not just complete, but survived haha

i survived.

a 42.195 full marathon in 6h 22 min.

frankly speaking the timing is crap due to the 2nd half which took me almost 4h to complete due to the massive run and cramp period starting from 26km onwards. so it was run then stop/walk for till the end... zzz well i deserved it since i din really trained for such a long dist at all... at least i did it before the sun really rise.

thanks solo, for running with me all the way haha. oh and kaiyu for playing the cat and mouse game with us from the 21km mark onwards haha. all in all, its a mental and physical challenge to complete the whole thing i guess. timing wise hopefully will improve by the time it reach SCM if im going. (:

run run run

i tink its fated for me to start running again...

my PS is some crazy guy who ran every single running event there is... SCM, AHM, aviva, OSIM tri, not to mention sundown 84km (mind u, its 84 = 2 x full marathon of 42.195km, which so happens to be the one that im going for tmr.) utter madness... and i went to his table that day and happened to see all his certs and medals... way too many to count and their timings were really good too haha.

well yah, so yihe who is also in my platoon ( whole course only 49 mp spec trainees so one platoon only) so happily told my PS that i was running on sat... this well sort of got me roped into the whole running for AHM prolly as a competitive runner thing. so im basically gonna have to train harder than most ppl which to me aint such a bad thing either as it helps build for SCM in dec too haha.

well thats bout it for the day i guess, back to 12 more weeks of tonnes of lectures and nothing else (1 outfield and more running at most) haha. best of luck for tmr's sundown

pride. discipline. honor.

better stop lazing around too much

time to pick up my running shoes and start exercising decently.

cut out all the unnecessary junk food and kick up a proper trng routine... i haven been really doing much for the past 5 months in the army in terms of physical fitness i guess. true that my running and chin ups are still maintained some what at a decent level but i feel totally unhealthy and sickly these days.

ok sat's sundown will kickstart the whole program lol. and i will prolly go for SCM at the end of the yr [most likely it'll be on 061209] and see how far i improved ( i hope... and if i can survive saturday's race first haha)

books

PS: twilight still suck. usually the book will b better than the movie. but then to me, its still bad. too draggy and no motivating factor for u to continue reading... mayb coz ive only read till page 170+ ... and its barely starting to show that bella finds out edward is a vamp. and way too many unecessary bella tinks of edward and is head over heels bout him. aka girl's book

and house of night really rocks way better. very harry potter feel. but still nice. may buy the nxt book haha. cant say the same bout twilight.

err really long post. but well a rather eventful day too haha

 this week though was absolutely boring even though i din have to go to camp due to the one week leave. even if u wanna go out, there was no one available as most ppl are in camp or at work lol. anw yea went to watch "night of the museum 2" today at cine.

before i forget, i realised today that a long bus trip to and fro town and home may not b that boring after all haha. ok first i was on 167, then this really ancient old man boarded. and mind u, when i say ancient i do mean ancient. its like those fantasy books where they say talk about this old hermit that stays in some secluded side off town, where he has silver hair, wrinkled all over, totally pale and well to me, he looked like a person off the grave ( srly no insults meant, but u get what i mean).

yea then when the bus reached novena that area (near this hotel, forgotten the name), a really erm... pretty/gorgeous girl boarded. (think magazine cover girl type) srly almost everyone turned and looked at her as she walked by ( i do mean everyone, not just guys but also the ladies and aunties too haha). furthermore she was dressed so elegantly, prolly for a wedding event or something. too bad she alighted off at far east... where i saw she made a few more heads turned too as she alighted lol.

i tot thats enough bout the ppl, but i also happen to see the coy clerk with hugging his gf when i was on the bus and they were outside paragon lol. the bus happen to passby and stop just nice for me to spot them ... 

ok yea so finally met up with kt, hl, jonathan and wk. i realised i haven seen all the db ppl for quite a long time. army screws up each others schedules... big time. well yeap back to the point where we watched "night of the museum 2". not bad. quite hilarious and also the plot was ok. 

amy adams as amelia earheart was quite cute too i guess haha.( ok life in ns makes me seem a lil too desperate, and like alex puts it, it'll make ur eyes scan way too often, which could lead to real awkward but funny situations like the one at long john's tdy hahaha) met brandon and wanyin on the way to the theatre who are both watching the same show at the same place and time lol. nice coincidence.

so after the movie, i collected the sundown mara race tag from jj. (basically i will die running the ful nite marathon nxt sunday starting at changi v. to ecp, then tampines and pasir ris. and back.

good luck to myself...) ok then i met up with the rest once agn and we chatted while walking the entire stretch of orchard, stopping at lucky plaza mac for ice cream and dinner.. so ltr just before i went home i met brandon on the way to orchard mrt agn... and we chatted for half an hr or so... in the underpass haha. such a weird place to talk haha. but well loads to catch up on anw.

yeap so the day basically ended with me getting a haircut at amk (before i fear that the camp does something nasty bout it on mon. well it was long for a trainee standard i guess. though it barely reach my normal sch days length haha) and settling my phone bill stuff with the hello! shop.

(monday mowbray camp at yew tee. interesting)

finally done. cya (:

alas its smu acc

ok first and foremost, ive decided to choose smu accountancy. 

yep i know at first i said i was reluctant to go there due to various reasons and all. but then ive decided that in a course like accountancy, 

1. i dun tink its worth going into a economics degree just to go to the working world and worry like crap coz ur degree is a real general one.  hey every firm needs an accountant lol

2. smu's acc grads do earn more than ntu... 

3.  i can experience my uni campus life in the city in smu or overseas haha coz smu has lots of such programs (:

4. degree from which uni doesnt really matter 

ok ok. it sounds a bit contradictary to what i used to tink but wth... act now and tink bout how to cope with the crazy work load later. acc is a mugger course with loads of crap work for the first couple of yrs... including midnight oil burning.

oh and speaking of uni, i tink this yr i can say 75% of the ppl i know are gonna go nus haha, unlike last yr was ntu. and not just nus... its all nus fass...

sunday

watched "angels & demons" with bourne, jj, and tandy at j8 ytd. lol, after going to amk hub or orchard for so long, i suddenly felt j8 was pathetic haha, nothing to do or see. dunno how i even survived there for the past 6 yrs since cat high days haha. anw i went to get the 2 books (twilight and marked- house of night series) i mentioned ytd at popular too. yea, so met up, then went to eat thai express. quite funny there. 

jj: can i have a yellow ginger chicken rice

waiter:  its very very very spicy, u know. u sure u dun wanna order something else?

jj: i tink i can handle it

waiter: are u sure? its very very spicy...

jj: yea i'll have it.

------ when the food is served------

waiter( while serving to jj his meal) : good luck!

------ after eating for a while------

jj: ok i admit, its a bit spicy.

(no more water in the cup)

(waiter who was watching there the whole time, waiting for him to admit, straight away came and serve up the water lol, of course with a smile in her face. [she won] )

angals and demons is not too bad IF u had not read the book beforehand. however if u've done so, then u wld feel bit cheated or confused as some parts of the movie warped the actual character's personality/ background or even the way the carmelengo suppose to die. well, it took away some meaning from the book itself i guess. yet with that said, it was to me still not bad, as u are able to see what Dan Brown was trying to illustrate. e.g. the churches beauty or even seeing the harecters come alive. 

PS: my email add has no link with the movie lol. i rmb i created it in sec 2 i tink, before the book haha.