Hours In Years

This month is a very significant month of my life, it is the year I hit in which the number of hours in a day is in tandem with the number of summers I’ve seen. This means I can put into clear perspective what exactly I’ve done in the past few years of my early life.

Let’s see, being Malaysian, food is always flowing in my blood… So l’m gonna start off this statistic count with food. Assuming I spend twenty minutes in the morning eating breatfast, an hour for lunch and an hour for dinner… On average I spend two hours and twenty minutes eating. That means I spend around two years and four months in my past life, just eating.

Next showering, coming from a tropical country that is predominantly very humid… I tend to bathe at least two to three times daily. So assume I take roughly fifteen minutes to shower and I shower twice daily, that’s half an hour spend every day just showering. In yearly terms, I’ve spend six months of my life just showering :)



And sleeping, I sleep an average of seven hours a day, so that means I’ve slept seven years of my life away. Haha, how long did Rip Wan Winkle sleep again…?

Next is schooling, From pre-school (daycare and kindergarten) to secondary its about six hours a day for five days a week, hence lets average that out to four hours a day, and in uni I usually have about twenty over contact hours a week, so lets average that out to four hours a day. So this roughly adds up to me being in some sort of education facility an average of four years in the years I’ve been alive.

I spend at least two hours a day watching tv that is for sure, with all the tv dramas, both Chinese and English that I watch… That equals up to about two consecutive years of watching tv, wow :P This is just tv, I probably spend an average of at least two hours a day on the computer ever since I got my first computer, with games, ICQ, Friendster, Facebook, P**n, MSN, youtube and the likes. LoL, that’s roughly two years of consecutively sitting in front of the computer in the past few years of my life.

I’m gonna leave out the part about pooping and jerking off to your own imagination, but as a young guy going through puberty, all I can say is that during my younger days, I did it more than once daily… If you do your math properly, that could potentially add up to a lot… ahahaha



Lumping up the hours spent everyday into years kinda puts it into perspective how much time is wasted by doing things that are unproductive. Looking back, spending at least two hours of my life watching tv is probably one of the best time wasters. Although in my defence, watching tv is a way to improve my social life, as when I meet with friends, we talk and chat about what the latest development in our favourite tv program is. We also talk about hot guys and girls in the programs, so I guess watching tv is a form of ‘preparing’ to socialise. LoL… weak defence I know… but worth a shot.

Signing out.