The BBC's News on Taylor Swift

A friend of mine told me that when we started to feel that we didn’t like any new songs from <s style="background-color: rgb(250, 204, 204);">all </s>singers <s style="background-color: rgb(250, 204, 204);">nowadays</s>, it meant we weren’t young anymore. Each generation has its own style of music, and only a few songs can last forever, something on the order of ‘Don’t Cry for Me Argentina.’

Taylor Swift just released an album, and it seems to be important as two programs on the BBC talked about it in the past week, so I looked up the album. Fortunately, the two songs I listened to, "Exile" and "Cardigan," were quite enjoyable. I am still young, I suppose. However, this just occurred to me this morning on my commute to work: why does her album even make the BBC news? As the program is supported by advertising, is this one source of advertising, or do those BBC journalists just like her so much they have to talk about her on their shows?

A little progress each day

The road back to “fitness” is clearly not a walk in the park, especially when you have been slacking off for months. For runners like me, a gradual increase in <s style="background-color: rgb(250, 204, 204);">the</s> weekly mileage is necessary. I started two weeks ago with 17 km and last Sunday my weekly mileage increased to 20 km. Perhaps, the challenge is to write down the number of km that I run each week until I reach my goal of 50 km every week.

There are days when I just really want to sleep or rest. However, I know that if I become complacent and skip a day, then a day of skipping exercise might result in more days being skipped. Some runners I know do more extreme measures and they weigh themselves every two weeks. It’s one of those effective methods to lose weight. It’s like <s style="background-color: rgb(250, 204, 204);">the</s> an “in your face method”. Another method would be to cut out junk food, sugar and fast food. No matter how tempted I am, I have to sacrifice and skip the pizza and ice cream for now.

Overall, I feel happy because two months ago<s style="background-color: rgb(250, 204, 204);">,</s> my weekly mileage was just 10 km, and now it’s up to 20 km. I will try my best to run in between my lessons and to be as active as I can. “A little progress each week is still progress”.