was following this thread since it first came up and only now found the time to add on to it.

This whole work/life balance thing has been bugging me since I started working. Here in SG the work culture is pretty overwhelming. even as a teacher I'm working all the time. I teach the afternoon session, but most days I'm in school by 9, doing 'stuff' and school session starts about 12, and schoolday ends at 7. then i head home, cook and eat, pack my lunch for the next day and do an hour or 2 of marking/grading. sleep, repeat the next day.

I can't seem to find the time or mental energy to go ride my bike, or even have a short run. end of the day is hard coz i'm so tried and hungry my eyes don't even look straight, not a good time to be riding. I sleep about 12 every night, more often than not 1, so i wake at 7 and by then its peak hour traffic. Also I find it hard to motivate myself if there is no destination. I used to have a 14km commute 2 ways, now its more like... 5km... i barely start perspiring and I'm already there. I don't commute everyday also, because soemtimes i need to bring back stacks of books or I need to go really early at 7am. So I take a taxi. It's a walkable distance but then i feel bad spending 45 mins walking when i have a pile of work to do (also its usually walking home and I'm just starving)

I know it just sounds like a bunch of excuses. But i'm just plain exhausted. Weekends I try to ride at least once, but then i have more work, and sometimes i need to go out, meet friends etc.

the lack of exercise makes me more stressed coz i have nowhere to vent physically, and i just keepputting on weight as well, no surprise there.

I dunno, but i think work can be pretty demanding and the exercise time hard to find.

I'm still perservering, trying to commute at least 4 times a week. and saving all the heavy stuff for the one day when i take a cab. I try to walk more. Bf's buying me an ipod nano (the new one yay!) so i have a new toy to take running. I am trying to sleep earlier and wake up earlier so i can squeeze in a run. I hope it all works out. (that said, i've been trying for 7 weeks or so without much success... theres always something to blindside the best laid plans)