TheLoneRider May 2023 Blogs

May 2023 Blogs

May Chronicles

(May 31, 2023) Life in Siquijor..more »»

(May 1-31, 2023) May showers are here...plants are happy, the air is clean and the rivers are replenished. In Siquijor, it's fiesta time. Lazi, among other municipalities celebrate their fiestas...lechon, merry making and good tidings....more »»

My May Yoga Practice: a Journal

(May 1-31, 2023) I've added the Gateway Process in my yoga routine. I plan on pursuing this until I exhaust the materials I can get on this. This means my other yoga pursuits will have to take a back seat - Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Yoga by Gigit. My personal practice will continue to evolve with the addition of Hemi-Sync (the core of the Gateway Process)....more »»

Learning Cebuano

(May 1-31, 2023) Now that I'm committed to stay long-term in Siquijor, it's high time for me to start learning Cebuana...again...seriously!..more »»

Meditating while in Conversation

(May 29, 2023) What if I consider a social interaction as a kind of meditation where I shut-up, observe, and listen without reacting?..more »»

In Search of a Cool Climate

(May 25, 2023) I love the place where I'm at, but it is seriously punishing in the mid afternoon when the sun is right above. It's almost impossible to be productive when sweat is running all over the body. Time to look for a new place...more »»

A.I. Language Models: GPT4, Bard and Bing

(May 24, 2023) GPT4, the latest technological incarnation of the world's leading Language A.I., has taken the world by storm. Recently, I discovered that I could use it in far more meaningful ways...more »»

Aging: Vultures Gathering

(May 17, 2023) With the onslaught of the aging process, diseases are like vultures encircling the skies. When fitness is no longer there, the hapless prey spends a ton of money for healthcare and maintenance. But there's a way to keep diseases at bay. How?..more »»

The 64 km Bike Ride

(May 16, 2023) To shock the body back into a fitness paradigm, especially after the bingeing from fiesta food, I embarked on a bike ride around Siquijor Island on my clunky, heavy and small-wheeled Japanese folding bike - a total of 75.25 km...more »»