[ I'm linking my latest video here, but it's unrelated to the content of this article. ]
I'd like to share a personal update, as my last post focused on the various initiatives I'm working on in my professional life. I'd just like to talk about my life.
For a start, the most significant change in my life is that I started on insulin injections to remove half of the diabetes drugs in my regimen. My logic is that it's better to start getting into insulin instead of having it thrust upon me after getting hospitalised. My specialist, who has been treating me for the past decades, also thinks it's time.
So I have a very light dose for noobs. 12 units for the long-acting insulin. 6 units before breakfast and lunch for the short-acting insulin. I got used to the pain from the injection within a day, but struggled with some withdrawal symptoms from the stoppage of my regular meds. I seem to be hungry most of the time, but when I eat normally, I feel lethargic - sort of like a food coma times 10.
Fortunately, I got myself a continuous glucose monitor. I realised that two major things (1) my hunger pangs are not a sign of low blood sugar, and I can manage to eat high-fibre biscuits until I recover. (2) My tiredness was primarily due to losing control over my blood sugar; I need to reduce my intake of fast carbs.
So now I'm just experimenting with what eating pleasures I can get away with, and with the numbers, I'll cut down on the stuff that's slowly killing me. I'm also experimenting with swimming after a large meal to see how my numbers react to exercise. It's actually fun that I'm engaging in some amount of bio-hacking.
Another area in my life is that I concluded my June fiction month with only two reads: The Singapore Grip by JG Farrell and The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei. Both reads are fairly ambitious for some who are too used to non-fiction and "serious" books.
You can go and buy The Original Daughter from a local indie bookseller here: https://www.bookbar.sg/store/p/the-original-daughter.
The book captures the essence of living in Singapore in the 1990s and early 2000s. I even rushed down to get the book autographed with my daughter's name to encourage her to develop a perspective on our education system and the politics of secondary school life, which the book does very well.
All in all, I did not enjoy my June fiction month as much as last year in December, when I could read the Stormlight Archives and the Warhammer 40,000 Eisenhorn series. My book picks this year were very thought-provoking, and The Singapore Grip felt slow and heavy; however, to create a sense of history, we should also read some Singaporean literature to understand what it's like to live in the past.
- 1940s - The Singapore Grip by JG Farrell
- 1960s - If we dream too long by Goh Poh Seng
- 1980s - Teenage Textbook by Adrian Tan
- 1990s - The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei
To make up for this, I've lined up a few books on Psychology and money for July, so that this blog can discuss deeper issues in money management that might be too abstract to cover on my video channel.
It should be pretty evident by now that I'm trying to find the right balance of content between my blog and video content, but emphasis is on my YouTube as I'm still quite far from successful monetisation.
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