. Which at that point I then figured that i was on the right line, but my question had to be extended further. So i changed it slightly to become: (At A) If i asked B, asking if i asked C would he (C) say that you (A) always lied? and then the other questions would be directed like that , to creat a circle of questions, so that an answe rcould be attained.

At that point, i became hell-bent crazy that i was close to the answer, that i grabbed multiple sheets of papers, and started listing every single permutation of da and ja possible compared to if A, B & C were telling the Truth, Lies or being Random. Now i must admit at this point, I believed that though i haven’t worked it out properly in my head, i’m sure that the answer is here in this set of permutations.

Ladies & Gentlemen, i have to admit, that was foolish of myself. i over looked the simple variable that we do not know what da and ja actually mean. However if we did, the method i was using, would have got me the answer. Thereby i can conclude, that though there is no answer to this actual riddle, as there are far too many variable to play around with. I do believe that i attempted this rather well. I was rather calm and calculating, thought about it logically, and did not give up, (in fact I don’t plan to give up even now, as i’m damn well sure that an answer can be produced) however that is another story, for another day.

So all in all, i’d say i had a lot of fun attempting this, and that it shows even under the stress of a short deadline (in this case 20 minutes) i remained calm and concentrated as much as i could ti get as far as i could to answer this.

23rd October 2011

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A Fun Day at Work ~ ^_^

Well normally I’d say working in a birthday card shop is pretty boring, and well normally it is. But today was different. The difference being Halloween~

So simply put, we were told today to dress up in one of the custumes that we sell in our shop, so that we could advertise our merchandise i guess.

Well~ me being me, I chose what would probably be the scariest costume we had, and I had a complete blast with it. ithe amount of customers that were ‘spooked’ was hilarious, but the best reaction was from a group of three girls, i just walked past them, and happened to look in their direction, with which they screamed and ran further in the shop. What made it all the more hilarious was just the fact that these girls were like 11 or 12, they seemed closer to being yound adults. (Now i’m not 100% sure, due to have a lack of vision, from the mask, and then the added effect of not wearing my glasses, but yeah~)

So just for your opinions, tell me how scary my costume really was~

22nd October 2011

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10 Activities that Engage & Interest me (Professional & Personally)

For our second task from Spark & Mettle we had to make a list of 10 things that Engage and Interest us…

So my method was simple, list the first top 10 things that i could think of that engage mewhich are then categorised as to which i do in a professional state, and which i do in a personal state, and here they are in no particular order:

Personal:

• Reading Novels, i can easily lose myself within a good book, and i try to read as often as i can
• Drawing/Sketching just about anything, most of the times i do it without even realising what i’m drawing, and i tend to do this if i’m bored i guess
• Problem solving (puzzles, and maths questions… and yeah, i really am a bit of a geek)
• Tennis - my favourite sport (playing wise) without a shadow of a doubt, i get so involved in the game, that i could play it all night long
• Video gaming on any platform really, though i’m more of a nintendo and playstation fan, than an Xbox one
• Dungeons and Dragons, just got in to it, but i’m hooked
• Music, as i’m sure you’re already aware, I’ve got a pretty extensive library of songs, and it’s just a tip of the ice-berg. If i had the time and a better internet connection, i’d have shared more songs by now
• Anime/Manga, it’s been a massive part of my life for some time now

Professional:

• Crafts, mainly such as Origami interest me a lot as well as calligraphy from all over the world. i especially enjoy writing japanese calligraphy xD
• Writing/Debating, i like to write descriptive passages randomly, and i also like to write debates, so i’ve stuck these 2 together
• Problem solving (puzzles, and maths questions… and yeah, i really am a bit of a geek)

It’s interesting how Problem solving is something that i like to do in a personal sense, but can easily be done in the professional sense as well.

But it seems all in all, i haven’t grown up much, as i’m still pretty much a kid at heart xD