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..