Jet Lagged
I didn’t realise how much jet lag would affect me. Perhaps it could be due to me growing older, or it could be an accumulation of all lack of sleep. I travel quite a bit since I was young – so jet lag wasn’t a big deal for me. I would just sleep it off. This time round, I averaged 4-5 hours of sleep on a 26-30 hour journey on a plane each way. Also, prior to the trip, I only averaged 6 hours of sleep. Thus in short, I probably was lacking quite a bit in the sleep department as I need 8 hours of sleep to begin with.
The good thing about this was that I’ve realised I need to build up my stamina & health – not just in the area of diet – so I told myself I’ll need to start exercising. As soon as I said that, for the next 2 mornings since I arrived in Singapore, it was raining every morning – so it ruled out having a jog with my dogs. But on the 2nd morning, I took 2 of my dogs to walk up & down 4 levels with me. Nicole made it twice & Nikki made it thrice. Actually, they could do much more but I didn’t let them run up with me all the time as they went to a neighbour’s house & caused their dog to bark at 5+ in the morning!
I’ve been sleeping at 4+pm in the afternoon till the next morning, waking up only for a bite for dinner. I know dinner so late is bad but I was so tired & had to get a bit as I cut down on my intake for lunch & even skipped lunch after a heavy breakfast on Sunday morning with my parents. Was a great time at breakfast as we met some relatives & I could see that my dad was really glad coz we haven’t had breakfast at the Marine Parade market in the longest time – since I was below 10 years old or so? It did bring back lots of memories & I get carrot cake – one of my favourite breakfast items from that market – but somehow, it didn’t taste so good. Then I got a bowl of fishball noodles – which was yummy – compared to the instant noodles I had in Dallas.
Being jet lagged means I wake up really early & sleep very early as well. I pray that I’ll make it through today in 1 piece as I’m planning to go into the office at 7:30am so that I can knock off at 4:30pm & hopefully come home for a short nap before going for a church meeting. Hoping I’ll be awake for that session & adjust back to Singapore’s timing quickly. It’s said that it takes 1 day to get over 1 hour of jet lag. Perhaps it’s been a struggle coz it’s a 13 hour difference & I was there for 6 days & back here again – so haven’t fully adjusted either way as yet.
