Zee: February 2010

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Went for my first jogging since the injury. Did a 2km run from my house to the bike shop with the bike on my left hand, followed by a return trip back home. It was really tough trying to run with the bike since the weight distribution is difficult to maintain balance, plus it's not exactly that light you know.. now arms aching =.= . The run was okay, cardio wise, i'm still going well, but the continuous swinging of the arm to balance the body was uncomfortable since it involves shifting of the joint. The feeling sux..

Tried doing chin-ups and that's worst. I can't even lift myself up due to the pain. ARHzzz.. why do i forsee myself applying for downgrade. I almost bought the vision tech aero tri bar cockpit to fit onto my bike. Looking at the current situation, I have serious doubts whether I can go back to swimming in the first place. haizz.. why such crappy things have to happen.

Anyway, repaired the bike and the technician managed to realign the spokes of the wheel and so there's no need to change a full set at the moment. Save me some $$ since that irritating ah neh refuse to reply me after I tried contacting him. how irresponsible can one be when you just pretend to not hear anything after being ask for compensation.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Won SMU bridge comp

went for SMU bridge comp this afternoon, and came back with the ipod shuffle. won the first price with a good score of 71.54%, very high.. usually 60+ % can win liao.. but oh well the field was full of newbies, so the scoring was a bit crap. Just thank goodness that we managed to wallop them and got the pts. I wasn't expecting much things to be honest, cos I thought that there would be many funny scores ard and indeed there were a lot.

Played relatively okay with brendon though there were still a few minor glitches. Think he's enjoying playing with me too, so that's good. 2nd time that I won something with him and it looks like a good partnership is in the building. Still got a lot more to learn and improve on.

Anyway, the poster they gave was a ipod nano, then end up with ipod shuffle. Cheat my feelings... can complain them de.. but don't be so evil la hor.. but price diff a lot leh T_T

The ipod shuffle that I got.. Still thinking whether to sell it, or give it or use it ...

Brendon with me...

Team of NUS players, from left to right, Nelson, Brendon, Guozhen, me, Aaron. Nelson and Aaron came in 2nd. =)

Good haul for us, sad for Gz he got walloped by us during the 2nd last rd, if not he should have been 2nd.

Friday, February 19, 2010

happy TIGER Year 2010

Happy CNY everyone.. it's being quite a busy TIGER yr, and i welcomed it with both hands together with my haircut and dislocated shoulder.. Hope there would be no more of such thing...

went for the routine trip to malaysia to "bai nian", before doing more in Singapore. There are still quite a few families that i haven't visit actually. but doubt i'll be going le.. no time le..

Met up with Karen and Jiahui today... It's being so long since I last met them. hmmm.. when was that.. i think it was last July? both working liao, things to talk about also different, look much more mature as well. glad that I'm still in contact with them.. wonder who will tie the knots first... haha..

Europe trip now also don't know how le... Tix need to be bought soon and euros is like all time low now. Hmm... What needs to be done leh?

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Met with an accident just now while cycling and got injured. Was cycling with my usual group of kakis and so happen that today, there was 2 new riders joining us. So we were cycling well till changi coastal road, where the mishap happened. I was drafting behind Aljino and this new rider, Vijay was on aero-bar on his bike. ( holding onto aero-bar means no control of the break and less manoeuvre ability ) Following behind Aljino, not expecting anything weird to happen, Vijay decided to cut in infront of Aljino. Upon noticing that he was way too near, I shouted at him to back off, but it was all too late and he hit Aljino's rear wheel. coming in at 45 degrees from my right, and travelling at 40km/h, there was no where I could divert my bike into. Vijay crashed right in front of me and my wheels ran over him, trying hard to control the bike but was in vain, as my bike eventually turned and threw me off the bike, landing on my shoulder. As a result, my shoes were torn, wheels damaged, bike scratched... All needs repair...

My poor bike, with the front wheel gone case.. ball bearing damaged.. need to change.

And I went to CGH for x-ray, to find out that there's a minor dislocation on the shoulder. Min 2 weeks to recover, maybe more.. depends. DAMN IT. I've just picked up the intensity of training as it's 5 weeks away from the race.. And now is the critical period. Honestly, i think it's game over for me le. I don't think the arm will recover in time in 2 weeks, plus tahan the strenenous activity that goes along with it.

Training hard for the past few months, only for one reason. And this has to happen. Am I suay lately? or am I very suay? last week give me thrash hair cut.. this week accident. so what's next in-line for me ?

Friday, February 5, 2010

Shit happens and it sucks.. What to do ? Just face it and carry on...

With many things on hand, I've decided to take the JUST DO IT approach.. I've planned out the training schedule for the next 6 weeks, and i'm going to follow it 100% without fail. If I don't , I've failed myself.. That's something that I hate, and I will not let it happen... Anything else for now shall just take a step back.

Swim hard, Cycle Hard, Run Very Hard... Race easy....

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Went to cut my hair this afternoon... to the usual hair saloon at CS level 2. Hair inn. I've been getting my hair cut for the past few times, and they've been giving me rather decent hair cut.. but guess what I got today ? I got a super ugly cut lar... WTFFFFFF... the hairstylist forgot to put on the blade to the shaver, and by default it's number 1. The shortest cut that it can have. even army BMT also no. 2 And he only realised it after one cut. Trying to be very apologetic, like got use.. now.. i'm going to bear with this bald patch for a period of time. How sia.. how to face ppl like that . To remedy the situation, he tried to cut the surrounding to be shorter, and now i have a weird hair cut.. RAWR~!

Thinking whether to just shave it bald altogether. Definitely it'll loook better than this crap now.