Merry Christmas!

A check on the previous entry, it was penned almost 4 months ago. A total of 4 months worth of memories unrecorded. Gosh, shall go back and talk about it sometime later. The main aim today is, season greetings my friends!! Merry Christmas! I'm sure we had a blast together. We went to Gab's place for lunch. The food is really really awesome. There's the award-winning shepherd's pie, cocktail sausages, roasted chicken, beef stew, potato salad.. Any diet that you're on will most probably fail unless you want to gain weight. This is definitely the most western homemade meal that I've ever had. Feels like I'm celebrating Christmas in the US. Greattt. Life is awesome with lovely friends and fooddddddd. We went to Teoheng for karaoke after that, sang until our throats are sore. Hahah. Then we went for dim sum supper at Geylang. What a calorie overloaded day. I shall workout tomorrow am then get started on preps for method discussion this coming thurs. We may be watching Sherlock Holmes tomorrow? Followed by dinner. So it'll be a fulfilling off day. Yeah. Hopefully I get all my stuffs done. Prioritize Shermin! I've some time management issues recently, super distracted. Should cure myself of this ASAP before I screw up my studies. It's the time for new year resolutions again! But usually I'll forget about them after a few days. Yeah that short. No follow through. Did I make any last year? Shall check my archives. So maybe my new year solution is to try remember what they are? Lol. Need some time to reflect upon this year and think about them. That's it, 'till the next time, see ya. Thanks for reading.

Life's Comprehension

人们所(我想)追求的只不过是真正的自由。

不受社会，金钱与时间的约束。

Possible? I think not.

最近我觉得累了。一天天的失去自己。
两头烧，再烧我就要消失了。
我是谁都在也看不清。

Officially fallen into the rat race.

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生活其实可以很简单。。吗？
想回到原始人的生活。

Enjoy the Good Times

Wow. I didn't know that I can blog with my touch haha. The last time I tried I couldn't key in at the text area so I gave up..thought that it's something to do with flash or java or something like that. Well, I am a technology noob.

Today's the first lesson for calculus..have no cherie or jee with me.kinda bored and calculus is gonna kill me.seems extremely chim. Cant remember anything that I've learnt in the past. To make it worst, the lecturer is a Chinese.

After class, I went to meet Jee, Bryan, XY, Marc and his 2 other friends for dinner. Ate at Benten cafe because I have strong attractions to the dessert displays. Lol. Ordered the Hagrid-sized "pot"of ice-cream which Jee says she can finish it alone.. I doubt that. Hahah. After that we still went for a second round of dessert, can you believe it?! We are all trying too hard to get fat.

When I was showering in the morning I was still admiring my flat tummy, now OMG it got back to fat size again. Good times are REALLY short-lived. Sadded.

Sports

Reading up and watching highlights of FIFA women's world cup makes me think that football is so cool! Actually i joined football for a pathetic 1 month in sec 3 before i broke my leg. Can't even shoot the ball properly.. should have joined at the very beginning when i'm in sec 1. well well what can we say about decisions in life..

Now and then i have this urge of playing in team sports! Whatever game is fine, captain's ball, bball, HANDBALL. come on give me a team!(a venue and more time pleaseee)

trying to break records by studying 23 lectures within 2 days..Jess i need some of your superpowers.

:D:

A goodnews to share, I received my promotion letter today! Promoted to Tech(II) and today, the 8th of July 2011 is my parent's 25th wedding anniversary. Double happiness yayyy!

But the next 2 weeks is gonna be crazy. With our plant's SDM coming, gotta work OTs and I dont think i have enough time to study. oh god. I shall start revision soon.

10KM

A couple of updates recently. First, Jess is back! but  by the time i'm writing this, she has already left for jarkata 4 days ago. lol. Finally met up with Jess after ONE YEAR. gosh. Days, Months and Years seems to increase in speed. It doesn't really feel any different seeing Jess again after so long, almost feels as it she hasn't left. lol.

Alright we went to Kuishinbo for dinner buffet, and it just happens that i've a marathon to run the next day so it's a perfect carbo-loading session.

Too bad I couldn't join them for K after dinner. gotta go home and rest well. but well, didn't really rest because i was experiencing some pre-race jitters. I certainly didn't expect that, totally lost my coolness with age. hahah.

I would say the increased heart rate and adrenaline rush that lasted throughout the whole night and stretched till the race hour does make me stronger. So thanks to that, I ran 10K continuously for the first time in my life. The most i ran during training was only 6k so it was also a surprise that i completed the marathon within an hour. I feel a strong sense of acheivement after the race. When I'm finally able to sit down, i began to feel the effects of endorphins, it was fantastic. 

  Now i shall take a long break before i resume training for my next 10k SCM. Hopefully i could break my current PB of 00:59:25.35, I'm aiming for a 1 minute improvement, heheh.

EARTHQUAKE!

Today we met up to celebrate Xiao Yang's 21st birthday. Watched Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides.

It was good. Very entertaining and funny as usual. Love the eccentricities of Jack Sparrow and the mermaids are really beautiful.

Then we went to Swensens at PS. Had a giant earthquake after dinner and the ice cream really turn out to be an aftermath of earthquake because everyone was digging into it! Freaking funny! Swensens should actually serve their icecream that way to make it a true representation of EARTHQUAKE. hahahahhahah.

Another awesome group picture!

We then decided to give XY a makeover, get him some new clothes.. but it failed terribly. Nothing seems to fit. lol. And XY said he wanted a mouse. So i guess we'll be buying it for him next time since all the shops are closing.

I dont understand why guys want a mouse for their birthday.

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Cherie also did this for XY's birthday photo album. I loveee all these photos! Seems very 阳光！aww.. miss the great time we had at Phuket. We should take more pictures under the SUN! :DD

Exercise is good!

Now I finally understand why research shows that exercising can reduce stress. I used to think that exercising by itself stresses us physically and this will be in addition to the psychological stress if we are stressed up. How can it possibly reduce stresss???

I was feeling quite stress yesterday, reached home at 11.30pm but still gotta complete some stuffs before going to bed at 2am(okay I admit that some time is dedicated to fb). And I dont even wanna think about next week, will be attending a 2 day course on Mon and Tues, Wed when I'm back to work I gotta teach the others what I've learnt(zzz), need to start working on that 10-over page report due the following week and Fri is my final exams!

I actually planned to go for a run, but looking at the time i sleep, i thought that i surely couldn't wake up that early and i gotta leave home at 11am. So i set my alarm to 10am. (My precious 8 hours of sleep a day) Amazingly i woke up at 7.30am this morning, feeling a strong urge to go for a run. So I did. I feel the cool morning breeze and closes my eyes from moment to moment to enjoy the freshness of air. I ran a little faster than I usually do and it really brings my mind away from the things that bothers.

After running I went to the playground, I sat on the ground, close my eyes and then lay flat on the ground. A minute later, I open my eyes and I see what I usually see in pictures. A clear blue sky with half of it obscured by the lush greenery of the underside of the canopy.

Then I went home for a cold shower, followed by a hearty breakfast while listening to Olivia Ong's soothing music. I realised that my heart which had been beating a tad faster since last night has returned to normal and I feel revitalised. There's always a small voice my head which keeps telling myself that "I'm stressed. zzz" but I choose to say that " I can do it!"

Homeeeeeeeee!

I miss my home so much. I only step into this place to sleep for less than 8 hours and then out i go again. (yes, im working at a construction site and you will see a new tourist attraction pop out of nowhere very soon.)

Took half a day off from work today, it certainly feels good to be dress in my ultra comfortable HOME clothes and feeling clean after a shower in the afternoon.

Pictures below are taken on Monday. Lunch with my momma and bro!

Story: I woke up at 6.30am, left home at 7am for a 45mins on-the-road run. I wanted to run to Bishan park to see where skateline is. I only know that I ran in and out of the park, run around the whole park and eventually turn back to my routine run route because i cant find it. After confirming with my mum the route, skateline is at park I and where i ran was park II. zzzz.

Well, the calories burnt in the morning are gained back by 5 times more. So my efforts went down the drain.

Attending skating lesson tmr! :D

Cooling day

When we mark a cross beside the symbol of the party tmr, are we voting for the party or the candidate? comparing party to party and candidate to candidate can give us different answers. So how should we judge?

May the best candidates win tmr. Majulah Singapura.