Eventful fortnight
Monday, February 20, 2006
Wow wow wow! Seems like it's millions of years since someone saw an update on this blog yea? Can't really say I'm terribly busy though.. coz I'm really just slacking away most of the time.. no blogging coz of the inconvenience of no laptop.. and partly want to keep that chingay post as long as ever.. and mostly.. just so simply lazy. But the past few weeks have been rather full of events.. well not so.. but few blogworthy events so read on! (in reverse chronological order)
NUS Biathlon 2006
8.15 [Seah Im Food Court]
There were runners in all sorts of running attire.. lean and mean.. they looked like they could sprint off anytime.. no doubt they were experienced runners.. boy did I feel intimidated...
8.30 [Sentosa Arrival Centre]
Gotta dig at DnD again for losing my Islander card... made Weijie pay for my entry (go collect from DnD yourself hor). Saw more runners hovering around.. while wj pointed out to me a NUS IVP biathlete.. as I munched my da-paoed roti-prata
"你应该半个小时前就吃完的。现在还吃！" wj reprimanded me.
"我等以下切扁他们，他们就会记得是那个肥肥、刚才吃 roti prata 的切他们。"
9.00 [Sentosa Tanjong Beach]
More athletes at the beach! Almost felt like I shouldn't be there.. was so nervous I went to shit. Took my registration pack.. had my body marked.. and struggled to pin my race number onto my very un-pro running attire. Yes while the rest of the world had pro running singlets.. I had the orange sleeveless council jersey haha. Not that I don't have a proper running attire.. but they er.. (can't fit anymore).
9.29 [Still at Tanjong Beach..]
Waiting for flagoff.. all the pro runners were already stuggling at the waterfront ready to plunge in.. while wj, tat and I were at the back.. taking photos.. slacking away. Saw Zhengxi.. Julian.. Liqiang.. Chaoz.. which made me feel quite relaxed.. haha coz they were 玩玩而已 also... and...
9.30 [Flagoff!]
Supposed to flag off at 9.20 but well.. the crowd started jumping and hopping into the sea like easter bunnies on a hot plate.. I followed suit behind.. and started swimming...
.. and swimming......
.... and swimming.......
(it seemed like a neverending swim.....)
Lapped by many.. tried to avoid kicks by the breaststrokers.. saw a familiar body-marked number on the thigh in front of me.. it was Tat! Haha.. Swam together till the turn over point..
Boy when I got out of the sea I felt heavy like gravitational acceleration became 98.5 m/s2. Chaokenged and walked for a long distance into the sea (with Tat and Zhengxi) before starting to swim again..
Swimming was never my forte.. and didn't want to shack out before the run... so I kept on telling myself to relax... relaxx... as I pulled my strokes closer towards the shore... Though I never felt that I swam so fast before..the current really helped.. maybe it's the relataive motion of the waves also.. I felt like I was really gliding through the water on the return journey.
[21 mins later]
Out of the water.. chaoz came out with me.. didn't wanna run coz was feeling damn heavy and my feet couldn't lift off the ground.. went to the changing area but couldn't find my stuff! Took me a while before I regained my sanity and figured out where I left my stuff.. dillydallly put on my running attire.. popped a can of red-bull.. before I reluctantly proceede with my run.
Whoa lao the 1st few hundred metres of run was terrible la.. My feet were like chained to the ground.. no matter how hard i try to chase the guy in front of me (thought he really was quite slow) I couldnt' catch up with him... No matter what must complete the race.. so I'd just have to press on...
A new ray of light came to the running phase of the race when I caught up with Tat.. and so we ran together.. at least got someone to talk to. A few moments an uncle (the person who I was trying to catch earlier and which i did) ran beside us and said
"Gotta keep up with you youngsters. Otherwise I'd stop."
"Haha ok!"
"But I gotta make a dig at you guys.. I'm 53."
Haha.. whoa 30 years older! Turns out that he joins biathlon every year.. so it's quite an experienced runner. And he didn't join the full distance just coz the wave started late and it'll be too hot. so duh.
I'd totoally caught my momentum by the time we hit the turning point.. running at my usual pace already... together with the uncle we caught up with a few runners in front of us and spurred each other on to the finishing line. Gatorade.. wet sponge..simple pleasures under the torturous Sentosa sun.
[25 mins later]
"Chio! Chio! Quick! Quick! Finishing already!"
Can't figure out if it were weijie's jeff's or diana's voice.. but I made a dash for the finishing line. Haha whoa still could dash leh.. damn should have started sprinting earlier.. but wouldn't have made any diff la.. no prize anyway. So i ended in 44th place.. with a timing of 51mins+. And got the Biathlon t-shirt I registered for!
Though it was a disappointingly ugly t-shirt haha.
So all in all the virgin biathlon experience was rather enriching! At least I completed it in a somewhat respectable time (for me.. considering minimal training). Saw many familiar faces too.. Jiexin.. Peishan.. Christina.. CWC.. Songkun.. Weilong...... Thanks to Jeff for coming to support.. (and look after bag haha) and take photos.. We slacked around the beach for a while.. tan.. dry clothes.. look at babes.. (and dogs).. before we finally packed off for home.
Full distance the next time?
Haha need some guts to take it on man!
Chingay Heartland Performance @ Jurong
I was a clown and I made 2 kids cry.
Haha.. so ironic right? It was the 3rd of my Heartland performances.. I went for the 1st for the money.. of which it rained.. so I 不劳而获 haha.. the 2nd at Hougang/Kovan was for the money too but I was the magician then.. couldn't really fit into junsheng's black coat haha.. but the crowd was really 热情! And there were fireworks!! And the kids were really cute! Though they didn't really play with me the 'magician' (junsheng could have done a better job entertaining them with card tricks) and they all loved the clowns. So determined I was.. this time.. I was a..
Clown. But the Jurong crows wasn't as fun as the Hougang ones.. and there weren't fireworks.. but there was a mini-processions which was fun not because we had to act out but because of the other performers who were playing with us. Haha I played with the kids skipping rope.. hopped onto another float to take photos.. even jumped off (and fell off maluly) to give kids sweets.. haha but that's what clowns do ma.. malu themselves.
The funniest part of the day was that some lion dance ahbengs tried to hit on Pauline. bwahahaa.. they asked her for her phone number which she was to coyly shy to give.. This photo says it all:
purely candid shot. no poses.
*LOL*
Ok boss. Collect money time!
Valentines Day
1 year after my last year's ridiculously whiny post about v-day.. guess how I spent my 14th February?
I spent Valentines day with xy
(and gabe)
studying in the central library.
Haha super off rite?
Kudos to Chiwawa our CN2125 Heat and Mass Transfer Lecturer for putting a test the next day.
Block Events
13th Feb was the Block Steamboat dinner and I must say it was the BESTEST Block Event ever! Attendence was fantastic.. the atmosphere was there.. started on time.. ended on time and everyone had fun! And moreover it was cheap! Ooh I could almost smell the steamboat as I type this (or maybe it's because I'm hungry haha)
16th Feb's event with Block E didn't turn out as well. Zaihao was terribly disappointed too coz everyone disregarded (mostly out of ignorance) the significance of a Block Day and held their own practices.. meetings.. that day. Result: lousy attendence. It was also the 1st time i felt that ponding had an adverse effect.. as all the girls ran ahiding after being threatened to be ponded.. which made our attendence even more pathetic. but well.. Block E still had their own version of fun.. splashing water.. throwing hengfai into the dustbin.. blah blah blah..
And I must say there was a great amoutn of liveliness in the block when Level 6 and Level 7 started to war against each other.. THIS is what a block should be like! I really should stand up and give the level 7 girls my heartfelt standing ovation and applause for their retaliation... which even involved the seniors Faith Belle and Cindy. You've earned your stay in the block. I may close one eye now, but I vow out to flush out the individualistic, cliquish, self-centered residents who are degoratory to Block, if not Hall, culture.(you know who you are. Bye bye!)
Mid-Term Break
It's kinda fortunate to have 2 tests before the mid-term break... which came much much earlier than expected.. maybe it's coz I've lost concept of time w/o my Palm. This mid-term's going to be rather slack.. can focus more on catching up.. and clearing up unfinished webcasts/tutorials. That's what's a break's all about.
And my laptop better come back this week.. if not I'll hound the Fujitsu centres even if it means fucking them at the Japan side. My patience has reached its limits now. I WANT MY LAPTOP BACK!!!!
*growl*
Goodnight.
Signed off at
1:27 am
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