The Good Life

I joined my officemate (as her guest) in the gym today.
We went straight ahead to a gym in ABS CBN after office. Actually, it was my third time already to be there, as a guest. Seriously, I enjoy the workout, the facilities and amenities but I am not willing to shell out a hefty amount just to get physically fit.
Anyway, I was interviewed first by the receptionist and she tried persuading me to get a passport membership. I politely declined saying that I have to think about it first. Which I already have done a gazillion times.
After warming up and dong some mid-body workouts, we joined the body combat group exercise. It's like sparring with choreography. It was fun but sadly I had to stop after 15 minutes because my heart is pounding really fast.
Mind you, there were nearly-senior citizens in group exercise and they have lasted all through out the session. I was thinking, it might be they really have good stamina that n I have or they just want to show off or convince themselves that they can still do it.
Oh good luck with that! I don't know if they've got clearance from their physicians to do strenuous workouts. As for me, I don't want to push myself to the limit, I have mitral valve prolapse and i still want to live a little longer.
I just sat in the lounge and waited for my officemate to get done. I felt nauseous. Good thing soda is free flowing.
When she's done we just changed into casual clothes. Yeah, we did not hit the shower. I did not bring towel because I was thinking it will be provided for since the monthly gym fee is ceiling high. Well I was wrong. I just forgot that they were not really providing towels for the people there.
I was not able to talk my officemate into getting a body spa so I just went on alone. It was outside the gym.
The masseuse was very good although she did not talk much during the one hour session. She focused on my stress points especially on my back.
All the pain and some discomfort that I have been feeling since my last spa treatment in September last year just vanished.
It's really good to treat yourself once in a while and feel guiltless about it.

Coffee time...again?

Prelude:

I was able to finish running errands for my schoolmate. Woohoo! Though I was kinda pissed because I was expecting for simple Thank You from one of the persons I ran them for but what I got was an attitude...Grrr. She hit my nerve so I lashed back. I just said to her, my work here is done!

I headed straight to Pag-ibig office in Makati to pay for my monthly house amortization which I named Puti (Thanks Tim!). I was there around 3:00 and was done by 4:30. I headed straight to the mall to check if they had stocks of the shoes I saw at the other mall's branch. Luckily, they had! Those pairs are really meant for me.
While at the mall, I texted Ava if she wanted to have a coffee with me. She was my former teammate and she now works in our head office in Makati. She called me and said yes. She's out by 5:30 pm so I hurriedly walked back to Ayala and meet her up at our head office lobby.

She said she's on a diet because she feels fat now that she has stopped boxing. She knew that I felt starved so we had a hearty meal at the North Park. She had this huge bowl of wanton noodle soup while I ordered a quarter white chicken and a good for two serving of rice. Yeah, we pigged out!

We were giggling all the time we were eating. We talked about some weird people in our office. A couple was sitting on the table next to ours. Man, they were making this public display of affection.

Feeling fool full, we headed to The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf to continue chatting over coffee. Apparently, Ava and I both love to put cinnamon powder in our coffee. We were wondering why people find it weird. Oh well, to each his own.

We had so much fun that we did not notice that it was already past 9 pm so we decided to call it a night.

I'm just proud of Ava. She was so focused on getting a leaner body. She started to work on it 3 years ago. The result was not dramatic because she took the right way and she’s enjoying the fruit of her labor.

I know she might kill me for showing this old picture that she considers hideous but I’m just so proud of and happy for her.

Kudos chovs!