Marky's Blog

     I woke up today as I do everyday, phone in my face and opening TikTok first thing in the morning. Usually I see many different types of videos, however, almost as if TikTok was teasing me, I watched about 7 videos straight that only involved food. Naturally upon seeing these delectable foods I wanted to eat, however, I did not simply want to eat what I usually eat which is practically only my Mom's cooking. I wanted to experiment and try to make food for myself today, more importantly recreate one of the beautiful dishes I watched being made on TikTok. This was the perfect day to try to cook as well, since my parents went on a trip this past week, and I just ran out of food that they left me while they were gone. I have never really tried to cook because I always believed that I would not do good so I have never really tried. One could say I was afraid of cooking, thus I avoided it.     The meal that I was particularly craving was a nice creamy, cheesy, del...

     Hello everyone! My name is Mark, but most of my friends just call me Marky. I want to start by sharing the fact that I have many hobbies, but in this blog, I want to focus on the hobby that I most enjoy, and that I think represents me as a person most, which is calisthenics. For those of you who don't know, calisthenics is simply bodyweight exercise and can be as simple as doing pushups or sit-ups. The reason I started doing calisthenics was primarily that I was a gymnast for 9 years, I started at age 6 and ended when I was about 15  or a freshman in high school. As a gymnast, we utilized bodyweight exercises, as they were more suitable for building strength in a particular event like high bar and especially the still rings. After I quit gymnastics I wanted to stay in shape and be healthy which led to me doing calisthenics as a hobby.         You might wonder "why did you start doing calisthenics instead of just weightlifting"? One answe...