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Had a successful X'mas gathering with the Sk gang ppl.. first time got so many ppl wor. 14 altogether. Had our dinner at Aston ( suntec ), 2 log cakes and many laughters. Thereafter, went to kayla's house for a few rounds of poker and some Mahjong. It was good, and can see that most of them enjoyed the company and fun during the night. =) definitely there would be more to come. This is a nice grp which I would want to hold on to..

These few photos are a little late, belonging to SCSM 09. Thankfully this time round I'm in much better shape than before, no spare tyre.. lolx... I quite like the photos taken though..




My fav shot for the race. Saw the camera staring at me, and so decided to pose a bit.. and it came out well.. haha.. if only it doesn't cost $38 for one photo, I may have gotten this one liao lo.

had a horrible day today. Morale at all time low throughout my span of playing bridge. Never have I played so badly consecutively for so many hands and I was totally not in the right frame of mind to play. Zoning out so many times that the opps have to tap the table to remind me to bid. Passing my partner's cue bid, missing smolen bid, passing a 4S contract.. contributing 37 imps in 2 rounds of 10 boards. That's more than what I usually give away for the entire 1 day tournament. Seriously, I gave my partner a hell of a time today and I appologise for that. I'll need to work hard and remb those mistakes and not make them EVER again.

Seriously very disappointed with myself today... It's a black day for me.

Anyway, I wasn't supposed to play the first rd this morning, got a BIG jackpot when my fren who is supposed to play got called back for "r-e-c-a-l-l. -.- so zhun ma. So he called me to go earlier to replace him for the first rd and i had to leave the house within 5mins to make it to try to make it in time, in the end I had to cab down to make it on time. Not his fault, but was caught totally off guard. Last time it happened when I was playing NUS open, now is Team Handicaps. *bravo bravo..

Spent my day mostly at home, tidying up the room. The amount of dust that got kicked up due to the upgradying work is horrible, to the extent that we can't be bothered to clean it. Simply because within the next few mins, new layers of dust will settle on it. Now, the upgrading work is almost done, it's high time for me to do some cleaning, in prep for the CNY. LOLx.. a bit de far, but start earlier la.. =D And hor, the lift is FINALLY in OPERATION after nearly 2yrs of work. Now it opens directly infront of my doorstep.. haha..

Finished SCSM 21km yesterday in 2hr 09min. Slightly faster than my target for the day ( 2hr 20min ). Weather was good, cooling and nice with so many ppl running together. Didn't train much for 21km resulted in this unimpressive timing. Hit 10km at 55min, 17km at 1 hr 40min and the final 4km was a slow slow one. Tired body was dragged on by the mind to carry on, more like a cruise control mode just going ahead without thinking much. I'm happy to know that my mind was stronger than the body which was what kept me going on sunday.

A good build up to the big day and I aim to hit 2hr for the last leg of my ironman race, the 21km run after my swim and cycle. It'll be tough to do so after 4 hrs of intense exercise, I'll train hard to make it as close as possible to my target even if I can't go under the timing. oh well... tomorrow will resume light training le... routine lifestyle is coming back online.

Exams are officially over.. and i was at a loss yesterday. Don't know what to do, refusing to sleep till the wee hours yet again. Just miss the carefree " I don't know what to do " feeling. Now it's over, I've other things to start worrying about.

First up, SCSM half marathon this sunday. Maybe my least prepared half marathon ever ? haha.. I was still kinda huffing and puffing just now when I did a 8km in the afternoon. Sure gone case already. Determination will pull me throught. RAWR~! Focusing too much on my supposedly weaker components of my Ironman race, such as the swim, I've neglected my run for quite a long while and I'm paying the price of it. Have to start picking it up again if I don't want to let it go to waste totally. Maybe a reasonable time for this sunday would be 2hr 20min.

After this sunday, it'll be full force to pull myself back on track for my training. Haven't done any swim/cycle for 2+ weeks and that's quite bad. Intensity has to built up, cos the toughest training period is coming up in Feb. That's the next agenda on my list.. I will do it..

Des just reminded me a few days ago that Uni life is for socialising. While I agree with it, I've yet to do anything that resembles anything like I'm doing socialising. Being sociable in JC and army was part of me, but in Uni, some how or rather I'm like a hermit, hiding some where. The CCAs I've took up are rather seclusive in a sense, bridge and cue sports. True that both have it's members and socialising time, it is rather a cliche thing, where nobody bothers to follow up or meet up after the training time. Cue sports was slightly better, with more fun going ppl and I had an enjoyable first yr with those cue sports peep. Sadly, I've left them and it has drifted too far apart to remedy. Choosing to take up AVIVA 70.3 also dealt another detrimental blow to the situation. Sucking away so much of the time and dedicating it to training, I practically don't stay around much in school to do any other stuff. Not to mention that I don't have too many things to begin with.

Oh well.. I've chosen the path and I'm make it all worthwhile by giving myself an enjoyable race at the end of the day on march 21st. It'll be a personal milestone that I hope to achieve. =)

Time is closing on me. Graduation is looming near, I'm going to get unemployed if I don't start preparing myself for it.