February 2011
1 post
Superman
Look at that - my last post was 1 month ago. I don’t know if it has been 30 days or not but I do admit that in between these days, my work and school combo has drained me very much. Not to mention that I have Saturday duties nowadays.
Basically this means a whole lot more reshuffling of plans and many more sacrifices to be made. It also means that I have not been running for one whole...
December 2010
13 posts
I have a confession
I bought a weight set today that costs me $210 buckeroos to be exact. Yes, $210. *GASP!
But to the neighsayers, I have a rationale behind it. I recently am on track to quit my puffs and while technically it saves me from buying the packs, it doesn’t really mean I’m getting richer by the day. Also I started to embark on a healthy lifestyle which I hope will bear fruits one day. What...
Music makes me go round and round
I realized today that running without my music is akin to running round and round the park aimlessly. I don’t know if my mentality is weak or not but I feel much more helpless without my earpieces on. And my mind keep drifting off the fact that I’m running without much cause.
That equates to heavier strides and reminded me of my days in Tekong for those 2.4KM runs. Once it’s a...
At the beginning
In other news, I landed myself a job in the social service sector! It has been something that I had been wanting to do so I better make the most out of it. Yes, that was a note to self.
On paper - I was literally given one - my job scope looked daunting. But I hope to adapt quickly and have them all on my fingertips. It’s gonna be a new year, a new beginning. Hopefully it’ll be a...
Rounding the park
It’s gonna be Christmas Eve tomorrow and flashback to last week, it was a killer week to get myself into any fitness activities. There were unpredictable weathers and certain circumstances which let’s just say were much more important to tend to than keeping up with my runs.
It’s true. I had ran in between showers; getting caught in it while on the way home from buying dinner....
Thank (you) God
I finally landed myself a job though I haven’t officially signed on the dotted line. I don’t wanna be naive and be excited about this job, forgetting that there are reality aspects to be considered such as politics, life of being a newbie in the company and many others.
It just takes one of these to happen before I snap back to realize that this is the working world after all....
“9 laps - 27:44”
– I jogged/ brisk walked for a few more rounds after that which tallied up the duration for my run to be around 40 minutes, with the hope of slowly reaching that 1 hour mark. And my knee hurts man.
I don’t have an official medical record for this pain in my right knee but I’ve been...
What wrong did I eat?
Day 18 and I’m down with stomach flu/tummyache/wind-in-the-stomach :(
“9 laps- 28:03”
– This was yesterday’s timing, in which was a night run. Seemed to be getting worse when I felt that I gave my all in almost all the laps. I did slow down towards the end but not as slow as my initial runs, but still my timing showed as if I slackened.
Maybe my constant pace isn’t fast...
Half way point of a half way mark
Tumblr’s behind-the-scenes people are really shooting themselves in the foot, really. What promises to be a totally new concept of blogging with “reblogs” and Mac-like interface actually fail miserably in their own courtyard. Tomorrow will be my official running day but I’m having an interview in the evening; not much of a morning person either. But I’ll try.
...
“9 laps - 27:34”
– I did try to run another one or two laps but they were really those push-till-you-can’t-carry-on laps. My legs were dragging me and I had to stop at the 30th minute.
Maybe I should run at a slower pace in an attempt to go on for a continuous 45 minutes.
“8/9 laps - 27:39”
Low ebb
So today is Day 9 of the personal campaign and I am quite pleased I’ve “come this far”. But perhaps I haven’t met my greatest test yet - peer pressure. Most of them are busy with their own schedules which I assume is why nobody initiated any meet-ups. But it’s good anyway ‘cause perhaps when I finally meet them, my mentality would have toughen up.
In other...
November 2010
5 posts
“9 (or was it 10 laps?) - 24:44”
“9 laps - 24:12”
“9 laps - 25:03”
The thought process
I’ve decided to leave the dark side, citing health reasons as the most typical yet has the most absolute truth in it. I’ve tried several times, failed many but this time I knew it had to be it. But I know I had to see it from a different point-of-view, tackle the situation with a twist and check all blindspots. And double check them again.
And I decided to run. Running will be the...
July 2010
12 posts
You don't need to tell people you're good; they... →
License after countless months, university application inked after so much deliberation, heart settled down a little after so long.
With Despicable Me as a perk-me-up movie and Babe’s home-cooked food for a perk-me-up lunch, seriously I haven’t had such a good day since a long time.
Thank you.
“One may ask “you not sian meh be in a relationship for so long? See the...”
– It got to me when I was taking the bus
“I’m at a point in my relationship whereby photos are merely a bonus to...”
“Today marks another day that convinced me my workplace is fucked up”
My aunty called me today to help her fix her home phone which was supposedly “down”. I got there and realized that her cordless phone battery just wouldn’t charge up even after one whole day of charging. She was clueless what on what to do ‘cause it’s her only mode of communication at home. And at her old age, the importance became even more evident.
So I told her...
“My Airport Extreme doesn’t work, still.
edit: It is now!”
– What’s the issue between me and the Extreme man? It’s making me tear my hair out!
Gosh as much as it feels nice to have troubleshooted my own problems, I wouldn’t deny that it ate so much of my precious time. I guess knowledge isn’t really that easy to be obtained. And I...
June 2010
5 posts
“Now I wanna be a property agent. But the thing is… it’s a very...”
– I won’t hide my inkling for dealing with properties. In fact I would like to buy some if I have the moolah in the future.
The main point is… I’m a typical Gemini - indecisive. And to me, that’s a bad thing. There’s the other type of Geminis on the other end of the...
What's the right in a wrong?
I feel bad dissing people off, especially when I don’t usually do so. But it got on my nerves and I thought you were wrong. But maybe I should have given the thought that maybe I was wrong.
Then again, it’s a fine line that I threaded. Either way, I’d come out a loser. What makes a good listener? One that listens, creates his own opinion but oh wait, his opinion might just hurt...
Movie of the month... so far
Perhaps the sight of Buzz Lightyear speaking Spanish was worth the whole movie ticket.
But bringing back my childhood memories of talking to my own toys really moved me. Back then when I’m still a kid, no one told me that I’m using my imagination to a great extent.
And I do feel bad throwing away my toys. Watching the movie somehow made me feel that maybe, just a distant possibility,...
Uncanny resemblence
Her looks made me double-look Her body, slim and thin, bore similar resemblances to someone whom I know Someone close enough for me to call her Grandma
She scooped the crackers out of the box With her hands wrinkled from age Hands that had seen the world for so long that they don’t care anymore Till the flesh were no different from the skin
She rummaged through her little purse Finding...
April 2010
1 post
Things are not looking so rosy. But I’ll pull through it. Like how I pulled through my mum’s death, or my parent’s divorce or did I?
I know it’s hard for people to understand my situation. I can’t keep playing this board game of life thinking that everyone around me ought to know what I’m going through and play Mr Nice Guy with me. I should give them this...
March 2010
4 posts
Today was a day full of love, life and carbo attack! The meal at Outback was awesome (gotta go back for their set lunches), the random movie catching of When in Rome was unexpectedly awesome, and the ride up in the air in the Flyer was just simply unexpectedly awesome too!
For so many reasons, simple or complicated, I feel that today my life was complete. Be it the things done or the time spent I...
Today is about food.
Today my aunt dropped by to teach me how to cook some simple side dishes, which in today’s case is a leafy veg soup. Malays call the veg “sawi”, I’ve no idea what it means in English.
It was very sweet of her… to say that she’s doing this because she sees that I’ve got this little bit of interest in cooking up a storm in the kitchen....
If you feel like you’re falling down, always bear in mind that my hands are always here to grab you to safety.
It might not be outstretched, it might not be strong enough to pull you out of the troubled waters…
But rest assured I will try my very best, to keep a firm grip,
And hold on as long as I could,
Just so that you feel that there’s always someone for you to hang on to.
It has been nearly a month since I wrote. Yet if I were to carry on narrating, it will be such a draggy one.
So in a wrap, I admit that for the first time I chao keng because I wanna escape some things. Partly due to the fact that I still got lots of it to do due to the length of my contract in my workplace. Speaking of which, it’s kinda fucked up because of all the politics and bias...
February 2010
5 posts
Is growing old at a young age a bad thing?
Lately I feel contented to stay at home just lazing around or staring at my computer. Perhaps its the comfort of my room, or the weariness that I accumulated over the weekdays, or the fact that when I got home I just have this list of things to do in order to ensure that my home is prim and proper.
Maybe that’s why I feel so tired, mentally and...
“I believe that amongst the many of us, we have one thing in common - every...”
– Something that I had to write on a topic along the line of who influenced you the most in your life, for an application to NTU.
And to be within 300 words.
I wanna update my blog, honestly. ‘cause I got loads to write, less the laziness to do so. But I feel that two main things lack in this space - photos and frequency of updates. And personally both are the ones that breathe life into a dead space. The one that differentiates one from all. The x-factor.
And I lack them.
Wow, when did I last post here… let’s see, somewhere around 2 weeks ago? Hmmm that doesn’t seem so long but I almost forgot my password to this domain already.
So loads of things obviously happened within these 14 days or so, but first things first. I finished my guard duty for this month which happened to be a 24-hour one ‘cause of CNY and all. And the worst part is, I...
January 2010
16 posts
For 44 months I see her grow in front of my eyes and our relationship blossom from one stage to another. It’s amazing how people get married after knowing a person for only a short while. Until now I still don’t understand her character sometimes; she’s a weirdo.
But I like her much. :)
Every weekend I get to spend roughly only a day with Babe. Technically less than that ‘cause it’ll total to less than 24 hours. So it’s on this day that everything wonderful will happen, after a week of “fuck man!” and crying in the toilets for her and endless hours of green life for me.
While to many a surprise or a treat as somewhere exquisite will be wonderful, I...
Mum, I really think I’m feeling what you felt when you’re still around. It’s some kind of a life experience that God is teaching me, as a way to show me how you lived through an ungrateful son like me.
Now that I’m sick it’s as if no one care about me at all in this house. Dad still asked me what breakfast I want, with not even a subtle hint of “Why are you...
Sis: I don't want to eat the medicine la
Me: Okay, but you must promise me one thing - drink a lot a lot a lot of water can?
Sis: Ok
Me: And be a good sister aye
Sis: Trying