Spent this Friday afternoon researching on my FYP, feeling lost man! There're really very little information online about the testing of ceramic armour materials... Got to go back to the stash of journals that I've compiled during my time at ST Kinetics, here's 2 of the 4 thick binded books, with various ST brochures as my front cover haha! This's a brochure of the tank that I've been driving around when I wear green... I love the flour coated green pea snack~!

Still couldn't really find any good methods to do ceramic testing apart from those tests that I've been using all along... Getting stuck, I decided to go running... Did a run of almost the perimeter of Bukit Batok! This is Little Guilin, a place which holds much childhood memories for me... My primary school is just opposite it, and I used to spend many many afternoons here after school, fishing, catching various water creatures, and plain playing a fool... My dad used to bring me here to catch fish when I was really really young too... those days were good days...~

Here's a map view of my run today... totalled around 9.51km, and I took about 55 minutes, so it works out to be a speed of 10.5km/hr! I love running in the rain! So cool and comfy and can breathe so much better... Machiam fitting turbo to the lungs haha~! Need to train more, IPPT in 2 weeks time... I'm aiming for Silver and $200~!

Back to the trails~

Took some time to try to fix my rickety old Giant, was itching real badly for some trail riding after watching videos and pictures of the Mt. Snow US mountain bike championships haha! Got it to stop creaking, until 15 mins into my road ride to Bt. Timah haiz... Realized how heavy a real mountain bike is as compared to my other bike which has no gears and roadie tires, must be a good 5-6kg more! And it feels so much softer and comfy, like comparing a sofa to a wooden park bench! Having gears allows for faster speeds at lower effort levels, but it doesn't feel quite as fun as suffering on a singlespeed bike...

My first half of BT was sort of an acclimatization ride, having to get used to the loose gravel and muddy surfaces and dancing around rocks, roots, logs and durians after months off the trail... Then when it all started to come back to me again, then I really opened the throttle... I managed to catch, and overtake a couple of riders who were on super expensive carbon-framed Scotts, first by riding right behind them and pressuring them, still they stood their ground and didn't want to let me pass them... I noticed that they really couldn't climb, turn and descend as fast as me, and I shifted to my big ring and blasted right past them on a climb, on my heavy creaky rickety bike! That felt real good wahaha! Ok ok, I know I'm a competitive person... =p

Then over at BT, a bunch of young riders on super expensive downhill bikes and the full gear were practising on the stairsteps-downhill section. I have nothing against young riders or downhill riders, but these guys were quite arrogant, and still blocked my way! Man I was pissed, and I showed them how to descend that stairsteps section at speed on a 3-inch suspension travel cross-country bike... Who needs their 8-inch travel bikes for that little section? Cheap thrill~

Found 2 little durians along the way, but I had no knife to open them, nor carrier bags to bring them home, so I can only give them to the passing jogger uncle haiz... But later in the evening, my uncle brought durians to my home yeah~! Everyone in my family have this same character where we don't really talk much, resulting in a really quiet house most of the time... My uncle and his family on the other hand are rather chatty and fun-loving people, and only in the presence of them do our house really have that jovial, prosperous atmosphere, good to have them here~

NDP rehearsal, in the rain~

I think my cooking has improved by lots ever since I've started cooking lunch and dinner for my mum everyday... At least my dishes do look a lot more palatable nowadays~! This is fish and watercress and wolfberries, good for eyes! My creation~!

Went with the FD gang to take photos (everyone else) / watch (just me~) of the NDP rehearsal... Missed the flag fly-by and F16 starburst fly-by because of a toilet break with Wailoon... Hmmm, this is the first time I actually get to see the top of my head! Good good no mess no white hairs haha~!

Luckily still got to see the Black Knights, our position quite strange, it's the turning point for the planes and Mas almost got his back and neck broken while trying to shoot pictures of the planes flying overhead~! But good spot because the planes were doing stunts almost right on top of us, good to watch, good sound effects, not so good for photographers... The dark clouds in the skies are a warning to what will happen later...~

It rained pretty heavily before we got to watch the fireworks display... Panic for all the camera peoples~

First time I'm watching fireworks hiding from the rain under a building...~

The fireworks display actually was split into 3 segments, either intentionally or not I don't know...~

While everybody was packing up and chit-chatting and eating Aw's Pringles, the fireworks came up again for the 3rd time as though making fun of us~!

Saw this gecko at my lift lobby... It was huge, probably even longer than the length of my palm I think! Must be good nutrition all those cockroaches around my void deck...~

Midnight Playtime~

My plant's flowering again! As usual, it bloomed at around midnight, and the single flower's very big and white this time round! Must be the new chicken poo poo fertilizer that I'm using, stinky but so yummy to my plants! I've always regarded this as my lucky flower, hope that it has brought good luck to whatever things that requires good luck now and forthcoming~

Flower's point of view of my estate~

My friends have told me several ways to alleviate my occasional sleepless nights, like warm milk, relaxing and not thinking about serious stuff, although my mind train still insists on chugging along full-steam ahead on those nights... Yesterday was going to be one of those nights, and this was my solution - mangosteen vodka! Probably not the healthiest solution, but definitely among the best tasting! Nope I'm not the type whose body alcohol content is higher than body water content, but I surely do enjoy my drinks once in a while~! No need to get drunk, but a glass does help to soothe the rampaging mind train and the fun of drinking really takes the less-enjoyable thoughts off mind~

Scared~

My mum's cataract operation was done yesterday, it was a short operation, lasting only about 30 minutes in the OT, although the pre-op registration and checks took a good 2.5 hours, not including the barrage of urine and blood tests the week before. My mum only has a cataract in one eye, the other looked pretty normal to me, so hopefully this will be the last time she'll be here... Now post-op she's doing pretty fine, although she's being rather 'pantang' and avoiding many foods and daily activities that other relatives (fellow uncles and aunties...) say is bad for her, although the nurse had said otherwise, like no housework, no cooking, no TV and newspaper reading... so she's sitting in her room looking really bored, next to the radio that I had moved onto her table, with her sunglasses and curtains drawn because of a sudden sensitivity to light on the operated eye, while I have to cook for her everyday, and I'm doing all the laundry... My cooking isn't good at all, must think of ways to improve otherwise her tastebuds might be dead after 2 weeks haha~!

Had a run today, tried running from my place to Clementi via the park connectors. It was drizzling lightly, and I love it! Noticed how dark I had become, after all the cycling around last 2 weeks... Ran to this disused railbridge across the Ulu Pandan river, the second time I've been here, and crossed it. I had forgotten my previous experience, and wow, I now know that I have this real fear of crossing bridges over water. Strange, because I have absolutely no problems with high bridges over terra ferma. But I was shaking when I was on this railbridge, especially when I could see the river waters flowing through the gaps between the metal strips... I had to stop on the bridge twice, holding on to the siderails! And still I was so scared that the siderails might somehow give way~! I was scared that my shoe may fall through the gaps (the gaps are about 2 inchs wide?)... But halfway across the bridge, I can't chicken out, and I was cursing why the bridge is so long (it wasn't that long), man this bridge really brought out the wussy in me haha~!

It's not like I can't swim... and the bridge wasn't really that high too... But it wasn't difficult to make the decision to run the longer way home along the main roads rather than cross the railbridge and run on the park connectors on the return journey... Luckily my jelly-legs recovered immediately once I got onto solid ground and could try to look handsome (ok, no frog prince, maybe a handsome toad hahas~!) and run my way home~ =p

Funny road signs~

Here's a medley of funny road signs (screenshots) as seen on Top Gear...
What's the point here? In eye-catching, blood-red colour and big fonts too lol~!

So much for careful driving... The driver must had hit the signpost very carefully... lol~!

Hmmm... Doesn't look like smooth traffic on the left lane~

So the squirrels only live on this 11 mile stretch of road? What happens after 11.5 miles? Who would actually care to measure 11 miles while driving?

Hmmm... Red squirrels with horns and long spindly legs...~

Newborn Baby Panda~

This pink soft toy-like thingy is guess what? A new-born baby panda~! It looks nothing like a panda now! It looks really toy like... Every bit of it is so tiny and fragile, and I do find it particularly cute, with it tinnny paws and ears and muzzle, eyes still not yet opened... Aawwww...~
National Geographic

To Heaven and to Hell on a Friday~

Took my Friday off from work to go down to apply for the Wireless@Sg promotion at Suntec City... I want their free gift, a Creative Ep630 headphone set, but I can only collect it from 4 August onwards...
My Sennheiser headphones' sponge cover is finally starting to rot after 3 years... But it still sounds brilliant, only aesthetically it's starting to look its age...
After meeting my insurance agent for an annual review, I then walked down to Bugis Street, where I found my necklace~! How does it look on me? Don't talk about my hair... it's Bad Hair Day, everyday... lol~!
Met Kaiyeow for dinner... stressful... tiring... depressing... frustrating, he wasn't like this not so long ago~~
In the process of preparing for my mum's cataract op on Monday, stocking up on post-op foods, good-for-the-eyes-foods, putting up curtains, preparing sunglasses, washing the bathroom, preparing her psychologically... I'm even giving her my lab safety goggles in case she needs to do her laundry or any cooking~!

Sleepless at Nights~

Having trouble getting to sleep again lately... It's a bad habit, can't fall asleep when it's the proper bedtime, and sleeping when it's good to be awake... My mind has so many many thoughts running, some serious, important issues, some urgent issues, some not-so-important issues, some outright absurd thoughts, some purely building air castles on dreamy cloud 9 wonderland, it's during quiet moments like bedtime that my mind would totally run wild with such many thoughts... it's the holidays so I shouldn't be stressed out... I am still finding it hard to fall asleep without a boster... Years after discarding my old stinky one... One of my many thoughts: why am I missing my boster? Why can some people sleep perfectly good without bear-hugging a boster, while I feel so naked and vulnerable when sleeping without something to hold on to?

Finally got my Power98 call-in contest prize... 3.5 months after winning it on air... It's a hamper of 3 CDs, one rap single, one DOA movie soundtrack, and this album from Mika, which i find to be rather good surprisingly, for someone who doesn't listen to English pop at all...~

Journey to the South~

Went to the Southern Ridges park connectors on this Sunday afternoon, my first time there. Went on impulse, minutes after leaving home on my bike, and promptly got lost trying to find the entrance to the parks... Got to Mt. Faber, couldn't find any entrance, then cycled back to Alexandra, where I finally found HortPark and the high metal treetop bridge opposite it... And walked the trails to Mt. Faber, and then I cycled back to HortPark, where I walked the trails to Kent Ridge, and ended the day with a nice warm hilltop sunset... Being a good boy and the friendly and responsible cyclist that I am, I dismounted and pushed my bike for the whole journey. Nice tall bridges, I love the wind~! Nice hilltop scenery too, where I stopped to do little bike fixes and have that pineapple tart that I had brought along as a mid-ride snack... Happy! Because I conquered so many steep uphill climbs and tight switchbacks (Mt. Faber, Telok Blangah Hill Park, Kent Ridge) on my single-speed bike! I have legs of steel wahaha~! I love the downhill on Faber too! So many tight hairpin turns, and so steep and fast I actually got to overtake a motorcycle along the way wahaha~!

Many many bridges? No... actually only one zig-zagging bridge~

Spotted 2 Nephenthes Rafflesiana plants high in the trees... These are pitcher plants named after Stanford Raffles. Nobody seemed to be able to spot them despite the signage placed right beside one of the plants. I was in a good mood, and helped a China aunty uncle couple spot this plant, and explained a little to them what this plant was... Haiz I shouldn't had tried to be an engineer... Nature is where I belong truly... My handphone's camera (SE K770i) stinks as compared to my old one (SE W800i) despite having a higher megapixel count... The colours are so dull, and the focus is so bad, and worse of all, no zoom while in 3MP mode! Ponying up for a real camera real soon hehehehe~

Sunset on Kent Ridge Park hilltop, to cap off my journey of the South~

Strange pineapple? A cute cycad plant at HortPark~

I didn't know hydrangeas actually smell so sweet! I had walked past them, until their perfume drew me to backtrack my steps to admire and smell them~

Yeah I got your names again ChaiChing and Ester! Sorry, I stink at remembering people's names hahahas~!

Lastly, Hamilton won yet another wet race! He's the new RainMaster after Michael Shumacher! And he won the race lapping everybody except the 2nd and 3rd placed cars! You rock handsum botak boy~!

My First Time~

Zouk-ed for the 1st time... Went with KaiYeow, wanted to make it for Happy Hour, but Ky as always, had some funny nonsense happening, had to go home to change his shoes as both of his shoe bottoms came off along the way... so we didn't make it as planned... Both of us are clubbing virgins, and we were totally blur~! We queued at 3 different queues before getting it right and making it into Zouk itself~! Inside, we were totally lost again! Got our drink, and then proceeded to join in Singles Night... Then we tried to dance after that... ok, conclusion, both of us cannot dance wahaha! But Ky really enjoyed dancing, so even after the alcohol wore off and I sobered up and retired to sitting at the bar, he was still on the dancefloor... Maybe it's the company I'm with, maybe it's just me, but I was pretty bored... So this was it, my first time at the clubs... Man I was really tired on my way home in the morning! I was nodding away while standing on the train! Really amused the aunty beside me hahas~!

In other news, I'm amazed that there were 3 S'poreans in contention for the Best Female Singer at the Taiwan Golden Melody Awards, but Fish didn't win to make a M'sia clean sweep, although she did get Best MV... and Hamilton isn't on pole at the British GP although all is not lost till Sunday chequered flag... I did get to meet Boss Sioh after work on Friday evening, albeit a rather interesting FYP meeting, doing it all while in his car, fetching his son from childcare, and while waiting to tabao fried spring chicken for his kid... But finally at last I can start my FYP proper~

Mid-Week News

Haiz... I have been bugging Boss Sioh since the start of June, till now I had still not managed to meet up with him regarding my FYP... He's down on MC till friday... more waiting... Man I really want to start it soon, although there are news that my project is being halted due to safety concerns over the usage of nano-powders... Now I might need to put on a respirator machiam ala scuba gear while using my DC plasma machine! Nonsense~!

I have been on a snacking craze recently, perhaps being sparked by the 2 weeks of reservist, where there's good food whenever I need it... Man I ate like 5 meals a day during my 3 days outfield exercise! On my desk now are 2 packs of Chipsmore cookies, a tube of Pringles, and a pack of crispy seaweed leftover from my Tuesday movie date... Ooops I just emptied the tube of Pringles! No dieting for me ;) ~!

It may sound funny, but those 2 weeks of reservist army training had been bad for my own fitness! After stopping running training for 2.5 weeks, I finally started running again today, a 11km night run to Boon lay and back. My knees were hurting pretty badly by the 5km mark, and I was pretty much going on willpower for my last 3km... Luckily my timing is still pretty much good despite the bad knees. I love the feel of night running! The quietness and cricket music and the clarity of the sound of my own breathing and footsteps really help to focus, and it's so relaxing in a special way... I like to take off my shirt while running, it's really so cool and airy and sweat rolls off so so much easily! And it helps to get used to the weird stares from people and the occasional cheeky wolf-whistles haha~!

New Fish song out~!

Fish has a new song out already! It's a duet with 古巨基... Song name's《还是好朋友》...~

In the meantime, in other news, my cable Tv setup box seems to be faulty, and I'm left with flickering Tv shows with moving horizontal lines moving up like an inverted waterfall... And my mum has just been inflicted with cataracts, and has to go down to the SNEC for a checkup, with surgery pending... Sleepy me, stayed up to watch Euro finals, man Spain play brilliant football! Viva Espana~! Pondering whether to go to the nearby Shell to pump up my bike's newly changed back tire (only Shell can pump above 80psi!)... Working back in CPL tomorrow, then I have an appointment with Boss Sioh regarding my FYP, and then another dinner/movie date... Busy busy... Good good~

My Saturday~

Biked to Labrador Park on this Saturday evening... I just love to be near the sea... I love the sound of waves, and the fresh sea breeze... I love the excitment of seeing fishes and other sea creatures in the water... Totally relaxing... I really pity those NS army guys who are stationed here, and at many coastal locations around the island, day and night, 24/7, just for a certain Mr Mas Selamat... Heck I really don't see Mr Selamat getting caught anytime soon, with these NS guys here or not... To these NS guys' credit, they really do present a good image to the public, by not doing anything else stupid, despite the boredom of spending days in the midst of boredom, no radio no entertainment nothing, sitting and watching, surrounded by people having fun... that, to me, it's a job well done already~

Labrador Beach gives beautiful sunsets every time I've been there~

My bike's back tire just exploded out of sudden, out of no apparant reason... The blast toppled several bottles of bike oil and polish wax 30cm away from it, and nearly blew out my right eardrum as well... My right ear's still ringing as I'm typing this post! Hope my neighbours don't start calling the police to report a gunshot that they've just heard... So strange, after 9 years of cycling, this is the first time that I've experienced, or even heard of any bike tires self-exploding when parked at home! My tires' are rated for 100psi... Hmmm maybe I need to check if my inner tubes are rated for 100psi as well... Just in case I better release some air from the surviving front tire~

EOM~!!

After wearing the green uniform for 2 weeks, spending many hours and days in my tank, being muddy and dusty and dirty and messy and sweaty and itchy and pimplely and rashy and tired and sleepy. 3 days in the jungle was a big challenge nowadays, after Civilian Conversion Course, especially the part about bathing - the lack of it. The lack of quality sleep was another, about 6 hours of sleep every day in the jungle, interrupted by people snoring, walking around, rifles dropping, alarms ringing, mosquito bites on the hands, legs, face, ears, mosquitoes buzzing into your ears and nostrils, the thick stench of mosquito coil smoke in the air, mixed with the whiff of pee, and the occasional excrement as well, from the neighbouring grass patches, and the eu de perfume from my own smelly uniform... Glad that it's over, for another year, really glad... It's a blessing to live a peaceful civilian life really~

4 hrs to Book In~

My before booking-in snack attack~! My favourite Chipsmore double-choc cookies plus a sudden craving for Pringles and a cup of coffee... amidst the mess of army jockey cap and camp pass and my lab safety goggles and my Fish March/April calender unchanged since my exams ended lol~! Spent most of my weekend sleeping, watching online streaming movies and snacking, after having my Saturday morning burnt to help transport my SSPH from Kranji to Sungei Gedong Camp... In the midst of trying to speed up things, I was caught driving in "Drive" instead of "Low" gear while trying to park the SSPHs in Gedong garage... in front of my CO, S3, BC and RSM... Luckily no scolding lol! Managed to drive 3 guns smoothly up and down the low-loader trailer despite not having done that for at least 3 years... Funny but now I'm known as "Alonso" among my fellow SSPH drivers for my garage stunt despite me being an anti-Alonso F1 fan... New nick after being known as speed devil during my NS days... Looking forward to driving my air-con (one and only in S'pore) SSPH Primus on Monday for my 4D/3N outfield exercise amidst sour jealousy from all my fellow gunners wahaha~!

Timed a trial ride from home to NTU on my "sports car" bike... Took only 25 minutes! On a bike with no gears! The up and down slopes were a little more taxing on the legs, but the pure simplicity of no gears allows for the greater enjoyment of many other aspects of cycling, freeing brain space for concentrating on pedaling, cornering, traffic, looking at girls etc~ But found out that my 1.25 inch width tires can get caught in drain covers... no joke~! Loved my bike setup totally! The skinny tires accelerate like wind, held speed like a missile, and corners like Lewis Hamilton's McLaren... Never regretted having that Rockshox Dart2 fork in front despite adding like 2.5 pounds to my ultra lightweight bike setup... Cheap, super smooth, and the option to lockout when I feel like out sprinting buses and lorries at traffic lights and upslopes, and helped to maintain control on high speed bumpy downslopes... The GT Aggressor frame is really so aggressive... Corners like a Lotus Exige and sprints and climbs like Lance Armstrong's Trek TT bike... Stiff but forgiving on bumpy surfaces, with a special spring to help on out-of-saddle efforts... Not to forget my Sram 9.0 v-brakes, set-up for power braking, so strong that I have problems braking smoothly despite being used to my Shimano XT 4-piston hydraulic disc brakes on my other bike... Man I love cycling~! Happy to see Mr Brown as a fellow bike commuting supporter as well~!

My SunDown photos are out~!!

In the midst of my 2 week In Camp reservist training now... Home for my NTU subject registration. Found that my Adidas SunDown marathon official photos are out~! This is me running over a bridge near Pasir Ris...~

This is me caught suffering behind a fellow runner~

Me at the finish line~! Impossible is nothing~!

Going to the zoo~!!

Went to the zoo today~! Got a free pair of tickets due to Blood Donor Day, and asked Shimei along... Both of us have not been to the zoo for at least 10 years! Ok... there were many many exciting new changes to the zoo, but dinosaurs are not really part of the animal exhibits haha~!

Come any nearer and I'll bite your nose! A curious blue-tongue skink~

Squabbling iguanas, over some humans-will-never-get-it-issues~
The animals mostly looked so so bored, either stoning-away and chewing on grass or just pacing around their enclosures in almost clockwork fashion... Except for the odd monkey or orang utan play-fight, or some really funny antics from the orang utans and the probiscus monkeys (R21-rated)...~

Posing with a "borrowed" Ah Meng soft toy... Soft toy Ah Meng is so dao, dunno looking at where hahas~

Otter family... ok ok, 2 oversized fake otters... some clay otters and a big cardboard otter... the real ones are in the enclosure behind the bamboo fence and are so really damn cute~! One individual otter was especially funny... it was doing backflips off a rock when we first entered the zoo at 10am, and he was still doing it when we left the zoo and 4.30pm!

No Feeding... strictly~!

My World~

Went with Marcus to Leng Kee Road to test drive the Toyota Vios, and collect the complimentary free movie tickets as part of a radio promotion. Then we went to next door showrooms Porsche and Subaru, where we test drove the new Impreza, and took turns sitting in the Porsche Cayman like deprived kids in a toy warehouse... The reality of life was laid out in all its naked glory... the marked differences in the lives of different individuals, after seemingly made equal when brought to the world... it really made me feel how puny I was as an individual... I really wasn't any comfortable at all despite being surrounded by so many pieces of machinery which I often scour the Internet and magazines for pictures, videos and technical specifications and reviews for to lust and drool over... perhaps the world of expensive fast cars and the accompanying owners and supporting cast, where members work hard to try to belittle all others, is really not where I truly belong...~?

This is probably the world which I truly belong to... I love the camaraderie between fellow cyclists (majority...), I love the friendly atmosphere at bike shops (especially at Bike Labz!), I love the freedom of being on a bicycle... I love squeezing past and irritating car owners stuck in traffic jams... At least I wasn't being looked down on when riding with people on bikes costing 2, 3 or more times more than my own rickety wheels, and age is not discriminated and doctors, engineers and secondary school students from ages 14 to 64 can ride and make jokes and gulp 100-plus together... worlds within worlds, guess this is life, ces't la vie~

My Bike No. 2 is here~!

After months of waiting due to some unforeseen issues, my Bike No. 2 is finally ready! Uncle Ah Chai of Bike Labz has done a great job... it's his first ever singlespeed bike project! Note there are no gear shifters front and back... I thought it would be a pig to ride up any slopes, but not did I not die riding it back from Changi Simei to my home, I did it in 2 hours! The lack of gears seemed only to motivate me to attack the pedals more, my speed on East Coast Park was even fast enough such that a roller blader chose to draft behind me for much of the way! Of course my skinny red 1.25" Panaracer T-Servs helped greatly as well... Uncle Ah Chai, as well as his shop assistant Ryan were pretty surprised by its speed and ease of acceleration when they took it out for test rides, good compliment considering all the other fantastic bikes they see and sell everyday. I especially love my gold-coloured headset and seatclamp... bling bling! Really appreciate the work by Bike Labz that I'm now wearing their t-shirt to help endorse their shop haha~!

I've Done my 1st Marathon~!

I've finished my 1st marathon! Went to Changi Village straight after receiving Aw at the airport, but man I was too early, with another 4 hours to burn, alone, before KarLong and Wood came. Luckily before long KarLong came and we lined up on the starting stretch and the airhorn sounded.
My 1st 10km went by pretty quickly and comfortably, the next 10km was tougher but by the 22km mark I was pretty much running/walking on empty... the PowerGel and banana booth at the 25km mark was a godsend. I really hated the overhead bridges, as well as that undulating/dark/narrow stretch along Siglap, and by the 30km mark my body is already experiencing pretty unprecedented levels of pain. Only Fish's songs on my handphone keep me from concentrating on the whines and screaming within my own body... Passed by some nice waterside scenery, some old buildings, and many sporty and pretty ladies beside me at times, overtaking me at times, but could conjure little strength to admire them all hahas! Luckily there were a few pretty road marshalls and motivators along the way who were generous with their bright smiles to lift my leaden spirits =p
It's now done and in the bag, all 5 and 1/2 hours of self-challenge... in fact the bout of heavy rains and strong winds after my cool-down was a big challenge too, as I struggled badly shivering into the main tentage with the warmth provided by the masses of sweaty people packed together...
The train ride from Tanah Merah to Jurong East never seemed shorter, as I was pretty much dead for the journey hahas! As well as being one with my bed for much of my Sunday as well... Now waking up, my knee and ankle joins are also feeling as rusted as those safety pins holding my number bib to my running shorts~! Waiting for my official timings and photos to be posted on the official website~!