i'm back from Army Half Marathon 07'! just woke up from a 1+hr nap..tts all i could slp since yesterday morning.
unfortunately, caught a cold the night before but still i reached the place at 4.15am, saw quite a number of participants at the esplanade already. I immediately went to deposit my bag and went for a warm up till the run was about to start.
It was nice to see so many people at start point once again, eagerly waiting to set off~ finally at 0530 sharp, everyone began their run for AHM 07'! this year's route was terrific..in fact i think it was the best route of all the ahms i took part in. no stopping at the traffic-light junctions, maybe i was lucky..haha but the water points were very inefficient..first time during a run i have to stop and wait for the NSmen to pour the h2o into the cups.
i started off a little too fast which i sort of regret near the end of the run, I slowed down quite alot from the 15km mark onwards and wasn't feeling quite well. my right calf hurts and i got a stitch..but thankfully my knees didn't hurt much, tts good news! =) *love my heel pads*
throughout the run i was calculating my time and the distances left..how should i paced myself to reach the end point within 2hr 15mins..maybe if things were going well, 2hr 10mins can be quite possible., and was hoping to at least hold the same timing as last year's. i know i could do it but part of me just wouldn't listen..so i didn't pick up my speed towards that last 1km and only did it at the last 250m...very lazy of me i must say..in the end i hit 2hr 10mins...just nice...but still it was 1min slower than last year's timing.. my fren was saying why did i train so much last year since it was only 1min difference when i didn't train much this year. good point. but the thing is..i felt lethargic during and after the run..something which never happen last year. i even wanted to stop at the 15km mark...but in the end i didn't coz stopping for a half marathon is simply unforgivable if i didn't stop for the full marathon.
anyway, my 4th ahm has been great~ i'll be back for my 5th ahm next year! =p
i will be heading down to esplanade at 4am in the morning for ahm.. guess i wun be sleeping tonight again~ totally not excited about the run later, i know i will do badly cause of the lack of trainings.. yup, no more 2hr 9mins timing..or any thing lesser than that.. plus no one has the mood to run anymore... even Calvin 'pang seh' and asked me to return his champion chip on his behalf will be using the heel pads later, it works pretty well.. hope my knee doesn't hurt again. gg later.
finally weekend is here! i shall not wake up earlier than 1pm tml...i need my slp so badly n my friends kept making fun of myeyebags recently ( thanks squirrel n hui kai u guys rock. but there's one thing call karma n u'll get it someday! lol)
cant really concentrate during lectures coz i was feeling sleepy all the time, i swear if i were to close my eyes for more than 5 seconds i can doze off immediately.. doing tutorialsare demoralising as well...i can even stuck at question 1 of the tutorial!! arghs!! some lecturers do suck. i wonder how come the school hires them..maybe to get rid some students like us.
anyway i went for insinyur subcommittee interviews for posts of GL and SP comm, din't go for the programmers one..i think it went pretty well but i'm not sure if the chances are high, coz this year there are lots of freshies applying for that post. hopefully i will get it!! *pray hard*
Woke up today and felt so cui, only slept for 5hours after partying last night..Yesterday's bash at Velvet Dragon was ok..it started off with a skit from the best freshies of each og and then came down to the voting for the Overall Best Freshie of Insinyur. Melissa (the dancing queen) from Batman won! After that it was partying all night.
While on the dance floor i recalled the good old times i had with my friends at Zouk & MOS back in poly days. It was just a short period of clubbing experience but the memories were good...i really do miss them~..the 4 other girls plus yaofeng & hsien yang. Anyway, the music at Velvet Dragon wasn't fantastic, at certain times it was quite boring..i wouldn't want to return back to this place if i intend to go clubbing. Yup, and i think my next visit to a club wun be in the near future as well~ glad that Velvet Dragon didn't meet my expectations so that i wun have the urge to go clubbing again =)
Will be having Insinyur Bash at Velvet Dragon later. I'm gonna break my record of not clubbing for 1 n half years...! but as mention many times...for the sake of my OG, i'll go.. cant wait to see those peeps !! =)
I had a tiring yet fun 20th birthday yesterday at Pitstop with Spartans!
Here's a number of people to thank for making my birthday a special one: To Mum & Dad: nv failed to give me a big hangbao and dinner treat every year, thanks for everything =)
To LingXiang: hey girl! u shouldn't have bought so many things~~! but then again, i love every single thing u bought.. =D and the eyeshadow..gosh..u knew i'm dying to get one but din't buy it everytime we passby those cosmetic shops coz i always 'bu ser de' to spend on it...haha cant wait to try it out! love ya~
To Spartans: Thanks for celebrating my birthday with me, i'm touched by the effort u guys have put in for the present (especially the 'hand')! well, the watch is really nice and i'll start wearing it to school everyday..haha~ and the cake, my favourite Chocolate Banana Espresso...thanks to someone for finding it out..i definitely enjoyed myself and will never forget this celebration =) hope we can still meet up for more gatherings in the future~ and lastly just wanna say it again, i never regret going to Insinyur Camp coz i've know lots of great ppl..and tts u guys!! thx thx!
To Cliburn, Jeff, Jason, Mun Hong, Elly and Shu Wen: love the m.a.c. products! they are everything i need coz my mascara is running out, my lip gloss had finished 6mths ago and my old concealer wasn't nice to use..haha..in short, they are everything i need! thanks guys!
To Vincent: thanks for the cake! haha..and also it was nice chatting with u again, always there to be my listening ear..must remember what u said yea?...when u and ur gf get married i'll sit at the vip table k! lol see i was so nice, last hour for my birthday was reserved for u!!
To S: Heyy..my list of 3 things u only completed 2!! But thanks for the birthday cakes (yea i know why u bought 2 coz u want me to get twice as fat rite?!..haha), the birthday card..but sadly no birthday song!! =( u still owe me one...=p but it was nice of you to pass everything to me by 12midnight..
To John: many miscommunications while passing me the present..haha it was kinda funny, firstly the wrong date to meet and today we met at the wrong place..but well, i still got the present from you in the end..i'll figure out how to use those gel heel pad and use them for my ahm this year! haha...very thoughtful of you to come out with this gift coz u know my knee is hurting..=D see u soon at the next running event!!
To Jiahao: no more Wish for you but that doesn't mean i'm not meeting you anymore...shall try to find my way to bukit batok one day and gave ya a ride again..lol thanks for the gift..=) better not continue or else u will find me naggy again and chase me out of the car..lol
And also to the rest who wished me 'Happy Birthday' as well!! thx thx!!
Saturday~ a good day at home, tidying up my place and went for a jog in the evening. decided to run around twice the mileage of my usual training coz i was thinking that since i got nothing else to do when i get home, why not run more. so ya, tts approximately 14k..and my right knee hurts even more now. great, now the injury is back. it was just 14k and its hurting already, i wonder what will happen after ahm. speaking of ahm, that's only 2 weeks left..arghs..
anyway, its about time to make a birthday wish. my wish will be the same as last year's..i wish to be happier and less pessimistic till my next birthday. and for my next birthday i'll have the same wish again. lol oh well, what a way to countdown to my birthday by blogging at home...haha
these days have been waking up extremely early for lessons and didn't get enough sleep...so i kept yawning in class till my jaw starts to ache.
Seriously i'm not exaggerating...Dr Tan warned me try not to open my mouth too wide often because of the slight dislocation at the right side of my jaw, but i just couldn't help it when i yawn!
first day in school was pretty boring 2 hrs of lectures were crap after sch went to squirrel's hall to slack watched south park alone while everyone was having lessons dinner was at fish n co with og
i'm now slacking at Squirrel's hall. Just finish my first day of school which consists of only 2 lectures in the first week, and surprisingly..there's nothing much to learn. I thought Uni will be different from poly and they will rush through the notes even on the first week..guess i was wrong~
darn sian about the morning incident as well. went to school early in the morning to queue up for lecture notes..in the end found out mine wasn't on sale yet! =( anyway, thanks Kenvin for guiding me how to use the printing services..
so i guess i am getting used to Uni life pretty soon~ but almost everyone look like a mugger to me, which i felt abit of stress...lots of tiongs, lots of foreigners..~ i think my course has the most tiongs..haha don't be shock to see me talking in a different accent in the future...
guess i'll be slacking alone by myself for around 4more hours..and maybe head out for OG dinner with those peeps...dinner with Huiqing n the rest recently at Brewerks was fun indeed, so most probably i will not miss out tonight's dinner!
This is my first time trying krispy kreme, the most talk about donut chain and sadly, Singapore doesn't have one yet! Though i'm not a donut fan, i cant miss out the chance to try it out~
and so i got a box of 6 from a friend who just came back from Hong Kong...tts very nice of him to buy back some for me~ thanks thanks!!
look, ain't they pretty? haha out of the 6 i like glazed the most (the one at the bottom centre)~ now i know why everyone is crazy abt krispy kreme donuts...
i've never tried the donut factory at Raffles City before so i couldn't make any comparison~ maybe when there's no more queue den i'll probably buy the glazed one to try.. alright, i gonna run later to burn the calories away!!
Haha...thanks to Clement, got "sabo-ed" by him to fill up this:
Rules: Each player of the game starts off by writing 6 weird things about themselves before choosing another 6 of their friends to "sabo". People who get tagged needs to write in a blog on their own, 6 weird things about themselves and state the rules clearly.
1) i can still fall asleep in my room with the windows and door closed, air-con off and without switching on the fan.
2) i need mints or sweets after every single meal, coz i hate the after-taste of food and mints help to freshen up my breath as well =) ( eh, i duno if this is weird enough)
3) i weigh myself every morning
4) i crave for bread every single day, even plain gardenia bread works.
5) i will feel uneasy if i went running without my wrist-band or watch.
6) i started to like durians a year ago..i duno why, used to hate it in the past but something struck me out of a sudden and have been loving it since.
And now, the 6 people whom i would like to hear from (6 weird things about yourselves please!) 1) Rachel 2) Justin 3) Kenny 4) D 5) Mun Hong 6) Weiliang
** my last weekend to enjoy before sch starts. finally the long waited moment after 6months...
my timetable is pretty good too. 4 days week with Wednesday off.. but the rest of the days are pretty packed and my friend said my monday sucks with 3hrs of tutorial...if quiz comes sure die. oh well..lol maybe i should be a chao mugger and study every single day...that's totally not me but who knows...things might change.
** been running twice a week now, which is very few as the AHM is drawing near... i used back the old trainer my bro bought for me as my birthday present 3 years ago (the first gift from bro, something which i cherish alot)..surprisingly i ran well with it compared to the one i bought for myself.. though they are both the same model but i didn't know why i couldn't perform with the newer one...
the sole of the shoes seems to be coming off a little....so i'm praying it can survive thru the upcoming marathon, then it will the 3rd time i'm using it to run for AHM! haha..the gel should be gone by now...hopefully it wun affect my right knee coz there isn't much cushioning anymore. It is starting to hurt a little but i couldn't do anything about it...lets see how things go after AHM. **
