10.16pm on 31st

Just had steamboat.

Going for Countdown Firework soon.

2008 is over in 2hours time! Wooohooo!!!

31st December gives me a weird feeling! It has been a rollercoaster year for me. Glad that it ended well. =) Team year end trip and Standard Chartered Marathon completed the year for me.

No resolutions this year. Just like every other year.

Just grateful that I have my close friends by my side, supporting me all these while. Thanks Jackie.

Thanks to the team for being there all the time. Team feels just like my second family man.. =)

Hope to spark my climbing once again in this coming new year!~ Got to stay focus. On everything that I want. =)

To everyone whom I know, may you have a Fantastic and smooth sailing 2009. =)

Spree Frenzy

Ok. So I went City to walk walk look see look see.

I have this fetish for shirts these days man..... Especially those fitting kind. Goes well with jeans as well as pants. Smart casual kind of look.

Went River Island. Tried a shirt. Nice brown shirt with several pockets... Very nice

Went Domanchi. Tried another shirt. Nice white collar reddish pink shirt. Very nice

Went G2000. Tried yet another shirt. Nice Mandarin collar shirt. Very nice....

Went Dockers. And still... i tried another shirt. Checkered short sleeves shirt. Casual. Very nice too!

Oh MAn... And I have eyes for them all..... help... aAww.

And to top it off... I went TM before going home after walking around city. And I met this nice DOCKERS sling bag.... It is something different from what I usually carry. Erm... less sporty. Wanderer duffel kind of bag.....

$90. Thank you. I am so going to reward myself....

I am currently looking for non shirt top, berms and a pair of nice casual shoes... and OPINIONS.

Dilemma and broke (soon to be)

Tea, Coffee and Popeye's

Have been catching up with the boys and the girls. Finally... after so much and so long...

We (most of us) caught Ip Man. Gentle yet forceful.

We (most of us) had late night HTHT at Mac Cafe at Downtown East.

Trying out different kinds of tea these days. I like it when I am served with a small pot of hot water + the tea bag. In that way, I can enjoy slowly without the problem of my tea getting cold too quickly.

Moving on.....

We (most of us) played MJ. Haven played since long long time ago.

We (most of us) went East Coast Park to relac one corner. Old Town didn't have nice tea. So I chose Kopi-o instead.

Then we had random photo taking sessions along the beach. I kind of like these 3 photos.....

We (most of us) went to the airport to send Clara off. Have a safe trip my friend.

Highlights of airport.

1. Saw this group of FUBER GAYs......

2. Mich getting her results. Good job girl

3. 2piece chicken at Popeye's. Did I mention 2.30am? WTH.

4. Vincent on the scale.

Next post. I will talk about my shopping frenzy. TOTALLY.... oh man..............

oh... It is "WE (MOST OF US)" cos Mr Chan De Hunk is always missing. =) Hope you did well.

All I want for Christmas...

Christmas this year is strange. Strange but nice and not too bad. You know what I mean?

Had a gathering at Charl's place. Great food and great company. I liked my attire that day. hAha. Nice to see everyone neat and tidy after the trip. And we missed the countdown by 30secs.

After the party, Santa finished his mission.


25th was a furniture shopping day with mum followed by last min Twilight day. I enjoyed the day thoroughly. Movie was good. Company was good. Edward Cullen is scary in a attractive way. The pale skin coupled with the thick eyebrows and the golden eyes. Nice.

I thought the ending of the show was good. The dancing part. Ask me for the song. I will send it to you.



After movie, it was You Tiao at Selegie. Everytime I go there, it rains. Everytime I go there, I have different feeling. Then, decided to walk to cityhall to catch the train home. I like it when the surrounding is quiet. Very calm. Very nice setting to talk and relax. The pace is slow but not too draggy.

This was how I spent my 25th Dec 2008. Strange but not too bad. Alot of things took place in a flash. I was glad that it happened thou. Although, I wish some of the moments could remain still and stay there forever. I wish I could undo some moments. Like rewind, change it and then play it again. But I cant. I will leave that for another post another day perhaps. =)


Two consolation for the Christmas season.



1. Twilight.

2. My Oakleys finally arrived.

Late night rantings

Better blog about the trip now otherwise I would drag and drag and drag.

Basically, the ROC trip was fantastic. Abit emo once in a while. But still. A very fulfiling trip. In every aspect.

We visited Perlis, Ipoh as well as KL which was a last min decision. Crossed the borders into Thailand as well during our free day in Perlis. Visited HATYAI and got myself a CHANG BEER singlet at $6. Ate alot of random stuff too. Tried this nice grilled banana. nice stuff I tell you.

Food

Food is cheap in perlis. Like super cheap. Ipoh was ok. The usual bean sprout chicken. And my favourite pastry shop! Dim sum in Ipoh was cheap as well. KL was the killer. Expensive food but still I was willing to spend cos it is relatively cheaper than singapore. I had...

1. Baskin Robbins ice cream

2. Fish and Co

3. Secret Recipe

4. Cheap fried noodles at 1RM

5. Nice peanut Mochi

6. Nice fried noodles at the Bintang area

7. tonnes of nasi ayam

It is rather surprising that it is quite hard to find HALAL food in Malaysia. Hmmm....

CLIMBING

I wouldn't say I climb alot. But I think this was the first trip that I climbed really hard. Perlis is shiok. I love climbing at Perlis cos that was where I really projected a route. Not really hard route. But my personal best? Ipoh was spent mainly on LA Sculpture. 7C+. 8metres worth of bouldering/ lead problem. As much as I wish to send it, I couldn't. Got passed the crux, but kept dropping at the easier section. WTH. Hmm... oh well. Think my temper and emotion got the better of me during some climbs. Bad habit man. Hmm.. Generally climbing for this trip had been UBER fulfiling. =)

Everything else....

hmm.... so much said. The mood for this trip is just different. The first part of the trip was mostly spent with the Lao REn gang. Thanks Jups, Ruix, San, Claud and Teck for the late night talk man. Jups can really give good advise la. hAHaha.

The Lao Ren Gang left and I was slightly lost for awhile. Then slowly moved into the younger gang. haHaha. Wasn't so bad. Get to know everyone better. yUp. And had nice chats in the middle of the late night. =) wHeee.... not forgetting Christmas Xchange! so exciting. hAHaha. Pondok lodge never fails to provide me with the homely feeling man. Hmm...........

It is really hard to write everything down. Cos there is really just too much to pen down. So much to say but cant. Someday perhaps....

Will spam the photos one I get them from daryl.

Great trip. Great food. Great climbs. Great company. Great u.

It is a rainy Christmas.

thanks

Bee stings and Ropeburns.

I am back!!!!

Give me some time to gather my thoughts for this trip.

Alot of exciting photos coming up.

Alot of things to say.

Alot of things I want to say.

Great trip. Great feeling.

Stay tuned

42.195 (II)

Just some after thoughts.....

1. Power gel is really powerful stuff. Like TOTALLY (though it tastes abit crappy)




2. Not trying to be arrogant and not that I have super good timing. Neither am I a pro runner nor am I super fit but the marathon was not as tough as I imagined and feared it would be. (As in I have heard alot from my friends regarding how tough it was. Maybe it was because I feel that I had more traumatising experience as compared to this, for example JCC in Brunei. And also maybe beacuse I had Yixiang there to push each other on. It was mentally challenging)




3. 28km is the longest distance I have ever run continously in my entire life. Amazing stuff.




4. Do not underestimate the human spirit. ( you can really feel the human will during the race. The will to finish the race leads to individuals pushing their limits. Seriously, I respect those uncles and those who belong to the bigger size category. It was hard for me, and I bet it was WAAAAAAY tougher for them.)




5. Having someone to run with you is indeed a powerful factor. First you won't get bored. Second you can push each other along. Third you build stronger friendship.




6. I think couples running a marathon and finishing the 42km together is TOTALLY sweet stuff. one day........

Glad that I joined this race. At least it made my December holiday more eventful. And this is something that I am proud of. Pushing my own limit and finishing the 42km. Ah......... you just got to run it to know how come I am writing so much on it. seriously. In fact, I have alot more to write. But it is just hard to pen it down.

Here's a couple of photos.

Super excited at the 100m Mark!!!!

After the race. Stretching.

Doris- The runspirator!!! Thanks for being there man.

At the end of the day.

42.195 (I)

Managed to find a time to update. Alot have happened. My closer friends would know. Thanks for all the concerns and well wishes.

This has got to be the most eventful December holidays for me. At least till now.

All because of Standard Chartered Marathon 2008. Running your own race.

Only knew I was taking part during the exams when Matthew asked if I wanted to replace him. Attracted by the cheap price, I agreed.

Didn't have much time to train up cos was in the midst of exams. After exams, I am left with one week. No much endurance training could be done at that stage. Also, had alot of concerns over my left knee. Alot of dilemma. Wanted to pull out from the race. But then I told myself... "what the hell, run first, consider later". (probably thats why I get injured all the time. cos I don't seem to know my limits)

I clocked a total of 3runs prior to the race. Two 8km runs and one 2.4Km for IPPT.

and so...............................

7th December 2008-----RACE DAY

Woke up at around 0330hr. Recieved Doris's good luck message. Thank you my friend. Seriously, for all the reminders to take care of my knee, for being supportive and also for being there at the race to capture a great photo for me and my climbing/running buddy.

Did my last bit of carbo loading which consisted of one peanut butter bread, one banana, one fruit bar and one can of red bull.

Then it was off to Esplanade.

The first 21km was fine. Not much of a problem. Thats when Yixiang and I decided to push to 28km. I had problems at around 24-25km mark. Knee gave me abit of problem. But Yixiang pushed me on.

Soon we hit 28km where both of us really cannot make it alr. hAHaha. And came the deep heat rub and all the stretching. Walked to 31km. This was the part that pulled our timing down totally. Then afterwhich we run alternate KM. and eventually we reached back with a fair time of 5hrs 52mins. Would say it is acceptable for me as I was my first time running. I believe that we could have done much better with more training. The fact that we could still sprint from esplanade to the fnishing line indicated that we did not push to our limits. But oh well, fair timing nonetheless.

It is always like this. You set a goal. You reached the goal. And then you say it could have been better. Do you have the same problem as me?

Finito

It's hard to imagine myself graduating next semester if I don't pursue HONs. Hmm. Year3 Sem1 is over. Slack but not too slack.

Went for a haircut straight after Pharmacology. Not too bad! Thanks Zhaoxiu for your recommendation on POINTERS.

Then it was off to movie with the Life Science gang. Madagascar 2 was great. Had a super good laugh after afternoon's stressful paper. $6 plus free popcorn! The power of NOW card.

After the movie, the girls randomly decided to go Timbre. Again. haHaa. But it was good. Cos the place wasn't crowded and it was relatively quiet. The acoustic singers were good!

Somehow all the emo songs came out on that night.

Ippt in 4hours time.

First and Last

You know what I think?

I THINK





The FIRST and the LAST are always the hardest.


seriously.