Post Celebration Problem

It was a slow morning and afternoon but the evening made up for it. Had a good time with a German family (the wife made lasagna) and it was rich and good. Yup, I'm definitely going to be fat this month. Sigh. Feeling my waist I think I should do something drastic...such as exercise. I use to do some form of exercise but my partner went away, I was pretty active with badminton then I had to hang my racquet because my partner stopped. So I'm partner-less and now looking for another partner or sport. I guess I like swimming but it's hard because my mind is not active enough. I mean, if you do play badminton (or any other sport), you would know that the mind plays a very important part. Developing a new strategy, identifying techniques to be used in different scenarios, etc. However, in swimming, you can't do that. That is why my mind tells me that it is boring. I don't mind swimming for fun but I prefer something more... I don't know... challenging?

Typically, when going for a swim, I would do about 20 laps non-stop with a moderate speed using breast-stroke but at the end of the 20 laps, my body feels warm (which is good) and my heart pumps harder (which is also good) but my mind tells me... so what else to do? Let's try free-style...there I go practicing my free-style but nothing of strategy and what-nots. I wish I have someone to play tennis with me too but (there's always something isn't there) the weather. Being in the tropics, the weather is pretty unpredictable (actually most of everywhere else) and so having a serious game of tennis means have to bear with bad weather. The problem is, whether you play or not, you've booked and paid for the court before hand. If it is not that then, if you travel all the way there, play for about ten minutes, the sky starts to piss on you. Then you need to stop, pack your bags and wait for the rain to stop then try as much as you can to dry the court (this may take sometime) then continue to play or go home. Yup, I've been there to know this. Squash? I'm an old man...can't take the speed anymore. Sigh. Jogging? Same as swimming. So what else is there? So I'm going to try something...anything at the end of Feb. Let's see how it goes.