Tuesday, September 02, 2008 ; anthem of love
today is tuesday of my sept hols, and gosh i feel i've wasted a lot of time away. for some reason i'm out of focus, and half the time i'm doodling away or day-dreaming or doing some other stuff, except to do my math revision package. and i also wasted a lot of time online. omg i only have thursday left cos my other days i've other stuff on. this weekend my aunt is coming back from malaysia and sure she will bring me out to go shopping, so my weekend is gone too. talking about shopping, i feel that i havent shopped in ages!! i want to buy new clothes lehs. btw the math revision package is darn annoying cos i cant do most of the questions there. omg whats happening to my maths?!
last fri was teacher's day celebrations, and we had our august 2.4km run. i was quite nervous cos i havent ran a 2.4km in 2 months. i wondered what my timing would be like. i had no idea so i asked prashan to give me a target to follow, and he told me to do it below 11.36min, but better still if i could go below 11.11min. chongkai and i had a bet. if either of us could run a level 3, we'd treat the other person to a meal. level 3 is below 11.15min. i wasnt very confident i would be able to hit it, cos i havent ran in ages due to the knee injury. my last run was a level -1, 20 rounds. level -1 is 2.05min per round, while level 3 is 1.35min per round. they're like so different lah. the run was supposed to be on the friday the week before, and then last thursday, but due to lightning warnings each time, it got pushed to friday. each time i was mentally prepared already, and so was everyone else, then got lightning warning. so this time, i was more than prepared mentally (: anyways, when i started the run, my first round timing was 1.21min, and i panicked. i dont know how i ended up so fast, and so i slowed down. i think my last few rounds werent good; esp my last 2 rounds. if i had run faster, i would have gotten a better timing. anyways in the end i got below 11min, praise jesus. after that, odacers celebrated odachers day. odachers means odac teachers. haha. alvin, js and i took mr jeffrey, mr lim, ms tan and mr kan to the 2nd floor of the pac to view what we did for them. it was deborah's idea to take all our shirts tgt and make the words happy odachers day. then we sang songs for them. it was a simple and last minute idea but we went very well. well done to michelle and deborah!
the teacher's day celebrations were okay, although a bit of screw-ups, but still good job to the student councillors! gonghua and felicia and guanling and cynthia also performed. omg i didnt know wilson, this guy whom i barely talked to in my IG was so good in gym. lol. just nice after the whole thing ended, lisa called me and asked me whether i wanted to go back to kc. but in the end, cheryl didnt want, and heda and wendy couldnt make it, so we didnt go back. but never mind, we'll catch up again after promos ok!! at the mph, i did taxo for like 3 hours i think! then, i went to ubi to buy duck for dinner cos my mum asked me to. i used to work nearby there during my dec hols with shihui and vivian, and the food and snacks there is darn good. i spent loads of money on food and snacks there while working.
last saturday was ZOO RUN! i met cheryl on the 6.10am bus again, and she infected me with her high spirits. haha. she kept singing this simple but catchy zoo song. we were supposed to meet in sch at 6.30am, but when we reached, there were only 3 other ppl there. i didnt read my email so i didnt know what my grouping was, so cheryl, judith and i went to use the computers. we left school at about 7.10am, and started our 21km run to the zoo. When we started running, my leg muscles were aching from the 2.4km the day before. like what Mr Lim says, this is not a class outing cos class outing, the bus would be there waiting for you to bring you right to the doorstep of your destination. When Mr Lim met us at pierce reservoir, he said, if you're fitter, you would observe many more things rather than focus on the run. when he said that, i realised that i forget to look at other things, but i was just focusing on the running part. chongkai was very nice to exchange backpack with me cos his was lighter. john brought minimal stuff. he managed to squeeze everything into his little slingback, without it even looking like it had a lot of things. i wonder how he did it. Mr jeffrey and Mr Kan ran the 21km run with us too, but they didnt join us for the zoo and the night safari though. when we were walking around in the zoo, i was quite tired initially cos my calves were aching. but after using maurice's muscle ache rub, it was okay already. i felt much better. we saw lotsa animals and rabbit followed our group too. rabbit had just went for swimming marathon and she swam 60 laps. that is 3km. oh gosh. i feel so inspired to swim 60 laps too. i havent done that before. and she said that she likes freestyle. during dinner, i didnt bring enough money and i didnt want to withdraw, so i ate whatever food i found in my bag. thanks to marcus who gave me a whole bagful of honey stars in the morning, i had enough food to supplement my bread, and to give the honey stars to jianli, and still had enough to eat them for supper when i went home. night safari was quite nice, though i was tired. i only went there once in my life. by the time the whole thing ended, it was 11.40pm already. after taking the bus to ang mo kio, we found out we had missed our last bus, and so changyong, alvin, cheryl and i took cab. by then, it was slightly passed midnight. after going to cheers to buy food, we caught a cab. the cab is really ex. by the time it was time for me to stop after cheryl's hse, it was like 15bucks already if i'm not wrong.
sunday was fun too!! sunday was the nike human race run!! i went to church in the morning and followed my family to suntec city food court then i met the rest at 12pm at marina square foodcourt. the thai stall that i love a lot a lot has been replaced by the western stall. at suntec city food court, i wanted to order coffee with milk, but in the end i ordered without milk instead, and i was quite sick of drinking it. anyways, we received our plain cotten black shirts. but they didnt have our sizes, so everyone took XL except deborah cos she was earlier in the queue. and that everyone includes jinshi, angel and i. i have never worn such a big shirt. lol. i'd probably give that shirt to my bro. then, those who signed up for waterpoints were suanning us, the road marshalls, cos they got shirts that said, nike human race, and in the correct size, and with dry-fit material. but nevermind, its ok (: road marshalling is much more fun. after we boarded the bus, we walked to the place we would be deployed. after a bit of confusion, i was deployed back at where we started. lol, cos our sector, sector 2, is deployed at a loop which is about 2km. the place i was at had a friggin lot of mosquitoes. after awhile, jianli came and talk to me cos he was bored at his place. then, our supervisor came and asked him to go back to his place cos the race started already. i saw how the fastest runners ran their race. the women took big strides and had very fast legs, and hence were able to keep up with the men. the fastest woman is not far behind from the fastest man. very amazing. i saw donna and sarah and jiajian and dorville. i also saw some ex-kcians, and mr juraimy! haha. i thought he didnt remember me, but then he was staring at me, and i shouted go mr juraimy to him and he smiled back! i saw karthiga. i rmb in sec sch she was like the fastest 2.4km runner in my class, and we all thought she was very zai. but now looking back, i realise that she is actually not very fast. i guess my idea of fast back then was very shallow. after the thing ended, i was like next to a group of RP marshalls who had gathered near me. i was listening to them joke ard and they're very funny. they're from the sports management course. after everything, we collected a packet of food and our pay. although we werent there for the money, all of us thought we were supposed to get $30, in the end we got $15. but its ok (: i didnt stay on for the concert. i went to raffles city awhile with jianli and i tried fried mars bars for the first time.
ok thats about it. shucks i wasted like another 2hours of my time online. ok gotta eat lunch now. bye!
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