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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Completed one of my resolutions for this year when i completed 21km at last sunday's Singapore Bay Run/Army Half Marathon 2009... My watch read 2hr 59mins when i reached the end point and so minus the 10 mins or so we spend waiting to go to the toilet, i took around 2hr 49mins to finish the race... Not exactly a very good timing as i had hope to complete in less than 2hr 45 mins... Well, it was a good effort though seeing that its my first long distance race in a long long time... Have to continue training as i have signed up for Standard Chartered 42km at the end of the year... Seriously, im still wondering why the hell i signed up for it!!! But its something that i always want to do once in my life so yep, gonna train like hell for it(hopefully)...

Thank god i took yesterday and today off as im really feeling the effects of the run... Not so much in my legs though... There is the ache in my calf and hamstring but the more serious ache seems to be at my shoulder area and back... Definitely signs that my conditioning wasn't really ready for such a race which is why im feeling the after effects now... I wonder how my body will feel after 42km at the end of the year???

Its a very funny thing really... I signed up for all these marathons at the urging of my platoon mates from 160... And when i tell people that im running all these races, all of them will be like - "wa kao, in army always chao keng don't want to run. now ord liao go run marathon. wtf!" Quite true though... Haha... But its different really... In army, you will get sick and tired of running coz thats what you do most of the time and you cant really run at your own pace as well... Outside, you won't have someone bellowing at you to run faster and to keep up with those fast people... And best of all, you don't have to sing!!! God, i used to hate singing when running when i was in the army... Singing while marching is still ok... But running??? Im already out of breath and i still have to sing or im gonna hear cries of "knock it down" very soon... So you see, its different!!!

Im dreading going back to work tomorrow... My guess is that my mailbox is gonna be flooded with mail for rsvp for a project that im doing right now... I just hoped that intern did not screw up whatever i asked her to do...

I Love This Game.// 5:32 PM

Monday, August 03, 2009

ok, i admit i was lazy to update during the past 2 months!!! there was quite a lot of stuffs to update during that time but either i was too busy or when i was free, i was too lazy...

lets see, what have i been busy with for the past 2 months... oh yes, all the 21st birthday parties!!! there was shuping's, then followed by qiu's and then finally siyu's... which kinda reminds me, i have yet to get the photos from them... damn, seriously, what have i been doing for the past 2 months...

and then, there was my second trip to taiwan!!! this time round was with the rainbow gang... hmm, which time was better??? i would say the first time there though coz as compared to the first time, i was more used to the surrounding and there wasn't really much surprises this time round... but it was a good trip nonetheless with a group of great company... photos are all facebook so just pop by my profiles to see what i was doing in taiwan... that said, i would want to make a thrid trip there again though, but this time round to other parts of taiwan other then taipei!!!

then, liverpool came to town to play a friendly match with our singapore lions... why am i talking about this even though im not a liverpool fan??? well, i just want to add my two cents worth into all the debacle arosed from that match... lets start off with the national anthem debate... personally, i felt that it was very disrespectful of the organisers to play liverpool's anthem when the president of singapore, mr sr nathan was leaving the field after being introduced to all the players, whats with the nation's birthday coming up in less than 2 weeks time... but i wonder though, would the fans sing the majulah singapura as loud as they sang you will never walk alone??? and of course the announcement of "this is anfield"... whoever the emcee was(i heard was that bimbo jamie yeo), he/she has got to be kidding me... anfield is like a a few hundred thousands miles away in england... this is kallang for goodness sake!!! i wonder how the singapore team players felt when they heard that... as for the fans, well they paid to see liverpool play so i don't think we can blame them for not supporting the lions coz i will be supporting man utd too if they had played at the national stadium but surely they could more cheers for the lions??? it really goes to show how unpassionate about our own national team we are and that is something which i feel the sports council or the government should really address...

anyway, im feeling damn damn sianz now... supposed to be on off for both today and tomorrow after working throughout the weekends... but got to go back to office tomorrow for dunno what reason... zzz... and it sucks as well coz i had an appointment with friends lined up... well, wat to do... LLST... something tells me its really time to relook at things...

ok, thats all folks... i must really try to blog more especially when there is some special occasions as thats the main point of me keeping this blog, all the good and bad memories =)

I Love This Game.// 9:13 PM