Follow the scent...

2009-10-13T10:11:00.001+08:00

why is my girl's handphone with me?!

2009-10-09T13:34:00.005+08:00

just ended my chem test!! finally.. damn stressful this past week. Luckily got event on sunday to take my mind off studying for a short while.

Anyway, 3months of relationship and its improving!!. Nevertheless we shall see how it goes from here, looking hopeful! love my slqx so much. but sometimes i wonder if im tying her down from her job. damn.

Anyway, my bib number for Quadthlon is Mens Open 0001!! haha so funny. Coz i was there kinda early on the first day of collection, and when i handed my paper to the guy, he saw my name and told his friend, "0001". His friend was like "huh?? 0001?!"
LOL i totally didn expect to be 0001 also. I remembered i didn't register very early leh,coz that time was busy from work. HAHHAHA omg 0001!! shit damn pressure. All see me confirm think im some seeded guy.

BUT I'M NOT!!!

I'll just try my best then. Hoping for a good race!

Find strength in Love

2009-10-08T00:00:00.003+08:00

3 months!! yay!

2009-09-30T11:06:00.004+08:00

Recess week is going on right now, trying to incorporate some form of training each day to keep fit. Studying after exercising and meeting slqx basically makes me a happy man!

Went Macritchie for a run today with slqx. damn long nvr been there already, the last time should be 3DIV X-cty. All the memories. The place changed a lot since then, with the new multi storey carpark which provides much more convenience.

And i saw a scorpion today! Live and walking! Feel like keeping it. So cute with its huge pincers.

And the MOST IMPORTANT THING OF THE DAY

I heard of a new disease!!

2009-09-22T09:28:00.003+08:00

It is not the critic who counts,

nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,

or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,

whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;

who strives valiantly;

who errs and comes short again and again;

who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions;

who spends himself in a worthy cause;

who, at the best,

knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,

and who, at the worst,

if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,

so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

2009-09-13T18:00:00.001+08:00

Trifactor is over!!

2009-09-05T02:49:00.000+08:00

What weird way to post with slqx asleep beside me and im in the car cramped with my laptop while the sky gets overcast every minute. haha but at least got msn while waiting for ms gf to wake up...

Ran a 10km this evening. Felt totally wasted after that. I think long time didn run at that high intensity le thats why... but nevertheless must get back in shape for trifactor triathlon which is next sunday at ECP!! So excited..but this race is for me to see how much the bike will affect after installing the various upgrades. As slqx say ultimate waste money..but only if it doesnt help haha.

Tmr is trifactor tri race pack collection at novena velocity!! Hope to see everyone there! Busy day tmr!

Meow

runNUS 09'

2009-08-30T12:46:00.000+08:00

Today was runNUS 09!! Just ended and still raining cats and meows. I have mixed feelings about the race in general,will share them here.

Woke up early this morning to pick up eric to go to NUS. Upon reaching there,we had to queue to register for our tags. My wave was supposed to start at 7.30am, but because of the slow registration process, I ended up starting at 8.00am. It was a messy start, due to confusing instructions and dunno why suddenly got 4 or 5 waves. But nevertheless, this type must just anyhow start at the front, otherwise ended up getting blocked by human traffic. And the starting upslope wasn't exactly the easiest of starts either.

Established myself in 2nd position with the 1st just about 5m infront of me. Got one part there wasnt any marshallers, in the end we detoured for nothing. Only we 2 coz I think the marshallers then went closer the the route to guide the 3rd onwards, as he was quite far away from me. Basically the route was a pretty challenging one, especially the upslope all the way to kent ridge park. It was like run 50m, see one uturn up, then run 50m and then uturn up again for about 1km. All the while going upslope. Damn xiong. Considering the fact that I didn train since AHM and the only hill trainings I ever did was like a year ago? with 3DIV at bedok reservoir hahhaha. owned. somemore slqx say the slope is easier compared to MF. omg slqx is a monster!!! ahhhh and just when I exited Kent Ridge park,i noticed overcast sky looming overhead. Was wondering if it will rain..

Anyway managed to hold on to 2nd till when we re-entered NUS via NUH. The stretch there was entirely marshall-less and I was wondering if I was running in the correct direction or not. So I slowed down and look everywhere but the back. Didn't know while I was doing that for about 800m, the 3rd runner actually caught up to me and I was like stunned. So I just paced him to finish. I wanted to sprint challenge him for the finish and I know I could have won, but as per AHM, a cramp slightly started on my right leg and I stopped the sprint straightaway with the guy sprinting to the finish line. I ended up in 3rd place which was quite surprising for me since I never run for 2weeks. Finished with a timing of 45min52seconds, 4 seconds after the 2nd guy. Ting Fu from RLF finished 47min+ i think.

About 15 mins after I finished, it rained like crazy. Luckily we were all in the tent wahahha while watching the rest getting soaked!! LOL. some of them actually stayed in the rain to cool down.. Then the MC said that the rest of the categories were cancelled. I can imagine the disappointment of the runners who were affected. Come so far, with all the running gear liao then rain and cancelled. Madness. and the worst as I was telling sarah was that theres NO PRIZE PRESENTATION. WTHHHHHH... damn.. Ok la last year 2nd so not so bad after all..

So I'm back at home in my recovery tights. sarah will be ending work soon! haha gonna bring her to NTU again soon!! :)

2009-08-29T09:10:00.007+08:00

Had been quite a busy week as usual. Coz this week all the lectures/labs/tutorials are in place so need some time to get used to the pace. Pretty manageable so far. Its just the problem with the lecturers and the way they speak. The chinese lecturers are practically RAPPING their way through in class and lecturers. Might as well just read textbook myself.

So today slqx had an excursion of ntu's lectures,library and food. Not that they were that great anyway haha. She attended 4 hrs worth of lecture lol. Lucky she was there for the last 2 lectures, otherwise I really could have just slept or walked out. Ate lunch at the food court which was bustling with people at that time of the day, but still managed to find a seat. After that we just browsed around the school a little, and spoke to some GE guy who told me im a risk taker. hahaha. Some career profiling lol.

Anyway so happy that my aero helmet has arrived!! but no usage of it yet. till next week! haha meow!!!!!

2009-08-25T23:44:00.000+08:00

Quite a hectic schedule recently. Stupid lab don't allow me to enter in slippers. Argh. At least I forgotten to print the notes, otherwise I would have known to wear shoes to lab. Not like my friend, she printed liao still wear slippers. WTH!

NUS run this sunday, swim trials next week, but i want to cycle! omg. Been quite slack recently regarding trainings. But still feel hungry.

slqx destroyed the chain!! aaahhhhhh... gotta send in for repair.

Ok time to rest.

2009-08-18T23:22:00.000+08:00

Nowadays its a juggle between meeting slqx/schwork/training/work. Its good actually, in that I wont spend time idling around like last time in secondary and college. School work makes me think mentally,training lets me exert physically,work lets me interact,and slqx makes everything worthwhile. although now coz of work very hard to meet up with slqx,hope everything is going well on her side.

Goodnight!! tmr lessons at 830am. ARGHHHHH hahhaha shiok.

Army Half Marathon 21km Race Report

2009-08-16T16:40:00.002+08:00

Ok! Have a quick review of the race here!!

Slept last night around 10.30pm after settling some stuff, esp preparation of Prot02.. Woke up at 4am, at least not like last year's nonsensical 2.30am just to chop the place at the starting line haha..no pressure this time round. Arrived around 5.15am where I headed for the toilet straightaway with a queue there. Waited for awhile then after peeing, i realised 21km start liao and I was like 300m away from the start line hhahaa.. so plus the crowd, i started roughly about 12mins after gun-time. Starting was crazy, very very crowded and had to employ evasive manoeuvrings to make sure I stay within my cadence. All the way till East Coast park was a technical run filled with looking for opportunities to overtake. At least that took my mind off the fatigue then. From turning point of ECP, that was when the run for me actually started. Saw Hakim along the way as well.

Basically I just concentrated on maintaining my race cadence of >94. I don't know if its because of the slow pace at the start or what, but actually i managed to hit a 95cad pretty easily. Actually the crowd sort of helped me to have a 'pace control' at the start, because on my training runs I'll burn out at the start, leaving myself with ITB problem that immobilized me a year ago. So feeling pretty good through the 2nd part, took couple of drinks for 2 aidstations.

The drummers along the way really motivated me a lot, because hearing their drum beats aided my steps as well. Was pretty heartened to see of my customers actually said hi to me! At least my effort paid off. Hoped they managed to clock a good timing! Nevertheless, had to carry on and focus on the run. Felt some pain in my hip flexors and I ignored it to maintain pace. Went away after awhile fortunately.

Along the stretch of the pitbuilding,I saw 3DIV booth!! Omg so happy to see them with their booth being the biggest and so many people! So proud of them! Wonder how did the 3DIV runners did though haha.. I saw some of the guys wearing the 3DIV tiger mask! haha very inspiring and motivating although they might not know me..fellow Pantheras!

Nothing much after that other than I saw Arvind,Sam along the way and Kamal taking pictures as well. At the final 200m, I sprinted. When I took my first sprint step on my right side after my left, it cramped. Nice. Then had to just run normally dammit. What a irritating piece of calf. So I sprinted for a grand total of 60cm on my left leg. Argh. Ended at 1hr48 gun time, RS800 reported 1hr 36min. Which is 1 min more than Tri-Factor 21km. I guess it was ok considering the crowd.

Went for the massage after that as always a post-race routine, and when the auntie pressed my calf, it was like totally steamingly pain. After that just chilled out at the event ground while waiting for slqx(who pangsehed me), while talking to my TNF partner,matt. Saw my former classmates as well. Chatted with RunFanatics guys, esp Eric and Eddie! Both looking cool as always! Didn't know TRF got quite a number of girls as well.

slqx fell down! twice somemore! =( felt paiseh for interrupting her from her friends to eat with me..

and also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISS GF!! haha!

Time to go home,rest and do some revision!

Army Half Marathon/Singapore Bay Run 21Km Men's Open 5:37:13am

Distance - 21.19km
Time - 1Hr 36min 45s
10km Split - 46min49s
Pace Max - 03:34min/km
Pace Avg - 04:34min/km
Ascent - 40m
Cadence Max - 112 (WOW never hit this before-did it on downslope though hahahahha)
Cadence Avg - 94
Avg Stride Length - 116cm

~sometimes you just feel tired.You feel weak. And when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you,gotta find that inner strength and just pull that shit out of you, and get that motivation to not give up, and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse~

Busy week!

2009-08-15T22:28:00.000+08:00

Starting of school week! Had lectures here and there but not tutorials yet.. So far so good, just that certain subjects like econs/communications is pretty strange to me coz i've never taken them before.. So gotta revise a bit, and so are the maths and physics formulas! I promise to do constant revision, coz i've learnt my lesson during JC. Started way too late. Known a couple of friends who are pretty smart, i guess i need better company or else my grades will be affected which i wouldn't want.

But I feel that the workload should be manageable. Just that need to constant revise, otherwise dont know whats going on..

Miss slqx pretty much, but trying to make the most out of the time we have can spare!

Anyway tomorrow's AHM and today RL got so many people doing last minute shopping. Haha all buying the knee straps/gels etc.. I love to work during racepack collections and pre-race day. Very interesting to see everyone getting hyped all to run the next day. Feels like a bond between those runners..

ok so tmr work up early at around 4am, gotta sleep now!

Safety and Peace, my Friends.

2009-08-13T14:33:00.001+08:00

I just realised something...

my GIRLFRIEND is EVIL!!!!

2009-08-10T14:14:00.003+08:00

Had a great day yesterday! fun time at work and great time at night with slqx!! i think GI joe too much futuristic stuff...story got some problem, quite hard to follow.
But its really exciting! so exciting until slqx fell asleep.. wth!

ok time to go work!

sherman's bday party on saturday!

Change of mind

2009-08-08T22:47:00.002+08:00

Went to NTU for orientation on wednesday! I was pleasantly surprised by the number of girls in engineering!! hahahaha.. got some pretty hot ones as well.. will see who will be in my tutorial class!!

Ate like free at the reception, takoyaki balls, meesiam, kebab, fried rice etc.. At least no need spend money on lunch and tea break!!

I realise although my timetable look quite slack, i think that its going to be tough to stay focused on my studies. Partly because of work and if I should join a CCA. And also my own personal trainings as well, like cycling etc.

Pretty darn far to travel to NTU, even by driving because of the massive jam along PIE-BKE every morning.. Will see if any of my classmates need fetching in time to come, hopefully got some hottie girl!! AHHAHAHAHAHHA

Alright, so i got new wheels for my ride, and seems pretty fierce now. Will test them soon! cant wait for it.

Adapt like a Jaguar, Hide like a Leopard, Run like a Cheetah, Reign like a Tiger, Love like a Lion

Tri-RUN

2009-08-02T23:51:00.002+08:00

Had my 21km run this morning. Pretty good timing for myself, 1hr35mins. Its my longest run since Sundown 84 and I managed to hit a PB! So happy. But then maybe not really because slqx aint talkin to me!

Worried right now.

Hope everything is fine.

2009-07-31T00:11:00.002+08:00

Tri-Run 21km this sunday!!!!
Team Scryler's Duathlon next sunday!!!!
AHM 21km next next sunday!!!!

GG.

Cyclone ITT

2009-07-26T15:07:00.002+08:00

Today was Cyclone ITT 36km at Changi Coastal~

First time doing a time trial event so don't know what to expect.

Upon reaching there,I immediately saw lots of TT bikes with aero helmets + team jerseys. All looking like they gonna break a record or something.. Those wheelsets were crazy- H.E.D JETs/Corima trispokes/ZIPP Discs. Can't imagine how much their bikes must have cost. There were couple of road bikes as well but just a handful. Their bikes were certainly chio. My Spect told me it was quite intimidated.

So it was 3 laps of 12km sprint flats.. Each rider was released at 1 min intervals to prevent congestion. And it turned out good. Those riders with full disc rear wheels sounded really scary when they accelerated!!

I started about 9.45am,just when the guy infront of me was being flagged off, his chain dropped! Like wtf man.. hahhaha had to dismount to help him. After he left I went ahead to clip on my cleats. And about 20 seconds before my flag off, 1 guy doing the uturn for the 2nd loop crashed into the barricades. It was freaking loud man coz it was the metal rails that he collided into. Don't know how bad it was though, coz i began shortly after that.

About 12 km through, my left aerobar armrest actually gotten loose and collapsed onto my drop bars..leaving me no choice but to use the road bullhorns for the remaining 20+ km. Argh man coz for the first 12km the aerobars really helped me alot.
Ended up completing the 36km in 1hr10mins.

So slqx want to sell her bike!! WTH!! can someone please talk some sense into her not to sell it away?? but nevertheless rollerblading is fine too hahhaa.

Time to rest!

2009-07-25T18:52:00.004+08:00

Was supposed to cycle early this morning.. but kena pangseh by farhan!!! wth! but its ok coz when I woke up I was in a daze, wondering have I even fallen asleep yet?? And I woke up earlier than slqx!! yayyy!! Upon hearing the news of the pangseh,I headed back to bed for more sleep.

Then met sarah for race pack collection - Tri Factor Run 21km.. When we reached there, there wasnt any queue, then suddenly there was a line behind us haha.. After that we went to RL to chill out for 5 mins.

Had a nice subway lunch after browsing around at Novena. Came across Activ360 where the guy suddenly just talk about his NS life..weird.

Tomorrow is Cyclone ITT and my starting time is like the 2nd last haha wth man!
But my cateye is spoilt so I have to rely on their Tag Heuer Timing chip. I think it will be accurate nonetheless.

Meow!!!

2009-07-24T00:10:00.003+08:00

Did a light 12km run with the Kona. I found it quite light and responsive, but a little tighter along the sides than I would have liked. Overall it was a pretty good buy for me. Will probably reserve it for my Tri events with the LT+

I saw a white lunar today and was extremely tempted to get it. As shown below.
argh.

And this is the other LunarGlide color. Not as nice as the orange in my opinion.

Next shoe for me is probably a Diadora Mythos,design looks like the Kona. Will see how then.

Currently shoe inventory : Asics Bandito/Nike Katana III/Nike Lunaracer/Adidas KONA/Adidas LT+/Saucony Grid A2/Zoot Ultra Race

How on earth will I be able to use all of them!?! Damn but the temptation to increase the collection is too great to resist!

Recently I seem to have a lack of sleep.. I thought yesterday got dental,so woke up pretty early for it. In the end rush through the heavy downpour to realise it is actually scheduled for this morning. Argh to the max.

So this weekend got Cyclone 36km ITT, next wk got Tri-Run, wk after got Scryler's Duathlon and subsequent week got AHM.

Well done.

2009-07-20T20:45:00.001+08:00

Bought my Adidas Kona today. Didn't feel much as compared to the LT+. Will bring it for a run soon..

2009-07-18T23:58:00.002+08:00

Things that i WANT to buy:

Adidas KONA
Dan Brown - Lost Symbol

Things that i NEED to buy:

Trail Shoe - Hedgehog GTX XCR / Salomon
Rear Bike Light battery

2009-07-17T00:16:00.001+08:00

I'm touched.

i'll do my best for you.

Definitely.

2009-07-15T23:15:00.000+08:00

I really want everything to work out fine.

Not sure whats going on though.

2009-07-13T21:37:00.002+08:00

Wah had a very hot afternoon today.. Pretty moody due to the heat but at least i got to meet sarah at evening time, so not that bad. She had a long day of lessons and her heels must be quite painful! ouch.

We went to PP to get some of her additional make up stuff, now at least with a clearer idea of what to get. After that, we browsed around PP. Nothing much then.

NTU Orientation is canceled! Hopefully get to see more of slqx.

Water Fiesta 09

2009-07-12T23:58:00.003+08:00

This morning seemed like its gonna rain, cold wind and had an extremely strong urge not to attend. But I knew I had to, because i think it has been a month since my last event, SD84km. So yeah this will be a good and easy start. I took part in the biathlon, a sprint to be exact.

Was expecting the swim part to be extremely messy since it took place at the swimming pool. But it turned out quite well because the swimmers kept to the right. So essentially no collision unless overtaking, which was not that difficult either. Did an average pace for the swim, with my first event that im using bilateral breathing. I felt good, because unlike previously where I was using 4 strokes/breath(easily out of breath), this was just right for me. To alternate sides also enabled my neck not to stiffen on my right. I doubt I'll be using 2 stroke/breath coz the oxygen will be too much for me, since I'm using PowerBreathe my vol. of oxygen per breath would be higher as well.

The run was 5km which took place on the track(12laps). Pretty good because I can pace myself and I'm proud to say that no one overtook me!! weeee..

Met slqx for lunch and hung around tampines to check out some of her girly stuff which I have no clue or advice to give. Hope that everything will go well for her at the new job!!

2009-07-11T09:33:00.003+08:00

Hello all. A cool morning with rain. But got to work later.

A great day yesterday.. Inside TP for the first time, culture was very very different. People playing poker outside the some staff's office, people selling things on those carts like its Bugis and generally the pace of life there seems more relaxed. Long time never been inside a school compound already, so a bit strange to me. But the experience was good nonetheless with a guide to bring me around, in the form of a particular human - slqx.

Collected my 3rd love yesterday. Spec looks good with its shiny drivetrain and its Jammer bars. Its ready for the Cyclone ITT 2 weeks from now.

**Update

Here are some pics of Spec!

Currently reading :

Temple - Matthew Reilly

2009-07-09T22:19:00.003+08:00

My new tattoo!

Sketched bike!

2009-07-09T10:11:00.000+08:00

Looking forward to the future!

2009-07-07T23:01:00.002+08:00

had a sleepless night last night and am glad that it is resolved. Relieved to the max!

2nd RLN night run today, faces were more or less familiar as compared to 3 months ago..
Many things have changed since then, some for the good and some for bad.

Nevertheless, it's good to take things within one's stride and not falter at the face of obstacles. Look far and the looming obstacle is a mere block of dunno what

I'M SO HAPPY TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-07-06T12:17:00.001+08:00

I won't be seeing my Spec for a week!

...

05/07/09

2009-07-06T00:40:00.002+08:00

A cooling day today which started off quite hot actually. Very busy at RLT.

Had a tough choice of templates, but decided on the Spiderman one because it looks quite nice, i think. Hahaha.

Whole week will be at RLN,quite sian coz have to travel far.

Tomorrow rest day so I shall go for a swim to get ready for Sunday's event.

OK OFF TO BED!!

The Crow and the Butterfly

2009-07-04T23:44:00.003+08:00

Went down to T3 today to get my cycling shoe, SIDI Zephyr. I really hope it will increase my cycling performances because I'm totally not a cyclist at all. Pretty expensive and I promise myself not to spend big bucks on bike stuff anymore. With the last being the overhaul which will be done this coming Monday at T3. My gears are slightly cranky and my rear wheel needs some true-ing as well.

Got my Profile Design Jammer GT aerobars today, because my previous S-Bends are making my back ache after being in aero position for longer times.

A long day at RL, nothing much to talk about anyway.

Heres a pic of my cycling shoe. Quite heavy and I've got to learn how to clip and unclip better. Hope to be proficient in time for cyclone 36km TT. Otherwise go there destroy other peoples' bike only. haha!

04/07/09

2009-07-04T01:08:00.002+08:00

Hi!!!!

Today is the start of this blog. Don't know how long will it last though haha. HARHAR!!!!!!

Next few weeks getting busy, with work and school. Don't know if can cope or not.
GG!!

I had a nice crash today, my first ever. Felt unreal because I didn't know what to expect. Lucky I'm here to type this. Meow.

Next event : Water Fiesta 2009 Sprint Biathlon 12/07/09

Next Run event : Tri-Factor 21km
Next Bike event : Cyclone ITT 36km(not registered)
Next Tri event : Tri-factor OD