the upside of qutting my job

so i have a three friends and an acquaintance who just came to visit thailand. nope, they were not together. they dont even know each other. for some reason, they came at the same time. my thai friend came to bangkok for the Ramadan. (he's fr the south, studying in indonesia.) my acquaintance came back to work here again. the two others are just visiting.

but that's not the point. the point is, when they saw me, they had one common comment. that i have gained weight. which to me is a breakthrough. cause i have always been ectomorphic. meaning, i am basically slender. no matter how i eat or get enough sleep. it's my metabolism. it's fast. im the kind of person who sweats a lot. which is healthy but sometimes inconvenient and uncomfortable.

and i am also very active. i walk fast. my physiology teacher once told me that if i dont slow down i might end up having hypertension and mycardial infarction. i have finally learned how to slow down a bit. thanks to my stay in thailand. it's almost a crime to walk fast even if you're catching a bus.

my thai friend also commented that i look better than when he first left for indonesia. "you look younger than me," he said. which is an exaggeration because he's only 25 or something. but i get his point. he used to have fair skin, now he's darker than me. (he said indonesia is even hotter than here in thaland.)

i used to have a very stressful job. freakingly stressful. and the school where i used to teach was very hot. uncomfortably hot. after sometime, i finally called it quits. had to leave before i go mental. (but also because my school is very far from where i live and i'd rather change job than change apartment. sometimes getting a new job is easier than getting a decent apartment. just sometimes...)

now im kinda relaxed. that is what makes me look fresher, i guess. i'll just face the consequences of leaving my work once my savings run out, hahaha.

for now, im reading my physical therapy books. im just catching up. i got new editions of some of our textbooks. im currently reading a 7 cm thick textbook and it's kinda frustrating because it takes me and hour just to read half of a chapter. but im also having a good time reading it. i am contemplating on having a refresher course or something. maybe...