A day in the Ideal Life of the Tran man

8:30am
I wake up, in a high-rise apartment, to the soft, ambient sounds of city traffic. I shuffle into the nearby bathroom and brush my teeth. I take a shower, using quality product to make sure that I look and smell good (a player's gotta take care of himself, after all). I then shave and trim my goatee (for those of you who know me personally, yes, I like the goatee and will keep it). Emerge from the bathroom feeling clean and great.

9:15am
I enter the kitchen and make myself breakfast and lunch. Great, wholesome healthy food. It's also a joy to cook in that kitchen, having everything that I need. I sit down and read the paper while having my breakfast.

9:40am
I leave for the gym and work out there for an hour. Depending on what day it is, I either do weights or cardio work. After my workout, I return to my apartment for a post-workout shake.

11:00am
I leave my apartment and take my laptop with me, settling down at a nearby coffee shop and connecting into their wireless internet to communicate with peers and friends, and work my trade: writing.

2:00pm
I take a break from work and leave the coffee shop to go somewhere else for lunch. Again, something light and healthy, like a nice club sandwich. Spot a girl checking me out, and walk over and start a conversation with her. Spend lunch talking to her and making a new friend.

3:30pm
Shopping for appropriate ingredients to make for dinner.

4:30pm
Return home and begin cooking a healthy, gourmet dinner. Some friends are coming over for dinner, so I cook for a group.

6:50pm
Friends arrive, and we have an amiable dinner-chat. After dinner, we hang out and talk for a bit, before friends leave for other things.

8:20pm
Entertainment time - either play some videogames, watch tv/movie, or something else to amuse myself for a little while.

10:00pm
Sit down and meditate for a while, before preparing to go to bed.

In writing this, I suppose what I really want from life is freedom to do what I want. The freedom to work when I want, where I want. The freedom to live life the way I want to live life.

Good things diary:
- Went to my first salsa lesson today. It was a lot of fun, and my friends were pretty glad that I got them to come with me. We're all definitely going to come back.
- Hamming it up after the salsa lesson at my friend's place. We must have looked a gay sight, practicing what we learned together in my friend's apartment. It would have been quite funny had someone walked past and overheard my friend saying to me 'all right, stick your arse out ... yeah, like that ... now just swing your hips ...' XD
- A couple of Japanese novels that I ordered online arrived, so I just have to pick them up from my friend's place and then I can start reading through them with my Japanese teacher.
- Managed to get my hands on some notes that I had lost, borrowing off a friend. Now I just have to photocopy them and then I'll be able to replace the missing notes that I lost.