Ever since starting work, I've been amassing a stash of chocolate bars, both self-bought, and some gifts from friends. I've been like a hamster, already hoarding faster than I can eat. Until recently. I've been going through a bar a week, or faster. Need to start looking for more shops to buy cheap and good chocolate from...

Damn virus! I have a Recycler.exe virus on both my computers, and all of my USB media! Bloody irritating! Managed to remove it from my thumbdrives, but still couldn't delete it from my computers... Rubbish antivirus programs can't detect it at all! At least a downloaded program allowed me to stop it from spreading around, but the fact that it is still sitting in my computers is really irritating me...

The swimming pool was seriously overcrowded today, especially the full-sized pool where 4 kids swimming classes were going on at the same time! Couldn't really swim with everyone else squeezed into the middle 3 lanes... This led to me discovering that the medium sized pool actually has a place to sit in the pool, and have high-pressure hydrojets massage your back and feet! Totally enjoyable! I spent half-hour just sitting there! And another 20 mins lounging on a reclining chair under the afternoon sun... Nice...

No camera this weekend... Sent it to Canon for cleaning, must be real bad because they asked for a week to do it!

A long weekend, but it didn't start too well haha! Went for the movie premier of Phobia 2 at Vivo after work on Friday, and while the older Phobia 1 was good, Phobia 2 was more like a comedy, a bit like the Troublesome Night series from HK many years ago. After the 2 movies, then we went for the entry to St James, although I didn't find it quite as exciting... Slept at somewhere near 4 in the morning, after which I had to get up at 6.30 for my STK staff brief, my god my long weekend! At least got to meet up some of my good old crappy colleagues from attachment... hahaha! Caught the last episode of 败犬女王 on tv, man I have a new favourite show! Really touching sia... then after been touched I slept the rest of Saturday away, good old sleep is best!


Went to Sungei Buloh again! This time with my aunt, and we got there like super early! Spent sometime trying to take some sunrise photos at Kranji Park, although all turned out rubbish... need to find the secret... But anyways we were damn lucky, and many many creatures turned up to let us take their photos! I'm quite in love with the place (I'm also in love with BT, Labrador, Changi Beach, Ubin, St John's Island and Kusu Island... hahahah!!), I'll be back!


Changed back my big tires on my Giant, and off we go to the trails! Super duper unfit, as I really struggled on my 3 laps of BT. Especially bad is this fallen tree, where I had to squeeze under the tree, and moving my bike while squatting under the tree. Really hoping my back don't give way again, I'm way far away from home in the middle of the jungle! Starting to time my laps again, after an 8 year gap... Yes I'm thinking of joining the race at BT in November! Only 2 laps Sport category, nothing ambitious, more of for the fun of it hehe, like the triathlon a week ago... still about 10 mins per lap off race pace, if I can't bring it down then I'll have to call off my race plans haiz...


Met up with my mom, sis, grandma, uncle & family at Dairy Farm trail. Then they hiked on the bike trail to BT... we lost track of where the Dairy Farm trail is! My grandma is still going strong and smiling after hiking from Dairy Farm to BT!


My mom going up the steep cement downslope that I hate (so many potholes!)... man I'm tired! I'm always so tired after my weekends! How to work hahaha?!

My birthday weekend has come to an end, already was tired to start off with, with all the walking and running about from work, my legs were already dead, and still are even now as I speak...

Went out for dinner and coffee with the FD gang on birthday night. It was fine, just feeling quite damn tired, as well as pissed with work issues (I still am pissed, just cannot seem to solve some problems...)

My Triathlon team No 3118!

Me at the end of my bike segment... It rained during my bike segment, and made it even tougher! I was already feeling the effects of not training (only 1 training ride done just the week before... Ssshh don't tell Violet and Vincent!), also the fatigue from work and of course, my dinner the night before at Geylang Serai with my D2 guys which I and Marshal got lost looking for the meeting place and walked from Paya Lebar to Gelang Lorong dunno-what and then had to go back to Haig Road!

But I think we did quite good! Although I felt I should have pushed much harder than I did, and should have prepared better than I did (rest, sleep and eat better before the race...), feels like I've let down the team... haiz anyways it's over and yeah I had some fun too! Have to thank all the people who had gave their birthday wishes to me, really grateful. =D

My happy birthday light drawing to myself!


My birthday drink, at the stroke of midnight. A little something to mark the moment where I sit down, alone, thinking about the past, present, and future. A time to thank the heavens, for letting me reach this point in life, for letting me still be around, for watching over me. Between the alternations of initial intense burning of alcohol in the mouth, and the aftertaste of the bitter citrus peel and slight sweetness of juice and spirit, my thoughts are also alternating between the sweet and the bitter of the past and present. The future, I am sure will still be the same alternating sweet and bitterness. Will I like it? I don't know. But I know I can make cocktails out of it, even if I do not like the taste of it. It will be a total waste if I don't even try. Happy Birthday to you, Kelvin.

Training for our 13 Sept triathlon. Calculated on Google Maps that I covered 36.5km on that on Saturday morning / noon ride! And I was crazily pedalling almost non-stop for an hour! No wonder I was totally KO-ed halfway on my return trip, where I had to slowly drift along on the park connectors under the shade of trees back to my home... Yes I've managed my target 40km/hr speed intended for the triathlon! Somemore, the headwinds expereinced along the 3km dead-arrow-straight Lim Chu Kang Road (the stand-by Air Force landing strip along Tengah Airbase) was hell! I had to shift down to my middle-ring just to continue moving ahead! Managed to stick on the ass of 3 roadies on trick Scotts and Specializeds on part of the road too! They did seem more than a little a little surprised to see I was on a Giant cross-country bike... Guess my Psylo suspension fork alone is already heavier than their frames and wheels combined! =p


Beautiful stretch of road along Choa Chu Kang's Bricklands Road where mushrooms were growing on the roadside grass along the entire 2km road!


Needed to get new cycling tights (my old ones had a hole on my ass area)... also wanted to catch 败犬女王 on TV! Then, to kill time while the guys were in KTV, I went to Fort Canning (my 1st time there!). Such a nice place! I love the greenery, so well-maintained! So many interesting plants too! Coffee tree, cocoa tree, cinnamon, kapok, things that I've seen in books but never in real-life...


Sunset on Fort Canning...


Met the guys for dinner at Molly Malone's (again!).


Went with the 2 Vs to collect our triathlon race packs. At least the t-shirt was ok looking... there were nothing else of worth mentioning inside...


Kel's stick-man in another picture! This time he's caught running away! Maybe he's shy?