Happy Birthday Helios! – KFC + Saprino Dinner at Teck Wyne

The gank gathered at our Teck Wyne resort after badminton in the morning. I overslept and woke up only at around 3pm. After busy doing nothing, I started my journey from Queenstown at around 6pm and reached Teck Wyne at around 7pm. Just nice for the dinner =p

Teck Wyne Resort

Dinner was full of sinful food – KFC, Pizza, Carbonate drinks. It really felts like party for me after the 21 KM run. We chatted during dinner, and then proceeding with the highlight of the day.

KFC!!! 

Saprino Pizza - One Chicken and One Vegetarian 

The light was dimmed and the cake is taken out. Yes, it’s our brother Helios 26th Birthday!! I don’t know what he felt, but I think he reached an important milestone in his 25th. One of the most important one is standing beside him along with the birthday cake :p

That is quite a lot of candles! =p

The Happy Birthday Boy

Credit to Inche for the pic!

After a filling dinner and dessert, we played saboteur for few rounds, and then deciding to call it a day – weekend is over! v_v it feels particularly short for me as I spent most of my time sleeping. I have difficulty explaining the rational behind me joining the run. My mum was like “so, you pay 400k for a run where you don’t get to sleep and got fully drenched?” Any excuse sounds kind of lame.

Anyhow! No regret on the memorable weekend. Helios, I wish you all the best on your 26th! Another KFC quota spent. Oh no. Only one more KFC quota for the rest of the year! Maybe to be spent when I finished my marathon in Dec? :p

Happy 26th Birthday from all of us!

Till then!
ED

Sundown Half Marathon 2012 – Women Category

Oh I love the run, I really do! I never know that I will be enjoying it so much. Lets start from the beginning.

The Sundown Half Marathon -27 May 2012 - Finisher Medal

Saturday 5pm – decided to take a nap in anticipation for the night race. Felt quite anxious that I couldn’t really switch off my mind for the first half an hour

8pm – woke up and quite surprise to see it’s already 8pm! Went out for dinner at Koufu. Had one glass of ice coffee. The drink stall auntie asked me to repeat my order 3 times, confirming that I’m taking coffee. Maybe coffee at 8pm is not a very common order.

9.30pm – started the journey from home, with blessing from the whole flatamates (thanks all, you’re the best! :)) Fi’s Mum advised me to take jacket, as the night wind is not good for health. It hits me as a very good advice… but I simply don’t have any good jacket… so I decided to go without one.

10.00pm – reached the Nicole Highway Station. Saw a lot of runners, which surprisingly, mostly ladies? I saw sea of runners as I tapped out from MRT. The Station was making announcement “Attention Please, the station is crowded. If you’re not taking the train, please leave the station now. Thank you”. Hahaha… First time hearing this kind of announcement

10.15pm – took the escalator up from the MRT, and it was already the Sundown Marathon Race Village. The network reception was really horrible. There was no signal for most of the time. I can’t really find anyone I know of, so I just wandered around the place.

Sundown Race Village!

The - Supposedly - Movie Screening place, not sure if anything was shown in the end

Some Fun Facts of the Sundown :)

Kudos to whoever create the tag line, sounds so cool!

10.30pm – got the chance to witness the flag off for 10 KM runners near the start point. The MC was there, but didn’t sound as excited as the one doing the Standard Chartered marathon. Maybe this passed his sleeping time already =p It was quite dark every where, and my iPhone 3GS is really pushed to the limit as I tried to capture some pics.

The 10KM Runners waiting for the Flag Off

11.00pm – walked around the Race village hunting for free food. I managed to find free Popcorn and candy floss, and $1 ice cream which is free upon showing them your Facebook’s check-in in Sundown Marathon 2012 (that explained my check in! :p)

Free Popcorn & Candy Floss 

Free Ice Cream - What a healthy food before the run

11.30pm – saw the opening of FREE Photo Booth and decided to take some better quality picture :D :D Happy to get the hardcopy of the picture, but then realized that I didn’t have any bag to put it. No way I’m going to hold it through out the race. Thanks to the ice coffee I had earlier, my brain hasn’t fully asleep yet. I pinned the picture along with my race bib, to my shirt. Not I don’t have to carry it along - felt genius of doing that =p

The Softcopy - Credit to http://baicapture.com.sg for the pic! 

The Hardcopy... totally can't make it through the rain v_v Digital rocks!

11.45pm – had my last round of toilet break and started to get into the race area. They split the area according to the target finish time. Being realistic, I entered the area of 21 KM – above 3 hrs” section. Turned out that it means I have to wait for second wave, which start like 20 mins after the first wave. I have no issue waiting, but then I remember about my $5 shuttle bus, which will depart at 4am. I requested the security to allow me pass internally to the first wave race field, which he rejected furiously for some safety reason. In the end, I have to walk out from the race field, take a big round at the race village, and then entered the first wave section.

12.00am – it started to get quite packed at the race field. I didn’t have lots to do, so I started to play Surviving High School. While playing, I could feel that there are quite a few runners walk passed me, trying to slip their way to the front row.

Quick look at the Map for 21KM run

12.30am – I finished my game, and the run started! I checked my mobile and realized that I only have…. 30% of battery remaining. Seriously? It was fully charged before I left home! and I have been turning off the 3G for a while. There is no way I can play my songs throughout the run, left along tracking it via Run Keeper. I decided to keep my headset to my pocket and just wished that I would be able to survive without any music.

At the starting point! There was some machine helicopter carrying camera flying in the sky too

12.45am – finally I started running! It was really crowded as both the half marathon and full marathon runner combined together, but enough for me to run at my comfortable speed. To my surprise, running without music actually felt good. I like the runners’ consistent step sounds – helped me to pace myself better. We passed through Geylang in the first 5km =p

01.50am – With no Run Keeper telling me the time and km, I just kept running (or more precisely – Jog) my way and stopped for few seconds at the hydration points (I can’t stand skipping free stuff). This kind of welfare is definitely better than my gym treadmill training! No one served me drink every 2km in gym =p 100 plus tasted really good, and I just felt more energized than ever. Without me even realizing it, I passed through the 10km, right in front of the Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands. They were people at the bar cheering us up as well. So touchy!

10 KM Mark!

02.30am – Another 5km, and it was time for the split between half and full marathon. Few of the location were really dark and kind of bumpy. There is no way to run fast while still maintain the safety factor. There are also few locations where the crew directed us to grass field. How on earth is muddy grass field a official run path? Anyway, I was doing ok. I recall there should be a banana point somewhere near the last 7km, so was just keeping myself alert not to miss anything =p

Time to say goodbye to the 42KM runner - long way to go, buddy! :p

03.00am – got my banana, got into my last Hydration point, and was told that it’s 1.5km to go. Funnily enough, there was a piece of me inside saying that I didn’t want this to end so soon. It has been a really great run so far. I enjoyed the night run just like how I thought about it – chilling without the hot burning sun waiting for you in the middle of the run. And I think the night run means the body is in its sleeping mode, so it helped me to relax.

The only lights at the pitch black path

03.05am – There has been thunder and lighting through out the run, but I was quite confident that the organizer must have made some secret arrangement to ensure that it wont rain. Well, I was wrong. Starting at 3am, it started to drizzle. The first thing I worry about is… my iPhone. The run can cost me my sneakers, but not my phone please! I made a quick stop at the bus halter and turn my iPhone off, and then trying my best to cover the phone with whatever I have.

03.15am – The last km was a run at a bridge. It was madness! The rain was pouring so hard. First my sight was kind of obscured by the rain, then I felt my shoes and socks soaked, then I literally even bother trying to stay dry anymore. I just run the last kilometer looking at the street to ensure I wont cause a scene by slipped through my last few meters.

03.20am – finished the race! Feel good! Alas no picture =(

My Timing - 02:41hrs for 21 KM :D

04.00am – get into the bus. Waited for another 15 minutes before it finally moved. It goes to view points – Outram, Tiong Bahru, Red Hill and finally Queenstown. It was already 5am by the time I reached home. 05.30am – had a hot shower, put my cloths to washing machine, and sleep until 2.30am the next day.

The kind of late text message... The rain started at 3am!

Poor all wet shoes... I guess I have to let it rest in peace now...

"To Run 21-KM" 2012 New Year Resolution - Accomplished!!!
:D

The Hibernation of TV Series

Just finished the last episode of the season for Glee, HIMYM, and Big Bang Theory. Now they are going to hibernate for the next few months before coming up with the new season T_T To make thing even tougher to accept, the last episode is almost always the best episode of the season, make you even more curious to know what coming up next. Aaargh! The curse of TV series.

With the ending of TV series, I also lost my excuse to eat chips. Maybe time to start picking some movies to watch =p Talking about dietary… I haven’t been living a very healthy live style. Say this week, my food comprised of Aston's chicken chop, Kim Gary’s bake rice, 2 bags of Lays and 3 cans of Pringles apart from many other things =___= I have to get rid of this addiction. Maybe time to put it as part of New Year resolution as well.

Office has been BUSY! The work is just piling up. I have 4 important meetings coming up next week and I haven’t prepared any of the presentation. God. I’m really scared now T_T And there were so many Ad-Hoc things throughout the week, my schedule is really a big mess. Guess I have to be ready for an OT streak next week. There are lots of thing to look forward next month, too.

Before I can even start to worry about next week, I need to think about passing this weekend first. My Half Marathon is finally here. Tonight! Wish me luck! Time for me to take a nap to make sure I won’t fall asleep during the run.

As usual, summary of the Fitness First activities this week:

• Monday: Body Combat 
• Tuesday: 8 KM Treadmill 
• Wednesday: Body Pump + Pilates 
• Thursday: 8 KM Treadmill 
• Friday: 8 KM Treadmill 
• Saturday: 12 Laps + Yoga (I can't find my swimming goggle T_T)

All the FF staff started to recognize me, for good or bad…

Hear from me again after the run!
ED

Prank Call from +92 341…

It was a Tuesday afternoon and I was doing my usual meeting with the team. My meeting started at 3.30pm and finished at 3.45pm. When I checked my phone, I was surprised to see like… 9 missed calls in my phone.

I noticed that it’s all from the same number… when I was about to check further, the number called again, so I just picked up and listened. There was only silence from the other end for 15 seconds. I was like “Hallo Hallo, are you on mute?” (feel stupid about it now). Since there is still no response, I just dropped the call.

I did a quick search in google to know which country was the call for. To my surprise, I actually find few entries of people with same experience as me. It seems to be a prank call, all the way from Pakistan :s

My colleagues told me not to pick up the call if they ever called again. He heard some bad stuff about how they are able to charge expensive levy on you incoming call or tracked your whereabouts. Similarly, I remember hearing things like they can hypnotize you through phone or even make your brain freeze if you listen to the phone long enough.

For some reasons, I believe all the above =___=, even though I know it’s not very logical (shame on me as IT person!) I just hope that the number would not call again. I don’t even know if it’s a real person calling or a machine. Unfortunately, it kept calling me like 50 times throughout my time in office.

It was so, so annoying. It rang every 30 seconds and I don’t have a way to block the call. Yes I can make it on mute and there is some workaround, but then it becomes hard for me to differentiate if it’s a real call from my contact or the prank number.  The calls paused for awhile after 8.30pm.

I complained to Winson about the call during dinner. At around 10.30pm, the number call again and Winson offered to pick up the call. To my surprise, he said that there was actually real person at the other end, murmuring something that he couldn’t really comprehend. He told the person never to call the number again and then said some magic word before ending the call.

I live peacefully afterwards :p hahaha…

There are just so many weird things happening in these modern days (I feel very old by saying this). I really don’t know what sophisticated trick that other people might pull – which sometimes make me feel so vulnerable =_= What to do. Just tried to control the online presence (ha, said someone who has non password protected blog), and be cautious whenever there is anything out of normal.

Till now, I still don’t know what the call for ^^; Just thought of sharing on how to get rid of it =p
ED

Fitness First Weekly Summary + JCo indulgences @ Bugis Junction

Round-up of the week:

• Monday: Body Combat 
• Tuesday: Pilates + Body Balance 
• Wednesday: 12KM Treadmill 
• Thursday: Rest 
• Friday: 8KM Treadmill 
• Saturday: 7KM Treadmill + 16KM Cycling 

I tried on my body assessment again and it went back from "Thin" to "Standard". Fuih!

We got our lunch at the canteen before we went back home. Margaret came at around 1.30pm, commenting on here and there before finally signing on the flat extension contract. Yup, we're going to stay in the same flat for another year. Thanks to the owner who was willing to give us the lower than market rate price :)

We went to Bugis afterwards to meet up with Feli and went together to the temple. After praying, we walked back to Bugis Junction under the super hot sun, and indulged ourselves in JCo. We chatted, mostly on how she is coping up with the baking courses, which seem to be going on very well. She is going to start her internship in TCC very soon! Congratulations! She will be working in their cake production line from 8 – 4pm, with salary higher than my IA salary. Er. Nevermind. Unrelated.

Guess Where! or rather, what movie!

@JCo - Love the sinful donuts!

Done with the chat, we went to G2000 for some crazy sale going on. I can see that Great Singapore Sale is around the corner! I bought 2 new blouses, 2 new skirts, 2 new pants, all added up to below $200! (While the original price for each item was $49 – $69!) *Hyperventilated. I don’t know if they marked up the price before giving the discount to give false marketing… but it does work for me ^^; I finally got their membership!

It was soon 6.30pm before I realized it. We then went to the department store to check out some baking stuff, and then had dinner at Food Junction before calling it a day :)

I came back home, read some news, and time for my weekly dosage of TV series now!
ED

Friday Dinner @ Kungfu Paradise + the Long Awaited Declaration

It was a random Friday afternoon. Ryoma was asking if anyone was interested to go for dinner at JCube. I ok-ed without much thinking – I needed a break after a long week (plus it’s the last day that my boss is still on business trip!)

So five of us gather at JCube at around 7.30pm. We walked around to see where to go for dinner. My God – almost every restaurant got 15 people length queue! This is worse than Vivocity! For some reason I thought that JE is secluded place that no one knows about. Ha. I was almost tempted to go to McD which seemed to have no queue, thankfully my friends pull me back and we ended up queuing for Kungfu Paradise.

It was my first time going to Kungfu Paradise. The style is similar to Kim Gary and Xing Wang Café. Initially, I thought that it’s open by some random individual who tried to copy the other big restaurant’s style. Little did I know, Kungfu paradise actually came from Paradise Group!!! It’s the same group that came out with Taste Paradise, Paradise Dynasty, and even Paradise Inn! My perspective changed afterwards. Turn out that it has even bigger establishment than my favorite Kim Gary restaurant (blush). But honestly, the logo really misled me - a cartoon character which doesn't look very professional - quite different from Paradise's group other high end restaurants.

O.O The cute Kungfu Man is part of the Paradise Group! 

The Menu - For some reason I kept pronouncing it as Kungfu Panda

We queued for almost half an hour, which wasn’t bad when you got good companies :) When we finally went in and looked at the menu, we felt crazily calculative for the day. A plate of fried rice cost S$10.5. Meanwhile, their signature burger cost S$3.2. So? It means that we can order 3 burgers for meal and still cheaper than ordering a fried rice. With that kind of mentality, I ended up ordering their Signature Coffee ($2.6), Signature Burger ($3.2), Chicken Cutlet Burger ($3.9), and Custard Buns ($3.9). The rest follow suit. It’s nice to have a different style of dinner once in a while! :D

Signature Kungfu Style Coffee ($2.6) - Nothing really special

Noodle with Spiced chicken cube ($6.9) - I feel that their pricing is abit weird

Signature Burger ($3.2) - Worth every single cent!

Tom Yum ($9.9) - Look super awesome! Gonna try it next time

Chicken Cutlet Burger ($3.9) - The signature burger was better

Waffles ($6.9) - Look really filling

Dumplings ($3.9) - The skin was too thick

Custard Bun - My favorite! I really love the way it's done

The food was served quite promptly, which was good as we were all starving. After a hearty meal, we were all energized to chat / gossip again. We chatted from movies to sport to food, but the best part comes near the end – an explanation from our friend on hundred of question marks which have been flying around for the last few months. Hahaha.. I can’t write anything more than this :x promise is a promise.

The discussion made my travel to west totally worth it :p It went on and on we almost lost count of time on the topic… we intended to leave at 9.30pm, but stayed until around 11pm. Hahaha… We finally left full and happy. Friend, congratulations to you!!! :)

Awaiting for the formal declaration,
ED

Physique Rating: Thin and Muscular

I woke up late today and can't make it for the body pump class at 7.15am. Instead, I decided to train for the upcoming half marathon (10 days to go!!!) and have an 12km jog at treadmill.

After the jog and shower, I decided to have a quick weight check. Since the machine came along with the full body mass analysis, I read through the whole thing... and was shocked!

My Physique Rating as of 16 May 2012

Since when I become "Thin and Muscular"?? Both words don't ring any positive vibrant to me. Why can't they put a better word like "Slim and Sporty"? My Physique rating has always been "Standard" before. I didn't trust the system and decided to try it out again. The exact some result come out with a remark of "Underfat"

I can't believe that there is someone (or some machine) which dare to actually call me Thin!! All these years I'm closer to obese rather than the other extreme. With the result I'm having right now... I have to say that running really works magic in reducing weight.

Anyway, I checked out the further explanation and realized that my Fat % is 20.8%, while the normal range start from 21%. So I do believe that by the time I fill my tummy with breakfast, the rating will go back to "Standard".

I regret throwing away my very first assessment when I joined the gym. I think I got around 23% Fat. It would have been a great comparison to see how much the $133 / month worth for my body. Haha.

Thin. Haha. Feel like an achievement to be able to fool a system,
ED

Quick Fitness First Attendance Check!

It has been a really busy week! Have been trying my best to cope up… 3 OTs for a week. but I don't know if I’m done. But one thing for sure, I’m down with flu T_T

Here is a quick summary:

• Monday: Body Combat
• Tuesday: Yoga + Body Attack
• Wednesday: Knocked down. Absent ZzZ
• Thursday: Body Vive
• Friday: Gentle Flow
• Saturday: 6KM Run + Yoga

Busy busy! (+ sneeze)
ED

Yen Sis Visit + Visit to Lily Sis + 4th KFC

Yen Sis paid me a visit from Malacca! I haven’t seen her for the last… 15 years? And I’m just glad that we got a chance to get together and share some time together :) She reached SG at around 1pm Friday. As I was still working, she just went to Chinatown and travelled alone – backpacker style!

One of the 101 pretty stuff she bought for her collections

I reached home at around 10pm and she reached just 5 mins afterwards. What a perfect timing :) We chatted until past midnight on the day and slept until late the next day :p After back from gym, we went for lunch and then visit Lily sis at Bedok. Lily sis must be very surprised to see me apart from the usual once-a-year visit :p

A nice chat with a nice dessert - it was really hot that day!

Group pic! with Yen sis + Lily sis outside the Condo :D

After nice chat, we went to Junction8 for dinner. Guess what if not my beloved KFC meal! We chatted until around 8.30pm. Initially, we intended to go to Orchard, but was kind of tired and hence decided to call it a day.

KFC Double Down!! Sinful yet Heavenly Food

Yen Sis will be here until Tuesday. I hope that I can still get a chance to have dinner with her before she left. Ok better stop blogging and go chat with her now :p

Till then!
ED

Sundown Marathon – Race Pack Collections

I went for the Race Pack collection this Saturday at Singapore Expo. It’s a long journey all the way to the east, but thankfully I got a company. The Expo was as usual packed with all different kind of exhibition – IT Show, John’s little, travel, etc etc. I went all the way in to find the Sundown Race Pack collection at Hall 4b.

Sundown - The Entrance Gate

The organizer is definitely not stingy in putting resources for the collection days. There are at least 50 rows of booth for collection, and the whole collection take less than 3 mins.

First Station - Name Tag Collection

Second Station - T-shirt Collection, and we're done!

After the collections, we have to pass through row and row of exhibitors before we can finally find the exit door. Phew! Before I went out, I take a chance to buy the $5 shuttle bus one-way ticket to Queenstown. The race will only start at 12.30am, so I guess I will finish only at around 4am. I really didn’t know what I signed-up for one month back.

Bus Ticket - Hope I can finish by 4am!

So it's real... my first 21km run is coming up in 2 weeks time!! I haven’t been running for the past 2 weeks… and my newly acquired flu is not helping… T_T Please I want to get well soon!

Hope I won't sleep while running,
ED

Hudong’s Farewell Dinner @ Tanyoto, Liang Court and Lunch @ Bistoquet, ARC

There is a story why there are two Farewell sessions.

First one was a Dinner at Tanyoto on Wednesday, which was well-organized - nice food, nice gathering, and nice walk around the Clarkequay area. For some reason we’re all too busy chatting that Huidong ended up paying for her own share… making the dinner didn’t count =__=’’

It was my first time at Tanyoto... Initially I thought it’s a Japanese restaurant, but turned out to be a famous Chinese fish head steamboat restaurant. The food is OK, but I didn’t really find anything that impressed me. Their specialty is their wide range of condiments, which is similar with what Jpot got. I kept flipping through the menu but can’t really find something that interests me. I ended up eating only few slices of vegetables. They order a big fish head, which is definitely a No for me :p

Dinnear at Tanyoto - I was the only one who can't understand Chinese =_='

It’s only the next day when I had dinner with Glen that we realized we forgot to treat her. Thankfully we got the last Friday for lunch with her… so we tried to make sure that it counts.

We went to the newly open western restaurant at Alexandra Retail Center – Bistoquet. The place looked super crowded, but the owner convinced as that the service is “super fast”. Well, we got cheated :( The food took 50 minutes to arrive. I was really restless as I have urgent task that I need to finish by 3pm, and I was hardly 20% done by that time. We waited until 1.20pm when the food finally arrived. Thankfully the food was not bad and it does help to make me feel better :p We ate and chit chat until around 1.45pm and then we went back to office.

With the the girl of the day and our food!

The other two unimportant guys :p

Hui Dong left the office at around 6pm. I said my good bye to her and wish her all the best. Not sure why I become a bit emotional and I felt that I haven’t spent enough time with her. Well, Huidong, wish you all the best on your future in Orbium! And have fun in your training at Netherlands!

Love,
ED

The Springers

There are thousand ways to Rome. Similarly, there are many ways for you to get a head start to secure a job prior to graduation. One of Company HR’s favorite ways to make sure they got a right talent is to filter them through internship. Now, the HR goes even one step further. In order to ensure that they hooked the right people for internship, they are offering a program called Springers for the Year 1 and Year 2 students. They call it the “Springers Program”, for simplicity, I called it the “Pre-intership selection Program”. To be eligible for the program, they have to submit the cover letter and resume, pass through all the online IQ exams + 2 face-to-face interviews.

It’s a five days program right after the Uni’s exam. Once they were passed, their first two days were filled with orientation and networking. The next two days they were tagged to Analyst / Associate and observed how they did their day-to-day work. On the last day, they had to make presentation on the topic prepared by HR.

My role comes in on their third and fourth day. I was assigned one “springer” each day and they supposed to tail me wherever I go, literally everywhere (even to toilet =___=)

My first springer on Wednesday was a nice Chinese girl from NTU EEE. So polite, so humble, and typical nerdy girl – reminds me of myself when I was in Uni :p But I don’t recall writing a cover letter or resume when I was year 2, so I guess it will be an understatement for her to be compared with me :$ She told me that she is not the only one who started trying to get job in Year 2. The competition is really strong these days and they have to do all they can to boast their resume. She is going to exchange to US for 2 months after this – something that almost non-existent during my time. We chatted a lot and she was also asking a lot of questions. I hardly complete anything at the end of the day =__=

My second springer on Thursday was a Singaporean guy from SMU Info Comm. To ensure I didn’t repeat the same mistake (of over chatting), I told him that I will give him 3 slots for the day – briefing in the morning, q&a in the afternoon, and debrief in the evening. He sticks with it and it was really peaceful throughout the day. This one was more manageable and I do feel that he was more dependable compared with my first springer (SMU has some secret ingredient that make all the students look so awesome). I released him at around 5.30pm – he looked as happy as I was :p

Overall, it was a nice experience. I want t get an intern!! But not someone who stare at your monitor for the whole day... I won’t deny that I felt that pressure when they kept looking at my screen even when I was thinking and drafting an email. Due to the age gaps, I sometime kind of lost of common topics. They are 90’s! We’re 80’s! I have been working for 4 years, what can I say to people who wouldn’t started their interships for another year? Well, at least we were paid with a nice Japanese buffet lunch on Monday :p

For now, I’m just relief that it’s over and I can look forward to a peaceful week. It’s holiday in Germany this Thursday! Means no calls! Yay!
ED

The 3 Days Week

Thanks to the public holiday on Tuesday, weekend seems to come so much faster. Technically, today is also a public holiday. Too bad it falls on Saturday and hence not much impact for us T_T Out of curiosity, I checked the calendar for the next public holiday. Nothing more for this month. Or next month. Or even for the next two months! *shrugged. Time to make use of some leaves.

To give myself something to look forward to, I went to airline websites and started to hunt for next Chinese New Year ticket. To my surprise, the price is already so high! SGD 300+ for a return ticket on Medan – Singapore. I ended up deciding on Silk Air, making use of my expiring Kris miles and paid the remaining $132 for the fuel surcharges and taxes. I booked the ticket for 7th Feb – 17th Feb 2013 =p Hope the world hasn’t ended by then.

Last Thursday, I stayed in office until 12am. I can’t remember when was the last time I did, but I really wish I wouldn’t have to do it too often. It drained me so much that I still not feeling very energized on weekend. And of course, I failed to wake up for exercise on Friday because of it =_=

Thursday Lunch @ Aston - love the sinful fried chicken!

Anyway, no regret. I managed to settle my stuff and got to leave on time on Friday. Yay~ We went to Suntec to collect something from Groupon. I didn’t know that Groupon has an office, which again to my surprise, actually organized really nicely! Quite similar with mobile phone service counter.

Groupon Redemption Office - Complete with imacs and printers!

Friday dinner @ Loving Hut - Vegetarian Black Pepper Steak - It's spicy! and good.

Sundown Marathon is coming up and I didn’t practice a single run this week =_=’’ Somehow I was always tempted by other activities other than run in gym. I can’t back out from the run now – have paid $65 for it (plus my whole office knows about it. Me and my big mouth) so I might want to just reduce my target a little bit: I will be happy so long as I can finish the run. I just checked out the Sundown Marathon website and realized that my run will start at… 11.30PM! Oh my god. ZzzZ, literally. I thought it’s 8pm max! Anyway, again, it’s too late for me to complain XD

Here is my Fitness schedule for the week:

• Monday: Body Combat (mood was good as the next day is public holiday) 
• Tuesday: Fitness Closed due to public holiday T_T Went to watch movie instead 
• Wednesday: Body Pump + Pilates (I love the new evening class!) 
• Thursday: Body Vive (New morning class. It was a cha cha dance with 80ist song. Faint.) 
• Friday: Passed out 
• Saturday: 30 laps of swim + Body Pump (@ Fusionopolis, the pool was quite small) 

Fitness First Swimming pool at 25th Floor!

The outside view - quite high but filled with construction blocks. lol

I do wish that the exercises I’m doing at least help to improve my stamina for the run. Hitting gym 4 times in 7 days, compared with the previous record of 6 times in 7 days. I just hope it doesn’t decrease too fast. I need to keep a profitable ROI!

Last but not least, Happy Birthday to my brother, Happy belated Labor Day, and Happy Vesak day! Wish Cit all the best in Sydney! - take care and hope that everything goes well!

Vegetarian Mushroom Penne for Vesak Day

Time for... dinner + movie!
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