happy hormones

For quite some time now, I've been feeling happy and contented with my life. I graduated from UP Diliman (oh yeah, it's my dream ever since), joined a fraternity, which is so cool, I've met some of my closest friends in KE and ThE and passed the board exams with flying colors (I did not complete the colors though, I think I only got 255 out of the 256 colors, missed a point to make it to top 10. LOL) and now, I am practicing my profession with not-so-bad-compensation-if-you-look-at-the-experience-I-am-getting salary.

I have time to exercise now. I am lucky enough to have a roommate who can afford to have a home gym set and let me use it.

It's actually multi-purpose: I use it to dry my clothes sometimes. heehee

I've been into outdoor activities nowadays. Went to Batangas with my past and present roommates last week to try mountaineering. We actually climbed and traversed Mt. Batulao which is an entry-level climb, and it was awesome! The experience was so great, had the chance to mountain-climb (for realz hahaha) 60~70 degrees slope without ropes. Talk about adrenaline rush.

Picture was taken before the final assault to the peak (811 masl), you can see here the peak of Mt. Batualo :D

I am also into running now. It started when I was still a senior student, running around the academic oval in UP whenever I can't wear my size 29 pants because of my big belly. I started running regularly since December of last year (2010) I run four times a week: twice every weekdays in UP and twice every weekends in Bulacan. I actually bought a pair of quite expensive running shoes (adidas adizero ace) to motivate myself to run regularly. HAHAHA

Anyway, finished my first official run just this morning. The event (RUN FOR JAPAN) was a fundraiser for the victims of the Japan Triple whammy event last March 11 (earthquake+tsunami+nuclear crisis).

I registered with my officemates Martin and Mike for the 10k run and finished it at 1:05:03, not bad for novice runners like me. *Took the shot after the run because we don't have friends with us to take our picture while running LOL

I am so happy that I can do things that I've always wanted to do now. ^^