Like every year, 2018 starts with all the best intentions.
Lose weight.
Don’t swear.
Exercise More.
Spend more time with kids.
Sleep earlier.
Don’t overwork or overeat.
Play good golf.
And like all good intentions, everything is shot to hell within the first week. Really. I’m like, damn it! It’s like groundhog day!
Lose weight – In Malaysia, not possible. Because after english new year, is Chinese New Year. Only a stupid person will not eat anything in chinese new year. Only an EXTREMELY stupid person goes back to Penang and not have anything good to eat.
Don’t swear – This one very easy to lose. First hour of the year already gone.
Exercise more – I am currently exercising. In my mind. In my mind I am jogging and playing badminton and football.
Spend more time with kids – actually this is still going as planned. I am working a great schedule now to ensure I spend some time to take them out for food and hang out at the petrol station store more – because its cheaper than hanging out at cafes.
Sleep Earlier – No. Gone within the first day.
Don’t overwork or overeat – Overworking is subjective actually. I don’t think I am overworking at all. As in I don’t really know what the limit of my work is, so how do we know what “over”-working is?
Overeating — I apply the same theory.
Play good golf.
Ah. So we played our first game in KGNS. I started with a beautiful double bogey over the first 4 holes. Then I rattled in a triple bogey. Then at least I ran into a bogey, then I had bogey, bogey, par to end the front nine.
My drives were just horrendous, my stupid wedge was completely off and I was just playing absolutely fantastically lousy golf. It was frustrating, because there were some absolute beautiful shots in there, like my sand wedge on the 10th to 2 feet of the hole fro 110 metres. Or the booming drive on the 16th setting me only 60 meters away from the green and I stuck it to 5 feet (and missed the birdie). But 80% was CRAP. My 60 degree dug into the ground so much, that I can start a new career in landscaping. Every single shot I did was in the ground. Duff. Duff. Duff. I duffed, I think, total 6 shots. Until it dawned upon my stupid brain that the ground was very wet and soft, and I should be using something with more bounce, like my sand wedge! And voila, from there on, it worked! But I was on the 17th hole already! Stupid!
So, no, my first game, I think I didn’t even crack 100.
What a great start to the year!