Semi-Charmed Life

Success is the sweetest revenge

2012-02-14T23:58:00.000-08:00

You were always that superficial friend. Few months back, you kept insisting that it's difficult for me to obtain that First Class Hons. You brought me down and even mentioned that it is impossible to achieve that. I fought back, and I fought hard. I told you if you have something to aim for, you might even achieve it... Even if you ain't able to get the moon, you will land among the stars.

But, you were so negative. A pessimistic. Down to the point that I even doubt myself. Then again, I am lucky to have friends who behave otherwise. They told me to show you how wrong you could be. They told me everyone has a chance, as long as they want it bad.

I had my ups and downs... I am never the smartest, brightest, most hard working person. But I am someone with dreams. People call me stubborn, but I call it determination. Fuck them. Fuck you. Because today, I finally proved you wrong.

Yes. I am finally a degree graduate, with a First Class Hons to boost. But that ain't a big deal. What is, is that I managed to prove you wrong, so next time, STFU!

from this point onwards, the only thing that's gonna happen is awesome

2012-02-13T02:13:00.000-08:00

December 2011
~~20th - FE3040 exam~~
~~25th - 26th - Christmas~~
~~29th - 30th - Jess Min's 21st party~~
~~31st - New year eve~~

January 2012

~~1st - New Year~~

~~3rd - Project presentation~~

~~10th - 14th - Singapore~~

~~23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th - Chinese New Year outings with friends and family members~~

~~28th - King's surprise birthday party~~

~~30th - Job interview #1~~

February 2012

~~4th - Wildcats Ultimate Open~~

~~9th - 13th - Bangkok hat~~

~~13th - Results out~~ (FIRST CLASS HONOURS BABEH! Can cancel that from my life's to-do list now)

24th - 27th - Borneo hat

March 2012

1st - look for a job

4th - TDH 5km

11th - Brooks 21km

April 2012

21st - UM Indoor Ultimate Open 2012
21st - Energizer Night 21km 2012

- convocation (attendance depending on results)

*hopefully get a job by this month

May 2012

8th - Caren being back home

13th - PJ Dawn 21km

19th, 20th - Malaysia Ultimate Open 2012

June 2012

2nd - 6th - Mt Kinabalu with Jess Min and Gadiy

24th - SCKLIM 21km

July 2012

19th - 22nd - Langkawi

September 2012

1st - Kedah SP 21km

16th - Taiping 21km

November 2012

18th - Penang 21km

December 2012

*1st 42km this month

2011

2012-01-19T04:18:00.000-08:00

Can't say that 2011 was that eventful... I mean, with the stress and workload I went through as a final year degree student, it kinda forced me into sacrificing many things. Actually had to forgo an all-expenses-paid trip up to Mt. Kinabalu as per invitation from the university. Skipped this year's Penang Hat on my birthday too due to thesis =,= Not much of travelling around this year as well. Oh well, nothing much I can do with all these pile of work stacking up and with the deadlines set so close to each other =/

Then again, friends were like saying I was pretty chilled (as usual) even with those workload... Shrugs. Mind you, I was pretty stressed up in the beginning to the point I almost went insane. Things didn't worked out well in certain ways too. And that's when I realised that stressing at a mad early stage is getting me no where. Gah. Anyways, despite not being able to accomplish much this year. I will still keep up with the annual blog entry on my self-reflection for the year (Read 2010's entry , 2009's entry and 2008's entry).

So, in 2011...

1. I played more Ultimate.

Monash Hat in July

Theme was "Superheroes", hence my cape =p

UiTM Open with ze Carebears in September :D

Got ourselves third placing in that tournament. Made a few new friends then too. Good times.

Visited Bangkok early of February and played even more Ultimate there. Bangkok Hat 2011 was awesome and I have already signed up for the 2012's. Will be flying over to Bangkok next month!!! Can't wait.

Baby Pink team :D

Can't wait to see most of them again next month! I was still quite new in Ultimate then, hope I have improved a little by now =/

2. Visited Bangkok, Thailand.

I made a promise, and I'm keeping it! x) See you next month, Suk11 !

3. Managed to achieve one of my life goal: Complete a 21km before I turn 21. Did my first half-marathon (21km) in February... and have been doing more since. Did a total of 4 half-marathons this year before my 21st birthday.

Bareno 21km

This run was the point where I actually got friendly with Michelle, despite kinda knowing her through friends before then. And with this being my first half-marathon, I sure am glad to be able to get to know Michelle as one of my running buddies. She sure is a precious friend.

Standard Chartered KL Marathon 21km category

This was sponsored by my uni. Super awesome of Commander Anthony to be so supportive :) Did the run with most of my uni friends, good fun. Am super glad that I was able to instilled the running fever in them.

Putrajaya Night Marathon 21km category

Did this with another favourite running friend of mine, KarMun. Promised to do our first full marathon together. Kinda fear it though... Michelle and Kaartig did broke their marathon virginity in this run and boy, were they exhausted mentally and physically. Gahhhhh. SCARY!

Energizer Night 21km Run

Energizer Night Run was not actually that well-organised, and the route was actually less than 21km... 20.1km I think. Couldn't really remember. But, oh well... I RAN 20+ KILOMETERS OKAY! LET IT BE COUNTED, DAMMIT!

4. Other than those half-marathons. I did MORE running this year :D

NTV 7km Run with Chun Tat. One day after Monash Hat x)

SunMed 5km with Darren in 27 minutes

ZigTech treadmill challenge, continuous jogging for an hour in 1Utama with Louis

And to think I ran 800m and Road Relay for my athletics team that morning itself

Double runs in a day again with CICM 5km in the morning

29 minutes =/ But still got 5th. Lucky sial. Nico got 8th with zero effort. Pro.

Second run of the day with most of my favourite runners at TDH 5km

Free flow booze for the night yo!

Crashed a run for the first time D:

Not ethical but the damned event closed its registration before I could find time to register. Meh. Was a good run in Adidas KOTR 2011 though

Crashed another run again =,=

Registration closes shortly after it was announced. What the fark. And it was on my birthday and I insist on running! Dammit! Oh well, not like I'm taking any of their drinks/ gifts or whatsover anyway :)

Did Shape Run with Meng Leong alone in the Ghost Town of Putrajaya

Did it with a baaaaad flu :( And still managed to complete the whole route, didn't perform well though

Did Centro 12km 2011. Got quite good timing and position. Have to attend this loyally since this was the first run that sparked my running passion again after the long hiatus

Did Olympics 7km again. Managed to get top 75 this time :D I achieved my goal made in 2010 when I finished 7km in 50 minutes =,= Slow. Told myself the run in 2011, I will make it in the top 75. And I did. Proud of myselffffff :D

Got requested to participate in the HELP Sports Carnival athletics events one day before the race. Got silver for both 800m and road relay with zero trainings. Eheheheh. Syok.

Got to meet awesome people then too :)

Did a 4 hours relay through the night with The RoadRunners in Adidas all24 event. Placed 9th out of 45 teams, with a total distance of 51.8km covered.

The Road Runners

Louis - Me - Kaartig - Michelle - Murphy - Meng Leong

5. Got a podium win in a run again, my first and last one was in 2006. Wasn't much of an achievement this time since I completed the 5km at such poor timing of 29 minutes (2 minutes longer than my timing in May 2011). It was just the lack of competition... then again, yay! :D

6. Had my first more major injury from Ultimate... a cracked nose bone D: It's actually healed at this point of time, but the bone growth is a little out of the original shape already... Sigh. There goes my sharp straight nose =(

Oh! My poor nose got elbowed again in mid-December in Ultimate again. Wtf?! Of all places, you can elbow me in the tummy instead la! I've got a lot of fats there, why my nose again?????? T_T

Sigh.

7. Managed to lose 11kg since last year's November D:

November 2010

September 2011

Which I gained back like 5kg in 3 months during my final semester's stress =,=

8. First time trying out Bootcamp.

With Chun Tat, Yu Szen and Louis for company. Though they didn't exactly attend it that regularly =/And I was quite dependent on them for transport then...

9. Went mad and did a walk around Petaling Jaya from Taman Sea to DJ to Uptown to Seksyen 17 to Uptown and then to Tropicana City Mall and to DJ and back to Taman Sea. Dragged Ann along with me and had a mini food expedition along our journey.

An exhausted Ann, who walked 1/4 of what I did LOL

Chatime for a treat!!

10. Haha. Poor me, ended up with a shin splint for the first time =,=

11. Got invited to my first food tasting session. Thanks to Nuffnang, I can haz Sakae Sushi! Yumz. Went there alone, effing lost sheep, but made new friends there. Been visiting Sakae Sushi since. Their food is addictive okay! Super yummayyy!

12. Got my first UnderArmour compression wear!!!!!!! :D Thanks to Wee Kiat for helping me purchase it from the States. Actually ordered it early 2011, but it got lost in the mail. Blardy mailing system. Oh well, fuck it. Life's too short to linger over the screwed-ups...

13. I wanted to say "conquered", but Broga Hill is not much of a climb. So... visited Broga Hill at last.

Thanks to Nuffnang Glitterati for organising it :) Went there alone again and got to meet so many awesome peeps.

14. Took up the Lent challenge and about 2 months of being a vegetarian. Pretty fun actually to start noting what you eat. I think I will do it again in 2012 =P

15. Did the annual Wesak Day float with Emily again. This time, Wan Ee joined us. And this time, we did the parade in the rain. Haha. Some random strangers were sharing each of our umbrellas throughout the journey as well. Awesome time spent with all of them. Haha.

16. Was invited to attend the HELP 25th Year Anniversary Gala Dinner by the DSA. Thanks to Mr. Loh! :D Although it was quite last minute...

Managed to get myself a dress a day prior to the dinner. Pretty lucky to get myself invited to this dinner, seeing that only 3 tables were allocated for the student representatives from councils, clubs and sports teams.

17. Visited the Big Bad Wolf Book Sale for the first time! And got myself a year's supply of books! Gonna make this an annual visit and get my year's supply of books in every visit! Hah!

18. Attended my first proper concert, with celebrities that I ACTUALLY admire: Michael Bolton, Charice, Ashanti and David Foster.

Thanks to Justin for providing me the opportunity to work for that event...

Technically, I'd actually got paid to watch that concert. Hmmm, I realised I have been participating in stuffs alone lately, cuz I went for this job alone too and thank God for Jolly being there, or I would have been bored outta my mind. Made a few new friends there, and how nice of Reuben and Aaron for sending me home despite only knowing me for a few hours :D

19. Attended a government-organised students conference -- Majlis Perundingan Pelajar Kebangsaan Bil.1/2011.

Went there alone (yes, again) and built new friendships there with student leaders from the whole nation. Awesome experience and hey, government events always have good buffet spreads! Yum. Haha. Though the event wasn't that beneficial to the private universities' representatives, but we did formed networks with many...

Missed those peeps much. And good that I met Gadiy there, will be conquering Mount Kinabalu with him too next year! :) Can't wait to meet up with the Taylor's peeps too soon. All of them have been awfully busy =/

Ohhhh! We can haz picture with the Deputy Prime Minister too! :D

20. Attended, possibly, the most awesome birthday/ end of the year party. Thank you Jess Min, for the invitation :)

21. Took a leap of faith and decided to take out RM6000 from my leftover in study loan, which was remained due to me managed to obtain a scholarship last year, which left me with extra cash to spend without feeling much guilt. I mean, I have to pay them back again anyway.

Anyway, decided to take the RM6000 out and arranged a few trips in 2012. I have always wanted to live my life exploring the world... but money is an obstacle. Fear is another. I don't mind loneliness, but I fear of being lost and such, seeing that my sense of directions is super messed up. Oh well, booked trips to Singapore, Bangkok, Borneo, Mt Kinabalu and Langkawi for 2012. Wanted to go Phnom Penh too, but my RM6000 can only help me through the places I listed =/ Sigh.

Hope if I could actually get a first class honours to be able to obtain the waive in loans payback... though I can't have my hopes up too high. Hmmm. Shrugs. Whatever la.

I can't add "Graduated with a degree" in this year's list since my final assessment is held in January 2012 =/ Will be doing my thesis presentation then. Results will be out in February or March and convocation will be in April. Hence, graduating and obtaining a degree will be something listed in my 2012's list :)

Anyway, apart from those... I have met awesome people, made new friendships, learned how desperate people can be, understood how letting go can actually bring peace to the mind, discovered how spoiled, stupid, lazy and fucked-up some assholes are. If you think that you are those awesome friends I have made this year, then you most probably are. If you think that you fall into the assholic-group, then maybe you are too. Haha.

Well, 2011 was full of ups and downs... learned so much in it. 2012 will be a turning point of my life... Graduation, getting a job, new people to meet, old friends to keep in touch with, family ties to be strengthened, traveling and such.

Need to live my life more now! :)

I don't need nobody but my honeys when I go round, baby, round round

2012-01-10T03:29:00.000-08:00

Good company, good food, good music, good alcohol, good time spent... Pretty much an awesome closure for the year 2011. Thank you, Jess Min, for the invitation to your 21st birthday bash slash end of the year party.

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28th December 2011, Wednesday, noon. Packed up, took the train to Sri Rampai, a part of Kuala Lumpur where I have never visited before, seated at the station with Cecilia Ahern's The Gift (which is quite a good book, finished it 3 nights ago, making it the first novel I've read for 2012), whilst waiting for Jess Min.

She reached, with Chia Wei in the car (both of them are already in a relationship at this moment while I'm typing this entry down). Headed for lunch before finding our way to the place we are gonna spend the night at for her 21st birthday event -- Renaissance Hotel. YEAP! It's kinda like a 2 days 1 night celebration. Quite cool, eh?

The search for the venue took pretty long, thanks to the GPS =,= But we arrived at last anyway. Checked in and stuff, Jess Min got us in the room at the West Wing, or is it East? Meh. Can't remember... am getting old. Tsk tsk.

Check out the room!

Waited for the rest to arrive. Meh. The wait got a tad bit boring and I was sleepy... a sleepy Khai Sim can break down and crash into hours of madly hyper one. Did stupid stuff like:

Taa-daaaaa!

Debra and Angelina reached shortly after but the other four were still missing. Got raped in the room by those girls. Meh. Funny stuffs happen la when hanging out with those monkeys. Jess Min's mum even came and pay us a short visit, just to make sure we (namely, her daughter heheheh) were fine. And partly to see the horrible scene of me being in a dress and heels :(

The rest of the girls finally arrived after like hours. Yea-huh... Chia Wei was the only thorn among us roses (ahem). Showered and got ready. I only took 15 minutes... Debra took like a lifetime in the bathroom... Snore.

Me rambling on nonsense while the rest put on makeups and such... =S

They captured me and put on some eyeliner and mascara on me =,= Shrugs. Knowing me, I kinda rubbed most of it off. Anyway, to the event of the night... Well, the first event la partly:

BUFFET DINNER @ THE VOGUE CAFE

Woohoo! BUFFET!

Siew Kim - Michelle - Shu Ling - Me

The rest of the UEL peeps

Pretty neat spot, eh?

And the entrance of the birthday girl!

... though she was with us all the time. Just to add a little drama in this entry =S

Awww.

With ze Mum :)

... and the boy fwen

Candles and cake time!

OH! Look! Me! :D

With the birthday girl.

HAHA! YOU ARE OLD NAOZ!

I was hoping she doesn't open the presents in front of everyone =/ But, anyway...

Lingerie from Angelina and Debra (no surprises here!)

Chanel perfume that she wanted so badly from those UEL peeps + Loo Yee

Hmmm. I think some voucher thingy and a self-made card + flower by Katrina

YES! KAT WAS THERE! FINALLY! DID NOT GET TO SEE THAT FACE OF HERS FOR 9839264982199421984798217421 CENTURIES!!

Next up:

Yea. From me la. My artwork sucks...

Okay. Yadda, yadda, yadda.

MAKAN TIME YOZ!

Check out the fooooooooooooooooooood:

... Still have plenty more of other awesome stuff. But I think I got too side-tracked to take more pictures D:

Our initial plan was to sing the verse "WE COULD HAVE HAD IT ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL" from Adele's Rolling in the Deep, after the buffet session ends. But plan failed... We seriously could NOT have anymore. Was so bloated that I did not even want to get up from the chair. Bah. I failed. Must be the age issue =/ Hahaha. I make myself sound so old. Meh.

Anyway, group pic:

Brian Yeoh IS back!

He was there for the dinner session only though, same goes to Kat. Meh. No fun.

Fooling around in the room while waiting for each of those girls to get changed for the clubbing session. Why do they even need to change? =,= I have no idea. Shrugs. My gender can be so weird.

More pictures from Kat's phone:

FOREVER ALONE!

I likey this picture a lot :D Yes, partly due to us looking good in it (me included AHAHAHA) and partly due to the presence of this woman whom I have not see for almost a year!

Shortay

What's underneath?

Brian's angels

Left for Zouk when it got close towards midnight...

Yadda, yadda, yadda. Stupid smoke got my contact lenses turn grey. Shrugs. I hate smoke. Hate hate hate hate hate hate. Rawr.

Back to the hotel. Blablablablabla. Showered. Sleep. Dreamt of me playing Ultimate D: And woke up to a very sore right arm... Bah. Anyway, I was the first to get up from Slumberland and first to use the bathroom! Mentioning for fun, just so you know. MEHEHEHEH! Woke the rest up by opening the blinds, cuz I am awesome like that. Apparently, I have been snatching the cover and blanket from Jess Min (I was sharing the same bed as her) throughout the night cuz I was so damn fuggin cold... Well, I don't know if it was true la, but it was accordance to her. And she said she won't be surprised that I was whacking my arm around the whole night when I told her my dream D:

Checked out and headed for brunch at Kin Kin Chilli Pan Mee Restaurant. They said that this is apparently the best chilli pan mee around. Meh. I think Super Kitchen still beats the rest. Pfft. Personal preferences la.

Okay. I think the alcohol from the previous night kinda got me SO hungry that I ordered two bowls at one go D: I eat like a monster.

Back to the car. Awesome of Chia Wei for driving us back, and awesome of Jess Min for letting us ride her car. Erm, the logic was, Chia Wei, being the nice boyfriend drove her car while all of us lazed in it.

=.= Debra

Pig la me. Eat d then sleep. Debra said my head was tilting from side to side like it was gonna break off D:

Sent Angelina back to her place and I suddenly got very wide awake. Jess Min start commenting about how it was so much more peaceful when I was asleep =,= Got Debra back after Angelina and I remember that funny scene of Jess Min bidding her goodbye and Chia Wei went "Thanks for coming!" and Jess Min was like "YOUR PARTY AH NOW?"

ROFLOLMAO HAHAHAHAHA

Okay. It was funny to me la. Don't mind me. Was almost exiting the neighbourhood when I decided to clear the stuff at the backseat... and noob Debra apparently left her phone in the car =,= Old habits die hard, eh? She can lose her phone forever.

Ended the whole two days outing with Chatime with the couple before getting back home.

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Note to Jess Min:

Thank you for the invitation! Really was an enjoyable celebration and I hope your 2012 will be awesome too. Was quite a good closure for each of our 2011 too. Can't wait for more events with you, especially the runs and Mt Kinabalu expedition happening this year :D

Good luck studying in your Masters LOL! I will be doing it in the near future.

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Okay! It's 3.23 IN THE MORNING now. And I am supposed to get up at 5.15am to do some last minute packing for my Singapore trip. Bus leaves at 7.15am and I have to take the train from the Kelana Jaya LRT station to Bangsar at 6am D:

Yea, am going there alone. Cuz I haz no friends =/ Haha. Kidding. I actually like journeys, it'd be an adventure! Woohoo! Has to find my way to Little India later. Meh. Knowing my sense of directions... Hope I get to reach the backpackers' hostel safely. Am actually feeling obliged to complete this entry since I have been leaving it hanging since the end of 2011... So, here it is. Done! In hmmm, WHAT? 30 minutes? Not bad! I'm quite the awesome kan?

AND I'M DONE!

2012-01-05T11:43:00.001-08:00

~~International Finance Assignment~~
~~International Finance Examination~~
~~Discovering Entrepreneurship Project (Assignment 1) -- Financial Section~~
~~Discovering Entrepreneurship Project (Assignment 1) -- Executive and Company Summary~~
~~Discovering Entrepreneurship Project (Assignment 1) -- Market, Management and Strategies~~
~~Discovering Entrepreneurship Project (Assignment 1) -- Final Write Up~~
~~Discovering Entrepreneurship Project (Assignment 2) -- IRA~~
~~Discovering Entrepreneurship Project -- Presentation~~
~~Research Project -- Literature Review~~
~~Research Project -- Data Analysis~~
~~Research Project -- Final Write Up~~
~~Research Project -- Presentation~~

2012 Resolution

2012-01-01T12:12:00.000-08:00

Play more Ultimate.
Run more weekly.
I don't think I would be able to find a job of my dreams at first shot, though it'd be awesome if I could... so, this year's resolution is just to get employed with a satisfactory salary and mediocre job scope. No. It's not about being ambitious or not, I'm just being realistic.
Travel.
Be nicer to people.
Be more feminine (dammit =,=)
Stop drinking so much, it kills stamina and makes you fat, Khai Sim.
Do at least 3 more half marathons.
Eat more healthily.
Go to the gym more often and quit it after the final month. Waste of money, and I'm more of the outdoors person. Gym is too boring for me.
Invest on either one of these gadgets: Samsung tablet/ 11" notebook/ PS3/ XBox 360/ GPS.
Help out more at home.
Learn to swim.

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks

2011-12-14T16:25:00.000-08:00

Exactly one month ago, I decided to skip rotting at home trying to do my thesis and assignments and go out for one whole day of running... something I have missed so much due to this awful semester.

Anyway, woke up freakishly early to Shah Alam for my second CICM Run. Did the 10km category for the last year's CICM Run on my 20th birthday...

2010 CICM 10km Run

WA DAMN FAT LO THEN!

And am back this year, doing a 5km one. Haha. Wanted to do the half marathon (21km) but am soooooo broke that I couldn't afford to pay for that... hence, I took the cheapest option available. Meh.

Did it with zero trainings from all the workload I had then =/

Well, it doesn't matter... I had fun running. It was quite an easy route with little hills and minimal narrow roads. Missed that feeling so much... And no, I did not regret sacrificing one whole day out running instead of doing my assignments.

My dad wasn't really happy with the organising and location of this run, but I thought it was good. Really enjoyed the whole thing, except the fact that I did not win anything from the lucky draw. Meh.

Sad Nico and I :D

Speedy Gonzale Nico came in 8th. I got 5th in my category. Not exactly an achievement since I almost hit 30 minutes for this 5km. To think I am about 2 minutes slower than I was 5 months back =/

Waited around for a little while with Nico for my family to complete their race. Yeap. All of my family members ran for this race, except for my little sister la. Brother and dad took the 5km while mum did the 10 kilometers.

Dad came in shortly after me. My baby brother took a little longer since he has never run long distance before. Hahahaha. Hit the finish line exhausted and claimed that 5km is super far.

Well, I am proud of him for even finishing the run.

Waited around for the prize ceremony before leaving for lunch with ze family.

Winnings:

Bought myself running socks with the voucher ahhahahaa

Did a little of my thesis and headed out for the second run of the day with zero sleep: Tom, Dick and Harry's Mou Man Tai 5km Run.

Thank you, Jack for playing driver for the day! :)

With the newly-converted running buddy x)

I am super glad that I am able to influence my circle of friends in joining me in runs. Jess Min has now been converted by me into a running nut. Am going for an expedition to Mount Kinabalu with her next year June. Wanted to go for it since a couple of years ago, but kept failing in doing so due to financial problems and my indecisive friends...

Fine, those are just excuses. I can go by myself anytime... but I was just quite chicken to actually do it. Conquering Mount Kinabalu was just all talk until a week ago when I raised this idea again to her. And since she was going to Kota Kinabalu in June, we were like: hey, why not? And after a few planning and all... We are on for the trip up to Mt Kinabalu in 6 months' time with her cousin and a good friend of mine, Gadiy joining us. Am quite psyched about this and should train harder with all those upcoming runs, ultimate games and this.

Anyway, back to TDH run:

Hitz.fm cruisers game sessions...

Our group kinda took away all the prizes available there =X

Group picture before the run! :D

Was quite a relaxing start with no stress and pressure. Took off with Chia Wei as we wanted to hit the same timing together, but he went off at a fast start with the rest, leaving me behind. MEH!

I somehow overtook him at the later part, which I couldn't actually remember doing so as it was super dark around me and I have slight night-blindness =/

Got caught running! :D And yeap, it was THAT dark.

Almost got lost on the way back =S ran past the turning and kept going straight ahead with a guy in white shorts when he suddenly turned to me and said: "I think we ran past the right turning" Kantoi =,=

Reached the bar, greeted by Meng Leong, Kaartig, Nico and Michelle who are already seated and drinking the free flow beer.

Uh huh. We can haz free flow beer :D

The girls

All of us

Meng Leong and the jug each of us won from the Hitz.fm cruisers haha

Comes in handy eh?

Went off to Williams for late night dinner/ supper after that.

Got my pandan chicken and carbonara cravings satisfied x)

Wasn't all that good =/ I like the carbonara back in Upstairs Cafe better now... Gadiy was right

2 weeks after that fun-filled day of runs... I crashed Nike 10km 2011 with two of my favourite female runners, Jess Min and Michelle. Crashing it since they closed down the registration so soon and I insisted in running it since it is on the 27th of November (MY BIRTHDAY!).

To think my performance was already so bad back in the CICM Run and TDH Run, another additional two weeks of no exercising got me in a worse shape. I almost puke at the 7th kilometer point... What the fark.

Thank God I have Michelle with me who kept pushing and encouraging me to keep going... Nico said possibly I was in such condition due to only 1 hour of sleep prior to the run and not eating anything before running. Hmmmm.

Oh well. At least I finished it anyway.

Haha.

Inside joke.

Better Days

2011-12-13T22:51:00.000-08:00

Did you ever felt that a soundtrack should be playing at that one moment of your life?

Well... Right now, mine is this:

Wheeeeee ^^

2011-11-30T08:06:00.000-08:00

Running:

~~SunMed Jogathon 5km (29/5)~~
~~Adidas All24 3 Hours Relay (4/6)~~
~~Standard Chartered 21km (26/6)~~
~~Feel Good Run 7km (3/7)~~
~~Olympics 7km Run (17/7)~~
~~Centro 12km Run (24/7)~~
~~SHAPE 12.3km Night Run (30/7)~~
~~Adidas King of the Road 16.8km (2/10)~~
~~Putrajaya Night Run 21km (15/10)~~
~~CICM 5km Run (13/11)~~
~~Mou Man Tai TDH 5km Run (13/11)~~
~~Nike 10km Run 2011 (27/11)~~

Ultimate Frisbee:

~~Monash Hat 2011 (2/7)~~
~~UITM Open 2011 (30/10)~~

UiTM Shah Alam 5v5 Ultimate Tournament 2011

2011-11-04T16:24:00.000-07:00

Finally had my dose of Ultimate Frisbee after like close to two months of hiatus. If it wasn't for King who stated that he has included my name in the list of players (without asking me first =,=), I wouldn't have joined this tournament... seeing that I have skipped the last few ones already. And am going to skip the next few opens and hats in these couple of months =( Anywayz, decided to attend the UiTM Shah Alam 5v5 Ultimate Frisbee Tournament instead of doing my 5th half marathon, which so happened (as always) to be clashing on the same date.

Wait, let me rant a little... it's so difficult to love two sports equally. I love long distance running, and I love Ultimate. However, it's so often that when a race I wanted to join so badly is up on a particular Sunday, there will be an Ultimate Frisbee tournament happening on the same date! Grrrr. Just like the Women's 5v5 Tournament happening on the same date as the Putrajaya Half Marathon, which I have opted for the run. And this one, which I have chosen Frisbee over running. Oh! And Nike Run 2011 versus Penang Hat 2011!!! I have chosen Nike Run 2011 though, couldn't afford to spend too many days outstation, despite it being on my birthday, I have thesis and assignments due a few days after that. Meh. Okay, end of ranting.

We were pretty blessed with an awesome weather throughout the whole day of 30th October 2011. I didn't sleep at all the previous night, had a sudden epiphany and was on a roll working on my thesis until 3am. Went to bed but was tossing and turning for almost two hours and finally gave up at 5am. Hence, I basically played the tournament with zero sleep =S

Thanks to Wilson for fetching me to and back from UiTM, Shah Alam, where the tournament was held. Super nice guy. Left for breakfast and a quick meet-up with the rest at Centrepoint and a brief farewell with Faith (that ding dong left for Sabah that evening, ditching ultimate. Bleh). Got to meet some of the KBU girls, whom I never met before due to my long hiatus from Ultimate and trainings and pickups =( Only managed to sneak one session in like every 2 to 3 weeks? Sigh. Life sucks.

Left for UiTM after that and came across road blocks due to the ongoing PJ Half Marathon, yeap, the one I was supposed to be in if I wasn't participating in the frisbee tournament.

Waved randomly at some of the runners and Wilson looked at me weird =,= Hey, runners damn friendly wan ok! Passed by Joshua Tan who was doing his run too with his big-ass yellow dry pack (the one we bought together back in Bangkok during Bangkok Hat 2011). Didn't see that boy since Bangkok Hat seriously. Been so long. Wouldn't recognise him if Wilson didn't point him out to me.

Jees. Seriously, why am I going on with nonsense when I am supposed to blog about the tournament? 5 paragraphs or so already and I have not even reach that part =,= Wait, I am a female. Females tend to me naggy, so bear with me.

Reached UiTM, Shah Alam and was welcomed with a long-ass jam. Shrugs. Was almost 8am and we were still stuck in the middle of it. Heard that there's a convocation going on or something like that; hence, the jam. Anyway, we reached there just in time for our 8.30am game. Weather was HOT, crazily hot. Thank Lord for the invention of sun screen!

Condition of the field? Awesome.

Carebears + KBU were kinda split into two different teams -- Carebears and Evilbears. Haha. I was in Carebears along with :

Guys: Alex (captain), Banana Chiew, Wilson, Mark, Michael and Carroll

Girls: Adelynn, Sheena, Rahayu and I

LOLOL, I like Adelynn's icon xD

First game was against Oops from Notts Uni. Pretty tough for the first game in the morning... considering that I was still super sleepy from the zero sleep I had. Gah. Slumberrr. The games were only 30 minutes long with 15 minutes to half time. Pretty short =S But we had like a total of 6 games that day, so still considerably okay. Enough game time for everyone la =P

Managed my first 2 scores of the day in the first game. I think the sleepier I am, the more productive I get seriously =S I should not sleep before games in the future! Rawr! Anyway, Uncle Johnny (THANK YOU, UNCLE) managed to caught my second score... Jees, I look soooooo ugly when I run D:

And thanks to Bryanboy for creating a meme for me =,=

FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU, BRYAN! ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

Aiyak, getting fatter again d. Zzz. Need to lose weight again. I blame the final semester! Giler stress sial!

Oh! Darren got better ones =P I don't look thaaaaaat fat there ahahahahaa.

Yayy!

Let me syok sendiri la k. I don't usually get satisfactory pictures in sports =,=

Lost our first game, Oops' teamwork is damn strong D: Game against Wildcats B (captained by Bob) straight after the first game. Loooooooooooooong bye after the 2 consecutive games... Snore.

Went kacau the Rojaks during that long bye x)

HELLO DARREN! And Zahir...

Siao kias

Old already la you, Lxing

And I'm including this picture in cuz Ethan seems to be so happy about that defense. Haha.

Third game of the day. Against Cheras Underdawgs. Did a few mistakes here =/ Flipped 2 discs I think. Only managed to redeem myself with an assist and a score =/ Then again, I hate being so butter fingered la =(

At 1st glance, Lixing agreed it looks like I was doing a layout (something I have never dare to do before). Con job much ahaha.

Close call against this team. Good game. Another loooooooooooong bye after that... Zzz.

Outta field random shots:

LUNCH TIME! :D

Awesome of King for treating us to nuggets x)

Awwwww

Nap time #1

Nap time #2

Meet Jason Kon, imported him from SS2 court ultimate haha.

My 2 favourite bauses

Got so bored to the point:

Sigh, Murali... your kilt gave them such entertainment.

Proceed to our next game in the winners' pool with Sate Gile. Tough fight siallllllll! And it was raining towards the end of the game. Mad. I fumbled a lot in this game... Sadz. Won at universal point with a score from our hero:

Rawr!

Rain carried on. Meh. Oh, random picture with Iron. I called him that cuz I didn't actually caught his name properly back then and Alex called him something that sounds like "Iron", whilst he actually was calling him as "Ryan" cuz he couldn't catch his name too and that name kinda stuck to us. Anyway, his real name? Nazrin. Former teammate in Monash Hat :) Favourite Malacca boy.

Entered the semi-finals against Oops (again). Lost at universal. Final game with Rojaks for the 3rd and 4th position. Had fun playing with those Sunway peeps again. Blablabla, can't remember much. My brain pretty much blanked out then already. Uber sleepy =S

Stayed back to watch the finals between Oops and AUR.

Final score sheets:

Awards presentation:

Got our bronze medal as 3rd placing out of 18 teams.

MVP dulu:

LOL Mark...

Wah sei, this Banana Chiew... Getting medal also ada pattern. Dor dor yeh.

My medal :D

Group pictures!!

Le Unprepared

Le Proper One

And without fail, we have the messed up ones too. As usual.

And I don't think we can ever get tired of these...

King getting bullied x)

Awesome day of Ulty. And thanks to that day, my hands kept itching to hold a disc or run on some fields. Garghhhhhhh. How la now. To think I won't be getting much action until probably January T_T Hate studies. Hate hate hate! Getting fat cuz of it also. Stupid la. Ish. bdskjbvksdbvkjds. Am supposed to be starting on my Finance assignment, and Entrepreneurship project now. Plus my data collection for my thesis is still incomplete. Bangs head. Shrugs.

Photo credits: Me, Larry, Uncle Johnny, Andy and Darren

Putrajaya Night Marathon 2011 -- My 4th Half Marathon

2011-10-26T23:11:00.000-07:00

So I completed my 4th Half Marathon (ie. 21km) a couple of weeks ago :) Though my timing actually got worse, but I am glad I managed to finish this race instead of giving up half way... Was practically limping for the final 5km plus. Did some wrong footing and had my whole calf tensed up and in pain at the 15km point, shortly after the water station =S

Oh well, the pain is all behind me now =/ Lesson learn: don't force it.

Wasn't exactly prepared for this run, like my other runs la. I never really train for all these wan zzz. Cuz I'm a lazy fart. No wonder I'm getting rounder and rounder... Meh.

Started out the journey with Su Juin at my place, waiting for our chauffeur for the day -- Meng Leong.

As usual, Meng Leong is ever so nice to fetch us all to the race venue. If you have been reading my entries on running events, you probably would have see his face plastered in those entries. Such a nice guy la he. Anyway, along with Su Juin and I were Nico and Christine, loading in Meng Leong's Saga.

The girls at the back, Christine - Su Juin - me

Hahahaha. Christine was ever so amusing. She was so excited that she already had the headlamp on when she came out of her house. So cute la.

Reached Putrajaya later than we planned to. Good thing we have Meng Leong who is pro at parking, if it was me, I probably be panicking for the lack of parking spots.

Us, excluding Nico who left the car half way to run to the site to collect his race kits

Took a few pictures before Meng Leong zoomed to the starting line as the full marathon will be flagged off in like 10 minutes upon our arrival. Yes, we were that late. I have a full 20-30 minutes to spend before the flag off of the half-marathon.

Me, gung-ho-ness before the run

Went looking for my half marathon buddy, Kar Mun and the other 10km runners who we have promised to meet up in this run. Went brisk walking around with Su Juin and Christine, looking around for familiar faces. Sucks not having a phone with you =S Then again, it'd be a hassle to carry your phone with you during sports, especially on a 21km run. Bah.

Managed to meet up with all of them, thankfully :D Took a few pictures together before Kar Mun and I raced off to report ourselves at the starting line... Was talking about wanting to complete a full marathon together next year when the gun was fired, signally the flagging off for the half marathon D: We were not even mentally prepared yet!!!!! Aghhhhhhh.

This is my third time pacing on the road of Putrajaya. The first was after a volunteer job for Ironman half triathlon back in 2008 with Jack, Wen Hong, Boon Yen and Yinnie when we got lost looking for a bus station. Haha. The second was during the Shape Run 2011 back in July, which I completed with a bad flu.

This time I was in better condition, all well and dandy. The only sucky part was my running shorts being super annoying, kept running up my thighs with my sweat =,= So annoying. Shall only wear this for shorter distances next time, or with my UnderArmour under it when I received my purchase next month. Yea, I am ordering one from Wee Kiat this time... can't trust unknown people anymore. Shrugs. PM-ed that dude to know the updates if the parcel has returned to the original sender or not also no replies... I mean, I wouldn't want two identical UA compression pants right? I know I'm probably one of the most difficult customers to treat, 7 months already still not letting go of that screwed-up... Money's hard to earn okay!!

Anyway, I digress =,= I get distracted so easily... Meh.

Have to say this is one nicely-organised event, with sufficient drinking stops, which were the only things I look forward to in the run. Stopped at all drinking stops and treated myself with 100 Plus and fruits and a one whole minute walk before continue jogging off again. Really enjoyed the run... Until the 15th kilometer. Think I made a bad footing and accidentally pulled a nerve at my left calf, pain shot to my thigh as well =/ Forced self to keep jogging and stopped at most curbs to stretch my leg. Shrugs. Mafan mad. That final 5km plus was superrrrrrr loooooooooooooong. Felt like it's further that the 15+km I have completed behind me. Pfft.

Told myself if I can't even complete this with such minimal pain in comparison to the ones who are doing the full marathon, why for to think about doing a 42km in the future?

THE LAST 1KM WAS PURE TORTURE! SO NEAR YET SO FAR! I seriously have not felt such agony in my previous half marathons! This is my 4th but it felt like my first. Jees. Even during my first run, I was just lazy and bored throughout the run. Could still go lepak with Emily around KL after the completion of my run summore =,=

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SO UGLY OMG! LOLOLOL!

I didn't notice Su Juin at the finishing line taking that picture of me clutching my leg ahahahhaahaa! Soooo ugly weiii, like gonna konked out anytime soon. Hahaha.

Crossed the line with my timing of 2 hours 46 minutes and 32 seconds, 4 seconds slower than my last 21km at Standard Chartered KL Marathon 3 months back. I realised I always kena problem in my half marathons la zzz. First one was fine, second one was fine, the third one I ran with a bad stomach and had to go release half way =,= Twice. And now the fourth one with a limp. Zzz.

Met up with Kok Peng and Christine, tried to stretch to warm down but the pain came again =,= So nice of Christine to be busy snapping pictures of me while I was in pain. Snore.

Haha. I was actually laughing at the pain. Felt super glad to complete the whole thing actually.

First time at the medic tent =,= Jakun

The rest came and gathered at the medic tent with me sitting there like a boss. Hahahaha. Felt much better after awhile.

Fellow HELP-ians. With our glowing eyes. Thanks to Christine's camera ahahhahaa

Bumped into an old friend from basketball, David at the medic tent too. I realised I am super unobservant D: He called out to me several times only I saw him, who was just sitting right opposite of my seat.

Poor boy injured his knees half way in his half marathon. Both his knees went swollen D: Old injuries I heard? =(

Fellow runner in HELP's Athletics team, Sukhveer :D

Met up with Kar Mun while trying to help Christine find her way to her Mum's car.

Us with our 21km finisher tee :D

Su Juin wantz Milo tooz?

Am uber glad that I got back into running again last year, or I wouldn't be able to meet such awesome friends. Us with our medals :D

Chilled out with the few of my favourite people before going off to the finishing line to wait for the full marathoners. Alone =(

Stoning much while waiting for them pro runners to complete the full marathon.

There they are :)

Am super proud of Michelle and Kaartig. T'was their first full marathon and they completed it despite all the mental torture they claimed they went through... Jees. Damn scared to do it d. If they were suffering throughout the journey, what say me??

Respect la

SUPER late dinner/ supper/ early breakfast with Nico and Meng Leong after that at about past 3am. At William's.

Look at that boy tempting me when my food came late =,=

Putting back on the calories burned D:

Kar Mun suggested we do our first marathon next year overseas. Are eying on the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon now. Gah. Need to train for that! Been gaining so much weight again, lack of running, ultimate frisbee and gym. Stupid studies. Can't even concentrate on my work. So unproductive. Shrugs. Okay! Entry done. Better complete my methodology draft before I sleep.

For extra reads: Meng Leong's || Kar Mun's || Su Juin's

Working with JAG - David Foster and Friends Concert

2011-10-26T17:28:00.000-07:00

Been leaving my poor blog to rot...

Well, I can use the excuse of being busy, cuz I am supposed to be. Then again, the lazy fart in me kept procrastinating on my thesis. Shrugs. The assignment for International Finance is out too already and I am still slacking around. Jees. What the heck. Plus, I am no where ahead of other people in class on my Entrepreneurship project. Let alone studying for my final exams for Finance. Gah. I better do some reading for my thesis after finishing this entry.

Anyway, I thought of posting this up before my Putrajaya Night Marathon 2011 one. No particular reason, just felt like too je.

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So, thanks to my awesome friend Justin Leow, I found myself landed on a one-day event job again.

This is Justin:

Uh... a very non-related picture, but I realised this is the only picture I had with him. Hahahahaha. How sad! Forgot to take one with him during work too D:

Worked as an usher a few years back for some tennis game championship show, which I wasn't even interested in =,= This time, I actually got to be a part of the crew working for the David Foster and Friends concert in Putra Stadium in Bukit Jalil! I seriously owe it all to Justin this time to be able to experience this awesome event, plus earning a few bucks and making a few new friends x)

To think I almost decided to skip this due to the guilt I have for not making much progress in my thesis =S Good thing I waved that thought away and stuck to the plan to work... since I gave my word already anyway. Not nice to ffk last minute for a job you signed up for right? I would be pissed if someone does that to me, irresponsible... So I followed the directions Justin gave me and left for Bukit Jalil with a few switches of public transports. And yes, I went alone this time. Went completely clueless of what to expect. Usually there will be bunch of people joining it together for these type of jobs... usually kids from colleges and universities, unlike me who's going to graduate soon =S Then again, I have not graduated yet! Hence, I am still considered as one of those kids la! *self comforting*

Good thing I bumped into Jolly, t'was the second time I met her je. Hahaha. The first and last time I saw her was back in 2006 during a MSSD basketball tournament between my school team and hers (SMK Tropicana). Funny how fate toy with such things, and I sure am glad I met her then, or I would have been completely bored outta my mind being alone! Difficult to make new friends there seeing that everyone came with their own peeps =,= All cluttered around separately like that. And Justin was like "can la, go there make new friends only la" when I pointed out I will be alone =,= Meh.

Anyway, a big shout out to Jolly. THANKS! I AM UBER THANKFUL YOU WERE THERE! AND I HAD A GOOD TIME THAT DAY WITH YOU!! =D

Our supervisor, Adrian, carrying out his job

Trip around the stadium~~

Sound checking session...

The wait and standing by period was quite a wait. Jolly and I were so bored out of our mind that we wandered around back and forth until we decided to stay at the bags room and stare out of the windows from the room at the people outside. Spent our time directing lost customers and answering inquiries through the window. Hahaha. Supervisor advised us to stay away from the windows to avoid being attacked with the overwhelming amount of questions by the customers/ audience/ lost human whatever you call them =,= But, we just wanted to be helpful... =(

And we were bored =/

Meh.

Hours of wandering around, adjusting our uniforms (which is just a tshirt, whereby mine is oversized =,=), socialising with the other ushers at the gateways around us, staring at the queue outside, entertaining ourselves watching Reuben (one of the guys who was stationed at the many entrances) being bombarded with complaints and such. Haha. Poor boy.

Finally they start letting the queue in, and we started on our part. Ushering people in the stadium was mad tiring, running up and down the stairs all. I think my stamina is falling lor seriously =,=

Crowd filling in the stadium

Lights went off and our duties were almost done. By the time David Foster made his appearance on stage, both Jolly and my job were done already x) L2, best station ever! xD Plus point = It's situated facing directly at the stage! Super awesome!

The audience displayed a mad wave of excitement on every music piece and every entrance of each artist. Was a delightful scene to see the older aunties and uncles being so psyched on each familiar song from the 70s, 80s and 90s. Some of them even stood up and danced to certain songs! Super awesome sight. Drove me psyched. Most couples were cuddling together to the ballads too.

Other than David Foster, the ones who appeared that night were, Charice, Michael Bolton, Russel Watson, Philip Bailey and Ashanti. Mad cool, I told my sister I will be seeing Charice singing live at work that night, and she was super envious. Hahaha. Oh! And in case you don't know who David Foster is... He is a 16 times Grammy Award winner, who produced many of the hits you have been listening from the past 40 years for Celine Dion, Michael Buble, The Corrs... He even worked with Michael Jackson before!!! And by the way, read on, they actually performed one of Michael Jackson's songs before the closure of the concert. And yes, it was such a surprise, I teared... cuz it's my personal favourite of Michael Jackson's, holds so much memories of my favourite basketball friends who also fancy this song as much as I do, or maybe even more.

Here's a short clip by one of the audience of a brief performance of each singer...

And a much awaited duet:

My new found friend, Reuben, told me he heard that there will be a duet that night... he just doesn't know between who. And you should have seen how Jolly and him ran into the hall when they heard the starting of this song, not wanting to miss it live. Hilarious. I think out of all the part time people that night, Reuben is probably the most enthusiastic one =,= At work and during the concert... zzz. He sang to all the songs and jumped up and down before each song, cute kid.

And the surprise of the night:

THIS IS FOR YOU, BOON YEN! :D

Noob Justin was running into the hall when they performed this piece =,= And he was singing this song while we were waiting to get final instructions, and he sang the lyrics all wrongly... Funny boi.

Resumed to our duties when the concert was drawn to a closing. Am uber glad I met Jolly there. If she wasn't there, it seriously would be super boring for me and I probably have my lansi/ self-defensive face plastered the whole night. Haha.

And here are the guys who were in charge of the tickets-checking at the same station as ours. Couldn't find the other 2 girls and guys when I finally be able to retrieve my camera =S

Joey and Jaron from UTM

Hero Justin assured me that the whole thing will end before 11pm so I will be able to catch the train back home. Yea right, it was past 11.30pm when we were done with everything. And that blur kid lost track of time summore... sigh. Plus I went alone, if I wasn't so thick-skinned, I would be stuck there hoping for my Dad to be nice enough to come pick me up all the way at Bukit Jalil =,= Good thing I met that kiddo Reuben, who apparently is my junior from foundation. His friend, Aaron was super super nice to fetch me, a stranger, back.

There, Reuben. And his friend was walking too far ahead... couldn't get him to take a picture with us too D:

Justin stated that this concert is probably one of the best event jobs he has attained, and it is super worthed it to work there. I have to agree. A whole day spent there was not wasted, I mean, technically, we were like being paid to watch =X And the time I could have used to do my thesis might not even be productive anyway... To redeem myself, I just have to work harder on it since I have lost one whole day at this job la.

Dirty dancing in the moonlight

2011-10-09T00:50:00.000-07:00

Skipped gym for like 1 week already D: Exactly 7 days. Shrugs. Went back to gym today and jees, seriously no mood for it at all. Kept thinking about my thesis while exercising, and my face kept frowning from all those worrying. Meh. Plus, cardio in gym is making me sick... I'm not the kind to be closed indoors and doing all those running in the gym seriously can kill me. Argh.

I think I should just take Yu Szen's advice and do my cardio outside and just take the classes and weights in the gym. If the trainers try to persuade me to do cardio there, well o0o you! =,=

Anyway, was a bad work out session today, kinda forced myself all the way through my usual regime... the only plus side was this:

Awesome song. Heard it playing in gym :)

Okay. Shall focus on my project now, skipping gym again tomorrow. Going for some Ultimate instead. Been long since I played! Psyched!!! I don't want to feel like I'm dying anytime soon due to the workload. I need things to keep myself motivated, having this to look forward to, I shall complete half of my questionnaire before I sleep on Sunday! Aja aja! :D

Monday - Yoga class, free weights, 5 minutes run

Tuesday - Steps class, free weights

Wednesday - cardio outside

Thursday - Yoga class, free weights, 5 minutes run

Friday - free weights

Saturday - Putrajaya Night 21km Run :DDDDDDDDDD

That's what you are gonna get if you start doing your project and other assignments properly. NOW GO!

Every second is a highlight

2011-10-07T23:53:00.000-07:00

Been some time since I had such an awesome day :D Miss going around places... Can't wait to actually travel to Singapore alone. Yea, apparently my classmates are ditching me to go there by flight. MEH! It's okay! I've got my new books that I've got today to accompany me throughout the 6 hours long bus ride! Pfft.

Anyway, ditched my laptop and papers today and spent the day with some of my favourite people. Did a few stuffs involving my favourite activities: books and running. Yea, it was the first day for the Big Bad Wolf book sale.

Was pretty psyched about this for weeks already. Couldn't even fall asleep the night before this. Yes, I am a little bit on the weird side... do people get this psyched about cheap books? Well, I didn't get all the books I wanted, but the gems I have gotten my hands on are pretty good already... though it would be better if the Dan Brown and Stephen King items didn't disappear so fast :(

Day started out with Dad. Followed Dad to Kajang where he works at and had a quick breakfast with Dad before Darren drops by to pick me up. Pretty cool, cheap food! And yumz to Yee Mee! Been wanting to have some for quite some time. Om nom nom. Hearty breakfast at 8.30am.

Darren was pretty punctual (RARE!!! LOL). And it was a good thing we left early, we got lost mid-way D: UPM is seriously crazily hugeeeeeee. Found our way there thanks to Darren's instinct anyway x)

MAEPS, THERE YOU ARE!

Hahaha. Poor Darren injured his arm in Ultimate about a month ago =S During KBU's final Saturday pickup session. Hence, no loading heavy stuffs. Check out what he brought as a substitution for an arm:

Hahahaha like going pasar je.

We were offered to take the tram to the hall entrance D: Awesomeeee, no? Though the distance wasn't that far, but it's okay. The weather then was planning to roast some human anyway.

Darren excited to be on the tram. Small boi *smirk*

Gosh. Look at those! Luggages and trolley! Must be avid readers who buy their one year supply of books in this sale every year and finish them within the year before attacking the next sale to get more books for the next year! WHICH is what I am gonna do from now on x)

Reached the hall and everyone in the same tram as we were went "OMGGGGG! WTHHHHH??!!" And some of us went laughing at how these people camped outside since morning just to enter the fair...

This was where we ended up at only 9.30am D: Mad!

But it's okay! We were still psyched! A long queue won't be enough to dampen our spirit!

Gleeeee! :D

Lady with a stool during the wait. Soooooo smart!

Oh well. Good thing I brought my printed journal articles with me x) So that I don't waste my time waiting around and still be able to keep my thoughts on my final year project when I'm having a good time D:

10am! There was some change of noise ahead of us, people were getting hyped up. Guess they were allowing the first batch of shoppers into the hall already! And we were also considered the first batch! :DDD

GETTING SO NEAR ALREADY! :D *hops up and down*

OH! And look who we have here?

hellooooooo Lucas! xD Having fun being a kuli?

Stepped into the hall and I went "WOAH!" I literally went boggle eyed with the sight of all those books!

Darren was like "BYE BYE" and rushed straight to the Graphic Novels section, trolley in tow; while I was still stunned at the sight of books. Got myself together and rushed to the Best Sellers to get my hands on all Cecilia Ahern's books and tried seeking for Dan Brown's plus Stephen King's. Sadz. Found out I was a little late, only a couple of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code left :( And I already have that... sigh. Oh well, many other choices to hunt! *brightens up*

Lookie who I bumped into! :D

helloooooooo Keith!

Haha. Self-help language guide. Good one x)

Got myself books on marathon running plus a few more comics for my baby brother and a full collection of Narnia for the little sister before closing myself up in a corner to sort my stash.

Books lovers sorting their treasures in corners after walloping all the books into boxes:

Both my bag and box were filled. I, too, took a corner to sort mine out and removed so many from the stash until only an empty bag and a three-quarter filled box were left. Oh well. Tried to limit myself to an expenditure of less than RM100 ma.

Our final stash, separated into 2 boxes before payment:

Check out the cashiers, sooooooo systematic and well-managed!!!

Mine came up to a sum of RM87 for 12 books; whereas Darren's load exceeded an hefty amount of RM300 with his boxful of graphic novels. We were wondering how to load his purchases to the tram too. So blardy heavy =,= At least mine was bearable.

Left UPM with smiles. Cheap stuffs ftw! To think I could only get like 3 to 4 books with RM87 without sales! Imma gonna make this an annual thing! Get all my cheap supply of reads here for one whole year before the next sale! x) Sounds like a plan, eh?

Side note. We passed by a few fields on our way out. Check this out:

So prettyyyyy!!!!! What a field to have games of Ultimate on it!!! And they have like 3 to 5 fields along the road, all in walking distance! So nice! We should try to have tournaments here soon! :D

Thank you Darren for dropping me at the Serdang KTM station. Endured a painstakingly long journey from Serdang to Pasar Seni via KTM and LRT. Long, as in the time taken, not the distance. Took 35 minutes for the train to arrive to Serdang man, what the heck! Again, good thing I have my printed journals with me. Finished reviewing one journal when the train just arrived. Meh. Met up with Su Juin, Kar Mun and Aris shortly after for our race kits collection xD

T'was Su Juin and Kar Mun's first time going for race kits collection, look at how psyched those girls were! Hahahaha. Hilarious. I think they kinda entertained the staffs there.

Brought those peeps for their first cheap fish spa, which only cost RM5, after the collection. Secluded location, and is a gem for runners like me x) RM5 for 10 minutes and you get your feet nice and smooth after the whole "ordeal". Aris is a happy customer, the fishes ate away his blister or something, forgot liao what was it. Haha.

It wasn't my first, but I can never get used to the ticklish feeling every single time I dip my feet there.

Had my feet all clenched up throughout the 10 minutes session D:

As usual.

Good company :D

Awesome of Aris and Kar Mun to dropped me back home from KL. Thanks guys.

Back home reviewing my precious gems from today's trips:

By the way, Y MOST OF THE RUNNING VESTS SO SHORT FOR ME EVEN WHEN I ORDERED L SIZE??????? IS IT A CRIME TO BE A TALL ASIAN FEMALE???????????

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Photo credits: me and Kar Mun :)

Adidas King of the Road 2011

2011-10-04T14:08:00.000-07:00

I tried to restrict myself from all runs, tournaments, yumchar sessions and trips until the end of my semester; however, IT IS JUST TOO DAMN IMPOSSIBLE. I have very low discipline, sue me. Meh.

Anyway, last minute decision to attend the Adidas King of the Road 2011 with Meng Leong and Hazel. Initially decided to do the 10km category with Hazel and bring my camera along with me to capture moments (and lengzais =X) while running. However, I changed my mind 6 hours before the race and decided to do the 16.8km one instead with Kar Mun. Mind you, I wasn't exactly mentally prepared for this run.

And yea, I kinda crashed the run since the registration for the female category closed super early =,= Meh. Not my fault! I was forced into this situation! And this is my first time crashing a race! And the bib in the next few pictures, erm, let's just say luck has its ways... Hazel's boyfriend was not in a position to do the 16.8km... Hence, he let me have his bib! :D I mean, as long as I get myself timed =D

Left pretty early at 5am to Sunway. Thank you, Meng Leong, for being the chauffeur again x)

No parking space even though we reached about 5.30am D: And the flag off for 16.8km was scheduled to be at 6.45am =/ Oh well... Good thing Meng Leong found one at an alley. Met up with Hazel and her boyfriend, bumped into Meng Leong's lecturer, Joanna and ~~her husband~~ (LOL HAZEL) Meng Leong's uni mate, Ryan.

Jees. Damn fat d. That's what you get for not running for over 2 months =,= Stress in studies ain't helping too. Meh. Am like worrying about my thesis while writing this blog entry, y'know. I mean, I'm not even supposed to be blogging, but I'm doing this in the car on my way home when I can't actually do my thesis now, TIME MANAGEMENT YO! x) [Dad's driving, I don't blog and drive, not that pro].

6.15am. Headed for the starting line.

Bumped into a fellow runner, Daryl =)

Check out the turnout! D:

MADDDDD!

Found Kar Mun and Aris on my way to the starting line. Started the 16.8km with her. Both of us were in similar situations: Lack of trainings, race crashers =,= I don't mind not getting anything lor, just want to run. Damn the registration, closed so early. Nike run's registration closed too! What the heck!!! Am either crashing that too or shall go for Penang Hat instead! Pfft.

Running/ food buddy

Did not warm up properly... then again, I came across an article about long distance running. That warming up thoroughly can actually reduce performance, or something along those lines. Aiya, don't know la. Whatever. The wait wasn't as scary as usual, probably due to the fact that I have no expectation and target for this run.

I have to say, this is one of the most enjoyable runs I ever did. And boy, I made the right decision to take up the 16.8km.

See! I was even smiling while running!!!

Candid LOL Thanks, Daryl!

The weather was uber good too, no rain, no crazy hot weather, the highways were closed so there's no noise and smelly exhausts. The whole journey was pure pleasure, except the slopes la. What the heck, DAMN A LOT OF SLOPES! I hate slopes! I hate hate hate hate hate slopes! Can die wan! I calculated a total of 6 slopes, though Kar Mun said there were more than that.

Completed the 16.8km in 1 hour and 55 minutes. Not really good la, but at least it's under 2 hours! Meh. Considering the facts that I did not run for like 2 months already and my having a cracked nose bone D: My jaws hurt after the race from the close to 2 hours dangling throughout the run due to that stupid injured nose.

I ranked 1013th in the men's category. And about 160th if I did the female category of 16.8km. LOL. Hilarious.

Got meself a pretty medal :D

Hazel and her boyfriend, Yang (whose name coincidently appeared on my race bib heh)

He last minute decided to do the 10km too after being persuaded by Hazel LOL

Hiiiii Wai Yew :)

21km in less than 2 weeks now D: Woah! I wish life's just all about running, ultimate, food, travelling and fun =( Am like struggling with my thesis now and realised there's a glitch in my whole project. What the fark???

Photo credits to Hazel, Daryl and Kar Mun :)

Early Notification: Hiatus

2011-09-15T13:44:00.000-07:00

Just felt like ranting here. Not meant to be read, but go ahead if you want to bore yourself out.

Been a month since I signed up for EITP Fitness Centre. It's a gym, just a smaller scaled one if compared to the mainstream ones like Fitness First and such. Pretty happy with this one. Tried to go like three to five times a week, despite my final semester has started. Been watching what I eat too, which I am very proud of myself. However, been kinda stressed out these 3 days and started to consume white breads again. Argh. Need to stop this.

Oh yea, my nose bone cracked =,= Collided during a pick up game in Sunway. The side of my right nose feels weird and a hard bump just juts out since then. Sigh. Hurts pretty much when I apply pressure on my nose too... So, I kinda hate washing my face now, since drying it will cause me pain too. Meh. Luckily the doctor says it's a minor crack with no need for any surgery... However, I need to get back to him after 3 to 5 months, to see the progress of the recovery. Hmmm. Hope it gets well fast *cross fingers*

And due to that, I kinda got told not to play Ultimate anymore... at least for the rest of this year =/ Am skipping Women 5o5, AIMST Tournament and MAPCU Ultimate. Even withdrew myself from Penang Hat 2011, though I hope I will be able to complete my work and studies by then, so I could at least go and watch the games there :) I mean, Penang Hat 2011 will be taking place during my birthday too ok =( I don't want any parties or whatsoever for my 21st birthday. I just want to do something related to what I enjoy doing, Ultimate or running....... HEY! This reminds me, if Nike Run 2011 is really taking place on the 27th November, then I shall go for that instead of Penang! Hence, I will be able to participate in that while not wasting my time in Penang, watching games that I can't play in =,= Plus, MORE TIME TO STUDY!

Yes, I sound like a nerd. But, I really really reallyyyyyy need a First Class Hons for my degree. Not a need actually, a want. But I really want it so badly that I started on constant studying, something I never ever did before in my life. I always studied like 1 day before my exams =,= This time, I cannot afford any mistake anymore. Fuck it, I need a First Class. Argh. Calculated already and I have to get at least a 73 average for this semester, or I'm screwed with a Second Class Upper. Zzz. Kinda screwed up last semester, got my first Second Class Lower for Strategic HRM... Was overconfident then, did not even study properly for my final exams =,= That's what you get for being arrogant. And yes, I admit my faults. Whatever.

So, am having Discovering Entrepreneurship, International Finance and final year Project to deal with this semester. Arghhhhh *bangs head*... Oh, by the way, saw this video being shared by Louis (credits to him), and I kinda converted it to mp3 format to listen to every single morning... really motivates me to start my day well and ends it productively:

Works in the sense of fitness, studies, work, whatever you want to be successful in. It got me up early to attend gym classes or to nerd out in the library. Every morning, I told myself that if I keep sleeping, I will be missing out a few calories burnt or a few chapters being covered. And success will leak away cuz of that few more hours of sleep. And each morning, I will roll out of bed, though reluctantly, but I still got up. Seriously, one of the most motivating speeches I have ever listened to.

Okay. Won't blog a lot already these few months =/ Have to get back to the books now. Ciao.

If you're in the swing, run runaway

2011-08-19T03:04:00.000-07:00

July 3 2011 (Sunday)

Woke up early for NTV7 Feel Good Run 2011 despite having post-aches gotten from Monash Hat 2011 the day before. Thank you Chun Tat for fetching me back and forth... Mum went earlier, she didn't want to go late with us =,=

Parked at the One World Hotel parking lot and went out to an awesome weather :) Breezy with little hint of sunshine, was glad to attend the run even though my legs were still aching from back to back games of ultimate the previous day =/ Chun Tat said he was quite exhausted too, hence he said he will slow jog with me. How nice :)

The morning crowd

My company for the day, Chun Tat

So, instead of numbered bibs, NTV7 Feel Good Run actually gave us a statement bib each and let us have the freedom to write whatever we want on it. Fun! I suggested one for Chun Tat as he was going on about how tired he was:

"If I know what I'm doing, I wouldn't be here right now... =P"

Haha. Smart right??????? x) Syok sendiri. And mine:

"Running is a mental sport, we're all insane!"

Being a fun run, they have a category for runners with costumes as well. Check out my favourite from the many I saw that day -- Malaysianised Batman, ahaha:

Lookie Robin, so small in size D:

Took our time taking pictures and all when we were already quite late to begin with, ended up standing far back behind the crowd before the starting line. Meh. Oh well, it's a fun run anyway... Equipped with my camera, which I only bring along with me in runs I don't plan to time or push myself, we set off with the crowd after the gun shot.

Was quite a blissful jog, took a few pictures along the way. Chun Tat was super nice to accompany me all the way, even though my pace was uber slow...

Awas! Kenderaan berat di hadapan! LOL?!

Route covers around 1Utama to KBU, pass Centrepoint and Puay Chai 2 and back to the starting line. It was fine at first, were chatting and jogging in a constant speed all the way. Pretty fun, seeing parents jogging with their kids in the strollers, looking cute and blur due to being up so early in the morning (I think). The weather was still good, air was kinda cold for an eight o' clock morning.

Jogged passed 1 Utama and into the BU3 housing area. Awesome of the organisers to set up distance mark signages such as these at every kilometer point:

Each with a different statement, very interesting hahah

Seriously enjoying my run la. I never been able to actually take my time looking at the other runners and absorbing in the environment with good company. Plus side, you get to take notice of eye candies!!!!!!

I think he is photoshopped

It was towards the 4km point when we started to slow down, chit chatting while running seriously is tiring... Meh. Were so damn slow until Chun Tat pointed out that we were nearing the water station, haha, WATERRRRRRR! We went Speedy Gonzales towards the water stop and they were pouring and distributing cups of Gatorade x) Didn't want to waste paper cups, asked straight for a full bottle of Gatorade for each of us. Drowned ourselves with energy drink while walking for one full kilometer =,=

LIKE A BOSS!

Continued our jog after disposing the bottles at the garbage bin (cuz we are civilised citizens) and sprinted our way towards the ending. Fuuh.

Timing was 47 minutes inclusive of those walking and slowing down taking pictures. More pictures on Facebook! Uploaded them like weeks ago d. Meh. I procrastinate too much. Zzz. I have to say this is, by far, the most relaxing and enjoyable run I did thus far. Plus, the goodies are quite worth it!

Nais

July 17 2011 (Sunday)

2 weeks of hiatus from running, I found myself in Dataran Merdeka doing another 7km in McD Olympics Day Run 2011. Thank you HELP University College's DSA for sponsoring us this run again :D Uber awesome.

Anyway, I participated in this run last year and finished in like 55 minutes with no position and no medal =( The medals were only allocated for the top 75 in my Women Open category. So yea, 55 minutes is damn poor anyway, I mean, I did 57 minutes in 10km back in high school la =,= And lookie at me now. Shrugs.

2010 McD Olympics Day Run

So, this year, I made it a point to try get myself a medal or at least improve in my timing by 10 minutes. One year of running should have some production, right? However, I kind marked my condition in this race more disgusting than the 21km I did in Standard Chartered KL Marathon a few weeks ago. Had my time of the month on the same day =,= Arghhhhhh. So yucky to run with some part of you bleeding =,= (I am disgusting and disturbing, deal with it).

Anyway, went for this race with my family, Mum and Dad did the 7km too in their respective category and sister did her 5km with her school mates. Were there pretty early =,=

Bumped into Kevin before the race, that ostrich runs super fast =,= He got like top 15 or so I think. Crazy imba. Met up with a few other friends-- Michelle, Khit Yeng, Kaartig, Christine, Ragu, Kar Mun, Su Juin, Benny, Angeline and Aris. Oh, and Commander Anthony! Haha.

with Commander as one of the officials for the event and Ragu

And yeap, I've got myself a medal! :D Wasn't exactly that good, but I finished in approximately 39, close to 40 minutes. Or maybe a little pass 40 minutes if I ended the timing too early =S My watch ain't that accurate. Placed 52nd! :D

Goal achieved! Satisfied. The push was worth it. Jia was right, if you don't feel like vomiting, you did not push yourself hard enough. I was on the edge of puking when I forced myself to go faster at the last 500m. Probably due to not having anything to eat before running? Or probably because of the push? I don't know?

Haha? Oh well. Whatever.

Mum got her medal as well in her Women Veteran category. Michelle got hers as well. Kar Mun didn't collect hers =,= She went to the sponsor booths without passing the finishing line, whaaaaaaat?! So wasted! =/ But, congrats to you guys for being good.

Oh! And guess what? I've got myself a satisfying picture of me running! Finally! All my running pictures from past races are super ugly! This one ain't that good, but it looks decent enough! Haha.

Thank youuu Tey! :D

July 24 2011 (Sunday)

Klang Centro 12km Run 2011.

This is the race which sparked my running streak, thanks to Meng Leong who asked if I were interested to participate then. I needed a push then to actually start despite already having the motivation from the Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2010. I mean, wanting to do something is one, but to actually start doing it is another. Glad to have avid runners who encourage others to run as friends... Anyway, I completed the 12km last year in 85 minutes.

Klang Centro 12km Run 2010

Sad that the ones I went with last year couldn't join with me for this year's. Signed up as soon as the registration releases few months ago with my Mum and Dad :) Yea, they were athletes and runners back in their days too. No idea why I never was into sports until I turned 16 =S And yea, I missed Orange Run/ Seremban 21km for this despite I have more friends who joined those other runs... but, I still refused to miss this.

Race kit

Well, I jogged all the way, refusing to stop and walk... until I reached the slope at this housing area towards the end. IT WAS HELL! I hate slopes. I hate hate hate slopes! I hate them so much. I couldn't do it... I walked =,= Yeap. They pretty much changed the whole route this year. I actually prefer this year's route than last year's. Last year we actually had to run the same route twice... pretty sien lor.

And this guy, Daryl came up to me in the middle of the run and said he reads my blog on the Energizer Night Race chaos. Surprised that he could recognise me from the back, probably it's due to my buff. Haha. How nice of him to say hi =)

So, I completed the run in 79 minutes. Improved! =D The lady passed me a card and said I was positioned 19th =S Seriously? Me? Well, not that surprising, since the runners in the running community were spread throughout 4 races that day. Hence, cutting down the total number of runners who signed up for each race.

Mum completed at 90 minutes and Dad a couple minutes after that =)

Proud of them for still being active as veterans... when I'm more elderly, I want to be still able to run, play frisbee, travel and such!

Oh, and Daryl caught me resting after the race:

Good pic! =)

Nice meeting new people, especially those who share the same passion.

Went off for lunch since we had no luck in the lucky draws =( And since we were in Klang anyway...

BAK KUT TEHHHHH =D

Went home with a full stomach and awesome goodies:

Not bad, eh? x)

July 30 2011 (Saturday)

So, to end the month of July with my favourite activity, I've signed up for Shape Run 2011 as well. Yeap, 4 runs in a month! Haha. Actually, the main reason for me to sign up for this run was the goodies =X It wasn't exactly that fun since the only ones I knew who were running are Meng Leong and Daryl. Hmpf.

PLUS! This IS the most disgusting and annoying journey I have ever experienced in races =,= 12.3km of dripping nose. Worse than wanting to poop and having my period. Arghhhhhhhhh. Yes, I was having a bad flu, but I still went ahead and ran with a tissue pack in hand (which I finished the whole pack at the 5km mark already). Poor buff had to suffer =( And I don't think you guys want to know about how yucky and sad that 90 minutes of my life was.

So, we were there with ample of time for some photos taking. Thank you Meng Leong again for playing driver.

At the starting line before the run

The race was pretty good, I would have enjoyed it if I wasn't so tortured by my flu. Difficulty in breathing due to nose block. I ended up walking a couple of kilometers =S Wanted to finish it below 80 minutes... but I failed, terribly. Oh well. At least I managed to finish the whole thing. Shrugs.

Results:

85 munutes =S I thought I exceeded 90 minutes. I was positioned at 145th out of 734 runners in my category. Hmmm. Shrugs. 45 places to a finishing medal. Quite far apart la. Shucks.

Congrats to Meng Leong for finishing and getting a medal despite having a bad cough. What's with all the sickness weihh.

Meng Leong's

Superman la you

Oh well. At least, I've still got all theseeeeeeee:

Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!

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Okay! Finally done with this entry. Been procrastinating toooooooooo much. I have not even do much on anything on my thesis and classes are going to resume in less than 3 weeks! Jees. What have I done for the past 2 months??? D:

Anyway, no runs this month due to the fasting season for the Muslim. I kinda am suffering from shin splint too now =/ And sprained my ankle again a week ago... Sigh. Am signing up for gym pretty soon. So I probably will be busier, juggling studies, gym, frisbee, running, home, social life and all. Pretty much less time for blogging like what Ann predicted. Meh.

26th June 2011 - of more running, eating and surprise parties

2011-08-11T04:45:00.000-07:00

Yes yes, another outdated entry... =,=

So, I did my third 21km (if you count Energizer Night Race as one of them =,= Stupid race, got me so confused if I actually completed a half-marathon or not that night. Shrugs). Completed it despite having to visit the toilet in the middle of the run due to the stomach ache I had since the day prior the run. Yes, I was so fussy that I tahan-ed all the way until I saw a hotel and dashed in to borrow the toilet =X Anyway, did my run in 2 hours 46 minutes and placed 299th out of 955 female runners in my category. Not exactly good, and I could have done better... I told myself that I will do my full marathon after my 5th half-marathon; however, I have just added another criteria for myself... I will do my full marathon after I finished my 5th half-marathon and when I finally be able to complete 21km in less than 2 hours and 20 minutes =/

Meh.

Race kit.

Oh, side note: Thank you HELP University College's DSA in sponsoring 24 runners for this race :)

So, I had to blog about this race separately as this one is kinda important to me...

No, I do not run constantly for years. I may be gung-ho in running, but I have not been running for almost three years until one year ago, when I was here working as a volunteer. I have not been running for 2 years plus then due to my injury in 2008... kinda forgot how it felt like to run again. And boy, am I glad that I went for the volunteer job last year... being in the running scene reminded me how I should be on the road again and not being so unfit due to some mere injury... though it was a 2nd degree sprain, but still!

I remember how I felt watching the race being flagged off and was reminded how it felt to be at the starting line, waiting for the gun shot. I kinda missed that. I missed running. I wanted to run again. And here I am. One year later. Not as fit as I was in high school, but am trying to regain fitness again... =/ I did 10km in 57 minutes in 2007 weih... And now I had to take 70 minutes. Jees. Old. Shrugs. Oh well, at least I managed to fulfill one of my life's to-do list in completing my first half-marathon before I turn 21... I mean, I did my third one already! Awesome-ooo x) Fourth one coming soon in Putrajaya in two months' time :D

So, I woke up about 3am and headed to Dataran Merdeka with Kar Mun, her brother and his girlfriend. Special thanks to Aris for being the driver and photographer. Ahaha.

Fellow runners :)

21km - 21km - 10km - 10km

Were there pretty early at about 5am, but time flies so fast when you are with good company. It felt like only a few minutes upon arrival and we already found ourselves in the crowd before the starting line, waiting for the 21km flag off, which was due at 6.15am.

Kar Mun ain't a half-marathon virgin no more!

You know, I realised I have been experiencing yucky situations in runs recently... Shrugs. I thought this 21km was bad for having to boom in the middle of the race. Experienced worse in Olympics Run and Shape Run in July. Meh. Will talk about it in the blog entry for those races.

Anyway, I kinda got into the habit of having music in my runs now. I don't exactly run with music last time until recent months =S Re-sync my iPod with faster beats too already. I think I got influenced by Kaartig and Michelle in bringing music with me while completing the distance. I mean, I was quite bored out of my mind during my first 21km in Bareno Run 2011. I did not expect it to be so far =/ Thought it would be just another extra 10km... and just throw in 1 more kilometer after that. Bla.

Anyway, good run. I always prefer having races at Dataran Merdeka, love the routes :) I always like to watch the buildings around me in their least hectic condition. It probably be a better experience if my stomach wasn't aching and if I actually trained for this... Yeap, I don't train for runs. I just run them. Cuz I'm lazy like that. Meh.

Got my finisher medal anywayss

Completed the run and was greeted by Commander Anthony at the finish line. Went around looking for people, bumped into Jack and Wai Yew, no pictures with them since I did not have my camera with me D: Had a very bad cramp upon going up to Kok Peng and was grabbing his arm so hard I think I was probably pinching him =X Sorry Kok Peng.

Met up with the 10km and 5km finishers while waiting for Kar Mun or Aris or whoever to walk by. Am glad I got some of them hooked to running, seems like the persuasion and encouragements to get them to sign up for this run did not go to waste. Some of them even completed more runs after this Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2011 :)

Group picture of all of us finishers, couldn't find the rest... So, yea =/ Was expecting Meng Leong to finish then but he was no where to be seen, so yea... left shortly after for brunch since everyone had to leave already. Sorry Meng Leong :(

DIM SUM! Been long since I had dim sum, good reward for completion of another half-marathon! :D

Messy eater. Om nom nom. Satisfying sial.

Went home to clean up and rest. Tried taking an hour's nap but failed =,= Went Sunway Pyramid with Yvonne instead without sufficient rest at home. Walked, I mean, limped around with my tired-out legs. Had lousy dinner in some stupid Japanese restaurant. Meh. Yvonne treated me to her homemade oreo cheese birthday cake. How nice :) Happy belated birthday again... though it's super belated now =/

Called Gadiy for some impromptu second round dinner in Murni since we ain't satisfied with our meal.

Had only an Ayam Pandan since I will be expecting supper shortly after this =X

My appetite grows after I exercise la k...

Eh, damn colourful weih. MPPK peeps meet-up :)

Nice to keep in touch with these peeps despite spent only 3 days together

With Yvonne's friend there, can't remember his name =,=

Nice of Chun Tat for picking me up to KTS' surprise birthday party. He was supposed to be home from Australia that night and his family members were uber nice to throw him a birthday/ welcome-home party. Were hiding in the kitchen in the dark with the rest, all sweaty and impatient, when we heard KTS' arrival at the front door. What the heck. He spent almost 15 minutes playing with his dog before entering his home. Not tired after the flight mehhh?

Were trying to keep ourselves in silence and not moving a muscle... My legs were aching from running a half-marathon and walking around Sunway Pyramid for hours already, squatting there almost killed me T_T He finally came inside the house and his Mum flagged us a signal to come out.

SURPRISE! Welcome home KTS! Happy birthday!

*He already flew back to Australia la... seeing that how late I'm blogging this.*

KTS and his girlfriend beside him :)

Lookie Jack at the back being jealous. Meheheh.

The cake:

With a design of erm, tennis racquet-looking badminton racquet.

Badminton is his favourite sport anyway.

Seems like most of us are straying away from basketball =/ I did not touch a basketball for close to a year already. Been busy with running and ultimate frisbee. Hmmm. The basketball court that we used to visit almost every single day is now super empty. Kinda miss those days when I had to wait for my turn to play... to think I used to hope that the court won't be that full so I get to play more; and now, no one even goes to the court to the point I lost interest towards basketball already. Well, that's part of the reason why I quit it la, mainly is due to my injury too la. Stopped being active until last year anyway.

Oh! I digress! Again =X

Then again, I think I'm done with this entry. I think I'm quite the Wonder woman this time to survive close to 24 hours of activities-filled day even after finishing a half-marathon and suffering from a tummy ache. Mehehehe.

I'd tell you I miss you but I don't know how; I've never heard silence quite this loud

2011-08-10T02:56:00.000-07:00

Oh, a simple complication,
Miscommunications lead to fall-out.
So many things that I wish you knew,
So many walls that I can't break through.

Now I'm standing alone in a crowded room and we're not speaking,

And I'm dying to know is it killing you like it's killing me, yeah?

I don't know what to say, since the twist of fate when it all broke down,

And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.

Monash Hat 2011

2011-08-09T04:02:00.000-07:00

July 2nd 2011 (Saturday)

Yes, another overdue blog post. Been saving this as a draft for more than a month already. Meh. I procrastinate too much =/

So, I have attended my third hat tournament :) Jumped at the opportunity for more hat tournaments when the registration was released x) Love hats. Anyway, thank you Serng, if you even read my blog, for fetching me over to UM (where Monash Hat 2011 was being held). Reached there in time for registration but ain't exactly early enough for sufficient warm up =/ Oh yar, before I forget...

Mehehehe. Cheapskate cape.

The cloth only cost me RM3.50 x) though the 'S' took me 45 minutes to complete =,= I ain't exactly talented in arts...

Theme for this hat was "Superheroes", though only a few dressed up and I just cincai bakcai layan the theme je since I came across cheap cloths the day before while I was out collecting my Feel Good Run race kit in Pasar Seni.

Was in Baby Blue team, which we coined ourselves as "Super Smurfs". Heh.

Team captain, Alex, in his Solid Snake (or something that sounds like that) costume

Had our first game at 8am (?? can't remember, too long d) and lost =( By one point. Meh. The unique game rules need some getting used to. Oh well, two hours bye to our next game. Tossed a little and did a few drills for warm ups. Pretty nice to have many unfamiliar faces in the team (more new friends ^^).

Proceeded to our second game, won it. I managed a score in that game. Third game was scheduled immediately after our second game. Only managed an assist in that. Can't remember the results for the third game... I can't even remember who we played against d =,= My memory effing bad la. Should have finish this entry soonest after the tournament. Jees. Anyway, was preparing for lunch break in between games when we were informed that our fourth game begins in a few minutes... *bangs head* and I was settling my cape down as a picnic mat and had my umbrella adjusted already. Sigh. Three games in a row due to the tight schedule =(

Had a cramp in that game and the heat ain't helping too. Pfft. Only played a little in that game. Poor Alex, collapsed after the game. Lost that round, and realised it's a knock-out. So, that was our final game for the day =/ 4 games je... Oh well, never mind la, finally had time for lunch!! Om nom nom. And more time to go fool around with cameras.

Super Smurfs, missing Ida

The Super Smurfettes, missing Ida again

Fight fight fight

Oh, that's Rahayu in her Chun Li costume, she actually wore it in the game. Pro.

And here's proof of how I am qualified to wear a Super cape:

Mehehehe. Lois Lane there x)

Uh, I dropped her right after the picture was snapped... =X

Apparently there's someone stronger than me. Rawr.

And guess who dropped by?

Look at those two bimbos =,=

Awesome of them to drop by to support, though they were pretty late to catch the games, I mean my games =/ Not like I played well anyway. Meh.

Left the field after the finals to Kota Damansara's Super Kitchen for some Chilli Pan Mee with these two dearies of mine. Louis joined us shortly after.

You Indian ah? Sure or not?

Snowflakes for dessert. I'm pretty bored of Snowflakes already =/ Chatime fever now x)

Ain't much to talk about for this entry since I can't really remember much of this day. Am actually just completing this one just for the sake of getting rid of the drafts. Bla. I suck.

2011-08-06T10:06:00.000-07:00

I lost control of my thoughts... I failed. Need to start everything again. Zzz. Hate people who keeps drawing me to temptations, but hate myself more for falling into it.

F is for friends who do stuff together...

2011-08-02T02:48:00.000-07:00

And there goes the second month of my semester break, 1 more month to go! Sorry for such a long hiatus, couldn't bring myself to blog due to the hectic days in this month, and for the times I was actually free, I was just too lazy to blog.

Owh well.

So, in my opinion, I did made full use of my first 2 months of semester break... though my parents would probably highly beg to differ on this =,= I mean, yea, I probably should focus more on my thesis, do more house chores or work...

Then again, I got to met up with several old friends :D

Deborah :D
Met her in CICM Run 2010 in November last year... Always enjoy her company since she is super ganas and bubbly ahahaha

Li Foong and Edward :D

I was uber close to Li Foong a few years back, until studies just made us drifted afar. Always good to be able to hang out with her again... Edward =,= well, he's just a random meet. Haha.

Taira, whom I met back from MPPK :)

Rock climbing!!!!!!! :D
Been 2 years since I last climbed okay! And it's been long since I see Matthew! He lost so much weight!!!! :O And luckily I still remember how to belay. Haha.

Sean :)
My awesome kor kor, though I don't call him that upfront cuz I'm too manly to do that.
BEEN DAMN LONG since I hanged out with him too. Dammit. Caught The Green Lantern je that night, Sean is super sweet to watch it again just because I wanted to watch it ^^

Josh Josh :)
We were quite in close terms back in the beginning of HMC, after that it was all just hi bye, lunch? student council meetings. That's all. Caught Blitz with him, awesome movie! Did I mentioned that I caught super many good movies this month?? Am uber happy about this. I get psyched after watching good shows haha

Si Jin is back in Malaysia! For only a couple of months je...

Met up with him and Ann for our usual om nom nom session

Shopping with Vincent...

Oh! I'm not talking to him now. And he doesn't seem to think he's at fault. Offend people damn gao many times and still thinks it's fine. I have yet to even forgive him completely on that first offensive sentence he told me. Hmpf.

Finally! A decent gathering with HMC peeps :D

Banana Leaf Rice + Bisou. Om nom nom!

On the 25th of June 2011, a day before my second half marathon.... (I did not count Energizer as one of the half marathons I did since it is not completely 21km, 1km shy from a half marathon mannn!), I went for this AXN Challenge thingy with Michelle as my partner.

I did not expect to win any positions d, I did some research and knew what to expect and was just there to get the goodies... I mean, sit ups and push ups ain't my forte anyway. And I tried my best to do the push ups la, ass, super unfair for the girls =,= I can't even do one full push up! Been putting that as one of my to-do list, as in getting to do one full push up before semester starts and be able to do at least 3 full push ups before my birthday. Deng.

And the finalists were all guys =,= Duh. Plus, I had the worst cramps ever that day. Super painful. Had a hard time eating my lunch too. Shrugs. Turns out it wasn't cramps but food poisoning... it dragged to the next day as well, which brought us to how I had to go find somewhere comfy to bomb half way through my 21km =,= We will get to that in one of my following blog entries... Plenty of blog posts on running coming soon! :D

Meeting up again with Si Jin and Ann. This time Chooi Ying joined in! :)

Got to see my beloved (yes Sean, go vomit la you) bro again! Did not actually caught up much during the previous time we met for Green Lantern since he was too busy to reach early. Meh.

Oooh. Yumyum, claypot chicken rice!

And FINALLY got to meet up with Victoria =,= Been loooooooooooooooong!

Was quite an impromptu meet up with her and Chia Wei. Went to try out Betty's Kitchen at Aman Suria. Plenty of catching up done :) And awesome foooood, though I won't visit it randomly anymore. The food is too sinful and fattening =/ Will only go there again if there's any event or occasion being held there.

Dinner with Charis, Vi Iyin and Ching Fay before Ching Fay flys off again to Australia. That girl did not even inform me that she is back! =,= Good thing I bumped into her in SS2 Mall.

And went for another torture-and-laugh-at-WinYew session in Kota Damansara again. This time with Chris, Aaron, Michelle, Ann and Win Yew himself... he went too far that night by downing two buckets of beer =,= He siao wan, I don't even know if he is really drunk or what, but he's like crazy zzz. He even slapped me on the road for dragging him in search for his car! Okay, he didn't slapped that hard... but still!!!

Also, I realised that for both the times I met him, both times also he got drunk... zzz. What am impression!

Ended the second month of semester break with an outing with some of my primary school classmates... and their plus one =,= Ann's idea... =,= Just because she got her plus one. Nah, just kidding... or maybe I'm not.

Ah, whatever. Good to see them again anyway :)

Damn. My arms are fucking fat! Need to start on upper body workout instead of cardio all the time. Shrugs. I hate my arms. And hips. Ugh.

On a brighter note, I'm damn tall! Whee!

Majlis Perundingan Pelajar Kebangsaan Bil 1/2011

2011-08-01T00:11:00.000-07:00

This is a crazily outdated post! But oh well, I really have been meaning to complete this entry, so better late than never?

So, the DSA of my university has sent 4 representatives of the HELP student councils - Me (Department of Management and Economics Student Council) , Ameza (former Student Representatives Council president), Raj (A-Levels Student Council) and Gadiy (IPRSM ?? =,= lol correct me if I'm wrong).

Well, the first day was quite uneventful =/ I took the public transport and all and tried searching for the Grand Pacific Hotel. Ameza told me it probably be the nice hotel opposite of The Mall, which I highly doubt so as I clearly remember it being named the Sri Pacific Hotel. Oh well, I was right. And Grand Pacific Hotel was no where in sight.

Waited for Ameza at The Mall to go hunt for that place after that and... for such event, I'm not exactly prepped for such environment.

1st June 2011 (Wednesday)

Registered ourselves and got our conference packs. Not bad. Got several books and I am ever grateful to get one of these!

This costs RM100 in MPH k!!

They even throw in a laptop bag for each of us. How nice :D

Good thing I brought my coat along. We were expected to be dressed super professionally for this. And the uni did not even inform us about the dress code =,= The first day was difficult for me as I have not been using the Malay language for a looooong time. Good thing I can still understand, though it took me quite some time to digest what they were saying. To think I got A1 in BM for SPM =,= Hilarious much?

Not much for the first day, just some introduction and schedule arrangement. The dinner spread was awesome though!!!!!! Okay, no one warned us about the meals, but jees... WE ATE A LOT FOR THIS 3 DAYS CONFERENCE! Goodness.

Retreated to our rooms after the discussion session. Uh... ... ... lalala.

2nd June 2011 (Thursday)

Headed early back for breakfast. Was still exhausted from the previous day. And, hmmm. First session is about 9am... =/ Uh...

Lunch after that, got my tag and contacted the rest to meet at the hall for the next session. To be honest, I do not want to say much about how the event is being held, since the media was asked to leave the hall as well on the 3rd day. And that should means something significant of how this whole thing ain't meant to be so publicly spread.

Anyway, I decided not to waste this whole thing and start taking initiatives to network.

Representatives of HELP and Taylors with Ayahanda

He is a sweeeeet man. And super friendly too. Wanted to take pictures using his camera too. Haha. So cute.

Was asked to join for some sharing session with some other representatives of other universities from all states of Malaysia.

Mamak session

Well, it is awesome to have peeps who share the same concerns of leadership, politics, rights and all as you. Though it was clearly shown how different our opinions are, especially among the ones from IPTA (public institutes) and IPTS (private institutes). I have come to see that this invitation to this 3 days conference can come to some great advantage in knowing people as such. It is quite rare to have friends who understand leaderships and our effort to achieve certain goals... some may even say that we are wasting our time.

My department especially, I had a hard time getting people who are willing to even pour effort to work together and sacrifice time... to the point I got so fed up to even acknowledge that there are still dedicated people out there. This conference was an eye-opener, but too bad it was a tad bit late for me as I'm graduating soon. But, not too late as well, I returned and changed the new council election and went through every selection myself without having other interference from other parties already. If I can't get a proper council for myself, I will try to have a proper future one.

Returned to the hotel for dinner and our last session for the day. I personally think the people around are quite awesome, funny as well. I am especially lucky to meet the ones who shared the same table as me for dinner. We share the same passion for food ahahaha, that's what made us Malaysians eh?

More speeches and discussions:

I like this picture

Each of us were from different institutes mind you

Spent the night hanging out watching some comedy shows after the session.

3rd June 2011 (Friday)

Humming to *WE ARE YOUNG! WE ARE FREE! STAY UP LATE! WE DON'T SLEEP!*

Socialising around outside the conference hall in PWTC before the formal conference... the breakfast spread was madly awesome! Erm... I wanna say something, but nevermind. Anyway, awesome spread! Frany was sooooo adorable, kept going for the fish fritters. Hahaha.

Brendon's attempt to impress us with his serving skills

Gasp. PENCURI!

THE fish fritters!

Did the raptai before the formal conference and went through the few issues. Heard that this MPPK will be screened on TV3. Well, I mean, it did la. And good thing it didn't show any of me on air... I wasn't exactly quite alert then =X If you all know me well enough, my attention span is not exactly a great point of mine.

Random:

Check out the height/size difference...

Me with the Taylor's boys, looking all formal...

OH! Not when food is around!

BRAIN BRAIN! Om nom nom!

Okay. Just a side note. I know this is an entry on my experience in MPPK, but it seems that I am working on a food blog entry... =S What the heck?! Oh well... Seriously, with me being such a food lover, if I were to be involved in more of these governmental conferences, I can get super obese in no time.

Skipping the lunch session and a trip around The Mall and fast forward to the Majlis Perundingan Pelajar Kebangsaan Bil 1/2011. The Deputy Prime Minister was there as well! Nice.

Shall just touch lightly on how the conference was held... pretty impressive at how it all went actually. I wasn't exactly interested in the first few topics as I am more towards the Economics topics at issue number 3 onwards. However, not to offend anyone, and just my personal opinion, I had to shake my head at how some of the universities' representatives debate on those issues. It somehow kind of make the representatives from the private universities to feel a little left out as it is obviously shown that some students from the public institutes have done little research and understanding towards how the system in private unis runs. Certain topics being mentioned were quite outdated for us and were quite covered, like the internships thingymajig for example. To be honest, the whole thing wasn't quite productive for the private unis.

However, I am really glad that the government is making effort to hear the students' voice out and actually showing us that we sorta have rights. Plus, I really do hope that the public institutes will be receiving benefits from this MPPK in all 5 topics which were discussed then. At least this conference will come to a point of bringing improvements in the education field in our country...

Oh yea. I cannot remember which of the attendee spoke about this, but it really gave me a deep and powerful impression throughout the whole of that conference. It was at the issue of having the Malay language as the bridge to bring everyone together as a country. There was plenty of debates on this, and this issue probably has the most varied opinions among the ones present at that occasion. I guess I am more of the observer as I can get emotional if I spoke out, not a plus point in politics, nah-uh. Plus I have trouble conversing in Malay anyway... zzz.

Anyway, it was when HE spoke, I was in awe, like seriously! He gave such a definite reasoning, on questioning if we all have at least a friend of each main race in Malaysia. And how it does not matter and the language acts as a communication tool with English being important as it is used internationally and such. His debate touched me. Deeply. I had to applause. We all did. If one year has passed and I were to think back about this conference, I might have forget the other issues, but that... that will be imprinted in my head.

Yes, Malaysia is not made through languages and having a focused race and such. Even in this 3-days event itself I have made friends from all races, and I am indeed glad for attending it. Not only did it extended my network, but it also brought some of the student leaders together. And I got to acquired friendships which I hope and highly think that will be long-lasting, been meeting up with some of them ever since :)

Anyway, the above is just what I can still vaguely remember about the whole thing. It varies from one person to another. This is just from my point of view. My memory ain't that great to remember each debate, I mean, this happened 2 months ago anyway...

HELP University representatives

With the peeps from UNITEN

Us and the Deputy Prime Minister

Anyway, I know I may have not been quite specific in this entry and I blame it on my procrastinative self for dragging all my entries to be completed on such a later date. I have like 6 more entries to be completed. Jees. Anyway, I really am anticipating in meeting up with those awesome people that I have made friends with in this conference and I really hoping it will be super soon.

Slave to the Grind

2011-07-28T09:48:00.000-07:00

My initial plan for this sem break was to work on my thesis and not work at all... Plan failed, big time =,= Have yet to start on my final year project and went working at Bonzour Home Deco as I was and am still short on cash =(

There's so many things that I want to spend on D: And having the UnderArmour I ordered lost in mail is not helping =,= Damn annoyed, it costs like 4 days worth of work to buy that k. Fucking pissed. And need to save for Penang Hat and Bangkok Hat too =(

Actually have enough for Penang Hat already, but the temptation to participate in Shape Run and Putrajaya Night Marathon 2011 was too difficult to overcome. Hence, i forked out 50% of the savings for these races =X Shrugs. Bought a new cap and a pair of new running shorts summore. Jees. I spend too much on sporting stuffs... Movies I have been relying on premieres already, sad life as a movie junkie, eh? Since I don't get the premiere invitations all the time... Oh well. Life.

Anyway, this entry is dedicated to these awesome people who dug out time to accompany me and kept me sane during my working period. At least I had something to look forward to at work most of the days :D

July 4th 2011 (Monday)

First day at work and guess who dropped by?

One of my favourite couples xD

And they brought me treats too!

Om nom nom.

Damn awesome of them la :) Gave one to Yinnie.

Proceeded to have a late dinner with Ann, Alvin and his friend, Ryan at Picadilly. Missing proper Thai food :(

July 5th 2011 (Tuesday)

Survived my second day of work. Walked to 1U after work for dinner with Ann and Michelle at Fish & Co. before movie premiere with Yvonne.

Awesome movie. Worth watching. Uber cuteness. No joke.

July 7th 2011 (Thursday)

Lookie who decided to be nice and drop by to accompany me during my dinner break?

Vincent removing skins and bones from my roasted chicken. Har har.

Hmmmmm. He can be quite a sweetie sometimes. But most of the time, he just gets on my nerves =,=

July 10th 2011 (Sunday)

Meeting up with Ann and Si Jin after work. Dinner at Super Kitchen and Snowflakes x) Yum. Spent hours catching up in Si Jin's car in front of my place since I refuse to go any cafes, mamaks or hawker stalls.

Had one week off and continued my days of a really uneventful week of work...

July 21st 2011 (Thursday)

FINALLY! Last day of work! Got my pay, just a sad amount of RM300+ in total D: which RM100 was already spent on food =,=

This job is like, damn easy la, clean a lil, sit at a corner and stone until customers call out for assistance. But it's too boring for me, and if I have to clean, I rather clean my own house right =,= Too bad I need money. My bank has been suffering with such small amount ever since my trip to Korea last year. Even the trip to Bangkok earlier this year was managed to be paid off after one month of work and air tickets being sponsored by Dad. Sigh.

Concluded the last day of work with dinner with Raymond a day prior him leaving to Korea for the same summer exchange programme I went for last year.

Had the glass noodle that I have been craving for months x)

Just a random post lar. Thank you guys for spending time with me throughout those weeks!

Captain America: The First Avenger

2011-07-26T03:15:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Nuffnang Gliteratti, I have managed to catch Harry Potter and Captain America a week before their releasing dates... Due to work and my busy schedule (and partially being lazy and procrastinative), I failed to write a review for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. I mean, they didn't actually request us to review on it, but seeing that they gave us a copy of the press kit, I guess we should just make full use of the kits and write something about the movie.

Yea huh, I got it in 3D hehehe

Okay, I memang don't write my blog entries formally, so pardon me.

Well, I was really psyched about getting the premiere invitation for Captain America: The First Avenger. However, I did a silly mistake in not rechecking the venue of the premiere and had a little mix up with Midvalley and KLCC. Meh. I missed about 30 minutes of the movie :( but managed to catch the more interesting parts (or so I comforted myself) of the show. I mean, when I stepped into the hall, the screen was just showing the part of Rogers' transformation. Ahaha, neat!

The press kit.

I was lucky that the people in charge were still there despite me being late =/

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You have to admit, superheroes movies have been getting in the trend, especially this year. Apart from X-Men Origins and The Green Lantern (which I wasn't exactly impressed), I have been looking forward to this! Ever since I first saw the trailer 5 to 6 months ago, I have been keeping an eye for its release... so, no surprise that I had pretty high hopes for it.

And well, it did exceed my expectation. Not that much though, but it still did.

Maybe what made me impressed with the movie was due to this?

Like most superheroes storyline (weak/ typical guy turns to dude with superpowers/ super strength), Rogers started out as a scrawny weakling with a big ambition to serve his country and kill some Nazis in the name of freedom. Somehow, he gets bullied, teased and rejected due to him being puny-sized. When one of his friends (I forgot the name =,=) who was enlisted and is leaving for Europe the next day, Rogers tried his luck again. This time, he was recruited as a specimen for a science experiment by the army's mad scientist, Dr. Erskine.

And as other typical comic book stories, Rogers was injected with some bright blue serum which I don't know what it is and blablabla, he became buff within a few minutes being in that machine. Blablabla. Spoilers not being mentioned. Blablabla. Government made him the public toy to raise funds instead of sending him to war. Blablabla. Him fighting Red Skull, the villain, who is also Hitler's puppet in his supernatural division, Hydra. Blablabla. Turns out Red Skull is also Dr. Erskine's production. Blablabla. Romance. Blablabla. Awesome costume. Awesome action. Awesome comedy. Awesome digital effect, like come on, having Evans head planted on a skinny actor and still making the first part of the movie looks so surreal??? Okay, I didn't actually watched most of the beginning since I was late, but it looks pretty impressive from the trailer and I DID caught the last few minutes of the scrawny Rogers before he enters the machine.

What else?

Oh! How about the portrayal of strong women?

Sexay!

As this movie has its setting to be in the 1940s, in the midst of World War 2, it has the disadvantage of not having laser beams and other mad technologically-advanced weapons in the set. WHICH was actually good. Too much of that ain't exactly awesome. We, or possibly just me, get bored easily with too much dosage of those stuffs.

Scarily ugly bad guy

Love the ending, though it wasn't exactly the same as how it was portrayed in the comic books... but it's fine, it ended up in the same conclusion anyway, so never mind. Be sure to stay back for the credits to roll! There's a special preview, like there were in all other movies of this genre.

I was asked to rate this movie upon watching it... well, I am no expert in movie reviews, but I really like this one. Sooooo, 4.2 out of 5! And this came from someone who did not even watch the beginning of the show!

Captain America: The First Avenger will be out on the 28th of July 2011. TWO MORE DAYS, GUYS!

And I can't wait for the Avengers, which will be out next year! Woooot! *PSYCHED!*

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Once again, thank you Nuffnang Gliteratti for the invite. And a special mention to Anne for being concerned. Sorry for the trouble!

Run like a river runs to the sea

2011-07-16T05:29:00.000-07:00

Okay. I have been very very lazy to update. Been writing my blog entries like 10 to 20 percent each time and then decided to let them hang. Jees. Now I have like 8 unfinished blog drafts! Anyway, I promised myself to complete at least one (or maybe two if I am hardworking enough) tonight before I go to bed.

So here's one on my running spree in the whole month of June :)

May 29 2011 (Sunday)

Okay. This ain't June yet, but whatever.

Went for SunMed 5km run at 7am despite having just 2 hours of shut-eye the previous night... Thank you Louis for picking me up from my place for this run. Actually, come to think of it, thanks for everything which is related to this run... in helping me register and picking up my race kit too :)

Pretty awesome sponsors eh?

There was a minor road bullying on our way to Sunway... some idiot was trailing us from behind until Louis did the turning into Jalan Taylors. That fucker showed the finger before driving past us. Damn fucked up la these people... Ish. Good thing we lost him then, Louis was suggesting that if that fucker doesn't stop his attempt to tailgate us, a fight might break out =,= I guess (and hope) he was joking.

The attendance for this run was quite poor, to be honest. Well, did not expect much too since there were 4 runs on the same date and the other two runs were major races. Met up with Darren before the flag off while Louis strayed away searching for his other friends.

Well, I think I did pretty well for someone who only had 2 hours of sleep the night before and has not been exercising for the past month before this race due to the overwhelming stress from exams and assignments. I think I gained back some of the weights I lost from the previous month in May too. Meh. Anyway, I managed to finish the 5km in less than 30 minutes :) Was expecting to run like for 45 minutes seeing that I have extra pounds to carry with me now =,=

Joined the Rojaks for a round of Ultimate Frisbee after that... my back was killing me then. Jees. I think it was my faulty running posture, which I kinda corrected a little from recording my running patterns a few weeks after this. Managed my 3rd 21km in June without much pain =P

Anyway, that frisbee session was when I kinda lost hope towards Ultimate too. I am not improving at all! And I suck so bad I kinda feel like giving up. I know giving up is just not me, but I guess that was one of my low moments. I kinda still feel sorta like that at this moment now while typing all these. Hmmm.

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Okay. June. Started to do a little more trainings and more races this month. Lost more weight x) But kinda gained some back in the beginning of July. Hate working actually, it's so boring that I have nothing to do but to munch on junk food. Been letting myself go so badly that I have completely misbehaved and consumed unhealthy stuff and had too many heavy meals. Shrugs. Fucking fatty =,= Work actually ends next week, need to start behaving from this moment onwards! No more procrastinating on that too! I've got this challenge with a friend that I will lose 7kg by September, but I've only lost 1kg thus far. Damn.

Anyway, as always, I digressed. Zzz.

As I have mentioned a few entries before, was training with the Athletics team in HELP at Bukit Jalil for the past few months...

This is probably the only picture to remind me of the training moments. Meh.

Ain't staying on already since Jia left for Aussie and my respect for him was the reason I joined anyway. Plus I'm graduating soon, no point staying on... though I do enjoy the training sessions. After all, it feels good after the pain.

Kinda felt bad for not running for HELP... then again, I ain't that good and have super low confidence in my speed (cuz I have none), having good stamina is nothing without speed. Oh well. And I felt like I failed as a friend to not being able to attend Jia's farewell. Shrugs.

Okay, shall stop being distracted and continue about my entry on running...

4th - 5th June 2011 (Saturday-Sunday) -- Adidas All24 4 Hours Relay

So Adidas has organised this huge-ass event celebrating style, street and sports among youngsters, which consists of dance, skateboarding, football, basketball, fashion and of course, running. Not wanting to miss out from this, we formed a team of six (Louis, me, Meng Leong, Murphy, Michelle and Kaartig) to participate in the relay which was being held around the Rakan Muda Sports Complex.

Were there quite early and went looking around...

Heh

Spent quite some time watching some dudes fooling around with their wheels on the skate ramps until it starts to turn dark. Changed, laced up our running shoes and collected our timing chips and bibs then after.

Meng Leong, our team leader for the day, or rather, night suggested our initial plan, which was to do two rounds per person so each of us gets a good amount of rest before our turn. Mana tau the rule is that we can only do one round of 1.4km and pass the baton to the next runner... And if a runner is injured, we have to go through some procedures and get him signed out from the system before continuing the race with 5 runners. Since we have a handicapped in our team, Murphy, who got his foot injured a few days prior to this relay, we were thinking of using that to allow Murphy to sit out and rest his injury after doing one or two rounds...

However, that stubborn boy refused to quit =,=

Stubborn sial, don't know how to take care of himself =,=

But kudos to him to be able to complete 8.4km with that foot, respect... and him doing that kinda made me regret on not doing my MAPCU relay when I got my infection. All those trainings went to waste... shrugs. We might even get a medal that day if I insisted on running =/ Shrugs. The girl who ran never train before and she's not a runner to begin with, so yea... sigh.

Anyway, out of 45 teams, there will only be prizes for the top 3 placings in this race. Our hopes fell when we discovered the attendance of some of our country's state runners. No way would we have the chance to cling on to the top three. Then again, we still managed to get the 9th placing out of 45 teams. Quite good lor, seeing that we were not exactly in an advantage as well with Murphy being injured. And being a completely different style of competition from the usual races, this relay is really an eye-opener. It was not much about the endurance anymore, it was more on the speed.

Us resting while waiting for our turn... Lookie Meng Leong at the back, ahahaha

So each of us did 6 rounds, covering 8.4km each with Meng Leong as an exception since he did one extra lap, covering 9.8km. Total distance covered in 4 hours by The Roadrunners (yea, that was our team name) was 51.8km. Ain't bad eh?

The Roadrunners

Us, in sequence, with Meng Leong being the first runner

Headed to SS2's Murni after taking a few pictures after the race. Apparently Michelle and Kaartig made friends with this Indian dude in the relay and he took our group photos, which he still fail to upload them. I personally think he is some nutjob, he told Michelle that she needs to lose weight to run better... What the eff?! She probably disappears if she takes his advice! Jees. Mad cow him, and no uploads on our photos. Pfft.

Were all starving...

Adding back the calories burned =,=

Oh yea, check out my new sleeping shirt!

It's too huge even for me =,= And apparently they ran out of the all run tees

Supposed to include Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2011 entry here too. But I'm extremely sleepy now, it's frigging 5.30am now and I'm supposed to be awake at 8am for Ultimate Frisbee =S So, I shall just leave it for a later entry. It's going to be a long one anyway.

2011-07-14T23:26:00.000-07:00

All That Pain Feels Pretty Good Today

Shucks

2011-07-07T07:37:00.000-07:00

I got used to being ugly, fat, weak and slow... but now, I am also stupid???

Sigh. I hate myself for not doing well enough for my previous semester. Got my first 2nd class lower... and to actually score a first class honours, I have to work pretty damn hard for my coming semester as it is the last opportunity to score. And I have worked out the calculation, I have to get a minimum score of 219 for all 3 papers, which means, I have to get a first class for all 3 papers! Owh man...

Not that it's impossible... but it's gonna take a lot of hard work =/ Seeing that I can get such results with my previous lazy and carefree attitude, I hope I can achieve something more if I get serious... Better start working my ass off.

This week is seriously a fucked up week... bad news for my results, pimples popping out everywhere (which made me feel fucking ugly), binge eating due to being over emotional, friends leaving, broke, WORK (i don't even know why I chose to work... oh yar, i'm fucking broke!), increase in pounds, and not being able to exercise. Can't wait for this week to end. And I shall start on my thesis, do more of cleaning up my room and start exercise my butt off and get on my diet again.

If I still can't get myself straight, then I am a fucking loser la. Seriously.

Felicity

2011-07-01T08:03:00.000-07:00

What time is it where you are?

2011-06-13T07:48:00.000-07:00

Jet Lag - Simple Plan ft Natasha Bedingfield

You say good morning
When it's midnight
Going out of my head
Alone in this bed
I wake up to your sunset
It's driving me mad
I miss you so bad
and my heart heart heart is so jet lagged

CHECKLIST!

2011-05-24T18:28:00.000-07:00

Academics:

~~Dissertation Proposal (due 29/4)~~
~~Strategic Issues in HRM Presentation Slides + Report (due 29/4)~~
~~Strategic Issues in HRM Presentation (30/4)~~
~~Strategic Issues in HRM Exams (23/5)~~
~~Researching in Business Management Literature Review~~
~~Researching in Business Management Mini Research (IT AIN'T MINI!!!!!!) [**mins, n.list]~~
~~Researching in Business Management SPSS~~
~~Researching in Business Management Presentation (7/5)~~
~~Researching in Business Management Analysis Report (2000 words) (due 13/5)~~
~~Researching in Business Management PDP (500 words) (due 13/5)~~
~~Researching in Business Management CV (due 13/5)~~
~~Thesis Proposal Resubmission (9/5)~~
~~Strategic Management 'Gourmet-to-Go' Assignment (2000 words) (due 12/5)~~
~~Strategic Management Exams (24/5)~~
~~SPSS Notes Updates and Extra Revision due to my marderfarker laptop which couldn't run the programme =,=~~

Student Council responsibilities:

~~DOME Student Council voting day arrangement (27/4)~~
~~DOME Student Council paperwork filing and agenda preparation (due 4/5)~~
~~Getting 3 teams for DOME event (due 10/5)~~

ANDDDDDDD, I'M DONE WITH THIS SEMESTER! WOAH!

Malaysia Ultimate Open 2011

2011-05-22T16:17:00.000-07:00

Going for MUO 2011 was not actually part of my this week's plan until a few days ago when I thought of just going there and play photographer for the first day. I mean, since Darren agreed to let me use his DSLR anyway x)

Hence, I went, despite having exams on Monday, and I was not even completely prepared with it yet. Meh.

Started the day off with breakfast with some of the Carebears dude at Taman Mayang. Had the fish paste noodle that I've been craving for 2 months already! Mwahahaha.

Headed over to Alice Smith to catch Carebears' first game with Ewe Jin after that. Met up with former teammates back in Bangkok Hat 2011, Trinh from Vietnam and Pairow from Thailand in the field. Awesome seeing them again x) And of course, it's always nice seeing the people from pick ups in the field again. Heard that it has been long since attendance in pick up sessions looks good. I don't know about that really, seeing that I myself have not been playing ultimate for months =/

That won't be the case now, seeing that my finals will be ending in a couple of days' time! x) I will be having then until September to brush up and catch up in Ultimate again! Whee~

Anyway, I won't be posting up photos taken via Darren's DSLR now since the photos are with him =( But I have some good ones in my Fujifilm F80. Who says a compact camera cannot take quality shots?

The field

Sucks to be so tied down with bad uni schedule, couldn't get enough time out for trainings. And sucks to be so broke =( Couldn't even afford RM160 to participate in this year's MUO... Then again, I'm having exams tomorrow! Which is like the day after MUO 2011 ends. So, what bad timing la. Hmpf. Nevermind, I will have my share of tournament fun in Monash Hat 2011 in July. Sufficient time to train in June! Meh.

Oh! Guess what? One of my favourite boys is back!

Hello, Kok! x)

He caught me by surprise at the sidelines during their first game. Hah.

Think I took a few good shots with Darren's DSLR, got a few layout shots too. Have to wait for Darren to upload the photos from his camera to check them out. Can't wait to see how the shots turn out... =X

Candid shot at its best:

I love my F80's shutter speed:

Ain't that bad eh? With the combination of its 10x zoom 27mm wide angle lens, it's madly awesome for a compact camera! I love my F80 larh! Although I wouldn't say no to a DSLR, but despite wanting one so badly back in 2007, I vowed not to buy one myself ever since it got so overrated in 2008 and everyone wants to have one due to peer pressure =/ Meh.

Sidetracked.

Weather was frigging hot. I got tan lines from my flip flops on my feet x( And my cheeks are now burning red. But it's all worth it to be able to spend time watching my favourite sports up live. Downside was that you kinda feel a little bitter for not being able to play in it... Ding dong Kok had me there when he went "Khai Sim, go sub!" I actually forgotten for a second that I ain't playing for the team that day =,=

Oh well...

Must train again after my finals for the next tournament! My stamina is so bad and I can't even run fast. This has been a problem since like, forever! Meh. Can't wait for Monash Hat! :D I love hat tournaments x) Can't wait for Penang Hat 2011 too! Heard it's gonna take place on my birthday too! Whee! Who needs a far-fetched 21st birthday party when you can celebrate it with some good fun in the field? Oh! And not forgetting Bangkok Hat 2012! That's a must-go, despite the bad experience in the game party this year =,= Hope I won't be affected by my imaginary, future job I will be having then.

Mannnnnn. I need money. Am so frigging broke. I can't even pay for my next few races =( Need to find a way to get cash for Siemens Run and Shape Run. Gotta find a job. Then again, I won't have time to train. And I could not afford to waste time working part time, I've got theses to do... Meh. I digressed. Again. Shrugs.

Okay. Gonna keep this short now. It's 6.30pm now and I have not even cram all the theories into my head! Need the stress to build up to actually get myself to focus.

I WANT A DAREDEVIL DISC D:

No $$$$$$ T___T

Spent the last hour watching the last game between Malaysia's AUR and Freakshow from Singapore. AUR lost at universal! What a game. Intense is the word. Too bad I stopped taking pictures then =X Was all packed up to leave d... Shrugs. Should have clung on to Darren's DSLR for his game at least =/

Random:

Photo credits: Uncle Johnny :D

2 of the cutiepies who were hard at work the whole day, going around selling drinks and discs

Hellooo!

Upon leaving, I kinda screwed up Ewe Jin's car window =X Didn't know that his windows can only go down and not being able to go back up... The rest left without us while Ewe Jin was busy prying out the switches to get the window up again =,= And since we have no idea where Puchong's Giant is, we went ahead for dinner by ourselves... Sorry, Ewe Jin for causing you to not being able to join the rest for dinner =/

And an irrelevant shot in the car:

Sigh. Didn't go watch the 2nd day of MUO 2011... Stuck at home today trying to cram stuffs into my head but failed so badly. Couldn't even get anything in! Exams in 12 hours' time. Oh Lord! By the way, congrats Carebears for being the Champ for Pool B! :)

Sakae Sushi Food Tasting with Nuffnang Glitterati+

2011-05-20T23:56:00.000-07:00

So I've got my invitation from Nuffnang Glitterati Plus to a food tasting event over at 1 Utama's Sakae Sushi x) Thanks Nuffnang and Sakae Sushi for the awesome treatment and experience I've got that night. Was really fun meeting new peeps too.

Anyway, I'm not quite a food blogger. I mean, I love to eat, but I have no sense of unique taste buds. I just know whether I like it or I don't. So, don't expect me to write a full-fledged descriptive review! This IS my first time being invited to a food tasting session anyway. Hehe.

First thing's first, one thing you all should be notified is that Sakae Sushi has been shifted to the Lower Ground floor instead of Ground floor where it used to be. I personally have not visited Sakae Sushi in 1 Utama before, but the ambiance is definitely better than the one I visited in Bangsar Village 2. The seats are so much more spacey! According to Jeff, another fellow blogger, many complained that the seats in Sakae Sushi are very crammed and small. Well, glad they have took those comments into consideration cuz the seats in 1 Utama are super comfortable.

Oh. And they have a newly designed menu, with new dishes:

I purposely flipped it to the kids menu page. Check it out! Soooooooooo cute right??? They have set meals served in adorable containers! So cute la!!

The changes ain't stopping there. The order system has been transformed to a touch screen mode. Niceeeeee. I was quite intrigued with the touch screen system, was allowed to play around with it x) Sooo awesome of them.

And apparently, the salmons in Sakae Sushi are actually air-flown from Norway! Customers are not actually aware about this, but this has been going on for some time already. And they are also having this promotion going on where you will be getting a RM10 cash voucher at every RM50 spent.

Okay. Let's dive (pun not intended) into the food being served for this event!

First dish: Sakae Salad (RM13.90)

Oddly reminds me of Yee Sang. Loving the plum dressing and salmon though. I LOVE salmons, so pardon me for being a little bias here towards Japanese food x)

Hotate Mentaiyaki (RM20.90)

Scallops grilled with codfish roe with excessive mayonnaise toppings.

I LOVE HOW THE MAYO TASTED ON THE COMBINATION! Yann and Jayren said it was a tad bit salty, but I really really like it that way. Plus the scallops are sooooooooo HUGE! Yum yum!

Soft Shell Crab Tempura (RM13.90)

Plus side: Crispy and generously huge for its price.

Down side: Kinda oily for my liking.

That's for me. Ann and Jeff loved this... x)

Salmon Mentai

Heard these noms are one of the bestsellers in Sakae Sushi outlets

Love how the salted mayo blends with the salmon. Am so craving for this right now D:

Salmon Sushi (RM3.99)

Sakae Candle (RM10.90)

Snowflake Salmon Delight (RM9.80)

Ebi Tempura Cheese Maki (RM12.90)

They combined all 4 of the listed dishes into one big platter... Awesome presentation, kan?

Poor Jeff, he doesn't fancy raw food actually. Hence, he walloped the tempura sushis while the rest of us finish the ones with the salmons. Heheh. I personally was fascinated with the Sakae Candles. Super brilliant la. Who would thought of serving a burning sushi?

Cool, right?

And you know when people actually described certain food as "bursting with flavours"? Well, you should try one of their newest dishes, the Snowflake Salmon Delight. It literally is bursting with all kind of flavours. Sweet from the plum sauce, salty from the mayo, sour and spicy. Woah.

Salmon Sashimi (RM9.99)

5 cold, yummy salmon slices

Need I say more?

Golden Ebi Roll (RM22.90)

Sorbets (Orange/ Lemon @ RM8.90 ; Pineapple @ RM10.90)

Personally like the pineapple one, the others were too sour for my liking. However, the pineapple one was huge, need to share =X

Effing bloated from all the food. Ranney from Sakae Sushi was still so nice and generous in pestering us to try more of their dishes and is ever so nice to help us out and to answer our questions thoroughly throughout the food tasting session.

We've got goodies too upon the food tasting session :)

Am now a Sakae Sushi member!! With RM10 in the card to start!

5 RM10 Sakae Sushi vouchers, Ocha tea bags and a booklet

And check out this ongoing promotion! Am so gonna visit Sakae Sushi again one of these days x)

The awesome people who shared the same table with me x)

And a group picture of all bloggers with Sakae Sushi's mascot - the Froggie!

Meh. I want attention to myself too. So let's end this entry with a picture of the mascot and me alone x)

LOCATION

Sakae Sushi
1 Utama Shopping Centre
LG225, Lower Ground Floor Promenade

ps/ Did you know Sakae Sushi was found in Singapore??? I didn't know about that mannn =X

I am not the jaded kind, playback's such a waste

2011-05-20T15:37:00.000-07:00

Lost sight

Couldn't see

When it was you and me

Blow the candles out

Looks like a solo tonight

I'm beginning to see the light

Blow the candles out

Looks like a solo tonight

But I think I'll be alright

Happy Wesak Day 2011

2011-05-18T03:51:00.000-07:00

Awesome day this is. Got my refund from Energizer, got my team's confirmation for our registration for Adidas All24, had a good lone time with a good warm latte which is 20% off, received my blogger invitation to Sakae Sushi food tasting and had a good meeting up with old time friends -- Wan Ee and Emily, two of my favourite basketball teammates back from high school x)

Like what Wan Ee said, it's all about seeing stuffs in a different perspectives... No matter how insignificant something can be, you will find happiness from the angle you view things to be.

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I don't consider myself as a religious person, not that I'm proud of it since I am still unsure of my belief. However, I have came to a rest last year from searching. I have decided to just say that I believe in all religions and respect every each of them, a Polytheist or whatever you call that la.

Then again, I am born a Buddhist, my family believes in it, so it kinda carries a big portion of my belief too towards it. I mean, I DID grow up learning stuffs about Buddhism :) So anyway, I have been going for the Cempaka Wesak Day float for a few years now. I remember a few years back, I was just going out of respect and the sudden want to complete the whole parade. Read: 2008's and 2010's. However, it starts to feel like a tradition and when I missed the 2009's due to exams, I was kinda regretful to miss it =(

Anyway, participating in the Cempaka Wesak parade with Emily seems to be like an annual thing to do already. We have some others who joined us la, but the few times I have been to the float, she will be joining me too. This year's parade was not excluded, though we were tempted to skip it due to the heavy rain... Good thing we did not.

Before the parade, I duck every time the thunder struck =,=
I'm tall okay! I need to duck or lightning might strike me zzz, that's my excuse la. Haha.

Check out the crowd despite the heavy downpour... And trust me, it's crazily heavy! My shoes were soaked and I was freezing under my umbrella.

Still, the parade was still on like how it was held for the past few years. This is like my first Wesak float experience in such heavy rain. It rained last year too, but it was just a brief drizzle =/

Bright lights

Volunteers managing the parade in the rain.

Me - Wan Ee - Emily
Yeap, Wan Ee joined us for this year's. First time experiencing a Wesak Day parade and she had to experience it in such weather. Haha.

The crowd in front of us...

Oh yar. Guess what? All 3 of us got a new friend each. Haha. Since it was raining sooo madly, we got a random participant of the parade to share our umbrella. Random much. But we did have fun with them. I shared mine with this 13 year old junior from my high school.

Bumped into Michelle's Mum and a former teacher of mine from high school, Pn Lim and some of my basketball friends from Taman Sea in the parade. Nothing much to say about this event, since we were just paying respect to our religion and complete the annual parade with others. Left to Ming Tien for supper after that. Had a good catch up and chat with the two.

Guess that's all for this entry la. I'm not really in the mood to blog anymore la lately =X

Bah. And I really need to watch what I eat again =,= Been going back to my bad habits ever since assignments season started. Need to behave again la. Ish. Should at least start off with more exercising, no supper and cut down on carbs... Oh and fried food too. Been gaining weight. Shrugs.

2011-05-15T17:03:00.000-07:00

Assignments season made me gained 2kg wtf ???!!!

Lent 2011 [COMPLETED!]

2011-04-25T22:24:00.000-07:00

And I could proudly state this as one of the things I did in 2011! Survived and completed Lent! :D

I never thought I could ever bring myself to be a vegetarian ever! But I wanted to go through Lent this year and have no idea on what to sacrifice. Till Debra suggested that I sacrifice meat and she will bet on me, along with Jess Min's mum and Raymond =,= Well, 46 days of no meat. And I went through it.

Positive outcome, no more constipation!. Plus, I actually felt happier (most of the times, if I eat proper food instead of chocolates and fried stuffs and too much carbs =,=).

Anyway, I got another challenge by Jia Liang. Starting from the 1st of May, I will have to go through 5 days of meat sacrificing per week for ONE year. Well, doesn't seem difficult. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! I get to eat all the meat I want from today till end of this week anyway! Wheeeeeeeeeee~ Need to plan what to eat or I might overeat... =X Plan plan plan!

Sunday - ~~Dim Sum!!!~~ Thai Green Curry Chicken for dinner!!!!!!!!!
Monday - ~~Whatever meat dish in Chillex~~ for lunch!!!!!
Tuesday - ~~Claypot Chicken Rice~~ for lunch!
Wednesday - ~~Otak-otak~~ + ~~Smoked salmon sandwich from Chillex~~ for lunch!!!! Manhattan Fish Market's promo for dinner!!!!!
Thursday - get Mum to go get some ~~Fish Paste Noodle + Century Eggs from Taman Mayang!!!~~
Friday - Whatever the gang wants.
Saturday - ~~Subway Sub of the Day~~ for lunch!!! And I will just let myself have my first try of A&W Coney Dog after presentation for dinner. I know it's fast food. But eh, last day of meat meals streak!

I am so going to get fat! But at least I'm eating them as meals! However, I don't think I will be able to complete them... seeing that next week is also my peak of stress week. 2 assignments due on Friday and presentation on Saturday!!!!! OH LORD!

HELP 25th Anniversary Gala Ball

2011-04-23T23:27:00.000-07:00

Many thanks to Mr Loh who offered me a seat for the HELP 25th Anniversary Gala Ball which took place in Shangri-la Hotel's Grand Ball Room a few weeks ago on the 9th of April 2011. Was frigging thrilled to be invited to such event and was even more excited to know a few of my friends from other councils and clubs are joining as well :D

Well, since the invitation was sent to me like 2 days prior the event, I did my shopping in just one day. I know, crazy right? I shop like a man! Hahahaha. Dress, heels, purse, hair all done in one day. Pro! Thanks to Mum too la. She did most of the selecting. And thanks to Jess Min for lending me her purse :D *love love*

Ain't much to talk about really. Just plenty of joking around with those peeps, camwhored, catching up with lecturers who taught us back in Foundation and such.

OH WAIT! NEED TO BOAST A BIT! Mwahahhaa, first time wearing a 3.5 inch heels! See how tall I am :DDDDDD

To think I'm actually shorter than him =,=

Jason is still taller than me la. Meh.

I know I may not be thaaaat tall but I am still proud of my height since I'm taller than other average height Asian girls. At least there's something I am proud and confident of about me x)

Joshua attention seeking much

Ezekiel :D

They invited every staff to this event! Saw some of the librarians there too. And the lady in HELPdesk and some of the registry ladies too. And some of the admin staffs and lecturers.

The crowd

Table 62

Bernice and I with our white wine x)

=,= First dish. Meat. Cannot touch. Meh.
At least they catered vegetarian dishes =/ Had mushrooms after mushrooms after mushrooms =,=

And trust me, that probably was the first time in such events when I wasn't into the food =,= And I am will not break my Lent despite how bad the temptations were. Cuz I'm pro like that. Anyway, while I'm typing this... it's my last day of Lent today!!!!!!! Easter's Day's tomorrow! Woot!! One week of meat and I'm going back to being partly vegetarian again, due to another new challenge by Jia x) 5 days of meat sacrifice per week for a year. Sounds doable wert. Anywayyyy, I digress...

As much as I don't fancy blog entries with only pictures, I can't do much about this entry. Ain't much to talk about really. Oh, by the way, did you know Dr. Paul Chan is really hilarious? Love his speech. And not to complain or criticise, but we were all exchanging looks at the opening performance... Not saying it's bad, but it's kinda weird =S Can't remember the reason I'm saying it's weird since I couldn't recall how the performance was anyway. Well, who cares anyway...

PICTURES!

Chris from UN Club - erm, hot chick from China Students Society(?)

Debra from Business Dept Student Council - Bernice from Chinese Debate Team - Jason =,=

With the Netball girls, my former prom date weihhh xD LiFoong - Ser Minh

Dance Club and last year's sportswoman, Jovita

Eh. I realised most of us were from HMC weih. Damn happening kan we all?

With Ms Anne, my Marketing lecturer back in Year 1 degree

Ms Marilyn, Finance lecturer back in Year 2 degree

Mr Baldev, he teaches too many subjects

Ms Winnie & Mr Alex :D CTS and Econs lecturer back in Foundation

Ms Selina, English lecturer back in Foundation

Mr Sukri from DSA :)

And Commander Anthony got lucky that night. Heh.

Yadda yadda yadda. Eat. Pictures. Talk. Going deaf by the loud music. More pictures. More talking. Good time seeing most of my favourite lecturers and HELP staffs all in one location. And I am proud of myself to be able to walk in heels that night, despite almost tripping for about 4 to 5 times =,= I suck.

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Okay. I'm supposed to be completing my pile of assignments and workload but I'm actually finishing up my blog drafts =,= Seriously, I have a problem with priorities. Meh. And I failed in cooking again, don't ask. However, I am sho sho proud of myself with my meals today! Raspberry yogurt bar for breakkie. Sweet corn bun for snack. Vegetarian char kuey teow for lunch. Wholemeal bread + butter for tea. Banana oatmeal for dinner.Been drinking only water for drinks. And this is probably my first time I am happy with the meals I had for a day! Just saying...

Energizer offers to compensate for its errors

2011-04-22T19:40:00.000-07:00

Well. What can I say, but good job, Energizer! If next year's organiser is more reliable, I probably will consider joining.

Energizer Night Race 2011 - "21km"

2011-04-20T02:24:00.000-07:00

Despite having the chance to run on the Sepang F1 circuit, which turns out to be the best running track I've ever ran on before and having good company who went for the run with me, the organising of event is seriously EFFING BAD!

Heard that this run wasn't even authorised or whatever word they use it under the Sports Commissioner as it was categorised as a Fun Run. FUN RUN? 21km and 42km is NOT FUN!

Basically, Expose has made a big blunder in organising this race and Energizer has made a BIGGER blunder in appointing Expose to run this event. It's a race of disaster where everything just went so wrong... And when I said everything, I meant EVERYTHING! And there's actually a flood of comments and complaints on a few Facebook pages, Twitter hashtag #EnergizerNightRace and blog entries about how bad the run was, and I've heard from some that the Facebook admin for Energizer and Expose actually removed some of the comments. Man up yo!

First off, we were pretty lucky to get free parking, but I've heard from many runners that they were charged RM10 by the RELA dudes for parking fees! And there was no notifications in advanced about this hidden charges by the event organisers - Expose and Energizer. And speaking about overpriced, they charged the runners RM3 for Milo and RM4 for a plain sandwich! What the fark. I was almost conned into buying the Milo, they were like pushing the Milo to me and asked me to pay up RM3 when I told them it's madly overpriced and I will just go drown myself in Gatorade. Seriously, it's crazy. Other runs I went before actually provide sponsors for food and not leaving us runners starving and dehydrated after a long run.

Next up, the collection of headlamps. Louis, Hoong Yeap and I were fighting off the crowd to get ourselves a damn headlamp. They actually placed the boxes of headlamps in a tiny small room and expect us to go and collect it ourselves. There's NOBODY and NO SIGNAGE directing runners on where to collect the headlamps. And there is NO ONE at the collection to distribute it to the runners. It was like a war where everyone is pushing one and another. Oh!!! And there was NO INSTRUCTIONS on how the headlamps function. Everyone were like taking headlamps after headlamps thinking they are all malfunctioned. This resulted to a shortage of headlamps for the ones who came later. I'm wondering why they never give it to us when we collect our bibs and vests in the first place.

Plus, before and after the race, the runners have to go through, what they have coined it, the "Tunnel of Death":

They expect 10,000 runners to fit into this small tunnel to enter and exit??? I got pushed around like mad and luckily there was this guy behind me who helped me away from some stupid uncle who squashed me to the wall of the tunnel =,= I heard that there were a few who almost fainted due to lack of oxygen there.

Okay, now let's get to the race itself. I have to admit, the route was awesome, come on la, it's the Sepang F1 circuit. Unfortunately, there was no proper signage and directions guide! We have no idea how far we ran and there was a lack of marshals around. Seriously, it was so badly organised. Plus, some runners who calculated the distance ran with their Nike or Garmin watches, it's actually less than 21km!! I mean, I understand every race it's not in the exact distance stated, but this is like 19.8km-20km. No wonder my timing improved so drastically within one month's time =,= Some runners who wanted to make this their first half-marathon failed in doing so since this ain't a half-marathon anyway, Louis and Hoong Yeap are among the victimised ones =/

And speaking about the bad routes setting, some of the runners were so lost and have no idea how far more we had to go and I was one of them who kept looking around to make sure if I am at the right route... Was only relieved when I ran past some 21km guys and kept on running. The crowd for the finishing 11km and 5km was so bad and nobody bother to disperse them away from the track!!! What bad organising! I was so angry at the jam around there, my momentum just broke there and then! Have to fight my way out of the crowd to continue my run. WHAT IS THIS? I have to suffer from the organiser's fault at the start of the race, at the end of the race AND IN THE MIDDLE OF MY RUN???

What I am gonna say next may be the fault of the runner of not being sporting enough. But, this is closely related to the badly organised run with no marshals guiding the runners where to run and no direction signage. But, seriously, the participating runners who lack of sportsmanship destroys the reputation of the runners community. I am proud to be part of the runners society and has been actively participating these runs ever since my injury got better last year despite my hiatus from these events for 3 years. Made new friends through these events and getting back into long distance running really changed my life a lot. But sohai people just had to come and ruin my perfect image of the beloved running community. Organisers are partly to be blamed since there was no marshals to guide the runners on where to run and when to stop. My friend, Michelle, who was doing 21km with me was stopped by a random dude at the side of the finish line and was told that the 21km event was finished and she don't have to run anymore. What a douche. He was delaying her so his girlfriend can overtake my friend!!! What kind of people we have among the runners circle now???

Also, some runners just cut the corners and went on the grass to get a shorter route... I was so pissed and angry at this, and there are no marshals around to prevent this. It was at my last lap when I need to pee and there is no mobile toilets around that I cut it short to the grass contemplating to do it there... =,= But I'm a girl, and I realised my stomach is aching and I don't only need to pee. So, I decided to just tahan and keep going. You get my idea la, right? Which, brings us to the next problem...

WHERE ARE THE MOBILE TOILETS FOR THE INNER CIRCUIT?????? 21KM DON'T NEED TO PEE AH?

Oh yea, they didn't put the timing mat on the whole track and some runners don't even know where the timing mat is, I missed it for my 1st 2 laps. Guess there will be a lot of DNF when the results is out (IF it will even be released =,=). And they promised us in having water stations with SPONGES at every 2-3km, but I kept running to find myself running towards only ONE water station in the inner circuit, with NO sponge. And I seriously felt so dry at my lips and throat, yes, we were super dehydrated at the point when we reached that water station. And they ran out of paper cups and start giving out 1.5litre of water bottles. Who in the world can finish that while running? What they think we are? Hippopotamuses ah? Some just drank one mouthful and threw the bottle aside. SUCH A WASTE!

See! They really promised water stations with sponging at every 2 to 3 kilometers but I ran and ran and don't even see one =,= Oh! And light refreshments????? You mean the overpriced ones which we need to pay ah?

Now, let's proceed to the finishing line after my run. There was this dude who got into seizures at the finish line but no medics were around to help. Many of us were yelling for the medics but only the RELA dudes came over but have no idea what to do. It was after a few minutes when the ambulance came over. Helloooo? WHERE ARE ALL THE MEDICS AT THE FINISHING LINE? Why are they even stationed outside the route? Can fucking use your brain ah? It's at the finishing line where you get the higher tendency of people collapsing after their run. And even if there is a medic at sight, my friend told me that they are not exactly qualified. His friend who ran the 11km got a cram, and there was no muscle spray with the medic. They didn't even provide ice! And there's another story that the medic sprayed something for another dude, but it turns out to be an insect repellent... WHAT A JOKE!

And why ain't there any water stations at the finishing line? Gosh.

Also, there's no proper finishing stalls too.

And to make things worse? No medals and finisher shirts and goodie bags on the spot? What the fark? I know you guys say that you will post it to us, but do you think I want those to be posted to me? I WANT THEM ON THE SPOT TO TAKE PICTURES WITH! Why do you think I run these races? FOR SELF SATISFACTION TO GET SOMETHING TO MARK MY ACHIEVEMENT! Or else I can just go run around myself right? Well, at least that's my reason for running. And I don't get why we paid a crazy huge amount for this and we don't even get a priority to obtain the medals and goodie bags. Why are the 21km and 42km not made the priorities?

Many 11km runners took the finisher shirts and 21km finisher medals plus more than 1 goodie bags! Is this something to be proud of??? Seriously, if I were to know any friend of mine who does this? He or she will hear no end about this from me. What kind of sportsmanship is this? And the organisers are so disorganised to allow this to happen! Know what? I don't want any frigging medal for this run, if 11km can just get a finisher shirt and 21km medal so easily through the chaos. Meaning that having the medal is WORTHLESS! ALL I WANT NOW IS MY REFUND!!

Speaking about the goodie bags, I missed the chaos resulted from the goodie bag collection, but this is what I found from a fellow runner post:

Seriously?

They were practically throwing the goodie bags like it's some concert =,= I know this was due to some of the runners at the front line to toss it back to the rest, but if it wasn't such a mess, they wouldn't do that. Oh, and it seems that they only put 2 people at the goodie bag section to distribute it to the runners! And what's more dumb was, they were packing the goodie bags ON THE SPOT! I guess the organisers seem to think 10,000 runners is a small number =,=

And check out the bad crowd control:

Not forgetting, the lousy emcee, heard she is some director of that Expose event company. Not sure about it even though I know her through a friend before. Wasn't sure about how bad the chaos is, but I heard from my friends who ran the 11km, that emcee (Josie) called the runners "hooligans" and accused them for causing a riot and threatened them through the mic. And asked them to, I quote her, "DISPERSE". I heard it myself when I passed my 2nd lap! I saw a little of the crowd and how disorganised the whole thing was! HOW RUDE! And some of the runners commented that the people in charge there are also rude to them despite them inquiring politely!

The emcee announced that they will post us the goodie bags and stuffs, but with these terms and conditions on their event site, does it mean that they are not liable to those who didn't collect their supposedly obtained items?????? And I have no faith if they are going to post all of those items to all runners!

Okay. I will leave what happened before the race, during and after the race at that. Now we look at what's the hoo haa online...

Other runs I participated in posted the timing and results within a few hours' time. But this? It came out quite late. Okay, results release aside as some other runs took their time on releasing too, but this? I don't even trust if the results will be accurate or not! Seeing that so many factors have influenced the in accuracy of the results! The cheating runners who will of course have a shorter running time, the wrong distance of the run, the traffic which slows the longer distance runners down and so forth.

And I am right! They did release some faulty results =,= What are they taking us? A joke? And won't they know how not logical the timing is and still dare to post it up?

Olympics-qualified?

[UPDATED]

So the full results for 42km and 21km are out.

My time is right, but it ain't a full 21km anyway. Nothing to be proud of despite having a good improvement since my first run by 25 minutes =,=

Then again, WTF? It got my friends' timing wrong =,= I think the timing mat thingy, we should only step on it when we finish the run gua? And we don't have to go through it at our first or second lap. They didn't even inform us about it! =,=

There were news on Sunday about 60 who signed a petition went ahead to discuss with the organisers and were told that they will be refunded. So, 60 people out of the 10,000 can get their refund.. So what are the rest going to do? Suck up and shut up? Well, guess that's not what happened, cuz that caused more unhappy participants to complain on the Facebook pages and Twitter feed. There were also NO REPLIES FROM THE ORGANISERS until late of Sunday... And it's only from the part of Expose. And Energizer only release its apology late Monday when everyone was complaining about how it pushing the blame to only Expose.

Full refund. Hope they keep their word.

So, there's a contradiction in this. So are we getting our refund OR our medals + goodie bag + finisher shirt + certificate back? Or are we getting both? Cuz as I mentioned earlier, you guys can keep the medals, goodie bag and other stuffs to yourselves, I want my money back. I am not proud to complete this kind of race where the 21km medals were simply distributed around and even 11km runners could get their hands on them.

But, at least they apologised. Then again, if Josie were to apologise so sincerely on behalf of Expose as a professional cover, why did she fired at the runners in her own personal page and claiming that it is OUR fault when she was the one calling the victimised "hooligans"? Doesn't seem so sincere now, does it?

This brings us to another problem. Josie said she was actually protecting the runners and crew's safety... what is this nonsense??? Lack of marshals does not offer safety! What if any runner fainted mid-run? And how about the water stations? Dehydration may happen! And the bad crowd control? People may just faint due to lack of oxygen or being stampeded around! Also, I've heard about them closing the shutters without alerting the runners standing below it. Someone might get hurt! AND, before the race officially ended, most of the organisers and committee members are no where to be seen! Only a small number of RELA members and medics were there to wait and scout the remaining full marathon runners to arrive at the finish line.

I have been wondering about how the slower runners of 42km had to face seeing that even when Meng Leong came back from his 42km in 4 hours 55 minutes, the organisers were no where to be seen. No water was provided for these runners who went through a gruesomely long hours of running. Anyway, came across a comment on Facebook describing the scene of the Sepang circuit exactly like how we saw it:

And race day aside, they even have gotten themselves into trouble with the announcement of Race Director and got Dato Chandrakumanan into a reputation declination. This is a big race, not a stupid joke. Even when I organised small scaled events, I wouldn't even dare to simply put up notifications without that person's permission! Jees. Not to mention a known politician's.

And Dato Chandrakumanan's statement:

This whole hoo-haa has made it to the papers as well:

Sorry, blur. To read article, click: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/4/18/nation/8502774&sec=nation

Some runners are even from OVERSEAS! A friend of mine came all the way from Singapore to participate in this! And what a "pleasant" surprise for him. Putting not only Energizer, the idiotic event organiser "Expose" and also KUALA LUMPUR to shame!

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If it wasn't for the company I had for the run that day and being able to run on the Sepang circuit, I would be extreme bitter about the whole run.

Thank you Louis, Meng Leong, Hoong Yeap, Michelle and Kaartig for the awesome day together.

Our driver in red

Before the run

Timing was 2 hours and 33 minutes or so, but since it's only approximately 20km... My timing probably should be more than that la.

Was straying around the circuit with Louis after our run, looking for Hoong Yeap and hoping to bump into friends.

Sad. No medal and finisher shirt :(

Waited for Meng Leong to finish up his 42km.

The girls...

haha and the MANLY Full Marathoner :)

Group picture at the finishing line!

Headed over to Williams for a good supper. Was STARVING then. No thanks to the stupid race. Meng Leong recommended the Cheese Naan since I never had a naan before, despite being a Malaysian =,=

YUM!

Photo credits: Malaysia Runners Network, Eugene Foo and MYSELF!

The World International Fist Bump Day

2011-04-05T09:45:00.000-07:00

Okay. I was requested by Mr Vincent Liew to blog about this and since I am effing busy in my assignments (WHICH IS DUE TOMORROW), I shall just copy paste the description for this event from Facebook (as per his request).

The fist bump (also called Fo' Knucks, Bro-Fist or knuckle bump) is a gesture similar in meaning to a handshake or high five.

A fist bump can also be a symbol of giving respect. It can be followed by various other hand and body gestures and may be part of a dap greeting.

It's also the ritual that will combine everybody in this world despite our cultural differences. Asians may not appreciate hugs, handshakes maybe a little bit t...oo much for conservative people (especially when an opposite sex offers a handshake). However, a fist bump can achieve all the awesomeness that hugs, handshakes and high fives can offer without having too much contact.

Fun fact: In light of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, the dean of medicine at the University of Calgary, Tomas Feasby, suggested that the fist bump may be a "nice replacement of the handshake" in an effort to prevent transmission of the virus.

Invite ALL your friends to this event and let's make The World International Fist Bump Day a success!

P/s: High-Five is so over rated...

I think he got this idea from the #internetfistbump Twitter trend. Meh. So unoriginal. And he actually put this made-up day on his birthday =,= Attention seeking much. Well, since I have favouritism (which ain't something to be proud of), and I really like him as he provides me with sufficient entertainment, I shall just play along with this.

Anyway, event deets:

Date: June 27th 2011
Time: throughout the day
Venue: EVERYWHERE!

Now go confirm your attendance here: http://www.facebook.com/khaisim#!/event.php?eid=197879563585477 and invite your friends too!!

ps/ check my labels for this blog post x)

Broga Hill trip with Nuffnang Glitterati Plus peeps

2011-04-04T10:43:00.000-07:00

Shall finish this entry on Broga Hill first before my other entries as I promised to complete it by this week =X

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Been trying to make plans to go up Broga Hill since the first hoo-haa about it came in 2 years ago, but as usual, there will always be problems on transportation and getting people to join. So despite me being in quite a hiatus from the blogging community, I jumped at the chance when I heard that the Nuffnang Glitterati Plus is organising a trip up there. Been in the group for quite some time but never actually got a chance to participate in their activities, usually due to the lack of interest or missed opportunities =S Good thing I was online when I saw the post on this outdoor activity, immediately emailed them to sign up without further thoughts.

So, I was to meet up with the rest at the Taman Jaya's A&W at 4am on March 26th 2011, awesome of my dad to drop me there. I love my Dad la. Okay, digression! Anyway, I was quite jumpy knowing that I don't exactly know any of the Glitterati people, except for Suresh la. Turns out I shouldn't even worry about it, they are all extremely friendly and I felt at ease upon meeting them. Stupid of me to not recognise some of them though, I suck with names and faces; and in my defense, I was not active in blogging activities already ma! Sorry sorry.

Unearthly hour
I can't believe so many people actually go for A&W in the wee hours for fast food!!!

The 8 of us at Taman Jaya meet-up point (including Tian Chad the photographer)

Left shortly (ahem) after we had enough of waiting around. Was kinda in a stoning mood then as I was uber sleepy and yesterday's athletics training ain't contributing. Oh well. Side note: Suresh's driving is awesome-ooooo! x) Started our climb a little behind the planned time, still the surrounding is effing dark. I wondered how we managed the whole climb in the dark.

PIT STOP :D

Warning: MUDDDDDD!

Was quite an enjoyable climb I have to say, though was easier than some other climbs I did before. It made Gasing Hill seems scary. I recommend Broga Hill to those non-frequent climber. Then again, I guess people go to Broga Hill for the view or photos taking purposes only and not because of the climb.

A little more!!

I was quite worried about not being able to reach the peak in time to see the sun rise. But we made it just in time :D

Peek-a-boo!

Pretty, no? :D

One thing sucky about an easy climb and over-commercialised hill:

THE FRIGGING CROWD! So difficult to take a good picture! Pfft.

I have to say we were super duper lucky and blessed to have such an incredible weather to climb in that day. The land was sturdy and dry, imagine if it rains... it probably will be muddy everywhere, and I think I will most certainly be shrieking throughout the climb about my poor shoes =,= Yes, I am overly protective with my shoes zzz

Funny moment:

A bug found itself in her tudung haha

Attempted many jump shots to the point I got too lazy to do any more jumps as the flying bugs at the peak of the hill were super annoying. I was like flapping my arms around to be rid of them. Anywhoooo...

My refusal to be jumping in jump shots =,= I'M A REBEL! Mwahahhahaaa

And a good roll call for all 10 Nuffnang Glitterati Plus Broga Hill climbers:

And a few other irrelevant pictures of me:

Photobombing at its best. Sorryyyy Jen :(

Wanted a siao siao emo shot in the wilderness, but that aunty at the back photobombed me ish ish ish

As how Jess Jess put it, "eh perompak, bank di bawah bukit la"
Hahahhahaaha... "soli soli, salah tempat dah"

FINALLY! CONQUERED BROGA HILL! Now I can cancel it out from my list...

After all the photos taking, we made our way down. Well, the steepness was quite scary la, but we managed it la. Was quite fun actually. Haha. I think it's the adrenaline rush which made me so excited during the climb despite having lack of sleep and I have to thank God that my ankles were behaving themselves that day too :) Can't afford to have any injuries there already. Zzz.

Chilling out while waiting for the rest... I had my coconut drink there too :D
Ding dong Vincent told me that coconuts are damn fattening, I know the flesh fattening la, but the drink ain't that bad ok!!!!! Don't scare me la!

And the final (sort of) picture of the climb:

I heard the height of Broga Hill is only 400 meters though. Yeap, that short.

THANK YOU NUFFNANG GLITTERATI PLUS, for organising this awesome trip. And awesome meeting new people and made new friends :D I really enjoyed myself and hope you guys will continue having outdoor activities, I will most certainly be supportive then since events in clubs and pubs and restaurants ain't exactly my interest =X Hope to see all of you again soon! :)

Photo credits: Teh Tarik Drinker, Tian Chad, MYSELF :D

My First 21km in Bareno Run 2011 + Women 100: A Modern Woman Called Ang Tau Mui

2011-04-03T22:35:00.000-07:00

So I was extremely worried that I might not be able to fulfill one of my life's to-do list before I turn 21 -- to run a half marathon (21km), due to my back injury back in January and February. It ain't exactly recovered yet, but I kinda got used to the pain and discomfort, except when I run fast la as it requires more arms movement =S

Anyway, guess I don't have to worry about not fulfilling it already, cuz I DID IT :D Despite having a lousy timing, I DID IT! And, WITHOUT ANY TRAININGS! xD Finished it in 2 hours 53 minutes =,= Exceeded my expected timing by 3 minutes. Meh. Still, it's damn slow. Michelle did it like more than 30 minutes faster than me. Pro sial. Kevin even monster, finished his 21km more than an hour faster than me and got like top 20 in his category. SCARY! GOD-LIKE! JBNDCKJCBKDJBCKDNBSKNFKDS!!!!!!!!

My race kit. I didn't wear the vest as it was too short for me =/

As Chun Tat last minute decided not to run, I kinda had a slight problem on transportation... Thank God Michelle called me up and say that her friends are able to fetch me there too. So after around 3 hours of sleep, I left home (thanks to my awesome Dad for fetching me in such a siao hour, he's awesome for supporting me in these sports events la) about 12am in the morning to Michelle's place. Waited for a while for the guys whom I never even met before (I mentioned in my previous entry that I have been meeting new people lately right...)

The ride in Kaartig's car was epic. We went in circles, missing turnings and all. Hahahaah. Hilarious. Good thing we left early so we still have plenty of time despite all the mishaps... ahem, when Aaron locked his car key in his own car LOL! Funny!

See the car key in the car? And the banana. Haha

And the interesting stuffs didn't stop there, these 3 ding dongs managed to learn how to open the car door without the need of the key!!! By using a long metal rod and with the help of the security guards around there. Hahaha. Seriously, Aaron, your car is prone to car burglary ok!

Random picture:

Me being ah beng cutting my nails at the road side

The 5 of us before the race :)

Well. Soon enough, it's the flag off for the 21km runners at 5.30am. I won't be putting up any pictures during the run because, one: I don't run with a camera; two: my running picture was caught by one of the photographers but it looks fugly =,= So whatever. Anyway, since it's my first 21km, I think I should actually write a decently lengthy entry on it la. Haha.

Well, I told myself to compete with my own self but seriously, 21km is so different than my previous 12km, 11km or 10km. The runners are all seasoned and prepared. No play-play runners around at all... I'm like one of the slowest ones then. Shrugs. I was jogging all the way until the 10km point when I realised I'm slowing down and couldn't actually lift my legs any higher for bigger strides. The crazy amount of slopes ain't helping as well, was practically walking my way up until this turning where my legs gave way as my muscles cramped. Zzz. I think that was like at the after 14km point towards the power gel station. Jees. I never ran more than 12km for three years already! My longest distance was only 15km and that was in early 2007!

My breathing was still okay, just that my head kept telling me that I have exceeded my usual distance and my legs are not listening to me to continue. Started to walk for a 1 or 2 kilometers... Dragged my time long =( I should have trained. I was beating myself up for not being mentally prepared. I HAVE NEVER RAN SO FAR IN MY LIFE! To think I wanted to do 42km!!!!!! Gawd, was I crazy????? But it's stupid to quit after you have completed more than half of the run already right?

Anyway, I managed the race and forced myself to increase my speed in the last kilometer despite my legs felt like detaching from my ass already =,= But, at least I crossed the finish line! And boy, the decision to do a half-marathon was mad and satisfying. It's always at the finish point when all the torture and mental torment was worth it. From now on, I will only do half-marathons or any maximum distance for shorter distance races! Until I am ready and mentally prepared for my first full marathon, WHICH I have to complete before I turn 24!

Oh! Guess who I bumped into at the finish line? COMMANDER ANTHONY! Hahahaha!

Hello there! :D

Random pictures:

PHOTOBOMB INCOMING!!!

Former DJ runners. I'm the only noob one la :(
Oh! Oh! Did I mentioned that I LOVE MY BUFF? Even though it's an imitation xD

Ahem x)

Finisher shirt + Medal :D

Was a good good run. But the day did not end then =,= After Meng Leong dropped me back home (THANK YOU!), I only had about 3 hours of shower, eat, siesta and left for the LRT station with Emily to Pasar Seni to catch a free play in Central Market -- A Modern Woman Called Ang Tau Mui.

Was also a side event for Women 100 by kaki seni in celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the International Women Day

As usual, I failed in my directions. Emily and I wandered around aimlessly looking for Annexe Gallery, which we thought was a gallery by itself. Gave up and went into a bookstore to ask for directions and was told it's in Central Market itself. Ooooooooooooo.

I couldn't bear to climb the stairs as the morning 21km run took a toll on my poor thighs... Was actually walking like an injured hippo =,=

Let's take the elevator! :D

Okay! Don't mind us. We were seriously damn fascinated by how antique the elevator looks

The interior! :DDD And yes, I was wearing my finisher shirt x) SHOW OFF! Bleh.

Well, this is actually my second time watching a play; hence forgive my inexpertness in the attempt of reviewing it.

"Ang Tau Mui goes shopping on the day she dies. She sees many things she wants, but doesn't know what to buy. She runs from place to place, looking and searching, as she travels through time, revisiting the house she grew up in, taking a break at a deli, watching a movie in a cinema, riding a mini bus and seeking comfort in a temple. She talks to us about what makes her happy and sad, who she sees herself as, what her favourite food is and what her longings are. But in the end, does she find what she's looking for?"

The play was basically a monologue thoroughly acted by Ho Sheau Fung. So, Ang Tau Mui is actually the Chinese translation of "Red Bean Girl", which is directing to what she was as a child labour back then. In my perspective, I guess it tells a story of how a woman went through a harsh life and fought to be a liberal and independent, or as they coined it, modern woman. As a toilet cleaner, she pride herself in being the best in her job; and through her fantasies and imaginations, we understand that her desire for the power of consumerism even in the rank of a middle-class is quite unachievable.

However, she kept her optimistism and constantly turned to her idol - a Hong Kong actress (can't remember the name, but I know it's a made-up for the play, I think?) by writing letters to her which, of course, were never replied. Until it came a day when the actress committed suicide due to her failed marriage when Ang Tau Mui starts to grieve and starts questioning about her own identity and stated that she is just a nobody.

Okay, it is quite difficult to review on it as the play kept reverting back and forth the time line, replaying flashbacks and such. But, on the day when Ang Tau Mui died in her sleep, I presumed she found what she was looking for (though the ending was quite vague itself). And Emily and I came to a conclusion of our own that the thing she was looking for was basically, her own identity.

Oh! I forgot to mention! This day was also my first day of Lent! Was actually under a bet to complete Lent by sacrificing meat. Not like I mind, since I already planned in 2010 to go through Lent this year anyway. Haha. Winning the bet is just a bonus, lalala~ And I have no idea what to sacrifice anyway, Debra just suggested me to be vegetarian for 46 days, so I agreed to it.

It wasn't thaaaat difficult in the first week. However, it's kinda getting more difficult now as I am actually gaining weight being vegetarian due to excessive carbs to get myself full. Plus, I kept getting ALMOST tempted to eat meat. But, good thing I could resist those temptations! I never knew I have this strong a will, but I actually do! Woot! Am so proud of myself :D And I think it's just because of my stand on keeping promises I made, and breaking a promise with an unreasonable reason, like not being able to resist temptations, is just stupid.

Anyway, my first meal for Lent:

PURE VEGE! x)
Good thing I can still take eggs since I'm only going vegetarian, not a vegan!

Decided to stop by for a fish spa with Emily before we leave as she never try it before...

Zzzzzz. I love fish spas, but the process is damn tormenting as I am frigging ticklish =,=
Epic picture haha

Good day out indeed. Been long since I hung out with Emily and I have finally done my 21km :) Was tired out when I got home. Meh.

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Gosh. Remember, I'm blogging at like 10.30pm on the 3rd of April. My assignment is due in 3 more days and I'm blogging what the fark?! Zzz. Couldn't focus la ok! Meh.

One full day of running

2011-04-02T12:13:00.000-07:00

This is like more than one month late but I really have been busy with life itself to actually blog. Got like 7 entries pending, y'know =,= So anyway, had the start of my running spree in this year of 2011 marked on the 26th of February.

Was supposed to just run for Zigtech Challenge happening that night in 1U, but I got persuaded by my department's admin to participate in the Sports Carnival 2011's Athletics event. Snore. I wasn't even prepared for it but she gave me the green lights to just run for fun since it's better to have a non-serious runner in the team than none at all. I mean, what the heck, they only have one girl running. Adding me to the team makes 2 girls, which makes no difference at all =,= Well, at least they have enough girls for the Road Relay then.

Cursing myself for agreeing to run despite having another 60 minutes run at night, had to wake up uber early in the morning to catch the bus to UNITEN where they held the event. Met up with the runners for my department whom I never even met before =,=" Side note: Been meeting a lot of new people recently. I like! :D

Organisers at work

Was kinda cranky for having to wake up so early for an event which wasn't in my schedule until 1 day ago. But, oh well...

Had to coordinate the runners as well cuz Kak Les wasn't there yet. And I forgot how the event works d =,= Didn't participate in Athletics since 2 years ago la. Was screaming (as usual) at those new UOL boys. I think they hated me in the beginning of the day, as how everyone does when they first met me anyway. Lalala. Who cares.

There la Kak Les, ngapa lambat sangat? x) Joking joking.

My 4 UOL boys :)
They are surprisingly fast. Me like. Especially Shaun! Pro!

So, my first event: 800m was a breeze, except for the fact that it started without me being prepared, I just came out of the ladies and saw the 800m girls crossing the tracks to the field =,= FML. But it was still a good run since there ain't any pressure anyway. Kak Les was complaining about me being not serious about the run as I was complaining throughout the 800m and wasting my energy talking to people at the sidelines instead of focusing on the run. Still, came out second anyway, got meself a silver medal :D Good to have a pacer in front!

Fat girl running

Running always manage to boost my mood la :) Went camwhored with some of the other 800m (whom I just met on the tracks) + lunch after that, since I have had a looooong wait until Road Relay.

With Oga (whom I met in my trip to Busan, South Korea last year), Michelle (whom I met that day itself) and one of my longest friends throughout my life in HELP, Ezekiel!

Long time no see, Justin x)

I came without any expectation, nice to have a surprise every now and then

Group picture before the Road Relay :D

Headed to the road for the Road Relay. I actually prefer running on roads than the tracks, probably due to it being my comfort zone, though I know very well it ain't actually beneficial towards my knees and ankles =S Side note: I get excited every time I see an open road with no cars x)

Briefing and arranging ourselves into our positions... Look at that sakai there as the 4th runner there...

Being excited and nervous at the same time =,= Siao zhar boh

Running as the 4th runner wasn't a good feeling la, the wait was scary itself. Been long since I did a relay, so don't judge me.

Anyway, it was a good run... Managed to close the gap, though I couldn't overtake her by a mere few seconds =/ But it was a really good run, and as per usual... I screamed at my last burst. Am scary at that too, but I should really stop that, it wastes energy and it makes the opponents run faster =,= Still, it was a good feeling to be able to close that gap though I was beating myself up again to not be able to run faster. Shrugs.

Anyway, we came out second placing :) Awesome of everyone la. And since they gave another extra 2 medals for the substitutes, every one of us in the team got ourselves another silver medal. Hahaha. So ngam got 7 of us participating.

Us after the Road Relay.

And a group picture, of course:

Not bad a last minute decision to go run, got silver for both events I ran in. Didn't expect to even win a single medal =/

Went back home and slept for 1 hour to get myself rested for the Zigtech Run later that night... My slot was 8pm to 9pm along with Louis. Had myself another energy bar as I couldn't eat any dinner before the run.

Went there just a few minutes before the run to get changed and was told that I have to wear the shirt, socks and shoes they provide =S Whaaaaat? Meh.

Trying out the Reebok Zigtech shoes... I don't like it, gave me too much cushioning and to run with too much cushioning for long distance damages the knees and I already have bad ankles, so these shoes ain't helping. And these shoes are not designed for flat feet and those who over-pronates... LIKE ME! =,=

Anyway, one thing about treadmills. THEY ARE EFFING BORING!!! And the songs they were playing then was soooo blardy slow! =,= I was super bored outta my mind then zzz. Good thing I bumped into Tzen Ting, Sammie and Michelle there. I mean, it was quite a scene to see people running in the middle of a mall anyway.

Thank you, Tzen Ting and Michelle (who was at the 9pm slot) for taking pictures haha though they are all kinda blur =S

Finished my 60 minutes at 810 calories burnt as I started to slowed down at the last few minutes already. Louis completed his at 830-840 calories burnt and the other dude who was doing the same slot as us finished at 900+ calories burnt. PRO!

8pm slot runners

Am a 60 minutes Zigtech Challenge finisher! :D And the official event shirt is super small =,= And there's only one size for the females. Wth. As you all know, I hate hate hate fitting clothes, they make me feel claustrophobic. And this is just too damn small. I look fat =(

Oh! Guess who I bumped into after my run? :D

My favourite park kakis! Went wandering around the mall for awhile with me walking like an old woman...
Thank you Chun Tat for fetching me back :D

The goodies from Zigtech Challenge :D Only loving the bottle, been bringing it around since :D

I think this was the point when I start to lose weight until I agreed on the Lent challenge, which got me gaining weight again =,= Plus the piling assignments too la. Meh. I hate stress, it makes me eat a lot. As I said, I am an emotional binge eater. Sigh. Get me depressed or stressed, and I will get fat... =,= Meh.

The Adjustment Bureau

2011-03-14T10:47:00.000-07:00

Well, if it wasn't for the trailer, I wouldn't considered watching The Adjustment Bureau. I mean, the movie poster seems boring... Yes, yes. Guilty as charge. I judged it straight without finding out what the movie's about. Good thing I did check out the trailer and hours after I did, I found myself in the cinema hall catching this awesome movie. It has been long since I last watched a movie good enough, seeing that I couldn't win any movie premiere tickets lately since the start of this year (I'm suspecting the disappearance of my luck from last year) and I was quite busy with life to even make time for movies.

Well, I digress. Anyway, The Adjustment Bureau wasn't exactly the best show around, but it still met standards with a 70% ratings from Rotten Tomatoes. Definitely not a typical plot and cliche is never a word to describe this one as well. Liked the concept and intense action towards the end of the movie. A few scenes for chuckles spread throughout the 105 minutes (decent, since it ain't supposed to be comedic anyway).

The Adjustment Bureau poses questions on the matter of fate, destiny, love and our very own free will. Did you noticed that sometimes, things just happen unexpectedly and you realised you could not do anything to stop them? Several happenings are just against your will, like the times you wait by the roadside trying to stop a cab, but not one is willing to stop for you? And say, so happened one did and you rode it. What might happened if the first cab around stopped? What will happened in the range of those time you wasted trying to stop a cab if you managed to get into the first one?

Well, some say it's just luck. And despite wanting things to go my way now, I still think that everything still happens for a reason as you may realised certain things happen due to an earlier event. However, The Adjustment Bureau brings in an idea where there's a control over your life where all these are not mere chances but are all planned out. Also, it kinda highlighted on the subject of bureaucracy where the power of authoritarian regimes is exercised and opportunities in making an individualistically-rational decision are limited.

Anyway, I probably am kinda late for posting this entry up, but if the movie is still screening, do check it out.

Personal ratings: 6.5/10

Blablabla

2011-03-13T00:50:00.000-08:00

Shall blog about:

1. ~~Athletics + Zigtech Challenge~~
2. ~~The Adjustment Bureau review~~
3. ~~My first half marathon: Bareno Run~~
4. ~~"A Modern Woman Called Ang Tau Mui" show experience/ review~~

SOON! I promise. I kept procrastinating on blogging ever since I've got Twitter and Tumblr =,= But, I will get around to do these entries starting tomorrow before assignments start pouring in.

Am gonna do my first 21km in a few hours' time... Frigging excited and jumpy and nervous. Only had less than 4 hours' sleep... And my last meal was exactly 12 hours ago. Jees. Legs are kinda jelly-ish due to Ultimate Frisbee league yesterday morning. Snore. Such lousy fitness. Okay la. Till then!