so small to an olympian

tues and i'm still in the sleepy mode. the aftermath since camp lingers on.

tonight i resolve to sleep at 830pm latest!! must get suffice sleep. till 6am tomorrow that'll give me 9.5hrs of sleep. i do need that. hate waking up feel lathargic and wanting to go back to sleep.

dinner would be an easy to go bread i reckon..so that i can get to bed on the dot.

tomorrow, i WILL wake up feeling FRESH!

can't wait for interview on thursday. it'll be the determinant of how i'll plan for my driving lessons. exams are 3months+ away, i do have to pick up my driving lessons soon.

completed all the tasks i set out to do at work today. final task for the day will be the meeting with the rest on the isle programme.

training has been really sluggish this week. haven't done anything as a matter of fact, as i've been feeling worn and tired. got to finish the night with my usual prune juice and multi vits.

hopefully i'll be well enough to do my macrit rounds 'morrow.

got to pick up mileage again..after the ex-olympician customer from germany who came into rl..his pb for 42km is 2:11.. o_O monthly mileage=approx 1000km.weekly mileage=250km!! faints. i'm so so so so so so far from that.

but it's ok..i'll start with whatever i have. hopefully it grows on me. =P

go go monday blues

i'm an OFFICIAL AUNTIE liao!! ho ho ho..my nephew is suppose to call me GU GU..sounds..erm..OLD. bleah.. baby kenneth jr looks super uber CUTE with his RED ROSY cheeks..makes me want to muak muak muak him.. cradled the little babeeee in my arms and i felt this upsurge of joy that came into me.. such a sweet little life.. melted me thoroughly..

as i turned n told super boy, "so cute hor.."..grin grin.. =D

i, tricia lim, resolve to work hard hard for the future..

hence..i am going for another interview this thursday at a clinic located at cck st 51 (yew tee). this is a clinic assistant position.. working hours are totally ideal to me. 7-9pm. i finish off at school at6pm and head straight towards the clinic to work. only problem is for the class camps, i might have to just take excuse and leave the camp for 2hrs to work. the best thing is at least i can get superboy to give me lift back to camp if i need to rush back.

many many camps ahead for the next few months. inhales deeply. somehow all the camps are killing alot of other arrangements for other stuff.

went recce at bahtera campsite with cm and sl.. the sheer amount of sops for the usage of a simple campsite is overwhelming. a simple night trek also requires risk mgmt report?? safety vehicles? faints. loads of rigidity too..

tonite's dinner...i'm going to attempt to cook pasta for superboy and i..inspired by pastamania dinner last nite! yummy yummy...

hope a good pasta dinner will chase our monday blues away =)

i was hearing it wrong

it's 630am in the morning..have been turning and tossing in bed.. i heard some rumbles and mistook them as knocks on the main door..ran out to the door only to be filled with another bout of disappointment to find no one there at all. despairingly, i dragged myself back to bed only to find myself drift in and out of sleep. most of the time conscious..awaiting for something good to happen and light up my moment. yet as i sit here..waiting for the sun to rise..somehow that will be what fills the room with light in time to come.

i hate my hair..what a mushroom head i am! time for a change..mean time i just got to patiently await for my tresses to grow longer.. waiting can be such a painful process sometimes.

time to catch an hr of sleep before i have to head out to rl.

beans, check!

a last entry before i head off to malaysia to spend my chinese new year.

work has been gradually streaming in..and there'll be alot of things to be done after the long weekend. bz..but bz is always better than idling. i'm just thankful for good superiors and fun colleagues.. =)

some disagreement with mum and i'm just hoping she'll soon understand my stand on things. as i thought thru her words, there is much truth in it but i guess i'm still going to insist on my decisions and plans for now. if i do grow to regret it, it is my decision after all. consequence is mine to bear. wa.sounds so serious..actually it's just a small issue.

it's that time of the month again. hate it coz it coincides with my nice long holi..and i got to be stuck with thick slices of blood sucking pads on me. drats.

i have appetite for nothing but chocolates. feeling fat. fat butt. can feel water retention. i can't wait for our short runs over the weekend. bringing our free along so we can test running with them..let's see how FREE we can get ya..hopefully not SORE.

stretch cordz, check. badminton racquets, check. books, check. beans, check. all things in for our nice holiday away from the usual.

superboy's coming soon..got to go lug my bags and head off now..

alrites..happy chinese new year to all..gong xi fa cai! =) hope u'll enjoy ur long wkend too!!

lost in the woods

this week's training log

mon: rest..body ached badly after stretch cordz
tue: 7km run with superboy
wed: 5km noon interval run at sch track
thur: macrit round+getting lost then running from museum to another. night stretch cordz
fri: macrit round (no getting lost this time) + round island with westrider?(tbc)
sat: tbu
sun: tbu


superboy asked me to borrow some books back during cny holiday so i can read them at home. it's a good idea..and i have just in mind the kinds of books i want to feed myself on. books on cross cultural issues in Asean, that'll be beneficial for our isle programme.

stretch cordz yesterday was challenging but i think as our bodies adapts themselves to such training, they are growing stronger every time we do the workout. after stretch cordz, we had a game of hop scotch, which was readily on the ground of the playground where we did our workout.

work's gradually streaming in.. things are boiling up and i can feel the heat of excitement in rcel. woohooo!

for my role, no matter how small it may seem, i will want to do it to the best of my abilities..

no more skiving for now..back to work!! toodaloo!

from the inside out

superboy and i were just angst-ing over my ex-team mate's recent collision with the malaysian law. like superboy puts it, "they are just creating a mountain out of a molehill.. ..aren't they just accentuating the scandalous loopholes in their system, which are better left unturned." my respond to it all? bleah. sent off an sms to tony and encouraged him to persist in appealing for his stand. it wasn't wholly his fault, in my view.

i succumbed to the gastric woes and finally went to consult dr kee for medication. no histac this time, but rather 4 kinds of medicine which included a suspension which tastes a lot better than mylanta. hope this gastric goes off soon..

anytime for macrit run during lunch today?? if not i'll just go round the stadium.

rl's going to change its staff purchase policy?! oh gee..c'mon la..stop making it so difficult for the part timers. perhaps i better start looking out for alternatives..in case things get a little too unbearable at least i'll have something else on my plate.

oh yes..talk about alternatives..we're tossing with the possible idea of "stowing away" at mum's shop during weekends. we've just got to try things out i guess.. maybe it'll turn out to be something good. =) meantime..we're still deciding on a name that'll be appropriate.. weekend indulge? happy food? indulge?

the good and the evil

THE GOOD AND THE EVIL
mummy's new oven! pineapple tarts turned out really good when we tried in it yesterday. =)
the devilish tormentor - stretch cordz =(

tomorrow never comes

gosh. tricia's half awake today. monday morning blues.

first i was aching so badly from stretch cordz training yesterday i decided to hop on a train than bike. what a lazy bum =S

took a train and dropped off at the wrong station. i kept thinking i'll be alighting at tpy..so i ended up at braddell. but thank God i made it to work right on the dot.

i left my pencilcase and file at running lab (AGAIN!) knocks her head. awww man! my note books..training stuff..stationery.. thankfully superboy will be helping me drive mummy's new oven down to shop..so i'll probably pop by to pick it up later in the evening.

oh yes...bought mummy a new oven so that she can bake in the shop and not have to rush for mad in the morning to get baking done and also make it to the shop on time to start business. i ended up buying something almost twice my initial budget but i felt it was one of the better ovens worth the cost.

i need a new noisy alarm clock so that it jolts me up from sleep in the morning..my cheapo $4.90 brinjal clock croaks like a toad now. noisy! then again, frankly, alarm clocks don't really work for me..the best method to wake me up - superboy's black face. no matter how tired i am, i would still crawl out of bed. =P

okies..today is rest day so i can recover from the aches n pain. proper training starts tomorrow.

tomorrowwwwwwwwww..never COMES! hhaheheaae..=)

new processes

driving test has been rescheduled to 5 jun 07. morning 1st slot. $20 only..to think i paid $150 for the school test slot. crap!

new resolutions..

1. to bike to work daily.
that'll require me to wake up early every morning especially if i want to save some time and take the bt timah route. if i'll be taking the mandai route, it's definitely more hills to overcome. that in turn means i got to have the discipline to wake up early! oh man!

2. to run regularly at macrit & do my track intervals
now that macrit and the track are a stone away, i ought to take full advantage of it and clock suffice mileage to sail though my upcoming marathons

3. swim
got to find more time to swim and also do stretch cordz

4. earn more money
i wish i knew how..mean time just got to keep up with my part time job. bo bian. new job doesn't pay me any better than before. =(


things on my kiv list
1. sports massage course
2. sports first aid and sports trainer course
3. badminton lessons

new beginnings

today's first day at work.

i simply love the place. track, swimming pool, indoor sports hall(floorball!! wow..i haven't played that since jc times), huge and i mean HUGE staff room (they have a staff strength of 220..or was it 250)..lovely colleagues: hwee san, cheng chye, siew ling, cheen ming, "kurt leong" (now i don't remember his name o_O) .. i hope my stay here would be a fruitful one..

like most big organisations..the induction was a rather dry one to begin with..lots of sops to adhere with.. but well, that's the least of it.

most of us are seated within the staff room itself..but we'll be looking fwd to move down to the 1st floor in a month or 2. wow..the new place's nice..too bad we can't make an attic out of the space "above".. imagine a nice spiral staircase that leads up to the attic..with a nice library corner and big cushions where students can just sit around and chill. dream on. hahhaehe..

gotten a nice fujitsu lifebook s series. first time using a fujitsu..hehe..=)

work is from 9am-6pm daily. to be fair, we are 2 hours short of the 42hrs work week. hehehaeh..sniggles.. no one's complaining so we'll hush hush about it la.

a nice work station, with aircon surrounding my head. brrrr..

i'll be in my running shoes starting tomorrow(if only i got my nike free!!). cheen ming, who was a pe teacher previously, wore ds trainers and shorts..siew ling's in her mizuno precision too. great..wearing proper leather shoes feel weird.. i miss my chaco sandals!! imagine christin and i appearing in "massage" slippers most of the time at nl. =P

it took me 1.5hrs to get from home to work..i was late despite leaving home at 710am! the traffic at bt timah was really a nightmarish. hence..my new approach would be to bike to school..but as the traffic becomes heavy after 630am..therefore i'll be cultivating a new "habit" to get to work early. that'll be good in terms of..

- i save money on bus transport..got to change 2 buses.
- i save time travelling on the bus. 1.5hrs on bus vs 1hr on bike
- i can use the mornings to train. either run down to macrit which is 1km away..or just make use of the track to do some intervals. that'll help revive my interval training that got cut away due to other training.
- starting the mornings with run..how much better can it get? that'll be good as i'll be doing the kl marathon in 6 weeks time.

having decided not to do im was like a anvil lifted off my chest. the load hit on so hard that it made me feel jittery every single day. fear and more fear. uncertainty that grips me tight around my neck. gosh. now that we've let it go.. things seems back to normal again.

some may say i'm an escapist when the going gets tough..some may say i just simply lack that "something"..but who cares.. my life is not so much of what others may say of it. it is what I choose to define of it. i want to spend it doing things that'll make me happy, not add stress... i already have suffice stress to deal with at work and other areas of life. why make it more difficult?

we'll be focusing more on short term goals towards races that are within our means. that'll make up of mostly marathons, ods, bis, adventure races.. at least i won't have to pound myself if i don't clock enough mileage to enable me to complete those races.

we're giving padang besar run a miss..coz we thought that the $600 can be better spent else where.. i thought if we were to fly all the way there, i'll rather we have more time to shop and relax, apart from the 26km run itself.

i cancelled my driving test on the 8march..will be registering for the next one as a private candidate this evening. bbdc really drove me nuts..prices are atrocious..out to suck you dry. my piece of advice and what i took home from this episode: it's better a choice to learn driving from a private instructor than with the school. you'll save alot alot more and have much much much more flexibility in time.

back to basics for my swim..iggy made me do alot of kick, kick, kicking. this sunday we'll get to learn to use the stretch cordz from him. woowee!

new aim for work at rl..i hope i'll be able to sell enough mbt shoes to get sponsored a pair. kelvin, yati and cheng are sponsored a pair each. i heard the tnr volunteers got them too..yati found it hard to understand why would mbt want to sponsor the volunteers when they aren't even the people selling it. i've sold 2 in january. more to come i hope.

many new starts, new goals.. embarking on them..want to keep on them..

we are bike mechanics

superboy and i..

-changed 4 tires (2 on tania, 2 on xiaojie)
-changed 1 tube (scarlet)
-changed 2 bar tapes (tania, aerial)
-changed 1 stem (aerial)
-biked from jurong to ghc and couldn't get the stem. drove from cck to sch and finally getting the stem at c2c. round island chase for a stem. gosh.

went to dr david to get my wrist treated. sigh. it's still hurting abit now. he said it's a nerve injury. i hate injuries.

gee. i just realised i got to work at rl tmr. better sleep. nites.

unhappiness defined

i feel down.

that's all.

period.

never leave home without sunblock

saturday was one hell of a day at desaru. we've planned to do a long bike + some run at desaru..but the 100km bike to n fro pulai and the jetty was suffice to almost kill us.

sequence of events

- nice weather to start bike..wooww..so shiok
- wa lao..head wind.. headwind!
- sun getting hotter..baked us alive. and best thing, we forgot our sunblock. =S
- more headwind. non stop all the way to jetty for 40km there.
- u turn back after hitting jetty...cold drink! cold drink!
- stopped for a bottle of OLD 100plus with NO gas when it's suppose to have. consumed some chocs we brought..and headed on.
- WHAM! tricia collides into billy's bike when he e-braked behind a car which was reversing out. driver failed to see us coming, hence didn't stop. billy stopped on time but tricia crashed right in coz she didn't see the halt coming.
- tricia broke the fall with left hand and was in pain.
- the nice driver got conned off by the malay doctor. (well at least she was nice enough to wait for us while i saw the doc and later paid for the medical bill. some nasty drivers could simply have shrugged off responsibility and zoomed right off)
- rm50 for 2 mins of the doc touching my left hand and bandage without even first cleaning my hand a little. imagine the hand wrapped up with all the dirt and grime. eew. some doctor.
- gotten a pain killer and an anti-swell med, which apparently didn't quite help. it was still in much pain. anarex would have worked much better. pffft.
- driver offered to drive us back but we told her it was alright. i asked her not to worry..cos she really is a nice lady to begin with. it wasn't entirely her fault..coz we came from the right side pretty quickly and there was a van parked on her right side. if i was the driver, i could have missed spotting the cyclist on time too.
- nice rengit town was full of nice people. a middle aged malay uncle rushed to my rescue the moment i fell. he was the first person to tend to me. he helped straighten my wrist immediately upon knowing i have landed on my hand. it hurt like mad..but it really helped.
- nice chinese lady dressed in red tshirt helped me up and pushed my bike to the side. she kept popping over to check if i was alright. she even told us there is a chinese doc who may be able to help check my injury to see if there was a fracture.
- malay uncle helped me straighten my elbow upon seeing my hand begin to swell. pain again..but after the blood began to move, it felt better.
- we went over to the chinese doc after seeing the malay doc who is obviously out to con people only. bleah.
- chinese doc is really good. once again pull and yanked my hand to straight it properly and applied medicated paste..after which he bandaged it nicely for me. MUCH NICER than what the malay doc did. at least he cleaned my hand first.
- chinese doc didn't charge a single cent. he was doing it out of charity and operated under the buddhist society. we are grateful..though we should have given some donation, but i was penniless. didn't bring any money out. i've got to remind myself if i do pass by again, i must stop to drop donation in. i'm not a believer of karma but truly am grateful to the doc's help. =)
- struggled onto bike and in less than 1km of cycling out...rooooooooooooom...RAIN. what?!?!
- we biked into a rundown bike servicing hut for shelter. saw this uncle dismantling an old bike and salvaging the useable parts. smart!
- rained heavily. but it stopped quickly. we headed out and cycled on.
- headwind..AGAIN. WHAT?!!?!?!?!!?!? go also headwind, come back also headwind..wa lao!
- looked up. oh..guess what we see? RAIN CLOUDS. best. i mumbled to billy..rain coming liao.
- and the next moment..RAIN ..again. -sobs-
- we u turned back to the hut which was not far away. once we got into the hut, the rain diminished and stopped. sigh. ok..God play games with us.
- we cycled out. 200m out..RAIN!
- crap crap crap! u turn again back to hut..and this time the rain went on and on and on and on..
- every stop is painful for tricia coz pulling the front brake made her hand hurt alot, already when placing the hand on the handlebar with a little pressure was painful.
- rain finally cleared and we went on.
- lots of hills with ALOT of headwind.
- the last 20km seemed never ending
- finally got back to pulai.. RAIN once again
- we dismantled and threw the bikes into the car, in the rain.
- showered at pulai's toilet, using the fantastic spray that's commonly used to wash backsides. ho ho ho.
- we decided to treat ourselves good and went to segamat.
- we saw a FULL SIZE RAINBOW! now that was a good thing for us!
- it poured and rained cats and dogs along the 4hrs+ ride there.
- nice nice nice dinner at good world restaurant. fish was soooooooo yummy..and yam pot was great too!
- had fabulous wanton mee for bfast the next morning. wow..the gravy is heavenly. the chilli made it even BETTER! yum yumyum
- washed 2 cars in the noon. ang ku kuey regained its showroom shine again!
- nice simple lunch with FISH again. i simply love fish! =P billy's mum treated us to all the meals..thank u so much auntie!
- headed back to sg on sunday 4pm. reached sg at around 8pm.

haha.monday noon now and i'm not at work. coz i'm on mc.

silly tricia went to take ibuoprofen on top of the 2 med given and she woke up with a gastric. bloated. burping. wrist still swelling. eczema not looking at its best.

saw dr kee and she wrote a referral for me to get an xray done on my write and schphiod. she's suspecting a fracture coz there is bruising and swelling. i'm reluctant coz knowing it won't help much. at most i'll get calcium pills.

got home and i went into the net to read up on the wrist injury. in the case of a fracture, there is a possibility of the bones not healing properly, resulting in a condition called non union. it also said that sometimes X-rays taken immediately after the injury may not show a fracture.. so waiting 10days might help as the fracture would surface. i'm choosing to wait a while and see how it goes.

meantime i'll continue to apply my zam buk religiously and keep the wrist in the bandage. dr kee suggested that i go get a wrist guard, which i would do so this evening.

end of weekend episode... i brought some things back..

- i haven't got much chance to visit doctors in malaysia, but to me, that visit to the clinic at rengit with that malay doctor, wasn't too pleasant. he's definitely NOT professional. i have never been prescriped painkillers without gastric medicine. even today dr kee gave me a mild pain killer, it came with gastric med. she even reminded me that painkillers can cause gastric.

- there are always nice people around. at rengit town, i found some. i'm thankful because whenever i've gone into accidents, there are always people out there who are so ready to help.

- accident was bad. first time falling on tania. well. left hand hurts but at least it wasn't my RIGHT hand. i can still write properly. phew!

- i can eat alot of junk food. we were just junk-ing away during the car ride. =P jia lart. how to not grow fat?

- only billy can tahan weird tricia. =P he has been really tolerant and understanding when i got real frustrated with the pain. if it's tricia vs weird tricia, tricia would have walked away. haha.

- headwind to and fro plus sultry sun was bad. but i'll do it again, anyday.

- never leave home without your sunblock.

jan updates

i passed the 4.02 bike module..thankful for a lenient instructor - mr soo. else he could have easily failed my s course which took me several attempts to get it under 10s.

new helmets! yay..bbdc has new helmets and there are 2 S size helmets available. =)

hmm..for a change.. want to put up my training progress here to keep myself motivated to complete whatever i need to do.

goal for this week 01/01 - 07/01

swim: 5.5km
bike: 350km
run: 40km
dryland: 2

so far up till 05/01

swim: 7.2km
bike: 104km (+180km = 294km)
run: 10km
dryland: 1

if weather permits..it'll be 120km ride tonight.

still torn between going or not going desaru. i'm staring at my calendar blankly not knowing when to do what. honestly, if i can choose not to work at rl..i'll rather not. but i guess for the extra money..i'll have to do it anyway.

plan plan plan..got to put things in place..

goodbye 2006. hello 2007.

i'm a little late to post a last post before 2007 arrived. anyway, now that it's already here..maybe it'll be just in time to be the 1st post for the new year.

2006 closed with much simplicity and ease.. despite much unwelcomed stuff at work..

i start 2007 with apprehension though.

we drove past the new place i shall next call 2nd home. big..it sure looks big from all angles..what beholds within it is still a blank to be filled.

resolutions..i was told i ought to make some..but keeping them will always be harder than making them. i'll mentally note some of them though.

i reflected on the lessons i've learnt..the things i've won..some things i've lost.. things that bring smiles on my face..and others that made me cry. some things i've realised i must hold closer to my heart, while some others i have to let go. 2006 moulded me in many ways more than one. and for all of that, i thank God.

rain rain rain stop rain

rain rain rain. hiatus. rain.

there was a short break from the continuous downfall yesterday. having the sun out again was awesome. thank God i was on leave and i could embrace every moment of the sunny day.

i did my 2.02 bike module and PASSED! (2nd attempt though =P) it was a lovely day to start a pretty day.

cycled back home first and lazed around.

biked to rjc to get the letter signed. i felt a bit of struggle within me..but i told myself i will start small and give myself a chance to experience a new environment..new challenges..and give myself a few months before i review if this is what i want to be doing. a part of me questioned if i should step back into the accounting sector for that will definitely get me remmunerated well..but of course it'll entail more unwelcomed stress and other what-nots.

from bishan i went down bt merah to get the swimming aids..an accidental discovery of the much talked about stretch cordz.

from bt merah i went down to mum's shop at south bridge road. moments after getting there, the sky began to drizzle.

met up with super boy to wander around a few shopping malls..intended to meet dw but i "lost" him. oh well.. let's hope he reappears soon. =)

went back to mum's shop at almost 10pm to have dinner..and ended up leaving around 1035pm or so after washing one round of the mountain of dishes. biz was good that night thanks to victor's bday celebration in the shop.

to wrap the night..i had to cycle from south bridge road home. i'm not going to take the bt merah-farrer-bt timah route next time. it's freaking LONG and hilly. should have just opted to go orchard-bt timah. =(

the hiatus from rain was short but welcomed. as i peer out of the window right now and look at the rain that i reckon won't be stopping so soon, i'm thankful i made full use of yesterday. next thought: shit. i'm going to drive and bike in RAIN tomorrow..oh man! stinky and damp helmet..here i come.= S

the rain has been disrupting most of the training planned. i might just have to end up on the trainer one of these days. sigh..and what's next? treadmill?!?

should i bring my shoes along? would i get to run intervals tonight? i wonder..i wonder..

ang ku kwey is CONFIRMED coming...woooweeee...i can't wait to start its engine and drive it.. erm..haven't gotten my license but i think driving around the surrounding blocks at cck shouldn't cause that much a traffic hazard right? =P (by the way i'm learning parallel parking on friday!)

cny's coming soon...sometimes i dread cny..i hate visitation..i'm sick of relatives telling me i've put on weight and i'm getting chubby.. it's such a sore spot to me. i hope i can restrain myself and enforce more discipline to stay in shape so i won't run into a whole lot of such unnecessary comments from them again. anyway i'm not going visitation with my bro n parents. i'll probably opt to stay with my aunt in m'sia and spend the cny with my relatives in jb instead.

cny coming also means im is coming. uh-ohh..

i finish work at nl on the 19th.. could tricia go for a short getaway again? can't seem to find courses to take up that'll fall within that window.. backpack to m'sia again? it's fun in many ways..the only boring part is getting around alone. heh..let's hope something would come along. =)

time to go to work now. (not exactly what i'm looking for but life leaves us with little choice sometimes..haha)

just do it tricia

have intended to sleep early tonight but it's coming to 10pm and i'm still online. chatted with grace for a while..now it seems like a floodgate of thoughts is released..

maybe i'm being a difficult friend..but i think i no longer feel chum that close to me these days. he used to be a phone call away, a sms away..a msn chat window away..nowadays? i'm not too sure. perhaps it's me. maybe he's in the blind spot which i am unable to locate on my mirrors.

maybe he's right. i might just find more empathy from super boy and other friends. from my perspective, he's saying he's washing his hands off me. =( that's sad. but it's ok. i know friends do move on. thanks for being a friend to me for the past year. appreciate it much.

you'll still be the first to help me move a mtb from sg to senai airport on public transport..and then kept me company at senai airport on hard plastic chairs till i was ready to board the flight at 7am. and then u helped me move the bike from senai back to sg when i returned..again on public transport.

sorry i haven't done much for u in return.

-disjunction-

i vowed on saturday night that i will never ask my bro & sis in law for another favour. he has also drew lines clear too. sad, how family now becomes strangers i'm not even sure i can say i've knew them for 2.5 decades.

mum will always be the only one kin i've truly got. the only one kin i will treasure and love.

-disjunct 2-

ang ku kuey will be here soon!! this is sooooo exciting.. finally super boy and i will no longer have to be at the mercy of other's "comfort level" nor "see my schedule"...we'll have more liberty to move around as we please.. =)

-disjunct 3-

i'm 5kgs away from ideal. the rift is getting larger and larger. i need some discipline!!!!!

maybe you're right. i'm distracted. i lack that kind of focus and drive i used to have.

stop thinking. stop planning. just do it. do it. do it do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kidz camp's over!

2 days of hectic kidz camp has finally ended. heaving a sigh of relief, i'm just mentally and physically tired. chris too, i reckon. nonetheless, the feedback from the children was really good..i'm just thankful they enjoyed themselves.. (despite the ostracizing of nick)

1 down. 1 more to go. kidz party on the 29th. let's just finish that and close the year well. i've also managed to clear the stuff i've wanted to..labelled all the boxes and arranged things in order. whoever is to take over, i hope it'll be maintained well.

spent the morning ranting to grace..she's so sweet to just listen to my whines..

training progress is still pathetic. i got to pick up soon, now that camp is officially over.

i've cleared most of my files from my workstation. moved all my funny and swim clips back..that's important. i've gathered most of the craft materials i'll like to use..i'll probably use the remaining weeks at nl to handmake some stuff..let's see what can i come out with.

i failed my bike module. idiot..the instructor talk talk talk so much we didn't even have time to practise..how to NOT fail??!?!? grrrrrrrrrrr....rr..r...

tmr's billy indoor tri..i'm confident he'll do well..=) he's superboy after all!! yay!

sunday's my race.. not hopeful to do well for it..just aim for completion i guess.. hope xiao niu isn't too competitive though...else..*gulps*

christmas' coming..i'm looking fwd to the holidays...won't it be nice if i can go for a short getaway somewhere?=)

marathon's over. phew!!

really thankful for a few things..

-thank God the hamstring strain was kept at bay throughout the entire run.
-thankful for pre and post race massage by the top massuer- Billy .. in fact since the hamstring strain a week ago, i've been getting massages after every run..woohoo!!
-thank God for the nice cool weather
-thanks so much to all the wonderful Trifam Pacers..you guys rock!!
-thanks to adrian n his guys who brought to us the powergel..not exactly the yummiest food on earth but it's race-needy.

i did a 4:47 for this yr's 42km.

had initially wanted to give up the run..coz i didn't want to aggravate the hamstring strain that had bugged me for a week.. i gave up on friday's interval training 1/3 way through as it was pulling so badly.. on sunday morning, i was really reluctant to go as i didn't want to do a bad run. nevertheless, billy's enthusiasm rubbed onto me and though i was frowning (due to my growling tummy), i went. lost billy amongst the bag deposit crowd and i dragged my feet to the start point. the thought that went through my mind was that i was definitely going to stop once my hamstring pulled. probably won't get to finish the marathon..but nvm la..

i was all the way at the back ..so it took a while to stroll to the front.. half way through marina, spotted trifam 5:30 pacers and i thought...yea..y not? pace with 5:30..that's a decent timing and their pace is comfortable to follow..

after following them for 10+ km..at esplanade road i lost them at a drink station..so i pushed on alone.. not too long, i spotted two 5:00 pacers..and i asked them if they were still on time for 5:00 finish..one replied ..yea!..and i pushed forward.. found jeremy yanglyn who were the 5:00 way way way in front at ecp area..and i lost them after a water station too.. i told myself i want to try to locate the 4:30..can find, good. can't find also nevermind.

pace all the way to 35km was great.. i employed a new strategy to hydrate from the start..from 6km, i started sipping water at every station..if i took a cup of 100plus, i would skip one station. around 21km mark, powergel was made available. as i started to feel a little draggy, i began sipping my powergel..there were no water stations any where near ahead..hence i didn't gulp down the entire pack..slowly intaking the powergel over a few kms really helped..when i saw the 'drinks ahead' sign, i took in more and washed it down with water. at 30-33km, i took another power gel. (the 2nd one sucked. eeks.)

all's well till 35km..my pace dropped slightly and felt my legs go heavy.. the hardest bit was the last 3km..i was so near to stopping to walk..but seeing cheng really made me push on..i passed him and that kept me going. i wanted to win him badly..coz he's just too xiao zhang!!..hahaha..

pushed on..and i tried to kept pace with the few gals around me.

glad at 4:47 it ended..yipee!

hehe..to think since powerman, i totally never do any mileage. for 3 weeks, i was sick for almost 2 weeks. i strained my hamstring for 1 week. the longest run i did in those 3 weeks was 10km. before that the longest mileage i went up to was 20km. i haven't done any 30km runs at all. dratS!

i'll keep in mind to train properly next time..=) the bonus to the run yesterday was really the nice cool weather. it does make a huge difference. last year it was hot hot hot!

fuelling strategy is really important. guess experience has taught me to plan how i want to proper fuel my body for a race. in addition, brick training for powerman taught me to endure the soreness in my legs and just keep moving. my quads were so sore at the last 3 km..but i told myself this feels exactly how i felt after getting off my bike after a 5hrs bike ride and running..if i can tahan through those training..this one i can tahan too.

looking forward to more runs. 30km kl pace setter run next on the list.

marathons have a healing touch to them. they are really painful to go through..but they make us stronger. today i feel so refreshed and i'll be doing a recovery run tonight...even swim training would be fine for me too. =)

billy did a fantastic job. 3:47. exactly 1 hr ahead of me. =)

yea..but on the whole, i still prefer doing duathlons over marathons la..coz i like to bike and feel the wind..hahaha

another good news..i'm done with driving module 2. proceed to module 3!..bad news, module 3 is all done in the circuit. CRAP..today i did my few rounds in the circuit and it was PAINFULY SLOW. i was driving at less than 30kmh all the way..mostly at 20kmh. gee..i'm so going to miss my 70kmh rides outside. but at least i know i'm progressing fine.

tricia wants things to pick up steadily as it should. and i want it to be so. =)

$_$ money face

i was reading kpo forum and read this thread on food they disliked and reasons why.. hahaha..kpo me wants to do likewise on my bloggy too..

food tricia dislikes

-duck meat (i had bad indigestion from it once. the feeling sucks!)
-blood cubes (no no no..but hard to find it these days anyway..hahaa)
-mutton (stinks!)
-beef (i always have this thought that it doesn't digest well and when i think of a piece of steak i actually imagine white creepy maggots on it too..-faints)
-sotong (last time i like it but now gradually hating it..chews like a piece of eraser in my mouth..ahh..except those seasoned baby squids..the red red ones!)
-most seafood (except fish..i don't like shell fish..no to crabs, not a big fan of lobsters..no to oysters..no to clams..hum..=X)



food tricia likes

-strawberry yoghurt
-mushrooms (all kinds!!)
-tofu & soya (until i got gout)
-bread (wholemeal..yummy..tau sa..yummy..tricia is bread face)
-tau sa pia (salty ones pls!)
-mummy's chiffon pandan cake
-mummy's pineapple tarts
-mummy's achar
-mummy's grass jelly
-sashimi (raw fish! fish! fish!!!!!)


eh..let me put this list on pend first...want to close off this blog window so that i can do my research..

a thought sparked in my mind after reading kpo forum (yea..kpo forum again).. i might want to go into doing some biz online..been discussing with billy about doing our own biz for a long while..but we thought it'll be on our kiv shelf until we have capital to..but i'm witnessing an increase of pple doing online biz via their blogs..selling clothes, accessories..etc.. it might just work out..let me do some research..and i will be back...

$_$ <---- tricia's face now...giggles!..hahaha