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..